@@bellec4453 Wait-a-minute!, they've ran this video before haven't they? I remember researching the route of the SanFerandoRoad as it flanks the railroad from way up above Sylmar & GranadaHills, all the way down into Burbank where they changed the name to VictoryBlvd. Is pleasing to see again = !! you mean to say those houses weren't wired for Internet!!!! How did they live a life back then? Did they even have indoor-plumbing? Is this photo'd looking east off the train, w/ the VerdugoHills in the distance?
At 2 minutes 40 camera goes by all auto parts. This was owned by my friend Larry Miller's dad. I went out there from the Baldwin hills to buy tuck and roll seats for my 1955 Pontiac. Blew my mind to see it on this video. I went out there in 1960 or 61.
I think about all the people who were going about their lives when this was filmed, and that they are no longer with us today. That most of what we see has been razed and replaced. I would love to see what this rail route looks like today. The only thing that I am certain of is that the roads are probably still in place, but paved with curbs, and signs. The train telephone lines are long gone, around here you are lucky if you can find a glass insulator left. Most are rotting under vines if they are still standing, with the rails converted to bike paths. Thanks for the excellent conversion to color. Keep up the good work!
I'm still here I'm 74 years old and yes I remember how simple life was back then growing up in the fifties in Anaheim and Bruno Park used to play in all the orange groves they started cutting them down in the mid-50s to build Disneyland and now it's all concrete what a shame!!
At 3:53 the Nash Ambassador towing the Harley Davidson Servi-Car 3-wheel motorcycle shows how car dealerships used to return cars to customers after servicing them. They would hook up the Servi-Car to the bumper of the customer’s car, and drive the pair to the customer’s home where they would unhook the motorcycle and then ride it back to the dealership.
Interesting. The part that starts at 2:10 is San Fernando in Glendale. Many of those buildings are still there. The Mitchell Camera Corp is now where the Home Depot is. 2:21 is Harvard and San Ferndado. Around 3:10 you would be now going under the 134 Freeway. 3:23 is a brdige over the Verdugo Wash. At 3:49 that White building is now Angelus Pet Hospital. That clip stops around 4:20 just past Grandview avenure (those white buildings that pop up in the immediate foreground are still there)
@@videoeditorguy yep. The building that really stands out for me is the American Standard at 3:04. Still there but so different! Like most of the buildings along that road, the main difference is the windows are closed up now.
Thanks for the ID on location. Was looking for Lockheed and when it didn't show I figured this must be further East. I had an uncle who owned a bar on S.F. Road in 1950 and it was 2 blocks from Lockheed.
The first section is San Fernando Rd between Buena Vista in Burbank and heading north west bound towards Hollywood Way and probably stops around Sunland/Vineland Blvd in what is now Sun Valley. I grew up there and recognized several buildings that are actually still standing! At around the 4:21 mark, it repeats at the same spot but different camera angle. That is approximately at San Fernando Rd and Tulare Ave in Burbank. The train heads once again north west towards Sun Valley and Sunland Blvd. I spotted my parents house in the second camera angle!
@@4wdiesels I know, what a trip. At 4:45 is Hollywood Way, which was a grade crossing back then. You can see an old house that's still there on Cohasset St. Buena Vista had that dangerous grade crossing until a few years ago.
@@timothymccormick6878 Are you talking about the two story house on Cohasset with the checkered driveway and garage door? I noticed that house too in the video. I would imagine that someone wealthy owned it because it definitely stands out compared to all the other track homes.
Believe it or not, many of these homes were purchased by families from Sears & Roebucks catalogue as a Kit. The families assembled these homes. My families homes were put together in Torrance, CA in the 1930's. They're small, but very sturdy. The lumber is definitely prime lumber.
My grandmothers old home was either a Sears or Montgomery Ward home. My Grandfather and his friend built it in I think 1930. This was in the mountains of western Va.
@@jaminova_1969 "Craftsman" homes or "Craftsman" architecture has nothing to do with being initialized by Sears Roebuck. It was a much larger trend essentially in opposition to the ornate Victorian designs. It is part of what is called the "Arts and Crafts" movement. Some of the houses sold by Sears were of the "Craftsman" style. And some Sears houses were Colonial, Bungalow, or other styles. "Craftsman" homes also have nothing to do with somebody building it themselves. It is a collection of architectural designs and details.
The old cars and trucks (can't forget them, too!) evoke a great feeling of nostalgia. The fact that this film is in color adds immensely to this feeling. Loved it.
What a wonderful view. There are large empty and green areas of the building. There are spaces that make you feel beautiful, breathe deeply, and feel calm, unlike what we see today from the crowding that makes you anxious and constant tension.. Also, the different colors of cars make you feel cheerful.. These colors also cannot be Today it is seen in the streets all over the world because even the colors of the cars have become dim and do not feel anything.. Thank you because this video made me feel happy and brought back the good days in life in another part of the world. It looks like this..😊👌🌹
You are SO right. This film is positively RELAXING compared to the strained,, crowded hubub of the San Fernando Valley today. I first drove through Burbank in 1979 after leaving the service. Burbank was like Mayberry RFD compared to now. I ended living in Hollywood for a year. Then moved back east. Returned in 1989, moved around Hollywood/N. Hollywood for a few years, but then settled in Burbank in 1997. Worked on Magnolia between Glenoaks and San Fernando and lived just north of Magnolia on Orchard. By 2015, the taxes, crowding, traffic, and general dystopia convinced me to head back to the Midwest, but even when I lived there, I was cognizant of its earlier pedigree and tried to soak up as much of the diminishing ambience as I could.
