Props to the person who thought of putting a 100lb camera in the back of his car and film while driving, and preserve the footage.

@sidecar7714

5 жыл бұрын

Probably a 70dr... fairly lightweight and sturdy.

@pacoandpacosmagicshoeyes5622

5 жыл бұрын

@@sidecar7714 moving pictures yes I can see them 7 6 : 2 3 outside of LA copying and pasting the link everywhere only escalated the situation became global someone was going to have tell a radio station about this outside of LA or we would have to watch all of the girls withdrew everything from all of the banks disintegrated on live television if they have that suddenly quickly timemachineprintoutonlinelinkinonline.wordpress.com o my goodness

@FormerDeathMachine

5 жыл бұрын

sharkk 88 Great Scott

@mariarobinpower1341

5 жыл бұрын

@@FormerDeathMachine "there's no place like home...x3"

@mdyiya

5 жыл бұрын

Preserved on nitrate film and lucky it didn’t explode.

Someone should film the same route today and run the footage of both side by side

@gregfair1749

5 жыл бұрын

That would be an awesome but sad comparison!!!!

@MrManfly

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregfair1749 ya, there would likely be a lot of homeless people and tents all over the sidewalk !

@mainecoon6514

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrManfly That is what L.A. and the rest of California has come to. CA could be dubbed the trash state. The only 'golden' about CA is the piss.

@CharlieMessing

5 жыл бұрын

They leveled Bunker Hill, so that might be kind of difficult.

@thejohnson9204

5 жыл бұрын

@@mainecoon6514 Why do you say that? Is it not nice there now? I'm from Australia so am not really aware. I thought it was still a nice place to live.

It would be great if someone in LA could film the exact route today and show it side by side with the 40s footage.

@ismaelpenalver4722

4 жыл бұрын

They do , it's called Seventy years of Los Angeles then and now

@antonydonavan234

4 жыл бұрын

That is not Los-Angeleas... sweetie ! Mirna Catalano

@keepemclassic6791

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/iX18yM-io7Cyf7w.html

@bluecamus5162

4 жыл бұрын

You can do that yourself using Google Maps Street View. The ride begins twice in the same location--- on 2nd Street just west of Olive. The only things that are recognizable are the LA City Hall in the background at the 2:26 mark (when you see the chics walking) and about the 3:58 mark, you will see the library with the big arch on 5th Street. Mind blowing to see what has become of Bunker Hill.

@hotdog12ify

4 жыл бұрын

Homeless would get in the way.

Legend has it, the driver is still driving around the city till this day, unable to find parking.

@badactor3440

4 жыл бұрын

Just because my comment is similar to another doesn't mean I copied it....moron.

@badactor3440

4 жыл бұрын

@Millennial Smark born a moron, always a moron

@regiltube7932

4 жыл бұрын

You 2 Had This comment meme Idea from other people Mean It

@carolmccartney7607

4 жыл бұрын

@Millennial Smark exactly what I thought

@jessemacias2

4 жыл бұрын

There were zero parking meters and hundreds of parking garages. Are you blind?

I love these kind of videos. The closest we're ever going to get to being in a time machine.

@stijndelie1458

4 жыл бұрын

For now...

I felt a strange feeling watching the video. It's hard to explain. I would almost say it's a feeling of being homesick for a place I can't go back to, because it's gone. Almost as if I had been there, and I suddenly realize what I've lost.

@MrDaiseymay

5 жыл бұрын

OOOOH A, TIME WARP.

@mikecastellon3022

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone has heard the quote “you can never go back home” and puzzled over the meaning .its simple...it’s because it doesn’t exist anymore. The past is gone and tomorrow never comes. All we’ve got is now and we have to find some way to live with the lunatics and demons that infest our cities and our government

@sampowell3465

5 жыл бұрын

I feel you!

@mariarobinpower1341

5 жыл бұрын

They built their future. I wish we could go back there...but don't we owe our children the same nostalgia when they get old? Do you want them to have no happy place at all? We are both drowning in self pity. Thank God I am a first responder!

@mariarobinpower1341

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not trying to bag on you Gregory. I cry when I look at the carnage of a generation and that the legacy we leave our children isn't nostalgia and warm memories...but a shit- load of cold murder cases...a shit- load of brand new Prisons called Detention Centers, meaning they are not constitutional and a lot if questions with no answers. We are better than that. And we owe them better. "All human knowledge?" Boy, is Grandpa going to be pissed!!!

“Rent a Car for $2.50”- 1940

@roberthorner744

4 жыл бұрын

$2.50 in 1940 = about $47.00 in 2020

@helen11937

4 жыл бұрын

A car paint job for $32.50.....wow. 😂

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

THAT WAS WHEN THE COINS WERE 90% SILVER- AND MONEY WAS STILL WORTH SOMETHING!!!

@elypevets5633

4 жыл бұрын

Park all Day 50 cents

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

@@elypevets5633 ...50 cents was a lot of money back then-!!

I really enjoyed looking at this. The Gas Stations, the clothes people wore and more. Thanks !

0:12 - Car is at 2nd St and Olive St facing east 0:40 - Car starts moving up 2nd st and turns south on Grand Ave 1:17 - Car is at the intersection of Grand Ave and 3rd St still heading south 1:40 - Car is at the intersection of Grand Ave and 4th St still heading south 2:04 - Car stops at 5th and Grand Ave. Film cuts 2:07 - Film starts. Car driving up 2nd st again and turns south on Grand Ave, with camera facing to the right.

@pacoandpacosmagicshoeyes5622

5 жыл бұрын

here are the instructions timemachineprintoutonlinelinkinonline.wordpress.com printers and microphones numbers dials outside of LA copying and pasting the link everywhere only escalated the situation became global someone was going to have tell a radio station about this outside of LA or we would have to watch all of the girls withdrew everything from all of the banks disintegrated on live television if they have that suddenly quickly timemachineprintoutonlinelinkinonline.wordpress.com o my goodness

@thomaskelly2040

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks I can now go to Google maps and compare😊.

@lannlann

5 жыл бұрын

Wow that is a radical change of scenery compared to the past. I was looking at the current google street views and see this area is downtown LA with its skyscrapers. Thanks for sharing the street names.

@TheGreatOne16439

5 жыл бұрын

I think that black car following them was part of the film crew.

@richardwadd9769

5 жыл бұрын

Jahz D thanks. Have you thought of replicating that route and putting it on KZread?

3:45 a man waves to the camera lets all wave back 75 years later.

@_8_five647

5 жыл бұрын

Wow thats a crazy way of putting it, good stuff

@deletdis6173

5 жыл бұрын

I waved back at my phone lol. 😃

@MT94SMM

5 жыл бұрын

He’s probably dead now...

@_8_five647

5 жыл бұрын

@@deletdis6173 thats lame, yeah i did that too 🤣

@prestigearchitecturalllc5881

5 жыл бұрын

👋👀🖐

Did anyone else notice how their was so less people and traffic back then

@Rif_Leman

4 жыл бұрын

They were all in the military fighting Nazis or at a war material production job making weapons and such. Gasoline was severely rationed so there wasn't any frivolous driving. BTW, it is fewer people, not less people.

