1953 is the year my father moved to Los Angeles from upstate N.Y. He was 20 years old. My father got a job roofing houses with one if his Air Force buddies. His name was Dick Lerock. On the job Roofing a house one day a 18 year old beautiful red headed young lady came out of the house bringing my father and Lerock each a cold glass of Tea. That young ladies name was Velda Mooney. She was to be my mother. They were married 19 months later. My sister Kelly was first born in 1962, then in 1965 I came along. My parents worked hard, bought a house and remained married till 2015 when my father sucomed to Lung cancer. My mother is still with me and I make sure my mother knows I am thankful to her for giving me life and I love her more then anything in the world. I myself. I am doing OK. I caught terminal cancer at the age of 53. Current 56 I am still here. Loving my mother, my wife, my 2 children and my 5 grand children. God bless you all. I hope your life is beautiful and full of love. 😍
What a perfect marriage honestly, staying together that long until the end is true loyalty that you don't see often. You're all lucky you got to grow up in peak LA when everything was fresh and new. Condolences to your father.
Ivermectin it will cure cancer, as we have found cancer is a parasite. You can now get ivermectin in pill form rather than a dog dewormer, but it's up to you. It doesn't hurt you to take it and it will help you cure your cancer. It's a part of a protocol. Good luck. I hope that you get a chance to see this and able to help yourself I was born there in LA 1955 lived there all my life no idea I was living in hell but will get it changed around back to the 1950s here we Come.
@@mattheweuqnicurzeid7154 I totally agree with you, sir. Though I am a Boomer (75) in my opinion my generation is totally worthless. They caused all the mess we're in today. I'm also a native Californian (SF). I remember when I lived there we had a large home, a loving family and I had plenty of friends. It took my Mom + may GOD have mercy on her soul + to relocate very much against my will to move to the south side of Chicago where I learned to fight, the fine are of being poor and marginalized.
makes a 71yr old want to 😢 even the narrator's voice is a welcome memory from the past... this has probably been said for thousands of years by the next lamenting generation. Heraclitus (500BC) said it best, You can't step in the same river twice.
You were lucky to see this. For us Millennials, we only know forced diversity, angry rap music, minorities taking away jobs, and struggling to even pay our bills on time.
It still is in some ways. I'm from the south but grew up in California from 8-16. Best years of my life,the 80s. Anyways,I went out there for a few months,just recently. Still a beautiful place. Something had changed,though. I was expecting it though. Things just aren't the same no matter where you go. I guess things change,nothing last forever. It's why I try as hard as I can to enjoy the moment. And I still have the memories
In the 40s and 50s California was God's Country. Then they turned the world on its side and all the loose ends ended up in Cali. And in less than 100 years they have ruined the whole State. It didn't help that we had characters like Ronald Regan and S.I. Hiakawa, Diane Feinstein, Nasty Nancy Pelosi, and her Nephew, who's at the top of the heap,Governor Gavin Gruesome... Trump 24 !!
I'm 76 and feel fortunate to grow up as a kid in 1950's SoCal. When the population was half what it is today and it was safe to walk to school and play outside with your friends! A much simpler time, to be sure!
@@anthonyfelker1712 Doubtful. The American public education system is garbage, and that's almost entirely the fault of Democrats. Blame JFK, who cynically created public sector unions in exchange for votes. Didn't affect Kennedys at all, since they ship their kids off to elite private schools. Also, California's problems have nothing to do with Reagan snd everything to do with the one party rule that exists today. The policies that have turned much of CA into an urban toilet are left-wing policies that RWR never advocated.
And 70's and 80's. Lol I don't think I saw a change till 90's. I miss it. I REALLY REALLY miss it. I hate technology. It's growing to fast and people are so dumb and greedy they won't ask the question if it should be made.
A fortunate baby boomer I was to be Born in Los Angeles in 56. My parents took me to all these places. So grateful to have lived there until 76. It really was like this. The stunningly varied geography, the ornate Spanish architecture, the sublime weather, and the limitless hope of the future of our nation. It was all there. It kills me to see it now with the crime, the homelessness, the dirtiness and ostentatiousness. Old Southern California, I miss you.
I was also born in LA in 56, and I left in August of 75, what a coincidence. But I totally agree, I miss the old Southern California when it was all Horse 🐎 Ranches, and Orange 🍊 groves...
Dementia is caused by mainly aluminum and some other heavy metals in our foods and air we breathe in. Think about our pots and pans we cook our food in.
Unfortunately, people with dementia even lose interest in watching TV or listening to the radio. They tend to remember old memories, but can't retain new ones. It's a tough one. Some moments they are sharper, and some moments they are totally lost. Try checking for candida infection and treat it...possibly with antibiotics. Candida is very common among women and it travels to the brain and makes things worse in the memory area. Try checking for that first and she will be sharper (until she gets it again). With our elders, since they suffer from incontinence, they are more prone to that sort of infections. Keep on top of those things, take her to regular doctor's visits, and don't neglect taking the urine/fecal samples that doctors request. If you give her antibiotics, they have to be taken for at least seven days, if you stop sooner, she may become immune to them in the future...
I lived in the Baldwin Hills Village Green and was 10 years old in 1953. What a fabulous time to grow up in Los Angeles. I moved to Santa Barbara California 1979, which was perfect timing. Pioneered a 20-acre avocado Citrus Farm and Toro Canyon which I sold in 2004. I had a dream live as an American. Doesn't look too good now for the future. I hope I'm wrong.
Friend of the family who was Dionne Warwick's manager lived in Village Green in the early 70's and that's when I met Whitney Houston her cousin when I was 7 years old. Of course at that time we were just 7 year old kids at a BBQ and I had no idea who she would become later. My grandmother lived in SB and we went there almost every weekend in the mid-late 70's. Used to go to the original Habit Burger in Goleta and the Goleta Drive-in. Also the Bowling alley at San Marcos Pass off of State Street..
@@RedBud315 thank you for the interesting report, we almost crossed paths. A classmate of mine from Dorothy High class of 1961, still lives in the Village Green. I last visited around 2014 and have posted several videos on UA-cam.
In the 50's to the 70's L.A. had tons of pollution. Watch all the old shows like Rockford File or Adam -12 and you will see it. Believe me I grew up eating the smog. People can say what they want about California but the strict emissions laws surely did save the skies because very time I visit now I see blue skies most of the time..
That is Honestly crazy ya really think about it smh the sky's bluer now than back then the must of thought the world was bout to end all that smog an LSD in 1960's/70 😅
I was born in LA County General Hospital in 1949. My parents had an apartment near Figueroa St. and Slauson Ave until I was two and my brother was one. We then moved to a small house near 5th Ave and Hyde Park. My parents told me that they paid $5,000 for it. I went to 59th Street Elementary School. I had friends of every race, religion and origin and everyone was equal in my eyes. I never thought about the differences as a little boy. It was a great time to be a kid. I remember street vendors of all manner of goods and services selling their wares as they walked or drove slowly on our quiet neighborhood streets. On Halloween a nice lady in the neighborhood gave a homemade caramel apple to every kid. This period in my life was the happiest. Sometimes I can’t believe that that kid was me.
@@TiffMcGiff Sorry for MY loss too, John. I live in 3rd world L.A. one of the country's most extremely overcrowded, overpriced toilet bowls, bar none. It's nothing like this.
@Bob Pierce it pisses me off when people say stuff like this. Yes LA isn’t great today but don’t call it third world, it’s still a paradise compared to real third world cities.
@@bobpierce115 it went downhill so fast. I've walked the streets recently and the whole city reeks of urine. Trash everywhere. It wasn't like that a few years ago.
@@adamgriffith-smith9106 Perhaps you haven't lived in L.A. for your entire life. While it may still be a paradise compared to real 3rd world cities, it's a faint, faint shadow of its former self.
@@k.t1000 Correction: NeoLiberal politicians (Republicans posing as Democrats) are sabotaging the state. If the right can't win over the hearts and minds of a populace, they employ slash-and-burn tactics. Same as Venezuela and Cuba.
Russell Pottenger; Cities and countries are like organisms...they grow, get old, crumble, and eventually are reborn. It's all part of a cycle. I was born in 1950, so I know what you're talking about. It is painful to look back, sometimes. I wish I could have given my kids the childhood I was blessed with then : )
but that means this means you were born mid 60ies, and a kid of the 70ies really, and part 80ies. How do you connect to the 50ies? That time was long gone by the time you were able to observe and take it all in.
@@OceanSwimmer I’m in 100% agreement with you. I guess my way of resolving the California issue is about two years ago I bought a small ranch in Big Bear 🐻. I guess my way of dealing with current California is to isolate myself in a smaller and for the most part a more conservative town
The year my aunt bought a new home on Orange Ave in Orange. For $4500 at 1% interest. We were in San Diego along Sunset near the beach. 25 cents for the zoo.
Some areas are more run down (San Bernardino, Long Beach, Tijuana), some are more or less the same (Wilshire, Pasadena albeit more upscale urban, Catalina, Palm Springs), and others are better (San Diego, Laguna Beach, Riverside).
@@dannhymir9678 there is a very, extremely, high unlike any other difference. Looking at a local later in current day shows little, looking at roads makes far the difference.
I was born there in 1951 in Los Angeles. I'm 72 now. I'm Cindy 👋 I remember the huge bunnies staged on Wilshire Blvd. Mom and I shopped at May Company on Wilshire Blvd, where I ate chocolate cigarettes and peppermint cigarettes at the candy area in May Company on the first level.
I lived in Burbank and Glendale in 1963. I loved Los Angeles then. It's gone now! Not the same place now. I sang at the Hollywood Bowl that year. I remember standing on that stage looking out. I spent alot of time at NBC studios in Burbank. Everything was exciting in those days.
I grew up in LA, lived there for 45 years, moved two years ago. The last 10 years in LA became almost unbearable because the traffic got so bad and everywhere was so overcrowded. I've been to every single place this films covers including the Ambassador Hotel. I sure miss it.
@ Yah I went to a rave party there in the early 90s. It was really strange. People were sneaking in through a back fence and the whole lobby was empty, but still had it's massive chandeliers. One of the rooms had a full DJ set up with people dancing. It was a strange night.
I left too, but mostly for a change and a job. I still miss California, but will not return to Southern California. I slowly saw the demise when I was there.
