The legendary 1970's. Love it, I'm from the 1970's. The beautiful, wonderful atmosphere,the beautiful cars, the stereo 8-track tapes. Man,man I miss those wonderful days back in the 70's.
I dream of those years . The cars ,buildings the people even the 92 octane union 76 leaded gas . I can go on and on about it ,may be ( in my case) I was young or whatever it was I miss it with passion . Thanks
Nah. If you still live there and are not crying or wanting a time machine does not mean there is something wrong with you. Any person that still lives in LA or used to live in LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine does not mean something is wrong with them. If that person still lives in LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine still means nothing is wrong with them. Any person that lives in LA or outside of LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine still means nothing is wrong with them. Not something is wrong with you in that comment from you. Not something is wrong with you. /
I worked for the gas company from 70 to 78 the base was just down the street from the Formosa Goldwyn studios was across the street they had a big fire there in 75 this was the Hollywood i knew It was a blast working there
Ray Manzarek at The Whisky. Had a ticket to see him and Robby Krieger there, about 2 weeks before Ray passed. Wish he was still arou d to have seen them together.
Ray Manzarek did NOT found X. He has NOT a member of that band but he did produce their first 4 albums including the first one "Los Angeles" which was released in 1980. That photo of the Whiskey is the late 70's at the earliest as X was not a band until 1977. Their first show at the Whiskey was probably in 1978 or 1979 at the earliest.
Always enjoy the cars from the 1970's. A dented Challenger at 0:58, quite a few Pinto's, Porsche, Chevette, a nice 260Z (with maybe a early Celica as well) and on and on. I grew up with these cars but on the east coast.
Smog, before emission controls were implemented was truly awful, some days were official bad air days where old folks were encouraged not to go outside..everything has its challenges, eh? Sure there was excitement in the music and movie business still, it was still hanging in..
Interesting, notice the 2nd floor of the Taft building at Hollywood & Vine has fire damage from an apparent fire recently. Nice details. Also the labeling for Sunset & La Brea is incorrect, the Formosa is on Santa Monica Blvd @ La Brea that corner was a car wash until the 2000's then it became the Hollywood Gateway Shopping complex.
OMG-my best buddy and I at age 16, cruised to Hollywood one night from Ventura County-we wandered accidentally into The Whiskey for X with Ray Manzarek( $4😅)! Among some great X songs, they mixed in a couple Doors tunes & they closed with Roadhouse Blues-one of the best nights ever-thanks for the reminder, absolutely a wow evening!!
1:49 -- so that's what used to be at the Chick-fil-A... a Union 76 gas station. I remember it was a Rally burger in the 90s, then turned in to Carl's Jr...
...WOW..! ! ! THOSE AMAZING DAY ' s AND AT MINUTE 1 : 05 AND. 1 : 09 THOSE FANCY TWO DOOR WHITE CADILLAC AND THE COZY TWO DOOR BLACK LINCOLN GREAT AND AMAZI G CAR ' s . . .
At about 1:46 I wonder what is meant by "disc" in FILM DISC TAPE? Don't know what type of disc format might have been a generic consumable item in this time frame. Anyone know what that business is, or what intersection that is there with the 76 station?
It's a sound recording and duplication place, from the billboard (which is barely legible). I would assume that disc referred to direct to disc (lp or 45) if one wanted to record that way.
This shot if The Formosa Cafe looks exactly like the one used in the film “L.A. Confidential” when the two detectives walk in looking for a fake “Lana Turner,” and find the real thing.Great film, great scene.🎬❤️🎬
The cars were so big and colorful in the 70s. In L.A. today almost everyone is driving an expensive black car. I’d settle for a red Pinto just so I could get noticed too.😂😂😂
1:26 to 1:36 Vine from santa monica blvd. the mobil pump station is still there while the car dealership is now Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club and Hampton Inn.
@Luke Williams yes it was and carls jr accross the street and the male hookers would sit in there and look out the window. i thought that they put that Target Shopping Center there to run them away it seems to have attracted more..
