Los Angeles Before Earthquake Waiting For "The Big One"

[BoeingRollout]

I live in LA >.< When it does happen, I'ma record and upload for others.

[Featureman]

@BoeingRollout That will be an amazing video. Thanks.

[skylinecuzz]

it is awsome

[Featureman]

@skylinecuzz Thanks. I guess there was an earthquake in Australia today or yesterday.

[izmolaitela]

Tä? Hannu hanhi.

[johnnyoh21]

lol very funny - btw we have those iron stars in cincinnati too

[Featureman]

Thanks. They apparently do brace the old buildings.

[cappsidaisy]

Loved this video!!! I had some great laughs.

[Featureman]

Thank you.

[ExtremeWelder]

Humoristic and informative. Great work!

[Featureman]

Thanks.

[mrslinarcos]

Yes, the Big One is coming. I live in the Midwest, we have the Wabash Valley and New Madrid Faults. On April 14, 2008; we were struck with 2 quakes and are long overdue for the Big One here. Geologists say it will be about 10,000 yrs. before we have a Big One. I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

[Featureman]

Thanks. I would never bet which would occur first. There are four major possibilities for an 8 or greater in the US. California, New Madrid, Pacific Northwest and the usual suspect... an unknown fault.

[mrslinarcos]

Hmmm, an unknown fault, that would make a very interesting hit.

[Momoftwinsplus1]

Great video! Very interesting look at LA, good for someone like myself who has never had a chance to get there. I hope if and when the big ones comes some of those beautiful buildings hold up!

[Featureman]

In a big quake it would be likely that the older brick structures, some of them 13 stories tall, would collapse. There are actually thousands of brick buildings in the L.A. Metro area. Thanks.

[effects69]

OMG that was great! lol Fantastic commentary! I can now start my day with a smile :)

[Featureman]

Thank you.

[cvelizh]

is the big one coming?...im scared now..even tho they say is coming from now to 30 years but stil im scared =(

[Featureman]

It will eventually happen but it might be a hundred years from now. Just be as prepared as possible for any emergency because there is no place 100 percent safe. Thanks.

[larlar752000]

Man wheres all the damn jewelry stores?

[Featureman]

I know. It seems there would not be enough customers to support all the retail outlets and wholesale jewelers.

[BOYKOILIEV2008]

Your earthquakes in the future are here. See more than 2000 world science earthquake predictions. The plate tectonic NOT makes the earthquakes.

[Featureman]

Thank you. Your videos are very interesting.

[RichieEastside]

that is pretty strange, wtf is up with all the jewelry stores...?

[Featureman]

That is a great question. L.A. used to be a city with an active shopping area all over the central area but that seems to have been replaced with many jewelry stores and banks and financial centers. It is also an area just a block or two from Skid Row and many homeless people. Thanks for the comment.

[hihihilol16]

thx for info man=D

[Featureman]

You are welcome.

[niclashbg]

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[Featureman]

Thank you.

[hillaryclinton71]

Can anyone tell me, are there any jewelry stores in downtown Los Angeles?

[niclashbg]

................. / sweden

[verymadchook]

this is some wannabe jazz poet

[roquefortfiles]

How many times can one say DOWN TOWN LOS ANGELES??

[BOYKOILIEV2008]

Costa Rica earthquake on the 8th of January 2009

has been predicted in You Tube here:BOYKOILIEV2008

You see more than 300 World earthquake prognosis

for January 2009.

The plate tectonic do not makes the earthquakes.

The moon makes the earthquakes.

Boyko Iliev

/Consultant by earthquakes in Bulgarian bTV,"Seismograph"/

[bloodydoll67]

I love L.A. I don't speak english very well.

to go LA it's my most beautiful dreams. ^^

normaly I will be over there in march 2009 :d:d

I hope. ^^

[Featureman]

LA is my favorite city. It has a lot of old and new beauty.

[kienjinn1117]

Every video I've seen so far's a gem! haha. Thanks for taking the time to make these. Man, I sincerely miss home. It's been 7 years without the siren lullabies and the gentle buzzing of the helicopter patrol!