Aro Fol there are a lot of really nice places in California. It really is very scenic. You can literally ski and surf on the same day. You can see fields of the most fertile farmland on earth and be in the hottest desert the same day. You can visit a 300 year old church which is the foundation of California and Google’s campus in the matter of hours. There’s a lot of natural and man made landmarks to see. However, be ready to see very blatant displays of extreme poverty like homeless people camping on sidewalks. You’ll even see blatant drug use and public defecation. Places like Hollywood boulevard and San Francisco can be very grimey and downright trashy. I don’t want to discourage you. It’s not particularly dangerous; in fact, most parts are very safe. But be ready to have your vision of “perfection” shattered as soon as you leave the airport.
All Property Videos Dot Com with Don Wallace - Of course you would make a statement like that! “Those were the good old days!” So What do you in these days? What do you sell to people? Land that’s worth one fifth of what it is worth for 3 times the price? Ah, woooo... ‘The good ole days!’
When I was growing up in Oregon, I often thought about how cool, neat, it would be to live in California, on the beach. Wow! those were the days. Today I live in California and I wish I were somewhere else.
I live in the Central Valley right in the middle of San Francisco and LA and I don’t even like going to either because of how overcrowded both the south and north are .
LOL, tons of California people have moved to Oregon, so many that people in Oregon are pissed, including government officials. There's a video of a guy showing his vandalized car with CA license plates in Oregon. They spray painted "Go back to California" and other things like that with black paint. (On a white car.)
One of the most recognizable voices in the world, Art Gilmore narrated thousands of commercials, tv & radio shows and films from the 1930's to the 1990's. He was the announcer on the Red Skelton Show and Highway Patrol. He was very, very busy.
It is interesting, how bad you can miss something that you never had. I am 25 and live in Europe, never been to America. But every single time i see pics, videos or movies like that, about the 40's-50's American life, always have a strange feeling and start crying. Its like, I used to live in America in this beautiful times. If i had a time machine, Id like to live there. :(
@Chuck Norris I don't know which bit of Europe you mean, but much of Europe has much better preserved history than the USA. Prague is a good candidate for the most beautiful city in the world... Lisbon too.
It’s crazy to think that all the older people shown throughout the video were born in the late 1800s. That’s insane that they witnessed so much change in so little time.
Also the Scientologists harassing you, following you home, poisoning your pets, committing arson, illegally imprisoning people in the big blue building, slave labor squads, and various other illegal shit.
@@KandiKlover I believe you on that, because the other day I told some lady in front of the Scientology building that I wasn't interested, and she got totally triggered and her cronies surrounded me and saying how I was wrong and shit. XD
clarkewi you were so lucky, I keep asking my self why was I born in 1999 and not in the 1940s, That was a wonderful time to live. I love watching old shows from the 1960s, like The Patty Duke show, Mr.Ed, Lamarin, and movies like Lilies Of The Field. To bad I can’t time travel...
The cops are a direct result of all that culturally rich diversity because history has shown us time and time again that different races, religions and cultures get along great especially when they don't even speak the same languages and their Gods say that all other religions are false because Everyone knows that diversity not unity is what makes a community and nation come together. This is sarcasm for the millions of you reading this that don't understand American humor, because my government has failed it's citizens and forced this Liberal social experiment that history had shown will end badly.
@@MrLeonightis I don't think Hal's comment was a jab against cops but I could be wrong. I believe it is an observation because of all the democrat-controlled cities have suffered these problems I listed in my two comments and now have to have a large law enforcement presence to keep the forced peace.
For telling the truth? He was doing a parody of the movie "Its a wonderful life" where Jimmy Stewart gets to see his life if he had not been born,,,,,,,,,, Are you saying America was not better then? Are you saying diversity PC open borders gender confusion improved America? You are sick to think Today is better @@88ashjen
My wife's grandma and grandpa found each other in LA around this time. They got married in Tijuana so it's really cool you showed it. She recently passed away so I watch old videos of LA trying to imagine what their life was like for them. They are truly amazing people, really unique and both are my idols. It's pretty amazing to see the LA they knew. They left LA in the early 70's but still use their old address as some of their passwords so I imagine LA then was magical time for them then.
I grew up here, and it's shit. Liberals fucked it up by taxing the shit out of people and not giving two shits about the tax payer or the needs of the state. Poorly managed for to long by idiots.
These comments are super interesting. It's pretty sad that I studied there for 4 years and had no clue that it was a Democratic state. Obviously I wasn't a voter so I did not pay much attention but I understand the frustration from you all completely.
When a person has few obligations and money anywhere can be livable to a point... It is annoying so many foreigners come here use our resources and return nothing.. Leftists have turned America into a crime filled third world toilet.. More taking than paying taxes... Sanctuary cities are hell holes ..
This was the California of my grandparents and in-laws . My father in law got his Masters degree in Physics from UCLA in 1952 . My uncle worked for Ford as an electrical engineer . I have lots of great memories of summers in LA in the early '70's . The old folks are gone which is sad but good. They would be sad to see it now.
Yep, I was born in 1953, when Los Angeles was beautiful........now it's a crap hole, putting it nicely......glad I grew up in the time where LA was the place to be.....what a shame it's become.......
Imagine living in 1953 Southern California. Huge open low-population areas with low crime, big affordable houses, and post WW2 roaring economy in a peaceful country. This was the true golden age of life there. Much before and there wasn't much infrastructure yet. Much after and it became a hell hole.
WP SN - You’re Right. Not just Cal. But the whole nation! We were on top of the world. We achieved this by Crushing our competition in WW2! Japan and Germany. That’s why life was luxurious and wonderful then, especially if you were white! Don’t get me wrong. That would have been a wonderful time to live! I was not born until ‘58. By the time I was coming of age that was all changing. Our fathers didn’t give a thought about the future. I joined the Marines in ‘80 and spent a lot of time in S. Cal. It was a CESSPOOL then! A wonderful place will SHINE for all of our Grandkids to ENJOY!! RIP America!!
WP SN - I’m sorry, I’m not picking on you. I’m just saying; the America then, unfortunately is gone. Our economy was booming. We didn’t have to rebuild America. We didn’t have our country dismantled! Much of Asia was tore up! Had to be rebuilt, and we had a hand in that. Europe was DEVASTATED!!!!! USA lost 300,000 lives lost in the war. Now that’s a lot men!! No doubt! Russia lost over 24 MILLION!! Most of Europe was under rationing until the late ‘50’s! Our economy was booming. Rebuilding their country’s, having a monopoly on the auto market. How they must have suffered! I’m not un-America. I’m very America! I served 12 years in the Marine Infantry. Been to many foreign countries. Went through a War myself. Nowadays, nobody even cares. I’m glad you people had it so good. I think time has changed things. I don’t care much for myself. I’m just heartbroken for what my kids and grandkids have to face. Sorry, I meant no offense.
Only a few of those places are left around there. The LACMA building and what is now the Miracle Mile are still the same many of those buildings on the opposite side were torn down in 2008 and are now condos.The Sunset Strip not very recognizable lot of the buildings are not even there any more.
It is still like this. They filmed stuff in the nice neighborhoods that are still nice areas, so it isn't that different. Except for buildings that are gone, like Sunset & Vine, where the CBS & NBC Radio Buildings being home makes it look VERY different!
@@etherealtb6021 Since this picture many of the buildings that were there had been torn down. They built new buildings with businesses on the bottom and condos on the upper floors after 2008. Much of a few historic but smaller businesses are there like the diner across the street has no business but outside lights at night still give it som life. This is the portion of thr Miracle Mile at the Wilshire/Fairfax Blvd area. They redesigned the Peterson car museum across the street as well. I used to live in this area for many years until 2 years ago moved to San Gabriel. They have moved some of the businesses from Beverly Hills like the BMW dealership and Genwa Korean restaurant a few years back. I remember the older buildings they torn down nearly 15 years ago.
@@etherealtb6021 Much of Vine and Sunset still have the old look and the mid street Fountain Ave. still have that genuine look. It just saddened me that Aomeba Records. relocated. Very good places to eat and a lot to see.
@@josegomez-lj1xp Food was fresh from the San Juaquin valley. People didn't sit all day at work and eat five or six times a day like they do today. They burned far more colories than they consumed. Sugar wasn't consumed nearly as much as it is today. Kids played outside, not inside doing nothing but eating and watching television, and then later video games.
It will never be again if mass migration isn't reversed and leftists are not removed from government. These years were products of a homogenous population for the most part.
@@andybaldman its the opposite, theirs too much! Shortages are going to be a normal thing and their will be wars/conflicts over fresh water. and everything in between.
Funny I live here and I want to leave. It isn't what this film portrays it to be and hasn't been in my 40 years of life although it has gotten way worse and the last 15 years or so.
yes, keep that same attitude! we do not need any more people LOL. yes, it is horrible here and the weather is horrible nope gross, please do not come. - Sincerely, Every native Southern Californian
Mexico lost it in a war. Have you ever read a book without pictures. Can somebody at home help you with the big words? Spain stole the land first and the gold from the Indians and made them slaves.. Nobody owes you anything I think its ironic you attack whites on a computer and internet created by them LOL They create everything you use.... USA the Moon Landing Latin America The Taco . @@gsxss3741
No tattoos! No jeans below their asses either no human fecies on the sidewalks. One question Where the hell did we go wrong? Are we living in the same world?
I was on the verge of writing this comment myself. I see someone was thinking 3 months ahead of me. I first visited Los Angeles in 1983, February. Los Angeles in 1983, though not like this video, more closely resembled this video than it does today. I yearned to live there. No longer though. What a damned shame. Best geography, best climate, and elected officials have run the place into the ground.
I was born in LA in 1955 and grew up in So Cal. It was paradise. The smog would get bad sometimes, but emission standards cleared up the air. it became overcrowded; the environment was degraded, and the droughts and wildfires kept getting worse.
When we'd go to Disneyland in the very early '60's , what I remember most are the orange groves starting just above San Clemente & surrounding Disney. Every few years we'd go & by the time I got married in '74 most of the groves were gone & the smell from tire manufacturers could be smelled.
Sad to see how badly it has deteriorated in 60 years. Look at the people, and look at how clean it was. Cali would have literally been a dream-come-true place to live back then - what a tragedy that it's become what it is today.
