CALIFORNIA WAS MAGICAL IN THE 50'S.

@SeamusMcGillicuddy0

10 сағат бұрын

Give thanks to Democrats !

Beautiful. When California wasn't overpopulated.

In the 1960s, for our annual vacations my family used to rent a little bungalow house right down the street from the house seen in the movie "Top Gun". It was really small but it put all of us kids close to the beach and it was awesome. We were close to the pier, the arcades, the blue Pacific, everything a 10 year old kid would want. Homeless, drugs, or not I would be happy to live out my days there if I could afford to, but then community and people mean more to me than mere possessions and amassing wealth, so I would likely try to help those who are down and out. But maybe that's just me. Peace y'all.

@truthadvocacy

4 ай бұрын

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@noelparker9722

18 күн бұрын

My husband and I Lived in Oceanside in 1951 to 1953. He was in the Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton. Our first two children were born there in the Navy Hospital. We made a lot of nice friends and had a lot of fun. I never came across this video before.

Don't ya just love the music and the sound of the narration? 🥰

@davidmoser3535

Ай бұрын

looks like shot on 4.5 mm grainy film.

@user-ep6iu9ex2w

Ай бұрын

No tents no condos

@vmobile890

26 күн бұрын

@@user-ep6iu9ex2w Now I know a little more of what life was like for grand parents when they were young .

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Enjoy viewing the automobiles/entrance to Camp Pendleton/city center buildings of that era-!!!😉. Spent quality time in different areas of California early 90's. Amazing all the fruits/nuts/veggies grown there.-!!!😳. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous(2024)🌈🎉💵😉.

I was waiting for a Greyhound bus in Oceanside in 1976, so it was 3 years after most of the fighting of the Vietnam war was over. What was already kind of a Marine hangout part of town was NOW really rundown-- tattoo parlors, dingy bars, laundromats, etc. It was like a ghost town. I had a beer in a practically empty bar and it was like you could feel the ghosts of the thousands of G.I.'s who'd been there before. I wish I could go back in time and experience it again because it was sad, eerie and hauntingly poignant all at the same time.

@comehellorhighwater

26 күн бұрын

It's interesting that some people can feel the remaining energy from the people that had spent quite a bit of time in a certain place. Especially if a lot of emotions were running strong at the time that those people were there.

@shootfirst2097

25 күн бұрын

@@comehellorhighwater Yes, it is. I'm not saying I have any extra-sensory perceptions, but my mother claims to have had 2 "veil of death" experiences, where she noticed a "darkening" around a person who died just hours later. One was as a new mother who was a friend of my sister and brother--in-law. Both couples were in the Air Force and they were visiting my parents. As the one couple left in their car, she was sitting in the back seat with the baby, and as my mother was seeing them off, she said the whole back seat area seemed to get dark, and she had a palpable feeling of dread, and like she wanted to get away. A few hours later, the family stopped at a grocery store and the mother went in to get a few things, and a car crashed the front window of the store and she was killed. Another time my mother was at work and her friend was standing in the hall outside her office and talking to her near the end of the day. My mother said it suddenly looked like a lightbulb had burned out and the hallway got darker. Her friend went line dancing that night and had a heart attack and died. That's her story, anyway.

@Leroy-tj9jg

23 күн бұрын

😮😮​@@shootfirst2097

@tc2425

8 күн бұрын

@@comehellorhighwater Same feeling in the "PI" When the Philippine Government told the Americans to leave in the early 90's... Empty bars everywhere....and these were actually owned by Americans who came to the PI after Korea ...so they started coming in the 1950's .............today its all Koreans and Chinese

Grew up in Oceanside and had to leave many good friends behind in 1982! I recognized so many of the people involved in making this video (my parents neighbors) and locations (the Dave Rorick house)...first date was the Sklar theatre, went to the South Oceanside Elementary school, and the Oceanside-Carlsbad High School, which separated from Carlsbad my sophomore year. Love this video and would love to share with so many people!