@@shootfirst2097 Yes, my friend, the world was expanding, and there was a huge positive energy that you felt wherever you went, flowing and filling the world. There was a lot of happiness, even the poor were happy.. I don’t know where it all went.. It was all disappearing gradually, little by little, to this day, which has become the world. Completely suffocated.. and you will not feel overjoyed unless you watch memories through a picture or an old movie that brings you back to the picture that the world was once upon..
We got to make the world like this again. Lets do this thing! I know, I do my part every day! I play kickass rock and roll guitar, support me and my music, I do what I can!
At :2:20 they pass the Mitchell Camera Company factory on the corner of Harvard and San Fernando Rd in Glendale. They are travelling North along the railroad line that splits San Fernando road.
In the beginning of the film they are going North, but later they are going South when you see the 4-lane San Fernando Road passing and when the train the scenery is going in the other direction.
That is not West Hollywood. What you have here is San Fernando Rd. in the Valley that goes through Pacoima and the City of San Fernando. If you look around 7:38 minutes of the film you will see an airport, that is Whiteman Airport in Pacoima. You can even make out the name eventhough it's a bit blurry as Whiteman Airpark as it was known back then.
The color, resolution and lighting of this film was spot on. It took me forever to watch it because I was freeze-framing it every 10 seconds. I really enjoyed it. Might be your best work yet NASS. Thank you so much!!!!
Beautiful, I recognize Whitman Airport as the train passes by! My dad owned a business the backed up to these RR tracks on 1st Street between 😮Mcclay & Foothill …. I grew up there. Who remembers San Fernando drag strip?
The next best thing to a time machine. Your work is wonderful and a valuable resource. I’m an architecture and car enthusiast and absolutely love this.
At one point in the vid there was a Hudson Hornet towing a Harley Trike...Probibly just picked up at an LAPD auction for peanuts...and tons of parts for the old "45's" back then...
I'm a big fan of _Dragnet_ , particularly the black-and-white 1950s series. Like the 1960s series, it always started with Friday's, "This is the city: Los Angeles, California," though it wasn't followed by a travelog for LA. While there is a 1954 color _Dragnet_ film, I love your 1950s LA remastered videos because it gives me a glimpse of the Los Angeles that Friday always talked about.
Yes, I love Dragnet for the same reason as well as Adam 12 - I love CHiPS too for the same reason, but in the 1970s - Love the old cars especially. For that matter also love Emergency, etc.
I have a 1949 Ford Custom aka "Shoebox" and I was driving to a car show in Sierra Madre this morning from South Pasadena. I was driving East on Huntington Drive through San Marino and the sun was rising in the distance... there were hardly any other cars on the road. As I drove, this video popped into my head and for a fleeting moment as I looked over my hood and down the road, I felt like I was back in 1949..... until a Nirvana song came on the radio.
Big compliments for this video. The comfortable view from the train is different than from the car. So there is more to see from that time. Thanks! Greetings from Berlin-Brandenburg
At 7:41 it looks like the sign says Whiteman which is still in operation in Pacoima, CA. That small mountain in the background was also a dead giveaway.
LOVED this video. My dad and his father had a tool and die business, Gannon Engineering, on San Fernando Rd, North of Sheldon Rd. I was hoping I might see it but probably hadn't been established yet. They went out of business during the recession of 1958, and we didn't move to Pacoima until 1952, near San Fernando Rd and Van Nuys Blvd. Thanks for posting.
A large part of this is southern Glendale, California right up next to Griffith Park. I drive this road everyday. Still a ton of autobody shops on that road, but there is not a single bit of empty space or grass anymore. Just packed to the gills with body shops, gas stations and a giant friggin' Amazon facility.
Saludos desde Monterrey México...me gustan mucho estos videos, el ver las casas, la moda, los autos , algunas tiendas etc. de esos años ....Felicidades y aquí estoy para ver más videos
Great footage, but you may want to change the title. If shot were you describe, that is not West Hollywood, which is below the Hollywood Hills near the studios, and quite developed in 1950. This is the San Fernando Valley, which had many barren regions in 1950, and vividly illustrated in your footage.
Wow. It's like I just took a trip back into time. My dad use to work out there painting cars from the late 50' to the early 60's. Thank you so much for this video. I miss my dad, He past away in 1982 while I was serving in the USAF.
Nicely done. I had fun following along with Google Maps street view and spotting some of the buildings that are still there. Thanks for identifying the location. I like the sound of the SP whistle also.
Towards the end of the footage as the train is nearing Whiteman Airport. 5 seconds before it crosses Van Nuys blvd looking out the right side windows of the train was my parents home. Only problem is the house my parents purchased in 1963 wasn't there yet. The house i grew up in was built in 1954. Behind Black n White tow yard. Right before the footage ends its crossing over Osborne st.
Some of the houses have roof top TV antennas. My earliest television memory is KTLA's 1949 coverage of the little girl who fell into an abandoned well in San Marino. I was 6 at the time and it haunted me.