When this video was made we were literally in the middle of committing eugenics on black, Latina and indigenous women. Please don’t glorify my country. This is nothing but propaganda to cover up the corruption and state sanctioned death.
@@andybaldman Yeah man, things have really gone downhill since 1953 when we had... segregation, Jim Crow, and legal sex discrimination? Is that what we're celebrating here?
@@mkhedart0mt0avari Perhaps we could celebrate your cherrypicking? One must look at the sum total of things that have improved and declined to determine the net result to society. Some things have gotten better. And a lot have gotten worse.
@@andybaldman Oh, there are certainly things that are worse today (whether or not they outweigh having fewer lynchings and giving black Americans in the south the vote is a different question). Tell me which ones you're thinking of, though.
Crowded, Dirty? Pretty sure all big/major cities are. Expensive? Maybe to some people. I mean， who wouldn't want to live or even visit in a city like LA or NY? To make it less crowded and more luxurious they have to raise prices up to keep it classy. Only selective people can live here. For example, is happening right now in some cuties like Boyle Heights. They are kicking the low income/minority out. Boyle Heights is near Downtown LA, there are a lot of changes going on, like it always has been, and always will. This will attract more tourist. What do you expect? People from across the world would give anything to step foot in Hollywood/Los Angeles. Be grateful if you do live here.
@1A 2A You need to be a little bit more elaborate in your terms: it's corruption that has turned the left into what it is now. You're definitely not from California. We should have kept it sunny and increased immigration laws for foreign illegals AND fellow Americans from other states.
I stayed in LA for few days in 1953 on my way to Purdue at Adams and Western. The freeways weren't even open. After graduating from Purdue in 1955, I return to work for Lockheed Burbank and lived at Hollywood Way and Olive in Toluca Lake. I left LA in 1972 after working for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton. Those were the ending of the Golden Years of LA.
Jane Goodall Globalist scums are at the forefront they make money wrecking countries boarders and make people’s lives hell with currency manipulations and moving corporations overseas hollowing out county’s economy and standard of living
A lot of those buildings are all gone now. Hollywood Blvd. is full of annoying and pestering tour guides. Also this is definitely before 1955 since Disneyland is not mentioned.
Boom Dos I know man. I just for some reason was thinking (at the time I commented that) that it was a documentary on Los Angeles since that’s how I found this video.
@@snakepliskin23 --- The only hassle back then was getting up and turning the channel from 2 to 4 to 5 to 7 to 9 to 11 to 13 and then back again. Most of them barely came in.
gordon the fact that you’re complaining about tv says everything about our generation. People were too busy making money and building shit, having a good time making the most of their days and ate healthy.. Not sitting down in front of a screen all day eating cookies and cupcakes picking their butts lol
Who's watching this video in 2020 the year of the Coronavirus pandemic. Trust me, Southern California doesn't look anything like the movie we just watched. 🙁
yeah i remember visiting in 2015. its pretty sad what it is now. venice beach needs a four wheeler with a comb to keep the surface of the beach clean. A homeless man throwing trash out on the walkpath and yelling toxic shit at people. the building all super old. i wish i had a time machine.
The greed for cheap labour ment you create a poor under class, and slums, without a adequate social security net from the early years of life means people fall through the social fabric and become destitute, once people reach the critical point of having no pride in their community the rot sets in.
My parents moved to Montebello from Denver after the war. My dad worked for the railroad as did his dad and brother. I was born in 1953. Souther California was a wonderful place to grow up in the 50's. We'd go to Huntington Beach and the San Gabriel Mountains on the weekends. Sometimes when we went to the beach on Highway 39 we'd stop at Knott's Berry Farm for chicken if it wasn't too crowded. We went to Disneyland for the first time in 1956 and at least once every year after. My parents moved to a new housing tract in Whittier in 1963 that was built in an old orange orchard. Every house had a couple of orange trees in the back. My parents planted a few palm trees that they were proud of. Relatives would always stay at our place when they came to California for their summer vacation. Then we'd get to go to Hollywood, Huntington's Library, the Arboretum, the museums in Exposition Park, sometimes Catalina and always Knott's and Disneyland. When I was a teenager just about every rock band you ever heard of played in LA. Tickets were usually around $6 so I got to see all the greats. Steppenwolf played at my high school for an assembly and Queen did a free concert at my college right outside the library. I bought a sailboat and learned to surf. I drove a VW bug but also bought a Ford Econoline to cruise Whittier Blvd. to meet girls. When I got married LA was getting crowded and housing expensive so we moved north of Sacramento, bought 5 acres by a Lake Oroville and built a house. Our kids grew up country kids. We've had horses and dogs since then and will be here for the rest of our lives. California has been a sweet place to grow up and then raise a family. California is more than a place, it's also a state of mind.
@@hermanprez I remember doing all those things as a kid. I loved the natural history museum in exposition park and the planetarium in Griffith Park. We would drive to Mt. Wilson or Arrowhead. Loved the Knott’s boysenberry jam and the pies at Dupars. Loved the peacocks at the arboretum and seeing the floats after the Rose Parade. I lived in San Gabriel and then Corona Del Mar. I got to live down in Newport when it was just cow fields. I got to go into LA proper to visit both sets of my grandparents who resided there. I’d go to the farmers market and out to Santa Monica for a Sunday Drive. What a great time in paradise. I was born inLA in 1956. I lived many places in the US as an adult and finally settled in Brooklyn NY. I guess I wanted to see it ALL.
I was born in the Good Sam hospital in 54 and my sister in 53. It’s weird seeing how much LA has grown since then. Sad that all the orange groves, avocado groves, and sandlots where we played ball are all gone. Good thing the sequoias, redwoods, desert, mountains, and beautiful coast is still there!
@@Kinkle_Z that so cool! Why is it that they always removed tonsils back then? Mine were taken out in 58 only because my sister’s needed removing. Like a 2 for 1 deal! Your Mom was at a good hospital! It’s where they took Bobby Kennedy to when shot.
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent It is diversity that led to segregation.. Humans have a tribal nature. Diversity has been the cause of so much suffering and turmoil in America. Look at the horrible racial tensions and problems we are facing today. That kind of thing doesn't happen in ethnically homogenous societies. Unity is a far greater strength than diversity.. Some of the least diverse countries in the world have the highest quality of life.. Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Japan, etc. are consistently ranked the happiest, safest, and most prosperous countries on Earth..
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath That's cause they have strict rules and guidence. Most of the population has a living wage and access to high paying jobs. Things that was stripped from US citizens back in the 80s during the Reagan era. To fix it. We need to destroy the elements of the Reagan era.
Wow that’s the California we were all sold! Beautiful! Crazy the bit about tijuana. It looked so nice back then and crazy to think that there was no border and you could just walk across and back like it was just another neighborhood. So different to what we see today. Really makes you think how little we notice change as it occurs in the present but throughout the years those changes amount to huge differences. Just makes me sad to think how bad it could get 30-40 years from now
There was a border but if you looked American you could be waved through without issue. My parents use to take us to Tijuana for day trips. We would park in the US and walk across. By the 1990s, Tijuana was indistinguishable from downtown LA. No longer exotic.
imagine growing up in 1950s-1970s California. a bunch of open space still so you smell the citrus groves in the air, not much traffic, cheap homes, jobs in basically any and every industry (military, aerospace, car/tire manufacturing, agriculture, trade/shipping, tourism, entertainment, etc. etc.), places aren't crowded, everything looks new, optimistic outlook on life, the state, and country in general, etc. I really envy the people that got to enjoy the California of back then. started changing in the 1980s. held mostly steady until the early 2010s, then started falling hard in the mid to late 2010s with an absolute collapse happening in 2020 that hasnt stopped.
The downfall of America happened in 2015 when a fat piece of shi came down an escalator and said he wanted to be president and a bunch of old people who watch TV all day and night voted him in .
Somewhere down there Airstream trailers were being made. The same trailers are STILL on the road today. Mind blowing they made things to last. So I bought one.
May god be with us all in Southern California during these earthquake times, and god forbid anything serious happens. Living In San Bernardino county... God bless you all brothers and sisters 💙
@@organenthusiast5803 Could you? There was no cell phone, no internet, the cold war, the end of the Korean war. Poor healthcare, smaller TVs, and it was before the sexual revolution.. However nobody got stabbed on Hollywood Blvd in those days, and drug usage was much lower..
@@MrCooper83 My Grandfather went over there around that time ( I'm from the Uk) he always raved about the place. How open everyone was, the beautiful women, the low cost of living in one of the world's most beautiful places on Earth. Sexual revolution I think has back fired in many ways. Huge number of people in their 40's never having been married now. ( not that I'm in favour of oppressing women into traditional gender roles though ) Internet...smaller tvs well people would have had more fun outdoors and were undoubtedly healthier atleast mentally speaking. I take your points but isn't there a part of you that would if you could?
I grew up on Lake Erie.... but near Cedar Point... I wish I would have been in SoCal in the 80's. I didn't move to LA until the 00's and moved out to the desert after a short time in San Diego as well. I'm thinking of moving back to the Rust Belt. LA is becoming a sunny Detroit with more homeless. California has been ruined.
Hearing all these cities that once had these amazing events. This is beyond sad. Can't go anywhere near Hollywood or even Pomona these days. Can't even go to Riverside or SB counties and beyond because the cancer has spread that far. I am sorry to see things have gotten to this point in California.
This video shows how sadly society has fallen. Look at how beautiful Southern California was back then. Take a look at Tijuana at 22:02 it was so quaint and clean. Americans and Mexicans of the 1940s and 1950s were just classier people. Crossing the border with no passport issues as the narrator says. Those were the days.
+Mel Perry I guess when a person is triggered and doesn't have a substantive argument to offer, their incessant and moronic use of the term "white trash" shouldn't come as a surprise.
Pelon liberalism caused all the chaoes in each country, at that time Cops in Mexico where honorable men, after the great liberal socialist agenda took over everyone became a drug addict, crook bastard
Jhonny2guns🔫🔫 An you can prove this by doing what? Nothing you have nothing but fear and insecurity. punk little bitch Mexico is not a Socialist country dumbass
Despite what people say, Los Angeles is a walkable city, especially in these older neighborhoods. This was before car culture really penetrated every aspect of American society. That has a LOT to do with the obesity problem.
