When California's Victorians Were Totally Worthless | The Painted Ladies 

All right, San Francisco poop everywhere open drug market needles everywhere and a crap load of a homeless not a good picture. Thank you for the nightmares.

@@BradleyBristow-df2ke You forgot Carjacking, muggings, and Mob Looting of stores... those that are still open... I escaped the Bay Area in 2000 before it started it's decline... I'd never go back...

What may surprise you is that in addition to Victorian, there are a couple other architectural styles that are on display with great examples, and the thing about the city is not the Victorians, but how well these different styles harmonize with one another to give SF it's look. It's an amazing city.

@@t.c.2776​ Temporary situation. It's seen better days, it's seen worse. Lots of quality of life cycles in SF history. BTW, you're temporary, too.

@@shaggybreeks "Craftsman" homes.

WOW!

My friend purchased a Victorian and had it moved several mikes away. She renovated and has a home with millions today

your story is 💔. We had one originally erected across the bay in vallejo same style tho restored. Now priced in million(s)

And Bunker Hill is very empty and lifeless.

Thank you for the clarification!

That's still not far away (In modern American standards)

Yes gold was discovered in Sutters Mill not Sutters Fort. Sutters Fort is 89.3 miles from SF and Sutters Mill is 131.8 miles from SF. Not really near by. Wonderful video, thank you for all of your dedicated work! ❤ Blessings in Love and Light.🙏🏼💖✨

@@AquarianHarmonicsthanks for pointing out his inaccuracy. A shame he messed up on that important fact.

😊Small world some times 😊.I lived in Across the street from Sutters Fort in Mid- Town Near DownTown Sacramento. I Drove from Sac to Sutters Mill local up Hwy 50 several times as a kid on field trips and adult with gold fever as the old timer 49ers would say ......😊. Crazy to think in today's standards how much money was transferred through and into S.F. from Silver Bonaza Erra And gold influx into the booming cities economy trickling down from the Sierra Mtn. range.

Me too.

@@DarkroomMedia007 same

For clarification: the 7 sisters appear in the opening credits when they have a picnic in Alamo square. Their actual “house” as shown in outside shots in the episodes is in Pacific Heights.

I went there when it was a Junior High School. During the earthquake retro fitting Era. They were calling it mission revival then. We were sometimes relocated to Samuel Gompers on Bartlett during construction. They also had the school bus strike at the time. Muni drivers went out in sympathy when the schools gave out bus tokens to us.

@@mdj.6179 yeah they could have just paid ALL bus drivers a living wage.

I went to an Everett Middle School from the 20’s but in Delaware

@@mdj.6179I dated a sailor on a ship named after Samuel Gompers

Webster street was widened as a fire break because of the wooden housing without firewalls between them.

Just proved Elon Musk point if it looks cool practicality goes out the window.

Wonderful!

not to mention the current state of lawlessness!!! junkies all over the place cops ignoring any crime where less than $900.00 bucks or possible death is involved!! hell the gaza strip is safer at present i wouldn't give them a plug nickle for the whole landfill with corporation limits right now!!!

The answer is in your comment. SF wasn't "razed to the ground" in 1906. Note all today's Victorian houses there survived the quake. Timber can flex, unlike bricks and mortar. Much of the damage was from fires, and many homeowners did not put these out once word went around that insurance companies would pay out for fire damage but not for earthquake damage.

It's the dotcom boom. Without that it'd be Detroit

​@@VanillaMacaron551 Such an insightful comment. Thank You !!!

@@VanillaMacaron551 Yes, I lived in one on Haight St. that survived the quake. One look at the exposed framing would tell you why. Lumber's flexible, and that house used plenty of it. It was built like a tank.

he did not say anything new...

@@lucasrem How about those tunnels under Alcatraz?

I used to ask why so many Victorian building were torn down in the 50-70s & my mom put it in perspective. Victorian homes were cool, liked & admired when I grew up in the 80s & 90s. My mom grew up in the 50s/60s in a huge Victorian house on Long Island NY. Victorian homes were not special or admired by most people & just seen & old, outdated & rundown. They often had old fashion kitchens & bathrooms, old heating systems, vermin & the style was just outdated not old fashioned. In 50/60s these homes were around 50-60 years old. In 2024, a house built 50 years was built in 1974- today most people see little value in houses built in the 70s especially if outdated & not well maintained. Unless it was special or had important architecture most of us would think nothing if it was torn down for a new building. the design style was old not in a good way- almost tacky like if a house was extreme 80s style now. LETS NOT FORGET THAT NO ONE WANTED MID CENTURY STUFF FRIM THE 80s THRU Early 2000s. I remember Garage sales in the 80/90s was lots of 50s/60s furniture, home goods & clothing & it was viewed as junk

Yes, it was filmed down the road at 2640 Steiner Street.

A great great uncle lived in Alameda during the 1906 Earthquakes and fires.

Another thing not mentioned: in the last month, this has become about the hottest place for 30-second auto burglaries in the city. While the family is on the sidewalk taking photos of the Victorians.

