Which City Would You Like to Visit in The 40's??

@Polyglothmaster

Жыл бұрын

Milano

@gbaker9295

Жыл бұрын

San Luis Obispo or Catalina Island would be my first choices

@gbaker9295

Жыл бұрын

NASS, I'm not sure if you're aware of the thousand + drums of DDT dumped in the waters between Long Beach and Catalina Island in the 50's. One company did it and always at night. The drums are still there many of which are leaking. It's a disaster. If I could go back in time I'd catch and kill the bastards responsible

@scfp57

Жыл бұрын

Vancouver!

@gbaker9295

Жыл бұрын

@@scfp57 Prior to the Chinese and Indian takeover? Nice

None of those people filmed ever thought that I would see them 80 years later on my hand held computer

@sol___invictus

Жыл бұрын

Many of them probably thought you'd be watching this on Titan. Retro-futurism.

@proudbhartiya1993

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and that too in 60fps

@copa8

Жыл бұрын

Imagine 80 years from now?!?

@gamer-wl5sv

Жыл бұрын

@@sol___invictus yes they thought we Will be on mars or big space ship toward another stellar system

@gamer-wl5sv

Жыл бұрын

Cars seems ride slow as there were no lot of traffic

This is the closest thing to time travel we might ever experience. Beautiful

@Diego70938

Жыл бұрын

Human beings age quickly, so it seems that 80 teares ago is another world. It's not true, 80 years is a snap of fingers within this universe.

@mr.joshua204

Жыл бұрын

..thats an understatement because I own a time machine. Sure I can't change the past, but I can sure visit it.

@briannolan7818

Жыл бұрын

So true.

@JaysonT1

Жыл бұрын

Actually they just came out with a time traveling app.

@alextogo8367

Жыл бұрын

@@Diego70938 I'm sure there's some truth to that. But no way to prove it

I grew up in California during the 40's and 50's. It was a good time and I still love California.

@gcvincent3989

Ай бұрын

I really don’t know why you would. Thank god I left that heII hole in the 80’s.

@silasspeaks3301

28 күн бұрын

Very interesting. It is a fascinating time period and, of course, a lovely area of the world.

It’s astounding how slowly and calmly folks drove back then, I wish drivers today had that same patience

@JRyan-lu5im

Жыл бұрын

I'd blame the hyper-activity that is pushed these days. There's videos of NYC in the 1920's like this. Slowwww. Today, you needing to be off "hustling", being busy doing something all the time, staying up late to do more, or to see more, driver faster, and keep your brain at 100mph.

@CarbonPhoenix96

Жыл бұрын

And here I am wondering why this dude is going 30 on the highway lol

@dawgwiddaglasses

Жыл бұрын

Sorry Jeremy, the spirit of Ricky Bobby flows through my veins. 😤 #iwannagofast

@KarltheBarl

Жыл бұрын

It’s because cars got faster more quickly than drivers could adapt to

@PirateReviewer

Жыл бұрын

I wonder why.. :D :D

Let’s just appreciate the random person who decided to film a drive through a town for 8 uninterrupted minutes of history

@TraumaER

Жыл бұрын

Is that person still alive?

@MeatPez

Жыл бұрын

@@TraumaER there’s a possibility. If they’re not dead yet they’ll be dead any day now. Would be honestly really cool to talk to them if they’re still around

@musicpro7278

Жыл бұрын

@@MeatPez bro this was 80 years ago and he's driving so he was probably 20 something during this video meaning he's over 100 also meaning no he's no longer alive and no there's no chance he is

@MeatPez

Жыл бұрын

@@musicpro7278 who pissed in your panties bro? We don’t have the verified age of anyone. I said there’s a POSSIBILITY you absolute moron. I doubt they’re alive but we’re on the brink of it still being possible. I genuinely cannot fathom your level of misunderstanding and ignorance to fundamental conversation and not even to mention slightly more in depth concepts.

@rainbowwarrior2635

Жыл бұрын

It is cool, probably one of the best uses of a camera. Yeah my dad was born in 41 and died in 2010, his sister is alive who was born in 45. My friend who was born in 35 died in 2017. I know a man in Hawaii was was born in the late 20's. Thomas Sowell who was born in 1931 is still alive and healthy, Health is wealth.

i like how everything is clean - no traffic jams - people are driving slower then they should... everything seems so chill and relaxed

@FernieAriel

Жыл бұрын

lmao people in the video are driving as FAST as they COULD. But yeah, I can't imagine California with no traffic jams.

@bouzoukiman5000

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! Cuz one tiny mistake and you'll hit a house or telephone pole. That was a complete hellhole. Ever notice how clean a dirty carpet looks in pictures?

@mats4dance

Жыл бұрын

and no homeless, or trash everywhere...

@Disciple0fWu_36

Жыл бұрын

That would have been one of the joys of a much lower population.. look at the difference between then and now 🤷‍♂️ that's JUST the California population as well.. 1940s - 6,907,387 2022 - 39,185,605

@sixmiiiion9333

Жыл бұрын

I wonder what changed that?

40's California Dreamin >>>>> 2020's California nightmare.

What a great look into the past! Having grown up in SoCal, specifically Newport Beach, I was able to recognize a lot. First segment is Balboa Fun Zone area, that’s Balboa Blvd then pans towards Palm street where you would get onto the Ferry. Second segment is 101 Fwy then transition to 101 NB thru that tunnel. I’ve gone that route 100’s of times. It’s still the same!! 3rd segment is the view of the Balboa Island bridge, then pans right towards the cliffs and up Jamboree road towards PCH. Probably wasn’t called Jamboree back then. Jamboree was named from the Boy Scout Jamboree held in Newport in 1953, on land that is now Fashion Island. To the left of Jamboree, the bluffs are where Promontory Point apartments are now, and the land below it is a shopping center now. It was a SAFEWAY (now Pavilions) and a bank at the other end next to Jamboree. The rest was filled in with little shops. Bayside drive was the intersection there. Looked like most people as today did rolling stops thru Stop signs!!😂

@theoldsilvercat7523

10 ай бұрын

I remember it..

