This was my world as a kid. I was born in 1945 and raised in Southern California. It was a wonderful time to be a kid. I had freedom to play outside and go to friend’s houses. I got a bike at 8 and rode it all over and just had to be sure to be home by dinner. It was so safe and we felt safe. Most people never locked their doors or their cars. It was the best time to be alive.
I can only imagine. I’m 47 and always (I mean ALWAYS) had a fascination with living in Southern California, but back when it was like this. It’s always felt so familiar to me.
More like a stub then a trip. And she wouldn’t have cared because she is prolly tougher than 99% of the dudes now a days! Why would she care about people who don’t even know her? Weak
@@danawhiteisagenius8654 It's not that she'd care about people who don't know her but, rather, it's the thought that something so relatively insignificant in her life will be viewed by thousands many decades afterwards that is the freaky and amazing thing. If you don't get that you can't be helped to and probably often miss the wonder of many things that are full of wonder.
seriously. wow. if she only knew that a whole slew of people from the future would watch her trip over and over and over again. it's not funny that she trips like it is most other times but it is deeply interesting that she trips and continues to watch us watch her do it but from the future. and to think that the film sat abandoned in some storage box and only until it was uploaded to the internet was it brought to life that we are able to peer into the past and watch her trip. over and over and over again.
These videos fill me with such a strong sense of nostalgia. They make me mourn for a time I never knew. Such innocence and hope that lay before people in this time. Thank you for your work
That nostalgia you have mentioned is called " anemoia" you can find more about this at Wikipedia, i feel the same like you do, i wish I could visit to those decades and try the possibility of meeting vintage actors ( Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant and many others).
Depending upon when this was taken, the US was just coming out of the Great Depression and entering WWII or WWII was in full swing or the US was newly out if WWII and life was getting back to normal. So it’s hard to say how hopeful anyone was feeling at this point.
Another excellent video! You posted an earlier video in January that drove this same first neighborhood but at a different time. I spent sooo much time trying to figure it out, but no dice. This time, however, the camera angle gave me one clue that was missing from the first video - a golf course on the right starting at 1:25. The film starts near the south-eastern end of Valley Spring Lane in Toluca Lake, at the end of which is a house previously owned by Amelia Earhart. As the car makes a right/north turn (all descriptions are from the driver's point of view) onto Navajo Street at 0:12, you are looking directly at the house at 10092 Valley Spring Road - it hasn't changed and you can see it clearly on Google Street View. Navajo Street then curves to the left/northwest and though it's kind of hard to see, there is a low brick wall on the sidewalk and one higher in the yard at 0:40 in, which is 4276 Navajo Lane. At 0:46 the car turns left/south onto Forman Avenue - the house seen on the corner appears to have been demolished and replaced. At 1:00 the car turns right/west back onto Valley Spring Road - the house at 1:02 through 1:04 appears to have also been demolished/remodeled. At 1:05 the house just slightly left of center, with the green roof, appears to me, based on the chimney, roof line and gable windows, to be 10135 Valley Spring Lane, which has been remodeled. Starting at 1:25, the golf course begins to come into view on the right, and you can see golfers at 1:31 - the golf course is the Lakeside Golf Club. The car passes Ledge Avenue and Strohm Avenue on the left, then at 2:07 comes to the intersection with Cahuenga Blvd. and turns right/north. The building seen from 2:07 to 2:11 which I can see on the 1952 Historic Aerials map, has been demolished/replaced as have most of the buildings on the west side of Cahuenga we see as the car continues on. I just saw that starting at 2:27 is your earlier video from January that I just referenced, so it is basically the same drive, with more houses seen as the angle is much better. So glad this one is solved for me! Edited because I messed up my times.
@@uubuuh Thanks! If you're interested, this video, from 2:27 to 4:44, is also in NASS's January 28, 2022 video called "1940s - Views of California in color" (which has different time stamps of course, so I can't copy it here without driving myself mad - I already spent tooooo much time on this). I had already identified a portion of that video, but the Toluca Lake section had me stumped. It just has a few other observations you may enjoy. :)
@@NASS_0 You're welcome. :) I also went back to your January video and did a revised post there that matched the different time stamps than are on this video, with just a little extra information. Love all your videos - I watch them all! :)
Thank you, GiggleFishy, I was waiting for someone like you to tell us where this is! Nice to know I'm not the only one craving this information, then following up with a Google Maps drive to compare. Awesome! 😀
Makes you wonder what happened to everything and how inexpensive these places were compared to today. Doesn't look like old footage at all! Love the cars!
Fascinating. I have things to do, but.... in Sherman Oaks: 04:47 Greenleaf at Hazeltine Sherman Oaks 05:03 14115 Greenleaf 05:12 Greenleaf at Stansbury 05:32 torn down/changed then very clearly 14223 Greenleaf 06:16 Greenleaf at Beverly Glen Road, house even appears to have original shutters 06:50 14479 Greenleaf, strange vent/chimney (lead?), homeowner (?) looking straight into camera (and she trips) 07:06 exposed rafters visible still today at 14529 Greenleaf 07:28 cut away just past Cedros Avenue
My mind is blown. Again. Thank you for not adding any loud, sudden or annoying noises. It is very relaxing to watch and your mind can just wander into this past reality.
And also thanks for not cropping the image, I hate when that's sometimes being done to old footage that robs and betrays the historical facts trying to alter an image to fit modern viewing practices, it's just plain wrong.
That's Mrs. Anderson the town drunk. She often stumbled walking to her front door. She eventually burned down her house when she fell asleep holding a cigarette and a bottle of Jim Beam - "her secret lover".
@@billiebobbienorton2556 She was my neighbor. She was on her way to my house for a drink. I asked her how she scuffed her new shoes. She said some idiot was driving by and filming her. She laughed and said at least no one would ever see it. RIP Silvia
@@larryt510 Read through the comments - someone gave time stamps and a location (I already had a look on Google) and there may be others who face locations for other segments since there are a few.
