Oldest Footage of Los Angeles ever
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2020
- Los Angeles, this is the best thing you will see today!
This incredible video is a collection of over 130 clips of the oldest footage of Los Angeles. It also includes dates and locations, with a map to show you exactly where the footage was taken. There are also a few then-and-now comparisons of some locations.
The video shows old films of Downtown, Santa Monica, San Pedro, Long Beach, Hollywood, Bunker Hill, San Fernando valley, Olvera Street, Burbank and the LA aqueduct in Sylmar.
Chapters cover the early years (1897-1915), Downtown, Olvera Street, the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and the entertainment industry.
It includes shots of famous landmarks like Angels Flight, the old 'Hollywoodland' sign, City Hall and Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
It also features a few famous faces from yesteryear such as Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton and Shirley Temple.
It ends with the 10-second clip that is the oldest surviving footage of a known location in Los Angeles - a historic gem of South Spring Street dating back to December 1897.
The video is accompanied by music from LA-based artists like Dominik Hauser (Chronicles of Riddick, Aeon Flux) and Jason Donnelly (Catfish, Master of None).
The video is the fifth part in our 'Oldest footage of...' city series, which includes New York, London, Chicago and Paris.
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As a life-long Angeleno, it makes perfect sense that the oldest known footage of LA involved traffic 😂
I can clearly remember riding the red car when I was a little girl & then the electric cars. We always kept candles in the house because of the impact of the 1933 earthquake on my family. There should be a picture of the monkey grinder that collected Pennie’s from us.
I haven't been to Olvera Street since my 8th grade field trip nearly 50 years ago. How is it doing nowadays?
Loved seeing this and how amazing to see Pacific Coast Highway being only used as a railway.
Hello beautiful lady, how are you doing?
My Great Aunt was living in Long Beach during the 1933 earthquake. Roads connecting to the rest of Southern California were buckled and telephone poles toppled. She could not call to communicate or drive to visit her sister for almost 2 weeks, despite the short distance. The destruction of infrastructure was horrible.
OMG I'm sorry you witnessed that in 1933 hope ur doing okay
Wow that had to be really scary
My dad was also there during the earthquake. He was 12 years old. .
My mom was a teacher at a high school in Long Beach when that happened. She said if the earthquake was earlier in the day a lot of kids would have been killed.
This is put together very well, especially the display of the side map to show the exact location of the shoot. This is definitely a treasure in itself.
My husband's late Uncle had a large Orange Grove in what became Woodland Hills, CA in the 1930s through 1950s. I recall seeing Orange Groves on I-5 between the outskirts of L.A to Anaheim in the late 1950s! Orange County was full of groves. That "Bank of Italy" in the background of one scene later became the "Bank of America" as a corporation.
I saw the Bank of Italy. I didn't know they were the predecessor of Bank of America. Thanks for that bit of history.
2:28
The pigeon farmer hugging his little girl. It’s little glimpses like that which make me love these historical videos. ♥️ 🐦
This is the closest we may get to time traveling to the past
blasphemy! no computers, iphone's or Dodgers?
Born and raised in LA and I love finding historic relics like this
Also, damm that 33 quake must be been a tough thing to go through knowing that our nation was going through the Great Depression at that time
But the nation had also just elected the greatest US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and recovery was on the way !
My Grandfather arrived in Los Angeles in 1889 and had a Jewelry Store on Spring Street. My father told me about the 1933 earthquake and the flood with a house stuck under the 6th street bridge. Sad to think what has happened to such a beautiful city.
Wow! Cool.
My great grandfather arrived around 1900 bringing all his adult children with spouses from Minnesota after the matriarch passed. They opened a leather goods store in the Boyle Heights area. 45 years I was born there and stayed until 1967 to move north for college. The city still tugs at my heart strings even though I so wanted to get out of there as a teen😊
The result of the earthquake were the then newly required building codes to further prevent more catastrophic losses.
1:10 The oldest footage of Los Angeles includes a guy almost getting killed!
While driving? That would be perfect!
