True! But remember you would have needed your fathers or husband signature to get a banking account. Not to mention you could be fired for being gay or killed if you voted as a person of color. It wasn't all that great :0 Toodles
My mom was born in 1956 in Anaheim. She probably visited LA once or twice when she was very young, but she moved to Santa Ana to attend high school and by her late 20s, she wanted to move to Colorado, because of how much everything in Orange County changed. Right as soon as I tapped on this video, I had to share it to her. I'm sure she would love this, because it'll bring her memories!
Does anyone know why watching these videos of the old days when I wasn't born makes me happy? I think it's just seeing how life was in different eras and how things have changed, I have always been fascinated by history.
There is certainly less traffic, homes were much more affordable, and there was a lot more open space and greenery. That all results in less stress. It is easy to see why everybody wanted to (and millions did) move to Los Angeles at that time. Just an observation: I've watched a number of these old remastered films and can't remember seeing a motorcycle in any of them. Cop cars are very rare, too.
It’s just a feeling. I grew up there at the time. On the positive- Quite a few film stars (none rich like today) lived there. It was very middle class. Buster Keaton, Larry Fine of the Three Stooges were two I remember. Negative- the food was terrible, the coffee was worse, the air was unbreathable, the cars leaked oil like they were faucets on drip, racism was open and everywhere, and the cops-jeez- the LAPD. Nuff said. But other than that…! 🥰
@@Lpreilly72 Interesting perspektive / experience. Nobody seemed to be in hurry, in this video. Compared to our days. Is this too only a feeling or was it realitity?
Im 38yrs old male and from the North East of England, i have recurring dreams of me walking the streets of America even attending a school, ive never been to America ever but i feel like ive lived it already especially around these times, i find myself watching any footage of America from 1940 upto 1960 never understood why other than dreams i have. My go to music if im poorly, happy, or sad is Doo-Wop music im obsessed with it, ive even got my mates hooked on it, if anybody knows a little town called Middlesbrough that's where im from and it's different in a billion ways to America at any period and people are normally into dance, rave music i like it but Doo-Wop is my thing, loved how they dressed back then to and the girls all looked beautiful if anybody seen me you wouldn't put me with anything 1950's especially doo-wop music, thanks for the video hope to find many more.
What a great story, thank you for sharing all this. I am born and raised in California and though the 1950's is before my time, my mother is 89 and she says this is exactly what it looked like in LA then. You should really come to California, but avoid the bigger cities and just see the mountains, deserts and beaches. I have been to Middlesbrough in 1999 because a pen pal of mine worked at the Dorman Museum, which I'm sure you've heard of. Anyway, cheers!
That’s crazy! Something about America has always called to me too. I try to visit as much as possible. And yes I know Middlesbrough I’m from Stockton-on-tees mate
I grew up in the 1950s in Los Angeles and can tell you that back then drivers were more polite to each other, they yielded the right of way even when they didn't have to, they were not in a rush, did not run through yellow or red lights, did not cut off other drivers, did not tailgate drivers in front of them and treated driving as a privileged rather than as a right. The rules of the road were studied and put into practice and road rage was something completely unheard of back then.
Ha cambiado mucho en todo el mundo...yo soy del viejo continente nací en España..y en esa época aquí también eran educados conductores, ahora son bestias , chillones y agresivos en la conducción..educación cero.
@@annelizabethcarroll3396..no solo enojados.., la educación brilla por su ausencia en los días actuales..notienen principios o los principios son moda del momento según el viento.
People look mostly peaceful, patient, mentally healthy. When I watched videos like this, I recollect my grandparents. They were steady moderate gentle people. I miss them. They died 2012, 2013, 2016. I still remember our last conversations.
Free love? Recreational drugs? independent woman? Bro what. Free love hasnt made people happier and it's made marriage worse, you can live without your drugs for your highs, and nuclear families were and still are very successful
Well, not exactly "perfect". Huge numbers of paralytic polio, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, segregation in housing and education for African Americans.... just read a newspaper from that era. Everything looks clean because it's mostly new and the population was much smaller.
@@zaranski1889 I was just listing concerns for American's, didn't say anything about the "globe". Americans were building bomb shelters in the 50's so to claim that "everything was perfect" is a bit silly. Things were generally pretty damned good, I'll give you that, especially for white men. :)
What fascinates me is the fact that somebody thought (from that time period) it would be cool to film a video like this from a car with I’m assuming a Very big camera at that time. In this day and age where this would not be common, I’m happy that somebody made this video for us people from the future to see how the world was like during our grandparents early days.
@@TravellingxTales Quite a lot of the old footage shot at this time was 1) expensive commercial stock footage being used by everyone from travel agents to real estate brokers. 2) So you don’t see the bad parts of the city. It’s also edited. The classic of this is A Trip Down Market Street shot for a company in New York. It was shot in 1906 just a week before the city was destroyed. They wanted SF to look high tech so they staged a dozen cars to drive around the camera! If you haven’t seen it, you should!
I grew up in the 1950's. I love the fact that there's no voice over, just the street sounds, it makes me feel calm and happy to experience a more simple time.
Imagine telling the person filming this that in 70 years nearly a million people will be watching this on their phones and wish they lived during this time compared to now
Truly wonderful, restored film. Los Angeles in that peaceful time, how clean, slow driving vehicles, well kept home lawnsetc., Growing up not far from the Wilshire area, stirs my heart, with blessed memories. Thank you. James
Quite often, clips like this of driving on a city street were filmed to be used as background in a movie scene inside a "moving" vehicle. There are a number of them here on UA-cam.
My friend and me drove around Melbourne in Australia for hours on different periods, over many years. None of the video footage is recognisable as the same place anymore. We took a lot of freeway footage in and around the city, and the new buildings now conceal the views.
I lived in LA back in the eighties. Went to USC. Downtown LA was already a rough neighborhood. Suburbs were always as serene as the pictures in this lovely film. It's so sad to see a paradise becomes hell.
Must be very early 1950's. I didn't see a car much newer than 1951. Also fascinating to see empty lots in the Wilshire District. So much open land in the west valley as well: Hidden Hills, Canoga Park, Woodland Hills, now just endless miles of tract homes.
Yes, I grew up in Woodland Hills. There was a big boom in the 50s! The house I grew up in was built in 1953 on Burbank Blvd (between Fallbrook and Woodlake). So this is definitely the WAY early 50s… 1950 or 1951! These were the final days of it looking like this in the West Valley. I was able to pinpoint every street heading east down Ventura Bl. Video starts just east of Woodlake Ave., and it goes all the way to Canoga Ave.… And then back/westbound again. Never thought I would see anything like this… It is awesome!
@@mikewhitcomb6558 Hey Mike, if you want to see that part of the valley in its early days check out the movie Bachelor In Paradise with Bob Hope and Lana Turner from 1961. It's a dumb old film, but I think it was filmed in Woodland Hills.
I love watching these videos of Los Angeles, San Francisco and others, It's wonderful to see what life was like in those days. I was born in Los Angeles in 1950, but we all moved to San Francisco when I was 3yr old and been here ever since. Of course my parents brought us to Disney Land when it first opened and other amusement parks etc. These videos brings back memories of child hood childhood days. Thank you for sharing.
I was in LA and Long Beach around 1952-1953. My uncle had a Studebaker with the bullet front. I remember how milky blue the skies were. I didn't realize how little traffic was on the road during the middle of the day and how wide the streets were.
