I’ve lived in Bakersfield all my life and I’ve never had a problem going out.. yes there’s a lot of violence but it’s not even as bad as it is. Union is where all the horrible things are (edit: there is a lot of sex trafficking here though, it’s sad.)
Make sure u drive on Decatur. You will see kkk on trash cans. Ironically you can hear gangsta rap from those houses lol makes me laugh when I drove by blasting my Hispanic music.
They used to hang people off the bridge. But he is over here talking crap about the Eastside??? Union Ave isn't the EAST SIDE. This is HIGHLY offensive.
Lamont, I think these drive through videos with you talking about these areas are good. You have your ear to the ground in ways other RU-vidrs do not, so you get the real perspective of an area with you. Thanks
@@RACHELLEflo 👈 she's right I was homeless for 4 years in Bakersfield I got back on my feet last year now I'm Bak in Washington state and doing better yeah but I lived there for years it's not that dangerous A l Iittle yes but he's exaggerating terribly And he is so not even close to getting the whole picture or even facts about the gangs right Smh 😠😤
I live in Bakersfield and I do not live in an area of evil living.I live much better than many who are commenting all cities have bad neighborhoods like this video you are watching
These vids are Great I have never been to America & thanks to you I get to see lots of different parts of it Thank you Lamont I appreciate youP.S. Come to England
I live on the east side right by the homeless shelter and never had one problem for 3 years. Right by where you were driving in the beginning on Baker. I lived on 3rd and King.
It was much worse in the 90s.. I'm of Mexican decent and would run around when I was a kid telling everyone I was a crip!😳 Not even understanding what that meant! My neighbor/best friends family were all crips and she was like.. my momma a crip, my daddy a crip, my granny and grampa a crip, I'm a crip and you a crip too! 😅 When I was about 13, she was 16.. she did a drive by and not knowing, killed a friend of ours from school who was hanging with bloods.. they were actually friends as well and didn't know she was in the crowd of bloods when she was shooting. I read she got like 16 years.. that whole situation is still depressing to me! They were both cool af!!
Great video.I just enjoy seeing the scenery.I probably never will see places in different states.so i do enjoy these kind of videos.I don't want you taking too many risks just for my enjoyment so stay safe my brother.
I have to say thank you for sharing so much with us 💗. You're like a history teacher 😂.you tell us where we can go in where we shouldn't go 😁🎉🎉. I enjoy your videos so much. Also I want to say happy Fourth of July 🎆🎊😁🥰😀😎
Thanks for sharing but east side Bakersfield is no way as bad as you're making it our to be. If you act like a clown and look for trouble, you can find it anywhere. You should highlight how good the food is on the eastside, all the history on the eastside, lots of good locally owned shops and as long as you are respectful nobody is going to mess with you. Just look like you belong there and don't walk around looking scared. Bakersfield rocks, our music rocks, our parties rock, and our food rocks, nothing to turn away from.
@@DarkLight-sz1vp IF he has any brain power remaining, he has already hit the road with his gun collection (leave the Eagles Swag behind, nobody wants it anyway).
I got my windows tinted at a little shop right there on East California and union. Lol sat out there for a few hours by the sidewalk. It’s a a good idea not to lock eyes with anyone. But watch out. Everything East of the 99 and anywhere in oildale is run down to say the least. Speaking of oildale me and my dad got a boob show from some transient there flashing her stuff at an ambulance rolling lights and sirens to either a shooting, stabbing or OD. Anyone who blasts the Kern county sheriff’s office for being to rough are either criminals, know criminals or are completely ignorant to what they deal with. It’s worse than LA. Kern county earned its title as murder capitol of California.
