I used to live in Koreatown and regularly walk these streets for exercise, and I remember well the opening house in the vid. This was 2006 and we had some 100°F days then. About a block away I stopped and asked an elderly woman watering her plants for some water from the hose, she went inside and got me a bottle and we chitchatted a minute. I asked her then, "Let me guess, that one is about $10M?" She said yes but that they had F'd up the inside, changing out all the antique charm.
InIn July 1948, singer Nat “King” Cole and his new wife, Maria, were just beginning their lives together. The legendary crooner of standards including “The Christmas Song,” “Nature Boy,” “Mona Lisa,” and “Unforgettable” had spent the last decade of his young life on the road, and he was eager to settle down and start a family. When they were not traveling, he and Maria, a singer and socialite of impeccable lineage, made-do by staying at LA’s Watkins Hotel. So, Maria hired a real estate agent named Joe Bradfield, and the couple started looking for a grand home fit for a king. @19:38 Nat King Cole Residence.
yes I was thinking the same thing. I look at the grass and I think that it's artificial because it's just so green but I look closer and it's actual grass. They spend a lot of money and attention on gardening
I wonder how many people are posting on Next Door. Stranger filing my house 😂 I love Hancock Park. I’m glad our home isn’t that close to the next door neighbors.
Thank you for another great walking tour through beautiful Hancock Park. It would be interesting to know the story behind these homes, who their architects were, their owners both past and present, etc. What I find so special about the Hancock Park area is that these are not tear down properties like you find through so much of Los Angeles.
What a stunning neighborhood. Always makes me wonder why LA (I don't live there) is so against having more historical districts compared to other large cities. So many gorgeous estates knocked down. I live near Seattle and we have quite a bit preserved. I have been house-bound for the past few months due to an injury; I just love watching your videos!
hey thank you for watching them. It's expensive to have an historical district. There are a lot of rules and developers are constantly trying to build other things.
The Adams district from over 90 years ago preceded Hancock Park. Before that, areas like Angelino Heights & sections of Bunker Hill were created. Sure, it's easier doing things a better way when time, skill, money & resources are available. However, did other sections of LA (eg, your "Dystopian Streets of LA"), particularly built around the Great Depression to the years following WWII (when Cadillacs had fins & I Love Lucy was on TV), go into a visual slump because of a lack of money or too much of a "I don't give a damn" attitude? Areas like Van Nuys, Lomita, Palms, Mar Vista, Bellflower, etc, built largely before the mid-1960s, indicate the distant past vs today wasn't exactly rosy either. So when people say, "Calif used to be nicer years ago" or ".LA was better back then," etc, do they really know the overall history of LA & the US in general? Or when people proclaim, "NYC is greatest city in the world!," do they know what cities like London, Paris, Tokyo, etc, are like?
I always laughed at midwesterners complaints about Los Angeles houses, "one house is Spanish and one next door is colonial" blah blah. What should they all look the same like they do in Akron?
Now this is memorable. Those columns and decadent furnishings make the house shine.
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It's funny to see some of these people trying SO hard, to be impressive, and mother nature is having NONE of it! The grass, the hedges, the plantings, all, struggling to meet expectations, only to end up disappointing the homeowner, bringing him only closer to the realization, that this world's a bitch to some, no matter HOW much money you have.
