A tour of Los Angeles, San Francisco and other California sites in the early 1950s. Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
Those were grateful old days in 1950 or 1960s I believe. I was born in 1966 and remembered my dad mom and family taking us up the California cost line I was born in San Diego and still live here with my wonderful wife. My father has passed away in 2013 and my mom still hanging on in life but sad to see her age and she well past she is 90 years old now but we are here looking after her and prayers up to heaven for her and blessings to all of us. They lived a simple life and times. Where times back then people did what was right and worked and took pride in what they did and gave respect to others. A simple life no cell phone no internet no rushing around. Thanks for listening and love your family and help out the older people who need a lifting hand in life. God bless you all.
I was born and raised during that era. And even though I realize that most of my life is over now- I would not have changed a thing, as I have lived through those wonderful times.
@@96serpendityyouarelostnotm87 Oh shut up. Even blacks were better off back then. I swear, it's like a nonvoluntary tick with some of you. Whenever someone looks back at America's past with any kind of nostalgia no matter how mild, you always bring up "bUT wHaT AbOUt da BlAKs?!".
Manny Akintunde you’re a fool to think “black” people had it it better back then, sure maybe in California, but people were still very open about racism back then.
@@96serpendityyouarelostnotm87 Let's see. Poverty rates were the same as they are now, black families were intact, black neighborhoods were not infested with crime and drugs, black culture had self respect and class. Hmm, not seeing a problem here. Sure, there some restrictions on where blacks go live or work. But with the progress the community made up to that point, one could argue that change in how Americans viewed black was inevitable.
It wasn't all that expensive once the very early years had passed. In the early 1960's I could fly round trip Chicago-New York for less than the New York Central Railroad. This is one of the reasons train travel hit the skids -- only the bus was actually cheaper than flying.
@@Marco-wz3ff Those propliners flew right into the weather as they could not climb above it so pax got air sick. Since it took longer to get to your destination ( slow speed ), it could be a real mess ..
I am 86 and don’t recall flying to be terribly expensive back in the day. I flew thousands of miles in Super Constellations, including atlantic crossings, and enjoyed every minute of it. The most beautiful airliners ever built, in my opinion. Flying was much more fun back in those times. Nowadays I dread flying because of delays, long security lines, and extremely cramped, uncomfortable seating unless you spring for first class. Today’s first class is about what you got in coach class back in the days of prop driven airliners.
You are absolutely right! Thank you for saving me from having to bring that up. It was NOT that expensive! In fact, 55 years ago we were enjoying the cheapest jet travel ever. I, too, traveled frequently. Round trip CHI/LAX was under $200. Round trip LAX/SFO was under $20. on PSA. CHI/CLE was also under $20. on United. In fact, they were cheaper than the New York Central RR almost anywhere on their system. Those are just a few examples.
The actor who played Henry (the newlywed husband) was Richard Beedle, William Holden's (William Beedle Jr) younger brother. Disappeared in an aircraft somewhere over Peru in 1964, never found.
My wife's Dad was a TWA Captain in the Super Constellation during this time period. We have his uniform hat and pilot's license showing his L-49 type rating displayed on a bookshelf.
+HappyToBeReligionFree I wish he could do his own video recalling how it was to fly back then! It would be really interesting to hear a major airline pilot recall how it was to fly commercial passengers in the past.
Cool! My dad was a radar operator in a Super Connie in the US navy stationed in Puerto Rico in the 50's. They were hurricane hunters and flew into the eye to forecast weather and bearing. Great stories of his adventures!
Yes, but it is true that jet engines were easier to maintain, and proved to be very durable--I imagine even the airlines that used them didn't anticipate just how useful they would prove to be, not just for long haul routes but between any two points with runways long enough for the jets to use. This is what happened in California by the early mid-1970s. Even if you wanted to fly from Burbank to San Diego, you would be riding in a jet, always, even by that time. Shortly after, I started attending UCSD and would often fly between San Diego and Burbank. As one who has always been interested in different kinds of planes, especially airliners, I would have been dead thrilled if, just once, PSA* had had to roll out an old DC-4 or Lockheed Elektra due to some unforeseen glitch or dispatch error, but that never happened. *(PSA=Long defunct airline that operated only within California; fondly remembered by many.)
I flew to California from NYC in 1958 - a 4 engine prop plane. I was seven years old. It was an 8 hour flight and we had motor trouble and had to land somewhere in the midwest for repairs. Then we flew into old LAX. I remember all the pools on the descent. I lived in West LA and there were no freeways - all surface streets.
I lived in San Francisco when these two nice people visited. I was just a kid, but I remember a lot of it. We even had a Packard Clipper, just like Richard Carlsons, but ours was a 54 model. My father traveled quite a bit on business and going to the airport was always an adventure. I really liked watching the aircraft from the visitor's balcony, back when there were no restrictions. The TWA Constellation was my favorite prop plane, some years before jets came to town. It was a kick watching them startup.
+Corn Fed If you also told them how much cheaper and faster it is, I'm sure most of them would be quite happy. People tend to forget that travelling was something only the rich could do it. A TWA Flight from NY to LA would cost approximately over $3K and take about 12 hours, today you can get a discount ticket for about $300, or better yet you can book a JetBlue Mint service with lie-flat seats and great food for about $1,200, and be there in 4 hours.
+André Garcia Yes, those were the days when only the rich (and celebrities) gambled on flying through snow, fog or rain and slamming into an unexpected mountain after being driven nearly deaf from roaring propeller motors. However, because airlines competed with ships and trains, the accoutrements of travel--fine dining, china, wine, etc were offered for flyers. The stuff limited to first-class and business-class these days. And, the TSA lines were really short..
