Where the Mountains Meet the Sea (1959)
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- It's too bad that Santa Monica is nowhere near as awesome as it was in 1959.
And just in case you were wondering, yes, Cesar Romero is in this.
P.S. I've lived in Santa Monica my entire life, and I have never had a lifeguard offer to take a sand speck out of my eye, but maybe I'm just ugly. Who knows?
I was born in St. John's Hospital in 1946 and grew up in Santa Monica/W.L.A. I was gone from the area from 1993 to 2002. When I came back I didn't recognize the place. Santa Monica is so overdeveloped and crowded. Change isn't always for the better.
Late 50s and early 60s in Southern California was the most livable of any place, anywhere.
So amazing to see my father around 7:45 directing traffic!! :-)
That's so cool! Was he a police officer?
Is he still alive?
Thank you ... He was killed on duty the year after this video was taken - a pick up truck hit his motor and he didn't survive.
oh my.......what an unfortunate news! I was hoping he might still be with us this time as an elderly gentleman in his well deserved pension sitting on his terrace drinking his afternoon tea or coffee reading local press. That was my fantasy of him. 56 years later but I guess never too late to say I'm sorry. I really am. Btw can't he too be seen from 7:26 - 7:34 instructing some car couple? His motorbike can be clearly seen being parked aside the road. What a nice bike.
Thank you. Yes that is him and the mother he loved to ride. He was truly loved and respected by the other officers who voted him to lead their police union. Funny thing is that my sisters and I have always wished he'd been around for that coffee on the terrace. Thank you again ....
I moved to West LA in 1958 and got to see all this. Went to POP and rode the roller coaster. And amazing era.
A time when newspapers were educational aids at school.
The best times until the hippies came in
@@dondressel452 I know, they and many others helped to destroy america. It is a tragedy that not many realized was a tragedy, a stolen era.
All gone, I don't even recognize Colorado Ave. anymore, terrible. Dad was born in Santa Monica in 1931, sold newspapers when he was 10 years old. My mom and dad, as well as me, are heartbroken over our old Santa Monica, little old once quiet beach town :( I used to find my jobs in the Evening Outlook!
It was too a small beach town I miss so much. 1959-2024 I have seen it all. Horrific changes. We all knew each other back then. Smiles Laughs. BBQs. Beach bon fires, surfing. Today not even eye contact. Strangers are not to be trusted. Everyone looking down at Cell phones even on the damned beach. lol Laptops on Ocean ave. People set up mini offices on Ocean ave. when they should be enjoying the day - oh well. And yes, THE TRAFFIC? OMG Getting up Sunset Blvd during the week after 2 pm? Forget it. All the old restaurants and coffee shops closed. Strangers. Tourists galore. My step-mother's restaurant CASA ESCOBAR no more. Bankrupt 2023. 12 units gone. RIP Johnny, founder. He built quite a business.
So clean! It is a sad place now.
Thank you for honesty. It is sad. My step-mother owned Casa Escobar with her brothers and it was fun back then 1960s. CHEERIO restaurant. SAMOHI. Less traffic. clean beaches without all the filth, drugs of today. Kids could play all day til dark. Safely. It is what it is. I loved living on East Rustic in SM Canyon and walking to the beach with surfboard on my head. Towel of course. Those were the days. Even 1970s after US Army tour in Europe was fun. Tennis. Surfing. SM College using GI Bill. UCLA. Woodbury U on Wilshire blvd L.A. and then I left for Italy to become marketing mgr. for John Deere Corp. heavy equip. However, something about Santa Monica makes us return. lol These days I walk at Anneberg Beach resort/House. And remember 'The Good Ol' Days'.
I grew up on 6th between Wilshire and California Ave. Apartment under Arnold Schwarzenegger. Went to St. Monica's and my father lived on Georgina. Do you remember Thrifty's and Drug King? Friars restaurant, Zucky's + Polly's Pies? I miss all of it and I'm coming back. Thanks for sharing this! ❤️🙋
I lived on 5th between Wilshire and California. Attended Roosevelt Elementary where Rod Serling (of Twilight Zone) was the PTA President for the 1958-59 school year. The Arrow Theatre showed kiddie movies on Saturday mornings where admission was 25 Cents. Remember Fat Eddie's Coffee Shop at 5th and Wilshire across the street from Zucky's? Yep, a lot of great memories.
