Ok I can't believe I stumbled across this video footage, It's like stepping into a time machine! This Union 76 gas station was on the corner of Bronson Ave and Hollywood Blvd and was owned by my Step-grandfather from 1970 to the mid 80's when he sold it. I think it's still there today. The guy pumping gas into the VW bug at 0:14sec and at 3:19sec and pumping gas into the brown car at 0:22sec and at 3:30sec saying "$3 dollars?", is my Stepfather! As a young kid in the late 70's and early 80's, I spent many summers here pumping gas and helping out around the shop. It was my first real job at age 11. We used to sit on the roof of the station every year to watch the Hollywood Christmas parade go by and we even watched the Olympic torch run by during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. At 0:30 sec and at 3:48 sec the camera is now recording from the other side of the street at the Chevron station and is pointed South at the Union 76 Station. There is a green car on the left side of the screen parked next to the big brick building, this was my Stepfather's 1972 Mach 1 Mustang which he later gave to me and I used it to take my drivers test at the age of 15. Again this is like taking my memories and extracting them from my brain and watching them on video. So crazy! If the owner of this video reads this, I would like to know if you have any unedited video of this gas station. Thanks.
Filmed on June 15, 1973. The Top 10 songs on this day were: 1. Paul McCartney & Wings - My Love 2. Clint Holmes - Playground in My Mind 3. Sylvia - Pillow Talk 4. Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby 5. Elton John - Daniel 6. Edgar Winter - Frankenstein 7. Billy Preston - Will It Go Round in Circles 8. George Harrison - Give Me Love 9. Paul Simon - Kodachrome 10. Tony Orlando & Dawn - Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree
Big Valley if I jump in a time machine back to this year I’m breaking it and never coming back. I hate being born in 2003 I rather be 16 in 1973 instead
That was before the days of rent taking more than half a persons paycheck. $1500 a month for a one bedroom is very difficult for anyone making less than $13.00 an hour.
Instead we got a bunch of ugly, anemic, cramped, poor performing, apologetic, weak, junk cars that caused a lot of automakers to go bankrupt and beg their governments for bailouts. They got their bail outs and what did they put out? They put out more anemic, ugly, cramped, poor handling, flimsy, weak, four cylinder, front wheel drive, automatic crap that made them go bankrupt to begin. In fact, it is weaker, uglier, more cramped, more poor handling, and more flimsy. I foresee another bailout being begged for by many automotive companies soon, especially GM with that ridiculous Blazer, their stale Lumina that is name badged with, "Impala," their Malibu that is nothing but a Corsica in drag, and their stupid sonics, sparks, and four cylinder Camaros. All the automotive companies peddle nothing but garbage. But GM has it down to a constant flow of garbage with no relief in sight. Four cylinder Silverado anybody?
@@theuglybiker I lived in those impending ice age scares. It was splattered everywhere. Newspapers, television, radio, even schools taught that crap that carbon dioxide was reflecting heat back into space and we were on the verge of another ice age. There were even talks of covering the poles in industrial soot to trap more heat. Classes were interrupted so the fear mongers could preach their scare tactics. It was actually really scary to be a kid back then. I can not believe so many adults have forgotten those impending ice age days. Scientific magazines really loved to try to scare people with their ice age fiction. Time, Scientific American, Popular Science, Omni, all made mention of the impending ice age more than once. Then the 1980s and early 1990s came. That was the purging period. No mention of the impending ice age, global warming, nor climate change was made. The purge appeared to have worked many forgot the scare tactics of the past when the global warming scare came to begin in the very late 1990s and early 2000. Those that did remember were said that they were remembering wrong, although all of them remembered nearly the same and those that said they were remembering wrong were not even alive then. Wouldn't you know it, the new villain is the same old villain but this time it is trapping heat instead of reflecting it back to space. I wonder when the carbon dioxide switched sides like that. All the records and, "studies," are still there to be found in the libraries in microfiche and microfilm. But their is little chance the lazy people of today will look up the old articles, magazines, television programmes, and radio broadcasts of the impending ice age. It is easier for them to just believe the politicians and their pet, "scientists," they keep in their fully lined, very deep, pockets.
We made cars to last back then. People complain about old cars being polluters. Those cars are still on the road today! Cars from the late 70’s on were designed to be disposed of after 8 years or so! With these old cars we can update them and keep them on the road unlike these new cars!
My 58 CADILLAC was carting me around then. I was 14. Been carrying me around since I was a year old. Parents bought it in 1960. I'm 60 now and I still drive the old girl today. Were growing old together!! Lol.
The days of the full service gasoline stations, I remember the bell when I was a kid to alert attendant a car has pulled into gas station. Great memories.
I find the certain mechanical clunk of the gas pumps and the work ethic of the station attendants rather great. Like they were skilled gas attendants working with pride, on camera of course but I do remember that kind of service as a kid with my parents in L.A. And, you could clearly communicate with them and most had a smile to go along with that down to earth American attitude. Ahhh... yesteryears...
I went to work in a union factory in 1978 for $6.00 an hour Was enough to buy a $35,000 house . Now people in the area need $40 an hour to buy a $250,000 house
I remember in 1973 when my Texas cousins came to visit. We were in Pasadena and tried to explain there were mountains right there. You could not see them for the smog.
@@trevorwylie5882 my 58 CADILLAC, my parents bought 1960, I was only a year old, life long so cal car, I've kept bone stock. Carburetor, points, original engine, etc.. still on the road, and yes it has the great under the hood smell all old cars had after driving back then.
Mitchell C someone always has to bring politics into it.. I was just stating that basically it’s crazy how much technology has changed and I like the smell of burning gas, that would be the 😍 emoji at the end of my sentence. I don’t know what you think 😍 emojis mean but it usually means you like something . Hey Debbie Downer, wasn’t trying to be a sarcastic asshole...that would be your department 🤨.
