it is also great to see these cars that were a bit banged up, dirty or not perfect...which is the problems with modern movies trying to portray the 1940's (and other era's) they get their cars from collectors or enthusiasts that are in perfect condition as opposed how cars really were at the time...
@@melchizedekful I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that too. I was goin to apologize (hey, I'm Canadian) for my comment being rude, but then I saw 3 thumbs up already, and its just true. I'd rather see the luxurious, stylish cars of the *early* 1930's Duessenberg, Packard, Cord, Cadillacs, Horsch, Stutz, Daimler/Mercedes, even the Ford Model A, and Buicks and Chevrolets, and Chrylser, and the silly boat-tails; or the sleek sporty cars of the '60s with muscle engines...
@@ОлегИгоревич-в1ц Short question, but needs long answer. So, In short: - great ratio earnings-prices - relatively high level of security (no gangs, no drug dealers, etc) - no drugs between teenagers - no political correctness - no making stupid peaple famous - clean streets and order - low level of homeless - no social programs making people lazy - traditional model of life (clear role of men and women in family) - strict crime law against criminalist - no corpo treating people like machines Of course there is more reasons but I think those are the most significant. :-)
@@rodgergarrett7250 Sorta like the movie _Airplane!_ when Robert Stack is "behind the wheel" taking curves at 70 mph and knocking over bicyclists (LOL)
I never thought I’d find footage like this so captivating, but I did and loved it. It’s the actual 50’s. Not 50s movies, 50s Hollywood, but actual normal life 50s. Amazing.
These re-engineered films, the technology and effort that went into it, is spellbinding. The fact that I was _born_ in the 50s in Los Angeles is just gravy. It's like I'm truly taking a trip back in time.
Peaceful living and obedient. Honing for pleasure, no guns going off and police speeding up in a chase. Calming cruise and respectful environment, no invasion, of properties and theft. Long gone.. Hope we could learn very well from our elders.
Brought me to tears. I was born not long after that was made. Brings it all back: the wide, un-crowded streets lined with trees, the openness, the sense of order and clean-ness and safety and unity. The Los Angeles that was and will never be again.
@@BaronKilaton It was certainly better than the current times, violent gangs, armed robbers, drug addicts, thieves, homelessness, and other sorts of moral decay. But I guess you are right at home in all of this filth.
@@Boxhead42 Its different but still a lovely city. They had all those things in the past but it was in the background with a less vibrant city. If you focus on the progress and growth you will see the positives. They also had polio,malnutrition, small pox, flu, massive civil rights issues and open segregation. There was also a terrible lack of culture with mediocre museums and universities. I don’t want a city with a Jonathan club excluding anyone who isn’t Christian. Wide spread flooding across the city that killed people all the time. Before a core of engineers built the marina there was no harbor. Also along the coast there were open oil fields all over Santa Monica and Venice. There was also a huge lack of safety on any of the autos no seatbelts or safety glass.
@@BaronKilaton Yes, there were some of these things back in those days, but no where on the magnitude of today. It has became a complete cesspool. A lot of those faults you mentioned were the result of growing pains. So much was still new and needed working out. Scientist, engineers and developers, over time, fixed a lot of those concerns. What we have here today is a rapidly decaying society, it's not getting better, only worse.
I currently live in LA and I gotta say this is truly breath taking to see Los Angeles in it's days of glory. No traffic. no trash in the streets and most of all no tents and drug addicts. It's amazing how this beautiful city has turned to crap :( These videos are magnificent, Please keep sharing the world needs this.
@@paul1242 > Murders, rapes, car thefts, drug use, and homelessness were all happening in Hollywood, California in the 1950's, Yes. > just as they are today No. If you dig back into old almanacs, you will find that the crime rate in the US went up by about an order of magnitude in the 1970s. They have continued upward since then. What you consider 'normal' crime rates in a city today is at least dozens of times worse than Chicago in the 1930s, and had it occurred at those rates in even one city back then, would have been considered a national crisis, most likely resulting in military intervention to cure it before it could spread. The streets in Hollywood and almost all of LA were perfectly safe for unaccompanied 8 year old boys and girls going about their errands on their own in the 1950s. It was a MUCH safer time, even though crime still existed then.
This is GREAT. I'm so glad somebody filmed this in the day. Also, "Singing In The Rain" on the movie marquee. I could sit and watch these cars an old signs for an hour.
Passed my old street. Many buildings remain today, many are gone. Pep Boys (now at Hollywood & Gower) is a surprise that it existed in 1952. Tiny Naylor's diner with waitresses on roller skates was there till the 80s at La Brea. I walked those streets for 23 years. Ralph's (still there) at Poinsettia was my walk-to market. Notice no parking meters. Much more traffic today and homeless on sidewalks now. Chateau Marmont of course still there. Greenblatt's Deli closed permanently due to the pandemic. Thanks for the video - with amazing resolution. What a trip.
Hey! Look at that semaphore traffic light switching from "GO" to "STOP" at 0:31 (this iconic traffic signal pretty much unique to the L.A. area was phased out of use by 1956). Also, notice the "Chicken in the Rough" restaurant on the left at 0:13. That was a chain restaurant throughout much of the U.S. that served fried chicken. Thanks for sharing this trip back in time!
The styling was amazing, but the may-pop tires sucked, you could not look away as the steering was so loose you were off the road. Engines needed a rebuild every 40k and cars needed a tune up every oil change, heaters barely worked, no such thing as Air Conditioning. Model A's were even funner needing to adjust the spark while driving and the venerable hand crank when you had starter problems was peachy. Hell until the 1980s you could not even hear what someone next to you was saying the road/wind/engine noise was so terrible.
@@craigsundberg1443 "you could not look away as the steering was so loose you were off the road" there was no power steering so unless you had a problem with the steering it should be just fine "no such thing as Air Conditioning" they had hood vents, and vent windows which allowed a lot of air into the car when the car was moving "Hell until the 1980s you could not even hear what someone next to you was saying the road/wind/engine noise was so terrible." yeah maybe if you were sitting in a trabant but especially on nicer cars of the time, the ride was exeptionally quiet and comfortable, with most cars being made for comfort (have you even seen how thick the cushions on an old car are) and engines were also quite quiet from the inside you know little about classic cars
Love this! It was the time when my parents were young. My mom was from a small Texas farming town and my dad was from Ada, Oklahoma. I was born in 1951 and grew up in the San Fernando Valley and rode in cars like those shown. Thank you for posting!
@2:04 Passing "Crossroads of the World" on the left. 6671 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Trivia: Built in 1936 - and still standing today - Crossroads of the World is considered America's first outdoor shopping mall. It was built by the widow of 'purported' gangster Charles H. Crawford, who owned - and was murdered on the property in 1931. The iconic Hollywood structure has been featured in many films, including L.A. Confidential, Indecent Proposal, and Argo.
Since the late 1970’s I was obsessed with the 1950’s. I would fantasize how life was, simpler and peaceful. I was only in my early teens. I collected 1950’s magazines, and toys. Of course as time went on I became obsessed with the 20’s 30’s and 40’s and Old Hollywood and to this day I collect from those decades. Watching this 1952 video I feel like I’m in the back seat taking a trip back to 1952. The stores, the people, automobiles. California was truly beautiful then. So much is gone. Life was more tranquil, people well dressed not in a rush, cars at some distance from one another. Simply beautiful era. Ciro’s where the greats of Old Hollywood socialized, Singin’ In The Rain playing in the theater, Sigh. Great footageTY! It’s like stepping back in time.
In fact this is how to see that time for what it really was. After all, the world was colorful and without the distortions that the aged images we usually see in documentaries.
This was a time when people had enough respect to never litter. It wasn’t until the 60;’s signs were posted along the streets warning of a $100 fine for littering.
Amazing how much is the same, just less clutter. It's interesting to note that that Mobil station on the corner of Sunset and Fairfax has been there for 70 years! Thanks for sharing.
I can't tell you how much enjoyment I get out of watching your videos, thank you! As the very proud owner of a somewhat beat up, but still presentable 1951 Buick Roadmaster I spent a lot of time watching this video trying to pick out any contemporaries of my car and I was surprised on how many I found! It's so great to see what can be done with this vintage footage using todays tech. It's like looking through a window into the past, please keep up the great work!!
Pretty amazing to see Sunset from back then. Almost none of it is the same. Almost all of the buildings are even gone. Chateau Marmont is still there (as is the little corner stairs) and there is still a Ralphs at the corner of Sunset and Fuller. So cool to take a drive down a road I know so well from back in history. Thanks, NASS!
I disagree. It starts at Cahuenga and Sunset. On the left side of the screen a lot of the buildings are still there. They have changed a lot, but the basic shape is the same. Check out the building on the corner of Cahuenga and Sunset for example.
@@mikescher9266 yes it goes from Cahuenga to N. Olive and if you know where to look you can still see many old buildings. The Hollywood Athletic Club, Blessed Sacrament church, Villa Rosa apartments and many more. Also the groupings of tall palms are still in the same exact spots.
I love these videos, no music, just the sounds of the streets, buildings and the cars and so well restored and partially colorized. I find them so relaxing and watch them to relax before bed. To see all those old cars in their former glory and what it looked like in peoples everyday lives. I’m 51, and it’s amazing to see some video of two decades before I was born, thats like 70 years ago.