@@susanprice7202 Hey neighbor!! No I don't remember Fat Eddie's just Thrifty's drug store on 4th, Polly's Pies and Zucky's on 5th. I had no idea Rod Serling was in the PTA at Roosevelt!!! I went to St. Monica's and as the rent control went away, we moved further east; 14th st, and 21st always between California and Washington 😁. I remember my grandma taking me to the Arrow. ❤️ Next month is my trip! I'm so ready 😁
@Its_Renee
We moved to S.M. from Orange County in 1969, and lived just off of 17th Street, South of Ocean Park Blvd. What is now Bob's Market at 17th & Ocean Park was called Royal Market when we first moved there.
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I sure do remember Polly's Pies, and Zucky's at about 1:00 or 2:00 AM on plenty of Saturdays. The Broken Drum, LaBarbera's Pizza (still my favorite!)
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I went to Grant School for 5th & 6th grade. I had Mr. Oldham both years, and he was my all-time favorite teacher. Sadly, he died when I was in 7th grade at John Adams Jr. High School.
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I graduated from Samohi, class of '77.
In 1986, I could really feel the entire area changing -- darker mood -- it wasn't the same. And in Oct. of 1992, I'd had enough and moved out of the state altogether.
I went Samohi and then Santa Monica City College. For a kid who came from New Jersey in 1960, it was paradise. This film was an invitation to the nation and the people came and came... From 1960 to 2020 the US population has doubled from 175 million to 330 millions and cities all across the country are in ruins.
Yep, America was at its Zenith then!😀 How can a Country fall so far in just 60 yrs!!!🤔🙄😣😠😞😖
How very unfortunate. Too many people here, especially illegals.
@Keith The fall is deliberate.
My great grandma lived next door to Ronald Reagan back then. Then in the '70s she moved to Malibu. That's the house I remember from my childhood. I was 5 when my great grandmother had them over for dinner. I wasn't allowed to say anything unless asked, I had to wear a tie and we had lamb, I hated lamb, when asked what i remembered from that day years later I said that remembered when Nancy was nice and said my brother and I were well behaved with beautiful eyes, after that its mixed up with our trip to Disneyland. I was very young back then.
Cool story!
If I could go back to any time in Los Angeles history I would choose the late 50s to early 60s. There were so many great things going on.
ME TOO.! THE VIBE. THE MUSIC.!
It sure looks that way in this film.
the smog was terrible though
That’s when we lived in Anaheim. So. Cal. was magical back then!! ❤️
I was born in Los Angeles back in 1958 and my first memories are of LA in the early 1960's. I can remember a waterfall in the Downtown LA area which was called Central City then .
My son, Shane Keckin sent me this docufilm not knowing I'd seen it before. It certainly makes me miss my Santa Monica. Unfortunately, it has changed so much that I don't feel like I belong when I visit from San Diego. He and I do enjoy something we call "Dogtown after dark" where we drive around town during the midnight hour. It's really the only time we can cruise around without traffic (and all the terribly important people driving on your ass) talking about how much it's changed. He's a beach lifeguard now, something he always wanted to do, and his Mom and I are so proud and happy for him. Everything changes but I wish it was a little more like it was. It was a great place to grow up.
My great-grandfather arrived with his family in a covered wagon in August 1875. It was beautiful then and is still now. You just can't beat the climate...or the beach...or the mountain trails. Times change it's the march of life.
45 years later i was playing competitive volleyball on that same piece of beach.
I visit san Monica, CA when I get the chance not working. . so relaxing hearing the ocean on a quiet morning. .
1950s-1980s Southern California, Los Angeles, in particular, was paradise on Earth. Wish we could bring it back.
I went to Roosevelt elementary school in 1964 and lived at 833 Lincoln boulevard. The world has changed in ways I hadn't considered.
With all this technology i still can't morph myself into that screen to come out at the other end on those beaches in that era.
You’re not trying hard enough
@@SSNESS 😂
Yes both my daughter and I were proudly born here, 1962 and 1986.
I’ve been here all my life. I remember the old Santa Monica before they tore most of it down and redeveloped it. That was quite a flashback seeing all those old seafront hotels along ocean ave where Loews now sits.