@@sauerpower718 it's ok, keep smiling while the Amazon burns. Last thing we need is you indirectly polluting people's minds into thinking any gas is good. Wonder where those cars are now? I doubt they're cans!!!!!!
I was 13 year old that year my Dad bought a new 1973 Dodge Coronet and we took a trip to Santa Monica from San Diego I remember back then that the smog in LA was terrible and my father complain about the traffic in the freeways which haven't changed that much thru the years only that the smog in LA is not so bad this days do to cars emissions are much better than back in 1973.
Thanks so much for this! At the beginning, saw the Union 76 sign rotating on the pole. I think most gas stations had their brands doing that. At 0:58, a helmetless motorcycle rider.
I was a teenager. My boyfriend and I went to Seattle for the weekend. Long ass gas line before heading home...became a party! We were playing music, sharing...things, weed, food...it was a hardship that we turned into a good time.😏
There never was a gas shortage . It was panic. People were refueling every time they went some place and getting as little as half a gallon .to keep it topped off
Zeke one movie can change a life huh? 😉 how old are you? If you don’t mind me asking I’m a 90s baby and I can only remember growing up when there was a 70s throwback going on during that time.
Zeke ohh I see. Yeah there’s actually a few good movies out there when you look and dig deep enough. But for the majority of the time mainstream Hollywood is extremely dumb and uninspiring. Very studio driven based off of previous success. I like to consider myself a movie buff, especially that of the New Hollywood era. I’ll take 35 mm films easily over digital any day.
@Rata 4U Obvioisly. High demand and low supply. What I meant is in Todays dollars we still overpay without being in a crisis. But yes affordability was a problem at that time.
That's the R&D bus #3 that ran North & South along Central Avenue, and when heading North, it would make a left turn onto 6th Street, entering into Downtown L.A. I rode that bus route a many of days 🚌
I was 8 when we left L.A. in 1972, but spent the summers in Long Beach. What I love about this film is that all the 'vintage' cars were mostly 1-3 years old driving around initially. You started to see more 60's cars as the film moved along. It was a simpler time that is certain. 40 cent gas, HAHA! Can you imagine that today? You could fill your gas hog SUV for about $12.00 vs. $120.00
A couple things to remember, cars generally didn't last as long then. People would replace cars every two or three years because a car bought new was usually showing significant signs of wear by then and likely had a few mechanical bugs as well unless it had been meticulously maintained. Car loans usually didn't exceed three years and 12 month, 12,000 mile warranties were the norm typically with no corrosion protection. 100,000 miles was generally considered end of life for a typical car.
I can SMELL this video.. I don’t know how people did it back then.. If even ONE 60’s or 70’s era carbureted car drives by, I’m choking from the fumes. I can’t even imagine ALL cars emitting that, and in a big city. Crazy. Also..this is amazing and clear footage of 1970’s Los Angeles! Amazing
We didn't wear helmets and many smoked a pack a day. We had brakes made of asbestos, and lead paint and lead in the gas. We were real men back then. No snowflakes allowed.
Thank you for posting this I grew up in Los Angeles in the 70's takes me back to my stepfather driving me & my brother all around town with the 1973 green Dodge Dart good memories 😊😊😊.
The springloaded, hinged license plate on our '74 Cadillac Sedan deVille WAS the fill pipe door. Pull up the bottom like a garage door and there was the gas cap...didn't matter which side of the car the pump was.
In 1975 I bought a starter home for $20,000 making $4.60 an hour. I still live in the same house, though it has been modified. The property taxes were $500 a year. I bought a used 1969 Nash Rambler for $200 bucks and the front passenger wheel fell off the car as I was driving during the Blizzard of 1978. Those were the ' good old days.'
Everything just feels so good. The only issue back at that time was America was just getting over the Vietnam war. Other than that things were great. There is a calmness to things that one does not feel today.
I lived three blocks from here at different times throughout the years. Frequented this station often, from early 80's on. I don't remember the hardware store, don't think I ever shopped there. I've been to the liquor store many times for convenience items. I used to get off the bus there and walk up the street home. I haven't always had a car. Funny to see the area some years before I even drove. Love the bells and full service. They still had this going until not too long ago. No bells, but full service. I'd have a blast pulling into on of those with a car load of my friends requesting full service, lol.
@@beth2398 it used to be on the south/west corner of Hollywood & Bronson. Im glad the city finally Repaved that street since it used to be bumpy for decades!🤦😂😂😂
Look at all those vintage cars! The world was so colourful with those cars. 😆😍I always get excited when I see one today they stand out so much then today's modern car which make everything boring.
One thing people don’t realize is the amount of raw gas all of those cars would dump out through their exhaust, those cars polluted so badly I remember as a kid my chest hurting to breathe on smoggy days in Los Angeles
Joe mariconadas Exactly. The late 90s was the veritable gateway to the world as we now know it. Not a day goes by that I don't daydream about living in simpler times.
Have frequented that gas station many times over forty years. Just there a few months ago. Intersection looks much the same. Dig the full service guy. I think I remember him.
oh yes the classic California with the actual Chevron and standard changeover out there taking place at the time of branding. also need to see the old Union 76 and of course Arco.. 00:21 Ralph Nader's favorite car the Chevrolet corvair
0:38 I never realized how an early 1970s Chevy Luv looks like an early 80s Cadillac Cimarron head on, from a slight distance, at least until you see the bed. Cool video! I was just over two months old, blissfully pooping my diapers somewhere...!
I remember them days. Used to frequent the L.A. area in the early 70s and mid 70s. You could actually leave your car doors open downtown without worrying that someone would steal your car. People would sometimes open your door to move your car if they needed more space for parking. I remember how common it was back then and we all took it for granted. There were just a few places where it was dangerous and murders occurred. Drive bys were just beginning but they were very rare and only contained in ghettos.