@@Lucinda_Jackson I thought I glimpsed for one fleeting half-second that one of the signs read Melrose Avenue. Is this area possibly next to or in Fairfax or going into West Hollywood?
@@jody6851 Read through the comments. Someone had time stamps and street names and I looked on Google and was able to follow that section of the video in today’s Google maps. There are several sections to the video, though, and I didn’t see anything about where the others might be. I haven’t looked since last week when this came out so maybe somebody has posted more?
Pretty cool to compare the video to actual Google street view. (4:43- 7:30 - South Side of Greenleaf St, starting from Hazeltine Ave heading west to Cedros Ave. Sherman Oaks, CA). Correction…. NORTH SIDE OF GREENLEAF STREET
Thank you! So hard to read those street signs.... I did see Hazeltine, though, so I knew we were in the Valley.... though I thought maybe in Van Nuys. Good catch!
Your eyes are better than mine! I kept seeing Clementine which I knew wasn’t right and I thought I saw Green…something, but again couldn’t make it out. Thanks so much!!
The first part is VALLEY SPRING - turning onto Navajo I think it’s called - then a left onto FORMAN and a right back onto VALLEY SPRING - then a right on Cahuenga - and up a few blocks and then a repeat. Some of the houses and building are the same - a bunch have changed too
@@richardhenry968 Sigh. I just spent a ton of time typing my post you will see up above, including times and stuff, posted it, and now scrolled down to see your comment. I promise I didn't see your post or copy your information, I figured it out on my own after seeing the golf course. I tried to figure it out in January and it about drove me nuts, so was really happy I was able to figure it out now. Just so ya know. :)
I don't live in the US, but I love this page, and I saw on Google what you say, and it's very impressive how everything changes over the years, I think there was nothing left of that time.
Beautiful. Nostalgic. I was born in 1937, and was raised in L.A. Our next door neighbor, Mr Allen, had a Jade green 1936 Oldsmobile 4dr. Every Saturday he was in his driveway, washing and polishing his car. He gave it a wax job after polishing the chrome. My music teacher had a 1934 Ford 5 window coupe, black, also all shiny with a nice wax job and shiny chrome. The point is, most folks kept their cars clean, and polished the chrome. You show most cars, including the brand new models, looking as if they are all rusty and the chrome all dull and rusty. No, no. They were almost all at least clean and polished. A few people had old junkers that looked a little like what you show, mostly model A Fords or old work trucks. Is this "artistic license", or do you think everyone drove dirty, rusty cars? Otherwise, this is great and I love your work.
That was the case with many SoCal neighborhoods developed from the '20s on. The houses were small (2BR, 1 bath) and so were the lots. As a result, it was easier to site the garage in the back and use what little clearance there was alongside the house for the driveway.
Always liked detached garages. It provides some privacy from pedestrians and traffic and you can be a bit louder when working on late night projects. Just an opinion from my limited experience.
@@ricochetey One of the later owners of the house my parents built found that adding an apartment above the garage was also a nice way to get a renter.
I was going to say this is all in the San Fernando Valley given the topography, the mountains in the background, and the age/size of the treeline. (1940 -50yr old trees = 1910 or so settlement) By the late 1950's and 1960's smog obscured any views of the San Gabriel mountains. Great work as always on these!
I have always lived in Vienna/Austria, so I have no reminiscences to vintage California. What I can say is that these images make an incredibly peaceful impression. I believe this must have been a very good neighborhood.
It looks middle class. Those houses today would be considered pretty small here in America. Many such houses get torn down and replaced if the neighborhood is in a good location.
Absolutely outstanding. It’s like being in a Time Machine. I can’t begin to imagine the time and effort which must have been put into this project. Well done.
4:46 They turn left off of Hazeltine St. onto Greenleaf St. in Sherman Oaks, CA. Google street view shows some of the old buildings like the garage seen at 4:54, and the high peaked house at 6:32. 6:47 The house where the lady is walking is on the corner of Greenleaf St. and Van Nuys Blvd. For the record, I live in Connecticut. Never been to California, so it's not like I recognized the area.
How do you know the streets? That does not look like Van Nuys Blvd to me. I was raised in Van Nuys and there were no houses on Van Nuys Blvd. Its all business district.
@@BW-kv9wj I could make out a few letters and tried matching it on Google Maps. Once I saw Van Nuys, I looked for a town that had both of those street names.
It blows my mind that life in the 1940s is literally how it is now. The grainy old videos of wars and factory workers gives us this impression that it was another timeline, when it reality that was all just background noise
NO, You Are DEAD WRONG. Life In The 40's And 50's Was UN Like Today, Being MUCH MORE Labor Intensive. With STRONG Blue Collar Workers That You.Wouldn't Want To Screw With, And Lots Of Stay At Home Mother's Raising Their Children To Get A Good Education And Show RESPECT For Other People. Completely Unlike The Single Parent Homes Of Today, Disrespect For Others, Rampant Drug Addiction, People Living On The Streets And MASS SHOOTINGS Happening; Induced By Liberal NRA Promotions Of Guns, And The FEAR Of NOT Having Them To Protect Yourself. Sorry Kiddo. Society Has DEgraded Significantly Since The 1940's Indeed...
This was back when resources were plentiful, jobs were plentiful, and everything was cheap for everyone. Now everything is expensive, well-paying jobs are scarce, and resources are running out.
Update to the location of the second part of the film, I originally thought it was Clark Ave, Magnolia Park but it is not. The actual location is Sherman Oaks, the street lights in the film still exist in certain parts of Burbank. The filming starts at the corner of Hazeltine Ave & Greenleaf St and terminates at Cedros Ave. The brick house at 5:32 is nos 14423, the lady who tripped at 6:49 is nos 14479 on the corner of Van Nuys. Many of the houses have been rebuilt but there are still a number of the original houses as seen in the film as are the street lamps.