Wow, great job in editing in today vs. the past. This was a most fascinating look in to L.A.'s past...thank you so much for sharing this precious footage from long ago! rl
Today I found this video...Thank you so much!! Beautifully put together ❤
This is absolutely amazing. I am also so fascinated with the past and things looked them compared to now and this hit the spot. I especially love the split screen live comparative shots of the freeways, roads, trams, cars, etc. I can go on and on. Thank you for this❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thoroughly enjoyed every second of this walk back in time!
The wonderful years of California State. Thank you for bringing them back.
Wow, what great footage and a wonderful compilation. As a born/raised Southern Californian, it brings me to tears to know what all those areas look like today. It’s a very emotional situation 😢
I lived in LA for 30 years. I cried, too. Shocking to see the 33 earthquake that my dad was in. Any of those buildings could have been my family’s.
Bravo! Two thumbs up!
A masterpiece of our lineage in Los Angeles!
Who knew that a thirsty little desert village would turn out to be one of the worlds most vibrant and excitng cities?
Great footage, really enjoyed this. That pothole on South Spring is still there, by the way.
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LOL. I know funny, and THAT is funny!
Someone should just go ahead & plant a tree in it....🤣🤣😂😂😂
Very well done! I remember as a little girl in the 60s, we would drive through LA on our way to Camarillo to visit my grandparents. Sometimes we’d take Coast Highway one, it was fun to see that highway again. Fun memories of Malibu and the coastal towns there. I remember driving through LA and seeing the capitol records building, and my dad took us to Grohmans Chinese theater when I was probably 10 years old we saw a lady in cement! Lol my dad was a highway patrolman and loved murder movies, police movies and so on. I liked watching your video brought back fun memories of even Alvera Street I loved that place💞
Long Beach was a huge Naval base and shipping port, the traffic wasn’t too bad back in the 60s there were a lot of cars though, no matter what time of the night or day we were on the freeway they were always people on it…
This is just fascinating to me. I know we had a freeway system and buildings as being one of the first major urban cities in America. But to see places like Pershing Square or Broadway look almost like they do now...it’s just so crazy to see this to me.
Makes no sense
I'm glad they still do! And Angel's Flight is still there!
@@jaminova_1969 aAaaaa😊
It’s partly because the powers that be, financiers, politicians, states/governments both national & international spent, squandered, stole or schemed the wealth up the pyramid to the Elite bankers/investors, oil barons accounts and out of the country at their whims.
They kept the fascades on the buildings, plumbing, utilities, roads, buildings, housing, etc going for maintenance an upgrading, BUT like a corporation their goal is to profit the most since the Elite 1% (Rockefellers,Morgans,Schiff,etc), had/have major influence and control most levers of power, either directly from the top, or indirectly (bribes,blackmail,force etc).
Because many have international connections and are not born in america an loyal to it, their goals aren’t necessarily to make the country the best in the world if they can’t control it. They also may Allie with opponents of the usa, so don’t want to empower america too much to cause an imbalance or whatever.
It’s a bit simplistic tho as there are many more factors obviously. Imperial,
Hyper-crony-capitalism, corruption, unethical/immorality taking a backseat to profits mostly going to big business oligarchs, globalists are not loyal to any one nation unless profits are great. Often this is at the ever increasing lowering of wages, good jobs, and standard of living for middle & lower classes thru industrialization etc.
The USA could have had more technologically advanced infrastructure, buildings, etc than everywhere on earth IF the majority of the wealth, investments, developments in America were continued consistently from 1900-2223. The “Jetsons” old cartoon show could have been mostly reality by 2023 IF things were WAY different.
Suppression of inventions, Patents, licenses, permits, unfair regulations or laws also kept things in their control.
The creation of the private elite banksters Federal Reserve, war mongering profiteering, inflation, leaving the gold standard, all helped alot too.
Nice job. Love the old "postcard" type drawing to identify location with video segment. My Aunt and I both went to the Jefferson School. It was called Jefferson Junior High School when I went though.
I loved every second of this video! Fabulously done!
Thanks so much for putting this together! Well done.
Hello beautiful lady, how are you doing?
The lack of narration made even more enjoyable. The imagery says it all. Beautifully done.