[Featureman]

Thanks. I also miss L.A. It was fun even with the floods, fires and earthquakes. Sirens and gunfire at night were as you say, the lullabyes for Angelinos.

[AnGeLoLosAngeles]

it's nice knowing that i was born in Los Angeles 26 years ago and that im gonna be here for the rest of my life : ) nice video Featureman you have the adequate voice and accent for the video too!

[Featureman]

L.A. is a fabulous place. I miss it a lot but it became too expensive for me. You live in a wonderful city.

[AnGeLoLosAngeles]

Yeah, i admit it.

It became extremely expensive i'll say.

[CottonCandyGroup]

lol so many jewelry stores, right next to a....jewlry store.

[Featureman]

When I lived there in the 1950s the building with the sign that looks like a diamond was Warner Brothers Theater. Nobody needed so much jewelry then but we needed our good low cost movie entertainment.

[snowhitepo]

hahaha XD

[joemamaking]

what year was that and stop saying that too

[Featureman]

Hi. All the video clips were done during two days of walking around in L.A. for a couple of hours each day. The year was 2005.

[eenflo27]

lol this guy is funny

[Featureman]

I thank you. The world is kind of funny when you look at how we people do things. I just found out my car's fuel pump is inside my gas tank. Or at least it was. Now there's another one in there. It is more fun to laugh than cry.

[davedubya]

you repeat too much. your narration is all over the place. you sound like a doomsday prophet. i really dont like your narration.

[kydrice]

The big one is supposed to hit within the next 30 years or so the experts say. The northern San Andreas fault was ruptured in 1906 but the southern fault hasn't ruptured in 300 years.

[Featureman]

Yes. Tick, tick, tick. I did move from there partly because of what is coming. I think I would have survived the quake. It is the month or so after the quake that will be most deadly.

[gemblues]

I think you did a goog job. It was kind of funny!

[caliboytakinit]

when will it hit

[Featureman]

A big one will occur someday under Los Angeles. Big meaning 7 or greater. The question is whether it occurs in some midwestern city before then. Big ones are coming, but an earthquake is unlike a storm. It starts out full force with no 5 minute warning. You do get a fifty year warning. We have had that.

[punkranium]

Haha Good Narration, sense of humor always makes it up!!..

[Featureman]

Thanks.

[highdimension11]

Funny. I work in the big white skyscraper on 7th and Fig on the 30th floor. The earthquake today scared the crap out of me, especially being as high as I was. The building is on rollers, so not only was it going in an up and down motion during the earthquake, the building was swaying back and forth. Not fun.

[Featureman]

Yeah. The earthquakes will definitely scare anyone who is sensible. The real problem will happen when the Wilshire Fault or any undiscovered fault under the downtown area moves with a 7 magnitude or greater. The brick buildings between Broadway and Alameda and elsewhere will fall apart and if the four way overpass doesn't make it I don't want to be near any of it.

[Chanio1]

yeah they had a earth quake today in chino hills..i live n fontana and it wasent really that bad but my sis lives n pomona and she said the pics fell from the wall n shit,....

[Featureman]

That is one of the reasons I left LA. I might be hit by a tornado here though.

[chomfisvic]

we just had a quake half an hour ago...man it was so scary!!

[Featureman]

Yes. There is no warning. I remember the Northridge Quake very well. No warning, 4:30AM, full blown right away.

[RJKOLord]

They Had a earthquak today it was 5.8

[Featureman]

That is big. Especially since it was just 8 miles underground according to what I heard. That is very near the surface for an earthquake.

[angelincal]

I hate LA i've live in LA almost all my life im moving next year to Phoenix AZ i rather suffer heat

[Featureman]

LA can get pretty hot at times. Mainly the heat is in the valley though. Have fun in Phoenix.

[WizzardSorcerer]

I love downtown L.A! I want to move into a loft in one of the brick buildings in "downtown Los Angeles" ! BY the way how old is this video? i saw a robinsons may! LOL!