@Luke Williams yeah that whole foods i used to live on a street called Romain 2 blocks from that Ralphs back in the 90s moved a little after the northridge quake . im sure you enjoyed the neighborhood.
@Luke Williams Right i was just paying $485 now it seems like a nightmare and im now in a place that i can't bring myself to call home due to a money greedy landlord and bad neighbors... by the way Happy St Patricks Day...
@Luke Williams I think it is open i had a Irish beer today the first time i had a beer since 2017 .. i just glad someone have that old video tape. brings back memories..
Wow drug king is now a Starbucks, and the wood yard on La Brea is now a Target/Best Buy with several restaurants double level mall...I have vid of the construction in 2002, I should post it.
i think the dates on this are wrong. i don't believe any of this goes as far back as 1970 and judging by the 'BLACK FLAG' flyer and the 'X' show at the whisky at least some of this is from the early 80's.
Back when LA was grungy yet cool. Now it's just gross, with all the deranged homeless and excrement on sidewalks etc. Not to mention the general lameness of modern Hollywood culture. Having lived there in the 1980s and again in the 2010s, I have seen the change personally. An American tragedy.
@@stoneroses1989 Indeed, the 80s in LA rocked, literally. I moved there in 88, just at the tail end of it all, but good enough to experience it as it was. While living there again from 2012-2019 I tried to hard to conjure up that past, but it was futile. Hollywood was overrun with thugs, Venice Beach with homeless, and downtown was nothing short of the third world. I rented an apartment in Beverly Hills, so I was somewhat sheltered from the sprawling urban hell, yet even 90210 was not immune. I left because I could see the coming racial strife, and sure enough a year later Rodeo Drive is looted and trashed.
@@williamwhite791 It's an American Tragedy as you said in an earlier post--paradise lost. I'd imagine the best time to live in California was prior to the 92' riots. You got a front row ticket to the crazy out there during the 2010's and now we see the end result.
You are absolutely right but the people of Los Angeles in general collectively have themselves to blame for this they've allowed it they tolerated they put up with it now look where it is it is not fixable too much money to be made off of them now.
@1:25 SW corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Highland Ave, that Mobil gas station is still there. @1:38 Going west on Sunset Blvd and turning south on Highland Ave. Where the Union 76 is was occupied by Carl Jr at some point and now is occupied by Chick Fil A.
OHHHhhh, when life was sooo muchh better ...can you imagine in Spain...life WAS HEAVEN......Music was Art, young people were YOUNG, drugs were great quality....people were too much interenting at time to talk, to listen, to Live with.......MUSIC IS DEAD( commercial music I mean..) in 2o19, it's just an exmple... 60s were exciting, 70s GREAT, 80ś GOOD FILMS but the Human Crap started there...90s shit....now is shabby, rought,free nonsense violence, crap TV, CRAP movies, lady GAGA( and the rest), Ganta rap....I think sometimes if German might won the WAR..............Who knows....NOW the wrong is right and the shabby is on fashion.....
Something I notice about people romanticizing the past is that what they are really doing is longing for their own innocence, to go back to a time when they were unburdened by the problems of the world. They mistake their personal innocence for an innocent world when actually nothing could be further from the truth. The world was actually objectively worse in that time even though we felt more comfortable in it then we do today as older people with less hope for the future than we had as children and unaware of the cold hard world that exists out there.
@@dondajulah4168 Sound observation. I miss the LA of the 70s & 80s, but am able to parse out nostalgia for my youth from reality. Back then, the smog was horrendous, we had to plan our lives around buying gas because of periodic shortages, and many of the LA landmarks & daily conveniences we take for granted didn't exist. I can hardly imagine how inconvenient it would be to have to visit a local library to consult an encyclopedia, when that same information is literally at our fingertips today. Truth is, there is good and bad in just about every period of modern history.
@@dondajulah4168 I remember the 1960s and 1970s all the way through today. I have no nostalgia for those time periods; I remember how inconvenient life was and the grittiness & crime of the time. Today is the best of times. We can only live today; we can't live the past or the future. Just today.