@hkk3656

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rif_Leman They were fighting the Japanese idiot, after this video was made. Most people had jobs and didn't freeload in tents.

@davedave6650

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like a typical Sunday morning anywhere.

@inlovewithi

4 жыл бұрын

I read another comment saying that his grandma was in her 20s at this time and that sometimes the smog was so bad that... here's what they wrote "my friend's grandma was born and raised in Los Angeles says that in the 40s and 50s the smog was so bad that some days they would close school and tell people to stay indoors. I can see by this footage that that was no joke." It was his friend's grandma.

@eagle___empire3175

4 жыл бұрын

Well thats obvious dumbass

I remember what downtown Los Angeles, CA. looked liked in 1959 and in 1960 when I was 3 and 4 years old. Almost the same on this video. I remember the cable cars in downtown L. A., and the Greyhound Bus Station. It was about 3 or 4 levels. My mom and I used to take the Greyhound bus down there from Santa Barbara, CA. Her dentist was in the downtown area, and his office was in a very tall building. To this very day I still remember his name, Dr. Mcgee. An elderly gentleman, and he was very kind.

@ruialmeida7812

4 жыл бұрын

Adorei esse filme. Foi muito bem feito, provavelmente por profissional. O negócio é viver o momento, pois quase todos que aparecem nas imagens estão mortos. 80 anos se passaram. Viva a vida com mais alegria, pois com simpatia é melhor.

@bobmuller8256

4 жыл бұрын

Underground Warrior that sounds awesome, sounds like you had a great time. Honestly, I like watching these vids and hearing stories from the past. It seems that everyone nowadays are too busy to be better and better than the next guy so they can be rich enough to have more and more than the next guy. I feel like America is opened 24/7 and people are too materialistic nowadays. I wish I could’ve grown up in a different time.

@Blangahman

4 жыл бұрын

You may remember Los Angeles. But how can you claim that it was "almost the same on this video"?. This is San Francisco! How on earth can you mistake the two?

@undergroundwarrior70

4 жыл бұрын

@@Blangahman the title of this video is called 'A Drive Through 1940's Los Angeles'. Looks like Los Angeles to me. And yes, it is Los Angeles. I did see the City Hall building in the background. Los Angeles does have some hilly streets. It's not all flat.

@zcam1969

3 жыл бұрын

things changed in the 1980"s skyscarpers were built downtown

As someone who has been living in L.A. for quite a long time, thus video makes me wanna cry. L.A used to be so beautiful, but now......

@bkatz1480

5 жыл бұрын

lia Aisha depends on what parts of la were talking about

@lindab.716

5 жыл бұрын

Air quality is better now, but that's it.

@cincyspin178

5 жыл бұрын

I think it looked pretty damn drab and the smog was already threatening to take over the skys....

@52Ricoman

5 жыл бұрын

lia Aisha I don’t know about your comment. If you go back to those same streets around Bunker Hill, it’s not bad at all. I haven’t been there for a while but I hear even Broadway is jumping with people and nightlife. It’s making a huge comeback with professional young people living and working there.

@LiquidSnipess

5 жыл бұрын

As well as all the rascist walking around

I was born in 1946 in LA area and I REALLY enjoyed this so much. Thank you.

@algobien9702

4 жыл бұрын

God bless you

@geoffreydevore9503

4 жыл бұрын

I bet it has really changed!! Answer me a question if you will? Were people more real back then? Have a good day!!

@jackjackson6355

4 жыл бұрын

Jesus loves you everyone

@jackjackson6355

4 жыл бұрын

@@JasonHolmes seriously :)

@jackjackson6355

4 жыл бұрын

@@JasonHolmes I'm not into religion

I traced the route for anyone interested: 0:12-0:56 - W. 2nd St & Olive, Traveling Northwest 0:57 - Left turn onto S. Grand Ave., Traveling Southwest 0:58-1:17 - 200 Block of S. Grand Ave. 1:18 - Crossing W. 3rd St. 1:19-1:39 - 300 Block of S. Grand Ave. 1:40 - Crossing W. 4th St. 1:41-2:04 - 400 Block of S. Grand Ave. 2:05 - Stopping at W. 5th St. =JUMP CUT= (RESET/CAMERA REPOSITIONED) 2:06-2:26 - W. 2nd St & Olive, Traveling Northwest 2:27 - Left turn onto S. Grand Ave., Traveling Southwest 2:28-2:49 - 200 Block of S. Grand Ave. 2:50 - Crossing W. 3rd St. 2:51-3:12 - 300 Block of S. Grand Ave. 3:13 - Crossing W. 4th St. 3:14-3:41 - 400 Block of S. Grand Ave. 3:42 - Right turn onto W. 5th Street, Traveling Northwest 3:42-3:55 Biltmore Hotel visible, Southeast (Still Standing) 3:55-4:09 Los Angeles Public Library (Still Standing) 4:10 - Right turn onto Flower Street, Traveling Northeast =JUMP CUT= (CAMERA REPOSITIONED) 4:15-4:33 - 400 Block of Flower St. 4:34 - Crossing W. 4th St. 4:35-4:53 - 300 Block of Flower St. 4:54 - Crossing W. 3rd St. 4:55-5:10 - 200 Block of Flower St. 5:11 - Crossing W. 2nd St 5:12-5:30 - 100 Block of Flower St. 5:31 - Stopped at W. 1st Street 5:40 - Right turn onto W. 1st Street, Traveling Southeast 5:41-6:01 - 700 Block of W. 1st Street 6:02 - Crossing S. Hope St. 6:03-6:07 - 600 Block of W. 1st Street 6:08 - Crossing S. Grand Ave. =END=

@jamescalifornia2964

3 жыл бұрын

Wow -- great job ! Those hills look much more steep in these films 🎥 Thanks 👌

Yes, officer I was only filming this so that I could upload it on to a platform 8 decades from now. Press X to doubt

@disgruntledpedant2755

3 жыл бұрын

Upload didnt exist, and platform was just a flat surface.

@jayyt2969

3 жыл бұрын

@@disgruntledpedant2755 No shit sherlock

@disgruntledpedant2755

3 жыл бұрын

@@jayyt2969 You can venmo me your gratitude.

@JohnFortniteKennedy_

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah idk how people back in the day could predict that we gonna interested watching their old video I dont feel like want to record something now..

@jayyt2969

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ Right now, somewhere, someone is doing something dumb and pointless that will atract the interest of millions of people in the future. Like idk having a stamp collection in the future when everything is done by e-mail.

My great grandma was 26 at this time. She's 101 and still living in her own place.

@donnaleeclubb119

4 жыл бұрын

Good for grandma!!!

@LtKedobu

4 жыл бұрын

Born in the 1920's? I literally respect anyone who has seen the great depression. Your great grandma is now one of them!