@ericbauer9029

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for clarifying, John. Outside of City Hall (where my dad worked in the 60s & early 70), none of it looked recognizable to me. I thought maybe Ramona Pkwy was Pomona and maybe the beach drive at the end was going north on PCH in Santa Monica Bay toward Oxnard. But that still didn't make sense: too many structures on the road for that stretch of PCH.

@jonathanfreedom1st

8 ай бұрын

Nice ❤

It's interesting how the addition of color makes the 40s seem not so far removed from the present day, or somehow easier to conceptualize or more tangible. The effect of seeing old film in black and white on the other hand enshrines it in the past - makin it unquestionably of a different time and place. Nice work!

@The_Trade_Academy

Жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts!

@gloriaortiz1227

Жыл бұрын

It's the same time as now accept the style of fashion and cars

@dwdeclare1965

Жыл бұрын

"why it's almost as though we future people could say to those in the past, we are not so different you and i." ~ criswell

@ruberoidshiferov

Жыл бұрын

Living shacks right on some oil fields, yeah, not so far.

@Slimecrazy234

Жыл бұрын

It's the exact same as today, same sky, same trees, same grass, same sunlight, just cars and technology are different visibly.

L.A Noire really captured the vibe of LA during this time, just magnificent!

@unscripted3209

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it really looks like this footage

@Miller_Lite

Жыл бұрын

That’s what I like about video games, they really send you back in time. The Mafia games also did a fantastic job on this as well.

@malloryg4251

Жыл бұрын

You're so right! My husband loves playing that game and I always wondered how accurate it was. Now I know! Very cool.

@simrin2002

Жыл бұрын

yep, my first thought watching this footage.

@christopherg9028

Жыл бұрын

A very underrated game by Rockstar that had a lot more potential

Always found it amazing that someone thought it would be important to make films like these back then. Such a treasure! 🎉

This is one of those videos where you just have to drop everything you were doing and just stare in awe as you watch from beginning to the end. There is just something fascinating about watching old footage in color. It really makes you feel more connected with the people in the past, makes you think that yeah, just like you living right now, there were people living their everyday lives 80, 100, 200... years ago, and that It's not just a random black&white footage.

@steveowen7475

9 ай бұрын

How true is that mesmerising

@chucknorris2266

8 ай бұрын

My grandmother who's still alive was only 10 years old

@calirose2860

7 ай бұрын

I've been binge watching these. New subscriber 👍 a cal girl myself, find these back in time entertaining. the area looked so peaceful..fascinating, like I'm back in time driving behind them. The cars are so cool, no congested traffic, searching for parking, road rage, etc.. just coasting down the road.

You have to take a moment to appreciate the people who captured these videos and the people like NASS who went through the efforts of finding them and giving us literally a snapshot of time from the 1940s. ♥

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

Жыл бұрын

You know there's better ways of achieving this?

@Mikebuster

Жыл бұрын

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar get to work then

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

Жыл бұрын

@@Mikebuster its called its already there, neither of you ever take time to learn the eras your staring at in these videos, too focused on thinking it was so unadvanced it needed a clueless AI to help it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/emag1JOPj6qZprQ.html This is just one of thousands of examples of real color footage back then.

@LSK2K

Жыл бұрын

You sound exactly like one of those youtube bots.

@bamdadmedia

Жыл бұрын

@@LSK2K I'm a random stranger to you on the internet. So I don't want to pretend even for a second that you know me. You can call me anything you want and make fun of an honest compliment I gave above. I will pray that nothing but love and goodness comes your way.

This may be your best one yet, it's the next best thing to a time machine

@craigholly8910

Жыл бұрын

We couldn't even go back this far in a time machine 🙁

@lescobrandon3047

Жыл бұрын

The quality of these films is outstanding.

@JesusMariaCatholicChristianPio

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/head/PLUcjoO2Bj8AsiGYdzfqZyXae1lhMw_p2s

@joemartinez2739

Жыл бұрын

Would love to go back in time

@dlazo32696

Жыл бұрын

@John Evans Well said

This is truly incredible and hard to believe! Lived in SoCal 45 years. I felt completely at home from the first day. I was 23. Newport Beach was so pristine. Lived in Corona Del Mar, and I surely wish I could have seen it then! Thanks for posting this piece of history. It made me cry! We love LA ... and every inch of Southern California,,,,,!

@underthetornado

9 ай бұрын

I remember going to Newport Beach when I was a little girl in 50s. I remember there was always sand all over the streets back then. Clear out to the parking areas blocks away!

The only thing missing from the sound effects is the sound of STICK SHIFTS in all the cars. Shifting gears all the time as you pick up from a stop. I remember it well from the early 50s when I was a very little kid. All the cars left the stop at different speeds as everyone shifted through the gears, and I heard their engines alternately roar and quiet as they fed the gas pedal between gear shifts.

@linksrepublikaner

9 ай бұрын

Here in Germany, we still have mostly manual shift cars

5:04 the fact that those kids would now be in their 80's and 90's, if even alive, is mind-blowing. To see something so close to real life, yet so far from it. It's truly an experience in itself.

@bobdillaber1195

Жыл бұрын

I'm one of those kids you spoke of, in my 80s. Those times take me back to my innocence and joy of just living. Not mad at anyone. Just a new adventure every day.