That is the simplest time and it has some of my favorite movie stars and I see it hasn't changed much. Look at the old cars,I had always wanted to ride in one
My brother in law has one
I’ve ridden in it
It’s a 1928 Nash in mint condition
It’s slow and rides like a tank but it’s fun
Notice how they were no palm trees anywhere in the natural landscapes, and surrounding hills, only ones that were planted in parks in the city were around or in front of important buildings. Reason being is palm trees were not native to this part of Southern California, they were all imported from other places as ornamental landscape. The only spot in California that palm trees are native are the palm springs, and thousand palms area of our desert where the mountain or fault Springs created Palm oasises.
Glad you mentioned that part about the Thousand Palms Oasis!
My grandfather planted some of those palm trees.
I think they overdid the palm trees. Most provide v. little shade & they look a bit tacky ( but I guess that's bcuz I grew up here.. 🙄)
My grandfather moved to LA in 1924.
111 S. Norton cross of third Street.
Used often for films. Three stooges to current day.
Earl Warren was a good friend of my grandfathers. Almost 100 years of family history here,
Two sons and two grandsons that will never be driven out of California
The Washingtonia filifera, commonly known as the California palm or the California fan palm, is native to areas within the Colorado Desert and the Mojave Desert. The palm trees sprout up in deep ravines and hidden oases where the trees can draw water from natural springs and be protected from the harsher temperatures.
I wish there was more footage of old Bunker Hill. The 1948 footage was from a time when the large business interests was busily convincing the city's politicians to call the area a "slum" and clear it completely. When you see the smidgen of footage completely (this was only a touch), you can see it was a fairly normal working-class community, not a "slum".
For a few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s my Great Aunty who was forcibly relocated from Chavez Ravine, lived on the fringe of the Bunker Hill neighborhood. I remember those old big Victorians in pretty sad shape when I was a girl visiting that Aunty.
To this day Bunker Hill is a shell of its former self. The city still has not recovered from the damage of bulldozing miles and miles of working class homes and businesses in the 1960s. After WW2 while Europe was rebuilding their cities, America bulldozed theirs.
@@lindawoody8501 LA really has a great track record of forcing people out of their homes; the politicians obey their business masters. We want a ballpark. Kick 'em out of Chavez Ravine! We want office space in new buildings. Kick out those peasants on the Hill! And if it was just squatters in abandoned old Victorian mansions, that would be one thing. But Bunker Hill was mostly full of modern apartment buildings paid for by the paychecks of working tenants. But, the business scum wanted empty offices on the Hill. I need hardly add it was mostly people of color affected negatively by this "march of progress".
@@mariusfacktor3597 The irony would be funny, if it wasn't.
Bunker Hill didn't die a natural death. It was murdered.
I'd like to have a walk around the old Los Angeles, say the 1860s-1890s.
Olvera Street.
Oh well done!, What an enchanting love letter to Los Angeles. Bravo. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
Very well done! Fascinating footage! I actually went to Jefferson Jr. Sr. High School in the mid 80s' and did not know the history. Thank you!
Hello beautiful lady, how are you doing?
Sir, I gotta say that this soundtrack really got me there. As soon as the "Show Business" title comes in and the orchestra music began, it started to gave me chills. 8:15. It was music to my ears
So I would like to know where'd you find this soundtrack 'cause I would be happy to listen to this music all day long.
Love seeing the Vintage Olvera Street I was last there in 2011
Fabulous video. Excellent editing. Congratulations on your work.
And not a single tent in sight.
And no trash.
"The Greatest Showman is a 2017 American musical drama film directed by Michael Gracey in his directorial debut, written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon and starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, and Keala Settle. Featuring nine original songs from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the film was inspired by the story of P. T. Barnum's creation of Barnum's American Museum and the lives of its star attractions."
Both my late mother and my late mother-in-law recalled the Long Beach Earthquake vividly and the nearly annual flooding in the areas adjacent to the Los Angeles River before that river got channeled with concrete. Now the concrete is being slowly removed in spots and the river is a little more natural. I experienced the 7.1 Earthquake in Los Angeles in 1970 called the "Northridge Quake". Powerful!
My mother remembered that quake too, bicycles herself to Belmont Shore to The Pike and back. In her 90s during COVID while quarantined in her room I sent old photos of Long Beach to her Amazon Echo device. Sure said she really liked those even more than driving through there now.