![Busy Los Angeles 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/R7qMjqw-QR4/mqdefault.jpg)
The legendary 1970's. Love it, I'm from the 1970's. The beautiful, wonderful atmosphere,the beautiful cars, the stereo 8-track tapes. Man,man I miss those wonderful days back in the 70's.
The good old days. When the traffic was still tolerable, and LA was affordable.
.... and The music was funkier!
Этиловый бензин
WHERER ALL THE HOMELESS ?
Oh, if the 70's would only come back....Loved the yellow corvette stringray.....so cool.
I dream of those years . The cars ,buildings the people even the 92 octane union 76 leaded gas . I can go on and on about it ,may be ( in my case) I was young or whatever it was I miss it with passion . Thanks
Alchemica Blackwood
Unfortunately LA has turned into garbage
@Alchemica Blackwood. That's what you think.
@Alchemica BlackwoodYeah OK. LOL 1000 Times.
@Alchemica Blackwood yep.thats what he meant....and what sane person wouldn't?
Back when L.A. was great. If you still live here and are not crying or wanting a time machine, then something is wrong with you.
LA proper is a dump now
Nah. If you still live there and are not crying or wanting a time machine does not mean there is something wrong with you. Any person that still lives in LA or used to live in LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine does not mean something is wrong with them. If that person still lives in LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine still means nothing is wrong with them. Any person that lives in LA or outside of LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine still means nothing is wrong with them. Not something is wrong with you in that comment from you. Not something is wrong with you. /
@@jordanjohnson9866 W E I R D O
What? Are you still there?
Because Californians vote with their a** !!!
MY GOD......cars.....voltswagon,lincoln continential,chevy................I am drooling !!
I worked right behind the Formosa Cafe @1:19 1980-1983. Good times.
did u ever go to the Formosa? Did u run into any famous people in LA?
Formosa Cafe is still there and it is on Santa Monica Blvd. & Formosa Ave. in West Hollywood.
Micky C had a secret office upstairs.
I worked for the gas company from 70 to 78 the base was just down the street from the Formosa Goldwyn studios was across the street they had a big fire there in 75 this was the Hollywood i knew
It was a blast working there
Funny how there seems to be hundreds of thousands of cars yet now those cars are hard to find
Ray Manzarek at The Whisky. Had a ticket to see him and Robby Krieger there, about 2 weeks before Ray passed. Wish he was still arou d to have seen them together.
This films makes you want to go out and buy a pair of bell bottoms [ pants ].
Gei pants, hiptard.
I lived on Argyle Street right near the Capitol Records building in the 70s.
We must've been neighbors then. I lived on Primrose and Vine. Just north of Castle Argyle.
I lived on Vine, across from the Hollywood Ranch Market in the Villa Elaine apts mid 1970's. So cheap to live there then.
1:10 X with Ray Manzarek! Wow landmark concert he founded X and was of course The Doors genius.
This must be after 1971,,,,I'm guessing
Ray Manzarek did NOT found X. He has NOT a member of that band but he did produce their first 4 albums including the first one "Los Angeles" which was released in 1980. That photo of the Whiskey is the late 70's at the earliest as X was not a band until 1977. Their first show at the Whiskey was probably in 1978 or 1979 at the earliest.
Incredible video. Thank you. Much Love to all my fellow Angelenos. 👊🏽
Formosa cafe looks amazing inside. As a food delivery driver i was stunned by its beauty and cleanliness.
I love this song. Love the Ohio Players. ❤️😻😍❤️
I love the choice of music in these videos. One correction: that building is not in Mid-Wilshire, it’s Century City on Olympic.
In in my youth I went to whiskey a-go-go to dance and occasionally eat at the Formosa Cafe.
In the late 70's, My friends and I went to The Whiskey A-Go-Go and listened to Rock bands. Those were the days.
Saw that Pinto! brings back mems.