@Groveish

4 жыл бұрын

It says 1940s, not 1940. She could've been 26 to 35

@yoda5280

4 жыл бұрын

HustleGang my great uncle was 22 in 1940 (born in 1918), hes still alive at 102, and still drives

@LtKedobu

4 жыл бұрын

@@yoda5280 I respect him.

I might be wrong.... but I don't think I saw a single tent in this entire video. Are you sure this is L.A.? *

@jonmacdonald5345

5 жыл бұрын

whiptech The bums and hobos would stay by the river ways and railroad tracks! they didn't beg then they did odd jobs for pocket change! my how times have changed!

@roseann4023

5 жыл бұрын

Reminder......this is the "good ole days" in the '40's!

@thunderlightning142

5 жыл бұрын

Those days are long gone and probably majority of the people in this video. But man those days look fantastic. People were people back then. Treated u right when men were men and women were classy and had respect for themselves. People had respect back then and had morals. Today's generation SMH and America.

@randymoran67

5 жыл бұрын

Just look to the right where the No coloreds sign is

@gordon3186

5 жыл бұрын

@Mercury Grand Marquis ---- Culbert Olson was the Democratic Governor from 1939 to 1943. (I don't know about you but if nothing was holding me back, I'd rather live on the beach in California in the winter than in any of the icy flyover states.)

I didn't know Low Angeles had so many hills. Looks more like San Francisco.

@RedYankee

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting point..

@brunogimeno9086

4 жыл бұрын

Obviously this video is fake. Because as everyone knows earth is flat!

@mustang10141980

4 жыл бұрын

@@brunogimeno9086 🤣🤣💀

@ralphlazio505

4 жыл бұрын

Nope! That’s L.A. There are PLENTY of hill in L.A.

@jogmas12

4 жыл бұрын

Ho Ho Ho well no, downtown has some hills as you can see, bunker hill comes to mind

I love Tchaikovsky, but the right sound track for this would be big band music from the "40s.

@Largo64

4 жыл бұрын

A little Benny Goodman would have fit right in.

@eddietucker3334

4 жыл бұрын

Of course!

@originaluddite

4 жыл бұрын

How about Tchailovsky as performed by Glenn Miller? kzread.info/dash/bejne/aI6kl7yxXdqWc6g.html :)

@johns2688

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely. I actually muted it and listened to the jazz station. Charlie Parker sounded much better!

@pamelaroyce5285

4 жыл бұрын

Well, to be fair, the traffic density back then looks like a waltz of the flowers compared to what it is today. That air pollution, though...awful!

absolutely stunning - like being in a time machine !!! I cannot praise this enough.

@Critter23466

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, and yet so simple....

@theresag1969

5 жыл бұрын

This is real music.

@rjjcms1

5 жыл бұрын

Do they still play recordings of classical pieces like this in morning assembly at school? That was where I first heard it,way back in the 70s.

@rjjcms1

5 жыл бұрын

@Stephen Morton I appreciate this kind music a whole lot more now than I did back then,not that I didn't appreciate it then.

@mainecoon6514

5 жыл бұрын

@@theresag1969 Fantasia is one of my favorite pieces of music. Real music is unfortunately a thing of the past though we can still listen to real music here on youtube.

I love how they call carwash an auto laundry, change of times.

Guy at 3:48 waving to us from 1949

@mariaabol7803

4 жыл бұрын

so fukingcool

@randyorr9443

4 жыл бұрын

Profound

@kevinkhoshoo8167

4 жыл бұрын

hes like good luck with corona to us

@JohnFortniteKennedy_

3 жыл бұрын

Someone's dad is cool

@MegaLivingIt

3 жыл бұрын

I go by the height of the palm trees. That's how I remember them as a kid but now it's like they look over a hundred feet tall in current videos around the Los Angeles area.

This video made my entire quarantine. Thank you so much🙏

My uncle immigrated to L.A. at that time period. He told me the opportunity was unbelievable back then. Everybody was proud to be an American. The opportunity was boundless back then. I guess everybody was focused on being successful Americans. No room for belly aching.

@johnmagill9496

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, pre-welfare era.

@manjelos

5 жыл бұрын

At this time Europe, China, Russia was in ruins, and Japan at war, maybe Australia and some places in Latin America was worth living...

@busterbiloxi3833

5 жыл бұрын

How were Blacks and Mexicans doing?

@devinpeirce7152

5 жыл бұрын

Buster Biloxi probably no Mexicans like we have now . The blacks were well behaved and kept in their ghettoes

@mr.butterworth4216

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone was happier back then, including the blacks. Don’t buy into the guilt tripping of anyone who thinks a minority never knew what happiness was until the late-sixties, because that’s nonsense. Everyone was closer to their own, and better off for it. None of this engineered multi-cultural bull crap, which is only a life of compromise.

Their time is over, ours will be over too, so we’d better enjoy life as much as we can while we still live...

@farreldominic2150

5 жыл бұрын

How do you think you can enjoy life in this me - first selfish world ?

@Deotex833

5 жыл бұрын

Farrel Dominic We need to learn how to control our ego, how to find balance between inner focus-high ego (selfishness) and outer focus-low ego (altruism). This is a higher level of consciousness, what fewer people are able to reach. In my opinion this is the key to enjoy life as it is and set the suitable difficulty for our capabilities. If we pursue only happiness, we fail. That is only a temporary feeling. Balanced self is the goal capable of dealing with the hurdles of life.

@phoebeandromeda866

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pretty much the jist of it. Even though some that were alive in the 40's are still alive, theirs will be over eventually. And so will ours. So we need to enjoy it while we can.

@squashhead1374

5 жыл бұрын

Amen. I did this just a few months ago. I mounted a GoPro on my dash and drive through my city. I will be able to look back in many years and reminisce about the good times. It will most likely only get worse.

@m.e.d.7997

5 жыл бұрын

Yes life is fleeting..

Where are the homeless tents. . . Oh this must be when people could afford a little home and taxes were resonable.

@josecamara1337

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe there was a war going on and many men and women were in a different continent.

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

@Peter Johnson THE DEMOCRATS CAN ALL GO TO HELL FOR ALL I CARE- AND THAT GOES DOUBLE FOR ANYONE WHO VOTES FOR THE DEMOCRATS!!!

@tombryan1

4 жыл бұрын

Home ownership was down, it rose in the fifties.

@ryetim32

4 жыл бұрын

That’s idiotic, 99% are drug addicts and alcoholics

@marytschida5756

4 жыл бұрын

​@Peter Johnson I would never vote Republican. They only care about the rich, greedy, taking away our freedoms! All they know is to make more money for themselves & send our kids to fight their wars for more money for themselves. Quit watching fake news!

my friend's grandma was born and raised in Los Angeles says that in the 40s and 50s the smog was so bad that some days they would close school and tell people to stay indoors. I can see by this footage that that was no joke.

@eversince_9863

4 жыл бұрын

No catalytic converters back then. Worse, just imagine the smell.