This is absolutely SURREAL, nice meals, legroom, wide seats, a cabin that's full of smiling, polite, well dressed, sub 200 pound Americans who've bathed within the last 24 hours, it's like I'm watching something from an alternate parallel universe.
I too am in the twilight of my life, as someone mentioned. I first flew by myself from Los Angeles to Oakland to visit my older sister one summer when I was 11. That was 1958. I love watching these old films that depict the way life was for many of us who were there! It’s heartwarming to look back and remember what has gone by too fast in this life. Back then it was a great life. Simple, people were much more kind. It was segregated, but I didn’t do it, and I shouldn’t feel any the less happy about my youthful years and the way things were. As corny as this film is, I find it charming.
@Asimzmn You know Less than 1% of those people spend their money on grills and cars right ? You will be surprised if are alive in the next 20 years to see how successful blacks will be .
Mom and dad bought their first home in 1963 in Monterey.... walking distance to the ocean, 3 bedroom 2 bath and 1/2 acre of land. Cost was a whopping $15,000! Mom said she was terrified of that 20 year mortgage payment, which was just over $100 a month.
Thanks to Congress, that 1963 $15,000 would be $126,000 today. All due to the devaluation of the dollar. But it was still a great investment! In Monterey that property is worth north of a couple million now. And that $100 a month? Today, that would be $837.87.
I wonder what their income was that $100 a month was terrifying. I hope that house is still in your family, as of course, it would be worth millions now. No more middle class.
Alexander Huzau seriously, everytime i go to Santa Monica, get raped in traffic getting there, and then get raped in traffic in SM, especially trying to leave the parking towers😂
Alexander Huzau The 2020 modern updated version substitutes “hours” for minutes, then adds a line about when you finally get there a ‘friendly’ cop points out with his taser the sign that says the beach is closed due to COVID-19(84) At least he said “Hey You!” That might be as friendly as it gets in modern LA
In 1956 with my 1951 black ford convertible we drove out to LA on our honeymoon and had a ball for a year and came back with more money than i left with because it was much cheaper to live in LA than NYC,at that time!
@@markwiss Yup, I understood. So, which is the verb in the sentence you initially wrote? If a noun, it might have been phrased, "...my father's gush..."; but, the question of the verb. If the action is yours and "heard" is the verb, the object might be considered a noun phrase to retain "gush" as a noun in the possession of you father.
What gets me is how much SF, LA have bridges or buildings still there today from this movie. Santa Anita is the same. The better thing was how incredible LA was (WAS). Even a few years later they were planning for water shortages and transportation issues due to over crowding. Man...the 50's were the best
Notice how clear the air was back then, little to no smog. I will say the smog is less now than 1960s when hordes of people moved to Southern California.
That ad was life unless you lived on a farm in the midwest in small towns. The ladies still wore hats to church. My uncle lived in suits & ties. Even in his 80’s he wore plaid flannel shirt with top button closed. Life was better & different. Demise of class started with computers and video games and kids drinking more & doing drugs. Liberal parents now.
@@jgrokoest2419 Ads are life? Like movies are historical records and TV is reality? No. Ads are curated depictions of life to portray a desired life, not actual life. This is not a critique of the accuracy of their garments in the ads either. Pull your head out of the nostalgia sand.
A Pen in those days was considered classy because they were new and expensive. Ball point pens were invented at the end of the 40's sometime. No one thinks twice about them today because they are so common, but when they were new it was all the rage, no longer did you have to fill up your pen with messy ink. You could carry one in your pocket and for the most part, not have to worry about it leaking, the epitome of modern new technology, it was a big deal to have one!
@@JENDALL714 My dad's younger business partner was a sucker for one of the first ballpoint pens produced in 1949. It cost $100. and immediately began leaking all over his white shirt.
If the people were asked, "How do you think flying will be 60 yrs from now?" I doubt they would said, "Full, see thru X-ray body scans and shoes off before boarding. $25 for first bag, $7 for the blanket, ditto for the pillow. Cramped in seating for max profits." Somethings do get worse with time.
BIRT Edu Flying is nowhere close to getting worse with time. A flight in 1955 from Boston to LA costed $106 which is equal to $930 with inflation today. Today, the same route can be flown for as little as $375. That flight in 1955 would have taken 12 hours to reach its destination vs. only 5-6 hours today. Planes are safer, quieter, larger, more efficient and faster. Flying has gotten dramatically cheaper and the service has gotten better; if you're willing to pay more money for first and business class, you will receive much better service and amenities today than any time in the past.
A single trans-Atlantic ticket on one of these planes cost $400, so about the same as Concorde maybe? Almost no ordinary person flew on a scheduled air service, when there was an alternative method until the 1980s or so.
what happened to America? The future is for evolving into the better not the worse. I wasn't even born in the 50s, 60s, 70s or even the 80s or 90s. And I STILL would do anything to go back in live in those simple times without cell phones and laptops. when people were nice to strangers and u wouldn't have to lock your car door because you live in the ghetto. I wish I had experienced this. I truly do.
+Fred Cox its a good thing that America has declined so much? What the fuck is wrong with you people? You delusional children dont understand that the minorities you love so much are part of the reason America is the way it is today, don't believe me? Go hang out in Detroit, Memphis, or Compton and tell me honestly that you feel safe
I've never met a movie star on a flight but I'm sure if I had they would of invited to their home and shown me around Hollywood as well. Those folks just haven't changed a bit.
I bet it was group sex going on behind the scene while they were all using the Benzedrine bought on the airplane menu which was actually meth legally sold in nasal inhalers. Yes really...
Notice the way the man crossed his legs with ease at about 4:02 . This was the equivalent of coach nowadays. Try easily crossing your legs on in most coach seats today.
