Hipsters really are destroying LA

[renard_ruse]

I love downtown LA. Have for about 15 years. It used to be a great place to get a "city vibe" without all the hipster riff rave (or trendies as they used to be called). It had a rough edge but not so rough it was dangerous, so long as you knew which blocks to avoid after dark. Was a fun, chill place. I wouldn't even know for sure how to characterize the nightlife there a decade ago, it wasn't Hollywood, it wasn't even Pasadena, maybe it gave Alhambra a run for its money. There were some trendy clubs but they seemed to be isolates scattered here and there. It was just starting to gentrify, and was very refreshing having seen downtown San Diego destroyed by redevelopment and turned into a stupid nightlife and condo district (its not even a real working downtown anymore).

I've noticed over the past 5 years or so, and in particular the last couple of years, the proliferation of hipsters and hipsterism in downtown. The trendy restaurants and bistros, the hipster bars, more art galleries, tattoo places (trendy ones not rough edged ones). Less working class cantinas. Walked around Saturday evening this past week and it really hit me, the transformation is not my imagination. They really are taking over, you can sense it.

Apparently its not my imagination, either. It appears they are moving from New York, not to Hollywood or West LA but to downtown. They have destroyed Brooklyn and are now bored with it and need somewhere new to destroy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/s...ng-creative-class-lures-new-yorkers.html?_r=0

Indeed, Los Angeles has seemingly become the flight fantasy of choice for the likes of Ms. Turner, who insists that anything good she was giving up in overpriced, overstressed Brooklyn is already in place on the booming east side of Los Angeles: the in-season Zambian coffee outposts, the galleries, the vintage clothing boutiques.

With that area’s scruffy bohemian spirit and laid-back mood, she thinks she had found the best of her New York life without the migraines. “It’s like grown-up version of Williamsburg,” Ms. Turner said, “without the gray cloud...

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I've heard that LA is pretty much, Tijuana now.

 

[Liar]

"in-season Zambian coffee outposts" might be the most hipster thing I've ever read.

 

[Rachel_X]

Have you ever met a hipster you didn't want to punch? No, me neither.

 

[Disgustipated]

I love downtown LA. Have for about 15 years. It used to be a great place to get a "city vibe" without all the hipster riff rave (or trendies as they used to be called). It had a rough edge but not so rough it was dangerous, so long as you knew which blocks to avoid after dark. Was a fun, chill place. I wouldn't even know for sure how to characterize the nightlife there a decade ago, it wasn't Hollywood, it wasn't even Pasadena, maybe it gave Alhambra a run for its money. There were some trendy clubs but they seemed to be isolates scattered here and there. It was just starting to gentrify, and was very refreshing having seen downtown San Diego destroyed by redevelopment and turned into a stupid nightlife and condo district (its not even a real working downtown anymore).

I've noticed over the past 5 years or so, and in particular the last couple of years, the proliferation of hipsters and hipsterism in downtown. The trendy restaurants and bistros, the hipster bars, more art galleries, tattoo places (trendy ones not rough edged ones). Less working class cantinas. Walked around Saturday evening this past week and it really hit me, the transformation is not my imagination. They really are taking over, you can sense it.

Apparently its not my imagination, either. It appears they are moving from New York, not to Hollywood or West LA but to downtown. They have destroyed Brooklyn and are now bored with it and need somewhere new to destroy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/s...ng-creative-class-lures-new-yorkers.html?_r=0

Yates, you've never been to DTLA in your pathetic life. Like the Evil Dishwasher Lord will allow to leave the facility.

 

[lovecraft68]

Have you ever met a hipster you didn't want to punch? No, me neither.

You beat me to this, its like general principles to want to hit one.

These idiots are so disliked my wife made a comment about a guys Iron Man T-shirt at a bar we went to and he said, "Thanks, and I'm not wearing it ironically, I really like comic books."

And..isn't the word they're really looking for incongruously, not ironically? but...whatever.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Liar]

Some....hmm...few decades ago, my mother bought an art piece made out of ripped paper and pencil sharpening so in L.A. While the single digit me looked on and thought ' what is this trendy rubbish selling for money.' ( she never hung our school art which was not much worse I thought ). Oh, and a hideous piece of pottery.

Does this happen in every generation some how? There are lots of places I feel spoilt, but it's less the changes in them and more the uniformity, the same shops worldwide the feeling of why go anywhere else. Hipster coffee? Well.....I had coffee out twice in the last month, a record of my recent years, both at independent places with different vibes. I choose that over the same place on every street corner in the world.

I just want a well brewn cuppa dark roast. I make my own vibe.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[VaticanAssassin]

LA is a odd town. There are some very cool happy hour hang outs, but the "night life" is weak. Unless there is something going on like a game at staples I always end up heading out of LA for late night shenanigans
( Huntington/ studio city). Maybe I do not know the right places but it seems to be the slowest big city ever after 9pm.

The Standard is always busy but nearly as cool as it was years ago and mostly tourists now.

 

[Christobal]

I hate it when things change. I like them like they were. Unless I'm in the new wave that discovers new cool places to be then me and my crowd annoy the people that have been coming there for a while. Then the new people that came after me are annoying. Sigh.

This is not a put down to any poster. This is what happens to me.