What tribe I’m miwok

Thank you for watching!

Hey Alex, thanks for contributing here! I checked our source on that and found it to be reputable, however, I don't discount your take since "Battleship Gray" is also a paint color. I'd be happy to post a clarification under this video if you'd share your source to the contrary. All the best!

Interesting idea!

Thats a shame.

@@ITSHISTORY ...that I don't get it personally...

I'd love to see a picture of that "not pictured" yearbook

If you look at the Painted Ladies on google street view many of them, if not all, have added car garages under the bay windows in the former crawl spaces.

Floor plans for 714 Steiner Street can be viewed. Search Google for "Iconic Postcard Row Fixer Relisted, Renovation Dreams Dashed". Click on "Take a look at the detailed plans here" for the 50-page architectural plans.

@@jetsons101 'Tartarian mudflooders'

not like the education level in the Midwest

I want to like this guy, but every one of his videos has at least two or three things like this. A mistake every once in a while is inevitable, but when I can pick up on a few in every video without trying...

me too. we can only wonder how much lead paint we ingested

cape may has been a vacation town since 1890s

@@robertbrodie5183 I know, but it had fallen out of favor after the Gilded Age

Silver Lake as in Kay's Resort, Thunder Mtn, Boy Scout Camp, Kit Carson Lodge, & Camp Minkalo - on Hwy 88 west of Kirkwood? I wasn't aware of a town, any Victorians or apartments, just cabins nestled in between the granite & the pines.

What for. they are not a "welcoming city." Unfriendly, rude. Who is more ruder? NYC of course. I have met friendlier people there. But not Chicago. They are their own worse enemy.

Homeless industrial complex - as long as organizations make money by getting gove't grants to solve the problem, the problem will never be solved.

As having been a bay area resident from 2011-2017, I can confirm a few nuances of the "homeless" population. 1) The weather in the bay area tends to be nearly perfect year round, because of the shape of the bay and the surrounding land that rises around the back of it. Thus, it is a very mild climate in general and why most people don't need air conditioning. Thus, it is "easy" to live outside. 2) Benefits exist that pay out to a large percentage of those people, and in having tried doing outreach to individuals who were homeless, I was laughed at more than a few times because of the effect working would have on the benefits they received. Thus, their benefits are an incentive to not work. Thus, they live in a mild climate where living outside isn't uncomfortable, and they collect money for things here and there. 3) Soft-on-crime-policies mean that it isn't even a problem right now to be wasted in public, because if one is homeless because they choose to live outside in a mild climate and are incentivized to for benefits reasons, they are "victims" of society and should thus not be "harassed" by common decency laws. Thus, they basically do whatever they want to do and if they are arrested they are released and return to their like of unaccountable irresponsibilities. 4) Profits that come from providing "services" to the homeless mean lots of people bring in large sums of tax-payer funds as grants as income as revenue because they claim to be providing services that address "homelessness." But the "homeless" want to be antisocial street dwellers in a mild climate with benefits, so those people collecting grants funds cash in on the popularity of people wanting to be "homeless" in the bay area. Thus, in summary, most "homeless" people in the bay area don't give a damn about being productive members of society. They want things for free, they want to live for free on taxpayer funded streets, with free services, and benefits, and they want to chill and hang out and have fun and do whatever they want to do because they are just antisocial jackasses that don't want to be productive members of society. That is what is happening there. Don't be fooled, or heartbroken. It is not sad at all. They are all being jerks and causing immense cost to the taxpayer, because they are taking advantage of kindness and misperception. They will harass you like you owe them something if you ever try to tell them to clean up after themselves or move out of your way on your public street you are a taxpayer for. They demand to be taken care of by society while simultaneously giving absolutely nothing in return. THAT is what is happening there.

California in general, and San Francisco in particular, have been magnets for many homeless. One attraction is the comparatively mild weather, and in San Francisco, an historically liberal city which had many who supported helping the less fortunate. As a probation officer, I remember a 1980s training I had in SF with their mental health people, who said they had been overwhelmed even then by what are now called the unhoused. The problem is national--ever international--but particularly acute in SF, where the general attitude has been tried to respond proactively to the crisis, and is almost genetically averse in modern times to the sort of draconian measures some would advocate. It often seems like a bag of problems without a solution. I admit to being a liberal, but I don't know of any easy solutions.

​​@@bodybuilderslave7125Regarding your post, you have no idea how correct you are. I have noticed in many areas, the politicians in San Francisco state how compassionate they are, yet people are living on the streets in poverty there. The politicians have the resources to correct it, they refused to. Regarding some sections of San Francisco, Nob Hill for example, they absolutely refused to have a BART station stop built there. The residents wanted to remain exclusive, as well as to keep, "others" out. You decide who those, "others" are.

@@jadesea562 Are there any reactionary Republican talking points that you missed?

Promiscuity does not denote prostitution.

@@AquarianHarmonicsa lot of these houses have been recorded to be used as brothels, that’s probably where some of it comes from as well!