@darrellcaraway6068

18 күн бұрын

Los Angleless lol

@darrellcaraway6068

18 күн бұрын

Ai

My grandfather William Nietfeld, first President of the local Kiwanis club, was one of the city leaders who got the pier built in the mid 1920s. The town used to be so peaceful and charming. That all changed of course with the coming of WW II and Camp Pendleton.

My first husband was a marine camp pendleton and I worked on the base loved it there I left 1996 but my 4th daughter and grandkids live there miss San Diego but now it's going down hill. I still have some family there and friends. I wished I lived back then much simpler and people dressed nice and respectful and no drug's no homeless ect clean.

@DontcallmeaCuck

5 ай бұрын

Democrats have ruined California

@truthadvocacy

4 ай бұрын

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Great Video! It looked so much better then. Space, parks, less congested. Hopefully we can preserve what's left.

I graduated HS at San Dieguito in Encinitas, we used to go to the beach in Oceanside after school then head home in Cardiff, sure miss those days !!!

Look at this and then the chaos we have today in cities.

South Oceanside elementary school. My mom and her family grew up down the street in the 50’s and we used to hang out at this school play there when we visit our grandmother in the 70’s. Skateboarding, football, tennis. Good times.

From Boston. Lived in Oside from 1997 to 2000. I loved it and miss it greatly !! I miss the beach the pier, the movie theater and my favorite watering hole Rookies on el camino real. I miss Yum Yum donuts the drive in and The Mane Attraction :) So it has some sketchy areas and Im sure I could find some meth within 5 minutes. But I loved my time in Oside and it will always be my home away from home !

@kevinrowe7571

3 жыл бұрын

V1 z b V16. the one. the

@DTPAR

2 жыл бұрын

From Boston too been living in Oside since 2002, still go to yum yum’s every Sunday!

@bryanburnap4537

2 жыл бұрын

@@DTPAR love it !!

@bryanburnap4537

9 ай бұрын

Heck yeah !!!!

@kimberlycarey5104

7 ай бұрын

San.clemente,Vista, Carl's bad pacific Beach California gone way down. Miss the beach Knott s berry farm Disney farmer's market flea market 😢

This is the Oceanside I remember. Born and raised there 1950. Haven't been there in 45 years.

@mr.m.o.g.o.m.

8 ай бұрын

I grew up in San Diego. I served 6 years in the Marine corps and served three years 1989-1992. Oceanside was looking pretty bad downtown. But it's been cleaned up. Crime rates down and they closed a lot of bars. You would be happy.

@jchapman8248

3 ай бұрын

@@mr.m.o.g.o.m. Attended OHS in the 1970s and recall when Oceanside made national news with all the rampant crime going on downtown, especially on the north end of town, N. Hill Street (now called Coast Hwy 101) near the front gate. It got cleaned up and now it's gotten too ritzy...oh well progress, I suppose.

@rubenmajor1784

3 ай бұрын

A shame. Due to rapid construction of the downtown area and haphazard construction of hotels and tall buildings - without parking structures; you would likely find a significant portion of the city unrecognizable

@alienhuman

Ай бұрын

Good times I’m sure the 15,000 residents are happy of with 1950 the addition of 200’000 more residents since then😮

What I miss the very very most is the swings right on the beach!

No homeless people? Weird!

❤❤❤

I grew up in the midwest near the Mississippi and Missouri river. In the early 80s I visited this area staying in Carlsbad on a couple of occasions. It was really nice, had a wonderful time.

My Father was a career Marine and we spent many years in and around Oceanside from the late '40s to 1962 when I graduated from OHS. We lived in Sterling Housing in the '50s and on the East end of Oceanside (East of the Freeway) later. St. Malo used to be a hot spot for a little winter car "necking' in the late 50s and early 60s. the shots from the Pier brought back many memories .You used to be able to get 1/4 lb. of smoked Albacore for 25 cents at the smoke house about half way out on the North side. Gas was 19cents a gallon, smokes were 30 cents a pack and Ripple was 59cents a Gallon. The thing that nearly brought tears to my eyes though was the look at the Southside from the pier. You can see "Betty's" dinner between the Lifeguard tower and the Amphitheater. Good Memories.(and a few not so good).

A FOUR MILLION DOLLAR FREEWAY !