@bobbigarcia882

4 жыл бұрын

Yes New York was extremely bad as well. It's much more of a condensed space than l.a. New york was literally a gas chamber in those days. the carbon footprint per person was insane. Just driving a car back then was like driving 5 modern day diesel semis. It was horrible, no wonder the smog was so bad.

@gnosis7662

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but the streets were much cleaner and safer back then!

@berzerker1100

4 жыл бұрын

L. A. was really smoggy in the 1960s. I remember days at school they would not us play at Recess & Lunch break, the Ball shed remained closed, You could almost cut the smog with a knife lol..

@rupertpupkin27

4 жыл бұрын

Thats one of the first things I noticed too...Maybe somebody should show this footage to Greta Thunberg, so she knows things can get better?

I remember this as a boy. No gangs or drug dealers and a very low crime rate. Highland Ave was lined with sycamore trees, farms and beautiful scenery. My mother and I used to walk up Highland Ave. many times to Sunset or Hollywood Blvd.

@craigcorson3036

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't grow up there, but I lived in the area during the 80s, and I don't remember it being so hilly. When did they flatten it out? I mean, I saw LA City Hall, but it sure looks like San Francisco to me.

@geekay1349

5 жыл бұрын

@@craigcorson3036 that's a cool memory to have

@craigcorson3036

5 жыл бұрын

@@geekay1349 Not as cool as carl armstrong's. I would LOVE to have grown up in L.A., or somewhere nearby.

@789armstrong

5 жыл бұрын

Today thousands of homeless people sleep in tents on the sidewalks of downtown Los Angeles. 4 or 5 share a bucket to do their business in and when it gets full they empty it in the streets. Just like France before the revolution as described in Tale of Two Cities. With 40,000 people denied food stamps due to the shutdown more homelessness will occur. The City Hall is downtown.

@johnhardman3

5 жыл бұрын

@@craigcorson3036 Look at the KCET pictures of Bunker Hill being erased in the '60s: the land was removed along with the old buildings to make way for a towerscape: a community simply disappeared

Oh if only I had a time machine I’m sure many of you would join me on going back

@M16music69

5 жыл бұрын

I can let you use mine just make sure not to run into your family members or drastically change anything.

@lonestar1

5 жыл бұрын

In a heartbeat

@Adam-qs3lt

5 жыл бұрын

I would do literally anything to go back in time. But theoretically going back in time and doing the smallest thing could mess up the space time continuum and the world would implode.

@M16music69

5 жыл бұрын

@@Adam-qs3lt woah there marty my mind is about to explode

@sergtheflurge245

5 жыл бұрын

Ethan Blumson or it’s like avengers where if you go “back in time” it’s a completely separate timeline

People were driving alot more civilized back then.

@bluxontal3757

4 жыл бұрын

They had no option. Horrid brakes, terrible transmissions, tough clutches, mechanical steering, wobbly suspension, poor visibility out of the car... *You TRULY needed to anticipate your moves and those of others.*

@jogmas12

4 жыл бұрын

Philippine Hearts they had to, the automobiles in that day had a top speed of 60 mph

@jogmas12

4 жыл бұрын

Philippine Hearts basically son, a 2020 Honda Civic type R will run circles around these cars.

@Groveish

4 жыл бұрын

@@jogmas12 That's total bullshit. A 1949 Studebaker had 80 horsepower, which is the average car anywhere outside of US and Canada today. And they just drive fine overseas too you know?

@UdaySingh-cg3rw

4 жыл бұрын

Let grandma see this vedio and let the whole of us know her comments, it would be great thing

Not one person on their cell phone...

@harmil1406

4 жыл бұрын

Braydon F: No, that's because in those days some people chose, instead, to sell phones.

@Reactions5.0

4 жыл бұрын

@Millennial Smark lol

@Rctm13

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine that 😊

@oskar1881

4 жыл бұрын

Braydon F because phones didn’t exist

@juanflores2882

4 жыл бұрын

They were not in existent Yet!

A message to all those who tend to be full of themselves: The world was here and fully functional long before your arrival, and will continue to do so long after your passing.

@tripd4949

4 жыл бұрын

Not if libtard Democrats ever become President again.

@erickvides3689

4 жыл бұрын

Nukes : enter chat room Chat room has been terminated. . .

@MasterHoovyX

4 жыл бұрын

@Miss Anthropy "except the far left pro mental health anti gun fucks are tearing this country apart." "I'm one of the most liberal people but have good reason for leading the democrats." What side are you on? lol

@jellsjells5501

4 жыл бұрын

Yuki Kanno honestly the one with the big issues here is clearly you. We need bi partisanship. America, such a big country will never come to an agreement but what it can do is work together. You can’t just blame people, American people just like you for everything when you are contributing to the problem right here. I can say the same thing about you because with yo mentality nothing will ever get done.

@weedermann

4 жыл бұрын

@Yuki Kanno...in Congress, regardless of partisan, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME. The SAME me-oriented ambitions, the SAME sheer contempt for the common citizen.

3:20 Mutual Garage, Monthly Parking. 1940s LA: $15 for monthly parking 2019 LA: $20 an hour, public parking.

@lknr6847

4 жыл бұрын

Consider US-Inflation rate, its about equally expensive.

@NANotApplicable

4 жыл бұрын

Rent A Car $2.50/day

@dgaisan

4 жыл бұрын

Multiply by 20, so that would be $50 now, sounds about right

@gabrielbrennan5887

4 жыл бұрын

They're out to get you. get you. get you. get you...get you

Just got back to Australia from LA 2 days ago. When we were there we asked a friend about the traffic and specifically asked what time is peak hour. She said peak hour started 30 years ago and hasn't ended yet.

To think my Grandma was in her twenties at the time of filming

@Hey_its_Koda

4 жыл бұрын

My grandmother was born in 1933 she was a teenager. Crazy.

@m.w.6526

4 жыл бұрын

Same! Such an interesting thought

@marisollomeli2603

3 жыл бұрын

My grandparents were just kids! My dad didn’t exist yet and it saddens me that my dad doesn’t exist anymore 😞

@celestialdiscord2716

3 жыл бұрын

The oldest person alive is around 37 to 40s

@stefanomagaddino632

3 жыл бұрын

Wish my grandmother were still alive. She passed away in 2010 at the young age of 92.

Children now old. Old now dead time goes by so fast yet we focus on life like it is forever. Cherish life.

@Freshstart6354

5 жыл бұрын

Speak English please, or proof read before you press reply, thank you.

@johnmckeown6573

5 жыл бұрын

his statement made perfect sense

@ssimon64

5 жыл бұрын

@@Freshstart6354 Seriously are you really too dense to understand the message even though it isn't perfectly written? Pull the stick out of your ass.

@alphonsozorro7952

5 жыл бұрын

Self-obsessed moron, life lasts too long. It's the better part that is short.

@MegaLivingIt

5 жыл бұрын

I was a kid there and lived near the beach but we got downtown once in a while and I remember the street cars. Yes, that was the big difference alright; a lot less people plus it was post war and most worked at airframe plants in Santa Monica, El Segundo, etc.