God I love my city Santa Monica 🎡🎢🎠🏝thank you for this
seamingly fresh, clean and innocent.
great film by the way!
I was raised in El Segundo and I coundnt have asked for a Better childhood and upbringing
So Sad for this generation
Oh Yep Santa Monica was Beautiful at that time
Mayberry by the Sea!
What period?
@@swellybibbsenterprises5185 40's 50's
My grandfather wrote, produced and directed this industrial film. He did a ton of these types of films back in the day but this is the only one I've ever seen. I was told that the motorcycle cop was a real police officer who was killed on the job several years after this. It's the only known film of him. His family was happy they got to see it. My aunt is somewhere on the beach but I have yet to find her.
Wow!! Just down the P.C.H. was Oxnard... My parents danced at the Aragon Ballroom ,, we frequently went to POP, Santa Monica Beach, etc.. We could have been anyone of those kids or adults... Who knows, maybe we were!!!
Love this film. I was in Cesar Romero's house one time on Saltair. I really liked the stonework on the front of his house and you see a glimpse of it in this movie.
If you just could tell all the people to buy that new Gibson Les Paul electric guitars and store them under the bed for around 40 years and be really rich when selling it. ;)
Excellent, wish I could take a time machine back to that era. When it was great there and before it was overrun.
@Daniel S unfortunately UA-cam is an unregulated cesspool. The uploader of this clip has not helped things with his negative comment of current Santa Monica
Racist
@@savvastzionis9112 Is what he says the truth?
@@1940limited The first step to solving a problem is admitting there is a problem. Like an alcoholic.
Born and Raised in Santa Monica. Navy St and Lincoln Blvd
My next vacation: Santa Monica, 1959!
My Dad bought his 1st 3+2house in 1965 on 2 acres in Rancho Cucamonga with a view of the Valley for a whopping $20,000!
James Dean attended Santa Monica City College in 1949-50 before transferring to UCLA
Right. And Dawson High in 'Rebel Without A Cause' is actually Samohi.
Love this! Thanks for the post!❤️❤️❤️
I miss the nativity scenes at Palisades Park
Hello, I would love any info if you Remember or
know a Amusement Park Ride that was around in the 60's in southern California. it was a Clear Bubble type Capsule (about 6 on this wheel lay flat) that would go around kind of like a Merry go Round, but was near the edge of a Cliff. and the bubble would hang over cliff till it circled back around. I thought it was at Pacific Ocean Park, or Marineland for sure because of the location. but I cant find any Photos or info at all. About 10 years ago I searched for this very ride, and did find some abandoned photos of the broken ride. But for the life of me I can not remember the Amusement Park it was at. I went there as a child remember seeing it in person. it was Not the Bubble Gondolas ride at POP that followed along the pier. This one I remember was on the edge of a Ocean Cliff.
Yeah, the Nativity Scenes along the Palisades is one of my very favorite memories from growing up in S.M. I donated money to the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee for several years, even after I had moved out of the state!
It's messed up but good for now, and overpriced to the max. Such a sad ending to a once wonderful place. The best thing going for it is the weather.
When stream runoff was clean!
It looked like a dream back then!
Compared to today, I'm sure it was.
Now it’s nothing but a total freak show
I doubt any Shoshone got anywhere close to Santa Monica.
Santa Monica started going downhill in 1980, by 2005 or 2006, it pretty much was all over.
Yep you’re right. You’d need to drive about 500 miles northeast to visit Shoshone terrirory.
Think he meant Chumash
IMO, it was all over in 1992. But I don't think it really started sliding down fast until 1986.
I would go back to early 1950's and walk forward, Slowly!
I'm not from here but always wanted to be , my entire life I loved California .
You aren't missing anything. It's nothing like these old films now.
sparky42 don’t listen, California is still beautiful
While it’s not the same as it was in 1959, it’s still pretty wonderful. Don’t listen to those hateful tweets and come and visit us. When you can travel again that is. 😎
Santa Monica is still beautiful, it's the overcrowding that I dislike. Most of LA is also overcrowded and dirty looking.
Those were the days before people became walking Billboards.
I went to Roosevelt at 4th and Montana when the Moon landings happened.
Had to leave in 86', could never afford to stay, the Santa Monica I remember is gone.
I went to Oregon, I have no intention of living in California since it's become a true police state.