@djtall3090

5 ай бұрын

😂 4 Billion in todays dollars

This footage came out 13 years before we arrived to Camp Pendleton/Oceanside (1964). Dad was in the Marines (3/7) and was stationed there directly from Roosevelt Roads, PR. Spent 1st year on base at Wire Mountain 1. Older sister attended Santa Margarita ES as North Oceanside ES had been closed down due to I-5 extension (I believe?). Grew up in Oceanside and went to school there from K to 12. As kids in the early 70s, we'd go to the Little Commissary, an old quanset building, on Sterling Homes and get our candy bars from the 5 cent vending machine they had there (Clark bars, Look bars, Big Hunks, Abba Zabbas). We. Delivered the Blade Tribune newspaper in O'side and Sterling Homes. Walked to the beach, harbor and pier daily during the summer's along the San Luis Rey river bank (long before Hwy 76 was built). A lot more friendlier people around back then, even downtown at the skating rink, except for those gross hookers and horny newby loud mouthed Jarheads. There was only one bum/derelict we knew of back then. And there was Merle, the downtown TV hooker who used to live in our neighborhood. No homelessness or illegals just working folks and families.

All 4 Harris’ got in the front seat of that Rocket 88!

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Wow, it used to be so nice! As others have said, Oceanside is another CA city in decline! I worked in Oceanside for 4 years on base and even went to truck driving school last year. Now it's overrun with homeless, vagrants, and druggies! RIP USA.

@davidmoser3535

Ай бұрын

You have been burying your head in the sand. Oside has a bunch of new hotels, etc.

😃i live in Oceanside!!

@yixnorb5971

7 ай бұрын

I'll alert the media

@jchapman8248

3 ай бұрын

@@yixnorb5971Wise ass! 🤣

Nice footage. They left out the biggest and best attraction Oceanside had to offer. The airport. We lived in SoCal for 10 years (1975-1985) in various places (Mission Viejo, Fallbrook, and San Juan Capistrano), but had a hangar at the Oceanside Airport the whole time. We even ran the flight school there in 1983. Sure doesn't look like that now. Thanks for posting.

Last time I saw this town was 1998 when it still had some of its old time charm. Meanwhile, Carlsbad and all areas north and south was getting over populated and over developed looking like Irvine suburbs. These are " the end times" don't you see it? All the insanity we see and chaos is demon inspired. But their end very near. 😊

My parents had it so good back then. I was to be born at Sharp Hospital in 1969. Wish it would have been sooner but glad it wasnt later. Oceanside was the best

got discharged out of pendleton in '68. i've eaten in the restaurant at the end of the peer. thanks for the upload.

Amazing footage!!!

Awesome video! Great footage of the mission and the City Hall!

Too bad I can't get back there, then, now. Looks like thew America I grew up in.

Beautiful!!!❤

Love watching society before slob culture and drug culture took over.

Outside of a few old photos from a website about North Oceanside ES and some vague memories of that school from my childhood, I never got to see what North Oceanside ES looked like until watching this video! I think some of thise old North O buildings were used for Social Services in the 70s and early 80s? I wonder if North Terrace ES and San Rafael ES were its replacements? Thanks for posting!

Family this is so good

Was the Pacific ocean really blue off the coast of Oceanside back in the 1950's? I was in Oceanside back in 1975 a very long time ago, but very enjoyable. I coulda sworn the water was greenish?

Now you can’t afford to live there anymore!!!!!

I used to live there 3 of my daughter s were born in California

I was stationed at Camp Pendleton (never referred as Joseph H) 58-61.

Yep

Let's bring back the actual way of saying los anglelous

@skibee421

4 күн бұрын

L A

Jack Harris, USMC's oldest private.

Imagine their surprise now. The whole world is an Insane asylum.

Surfer Joe was stationed at Pendleton

@monicaclark9581

18 күн бұрын

Wasn't there a song in the early 60s called Surfer Joe?

@ArlingtonRV

16 күн бұрын

The Surfaris, Surfer Joe: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2h10NWmgNuTiKg.html.