Thank you for preserving this piece of history. 2:21 Michel Cameras were use in the motion picture industry. It secretly built the high speed 70mm camera used on the SR71 Blackbird. They were in Glendale and next to the Glendale Auto Court 2:27 There camera movements were used to help make the Lucas Star Wars films (Wikipedia). Part of this film repeats itself.
My grandparents lived on North San Fernando road in the 1950's and 60's - at the Hi-Sign Motor Court between Cohasset and Hollywood Way; my mom and dad lived on Linden Ave in Burbank right where I-5 sits today. Great color and quality.
@@SAHill I think William Koltek is pointing to the fact that many of the billboards face the tracks, away from San Fernando road, which would indicate they were oriented toward rail travelers.
The business Xibit Mart was owned by Jett Simrell he was born in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on October 19, 1911. His father was a railroad telegraphy agent.
Mitchell Camera Corp at 2:21 moved their operations to their final factory location in Glendale, California in the 1940s. At 3:55 1949-50 Nash Ambassador (towing a three wheel motor cycle).
"Mitchell Camera Corporation was a motion picture camera manufacturing company established in Los Angeles in 1919. It was a primary supplier of newsreel and movie cameras for decades, until its closure in 1979. " - Wikipedia Location: Glendale, CA 2:18 The same train tracks used are still used today. One day, I would love to ride from LA to Ventura and record it!
That rail line goes north to Saugus then west to Santa Paula and Ventura. The newer line (c. 1904) which is a more direct route from L.A. to Ventura is about 1.25 mi. away, just south of Burbank Airport.
@8:48 there is a house on Blocks. Entire houses and apartments were taken off their foundations, moved down streets (in the middle of the night), and relocated in other locations. *Also Army Surplus stores!* ...Gawd I'm old. Post WWII there were many Army surplus stores (National Surplus/Western Surplus, etc.) --> I kid you not, as kids we would buy empty grenades' for 20 cents, fill them with dirt, and throw them at each other.
I grew up in Southern California in Riverside and Newport Beach. I well remember war surplus stores. There were 2 in Riverside and my brother and I would ride our bicycles there, look at all the ‘cool’ stuff (I remember the smell in there - canvas, leather and the well worn wooden floor). We, too, would buy empty grenades then go home and ‘play army’ with the other guys in the neighborhood. We also bought these all black airplanes made of , I think, a hard rubber of some sort, get our Dad’s fishing line and hang them from the ceiling of our bedroom. I think these were used on some sort of map or something to represent airports or aircraft on the ground. I really don’t know.
Truly magical. I grew up in that time in the West Valley. I'm certain San Fernando is totally paved over now and all those marvelous old car wreckers and military surplus stores, with all their magical brick-a-brack, are long gone... In the West Velley we had much respect for the "Pachuco" gangs. Tough bunch of guys... Actually the color is not too far off as the haze from the smog was horrible... Sadly the drug problem was limited, with many horrors to come on that front...
Great clarity for an old video. I’ve ridden in a lot of trains and most of the time they lull me to sleep after a while. I love that old Nash pulling the 3 wheeler.
Amazing again! From London, i would have been near this area on one trip in 1998. Wonderful insight in to life back then. The older you get, the less long ago it seems.
2:18. - Mitchell Camera Corporation was a motion picture camera manufacturing company established in Los Angeles in 1919. It was a primary supplier of newsreel and movie cameras for decades, until its closure in 1979.
Along the SP Santa Barbara and Mojave Subs main northwest through Glendale, Burbank and then back into Los Angeles proper, then San Fernando, heading toward the Newhall Tunnel and Soledad Canyon You can see Mitchell Camera Co.'s new digs along San Fernando Rd. East. They moved there from their famous plant on Lapeer Ave. in West Hollywood in 1946. A few of those "little white houses" are still around, but the whole area was urbanized in the 1950s and '60s. The main roadbed of San Fernando Rd (US 99, CA 7) is on the other side of the track, facing the billboards. Judging from the cushy ride the camera's getting, I'm betting that this was shot from aboard Train 51, The Sam Joaquin Daylight, then steam powered.
I was able to recognize several buildings that are still standing, which is really amazing. I found the section just before the small bridge at 3:23 of high interest given its all been replaced by large and wide freeway (CA State Route 134).
This is Ritchie Valens territory! A little north west from there is Pacoima, this is the areas he used to play music when he was getting started. RITCHEEEEEeeeeee!!
I remember exactly what I was doing when I heard the news about the plane crash on the radio. I was a Buddy Holly fan and my best friend in jr. high was a big Richie Valens fan even though he was originally from Chicago.
I spotted the old plumbing salvage yard my dad would take me too. People salvaged plumbing parts, sinks, tubs etc. - anything that someone might use and save some money buying it used. My parents talked about bean fields which could have been the open areas. Great video!
Another tidbit. I was intrigued by the General Aircraft Company -- Parts & Supplies @3:09. So like you can get a replacement strut for your Stearman? Founded in 1942, they are actually still around today and market what they call "aerospace fasteners & electronic hardware"
I think that when we wonder about the past we often forget that we are also living it at the same time. In 50 or 100 years people will look at the videos from 2022 and wonder at the way that people lived back then. The people who lived in the 1950´s also thought of their time as the present and looked probably with some curiosity back at the older times.
Another gem, NASS. By the way, I think the added sound has been a really good fit lately. Just thought I should give you words of encouragement because I vaguely recall other viewers complaining about the sound in the past.