This makes me very sad. I lived there 35 years ago. It has completely gone down hill. Bakersfield was a nice blend city in the 70s & 80s. There were some homeless but it wasn't this seedy back then. Good video
Bakersfield Police are Known as The Deadliest Police Force. These Hoods are bad but nothing compared to Fresno. 2023 Update: Bakersfield is growing with opportunities; New Jobs i.e. Amazon & Transportation Hub, Affordable Homes, Good Schools & Sports... Just Stay Out of Those few Neighborhoods
I grew up in east Bakersfield and it was way different back then. I grew up in the 70s. The best time to be a kid. 😁 We didn't really have to worry about gangs and gang violence. I live in Texas now and this video is making me homesick. ☹
I'm staying at the Hilton on Brimhall and Coffe rd and I decided to go for a walk around 1am. I walk out of the parking lot and I see a high speed police chase happening on Coffe rd. I then walked towards the Albertsons and not even a mile in a see a dude stalking me. He was watching me and following me. I ran across the street and he started to follow luckily I outran him. I made it back to the hotel quickly. I've never been so nervous about walking at night before.
I've been through just about every hood in Bfl. I have stories about Cottonwood,, Lakeview, Potomac,etc. You are right about not being out after dark. Anyway streetsmart, minding your own business and being armed are key around these parts. Otherwise citywide car and pick-up thefts are rampant. It's cheap for a reason. By the way I am from Lamont. Grew up there during the 70s& 80s.
Like I always say if your somewhere you don't belong or if your out looking for trouble it ain't hard to find , in Bakersfield or anywhere for that matter ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--O-KZF5T9aE.html
I used to live in Oildale. My neighborhood wasn't so bad. I just couldn't understand why people would walk along Chester Ave. late at night when 99% of the stores were closed. Even women would walk around at 3:00 A.M. all by themselves.
I got a clear memory of my uncles wedding on the east of bakers & me n my cousins went to the store on the way back on the 2nd floor of an apartment complex you see a man on his balcony cleaning and assembling back his AK 47 style rifle, never forget that memory he was so nonchalant
Trippin man. East side is the best. Been in Bakersfield since 1982 it's Eastside till I die. Biggest gang you got to worry about in Bakersfield is the BPD.
I lived there it wasn't much to do but visit the hole in the ground which was a scenic adventure the cliffs was in my backyard I lived off B street , it's hard to breathe valley fever plus the water tasted like pure oil. Part of Bakersfield looked like it was part of an ancient ocean.
If you do another video i think it would be interesting to show the the diversity in living quality, how down bad it looks on one end and then migrating to the sw side how good some people have it. Community differences
I lived in Bakersfield a lot of years. It used to be a good town, but the east side has always been bad. The good parts of Bakersfield keep spreading further and further outside of Bakersfield proper. At around 6 minutes in video Oildale was mentioned. It should be revisited by Mr Bugatti, because it has gone to hell in a hand basket. I moved around 18 years ago, and have no intention on ever moving back.
Some Oildale neighborhoods look nice (north of China Grade Loop). I used to live in that area, and I liked going to Zorba's for breakfast. There's a lot of crap between Roberts Lane and Norris Rd. I see a lot of people with no ambition to get a job. They just hang around 7-11 all day or collect cans & bottles for the recycling center.
Bakersfield and oildale go together I'm a native her if u don't like oildale u don't like Bakersfield.. sorry thank goodness u moved we need positive people here..,👍👍
@@gabrieltorres8597 Thank you for the kind words, but I am a positive person. I am positive that my family and myself are happier, safer, and better off financially since we moved. But you keep that stiff upper lip!
@@Tactoe223 well depends cottonwood is in country boy crip area off planz and further down it goes through the okies territory all the way until California ave is where it ends
@@Tactoe223 yes at that point I'd certainly call it east side Colonia something like that but yea cottonwood/planz is country boy crips area and cottonwood/Brundage is okies and further down shit I don't remember but I'd say Colonia since California connects east off to Mt Vernon and so on so yea it's something like that
I was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA. On Union Ave. Starliter Motel. LoL! So glad I was able to move when I got older. Will be back next year for a family reunion.
I recommend the movie "The Onion Field". I was born in Bakersfield and moved to Germany when I was nine. Since then I've been back for visits about 3 or 4 times. On a visit in the early 90's with my brother, we drove through the East Side to look at Cotton Wood Road (mentioned in the movie) and stopped at a gas station in the evening after dark. There was a flashy car with some kids hanging around parked there and they gave us white guys a good stare in disbelief after my brother casually called me a "coño" while approaching the car after getting some beer. lol We told my dad who lives there near the Valley Plaza the next day and he angrily said "You fools! I told you not to go to East Bakersfield!" Bakersfield is becoming a sh/thole like all cities in California.