My father in law grew up in long beach, my husband was born there too. My husband’s grandfather was a wwII pilot and went to work at Douglas after the war. My father in law loved to surf and had a long board
I miss that Van de Kamp’s restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard just east of Fairfax. My parents used to take us …my brothers and I to Van de Kamp’s for their halibut fish and chips dinner. It was so delicious! so fresh and tasty. So sad to see that restaurant is gone now the waitresses all had blue and white Dutch girl uniforms, the halibut was delicious! tender flaky and sweet with french fries I would smother with ketchup we get a salad with the meal with blue cheese and then for dessert pumpkin pie with whipped cream topping. This was in the 1950s and early 1960s (I was born in February 1951) when we were little kids this makes me so sad and melancholy to see these buildings the ORBACHS department store, the La Brea tar pits, the May company where my mom used to take me shopping all the time that building on Wilshire and Fairfax on the north east corner. Those were good times!. I love to just dive into this video and go back there the 21st century is bullshit! But we’re stuck with it we’re stuck in it and we have to make the best of it. Good luck to everyone! We’re all gonna need it! The only thing missing from this video was a good year blimp flying over Wilshire Boulevard!
Washington doesn't even try to hide their contempt for old America anymore: They're destroying the country while we watch and there's nothing we can do because it starts with the feminine controlled education system and young college students are in lockstep with hating old America. Its a race to the bottom now. Old America doesn't have friends in high places anymore, the country did nothing while the education system was taken over by the feminine mind.
Дружище, я никогда не был в США. Сам я из Грозного, Чечня. Но 12:19 читая внимательно твой комментарий я проникся и ощутил все твои эмоции. Я телепортировался в этот этот город и тот ресторан.. Спасибо.
The billboard ad for a bomb shelter at 3:26 was something to see. Gave me Fallout vibes. Videos like these is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
Duck and cover. I remember having fallout drills in school. We all had to get under our desks and cover our heads with our arms. Like that was going to protect us from a nuclear blast.
These vids are incredible! What an outstanding job in recreating them. It's like going back in time and being there exactly as it was. I watch them all the time.
Everything is clean and well put together and nice to look at. The streets, the buildings, the cars, the nature, the people. The past wasnt perfect, but we’ve let go of some good things.
I used to live on the block from the second shot. Something was so familiar... I looked up the area and when I realized where the columns were I was blown away!!! 🤯 Incredible!! The first shot is in the same area, called Miricle Mile. Thank you SO much!!
Born in 1954, I remember catching the end of the 50's. It did feel like The film. People were so caring , so alive, so human. Neighbors were like family. Miss growing up during those times so much. 😢❤😢❤😢
The closest thing we have to time travel, thanks. Almost every car shown is a collectors item now. Ah yes, Wilshire at LaBrea. Crossed that intersection a million times. 4k is outstanding
No sorry, you are incorrect. The video starts at Dunsmuir Ave. looking east. In the background you see "General of America Insurance building" which is definitely on La Brea Ave. (at Wilshire). You apparently are viewing much later in the video where, yes, the old May Co. store (later the renamed the "academy museum" - which was done like 50 years later) is shown at Wilshire and Fairfax @@pornneliushubbard1967
So the pinnacle of civilization is racism, segregation, women being beat by their husbands and being expected to be perfect housewives and being treated like property and nasty cigarette smoke everywhere? Yeah, that's the life!
Remember driving down Wilshire Blvd as a kid. Women would dress up and go to department stores like Bullocks and May Co. It's was neat to have lunch in the store cafeterias. A gentler time for sure.
This was my Los Angeles. You can see the Matterhorn being constructed at Disneyland from the freeway. This Purdue '55 had a summer job as an engineering intern at Lockheed Burbank. It turned into a permanent job when I graduated. I left LA area in 1972. I was working for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton. Those were good times.
My dad worked for Lockheed Burbank in ‘55. He was an engineer, did a lot of work in telemetry for missiles. He then ended up at Bendix Pacific-telemetry. Remember RocketDyne static firing rocket engines in the 60s? In the west end of the valley. The noise was terrific and it’d light up the night sky. I remember the Matterhorn off the freeway in OC. And the orange fields. We would drive to San Diego all the time from Woodland Hills.
It is totally time travel,, even the car ride footage has absolutely zero movement.. and in those days if you were walking around with a big video camera people would be looking and hiding from the camera,, but no response from anyone, almost like the camera is hidden,, and the footage looks way to high definition for the time period
My dad was a swing musician who performed in LA area in mid 40s. One of the bands he was in was Jan Savitt. Savitt and his band were in a few movies back then. One of the records my dad is in had Gloria DeHaven as vocalist. “Romance A La Mode”
I certainly remembered the 60’s when I was in my pre-teen. I remembered looking at magazines, books with advertisements on those decades of cars. Seems like the cars are the stars in that era. Very relaxing to watch. Thank you so much for this video.
As a retired Angeleno, who still has a 2 1 3 phone number, I really appreciated this. The part going West on Wilshire went right by my old living quarters. Now this area is called Koreatown. Superb stuff! If we all had bought property in LA back then, we'd all be millionaires now.
Ha! My grandparents bought property on Wiltshire Blvd just past Westwood and went to look at it after it rained before they built the house. There was a huge deep puddle of water so they turned around and resold it. 😢
Wow! Mid Wilshire without traffic lights?!? Everything is so clean and neat (including the people). I recognized a few buildings. I wasn’t born in the 1950s, but I grew up in Los Angeles. It’s a complete shame what that beautiful city has become.
as well they should. watching some people crossing the street, cars going through crosswalk and not looking or slowing down. I guess due to less cars at the time, laws and signs hadn't been implemented too strictly. Wonderful none the less.
You needed to drive those old cars a lot more carefully- 20 to 30 seconds to get to 60, unpowered worm and roller steering and 4 bias-ply tires on wheels with drum brakes. Todays cars make people think they’re much better drivers than they are.
When I lived in LA in 1990, I couldn't believe how slowly everybody drove. At the 35 speed limit, coming from Melbourne, Australia, where I used to drive everywhere at 50, I couldn't get used to it easily.
Pretty sure that the speed of the video has been slowed down. If you change the speed to 1.25 it's more realistic. But slower is better to see all the sights and businesses!
I didn't live back then so obivoulsy can't speak on how it was but seeing this video I feel like people were happier, more calm and it was peaceful for the most part. I wish I could experience atleast one day living in either the 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's.
I grew up in Southern California, born just after the Korean War. Growing up in Newport Beach 🏖️ and seeing how much it has changed - oftentimes not for the better - I watch these videos and remember quite well just how it all looked back then. My folks had a ‘49 Ford two door sedan, my grandparents had a ‘50 Buick Riviera. We kids always felt safe playing away from home out in the neighborhood somewhere. We just had to be home when the streetlights came on. Most of what I recall is just what you see here. Sure there were problems, what time in history were there never problems?
This is amazing what 1950's looks like. I was born in 1974. I told my boyfriend who was born 1950's I wish that I could see it. And now I can see it on this video. Who ever made this video thank you.
I'm old enough to remember this time....a time when people left their doors open at night in the summer, without being afraid...people were kind and respectful towards one another....my father drove a 1950 Chevy, it sure was much different than now.
it’s better now. Women can hold seats of government and they don’t have to be housewives or get sexually harassed at work. People are still kind and respectful. The only difference is they can love whoever they want now.
The first part of that clip was on Wilshire, Miracle Mile, just W of La Brea, Eastbound. I remember going to that Carnation store with my dad for strawberry malts, not milkshakes, in the 70s... good times. (not the TV show, which just happened to be filmed not far from there...) I graduated from Daniel Murphy High School, 3 blocks north, in '78. Thanks for the memories!
@@NJHProductions512 The poverty rate was almost double then what it is today. The number of inpatient mental hospitals has also decreased almost 100% since the 1950s. The people in this video are the ones who decided over the course of their lives to stop paying for those hospitals. Those once locked away in a hospital are now in the streets. No needles, though.
I still say the hippies were the beginning of our society going to shit 😂. Not saying they were bad people, but hear me out. They stopped dressing nice, grew out their hair, smoking bud and doing lsd. Were okay with promiscuity. I swear it's just been downhill from there ever since lol
Yes I'd think technology induces that as over decades and so much now ..I never thought technology was doing good for things as in the last 10 years it worsened ..