Always enjoy the cars from the 1970's. A dented Challenger at 0:58, quite a few Pinto's, Porsche, Chevette, a nice 260Z (with maybe a early Celica as well) and on and on. I grew up with these cars but on the east coast.
You can see that same dented Challenger at 1:28 in the parking lot.
77 TRANS MS KINGS OF THE ROAD SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT PROVES THAT TRUTH,
We play all of these videos at our swinging parties, thank you!
Oh boy I think in this time was a good time to live in California
Smog, before emission controls were implemented was truly awful, some days were official bad air days where old folks were encouraged not to go outside..everything has its challenges, eh? Sure there was excitement in the music and movie business still, it was still hanging in..
It was!
Interesting, notice the 2nd floor of the Taft building at Hollywood & Vine has fire damage from an apparent fire recently. Nice details. Also the labeling for Sunset & La Brea is incorrect, the Formosa is on Santa Monica Blvd @ La Brea that corner was a car wash until the 2000's then it became the Hollywood Gateway Shopping complex.
Yeah that’s now the target with Formosa still there
The 70s look so cool even the old cars 😎👍
Ah, yes Ray Manzarek of the Doors organist, Light My Fire 1.08 at the Whisky a Go GO. Thanks for the nostalgia. RIP Ray, he attended UCLA.
OMG-my best buddy and I at age 16, cruised to Hollywood one night from Ventura County-we wandered accidentally into The Whiskey for X with Ray Manzarek( $4😅)! Among some great X songs, they mixed in a couple Doors tunes & they closed with Roadhouse Blues-one of the best nights ever-thanks for the reminder, absolutely a wow evening!!
1:08 Ray Manzarek was the Keyboard player for the Doors. RIP.
Love the music and LA 💖💖💖
If only I could be there in a time machine I'd be buying up properties like crazy.
Id be buyig up Muscle cars & KISS memorabilia ha
I love this stuff !!
You got the streets wrong. The Formosa is on Santa Monica Boulevard. The Whisky is on the Strip. Cool video though.
I did some extensive research (i.e. a twenty second Google search) and discovered that the Formosa is still in business
Jimmy Rockford’s Los Angeles.
Feels good and happy clean and as fresh as can be lovely video
A downtown L.A. where City Hall is actually visible? Say it ain't so!
All I see is American cars, love those days.
Fantástic city, from Brazil.
0:59! I knew that guy was going to spot the lady with the camera...and he did : )
I think he was a pimp.
@@N2LADIES55 love broker
Dirk Diggler on his way to a production meeting 2:20-2:28
1:49 -- so that's what used to be at the Chick-fil-A... a Union 76 gas station. I remember it was a Rally burger in the 90s, then turned in to Carl's Jr...
DiverseLA I remember that too. Highland & Sunset Blvd
Right across from my Old High school. The In n out on Sunset and Orange was a no tell Hooker motel in 70s.
...WOW..! ! ! THOSE AMAZING DAY ' s AND AT MINUTE 1 : 05 AND. 1 : 09 THOSE FANCY TWO DOOR WHITE CADILLAC AND THE COZY TWO DOOR BLACK LINCOLN GREAT AND AMAZI G CAR ' s . . .
How come such high quality video of traffic way back when? Thanks for posting.
it's shot on film.
This same year into its winter I am about to develop into a human via my mom's portal
The year is likely around 77 or 78, based on the bands on that sign.
0:49 жигуль)
At about 1:46 I wonder what is meant by "disc" in FILM DISC TAPE? Don't know what type of disc format might have been a generic consumable item in this time frame. Anyone know what that business is, or what intersection that is there with the 76 station?
It's a sound recording and duplication place, from the billboard (which is barely legible). I would assume that disc referred to direct to disc (lp or 45) if one wanted to record that way.