@@MischievousImp540 Yeah, I just realized that Van Nuys Blvd went south of Ventura Blvd into a residential area. I never went south of Ventura as a kid.
@@BW-kv9wj Also when the freeways were built many streets and roads were cut off and dead ended such as a small stretches of Greenleaf St, Sutton St etc. cut off by the 405.
THE NEWEST CARS SEEN, THIS FILM, 1949 FORD, 1949 MERCURY ! SUCH A LOVELY PEACEFUL SCENE, WAR OVER AND THINGS GETTING BACK TO NORMAL ! A MUCH SIMPLER TIME, I WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD !
These neighborhoods relax me so much; yet, I also feel sad that those days are gone , pretty much for ever. I miss the early 60’s when all of my friends on the block would play outside till the sun went down. I was 11. Nowadays, 11 and older are already into drugs, and violence. I really don’t have much faith in today’s population.
You're romanticizing the past. Which is perfectly normally, but extremely ignorant. Especially someone who should have required so much wisdom from their time on earth. Ignoring all of the horrors and atrocities that were happening at the time is a problem. Lol and you don't think children were smoking and drinking back then? There are plenty of photographs proving otherwise.
You're just lucky to be born in America. In other countries, hunger and post-war poverty were everywhere. there were worse things than drugs. I want to say that the times have not become worse or better. it just redraws every time period
This is unimaginable. As if I can touch this story. I'm from Russia. At that time, in my country, the Reds staged famine, torture, cape executions. I keep thinking how the fate of my country would have developed if we were friends with the best country in the world - the USA!
The smaller homes in the second half of this video are owned by the average family. Usually just the man works and has a job which pays fairly well. The family owns one car. The woman stays home to raise the children
The car on the left about 9:03 or so is a Kaiser Manhattan. Not cheap (about $2800 in 1947 dollars) but worth the money. Kaiser had built battleships during the war so imagine how well the car was built. They also built a car named Frazier. Frazier lasted until about’52 and Kaiser until ‘55. Too bad, really.
@@1940limited So true. Along with the ‘sales blitz’ Ford & GM pushed on their dealers. The independents just couldn’t compete. As we know, Willys, Hudson, Nash, Studebaker, Crosley, Kaiser and Frazier just couldn’t compete.
@@andyw248 more good news. I wouldn't mind visiting the nicer side of the state. I wanted to live in California when I was a child. Once the reality of adulthood set in, I realized I was too poor. I would definitely be amongst the homeless if I was crazy enough to try and become a resident.
@@andyw248Yes you will. I was born and raised in this area. This entire area now is infested with homeless encampments littering the streets, crime, prostitution, drugs, gangs, etc. The entire San Fernando Valley where this was filmed has been destroyed. It now looks like a 3rd world country.
@@ayanasdollyworld5630You don’t want to live anywhere in the San Fernando Valley. Orange County about 60 miles south is a little better but getting as bad. California is not safe anymore. I was born and raised in this area where this was filmed and it was once a beautiful and wonderful place to grow up. It’s extremely dangerous now.
Between you your artistic gift for color hue depth and contrast and those who had the insight to film this for all of us today I am gleefully suspended in time
@@1940limited That could be very well it, wonder what else it would be. Incidentally, with color film already invented at the time (since the '30s) I wish they'd shot more color movies back then.
Very nice, i love your Vids. I don't know of any other videos that make the old times seem so alive. One question, somehow I always see a purple sheen on the cars, where I expect it to be black. Was it the case back then that a purple shimmer was considered chic or is it because of the subsequent colouring?
The Colorization Bring NEW LIFE To Old Photography. Look At The Colorized Pictures Of Past Presidents Like Lincoln. It Makes Him Look Like A Person Of Today With Real Character, Just Dressed Up In Past Century Clothing. Driving By Those Homes With B&W Pictures And It Would Look So BORING. But NASS Knows How To Put NEW LIFE Into Them Indeed...
I grew up in a city like this film. San Gabriel, upper middle class. In 1950 there were a lot juvenile delinquent boys around. Girls were not safe on the street and many boys misbehaved. I saw it all.
I’m surprised because I always heard it was peaches and cream. Sounds very similar to the late 50s and early 60s when outlaw bikers roamed roads around rural areas. An older woman told me bikers would kidnap young female hitchhikers in the late 50s along the 71 highway in Pomona. Those weren’t good ol’ days for many people.
@@egmjag .....there was a lot of mischief in those old days....drinking, wife swapping, baby racketeering, remember this was before CCTV and people did things and were never seen.
This is one of the more interesting neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley and still retains some of this rural charm even though today it's literally in the middle of the City of Los Angeles. If you went too far off these streets you would be in open land.
The world was in the midst of wars at the time. Crime rates were high in the U.S., and pregnancies and STDs were a big problem. It wasn't the age of innocence that some believe it was. It wasn't. I do like that people put up white picket fences in those neighborhoods.
@@zachmatt3 And it's been going down hill ever since for the world...by the late '40s here, so much crap still hadn't happened or madmen been born yet, etc.
Geez, it would be so interesting if someone living around that area today would make the same drive with the same camera angles now. Surely the roads are still there, but the buildings might have completely changed. Definitely the difference in numbers of cars around would be stunning to see.....
Wow. A well-dressed lady becomes aware of the passing camera and accidentally trips slightly, then pretends it didn't happen. Times change, but people don't.
Your videos or should I say film is amazing! It must of taken a lot of time and you did a amazing job! Any idea of how it was originally filmed? Was it from the back of a truck?
And a hundred years from now they will look back and say "How could they live in such primitive conditions back then? To think they had to drive around in cars and fly on airplanes!" Of course, by then it may be A.I. bots saying it instead of humans.
Couldn't make out the street signs to figure out what neighborhood this was but sure was a lot nicer back then. Probably my favorite era in L.A. They had a better public transportation system then with the Street Car line (Red Cars) and less need for everyone in one house to each have their own car.
