Driving Tour of Silver Lake & Atwater Village, Los Angeles neighborhoods [4K] Dash Cam Tours

Recorded: July 24, 2020

You are watching a driving video tour of Silver Lake, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA

Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the east central region of Los Angeles, California.

 Originally named Ivanhoe in the 1900s by a resident from Scotland, it was built around what was then a city reservoir which gives the district its name.

The "Silver" in Silver Lake is not because of the water's color, but named for a local politician who helped create the reservoir.

The area is known for its restaurants and hipster hangouts, and many notable people have made their homes there.
The neighborhood has several public and private schools.

During the 1930s, Walt Disney built his first large studio in Silver Lake at the corner of Griffith Park Boulevard and Hyperion Avenue, currently the site of Gelson's Market

The neighborhood is crisscrossed by numerous municipal staircases that provide pedestrian access up and down the neighborhood's signature hills.

Among these are the Descanso Stairs, Redcliffe Stairs and the Music Box Stairs. 

In the 1950s and 1960s, Silver Lake was home to a middle class Latino community.

The community was formed by people who worked in the then-bustling manufacturing hub of downtown Los Angeles.

In the 1970s, outsourcing led to a downturn in the community's prosperity, as they saw their jobs shipped overseas to Taiwan and China along with manufacturing. The neighborhood lost its prominence amid urban decay

In the community of Silver Lake lies the namesake reservoir composed of two basins, with the lower named Silver Lake and the upper named Ivanhoe.

The lower body of water was named in 1906 for Herman Silver; the upper body received its name from the 1819 Sir Walter Scott novel Ivanhoe.

Since the indie rock music scene is particularly prominent in this neighborhood, comparisons are often drawn between Silver Lake and New York City's Williamsburg district.
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