At least in Oregon I can defend myself and I even got a home, something that would never happen in Ca.
I also attended Roosevelt Elementary but think it was just north of 7th and Montana. I moved from 5th/Wilshire to 7th/Margarita the next school year. Did you ever go to the Arrow Theatre for Saturday kid movies for 25 cents?
To me, who was born and raised in Southern California, and lived in Santa Monica for 10 years, I feel that this poem is more representative of Big Sure! That's truly where the mountain meets the sea. With a waterfall flowing from the Mountain onto the beach!
"Big Sure?" Yes, agree the mountains do not meet the sea in Santa Monica...it's a bluff.
I meant Big Sur! Darn "auto correct". Thanks for your honesty reply. Thanks for not "Bluffing"😊
I stayed in Santa Monica for my 21st birthday back in 1978. And I was there exactly one year ago this weekend on my fourth visit to Los Angeles. It's my favorite vacation spot.
Do you recall seeing Southern Pacific freight trains along exposition blvd by any chance? Last train was in '88.
Back when California was actually a nice place... or at least people elsewhere believed the hype that said it was. Nobody would believe in anymore. Southern Cal is a pit now and most people know it. Few people are now impressed when someone says "I'm from California."
It was ruined by the Promenade and shops and restaurants that can be found in any mall.
Sad how much 50 years of unlimited growth ruined pretty much all of LA.
+beloog99 too true
As a 7 year old I moved to West LA in 1958 so I spent the year this movie was made. The whole vibe was much like this movie. All gone.
Now it's ruined the whole country.
the corruption is to blame
Yep ! The corruption is out of control. The country would've changed without it, but not to this disgusting extent. Just think 1980s-Mid 00s instead of 2000s to an unrecognizable hell on earth.
Went to Franklin School, Lincoln Jr. or middle school and Samohi, lived near 19th and Marguerita in the 1950's. They really messed up the buildings at Lincoln removing the tile roofs and colonades for earthquake safety. (Don't get me started about lawsuits and liability.) SM was so wonderful at that time, and we appreciated it even more when we came back after a vacation of driving around other states. I did love being in the national parks, though! Some parts of SM are still nice, like around Georgina or Alta Ave. Even North of Montana, to my eye anyway, they have ruined the architecture of many of the original houses by remodeling and greatly enlarging, building over the old gardens and fruit trees I liked so much. Clara Bow lived a few houses up the block from us on 19th for a year or so, and I found in her trash can an oil painting of her lying in bed, red hair on her pillow. The weather is still great in SM, though.
Hello, I would love any info if you Remember or
know a Amusement Park Ride that was around in the 60's in southern California. it was a Clear Bubble type Capsule (about 6 on this wheel lay flat) that would go around kind of like a Merry go Round, but was near the edge of a Cliff. and the bubble would hang over cliff till it circled back around. I thought it was at Pacific Ocean Park, or Marineland for sure because of the location. but I cant find any Photos or info at all. About 10 years ago I searched for this very ride, and did find some abandoned photos of the broken ride. But for the life of me I can not remember the Amusement Park it was at. I went there as a child remember seeing it in person. it was Not the Bubble Gondolas ride at POP that followed along the pier. This one I remember was on the edge of a Ocean Cliff. Thanks, Tommy
I live in Santa Monica - great to see this history!
It was even better in the 40's.
I miss it so much
it is a pity, that Santa Monica ignored the "Muscle Beach" area which drew thousands of folks to the beach starting in the 1930s. Popular and important for the development of the "fitness industry"! It also ignored another powerful worldwide development of the "surfing" industry which started right there in Santa Monica. The makers of this film were in my opinion reflecting the "establishments ignorance" of was to become a mighty powerful and lasting developments worldwide! 20-20 hindsight! The film makers perhaps had their collective "hands tied"? What an opportunity, they missed it completely ....
lets all go back to the 50s
Great footage.
Cesar ! You litter bug !!
thrift equals real estate loans equals increased property value equals wealth thanks for the video
Well, I've been told by different races on how living in America was... according to Whites, the 50's and 60's were the golden age for them. For the Blacks, it was a the struggle for equality... I don't know whether this is true or not since I'm born in '99, but all I can say is that life has definitely changed a lot in the past 61 years.
They are "still struggling for equality" - and always will be?