That’s the year I was born and trains were very romantic and a great way to travel. When I was 14 I rode one by myself all night to Kansas City, from Southwest Oklahoma and it was exciting lol.
This is cool thanks.. Can you tell us what part of San Fernando rd this is? Let us know more. I am trying to recognize it. I spent a lot of time back in the 90's there. I used to box at the boxing gym that was in the old abandoned LA city jail, 1 block off San Fernando rd. There was an awesome boxing gym on the 5th floor, just north of China town, before the road stretches out toward the north west, toward Las Feliz rd, then Burbank, etc.. Before that I had a steady gal that lived off an Fernando and Edward st, about 5 miles up north west from the boxing gym. I like to see if I can recognize stuff.
Remarkable footage - clarity is fantastic. Appears to be at 7:42 Whiteman Airport heading south towards Glendale. (Hard to read sign anyway) Geography seems to be very close.
An observation: I noticed very few TV antennas on the houses. The economy was bustling, but not everyone could yet afford the luxury of such an expensive item in their home.
I went down San Fernando Rd with my uncle when I first visited the area in 1966. Some parts looks quite familiar, some of the vacant lots had businesses by then and other still didn't. Architecture was different then. Today more often that not everything is uninspiring and all looks the same.
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@@bellec4453 Wait-a-minute!, they've ran this video before haven't they? I remember researching the route of the SanFerandoRoad as it flanks the railroad from way up above Sylmar & GranadaHills, all the way down into Burbank where they changed the name to VictoryBlvd. Is pleasing to see again = !! you mean to say those houses weren't wired for Internet!!!! How did they live a life back then? Did they even have indoor-plumbing?
Is this photo'd looking east off the train, w/ the VerdugoHills in the distance?
Thank u
At 2 minutes 40 camera goes by all auto parts. This was owned by my friend Larry Miller's dad. I went out there from the Baldwin hills to buy tuck and roll seats for my 1955 Pontiac. Blew my mind to see it on this video. I went out there in 1960 or 61.
I think about all the people who were going about their lives when this was filmed, and that they are no longer with us today. That most of what we see has been razed and replaced. I would love to see what this rail route looks like today. The only thing that I am certain of is that the roads are probably still in place, but paved with curbs, and signs. The train telephone lines are long gone, around here you are lucky if you can find a glass insulator left. Most are rotting under vines if they are still standing, with the rails converted to bike paths. Thanks for the excellent conversion to color. Keep up the good work!
This particular rail line is still used by Amtrak & Metrolink for routes heading north of DTLA/Union Station.
I'm still here I'm 74 years old and yes I remember how simple life was back then growing up in the fifties in Anaheim and Bruno Park used to play in all the orange groves they started cutting them down in the mid-50s to build Disneyland and now it's all concrete what a shame!!
my thoughts exactly and seeing the past and what it looks like now is pretty cool.
Hey, lived in Pacoima 9955 El Dorado and Im still here (75)
At 3:53 the Nash Ambassador towing the Harley Davidson Servi-Car 3-wheel motorcycle shows how car dealerships used to return cars to customers after servicing them. They would hook up the Servi-Car to the bumper of the customer’s car, and drive the pair to the customer’s home where they would unhook the motorcycle and then ride it back to the dealership.
that's wild!
I noticed that!
Dude another clear as day masterpiece from you. Always evoking warm bygone memories
Interesting. The part that starts at 2:10 is San Fernando in Glendale. Many of those buildings are still there. The Mitchell Camera Corp is now where the Home Depot is. 2:21 is Harvard and San Ferndado. Around 3:10 you would be now going under the 134 Freeway. 3:23 is a brdige over the Verdugo Wash. At 3:49 that White building is now Angelus Pet Hospital. That clip stops around 4:20 just past Grandview avenure (those white buildings that pop up in the immediate foreground are still there)
If 2:21 is Harvard then 2:36 has to be Broadway intersection, no?
@@videoeditorguy yep. The building that really stands out for me is the American Standard at 3:04. Still there but so different! Like most of the buildings along that road, the main difference is the windows are closed up now.
Thanks for the ID on location. Was looking for Lockheed and when it didn't show I figured this must be further East. I had an uncle who owned a bar on S.F. Road in 1950 and it was 2 blocks from Lockheed.
Yea, that’s amazing. It looked vaguely familiar, but you made it very clear. Blast to the past!
@@thomastrout9997 My grandfather worked at Lockeed. They lived in Pacoima and he rode a Scooter down SF rd every day.
Anyone else just wanna crawl through the screen and go back to that time?
Kind of want to but then there's no air conditioning. And I love having access to all genre's of music. Life was simpler for sure.
Back to pre-Internet? 😬🤣
add in a couple more tailfins and I'm sold
Yup, in a delorean!
Yes but just to visit, keep in mind, no U-Tube back then and I'd prefer the 60's.
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The first section is San Fernando Rd between Buena Vista in Burbank and heading north west bound towards Hollywood Way and probably stops around Sunland/Vineland Blvd in what is now Sun Valley. I grew up there and recognized several buildings that are actually still standing! At around the 4:21 mark, it repeats at the same spot but different camera angle. That is approximately at San Fernando Rd and Tulare Ave in Burbank. The train heads once again north west towards Sun Valley and Sunland Blvd. I spotted my parents house in the second camera angle!