Immigration laws were adhered to back then. Of course just coming out of a world war and Korea in the offing while the military draft was still scooping up young men had their impacts.
Besides the streetlamps, car styles, clothing styles, and bicycle styles this tour looks very much like today. Anyone else out there notice other general things (not specific to the area like a, now, demolished house, etc.) that are different than today and would give the time period away to a casual viewer?
When first discovered by Europeans California was described as the nearest thing to paradise but before railways and the Panama canal it was very hard to get to.
Great footage, only problem: this cannot possibly be from the 1940's. I spotted two early 50's Fords, and what appeared to be a '52 Mercury in a driveway.
What a great video. Wondering what happened to those you see. The one on the bike. The guy doing yard work. Loved the variety of neighborhoods. Rural to suburban. It looks like the San Ferrnando Valley with the smog in some shots. Thanks . It's been a fun ride !
A much better, simpler time. No idiots glued to their smartphones, kids being allowed to play outside on the streets without adult supervision, no loud obnoxious Rap or EDM crap blasting out of every house and car, and it's all much safer. Even though I wasn't alive back then, I wish the modern world could be like this. This is very much like what my vision on a perfect world is like.
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My heart aches for what was .... the sheer spender of it.
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This was my world as a kid. I was born in 1945 and raised in Southern California. It was a wonderful time to be a kid. I had freedom to play outside and go to friend’s houses. I got a bike at 8 and rode it all over and just had to be sure to be home by dinner. It was so safe and we felt safe. Most people never locked their doors or their cars. It was the best time to be alive.
Then the boomers grew up and ruined everything. Good job. 🙄
But now you're close to death
Half the times we didn't close the garage door.
I can only imagine. I’m 47 and always (I mean ALWAYS) had a fascination with living in Southern California, but back when it was like this. It’s always felt so familiar to me.
Wasnt there also a war going on? I think you just remember it fondly because you weren’t an adult.
Love the young lady at 6:50 watching the camera and tripping ! If she knew 21,000 people would be seeing that trip 70+ years later !
Ha! I saw her trip too! My thoughts exactly!
More like a stub then a trip. And she wouldn’t have cared because she is prolly tougher than 99% of the dudes now a days! Why would she care about people who don’t even know her? Weak
And she's wearing clean white panties. Innocence.
@@danawhiteisagenius8654 It's not that she'd care about people who don't know her but, rather, it's the thought that something so relatively insignificant in her life will be viewed by thousands many decades afterwards that is the freaky and amazing thing. If you don't get that you can't be helped to and probably often miss the wonder of many things that are full of wonder.
seriously. wow. if she only knew that a whole slew of people from the future would watch her trip over and over and over again. it's not funny that she trips like it is most other times but it is deeply interesting that she trips and continues to watch us watch her do it but from the future. and to think that the film sat abandoned in some storage box and only until it was uploaded to the internet was it brought to life that we are able to peer into the past and watch her trip. over and over and over again.
These videos fill me with such a strong sense of nostalgia. They make me mourn for a time I never knew. Such innocence and hope that lay before people in this time. Thank you for your work
hope and promise
That nostalgia you have mentioned is called " anemoia" you can find more about this at Wikipedia, i feel the same like you do, i wish I could visit to those decades and try the possibility of meeting vintage actors ( Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant and many others).
thank you so much
Depending upon when this was taken, the US was just coming out of the Great Depression and entering WWII or WWII was in full swing or the US was newly out if WWII and life was getting back to normal. So it’s hard to say how hopeful anyone was feeling at this point.
@@Lucinda_Jackson It said it was at the very end of the 40's
Another excellent video! You posted an earlier video in January that drove this same first neighborhood but at a different time. I spent sooo much time trying to figure it out, but no dice. This time, however, the camera angle gave me one clue that was missing from the first video - a golf course on the right starting at 1:25. The film starts near the south-eastern end of Valley Spring Lane in Toluca Lake, at the end of which is a house previously owned by Amelia Earhart. As the car makes a right/north turn (all descriptions are from the driver's point of view) onto Navajo Street at 0:12, you are looking directly at the house at 10092 Valley Spring Road - it hasn't changed and you can see it clearly on Google Street View. Navajo Street then curves to the left/northwest and though it's kind of hard to see, there is a low brick wall on the sidewalk and one higher in the yard at 0:40 in, which is 4276 Navajo Lane. At 0:46 the car turns left/south onto Forman Avenue - the house seen on the corner appears to have been demolished and replaced. At 1:00 the car turns right/west back onto Valley Spring Road - the house at 1:02 through 1:04 appears to have also been demolished/remodeled. At 1:05 the house just slightly left of center, with the green roof, appears to me, based on the chimney, roof line and gable windows, to be 10135 Valley Spring Lane, which has been remodeled. Starting at 1:25, the golf course begins to come into view on the right, and you can see golfers at 1:31 - the golf course is the Lakeside Golf Club. The car passes Ledge Avenue and Strohm Avenue on the left, then at 2:07 comes to the intersection with Cahuenga Blvd. and turns right/north. The building seen from 2:07 to 2:11 which I can see on the 1952 Historic Aerials map, has been demolished/replaced as have most of the buildings on the west side of Cahuenga we see as the car continues on. I just saw that starting at 2:27 is your earlier video from January that I just referenced, so it is basically the same drive, with more houses seen as the angle is much better. So glad this one is solved for me! Edited because I messed up my times.
Brilliant work, GiggleFishy!! Looking forward to checking this out on StreetView. Was about to start working on this myself, no need now! Thanks.
