Early 1970’s Drive Though Chula Vista - San Diego - California Vintage 8mm Footage Video
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1. Riding around, Orange Avenue West, Main St. Otay Mesa, May 31, 1971
2. Chula Vista Bike Race February 1972
3. June 18, 1972 East on Otay Lakes Rd, Parachutes
4. July 1972 Otay Dam, Southwestern College H St.
5. Cuadras front yard.
6. October 1973, Otay, tearing down old houses on Hermosa, south on 4th Avenue, Hilltop & Orange, Main St.
7. 1973 Tearing Down San Diego College of Business, terming down old house at 4th, south on 4th towards Montgomery School, grading for Otay School
8. 1973 San Diego College of Business
9. January 7th, 1974, rainy day.
10. California 1974 Otay School Albany St.
Filmed by: Tony Castro
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I find the Otay Lakes footage precious! It’s unrecognizable now with the vast housing developments that now surround the lakes. I try to tell newcomers of how it used to be with the alfalfa fields and the quiet. They can scarcely believe me. I was born in Chula Vista about when this video was taken and remember so much of what is shown here. The change amazes me.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
I remember when they allowed camping at otay lakes in the 80s....way better back then...
The Golden Age is never the present. We didnt realize how great we had it then.
Chula was undeveloped. ok. next.
I lived not far from Telegraph Canyon Road from 1964-2004. Remembered the rolling hills, cattle grazing, Archway Inn, and Southwestern College as some landmarks. Times were surely different and looking at this reminds me of a Chula Vista that once was and will never be again.
It's amazing how the vision of this person to film everyday situation can show so much in the now-future, incredible.
My dad filmed it, I’ll show him your comment
I was 4 years when I moved to Chula Vista in 1975 from near downtown San Diego. I still miss those cows on the rolling hills. This was the Chula Vista of my childhood when there weren’t so many humans here and wild life was so abundant. Wow this video really hit hard! I want to go back to this time. So many memories...
Thanks for sharing
Here's compilation of film from the same area: ua-cam.com/video/0jqo5d9Ca2U/v-deo.html
Dad worked @ Rohr & p/t evenings @ the South Bay Drive-in. We lived on Broadway in "Trailer Villa" until we moved to Lomita Village in '67.
Thank you for Sharing. My friend in the Navy moved in Chula Vista with his new house 🏠 in 1987. And he sold that house to moved in TEMECULA.
Thanks for helping me remember 😅
The music in the video makes it hit even harder
This brings back such nice memories. I went to SWC in the 70’s and drove out “H” street past those cows every day.
I was about 11 or 12 when I first came out here with my mom. It was really beautiful and to see the cows and horses all over the hills then, its a real shame that its all built up. Could've left a little piece of it alone .
Thanks for sharing
Yep. Wrecked.
Remembering the way I do: captain sticky and Shotgun Tom Kelly, Marty Levine, and Michael Tuck, Harold Greene (Ron Burgundy) Mike Ambrose and Hal Clement, remembering them all. This brings back memories.
Don’t forget Rory Devine and Ted leitner
Looked like Southwestern College at one point.Otay Elementary School wasn’t built yet in one scene.I use to live up in that neighborhood where Otay school was eventually built.Connoley Circle
I avoided Connoley Circle during the 90's.
@@TheOldTimeyChannel We lived there from 1975-1986.It changed afterwards
I grew up in National City by Palmer Way Elementary on Earle Dr. The 70s were great times.
Here's compilation of film from the same area: ua-cam.com/video/0jqo5d9Ca2U/v-deo.html
I remember doing lots of bad things in OTAY , near that power plant! Miss the good old days....
I stayed away from the power plant as a kid, too many people doing bad things, lol.
I was born in San Diego in the 60s and grew up there in the 70s and 80s. It was Americas finest city: Since 1985 it’s been a disaster. Thankful I got to live the greatness of the city
What happened in ‘85 that made it bad?
San Diego continues to be Americas Finest City even now.
San diego was good til about 2010. Now it's America's Finest Ghetto 😂
That is total nonsense. Broadway and downtown used to be cesspool of tattoo parlors, bars and pawn shops and adult book stores. nobody went there. There was no draw to San Diego.
@@maxsmith695there's more Crime downtown now than ever before. Not safe downtown after dark. Cops don't arrest anybody. Shootings stabbings beatings hit and runs and homeless everywhere. San diego is straight hood ghetto now. Way too much crime going on and nobody getting arrested. Poor Uber driver just got beat up down there a few nights ago. Watch the 911 media page on UA-cam and see how much crime goes on downtown that isn't on the local news. As bad as Chicago
Chula Vista! Best Mexican food in all of California, by far!
beautifully diverse and fascinating
Here's compilation of film from the same area: ua-cam.com/video/0jqo5d9Ca2U/v-deo.html
I was 7 years old when I moved to Chula Vista, from Montclair, New Jersey in 1977. Lived on Palomar St, and went to Lauderbach Elementary, then Halecrest Elementary.
Thanks for sharing!
Here's compilation of film from the same area: ua-cam.com/video/0jqo5d9Ca2U/v-deo.html
Bonjour, The Old Timey Channel. pretty interesting video. thanks. :)
Hey, thanks!