@ssj3vegett0

Жыл бұрын

@@bobdillaber1195 your last name proves it ! I bet it was so easy to find a wife back then . Unlike today

@bobdillaber1195

Жыл бұрын

@@ssj3vegett0 Yes it was. In fact I found a couple. 😄

@steviejrr

Жыл бұрын

@@bobdillaber1195 sure

@j22563

Жыл бұрын

The fact that people age is mind blowing?

It's always interesting to see the world as my great grandparents would've seen it. Makes me wonder what they were doing at these exact moments

@dwdeclare1965

Жыл бұрын

something ribald, no doubt.

@michaelbread5906

Жыл бұрын

My grandpa was 17 in 1940.

@handsupbud

Жыл бұрын

My Mother was 2 when this was filmed.

@cccycling5835

Жыл бұрын

My grandmother was in the Philippines watching the Japanese Zeros fly overhead during the IJN invasion of Luzon. Certainly a little different from sunny California! Crazily enough she and all her family ended up moving to California, where we mostly all are to this very day.

@jensbondarenko9195

Жыл бұрын

fighting in world war II combats

My father would of been about 14 then ..Passed at 95 ❤️..Mother still going at 93 tough as old boot leather 👍

In Huntington Beach CA , they drilled a lot of oil wells. There was such a low number of people living in southern California that they could build the housing for the well workers right next to where they were working. I lived in one of those old places last summer. There was an well head right out side the front door. And the beach was across the street 30 yards away.

@dod2304

9 ай бұрын

yeah at first I was surprised by all the oil derricks but the I remembered the "Labrea Tar pits" which is, of course all tarry oil. I was thinking as they drove through Huntington Beach how shocked they'd be by the 2023 cost of housing in LA and surrounds! LOL

@rickfitzgerald4426

9 ай бұрын

@@dod2304 This footage is not Huntington Beach. It is now called Marina Del Rey Peninsula. Southern strip just south of Venice Beach. Huntington was very similar. All very expensive housing now for both areas.

@davidmoser3535

9 ай бұрын

HB has had an interesting history. When Henry Huntington owned it, he couldnt give the land away. Some farmers planted sugar beets, and thrived. BY 1921, oil was discovered., so oil derricks every 10 yards.The huge Holly sugar plant, only 12 years old was dismantled, and rebuilt in Wyoming, where it exists to this day. They then drilled for oil, and made millions, pouring it into their sugar co. Now the oill derricks are long gone, but the local HS is still the Oilers.I can remember, as an 8 year old in 1963, some oil derricks in HB and Long Beach, but nothing like the 40"s.

I love how if you see it in color, you feel like you're there, but if its not, its just simply a memory

@onlyoneamong300

Жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone has realized that you just made an outstanding observation: the fact that old color videos feel so real, like you're just there, while black and whites feel static, just like old pictures! Now I understand why, whenever I saw old colorized videos of streets and people, they felt different but I couldn't pinpoint why until now, thanks to you! 👍 Now, going the way AI and virtual reality are going, I can only imagen when technology recreates whole color animated backgrounds based on just one still, black-and-white picture! Imagen recreating everything that it was around when a black-and-white picture of your grandparents was taken! That'd be the end of longing for your long-gone, loved ones! Thanks for sharing guys!

@marquizzo

Жыл бұрын

The sound ambiance also does a lot of heavy lifting in making you feel like you're immersed in that environment.

@wyattchilton15

Жыл бұрын

Colour**

@talvisota327

Жыл бұрын

@@wyattchilton15 nope, it's color. fuck french influence.

@KaLaka16

Жыл бұрын

@@onlyoneamong300 Imagine a VR application that creates a whole historical city you can walk in based on a dataset of old photos and videos and maybe some map data. It wouldn't be accurate, but it'd fill the gaps with believable content, and it would feel real.

One of the “cleanest” colorized videos I’ve ever seen. Good job!

@NASS_0

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much ;)

@TheGamingChad.

Жыл бұрын

@@NASS_0 do you use topaz video enhance to restore these?

@faraj3159

Жыл бұрын

yh, the editing and restoration is next level. Much appreciated!

@greenwave819

Жыл бұрын

the drone work is excellent

@DY-nn1ev

Жыл бұрын

@Moon Cricket bro wtf is this comment

It must have been perfection to live in California back then. It was so beautiful and so few people.

@mikemurphy5898

7 ай бұрын

Beautiful to look at maybe but also Looks boring. No TV, no internet, no jet skis, no bikinis, no sushi restaurants, cars were slow as sh*t.... nah, I'll stick with today thanks.

Wow, that was SO cool. I’ve been transported back in time. I wasn’t around in the ‘40s but it makes me feel nostalgic. So few cars on the roads and cars driving much slower. Fabulous cars. Thanks for posting. ❤

Oil wells right at the beach! Crazy California. Beautiful restoration.

@NASS_0

Жыл бұрын

Thx

@nsleepwalker

Жыл бұрын

I saw one on my way to Los Angeles a month ago (September 2022), somewhere near Malibu.

@bradmyers7109

Жыл бұрын

Terri I was shocked that there were so many big oil wells right on the beach.

Its amazing seeing this and realising just how accurate the video game L.A Noire is.

Amazing footage. Even when driving into LA at 3:00am which I occasionally do, do I see the kind of traffic levels shown here. This is what it SHOULD be like driving in. Interesting to know that even in the 40's folks were doing "Californian stops" at stop signs!

This is incredible. I was born and raised here in southern California and know some of these areas. That clip of driving into los Angeles blew my mind. 2 lanes and hardly anyone there. Paradise! Now it's 4 lanes each side and a million cars moving 3 mph...HELL!