If Oceanside and California were still like this, I'd have been packing even before I reached the end of the video. Sadly, it is not.

Thanks be to God not colorized lol

And today Oceanside has become a drug infested, homeless, crowded slum.

@rosiejohnson7968

5 жыл бұрын

microspect BRUH IM DEAD

@rickytickysticky1626

4 жыл бұрын

Microspect, as much as i hate what you said, it is the unfortunate truth these days but instead of spending money to resolve that problem, our city council is pouring money into hotels for tourist who plague with gentrification and virtually diminishing the middle class by the year. Our beautiful last west coast beach town of a city that once held a story in history is now becoming a product of real estate marketing and corporate breweries. They tear down our history while they build there corporations

@pewdiepielther6523

4 жыл бұрын

Ha not eastern Oceanside Rancho Del Oro baby

@rickytickysticky1626

4 жыл бұрын

@@pewdiepielther6523 you must either be military or just moved into town because if you go just a few streets down to oceanside blvd then youl find yourself in tweak central. Rancho del oro was built in the early 80s an btw nobody says eastern oceanside, its eaither you talking about south o, down town, the " EAST SIDE " witch is west of the 5 freeway, mid vally, or the back gate

@fozzir

7 ай бұрын

you can get some of the highest quality meth at the best prices in Oceanside!

This is 72 years ago? 🙄

Where are the tents and passed out dope addicts?

What they do with all the blacks & Mexican people in 51

@andrewe6839

2 жыл бұрын

They were in military.

@jchapman8248

3 ай бұрын

The Mexicans (locals not jumpers) lived in the Posole area east of what is now I-5, no interstate then. Not sure about the Black folks in 1951. I know in the 1960s and 70s many lived close to Posole on Bush, Santa Barbara Marquette, Dubuque, San Diego, Laurel, Holly, Langford, Walton, Papin, Loretta, Breeze and Wynn streets (Eastside)

Nothing quite like a vacation at the beach. The gentle sound of the waves, the warm rays, the amazing (censored). Oceanside has a great boat harbor too, maybe that was done later. Interesting movie, half Marine recruiting video and half real estate sales pitch ha.

did the guys have to wear hats and ties every day?

@davidmoser3535

8 ай бұрын

just on sundays

@midnyte6195

8 ай бұрын

@@davidmoser3535 for church?or

California at this time was literally paradise. I wish I could have live there then. I lived in San Diego/Long Beach from 1975-1979, and it was pretty good, but nothing like this. Then I lived in Hollywood and Burbank '89 to 2015 and had to leave: cost-of-living, taxes, impossible traffic, crowded conditions... but mostly the illegal aliens, 3rd-worlders, druggies, bums, gang members, fruits-nuts-flakes-crazies-creeps, etc. Democrats destroyed California. RIP.

@toastnjam7384

6 ай бұрын

Yes, then it was truly the Golden State. You could live near the beach on a working-class salary. I had a furnish 1 BD apt about one mile from the beach in Ventura 1979-82, 200-225$ a month.

@truthadvocacy

4 ай бұрын

@@toastnjam7384 👍

@uchihadabba699

Ай бұрын

😞

@shootfirst2097

25 күн бұрын

@@toastnjam7384 Great story. Incredible, wasn't it? A beutiful, Mediterranian-climate utopia that has been ruined. SAD

Where are the gang members at, Oh ya that isn't till the 60s and where are the middle class worker bee,s , oh ya that was in the 70's

@anastasiasanchez7852

2 жыл бұрын

There was gangs in the 1940s and 1950s . Posole started in late 1940s

Back then, Oceanside was nothing but a two bit GI town. I have seen so much Upgrading in the years. today's Oceanside is nice. Too expensive for me.

This film is so terrible to look at and the quality is less admirable! 😕

Sooooooooooooo awesome ! 👌🏼

Outside of a few old photos from a website about North Oceanside ES and some vague memories of that school from my childhood, I never got to see what North Oceanside ES looked like until watching this video! I think some of thise old North O buildings were used for Social Services in the 70s and early 80s? I wonder if North Terrace ES and San Rafael ES were its replacements? Thanks for posting!