A recognized the backroads near Bonita headed to southwestern college…telegraph canyon road
Yup
Born in the 1990s. Chula Vista seems like it was an open field for land of opportunity to build a home when it was affordable.
It was that way for decades
I'd love to see some same-era footage of El Cajon, La Mesa, and San Carlos (Navajo.)
I’ll post them if I find any
Many rural areas now developed.😢
Спасибо за ностальгию! Лучшее времена Америки!
Wow it used to be beautiful!
Good times
still is.
I LIVED IN CHULA VISTA IN THE MID 70'S,AND PEOPLE COULD WALK THE STREETS DAY OR NIGHT DOWN TOWN SAN DIEGO WAS SAFE.
We called it Chulajuana
We're still calling it Chulajuana
Was that the old Southbay speedway?? My mom took me to a race down there in the 80s with some friends from her work but I have no clue where that place was but I know it was somewhere down in that area... I'm guessing there are houses down there now
The race track was up on the mesa closer to the prison
@@JohnDough-p6x oh ok I kind of recall that now...good times... Sad they took out a racetrack for a prison.
@@PACbelltech1 bc the noise might've kept the prisoners awake, huh? Tons o' room, no residential, flat mesa, perfect for a track
@@JohnDough-p6x I figured that's where they built Eastlake....but that closer to Proctor Valley another old school offroad vehicle recreation area. Go figure. We can't have any fun in this city nowdays. I guess we need more prisons for criminals that never get arrested 😂
Pretty much what Ventura County looked like too.
All of Cali looked like this. Sad how destroyed this state has become
😕
10 speed bikes.😊
The good old days before SD became a crowded mess
Yep, the good ol days
50 years from now they will be saying that about today.
Before modern living arrived.
50 years from now, no one will be living here. Too expensive and over crowded.@@phakes6195
WHEN my childhood life sux in the 70's
😢
I rember.
Where is all the traffic?
😀
Born in CV in 1969
😀
If u only knew back then to buy up that 5 acres with a distant ocean view not far from downtown and sit on it..... I feel we r at the end of any remaining hint of an analog world and will look back at 2015 to 2030 as ... wow, if we only knew ... What's coming will over shadow any remains of the world we know now.
Sure feels that way
My guess is that footage at the end is of Hurricane Kathleen . Wikipedia; Hurricane Kathleen was a Category 1 on September 7, 1976, a tropical depression formed; two days later it accelerated north towards the Baja California Peninsula. Kathleen brushed the Pacific coast of the peninsula as a hurricane on September 9 and made landfall as a fast-moving tropical storm the next day. With its circulation intact and still a tropical storm, Kathleen headed north into the United States and affected California and Arizona. Kathleen finally dissipated late on September 11.
Which is a trip because I watched another video today in my feed and it mentioned how Hurricane Kathleen wiped out three trestles on the San Diego-Arizona Railroad!
Was that the track that went across the Goat Canyon Trestle?
Then Eastlake ruined everything 😂 proctor valley is next to go. Then jamul...like rancho san diego....sad....
Back in the day when you could ride your bike and not having to worry about some DimwitRat running you down intentionally.
😀
Way too much development now. Sad how crowded san diego is now and all the crime and homeless 😔
That goes for the whole state. Yet they keep building more "high density" units and the crime just keeps getting worse.
So, was Chula Vista ever nice???
Yes
@@JohnDough-p6x Obviously before THIS video was shot
Chula Vista is a lovely city with no room for lazy people that don’t make money,
Telephone poles and powerless. Now gone from view. Maybe prettier now. I miss the birds on the wire.
And then came Donovan prison "
And all the other prisons in the area
😂😂😂
The place is ruined today.
One T can change your life
Well people moves to Mexico ...
@@alonsocontreras1656 At least mexico has better politicians.
1000 times nicer. But old trailer parks are still found in Desert Hot Springs !
They are on the back roads in the outskirts of San Diego cuz that is not Chula Vista Chula Vista was always crowded in the '70s and it's even more crowded now this is a lie
Shut up you silly twat and be greatfull this footage still exists snowflake.
It is Chula Vista, it was not crowded in the 70's. I am from CV and this is out on Telegraph Canyon road.
This video is Chula Vista. I was born in the 1960's and remember when CV began to boom in population. It stayed much the same up till around 1980. The BIG housing addition was the construction of Point Robinhood Homes 1/4 Mile east of 805 from East Orange Avenue during the mid 1970's.
• Main St. (Tomato fields east of 805)
• Telegraph Canyon Rd. (2 lanes with cattle grazing)
• Brown Field Airfield
• South Bay Little League on Max Ave.
• Otay
• Park Ave. (Bike Race Time Trial)
• Southwestern College Jaguar Stadium
• New 805 Freeway
that is the far eastern part of Chula.
Looks like a run-down mudhole, to me.
Not exactly chamber of commerce footage to me either. Looked like Mexico to me.
Definitely not the high-rent district back in the day.. lots of farming and Farm Workers still back then
I lived there 97-98. This is not it.
Of course you don't recognize it. This is nearly thirty years before you lived there.
No kidding, dummy
@@christopher5585 These videos show east lake.
@@maxsmith695and south Chula before it became incorporated, I recognize the Otay river bottom area
@@rocketdog2723 Thanks.