70's 🌐🕺
This shot if The Formosa Cafe looks exactly like the one used in the film “L.A. Confidential” when the two detectives walk in looking for a fake “Lana Turner,” and find the real thing.Great film, great scene.🎬❤️🎬
The cars were so big and colorful in the 70s. In L.A. today almost everyone is driving an expensive black car. I’d settle for a red Pinto just so I could get noticed too.😂😂😂
my beautiful town.
What Ohio Players song is that?!? It's fucking INSANE and funky AF!
That 0:10 bus is from the FLEXIBLE brand, here in Mexico a similar one was manufactured but from the DINA brand
0:44 Behind the wagon a russian made Lada :)
FIAT 124..automatic special 1973..👍
Formosa Cafe was not on Sunset. None of that stuff was on Sunset.
@Periwinkle Mermaid Hollywood High here too. Lived four blocks west on Formosa off Sunset
Whiskey was/is on Sunset
@@fatfreddyscat5767 Yeah, and they put in the "Hollywood Blvd" section in the video.
1:26 to 1:36 Vine from santa monica blvd. the mobil pump station is still there while the car dealership is now Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club and Hampton Inn.
Still looks very much recognizable
Mint green Pinto at .52. Parked green Pinto hatchback at 1.26. Brown Pinto squire in traffic at 1.47.
Might be me in the green fiat 4 door waiting for the left at Hollywood and Vine. @:49!
I liked Jack Webb's version of LA.
0:41 White car standing still Fiat 124?
FIAT-124 Automatic Special (1973).
I think you meant "Hoover" 2:45
Born and raised in the 60-96
X at the Whisky in 77 (!!!) history being made
Mast
1:17 thats crazy how thats the target plaza plaza now
im just shocked where Target is there was once a lumber yard then car wash..
@Luke Williams yes it was and carls jr accross the street and the male hookers would sit in there and look out the window. i thought that they put that Target Shopping Center there to run them away it seems to have attracted more..
@Luke Williams yeah that whole foods i used to live on a street called Romain 2 blocks from that Ralphs back in the 90s moved a little after the northridge quake .
im sure you enjoyed the neighborhood.
@Luke Williams Right i was just paying $485 now it seems like a nightmare and im now in a place that i can't bring myself to call home due to a money greedy landlord and bad neighbors... by the way Happy St Patricks Day...
@Luke Williams I think it is open i had a Irish beer today the first time i had a beer since 2017 .. i just glad someone have that old video tape. brings back memories..
The only thing I miss is how fun was driving a car back then today cams watching u everywhere and u must drive like a fking robot
Wow drug king is now a Starbucks, and the wood yard on La Brea is now a Target/Best Buy with several restaurants double level mall...I have vid of the construction in 2002, I should post it.
yesterday when i was young.
andy williams.
Another world :) great times but was a kid
Yes yes the good times The seventies ❤️❤️✌🏼
Before we needed a wall🇺🇸👍✌
I miss LA.
When he made that left turn on to highland, that gas station spot now stands a chick f lay restaurant...so different back then
great vid but without going into detail about how i know most of that footage is early 80's not the 70's.
@James Williams that and the way people are dressed i'm L.A. born and raised and to me the timeline looks more like the 80's than the 70's.
Nice
omg we used to eat at formosa restaurant had a b'day there once ... ;p
When I think of LA, I’m thinking of a hot toddy while sitting by a crackling fire in the fireplace on those cold SoCal evenings (1:14) WTF?
i think the dates on this are wrong. i don't believe any of this goes as far back as 1970 and judging by the 'BLACK FLAG' flyer and the 'X' show at the whisky at least some of this is from the early 80's.
Groovalicious baybay
0:50 there was a fire in one unit. Look at the windows on the bottom left of the building
1 bedroom apt $100 dlls.
I had a 2 bdr just north of Franklin for $225 in 1975 . Now that same dump is an overpriced Condo.
2:26 child support building I was there in 2010 look the same hate that place lol
I'm here for new Tarantino's movie
Blue Pinto parked at 1:56. Pinto drive by at 2:45.