@@uubuuh Thanks! If you're interested, this video, from 2:27 to 4:44, is also in NASS's January 28, 2022 video called "1940s - Views of California in color" (which has different time stamps of course, so I can't copy it here without driving myself mad - I already spent tooooo much time on this). I had already identified a portion of that video, but the Toluca Lake section had me stumped. It just has a few other observations you may enjoy. :)
thank you so much for this information
@@NASS_0 You're welcome. :) I also went back to your January video and did a revised post there that matched the different time stamps than are on this video, with just a little extra information. Love all your videos - I watch them all! :)
Thank you, GiggleFishy, I was waiting for someone like you to tell us where this is! Nice to know I'm not the only one craving this information, then following up with a Google Maps drive to compare. Awesome! 😀
Makes you wonder what happened to everything and how inexpensive these places were compared to today. Doesn't look like old footage at all! Love the cars!
Judging by the cars this was filmed 1949-'50. It looked so quiet and peaceful.
Fascinating. I have things to do, but....
in Sherman Oaks:
04:47 Greenleaf at Hazeltine Sherman Oaks
05:03 14115 Greenleaf
05:12 Greenleaf at Stansbury
05:32 torn down/changed then very clearly 14223 Greenleaf
06:16 Greenleaf at Beverly Glen Road, house even appears to have original shutters
06:50 14479 Greenleaf, strange vent/chimney (lead?), homeowner (?) looking straight into camera (and she trips)
07:06 exposed rafters visible still today at 14529 Greenleaf
07:28 cut away just past Cedros Avenue
My mind is blown. Again. Thank you for not adding any loud, sudden or annoying noises. It is very relaxing to watch and your mind can just wander into this past reality.
And also thanks for not cropping the image, I hate when that's sometimes being done to old footage that robs and betrays the historical facts trying to alter an image to fit modern viewing practices, it's just plain wrong.
Am I nuts?? It's just that I found the tweeting birds in the background so delightful! Another great video. Thank you.
yes you are
Poor woman at 6:50 was watching the car go by and not where she was walking and almost fell over.
I noticed that, too. Ha-ha!
LOL! I saw that too!!!
It's funny how people back then would react the same as we do today
That's Mrs. Anderson the town drunk. She often stumbled walking to her front door. She eventually burned down her house when she fell asleep holding a cigarette and a bottle of Jim Beam - "her secret lover".
@@billiebobbienorton2556 She was my neighbor. She was on her way to my house for a drink. I asked her how she scuffed her new shoes. She said some idiot was driving by and filming her. She laughed and said at least no one would ever see it. RIP Silvia
It would be interesting to go back today and follow the routes taken when this was first filmed, and see how the neighborhoods have changed.
I watch and catch the street signs, when I can, and just check out today’s look on Google. I couldn’t make out a single street sign this time. ☹️
I was hoping someone could figure out where this is. I would be willing to go do a comparison video
@@larryt510
Read through the comments - someone gave time stamps and a location (I already had a look on Google) and there may be others who face locations for other segments since there are a few.
@@Lucinda_Jackson I thought I glimpsed for one fleeting half-second that one of the signs read Melrose Avenue. Is this area possibly next to or in Fairfax or going into West Hollywood?
@@jody6851
Read through the comments. Someone had time stamps and street names and I looked on Google and was able to follow that section of the video in today’s Google maps. There are several sections to the video, though, and I didn’t see anything about where the others might be. I haven’t looked since last week when this came out so maybe somebody has posted more?
Pretty cool to compare the video to actual Google street view. (4:43- 7:30 - South Side of Greenleaf St, starting from Hazeltine Ave heading west to Cedros Ave. Sherman Oaks, CA). Correction…. NORTH SIDE OF GREENLEAF STREET
Thank you! So hard to read those street signs.... I did see Hazeltine, though, so I knew we were in the Valley.... though I thought maybe in Van Nuys. Good catch!
Your eyes are better than mine! I kept seeing Clementine which I knew wasn’t right and I thought I saw Green…something, but again couldn’t make it out. Thanks so much!!
The first part is VALLEY SPRING - turning onto Navajo I think it’s called - then a left onto FORMAN and a right back onto VALLEY SPRING - then a right on Cahuenga - and up a few blocks and then a repeat. Some of the houses and building are the same - a bunch have changed too
@@richardhenry968 Sigh. I just spent a ton of time typing my post you will see up above, including times and stuff, posted it, and now scrolled down to see your comment. I promise I didn't see your post or copy your information, I figured it out on my own after seeing the golf course. I tried to figure it out in January and it about drove me nuts, so was really happy I was able to figure it out now. Just so ya know. :)
I don't live in the US, but I love this page, and I saw on Google what you say, and it's very impressive how everything changes over the years, I think there was nothing left of that time.
I love these NASS. Your colorized 40s and 50z always make me smile! 😊
Closest thing we have to time travel. Excellent video
That's true. Imagine people in the deep future...in 200 or 300 years watching this video someplace. Maybe not even on this planet.
Beautiful. Nostalgic. I was born in 1937, and was raised in L.A. Our next door neighbor, Mr Allen, had a Jade green 1936 Oldsmobile 4dr. Every Saturday he was in his driveway, washing and polishing his car. He gave it a wax job after polishing the chrome. My music teacher had a 1934 Ford 5 window coupe, black, also all shiny with a nice wax job and shiny chrome. The point is, most folks kept their cars clean, and polished the chrome. You show most cars, including the brand new models, looking as if they are all rusty and the chrome all dull and rusty. No, no.
They were almost all at least clean and polished. A few people had old junkers that looked a little like what you show, mostly model A Fords or old work trucks. Is this "artistic license", or do you think everyone drove dirty, rusty cars? Otherwise, this is great and I love your work.
Such clean neighborhoods, small houses and detached garages were the norm it appears.
That was the case with many SoCal neighborhoods developed from the '20s on. The houses were small (2BR, 1 bath) and so were the lots. As a result, it was easier to site the garage in the back and use what little clearance there was alongside the house for the driveway.
@@xqqqme Those were well designed. May be what California needs now to address the high cost of starter homes.
Always liked detached garages. It provides some privacy from pedestrians and traffic and you can be a bit louder when working on late night projects. Just an opinion from my limited experience.