Why does everything seem so happy back then? Looking back in times makes me feel like I was looking at another country, this is not the same America I'm used to.
And I can tell you it was like that although there was a ugly dark side, crime, corruption in high places and racism. But it was well hidden. However, most could "tow the party line" because houses, cars etc. etc. was so cheap in LA in the 50's and 60's. Lots of jobs even for teenagers. Things started to turn to shit after Kennedy got blown away. Been all downhill with Viet Nam War, Watergate, Drugs, Gangs, The Bush Dynasty, 9/11 and endless fighting wars. Its all over. "Gone with the Wind"
***** well, actually nowadays I wear shorts and T-shirt on flight and my grandpa tells me I look like a bum! But I can't help it as I live in a tropical country
I rather think it's fun to have an excuse to dress up. Does anyone remember party dresses and suits for children attending birthday parties? Half the experience for me was that pretty party dress! Also, notice the hat the older gentleman has in his lap. My grandfather never left the house without a similar hat.
That's true, but economics and regulation had a lot to do with it. Thee were no cheapo bargain airlines then. Only one or two carriers in some cities (more in the big cities), and tickets cost more then in comparison to the bus or train. Far fewer flights, because modern air traffic control was just getting set up. This all meant it was business people ( mostly men then) who flew or people with a comfortable amount of money. Even when middle class and working class people flew they dressed up so as not to look out of place. Now we have flying cattle cars today with low bred people crammed like sardines in a can. No wonder I hate flying and its not because I'm afraid. It's just such a stressed out hassle. But $7000 in business class to Europe?? Unless you can write it off as a deductible business expense or fly constantly and have all kinds of points to upgrade, how can you?
My mom was a TWA "stew" as she called herself. She has stories of glamour, flight with Clarke Gabel and Tony Bennett - playing cards on the 10 hour flight from SF to NYC! Silver and china..good ol'days now, "can I even get a bag of peanuts?!"
+Susan Elizabeth Morosoli yes I know just flew from New York to Panama in January - 5 hour flight -no entertainment and had to pay for everything but soft drinks. I wouldn't have minded so much if I hadn't just flown from Scotland to NewYork.
Things were so different then. I wish I could turn the clock back to a day when our cops didn't look like soldiers and flying on an airline wasn't like going to prison. Time have changed... and not for the better.
THM SGR Being subjected to public humiliation, just to board a plane, *IS* like going to prison. Get fondled by a perverted TSA agent or submit to the full-body cancer-inducer... what a choice!
Sad. A few years later a TWA Constellation and United DC7 plane ran into each other over the Grand Canyon in cloudy weather which in turn was when we realized we had no real air traffic control in place. It was the birth of air crash investigations as well as the first real thoughts of an ATC system.
So I came back again a year later because of notifications of my last comment, I must say I still love this video and yes I still love this era. It isn’t a teenager phase I had. I’m 27 now and I still love vintage life, videos, culture, photos, and the way America was 🇺🇸
The 1950's was the era in America when a man was a man, and a woman was a woman. Nowadays, so many effeminate men and semi-mascuiinized women. America had changed for the worse, I am afraid.
You obviously have your head up your ass ! It's just nowdays everything's more out in the open + accepted. PS don't forget to use the colored bathroom only.
So Dick takes them home and of course films them at very close quarters in the pool. Then he takes them down the beach where he gets his great big telescope out (and he is not checking the shipping routes). What an outstanding video.
A promotion film, sure; however, in the 1950's air passengers (men, women, children) actually dressed for the occasion (men in suites, ties and women with hats and gloves). In 1957, I flew from Austin, Tx. to NYC on Continental's "Silver Service" flight. Yes, they served us using silver pitchers and cups on silver trays.
Animated Film Reviews i agree, back then i used to wear a cape and underwear on the outside of my tights. I always found people who wore sweats back then to be to unprofessional
Not only did everyone dress up back in the fifties but also up until the early1990's. Maybe we weren't wearing suits but at least we would wear a nice shirt and khakis.
Interestingly found this beautiful video in 2019 only three months after my first visit to USA and that’s too beautiful Los Angeles flew from Winnipeg via Calgary ❤️❤️
Richard drives a Packard. The house that is shown as his is still there in Beverly Hills and still looks the same.. Almost next to the Beverly Hills Hotel. The park where George Michael was arrested at is across the street.
@@LJRiley-io7nh Perhaps, But if you did it right, meaning paid off your house and stayed out of debt, you work because it keeps you healthy. Life is much better when you don't have a house payment, or debt.
I remember flying on props when I was a little kid. It was exciting watching the engines start up. I remember upon arrival, the pilot would often shut off the two outer engines (on four engined aircraft) taxiing in on only two engines.
I can remember curtains on aircraft windows....and dressing up to get on an airplane....my mom dressed me of course....but you dressed up like you were going to church or something
Maybe as late as early 1990's? Why did everyone dress so nice years ago? Might we had been more cultured and family oriented back then when everything was personal, small business oriented, and not so corporate in nature like today?
Speaking of curtains on aircraft windows, my wife and I just flew to Honolulu and back, and everybody in the window seats, I mean EVERYBODY, had the shutters closed on their windows so they could stare at their little phone screens. What a dull lot people have become.
In 1957 (or 1952, when this film was made), you could walk down the street in Los Angeles without seeing or smelling a hobo village or stepping in shit. Yep, I wish it was still that way.
Wow...this brought back memories of my first flight on TWA when I was 10 yo. I fell in love with the stewardesses & wanted to be one. It was a beautiful plane & it feels like yesterday...thanks for the memories! xo
People _Do_ realize that this is a promotional video created by TWA and/or the State of California? I wouldn't take it as a completely accurate picture, but it does give a good general idea. Just that the people are probably a little bit more beautiful, and the smiles a little wider and faker, etc. It's an ad. Ads never change much.