Hey YOU ARE AWSOME IM THINKING OF MOVING TO “BF” NOT KNOWING WHICH SIDE OF TOWN IS OK. LORD HAVE MERCY . I WILL PRAY ABOUT THIS MOVE TO “BF” thanks for such a detailed tour be SAFE.
Actually really good you do these video’s for one thing it helps others to know exactly where to avoid when they are traveling. I don’t even walk around a quiet town at night anymore you just never know when you could be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If you're on Bakersfield maybe try and hook up with AV and/Crenshaw. You would be able to get the Story about the 2 missing toddlers o Out to your subscribers. Any attention to this story to help find these boys would be awesome. Thank you for everything you do Lot's of love from Canada Krash
I lived a half mile from Bakersfield College for 3 years over a decade ago dude . It wasn't that bad where I was . However yes I'm very familiar with those particular gangs ( disruptive groups ) . Best to leave them alone .
@@Thadude701 Yeah I remember passing that place. If we're speaking of the samw place on a regular basis . Really laid back and the gym was so much more polite than other parts of town. I was there when all they had was 24 hour fitness.
Thank you!!!!. Highland High Class of 96. I thought of sharing this on Facebook to show my friends how he is talking about the Eastside and the places he is connecting to it. Not going to add to his views.
I heard the air quality is bad there. I know someone whose baby had a terrible persistent cough when they lived there. A lot of dust in the air apparently.
im born and raised in bakersfield,back in the 1980 it was really bad,i know i was a nuckle head then you couldnt walk the streets ,but now thier low key night crawlers, south side were its happening everday somebody is getting kill,just got to watch your surrounding,be safe.
driving through california from yosemite to LA last year, my exgirlfriend and I wanted a town to stay overnight at, she quick googled bakersfield and without much looking many sites claimed it as the “meth capital of the u.s”, needless to say, i drove through the night to LA back to our air bnb lol
i seen they laid off alot of oilfield workers because of the economic turn down. prayers to those families who went to bakers in search of their american dream that had it lost recently
I lived in Bakersfield from 1962 until 1965. My family are the McMillans, Betty McMillan, Alberta McMillan and Dahlia Lee Lusinger, David McMillan and Bill "Ripple" McMillan, the Crew's and the Lusingers. My aunt and uncle lived across Brundage Lane out in the country near Mother George's, and owned a garbage hauling business where we picked up most of the poc's garbage. My cousin Bill Ripple was a jazz DJ on the radio station there, and was dating the daughter of the family that owned the Cotton Club and the liquor store attached to it on Lakeview Ave (the McDaniel's). They both were Judo students and used to play around in the liquor store where she worked when he'd stop in to see her before going to work at the radio station. One evening while they were playing around she flipped him and accidently broke his back and neck. The racist ambulance drivers pushed his gurney off the hospital ramp, causing him and the gurney to fall and he was killed. When I first moved there to live with my aunt and uncle, the guys my age nearly beat me to death every time they saw me or could catch me. I eventually became a member of the local blues and R&B bands there, the first being with Roosevelt Finley on guitar with either Walter Lewis or "Black Bo" on bass, and me on piano or drums. At the Cotton Club I played with Pete "Guitar" Lewis (he had been fired from the Johnny Otis band), Charly Haley, and Hermann Killebrew on drums, and a tall light skinned brother named "Yellow" Mitch on Bass. Bee Bopp Daniels was on sax if we could get him sober enough to play, and Dave Gomez sometimes sat in on guitar. We also had a lesbian singer named Big Joyce. Back then there were many Black owned businesses on Lakeview and out in the country. J.D. McFarland, a piano player, bought the night club out in the country and named it the Brown Derby and we played there too. Big name blues men and R&B acts came there every weekend, and most of the time they didn't have bands. or some of their band members would OD and we'd be their back up. I knew all the Randall's, everyone was afraid of them, they'd kill you as soon as to look at you. I once saw Son Randall give his daughter a gun and tell her to shoot her boyfriend, and she emptied the gun in him. Doc Randall moved to Palm