Jim...I was touched by your 1 year ago message...So generous of spirit!...I don't know if you are "still here"...Either was...Bless your soul!...Bless your family!❤
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1953 is the year my father moved to Los Angeles from upstate N.Y. He was 20 years old. My father got a job roofing houses with one if his Air Force buddies. His name was Dick Lerock. On the job Roofing a house one day a 18 year old beautiful red headed young lady came out of the house bringing my father and Lerock each a cold glass of Tea. That young ladies name was Velda Mooney. She was to be my mother. They were married 19 months later. My sister Kelly was first born in 1962, then in 1965 I came along. My parents worked hard, bought a house and remained married till 2015 when my father sucomed to Lung cancer. My mother is still with me and I make sure my mother knows I am thankful to her for giving me life and I love her more then anything in the world. I myself. I am doing OK. I caught terminal cancer at the age of 53. Current 56 I am still here. Loving my mother, my wife, my 2 children and my 5 grand children. God bless you all. I hope your life is beautiful and full of love. 😍
Awwww!
What a perfect marriage honestly, staying together that long until the end is true loyalty that you don't see often. You're all lucky you got to grow up in peak LA when everything was fresh and new. Condolences to your father.
God bless you. Wonderfully put.
Ivermectin it will cure cancer, as we have found cancer is a parasite. You can now get ivermectin in pill form rather than a dog dewormer, but it's up to you. It doesn't hurt you to take it and it will help you cure your cancer. It's a part of a protocol. Good luck. I hope that you get a chance to see this and able to help yourself I was born there in LA 1955 lived there all my life no idea I was living in hell but will get it changed around back to the 1950s here we Come.
What a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing it with us 😊❤️
I was 9 years old when this film was made. I am practically in tears seeing the Los Angeles of my childhood.
I wasn’t born yet. Depending on what month this was, I was in my mom’s womb! Lol
9yo in 1953.
Means that you're born in 1944.
Which means that you have now 77 years old. Wow 😃
You're lucky you're NOT a Boomer, coz they ruined this magnificent city :(
@@mattheweuqnicurzeid7154 Liberals have ruined every city
@@mattheweuqnicurzeid7154 I totally agree with you, sir. Though I am a Boomer (75) in my opinion my generation is totally worthless. They caused all the mess we're in today. I'm also a native Californian (SF). I remember when I lived there we had a large home, a loving family and I had plenty of friends. It took my Mom + may GOD have mercy on her soul + to relocate very much against my will to move to the south side of Chicago where I learned to fight, the fine are of being poor and marginalized.
makes a 71yr old want to 😢
even the narrator's voice is a welcome memory from the past... this has probably been said for thousands of years by the next lamenting generation.
Heraclitus (500BC) said it best, You can't step in the same river twice.
You were lucky to see this. For us Millennials, we only know forced diversity, angry rap music, minorities taking away jobs, and struggling to even pay our bills on time.
California was an absolute paradise.
"was" being the key word
It still is in some ways. I'm from the south but grew up in California from 8-16. Best years of my life,the 80s. Anyways,I went out there for a few months,just recently. Still a beautiful place. Something had changed,though. I was expecting it though. Things just aren't the same no matter where you go. I guess things change,nothing last forever. It's why I try as hard as I can to enjoy the moment. And I still have the memories
In the 40s and 50s California was God's Country. Then they turned the world on its side and all the loose ends ended up in Cali.
And in less than 100 years they have ruined the whole State. It didn't help that we had characters like Ronald Regan and S.I. Hiakawa, Diane Feinstein, Nasty Nancy Pelosi, and her Nephew, who's at the top of the heap,Governor Gavin Gruesome...
Trump 24 !!
California was a paradise when it was White.
Now it’s a junkyard
I'm 76 and feel fortunate to grow up as a kid in 1950's SoCal. When the population was half what it is today and it was safe to walk to school and play outside with your friends! A much simpler time, to be sure!
The 50’s were a great time to grow up in SoCal. It’s been all “downhill” since then.
You got that right
My condolences to those of you who didn't grow up in So Cal in the 50's, 60's and 70's.
Who was most responsible for the destruction during the 1980ties? I would have a talk with that guy!
Im good rn actually
@@luxembourger On a state level, Jerry Brown. In SoCal specifically, nearly every Democrat who held local office.
luxembourger - How about taking a look at Ronald Reagan!!!!!!
@@anthonyfelker1712 Doubtful. The American public education system is garbage, and that's almost entirely the fault of Democrats. Blame JFK, who cynically created public sector unions in exchange for votes. Didn't affect Kennedys at all, since they ship their kids off to elite private schools. Also, California's problems have nothing to do with Reagan snd everything to do with the one party rule that exists today. The policies that have turned much of CA into an urban toilet are left-wing policies that RWR never advocated.
I swear this guy and that music was in every film they showed us in grade school in the '60s.
And 70's and 80's. Lol I don't think I saw a change till 90's. I miss it. I REALLY REALLY miss it. I hate technology. It's growing to fast and people are so dumb and greedy they won't ask the question if it should be made.
Art Gilmore, I think.
I've heard it in other railway promo video's at least three others
lavapix “Los Angle-ess “
i thought i was the only one that noticed
A fortunate baby boomer I was to be Born in Los Angeles in 56. My parents took me to all these places. So grateful to have lived there until 76. It really was like this. The stunningly varied geography, the ornate Spanish architecture, the sublime weather, and the limitless hope of the future of our nation. It was all there. It kills me to see it now with the crime, the homelessness, the dirtiness and ostentatiousness. Old Southern California, I miss you.
I was also born in LA in 56, and I left in August of 75, what a coincidence. But I totally agree, I miss the old Southern California when it was all Horse 🐎 Ranches, and Orange 🍊 groves...
It’s very sad what the Millennial generation did to California and the country as a whole
I agree, “old Southern Cal I miss you”.
My grandma was a teenager in LA during this time. She's suffering dementia, so I'm hoping this will spark any long term memories.
There's a collection of books that have old photos of different parts of L.A. Fascinating to look through.
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Dementia is caused by mainly aluminum and some other heavy metals in our foods and air we breathe in. Think about our pots and pans we cook our food in.
I hope you and your grandma are doing well.
Unfortunately, people with dementia even lose interest in watching TV or listening to the radio. They tend to remember old memories, but can't retain new ones. It's a tough one. Some moments they are sharper, and some moments they are totally lost. Try checking for candida infection and treat it...possibly with antibiotics. Candida is very common among women and it travels to the brain and makes things worse in the memory area. Try checking for that first and she will be sharper (until she gets it again). With our elders, since they suffer from incontinence, they are more prone to that sort of infections. Keep on top of those things, take her to regular doctor's visits, and don't neglect taking the urine/fecal samples that doctors request. If you give her antibiotics, they have to be taken for at least seven days, if you stop sooner, she may become immune to them in the future...
I lived in the Baldwin Hills Village Green and was 10 years old in 1953. What a fabulous time to grow up in Los Angeles. I moved to Santa Barbara California 1979, which was perfect timing. Pioneered a 20-acre avocado Citrus Farm and Toro Canyon which I sold in 2004. I had a dream live as an American. Doesn't look too good now for the future. I hope I'm wrong.
Friend of the family who was Dionne Warwick's manager lived in Village Green in the early 70's and that's when I met Whitney Houston her cousin when I was 7 years old. Of course at that time we were just 7 year old kids at a BBQ and I had no idea who she would become later. My grandmother lived in SB and we went there almost every weekend in the mid-late 70's. Used to go to the original Habit Burger in Goleta and the Goleta Drive-in. Also the Bowling alley at San Marcos Pass off of State Street..
@@RedBud315 thank you for the interesting report, we almost crossed paths. A classmate of mine from Dorothy High class of 1961, still lives in the Village Green. I last visited around 2014 and have posted several videos on UA-cam.
It will take a miracle for once beloved state to be great again.
Born and raised in Los Angeles in 1998. Dad was born in 1953 and I envy the era he was able to grow up in. In sunny California
In the 50's to the 70's L.A. had tons of pollution. Watch all the old shows like Rockford File or Adam -12 and you will see it. Believe me I grew up eating the smog. People can say what they want about California but the strict emissions laws surely did save the skies because very time I visit now I see blue skies most of the time..
@RedBud315 You sure are right, I remember my eyes burning in the summer time and we would have smog alerts and have to stay inside at school
@@daemickey wtf
That is Honestly crazy ya really think about it smh the sky's bluer now than back then the must of thought the world was bout to end all that smog an LSD in 1960's/70 😅
If he was white maybe
I was born in LA County General Hospital in 1949. My parents had an apartment near Figueroa St. and Slauson Ave until I was two and my brother was one. We then moved to a small house near 5th Ave and Hyde Park. My parents told me that they paid $5,000 for it. I went to 59th Street Elementary School. I had friends of every race, religion and origin and everyone was equal in my eyes. I never thought about the differences as a little boy. It was a great time to be a kid. I remember street vendors of all manner of goods and services selling their wares as they walked or drove slowly on our quiet neighborhood streets. On Halloween a nice lady in the neighborhood gave a homemade caramel apple to every kid. This period in my life was the happiest. Sometimes I can’t believe that that kid was me.
Where and when my mother was raised..She would cry to see it now.
Skip Ad sorry for your loss.
@@TiffMcGiff Sorry for MY loss too, John. I live in 3rd world L.A. one of the country's most extremely overcrowded, overpriced toilet bowls, bar none. It's nothing like this.
@Bob Pierce it pisses me off when people say stuff like this. Yes LA isn’t great today but don’t call it third world, it’s still a paradise compared to real third world cities.
@@bobpierce115 it went downhill so fast. I've walked the streets recently and the whole city reeks of urine. Trash everywhere. It wasn't like that a few years ago.
@@adamgriffith-smith9106 Perhaps you haven't lived in L.A. for your entire life. While it may still be a paradise compared to real 3rd world cities, it's a faint, faint shadow of its former self.
I live 30 miles south of LA/ Hollywood. The place is literally a dump. Junkies and homeless everywhere, it’s so sad.
Not enough housing.
@@robertthomas2601 *Affordable housing
Robert Thomas what's the matter ? Does the truth hurt ?
