Some of that area around Pico, Olympic and San Vicente still looks about the same most of the area around the pier and courthouse to 3rdSt. Are still building condos around that part since I last been there last year along with the streets being more crowded with cars than before.I last been there last summer before moving to San Gabriel.
In 50 years someone will publish everyday life footage from 2016. With people driving around in obsolete cars and wearing retro looking clothes. But will someone say "oh, how I miss the 2010's."? Or will people be able to identify this decade like we so easily recognize the 60's and 70's today? Time is a fascinating phenomena.
people will miss 2016/18 more so i believe as i think changes will become more and more rapid , the 1990s probably had a lot more in common with the 1950s than today when you think about it
@@zxz1 the older I get (born in the 70s) the more I realize that you're right that the 80s/90s had more in common with the 50s than now. There have been some improvements but in many ways things are getting worse.
@@zxz1 Changes will slow down a lot..A lot of folks are getting way dumber, the budgets keep getting cut for schools and everything else..People will look at this as a terrible time like the 1930's depression..and be glad they made it through
Lived in Santa Monica in 1964, I was 5 years old. I just remember it was a pretty place back then, and the ocean was beautiful. Wow! 50 years have gone by...time sure flies.
@Benjamin Salvador Your scam won’t work for two reasons: 1). You post of hundreds of videos and often reuse the same accounts. 2). We know it is the same person because both accounts were created on the same day. If you are trying to scam people, don’t be stupid about it.
+Walter White get over it...white capitalism created and perpetuated "third world" countries....thats like blaming the mexicans for ALL the drug problems when White America is the one footing the drug bill...as a customer!
1968 while attending SAMOHI I drove a 1964 Buick Skylark. Convertible. Grey with red interior. I miss that car. Mayor's daughter loved it too at the Drive-In. lol I lived at 1020 6th street, Santa Monica and loved the city. Too crowded today and too expensive! 900 sq ft Condo for $1 million dollars? lol wow, crazy. I remember when the word condo did not exist. Those same apartments rented for $75.00 to $90.00 monthly. No homeowners fees. Take me back dear God. Thanks for Video
It was God's country back then. They had to give away a free month's rent to get people to live there. There were lots of vacant apartments once you got about 3 blocks from Ocean Park. Those empty lots on Marguerita and elsewhere were chilling to see. Otherwise the architecture hasn't changed at all. But that was the real Santa Monica before everyone moved there. Even the Promenade on 3rd street was still open to traffic, it hadn't be filled-in. Older citizens drove around the streets of Santa Monica in golf carts in the early 60s.
My buddies and their wives still live in Santa Monica and the Apartments we rented for $90.00 monthly in 60's are now Condos selling for $1 million dollars. Same buildings. Same apartment but, Apt. Unit is now a CONDO and purchased. lol How greed destroys an entire city. The traffic, especially in summer and crowds is terrible these days. Yes, back in 60's you could find an apartment or home very easily and affordable. A nice home sold for $50,000. Try finding 100 sq. feet for that. Condo 900 sq ft I saw last week 2022 sold for $987,000. Who can afford that Mortgage? Plus, Homeowners fees monthly for gardening, paint, upkeep etc. I think that is $500.00 now? Times are changing for worse. Things are moving way too fast! It's no wonder young people are not having children. Thanks for video and memories...No one will want to remember 2000 through 2022.
@@jameshall8455 If you're not from a family dynasty worth at least 50+ million: you have to live like a cockroach. You voted for this when you defeated the greatest man to ever walk the earth. All so that the allies' mixed race grandkids can twerk in front of drag queens at the local public libraries. Was it worth it, Henry? WAS IT?
late sixties ! Wandered S.M. mostly barefoot. $10 Levis and flannel shirts and records! Rented your phone from the phone company who repaired it when it broke. It had an actual bell that rang inside. Santa Monica blue bus- a quarter ride would get you anywhere inside of S.M. to the beach. Wow.. So long ago
George Vreeland Hill homeless people lived in LA when this was shot too. I agree that it is more developed and less of a gem now, but the narrative of homelessness and crime being recent trends is kind of ridiculous.
I had a friend who lived on MONTANA in Santa Monica, back in 1968, when I was 23, I would go there and we'd go to the beach every weekend. It sure was great to be by the beach when you're young.
did you see that dodge lancer? It has got to be the ugliest car ever made. The coolest one for me was the jag xke with that hot looking babe driving it
Man O man! A lot of those places are still there. Wish my parents hadn't left Santa Monica in 1967. Mar Vista was OK but even that was left behind for the suburbs in 1969. Still like Santa Monica but nuttin' like the 60s and even before that!
Wow all those cool cars! Vettes, convertibles, Jags, Porsche 356, Rolls, Chrysler Imperial I think ha ya. Always a cool yet laid back city. Tons of history for this area.