"Everything had been so perfect" I grew up in Pacific Palisades went to summer camp on Catalina, friends in Malibu, sunshine, parties, pretty girls, the beach, so heavenly.
I've been a Californian my whole life. Raised in SF and moved to the burbs in 57. My only complaint is overpopulation and congestion. It's killing the quality of life.
Ironically, the actor who played Henry (Richard Beedle) died on a plane crash in Peru 12 years later. Body was never recovered. He was William Holden's younger brother.
Get a load of the gate at the airport right on the flight deck, you won't be seeing that today. Family & friends accompanied the traveler all the way to their aircraft. Oh those truly were the good old days.
Wonderful picture perfect so very entertaining. It was a delight meeting these four lovely people. I hope that they all had a very happy and healthy abundant life and marriage lolx. 😀❤😀❤
The first plane I flew in from Sydney to Port Moresby stopping at Brisbane and Rockhampton. The only security was a 4’6” fence on the tarmac where you said goodbye to your family.
Flew by myself, age 5, 1952 from LA to NY. Two plane changes. Walk out onto the field. In those days, there were even sleeper areas on planes. Yes, people did dress up - and not just in the movies.
It must have been truly amazing to live in the post-WWII era. It was pretty much an era of building America. I know not everything was "Leave It To Beaver" for everyone, but it must have been amazing watching the interstate highway system being completed, technology beginning to explode, and industry reaching new levels of productivity and domination.
I think you might find the reality pretty scary. Everybody smoked, deaths from cancer was a certainty (I wouldn't be here bugging you, I'd be dead ), equal pay for women didn't exist, racial segregation. Be careful what you wish for.
@@johannesbols57 Only the South had segregation in the 50's, there had been improvements in that area but I agree with you that the strides that have been made since then or better, since the 20's, are staggering. I realize there are many making political capital on the way things were but it is ridiculous when there is nothing we can do about the past. Growing up in the North, people were frankly nicer to each other in stores, gas stations and neighborhoods. True most women did not work, but children were raised with respect and mothers looked out for their own children and others. Most children were reared by two parents, divorce was less and illegitimacy was rare. The only way a teenage boy could see a naked woman was by thumbing through National Geographic. Exhibitionism, slovenly behavior brought shame. We were taught not to swear, now one even hears our President using foul language. Being raised Jewish in a small town my parents taught me not only to respect black people but to go out of my way to help them as they had struggles much like Jews. My father purposely drove way out of his way to buy gas at a black owned station, contributed to both white and black charities and my mother taught me to always correct the other kids if they said something which would now be considered racist. We were raised to be respectful and call grown-ups sir, hold the door open for women and give our seats up to women and the elderly when we took the bus to the nearest small city. . Nearly every kids father had been in the War, including my Dad fighting in the South Pacific. I first learned about the concentration camps from an Italian friend, whose father helped liberate one. By the way, the strides against heart disease have increased the life span of American more than the strides against cancer. Men don't drop dead in their 50's of heart attacks nearly to the extent that they did in the fifties. There were many more young widows in their 40's and 50's back then.. So many of us are on statin drugs (developed by two Jewish doctors by the way) and Type Two diabetes is far better controlled. My mother was from California so I flew cross country three times in the 50's and the flight portrayed was pretty well accurate ( except I remember getting little wing pins, and loved the spearmint gum they gave out). I remember one time we took United and they had "Red carpet" service where they rolled out a red carpet. The best seats at a major league park cost $3.50, hot roasted peanuts were 10 cents and we kids idolized baseball players. We did not have color TV but B&W was fine. We watched the Saturday TV shows like Lassie, Rootie-Kazootie, Fury, Rin-Tin_Tin and then went out to play. Sometimes, we went to the local theater and spent the whole afternoon watching movies, a serial, newsreel....for 25 cents. The theater would be packed with kids, who would bump into each other coming out as our pupils adjusted. I could go onbut you get the drift.
I love how everyone just dressed up and looked their best just to go outside.
In the movies, maybe. In real life....it was different.
I also like how they were dressed up during those days. Unlike these days youngster were rather messy in dressing
JugSouthgate, not that much difference, especially in the 50's. There were some who went out in....gasp...pants! Not that many tho.
At least people didn't wear their pants down to their knees or their pajamas to the store
T shirts still didn’t exist
Those were grateful old days in 1950 or 1960s I believe. I was born in 1966 and remembered my dad mom and family taking us up the California cost line I was born in San Diego and still live here with my wonderful wife. My father has passed away in 2013 and my mom still hanging on in life but sad to see her age and she well past she is 90 years old now but we are here looking after her and prayers up to heaven for her and blessings to all of us. They lived a simple life and times. Where times back then people did what was right and worked and took pride in what they did and gave respect to others. A simple life no cell phone no internet no rushing around. Thanks for listening and love your family and help out the older people who need a lifting hand in life.
God bless you all.
God bless you to 😀
80s for me
I was born and raised during that era. And even though I realize that most of my life is over now- I would not have changed a thing, as I have lived through those wonderful times.
I could same the same, although living in Europe.
It must have been awesome to be a middle class young adult in those days.
Toreshammere Celt not so sure. Cold War and H bomb
And white oh and maybe Mexican if you were light skin or even white, some Mexicans look white.
@@96serpendityyouarelostnotm87 Oh shut up. Even blacks were better off back then. I swear, it's like a nonvoluntary tick with some of you. Whenever someone looks back at America's past with any kind of nostalgia no matter how mild, you always bring up "bUT wHaT AbOUt da BlAKs?!".