سبحان الله العظيم هذا هو الزمن الجميل حقيقتا هدوء في كل شيء حتى صوت الشارع يدل على قمة التحضر والآمان والأدب ❤❤❤❤❤.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🇺🇲🤍
Wow. I can recognize some big landmarks and the roads in the beginning but then as I kept watching, there was so much undeveloped space!! Yet still feels very LA. This is fascinating!!
My dad was born in 1951 and hes 75 years old this year, watching these videos and seeing the people and knowing that the people in the video are apart of *the greatest generation* The streets are clean, no one is in a rush, it sucks the society today cant be like that.
Great job, so nice to watch life at that time, so cool and relaxing. will be very cool if you make a video for the same street nowadays to see the difference between now and then. Thank you.
My mother and I came out to southern Calif. in 1966 - it was more built-up than this video shows - but it was uncrowded; not many vehicles; very clean streets and affordable. The video showing May Co. and Van de Kamp Restaurant on Wilshire Blvd. --- we used to shop and eat in both places. We were both "poor" but were able to shop and eat in nice places - it's close to Santa Monica. Gas was 26 cents/gallon and the attendant pumped the gas, washed the windshield.
Awesome. Someone went around filming streets. Beautiful restoration. Amazing how they achieve this wonderful colorization. It looks like it was filmed yesterday.
So peaceful to watch, makes me wish I could time travel, as well as fly somewhere! This is good enough for me, for now though! Stunning video, thanks for sharing! 😁
Its crazy to see an restored video from the early 50s, a time when my grandmother was born. How different everything is. Must be a great time to be alive.
5:56 and again at 11:15 on right side is the Woodland Motel. It was at 22621 Ventura Blvd. Woodland Hills, CA. South bound view. Today you can see the hill in the background.
I'm so glad and thankful that these videos are still around. You don't have to tell me how you got them or where you got them, but was it difficult to obtain these videos? Stuff is easy to get online these days, but originally all this footage on your channel must have been physical footage stored/archived in some special place right? Like a city hall or something. I wonder who originally filmed and stored away all this footage.
"In 1950, the average family income in the United States was $3,300, which was $200 higher than in 1949, according to Roy V. Peel, Director of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.01 The increase in income during this period probably represented a significant increase in purchasing power for the average family.1 Medical doctor salaries in the 1950s ranged from $8,272 to $28,628 for a neurological surgeon, and the average salary of a physician was $11,058. A new house cost $8,450.00, " BTW.... the average cost of a new car was $1,510. And some of them are still running today!
The "City of Angels" was spectacular back then. Life seemed calmer, at least on the highway. Excellent video footage of Los Angeles in the 1950's. This is one city I've always wanted to live in, past and present. Los Angeles, a one of a kind city. 🌞🎉🍊
Wow....look how considerate and kind and alid back everyone was back then. No rioting, looters, hoods, people smiling and driving 25 mph. Not like that now.
You can actually thank this generation and their children for the current state, if you want to get technical about it. A lot of self serving policies and a refusal to pay for anything, racking up national debt. But, there were plenty of riots, looting, poverty rate was actually much higher- you’re looking at a few minutes of a drive on a beautiful day, and it’s completely distorting your perception of reality.
Merry Christmas everyone ❤I absolutely love the 50s. Style, music, family life -everything. What a treasure to see these videos. We use modern technology to view the past ❤
I'm a Woodland Hills native, born in Van Nuys in 1960, parents bought a house on Canoga south of the Blvd in 62, I remember when it was still pretty open and lots of agriculture, my first wife lived on Platt Hill, they were still grazing cattle there in the early 80's
I'm guessing that the road showing the Woodland Hills and Canoga Park signs is Ventura Boulevard, before the 101 Freeway, and it was the main highway to get to Ventura and Santa Barbara.
Your 1940s selections are just mesmerising. I read sometime ago that we all cleave to a period about ten years before our birth, and certainly the 1940s are ‘my’ era by this calculation! Odd that it’s the USA that is so much more entrancing to me, as I’m a Londoner, but I am wondering about the huge effect of absorbing all those classic American films from (and books written/set in) this period. I can watch these movies endlessly, eagerly drinking in all the background detail, the cars, styles etc, and it’s all very familiar by now of course. Yet....seeing this genuine, real life stuff is really weirdly trippy, almost mystical even, and you realise how your mind kind of sets itself to a limiting ‘Fiction Mode’ when you watch a Hollywood movie for its period detail, for that elusive connection. If you see what I mean! It’s as though these real life scenes are somehow very different from everything seen in a movie, even though essentially they do look the same me. I dunno, but it’s absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much
Your comments about the US being entrancing to you and our movies amused me. I grew up in LA during the 50s-70s and all I cared about was Masterpiece Theater and Alastair Cooke explaining what MI-6 was. I thought everyone in CID had to be either Inspector Morse or Lord Peter Wimsey.
@@KB-ke3fi I was born in the Valley in 1948 and I remember when it looked like this. You aren't the only one who'd pay a million dollars to go back and visit those days. We lived next door to Mr. Sperks's horse ranch in North Hollywood. Jim and Ruth Hurd's camellia farm was east of us. Sarah Street was a dirt road. The only freeways were the Harbor, Pasadena (1943) and Hollywood (1949.) I wish the person who posted this video would identify what street in the Valley this is. I recognize old Wilshire Blvd. I was in and out of Ohrbach's many times with my mom.
@@vibrantgleam I worked at 13 for a construction company, with FICA deductions for social security and medicare. The billionaire J.R. Simplot left home at 13 and WORKED. I recommend it to all of you FAILED PARENTS today. Work ethic, you idiots.
That's on Ventura Blvd, passing then West Hills and then Canoga Park, the small hillside you see is the 101 before it was built, I've driven down this road since the early 80's and still do daily, i see a few small buildings still there, just modernized. All that empty land you see is now is all shopping centers. WOW
I couldn't quite believe I was looking at Ventura Blvd.... glad to see someone else confirm it! What a tranformation - even 15 years later. It's like another world.
They did not know how UNHappy they were. My parents grew up there in dysfunctional families, and my grandfather died of alcoholism. My parents moved to the LA white middle class suburbs of the San Fernando Valley where they continued with child abuse. After they won World War II they came home to make the American Dream come true in the 1950s, but they brought war wounds with them, and the depression of them having grown up during The Great Depression of the 1930s. Being nostalgic for "the good old days" isn't knowing the whole reality.
@@Nini-vj8sw I think that humans have much learning, healing, and evolving to do. I think that it is natural to evolution. It will take time, by one day at a time. I have faith. 🙏✨
I have a '51 Buick Roadmaster and a '49 Plymouth Special DeLuxe and I have seen examples of both in this video. Especially a close up view of a '49 Plymouth diving down the street at the 4:06 mark. Oh, how I wish I could take one of mine through this window in time and spend a day driving though old Los Angeles!
@@VilleGardian I'm older (58) and I can't afford them...but you're right kids nowadays would sell them off after a couple months just to get a quick dollar
@@VilleGardian I have a 72 Cheyenne truck that I bought from harry gant 30 years ago and I plan on giving to my daughter if she agree not to sell it lol
@@VilleGardian It's not even about expense. None of my cars are in show condition and don't really spend a lot of money fixing them. It's more about interest and even basic mechanical ability. Most kids today are basically slaves to technology and they don't even teach mechanics in school anymore. And if it requires any kind of effort on their part, forget it! Sorry for the rant. I'm 58 and transitioning into my grumpy old man phase. I'll just enjoy them while I'm alive and after that, well I won't care anymore after that!
The video starts at 5400 Wilshire Blvd going east. 1:44 video goes west starting about 5700 Wilshire Blvd & Masselin. 4:41 video seems to be going south on Ventura Fwy from around Hidden Hills to Canoga Ranch and back.