Wow. Thanks for the info. I knew he lived on Ocean in an apt but could not find out where. Peter Sellers visited him once there and said he could not believe Stan lived in an apt given his stature and fame.
Farther graduated from Santa Monica High and played football there. I attended and graduated from Santa Monica City College in 1962. Many neighbors and friends who worked a Douglas Aircraft. Family was big fans of Lawrence Welk and Lick Pier.
I stayed right there in Santa Monica on my first visit to Los Angeles. back in 1978 to celebrate my 21st birthday. I stayed at what was then the Holiday Inn Santa Monica right there on the corner of Colorado Blvd. and Ocean Avenue; which is now the Wyndham Hotel. And on my next three visits there again in 1981, in 1983, and in 2015, I still went down to Santa Monica, but unfortunately, I didn't stay down there. Although I was born and raised right here in the Philadelphia area, and I still live here today, Santa Monica is my very favorite beach resort.
I attended Santa Monica High School (SAMOHI) and Santa Monica City College till ‘69. Lived on Ocean Avenue on the 1000 block. Apt building is still there. This video brings to memory House of Pies on Wilshire, where I’d go sometimes and splurge $ 1,25 on a big, think slice of pecan pie with butterscotch topping. You could actually go in your car and cruise around for enjoyment. Darn it. How times have changed.
It was so uncongested back then. Even though there are homes and apartments and businesses, it still was not smothering and stifling like it is today. So much congestion today and not just traffic but with buildings and people.
Right; grew up Roosevelt Elementary, Lincoln Jr. High, Santa Monica high. Snobbishness about living on "the right side of Montana Ave." (north of Montana). Ha!
We were there back in 1981 and were blown away by how immaculate the place was. How do you Americans keep those grass verges looking so nice. The grass looked like it had just been cut everywhere we went.
I lived the sixties I walk by these buildings every day and to know they lived each decade, I am surprised to see many of them not much different, buildings are like old friends.
Thank you for a wonderful video of my hometown a large grecians mansion on the corner of 4th and Palisades drive, not in the video but my birth home. I wonder if my girlfriend from Santa Monica high School it's still around, Marilyn Cobb? Last time I've been back home I was a junior in high school back in 69. That was a great year, I got the met the Apollo 11 crew and Governor Ronald Reagan! . That was a lot closer than going to Woodstock. The perfect time to have been a teenager on the west coast on the beach, we had it all......
Good friend grew up in Santa Monica in the 60s and 70s. His dad worked in a airplane factory. They had just an ordinary house - nothing special. His parents are gone now and a few years ago the kids sold the family home. Got a cool million bucks for it. lol
I love these videos. They let me see what my parents saw when they were growing up and can compare to my life now. we really live in a golden age of knowledge I tell you whut
Love this. I live on Pier near Fouth St in the late sixties as a kid. I could walk or ride my bike to Pacific Ocean Park (POP) in no time. Those were great days when summer lasted forever.
When I was born in 1962 we lived in Santa Monica. Then my parents bought a house in North Hollywood on Kittridge Street and I grew up there and went to school. I wish they had bought a house in SM. I would have loved to have grown up there.❤
My dad had a 57 Belair wagon cherry bomb red with a white top. Us children rolled around the back seat like a pinball machine. This was befor seatbelt law.
It always astounds me that this wonderfully prosperous life that the greatest generation built for their kids failed to inspire them. That it produced instead, a large number of hippies and others, who felt that it was awful and stuffy. Can you imagine growing up in a nice place like this and resenting it? This kind of life, like what is shown here in this footage, was once accessible to the middle class. No longer. I hope all those hippies feel really stupid now, considering that they had it better than any generation in any country in the entire history of the planet. And I know that it wasn't nice for everybody and not everything was milk shakes and apple pie, but that isn't my point. My point is that if life wasn't particularly good, you really could aspire to something much greater and it was well within your grasp. That is exceedingly more difficult today, despite all of the social progress we have made.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The average American lost when the United States went off the gold standard and shipped manufacturing jobs overseas starting in 1970. Most of the so called hippies became productive members of society.
My friend Reese lived in SM and worked on Batman as an extra. In Greece, he was a classical actor, very serious. I used to love going there and just walking around or going to Venice Beach. Now, who knows, you take your chances and the rents are too d@mn high!
An excellent video compilement, and the music as well, I think from 1967. Yes, I enjoyed seeing the old cars as well, most of them were American ones! The newest two that I noticed were from 1967, The Chrysler, and the Ford country squire wagon.
I saw what looked to be a 1935 Ford. Hard to believe it was only 32 years old then. Of course it might late summer/early fall of 1966 not sure when the next model year cars were released. If there's only two cars from 1967 in the entire video theres a good chance its actually 1966.