Manny Akintunde you’re a fool to think “black” people had it it better back then, sure maybe in California, but people were still very open about racism back then.
@@96serpendityyouarelostnotm87 Let's see. Poverty rates were the same as they are now, black families were intact, black neighborhoods were not infested with crime and drugs, black culture had self respect and class. Hmm, not seeing a problem here. Sure, there some restrictions on where blacks go live or work. But with the progress the community made up to that point, one could argue that change in how Americans viewed black was inevitable.
What they don't say is how much that flight cost. Flying was an "event" back then because it was so expensive.
and what tremendous noise there was in the cabin
It wasn't all that expensive once the very early years had passed. In the early 1960's I could fly round trip Chicago-New York for less than the New York Central Railroad. This is one of the reasons train travel hit the skids -- only the bus was actually cheaper than flying.
@@Marco-wz3ff Those propliners flew right into the weather as they could not climb above it so pax got air sick. Since it took longer to get to your destination ( slow speed ), it could be a real mess ..
I am 86 and don’t recall flying to be terribly expensive back in the day. I flew thousands of miles in Super Constellations, including atlantic crossings, and enjoyed every minute of it. The most beautiful airliners ever built, in my opinion. Flying was much more fun back in those times. Nowadays I dread flying because of delays, long security lines, and extremely cramped, uncomfortable seating unless you spring for first class. Today’s first class is about what you got in coach class back in the days of prop driven airliners.
You are absolutely right! Thank you for saving me from having to bring that up. It was NOT that expensive! In fact, 55 years ago we were enjoying the cheapest jet travel ever. I, too, traveled frequently. Round trip CHI/LAX was under $200. Round trip LAX/SFO was under $20. on PSA. CHI/CLE was also under $20. on United. In fact, they were cheaper than the New York Central RR almost anywhere on their system. Those are just a few examples.
The actor who played Henry (the newlywed husband) was Richard Beedle, William Holden's (William Beedle Jr) younger brother. Disappeared in an aircraft somewhere over Peru in 1964, never found.
+Arjay777 He sure was handsome!
Wow interesting story
Wow interesting story
Wow interesting story .
Thanks for sharing that fascinating piece of Hollywood history.
My wife's Dad was a TWA Captain in the Super Constellation during this time period. We have his uniform hat and pilot's license showing his L-49 type rating displayed on a bookshelf.
+HappyToBeReligionFree
I wish he could do his own video recalling how it was to fly back then!
It would be really interesting to hear a major airline pilot recall how it was to fly commercial passengers in the past.
True, gisele ... but as nostalgia goes, you gotta admit, the Super Connie was a beautiful, elegant airplane.
Cool! My dad was a radar operator in a Super Connie in the US navy stationed in Puerto Rico in the 50's. They were hurricane hunters and flew into the eye to forecast weather and bearing. Great stories of his adventures!
What nice family mementos to have!
Yes, but it is true that jet engines were easier to maintain, and proved to be very durable--I imagine even the airlines that used them didn't anticipate just how useful they would prove to be, not just for long haul routes but between any two points with runways long enough for the jets to use. This is what happened in California by the early mid-1970s. Even if you wanted to fly from Burbank to San Diego, you would be riding in a jet, always, even by that time. Shortly after, I started attending UCSD and would often fly between San Diego and Burbank. As one who has always been interested in different kinds of planes, especially airliners, I would have been dead thrilled if, just once, PSA* had had to roll out an old DC-4 or Lockheed Elektra due to some unforeseen glitch or dispatch error, but that never happened.
*(PSA=Long defunct airline that operated only within California; fondly remembered by many.)
I flew to California from NYC in 1958 - a 4 engine prop plane. I was seven years old. It was an 8 hour flight and we had motor trouble and had to land somewhere in the midwest for repairs. Then we flew into old LAX. I remember all the pools on the descent. I lived in West LA and there were no freeways - all surface streets.
I lived in San Francisco when these two nice people visited. I was just a kid, but I remember a lot of it. We even had a Packard Clipper, just like Richard Carlsons, but ours was a 54 model. My father traveled quite a bit on business and going to the airport was always an adventure. I really liked watching the aircraft from the visitor's balcony, back when there were no restrictions. The TWA Constellation was my favorite prop plane, some years before jets came to town. It was a kick watching them startup.
Would love to teleport all these nice passengers to a Southwest flight in 2015 and see how they react.
They would be rocking back and fourth like someone in a mental ward and they would all be loosing there minds
+Alex Jeffery "loosing their minds" because people don't know how to spell anymore. :-)
sam morris
Nope i graduated High school 10 years ago no need for grammar on the web thanks for coming out
+Corn Fed If you also told them how much cheaper and faster it is, I'm sure most of them would be quite happy. People tend to forget that travelling was something only the rich could do it. A TWA Flight from NY to LA would cost approximately over $3K and take about 12 hours, today you can get a discount ticket for about $300, or better yet you can book a JetBlue Mint service with lie-flat seats and great food for about $1,200, and be there in 4 hours.
+André Garcia Yes, those were the days when only the rich (and celebrities) gambled on flying through snow, fog or rain and slamming into an unexpected mountain after being driven nearly deaf from roaring propeller motors. However, because airlines competed with ships and trains, the accoutrements of travel--fine dining, china, wine, etc were offered for flyers. The stuff limited to first-class and business-class these days.
And, the TSA lines were really short..
This is absolutely SURREAL, nice meals, legroom, wide seats, a cabin that's full of smiling, polite, well dressed, sub 200 pound Americans who've bathed within the last 24 hours, it's like I'm watching something
from an alternate parallel universe.
