Interesting, I was out at White Point Nature Preserve on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, San Pedro side on Paseo Del Mar W. and there they were, the metal doors for the Nike missiles and a guard house nearby. Up the hill are the bunkers for the big guns.
@13_13k
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this video. I'm from L.A., born in Inglewood, raised in Westchester /Playa Del Rey. There were two Nike bases in my neighborhood. One in Playa Del Rey at the Southwest Property adjacent to North runway of LAX Airport about ¼ mile from the beach and used to be surrounded by houses. It remains but has been a "secret" facility disguised as an exotic animal transportation and quarantine facility for animals being shipped around the world out of LAX. It's a couple of acres of open space with a few buildings fenced in by chainlink fence with razor wire wrapped around the top. Only a painted sign reading Jet Pets at the gated entrance tells what the place is. Anyone who has lived in the neighborhood from back in the day prior to 1990s knows what that place is and local military personell from LA AFB which is the missile and rocket radar tracking base knows what the Jet Pets facility is in reality. I don't believe there are NIKE rockets there but I think the military has something else there in operation as some defense for the coastline and the city of LA. About a mile South, down the beach if you follow the sand dunes to the South side of LAX property you'll find LA Hyperion Plant that sits on the low bluffs above Dockweiler State Beach, which also was a NIKE missile sight. That property is in El Segundo and the Hyperion plant is the waste water treatment plant for Los Angeles processing raw sewage (poop, etc...) and pumps it out a large pipe that extends a couple miles, supposedly, into the Pacific Ocean, next to that facility is the Scattergood Generating Station which uses that waste treatment plant somehow to generate power. Next to it is Chevron refinery #2 and next to it is Southern California Edison power plant. All of these facilities are beach front properties. Also, as the narrator mentioned in the video about the air raid sirens around the city of LA, one still remains in Westchester, as there are still a lot of them around the city. When I was in elementary school and into Jr high school in the 1970s, on the last Thursday of every month, at 10 o'clock AM the air raid sirens were tested and we had to do an emergency air raid drill by immediately stopping whatever we were doing and drop and get under our desk as if that would help if a nuclear bomb hit the city. But, that went on monthly until around 1978 or so. The sirens are still operational but they don't test them anymore the way they used to. Please make more videos of the deep history of Los Angeles as a critical area for military bases and the aerospace defense contractors and secret manufacturing facilities around the city and the tunnels that connect the airport and the manufacturing facilities used to transport hardware, airplanes, bombs, etc... to be shipped and how the air force used women pilots to fly the fighter planes and bombers that were built around the city and then flown off to deliver them to the bases and carriers that needed the planes. LA was a and still is a vital military location for defense of the West Coast.
@helpis0ntheway
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful comment. Thanks for sharing 💚
@dustysdad801
Жыл бұрын
Yes. A tunnel from the new home depot in woodland hills to what was rocketdyne. They are out there
@13_13k
Жыл бұрын
@@dustysdad801 ---- are you talking about the home depot on Variel near Victory? Was all that big box store shopping area aerospace industry? I lived at the corner of Canoga and Erwin for a couple years until about 3 years ago. Two blocks from Topanga Mall and the Westfield Shopping. There are still a couple of big empty lots of property in that neighborhood. I thought all that area was Warner property. But, I'm from LAX area and didn't spend much time in the valley. There is a saying that there's no life East of Sepulveda. That and we'd go hiking in Topanga and Malibu Canyons but we never went into the Valley. Hahahaha
@dustysdad801
Жыл бұрын
Yes that home depot. There is/was a tunnel from that building under victory to rocketdyne. It was big enough for semi trucks to go to rocketdyne so satellites could not see them. My Dad worked for rocketdyne ☢ in the 60s. Fun stuff.
@13_13k
Жыл бұрын
@@dustysdad801 --- very interesting. Thank you for sharing that info. My dad's father, was a master machinist and from Indianapolis and had worked on the Norden bomb sight, he was asked to come to California by the Navy and Hughes to be a scale model builder, my father had just graduated from Butler University so, my grandparents and my dad moved to Santa Monica and both my grandfather and father worked for Hughes Aircraft in Culver City. My father worked at Hughes Weapons Misssiles and Communication was the head of purchasing for their Data and Guidance Systems. All the targeting systems for TOW and TRAM missiles, the helmet targeting for the Apache Helicopter pilots, and the targeting for the canon on the Cm1 Abrams tank and a bunch of satellite secret stuff. He knew about secret companies throughout the Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Torrance areas that on the outside were ordinary businisses like a printing shop or a company that made brooms and janitorial supplies that were really making parts for bombs and aircraft parts for Hughes and McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Garrett, etc... . Supposedly tunnels from Hawthorne airport to somebody those secret machine and tooling companies to LAX and to the Hughes Helicopter Plant which had its own runway as well as multiple hangars. My friends and I would sit on the bluffs above Hughes, which is Loyola Marymount University and we had seen helicopters being test flown a couple times. I remember back as a kid in the early '70s just before it would get dark outside seeing the missiles or their contrails in the sky after being launched from Point Mugu or Vandenberg.