@@ricochetey One of the later owners of the house my parents built found that adding an apartment above the garage was also a nice way to get a renter.
If it wasn't for the cars would never guessed it was the 40s
The newest one I saw was 1949. That must be the year.
Its because the houses are still there today, and if any were built new they have the same style, pretty crazy
And the lack of cell phones,LOL.
I was going to say this is all in the San Fernando Valley given the topography, the mountains in the background, and the age/size of the treeline. (1940 -50yr old trees = 1910 or so settlement) By the late 1950's and 1960's smog obscured any views of the San Gabriel mountains. Great work as always on these!
Smog in Pasadena was awful in the 50's Was born in 47
My guess was the San Gabriel Valley, but I don’t think I’m as certain as you are, sir.
First part of film is Toluca Lake on the North Hollywood/Burbank border in the San Fernando Valley.
@@spiff8862 ...by the Burbank Eqestrian Center maybe?
@@bubhub64
The Equestrian Center is about 2.5 miles east of where this was filmed.
I have always lived in Vienna/Austria, so I have no reminiscences to vintage California. What I can say is that these images make an incredibly peaceful impression. I believe this must have been a very good neighborhood.
It looks middle class. Those houses today would be considered pretty small here in America. Many such houses get torn down and replaced if the neighborhood is in a good location.
Absolutely outstanding. It’s like being in a Time Machine. I can’t begin to imagine the time and effort which must have been put into this project. Well done.
I wish I could step through time and land on that time and place.
Very cool! Thanks for the hard work putting this together!👍🏽
thank you so much
Casas lindas, sem muros e muito verde
Precisa pouco para morar bem.
Parabéns pelo vídeo.
I love the smaller sized houses with the detached garages and the driveways with grass in the middle.
Smaller, but they are not small houses.
Thank you for making these video's.
4:46 They turn left off of Hazeltine St. onto Greenleaf St. in Sherman Oaks, CA. Google street view shows some of the old buildings like the garage seen at 4:54, and the high peaked house at 6:32.
6:47 The house where the lady is walking is on the corner of Greenleaf St. and Van Nuys Blvd. For the record, I live in Connecticut. Never been to California, so it's not like I recognized the area.
that's an amazing opportunity for someone to possibly view a lost relative if the history of occupants is known !
How do you know the streets? That does not look like Van Nuys Blvd to me. I was raised in Van Nuys and there were no houses on Van Nuys Blvd. Its all business district.
@@BW-kv9wj Street signs seen in the video and Google Maps.
@@JoeR203 How do you see the street signs? I looked very close. They are all blurred.
@@BW-kv9wj I could make out a few letters and tried matching it on Google Maps. Once I saw Van Nuys, I looked for a town that had both of those street names.
It blows my mind that life in the 1940s is literally how it is now. The grainy old videos of wars and factory workers gives us this impression that it was another timeline, when it reality that was all just background noise
This! That's why when people think "oh this can never happen. That was a different time!" but it can very well happen, This just makes history REAL
NO, You Are DEAD WRONG. Life In The 40's And 50's Was UN Like Today, Being MUCH MORE Labor Intensive. With STRONG Blue Collar Workers That You.Wouldn't Want To Screw With, And Lots Of Stay At Home Mother's Raising Their Children To Get A Good Education And Show RESPECT For Other People. Completely Unlike The Single Parent Homes Of Today, Disrespect For Others, Rampant Drug Addiction, People Living On The Streets And MASS SHOOTINGS Happening; Induced By Liberal NRA Promotions Of Guns, And The FEAR Of NOT Having Them To Protect Yourself. Sorry Kiddo. Society Has DEgraded Significantly Since The 1940's Indeed...
@@DrewP12 its basically the lore of our world. Things we see in fiction like pirates, vikings, sages, and warriors from centuries ago all existed
Yeah the wars were just background noise. SMDH
@@paulgooding803 yes, they were. problem?
When it wasn't a chore to walk anywhere! And clothes looked so smart ❤
That lady at 6:50 tripped. I laughed 80 years later.
No bra and panties. Ask me how I know....!
I saw a 1950 Studebaker, 41 Packard, 49 Buick , 48 Chrysler T&C, 48 Kaiser also, love the old cars here. Drooled all the way thru it.
This was back when resources were plentiful, jobs were plentiful, and everything was cheap for everyone. Now everything is expensive, well-paying jobs are scarce, and resources are running out.
I have said it before and will again…. I was born about 60 years too late
Update to the location of the second part of the film, I originally thought it was Clark Ave, Magnolia Park but it is not. The actual location is Sherman Oaks, the street lights in the film still exist in certain parts of Burbank. The filming starts at the corner of Hazeltine Ave & Greenleaf St and terminates at Cedros Ave. The brick house at 5:32 is nos 14423, the lady who tripped at 6:49 is nos 14479 on the corner of Van Nuys. Many of the houses have been rebuilt but there are still a number of the original houses as seen in the film as are the street lamps.
There’s no houses on Van Nuys Boulevard. It’s a business district even back then.
@@BW-kv9wj Sherman Oaks end of Van Nuys, it's simple to check yes.
@@MischievousImp540 Yeah, I just realized that Van Nuys Blvd went south of Ventura Blvd into a residential area. I never went south of Ventura as a kid.
@@BW-kv9wj Also when the freeways were built many streets and roads were cut off and dead ended such as a small stretches of Greenleaf St, Sutton St etc. cut off by the 405.
THE NEWEST CARS SEEN, THIS FILM, 1949 FORD, 1949 MERCURY ! SUCH A LOVELY PEACEFUL SCENE, WAR OVER AND THINGS GETTING BACK TO NORMAL ! A MUCH SIMPLER TIME, I WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD !
so why are you yelling?
There were a couple of nice, new, 49 Fords, one a convertible.
What beautiful houses, competed for the grass and the neatest fence.