And smoked
+Bcf1967 Fergie The only thing I wish wasn't part of flying that time.. 😩
And people smoked on planes too so it would've smelt like shit flying in the 50s
Super Kyle
This was BBK
Before Burger King
Bruh Frog It's not that bad. I don't smoke, but the smell isn't bad.
I too am in the twilight of my life, as someone mentioned. I first flew by myself from Los Angeles to Oakland to visit my older sister one summer when I was 11. That was 1958.
I love watching these old films that depict the way life was for many of us who were there! It’s heartwarming to look back and remember what has gone by too fast in this life. Back then it was a great life. Simple, people were much more kind. It was segregated, but I didn’t do it, and I shouldn’t feel any the less happy about my youthful years and the way things were. As corny as this film is, I find it charming.
Well I hope you make your peace before you go
No, you didnt promote segregation but you should be aware most Caucasians, including you, benefited from segregation in so many wicked ways, right?
awesome.. you're so lucky to have been growing up in 50s and 60s in Cali, USA.. i envy you
@Asimzmn You know Less than 1% of those people spend their money on grills and cars right ? You will be surprised if are alive in the next 20 years to see how successful blacks will be .
@@thetravelerwonderfulworld9854 You ASSUMED Asimzmn meant blacks! Who's the racist NOW???
Mom and dad bought their first home in 1963 in Monterey.... walking distance to the ocean, 3 bedroom 2 bath and 1/2 acre of land.
Cost was a whopping $15,000! Mom said she was terrified of that 20 year mortgage payment, which was just over $100 a month.
Thanks to Congress, that 1963 $15,000 would be $126,000 today. All due to the devaluation of the dollar. But it was still a great investment! In Monterey that property is worth north of a couple million now. And that $100 a month? Today, that would be $837.87.
I wonder what their income was that $100 a month was terrifying. I hope that house is still in your family, as of course, it would be worth millions now. No more middle class.
"Only a few minutes drive and you are on the beach of Santa Monica.." - I can't imagine this!
Alexander Huzau seriously, everytime i go to Santa Monica, get raped in traffic getting there, and then get raped in traffic in SM, especially trying to leave the parking towers😂
@@mi16t And don't forget the homeless. "Change? Change? Got any spare change?"
Maybe at 3am lol
Alexander Huzau
The 2020 modern updated version substitutes “hours” for minutes, then adds a line about when you finally get there a ‘friendly’ cop points out with his taser the sign that says the beach is closed due to COVID-19(84)
At least he said “Hey You!”
That might be as friendly as it gets in modern LA
When that film was made, there were maybe 10 million people in California. Today there are four times that may.
I was a Navy crew chief on the Super Connie. The "living room" smoothness prevented a lot of fatigue on our long flights.
Oooh Henry had a pen. He is a catch.
With actor Richard Carlson on board, I expected the plane trip to be intercepted by a spaceship, with all the sci fi pictures he seemed to be in...
In 1956 with my 1951 black ford convertible we drove out to LA on our honeymoon and had a ball for a year and came back with more money than i left with because it was much cheaper to live in LA than NYC,at that time!
Good for you old timer.
ItsJustMarissa xo I said good for you. How is that hating?
take 2016 and SHOVE IT!!!!!!
Eisen J Eisen awesome
I might have been there too but I needed another try at this school of life
Back in the good ole days, people respected their elders. Today things are a mess.
The Connie was the most beautiful Passiger Air plane ever built!
YES!
I rarely, if never, heard my father gush (noun) about anything except Golf and the Connie.
@@markwiss Noun?
@@wholeNwon (noun) exaggerated effusiveness or enthusiasm. . NOT. (verb) - flow out in a rapid and plentiful stream (of a liquid), often suddenly.
@@markwiss Yup, I understood. So, which is the verb in the sentence you initially wrote?
If a noun, it might have been phrased, "...my father's gush..."; but, the question of the verb. If the action is yours and "heard" is the verb, the object might be considered a noun phrase to retain "gush" as a noun in the possession of you father.
Takes me back to that time a movie star we met on the plane insisted on taking us back to their house and provided meals and showing us around.
Lol, I have flown back to California many times haven't had that happen yet
Now it's high taxes,homeless sleeping in the streets, crooked politicians, high cost of livings.
What part of California are you from?
It was all in the plan
@@JBeyondReckless yep! The plan.
Their brief visit to San Diego actually shows footage of downtown Los Angeles, complete with City Hall towering in the background. Oh well.
What gets me is how much SF, LA have bridges or buildings still there today from this movie. Santa Anita is the same. The better thing was how incredible LA was (WAS). Even a few years later they were planning for water shortages and transportation issues due to over crowding. Man...the 50's were the best
SD1Chargers planning for water shortages and traffic I guess didn't work
Notice how clear the air was back then, little to no smog. I will say the smog is less now than 1960s when hordes of people moved to Southern California.
Why are people judging the past from an advertisement? Do they think the future should judge how great our lives are by our current ads?
It was all so bright and carefree and clean and everyone was so attractive, I tell you those were the days.
That ad was life unless you lived on a farm in the midwest in small towns. The ladies still wore hats to church. My uncle lived in suits & ties. Even in his 80’s he wore plaid flannel shirt with top button closed. Life was better & different. Demise of class started with computers and video games and kids drinking more & doing drugs. Liberal parents now.
@@jgrokoest2419 Ads are life? Like movies are historical records and TV is reality? No.
Ads are curated depictions of life to portray a desired life, not actual life.
This is not a critique of the accuracy of their garments in the ads either.
Pull your head out of the nostalgia sand.
"I can always rely on my Henry...he had a PEN" fancy smanshy Henry 😎
A Pen in those days was considered classy because they were new and expensive. Ball point pens were invented at the end of the 40's sometime. No one thinks twice about them today because they are so common, but when they were new it was all the rage, no longer did you have to fill up your pen with messy ink. You could carry one in your pocket and for the most part, not have to worry about it leaking, the epitome of modern new technology, it was a big deal to have one!