There wasn’t as much traffic back then. Driving was a pleasure!

@lescobrandon3047

5 жыл бұрын

If this was 1941-1945, gas was rationed and tires were hard to get. No new cars built during that time.

@spikespa5208

5 жыл бұрын

Not as many cars, to be sure. But far fewer roads. Driving from LA to, say, Long Beach on surface streets/roads took at least 2 or 3 times as long. The only "freeway" was the Pasadena Freeway(CA 110).

@lisamarielund6292

5 жыл бұрын

Driving was "a pleasure" if you had a car which was really a luxury back then. Tire also blew out at an alarming rate and were expensive if not impossible to find since they were rationed due to the war effort. Companies were not making tires for civilian cars, all the tires produced were for wartime planes and jeeps.

@DLTD

5 жыл бұрын

smallpicture no shit, stupid!! You think cars went extinct I bet lol 😂

Love to go back in time for a day and visit there.

@TheOzthewiz

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to go back......AND STAY!

This was when Southern California was the place to move to from other parts of the country after WWII.

@ravenclawavenger2170

3 жыл бұрын

The exact year of this filming is unspecified could be 1940 to 1949.

@MichaelJ44

3 жыл бұрын

@@ravenclawavenger2170 I’m sure it could be easily identified by looking at the makes of vehicles and what year they were made in

Without knowing better I'd of guessed that this was San Francisco

@c.benoit3840

4 жыл бұрын

@Richard Buse Definitely LA. You can see city hall. They are driving down Grand. Today its all skyscrapers.

@dsimon33871

4 жыл бұрын

I had a similar thought! And i know san francisco like the back of my hand.

@ANGELSVEN

4 жыл бұрын

There seem to be many streets with steep hills. I k iced in L.A. for 30+ years and I don't remember seeing that many hilly streets.

@ronfleischer

4 жыл бұрын

@Richard Buse It was in a neighborhood called Bunker Hill, thus the hills. It was all destroyed and replaced with modern businesses. Kind of sad for those of us who grew up in So Cal in the 50's.

@2ndEndingVintage

4 жыл бұрын

same here...aspects really look like SF, and I lived in SF for 25 years. But too many lmedium-arge apartment buildings to have been SF

This was the time of Crosby, Gable, Grant, Kaye, Bogart, Stewart and others of that great period! Wish I was there.

@kevinericsongs

5 жыл бұрын

yes but we've got brie Larson now!

@terrykeelan6964

5 жыл бұрын

Also the time of Bugsy Siegel and the Black Dahlia, don't forget.

@cincyspin178

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and if you had been there during that time, you'd have been wishing you could have been there during the silent film period with that crop of stars. You're always dissatisfied with the present and idealizing the past.

@tentringer4065

5 жыл бұрын

A time of massive police and government corruption and huge organised crime influence

The good old years in Los Angeles, what a plaisure to watch.

That was the most marvelous movie I’ve seen in a long time. The long takes were what made it really special. I love the cars, the dresses, the guy in an apron carrying a box across the street. Thank you 🙏.

I know people who grew up during the 30's, 40's and 50's and I realized they don't complain about those eras. But they are shocked and saddened about what they see and hear now.

@basitk12

5 жыл бұрын

Ms. Sonshine exactly. Never heard them complain about old days.

@edmundooliver7584

5 жыл бұрын

until you had to go to war or if you were japanese and had to go to internment camps and get your home stolen.

@ms.sonshine8878

5 жыл бұрын

@@edmundooliver7584 They were a tough lot. And not only did they intern Japanese, but Germans and Italians, too. A proclamation by the great Democrat president, FDR. FDR also refused to take in a boat carrying over 900 Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.

@zoeemiko8149

5 жыл бұрын

Those in the 30's had gone through the Depression. Times were getting better. In the 40's, when America was recovering from the Dust Bowl life was getting better yet. In the 50's Unions were incredibly strong and effected not only Union employment but protections for all workers. Life was quite good if you forget the whole McCarthy'ism thing & the internment of the Japanese. This was the last great economic boom that most all Americans benefited from. Enter the 60's and the rise of hate the Unions & that all began falling apart along with a new war in Vietnam which we now know American government knew was an unwinnable war.. but kept sending it's sons to be killed anyway. It's been downhill from there as corporate interests take priority over the quality of life for the average citizen. Oh and a footnote: America had more migrant workers in the 50's than it has today.

@jamesryder8305

5 жыл бұрын

Then that means you probably weren't asking the right questions. Or you only know old white folks. Because there were tons of things wrong in the 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's even now. On all sides.

We begin by looking down (west) from 2d Street (which has a tunnel), and then we go up and turn south on Grand. We cruise down Grand, cross 3d, cross 4th. At 4th you can see a Chevron garage with a big sign on the building saying it's 4th and Grand. On the right of the screen are the Biltmore Apartments. Across the street from Chevron are the Zelda Apartments. These are named for a well-to-do L.A. woman named Zelda LaChat who built this five-story brick apartment house in 1908. (The ads said: Completely furnished with buffet kitchens and all apartments have private baths. Special hotel service for bachelors.) The car stops just before 5th. The next sequence is the same location, only this time from another angle. Going up 2d we get a good glimpse of those old Victorian homes that became low-rent flophouses on Bunker Hill. It was in one of these that Burt Lancaster and Dan Duryea eyed each other suspiciously in Criss Cross. Then we go down Grand again, getting a nice view of City Hall and the Federal Building. On we go, past buildings that are long gone, replaced by girders and glass. As we approach 3d Street, we see a man in a white hat walking on the sidewalk. The building he's passing is the Lovejoy Apartments. We cross 3d Street and immediately pass the Angels Flight Pharmacy, which was at the corner of 3d and Grand. We go on down to 5th and turn right, which means the big building in the background is the Biltmore Hotel, the last place the Black Dahlia was seen alive. We cruise past the downtown central library and turn right (north) on Flower. The next sequence starts at the same spot, Flower and 5th, heading north. I like the billboards we pass: one for Bireley's orangeade, with a swimsuited blonde looking at us fetchingly as she hands the guy a bottle ("I go overboard for you and Bireley's"); the other for RCA Victor Television. There's a donkey and an elephant with boxing gloves on, facing each other...this makes it election season 1948. The ad says "Pick a Sure Winner!" The TV in the ad looks about the size of a hardcover book. The last turn is right (west) on 1st Street. You can get a quick look at a billboard for the Hollywood Bowl,Symphonies Under the Stars, on the right. So we know it's summer. Wish I knew who the woman on the billboard was. I think I can make out her first name as Ruth.

@MatchboxGarage

7 жыл бұрын

+James Scott Bell very cool

@carguy4v2222

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mr Bell it sounds like you knew that area very well and I appreciated the narrative as we road up and down the streets. If you have places we can visit let us know

@gplunk

5 жыл бұрын

Good and sharp eye; thanks!

@countrypaul

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you - not being a local, this is a very helpful travel guide!