@@renatoamaral2029 Paradise lost? no it wasn’t. I grew up in the Valley at this time. This film is my childhood. If you tried to just breathe the air it would hurt because of all the lead in the smog. Bad coffee, bad food, still horrible traffic which I fought during the 60 s. Not paradise. There was the Watts Riots, Charlie Manson, RFKs assassination, and don’t forget the altar boys at St. Mel’s and Our Lady of the Valley! It all looks beautiful, idyllic. I remember it differently. The problems were different but problems never disappear. Nostalgia is remembering a past that never happened.
@@renatoamaral2029 “Nostalgia is crack for old people.” -Dara O’Briain I thought I was being nice! I never mentioned that everyone smoked. All the time. I saw Santa light up between kids, I sh*t you not! 🥹 IMO the very best year was 1968. I was 18 years old then. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that was a great year. That’s when my girlfriend discovered the pill. Good times!
@@GohAhweh nah, not a ray of sunshine. I like the truth, that’s all. I just lived there at the time and, unlike most people on this thread, actually know what it was really like to live in LA in the 50s. . I am amazed at the levels of falsehood. 50 years from now everyone will be saying that the 2020s were the best time in our history. How after 2024 it became a “paradise lost”. Wait for it. BTW, It isn’t a paradise now and it wasn’t then.
@@renatoamaral2029 I miss the 1700s. No traffic, no chemotherapy, no contentious elections, no cars leaking oil, no metal rock and nobody dying from smoking cigarettes. Ever since 1748 it’s all gone downhill.
Not a bit of trash anywhere. Lots of small, private businesses - not corporate sprawl. Low stress, high quality, self respect that translates into respect for others is so very obvious. People were MUCH happier back then!
this is so cool! I grew up in that neighborhood on Citrus Ave and Wilshire in the 90s. My parents are still there. I thought la roads being packed were a more recent phenomenon.
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Clean streets, no graffiti on the buildings, people dressed nice , it’s great to see it again thanks for sharing this.
America before the invasion of leftist ideology and culture.
Everyone is slim. No high fructose corn syrup.
Looks safe back then...actually like a pleasant place with decent people - the exact opposite of what it is now.
open carry back then
No homeless, either...
No one seemed to be in a rush. I love watching these videos. It gives me a sense of peace for a second.
Of course it's mostly people of european descent
rich people
True! But remember you would have needed your fathers or husband signature to get a banking account. Not to mention you could be fired for being gay or killed if you voted as a person of color. It wasn't all that great :0 Toodles
There's no Tyrones chasing the whites and Asians in an attempt to rape them sooooo no rushing needed
@@johnpaulkane6153What does that have to do with what she was saying 🤦♂️.
My mom was born in 1956 in Anaheim. She probably visited LA once or twice when she was very young, but she moved to Santa Ana to attend high school and by her late 20s, she wanted to move to Colorado, because of how much everything in Orange County changed.
Right as soon as I tapped on this video, I had to share it to her. I'm sure she would love this, because it'll bring her memories!
Does anyone know why watching these videos of the old days when I wasn't born makes me happy? I think it's just seeing how life was in different eras and how things have changed, I have always been fascinated by history.
The old days. This is what our parents and grandparents could only tell us about.. Nice to see those old vehicles in their element...
Things were simpler then, people valued the family as a whole, and LOVED their country. They would have NEVER burnt our flag.
There is certainly less traffic, homes were much more affordable, and there was a lot more open space and greenery. That all results in less stress. It is easy to see why everybody wanted to (and millions did) move to Los Angeles at that time. Just an observation: I've watched a number of these old remastered films and can't remember seeing a motorcycle in any of them. Cop cars are very rare, too.
Same for me. I love it. And the Los Angeles and San Fransisco footage from the 40s 50s and 60s are my favourite films!
😊😊😅 Crazy ha? 😂
The feeling of cleanliness and calm, beauty out of times, priceless.
Porque los angeles no era gigantesca ciudad como lo es ahora
It’s just a feeling. I grew up there at the time. On the positive- Quite a few film stars (none rich like today) lived there. It was very middle class. Buster Keaton, Larry Fine of the Three Stooges were two I remember. Negative- the food was terrible, the coffee was worse, the air was unbreathable, the cars leaked oil like they were faucets on drip, racism was open and everywhere, and the cops-jeez- the LAPD. Nuff said.
But other than that…! 🥰
White America
@@xada2397 100%
@@Lpreilly72 Interesting perspektive / experience. Nobody seemed to be in hurry, in this video. Compared to our days. Is this too only a feeling or was it realitity?
Im 38yrs old male and from the North East of England, i have recurring dreams of me walking the streets of America even attending a school, ive never been to America ever but i feel like ive lived it already especially around these times, i find myself watching any footage of America from 1940 upto 1960 never understood why other than dreams i have. My go to music if im poorly, happy, or sad is Doo-Wop music im obsessed with it, ive even got my mates hooked on it, if anybody knows a little town called Middlesbrough that's where im from and it's different in a billion ways to America at any period and people are normally into dance, rave music i like it but Doo-Wop is my thing, loved how they dressed back then to and the girls all looked beautiful if anybody seen me you wouldn't put me with anything 1950's especially doo-wop music, thanks for the video hope to find many more.
🤙 Thanks for sharing bro….I mean it, thank you for sharing. I live in the US…it’s quite depressing at the moment. Wish you the best mate.
This gives me strong "past life" vibes.
What a great story, thank you for sharing all this. I am born and raised in California and though the 1950's is before my time, my mother is 89 and she says this is exactly what it looked like in LA then. You should really come to California, but avoid the bigger cities and just see the mountains, deserts and beaches. I have been to Middlesbrough in 1999 because a pen pal of mine worked at the Dorman Museum, which I'm sure you've heard of. Anyway, cheers!
That’s crazy! Something about America has always called to me too. I try to visit as much as possible. And yes I know Middlesbrough I’m from Stockton-on-tees mate
I know Middlesbrough, where Bob Mortimer is from!
I grew up in the 1950s in Los Angeles and can tell you that back then drivers were more polite to each other, they yielded the right of way even when they didn't have to, they were not in a rush, did not run through yellow or red lights, did not cut off other drivers, did not tailgate drivers in front of them and treated driving as a privileged rather than as a right. The rules of the road were studied and put into practice and road rage was something completely unheard of back then.
Maybe because we weren't so angry
Ha cambiado mucho en todo el mundo...yo soy del viejo continente nací en España..y en esa época aquí también eran educados conductores, ahora son bestias , chillones y agresivos en la conducción..educación cero.
@@annelizabethcarroll3396..no solo enojados.., la educación brilla por su ausencia en los días actuales..notienen principios o los principios son moda del momento según el viento.
i genuinely envy you 😭 i was born in 2010 and i love love love love this time. so upset i'll never really experience ittt
bro, your old !
People look mostly peaceful, patient, mentally healthy. When I watched videos like this, I recollect my grandparents. They were steady moderate gentle people. I miss them. They died 2012, 2013, 2016. I still remember our last conversations.
Free love? Recreational drugs? independent woman?
Bro what. Free love hasnt made people happier and it's made marriage worse, you can live without your drugs for your highs, and nuclear families were and still are very successful
Mentally healthy? At a time when lobotomies were a form of therapy?
Mine too. Good way to put it
WOW, LOOK no traffic!
@@Christopher.Colbergonly because they were forced into it most of the time
People's fashion and culture, the colorful cars, the peace. Everything was perfect
Ironically, those living in this time were certain that "in the future," all of our problems would be solved.😮
Well, not exactly "perfect". Huge numbers of paralytic polio, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, segregation in housing and education for African Americans.... just read a newspaper from that era. Everything looks clean because it's mostly new and the population was much smaller.