4:21 is San Fernando and N. California St., right?
@@timothymccormick6878 yes it is and that building is still there and still looks the same! Amazing how empty this neighborhood was back then.
@@4wdiesels I know, what a trip. At 4:45 is Hollywood Way, which was a grade crossing back then. You can see an old house that's still there on Cohasset St. Buena Vista had that dangerous grade crossing until a few years ago.
@@timothymccormick6878 Are you talking about the two story house on Cohasset with the checkered driveway and garage door? I noticed that house too in the video. I would imagine that someone wealthy owned it because it definitely stands out compared to all the other track homes.
@@4wdiesels The two-story one next to the checkered drive.
Believe it or not, many of these homes were purchased by families from Sears & Roebucks catalogue as a Kit. The families assembled these homes. My families homes were put together in Torrance, CA in the 1930's. They're small, but very sturdy. The lumber is definitely prime lumber.
My grandmothers old home was either a Sears or Montgomery Ward home. My Grandfather and his friend built it in I think 1930. This was in the mountains of western Va.
Hence, why they are called "Craftsmen" style homes!
I lived in a 30's pre fab Sears home on Maui. It's still being lived in.......Very sturdy.
do they still stands today .....?
@@jaminova_1969 "Craftsman" homes or "Craftsman" architecture has nothing to do with being initialized by Sears Roebuck. It was a much larger trend essentially in opposition to the ornate Victorian designs. It is part of what is called the "Arts and Crafts" movement. Some of the houses sold by Sears were of the "Craftsman" style. And some Sears houses were Colonial, Bungalow, or other styles. "Craftsman" homes also have nothing to do with somebody building it themselves. It is a collection of architectural designs and details.
The old cars and trucks (can't forget them, too!) evoke a great feeling of nostalgia. The fact that this film is in color adds immensely to this feeling. Loved it.
What a wonderful view. There are large empty and green areas of the building. There are spaces that make you feel beautiful, breathe deeply, and feel calm, unlike what we see today from the crowding that makes you anxious and constant tension.. Also, the different colors of cars make you feel cheerful.. These colors also cannot be Today it is seen in the streets all over the world because even the colors of the cars have become dim and do not feel anything..
Thank you because this video made me feel happy and brought back the good days in life in another part of the world. It looks like this..😊👌🌹
You are SO right. This film is positively RELAXING compared to the strained,, crowded hubub of the San Fernando Valley today. I first drove through Burbank in 1979 after leaving the service.
Burbank was like Mayberry RFD compared to now. I ended living in Hollywood for a year. Then moved back east. Returned in 1989, moved around Hollywood/N. Hollywood for a few years, but then settled in Burbank in 1997. Worked on Magnolia between Glenoaks and San Fernando and lived just north of Magnolia on Orchard. By 2015, the taxes, crowding, traffic, and general dystopia convinced me to head back to the Midwest, but even when I lived there, I was cognizant of its earlier pedigree and tried to soak up as much of the diminishing ambience as I could.
@@shootfirst2097 Yes, my friend, the world was expanding, and there was a huge positive energy that you felt wherever you went, flowing and filling the world. There was a lot of happiness, even the poor were happy.. I don’t know where it all went.. It was all disappearing gradually, little by little, to this day, which has become the world. Completely suffocated.. and you will not feel overjoyed unless you watch memories through a picture or an old movie that brings you back to the picture that the world was once upon..
We got to make the world like this again. Lets do this thing! I know, I do my part every day! I play kickass rock and roll guitar, support me and my music, I do what I can!
I think this video is from Simi Valley which is still very open and green and mostly farmland.
@@abohosamabohosam4178 GREED my friend, GREED has killed this World.
Wow! Best one so far from this channel. So clear and smooth. Crazy to see all the empty fields.
thank you very much 😍
As a kid we played baseball on vacant lots, now they're very scarce indeed.
At :2:20 they pass the Mitchell Camera Company factory on the corner of Harvard and San Fernando Rd in Glendale. They are travelling North along the railroad line that splits San Fernando road.
That's so cool! I have a few magazines from my dad's old Mitchell sitting on my shelf.
Yes, and right next door is the Moonlight Rollerway, you can tell by the roof.
I'm wondering - the part going past the airport seems like it would have to be traveling into LA.
Mitchell Camera factory filmed, undoubtedly, by a Mitchell camera
In the beginning of the film they are going North, but later they are going South when you see the 4-lane San Fernando Road passing and when the train the scenery is going in the other direction.
That is not West Hollywood. What you have here is San Fernando Rd. in the Valley that goes through Pacoima and the City of San Fernando. If you look around 7:38 minutes of the film you will see an airport, that is Whiteman Airport in Pacoima. You can even make out the name eventhough it's a bit blurry as Whiteman Airpark as it was known back then.
thank you very much
It is still known as Whiteman Airport even today.
@@NASS_0 he said Airpark, not airport.
I was born in San Fernando in 1938 and lived there until 1956. This is all familiar to me. It's great to see it again as it was then.
Thank you for this very calming ride on San Fernando Road. Now I know how it looked to my folks when they were young!
The color, resolution and lighting of this film was spot on. It took me forever to watch it because I was freeze-framing it every 10 seconds. I really enjoyed it.