@@redtra236 You are probably right that it was probably from the fall of 1966. The new car models would appear around, late September, or early October, and the economy was on a tear, with regular middle class people buying a new car every 3-4 years! A friend of mine has a great looking 1935 Dodge truck with a LS1 motor in it.
Great video & memory rush...'Santa Monica has long been somewhat of a Blue Collar LA Coastal City when compared to Manhattan Beach & several LA coastal enclaves, 'My Grandparents often took me to Pacific Ocean Park on the weekends on My Grandad's days off & in later yrs I frequented a few jazz clubs in Santa Monica & Venice
The city I grew up in and miss. I wouldn't wish to live in that crowded city now but, in 60's through 89 in what great. I lived on Pacific Place, 1020 6th street and East Rustic and the Canyon. We had some wonderful years. Attended Will Rogers elementary school, SAMOHI 69-72 (Reunion 2022, September, Marina del Rey Hotel?), SM College and UCLA as well as Woodbury U graduating in International Business. My father married Nellie Escobar of the CASA ESCOBAR restaurant, Santa Monica. Her brothers Chopo, Peter owned marina del Rey, Malibu, West Lake, Glendale and other locations. I was in the Food Industry and sold them food products at all locations. Nice people. Cora Escobar was a dear friend and gave me a lot of advice over the years. Yes, Santa Monica was wonderful. I worked at CHEERIO restaurant in High School for Joe Stepner. Great job. Good food. Also, Elks Lodge helping Chef Johnny. 1967. Thanks for Video
@@loljokes why did MichAel Escobar close it? Pandemic? No businesss? Kathy Escobar my step mother niece in Malibu closed her restaurant too. Lot of complaints in Malibu about water downed drinks and poor food quality. Sad. Johnny and Peter would have been furious. They kept it going 50 years
@@jameshall8455 I'm not certain. Mike was open for take-out, but did not implement out door dining for some reason. He received funds from the government, but I guess when that ran out, he decided to close. Even before the pandemic, the restaurant was never very busy except maybe Friday and Saturday nights.
@@loljokes Thank you for info. I knew Chopo Escobar my stepmother' brother very well in 60's thru 90's and Peter his brothernthen older brothern who controlled all of them. SM, Narina del Rey, Malibu, W L.A. etc etc. they had 12 all together over the years. Johnny Escobar the father opened forst one 1947. In have all their photos. They had the entire history up on wall in Malibu. Shame the kids bought cheap food and took short cuts ruining the brand. Terrible. Chopo dieed of cancer. Peter is living in Malibu last I saw him at age 92. His Birthday poarty with his son the Karate kid. His son tauightn Karate nto kids for years in Trancas location., I was so close to Chopo, Peter, Cora who was Peter's wife also dying of cancer and a dear friend but, the kids never liked me. I think it had something to do with my father and his relationship nto Nellie? oh well. We are all almost pased away and it doesn't matter any longer. Sad. I loved those yeasrs in 1980's . Peter and Cora were so kind to me,. The kids ruined it all...the history was destroyed.
At 1:40 Marguarita at Ocean. My girlfiend and I parked at the empty lots at night and had hours of 'fun' early 70's. She lived on Lincoln near Montana. I married her and we had five kids and 7 grandkids (presently). She passed away last fall so this video is when she was young and alive. So I'll look at every frame now and see if she is in the passing scenes.
The apt. building at 1:15 was used in an exterior shot in 1 episode of the Golden Girls. The one where Dorothy has an affair with a married man, the actors name is Jerry Orbach.
Lived there in 69 or so. Six blocks from the beach. Had two roommates, rent $30 each. Used to wake up at ten, get high, then go to the beach. Plus, that area was crawling with foxy chicks.
I always love these videos ! Mainly to see the automobiles I grew up with , & my favorite , 7 Chevrolet Corvairs in this clip thanks for the cruise down memory lane & time is going by way to fast now! Can't hold on to a dam thing , If I knew then what I know now.
Santa Monica has a blessing it is a special place where dreamers dream and with hard work and God's blessing they can come true. There is no luck or superstition. Hard work and God's blessing.
I like it a lot. Too expensive to buy your own place. I hear traffic is bad now. People can look for alternative socal living that’s got some character. I consider SM sold out. Nice big town with everything and then the beach and pretty neighborhoods. I bought elsewhere and am happy with it, and now I have access to more working cities like LA, but homeless population is a big problem in LA and I’ve seen it in SM. Trash, carts, belongings everywhere.
@@laurenchristianna2092 You are spiritually absent I can think of something and it happens that is Gods blessing I can assure you show me what you manifested and I'll show you what I manifested I have far greater faith what you said only proves you have no faith because you do not know the basis of faith..I only choose good things I want Gods blessing not Satan...Satan offers me his power he tries to decieve me with things that offend God...demons daily are seducing ones with bad works...so who is manifesting your thoughts God or Satan...
