Ugliest Streets in Los Angeles

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Most of Los Angeles is ugly. Like. 95%.

It would be easier to create a thread on beautiful streets

Lots of LA is surprisingly shabby looking. As if it were built in the 60s/70s/80s and never touched since. Many chains are still using old designs and iconography which contributes to the dated feel.

A great old friend of mine lived for 70 years in the house her father built on Genessee, just off Pico. He built the house for $7500 in the 30s. It is a beautiful little hacienda with tile roof. There is a huge ugly metal building on Pico just at the end of her street. No windows at all. It contains an oil well. She finally sold it in 2010 to move east to be near her son due to bad health. She got $1.4 million for it. Poor thing died less than a year after selling and moving. Didn't even get to enjoy all that money for long.

I find LA very beautiful. I love the view of the houses in the Hollywood hills - but it's not that nice up there, the bendy roads and no shops.

I'm surprised how run down some of the houses are that sit up on the hills in Laurel Canyon. I figured it must be hard in LA to find carpenters willing to haul equipment up those narrow hilly streets.

The shabby houses in the hills are more likely inherited houses and the people who inherited them don't have the money to keep them well maintained.

When I was younger, I worked as a mail carrier in LA. Where do you want to begin? LOL.

Slauson.....simply the worst...

The industrial streets in places like Vernon are pretty grim.

[quote]The industrial streets in places like Vernon are pretty grim.

What industrial streets *aren't* grim, r9?

R10, some are worse than others. Santa Fe Avenue? Awful.

OP is driving and typing.

LA needs a bath. It’s grimy looking from all the car exhaust and the lack of rain.

Well now, not all thoroughfares can be as beautiful as Los Angeles' fabulous Western Ave.

Oh c'mon, r14, Western is a *very* long street.

You mean you couldn't tell it was our neighborhood's, from the crack-patches all over the ones we all rode our bicycles through?!?

Olympic

Hang on, now. I live on Pico. It’s dull and shabby for long stretches, but certainly isn’t one of the ugliest streets. And from Century City, including Fox Studios, all the way through Santa Monica, it’s perfectly fine. That’s almost 5 miles. LA is simply too massive and sprawling to maintain a consistent aesthetic. Some streets run 15-20 miles throughout neighborhoods of varying socioeconomic levels. Some streets run in and out of Los Angeles. If you stay on Wilshire, for example, you’ll start with a stunning view of the ocean, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Miracle Mile, abandoned buildings, homeless encampments, downtown LA skyscrapers, more homelessness, more rundown buildings, filth.

Sepulveda

Imperial Highway

Century Boulevard

Victory Boulevard

Santa Monica Boulevard

Sixth Street

r18 and r19 are...

Van Nuys Blvd.

I refer to Van Nuys as Van Not so Nice

Bandini Blvd is where dreams go to die!

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Too many to document. For some reason, California hates architectural design, charm, parks and nature spaces and urban planning.

Republicans never build charming streets or parks/natural spaces. Whomever wins these building contracts have ZERO design experience. It is always ugly.

Make sure you vote out Republicans locally too. They are making California as hideous as their souls.

R23, lol.

What is Laurel Canyon Blvd like? Shit?

R28, The northern part in North Hollywood and up in the Sylmar area is shitty. It's nice through the canyon going into Hollywood, but a lot of the houses aren't maintained.

"Most of Los Angeles is ugly. Like. 95%."

It's true, at street level Los Angeles is 90% cracked gray concrete, and 5% more is walls around the nicer-looking places.

LA has natural beauty, but the built environment is often lacking. Not that there's NO nice/beautiful streets, but as people have stated, there's a LOT of shabby, worn, and ugly.

Berkeley Ave Echo Park

I’m in the Bay Area, & one of my coworkers was an LA native. She said one of the first things she noticed here is that neighborhoods are uniformly nice or squalid, whereas in LA (according to her) it’s very mish-mash, nice houses interspersed amongst trashier places.

I have always thought LA was mostly ugly. I grew up and lived there until I was about 30. 40 years ago. When I lived there it wasn't quite as worn down as it is now. I have been watching many Youtube videos that take a camera and travel around. When the last pres wormed his way into the office, (I don't like to say his name) I spent 4 years watching travel videos. Hundreds of them are from LA. I was shocked at how run-down LA has become. It looks like nothing has been maintained in 40 years. But I live in a northern CA town and nothing gets maintained here either. With all the money we supposedly have Ca not be so run down.

Alvarado

R26 RePUBlicans? Who? Where?

Olympic, apparently.

Alvarado never recovered after Bottega Veneta closed.

The drought is making LA look worse too. Everything looks dry, brown, and wilted.

Skid Row

Sorry, OP...too many to list. Thread closed.

R40 yep. Skid Row, San Pedro Street or where the smoke shops all are on 5th. Horrible. Vernon and Commerce are also hideous all over.

La Brea and Slauson are pretty bad but anything in Willowbrook is worse.

[quote]Whomever wins

Oh, dear!

Century Boulevard

Reminds me of

I think LA is fantastic in every possible way. I love LA.

I think LA is ugly it’s all shabby and rundown.

I think LA is fantastic and full of architecture beauty.

Typical DL.

It’s beautiful in the rich neighborhoods.

I love LA, it’s a fascinating city and despite some ugliness it can be a dream

I was recently in Gardena on Gardena Blvd. it was ugly but clean. Main Hispanic. I’m t was like stepping back in time. The street had a working class dept store, dress shop, bike shop and bakery. Very 1950s bit shabby.

One of the things that "Lala Land" got right was the streets. When the leads were walking home from a party and stopped st stage a musical number on a random bit of Beverly Hills street, the street was harrow, cracked, and striped with tar over the cracks rather than repaved. No sidewalks, just weeds growing by the side of the road.

It's the same in some other filthy rich parts of California, I've seen similar streets in Malibu, and Atherton and Woodside farther north, where the streets are barely wide enough for two cars to pass, and the pavement hasn't been touched in decades. Maybe it's a way of discouraging the public from being there...

R45, same.