[Featureman]

Hi. I made this about 5 years ago. There are a lot of lofts being sold there. I used to live across the street from Robinsons on 7th Street in the 1950s. They had fabulous window designs to display their products. Each window focused on a different color, like all red items in one window, then all blue in another window, etc.

[ARNRF67]

You wouldn't happen to know where I could buy some jewlery in dowmtown L.A.

[Featureman]

Let's see. It seems there was one around here somewhere. Fort Knox needs to go there to stock up.

[drakebelllover85]

I've been to LA recently and plan on going back (I'm moving there in August 08 to go to school). I will be attending The Los Angeles Recording School on Sunset Blvd. I enjoyed the video very much-I just hope the big one doesn't hit while I'm there. But that's just a chance I'll have to take! Also- "The wood building next to it, being only 2 stories tall, will probably survive just about any kind of earthquake, unless the

brick building falls on it.."-LOL!! I love that! I love your sarcasm.

[Featureman]

Thanks.

[frosty4700]

"Some building look like they were designed during an earthqauke" LMFAO !

[starscard24]

I love this video. Tom I think you are briliant! Your commentary on this video is great and I love your songs. It's hillarious how many jewelry stores there are in the same dang place.

[oe2kb]

Los Angeles -- one of three locations that I'd like to experience before I shuffle off this mortal coil, the others being Kenya (a little dangerous right now) & the Arctic (before it too melts). Now, I feel like I've been to L.A. a'ready; all those brick buildings ready to fall down and all. I'm amazed at how fast they can throw up the sky scrapers -- shouldn't be too long after the 'Big One' before they're all back up again!

Thank you so much.

[gkkkkkkkk]

very interesting video..i wish to visit LA one day

[Senvae]

Very interesting video. I was expecting music from Lab4 though.... whats with the title? Anyways, fun video.

[Featureman]

The title is Los Angeles Before ( the Big One )... LAB4. L.A. Before. Thanks. LA is a great place.

[mickfiler01]

"I don't know what building that is, but it wasn't there this morning."

[ErkMan5000]

Earthquakes fascinate me! And this video cracked me up! (no pun intended) Great music with the commentary. I have to go visit LA one of these days before the Big One!

[Featureman]

I hope you see L.A. when you get a chance. It is a beautiful downtown with old and new buildings mixed. Perhaps they will be shaken not stirred someday. I did all the video in two days walking around downtown. The editing took a while plus the music. If you see L.A. go between 1st and 8th and between San Pedro and Figueroa. San Pedro Street is the heart of Skid Row.

[RoonJazz]

Brillant commentary too - very clever.

[Featureman]

Hi, RoonJazz, Thanks. It is just a matter of time. I love L.A., especially the 1950s L.A. that I first saw when I moved there when I was a teen. When the Big One comes, the first reports of the damage and casualties will not be as big a story as what we will hear in days and weeks after that.

[RoonJazz]

Yes, exactly - as with Hurricane Katrina. It's a bit like Naples - millions of people living literally on top of the ruins of Pompeii/Herculaneum, aware that the same thing will probably happen to them very soon, but having the complacent arrogance to assume that it can't POSSIBLY harm THEM - no, they're far too clever and advanced to get snuffed out by a volcano...! Cheers Featureman. Roo

[RoonJazz]

It's going to happen. It's inevitable. Why people continue to live there, I don't know, but we'll be glad of films like this when the buildings and people are all gone. It's going to be terrible.

[Featureman]

Hi, Umbraluno. I like your video of L.A. is my Lady. The Elvis guy in front of The Chinese Theater and I worked a scene in Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang a few years ago. I agree about the L.A. Library being a fantastic building. L. A. is great. I now live in Tennessee. I miss CA.

[umbraluno]

I'd like to shot a video about the library tower building, its history, with pics when it was under construction! That'd be nice!I liked your video.

[umbraluno]

you weren't talking about the big one, but about downtown L.A. I know you hate jewlery stores LOL

Nice views of downtown historical core of L.A. Thank you!