I absolutely love these videos and appreciate the effort that went into colorizing them. It's not the same seeing the area in black and white Noir movies. Los Angeles has lost a lot of its style over the past few decades and hopefully these videos will make people understand why it's a loss when an old building is replaced by some tasteless, styleless concrete block. Keep up the good work.
Utterly fascinating! I've driven this street so many times and to see it with wide open spaces and virtually no traffic is astounding! Strange how it looks so different and the same simultaneously! Thanks Nass!
The buying power of the dollar in the 50's was 10x what it is today. On one income, even just stocking shelves at a grocery store, a couple could afford a house, car, college, retirement, etc. It's one of the major reasons everyone in these videos looks so much happier than people walking down the street today. They didn't know of the nightmare we suffer through, living under a mountain of debt, with nearly every product we buy being mass produced low quality garbage. In those days we still manufactured a lot of our own products and of course they were much better quality. In the 30's the buying power of the dollar was 20x what it is today, from the 30's to the 50's the value of money was cut in half, this has continued to modern day times where we're now living in the least affordable time period in US history. If society wanted it bad enough, we could have a 50's type of society. Unfortunately TV has ruined the minds of so many that those days will never be seen again.
Thank you so much for posting this. This video is so precious. My parents were living there in that area at the same time of this video. As I became older, the more I pestered them about different aspects of not just Hollywood but the metro side of Los Angeles. Both my dad became a cop there and my mom worked at one of the record companies in the late 1960's throughout the 1970's. I tried to go there in the late 1980's and early 1990's for different events and they would not allow it. They would NOT budge. The gang and violent crime activity was so bad in the late 80's and early 90's that going to a concert at the Hollywood Palladium, Whiskey, Troubador, or the Inglewood Forum was forbidden. I had to sneak it a couple of times for some bands though that were just to huge to pass up, a whole other story. They have said it and in so many ways how badly that area has been destroyed not just with urban blight and physical damage, but politically, socially, mentally, crime, and economically. Even my dad said that if he was a young man again today, there is absolutely no amount of money you could pay him to be a police officer in Los Angeles and especially Hollywood again. And he is a big dude who went in with military and years of martial arts training. To say that today's Hollywood is completely different than the Hollywood in this video is just not going to do it. The Hollywood in this video compared to the Hollywood of today are two completely different and separate dimensions and on top of that many light years apart. Another thing they said is different racial groups got along. This "woke" virus mentality did not continue to drive wedges between people. You could get a great paying job...and keep it for 30 years, own a home, and car with just a High School Diploma. I honest to God don't know where the happy medium is with the past and the present. Sorry for the ramble people. It just that even as man in my late forties, I will not go there anymore after being attacked several times. Very chaotic universe in Hollywood. If you have to be a movie/tv/ music star, just be aware that fame and fortune cannot escape the hell of that place. Be careful and God bless you all with the best.
Wow, that's very interesting. I love to hear about people's experiences of pre~ghetto L.A. My paternal grandparents arrived in the L.A. area in the early or mid 1920s, and my dad grew up in the ELA area from 1935~1960 before it even ever conjured the stereotypical images associated with the kind you see in that 1987 Cheech Marin video and movie Born in ELA. Boyle Heights was to immigrants in CA what Ellis Island was to immigrants in N.Y. There were many E. European immigrants, Jews, as well as Americans of Japanese and Mexican descent. All were happy to be Americans and they cared about speaking English to be able to communicate with one another...instead of living in isolated ghettos. It was a very different and definitely better America, especially the L.A.area. Areas around L.A. began their downfall maybe around the mid 50s after the airline industry left, but definitely after around 1960 when an entitled type of immigrant began filling the old neighborhoods around the L.A. area.
@@ErikThomasMusic But someone was stabbed the other day on Melrose and Fairfax, not that far away. You probably live near the Sheriffs Dept... not much going to happen there, especially above Boy's Town.
I've lived in L.A. for over 65 years and have never personally experienced any violence of any kind. I know it happens (it happens everywhere in the U.S.) but I'm very happy living here and will be until the day I die.
I lived in LA around this time. Sunset has changed so much that its hardly recognizable but this is what it looked like. Some of Hollywood was very beautiful. Our family had a studebaker much like the one in the early footage. A very distinctive looking car.
HISTORIC DESCRIPTION: This video travels from Cahuenga Blvd. to N. Olive Dr. (approx. 2.5 miles) on the Sunset Strip. It took them 11 minutes to drive in 1952, and it takes exactly the same amount of time today. You can see many old buildings, ie: (from east to west): The Hollywood Athletic club (missing its original covered walkway), Blessed Sacrament church (with a re-designed tower), Ralph's (which used to sit closer to Sunset Blvd.) Chateau Marmont (with its original stone entryway), Piazza Del Sol (which now contains Katana restaurant, the old villa Rosa apartment building (which is now a food broker business). Additionally, you can still see the same groupings of tall palm trees exactly where they always were.
I like to watch these side by side with going down the road on Google Maps. I love seeing how much HASN'T changed. I squeal with delight seeing a shop front or home that is still standing.
These are the L.A. Streets that an aspiring young actor was cruising around on with his Triumph motorcycle. His name was Jimmy Dean and he hung out with friends at Googies Diner 8:30 on Sunset next to the former and famous Schwabs drugstore highlighted in the film Sunset Blvd starring William Holden...from there he'd race up Laurel Canyon to Mulholland. 8:50 Chateau Marmont and the start of the Sunset Strip. Sunset Tower Hotel 10:40 where Dick Powell played Phillip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet looking out over the city from the top and the villain says "On clear days, Mr. Marlow, you can see the ships in the harbor at San Pedro."
There was actually plenty of all of those things, but the media was way more censored about displaying it so it isn't so apparent. As a matter of fact, violent crime rates are the lowest they've been in almost 100 years. This video is nice, though.
@@deletdis6173 That's so false. in 1960 the rate per 100k people was 1,887.2 and in 2019 per 100k people it was 2,489.3. Secondly, we saw a steady increase in line with immigration until crimes were reclassified, with the early 2000s showing an average of 4,000 per 100k, so compared to 1,887 we can see crime has literally doubled. Also violent crime rape is now 42 per 100k and in 1960 it was 9. Assault has also tripled. By every metric your statement is false.
Watching this I had moments of flashbacks to the mid sixty's as a kid riding in the back of our old station wagon. I so miss that feeling! Thanks for creating and sharing this video!
Excellent. My favorite time travel channel. And a clean city back then! Of course, all the cars are nowadays classics. It’s a sobering thought to stop and think that most of those drivers and people on the street are now gone.
Another Great Job NASS. The camera man got better close-ups of the cars on this one, and traveling at a more observable speed too. I'd like to take a Month Long Vacation and go back there for a while.
everybody here talking about going back and living in that time period. Let me just be a negative nancy here and remind everyone not everything was all roses and buttercups back then. I'd agree there was a hell of a lot less cringe maybe with the lack of the internet and social media... but the doom and gloom was just as prevalent as it is today. Still, if I were to go back to the 1950s, I'd buy myself a boat and live on the coast! There's just something about the olden days and tropical scenarios that calls to me... Perhaps that was something in a past life? :P edit: or maybe I grew up watching too much Flipper and Gilligan's Island. lol :P
What a magnificent video. So clear and sharp with this one, almost like it was just filmed. I honestly can't watch these straight through. There's so many wonderful sights, the cars, people, great neon signs, I find myself continually hitting the pause button to examine everything. What a wonderful era. Just 2 years after one of my favorite films, Sunset Boulevard was made.
pmafterdark, Hi I love the movie "Sunset Boulevard too ! Alway's thought Gloria Swanson should of won an Oscar for that performance. Nass uploads are fantastic arent they ? All the best.
It was still bad when I moved to SoCal in '81. There were many days in the summer we couldn't see even the foothills, let alone the mountains. Except during Santa Anas, the only blue sky was directly overhead, with brown 360 degrees all around the horizon. The smog made for some beautiful sunsets (aka "smogsets") though.
@@d23g32 Hell Im 25 right now and I remember there being a lot more SMOG alerts and poor/hazardous air quality. Never experienced what you did but you could def tell the air wasn't normal
I gotta say thank you for this trip back in time. Raised in L.A. born in 1952. I can only go a few frames before I have to pause and say to my kids...I REMEMBER THAT!
The newest car I see is a 51, and lots of them. Imagine driving around back then! Many pre-war cars still on the road, too. I'd love to look around the used car lot they passed.
Big billboard at 10:35 shows this is '52 and there were a few '52s in this video. Cooler though are the Packards and Hudsons all over - looong gone to history.🚗
Seeing these old cars reminds me of my early years growing up. These were the cars that I was surrounded by in my home town. I was born in 1948. I own a 1948 Chrysler and a 1952 Ford pickup. Good times.