Native calf..in the 60's..you'd never guess who lived in a small house behind ours..Terrie Teen, Ronald McDonald. He was kinda a hippie..drove a vw bus with newspaper articles tape to his windows. Lol
So interesting thank you.
Los Angeles grew as big as it did through a form of extortion. Having brought water south LA was able to gobble up many once independent towns with the promise of water. Santa Monica had its own water so was able to resist LA overtures. But they needed a tax base so they tried all sorts of ways to attract people to come see the town including hot air balloon rides, rodeos and most memorable, Sunday auto races on the city streets. The course roared south through what is now Venice CA on Main St. and then returned north on a parallel street named Speedway. Speedway still exists and is now basically an alley running the length of Venice to this day. This madness took, on average, one life a week usually one of the spectators who lined the route from start to finish.
Taxes are far below average there 😅
That's pretty interesting about Speedway! Meanwhile, the Santa Monica city council and the developers who own it are trying to strangle the city further, blowing millions of dollars to oppose state-mandated district-based elections, to destroy the city's bus stops, handing out waivers on all kinds of building requirements, and trying to strangle another major source of revenue: Santa Monica Airport. What kind of morons want to destroy the citizens' own airport? Corrupt ones.
La at the that time in the 50 and 60 s was nice shows to go by and how the city has changed now from you then to 2021 and things was so cheaper back then.
18:36 60 years later cigarette butt's and DRINK STRAWS are BANNED ! "PROGRESS" !
Samohi class of 81.
I miss Top's pastrami sandwich and hotdogs
Samohi class of '77.
I used to live just a block from Top's, on Bay Street & Lincoln Blvd. in the early '80s.
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Tom's #5 chili fries at 2:00 AM after a night of drinking was almost a tradition! So was getting kicked out of Zucky's in the early morning hours for being too loud and rowdy.
14:58 .. that is 3rd street when cars still drove on it and before they made 3rd street the 3rd street pedestrian only promonade.
Cabrillo was Portugues but working for spain
His name was actually Cabrilho but Hispanicised as Cabrillo.
Why was that boulevard so damn wide??
Fabulous
😂 Ceaser Romero just flicks his cigarette on the ground.,he’d be driven out town for that now.,
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Year I was born. Oh how things have changed.
Do you recall seeing Southern Pacific freight trains along exposition blvd by any chance? Last train was in '88.
Yeah and definitely not for the better!!!😣😠😞😖
Some very interesting points of view in the POP portion of the video...I wonder how they got to the areas for those shots? The area now so gentrified, is no where as wonderful as it once was. I feel fortunate to have been able to go to POP many times and enjoy it to it's fullest.
Whatever "POP" is...
Good days when maybe you could spot Sandra Dee Annette Troy Donahue and ed Kookie Byrne's. Rog. Pacific sunset records.
I remember when....No one cares about your obscure memory that only you appreciate. Just enjoy the video.
today half the people you see in SaMo look just like Emmett kelly
They did then, too. Just not on camera.
How time has changed since then
Gets worse and worse here everyday, the golden age of Los Angeles, is FAR GONE.........
He mangles Leo Carrillo's name!
And lets not forget “hoonipero serra”!
All so very beautiful, and all so very built on lies -
A city of fallen angels, who have plummeted from the skies,
The dominion of the Holy Wood, rotting from within,
It should have just been a desert, not a citadel to sin.
The realm of Calafia, whose pulchritude supreme,
Lures the damned and desperate to her citrus-colored dream
To crash on the rocks of vanity, and burn in the bonfire of pride.
California the bright and the beautiful, the Golden State, has died.
In a nutshell
the weather is rarely "balmy" there
Paradise lost
sences; also seen in its a mad, mad, mad, mad, world 1963....comedy movie
Who was the man narrating this video? His voice sounds so familiar to me as kid.
Endless growth for growths sake will never end well. But there is no stopping the eroding of quality of life secondary to overpopulation and poor urban planning. Sadly, the halcyon days of a quieter, groovier and laid back California are long gone.