@@scottwills8539 didn't know the usa territory was the globe
@@scottwills8539 yes
@@zaranski1889 I was just listing concerns for American's, didn't say anything about the "globe". Americans were building bomb shelters in the 50's so to claim that "everything was perfect" is a bit silly. Things were generally pretty damned good, I'll give you that, especially for white men. :)
What fascinates me is the fact that somebody thought (from that time period) it would be cool to film a video like this from a car with I’m assuming a Very big camera at that time. In this day and age where this would not be common, I’m happy that somebody made this video for us people from the future to see how the world was like during our grandparents early days.
This was probably filmed to be used as background in a movie - you know, the images through a car's rear window as the stars talk in the front seat.
@@richardgraham5051 Nah, they did this for archiving purposes too
@user-ks3ol3lw3b Some grandmothers gave birth very young, so it really varies
SAME!! i thought the same thing
@@TravellingxTales Quite a lot of the old footage shot at this time was 1) expensive commercial stock footage being used by everyone from travel agents to real estate brokers. 2) So you don’t see the bad parts of the city. It’s also edited. The classic of this is A Trip Down Market Street shot for a company in New York. It was shot in 1906 just a week before the city was destroyed. They wanted SF to look high tech so they staged a dozen cars to drive around the camera! If you haven’t seen it, you should!
The sidewalks and streets looked so clean
Now it a nightmare of bums, cops, thugs, drugs and scam artists.
That’s what I was thinking.
Damn Republicans kept the city clean
@@toosweet6046I think you meant to say before post 1965 third world immigration began.
@@toosweet6046 Go troll somewhere else.
I grew up in the 1950's. I love the fact that there's no voice over, just the street sounds, it makes me feel calm and happy to experience a more simple time.
Ummm no you didn’t
@@Stichboy109 50s isnt that long ago my friend.
Imagine telling the person filming this that in 70 years nearly a million people will be watching this on their phones and wish they lived during this time compared to now
I do not wish to live in this era.
I do not wish to live in this era sorry
I'd be offended ngl. (It wasn't perfect I know that)
I definitely don’t wish to live in this era, looks terrible
No sir. No Xbox, and the cars are ugly
I'm just shook over how clean the sidewalks are, no gum tar, it was so quiet too
It's just ambient sound added to the video. It's fake.
no tents, no junk, no feces, no wee wee.
@@spankyharland9845 The Streets of San Francisco are an Open outhouse.
💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Welcome to diversity and equity.
No ethnic gangs making the city unlivable
An excellent video. Not sure how you got ahold of this priceless gem but thanks for sharing. Definitely appreciate this one. Good job!
Truly wonderful, restored film. Los Angeles in that peaceful time, how clean, slow driving vehicles, well kept home lawnsetc., Growing up not far from the Wilshire area, stirs my heart, with blessed memories. Thank you. James
These videos are amazing. I can't imagine who drove around with a camera back then. Great job with restoring and colorizing.
Thank you :)
Quite often, clips like this of driving on a city street were filmed to be used as background in a movie scene inside a "moving" vehicle. There are a number of them here on UA-cam.
@@genedryer-bivins8314 that makes all the sense in the world considering most of the angles these videos are filmed in 🚀✨🚀✨🚀
My friend and me drove around Melbourne in Australia for hours on different periods, over many years. None of the video footage is recognisable as the same place anymore. We took a lot of freeway footage in and around the city, and the new buildings now conceal the views.
Don’t streets look cleaner?
I lived in LA back in the eighties. Went to USC. Downtown LA was already a rough neighborhood. Suburbs were always as serene as the pictures in this lovely film. It's so sad to see a paradise becomes hell.
It isn't hell now either. People only see what they want to see.
70 years ago, this video would be boring, today, its fascinating
Must be very early 1950's. I didn't see a car much newer than 1951. Also fascinating to see empty lots in the Wilshire District. So much open land in the west valley as well: Hidden Hills, Canoga Park, Woodland Hills, now just endless miles of tract homes.
Yes, I grew up in Woodland Hills. There was a big boom in the 50s! The house I grew up in was built in 1953 on Burbank Blvd (between Fallbrook and Woodlake). So this is definitely the WAY early 50s… 1950 or 1951! These were the final days of it looking like this in the West Valley. I was able to pinpoint every street heading east down Ventura Bl. Video starts just east of Woodlake Ave., and it goes all the way to Canoga Ave.… And then back/westbound again. Never thought I would see anything like this… It is awesome!
I was thinking the same thing, 50, 51 were the newest cars I saw. Grew up in Woodland Hills in the 60"s and 70's, neat to see how it looked way back
@@mikewhitcomb6558 Hey Mike, if you want to see that part of the valley in its early days check out the movie Bachelor In Paradise with Bob Hope and Lana Turner from 1961. It's a dumb old film, but I think it was filmed in Woodland Hills.
Notice the billboards for $795 bomb shelters? Early Cold War era, no doubt
@@TiltBrookthanks for the perspective.
I love watching these videos of Los Angeles, San Francisco and others, It's wonderful to see what life was like in those days. I was born in Los Angeles in 1950, but we all moved to San Francisco when I was 3yr old and been here ever since. Of course my parents brought us to Disney Land when it first opened and other amusement parks etc. These videos brings back memories of child hood childhood days. Thank you for sharing.
I was in LA and Long Beach around 1952-1953. My uncle had a Studebaker with the bullet front. I remember how milky blue the skies were. I didn't realize how little traffic was on the road during the middle of the day and how wide the streets were.
Nice car!
Now vehicles just sport bullet holes in the front 😔
Based on your profile picture, are you Danny DeVito?
My father in law grew up in long beach, my husband was born there too. My husband’s grandfather was a wwII pilot and went to work at Douglas after the war. My father in law loved to surf and had a long board
The air in los angeles is exponentially cleaner now than it was back then. All of those cars are being run on gasonline with LEAD in it.
I miss that Van de Kamp’s restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard just east of Fairfax. My parents used to take us …my brothers and I to Van de Kamp’s for their halibut fish and chips dinner. It was so delicious! so fresh and tasty. So sad to see that restaurant is gone now the waitresses all had blue and white Dutch girl uniforms, the halibut was delicious! tender flaky and sweet with french fries I would smother with ketchup we get a salad with the meal with blue cheese and then for dessert pumpkin pie with whipped cream topping. This was in the 1950s and early 1960s (I was born in February 1951) when we were little kids this makes me so sad and melancholy to see these buildings the ORBACHS department store, the La Brea tar pits, the May company where my mom used to take me shopping all the time that building on Wilshire and Fairfax on the north east corner. Those were good times!. I love to just dive into this video and go back there the 21st century is bullshit!
But we’re stuck with it we’re stuck in it and we have to make the best of it. Good luck to everyone! We’re all gonna need it! The only thing missing from this video was a good year blimp flying over Wilshire Boulevard!
The oceans are now so polluted, especially by communist China, that ALL of the ocean game fish are loaded with mercury. It is no longer edible at all.
Washington doesn't even try to hide their contempt for old America anymore: They're destroying the country while we watch and there's nothing we can do because it starts with the feminine controlled education system and young college students are in lockstep with hating old America. Its a race to the bottom now. Old America doesn't have friends in high places anymore, the country did nothing while the education system was taken over by the feminine mind.
Дружище, я никогда не был в США. Сам я из Грозного, Чечня. Но 12:19 читая внимательно твой комментарий я проникся и ощутил все твои эмоции. Я телепортировался в этот этот город и тот ресторан.. Спасибо.
The billboard ad for a bomb shelter at 3:26 was something to see. Gave me Fallout vibes. Videos like these is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
Great catch
Duck and cover. I remember having fallout drills in school. We all had to get under our desks and cover our heads with our arms. Like that was going to protect us from a nuclear blast.
These vids are incredible! What an outstanding job in recreating them. It's like going back in time and being there exactly as it was. I watch them all the time.
Wilshire Boulevard’s Miracle Mile.....amazing. Again, many thanks for preserving, archiving, and presenting.