Wow - the billboard at 4:50 for Hancock Gasoline - that kid is terrifying!! 👹 There is so much to see in this one, I'm going to have to watch it a few times. I so love all the billboards and the old gas station signs. Great job once again! 👍
There is so much to see in this video - it starts at Cahuenga Blvd in Hollywood, moving past Wilcox Avenue heading west, all the time looking east. Checking on Google Street View I see many buildings are still there but today, it's more high rise with more traffic. I love the bit where the Studebaker stops directly in front of the camera. Reminds me of the line in 'Virginia Plain' by Roxy Music 'to where my Studebaker takes me...' Further west, at 10:43, where Sunset Blvd bends to the left, there is the Sunset Tower Hotel, opened in 1931, patronised by famous stars including John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie, one of the finest art deco buildings in the USA. Sounds like I know LA well but I don't! I only visited once for two days! I'm getting to know it better now thanks to your movies! Many thanks NASS, great job!
Thank you! I live in LA and it’s so different that I was having a hard time identifying the areas. I have had dinner and drinks at the Sunset Tower. How amazing to see it a decade before I was born. Thanks again.
@@risk5riskmks93 Wow you’ve been to the hotel! You’re lucky! I definitely want to drive all the way down Sunset Blvd when I get to visit LA again and hope to stop at the Sunset Tower Hotel for a coffee! I love art deco style, :)
That was an incredible journey and the recoloring was well done. However, the fake horn blast really detracted from a great video.. thanks for sharing.
@@micperez819 look I’m gonna guess you aren’t that big on car history, but car colors like that were more common then. Just search up “1950s car colors” and you’ll see shades of yellows, greens, reds, purples, and most commonly creams. Search up the Hudson hornet, it was most commonly purple. Please don’t try to lecture people on things you obviously don’t know anything about
In the 1950s, it seemed that things were so "peaceful" after the devastation of World War II, with more and more people able to afford things, jobs were more readily available, new inventions were coming out, a comfortable life-style was gaining momentum. But such as was not really the case. I lived during the 1950s, but here is a Bible Scripture to help people to reassess their view of the 1950s as "nice": "Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” for it is not out of wisdom that you ask this."(Ecc 7:10) Why does the Bible say this ? Because the effects of imperfection, sin, were just as apparent then as now, people were still just as deceptive then as now, morals were starting to crumble, so that by the 1960s, long hair on men with its rebellious spirit or attitude was now "the in thing", and people were aging and being sick and dying just as now. So, was the 1950s really a peaceful time, for the Korean Conflict raged from 1950-53, the Vietnam conflict was just beginning in 1955, in which the United States sent "military advisors" to South Vietnam in 1957 that grew to become a real war ?(Note: In 1995, Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War [1955-75], of as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters) The "real life" (1 Tim 6:19) will begin when sin or imperfection is completely removed that leads to death (see Isa 25:6-8; Rev 21:3-5), along with Satan the Devil (see Rev 20:1-3) that causes people to develop hate and commit violent acts against others (such as the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Los Angeles, California over the weekend), along with all who are his "offspring" (Gen 3:15), who imitate his hateful, spiteful, loveless spirit.(see John 8:44), and then they will receive a paradise earth as the "meek" ones inheritance forever.(Ps 37:11, 29; Matt 5:5)
Every time I watch these, I feel like I'm in a time machine. Some of the older ones are kind of depressing to me, knowing that everyone is dead now. But, so well done, I am mesmerized, and watch anyway.! Great content and thank you.
The fathers and planners of early 20th Century Los Angeles really saw the potential of the landscape in the most beautiful and whimsical way, they laid out a true paradise that only an unfortunate few generations won the beautiful fate of getting to live through. This was Los Angeles at its most beautiful and vibrant, a fully self-sustained American economy. It looks like a complete different dimension today, so many of those magnificent trees, lawns, streetlamps, and European castles are so long gone, replaced by so much concrete, filth, and blight. This was before society was sickened and weakened by drug culture and full-throttle degenerate capitalism. Today's Los Angeles is running on only a memory of its former greatness.
I have visited Los Angeles with friends a coupe of days. We have been very disappointed. Sure our memory would be differrent in the city shown in this video.
I enjoy all of your videos, but I particularly loved this one because not only am I very familiar with the area, but the clarity and color that you applied is brilliant. Fantastic job. Thank you for that!
@@bluemingsounds2837 There has been a lot of change of course, but a surprising number of the smaller buildings are still there now surrounded by new larger ones. At the very end of the video (around the 10:45 mark) the tall building on the right is now the Sunset Tower Hotel. (It’s a famous Art Deco landmark with an interesting history.) You can use Google Street View from that point and reverse the route of the video to see what has changed and what hasn’t. I think there is a UA-cam video or two showing a street in Hollywood (maybe even Sunset Blvd) showing on one side a drive through in the 1960’s and the same drive through today, but you’ll have to search for that one. Hope you have a chance to visit someday.
It appears that the camera is heading West-southwest towards the Sunset Strip (it reaches it around 60% into the tape) possibly in Nov/Dec/Jan after c. 4pm when the sunlight in the Beverly Hills area starts to fade into a kind of opaquely foggy overcast -- Ciro’s Restaurant was located (now Re-purpos’d as The Comedy Club) in the 8400 block on Sunset Blvd which was definitely ‘on the Strip’ in those good ole days … I thought I also spotted the edge of the Hollywood High School buildings towards the beginning (near Sunset & Highland Ave) - oh the memories !! Only in the 1970s the Strip was a little less staid & started looking a little like Vegas us’d to look back in the 1960s in certain areas …
Absolutely phenomenal. The vehicles were unique and everything was so clean The MAGESTIC palm 🌴 tree's are so scenic. I feel as if I lived through this era! Just magical. Thank you friend for the upload its a time machine indeed. 💗
Look at how relaxedly everyone drives and walks around. You really get the sense that, imperfect as it was, this was a well oiled society and probably near the peak of US culture. Comparing to today, you can immediately see how much the speed of life has increased, attention spans got shorter, and how much more unhealthy and disgruntled people are.
As a point, I think that this playback was undercranked by some amount. If you watch those two people walking across the street, they almost seem like they are floating with each step, and it just seems to take WAY too long for them to get across a street that was 40-50 feet wide. People looking like they are floating when they walk is a sign the video is being played back in slo-mo. So it should probably be running about 25% faster than it is. But that said, things did move in a more relaxed mode back then, and it was certainly a much safer and nicer place than it is now.
@@alisonprendergast1 In some ways certainly, but maybe it was more peaceful and happy in others. Family units were so much stronger back then for all communities.
My uncle moved there in the early sixties with his family and always talked about how beautiful it was. Just before his death he complained how bad everything changed. The crime, homeless people, the gangs, overpopulation. Felt like he was taking his life into his hands every time he walked out the door. He ended up feeling like he was living in a foreign country but was too old and feeble to leave. This is what it once was like, gone forever…
Don't fret, I am sure Newsom and the now 60 year reign of the Democratic Party in Ca will get things sorted out anytime now... The state was Republican until the 60's... Huh, must be some sort of uncanny coincidence that that also happens to be the same time the state started it's never-ending decline...
Yep Kryptofky that’s called progress 🤔 Personally speaking coming from the age your uncle came from everything now is sooooooo f**ked up with the current crime rate etc. for us coming from this magical time in history it’s like a LIVING HELL compared to then!!!!
One realizes (now) that good ol' 'Merica was at its best from say, 1950 to about 1980. Then a slow, and now a quite rapid, decline. Things are moving incomprehensively fast now. Surprises all the time now.
Amazing! You did a beautiful job restoring this from the original! I love how candid this is; it's not staged! Several things I noticed: how minimal the traffic lights were, how drivers in the left-turn lane would not really wait for a break in oncoming traffic (as is the rule today) but rather push through, and then three cars would take advantage and go together. (This seems more akin to the modern-day traffic of dense Asian cities.) Drivers didn't use their turn signals as often. (Maybe some cars didn't have them?) At 6:08 the driver who thought he could parallel-park front-first. Most of the cars there look under 10 years old, whereas today (in 2022) there are still many cars on the road from the 1990s and 2000s (i.e. 20-30 years old). I played the film at 1.25x speed (as another commenter suggested) and found the motion more believable.
You made it faster but , the people in t’he early 50’s at 20 MPH in the city … If they saw us driving now , they would have a stroke …. My Dad always had a car and he never went over 25 in the city ….
Wow, another great You Were/Are There vid. Good job-and thank you for these, Rick! I gotta say: these videos are evocative to the point that you feel like you're there. And the cars were all so curved back then, like big cute stuffed animals embracing the asphalt.
I've been on Sunset Blvd many times but I'd had never experienced this parade of old beautiful shiny classics, if I had a wish and if it was possible I let them throw my ashes in that era!
I think the sound is not the original, just been added to upgrade the experience. Other UA-camr that also makes that kind of videos explained the whole process. Anyway, great content, just got adiccted to it...
Wow this is so amazing to see remastered it almost looks as good as video today. I wish they’d apply this technique to all different kinds of video from the past where the footage was poor, it really helps those of us see this time period way before we were even born as it was, and not picture it as some ancient era without any color.
Well the people make the place you can’t have a bunch of people from Haiti and South America move in and keep the standards the same because groups of people are different
Most places I go are clean, usually well maintained. Also, there was so much emission from the cars during 1952 that the pollution to the air more than made up for any debris on the ground.
Very cool, this past by the street I"m currently living on (Vista St) so interesting to see which buildings along the strip still exist today, not many though or those that are still there are very different looking due to facade changes or additions. Video quality from the film was excellent, was able to read street signs and see much detail along the way. Thanks for posting!