Springs. Rosie Randall was a real sexy woman who had a restaurant up the street from Mom's Poolhall and right before you got to O.C. Craft's restaurant. My girlfriends were Hattie Mae Summage and a pretty girl named Ora Lee, can't remember her last name anymore. Not a day ever passed when someone didn't get killed, John Cherry, who later dated Ora Lee, and a bunch of other dudes were murdered by their own friends. Now mind you, I was only 17 at the time. I ran around with Lee Gains, George Randall, and Michael Brown (we used to steal gas out of cars so we could ride all night). I also ran with Lewis McGuire, he later got shot and killed while robbing some guy in either Rosie's place or in Reverend Young's restaurant. My girlfriend Hattie Mae's dad Jeff Summage, got into it with O.C. Craft in his restaurant. Jeff had his knife (he went for a badass and was always pulling it on people) and O.C. had his gun (he was gay but still a nice person). They killed each other right on the spot in front of fifty people. A smooth brother named Sylvester, had the poolhall out in the country, many died in there. There was a woman named "Bad Acting Mary", she killed all her boyfriends by stabbing them in their necks, I think Donnie Ray was the only one she didn't kill, and she never saw a day in jail. The authorities didn't care about black folks killing each other as long as they stayed in the Lakeview area and didn't try leaving it to venture into town. The Cooley's owned the only black funeral home and they couldn't keep up with all the business. The biggest and worst bully in town was Ronnie Foster, he was 6' 10" and only 17 years old and would literally beat you to death. His brother David was Dolly Walker's boyfriend. The town had only one black cop and his name was Phillip. His daughter ran away from home and I was dumb enough to let her stay at an apartment I had rented behind the Lakeview Inn/Hotel, that almost cost me my life. He was a Tom and collected money for the Italian mob from the Black and Filipino guys who owned gambling establishments and hoe houses, ie, Donut's father Dan Murphy, Filipino Dick and every other black or poc that who owned businesses. He would also pistol whip them if they came up short. Donut and his Brother Chief were half Arapaho and had light skin with straight and curly hair, and all the black women were crazy about them, and nearly fifty young girls had babies by them. There was another dude called "The Mexican", he was half black and half Mexican, they all liked him too and he must've made at least 100 babies. Color and hair texture was/is, a big deal for Black people who were from the south, and was also a big deal for the ones born in Bakersfield too. I had the wavy hair and henceforth all the beatings I first received when I first arrived there. While uptown, for a while I lived at JD Walker's house with him, his mother Dolly Walker and his sister. My best friends were Junior Kinder, his brother Nolan who could sing real good, and Melvin Jones (he was later killed with a tire iron by a dude named Leonard, who while swinging it at someone else's head accidently hit Melvin's). In 1965 me and Lewis McGuire had to leave the city, we thought we had gotten in trouble with the law, of which we later found out that we weren't in trouble. His mother packed us a lunch and gave us enough money to buy a loaf of bread and some baloney, and then drove us to the railroad tracks where we proceeded to catch a freight train to Los Angeles. Lewis had never been out of Bakersfield or away from home, and L.A. scared him. He called his mom and she told him that he wasn't in trouble, so he caught the freight train back home...only to end up getting his head blown off after snatching a man's money out his hand and running for the door. The guy shot the back of his head off before he could even get to the door. Bakersfield was a nightmare town if you were a poc, but it had the best nightlife and blues night club atmosphere that I've ever seen to this day. I wish I could get in touch with some of the people from that time that are still living. Btw, they called me Contrel. Pete "Guitar" Lewis gave me that nickname and I wore it proudly.🙂
Colonia BKS, Okie, Loma, Varrio BKS are the oldest biggest Latino gangs here. Newer growing gangs are West Side BKS & ES BKS big rivals. also the newest is uptown BKS. I know them all as I grew up in that lifestyle..
I was raised in La Colonia Across from Mt. Vernon school lol I was a busboy at La Colonia Restaurant! Man being a little kid in the barrio it was the best of times it was the worst of times!