Everything is clean and well put together and nice to look at. The streets, the buildings, the cars, the nature, the people. The past wasnt perfect, but we’ve let go of some good things.
It's not just the color, it's also the motion, you could literally be there. Amazing clips.
Literally
I used to live on the block from the second shot. Something was so familiar... I looked up the area and when I realized where the columns were I was blown away!!! 🤯 Incredible!! The first shot is in the same area, called Miricle Mile. Thank you SO much!!
Born at Queen of Angels growing up in the South Bay '60- 70s still enjoy my 1981 213number can't get enough of these old films!
I feel a calm positive energy from this video
Welcome to White civilization.
Born in 1954, I remember catching the end of the 50's. It did feel like The film. People were so caring , so alive, so human. Neighbors were like family. Miss growing up during those times so much. 😢❤😢❤😢
*literally hugs the 1950s.* Wow. 1920-1960; just respect.
70s too
Might aswell hug the kkk at that point
Native Angelino here! This is so awesome
The closest thing we have to time travel, thanks. Almost every car shown is a collectors item now. Ah yes, Wilshire at LaBrea. Crossed that intersection a million times. 4k is outstanding
Thank you :)
What if this was a time travel...no redlightssno green light
Yes....
Use to work and club on Wilshire Bl❤
That’s Wilshire and Fairfax not la brea…you can see the academy museum
No sorry, you are incorrect. The video starts at Dunsmuir Ave. looking east. In the background you see "General of America Insurance building" which is definitely on La Brea Ave. (at Wilshire). You apparently are viewing much later in the video where, yes, the old May Co. store (later the renamed the "academy museum" - which was done like 50 years later) is shown at Wilshire and Fairfax @@pornneliushubbard1967
These folks have no idea they were living at the pinnacle of civilization.
Exactly.
yea right it was fucked up back then, just less crowded
So the pinnacle of civilization is racism, segregation, women being beat by their husbands and being expected to be perfect housewives and being treated like property and nasty cigarette smoke everywhere? Yeah, that's the life!
@@livetryggr actually it does go downhill 🤷🏼♂️ Biden president, lgbtq+~$|¥$% SJW etc.
Remember driving down Wilshire Blvd as a kid. Women would dress up and go to department stores like Bullocks and May Co. It's was neat to have lunch in the store cafeterias. A gentler time for sure.
The best days. Quiet and peaceful. People had morals and respect
“White people” had morals and respect. Go to a small town in middle America or New England. They still do.
Because there wasn’t any migrants :/
''Best days'' as if husbands weren't beating the shit out of their wives back then
@@UncleTony2yes !! You right!!!
@@dberk023 Long gone now never to return.
This was my Los Angeles. You can see the Matterhorn being constructed at Disneyland from the freeway. This Purdue '55 had a summer job as an engineering intern at Lockheed Burbank. It turned into a permanent job when I graduated. I left LA area in 1972. I was working for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton. Those were good times.
Are you so blind, you CAN'T TELL this is FAKE? NOT REAL! A VIDEO GAME!
My dad worked for Lockheed Burbank in ‘55. He was an engineer, did a lot of work in telemetry for missiles. He then ended up at Bendix Pacific-telemetry. Remember RocketDyne static firing rocket engines in the 60s? In the west end of the valley. The noise was terrific and it’d light up the night sky. I remember the Matterhorn off the freeway in OC. And the orange fields. We would drive to San Diego all the time from Woodland Hills.
The Disneyland Matterhorn is in Anaheim, not Los Angeles.
@@miguelwc True. I should have said the LA area. To me LA was all the area covered by Hollywood, Pasadena, Harbor, Ventura and Santa Ana freeways.
This is amazing to see. It is almost like time travel.
It is totally time travel,, even the car ride footage has absolutely zero movement.. and in those days if you were walking around with a big video camera people would be looking and hiding from the camera,, but no response from anyone, almost like the camera is hidden,, and the footage looks way to high definition for the time period
My dad was a swing musician who performed in LA area in mid 40s. One of the bands he was in was Jan Savitt. Savitt and his band were in a few movies back then. One of the records my dad is in had Gloria DeHaven as vocalist. “Romance A La Mode”
Incredible work! Thanx! Born in LA in 49 - really takes me back!!
Still living in LA ?
I certainly remembered the 60’s when I was in my pre-teen. I remembered looking at magazines, books with advertisements on those decades of cars. Seems like the cars are the stars in that era. Very relaxing to watch. Thank you so much for this video.
This is fantastic! Ty for sharing this content
As a retired Angeleno, who still has a 2 1 3 phone number, I really appreciated this. The part going West on Wilshire went right by my old living quarters. Now this area is called Koreatown. Superb stuff! If we all had bought property in LA back then, we'd all be millionaires now.
If you wouldn’t have voted Blue it would still be a decent place to live in instead of the third world country it became with Gavin
Ha! My grandparents bought property on Wiltshire Blvd just past Westwood and went to look at it after it rained before they built the house. There was a huge deep puddle of water so they turned around and resold it. 😢
@@aliceputt3133 over a puddle?
Wow! Mid Wilshire without traffic lights?!? Everything is so clean and neat (including the people). I recognized a few buildings. I wasn’t born in the 1950s, but I grew up in Los Angeles. It’s a complete shame what that beautiful city has become.
Everybody’s driving sooo slow! Seems they were enjoying the ride better than today’s.
as well they should. watching some people crossing the street, cars going through crosswalk and not looking or slowing down. I guess due to less cars at the time, laws and signs hadn't been implemented too strictly. Wonderful none the less.
You needed to drive those old cars a lot more carefully- 20 to 30 seconds to get to 60, unpowered worm and roller steering and 4 bias-ply tires on wheels with drum brakes. Todays cars make people think they’re much better drivers than they are.
@@tompease3022 Very true!
When I lived in LA in 1990, I couldn't believe how slowly everybody drove. At the 35 speed limit, coming from Melbourne, Australia, where I used to drive everywhere at 50, I couldn't get used to it easily.
Pretty sure that the speed of the video has been slowed down. If you change the speed to 1.25 it's more realistic. But slower is better to see all the sights and businesses!
Love these vintage videos, the colors are amazing!
Thank you :)
I didn't live back then so obivoulsy can't speak on how it was but seeing this video I feel like people were happier, more calm and it was peaceful for the most part. I wish I could experience atleast one day living in either the 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's.
Liiam. Yes, people of this era are for the most part the only well rounded, normal people today.
I grew up in Southern California, born just after the Korean War. Growing up in Newport Beach 🏖️ and seeing how much it has changed - oftentimes not for the better - I watch these videos and remember quite well just how it all looked back then. My folks had a ‘49 Ford two door sedan, my grandparents had a ‘50 Buick Riviera. We kids always felt safe playing away from home out in the neighborhood somewhere. We just had to be home when the streetlights came on.
Most of what I recall is just what you see here. Sure there were problems, what time in history were there never problems?
Our family was living there then .my dad is 88 and he has tons of stories abour la in the 50s
If you could please share some of his stories it would mean the world to
This is amazing what 1950's looks like. I was born in 1974. I told my boyfriend who was born 1950's I wish that I could see it. And now I can see it on this video. Who ever made this video thank you.
A better country. No internet, no cell phones, no Facebook, no Twitter but a MUCH better country.
No filth, no tent cities, no drug zombies, no homeless people, no litter.
Old cellphones : am I a joke to you
@@vibrantgleam Landlines that were stuck on the wall? Definitely!
they also had segregation of ethnic minorities, women, and lgbtq so i wouldn’t go that far
@@summerthelesbianThat time was even better, don't go crying 😂
I'm old enough to remember this time....a time when people left their doors open at night in the summer, without being afraid...people were kind and respectful towards one another....my father drove a 1950 Chevy, it sure was much different than now.
En France c'était pareil
how old are you ?
it’s better now. Women can hold seats of government and they don’t have to be housewives or get sexually harassed at work. People are still kind and respectful. The only difference is they can love whoever they want now.