Before 1973 and the first gas crisis, there use to be “Gas Wars” when two or more stations were at the same intersections. In 1966, before I could drive, I remember one in Carson California where there were big signs announcing a Gas War! I was riding with my uncle and cousin in their VW bus and I noticed the Station across the street was selling gas for 19 cents a gallon, and they gave you a free glass, and Blue Chip stamps with a fill up. It was like they were giving the gas away for free!
Excellent footage. Some of the shots look so similar in "feel"-to busy Sydney streets at the time. Australia and the U.S are eerily similar but with so many differences culture wise.
@@jamesfrench7299 I see, wish I could fit an injector and run my 2stroke gasoline Yamaha on diesel too! most of these 2 stroke diesel engines disappeared by the time I learnt abc...
I've only experienced someone filling the car for you once in my life...20 years ago. Shame we have to have locks on the fuel caps because we can't trust people with fuel.
Dude, we have locks on fuel caps because, in the 1970s, it was common for people to steal gasoline straight from a person's car. The 1970s are the reason our caps are locked.
Walter White You are right about the cars back then. In L.A. in the 60s.... There were much less cars and traffic jams.. Yet, I remembered the smoggy sky and breathing issues
I remember living in San Fernando Valley 1973-75, swimming in our pool at the age of 7 and wondering what that burning sensation in my lungs was, after swimming only a couple of laps. My dad said, "don't worry it's just smog and air pollution. We live in So Cal now. Just man up and deal with it!" Well things have changed since then for sure. Fortunately people don't resign themselves to think that way anymore. I remember thinking that 1968 to 1971 was as bad as it ever got, but then I read an account of someone old enough to remember Stage 1 & 2 smog alerts, and shelter indoor orders at his elementary school, as early as 1955... so smog didn't just start in the late 60's. In fact they had wanted to do something to start curbing it, and had a plan in place as early as 1960... but it would take an additional 8 years before the EPA ever addressed the problem, and an independent Calif Air Resources Board (CARB) was established. In fact, the first year of federal smog emissions equipment on cars, I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong), didn't even begin until model year 1968! That means that 1967 and before... everyone was clueless on how to even stop air pollution in any way, shape, or form. No, I really don't like Gov. Brown's anti-car sentiment. I really don't like how classic cars seem to be scapegoated every chance our state officials get. I have no real love for Priuses... but even I have to admit, we've come a long way, and I can swim without my lungs burning now. Imagine if we took no strides back then, what things would look like now?
@@B3burner hi guy ok as far as lungs burning 60's 60's 70's L.A. and other city's didn't have much in the way of tree's and plant's even a lot of park's had little to no tree's and some of the plant's it had put out as much pollution as a early 60's car's like olyander's put out pollution like that no I'm not making that up a lot of house's had olyander's it help a lot when in the late 70's in to the 80's they started to plant tree's tree's give fresh air ok now a bout pollution control on car's 1962 pcv valve and breather 1965 pcv valve breath smog pump air injection reactor 1973 and 74 and one other thing but i can't remember what it was called right now all the above plus a egr valve 1975 to 1979 all the above plus electronic distributor catalytic converter and lot's of vacuum hoses and feed back carburator's long time sease I used to work on these car's as a hobby oh and yes I'm old enough to remember stage 1 and 2 on extra bad smog day's we wern't aloud to go out and play on the play ground at play time had to stay in the class room plus as a kid getting a check up by a doctor and he would have a ciggarite in his mouth while giving me a check up and no I'm not making that one up either have a good night oh I was born and grew up in L.A. late 50's 60's 70's love L.A. miss it oh and i remember the gas line's and the even and od plate number's and 55 speed limit opec. Arab's and there money power down with america and burnning our flag C😎😎L
@@B3burner I lived in the Sunland/Tujunga area around 1990-93. I was in 4th and 5th grade, and I remember some days were so smoggy, I could barely make out the surrounding mountains. I used to play hard on the afternoon school playground, and I remember my lungs burning. I also remember all the diesel city buses and trucks belching out dark clouds of soot. Times have changed.
Yes, the 76 gas stations... in 1976, when I was at least 20 years young, those gas stations gave out those orange balls with "76" on them,to put on top of your antenna. Very soon you saw them EVERYWHERE ...
The gas price of 40 cents a gallon sounds incredibly cheap...until you put that 1973 number into an inflation calculator and find that it's $2.36 a gallon in today's money. Average wage in 1973 was $7,580 per year. Average wage 2018: $52,145.00
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Who came here just to watch the cars
Yep
Me. But i didn't see no muscle cars
There was a pale lime charger and a red duster
saw a pagoda Mercedes SL
Here
40 cents a gallon! screw that, it's 38 down the street!
Check please!
There was no future spot for the dollar column
Water Whit
But what about polution polution polution?
23-25¢ five years earlier.
The cameraman zoomed in on 40.9 on the pump so the rest of the country could see California’s leading edge pricing on gasoline.
Ahhhhhhhh haha
The mundane, everyday stuff becomes interesting if you give it a little time.
Especially if it took place 46 years ago.
Wine isn't the only thing that becomes "vintage" after the passage of time.
You've just defined nostalgia!
And all those people in the primes of their life are all withering away just waiting for death any day now
I wonder how interesting the shitload of videos being filmed by people on smartphones nowadays are gonna be in 40 years.
Ok I can't believe I stumbled across this video footage, It's like stepping into a time machine! This Union 76 gas station was on the corner of Bronson Ave and Hollywood Blvd and was owned by my Step-grandfather from 1970 to the mid 80's when he sold it. I think it's still there today. The guy pumping gas into the VW bug at 0:14sec and at 3:19sec and pumping gas into the brown car at 0:22sec and at 3:30sec saying "$3 dollars?", is my Stepfather!