Man that's a neighborhood I'd love to live in, if California wasn't expensive back then
These neighborhoods relax me so much; yet, I also feel sad that those days are gone , pretty much for ever. I miss the early 60’s when all of my friends on the block would play outside till the sun went down. I was 11. Nowadays, 11 and older are already into drugs, and violence. I really don’t have much faith in today’s population.
You really think 11 year olds are doing drugs? I think you watch too much news. Don't worry, young people these days are just as jaded as you.
You're romanticizing the past. Which is perfectly normally, but extremely ignorant. Especially someone who should have required so much wisdom from their time on earth. Ignoring all of the horrors and atrocities that were happening at the time is a problem. Lol and you don't think children were smoking and drinking back then? There are plenty of photographs proving otherwise.
You're just lucky to be born in America. In other countries, hunger and post-war poverty were everywhere. there were worse things than drugs. I want to say that the times have not become worse or better. it just redraws every time period
@@bestwatch You're a real drag, pal.
Mike, let's not exagerate. It depends on the kid and the family. My teen is a nerd and straight arrow. Plenty of kids are like her.
This is unimaginable. As if I can touch this story. I'm from Russia. At that time, in my country, the Reds staged famine, torture, cape executions. I keep thinking how the fate of my country would have developed if we were friends with the best country in the world - the USA!
Yes. Communism is evil.
The smaller homes in the second half of this video are owned by the average family. Usually just the man works and has a job which pays fairly well. The family owns one car. The woman stays home to raise the children
in my country: fascist getulio vargas in the comand.
Our beloved USA is quickly turning into your old country.
@@ErikThomasMusic
Or just basic communism in general.
Wrapped in a name like democratic socialism. Poison is more palatable if it's called medicine.
The car on the left about 9:03 or so is a Kaiser Manhattan. Not cheap (about $2800 in 1947 dollars) but worth the money. Kaiser had built battleships during the war so imagine how well the car was built. They also built a car named Frazier. Frazier lasted until about’52 and Kaiser until ‘55. Too bad, really.
After the war you could sell almost anything so Kaiser jumped into the auto industry. By 1954 they had run their course.
@@1940limited So true. Along with the ‘sales blitz’ Ford & GM pushed on their dealers. The independents just couldn’t compete. As we know, Willys, Hudson, Nash, Studebaker, Crosley, Kaiser and Frazier just couldn’t compete.
Very calming to watch. I find it oddly addictive, but at least it's a wholesome, harmless addiction.
They had some sweet houses,. even back then
From the automobiles shown, I would date this somewhere around either 1949 or possibly 1950.
Newest car I saw was 1949.
Lovely times.. lovely places💛
5:07 even the dog is stress free 😢
No trash or homeless littering the streets.👀 classic California in it's heyday.
You won't see homeless people today either in suburbs like this
@@andyw248 more good news. I wouldn't mind visiting the nicer side of the state. I wanted to live in California when I was a child. Once the reality of adulthood set in, I realized I was too poor. I would definitely be amongst the homeless if I was crazy enough to try and become a resident.
@@andyw248Yes you will. I was born and raised in this area. This entire area now is infested with homeless encampments littering the streets, crime, prostitution, drugs, gangs, etc. The entire San Fernando Valley where this was filmed has been destroyed. It now looks like a 3rd world country.
@@ayanasdollyworld5630You don’t want to live anywhere in the San Fernando Valley. Orange County about 60 miles south is a little better but getting as bad. California is not safe anymore. I was born and raised in this area where this was filmed and it was once a beautiful and wonderful place to grow up. It’s extremely dangerous now.
Between you your artistic gift for color hue depth and contrast and those who had the insight to film this for all of us today I am gleefully suspended in time
There is a wonderful ASMR effect I feel watching these videos. Very relaxing. NASS rules.
I love these vids! Wish I lived back in the 1920’s - 1950’s
really ? without cellphone , multimedia, modern medicine and without youtube 😳🤔🤣
@@Daweisstebescheid I would only miss the modern medicine.
@@Daweisstebescheid yea I could live without it lol we did growing up in the 2000s
@@kennethnero2011 yes me too, i gew up without all the modern stuff 😂
ME TOO BUDDY
Very, Very, cool! I could watch these films all day! The old street lights, & oil derricks are stunning!!!
Omg... this is STUNNING!!!
Beautiful video this is a time capsule history
Other than the cars and clothes, it still looks the same nowadays.
Almost hurts to watch this.. so rare to find towns like this anymore. Clean, safe, sigh
Toluca Lake is still clean, safe and affluent.
@@jfrorn I might go visit! 🥰
America has tons of nice safe neighborhoods. My city has plenty.
Wow, look at all the trees!! So many of them!
Awesome channel, keep these vids coming!!!
Beautiful, America was a great place back then.
If this was filmed ten years later, every house would have a TV antenna on the roof.
For anyone wondering, the street at 4:46 is Greenleaf Street in Sherman Oaks LA
How far Sherman oaks is from Encino CA? Thanks.
@@gustavoperez5480 Right next to it
@@indexspirits oh! Wow, thank you.
@@gustavoperez5480They border each other.
The homes are so pretty. Everything looks clean and tidy.
Excellent video documentary of how the neighborhoods of the past were beautiful.
It's kinda crazy that people drove around filming the neighborhood for posterity. It's like Google.0
I think these films wee made by movie studios to use as backdrops in various scenes. Not sure, but that's what it appears to be.
@@1940limited That could be very well it, wonder what else it would be. Incidentally, with color film already invented at the time (since the '30s) I wish they'd shot more color movies back then.
Very nice, i love your Vids. I don't know of any other videos that make the old times seem so alive. One question, somehow I always see a purple sheen on the cars, where I expect it to be black. Was it the case back then that a purple shimmer was considered chic or is it because of the subsequent colouring?
It's the AI colorization.