What’s craziest to me is seeing someone walking along the side of the road, living their life. To think that that was 80 years ago and that they lived their whole life between them and now, thinking about what their life was like then, what they were doing that day, where they were walking, what they were thinking about, etc is all so mind bending. And to think 80 years from now is 2100….

@MAxAMILLIoN757

Жыл бұрын

100%. Crazy to see someone just going about their average Tuesday- but 82 years ago. It's so immersive with colour and sound it's like you're there. Completely surreal, videos like these are actual time machines.

@therealking6202

Жыл бұрын

I've ALWAYS thought the same when I'm watching old home movies, or even in actual movies, I pay attention to the extras and the crowd, and wonder the same thing.

@rswindol

Жыл бұрын

It's crazy to think there was a time when you could walk down the streets of LA without having to worry about stepping on an AIDS needle or a pile of bum dung, or being stabbed.

@therealking6202

Жыл бұрын

@@rswindol Here comes the "back in my day" guy. 🤣🤣🤣

@TheSKT946

Жыл бұрын

So amazing like it was today, except for the cars, and we're walking across a street or driving the road.

I can't believe how clean LA looked! So amazing. It wasn't crowded and none of the downtown buildings we see today were there. This is what my grandmother described to me. I imagine that this is what it looked like shortly after she bought her house there. I wish things had of stayed that way. Thanks for sharing this awesome drive before my time.

@michaelt3308

Жыл бұрын

Then Democrats took over!

@lambdee7006

Жыл бұрын

Now it’s a rats nest

@dwdeclare1965

Жыл бұрын

it's like when marty mcfly sees his high school back in the '50s and says, "wow, they really cleaned this place up".

@Dontlikenaimepas

Жыл бұрын

I think it's a mistake to think that, this place must be the cancer alley

@seanthe100

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't look that clean to me with oil derricks everywhere and inefficient cars leaking oil

0:50 I take this freeway often to get to work. Looks remarkably different but still familiar, especially that little tunnel to merge heading north. The lack of traffic on that freeway is mind boggling. There was no way to predict how reliant we would be on cars.

Wow! I watch a lot of these 1940s and 50s videos, and this is the first time I spotted a backyard INCINERATOR! When I was a little kid in Los Angeles in the early 1950s, we had a backyard incinerator. My mother burned all our trash that wasn’t metal in the incinerator - boxes, egg cartons, egg shells, coffee grinds, food waste, dog poop, even wooden boxes - I can still picture all that stuff burning in the incinerator in our backyard, and I remember the odor. We moved to the suburbs when I was 4, and no more incinerator. I don’t know exactly when people stopped using them, but I am sure they added greatly to air pollution with everyone burning their trash in the backyard in cities instead of putting the can out for the trash collector to pick up. That’s wild. I haven’t seen one of those in 67 years!

@margueriteguineheux8139

3 ай бұрын

I grew up in the Hollywood East area and we lived in an apartment building that had an incinerator in the back. No longer functioning in 1967 I believe. They were outlawed due to pollution control but I don't know when. I was such a young kid I didn't pay much attention to it.

Born in 45. Grew up in Long Beach. I truly miss those days.

@J0hn.R

Жыл бұрын

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Diversity? in what? Times are horrible and people thinking they can identify as horses. No thanks!

@dwdeclare1965

Жыл бұрын

dude, you were born at the perfect time! bet you saw the beatles, man.

@peace-yv4qd

Жыл бұрын

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 True. But we didn't have to hear people constantly whining about being oppressed. Or being offended by pretty much everything.

@peace-yv4qd

Жыл бұрын

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Everyone has the right to point out anything they wish. I doesn't make their claims true.

@chickenalaking1319

Жыл бұрын

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 My rabbi agrees.

I love footage like this especially cleaned up to this extent... It's almost like peering thru a window back in time... You can almost feel like you are looking in at the world of a different time.

I'm on a trip through time. I started with videos from the 1900's. Then 1910's. Then 20's. Then 30's. And now I'm here. Pretty cool.

Wonderful..I miss California. I was stationed at Ft Ord just as it was closing in 1993. I went overseas with the army and never have been back. I have good memories there

It be real cool if you could do a then and now drive through. I’d love to see how these areas have changed over the decades.

@PaulCarmona

Жыл бұрын

That's because security cameras need a ton of storage depending on the quality setting and not everyone has deep pockets - so they compromise - it's got nothing to do with the cameras themselves

@Dreyno

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulCarmona You responded to the wrong post.

@varunemani

Жыл бұрын

What change? I've been here all my life, You'd be surprised 80 years on It's all same more or less, save for the traffic, Cosco, Tesla charging stations and the billboard ads these days!

@alfresco8442

Жыл бұрын

That long shot behind the white car starts on I 10/US-101, a little ways before Exit 1C to Cesar Chavez Ave. You'll recognise that distinctive gray roof.

@Dave-sy3rg

Жыл бұрын

@@octavius8562 Are the oil wells still pumping?

What I love about this is it reflects that reality they mostly avoid in movies because it flattens everything - that intense and bleaching noon sun power, that reaches right into the back of your eyeballs, some days in LA: that pure, dry and fierce, mid-day California light.....Watching this, I felt pure heat on my face and neck, my throat got dry, and the image of an ice cold root beer with a question mark next to it, floated into my mind. Just beautiful.

@ronm3245

Жыл бұрын

Taking over for Joan Didion?

Masterpiece. Thanks to the person who was filming this back then & thanks to you for this beauty.