Might be your best work yet NASS. Thank you so much!!!!
thank you very much
So glad there are persons like yourself to show us a moment in time of a day that can never be reclaimed, yet left wanting...with a tear. thank you.
Also glad there were people back in the day who filmed these. It wasn't as easy as pointing your phone out of the window!
Beautiful, I recognize Whitman Airport as the train passes by! My dad owned a business the backed up to these RR tracks on 1st Street between 😮Mcclay & Foothill …. I grew up there. Who remembers San Fernando drag strip?
I do.
The next best thing to a time machine. Your work is wonderful and a valuable resource. I’m an architecture and car enthusiast and absolutely love this.
thank you so much
At one point in the vid there was a Hudson Hornet towing a Harley Trike...Probibly just picked up at an LAPD auction for peanuts...and tons of parts for the old "45's" back then...
I was about to comment the same thought. it is a close substitute. it's other - wordly!
I'm a big fan of _Dragnet_ , particularly the black-and-white 1950s series. Like the 1960s series, it always started with Friday's, "This is the city: Los Angeles, California," though it wasn't followed by a travelog for LA.
While there is a 1954 color _Dragnet_ film, I love your 1950s LA remastered videos because it gives me a glimpse of the Los Angeles that Friday always talked about.
Yes, I love Dragnet for the same reason as well as Adam 12 - I love CHiPS too for the same reason, but in the 1970s - Love the old cars especially. For that matter also love Emergency, etc.
I have a 1949 Ford Custom aka "Shoebox" and I was driving to a car show in Sierra Madre this morning from South Pasadena. I was driving East on Huntington Drive through San Marino and the sun was rising in the distance... there were hardly any other cars on the road. As I drove, this video popped into my head and for a fleeting moment as I looked over my hood and down the road, I felt like I was back in 1949..... until a Nirvana song came on the radio.
I had a '50. Nice car, except for that obsolete gas guzzling flathead V8.
Big compliments for this video. The comfortable view from the train is different than from the car. So there is more to see from that time. Thanks! Greetings from Berlin-Brandenburg
thank you so much
Gruß an Berlin! 🌻🏄♂️
@@Porsche996driver Danke und Gruß an Dave.
At 7:41 it looks like the sign says Whiteman which is still in operation in Pacoima, CA. That small mountain in the background was also a dead giveaway.
Thank you for the local knowledge. Comparing the Google satellite view today is a real trip.
There's more airplanes on this field than there's cars in the entire film! The lone fat-bellied glider is probably the best of the bunch.
@@jmi5969 The name is certainly not politically correct in two ways.
@@IDNHANTU2day The airpark bears the name of Marvin Whiteman, Sr.
@@kirknitz3794 Unfortunately today, that name would considered (by some) as oppressive and toxic. How we've progressed - into a death spiral.
(1) Impressed by the number of Art Deco style businesses and (2) number of autos made during the 20s still driven on the road.
LOVED this video. My dad and his father had a tool and die business, Gannon Engineering, on San Fernando Rd, North of Sheldon Rd. I was hoping I might see it but probably hadn't been established yet. They went out of business during the recession of 1958, and we didn't move to Pacoima until 1952, near San Fernando Rd and Van Nuys Blvd. Thanks for posting.
A large part of this is southern Glendale, California right up next to Griffith Park. I drive this road everyday. Still a ton of autobody shops on that road, but there is not a single bit of empty space or grass anymore. Just packed to the gills with body shops, gas stations and a giant friggin' Amazon facility.
Будто поезд-машина времени привёз нас в 1950й год 😉👍🚂
all i can think of is how simple things were. look at all that undeveloped land.
But more ecological !!!!! Not like USA now 😞
Now it's full of Tent Cities of Homeless Dope Addicts
Los Angeles was still rural and open! Must have been nice!
We sure managed to screw it all up. GREED
Saludos desde Monterrey México...me gustan mucho estos videos, el ver las casas, la moda, los autos , algunas tiendas etc. de esos años ....Felicidades y aquí estoy para ver más videos
Saludos Monterrey! 🇲🇽
What a teaser this is, wish so much I could go visit back in time.
Красиво! Погрузился как в игру Mafia, но места цвета все же мерцают. В целом класс!
Great footage, but you may want to change the title. If shot were you describe, that is not West Hollywood, which is below the Hollywood Hills near the studios, and quite developed in 1950. This is the San Fernando Valley, which had many barren regions in 1950, and vividly illustrated in your footage.
thank you very much
Specifically, the rail line that runs along San Fernando Mission Road. At 7:37 it is clearly passing Whiteman Airport.
@@michaelmartin4552 and Mitchell Camera Corp Factory at the time was in Glendale.
Not barren, undeveloped or underdeveloped. Now way overdeveloped.
@@michaelmartin4552 Whiteman Airpark the sign says with a dirt runway very neat :)
Wow. It's like I just took a trip back into time. My dad use to work out there painting cars from the late 50' to the early 60's. Thank you so much for this video. I miss my dad, He past away in 1982 while I was serving in the USAF.
Nicely done. I had fun following along with Google Maps street view and spotting some of the buildings that are still there. Thanks for identifying the location. I like the sound of the SP whistle also.
Really beautiful back then, I wish it was kept like this 😢
Just discovered your videos - amazing!