The Colorization Bring NEW LIFE To Old Photography. Look At The Colorized Pictures Of Past Presidents Like Lincoln. It Makes Him Look Like A Person Of Today With Real Character, Just Dressed Up In Past Century Clothing. Driving By Those Homes With B&W Pictures And It Would Look So BORING. But NASS Knows How To Put NEW LIFE Into Them Indeed...
Amazing. Thank you for making these.
AMAZING WORK!!
thank you so much
Great video nass, amazing footage, great work,some beautiful properties 👌👍😀
I grew up in a city like this film. San Gabriel, upper middle class. In 1950 there were a lot juvenile delinquent boys around. Girls were not safe on the street and many boys misbehaved. I saw it all.
I’m surprised because I always heard it was peaches and cream. Sounds very similar to the late 50s and early 60s when outlaw bikers roamed roads around rural areas. An older woman told me bikers would kidnap young female hitchhikers in the late 50s along the 71 highway in Pomona. Those weren’t good ol’ days for many people.
@@egmjag .....there was a lot of mischief in those old days....drinking, wife swapping, baby racketeering, remember this was before CCTV and people did things and were never seen.
Oh hey. I recognize you. You must be city boy Doug from NLA. Always loved your posts. Small world.
The wealth of America in the 40s compared to the rest of the world
That’s because they stole it from the rest of the world!
Corporations have ruined America!
This is one of the more interesting neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley and still retains some of this rural charm even though today it's literally in the middle of the City of Los Angeles. If you went too far off these streets you would be in open land.
Brilliant, so interesting using google maps street view to compare , what a beautiful place it must have been to live back in the day.
Came here from Joey B Toonz. Absolutely amazing work 🙂
To live in such a time when you felt safe from the world unlike today. Well done!
The world was in the midst of wars at the time. Crime rates were high in the U.S., and pregnancies and STDs were a big problem. It wasn't the age of innocence that some believe it was. It wasn't. I do like that people put up white picket fences in those neighborhoods.
Only if you were white tho
easy for a white straight christian to say
@@zachmatt3 And it's been going down hill ever since for the world...by the late '40s here, so much crap still hadn't happened or madmen been born yet, etc.
Great start with the 1942 Pontiac .
Geez, it would be so interesting if someone living around that area today would make the same drive with the same camera angles now. Surely the roads are still there, but the buildings might have completely changed. Definitely the difference in numbers of cars around would be stunning to see.....
I'd say a lot of the houses are still there, but yes, teardowns (to put in new houses) also happen. The problem is that they are small.
adoro seus vídeos... parabéns pelo trabalho, Adriano from brazil.
Wow. A well-dressed lady becomes aware of the passing camera and accidentally trips slightly, then pretends it didn't happen. Times change, but people don't.
Wow, this is like a time machine. Thanks for sharing!
Your videos or should I say film is amazing! It must of taken a lot of time and you did a amazing job! Any idea of how it was originally filmed? Was it from the back of a truck?
It's weird to think that people at that time thought they were living in the modern world. Same as we are now.
This looks modern enough to me.
And a hundred years from now they will look back and say "How could they live in such primitive conditions back then? To think they had to drive around in cars and fly on airplanes!" Of course, by then it may be A.I. bots saying it instead of humans.
@@taijuan5087 ya correct. So enjoy the life.
😂😂😂 They didn’t think they were living in the modern world - they WERE living in the modern world.
@@Lucinda_Jackson If you think about it, we are living in the past, present and future simultaneously.
This looks so cool!
Was this shot with an Arriflex 35MM movie Camera ?
Couldn't make out the street signs to figure out what neighborhood this was but sure was a lot nicer back then. Probably my favorite era in L.A. They had a better public transportation system then with the Street Car line (Red Cars) and less need for everyone in one house to each have their own car.
Aaahh...when lawns were _Green_ in California.
Immigration laws were adhered to back then. Of course just coming out of a world war and Korea in the offing while the military draft was still scooping up young men had their impacts.
@@LesterMoore What?
Lawns not laws … but you ‘ve got a point there, nowadays laws are green, and lawns no more.
This is well before I was born, but it's interesting to see!
The location of the house at 6:47 , is 14479 Greenleaf Street, on the corner of Van Nuys Blvd. in Sherman Oaks, California.
Are you sure about that? Van Nuy Blvd has always been a business district with no houses on any corners. I know. I was born and raised in Van Nuys.
Besides the streetlamps, car styles, clothing styles, and bicycle styles this tour looks very much like today. Anyone else out there notice other general things (not specific to the area like a, now, demolished house, etc.) that are different than today and would give the time period away to a casual viewer?
When first discovered by Europeans California was described as the nearest thing to paradise but before railways and the Panama canal it was very hard to get to.
Beautiful.
Great stuff, thank you! How are these films found?
Great footage, only problem: this cannot possibly be from the 1940's. I spotted two early 50's Fords, and what appeared to be a '52 Mercury in a driveway.
Are you able to show original footage, even if just a tiny clip at the end or beginning?
I saw three '49 Fords and a '49 Kaiser.
Brilliant...thank YOU!
Just watched the 1930's video and it seems like within 10years the cars changed completely. Feels like 30yrs
GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS YOU ARE THE BEST
What a great video. Wondering what happened to those you see. The one on the bike. The guy doing yard work. Loved the variety of neighborhoods. Rural to suburban. It looks like the San Ferrnando Valley with the smog in some shots. Thanks . It's been a fun ride !
Most are gone.
Lady watching the car trips on her step at about 6:48.
A much better, simpler time. No idiots glued to their smartphones, kids being allowed to play outside on the streets without adult supervision, no loud obnoxious Rap or EDM crap blasting out of every house and car, and it's all much safer. Even though I wasn't alive back then, I wish the modern world could be like this. This is very much like what my vision on a perfect world is like.
Love these videos from the late 40s and early 50s.
Interesting time period.
Fan of L.A. Noire and L.A. Confidential.
Definitely worth subscribing and a thumbs up !
Wow ty for these Clips Love Them