@@k.t1000 Correction: NeoLiberal politicians (Republicans posing as Democrats) are sabotaging the state. If the right can't win over the hearts and minds of a populace, they employ slash-and-burn tactics. Same as Venezuela and Cuba.
@@k.t1000 ----- Every precept you hold dear was once called a liberal one.
That L.A. is gone. And so is the Santa Fe railway.
Santa Fe is still there. The old trains still run. Drive along Valley Blvd in Lincoln Heights or Washington Blvd toward Commerce
@@GeneralZapta213 The big railway now is BNSF -- merged Burlington Northern with, Santa Fe
@@mitchyoung8791 they still run Diesel locomotives marked Santa Fe
@@GeneralZapta213 Not only that but BNSF's yard in Barstow also has Santa Fe era freight engines - and also former Burlington Northern at times.
@@GeneralZapta213 Doesn't matter. The Santa Fe RR is gone.
Of all the places to be born and raised. It wasn't lost on me how fortunate I was to be born in Santa Monica CA.
I’m a native born Californian of 59 years.
I couldn’t even get halfway through the 25 minutes. It’s too depressing.
Russell Pottenger; Cities and countries are like organisms...they grow, get old, crumble, and eventually are reborn. It's all part of a cycle.
I was born in 1950, so I know what you're talking about.
It is painful to look back, sometimes.
I wish I could have given my kids the childhood I was blessed with then : )
Russell Pottenger 🙁😢 sad
but that means this means you were born mid 60ies, and a kid of the 70ies really, and part 80ies. How do you connect to the 50ies? That time was long gone by the time you were able to observe and take it all in.
@@OceanSwimmer
I’m in 100% agreement with you.
I guess my way of resolving the California issue is about two years ago I bought a small ranch in Big Bear 🐻.
I guess my way of dealing with current California is to isolate myself in a smaller and for the most part a more conservative town
The year my aunt bought a new home on Orange Ave in Orange. For $4500 at 1% interest. We were in San Diego along Sunset near the beach. 25 cents for the zoo.
I'd love to see a 2020 version recreating the exact scenes in current form.
Bunch of homeless set ups
Yea me too, but with honesty not the fantasy version Garcetti would show.
Some areas are more run down (San Bernardino, Long Beach, Tijuana), some are more or less the same (Wilshire, Pasadena albeit more upscale urban, Catalina, Palm Springs), and others are better (San Diego, Laguna Beach, Riverside).
@@dannhymir9678 there is a very, extremely, high unlike any other difference. Looking at a local later in current day shows little, looking at roads makes far the difference.
@@artdecotimes2942 I'm sorry what?
I was born there in 1951 in Los Angeles. I'm 72 now. I'm Cindy 👋 I remember the huge bunnies staged on Wilshire Blvd. Mom and I shopped at May Company on Wilshire Blvd, where I ate chocolate cigarettes and peppermint cigarettes at the candy area in May Company on the first level.
People really took pride in how they dressed and carried themselves back then unlike today
Oh please. Fashion is 100% arbitrary.
too many transients, people that don't pay taxes, etc. Few care about the place they are in
@Sapere Aude Are you in a cult? On drugs? Trolling?
maga
They moved in lmaoooo
It'll never be this nice again
Thanks to you guys: “IT WILL NOT!”
White*
DJ Rodriguez Americans not Russian traitors.
Thanks to the 1940s Republicans who destroyed neighborhoods to build cheap housing and freeways.
@@Furtivo95 dumb ass thats the stupidest thing youve ever said.
I lived in Burbank and Glendale in 1963. I loved Los Angeles then. It's gone now! Not the same place now. I sang at the Hollywood Bowl that year. I remember standing on that stage looking out. I spent alot of time at NBC studios in Burbank. Everything was exciting in those days.
racist sundown towns til very recently! 🙄
I grew up in Glendale and Burbank too in the 60s & 70s so grateful for the freedom and fun we had❤
Not only is it exceptionally beautiful, it is clean. The people are clean, well-dressed and mannerly.
it IS a train-produced travel promo film. Keep that in mind.
You forgot to mention their skin color
So beautiful before the Democrats ruined it.
mayo monkeys@@KaseeSmith
You think there were no ill-mannered people then?
0:44 Laughing at the nice new freeway with very few cars. Today you'd see denser traffic than that at 3AM
I grew up in LA, lived there for 45 years, moved two years ago. The last 10 years in LA became almost unbearable because the traffic got so bad and everywhere was so overcrowded. I've been to every single place this films covers including the Ambassador Hotel. I sure miss it.
I hope you cashed out your real estate. You could live anywhere like a king
@ Yah I went to a rave party there in the early 90s. It was really strange. People were sneaking in through a back fence and the whole lobby was empty, but still had it's massive chandeliers. One of the rooms had a full DJ set up with people dancing. It was a strange night.
@ you mean illegals
I left too, but mostly for a change and a job. I still miss California, but will not return to Southern California. I slowly saw the demise when I was there.
@ you know what's crazy is that I go to that school, its literally right across from me as I am writing this comment.
Probably the best quality of life ever, post WW2 LA had it all.
@@garyoakham9723 shut up fool! Dumbass comment.
Good union jobs.
@Jeppo Jinx well arent you special!!!
@Jeppo Jinx fuck you bitch!! You so dumb you call me a free mason. Stupid ass fool!!!
A picture (film) is worth a thousand words.
I lived part of my childhood in Southern California and it was the best memories of my life. I would never want to live there now.
why may i ask
When people think of California, this is what they imagine. Far cry from today’s reality.
JDM id still like to go see it. I’m in Europe and only saw the east coast of the USA so far. Is California really so bad? Even for tourist?
Aro Fol there are a lot of really nice places in California. It really is very scenic. You can literally ski and surf on the same day. You can see fields of the most fertile farmland on earth and be in the hottest desert the same day. You can visit a 300 year old church which is the foundation of California and Google’s campus in the matter of hours. There’s a lot of natural and man made landmarks to see. However, be ready to see very blatant displays of extreme poverty like homeless people camping on sidewalks. You’ll even see blatant drug use and public defecation. Places like Hollywood boulevard and San Francisco can be very grimey and downright trashy. I don’t want to discourage you. It’s not particularly dangerous; in fact, most parts are very safe. But be ready to have your vision of “perfection” shattered as soon as you leave the airport.
JDM nice thanks for the info. I guess I’ll still try to visit when travel is back to normal, I think the good things far outweigh any bad 👍🏻
So in your opinion everything's supposed to stay the same
1990758 impossible. Change is inevitable. But at the very minimum it should not degenerate to filth like California has.
Back when Southern California was great. The best place to grow up in. I could cry when I see it all today.
Haha what about the zoot suit riot ? Was that great ?
Me too. I lived there for a while as a child. Best memories of my life.
The traffic is so light! Those were the days. You can feel the sense of unlimited potential and wonder. Fascinating.
All Property Videos Dot Com with Don Wallace - Of course you would make a statement like that! “Those were the good old days!” So What do you in these days? What do you sell to people? Land that’s worth one fifth of what it is worth for 3 times the price? Ah, woooo... ‘The good ole days!’
When I was growing up in Oregon, I often thought about how cool, neat, it would be to live in California, on the beach. Wow! those were the days. Today I live in California and I wish I were somewhere else.
I live in the Central Valley right in the middle of San Francisco and LA and I don’t even like going to either because of how overcrowded both the south and north are .
Is it bad now?
LOL, tons of California people have moved to Oregon, so many that people in Oregon are pissed, including government officials. There's a video of a guy showing his vandalized car with CA license plates in Oregon. They spray painted "Go back to California" and other things like that with black paint. (On a white car.)
Oregon coast is magical. There’s no comparison to California coast.
Oregon is a leftist dump@@SFVnative
One of the most recognizable voices in the world, Art Gilmore narrated thousands of commercials, tv & radio shows and films from the 1930's to the 1990's. He was the announcer on the Red Skelton Show and Highway Patrol. He was very, very busy.
Wish someone had taught him to say "Los Angeles."
It would be funny if someone with his voice impression could spoof this today.
Thank you for naming the narrator! Now we know the name of the guy whose voice was everywhere in that era!
This is when the average person could actually afford to go live in California.
Thank the people who move here to chase their non existant dreams lol
@@marthamelkamu463 You mad cuz he told the truth lmao. There will no America real soon based on all the bullshit that's happening.
Zoetrope Luck it’s true
Bushido Code lmaooooo
User 16243 Cali a state of money .. if you can’t make money here . You not meant to be here
It is interesting, how bad you can miss something that you never had.
I am 25 and live in Europe, never been to America.
But every single time i see pics, videos or movies like that, about the 40's-50's American life, always have a strange feeling and start crying. Its like, I used to live in America in this beautiful times.
If i had a time machine, Id like to live there. :(
We feel that way about Europe, with all the beautiful architecture and rich culture!
Me too ✋
@Chuck Norris and exactly you say this, with the name Chuck Norris...
@Chuck Norris I don't know which bit of Europe you mean, but much of Europe has much better preserved history than the USA. Prague is a good candidate for the most beautiful city in the world... Lisbon too.
@t Have you been to Europe? You sound like someone who hasn't
It’s crazy to think that all the older people shown throughout the video were born in the late 1800s. That’s insane that they witnessed so much change in so little time.
Oh wow!!! Look at that Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards without all the homeless people harassing or assaulting you. SMH.
Also the Scientologists harassing you, following you home, poisoning your pets, committing arson, illegally imprisoning people in the big blue building, slave labor squads, and various other illegal shit.
My friend was chased by a homeless man for her pizza, but she ended up tripping and dropping it. The old man took it and ran away.
@@KandiKlover I believe you on that, because the other day I told some lady in front of the Scientology building that I wasn't interested, and she got totally triggered and her cronies surrounded me and saying how I was wrong and shit. XD
@@-_-DoniJ that sad
@@Kilomanjaro11 When it happened she was upset, but now when we bring it up we all laugh about it.
I moved to West LA in 1958. It was alot like this.
and now?
clarkewi you were so lucky, I keep asking my self why was I born in 1999 and not in the 1940s, That was a wonderful time to live. I love watching old shows from the 1960s, like The Patty Duke show, Mr.Ed, Lamarin, and movies like Lilies Of The Field. To bad I can’t time travel...