As a young kid in the late 70's and early 80's, I spent many summers here pumping gas and helping out around the shop. It was my first real job at age 11. We used to sit on the roof of the station every year to watch the Hollywood Christmas parade go by and we even watched the Olympic torch run by during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. At 0:30 sec and at 3:48 sec the camera is now recording from the other side of the street at the Chevron station and is pointed South at the Union 76 Station. There is a green car on the left side of the screen parked next to the big brick building, this was my Stepfather's 1972 Mach 1 Mustang which he later gave to me and I used it to take my drivers test at the age of 15. Again this is like taking my memories and extracting them from my brain and watching them on video. So crazy! If the owner of this video reads this, I would like to know if you have any unedited video of this gas station. Thanks.
This is crazy I was 2 at the time and can't imagine stumbling on something like this related to my childhood memories 😮
Very cool!
Back when Los Angeles was great. Forget the heavy traffic. L.A. was actually a fun place to be in.
If you didn't mind the smog...
That is for damn sure.
Smog ? So what weak ass lungs
There was alot of gangs n crime
@@linusbodin1873 Can't have been worse than how it is now.
A red Plymouth Duster with New York plates. They traveled far.
Less than $100 in gas for that trip
Looks Tor-Red.., an orangish red or a reddish orange. My parents had one just like it, with the stupid looking vinyl top.
Must have been a great road trip back then
i noticed that duster....70' or 71' a beauty
At 1:59. Also, at 3:16 a Corvair and a VW side-by-side getting gas.
Filmed on June 15, 1973. The Top 10 songs on this day were:
1. Paul McCartney & Wings - My Love
2. Clint Holmes - Playground in My Mind
3. Sylvia - Pillow Talk
4. Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby
5. Elton John - Daniel
6. Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
7. Billy Preston - Will It Go Round in Circles
8. George Harrison - Give Me Love
9. Paul Simon - Kodachrome
10. Tony Orlando & Dawn - Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree
Amazing. I remember #10 vividly as one of the very first songs I ever heard.
Most famous one on here would be Number 10.
My dad and mom (Filippino) know that song.
Most recent and soon-to-be-most-popular-album: Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (Released: March of 1973).
Someone find me a time machine please
Take me with you!
This is our time machine.
Big Valley if I jump in a time machine back to this year I’m breaking it and never coming back. I hate being born in 2003 I rather be 16 in 1973 instead
cinerama62 that’s it?
@@streetstallion I wish I could go back in time.
Lol they call THAT heavy traffic...
It's not that there's a lot of cars, it's that they all weigh a ton
@@knockrotter9372 more like two
It was exactly what came to my mind.
@@igormarinkovic1531 Two? Yeah but there were Cadillac Sedans weighing 2.5 tons.
Precisely. I've lived in L.A. for twelve years.
1973 traffic was literally 1,000% better than modern days.
No camps on street ,the camping was done in the mountains.
Eddie Santiago Perhaps the situation back then didn't funnel people's circumstances to be homeless.
This is a few years before they would close the mental hospitals across the country and send everyone over here.
That was before the days of rent taking more than half a persons paycheck. $1500 a month for a one bedroom is very difficult for anyone making less than $13.00 an hour.
Sleepy Brown There is no reason for rent to be that high.
That’s was because we still had jobs here in the US before they were outsourced because of bad trade deals.
The calm before the storm, this was 4 months before the fuel crisis started and fuel prices skyrocketed and the American land yacht days were numbered
Ashley Sutherland So the guy with the vw bug was pretty smart
@@thomasgary1219 Anybody who owned a VW in L.A. back then was driving to one of two places -- the beach to surf, or the mountains to go skiing.
Matter of fact. There were no insurance or seatbelt laws at that time it was just a suggestion
Life should be so good.
If I had a car that was built to the standards of 1973 when I was hit by a drunk driver a few years ago, I would be dead.
Robbie Frentz wrong wrong wrong you had to have vehicle insurance I don't know what planet you're on
Desert Dogg here in Oklahoma you were not required to have auto insurance until 1987. Before then it was A suggestion. And it’s planet earth...
True: insurance wasn't asked by police during a car stop until the early 1990s. That's why l never had it during the 1980s.
The heck with this traffic. Hopefully in the Year 2000 we'll be flying vehicles like the Jetsons.
By 2000 the oceans will freeze and we'll be in another ice age.
Instead we got a bunch of ugly, anemic, cramped, poor performing, apologetic, weak, junk cars that caused a lot of automakers to go bankrupt and beg their governments for bailouts. They got their bail outs and what did they put out? They put out more anemic, ugly, cramped, poor handling, flimsy, weak, four cylinder, front wheel drive, automatic crap that made them go bankrupt to begin. In fact, it is weaker, uglier, more cramped, more poor handling, and more flimsy. I foresee another bailout being begged for by many automotive companies soon, especially GM with that ridiculous Blazer, their stale Lumina that is name badged with, "Impala," their Malibu that is nothing but a Corsica in drag, and their stupid sonics, sparks, and four cylinder Camaros. All the automotive companies peddle nothing but garbage. But GM has it down to a constant flow of garbage with no relief in sight. Four cylinder Silverado anybody?
@@theuglybiker I lived in those impending ice age scares. It was splattered everywhere. Newspapers, television, radio, even schools taught that crap that carbon dioxide was reflecting heat back into space and we were on the verge of another ice age. There were even talks of covering the poles in industrial soot to trap more heat. Classes were interrupted so the fear mongers could preach their scare tactics. It was actually really scary to be a kid back then. I can not believe so many adults have forgotten those impending ice age days. Scientific magazines really loved to try to scare people with their ice age fiction. Time, Scientific American, Popular Science, Omni, all made mention of the impending ice age more than once. Then the 1980s and early 1990s came. That was the purging period. No mention of the impending ice age, global warming, nor climate change was made. The purge appeared to have worked many forgot the scare tactics of the past when the global warming scare came to begin in the very late 1990s and early 2000. Those that did remember were said that they were remembering wrong, although all of them remembered nearly the same and those that said they were remembering wrong were not even alive then. Wouldn't you know it, the new villain is the same old villain but this time it is trapping heat instead of reflecting it back to space. I wonder when the carbon dioxide switched sides like that. All the records and, "studies," are still there to be found in the libraries in microfiche and microfilm. But their is little chance the lazy people of today will look up the old articles, magazines, television programmes, and radio broadcasts of the impending ice age. It is easier for them to just believe the politicians and their pet, "scientists," they keep in their fully lined, very deep, pockets.