Towards the end of the footage as the train is nearing Whiteman Airport. 5 seconds before it crosses Van Nuys blvd looking out the right side windows of the train was my parents home. Only problem is the house my parents purchased in 1963 wasn't there yet. The house i grew up in was built in 1954. Behind Black n White tow yard. Right before the footage ends its crossing over Osborne st.
Some of the houses have roof top TV antennas. My earliest television memory is KTLA's 1949 coverage of the little girl who fell into an abandoned well in San Marino. I was 6 at the time and it haunted me.
It's amazing how much Glendale has changed in 10 years, let alone 70!
It's amazing this film exists today
Thank you for sharing it with the world
1953? Great video, by the way!!! Great work you did!! Deserve an A+. ❤️❤️
A gentler and more civil time, gone and never to return.
i was born in 1946 and grew up there and in marin county . california was a paradise then .
Thank you for preserving this piece of history. 2:21 Michel Cameras were use in the motion picture industry. It secretly built the high speed 70mm camera used on the SR71 Blackbird. They were in Glendale and next to the Glendale Auto Court 2:27 There camera movements were used to help make the Lucas Star Wars films (Wikipedia). Part of this film repeats itself.
My grandparents lived on North San Fernando road in the 1950's and 60's - at the Hi-Sign Motor Court between Cohasset and Hollywood Way; my mom and dad lived on Linden Ave in Burbank right where I-5 sits today. Great color and quality.
Amazing work again !
thank you so much
We didnt make a lot of money back then ,but we were happy and lived a clean life!
Wonderful footage, excellent job of restoration! Interesting that the billboards are angled to face the railroad not the highway!
thank you very much
The main part of San Fernando Road is on the other side of the train tracks, so the billboards are facing that road.
@@SAHill I think William Koltek is pointing to the fact that many of the billboards face the tracks, away from San Fernando road, which would indicate they were oriented toward rail travelers.
@@SAHill Correct. It was known as "Little San Fernando Rd."
AMAZING TO SEE!!! BRAVO! THANK YOU NASS!!!🎥✨👏✨
thank you so much
WOW! Incredibly well done! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks so much! I grew up in Pacoima and my first job was at Whiteman Airport, around 1975. Very cool to get the feel of the old SFV.
The business Xibit Mart was owned by Jett Simrell he was born in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on October 19, 1911. His father was a railroad telegraphy agent.
Mitchell Camera Corp at 2:21 moved their operations to their final factory location in Glendale, California in the 1940s.
At 3:55 1949-50 Nash Ambassador (towing a three wheel motor cycle).
Pretty sure this is San Fernando Road going thru Sun Valley, Burbank, Glendale.
Pacoima and San Fernando.
"Mitchell Camera Corporation was a motion picture camera manufacturing company established in Los Angeles in 1919. It was a primary supplier of newsreel and movie cameras for decades, until its closure in 1979. " - Wikipedia Location: Glendale, CA
2:18 The same train tracks used are still used today. One day, I would love to ride from LA to Ventura and record it!
Great info - it makes that building all the more special. Maybe their cameras went to war with John Ford and other directors.
Too bad the place closed. Many jobs lost.
That rail line goes north to Saugus then west to Santa Paula and Ventura. The newer line (c. 1904) which is a more direct route from L.A. to Ventura is about 1.25 mi. away, just south of Burbank Airport.
Another great video from Nass excellent colour and sound this one you really felt you were there back in time.
thank you very much
Feels like this is a scene right out of the movie La Bamba.
Awesome! It is nice to take a look how it was going on in cities years ago!
@8:48 there is a house on Blocks. Entire houses and apartments were taken off their foundations, moved down streets (in the middle of the night), and relocated in other locations. *Also Army Surplus stores!* ...Gawd I'm old. Post WWII there were many Army surplus stores (National Surplus/Western Surplus, etc.) --> I kid you not, as kids we would buy empty grenades' for 20 cents, fill them with dirt, and throw them at each other.
I grew up in Southern California in Riverside and Newport Beach. I well remember war surplus stores. There were 2 in Riverside and my brother and I would ride our bicycles there, look at all the ‘cool’ stuff (I remember the smell in there - canvas, leather and the well worn wooden floor). We, too, would buy empty grenades then go home and ‘play army’ with the other guys in the neighborhood.
We also bought these all black airplanes made of , I think, a hard rubber of some sort, get our Dad’s fishing line and hang them from the ceiling of our bedroom. I think these were used on some sort of map or something to represent airports or aircraft on the ground. I really don’t know.
I grew up in Sylmar in a house built in 1956, so 6 years after this video was made. Sylmar is above San Fernando heading out to Lancaster.
Anybody else freeze the video and look at the used car inventory? This is a great video.
Sears must have had a sale on white house paint! Thanks a million for your work. It looks like the Cascades in the background at one point.
Love watching old movies from different time
Thank you for correcting the title to reflect actual location
Mitchell Cameras was a pretty big player in the motion picture camera business in SoCal. 2:21 frame.
3:04 American Standard, toilets.
Truly magical. I grew up in that time in the West Valley. I'm certain San Fernando is totally paved over now and all those marvelous old car wreckers and military surplus stores, with all their magical brick-a-brack, are long gone...
In the West Velley we had much respect for the "Pachuco" gangs. Tough bunch of guys...
Actually the color is not too far off as the haze from the smog was horrible...
Sadly the drug problem was limited, with many horrors to come on that front...