Thank you for your excellent work. The care taken in the layering of sound is particularly wonderful I think, because it's practically unnoticeable - It just seems so real and such a natural accompaniment to the picture. Outstanding! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@dodgecrockett3474

Жыл бұрын

Patrick Treadway, what do you mean by "layering"? At any given point in time, I can only hear one sound.

AMAZING!! To those that don't know at 2:25 that white narrow building on the left is LA city hall and it looks the same to this day. That curving tunnel before you see city hall is also the same accept it looks terribly old. This recording is pure gold👌 I greatly appreciate this upload. Los Angeles looks its age now when you take the same drive.

@drtydsh

11 ай бұрын

The crazy part is that underpass he passed at the 2 minute mark looks very familiar

@DA90027

10 ай бұрын

​@@drtydshit's part of the 101 now

Man, those cars look just absolutely amazing, beautiful deep curves, bright and really different colors. Wish the 40s-50s era style of car would come back, everything was so unique

@kennixox262

Жыл бұрын

Death traps on four wheels. Poor handling, braking and crashworthiness by today's standards.

@YerBoiTex

Жыл бұрын

@@kennixox262 oh for sure, I mean if you got into a wreck on either side, you’d be screwed. I’m mainly thinking, if they brought back that aesthetic, body/interior style with all modern technology in new cars. Cuz of course we wouldn’t want those things on the roads now as they we’re back then. But shoot, I think the streets would look a lot nicer with the older style

@kennixox262

Жыл бұрын

@@YerBoiTex I'm not a car expert but todays' cars are designed with various safety aspects, crash worthiness, pedestrian safety, fuel economy is why so many of todays cars look alike in order to meet the mandates.

@chickenalaking1319

Жыл бұрын

I'd be happy with just bringing back body on frame cars.

@YerBoiTex

Жыл бұрын

@@kennixox262 nor am I an expert and I’m sure that that’s the case that why they look the way they do, but I’m still a dreamer for the looks

So peaceful. I wonder why.. :D

My jaw is on the floor. This is basically time travel. I’m legit blown away. So beautiful. I wish things were this simple and innocent still.

@daystars-den

10 ай бұрын

Me too!

@calartian85

10 ай бұрын

riiiight

@soapbullet-tq8zf

8 ай бұрын

So true

It's interesting to see the homes among the industrial oil fields. Also, a car runs the stop sign at 3:28. Some things never change :-). Fun video!

@michellerene951

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too!🤣

@DJarry394

Жыл бұрын

It looks really healthy. Not. Oil wells were extremely toxic. There was a total disregard for safety back then. I sure would not want to time travel back to the 40s. I was in elementary school in the early 60s and at the time there was terrible air pollution, and frequent oil slicks. There wasn’t even a warning to keep people away from the oil and tar in the water, and you didn’t find out until you went in and came out covered in tar and crap. It was like “no big deal”

@glw5166

Жыл бұрын

@@DJarry394 People didn’t know any better back then. Thank goodness things have changed. I am your age and I remember the black smog clouds over Pittsburgh before they cleaned that city up.

@ho0t0w1

Жыл бұрын

Get his plates!

@glw5166

Жыл бұрын

@@ho0t0w1 LOL!

That narrow street part with all the oil rigs is likely what is now Seashore Drive in Newport Beach. There was one frame that had a street sign, but it was too small to read. The houses today sit next to the street just like in the video. Love this view into LA's past!

@TenMinuteTrips

Жыл бұрын

I thought this might be near Huntington Beach but I’ll take a look on Google Earth and see if you’re right. Thanks for the suggestion.

@lifterguy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. As I was watching that, I was thinking about how narrow the street was, and how close the houses were to the street, and was wondering if it could possibly still be like that today!

@MomtoZnE

Жыл бұрын

@@TenMinuteTrips I was wondering too. I grew up in HB and know it started out as oil rigs. Kind of looks like the area near Sunset Beach (the homes look like that area) if it’s not in south HB.

Thank you for taking us back to a bye-gone era! It was truly awesome!

Your enhancement of these videos is amazing. You make them so immersive that I feel like I’m there. Your sound engineering is great too.

@NASS_0

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@rubiconnn

Жыл бұрын

I think the de-noising and sharpening are way too overdone. It would be nice if it looked more natural and less like a watercolor painting.

@massey4business

Жыл бұрын

@@rubiconnn 🙄

@allaboutmelz

Жыл бұрын

@@rubiconnn It looks like a water Color painting because the colorisation is done by AI, so is the upscaling/sharpening. The only thing that was done manually was the sound engineering but even with that I’m a bit skeptical.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

Жыл бұрын

@@allaboutmelz its all weakly done and NASS literally never impresses since hardly any of the work is his.

And 80 years later…. Truly amazing and mesmerising

"On the 101 freeway, we pass through a tunnel, and we see a HUGE chimney." On the left (south) side of the bag factory were big natural gas storage tanks. They were bladder-like affairs that rose and fell with the change in gas pressure as it was used. Before the tunnel there is a sign, "Ramona Parkway," an offramp to which is now the San Bernardino (I10) freeway going to the east. Just before that in the video was Boyle Heights on the right, and on the left, not visible, an area on the left known as Flats, which was demolished and replaced with a public housing development around this time. Thanks for the effort done with this movie!

Absolutely amazing. Literally like going back in time!

I recognized Balboa right away, the Fun Zone gave it away! I worked on the Newport pier as a teen. That is the best colorization I have seen in a long time. LA was easy to pick up on too. What a great ride-along!!!