Um tempo maravilhoso que não vouta mais aonde tudo era lindo e diferente de hoje não era existia poluição dos carros e nem violência feliz que viveu nesta época 😍
5:54 According to the LA Times, "Singin' in the Rain" and "The Pride of St. Louis" played together at the Oriental Theatre (7425 Sunset Blvd) for just four days: 11-14 June 1952 (Wed thru Sat), so the film must've been shot on one of those days. (It's a Guitar Center now.)
This is when my grandfather was in his heyday! William King. He owned Crown Signs and painted a huge amount of the signage around L.A. He has to have at least a dozen or two of the signs that are shown in this video!
at 0:45 you can see a modified 1940 mercury, the owner of that car probably loved it very much to have it in such great shape 12 years after it came out. Awesome footage!
This is specifically sometime between June 11 and 18, which is when that double bill played the Oriental. :) What's really amazing is the number of homes that were still on Sunset back then.
Just curious, how can you specifically nail down the date? How old were you then? Guessing you were of age then, and have a pretty good memory, in order to pinpoint so specifically a 7 day period, dating back to the 50's?
@@gcopter1963 He probably wasn't born until 50 years later. It doesn't matter. You find this stuff out by looking up movie databases on the Internet. Movies playing in theaters back then is one of the best ways to be able to date the film to at least within a week, often closer.
@@gcopter1963 Simply by looking in an archive of the newspapers from that time. I have helped date many of these by looking at movie marques that are caught in them.
@@lwilton Oh, really? Fifty years later? Well, no, bucko, not quite. I was, in fact, born four-and-a-half years prior to this video. And yes, in Los Angeles.
@@haineshisway Sorry about that, I wasn't trying to insult you. I was just pointing out that you don't have to be as old as you are (or as old as I am, which is almost as old as you) in order to look up when a movie was playing. If anything I'd expect the young whippersnappers to be faster at it than we are, but they may not know what newspaper archives are.
An excellent film restoration. I was great looking at this time capsule of LA from the 50's. I lived there from '81 thru '96, and I loved seeing some of the same buildings and venues in this film that I remember so well from when I got to LA 30 years later--and that are still there today.
My oh my. Where to begin. I grew up in Southern California and as a boy remember how this appeared. Just as you just watched. Didn’t think , “Hey what cool cars.” Since it was that time period it’s just what was on the streets. Sure, my brother and I would notice a different car from time to time like a Rolls Royce or another foreign car but what you just saw is what we knew. If it strikes you that a few of the drivers were thoughtless clods, you would be correct. No era is without them.
![Los Angeles early 40s,50s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1PJD-PbENvg/mqdefault.jpg)
Do You wante to live in 50s era?
only as a kid to be a teenager in the 60s
Absolutely!
Cue the snowflakes with their verbal tic of "racism" in 3, 2, 1...
Yeh... a lot less assholes around.
네 i love America
Nope... 90's still the best era to born as a kid just time feel so fast
Those weren't just automobiles....those were rolling works of art
it is also great to see these cars that were a bit banged up, dirty or not perfect...which is the problems with modern movies trying to portray the 1940's (and other era's) they get their cars from collectors or enthusiasts that are in perfect condition as opposed how cars really were at the time...
Those cars are the worst ugliest cars in all history, bulky clunkers even when they were new
@@mtlicq....cool story. Thanks for stopping by
@@MickeyMousePark i totally disagree these cars are ugly, oversized sluggish unreliable pieces of shit.
@@melchizedekful I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that too. I was goin to apologize (hey, I'm Canadian) for my comment being rude, but then I saw 3 thumbs up already, and its just true. I'd rather see the luxurious, stylish cars of the *early* 1930's Duessenberg, Packard, Cord, Cadillacs, Horsch, Stutz, Daimler/Mercedes, even the Ford Model A, and Buicks and Chevrolets, and Chrylser, and the silly boat-tails; or the sleek sporty cars of the '60s with muscle engines...
Everything looks beautiful. The roads. The cars. The buildings. The people. The plants. Just amazing.
in my opinion 1950-1965 is the best moment to live in american history
@@user-glg20 Why do you think so?
@@ОлегИгоревич-в1ц Short question, but needs long answer. So, In short:
- great ratio earnings-prices
- relatively high level of security (no gangs, no drug dealers, etc)
- no drugs between teenagers
- no political correctness
- no making stupid peaple famous
- clean streets and order
- low level of homeless
- no social programs making people lazy
- traditional model of life (clear role of men and women in family)
- strict crime law against criminalist
- no corpo treating people like machines
Of course there is more reasons but I think those are the most significant. :-)
@@user-glg20 Thank you, I understand you
@@ОлегИгоревич-в1ц Just one question: do you agree with me? :)
Someone had the "wisdom" almost 75 years ago to film this, and gift it to us as a time capsule!!
Thank you so much!!!!
This is a background reel for use as backdrop in a contemporary film.
@@rodgergarrett7250 Sorta like the movie _Airplane!_ when Robert Stack is "behind the wheel" taking curves at 70 mph and knocking over bicyclists (LOL)
You're welcome! Glad you appreciate my work👍
When I think of all the films that have been lost forever it makes me grateful that someone had the vision to film this.
I never thought I’d find footage like this so captivating, but I did and loved it. It’s the actual 50’s. Not 50s movies, 50s Hollywood, but actual normal life 50s. Amazing.
60fps
These re-engineered films, the technology and effort that went into it, is spellbinding. The fact that I was _born_ in the 50s in Los Angeles is just gravy. It's like I'm truly taking a trip back in time.
@@briane173 Except for the cars with everchanging colors,, and the lack of the bells on the ACME traffic signals.
@@sneadh1 😂
Peaceful living and obedient. Honing for pleasure, no guns going off and police speeding up in a chase. Calming cruise and respectful environment, no invasion, of properties and theft. Long gone.. Hope we could learn very well from our elders.
Brought me to tears. I was born not long after that was made. Brings it all back: the wide, un-crowded streets lined with trees, the openness, the sense of order and clean-ness and safety and unity. The Los Angeles that was and will never be again.
The racist billboards and constant honking of cars too 😂
@@BaronKilaton It was certainly better than the current times, violent gangs, armed robbers, drug addicts, thieves, homelessness, and other sorts of moral decay. But I guess you are right at home in all of this filth.
@@Boxhead42 Its different but still a lovely city. They had all those things in the past but it was in the background with a less vibrant city. If you focus on the progress and growth you will see the positives.
They also had polio,malnutrition, small pox, flu, massive civil rights issues and open segregation. There was also a terrible lack of culture with mediocre museums and universities.
I don’t want a city with a Jonathan club excluding anyone who isn’t Christian.
Wide spread flooding across the city that killed people all the time. Before a core of engineers built the marina there was no harbor. Also along the coast there were open oil fields all over Santa Monica and Venice. There was also a huge lack of safety on any of the autos no seatbelts or safety glass.
@@BaronKilaton Yes, there were some of these things back in those days, but no where on the magnitude of today. It has became a complete cesspool.
A lot of those faults you mentioned were the result of growing pains. So much was still new and needed working out. Scientist, engineers and developers, over time, fixed a lot of those concerns.
What we have here today is a rapidly decaying society, it's not getting better, only worse.
yeah L.A. is utter trash in 2023, disgusting place
Imagine being there in 1952 - all the big Hollywood stars still alive and working. What an experience!
All of them?
@@MrJayArt Yup! NOBODY died in "the Good ol daze!" L0L
I currently live in LA and I gotta say this is truly breath taking to see Los Angeles in it's days of glory. No traffic. no trash in the streets and most of all no tents and drug addicts. It's amazing how this beautiful city has turned to crap :( These videos are magnificent, Please keep sharing the world needs this.
Yes, no trash, including the 2-legged kind!
@@1940limited @ the Semi human
@@paul1242 You do realize that this was silent film, and NASS added those honking horns when he processed the film?
@@paul1242 > Murders, rapes, car thefts, drug use, and homelessness were all happening in Hollywood, California in the 1950's,
Yes.
> just as they are today
No.
If you dig back into old almanacs, you will find that the crime rate in the US went up by about an order of magnitude in the 1970s. They have continued upward since then. What you consider 'normal' crime rates in a city today is at least dozens of times worse than Chicago in the 1930s, and had it occurred at those rates in even one city back then, would have been considered a national crisis, most likely resulting in military intervention to cure it before it could spread.
The streets in Hollywood and almost all of LA were perfectly safe for unaccompanied 8 year old boys and girls going about their errands on their own in the 1950s. It was a MUCH safer time, even though crime still existed then.
@@paul1242 homelessness didn’t start until the 70s/80s when the hippie stuff came along
I love this video! I grew up in Southern California and this is exactly what my world looked like when I was a child.
Some here - good memories.
Why’s everybody honkin the damn horn! Folks are only goin 20 mph.
@@trevorjarvis3050 that's not the actual sound. Read the description.
@@boofert.washington2499 yeah boofer… I read the description before I watched the video. Why add all the horn honking?
@@trevorjarvis3050 🤣🤣🤣
This is GREAT. I'm so glad somebody filmed this in the day.
Also, "Singing In The Rain" on the movie marquee.
I could sit and watch these cars an old signs for an hour.
Yes! I'm a classic car buff but more into 1950s -1970s cars!