@@josesalas430 You might not have liked the '40s.
I wish we all lived together again like that simple times and life People where very nice and looking nice too
And White.
Entirely white
Not unless all different groups fight and there's a clear winner. America is just a piece of land that everyone wants to leech off now.
Black man bad ooga booga. White man good
@@mario_2529 reality kicks in. Denying the truth doesn't change it.
As as lifelong Californian..this is so nice to see..but kinda hurts my heart a bit to see what it has come to now.
Wow it looks exactly the same with the exception of the graffiti, homeless, smog, traffic and gangs.
Atomic Reverend Alexander and cops everywhere
The cops are a direct result of all that culturally rich diversity because history has shown us time and time again that different races, religions and cultures get along great especially when they don't even speak the same languages and their Gods say that all other religions are false because Everyone knows that diversity not unity is what makes a community and nation come together.
This is sarcasm for the millions of you reading this that don't understand American humor, because my government has failed it's citizens and forced this Liberal social experiment that history had shown will end badly.
@@MrLeonightis I don't think Hal's comment was a jab against cops but I could be wrong. I believe it is an observation because of all the democrat-controlled cities have suffered these problems I listed in my two comments and now have to have a large law enforcement presence to keep the forced peace.
@EaxlI am pretty sure your comment was sarcasm but just in case it wasn't forced tolerance is what got us in this situation in the first place
@Eaxl kek
Most people in this documentary have passed away. They took beautiful LA with them!!😢
Lamont Cranston INC. you are sick
For telling the truth? He was doing a parody of the movie "Its a wonderful life" where Jimmy Stewart gets to see his life if he had not been born,,,,,,,,,, Are you saying America was not better then? Are you saying diversity PC open borders gender confusion improved America? You are sick to think Today is better @@88ashjen
It could be again if we removed the filth from our streets and the liberals that defend them
@Lamont Cranston INC. America still has that good old fashion HATE, I see.
mpjperez10 YEP!! 😔
i wonder how these people would react in seeing their city in 66 years
Most are rolling in their graves.
No we’re still here build the WALL and then we can keep what’s left !!!
Disgust and weeping
🤦♂️
Just like the Hawaiian.
My wife's grandma and grandpa found each other in LA around this time. They got married in Tijuana so it's really cool you showed it. She recently passed away so I watch old videos of LA trying to imagine what their life was like for them. They are truly amazing people, really unique and both are my idols. It's pretty amazing to see the LA they knew. They left LA in the early 70's but still use their old address as some of their passwords so I imagine LA then was magical time for them then.
I'm from Panama but I studied in southern California. I have a soft spot for it. California is unique no matter what people say.
I grew up here, and it's shit. Liberals fucked it up by taxing the shit out of people and not giving two shits about the tax payer or the needs of the state. Poorly managed for to long by idiots.
Nathan Keck Fr
Yes, "unique" in it's rapid fall from grandeur.
These comments are super interesting. It's pretty sad that I studied there for 4 years and had no clue that it was a Democratic state. Obviously I wasn't a voter so I did not pay much attention but I understand the frustration from you all completely.
When a person has few obligations and money anywhere can be livable to a point... It is annoying so many foreigners come here use our resources and return nothing.. Leftists have turned America into a crime filled third world toilet.. More taking than paying taxes... Sanctuary cities are hell holes ..
This was the California of my grandparents and in-laws . My father in law got his Masters degree in Physics from UCLA in 1952 . My uncle worked for Ford as an electrical engineer . I have lots of great memories of summers in LA in the early '70's .
The old folks are gone which is sad but good. They would be sad to see it now.
Hope your uncle had nothing to do with the design of the Pinto.
@@whyyeseyec he was am electrical engineer so probably not.
HEAVEN ON EARTH MY PARENTS ARRIVED IN 1956, I WAS BORN 1962!!!
EVERYONE WAS AMERICAN NO IDENTITY POLITICS NO PC.
@@kalashnikov5544 Happiness is when white racists cry because their time has passed.
Typical boomer tier take
Yep, I was born in 1953, when Los Angeles was beautiful........now it's a crap hole, putting it nicely......glad I grew up in the time where LA was the place to be.....what a shame it's become.......
@@deeguenveur9987 leave if ur so miserable!
@@foxbodyblues6709 If I can dream...and I'm a Hispanic multimillionaire
God how I wish to be back in that time. It was much safer then now in 2023.
Tell that to interracial couples in the south.
@@alandoane9168What about it?
@@alandoane9168So you spend time worrying about 1% of the population when the other 99% are significantly worse off.
Nah, Im good in 2024~~None of us would survive in 1963~
@@alandoane9168 your Halo doesn't fit
Looks lovely back then. Now it's a mess. Very sad. Love, from Canada. ❤😇❤ God Bless You
reminds me of the beginning of every old-school Tom and Jerry haha
@Cristopher Reeves This Man is just talking about Tom & Jerry, Wtf are you on 😂
@Cristopher Reeves that's why you should vote for trump
@Cristopher Reeves Did the Old peoples home give you some internet time today?
@@EpicGamer-dj7dm yup trump 2020
I came to the comments just to see if anyone thought the same thing lol
Imagine living in 1953 Southern California. Huge open low-population areas with low crime, big affordable houses, and post WW2 roaring economy in a peaceful country. This was the true golden age of life there. Much before and there wasn't much infrastructure yet. Much after and it became a hell hole.
WP SN - You’re Right. Not just Cal. But the whole nation! We were on top of the world. We achieved this by Crushing our competition in WW2! Japan and Germany. That’s why life was luxurious and wonderful then, especially if you were white! Don’t get me wrong. That would have been a wonderful time to live! I was not born until ‘58. By the time I was coming of age that was all changing. Our fathers didn’t give a thought about the future. I joined the Marines in ‘80 and spent a lot of time in S. Cal. It was a CESSPOOL then! A wonderful place will SHINE for all of our Grandkids to ENJOY!! RIP America!!
WP SN - I’m sorry, I’m not picking on you. I’m just saying; the America then, unfortunately is gone.
Our economy was booming.
We didn’t have to rebuild America. We didn’t have our country dismantled! Much of Asia was tore up! Had to be rebuilt, and we had a hand in that. Europe was DEVASTATED!!!!!
USA lost 300,000 lives lost in the war. Now that’s a lot men!!
No doubt! Russia lost over
24 MILLION!! Most of Europe was under rationing until the late ‘50’s! Our economy was booming. Rebuilding their country’s, having a monopoly on the auto market. How they must have suffered! I’m not un-America. I’m very America! I served 12 years in the Marine Infantry. Been to many foreign countries. Went through a War myself. Nowadays, nobody even cares. I’m glad you people had it so good. I think time has changed things. I don’t care much for myself. I’m just heartbroken for what my kids and grandkids have to face. Sorry, I meant no offense.
Well those days are long gone now, aren’t they??
WP SN You are right on. That golden era lasted until about 1967. After that it was all down hill.
Now the city doesn’t even fix the potholes
What a fabulous video. This was my childhood home and the places are all so familiar. It was an amazing life. How I wish it was still like this.
Only a few of those places are left around there. The LACMA building and what is now the Miracle Mile are still the same many of those buildings on the opposite side were torn down in 2008 and are now condos.The Sunset Strip not very recognizable lot of the buildings are not even there any more.
It is still like this. They filmed stuff in the nice neighborhoods that are still nice areas, so it isn't that different. Except for buildings that are gone, like Sunset & Vine, where the CBS & NBC Radio Buildings being home makes it look VERY different!
@@danielmarshall7095What condos across from the museum? 🤷♀️
@@etherealtb6021 Since this picture many of the buildings that were there had been torn down. They built new buildings with businesses on the bottom and condos on the upper floors after 2008. Much of a few historic but smaller businesses are there like the diner across the street has no business but outside lights at night still give it som life. This is the portion of thr Miracle Mile at the Wilshire/Fairfax Blvd area. They redesigned the Peterson car museum across the street as well. I used to live in this area for many years until 2 years ago moved to San Gabriel. They have moved some of the businesses from Beverly Hills like the BMW dealership and Genwa Korean restaurant a few years back. I remember the older buildings they torn down nearly 15 years ago.
@@etherealtb6021 Much of Vine and Sunset still have the old look and the mid street Fountain Ave. still have that genuine look. It just saddened me that Aomeba Records. relocated. Very good places to eat and a lot to see.
*Almost everyone was elegantly dressed, cultured, fit, and never overweight. I need a time machine NOW !*
All others were hid ...I 4 1 m so glad I wasn't there. Heels r so bad for ankles...only 4 men 2 c those accentuated the calves
I was just talking to my girl about how back in the day everyone was at a perfect wight noone was fat..
@@josegomez-lj1xp Food was fresh from the San Juaquin valley. People didn't sit all day at work and eat five or six times a day like they do today. They burned far more colories than they consumed. Sugar wasn't consumed nearly as much as it is today. Kids played outside, not inside doing nothing but eating and watching television, and then later video games.
@Lamont Cranston INC. Block parties in summer.
Call Doc Brown, I'm sure he'll let you borrow the Delorean for a small fee.
So sad to see what it is today. My great grandparents would be devastated. It’s all gone.
Yea, it's too bad there's too many assholes in this world who ruin good things.
22:04 “This is an easy trip to Tijuana, you can travel country to country with no passport problems.”
Not anymore my friend.
ace g Downtown LA looks worse than TJ now... Thanks to the mexicants.
They went for the fun...😂 they went for the tequila and donkey show
whiteclifffl racist
John Hamrick racist
oh Yex LOL. You hate to read the truth?
This put a big smile on my face! Very magical!
Wish life was still like this!
It will never be again if mass migration isn't reversed and leftists are not removed from government. These years were products of a homogenous population for the most part.
Civilization is dying
You racist
@@andybaldman its the opposite, theirs too much! Shortages are going to be a normal thing and their will be wars/conflicts over fresh water. and everything in between.
Same age,9, living in San Gabriel. It was a big deal to go shopping in downtown L.A. with a stop at Philippe’s after😊
WOW! Southern California is So Beautiful I wanna Move there! -- uh? wait it's 2019 Never mind LOL
Funny I live here and I want to leave. It isn't what this film portrays it to be and hasn't been in my 40 years of life although it has gotten way worse and the last 15 years or so.
yes, keep that same attitude! we do not need any more people LOL. yes, it is horrible here and the weather is horrible nope gross, please do not come.