Yet another great video, NASS! And even though you gave some info in the comments, I was able to find some more specific locations for part of it. The footage beginning at 2:49 is located in Newport Beach and the camera is on the southeast corner of Bayside Drive and Marine Avenue. The film begins looking south on Marine Avenue. You can see the bridge crossing the Balboa Bay - North Channel to Balboa Island. Some of the facades of houses to the right of the bridge can still be seen little changed today on Street View - the fourth house on the right, above the white car, still has the same roofline, with a tiny triangular gable right at the top. The house to its right is basically unchanged, and you can see Onyx Avenue to its right with the same vintage streetlamp there today. The camera then swings west to north, crossing Bayside Drive at 3:05 and shows the bluffs that were still undeveloped on Historic Aerials in 1963. The cars then ascend to the north side of Bayside - once it crosses Bayside, Marine Avenue becomes Jamboree Road starting at 3:16 where you can still see the bluffs on today's Street View. Jamboree Road intersects with Pacific Coast Highway just 1/4 of a mile north of Bayside and from there you travel to L. A., Huntington Beach and Long Beach. The directional sign was what clued me in - it shows that Los Angeles, Huntington Beach and Long Beach are straight ahead from Bayside, so therefore the cross-street shown at 3:05 can't be Pacific Coast Highway. Also, the sign shows Corona Del Mar going what would be east, in a different direction than the others, and is one mile away, so this is the correct location. Coordinates are: 33.610324, -117.889829 if you want to check it out.

@NASS_0

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@UpTheVillaMark

Жыл бұрын

Fabulous As I live in the UK I have no perspective or geographic context, so your comment is much appreciated

@UpTheVillaMark

Жыл бұрын

❤

@UpTheVillaMark

Жыл бұрын

Hope you don’t mind me following you, this enhanced my enjoyment of the NASS output

@GiggleFishy

Жыл бұрын

@@UpTheVillaMark Thanks! Glad you enjoyed - it's fun to do. :)

This is the most impressive restored footage I have ever seen. Impressive work!

This film is amazingly beautiful and I am transformed in time, thank you for this marvelous colorization and sounds that are perfectly in synch!!!!

Like and Share Please

@nelsonoliva2119

Жыл бұрын

I love these videos. I have a stupid question? where do these videos come from? maybe same person that had a high end portable camera at the time and wanted to document this beautiful history? or different people? and how did they get into the hands of this extremely talented person? Im curious about this and hope I dont get blasted for being an idiot as it usually happens in these channels..Thank you in advance to anyone who knows...

This is as close as you can get to a time machine. Kudos to the editing! Great sound and color. It feels more like a memory being played by those sci-fi machines from comics in those days.

Yet another beautiful piece of work by NASS! Very high quality.

Wow that was cleaned and beautiful.❤

I love how everybody drives slow and they don't mind it one bit.

@WootTootZoot

Жыл бұрын

LOL, they aren't driving slow because they want to , that's all those cars could do. You still see them running (bump and roll) stop signs.

@zognaldblormpf5127

Жыл бұрын

I love how everyone is white

@NationalismDjazair

Жыл бұрын

@@zognaldblormpf5127 how do you know? You cant see the cars

@hueso5071

Жыл бұрын

@@NationalismDjazair LA was a majority white city at the time. 🤣 the entire country was 90% white.

@mergat2970

Жыл бұрын

@@zognaldblormpf5127 who cares about race

This is GREAT thanks for posting!

I recognize the drive from East LA into downtown. The Friedman Bag Company building is still here! I loved it as a kid, those towers on top were painted different colors and I enjoyed seeing them. What are they for, ventilation? The houses at the beach haven’t changed much. We are still living in them today! Loved this time travel to the past. Thank you

80 years and still a better camera than our security cameras today.

@flance911

Жыл бұрын

still a better camera than DVR in my Lada

@igorzavoritko5763

Жыл бұрын

@@flance911 ... не жалейте заварки!

@flance911

Жыл бұрын

@@igorzavoritko5763 для тех функций, которые мне были нужны, когда я ее покупал, она подходит идеально)

@missbohochic751

Жыл бұрын

Everything looks even better than now very beautiful

@maicolx7776

Жыл бұрын

Show it on ur digital smart tv to worsen it.

0:41 The first part is the Babloa Peninsula in Newport Beach. The side street gives way to Balboa Boulevard, then there are very short streets that dead-end to the beach. 100% positive at 2:27 that is Los Angeles City Hall and the Spring Street Courthouse. 100% positive 2:52 is the south end of the 55 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway - the current south-bound hilled off-ramp that takes you onto PCH. There are not a lot of hills in that area, and the small bridge shown goes over a modern-day canal. You can also see the sign pointing to Corona Del Mar which is to the left of view and would be PCH south-bound . 3:52 EDIT: Split consensus: The last section might be Long Beach. There were a lot of oil rigs in the area, it is clearly along the coast but the key is you can see a tall hill in the background which is likely modern-day Signal Hill. Some say it's Playa Del Rey, another coastal area that has a hill nearby.

@paulmaudlin7651

Жыл бұрын

The oil wells are definitely Huntington beach..i'd say Late 1940's early 50's. Awesome time travel, Nass.

@BradThePitts

Жыл бұрын

@@paulmaudlin7651 There were definitely oil rigs in Huntington Beach but it's flat until quite far inland - the hill in the background is likely Signal Hill and the area is most likely Long Beach.

@weylguy

Жыл бұрын

Great video! My sister and her boyfriend took me to Balboa Beach here in 1955. I remember a lot of cabanas along the beach, but at the age of 6 I don't recall much else. Now it's multi-million dollar residences everywhere.

@FullySpooled

Жыл бұрын

The pavement where the concrete meets the asphalt at the Civic Center and Ramona Parkway signs (1:27) is exactly the same in this footage as it is today. Pretty cool to see.