@@JENDALL714 Yep! It's so easy to take modern conveniences for granted
if i were a woman i would marry a man who carried a pen
Robert- that’s how a girl could spot a “keeper “
@@JENDALL714 My dad's younger business partner was a sucker for one of the first ballpoint pens produced in 1949. It cost $100. and immediately began leaking all over his white shirt.
If the people were asked, "How do you think flying will be 60 yrs from now?" I doubt they would said, "Full, see thru X-ray body scans and shoes off before boarding. $25 for first bag, $7 for the blanket, ditto for the pillow. Cramped in seating for max profits." Somethings do get worse with time.
BIRT Edu Flying is nowhere close to getting worse with time. A flight in 1955 from Boston to LA costed $106 which is equal to $930 with inflation today. Today, the same route can be flown for as little as $375. That flight in 1955 would have taken 12 hours to reach its destination vs. only 5-6 hours today. Planes are safer, quieter, larger, more efficient and faster. Flying has gotten dramatically cheaper and the service has gotten better; if you're willing to pay more money for first and business class, you will receive much better service and amenities today than any time in the past.
You say 60 years from now?! It's almost like that today!
I think he meant if you asked the people featured in the video...
A single trans-Atlantic ticket on one of these planes cost $400, so about the same as Concorde maybe? Almost no ordinary person flew on a scheduled air service, when there was an alternative method until the 1980s or so.
M.J. Leger Re-read the comment > 60 years from THEN = meaning today.
what happened to America? The future is for evolving into the better not the worse. I wasn't even born in the 50s, 60s, 70s or even the 80s or 90s. And I STILL would do anything to go back in live in those simple times without cell phones and laptops. when people were nice to strangers and u wouldn't have to lock your car door because you live in the ghetto. I wish I had experienced this. I truly do.
Dustin
Aka. divide and conquer.
+Fred Cox its a good thing that America has declined so much? What the fuck is wrong with you people? You delusional children dont understand that the minorities you love so much are part of the reason America is the way it is today, don't believe me? Go hang out in Detroit, Memphis, or Compton and tell me honestly that you feel safe
I've never met a movie star on a flight but I'm sure if I had they would of invited to their home and shown me around Hollywood as well. Those folks just haven't changed a bit.
Hahahahah!!!
sounds like the actor had other ideas in mind with the newlywed couple...
WAAHAHA. Smoke some more. What an idiot
@@drewg2024 He had camera ready!!
I bet it was group sex going on behind the scene while they were all using the Benzedrine bought on the airplane menu which was actually meth legally sold in nasal inhalers. Yes really...
What they aren't telling you was Eadie and Henry stayed for 26 weeks and refused to leave.
that’s what I would have done the first time I landed in California if I’d had the means, for sure!
Look how everybody is always well dressed, you never see it nowadays.
+Lt Col Speirs I guess we have the same style.
Yep they took pride in there appearance back then.
CoolKittyMxrissa xo no not lame it's called being clean
I still dress this way.......................
You think that because you're a metrosexual millennial douche, dumbass.
Notice the way the man crossed his legs with ease at about 4:02 . This was the equivalent of coach nowadays. Try easily crossing your legs on in most coach seats today.
+Adam N Well, can you imagine how much they payed for the flight?
The dystopian future we’ve all seen in movies isn’t the future anymore. We still want to believe we’re like newlyweds. Nope, the future is now.
Second hand smoke everywhere. The good ol days!
That is a fact!
And good for them !
Why does everything seem so happy back then? Looking back in times makes me feel like I was looking at another country, this is not the same America I'm used to.
Because it's a commercial.
People were just as miserable and fucked up as today, they just never talked about it
Appearances can be deceiving...Korean war and cold war bomb shelters isn't mentioned here..
Millennials are all idiots...they wouldn't know good from bad if it were shoved up their butts.
And I can tell you it was like that although there was a ugly dark side, crime, corruption in high places and racism. But it was well hidden. However, most could "tow the party line" because houses, cars etc. etc. was so cheap in LA in the 50's and 60's. Lots of jobs even for teenagers. Things started to turn to shit after Kennedy got blown away. Been all downhill with Viet Nam War, Watergate, Drugs, Gangs, The Bush Dynasty, 9/11 and endless fighting wars. Its all over. "Gone with the Wind"
those were the days when people cared about their clothing on flight
Yes, suit and tie, my friend! You didn't wear sweats on a flight, no siree.
***** well, actually nowadays I wear shorts and T-shirt on flight and my grandpa tells me I look like a bum! But I can't help it as I live in a tropical country
+Rohan G. Nair Exactly. If you wore jeans you'd boil.. 😩
I rather think it's fun to have an excuse to dress up. Does anyone remember party dresses and suits for children attending birthday parties? Half the experience for me was that pretty party dress! Also, notice the hat the older gentleman has in his lap. My grandfather never left the house without a similar hat.
That's true, but economics and regulation had a lot to do with it. Thee were no cheapo bargain airlines then. Only one or two carriers in some cities (more in the big cities), and tickets cost more then in comparison to the bus or train. Far fewer flights, because modern air traffic control was just getting set up. This all meant it was business people ( mostly men then) who flew or people with a comfortable amount of money.
Even when middle class and working class people flew they dressed up so as not to look out of place.
Now we have flying cattle cars today with low bred people crammed like sardines in a can. No wonder I hate flying and its not because I'm afraid. It's just such a stressed out hassle. But $7000 in business class to Europe?? Unless you can write it off as a deductible business expense or fly constantly and have all kinds of points to upgrade, how can you?