- Sincerely, Every native Southern Californian
@Thanos Dione How ironic..Whites forcibly taking over Mexican territory and then claiming Hispanics are illegal in their own land
2019 moving out as fast as you can lol
Mexico lost it in a war. Have you ever read a book without pictures. Can somebody at home help you with the big words? Spain stole the land first and the gold from the Indians and made them slaves.. Nobody owes you anything I think its ironic you attack whites on a computer and internet created by them LOL They create everything you use....
USA the Moon Landing Latin America The Taco . @@gsxss3741
Not a sweatpant, gym short or yoga pants back then
Bummer, bc Lulu Lemons are the bomb to look at on the right ass.
@Neil P. nothing wrong with looking at fine booty.
No tattoos! No jeans below their asses either no human fecies on the sidewalks. One question Where the hell did we go wrong? Are we living in the same world?
@Neil P. Are you really complaining about women in leggings? Its ok dude you can come out the closet now
@@walermos East LA has had gangs since the 40's so.....
"Call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye." ... The Eagles.
I was on the verge of writing this comment myself. I see someone was thinking 3 months ahead of me.
I first visited Los Angeles in 1983, February. Los Angeles in 1983, though not like this video, more closely resembled this video than it does today. I yearned to live there. No longer though. What a damned shame. Best geography, best climate, and elected officials have run the place into the ground.
A victim of its own popularity and success.
Last Resort
Only problem with SoCal though, even if had remained pleasant, is there was always the threat of a major earthquake.
I was born in LA in 1955 and grew up in So Cal. It was paradise. The smog would get bad sometimes, but emission standards cleared up the air. it became overcrowded; the environment was degraded, and the droughts and wildfires kept getting worse.
When we'd go to Disneyland in the very early '60's , what I remember most are the orange groves starting just above San Clemente & surrounding Disney. Every few years we'd go & by the time I got married in '74 most of the groves were gone & the smell from tire manufacturers could be smelled.
This was so cal at its finest. Disneyland just about the open, no pollution, no traffic, pure beaches. They had it all.
David M oh I hadn’t figured. I guess not everything wasn’t sunshine and roses back then.
No mass immigration
Actually, before certain post 1950's population movements, many So Cal areas did have much cleaner air.
My family lived there during 3 generations starting in the 1940's.
Bryan V 🤷♂️ the comments section seems to differ.
Sad to see how badly it has deteriorated in 60 years. Look at the people, and look at how clean it was. Cali would have literally been a dream-come-true place to live back then - what a tragedy that it's become what it is today.
Blame capitalism.
@@andybaldman It has become exactly what the voters want it to be.
@@ednorton47 Blaming the 'voters' is myopic. There is far more to what shapes a system than just the voters.
I doubt they would show nasty places (which they surely were present in LA at those times) in such a vid.
@@slouberiee Absolutely. Cities have always had their slums, they just don't show them in 1950's promotional videos
Cherish this flashback because it's all gone now.
Imagine growing up here. Truly heaven on Earth
People of that era are turning in their graves to see what happened to LA
nope....
There are thousands of us 80 plus year old's around.
@@helenjackman8984 Sir I feel you I move there in 1963 and got the heck out of there 2005
Back when Hispanic and blacks were excluded from education, sports and the pursuit of happiness! What happened to California?🤔🤔🤔😉😉😘
ustedeslosricos ! People aren’t as close minded and racist as before, that’s what happened
Even all the cars looked so cool.
USA really was some next level country back in the day.
The problem with the US nowadays, this country has let itself become influenced by too many foreign countries, especially China
@@noname-jh3bd You mean those guys with the moe haircuts.
Chicanos/zoot suiters/pachucos made it cooler 💯
When this video was made we were literally in the middle of committing eugenics on black, Latina and indigenous women. Please don’t glorify my country. This is nothing but propaganda to cover up the corruption and state sanctioned death.
@@noname-jh3bd It has nothing to do with other countries. It has everything to do with Jews, homosexuals, and liberal individualists.
It's great that in today's world we still have films like this to show that a wonderful era like this even existed.
And to remind us how much civilization has declined.
@@andybaldman it’s nice to see what once was… shame what society in general has become
@@andybaldman Yeah man, things have really gone downhill since 1953 when we had... segregation, Jim Crow, and legal sex discrimination? Is that what we're celebrating here?
@@mkhedart0mt0avari Perhaps we could celebrate your cherrypicking? One must look at the sum total of things that have improved and declined to determine the net result to society. Some things have gotten better. And a lot have gotten worse.
@@andybaldman Oh, there are certainly things that are worse today (whether or not they outweigh having fewer lynchings and giving black Americans in the south the vote is a different question). Tell me which ones you're thinking of, though.
Now LA is overcrowded, dirty and way too expensive to live.
DMJ 822 and people only want to live there because
H o l l y w o o d
Crowded, Dirty? Pretty sure all big/major cities are. Expensive? Maybe to some people. I mean， who wouldn't want to live or even visit in a city like LA or NY? To make it less crowded and more luxurious they have to raise prices up to keep it classy. Only selective people can live here. For example, is happening right now in some cuties like Boyle Heights. They are kicking the low income/minority out. Boyle Heights is near Downtown LA, there are a lot of changes going on, like it always has been, and always will. This will attract more tourist. What do you expect? People from across the world would give anything to step foot in Hollywood/Los Angeles. Be grateful if you do live here.
Mike S you’re right the takeover is coming soon
@@cocococo7474 LMAO
@1A 2A You need to be a little bit more elaborate in your terms: it's corruption that has turned the left into what it is now. You're definitely not from California. We should have kept it sunny and increased immigration laws for foreign illegals AND fellow Americans from other states.
I stayed in LA for few days in 1953 on my way to Purdue at Adams and Western. The freeways weren't even open. After graduating from Purdue in 1955, I return to work for Lockheed Burbank and lived at Hollywood Way and Olive in Toluca Lake. I left LA in 1972 after working for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton. Those were the ending of the Golden Years of LA.
Damn you’re old. Did you see Abraham Lincoln too, boomer?
@@SpikedCollar666 I'm older than a boomer. My wife is one of the oldest boomers (b. 1945) and I'm 14 years older.
owleyes 11 I’m just giving you a hard time
Owleyes...my dad worked for Hughes around then. We lived in Cypress.
@eh6794 We had a lot of women working at Hughes. Some one has to bundle all those wires and rout them to their proper places.
I know I'm being nostalgic but man I'd give anything to see L.A. unsoiled by waste and pollution and bad government
@@GeoHdReal Now they're the Majority. It's going to get worse once the elected president opens the borders 🤨
@@GeoHdReal People are living in the past. I don't think they understand what is coming.
@Jane Goodall If you're gonna make shit up at least make it interesting.
Jane Goodall Globalist scums are at the forefront they make money wrecking countries boarders and make people’s lives hell with currency manipulations and moving corporations overseas hollowing out county’s economy and standard of living
Well, for that you have to go back to 1830 before all the trash from the American South came to soil and destroy everything.
My Mother's First place of employment, was The Brown Derby , SHE WAS A WAITTRESS ❤ THANKS FOR THESE MEMORIES ❤❤❤ JOHN BARNETT ❤
A lot of those buildings are all gone now. Hollywood Blvd. is full of annoying and pestering tour guides. Also this is definitely before 1955 since Disneyland is not mentioned.
beerborn Disneyland is in anaheim
Yeah Southern California
HeroT, no shit. the video is about Southern California. Anaheim is in Southern California.
Boom Dos I know man. I just for some reason was thinking (at the time I commented that) that it was a documentary on Los Angeles since that’s how I found this video.
It's 1945, not 1953. Also in showing the movie studios, they left out Disney.
God I loved how illustrated and pleasant tv was back in those days. That’s when America was great 👍🏾
TV was three channels and most people saw it in fuzzy B&W with rabbit ears.
It's actually SuperHD today, you bellend.
gordon good. Too many options on tv can be a hassle.
@@snakepliskin23 --- The only hassle back then was getting up and turning the channel from 2 to 4 to 5 to 7 to 9 to 11 to 13 and then back again. Most of them barely came in.
gordon the fact that you’re complaining about tv says everything about our generation. People were too busy making money and building shit, having a good time making the most of their days and ate healthy..
Not sitting down in front of a screen all day eating cookies and cupcakes picking their butts lol
Who's watching this video in 2020 the year of the Coronavirus pandemic. Trust me, Southern California doesn't look anything like the movie we just watched. 🙁
You don't say?
So sad
Well duh, this was in 1953 what did you expect?
yeah i remember visiting in 2015. its pretty sad what it is now. venice beach needs a four wheeler with a comb to keep the surface of the beach clean. A homeless man throwing trash out on the walkpath and yelling toxic shit at people. the building all super old. i wish i had a time machine.
The greed for cheap labour ment you create a poor under class, and slums, without a adequate social security net from the early years of life means people fall through the social fabric and become destitute, once people reach the critical point of having no pride in their community the rot sets in.
My parents moved to Montebello from Denver after the war. My dad worked for the railroad as did his dad and brother. I was born in 1953. Souther California was a wonderful place to grow up in the 50's. We'd go to Huntington Beach and the San Gabriel Mountains on the weekends. Sometimes when we went to the beach on Highway 39 we'd stop at Knott's Berry Farm for chicken if it wasn't too crowded. We went to Disneyland for the first time in 1956 and at least once every year after. My parents moved to a new housing tract in Whittier in 1963 that was built in an old orange orchard. Every house had a couple of orange trees in the back. My parents planted a few palm trees that they were proud of. Relatives would always stay at our place when they came to California for their summer vacation. Then we'd get to go to Hollywood, Huntington's Library, the Arboretum, the museums in Exposition Park, sometimes Catalina and always Knott's and Disneyland. When I was a teenager just about every rock band you ever heard of played in LA. Tickets were usually around $6 so I got to see all the greats. Steppenwolf played at my high school for an assembly and Queen did a free concert at my college right outside the library. I bought a sailboat and learned to surf. I drove a VW bug but also bought a Ford Econoline to cruise Whittier Blvd. to meet girls. When I got married LA was getting crowded and housing expensive so we moved north of Sacramento, bought 5 acres by a Lake Oroville and built a house. Our kids grew up country kids. We've had horses and dogs since then and will be here for the rest of our lives. California has been a sweet place to grow up and then raise a family. California is more than a place, it's also a state of mind.
