Thanks for watching! Please consider supporting the channel by buying merch: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian Or by donating to my Patreon: www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian Click "read more" for corrections and bibliography. First, check out City Beautiful's video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W_N1Y9qRkjo.html *[reserved for errata]* *Bibliography* _City of San Luis Obispo Citywide Historic Context Statement,_ November 2013, www.slocity.org/home/showpublisheddocument/4042/635497615471370000 Myron Angel, _History of San Luis Obispo County, California, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers_ (Oakland, Cal.: Thompson & West, 1883). archive.org/details/historyofsanluis00ange Daniel Krieger, _San Luis Obispo County: Looking Backward into the Middle Kingdom_ (Northridge, Cal.: Windsor Publications, 1988). amzn.to/42VF6qE Mark Hall-Patton, _Memories of the Land: Placenames of San Luis Obispo_ (Los Osos, Cal.: EZ Nature Books, 1994). amzn.to/3lVoI8J Joseph Hall-Patton, “Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo,” California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, thesis, 2016. www.digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1594/
I think it would be a good idea to make a video about how American cities have been platted. My history professor has had some interest in that topic, and we've noticed that many cities have streets parallel and perpendicular to streams and railroads. But then as cities expand, the new streets often become aligned to the cardinal directions. Why is that?
@@jacobdalland1390 In SLO's case, the stream dictated the original town's streets, as they radiated out from the mission. The Southern Pacific Railroad and oil companies oriented their buildings on cardinal directions, so everything from there went cardinal directions. Every town is different
I always loved SLO. My National Guard unit was stationed at Camp San Luis Obispo, so I got to know the town and some of the people. It's not too big, not too small. Wonderful weather.
Glad I'm a subscriber to your channel. Your Father is always a pleasure to see. Haven't watched pawn stars in years. Your Father added a much needed touch of class and real knowledge to the show.
Hey! New subscriber here. 10 year former resident of SLO. 4 of those years unfortunately were spent in a tent on the creek. The one thing about slo that people need to understand is that it is a town for those that have already made their millions. If you are not already a millionaire it is too expensive for you. But it is so beautiful that it took me 4 years to realize I needed to move on.
That sucks. It didn't used to be so expensive to live there. Housing prices are a 21st century problem and poor students can get by. I know firsthand, though I very nearly had to move back with my parents and was in some serious debt before finding a job after graduating. My rent was $750/mo in 2014-15 and $800 2016-17
@@CynicalHistorian When I finally left SLO 2 years ago It was because I could not find a single rentable space that I could afford while getting the maximum disability payment from SSI of over $1,000 a month. Even if I was willing to spend that entire check on rent I could not find anything. Once I realize that I had to leave or I was going to forever be homeless regardless of whether I had a job or a check coming every month. Unbelievable. When I first moved there 11 years ago I found a two-bedroom house for $1,100 a month. The rents have skyrocketed!
@@DesiGalCrochet the conversion of formerly rented spaces to AirB&B's by landlords has absolutely devastated the rental market, *especially* in scenic tourism destinations. The digital manipulation of rental prices and rise of massive interstate rental corporations has made things bad for the renter as well.
@@guitarfan01 Strangely enough I now see both sides of that issue. I ended up becoming a live-in host assistant in charge of 5 Airbnb houses in Fremont. I've met so many people that are transitionally living in Airbnbs while they search for permanent housing. Private equity firm landlords are charging higher and higher rents and routinely running credit checks and requiring potential renters to make 3xs the rent or some other astronomical amount, which filters out so many. And I know the proliferation of short-term rentals has cut deep into the available rental units in most cities. I would be morally conflicted in this job If not for the fact that The owner of my properties is actually helping the problem. We're slowly switching from Airbnb rentals to long-term rentals. And the way he does it works much better for people. When someone reserves for a full month he drops the price to no more than the average long-term rental price in the area. And if, after a few months, they express interest in staying longer he'll move them to a month by month lease If I give the okay. Without requiring a security deposit or running a credit check. It's actually a pretty cool system if you think about it. I'm in the houses everyday interacting with the guests so after a few months I have a pretty good read on what type of tenant they would be. And they've reliably paid through Airbnb for several months so he knows they're able to pay the rent. And that's supposed to be why landlords run credit checks or have salary requirements for tenants (even though a lot of them use it to weed out low income or black and brown people). When I started in September we had five long-term tenants in 30 rooms. Now half of our rooms are on long-term leases. And the tenants are happy because where else do you get daily maid service and weekly fresh linens and fully furnished houses with Wi-Fi and all utilities included? All for the regular going rate of an unfurnished room that doesn't include my friendly face and magic toilet paper rolls never place themselves everyday. Honestly any short-term rental owner that is watching AirbnBust unfold and is not considering doing it this way is going to end up in bankruptcy. And then finally those units will be back on the long-term rental market. So I guess it works out either way. 🤣
Definitely the case nowadays. Before, it only took being at the right place at the right time to be able to make it in SLO. Literally every family member I have that owns a home in SLO County wouldn't be living there if they didn't buy their home in the '80s or during the 2008 recession. I got screwed over that one unfortunately, but happy for them for being able to make it.