Dan R we’re getting there.
I spotted afew relics from the good ole 50s still lumbering along. A 54 Pontiac and 50s Grumman Olsen Kurbside. And a 1959 Cadillac sedan Deville.
Me too! I love those 50s cars! So sad I got rid of my finished 55 Pontiac and finished 56 Olds 98 :(
We made cars to last back then. People complain about old cars being polluters. Those cars are still on the road today! Cars from the late 70’s on were designed to be disposed of after 8 years or so! With these old cars we can update them and keep them on the road unlike these new cars!
My 58 CADILLAC was carting me around then. I was 14. Been carrying me around since I was a year old. Parents bought it in 1960. I'm 60 now and I still drive the old girl today. Were growing old together!! Lol.
yea old cars in these videos is what i watch for. check out this roadster ua-cam.com/video/er4ab2RzaEo/v-deo.html
You missed the 37 Chevrolet p/u truck blue & white! coming from right to left.AT 2:31 in the video.
I wish life was still like this.
The days of the full service gasoline stations, I remember the bell when I was a kid to alert attendant a car has pulled into gas station. Great memories.
That brings back memories. I worked gas stations as a kid in those years. Union 76. It all looks very familiar. Thanks for the video and the memories.
I find the certain mechanical clunk of the gas pumps and the work ethic of the station attendants rather great. Like they were skilled gas attendants working with pride, on camera of course but I do remember that kind of service as a kid with my parents in L.A. And, you could clearly communicate with them and most had a smile to go along with that down to earth American attitude. Ahhh... yesteryears...
12 year old kid that summer. I know time marches on and everything looks better through nostalgia, but I do miss California back then.
Before prop 13 ruined everything.
Back then I could fill the 20-gallon tank in my pickup truck, pay for it with a $10 bill, and get $2 back in change. :'(
But every car was a gas guzzler, every car was filling up with 20+ gallons, saw one 40 gallons.... my subaru I fill with 12ish gallons...
And a donut , coffee and a pack of smokes lmao
Same as always , your pay was lower. Minimum wage was under $2.00
I went to work in a union factory in 1978 for $6.00 an hour Was enough to buy a $35,000 house . Now people in the area need $40 an hour to buy a $250,000 house
Ok? Doesn't mean the money had the same value
Thank you very much for the video. It was a great era. Real cars and honest people.
I remember in 1973 when my Texas cousins came to visit. We were in Pasadena and tried to explain there were mountains right there. You could not see them for the smog.
Oh Yes,......... Wall to Wall Smog, and NOT Fog from the Ocean!
Now you can't see 'em because of the tent cities and the pile of shit.
@@ElCid48 stfu
And to think , all of them had carburetors!! I can smell it now 😍
@@trevorwylie5882 my 58 CADILLAC, my parents bought 1960, I was only a year old, life long so cal car, I've kept bone stock. Carburetor, points, original engine, etc.. still on the road, and yes it has the great under the hood smell all old cars had after driving back then.
Women were treated unfairly and everybody was racist, you're worrying about smell...... Nice priorities.
Mitchell C someone always has to bring politics into it..
I was just stating that basically it’s crazy how much technology has changed and I like the smell of burning gas, that would be the 😍 emoji at the end of my sentence. I don’t know what you think 😍 emojis mean but it usually means you like something . Hey Debbie Downer, wasn’t trying to be a sarcastic asshole...that would be your department 🤨.
@@sauerpower718 it's ok, keep smiling while the Amazon burns. Last thing we need is you indirectly polluting people's minds into thinking any gas is good. Wonder where those cars are now? I doubt they're cans!!!!!!
Mitchell C lol 🤔😂
Shit, this was filmed 6/15 /73 ? Thats 3 days before I was born. Thats really cool 😊 look at all those vintage American cars.
Darrell Pasion I was born on 12/10/1973 in L.A. at USC Medical center (General Hospital)
This is interesting to watch.
I was born 12-15-74, and I fondly and partially grew up in the mid-late 70s, onto the 80s and remember vintage American cars very well.
I was born in 1962, so I was around 11 years old when this was recorded.
I was 13 year old that year my Dad bought a new 1973 Dodge Coronet and we took a trip to Santa Monica from San Diego I remember back then that the smog in LA was terrible and my father complain about the traffic in the freeways which haven't changed that much thru the years only that the smog in LA is not so bad this days do to cars emissions are much better than back in 1973.
Darrell Pasion I was 9 and LA like the rest of the USA was so very different.
I had just turned 2 on June 2 1973. I would do anything to go back and get a shot to do it all over.
bryan snyder I was like negative 26 years old. I was born in 1999. About to go to college now. Time flies huh? You’re older than my parents too.
bryan snyder, I was 15😎 & would love to go back to those days. No adult worries!
What would you do differently?
bryan snyder all this footage is literally 20 years older than me (Born in 1993 downtown Los Angeles)
bryan snyder we have the same birthday 🎁 wow! Go figure.....
Thanks so much for this! At the beginning, saw the Union 76 sign rotating on the pole. I think most gas stations had their brands doing that. At 0:58, a helmetless motorcycle rider.
Everything began to fall apart about 3 years later and has continued since.
More like 4 months later. Oct 16, 1973 was the beginning of the Arab Oil Embargo.
@@henrystowe6217 I suppose.
Most of the cars were made in the USA, Almost everything was made in the USA and we had a middle class. Great Video, Thank You.
And I'm nostalgic.
Notice the complete lack of obese or overweight people. Everyone is trim and lean and strong. Also tan.
Wow, you can actually tell the difference between a Buick Skylark and a BMW. Can't do that today. They all look the same.