@@laurenchristianna2092 If you don't believe in good work which is hard work noone even knows your work...whatever I want to accomplish I ask for Gods blessing and it happens in such a way the people I meet along the way it was from him I didn't arrange for everything to come together as it did I had a thought an idea a design...I will never be so arrogant to ignore Gods blessing and I know the diffrence from Satans blessing...fools allow demons to seduce them...if it offends God it is from Satan...
I used to cringe headed up this way from San Diego to see Grandma. If I only knew how lucky I was go grow up in So Cal in this time. the whole area is a garbage pit now.
Mute the video, and play "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas while you watch. Sure, it's not winter and the leaves ain't brown, but it still fits nicely.
I was born in Santa Monica but my parents moved us inland to Monterey Park. Can't stand that place. Left California at 20 and haven't lived there since.
I want to climb into this film and go for a walk down the street.
And stay.
watch out for the draft though, u could end up quickly in 'Nam
Some of that area around Pico, Olympic and San Vicente still looks about the same most of the area around the pier and courthouse to 3rdSt. Are still building condos around that part since I last been there last year along with the streets being more crowded with cars than before.I last been there last summer before moving to San Gabriel.
That's what your imagination is for.
I want to climb into this film and buy some real estate. I bet those property owners never thought their land and buildings would be worth millions.
I think that in another life I was American And I lived in California. Love American decades from 40 to 90. The gold era of USA
Los Angeles was better back then.
I still love it, but 1960s L.A. was better in every way.
George Vreeland Hill
In 50 years someone will publish everyday life footage from 2016. With people driving around in obsolete cars and wearing retro looking clothes. But will someone say "oh, how I miss the 2010's."? Or will people be able to identify this decade like we so easily recognize the 60's and 70's today? Time is a fascinating phenomena.
people will miss 2016/18 more so i believe as i think changes will become more and more rapid , the 1990s probably had a lot more in common with the 1950s than today when you think about it
@@zxz1 the older I get (born in the 70s) the more I realize that you're right that the 80s/90s had more in common with the 50s than now. There have been some improvements but in many ways things are getting worse.
ventende No they won’t there is nothing good to remember or recall in 2016 lol
time is a place.
@@zxz1 Changes will slow down a lot..A lot of folks are getting way dumber, the budgets keep getting cut for schools and everything else..People will look at this as a terrible time like the 1930's depression..and be glad they made it through
Lived in Santa Monica in 1964, I was 5 years old. I just remember it was a pretty place back then, and the ocean was beautiful. Wow! 50 years have gone by...time sure flies.
I am a post 2000 Kid and I would probably even kill for just a day in the 60s 70s, time looked more relaxing back then.
I was 2 in 1964!!! Would love to rewind for just one day!!! Glad to be old!!! 🥰✨
Best days, I can imagine.
@Benjamin Salvador Your scam won’t work for two reasons:
1). You post of hundreds of videos and often reuse the same accounts.
2). We know it is the same person because both accounts were created on the same day. If you are trying to scam people, don’t be stupid about it.
it have now been 7 years :,)
Can't believe SM had that much parking at one time, and I didn't see any homeless. Wish I lived in that era.
was raised along the pacific ocean in the 60's. Los Angeles was a great city
is
+Walter White get over it...white capitalism created and perpetuated "third world" countries....thats like blaming the mexicans for ALL the drug problems when White America is the one footing the drug bill...as a customer!
Your decendants won't be white, at least have some respect for them.
Geoffrey Phipps ironic how his name is walter white
Let's be honest. Los Angeles is crap and has been for at least 10 years, thanks to the cabal of losers running that city and this once great state.
Beautiful Santa Monica. Thank you for shearing.
Beautiful back then not beautiful now.
All homeless
02:31 I remember that. Beach parking for .50 cents a day. I wish life had a reset button. California of the 1960's/70's was a awesome place.
Thanks to the people who decided to shoot this video! Look at all those beautiful classic cars.
I was there as a little kid. Great memories. I prefer the Santa Monica of yesteryear.
without the homeless and crime?
Lived in SM in the 70s-80s. Good memories. I'm guessing this was 1967-ish, as the newest car I saw was a 1967 Mustang
What a great time seeing the beach properties and fantastic cars. Its like a dream but was real once.