@johnhardman3

5 жыл бұрын

Two of the old Bunker Hill houses were saved when the rest of the area was levelled: one of them, known as "The Castle", can be glimpsed in a scene from the movie "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955). These two houses were moved on trailers to a 'Heritage Park" ca. 1969, but they were promptly destroyed by arsonists. Bunker Hill looks a mess in this 6-minute clip, but it wasn't a slum and you could walk about there in a 'neighbourhood' context: it had many fine houses that could have been restored, but (as happened in many other U.S. cities after WW2) politicians uses loosely-worded housing legislation to kick out inner-city residents so that 'developers' (using taxpayers' dollars) could get the valuable land and replace the former communities with their usual sterile formula of thruways and monolithic boxes and towers.

Thank you so much for posting, it's a great real look at a decade of fantastic fashion, and style.

This video recalls "Dreams from Bunker Hill," by John Fante. I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for posting. This was good quality, had a soundtrack, and the of a leisurely drive. People drove more slowly (ahh, if only...), but even then there was nowhere to park. Every spot taken! Thank you for a good post.

Love it - beautiful crafted cars - the clear pavements/sidewalks no frenetic crowds and love those street lamps -

@mustafayanlmaz3484

5 жыл бұрын

Harika

@myfavoriteplanet3247

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. The street lamps looked so much better back then.

@RIXRADvidz

5 жыл бұрын

the streets were a bumpy mess, you can see where they tore up all the cable car tracks and tow lines and filled in the holes with asphalt. LA LOST it's wonderful working mass transit system in the 1940's in favor of Car and OiL and Rubber Lobbyists in Washington DC and Sacramento.

@dorseykindler9544

4 жыл бұрын

@@RIXRADvidz This country was riddled with street car lines and walkable neighborhoods. Kind of makes you yearn for the day. Ever read "Geography of Nowhere" by James Howard Kunstler?

Right away nobody is tailgating or trying to pass you at every street.

@icancamera

5 жыл бұрын

@Jesus Will Reign lol no. He loves us all. It's God Love. It's like the story of Jonah and how he avoided God's call to teach repentance to the city of Nineveh but Jonah didn't want them to repent he wanted to see them suffer. He wanted to see God's wrath fall upon the city. God tells us in that very story much and many things just from that one story. God Bless you brother. It's the Peace of God's understanding that we know God's love for us. All of us, everyone, each other. All.

@davidsalinas7280

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, now everyone drives like a bat out of hell! Being inconsiderate and self absorbed!!🤔👎

Videos back than were black and white, life was colorful. Now we have a million colors and hd and life is gray.

Thanks for this video from LA. I was born in LA in 1949 but my parents were from TX and moved back a year later. I’m glad to see what it was like back back in the day and what my parents may have seen at that time...thx again!

My god! So beautiful! Great cars, great persons, so much humility...And if I have to think that the mother of my godmother was 17 years old at that time, AND SHE’S STILL ALIVE, I understand how lucky she was.

@yunisdini7061

5 жыл бұрын

Chiara Paganini fewer cars back then

Yah know all through the video I'm just looking side to side at the buildings, sidewalks, streets, vehicles, people and imagining that I'm a passenger that just woke up back in time. Thanks, makes me smile 😊❤

Love the ride through LA its a charm to go through a city 75 years in history how wonderful really

when people had class>>>>>

This time was the city’s heyday, the town of Raymond Chandler and James M.Cain when the place had some glamour to it. The women looked great back then and men didn’t dress like adolescents. The picture quality of this footage is excellent you really feel like you’re there.

@Rick-S-6063

6 жыл бұрын

People had class back then. They wouldn't be caught dead with tattoos and body piercings.

@bbrown333

5 жыл бұрын

All the races were segregated. Wonderful times.

@countrypaul

5 жыл бұрын

@@bbrown333 I hope you're being facetious....

@DanSmith-xu3zy

5 жыл бұрын

I am a Canadian and enjoyed this footage so much Dan

@ergbudster3333

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought I saw Philip Marlowe coming out of the Zelda and stopping to light a cigarette.

Did you notice the car rental sign on the building $2.50 a day

@danielescobedo8460

5 жыл бұрын

Just looked it up About $40 to $45.00 today

@cincyspin178

5 жыл бұрын

Where??

@danielescobedo8460

5 жыл бұрын

@@cincyspin178 Inflation calculators 1949 to 1940 = $26.16783 to $45.37278 www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=2.5&year=1945

@phoebeandromeda866

5 жыл бұрын

Back then 2.50 was a lot of money......I think.

@wyattwilbourne8601

5 жыл бұрын

You can thank the federal reserve for the radical change in money over the years

This feels like a time machine the more videos i click the more i go back in time. How amazing

I love this, looking at the past is fascinating since I wasn't even born yet😄 Thank you so much🤗

Nobody walking down the street is glued to their cellphone.

@jesscast5122

5 жыл бұрын

This film was shot on a Sunday morning while everyone is still asleep or not doing much at all. so streets are rather empty. but Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine were for the Working class serving the DTLA businesses.

@XJarhead360

5 жыл бұрын

The cell phones then didn't have the reception we have now. Plus it was very expensive to make a call. You can see one of the cell towers in the distance in the middle of the video.

@jesscast5122

5 жыл бұрын

@@XJarhead360 What?? Cell phones only appeared in 1970s as prototypes and 1980s commercially. The antenna in the video was for the High power RADIO transmitters in the AM band. later the FCC disallowed them.

@shaggybreeks

5 жыл бұрын

Plus, they were big and heavy. Worst of all, they used vacuum tubes, which had to warm up. By the time they were warmed up to answer them, the caller had already hung up. Most guys who had them wore them to impress the senioritas by hanging them from the keychain on their zoot suit. @@XJarhead360

@shaggybreeks

5 жыл бұрын

The comment was a joke, but fyi, the first mobile telephone service began in 1946 in St. Louis. It was "pre-cellular", but it connected with the regular telephone service. You could place and receive calls, but either way, the call had to go through an operator. There was no privacy at all. I'm sure lots of people just kept them on in their cars. Hehe.

"Rent-A-Car" 2.50 a day

@EmilyTienne

5 жыл бұрын

through my eyes . Yeah but they only earned about six bucks a day too.

@trexler666

5 жыл бұрын

I bet 250 today

@zsirafablak5143

5 жыл бұрын

trexler666 ...you lucky

@motnosniv

5 жыл бұрын

Gas was less than a quarter a gallon.

@rjjcms1

5 жыл бұрын

I also like the eccentricity of those buildings sloping up out of the ground just past 3 minutes.

This feels like it needs to have the score from LA Noire playing instead.

@coastercrafter1productions300

4 жыл бұрын

My favorite game

@aussietalks6642

4 жыл бұрын

It’s murder he says

1:53 cruisin' on the right 2:23 some babes 3:45 dude waving at camera Truly awesome footage, love the vehicles especially, great buses and trucks, nice to see "old" cars from the 20's and early 30's still being driven. Thx for the upload.