the tpic of history is very interesting, it is my favourite subject, so i think kinda relevant to the topic at hand “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.’ -Percy Shelley,
I've been a subscriber for a while with your channel. All I got to say is brother you are just cool as a mofo. You have opened history to me. Your topics are just Phenomenal, I love them. So keep cool, do you, and please keep pumping out these historical topics that we all love. Thank you
I'm getting more and more of these crossover episodes from all my favorite RU-vidr and I love it so much! And PapaCypher was the perfect choice for the narrater, such a nice voice.
Born and raised in the Santa Barbra and slo area. The history speckling that area is amazing, from the missions, to the local area. Big shout out to frog and peach, a bar that used to be a wells Fargo stop. It's super cool. Great content
so damn glad i investigated the channel when i heard SLO mentioned in your video on neoliberalism. i have sought out media history on this area before-this video is far beyond the quality i expected to find, and not to mention by accident. cheers from Los Osos!
As a resident of San Miguel its neat to hear about a place so close and mirrors a part of our own history. The shpiel about what makes something historical is also very cool.
I just stumbled into your channel but I think I know your Dad. I am part of ECV. my dad is a XNGB for the Squeebob chapter. If that means anything to you than it does confirm it. If you don’t know anything about what I am talking about then I don’t know your Dad after all. I did love how you used the ally in Slo with all the chewing gum on the walls. You only made a joke about it but if you didn’t know where you were at you would’ve not understood the joke. Anyhow I have enjoyed your history of California and will give the rest of your channel a follow. I am happy to have randomly stumbled across your videos they are well done. Have a great weekend and keep up the great content
Another great video on history's malleability and outright falsification. Kudos to SLO for depriving the fast food joints of drive ins. Plymouth, and Nantucket MA forced them to give up the plastic exteriors in order to open there. Unfortunately a whole row of old building in Back Bay, Boston, were allowed to be torn down, but their replacements were required to to have fake antique facades. As the French say, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Keep up the good work of making real history accessible to the masses.
@@elaineburnett5230 Well it's usually shortened to "plus ça change!" even in English as "the more things change... with a rising or falling intonation. You did well to remember it!
bubblegum alley, I have 2 pieces there if it hasn't been cleaned since 1997. I heard recently that Placerville, aka "Hangtown", no longer want to be known as "Hangtown".
Hasn't been cleaned since 1992, but rain takes its toll. I've got something like 30 pieces there, with two from this filming LOL (messed up the first take)
I think it was multilayered. The kid and the bear are watching the fish. The fish is lunch to the kid and bear, but also the bear is lunch to the kid (if the kid represents native folk as a whole), and the kid is lunch to the bear (if the bear represents its “ferocity”). Lol
You mentioned Paso Robles and how people mispronounce things on purpose. My favorite is Higuera. I work in radio, so you can believe the eyeroll whenever people who weren't local mispronounced it, but in reality they were pronouncing it correctly.
The Beard of Knowledge and The Little Beard of Knowledge 😉 Silly jokes aside, my own city has a multi-millennia history (one of the oldest continually inhabited in Europe, older than Rome) and we have a lot of issues with historical buildings and places. Mostly with modern "investors" just looking to tear them down and build ugly-ass new "modern" office buildings and shopping malls. And with incompetent (and corrupt) local government failing to protect (and preserve, and maintain) actually undeniably historical things.
Interesting, I attended Calpoly SLO 1981 to 1985, I never saw how Poly Royal would get out of hand as they seemd mild (but then I was an engineering major so missed all the "Animal House" adventures. I see you are growing a beard, is this because you now have a PhD you need to look more professorial?
Have you ever thought about making a video(s) debunking or discussing the less insane conspiracy theories? I think some theories like some of the JFK assassination theories are believed by a good amount of rational people that would listen to evidence and reasoning. Things like the “magic bullet” in the Kennedy assassination are important to confront if you want to dismantle a conspiracy theory, and showing how exactly one is wrong is better than saying that believers cannot be reasoned with.
I say Lompoc (Lompock) I know Wikipedia says Lompoke. But if you say it one way or the other someone will correct you and say it their way so I decided for now on I'm saying it the way I learned it in 1990 and so 🤷 I'm saying Lompock!
From a European archaeological point of view, I see history as something that is a chain. A single ring is as good as no ring as there is no context surrounding it. Luckily it is very rare that artefacts and events are rarely in isolation, therefore everything is potentially history within the proper narrative.
I currently live in SLO. I'm from NorCal but my grandfather was born in SLO. While I miss where I grew up I don't miss the triple digit weather. It's rarely over 80° and its beautiful