@pneumatic00

Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking that area with all the oil rigs might just as easily be Huntingdon Beach, there were loads and loads of oil rigs in that area as well. But I am unsure, you could be right it could be long beach.

I very much enjoyed time traveled back. Thank you for sharing ☺️

I love how the people of this era dressed "up" to go anywhere. They took pride in how they presented themselves and the way they represented their families. So beautiful! ( Wouldn't they cringe at a Walmart visit w the people in PJs and some in, let's just say costumes)

@SFDom415-pe8qo

Жыл бұрын

Depends on who you are showing People still dress now and people dress poorly then too You seriously can’t believe what you said

@Stephanie-kt9vh

Жыл бұрын

@@SFDom415-pe8qo lol yes I believe what I said. Back then they put on their "Sunday Best" to go out... Today is very different. I go to Walmart for example in my sweats, tee shirt, hair up in a bun, and usually slides. In this era they went out in their best. If it was a fancy suit or a simple dress it didn't matter. They did their hair and make up as opposed to MY CHOOSING not to, just throw the hair in a bun and go... That is my point. And I'm not sure what you mean by "depends on who you are showing" or why you chose to comment on my post. Certainly not sure why you are so offended by what I said. If all the things out there this offends you? It was different times, people acted, spoke, and lived differently compared to 20 years ago, 10 years ago and today. We live in a different time. Have a great weekend.

@jlove7723

Жыл бұрын

@@SFDom415-pe8qo Agreed. It would be nice to watch other films on the "wrong side of the tracks" and see what we find....

@thl205

Жыл бұрын

Look at how the poor in the Depression-era slums dressed. Little has changed for the urban and rural poor.

@Stephanie-kt9vh

Жыл бұрын

@@thl205 that is not even close to the point I was making. Even those struggling and 'poor' dawned their best.

Respect to those who traveled back in time to record this in colorul HD 😘

@dwdeclare1965

Жыл бұрын

great, scott...yer doin' a good job.

@Chrisoula17

Жыл бұрын

Good one!!

@Windigo306

Жыл бұрын

The exact same thing i was thinking man, time traveler's do exist period!

People walking, no traffic, beautiful Californian sun. Wish we can go back in time and live there.

@tartgreenapple

Жыл бұрын

WWII (60 million deaths) and racial segregation were happening at that moment in time.

@donciclazae1200

Жыл бұрын

@@tartgreenapple so? After that segregation you got the country with homicide up to the roof. You got gangs after that as well. Now you have gender problems, people don't even know their own gender. I am not for slavery, i am for communities like they were in the 60s , freedom like people had back then.

Keep posting these videos, so many memories

You did such a beautiful job with this!!!

I lived in SoCal all my life, and the 1940’s version of Orange County looks like a peek into another world.

@euphoricmonk

Жыл бұрын

@Karl with a K Not every single Tree, many of these trees are still there..thriving in the chaos of the modern world.

@euphoricmonk

Жыл бұрын

@Karl with a K Wow, I never thought someone would be so triggered by a basic fact that Trees can live hundreds of years, in fact I had one on my property. Immature comment Karl K.

@Channel10-he2se

Жыл бұрын

@Karl with a K my dude, this is the 1940s, not the 1840s. Aside from the tree thing, some of the kids from that time could definitely be around now

@MomtoZnE

Жыл бұрын

@Karl with a K My dad was born in 1929, my mom in 1940. Both very much still here and can view this video on their iPhones just like you.

@skeptigal4626

Жыл бұрын

I’m 66, lived in CA all my life, and can tell you it was amazing in the old days. It hurts me to see how much it has deteriorated in the last few decades.

The quality of the movie is abolutely stunning. Watching it is like you are actually in it.

I love these videos, it's like seeing in front of you a world that no longer extist

California then and now. Like heaven and hell.

I see this and I cannot believe it was once like this ,this is one of the best things about the internet

My grandfather would get out of high school in DTLA and would drive to the beach in 20 minutes. I couldn't imagine what that was like until 2020 shut us down and the roads suddenly went back to 1940's traffic.

Beautiful footage. It's shocking to see near empty freeways and I see the "California Roll" through stops signs started way back when...lol

incredible roads and infra in the 40s itself! wow, really well made!

How much i love these beautiful videos,i hear the voices and the sounds of the past... I go to these beautiful seasons,how much i would to live then...i learn these beautiful seasons by your videos.Thanks a lot...🙏❤️

@sergeylazarev4569

Жыл бұрын

It's not real sound

@tomu4725

Жыл бұрын

@@sergeylazarev4569 it's meant to sound like it though

@sergeylazarev4569

Жыл бұрын

@@tomu4725 I know but still

@elinavtithanos6270

Жыл бұрын

@@sergeylazarev4569 I didn't know,thank you

@edwardpike3386

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't want to go back to those times because I'd be dead by now :>)

I always love seeing these old films of my city, it’s exciting to see landmarks I know, freeways as they once were, and I enjoy trying to guess the locations. Very cool!

@johnbockelie3899

Жыл бұрын

I liked the ride down the freeway with no impatient drivers , or tailgaters trying to shove you along. That empty freeway made my day. Those 40's cars were fabulous to see in action.

@OB-LA

Жыл бұрын

@@johnbockelie3899 If only driving in this city was so pleasant today!

@johnbockelie3899

Жыл бұрын

@@OB-LA it's probably stuffed with cars like every where else. This made driving look like fun.

That large cylender after coming out of the tunnel was a large gas storage tank (aka "gasometer") for natural gas. It's also crazy to see the oil rigs in intermixed with residential areas.

Thanks for sharing these wonderful images!

I'd give up all the luxuries today to go back to these times. In a heartbeat.