3:53 I haven’t heard that sound in probably 25 years. Wow.
kring kring
Some of the oil change places still use them.
@@bobareebop My local Valvoline Instant Oil Change uses one.
I was a teenager. My boyfriend and I went to Seattle for the weekend. Long ass gas line before heading home...became a party! We were playing music, sharing...things, weed, food...it was a hardship that we turned into a good time.😏
yes it's always that way,it was really good times,we just didn't see it that way,so sad now we cannot go back,omg. bless you always--- canada
In a few months time, gas lines would be forming. It must have been an absolute nightmare.
It was. I remember fist fights at the gas stations.
especially in LA. No public transportation
...... and the DAYS of ODD/ EVEN Fueling based on your License Plate w/ ABSOLUTELY NO FUELING on SUNDAYS!!!!!!!!!! (Them OPEC OIL GRUBBERS!!!!!!!!!!!)
There never was a gas shortage . It was panic. People were refueling every time they went some place and getting as little as half a gallon .to keep it topped off
@@oldschool5539 Look at the results of not learning to be energy independent. Now we import more oil than ever and has a 20 year old oil war.
To think Badlands, Mean Streets, The Exorcist, American Graffiti, and Enter the Dragon were all out in theaters at this time.
Lucky moviegoers lol
Zeke really?? It would’ve been amazing to even be a fly on the wall to watch it the first time in theaters and even get a glimpse of the audience!
Zeke one movie can change a life huh? 😉 how old are you? If you don’t mind me asking
I’m a 90s baby and I can only remember growing up when there was a 70s throwback going on during that time.
Zeke ohh I see.
Yeah there’s actually a few good movies out there when you look and dig deep enough. But for the majority of the time mainstream Hollywood is extremely dumb and uninspiring. Very studio driven based off of previous success. I like to consider myself a movie buff, especially that of the New Hollywood era.
I’ll take 35 mm films easily over digital any day.
And speaking of "Enter the Dragon," didn't Bruce Lee pass about this time?
InvestorGuy66 as a matter fact, he did :/ died too soon if you ask me
Adjusted for inflation, that's about $2.38 a gallon for gas.
And despite the 70's stagflation and bad monetary policy, it was still cheaper than now.
Bad monetary policy indeed. Kind of like 2005-2014.
@Rata 4U Obvioisly. High demand and low supply. What I meant is in Todays dollars we still overpay without being in a crisis. But yes affordability was a problem at that time.
So exactly the same as now
Kyle Davis Not really, it’s currently $1-1.50 more a gallon in California
That's the R&D bus #3 that ran North & South along Central Avenue, and when heading North, it would make a left turn onto 6th Street, entering into Downtown L.A. I rode that bus route a many of days 🚌
I love this .no crazies yelling on the street trying to harass
Back when California was still sane.
90% of American built cars on the roads, whats left of that pride now? Around 20%?
You have Republicans to thank for that
Data East technically, Nixon is also partially to blame since he created the EPA, which controls car regulations now...
Mojo Risin 20? Lmao you must live on another planet...
The diference was back then American cars were superior, now they are the same at best.
Make them cheap enough to make in the United States while being paid well enough to live off of and I’m sure they’d be back.
I could watch this all day!!!
2:41, Am I the only one who accidentally read that as $4.09.
No.
That was 40.9 & 44.9;
Quality of the gas?
Same
Yeah ... freaked for a second...
Lol my first thought too lol
Haha. Me too!
I was 8 when we left L.A. in 1972, but spent the summers in Long Beach. What I love about this film is that all the 'vintage' cars were mostly 1-3 years old driving around initially. You started to see more 60's cars as the film moved along. It was a simpler time that is certain. 40 cent gas, HAHA! Can you imagine that today? You could fill your gas hog SUV for about $12.00 vs. $120.00
People can't afford new cars today.They were cheap then.
A couple things to remember, cars generally didn't last as long then. People would replace cars every two or three years because a car bought new was usually showing significant signs of wear by then and likely had a few mechanical bugs as well unless it had been meticulously maintained. Car loans usually didn't exceed three years and 12 month, 12,000 mile warranties were the norm typically with no corrosion protection. 100,000 miles was generally considered end of life for a typical car.
I can SMELL this video..
I don’t know how people did it back then..
If even ONE 60’s or 70’s era carbureted car drives by, I’m choking from the fumes. I can’t even imagine ALL cars emitting that, and in a big city. Crazy.
Also..this is amazing and clear footage of 1970’s Los Angeles! Amazing
Rata 4U well that sums up my prediction haha
We didn't wear helmets and many smoked a pack a day. We had brakes made of asbestos, and lead paint and lead in the gas. We were real men back then. No snowflakes allowed.
@@jamesdaneke yes, sadly I watched the evolution of society from the late 80’s onward
Thank you for posting this I grew up in Los Angeles in the 70's takes me back to my stepfather driving me & my brother all around town with the 1973 green Dodge Dart good memories 😊😊😊.
The cars had more different collors, today seems all the same thing.
wonderful vintage classic and antique vehicles!
Smog was incredibly bad in 1973, especially out in the Pomona area.
Now you have piles of shits, gallons of piss, and human debris in the streets. How's that for pollution?
Steven Gutierrez My dad graduated from Chatsworth High School in 1973. He said the only place he ever saw worse smog was in Beijing.
Yeah the smog was bad I remember if I went outside to walk or work my lungs would hurt . I lived in Pomona also.
My first car was a '73 Opal Manta. Got it in '79. The gas behind the plate reminds me of Clark Griswald.
Clean streets and sidewalks, some green shrubs and trees....looks like someone cared about their surroundings.
Ahh, when you didn’t have to think about which side the gas filler door was on....at least most American cars anyways!
Carl M you never have to guess. It tells you which side on the dashboard
The springloaded, hinged license plate on our '74 Cadillac Sedan deVille WAS the fill pipe door. Pull up the bottom like a garage door and there was the gas cap...didn't matter which side of the car the pump was.