1968 while attending SAMOHI I drove a 1964 Buick Skylark. Convertible. Grey with red interior. I miss that car. Mayor's daughter loved it too at the Drive-In. lol I lived at 1020 6th street, Santa Monica and loved the city. Too crowded today and too expensive! 900 sq ft Condo for $1 million dollars? lol wow, crazy. I remember when the word condo did not exist. Those same apartments rented for $75.00 to $90.00 monthly. No homeowners fees. Take me back dear God. Thanks for Video
Cali is garbage now, those are all way expensive now
It was God's country back then. They had to give away a free month's rent to get people to live there. There were lots of vacant apartments once you got about 3 blocks from Ocean Park. Those empty lots on Marguerita and elsewhere were chilling to see. Otherwise the architecture hasn't changed at all. But that was the real Santa Monica before everyone moved there. Even the Promenade on 3rd street was still open to traffic, it hadn't be filled-in. Older citizens drove around the streets of Santa Monica in golf carts in the early 60s.
like 60s miami beach on lincoln road
alabamabregan You are right and seniors all flocked to the cliffs to relax and watch the waves!
My buddies and their wives still live in Santa Monica and the Apartments we rented for $90.00 monthly in 60's are now Condos selling for $1 million dollars. Same buildings. Same apartment but, Apt. Unit is now a CONDO and purchased. lol How greed destroys an entire city. The traffic, especially in summer and crowds is terrible these days. Yes, back in 60's you could find an apartment or home very easily and affordable. A nice home sold for $50,000. Try finding 100 sq. feet for that. Condo 900 sq ft I saw last week 2022 sold for $987,000. Who can afford that Mortgage? Plus, Homeowners fees monthly for gardening, paint, upkeep etc. I think that is $500.00 now? Times are changing for worse. Things are moving way too fast! It's no wonder young people are not having children. Thanks for video and memories...No one will want to remember 2000 through 2022.
@@jameshall8455 If you're not from a family dynasty worth at least 50+ million: you have to live like a cockroach. You voted for this when you defeated the greatest man to ever walk the earth. All so that the allies' mixed race grandkids can twerk in front of drag queens at the local public libraries. Was it worth it, Henry? WAS IT?
late sixties ! Wandered S.M. mostly barefoot. $10 Levis and flannel shirts and records! Rented your phone from the phone company who repaired it when it broke. It had an actual bell that rang inside. Santa Monica blue bus- a quarter ride would get you anywhere inside of S.M. to the beach. Wow.. So long ago
Wow, not a homeless person in sight.
Just clean streets and cool cars.
Santa Monica is still beautiful, but it was more beautiful back then.
George Vreeland Hill homeless people lived in LA when this was shot too. I agree that it is more developed and less of a gem now, but the narrative of homelessness and crime being recent trends is kind of ridiculous.
@@willstout5988 Except that it's 20 times worse
@@willstout5988 It's 50x worse now.
@@swimlaps1 resident of LA here; no it’s not! XD
@@willstout5988 Lived in LA 17 yrs, 10 yrs in SF. Saw it multiply to be blatant, in that time. 1960s is no comparison to 2021.
look how clean and new the apartments are
I could only watch this once, because it is too heartbreaking what this place has become.
I had a friend who lived on MONTANA in Santa Monica, back in 1968, when I was 23, I would go there and we'd go to the beach every weekend. It sure was great to be by the beach when you're young.
That was my neighborhood. Thanks for sharing that.
Stunning! Absolutely stunning!
Heaven! Look at the clean streets beautiful homes and gorgeous cars! EXTRAORDINARY. BREATHTAKINGLY GORGEOUS thank you 🚗
Great song choice.
Yup 👍 Grass Roots..😁
-I dig almost every car seen here, especially the '65 Thunderbird. I'd like to go back there, back then.
did you see that dodge lancer? It has got to be the ugliest car ever made. The coolest one for me was the jag xke
with that hot looking babe driving it
So arty, todays cars all look alike I can barely find mine....and they are so expensive
Before overpopulation destroyed the dream - take me back in a time machine!!!
Man O man! A lot of those places are still there. Wish my parents hadn't left Santa Monica in 1967. Mar Vista was OK but even that was left behind for the suburbs in 1969. Still like Santa Monica but nuttin' like the 60s and even before that!
I grew up in Mar Vista just below the Santa Monica Airport. Things were really better in the 60's.
Wow all those cool cars! Vettes, convertibles, Jags, Porsche 356, Rolls, Chrysler Imperial I think ha ya. Always a cool yet laid back city. Tons of history for this area.
It's sooo cool to see all those cars I grew up with.
Cool video! Looks like circa 1967 or 68. Love it 💕 💕
A '67 Mustang was the newest car I happened to notice in the footage.
Yea,I seen a 67 Lincoln too.
0:27 to 0:33 shows the Oceana Apartments - where Stan Laurel lived in the early sixties until his death in 1965.
interresting
Wow!!!
Wow. Thanks for the info. I knew he lived on Ocean in an apt but could not find out where. Peter Sellers visited him once there and said he could not believe Stan lived in an apt given his stature and fame.