She’s got to be the most amazing and fantastic video I have ever seen in my life! I am 71 years old just really takes me back. Thank you so much
What do you miss?
@@stn7172 The good old times, not people asking stupid questions.
I'm just 2 years younger and my older bro had a few CLASSIC T-Birds back in the 1980s. A MINT 1966 canary-yellow rag top!
I'd love to get a split screen of this with someone driving down the same road in modern days so you can compare how things have changed!
I’ve seen those photos. They’re called historical/modern on lays.
That's a great idea!
Or stayed the same. I'll bet some of those palm trees are still right there.
The modern day screen would have drive by shootings
@@djtrendsetta5766 Those structures really have stood the test of time. I'm sure much of LA would still resemble this.
Passed my old street. Many buildings remain today, many are gone. Pep Boys (now at Hollywood & Gower) is a surprise that it existed in 1952. Tiny Naylor's diner with waitresses on roller skates was there till the 80s at La Brea. I walked those streets for 23 years. Ralph's (still there) at Poinsettia was my walk-to market. Notice no parking meters. Much more traffic today and homeless on sidewalks now. Chateau Marmont of course still there. Greenblatt's Deli closed permanently due to the pandemic. Thanks for the video - with amazing resolution. What a trip.
Hey! Look at that semaphore traffic light switching from "GO" to "STOP" at 0:31 (this iconic traffic signal pretty much unique to the L.A. area was phased out of use by 1956). Also, notice the "Chicken in the Rough" restaurant on the left at 0:13. That was a chain restaurant throughout much of the U.S. that served fried chicken. Thanks for sharing this trip back in time!
Where's William Holden?
@@rjalexander4765 With Gloria Swanson!
You have a really good eye!! It honestly looked like cars just drove around without any stop signs and just drove where they wanted
I remember noticing those traffic lights when I first played LA Noire, those were quite interesting designs ngl
@@om606channel Thanks for that bit of information on the word "traffic light" in Slavic languages!
Everyone loves the cars...I do too. But I REALLY love all those giant rooftop signs. (Ralph's, Pep Boys, etc.)
The cars are ugly sorry. Prefer cars in the 60’s. Way more sleek
The styling was amazing, but the may-pop tires sucked, you could not look away as the steering was so loose you were off the road. Engines needed a rebuild every 40k and cars needed a tune up every oil change, heaters barely worked, no such thing as Air Conditioning. Model A's were even funner needing to adjust the spark while driving and the venerable hand crank when you had starter problems was peachy.
Hell until the 1980s you could not even hear what someone next to you was saying the road/wind/engine noise was so terrible.
@@lucasm4299car design started going downhill in the 60s in my opinion, they started looking more simple and boring
@@lucasm4299 though I love 60s cars, 1940s/1950s cars are sleeker and more aerodynamic
@@craigsundberg1443 "you could not look away as the steering was so loose you were off the road"
there was no power steering so unless you had a problem with the steering it should be just fine
"no such thing as Air Conditioning"
they had hood vents, and vent windows which allowed a lot of air into the car when the car was moving
"Hell until the 1980s you could not even hear what someone next to you was saying the road/wind/engine noise was so terrible."
yeah maybe if you were sitting in a trabant but especially on nicer cars of the time, the ride was exeptionally quiet and comfortable, with most cars being made for comfort (have you even seen how thick the cushions on an old car are) and engines were also quite quiet from the inside
you know little about classic cars
Love this! It was the time when my parents were young. My mom was from a small Texas farming town and my dad was from Ada, Oklahoma. I was born in 1951 and grew up in the San Fernando Valley and rode in cars like those shown. Thank you for posting!
I'm only 2 years younger and I vaguely remember a few old early 1950s cars I was in!
Great image quality on this one. It's so cool to see all the old cars driving on the streets. Like a driving museum.
MacXpert74, well put
These cars are so old. Can't anyone afford a new car back then?
It was probably because the all the Hippies in America.
@@mr.bnatural3700 Yeah, amazing the amount of classic cars collectors back then. Who would have thought.. 😅
@@mr.bnatural3700 The Cuban commies paid top-dollar for all those cars.
@@deleteriousactsinsectord1292 yeah, those Cubans are pretty smart. Smarter than North Americanos.
@2:04 Passing "Crossroads of the World" on the left. 6671 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Trivia: Built in 1936 - and still standing today - Crossroads of the World is considered America's first outdoor shopping mall.
It was built by the widow of 'purported' gangster Charles H. Crawford, who owned - and was murdered on the property in 1931.
The iconic Hollywood structure has been featured in many films, including L.A. Confidential, Indecent Proposal, and Argo.
Thanks for the history, I was just going to look it up.
Since the late 1970’s I was obsessed with the 1950’s. I would fantasize how life was, simpler and peaceful. I was only in my early teens. I collected 1950’s magazines, and toys. Of course as time went on I became obsessed with the 20’s 30’s and 40’s and Old Hollywood and to this day I collect from those decades. Watching this 1952 video I feel like I’m in the back seat taking a trip back to 1952. The stores, the people, automobiles. California was truly beautiful then. So much is gone. Life was more tranquil, people well dressed not in a rush, cars at some distance from one another. Simply beautiful era. Ciro’s where the greats of Old Hollywood socialized, Singin’ In The Rain playing in the theater, Sigh. Great footageTY! It’s like stepping back in time.
Please like and subscribe! , Do You wante to live in 50s era?
This reduced me to happy tears. Thank you 💗
I did a long time ago
Indeed, I already have, and as a long time subscriber, I say unto you, fantastic job! thank you for these beautiful trips to memory lane.
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What VFX software was used to create the 1952 scene?
I love the way you clean up this vintage film footage, it's like seeing that era through todays eyes.
Yeah it’s cool seeing it like they did in person.
In fact this is how to see that time for what it really was. After all, the world was colorful and without the distortions that the aged images we usually see in documentaries.
This was a time when people had enough respect to never litter. It wasn’t until the 60;’s signs were posted along the streets warning of a $100 fine for littering.
Amazing how much is the same, just less clutter. It's interesting to note that that Mobil station on the corner of Sunset and Fairfax has been there for 70 years! Thanks for sharing.
Allright! From the KINGS mouth to our ears !😊
And the ARCO (Richfield) station across the street, and the Chevron station a few blocks west (Standard). 70 years!
In my opinion, a lot has changed especially the infrastructure
@@enriquealomia6399 no it hasn't changed at all....that's the problem
....everything is worn out....
Ralph’s on Sunset was also there
Amazing! My father grew up in the 50s and he is the most talented person I have ever known. Makes me think fondly of that era in our history.
I can't tell you how much enjoyment I get out of watching your videos, thank you! As the very proud owner of a somewhat beat up, but still presentable 1951 Buick Roadmaster I spent a lot of time watching this video trying to pick out any contemporaries of my car and I was surprised on how many I found! It's so great to see what can be done with this vintage footage using todays tech. It's like looking through a window into the past, please keep up the great work!!
Pretty amazing to see Sunset from back then. Almost none of it is the same. Almost all of the buildings are even gone. Chateau Marmont is still there (as is the little corner stairs) and there is still a Ralphs at the corner of Sunset and Fuller. So cool to take a drive down a road I know so well from back in history. Thanks, NASS!
No one speeding around other cars, no tailgating. These drivers were showing each other respect. Now days driving has gone to hell in a hand basket.
I disagree. It starts at Cahuenga and Sunset. On the left side of the screen a lot of the buildings are still there. They have changed a lot, but the basic shape is the same. Check out the building on the corner of Cahuenga and Sunset for example.
I didn't recognize anything until Crossroads of the World (which you can barely glimpse.)
@@mikescher9266 yes it goes from Cahuenga to N. Olive and if you know where to look you can still see many old buildings. The Hollywood Athletic Club, Blessed Sacrament church, Villa Rosa apartments and many more. Also the groupings of tall palms are still in the same exact spots.
I love these videos, no music, just the sounds of the streets, buildings and the cars and so well restored and partially colorized. I find them so relaxing and watch them to relax before bed. To see all those old cars in their former glory and what it looked like in peoples everyday lives. I’m 51, and it’s amazing to see some video of two decades before I was born, thats like 70 years ago.
I absolutely love these videos and appreciate the effort that went into colorizing them. It's not the same seeing the area in black and white Noir movies. Los Angeles has lost a lot of its style over the past few decades and hopefully these videos will make people understand why it's a loss when an old building is replaced by some tasteless, styleless concrete block. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for more time travel.....just amazing ! Thank god somebody had the good sense to capture these moving images for posterity
Utterly fascinating! I've driven this street so many times and to see it with wide open spaces and virtually no traffic is astounding! Strange how it looks so different and the same simultaneously! Thanks Nass!
A magical time travelling experience. Such a feast for the eye to behold. Stunning and beautiful. What a gorgeous place!!!
This is the greatest channel there is. I can not get enough of the videos and restoration. Just stunning! I've shared with everyone!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The buying power of the dollar in the 50's was 10x what it is today. On one income, even just stocking shelves at a grocery store, a couple could afford a house, car, college, retirement, etc. It's one of the major reasons everyone in these videos looks so much happier than people walking down the street today. They didn't know of the nightmare we suffer through, living under a mountain of debt, with nearly every product we buy being mass produced low quality garbage. In those days we still manufactured a lot of our own products and of course they were much better quality. In the 30's the buying power of the dollar was 20x what it is today, from the 30's to the 50's the value of money was cut in half, this has continued to modern day times where we're now living in the least affordable time period in US history. If society wanted it bad enough, we could have a 50's type of society. Unfortunately TV has ruined the minds of so many that those days will never be seen again.