I believe this footage is from 1948. It was shot for the 1949 Cornel Wilde Film "Shockproof". The famous Los Angeles smog is clearly visible on Flower St looking south towards the Richfield building. It's interesting to realize that this was filmed less than 2 years after the infamous Black Dahlia murder. The back of the Biltmore Hotel is visible when the camera turns right from Grand Ave to 5th St. The Biltmore is the last confirmed place she was see alive. It's sad to realize that 97% of the structures in this film have been gone for decades.

@pattyholmes127

5 жыл бұрын

Yes the film seems to be post war. There was a billboard for Pontiac cars. No cars were built during the war. Also a billboard for RCA Television. Although there were some TV's back then--very few, they were not mass produced until late 1945, after the war.

@pattyholmes127

5 жыл бұрын

lincbond442: Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, was found in a vacant field out by 39th and Norton on January 15, 1947. The streets now are tract housing. The spot where she was found is now someone's front lawn. There is a fire hydrant that is still there in front of the house, that was there back then. You are correct, the last place where she was seen was leaving the Biltmore Hotel on the night of January 14. She was 22 years old. The case remains cold to this day.

I lived there 1953-59. Then visited in 1980. Amazing. Sometimes you just can’t go home again.

@archiewoosung5062

5 жыл бұрын

"The past is a different country"

@goldentwintree381

5 жыл бұрын

Lucky lady

All the beautiful cars.

Wow, I never knew they made LA Noire into a real thing

How I wish time travel were possible.

@motnosniv

5 жыл бұрын

It is but only one day forward at a time. Each trip takes 24 hrs to complete and you can't come back. I'm going to visit tomorrow in a few hours. Maybe I'll see you there!

@therolandthompsonproject5577

5 жыл бұрын

@@motnosniv Excellent reply. See you there!

@opentrunk

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. I wish all the whiners would go back to the "good old days" and stay there. They'll be crying for the internet within hours. Twiddling their thumbs and wondering when "Queen For A Day" starts.

@patricialinguissi8732

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry but me I rather prefere the 60s. I don't know why but I always been fascinanted by this area. Surprisingly people were well dressed and joyful and also because of the Kennedy's life and history especially the Président and his wife Jacky she was such an iconic woman

@wolverineiscool7161

5 жыл бұрын

i would just go to the 90's not too long ago and stay there, prob buy some stock in microsoft etc

I was born in L.A. in 1946 aand can remember when things looked this way , e.g the signage: Richfield (now ARCO) gas, Flying Red Horse (Mobil?). Anyone notice the smog back then? It was a lovely place to grow up: Lots of beautiful parks, the beach, Griffith Park Observatory, the Pony Rides at La Cienega, playing on film studio back lots (we lived in Culver City). My dad worked downtown and I remember many red brick buildings, mostly gone now as not earthquake proof. Thanks for this trip down memory lane.

@amistry605

4 жыл бұрын

Why so much smog though?

@foodandart5808

4 жыл бұрын

Geography, industry and the car culture that took over in the post-war years.. Go to 5:50 and note the road surface - there *used* to be trolley-cars but in the 1930's, the oil producers wanted to increase gas sales.. so to get people into cars, they bought out the trolley lines then closed them. LA was the proving ground for the oil industry to increase their sales and profits by colluding with the auto manufacturers to push cars onto the public. By the late 40's LA had some of the worst auto-related smog in the world, because of how the LA Basin trapped air and suffered thermal inversions.. waterandpower.org/museum/Smog_in_Early_Los_Angeles.html This is a really nifty article and the photos are insane.

@peace-yv4qd

4 жыл бұрын

I was born in Long Beach in 1945. I so miss those days. I walked to the beach every day during the summer. Rainbow Pier. San Pedro. Ocean Ave. Tin Can Beach. Rawhide, Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, KTLA,Sea Hunt, Wanted Dead Alive. Gun Smoke.Drive-in movies.

@jaylopes8489

4 жыл бұрын

Today it looks more like Mexico 🖐🇵🇹

@joycekellner9957

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaylopes8489 You know, the last time I was on Santee Street (where my dad's old factory once was) in downtown L.A. I thought all the little business with stalls and merch on the pavement looked like that! Pues, L.A. belonged to the Mexicans before we had it. It's full name is Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porcinúncula--hope I got that spelled right! And it belonged to the Native Americans before that.

For those commenting there are no traffic signals, look closely at the right side corner 4:56 where there is a signal box with two lights and a semaphore - an arm that raises signaling Go or Stop. A man is standing on the corner just beneath it. A few seconds later when the camera crosses the street, you can see the signal on the left side corner when the arm raises and the word STOP is revealed. Also, if you notice, the car following the camera stays at a distance, most likely to prevent stray cars from cutting in or getting too close.

Such a pleasant time. Thank you to whomever Filmed this for our viewing.

I remember the parks Mccarthur park, Lincoln Park, Echo park, Silver lake park, clean beautiful and they had row boats, and going to the Clifton's cafeteria for lunch Broadway had all the movie theater, my mom would take me to Woolworths on Broadway to buy me Levi's that was in the early 70s it was still nice

@jamesarredondo941

4 жыл бұрын

robert Diamond aww💯

@davidgrisanti3379

4 жыл бұрын

My grandma used to take us to Clifton’s in the ‘50’s and early ‘60’s. I thought it was magical, loved going there.

@weedermann

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I did college work-study at an insurance company in the 70's. Clifton's still had two locations in downtown L.A.. For birthdays, the insurance company would buy a cream cake from them. In those times, many of the major department stores did business. Bullocks, the May Company, Robinsons, I Magnin. In downtown and Hollywood. All gone now. Eventually all of the old shops/businesses closed. But thanks to gentrification, it is "nice" again, just a hell of a lot more expensive.

@soniasg8639

4 жыл бұрын

Most all of us who grew up in LA went to Clifton's as a child. I have nice memories. Clifton's was remodeled, looks very nice.

@rjrod1326

4 жыл бұрын

@Proximity Symbol Clifton's closed for a long time and reopened a few years back. Tam O Shanter is awesome ! Used to go there on my bdays! Musso and Frank's good too. Wish brown derby and Tiny Naylors were still around

All those lovely vintage cars parked by every street........but hold on, they weren't vintage!

@gruppettovelo

4 жыл бұрын

I was amazed to see how close they were parked to each other. I wonder how drivers could get their cars out.

Excellent image quality. Very nice and interesting to watch. Thanks!

Excellent.....amazing....love the musical score too.

These people were not wasteful people they reused just about everything and had it repaired or repaired them selves and were happy with a lot less I'm old now and I realize that less is more god bless

@sbf_fox2434

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but the cars in the clip were mostly new for the time. Very few 1920s or early to mid 1930s cars or trucks. I liked seeing the street car tracks and the bus.

Wow, the streets are really clean. Hardly any trash anywhere. Compare to LA today.

@BetoTheButcher

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking how dirty they are for a place that isn't as populated yet. I wonder how often they were swept if at all.

@cincyspin178

5 жыл бұрын

About the same.