@MikeyRedNose

Жыл бұрын

You're not wrong and I can barely keep up with modern technology anyway, very distracting in my opinion. The whole social media side is another example.

@PittiesAndMore

Жыл бұрын

Me too but without all of the oil wells on the beaches.

@rdmz135

Жыл бұрын

few days later you'd realise what an utter mistake you've made

@mr.butterworth4216

Жыл бұрын

@@rdmz135 it’s all what you condition yourself to accept. I believe some people would do better in yesterday’s world.

@shadykatie100

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

What's funny is, that what we consider modern day today, will also be looked at the same way 80 years from now! Time really does fly! Enjoy your lives people, because we do not get to stay here very long! Great video of the now long past!

@tias.6675

Жыл бұрын

Lol no one in their right mind wants to stay in this insane asylum very long.

@Cwra1smith

Жыл бұрын

@@tias.6675 I plan on living forever and so far, so good!

@davemckolanis4683

Жыл бұрын

@@tias.6675 Looks Like YOU Are In The MINORITY That Wants To Hurry Up And Check Out Of This Place. The Rest Of Us Want To Make The BEST And LEARN THE MOST During Our Lives While We're Here...Sorry To Learn About Your Miserable Existence...

@Jbk0860

Жыл бұрын

@@tias.6675 certainly not surrounded by people with that attitude anyway

That was frickin cool!....Colorized and great imagery made this feel like yesterday even though it was decades before I was born. In this respect it shows how much the same we really are.

This was great! I didn't realize that Ca., had oil fields on the beach! I felt like I was in the car driving along the highway. This is wonderful! All those people in the background all long deceased, and all that open property along Huntington Beach with sand dunes was spectacular. The 4 way, just tooting a horn to let someone know you were going across, no stop signs! WOW! This video impressed me!

@joypower3199

10 ай бұрын

Huntington Beach? It looked like Playa & Marina del Rey/Venice to me. Nevertheless - WOW!

I gotta admit, California in the 40's looks like it was a paradise

@Submersed24

Жыл бұрын

it was run by republicans

@Submersed24

Жыл бұрын

@@yozoamate America is going to fall

@SeZ_LeZ

Жыл бұрын

4:00 wtf kinda paradise is that?

@r3wturb0x51

Жыл бұрын

@@SeZ_LeZ those are the oil fields genius

@musicased9591

Жыл бұрын

It was, that's why everybody moved there over the years and made it awful.

Saludos desde Argentin. Me encanta ver esto videos. Tengo 50 años y ver estas imagnes, me hace pensar que no nos damos cuenta, que antes de nostros habia gente, hermanos que ya estaban haciendo historia y un camino, para que las siguientes generaciones disfruten lo que hoy se tiene. Si no hibieran existido los anteriores, nosotros no existiriamos y deberiamos dar las gracias a Dios y a ellos, por estar hoy donde estamos. Bendiciones a todos. Excelentes videos.

Awesome video thanks for the restoration

Holy smokes! The opening scene looks almost video realistic, and someone walking in front of the camera and everyone moving at the correct pace. I subscribed for more!

What a wonderful world.. of cars. Too bad the film stopped, it could go on for ever ... 💙 Thanks for the trip ! 😘

I feel like I literally went back in time. I think this is the closest I’ll get to a Time Machine.AMAZING !!!!!!!! Thanks for your hard work and posting this masterpiece.👍🏽

I really need a time machine to go back to beautiful eras like this.

@A_P___

Жыл бұрын

yeah, yeah, segregation and other "cool" things

@stephenturner6075

Жыл бұрын

@@A_P___ Yawn!

@aedryk

10 ай бұрын

@@A_P___ this, but unironically

@kindasortanull

9 ай бұрын

Same Stephen. Would love to go back and experience all of the beautiful segregation and racism that this state so gracefully allowed by law ❤

@stephenturner6075

9 ай бұрын

@@kindasortanull Yawn!

The oil wells are like right next to homes. That's crazy! Love this video ❤

Stunning work here - these are SO important to keep, and so enjoyable to watch.

Incredible footage! At 2:45 you can clearly see a Pacific Electric Railway "Big Red Car" ahead of the white Ford the camera car is trailing. Both vehicles are heading west on Aliso Street, about to pass the south side of Los Angeles Union Station before the railcar turns south onto San Pedro Street and eventually end its trip at the railroad's main terminal at the southeast corner of Sixth and Main streets. When Aliso Street was turned into the westward extension of the 101 freeway through Downtown L.A., Pacific Electric lost its only easterly route into and out of Downtown (despite having paid a portion of the cost to rebuild the Aliso Street viaduct over the river just a decade or so earlier), prompting the company to end all passenger rail service to Pasadena, Monrovia, Glendora, and the rest of the San Gabriel Valley.

@hufficag

Жыл бұрын

Makes me wonder what's the future of transportation. Are we all just going to Uber?

@sutherlabs_237

Жыл бұрын

Good find, I noticed the rails in the street, but didnt see the red car!

@dennisba85

Жыл бұрын

I would say the're on Santa Ana Fwy since they're coming down a bridge. Also they're passing the Friedman Bag Company to their left, which is at 801 Commercial Street. Too bad the clip is so short. I'd love to see Union Station

amazing feels like the video was taken yesterday!

Wow, so incredible! Look at the scenery! Used to live in Los Angeles, the days of the license plates were black/gold and blue/gold! Keep the great work going Nass!

I moved to Los Angeles about 30 years after this was filmed in 1972. How different it was by then. Moved away 30 years ago in 1992. How different it is now is amazing !! Great job restoring this. Much of it looks like it was filmed recently !!