A lot of street rod/restomod projects in that clip, thanks for the memories!
Thank you so much for posting this. This video is so precious. My parents were living there in that area at the same time of this video. As I became older, the more I pestered them about different aspects of not just Hollywood but the metro side of Los Angeles. Both my dad became a cop there and my mom worked at one of the record companies in the late 1960's throughout the 1970's. I tried to go there in the late 1980's and early 1990's for different events and they would not allow it. They would NOT budge. The gang and violent crime activity was so bad in the late 80's and early 90's that going to a concert at the Hollywood Palladium, Whiskey, Troubador, or the Inglewood Forum was forbidden. I had to sneak it a couple of times for some bands though that were just to huge to pass up, a whole other story.
They have said it and in so many ways how badly that area has been destroyed not just with urban blight and physical damage, but politically, socially, mentally, crime, and economically. Even my dad said that if he was a young man again today, there is absolutely no amount of money you could pay him to be a police officer in Los Angeles and especially Hollywood again. And he is a big dude who went in with military and years of martial arts training. To say that today's Hollywood is completely different than the Hollywood in this video is just not going to do it. The Hollywood in this video compared to the Hollywood of today are two completely different and separate dimensions and on top of that many light years apart.
Another thing they said is different racial groups got along. This "woke" virus mentality did not continue to drive wedges between people. You could get a great paying job...and keep it for 30 years, own a home, and car with just a High School Diploma. I honest to God don't know where the happy medium is with the past and the present. Sorry for the ramble people. It just that even as man in my late forties, I will not go there anymore after being attacked several times. Very chaotic universe in Hollywood. If you have to be a movie/tv/ music star, just be aware that fame and fortune cannot escape the hell of that place. Be careful and God bless you all with the best.
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Wow, that's very interesting. I love to hear about people's experiences of pre~ghetto L.A. My paternal grandparents arrived in the L.A. area in the early or mid 1920s, and my dad grew up in the ELA area from 1935~1960 before it even ever conjured the stereotypical images associated with the kind you see in that 1987 Cheech Marin video and movie Born in ELA. Boyle Heights was to immigrants in CA what Ellis Island was to immigrants in N.Y. There were many E. European immigrants, Jews, as well as Americans of Japanese and Mexican descent. All were happy to be Americans and they cared about speaking English to be able to communicate with one another...instead of living in isolated ghettos. It was a very different and definitely better America, especially the L.A.area. Areas around L.A. began their downfall maybe around the mid 50s after the airline industry left, but definitely after around 1960 when an entitled type of immigrant began filling the old neighborhoods around the L.A. area.
@@ErikThomasMusic But someone was stabbed the other day on Melrose and Fairfax, not that far away. You probably live near the Sheriffs Dept... not much going to happen there, especially above Boy's Town.
I guess you can't remember the Watts riots in the 60s.
I've lived in L.A. for over 65 years and have never personally experienced any violence of any kind. I know it happens (it happens everywhere in the U.S.) but I'm very happy living here and will be until the day I die.
Love these videos. Feels like going back in time. Don't see footage like this, this good.
Amazing how much more familiar this feels compared to the videos of the 1920's and older. Things changed rapidly in just a few decades.
Because of World War II.
Los Angeles was essentially a small town when the film industry first moved in.
I lived in LA around this time. Sunset has changed so much that its hardly recognizable but this is what it looked like. Some of Hollywood was very beautiful. Our family had a studebaker much like the one in the early footage. A very distinctive looking car.
Brings back a flood of memories, doesn't it? A FAR better time in this country, in my personal opinion.
@@flipfloppingwithMike i cant help but think that segregation alone was enough to make this era worse but ok go off
@@ScoutMadeThis And people are more miserable, at each other throats blaming each other and more racist than ever today...so I think I disagree..
@@ScoutMadeThis Segregation isn't a bad thing. think about it
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It's just like having a Time Machine. Thanks for posting!
I wonder what gasoline costs per gallon in 1952?
HISTORIC DESCRIPTION: This video travels from Cahuenga Blvd. to N. Olive Dr. (approx. 2.5 miles) on the Sunset Strip. It took them 11 minutes to drive in 1952, and it takes exactly the same amount of time today. You can see many old buildings, ie: (from east to west): The Hollywood Athletic club (missing its original covered walkway), Blessed Sacrament church (with a re-designed tower), Ralph's (which used to sit closer to Sunset Blvd.) Chateau Marmont (with its original stone entryway), Piazza Del Sol (which now contains Katana restaurant, the old villa Rosa apartment building (which is now a food broker business). Additionally, you can still see the same groupings of tall palm trees exactly where they always were.
The famous Ciro's at the end!
@@johnsain yep, I forgot that
Nice to know--thanks for sharing.
I like to watch these side by side with going down the road on Google Maps. I love seeing how much HASN'T changed. I squeal with delight seeing a shop front or home that is still standing.
When L.A was still dream land. Oh, how much it has changed .
These are the L.A. Streets that an aspiring young actor was cruising around on with his Triumph motorcycle. His name was Jimmy Dean and he hung out with friends at Googies Diner 8:30 on Sunset next to the former and famous Schwabs drugstore highlighted in the film Sunset Blvd starring William Holden...from there he'd race up Laurel Canyon to Mulholland. 8:50 Chateau Marmont and the start of the Sunset Strip. Sunset Tower Hotel 10:40 where Dick Powell played Phillip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet looking out over the city from the top and the villain says "On clear days, Mr. Marlow, you can see the ships in the harbor at San Pedro."
Yup! I'm a Film Noir buff and many are filmed in LA area!
I Love watching these 1950's and 1940's Los Angeles videos with music from that time period. It is extremely relaxing. Keep them coming!
If you've not seen the 1997 film LA Confidential, it's a must for anyone that loves this era in Los Angeles' history.
I love the old movies too, but they're heartbreakers. Greedy absentee land grabbers and carpetbagger trash ruined my once-gorgeous native city.
No shop security shutters, no alarms, no indecency, no disrespect of elders, no freaky people. Just life.
We have truly devolved as a species.
Millions of illegals and “asylum seekers” tend to do that to a region.
@@googlepissoff5776 Lowering a society's average IQ causes more violence too. Also multiculturalism causes a lower trust society
There was actually plenty of all of those things, but the media was way more censored about displaying it so it isn't so apparent.
As a matter of fact, violent crime rates are the lowest they've been in almost 100 years.
This video is nice, though.
@@deletdis6173 That's so false. in 1960 the rate per 100k people was 1,887.2 and in 2019 per 100k people it was 2,489.3. Secondly, we saw a steady increase in line with immigration until crimes were reclassified, with the early 2000s showing an average of 4,000 per 100k, so compared to 1,887 we can see crime has literally doubled. Also violent crime rape is now 42 per 100k and in 1960 it was 9. Assault has also tripled. By every metric your statement is false.
I truly admire your dedication here and attention to detail. People don't realize the effort this takes. Really enjoyed this, takes me way back!
Surreal like driving through a dream of a calmer more peaceful time with clean streets classy cars and well dressed citizens very charming indeed.
Great job on the filtering. Some driver behaviors never change :)
Amazing. Surprising how many of the old buildings are still there. So clean, so well maintained..
Watching this I had moments of flashbacks to the mid sixty's as a kid riding in the back of our old station wagon. I so miss that feeling! Thanks for creating and sharing this video!
Thank you for uploading this for people to see!
Excellent. My favorite time travel channel.
And a clean city back then!
Of course, all the cars are nowadays classics.
It’s a sobering thought to stop and think that most of those drivers and people on the street are now gone.
Another Great Job NASS. The camera man got better close-ups of the cars on this one, and traveling at a more observable speed too. I'd like to take a Month Long Vacation and go back there for a while.
If I went back I'd stay there!
everybody here talking about going back and living in that time period. Let me just be a negative nancy here and remind everyone not everything was all roses and buttercups back then.
I'd agree there was a hell of a lot less cringe maybe with the lack of the internet and social media... but the doom and gloom was just as prevalent as it is today.
Still, if I were to go back to the 1950s, I'd buy myself a boat and live on the coast! There's just something about the olden days and tropical scenarios that calls to me... Perhaps that was something in a past life? :P
edit: or maybe I grew up watching too much Flipper and Gilligan's Island. lol :P
Amazing job! The amount of technical improvement is just astounding. Magnifique!!
What a magnificent video. So clear and sharp with this one, almost like it was just filmed. I honestly can't watch these straight through. There's so many wonderful sights, the cars, people, great neon signs, I find myself continually hitting the pause button to examine everything. What a wonderful era. Just 2 years after one of my favorite films, Sunset Boulevard was made.
pmafterdark, Hi I love the movie "Sunset Boulevard too ! Alway's thought Gloria Swanson should of won an Oscar for that performance. Nass uploads are fantastic arent they ? All the best.
I love how much cleaner the city was.