Long Beach...march 10 1933...5 past 54 pm.
My parents told me that they took me out of my crib before the wall tumbled down and I was lucky to be alive in that 1970 earthquake, we lived in Arleta
We were in San Fernando! That was my 1st big quake! My little brother's crib rolled across the room! Scary for a kid!
The Northridge Earthquake was in "94. Unless there was another one in '70.
Thank you for finding this archived footage. Was a film production student in college years ago. Have seen hundreds of silent reels from L and H, Chaplin, Keaton and the rest. Seems life was better then and a very different feeling out there.
Great stuff guys!
Thank you
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The school has the tradition that each year the students present a musical drama for the teachers, parents, friends and themselves. My son happened to take part in The Greatest Showman. He played the guitar in the band to present some background music , a tiny role sitting beside the stage.
Excellent editing on the scenes about Hollywood.
My great grandpa work as a Milkman with a horse-drawn milk truck the early 1900s I haven't watched yet I am beyond excited to see what world my great grandpa lived in! Hominna hommina!
Loving that intro music! Before I read the description, it had me wondering if Benny Goodman and/or Louie Prima were involved, or if someone had just fed Sing, Sing, Sing into an AI and told it to go nuts!
If any city needs a time machine, it's Los Angeles. If you live here, then you know what I mean.
No respect for the past in LA...it's sad.
The old Bunker Hill...destroyed !
During the oldest clip, to think that you could still take a horse up the San Gabriel Mountains and possibly run into a grizzly bear.
Excellent production
Amazing Job!😊
Awesome video ... traveling back into TIME! 🤗😎❤✌
I’m amazed how quickly California boomed and all of that was built from the 1800s to early 1900s.
Those buildings are humongous!
Hamburgers bldg! Great accompanying map! Love the music. Thank you for putting this together, my city clean or dirty.
Wow! Fantastic video. Thank you. 🌴😎
I grew up in Santa Monica in the 50's. It was a perfect place in almost every respect. We learned the Olvero street song in school and I still remember the tune and some of the lyrics. I cannot go back to the town now without getting depressed. The political parasites have made it a trash heap.
Great footage and a good job editing and combining the maps with the pictures. I recognized just about every place. Bravo - well done. .
I didn’t see any homeless ?
Santa Monica looks amazing, sounds like your dementia is kicking in old hag
Absolutely brilliant
I lived at my grandma at her big house at the top of the angel flight in L
A California
On Olive st, 3rd st,Grand Av, Bunker Hill Av...?
Love the maps !!!!
In some of the shots that were supposed to be 1910 there were cars from the 30s.
This video lots of propoganda
There are channels dedicated to ai upscaling old footage like this, you should look into that
dude! where link meee lol
Thank u for showing CA, already saw N.Y.
Hello my dear, how are you doing?
Most of our freeways are original passageways from the gold rush and Oregon Trail
Too many ad breaks for such a short video.
my mom was born in ojai in 1927 and this is how she remembered southern california
Wow Los Angeles was a beautiful city...I can't get over how nice Pershing square was...now it's pretty sad and ugly... and I don't understand why those who posted this video felt the need to show long beach or the first directors of hollywood...I want to see more of old LA.. show us the beautiful old buildings that were demolished for the crap we have now.. HEY PEOPLE THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION IS LETTING DEVELOPERS DESTROY WHAT LEFT OF OUR ONCE BEAUTIFUL CITY.. WE NEED TO STOP THIS INSANITY NOW
Very cool video. I love content like this. Thank you.
Where was obesity back then , not a single overweight..!! Loved the episode!!.
great music choice..this is so cool and so well done
The snazzy 50s music did NOT fit in well for me.
I grew up in LA. California and the LA basin may have been the greatest place in America to live at the time. Even though I moved to the East in 1970 I still would visit So Cal every year for 3-5 weeks a year. Today LA is a sad shadow of it's former self. Downtown has gone from a few hobos asking for a dime to a sub city of homeless and drugs. A sad state and not sure I want to visit again. Thx
Well made!! Have to check them sites out now...
That’s an early Ralph’s Grocery truck from 1910 wow!