Thank you! I lived in the LA area in the mid-60s. It is really nice to see this.
Farther graduated from Santa Monica High and played football there. I attended and graduated from Santa Monica City College in 1962. Many neighbors and friends who worked a Douglas Aircraft. Family was big fans of Lawrence Welk and Lick Pier.
I stayed right there in Santa Monica on my first visit to Los Angeles. back in 1978 to celebrate my 21st birthday. I stayed at what was then the Holiday Inn Santa Monica right there on the corner of Colorado Blvd. and Ocean Avenue; which is now the Wyndham Hotel. And on my next three visits there again in 1981, in 1983, and in 2015, I still went down to Santa Monica, but unfortunately, I didn't stay down there.
Although I was born and raised right here in the Philadelphia area, and I still live here today, Santa Monica is my very favorite beach resort.
I attended Santa Monica High School (SAMOHI) and Santa Monica City College till ‘69. Lived on Ocean Avenue on the 1000 block. Apt building is still there. This video brings to memory House of Pies on Wilshire, where I’d go sometimes and splurge $ 1,25 on a big, think slice of pecan pie with butterscotch topping. You could actually go in your car and cruise around for enjoyment. Darn it. How times have changed.
So glad someone thought to take this archival footage. It can be gone later.
Santa Monica in a word. Home. 1962 thru 1971 every picture of me as a kid was on SM beach. Still go home to get grounded. Need a visit soon!
Thank you for pleading this. I was in high school in ‘67. Was a great time,
The music was so cool back in da days
I remember going there in 1975. Awe struck at 21. Wish I knew then what I know now.
It was so uncongested back then. Even though there are homes and apartments and businesses, it still was not smothering and stifling like it is today. So much congestion today and not just traffic but with buildings and people.
Mildred Pierce, name of a movie I saw on TCM. hope they air it again.
in that movie,
California looked awesome.
Right; grew up Roosevelt Elementary, Lincoln Jr. High, Santa Monica high.
Snobbishness about living on "the right side of Montana Ave." (north of Montana). Ha!
Love all the corvairs that are parked along the roadway.
yea, what's with all the corvairs? I counted 8. Couple of nice looking corvettes too.
Kinda surprised. Don't remember so many corvairs. Doesn't show it but I remember lots of mustang in mid sixties.
We were there back in 1981 and were blown away by how immaculate the place was.
How do you Americans keep those grass verges looking so nice. The grass looked
like it had just been cut everywhere we went.
I lived the sixties I walk by these buildings every day and to know they lived each decade, I am surprised to see many of them not much different, buildings are like old friends.
Couldn't agree more
Thank you for a wonderful video of my hometown a large grecians mansion on the corner of 4th and Palisades drive, not in the video but my birth home. I wonder if my girlfriend from Santa Monica high School it's still around, Marilyn Cobb? Last time I've been back home I was a junior in high school back in 69. That was a great year, I got the met the Apollo 11 crew and Governor Ronald Reagan! . That was a lot closer than going to Woodstock. The perfect time to have been a teenager on the west coast on the beach, we had it all......
one of the best video ever.... cool hotwheels classes. .. like your video. ....thanks for sharing it. ..
Good friend grew up in Santa Monica in the 60s and 70s. His dad worked in a airplane factory. They had just an ordinary house - nothing special. His parents are gone now and a few years ago the kids sold the family home. Got a cool million bucks for it. lol
When Los Angeles was Great
No homeless drug addicts ! That's when it was a nice place to live !
I love these videos. They let me see what my parents saw when they were growing up and can compare to my life now. we really live in a golden age of knowledge I tell you whut
+Brent Mallon Indeed
It's great that we have all of this old footage to relive our past, because our present sucks.
Love this. I live on Pier near Fouth St in the late sixties as a kid. I could walk or ride my bike to Pacific Ocean Park (POP) in no time. Those were great days when summer lasted forever.
When I was born in 1962 we lived in Santa Monica. Then my parents bought a house in North Hollywood on Kittridge Street and I grew up there and went to school. I wish they had bought a house in SM. I would have loved to have grown up there.❤
My dad had a 57 Belair wagon cherry bomb red with a white top. Us children rolled around the back seat like a pinball machine. This was befor seatbelt law.
Wow open space and no electric scooters. Times have changed
It always astounds me that this wonderfully prosperous life that the greatest generation built for their kids failed to inspire them. That it produced instead, a large number of hippies and others, who felt that it was awful and stuffy. Can you imagine growing up in a nice place like this and resenting it? This kind of life, like what is shown here in this footage, was once accessible to the middle class. No longer. I hope all those hippies feel really stupid now, considering that they had it better than any generation in any country in the entire history of the planet. And I know that it wasn't nice for everybody and not everything was milk shakes and apple pie, but that isn't my point. My point is that if life wasn't particularly good, you really could aspire to something much greater and it was well within your grasp. That is exceedingly more difficult today, despite all of the social progress we have made.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The average American lost when the United States went off the gold standard and shipped manufacturing jobs overseas starting in 1970. Most of the so called hippies became productive members of society.