Yeah white people are clean
The air certainly wasn’t. I lived in West LA in the late 50’s as a young child and remember my eyes stinging from the smog.
It was still bad when I moved to SoCal in '81. There were many days in the summer we couldn't see even the foothills, let alone the mountains. Except during Santa Anas, the only blue sky was directly overhead, with brown 360 degrees all around the horizon. The smog made for some beautiful sunsets (aka "smogsets") though.
Was it really honestly I just this particular part
@@d23g32 Hell Im 25 right now and I remember there being a lot more SMOG alerts and poor/hazardous air quality. Never experienced what you did but you could def tell the air wasn't normal
I gotta say thank you for this trip back in time. Raised in L.A. born in 1952. I can only go a few frames before I have to pause and say to my kids...I REMEMBER THAT!
The newest car I see is a 51, and lots of them. Imagine driving around back then! Many pre-war cars still on the road, too. I'd love to look around the used car lot they passed.
1952 Mercury at 10:40 My father had this one.
Big billboard at 10:35 shows this is '52 and there were a few '52s in this video. Cooler though are the Packards and Hudsons all over - looong gone to history.🚗
I'm a woodie owner, 1948 Mercury, and I counted 10 woodies, mostly from the 40's, a few tin woodies.
We bought a '50 Ford new for 2,500.00. it was great then!
You always have something amazing to post! 8:20 Greenblatts still there. Across the street the famous Schwabs drugstore, gone, now a shopping center.
Isn't Greenblatts where the Laugh Factory is now?
@@cuisinwithkev2699 Yes, but Greenblatt’s just closed.
Everything looks beautiful !!!
Seeing these old cars reminds me of my early years growing up. These were the cars that I was surrounded by in my home town. I was born in 1948. I own a 1948 Chrysler and a 1952 Ford pickup. Good times.
I was born June 1, 1953, and of course this was a little before our times, but I remember the early 1950s cars a bit, when I was 4-6 years old.
Wow - the billboard at 4:50 for Hancock Gasoline - that kid is terrifying!! 👹 There is so much to see in this one, I'm going to have to watch it a few times. I so love all the billboards and the old gas station signs. Great job once again! 👍
Yeah, that sure did give me the the creepers !!! LoL!
We never knew how good we had it back then.
There is so much to see in this video - it starts at Cahuenga Blvd in Hollywood, moving past Wilcox Avenue heading west, all the time looking east. Checking on Google Street View I see many buildings are still there but today, it's more high rise with more traffic. I love the bit where the Studebaker stops directly in front of the camera. Reminds me of the line in 'Virginia Plain' by Roxy Music 'to where my Studebaker takes me...' Further west, at 10:43, where Sunset Blvd bends to the left, there is the Sunset Tower Hotel, opened in 1931, patronised by famous stars including John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie, one of the finest art deco buildings in the USA. Sounds like I know LA well but I don't! I only visited once for two days! I'm getting to know it better now thanks to your movies! Many thanks NASS, great job!
thank you for the names of these places.
Thank you! I live in LA and it’s so different that I was having a hard time identifying the areas. I have had dinner and drinks at the Sunset Tower. How amazing to see it a decade before I was born. Thanks again.
@@Kaytecando Glad you found the information useful!
@@risk5riskmks93 Wow you’ve been to the hotel! You’re lucky! I definitely want to drive all the way down Sunset Blvd when I get to visit LA again and hope to stop at the Sunset Tower Hotel for a coffee! I love art deco style, :)
I filled in other details in my comment, I forgot to include this one! Thanks!
That was an incredible journey and the recoloring was well done. However, the fake horn blast really detracted from a great video.. thanks for sharing.
I highly doubt cars were purple back then though
@@micperez819 they absolutely were.
@@micperez819 they actually tended to have more color variation in cars back then then we do now
@@zhongxina5956 No they didn't lol. You think there were that many purple cars on the road. I can tell you have never talked with older generations
@@micperez819 look I’m gonna guess you aren’t that big on car history, but car colors like that were more common then. Just search up “1950s car colors” and you’ll see shades of yellows, greens, reds, purples, and most commonly creams. Search up the Hudson hornet, it was most commonly purple. Please don’t try to lecture people on things you obviously don’t know anything about
Thanks for this beautiful video! I was born in June 1952 here in L.A. and it's nice to look at the way things were back then.
In the 1950s, it seemed that things were so "peaceful" after the devastation of World War II, with more and more people able to afford things, jobs were more readily available, new inventions were coming out, a comfortable life-style was gaining momentum.
But such as was not really the case. I lived during the 1950s, but here is a Bible Scripture to help people to reassess their view of the 1950s as "nice": "Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” for it is not out of wisdom that you ask this."(Ecc 7:10) Why does the Bible say this ?
Because the effects of imperfection, sin, were just as apparent then as now, people were still just as deceptive then as now, morals were starting to crumble, so that by the 1960s, long hair on men with its rebellious spirit or attitude was now "the in thing", and people were aging and being sick and dying just as now.
So, was the 1950s really a peaceful time, for the Korean Conflict raged from 1950-53, the Vietnam conflict was just beginning in 1955, in which the United States sent "military advisors" to South Vietnam in 1957 that grew to become a real war ?(Note: In 1995, Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War [1955-75], of as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters)
The "real life" (1 Tim 6:19) will begin when sin or imperfection is completely removed that leads to death (see Isa 25:6-8; Rev 21:3-5), along with Satan the Devil (see Rev 20:1-3) that causes people to develop hate and commit violent acts against others (such as the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Los Angeles, California over the weekend), along with all who are his "offspring" (Gen 3:15), who imitate his hateful, spiteful, loveless spirit.(see John 8:44), and then they will receive a paradise earth as the "meek" ones inheritance forever.(Ps 37:11, 29; Matt 5:5)
Every time I watch these, I feel like I'm in a time machine. Some of the older ones are kind of depressing to me, knowing that everyone is dead now. But, so well done, I am mesmerized, and watch anyway.! Great content and thank you.
This was 70 years ago. Most if not all these people are dead too
@@shiloh6519 some not all but some
Put two hands against tv screen and you can jump-Time travel there
The fathers and planners of early 20th Century Los Angeles really saw the potential of the landscape in the most beautiful and whimsical way, they laid out a true paradise that only an unfortunate few generations won the beautiful fate of getting to live through. This was Los Angeles at its most beautiful and vibrant, a fully self-sustained American economy. It looks like a complete different dimension today, so many of those magnificent trees, lawns, streetlamps, and European castles are so long gone, replaced by so much concrete, filth, and blight. This was before society was sickened and weakened by drug culture and full-throttle degenerate capitalism. Today's Los Angeles is running on only a memory of its former greatness.
Ronald Reagan' neoliberal agenda and the 'me, me, me' of self indulgence culture ruined California.
There's nothing degenerate about capitalism. It was capitalism that built the Hollywood in this film.
@@michaelfitzmichael3226 you misunderstand whats he's sayibg here.
I have visited Los Angeles with friends a coupe of days. We have been very disappointed. Sure our memory would be differrent in the city shown in this video.
@The Richest Man In Babylon places like Detroit, LA etc... are a harbinger of whats to come
Incredible work , thank you for this journey through time...
I enjoy all of your videos, but I particularly loved this one because not only am I very familiar with the area, but the clarity and color that you applied is brilliant. Fantastic job. Thank you for that!
I've never been to California much less Hollywood but how much of this area would you say has changed? About 100%?
@@bluemingsounds2837 There has been a lot of change of course, but a surprising number of the smaller buildings are still there now surrounded by new larger ones.
At the very end of the video (around the 10:45 mark) the tall building on the right is now the Sunset Tower Hotel. (It’s a famous Art Deco landmark with an interesting history.) You can use Google Street View from that point and reverse the route of the video to see what has changed and what hasn’t. I think there is a UA-cam video or two showing a street in Hollywood (maybe even Sunset Blvd) showing on one side a drive through in the 1960’s and the same drive through today, but you’ll have to search for that one.
Hope you have a chance to visit someday.
@@Bayotter Thanks. I'll have to check out that video.
It appears that the camera is heading West-southwest towards the Sunset Strip (it reaches it around 60% into the tape) possibly in Nov/Dec/Jan after c. 4pm when the sunlight in the Beverly Hills area starts to fade into a kind of opaquely foggy overcast -- Ciro’s Restaurant was located (now Re-purpos’d as The Comedy Club) in the 8400 block on Sunset Blvd which was definitely ‘on the Strip’ in those good ole days … I thought I also spotted the edge of the Hollywood High School buildings towards the beginning (near Sunset & Highland Ave) - oh the memories !! Only in the 1970s the Strip was a little less staid & started looking a little like Vegas us’d to look back in the 1960s in certain areas …
Absolutely phenomenal. The vehicles were unique and everything was so clean The MAGESTIC palm 🌴 tree's are so scenic. I feel as if I lived through this era! Just magical. Thank you friend for the upload its a time machine indeed. 💗
Modern era is boring
Look at how relaxedly everyone drives and walks around. You really get the sense that, imperfect as it was, this was a well oiled society and probably near the peak of US culture. Comparing to today, you can immediately see how much the speed of life has increased, attention spans got shorter, and how much more unhealthy and disgruntled people are.