@edgargee408
Жыл бұрын
We had schools drills that would never have saved us
@holiday1
Жыл бұрын
You need to show the base right on Woodman and victory blvd in the San Fernando Valley, oh wait it's still an active military base.
@jasminespencer3992
Жыл бұрын
Woodley not Woodman. It’s not an active military base, it’s a California national guard storage facility.
@holiday1
Жыл бұрын
@jasminespencer3992 Back in the day it was a US airforce radio station that housed Nike missles, I remember when they removed them . The National Guard base is across the street and is an active base.
@RS-jh2kl
Жыл бұрын
Interesting 🤔
@jerrywatt6813
Жыл бұрын
I drove thru the open gates of site 88 in 1972 and thought it was abandond only to be apptoached by an irate guard with a m 16 telling to get the F%#K out or i would be shot ha ha kinda crazy guy ha ha i left post haste with him still screaming at me the army guy was kinda Nuts ha ha !!
@Dave-xs9dm
Жыл бұрын
We visited one not far from Sausalito
@rossginn1171
4 ай бұрын
Amazing content 👍🏻 you deserve millions of subscribers
@michaelpriest
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Alex. I was a kid in LA in the 50s and remember it well, We have been under threat from Russian bombs my whole life. In grammar school we had drills every week on what to do in bombing attacks.
@helpis0ntheway
Жыл бұрын
This was an amazing video & history lesson! I hope more people subscribe!
@waste_media
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
@jagpilotohio
Жыл бұрын
Cool channel. Interesting stuff. Keep up the good work. You Got a new subscriber.
@roccidisopa661
Жыл бұрын
Dirt Mulholland!
@bikerdude6119
Жыл бұрын
Lol yup, i run 11 miles to get there, refuel, eat, drop a hot one if i need to,then run 11 back down to temescal canyon road. Im ever so happy to be there
@bikerdude6119
Жыл бұрын
I go to the one in Mulholland road,i run 11 miles there, refuel,eat drop a hot one ,then run 11 miles back down. Thats actually were i met my good friend, now we are running ultras together😂
@robertf4540
4 ай бұрын
I remember the site at Point Vicente and the one at the Torrance Airport.
@akatgif
6 ай бұрын
I visit these on my regular bike rides
@davidgrisez
Жыл бұрын
I live in the San Fernando Valley and I have visited the Nike Missile Site LA-96C a number of times. This site was a radar observation and missile control sight. The Nike Missiles were located in the Sepulveda Basin. This Nike Missile Site LA-96C is also known today as San Vicente Mountain Park.
@jasonjackman9076
Жыл бұрын
The one near San Franciso does tours and is super cool to check out.
@nlastamp
Жыл бұрын
I live right next to a former Nike missle sight in Redondo Beach. When it was decommissioned it was transformed into a wildlife park called Hopkins Wilderness Park.
@brandonexploredthis
7 ай бұрын
Such a great video I recently explored one of these sites.
@waste_media
7 ай бұрын
Thank you! 🙏
@Pompomgrenade
Жыл бұрын
Interesting work Mr. Documentarian... I Appreciate it 🫡
@gabesvidz
Жыл бұрын
I am close to LA-14. I wonder if anything is there left to see amd where it’s exact location was ?
@liam-os8sy
11 ай бұрын
I went to veterans park and the nike missle 94c
@bobbys4327
Жыл бұрын
Another big waste of $$$$
@jerrywatt6813
Жыл бұрын
Bad road ya need a pickup last time i went but that was a decade ago but its pretty cool area !
@rickuyeda4818
11 ай бұрын
We use to ride our motorcycles up there.
@ChosenOne6666
Жыл бұрын
I guess Orange County was lesser in value not to be protected.
@jagpilotohio
Жыл бұрын
Most of OC was not very developed in the 50’s. The el toro marine air station was there but that’s about all of any defense value.
@hunglo666
Жыл бұрын
actually the hills between Rowland Heights and Orange county is a Nike Base with missile silos aimed toward the ocean
@ChosenOne6666
Жыл бұрын
@@hunglo666 I saw the map and it doesnt cover south-eastern-western Orange Country. Google it.
@PaulMcElligott
4 ай бұрын
@@hunglo666Was. The remnants of the base were demolished years ago.
@robertdavis5714
Жыл бұрын
Chatsworth, myself and high school buddies tried to drive up in late 1970's, but the signs of being arrested if you continue farther, stopped us. I remember in the 1960's once a month (I believe it was 11:45-12 noon) the sirens, and in grade school when the teacher would say "Drop and Cover", in which every student jumps under their desk, yup that will protect us.
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