OK I recognize most of the places since we grew up there, like the beach, where we were all lying around like idiots without sun scteen, getting skin cancer. And we saw Leo Carrillo and Cesar Romero plus - Betty White at the IHOP opening on Wilshire while walking home from the beach in our bathing suits age 14. Mostly the cliffs you see in all the scenes were where we nutty kids walked/fell down all the time to get down to the beach from Palisades Park. One time it was in the Evening Outlook some ladies were at a table playing cards at Palisades Park, and the cliff collapsed and it fell (you can see how high those cliffs are overlooking Pacific Coast Highway). Glad they touched on Douglas Aircraft where my family worked. The Miramar was fun but they should have mentioned Coffee Dan's and the Broken Drum on Wilshire. And J.C. Penney's store on 3rd Street and Wilshire. But the best thing is swimming in the Pacific ocean and the surf.
"The Broken Drum, you can't beat it..."
Hello, I would love any info if you Remember or
know a Amusement Park Ride that was around in the 60's in southern California. it was a Clear Bubble type Capsule (about 6 on this wheel lay flat) that would go around kind of like a Merry go Round, but was near the edge of a Cliff. and the bubble would hang over cliff till it circled back around. I thought it was at Pacific Ocean Park, or Marineland for sure because of the location. but I cant find any Photos or info at all. About 10 years ago I searched for this very ride, and did find some abandoned photos of the broken ride. But for the life of me I can not remember the Amusement Park it was at. I went there as a child remember seeing it in person. it was Not the Bubble Gondolas ride at POP that followed along the pier. This one I remember was on the edge of a Ocean Cliff.
It's amazing how so little has changed in Santa Monica since this was made!
As long as you don't trip over the homeless, and they don't have that music playing anymore.
OK, so it's not 1959. I still visit and enjoy SaMo. Some folks here just sound old and jaded.
It's a shame... Now it's all just a Democratic Disaster
How's Santa Monica today?
It's still beautiful, but not as much as in this video. There were way too many people there and you hardly heard ANYONE speaking English. This was fairly recent.
The Water Gardens messed it up for all.
Emmett Kelly!!!!!😊
Nary a brown face anywhere.
That's why it was such a neat, orderly, peaceful and lovely place to live!!!😉😀👍
Caesar Romero littering a cigarette butt at about 5:50.
7:26 Here this cop is helping by giving directions to tourists driving in their car. Nowadays, instead of politely giving directions to help, the cops would be following them for 2 miles, profiling them, and then making up a reason to pull them over on a pretext stop. On that stop, the cop would say, "I smell weed". He would have them out of their car, and in cuffs. After running a drug dog around their car which he secretly commanded to alert, he would then say, "the dog alerted" and search their car, tearing it apart. After finding nothing, he would say, "what's with the attitude? are you one of those people who hates cops?" and then, removing their cuffs, send them on their way.
It was a 59 Dodge convertible.
Paranoid much?
@@johnreitz5676 No, I'm just referring to the dozens of videos here on UA-cam where this exact scenario occurred. Just do a search for it on UA-cam.
Shoshone Indians? Chumash.
I was gonna say. Shoshone were in Idaho.
enjoy while you can ...it will be gone soon
-Haha, later on, the original inhabitants, the Sheshawnie Indians probably said Oh no, too many white man causing trouble, there goes the neighborhood. They had no idea until it was too late.
The Shoshone are from Idaho, not Santa Monica.
I wonder what inhabitants before Indians thought of them lol.
To become busily and smugly self-entitled creating the total mess Santa Monica is today.
The mess didn't magically appear out of thin air, you know.
If you point a gun at your foot and then pull the trigger, something has gotta give.
What? Your foot is now a gruesome mess?
What a truly shocking surprise.
07:27 "Playing host to carefree vacationers..." Yes, not much has changed... the police are friendly and happy to lend a hand. (I can't keep a straight face writing that. Haaa! 😅 😂 🤣)
Second point, how many "carefree vacationers" would now wear a suit while driving around in a convertible?
Third point... watch how many times that driver has to turn the wheel to basically just move straight forward 30 feet... Cars back then had a horrible turning radius.
Jackie Onassis at 8:28? Pablo Picasso at 8:30?
ddraguti Looks so much like Jackie Kennedy.
Like Atlantis sunk beneath the waves.
Crowded now full of homeless. Commiefornia
It is basically ruined now 2021
Noticed everyone is WHITE! LOL
There's literally a black guy on the rollercoaster. What do you expect from a predominantly white county?
Yes, why is that?