As a point, I think that this playback was undercranked by some amount. If you watch those two people walking across the street, they almost seem like they are floating with each step, and it just seems to take WAY too long for them to get across a street that was 40-50 feet wide. People looking like they are floating when they walk is a sign the video is being played back in slo-mo. So it should probably be running about 25% faster than it is.
But that said, things did move in a more relaxed mode back then, and it was certainly a much safer and nicer place than it is now.
@@lwilton Good point, could well be the case.
Prob not so great if you were black though.
Facts life in America has been in decline after the 1950’s!!!💯💯💯
@@alisonprendergast1 In some ways certainly, but maybe it was more peaceful and happy in others. Family units were so much stronger back then for all communities.
I can’t explain it but I found myself very moved watching these videos. All these people now gone and the way of life they lived. Bitter sweet.
“Old car dealers never die, they just trade away.” Great billboard there.
Yup! I noticed that too, bcuz my dad was in car sales from 1959-1980ish. He worked for a BIG-SHOT billionaire (now) Jim Pattison.
My uncle moved there in the early sixties with his family and always talked about how beautiful it was. Just before his death he complained how bad everything changed. The crime, homeless people, the gangs, overpopulation. Felt like he was taking his life into his hands every time he walked out the door. He ended up feeling like he was living in a foreign country but was too old and feeble to leave. This is what it once was like, gone forever…
Don't fret, I am sure Newsom and the now 60 year reign of the Democratic Party in Ca will get things sorted out anytime now... The state was Republican until the 60's... Huh, must be some sort of uncanny coincidence that that also happens to be the same time the state started it's never-ending decline...
Yes, like much of America now!!!
Lot of democrat run cities have become cesspools for crime, homeless and poverty. His father was 100 per cent correct.
Yep Kryptofky that’s called progress 🤔 Personally speaking coming from the age your uncle came from everything now is sooooooo f**ked up with the current crime rate etc. for us coming from this magical time in history it’s like a LIVING HELL compared to then!!!!
One realizes (now) that good ol' 'Merica was at its best from say, 1950 to about 1980. Then a slow, and now a quite rapid, decline. Things are moving incomprehensively fast now. Surprises all the time now.
For a second, I thought I was looking at recently filmed dashcam footage. The restoration of this film is breathtaking.
Какие шикарные автомобили! Отличный фильм, как будто на машине времени попал туда.
Согласен
Точно!😁
Есть такое дело
I recently played L.A. Noire and found a lot of similar moments! Great video!
Everything looked so much cooler (and cleaner) back then. America's golden years. We'll never see days like those again.
The effects of "cultural enrichment" on full display.. Night and day difference.
@@Thr33-Quarters Who could have imagined that bringing in people from the worst countries wouldn't improve the country?
Amazing! You did a beautiful job restoring this from the original! I love how candid this is; it's not staged! Several things I noticed: how minimal the traffic lights were, how drivers in the left-turn lane would not really wait for a break in oncoming traffic (as is the rule today) but rather push through, and then three cars would take advantage and go together. (This seems more akin to the modern-day traffic of dense Asian cities.) Drivers didn't use their turn signals as often. (Maybe some cars didn't have them?) At 6:08 the driver who thought he could parallel-park front-first.
Most of the cars there look under 10 years old, whereas today (in 2022) there are still many cars on the road from the 1990s and 2000s (i.e. 20-30 years old). I played the film at 1.25x speed (as another commenter suggested) and found the motion more believable.
You made it faster but , the people in t’he early 50’s at 20 MPH in the city … If they saw us driving now , they would have a stroke ….
My Dad always had a car and he never went over 25 in the city ….
Wow, another great You Were/Are There vid. Good job-and thank you for these, Rick! I gotta say: these videos are evocative to the point that you feel like you're there. And the cars were all so curved back then, like big cute stuffed animals embracing the asphalt.
Love the cars, the buildings, the clothing, everything! What a magical time
I've been on Sunset Blvd many times but I'd had never experienced this parade of old beautiful shiny classics, if I had a wish and if it was possible I let them throw my ashes in that era!
Amazing footage! I could watch these videos all day. The clarity and sound on this one was absolutely spectacular. Thank you!
I think the sound is not the original, just been added to upgrade the experience. Other UA-camr that also makes that kind of videos explained the whole process. Anyway, great content, just got adiccted to it...
Wow this is so amazing to see remastered it almost looks as good as video today. I wish they’d apply this technique to all different kinds of video from the past where the footage was poor, it really helps those of us see this time period way before we were even born as it was, and not picture it as some ancient era without any color.
0:55 Hudson Avenue
2:45 Highland Avenue
5:09 Pointsetta Place
8:50 Marmont Lane
05:54 Gene Kelly - I'm Singing In The Rain :)
Amazing to see how clean and well maintained most stuff looks. Boy could we learn to better practice stewardship again in our society.
Well the people make the place you can’t have a bunch of people from Haiti and South America move in and keep the standards the same because groups of people are different
Trash was put in cans without even thinking about it.
Most places I go are clean, usually well maintained. Also, there was so much emission from the cars during 1952 that the pollution to the air more than made up for any debris on the ground.
Here we go again with the fear mongering on immigrants and how they ruined it all 😑
@@LovePH926
And pre civil rights movement. You like that don’t you?
Thanks for the valuable experience.
I am always impressed by the beauty of your images!
Very cool, this past by the street I"m currently living on (Vista St) so interesting to see which buildings along the strip still exist today, not many though or those that are still there are very different looking due to facade changes or additions. Video quality from the film was excellent, was able to read street signs and see much detail along the way. Thanks for posting!
I'm on Gardner and I thought the same thing - what a great vid!
Thank you so much, I get an immense amount of pleasure watching these!
Um tempo maravilhoso que não vouta mais aonde tudo era lindo e diferente de hoje não era existia poluição dos carros e nem violência feliz que viveu nesta época 😍
@@rejaneruso3658 There was far more car pollution than now.
@@tempsitch5632 cala a boca
@@rejaneruso3658 Stay in school, kid.
5:54 According to the LA Times, "Singin' in the Rain" and "The Pride of St. Louis" played together at the Oriental Theatre (7425 Sunset Blvd) for just four days: 11-14 June 1952 (Wed thru Sat), so the film must've been shot on one of those days. (It's a Guitar Center now.)
based comment that adds meaningful insight into to the video
@@nullifye7816 I don't know what that means, but I'm upvoting it!
Great footage. A real time capsule.
(The honking horns in the audio feel thrown in for no reason though.)
As this was a silent black and white film (standard 8 mm), all sounds are added.
@@fernarias aw man I really thought that many people honked their horns due to all the horrible driving I saw happening in the vid. That’s a bummer.
This is when my grandfather was in his heyday! William King. He owned Crown Signs and painted a huge amount of the signage around L.A. He has to have at least a dozen or two of the signs that are shown in this video!
he made some very pretty signs!
Sign companies were often started by artists, and the shops fabricated everything from scratch.
That’s amazing!!
at 0:45 you can see a modified 1940 mercury, the owner of that car probably loved it very much to have it in such great shape 12 years after it came out. Awesome footage!
Look how clean the streets were. 50+ years later and we live like savages. We’ve progressed as a civilization but regressed as a species.
That's just the US. Other countries actually take care of their infrastructure.
@@JordanLedbetter I know.
Less people = less trash
@@BlackanBluesBand Not in Switzerland
@@BlackanBluesBand Demographics is destiny. You cannot replace White people with South Americans and keep the same standards.
This is specifically sometime between June 11 and 18, which is when that double bill played the Oriental. :) What's really amazing is the number of homes that were still on Sunset back then.
Just curious, how can you specifically nail down the date? How old were you then?
Guessing you were of age then, and have a pretty good memory, in order to pinpoint so specifically a 7 day period, dating back to the 50's?
@@gcopter1963 He probably wasn't born until 50 years later. It doesn't matter. You find this stuff out by looking up movie databases on the Internet. Movies playing in theaters back then is one of the best ways to be able to date the film to at least within a week, often closer.
@@gcopter1963 Simply by looking in an archive of the newspapers from that time. I have helped date many of these by looking at movie marques that are caught in them.
@@lwilton Oh, really? Fifty years later? Well, no, bucko, not quite. I was, in fact, born four-and-a-half years prior to this video. And yes, in Los Angeles.
@@haineshisway Sorry about that, I wasn't trying to insult you. I was just pointing out that you don't have to be as old as you are (or as old as I am, which is almost as old as you) in order to look up when a movie was playing. If anything I'd expect the young whippersnappers to be faster at it than we are, but they may not know what newspaper archives are.
An excellent film restoration. I was great looking at this time capsule of LA from the 50's. I lived there from '81 thru '96, and I loved seeing some of the same buildings and venues in this film that I remember so well from when I got to LA 30 years later--and that are still there today.
You always make travelling in time possible. Thanks a bunch 🙏
Well looking in time. Actually being there would be different and more thrilling.
My oh my. Where to begin. I grew up in Southern California and as a boy remember how this appeared. Just as you just watched. Didn’t think , “Hey what cool cars.” Since it was that time period it’s just what was on the streets. Sure, my brother and I would notice a different car from time to time like a Rolls Royce or another foreign car but what you just saw is what we knew.
If it strikes you that a few of the drivers were thoughtless clods, you would be correct. No era is without them.