@randymoran67

5 жыл бұрын

Its a lack of respect in any american community Birmingham ala is a shit hole in japan there is no trash period ! Ohio is a shithole ! Same problem just add meth! Lol!

Even in the 1940s there were vloggers with huge cameras.

Love this kind of thing. It really puts a mind in a mood that's "good" in any and all directions. A Great Time to be Alive!! Thanks.

@mihails.6398

4 жыл бұрын

👍

I feel like I am a time traveler watching this video . Thanks for posting this video. Can you Image the people in the 1940’s traveling to Los Angels 2019 and seeing their city ? I bet you they would think they had just traveled to hell . I think they called LA the city of Angles back in the 1920’s to the 1950’s .

@TheHolyMongolEmpire

5 жыл бұрын

City of angles? All cities have angles.

@stijndelie1458

4 жыл бұрын

There are plenty 90 year olds to ask...

@georgeharleydavidsonrider156

4 жыл бұрын

Stijn Delie That’s true. 👍

@marklucca3044

4 жыл бұрын

You mean seeing people defecate & urinate on the streets? They'd probably take action & kick them off the streets, like we used to do before the '90's.

So little clutter on the streets and sidewalks. Now they seem to have sprouted flashing lights and signs, do this! don’t do that! no right turn! Beautiful. Thanks for posting...

Very revealing. Great video. Glad someone took the time to do this . . . way back when.

Usually in movies you can see a tiny handful of period cars. To see them lining the streets and driving everywhere is a surreal feeling.

I'm 90 and grew up in that time period and I find it disheartening to see how the younger generations have squandered what we left for them.

@MrLyosea

5 жыл бұрын

Damn man you're 90 years old and on youtube? Great to hear stories from older people on here!

@RIXRADvidz

5 жыл бұрын

what you left? it was the 1960's that ended your Grand Nuclear Test Program, it was the 1970's that Earth turned Green with recycling and pollution control, people from the 1940's left us with lead belching cars, environment killing industry, remember Lake Erie catching fire??!! squandered what????

@hopydaddy

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but today's generation will say the same thing in 2094 what you've said.

@justadudeinagoodmoodtoday6365

4 жыл бұрын

RIXRADvidz you should include yourself cause you’re at least 65 years old

@derekblue5681

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Foreman are you serious? Get over yourself, you guys squanders what you were given. We are the first generation to do worse than our parents. That’s not our fault. Wages are way down,cost of living is way up, sentences are way longer, even though education and productivity are way up. Plus unions have been devastated and inequality has reached unbelievable proportions so I’m so sick of your generation blaming millennials. You guys fucked up. Things are way harder now you can’t even raise one person on minimum wage much less a family. Stop it. Go look at the statistics in wages, healthcare , education and housing cost and compare. You guys don’t no how good you had it they don’t even offer pensions anymore to hardly any workers. Cost of living is incredibly more exspensive compared to our wages and a lot less protections at work more competition pitting is against each other. With companies only interested in shareholders profits over workers and their families. So yay for the hard working millennials that have had to make it in a world that was significantly harder thanks to the previous generations squandering what they had and putting my generation at constant war to distract from the issues at home. . We didn’t make the laws or institutions of the last quarter century but we will learn from YOUR MISTAKES and try to fix them so that we do not leave the generation after us worse off like you left us. Think about it the first generation in recent history at least, to do worse than their parents. You should be ashamed by us. We are doing well INSPITE of your shit. So stop patting yourself on the back. You have failed but we got this. Even though you keep borrowing from the future to pay for your security safety net at the expense of our present

Thank you for posting. I was born in 1942 in New York City, and so much enjoyed watching this film created not long after I was born. I truly enjoyed watching it.

Great footage. Would love to find similar for the Washington Blvd/Crenshaw area. Moved from there to San Diego on New Year's Day 1949.

It's amazing to be able to take this ride and see the way things were one day in the 40's. And wonder what it would have been like to be there. Thank you for the short ride.

What a kick. I arrived in LA 1948-ish from Land-O-Lakes, WI at age 3. I remember the traffic lights on poles beside the road - not on wires hanging over the road. I remember going into a tavern with my dad - sitting on a bar stool with a soda pop while dad had a beer. We lived in two places briefly, then settled in Inglewood where we got our first TV - with a 9" round screen and sepia colored picture. I had a playmate named Lee ( Aker) who was on a Little Rascals-type TV show called The West Side Gang. He later was the kid on the Rin Tin Tin show. I also remember pulling my "Little Red Wagon" around the neighborhood collecting bacon grease that could turned it into soap for the GI's. I started Kindergarten there, but then better opportunities arose up north, So in 1951, we moved to Portland, OR - and been here ever since.

@jesscast5122

5 жыл бұрын

Jungo LOL the bacon grease was used to make EXPLOSIVES. Also collected pigeon poop for the same reason. Nitrates in the poop are used to make explosives. but they probably did not want to tell the people. So, "Soap" was the story..........

@mtntime1

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not aware of a Wisconsin town called Land O Lakes. Isn't that just a brand name? Or, used as a nick name? There is Fond Do Lac, though.

Remarkable, to think; this was the Los Angeles my Dad and Mom met and fell in love and got married moved to the Valley then subjected the world to us (what I call suburba-billies). Thank you for the window to a lost world. Bittersweet indeed.

What grand old footage, thank you good sir for putting that up. You can just feel the old school respect and manners people had back then.

Precisely why I love watching the movies from my parents era : )

@Scottocaster6668

4 жыл бұрын

If this was in 1949, like one comment pointed out, my father was 7 at this time. He passed away 27 yrs ago at 51. Where has the time gone ☹️. I wish I grew up in that era.

When people didnt walk around in their Pajamas in Public!

@pzigotnofilterp7882

5 жыл бұрын

or underwear

@MJ-fj9yv

5 жыл бұрын

Without whore stamps

@tahersyed2191

5 жыл бұрын

LOL ironic i actually saw 2 in their PJs at a 7 eleven yesterday

@JBBrickman

5 жыл бұрын

People do that?

@mariagradilla296

5 жыл бұрын

Lol my mom hates thar!

It was so classy back then that even the winos was in a Suit and Tie 😂

Great video. Amazing all the great cars back then and the exhaust that they spewed. Back then the uncontrolled smog was so bad you could not see the hills in the summer time and they would not allow us to attend school on smog warning days.

I'd say that not a single building , save for City Hall and a couple others , still exists there. I parked daily at the the parking garage at 5th & Grand, catty corner from the Downtown library from January 7 to November 13, 1978. Then we moved to 333 South Hope St. 51st floor. That site was a few dozen feet underground when this, circa 1947, was made. Great video!

So clean and uncluttered I even saw multiple empty parking spots!

@jesscast5122

5 жыл бұрын

It was shot on a Sunday morning dude! when nobody was working or still asleep

I would transport myself to this era and place if I could, to live out my days and thrive. Leaving this modern world behind. There is very little I would miss, a few people mainly.

That was a great ride back in time! Thank you !