The valley is a dump now, I personally blame the democrats for the valleys and Californias destruction.
Great clarity for an old video. I’ve ridden in a lot of trains and most of the time they lull me to sleep after a while. I love that old Nash pulling the 3 wheeler.
It's film...not a "video."
Amazing again! From London, i would have been near this area on one trip in 1998.
Wonderful insight in to life back then.
The older you get, the less long ago it seems.
2:18. - Mitchell Camera Corporation was a motion picture camera manufacturing company established in Los Angeles in 1919. It was a primary supplier of newsreel and movie cameras for decades, until its closure in 1979.
Excellent remastering work !
Incredible film. So evocative, a land of plenty.
Along the SP Santa Barbara and Mojave Subs main northwest through Glendale, Burbank and then back into Los Angeles proper, then San Fernando, heading toward the Newhall Tunnel and Soledad Canyon You can see Mitchell Camera Co.'s new digs along San Fernando Rd. East. They moved there from their famous plant on Lapeer Ave. in West Hollywood in 1946. A few of those "little white houses" are still around, but the whole area was urbanized in the 1950s and '60s. The main roadbed of San Fernando Rd (US 99, CA 7) is on the other side of the track, facing the billboards. Judging from the cushy ride the camera's getting, I'm betting that this was shot from aboard Train 51, The Sam Joaquin Daylight, then steam powered.
Imagine, that was all taken on a 35mm "film" movie camera. Wow, what a simple life back then. 😊
Thanks for the video!
I was able to recognize several buildings that are still standing, which is really amazing. I found the section just before the small bridge at 3:23 of high interest given its all been replaced by large and wide freeway (CA State Route 134).
This is Ritchie Valens territory! A little north west from there is Pacoima, this is the areas he used to play music when he was getting started. RITCHEEEEEeeeeee!!
I remember exactly what I was doing when I heard the news about the plane crash on the radio. I was a Buddy Holly fan and my best friend in jr. high was a big Richie Valens fan even though he was originally from Chicago.
I spotted the old plumbing salvage yard my dad would take me too. People salvaged plumbing parts, sinks, tubs etc. - anything that someone might use and save some money buying it used. My parents talked about bean fields which could have been the open areas. Great video!
Another tidbit. I was intrigued by the General Aircraft Company -- Parts & Supplies @3:09. So like you can get a replacement strut for your Stearman? Founded in 1942, they are actually still around today and market what they call "aerospace fasteners & electronic hardware"
Probably WW2 surplus parts and materials then.
I think that when we wonder about the past we often forget that we are also living it at the same time. In 50 or 100 years people will look at the videos from 2022 and wonder at the way that people lived back then. The people who lived in the 1950´s also thought of their time as the present and looked probably with some curiosity back at the older times.
L.A. Noire 2 is looking amazing.
*_The quality of Audio really amazing considering these footages are very old. Thank you Nass for all your efforts_*
I could watch this all day!
Another gem, NASS. By the way, I think the added sound has been a really good fit lately. Just thought I should give you words of encouragement because I vaguely recall other viewers complaining about the sound in the past.
That’s the year I was born and trains were very romantic and a great way to travel. When I was 14 I rode one by myself all night to Kansas City, from Southwest Oklahoma and it was exciting lol.
love the sound. great work :)
Thx!
Как Вы это делаете! Потрясающе!
Amazing video, enjoyed it immensely, If my Dad was alive, he would have LOVED it too.
This is amazing! Check out Pacoima back in the days.
That's Whiteman airport near the end of the video, it's still there and so is are railroad tracks but it's used by the Metrorail now.
San Fernando road is the same road Jay Leno drives his cars on on his UA-cam channel
Incredibly beautiful!
Pacoima sure looked different and clean.
Amazing clarity and color…excellent work! The amount of open space makes it so relaxing and stress free….a place that no longer exists.
Much more fun to watch at half speed!
This is cool thanks.. Can you tell us what part of San Fernando rd this is? Let us know more. I am trying to recognize it. I spent a lot of time back in the 90's there. I used to box at the boxing gym that was in the old abandoned LA city jail, 1 block off San Fernando rd. There was an awesome boxing gym on the 5th floor, just north of China town, before the road stretches out toward the north west, toward Las Feliz rd, then Burbank, etc.. Before that I had a steady gal that lived off an Fernando and Edward st, about 5 miles up north west from the boxing gym. I like to see if I can recognize stuff.
Nice video- neat to see all the old model T type cars still around.
Would love to see the same footage from today if the tracks are still there
They are.
An amazing slice of history. Thank you.
Remarkable footage - clarity is fantastic. Appears to be at 7:42 Whiteman Airport heading south towards Glendale. (Hard to read sign anyway) Geography seems to be very close.
You're correct, then called "Whitman Airpark."
An observation: I noticed very few TV antennas on the houses. The economy was bustling, but not everyone could yet afford the luxury of such an expensive item in their home.
True.
EXCELLENT!Many thanks.🗽🗽🗽👍👍👍
I saw Sky King being filmed at whitman airport when I was about 8, they had the cameras and lights next to Sky Kings airplane.
I went down San Fernando Rd with my uncle when I first visited the area in 1966. Some parts looks quite familiar, some of the vacant lots had businesses by then and other still didn't. Architecture was different then. Today more often that not everything is uninspiring and all looks the same.