I worked for Ralph’s in the early ‘80s as a student!
Ralph’s always has the highest standard - a tradition! 💯
Nice video, thanks.
‼️Thank you for sharing ‼️
The return after 4 damn years lmao
That was so cool to see. Thank you
Hello beautiful lady, how are you doing?
Great video. Also, great music. Could you tell me what the music is from?
Thanks!❤️
My grandpa told me he used to drive a horse carriage through downtown Broadway, when it was just a dirt road at the turn of the century.
No skid row, no tents, no homeless people, no gangsters, no traffic. Can we get the old L.A. back? Please!
There was all of that stuff then, but less due to fewer people. More people now just means more of that stuff, both good and bad stuff, just more of it.
@@DJJahT
Demographic replacement and a hands-off approach to crime are unique 21st century additions, though.
@@sergpie the only hands-off approach to crime is in the white-collar sector, it is hands-on everywhere else. Stop watching Cucker Tarlson, nobody is being replaced, everyone is just mixing up.
@@sergpie demographic replacement?? In LOS ANGELES? of who? By who?....
@@sergpie come on. Don't shoehorn your maga bs into everything you see.
This was just wonderful and brought back so many memories
AMAZING💪👍😎
My heart just melts. What amazing footage that you have put together. I wish that I could just go back and be the woman I am now and back in those days. I'm a Chicago woman but for some reason my heart it lies in the west I wish I could have been there thank you for posting this!
1933 Long Beach earthquake, and Paramount and South Gate area were called the dairy capital of the world, Hynes and Clearwater.
Crazy how it use to look 🥺 I’m from the Crenshaw district of LA 💙 Los Angeles babies viewing this like my comment 😛
I’m from south central LA🤟 greetings
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You said it, hermano 🙋🇲🇽
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Just fascinating to see that Hollywood sign, up In the hills, saying Hollywood Land. Also nice to see the vibrant businesses downtown then.
Yes, 100 years ago the sign was erected to gain advertising for the "Hollywoodland" tracts of new homes and home sites in the upper areas of what is now just Hollywood and perhaps the Northern-most areas of West Hollywood.
Very Interesting, thank you for the information. Love the videos, just brilliant !
Fascinating footage of how a semi-desert was turned into a huge metropolis in less than 100 years!
Makes you think; "who built all brick and stone buildings and bridges when they were on a horse and buggy?"
Well done! Grew up in Venice and Santa Monica in the late '50's/'60's.
What a cool video!
I didn't know they had an earthquake. Look how young ST was and the clothes they wore and most of the stars did their stunts and the cars were different
I didnt see the La river just a bunch of pidgeons .I am glad I scrolled through it
Magnificent
This is absolutely incredible.
@2:36 not sure of the context here, but without its massive drainage system, LA is one big flood after another just waiting to happen.
That truly made me cry! Los Angeles is MY HOME!
Born and Bred Angelino - 1951
@johntrojan9653 me too 1965. Beverly community hospital! Go east la! And I'm a grenga!
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Wow, amazing!
nice job :)
I grew up in So. Cal and seeing this old footage is remarkable, only the railroad traveled PCH in those early days. A hazy window into the past. By the time I was growing up in the 1970s every square inch of L.A. was already built.
Thanks much for the wonderful footage. But one correction. The name was D.W. Griffith NOT Griffiths.
My sentiments, exactly. Thank you. 😊
This is all great but I’d really like to see the pre-Los Angeles that was farmland, Wild West and even farther back when Native Americans lived in the area. True wilderness untouched by man.
My parents home was built in 1916 first owned by a Jewish family later on in the 1980s my parents purchased the house they became the 2nd owners of the home I sometimes wish I could see the home before all the remodeling only a couple elements of the original design stayed in tact
the old woman who owned the home didn’t wanna sell but her son who was living with her at the time was ready to depart and move him and his mom closer to family in another state
They should colorize some of the old clips. You can catch details that you would not see otherwise.
I lived in Orange County in 1958 right across the street from Knott's Berry Farm that was my backyard playground there was no admission in those days I could just walk in there and play all I lived on Beach Boulevard an Orange Grove right across and next to that Knott's Berry Farm