@@ddespair hoefully we will have full equality and they also weill be drafted in times of war
В Советском Союзе было так же. Потом в 90е всё дерьмо из США притекло у нам.
The first part of that clip was on Wilshire, Miracle Mile, just W of La Brea, Eastbound. I remember going to that Carnation store with my dad for strawberry malts, not milkshakes, in the 70s... good times. (not the TV show, which just happened to be filmed not far from there...) I graduated from Daniel Murphy High School, 3 blocks north, in '78. Thanks for the memories!
I worked at Lou Ehlers next to Carnation in the 80s putting Car Phones in to new cars.
@@Dwayne-mb2uj Ha! The Cadillac dealership!👍
@@jhutch67 Yes and I was eating at Carnation one time and I saw the sadist thing A former boxer was being fed by his daughter .
@@Dwayne-mb2uj sometimes, life gives us 🍋 🍋
You guys rock. Keep posting these awesome videos.
Thank you :)
Those cars are soooo much more beautiful than today's cars... I wonder why that industry completely lost any sense of aesthetics.
Government regulations.
Probably the 70s; it became too expensive to overly ornate the cars in the middle of crisis after crisis after crisis. On top of that, tastes changed
@@theonebman7581 Not really for the better, it seems. ;)
@MH-yp6wg and dangerous as Hell.
safety
Nobody's face in their phones, no obnoxious music on speakers, clean streets, nice architecture, nicely dressed people-- it's amazing.
Define clean.
@ no needles or homeless camps…
@@NJHProductions512 The poverty rate was almost double then what it is today. The number of inpatient mental hospitals has also decreased almost 100% since the 1950s. The people in this video are the ones who decided over the course of their lives to stop paying for those hospitals. Those once locked away in a hospital are now in the streets. No needles, though.
Beautiful video, thank you for sharing. The 50s were the best times in the USA. Society has been in decline since.
I still say the hippies were the beginning of our society going to shit 😂. Not saying they were bad people, but hear me out. They stopped dressing nice, grew out their hair, smoking bud and doing lsd. Were okay with promiscuity. I swear it's just been downhill from there ever since lol
racism..?
@@anothergamingchannel2656it was them and the sexual revolution that began the moral decline into the degenerate society we live in currently
@@Itsseebfrit's easy for white people to forget that shit, after all they were the ones benefiting from it
A perfect example of how technology induces anxiety. Everyone here is calm, steady, and have everything calculated perfectly
Yes I'd think technology induces that as over decades and so much now ..I never thought technology was doing good for things as in the last 10 years it worsened ..
@@joemeyers4131ok boomer
I think you may have missed the billboard advertising bomb shelters
My guess is that this was filmed during the middle of the day or the weekend.
@@skywishr1313 Okay, kid. Now it's your time. Show us what you've got..
سبحان الله العظيم هذا هو الزمن الجميل حقيقتا هدوء في كل شيء حتى صوت الشارع يدل على قمة التحضر والآمان والأدب ❤❤❤❤❤.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🇺🇲🤍
Yes, a country without Muslims
Wow. I can recognize some big landmarks and the roads in the beginning but then as I kept watching, there was so much undeveloped space!! Yet still feels very LA. This is fascinating!!
Great to see Harris & Frank!! I worked there on Wilshire in 1976 till 1979!
You know you're old when all this looks perfectly normal!
I was born in Los Angeles in 1951. I'm 72 years old, and I've seen everything! Cindy We had fish every Friday at Van de Kemp.
"Jist you wait, 'enry 'iggins, jist you wait" [until January 20, 2024].
Wow! That's good you were born in a good timeline! It looks so beautiful!! 👏
That looks an even nicer time to live in then the 1960's. And its a much slower pace of life which is what I like.
My dad was born in 1951 and hes 75 years old this year, watching these videos and seeing the people and knowing that the people in the video are apart of *the greatest generation* The streets are clean, no one is in a rush, it sucks the society today cant be like that.
Great job, so nice to watch life at that time, so cool and relaxing. will be very cool if you make a video for the same street nowadays to see the difference between now and then. Thank you.
My mother and I came out to southern Calif. in 1966 - it was more built-up than this video shows - but it was uncrowded; not many vehicles; very clean streets and affordable. The video showing May Co. and Van de Kamp Restaurant on Wilshire Blvd. --- we used to shop and eat in both places. We were both "poor" but were able to shop and eat in nice places - it's close to Santa Monica. Gas was 26 cents/gallon and the attendant pumped the gas, washed the windshield.
And it was 98% white, which you never grasped as THE key element of all.
Because there weren’t any migrants everywhere :/
Thanks for the trip back in time, where everything looks... innocent.
Awesome. Someone went around filming streets. Beautiful restoration. Amazing how they achieve this wonderful colorization. It looks like it was filmed yesterday.
To think that most of the people driving these cars are super old or already dead makes me sad, time flies by so important to live your life
Some of them may be surviving in thr 80s or 90s... but they may be in thr youth at that time...such videos makes you nostalgic...
How much all of that landscape has changed is amazing
So peaceful to watch, makes me wish I could time travel, as well as fly somewhere!
This is good enough for me, for now though! Stunning video, thanks for sharing! 😁
Its crazy to see an restored video from the early 50s, a time when my grandmother was born. How different everything is. Must be a great time to be alive.
5:56 and again at 11:15 on right side is the Woodland Motel. It was at 22621 Ventura Blvd. Woodland Hills, CA. South bound view. Today you can see the hill in the background.
I'm so glad and thankful that these videos are still around. You don't have to tell me how you got them or where you got them, but was it difficult to obtain these videos? Stuff is easy to get online these days, but originally all this footage on your channel must have been physical footage stored/archived in some special place right? Like a city hall or something. I wonder who originally filmed and stored away all this footage.
Footage shot to be used as background for a movie scene inside a "moving" vehicle.
"In 1950, the average family income in the United States was $3,300, which was $200 higher than in 1949, according to Roy V. Peel, Director of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.01 The increase in income during this period probably represented a significant increase in purchasing power for the average family.1 Medical doctor salaries in the 1950s ranged from $8,272 to $28,628 for a neurological surgeon, and the average salary of a physician was $11,058. A new house cost $8,450.00, "
BTW.... the average cost of a new car was $1,510. And some of them are still running today!
My first car was a VW bug, bought it new from the dealer. Off the lot price was $1500.
In Cuba yes.
In Canoga Park, CA in 1973. $1500, off the lot. You couldn’t buy one in Cuba at the time.
Amazing how time has changed. I was borned in 53. I misses the good old days for sure
MONEY is not the key element in the change.
The "City of Angels" was spectacular back then. Life seemed calmer, at least on the highway. Excellent video footage of Los Angeles in the 1950's. This is one city I've always wanted to live in, past and present. Los Angeles, a one of a kind city. 🌞🎉🍊
Wow!
A life without scumbags.
We could bring these times back.
Nope, the scumbag is out of the bottle. No turning back
Wow....look how considerate and kind and alid back everyone was back then. No rioting, looters, hoods, people smiling and driving 25 mph. Not like that now.
You can actually thank this generation and their children for the current state, if you want to get technical about it. A lot of self serving policies and a refusal to pay for anything, racking up national debt. But, there were plenty of riots, looting, poverty rate was actually much higher- you’re looking at a few minutes of a drive on a beautiful day, and it’s completely distorting your perception of reality.
Merry Christmas everyone ❤I absolutely love the 50s. Style, music, family life -everything. What a treasure to see these videos. We use modern technology to view the past ❤
I'm a Woodland Hills native, born in Van Nuys in 1960, parents bought a house on Canoga south of the Blvd in 62, I remember when it was still pretty open and lots of agriculture, my first wife lived on Platt Hill, they were still grazing cattle there in the early 80's
I'm guessing that the road showing the Woodland Hills and Canoga Park signs is Ventura Boulevard, before the 101 Freeway, and it was the main highway to get to Ventura and Santa Barbara.
