Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "IT'S HISTORY" channel.

  1. Its like highway 1. They keep rebuilding it because it makes so damm much money it's worth it. I grew up in the Palisades above LA. When I was a kid I used to walk down the main street to the end at the cliffs overlooking the ocean where it ended abruptly. I would look over the edge and noticed there were a lot of pipes coming out of the cliffside. In my older age, I realized that what I was seeing was the remains of the many houses there that the ocean had taken.
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  2. I grew up in the area in the 1970's. It was in full on decay, with trashed canals besides virtual slums. The city of LA helped the area's decline quite a bit with rent control. One of the leftovers of the Venice era was at Venice high school, which was a large mural of Venice inside the main building. It made a nice backdrop to the daily knife fights in the cafeteria. Oh well. Venice looks better now, or it DID, before the homeless encampments along the beach. My stepfather got rich by buying houses there and flipping them later when Venice finally turned around. Another segway about Marina Del Rey (the marina of kings!) was that it was built with the main sea access canal leading straight out to the ocean. This led to sailboats having to tack back and forth in the canal to get out to sea and being screamed at, or screaming at, the power boaters who went straight down the canal. Basically the designers of Marina Del Rey may have been kings, but they sure weren't sailors. Marina del rey. We lived there for 30 years. My fathers ashes went into the water off the harbor. Good times.
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  3. The SS Palo Alto was a concrete ship that was repurposed as a pier on Seacliff Beach, CA. When I first came to Northern California in 1987, you could go to the foredeck of the ship. It once was completely usable as part of the pier. Now it is completely off limits and in fact slowly sinking into the waves as a the last of the concrete breaks up and washes away.
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  4. Yes, there are signs in Venice (the Italian version) warning not to bathe in the water.
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  5. "the Washington monument remains the tallest building in Washington DC" its by law. No building may exceed its height.
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  6. "the US had long overcome its internal divisions".... Um....I think Mexico lost.
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  7. I'm surprised they didn't try a steerable one.
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