All those hippies elected Biden & the rest is history. Forgive my political b.s. but dems let Cali get out of control..now its over
newest car i could see is '67...wow, they didnt even know future people would be drooling over the everyday cars they had...
so many corvairs!
I wondered if I was the only one that noticed that.
They were fun....But Ralph nader was right.....
The California I remember.
Great video, was still excellent out-there in those days.
It's changed a bit since then! Awesome video!
My friend Reese lived in SM and worked on Batman as an extra. In Greece, he was a classical actor, very serious. I used to love going there and just walking around or going to Venice Beach. Now, who knows, you take your chances and the rents are too d@mn high!
I was there as a kid, my mom worked for the owner of POP, Pacific ocean park , any clips of that?
Mmewster My mom took me to POP often as we always drove from Glendale to Santa Monica weekly.
An excellent video compilement, and the music as well, I think from 1967. Yes, I enjoyed seeing the old cars as well, most of them were American ones! The newest two that I noticed were from 1967, The Chrysler, and the Ford country squire wagon.
You're right - I also saw a '67 Camaro and a '67 Mustang. Newest cars are '67 models.
I saw what looked to be a 1935 Ford. Hard to believe it was only 32 years old then. Of course it might late summer/early fall of 1966 not sure when the next model year cars were released. If there's only two cars from 1967 in the entire video theres a good chance its actually 1966.
@@redtra236 You are probably right that it was probably from the fall of 1966. The new car models would appear around, late September, or early October, and the economy was on a tear, with regular middle class people buying a new car every 3-4 years! A friend of mine has a great looking 1935 Dodge truck with a LS1 motor in it.
Great video & memory rush...'Santa Monica has long been somewhat of a Blue Collar LA Coastal City when compared to Manhattan Beach & several LA coastal enclaves, 'My Grandparents often took me to Pacific Ocean Park on the weekends on My Grandad's days off & in later yrs I frequented a few jazz clubs in Santa Monica & Venice
The city I grew up in and miss. I wouldn't wish to live in that crowded city now but, in 60's through 89 in what great. I lived on Pacific Place, 1020 6th street and East Rustic and the Canyon. We had some wonderful years. Attended Will Rogers elementary school, SAMOHI 69-72 (Reunion 2022, September, Marina del Rey Hotel?), SM College and UCLA as well as Woodbury U graduating in International Business. My father married Nellie Escobar of the CASA ESCOBAR restaurant, Santa Monica. Her brothers Chopo, Peter owned marina del Rey, Malibu, West Lake, Glendale and other locations. I was in the Food Industry and sold them food products at all locations. Nice people. Cora Escobar was a dear friend and gave me a lot of advice over the years. Yes, Santa Monica was wonderful. I worked at CHEERIO restaurant in High School for Joe Stepner. Great job. Good food. Also, Elks Lodge helping Chef Johnny. 1967. Thanks for Video
I really miss Casa Escobar on Wilshire! I used to eat there at least 4 times per week from 2003 until they closed in 2021.
@@loljokes why did MichAel Escobar close it? Pandemic? No businesss? Kathy Escobar my step mother niece in Malibu closed her restaurant too. Lot of complaints in Malibu about water downed drinks and poor food quality. Sad. Johnny and Peter would have been furious. They kept it going 50 years
@@jameshall8455 I'm not certain. Mike was open for take-out, but did not implement out door dining for some reason. He received funds from the government, but I guess when that ran out, he decided to close. Even before the pandemic, the restaurant was never very busy except maybe Friday and Saturday nights.
@@loljokes Thank you for info. I knew Chopo Escobar my stepmother' brother very well in 60's thru 90's and Peter his brothernthen older brothern who controlled all of them. SM, Narina del Rey, Malibu, W L.A. etc etc. they had 12 all together over the years. Johnny Escobar the father opened forst one 1947. In have all their photos. They had the entire history up on wall in Malibu. Shame the kids bought cheap food and took short cuts ruining the brand. Terrible. Chopo dieed of cancer. Peter is living in Malibu last I saw him at age 92. His Birthday poarty with his son the Karate kid. His son tauightn Karate nto kids for years in Trancas location., I was so close to Chopo, Peter, Cora who was Peter's wife also dying of cancer and a dear friend but, the kids never liked me. I think it had something to do with my father and his relationship nto Nellie? oh well. We are all almost pased away and it doesn't matter any longer. Sad. I loved those yeasrs in 1980's . Peter and Cora were so kind to me,. The kids ruined it all...the history was destroyed.
i loved in venice then on ashland avenue and 4th street. also sunset drive in venice. santa monica was great then. miss it.