Born in 1954 . I'm still here ... 😚🤚
@@hermanprez I remember doing all those things as a kid. I loved the natural history museum in exposition park and the planetarium in Griffith Park. We would drive to Mt. Wilson or Arrowhead. Loved the Knott’s boysenberry jam and the pies at Dupars. Loved the peacocks at the arboretum and seeing the floats after the Rose Parade. I lived in San Gabriel and then Corona Del Mar. I got to live down in Newport when it was just cow fields. I got to go into LA proper to visit both sets of my grandparents who resided there. I’d go to the farmers market and out to Santa Monica for a Sunday Drive. What a great time in paradise. I was born inLA in 1956. I lived many places in the US as an adult and finally settled in Brooklyn NY. I guess I wanted to see it ALL.
Omg people covered up and wore clothes amazing
I can't imagine anyone wearing an overcoat in L.A. at any time of year. But they did back then.
@@omegamale7880 Can't make film noir without overcoats.
This is when people would dress up in their best to travel on an airplane.
Nice to dress up on a plane, but walking around with heavy clothing- STUPID.
I was born in the Good Sam hospital in 54 and my sister in 53. It’s weird seeing how much LA has grown since then. Sad that all the orange groves, avocado groves, and sandlots where we played ball are all gone.
Good thing the sequoias, redwoods, desert, mountains, and beautiful coast is still there!
I had my tonsils taken out at Good Sam in 54! My grandma worked there in the Hematology lab.
@@Kinkle_Z that so cool! Why is it that they always removed tonsils back then? Mine were taken out in 58 only because my sister’s needed removing. Like a 2 for 1 deal!
Your Mom was at a good hospital! It’s where they took Bobby Kennedy to when shot.
@@Kinkle_Z I was born in the Queen of Angels hospital! Now it's a homeless slum!!
A world that's long, long gone now.
@ Samuel Enciso---but, only gone until Jesus Christ's Return, after which this world will once again be PARADISE !!
Larry Smith
Truth.
Wow everything is way clean back then. No trash on the streets. Thumbs Up !
When SO CAL . was the ENVY of the Nation !!!!
Andrew and had almost zero immigration
@@foxbodyblues6709 yepper
They had immigtation from europe. But that is much better.
Yeah ... now its the ass of the country.
Andrew Valle no white cacausian People Where more. America used to be a white country except the slavesp
Oh, how far we've fallen.
Hence Revelation chapter 18.
@Jane Goodall Diversity is our downfall.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Diversity is our greatest strength. Segregation is our downfall and real US citizens are not going to let that happen
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent It is diversity that led to segregation.. Humans have a tribal nature. Diversity has been the cause of so much suffering and turmoil in America. Look at the horrible racial tensions and problems we are facing today. That kind of thing doesn't happen in ethnically homogenous societies. Unity is a far greater strength than diversity.. Some of the least diverse countries in the world have the highest quality of life.. Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Japan, etc. are consistently ranked the happiest, safest, and most prosperous countries on Earth..
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath That's cause they have strict rules and guidence. Most of the population has a living wage and access to high paying jobs.
Things that was stripped from US citizens back in the 80s during the Reagan era. To fix it. We need to destroy the elements of the Reagan era.
The light hearted music was playing everywhere back in the 50s.
Oh my god, never fails with these old movies. Queue the “it was all so good back then, it’s all terrible now! No smart phones!”.
SoCal the land of sunshine and happiness, her charms and easy living lured too many people and they destroyed it.
Godlessness destroys everything
Too much diversity
Lol lol lol. California is not destroyed
@@agonzalez8924 compared to what?
@@DameOfDiamonds ok
Wow that’s the California we were all sold! Beautiful!
Crazy the bit about tijuana. It looked so nice back then and crazy to think that there was no border and you could just walk across and back like it was just another neighborhood. So different to what we see today. Really makes you think how little we notice change as it occurs in the present but throughout the years those changes amount to huge differences. Just makes me sad to think how bad it could get 30-40 years from now
There was a border but if you looked American you could be waved through without issue. My parents use to take us to Tijuana for day trips. We would park in the US and walk across. By the 1990s, Tijuana was indistinguishable from downtown LA. No longer exotic.
Glad my grandparent aren't around to see what has become of the place.
They isn't?
@@jamesmcinnis208 yes “they isn’t”
Rip
@@devinpeirce7152 Classy.
@@devinpeirce7152 ur kids? Where’s day at?
imagine growing up in 1950s-1970s California. a bunch of open space still so you smell the citrus groves in the air, not much traffic, cheap homes, jobs in basically any and every industry (military, aerospace, car/tire manufacturing, agriculture, trade/shipping, tourism, entertainment, etc. etc.), places aren't crowded, everything looks new, optimistic outlook on life, the state, and country in general, etc. I really envy the people that got to enjoy the California of back then. started changing in the 1980s. held mostly steady until the early 2010s, then started falling hard in the mid to late 2010s with an absolute collapse happening in 2020 that hasnt stopped.
The average person had the self respect to dress decently,and every polite .
The downfall of America happened in 2015 when a fat piece of shi came down an escalator and said he wanted to be president and a bunch of old people who watch TV all day and night voted him in .
It's funny to hear us citizens complain about places like California being full, I invite you to asia to know what it's like to be cramped
Somewhere down there Airstream trailers were being made. The same trailers are STILL on the road today. Mind blowing they made things to last.
So I bought one.
May god be with us all in Southern California during these earthquake times, and god forbid anything serious happens.
Living In San Bernardino county... God bless you all brothers and sisters 💙
If the dead of Forest Lawn came out of their graves to see what Southern California looked now, they'll all crawl back into their graves. 2:53
Run by the rich
Forest lawn?
Louis_i_am huge LA cemetery
@@LgMill Forest Lawn Cemetery
Well said. The Former Golden State has been hijacked by a low class of people who have ruined it.
I was about 7 yrs old in ‘53. I remember all of this.
I wanna live in 1953 Southern California....
Me too
@@organenthusiast5803 Could you? There was no cell phone, no internet, the cold war, the end of the Korean war. Poor healthcare, smaller TVs, and it was before the sexual revolution..
However nobody got stabbed on Hollywood Blvd in those days, and drug usage was much lower..
@@MrCooper83 My Grandfather went over there around that time ( I'm from the Uk) he always raved about the place. How open everyone was, the beautiful women, the low cost of living in one of the world's most beautiful places on Earth.
Sexual revolution I think has back fired in many ways. Huge number of people in their 40's never having been married now. ( not that I'm in favour of oppressing women into traditional gender roles though )
Internet...smaller tvs well people would have had more fun outdoors and were undoubtedly healthier atleast mentally speaking.
I take your points but isn't there a part of you that would if you could?
@@MrCooper83 No cell phones, no internet, and smaller TVs? Count me in.
@@organenthusiast5803 Yeah but most of the young people could not live without their phones or FB.
I fell in love with LA as a kid. Beautiful valleys, hills, and mountains. Vast beaches, the Pacific. Hey, I'm from Cleveland. So LA is paradise 😍
I agree. Rog. Pacific sunset
Thank you for loving my little town. Sending good thoughts from L.A., friend. I hope all is well.
I grew up on Lake Erie.... but near Cedar Point... I wish I would have been in SoCal in the 80's. I didn't move to LA until the 00's and moved out to the desert after a short time in San Diego as well. I'm thinking of moving back to the Rust Belt. LA is becoming a sunny Detroit with more homeless. California has been ruined.
Hawaii is better…period…
It was once the dream to move to California, now it’s the dream to get the f**k out
Lol
California dreaming
Unfortunately a lot of them getting out are bringing their same screwed up politics with them that ruined California to other states.
Mark Stephenson I grew up in Torrance!
What decade?
Hearing all these cities that once had these amazing events.
This is beyond sad. Can't go anywhere near Hollywood or even Pomona these days.
Can't even go to Riverside or SB counties and beyond because the cancer has spread that far.
I am sorry to see things have gotten to this point in California.
Diversity is our strength.🙄
@@bradswanson7919Please prove it’s a strength.
This video shows how sadly society has fallen. Look at how beautiful Southern California was back then. Take a look at Tijuana at 22:02 it was so quaint and clean. Americans and Mexicans of the 1940s and 1950s were just classier people. Crossing the border with no passport issues as the narrator says. Those were the days.
+Mel Perry I guess when a person is triggered and doesn't have a substantive argument to offer, their incessant and moronic use of the term "white trash" shouldn't come as a surprise.
California has a *much more* permissive environment today. People there are held to lower *behavioral* standards.
Chet Pomeroy stop parroting delusions
Pelon liberalism caused all the chaoes in each country, at that time Cops in Mexico where honorable men, after the great liberal socialist agenda took over everyone became a drug addict, crook bastard
Jhonny2guns🔫🔫 An you can prove this by doing what? Nothing you have nothing but fear and insecurity. punk little bitch Mexico is not a Socialist country dumbass
Went from the "City of Angels" to the "CIty of Demons" in about 2 generations.
@Wendell Novais It's actually the 5th largest economy in the world.
@Wendell Novais yo I’m not liberal but you’re a dumbshit hahah just look up actual numbers on California’s economy
You got that right Chris
Paul Ehrlich was more correct than not.
The Population Bomb detonated. And the devastation result isn't a pretty sight.
Its amazing how there is no obese people, and people say the quality of our food didn't change, unbelievable.
There are no more obese people...they're called plus sized people and its perfectly normal and healthy and you are a nazi if you say otherwise...
@@rohamtavakkoli7562 Yeah right. They are FAT FAT FAT.
Despite what people say, Los Angeles is a walkable city, especially in these older neighborhoods. This was before car culture really penetrated every aspect of American society. That has a LOT to do with the obesity problem.
@@microbios8586 walkable if you wanna get fucked up😂
the food started really changing in the 80s
Jim...I was touched by your 1 year ago message...So generous of spirit!...I don't know if you are "still here"...Either was...Bless your soul!...Bless your family!❤
Grateful to have lived there, back in the day . . .