Anyone else notice how quiet it was back then?
What? music was great. The Doors etc..
Cars didn't have subwoofers in those days.
These people probably thought, why are they filming gas stations? Little did they know people 46 years later would be watching
In 1975 I bought a starter home for $20,000 making $4.60 an hour. I still live in the same house, though it has been modified. The property taxes were $500 a year. I bought a used 1969 Nash Rambler for $200 bucks and the front passenger wheel fell off the car as I was driving during the Blizzard of 1978. Those were the ' good old days.'
Everything just feels so good. The only issue back at that time was America was just getting over the Vietnam war. Other than that things were great. There is a calmness to things that one does not feel today.
Crime in the 70s was way way worse than it is today, it only feels worse because the media only reports bad shit.
You are living in the best times, yes better than some random footage from 1973....
Nope tricky dick were committing crimes
@@bowtie3 Killary joins the chat.... two years late
Thank you I love LA!
Look at how much cleaner and nicer the city and the people were back then. Tragic to see how decisively it has deteriorated in just a few decades.
You haven't seen nothing!
You're forgeting the huge layer of smog lmao. Clean my ass
@@mcfarofinha134 It wasn't that bad.
& the 76 Gas Station across the street is still there over 40 years later👍
The one on Hollywood Blvd and Bronson? I recognized this intersection immediately!
@@beth2398 I miss the old hardware store across the street.
I lived three blocks from here at different times throughout the years. Frequented this station often, from early 80's on. I don't remember the hardware store, don't think I ever shopped there. I've been to the liquor store many times for convenience items. I used to get off the bus there and walk up the street home. I haven't always had a car. Funny to see the area some years before I even drove. Love the bells and full service. They still had this going until not too long ago. No bells, but full service. I'd have a blast pulling into on of those with a car load of my friends requesting full service, lol.
@@beth2398 it used to be on the south/west corner of Hollywood & Bronson. Im glad the city finally Repaved that street since it used to be bumpy for decades!🤦😂😂😂
I remember those bumpy roads! Glad they fixed them!
Awesome, regards from Spain.
That traffic back in 1973 was a walk in the park compared to 2019!
Wow!!! How *CLEAN* it was back then!! And what it has turned into today!! Sad, reaaaallllly sad!
Look at all those vintage cars! The world was so colourful with those cars. 😆😍I always get excited when I see one today they stand out so much then today's modern car which make everything boring.
Man I love the 70's. This is the era from the song: It's a beautiful noise.
One thing people don’t realize is the amount of raw gas all of those cars would dump out through their exhaust, those cars polluted so badly I remember as a kid my chest hurting to breathe on smoggy days in Los Angeles
Feels like a dream sequence with all the flashing from scene to scene..lol
Cars actually looked like passenger vehicles then and not like the oversized metal and plastic roaches you see today.
Thank you I like your comment.
Ahahaha! You are right.
😮😮lovely cars with box shaped!
Amazing 70's_80's the best!!
Think l saw me hitchhiking.
Get a job
@@Canadianbacon-s9n
Be nice
@@Canadianbacon-s9n stfu
(sigh) The 70s, the last great decade. More fun back then. ~S
steven frasier a shot of penicillin cured most screwups👄😉
The 80s wasnt bad either. Shit started going down the drain in the late 90s.
Joe mariconadas Exactly. The late 90s was the veritable gateway to the world as we now know it. Not a day goes by that I don't daydream about living in simpler times.
1:02 I see UPS trucks haven't changed much.
Have frequented that gas station many times over forty years. Just there a few months ago. Intersection looks much the same. Dig the full service guy. I think I remember him.
oh yes the classic California with the actual Chevron and standard changeover out there taking place at the time of branding.
also need to see the old Union 76 and of course Arco..
00:21 Ralph Nader's favorite car the Chevrolet corvair
0:38 I never realized how an early 1970s Chevy Luv looks like an early 80s Cadillac Cimarron head on, from a slight distance, at least until you see the bed. Cool video! I was just over two months old, blissfully pooping my diapers somewhere...!
Make you appreciate back then now. Moteld still look nice, Airplane ride was so peaceful ...
I remember them days. Used to frequent the L.A. area in the early 70s and mid 70s. You could actually leave your car doors open downtown without worrying that someone would steal your car. People would sometimes open your door to move your car if they needed more space for parking. I remember how common it was back then and we all took it for granted. There were just a few places where it was dangerous and murders occurred. Drive bys were just beginning but they were very rare and only contained in ghettos.
Yeah, I call bullshit on that.
Yeah, no. It was dangerous even back then. Don't let nostalgia fool you. Also, the smog would probably kill you before any junkie could
Before 1973 and the first gas crisis, there use to be “Gas Wars” when two or more stations were at the same intersections. In 1966, before I could drive, I remember one in Carson California where there were big signs announcing a Gas War! I was riding with my uncle and cousin in their VW bus and I noticed the Station across the street was selling gas for 19 cents a gallon, and they gave you a free glass, and Blue Chip stamps with a fill up. It was like they were giving the gas away for free!
I'm surprised how modern it looks in the 70's....not that much has changed
Man them cars are a thing of beauty.
It looks like a cleaner version of the 1980's
Lol!
You mean dirtier? The smog is thick here
Excellent footage. Some of the shots look so similar in "feel"-to busy Sydney streets at the time.
Australia and the U.S are eerily similar but with so many differences culture wise.
2:26 Is it me or this truck sounds like a 2 stroke diesel
really ??? wow i didnt even see smoke billow out from it!
fidel catsro that's a Detroit Diesel. Very common back then. Nearly every transit bus was powered with one.
@@jamesfrench7299 I see, wish I could fit an injector and run my 2stroke gasoline Yamaha on diesel too! most of these 2 stroke diesel engines disappeared by the time I learnt abc...
fiddle Castro, I have 13 160cc two stroke lawn mowers that all work.