Back when LA was grungy yet cool. Now it's just gross, with all the deranged homeless and excrement on sidewalks etc. Not to mention the general lameness of modern Hollywood culture. Having lived there in the 1980s and again in the 2010s, I have seen the change personally. An American tragedy.
It was still great there in the 80's I would think.
@@stoneroses1989 Indeed, the 80s in LA rocked, literally. I moved there in 88, just at the tail end of it all, but good enough to experience it as it was. While living there again from 2012-2019 I tried to hard to conjure up that past, but it was futile. Hollywood was overrun with thugs, Venice Beach with homeless, and downtown was nothing short of the third world. I rented an apartment in Beverly Hills, so I was somewhat sheltered from the sprawling urban hell, yet even 90210 was not immune. I left because I could see the coming racial strife, and sure enough a year later Rodeo Drive is looted and trashed.
@@williamwhite791 It's an American Tragedy as you said in an earlier post--paradise lost. I'd imagine the best time to live in California was prior to the 92' riots. You got a front row ticket to the crazy out there during the 2010's and now we see the end result.
@@williamwhite791 LA really hit the high time in the 80's. Then the cold front came after that and ruined it: just like weather metophore.
You are absolutely right but the people of Los Angeles in general collectively have themselves to blame for this they've allowed it they tolerated they put up with it now look where it is it is not fixable too much money to be made off of them now.
Mangled but still recognizable Black Flag flyer at 0:31!
Many of these old film strips show virtually no homeless people in the back ground. How did it become such a mess?
Plate C[C]
Now it’s just homeless encampments
@1:25 SW corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Highland Ave, that Mobil gas station is still there.
@1:38 Going west on Sunset Blvd and turning south on Highland Ave. Where the Union 76 is was occupied by Carl Jr at some point and now is occupied by Chick Fil A.
Ohio Players on the scene- theme music...🎤🎶🎵
OHHHhhh, when life was sooo muchh better ...can you imagine in Spain...life WAS HEAVEN......Music was Art, young people were YOUNG, drugs were great quality....people were too much interenting at time to talk, to listen, to Live with.......MUSIC IS DEAD( commercial music I mean..) in 2o19, it's just an exmple... 60s were exciting, 70s GREAT, 80ś GOOD FILMS but the Human Crap started there...90s shit....now is shabby, rought,free nonsense violence, crap TV, CRAP movies, lady GAGA( and the rest), Ganta rap....I think sometimes if German might won the WAR..............Who knows....NOW the wrong is right and the shabby is on fashion.....
👍👍👍
Something I notice about people romanticizing the past is that what they are really doing is longing for their own innocence, to go back to a time when they were unburdened by the problems of the world. They mistake their personal innocence for an innocent world when actually nothing could be further from the truth. The world was actually objectively worse in that time even though we felt more comfortable in it then we do today as older people with less hope for the future than we had as children and unaware of the cold hard world that exists out there.
@@dondajulah4168 Sound observation. I miss the LA of the 70s & 80s, but am able to parse out nostalgia for my youth from reality. Back then, the smog was horrendous, we had to plan our lives around buying gas because of periodic shortages, and many of the LA landmarks & daily conveniences we take for granted didn't exist. I can hardly imagine how inconvenient it would be to have to visit a local library to consult an encyclopedia, when that same information is literally at our fingertips today. Truth is, there is good and bad in just about every period of modern history.
@@dondajulah4168 I remember the 1960s and 1970s all the way through today. I have no nostalgia for those time periods; I remember how inconvenient life was and the grittiness & crime of the time. Today is the best of times. We can only live today; we can't live the past or the future. Just today.
Love my city, born and raised in east Hollywood. Still live in east Hollywood. ❤️
Check out my videos about Rock Music history and LA history 🙏🏻
Hi
Well I was born in 81
spotted a torn Black Flag bill on a lamppost and ray manzarek with X says this is more like 1980
WONDER CITY 1972
Make America Great Again 🙏
Remember the,”Souled Out?”
2:24 chevrolet corvette 1970
The Ohio Players😎
Porsche 356B @1:20
Its an 356A.