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@@danoc51Venture Blvd was the 101. You could take that highway north all the way to Canada.
The streets are clean, evidence of education. Also, there is no nudity, no temptation, no problems, and no fighting
you forgot to add racism
❤ i love these beautiful videos! My family moved to L.A. from Texas in about 1956, and that's where I grew up, in the San Fernando Valley.
Your 1940s selections are just mesmerising. I read sometime ago that we all cleave to a period about ten years before our birth, and certainly the 1940s are ‘my’ era by this calculation!
Odd that it’s the USA that is so much more entrancing to me, as I’m a Londoner, but I am wondering about the huge effect of absorbing all those classic American films from (and books written/set in) this period. I can watch these movies endlessly, eagerly drinking in all the background detail, the cars, styles etc, and it’s all very familiar by now of course. Yet....seeing this genuine, real life stuff is really weirdly trippy, almost mystical even, and you realise how your mind kind of sets itself to a limiting ‘Fiction Mode’ when you watch a Hollywood movie for its period detail, for that elusive connection. If you see what I mean!
It’s as though these real life scenes are somehow very different from everything seen in a movie, even though essentially they do look the same me. I dunno, but it’s absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much
Your comments about the US being entrancing to you and our movies amused me. I grew up in LA during the 50s-70s and all I cared about was Masterpiece Theater and Alastair Cooke explaining what MI-6 was. I thought everyone in CID had to be either Inspector Morse or
Lord Peter Wimsey.
I'd pay a million dollars just to go back to that for a weekend.
@@KB-ke3fi I was born in the Valley in 1948 and I remember when it looked like this. You aren't the only one who'd pay a million dollars to go back and visit those days. We lived next door to Mr. Sperks's horse ranch in North Hollywood. Jim and Ruth Hurd's camellia farm was east of us. Sarah Street was a dirt road. The only freeways were the Harbor, Pasadena (1943) and Hollywood (1949.) I wish the person who posted this video would identify what street in the Valley this is. I recognize old Wilshire Blvd. I was in and out of Ohrbach's many times with my mom.
Wow that is interesting because I wish I experienced the 70s, I was borned in the 80s
can u tell me about it?
One thing I consistently observe in these old images and videos is that almost 99.9% people are slim and fit.
number1 reason why people are obese nowadays is higly processed food thats made to be addictive, so its a simple conclusion
@@panbestia6959 and kids stay inside on their devices, no exercise.... they worked back then
@@rickyestes7477 mm child labor.
@@rickyestes7477worked for nothing
@@vibrantgleam I worked at 13 for a construction company, with FICA deductions for social security and medicare. The billionaire J.R. Simplot left home at 13 and WORKED. I recommend it to all of you FAILED PARENTS today. Work ethic, you idiots.
Amazing video ❤
That's on Ventura Blvd, passing then West Hills and then Canoga Park, the small hillside you see is the 101 before it was built, I've driven down this road since the early 80's and still do daily, i see a few small buildings still there, just modernized. All that empty land you see is now is all shopping centers. WOW
I couldn't quite believe I was looking at Ventura Blvd.... glad to see someone else confirm it! What a tranformation - even 15 years later. It's like another world.
Thank you. Nice to see old memories.
This is beautifully remastered.
These people did not know how happy they were
Exactlyyy!!! Didn't know that was the 'life'
They did not know how UNHappy they were. My parents grew up there in dysfunctional families, and my grandfather died of alcoholism. My parents moved to the LA white middle class suburbs of the San Fernando Valley where they continued with child abuse. After they won World War II they came home to make the American Dream come true in the 1950s, but they brought war wounds with them, and the depression of them having grown up during The Great Depression of the 1930s. Being nostalgic for "the good old days" isn't knowing the whole reality.
@@marymichael1211 the great depression is so sad 😢 Im barely learning about yesterday and today, wow
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I think that humans have much learning, healing, and evolving to do. I think that it is natural to evolution. It will take time, by one day at a time. I have faith. 🙏✨
@@marymichael1211 yup, I'm still learning too but with time it will come, I see what you mean! :)
I have a '51 Buick Roadmaster and a '49 Plymouth Special DeLuxe and I have seen examples of both in this video. Especially a close up view of a '49 Plymouth diving down the street at the 4:06 mark. Oh, how I wish I could take one of mine through this window in time and spend a day driving though old Los Angeles!
Give them to your kids and let them enjoy them you can't take them with you
Unfortunately these vintage cars are and their maintenance aren't something kids nowadays can afford
@@VilleGardian I'm older (58) and I can't afford them...but you're right kids nowadays would sell them off after a couple months just to get a quick dollar
@@VilleGardian I have a 72 Cheyenne truck that I bought from harry gant 30 years ago and I plan on giving to my daughter if she agree not to sell it lol
@@VilleGardian It's not even about expense. None of my cars are in show condition and don't really spend a lot of money fixing them. It's more about interest and even basic mechanical ability. Most kids today are basically slaves to technology and they don't even teach mechanics in school anymore. And if it requires any kind of effort on their part, forget it! Sorry for the rant. I'm 58 and transitioning into my grumpy old man phase. I'll just enjoy them while I'm alive and after that, well I won't care anymore after that!
I would love to time travel and spend time with my grandparents and great grandparents.... I miss all of them
The video starts at 5400 Wilshire Blvd going east.
1:44 video goes west starting about 5700 Wilshire Blvd & Masselin. 4:41 video seems to be going south on Ventura Fwy from around Hidden Hills to Canoga Ranch and back.
I love the world in the past . Every thing is very peace and very beautiful .
Paradise lost...
@@renatoamaral2029 Paradise lost? no it wasn’t. I grew up in the Valley at this time. This film is my childhood. If you tried to just breathe the air it would hurt because of all the lead in the smog. Bad coffee, bad food, still horrible traffic which I fought during the 60 s. Not paradise. There was the Watts Riots, Charlie Manson, RFKs assassination, and don’t forget the altar boys at St. Mel’s and Our Lady of the Valley! It all looks beautiful, idyllic. I remember it differently. The problems were different but problems never disappear. Nostalgia is remembering a past that never happened.
@Lpreilly72 you're just a ray of sunshine aren't you😂😂 I'll gladly take all those problems in trade for today's problems and filth.
@@renatoamaral2029 “Nostalgia is crack for old people.” -Dara O’Briain
I thought I was being nice! I never mentioned that everyone smoked. All the time. I saw Santa light up between kids, I sh*t you not! 🥹 IMO the very best year was 1968. I was 18 years old then. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that was a great year. That’s when my girlfriend discovered the pill. Good times!
@@GohAhweh nah, not a ray of sunshine. I like the truth, that’s all. I just lived there at the time and, unlike most people on this thread, actually know what it was really like to live in LA in the 50s. . I am amazed at the levels of falsehood. 50 years from now everyone will be saying that the 2020s were the best time in our history. How after 2024 it became a “paradise lost”. Wait for it. BTW, It isn’t a paradise now and it wasn’t then.
@@renatoamaral2029 I miss the 1700s. No traffic, no chemotherapy, no contentious elections, no cars leaking oil, no metal rock and nobody dying from smoking cigarettes. Ever since 1748 it’s all gone downhill.
Not a bit of trash anywhere. Lots of small, private businesses - not corporate sprawl. Low stress, high quality, self respect that translates into respect for others is so very obvious. People were MUCH happier back then!
You crazy . Thats not the truth
@@F_antomas The burden of proof is on you.
My grandpa had a business downtown.. he would always sweep the sidewalk every morning.
Great restoration love those old buildings and cars
Excellent remastering. This looks like it was filmed recently.👌👍
this is so cool! I grew up in that neighborhood on Citrus Ave and Wilshire in the 90s. My parents are still there. I thought la roads being packed were a more recent phenomenon.
I could watch these all day!