@@jamesfrench7299 should run them all on DIESEL!!
I like videos like these, NO TALKING!
I'm pretty sure that an episode of Chips was filmed at that gas station.
Your right there was a ep shot there too I remember it also
WOW!!
Chips as a bit of the 70's I'd like to forget!
@@theuglybiker KZ900 and 1000s i will never forget!!
Where have all the classics gone 😭
The music was rocking in the seventies. W Percival from New Zealand 🇳🇿 Gardenia🌺 Band
When I look at these videos, I'm always looking for my car. I was a teenager in LA back then. :-)
Me too...and me too! ((LoL))
The days of the gas crisis / Saudi oil embargo . It got so bad in the US that people were limited to what day they were allowed to fill up
This traffic appears very light compared to today!
This is hilarious! I wish this is what “heavy traffic” would be like this in LA right now.
You call that heavy traffic? Oh, to be able to travel back in time! Love hearing those 2 stroke Detroit engines run, at 2:29 in the truck!
You even got your windows washed back in the day.
Love the 2nd gen. Corvair 1965? Monza.
I've only experienced someone filling the car for you once in my life...20 years ago. Shame we have to have locks on the fuel caps because we can't trust people with fuel.
Charles , go to New Jersey where self service gas stations are illegal.
Dude, we have locks on fuel caps because, in the 1970s, it was common for people to steal gasoline straight from a person's car. The 1970s are the reason our caps are locked.
Now they punch a hole in the bottom of your gas tank.
I assumed that came from asia
@@asdfasdf4345artsdfg Yah, "gas siphoning"
I wished I lived in LA in the late 60s, 70s and 80s.😮
Each car back then caused so so so so much polution
Walter White
You are right about the cars back then. In L.A. in the 60s.... There were much less cars and traffic jams.. Yet, I remembered the smoggy sky and breathing issues
I remember living in San Fernando Valley 1973-75, swimming in our pool at the age of 7 and wondering what that burning sensation in my lungs was, after swimming only a couple of laps. My dad said, "don't worry it's just smog and air pollution. We live in So Cal now. Just man up and deal with it!" Well things have changed since then for sure. Fortunately people don't resign themselves to think that way anymore.
I remember thinking that 1968 to 1971 was as bad as it ever got, but then I read an account of someone old enough to remember Stage 1 & 2 smog alerts, and shelter indoor orders at his elementary school, as early as 1955... so smog didn't just start in the late 60's. In fact they had wanted to do something to start curbing it, and had a plan in place as early as 1960... but it would take an additional 8 years before the EPA ever addressed the problem, and an independent Calif Air Resources Board (CARB) was established. In fact, the first year of federal smog emissions equipment on cars, I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong), didn't even begin until model year 1968! That means that 1967 and before... everyone was clueless on how to even stop air pollution in any way, shape, or form.
No, I really don't like Gov. Brown's anti-car sentiment. I really don't like how classic cars seem to be scapegoated every chance our state officials get. I have no real love for Priuses... but even I have to admit, we've come a long way, and I can swim without my lungs burning now. Imagine if we took no strides back then, what things would look like now?
@@B3burner hi guy ok as far as lungs burning 60's 60's 70's L.A. and other city's didn't have much in the way of tree's and plant's even a lot of park's had little to no tree's and some of the plant's it had put out as much pollution as a early 60's car's like olyander's put out pollution like that no I'm not making that up a lot of house's had olyander's it help a lot when in the late 70's in to the 80's they started to plant tree's tree's give fresh air ok now a bout pollution control on car's 1962 pcv valve and breather 1965 pcv valve breath smog pump air injection reactor 1973 and 74 and one other thing but i can't remember what it was called right now all the above plus a egr valve 1975 to 1979 all the above plus electronic distributor catalytic converter and lot's of vacuum hoses and feed back carburator's long time sease I used to work on these car's as a hobby oh and yes I'm old enough to remember stage 1 and 2 on extra bad smog day's we wern't aloud to go out and play on the play ground at play time had to stay in the class room plus as a kid getting a check up by a doctor and he would have a ciggarite in his mouth while giving me a check up and no I'm not making that one up either have a good night oh I was born and grew up in L.A. late 50's 60's 70's love L.A. miss it oh and i remember the gas line's and the even and od plate number's and 55 speed limit opec. Arab's and there money power down with america and burnning our flag C😎😎L
Cole Webb >>> Excellent points. You thought of things I hadn’t considered.
@@B3burner I lived in the Sunland/Tujunga area around 1990-93. I was in 4th and 5th grade, and I remember some days were so smoggy, I could barely make out the surrounding mountains. I used to play hard on the afternoon school playground, and I remember my lungs burning. I also remember all the diesel city buses and trucks belching out dark clouds of soot. Times have changed.
Yes, the 76 gas stations... in 1976, when I was at least 20 years young, those gas stations gave out those orange balls with "76" on them,to put on top of your antenna. Very soon you saw them EVERYWHERE ...
There's just somethin magical about the 70's .. Actually it was really laid back and i loved it . The cars, music and so on mmmmmmm
jbird Perez they sucked, no smartphones
The gas price of 40 cents a gallon sounds incredibly cheap...until you put that 1973 number into an inflation calculator and find that it's $2.36 a gallon in today's money.
Average wage in 1973 was $7,580 per year. Average wage 2018: $52,145.00
For all the youngin's out there that think everyone drove muscle cars. LOL
Fuck off boomer
Yup, hardly find a shot of an SS with stripes either! Seems there's more around now...
A much richer, happier, healthier and safer society than today.
Yeah....leaded gasoline, no seatbelt or airbag laws, asbestos insulation, heavy air pollution... "healthier and safer"...
Actually that was a time with Ted Bundy running around.
41 cents a gallon
Oh the good old days
Don Dressel &9/10ths
Don Dressel
....but the average hourly wage was like $2.50 an hour
@@countdown2xstacy And the average car then probably got like 8 MPG
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Yes