A lot of the apt buildings on Ocean avenue are still there. I recognize them cuz I walk in that area.
At 1:40 Marguarita at Ocean. My girlfiend and I parked at the empty lots at night and had hours of 'fun' early 70's. She lived on Lincoln near Montana. I married her and we had five kids and 7 grandkids (presently). She passed away last fall so this video is when she was young and alive. So I'll look at every frame now and see if she is in the passing scenes.
Kind of melancholy huh. I lived off Navy in 85 for a yr,hung out at the Sunset Grill abit. Sorry for you're loss.
The apt. building at 1:15 was used in an exterior shot in 1 episode of the Golden Girls. The one where Dorothy has an affair with a married man, the actors name is Jerry Orbach.
Lived there in 69 or so. Six blocks from the beach. Had two roommates, rent $30 each. Used to wake up at ten, get high, then go to the beach. Plus, that area was crawling with foxy chicks.
thanks for sharing. this is my neighborhood and i recognize a lot of these buildings.
Wow!!! Amazing video, so clear.
Sparkling...
I always love these videos ! Mainly to see the automobiles I grew up with , & my favorite , 7 Chevrolet Corvairs in this clip thanks for the cruise down memory lane & time is going by way to fast now! Can't hold on to a dam thing , If I knew then what I know now.
This is 1967. I saw a 67 Ford Galaxie.
Bless the soul that recorded this.
J'adore cette vidéo. Je ne sais pas pourquoi. Un paradis perdu sans doute.
Very cool!
Santa Monica has a blessing it is a special place where dreamers dream and with hard work and God's blessing they can come true.
There is no luck or superstition. Hard work and God's blessing.
I like it a lot. Too expensive to buy your own place. I hear traffic is bad now. People can look for alternative socal living that’s got some character. I consider SM sold out. Nice big town with everything and then the beach and pretty neighborhoods. I bought elsewhere and am happy with it, and now I have access to more working cities like LA, but homeless population is a big problem in LA and I’ve seen it in SM. Trash, carts, belongings everywhere.
Wrong. The Law of Attraction replaces "hard work".
I can manifest anything I want with only my mind. You couldn't because you have no belief.
@@laurenchristianna2092 You are spiritually absent I can think of something and it happens that is Gods blessing I can assure you show me what you manifested and I'll show you what I manifested I have far greater faith what you said only proves you have no faith because you do not know the basis of faith..I only choose good things I want Gods blessing not Satan...Satan offers me his power he tries to decieve me with things that offend God...demons daily are seducing ones with bad works...so who is manifesting your thoughts God or Satan...
@@laurenchristianna2092 If you don't believe in good work which is hard work noone even knows your work...whatever I want to accomplish I ask for Gods blessing and it happens in such a way the people I meet along the way it was from him I didn't arrange for everything to come together as it did I had a thought an idea a design...I will never be so arrogant to ignore Gods blessing and I know the diffrence from Satans blessing...fools allow demons to seduce them...if it offends God it is from Satan...
Really cool!
Awesome video 👍
Amazing! Just got back from LA, really would have loved to have seen it like this :/ Bit grubby for the most part now
I FEEL BETTER NOW WATCHIN
LA and OC were great places to live in the 60s and 70s. Still live here wouldn’t trade it for anything
omg That is my old neighbohood as I remember it.
LOVE
lot of nice cars
OMG that was great
What Santa Monica was and what Santa Monica is today 2 different cities. Video 1st world now 3rd world.
I used to cringe headed up this way from San Diego to see Grandma. If I only knew how lucky I was go grow up in So Cal in this time. the whole area is a garbage pit now.
beautiful. less people.
Mute the video, and play "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas while you watch. Sure, it's not winter and the leaves ain't brown, but it still fits nicely.
Beautiful then and still beautiful today. Rog brown . Pacific sunset records
BORN AND RAISEDIN SANTA MONICA WENT TO ALL THE SCHOOLS IN THE 80'S
Wait A Million Years by The Grass Roots
These cars are amazing, especially that Mustang at 2:14
The Mustang in mint condition today would be worth 1/4 million.
I was born in Santa Monica but my parents moved us inland to Monterey Park. Can't stand that place. Left California at 20 and haven't lived there since.
0:30 Stan Laurel lives on the second floor at the Oceana!
Thank you for the information. I was a big fan of SL.
Also saw a 67 Camero and Mustang. A Huge amount of VW bugs!
never mind I found it... it's called I'd wait a million years the river is wide+ (by grass roots )