This is like a time travel.
Thank you...
I really liked this. Wow why does this give me a nostalgia I never had
My mom was a TWA "stew" as she called herself. She has stories of glamour, flight with Clarke Gabel and Tony Bennett - playing cards on the 10 hour flight from SF to NYC! Silver and china..good ol'days now, "can I even get a bag of peanuts?!"
+Susan Elizabeth Morosoli yes I know just flew from New York to Panama in January - 5 hour flight -no entertainment and had to pay for everything but soft drinks. I wouldn't have minded so much if I hadn't just flown from Scotland to NewYork.
SFO to NYC was about 8 hours.
Things were so different then. I wish I could turn the clock back to a day when our cops didn't look like soldiers and flying on an airline wasn't like going to prison.
Time have changed... and not for the better.
THM SGR
Being subjected to public humiliation, just to board a plane, *IS* like going to prison. Get fondled by a perverted TSA agent or submit to the full-body cancer-inducer... what a choice!
Redoubt South England is the same. Everyone wishes they could turn the clock back and stop the unnecessary immigration.
+philip Brailey you can, Britain belongs to its white natives
THM SGR i guess you haven't been through TSA lately...
Redoubt South true
Sad. A few years later a TWA Constellation and United DC7 plane ran into each other over the Grand Canyon in cloudy weather which in turn was when we realized we had no real air traffic control in place. It was the birth of air crash investigations as well as the first real thoughts of an ATC system.
Wasn't it in 1960 when a Constellation clipped a new jet over new York..All died on board no survivors...
And don't forget no metal detectors because Batista still ruled Cuba so the hijackers had no place to go.
@@mikelovetere4719 A little boy survived for a day. Was conscious after the crash. He landed in a pile of snow.
Debbie Downer in the house!
Old is gold....what a beautiful video
So I came back again a year later because of notifications of my last comment, I must say I still love this video and yes I still love this era. It isn’t a teenager phase I had. I’m 27 now and I still love vintage life, videos, culture, photos, and the way America was 🇺🇸
Lockheed Super Constellation, best and most beautiful plane ever made!!
Every time I see an old person in one of these videos and think they're not alive anymore.
Babies born today will say the same about you someday. Death and Taxes are the only guarantees in life.
@@PoM-MoM And they will still tax you after you die.
@@Paul-ou1rx Exactly. Let's hope this sticks... reform:
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1437/eliminate-estate-tax/
You do realize, there's a good chance that even the younger people in this specific video are not alive anymore.
@@Paul-ou1rx if one is wealthy give multiple gifts of $9,999. 👍
"Later that night, my Henry beat me for talking to another man."
Hillary Clintub until they got drunk
Richard did seem to have a "thing" for that young gal.
@Who likes beans HA! Nice reference. That would be cool though. LUCY STRIKE!
Lol
Who likes beans “in the future”
Well.... no internet, smartphones or snapchat, but looks like life wasn't so bad in those days!
Apart from smoking in the airplane cabin, 😤😥 Still, the age of delightful and majestic aircraft. 😌
everybody smoked, so it doesn't matter, compared to today..
X 9 and air conditioning
The 1950's was the era in America when a man was a man, and a woman was a woman.
Nowadays, so many effeminate men and semi-mascuiinized women.
America had changed for the worse, I am afraid.
You obviously have your head up your ass ! It's just nowdays everything's more out in the open + accepted. PS don't forget to use the colored bathroom only.
Bygone days. Different time, innocent time, different era. Never to be seen again.
Good
Innocent. I wonder if Emmett Till thinks that; unfortunately, he cant be asked.
@EpiDemic117 Yeah, and Africans turning Americans cities into the 3rd world.
@@0raffie0 Ghettos were also back then
Good. It was really racist
I live in Los Angeles, watching this video made me appreciate California like I've never been here before. Totally SOLD!
So Dick takes them home and of course films them at very close quarters in the pool. Then he takes them down the beach where he gets his great big telescope out (and he is not checking the shipping routes). What an outstanding video.
A promotion film, sure; however, in the 1950's air passengers (men, women, children) actually dressed for the occasion (men in suites, ties and women with hats and gloves). In 1957, I flew from Austin, Tx. to NYC on Continental's "Silver Service" flight. Yes, they served us using silver pitchers and cups on silver trays.
men in suites? To wear a suit as big as a suite, the man would have to be gargantuan.
Back in the days when EVERYONE dressed up for a plane ride regardless of the reason for the trip.
Animated Film Reviews i agree, back then i used to wear a cape and underwear on the outside of my tights. I always found people who wore sweats back then to be to unprofessional
Because they were the 1%
Or to go to a ball game!
Not only did everyone dress up back in the fifties but also up until the early1990's. Maybe we weren't wearing suits but at least we would wear a nice shirt and khakis.
Back when the dressed up to go to movie.
Interestingly found this beautiful video in 2019 only three months after my first visit to USA and that’s too beautiful Los Angeles flew from Winnipeg via Calgary ❤️❤️
Beautiful footage
The guy on the plane who said he was the actor Richard Carlson, actually was the actor.
Yeah, he was in one of my most favorite flicks of the 50's, " The Creature From the Black Lagoon", check it out.
Duh.
He's the star, Einstein !
Richard drives a Packard. The house that is shown as his is still there in Beverly Hills and still looks the same.. Almost next to the Beverly Hills Hotel. The park where George Michael was arrested at is across the street.
I believe that's his actual house and real wife, or is it real house and actual wife ?
"The restful calm of OLD AGE"
Old age is a(ShipWreck)
Since when is old age restful or calm? Ya still gotta get up and go to work nowadays.
@@LJRiley-io7nh Perhaps, But if you did it right, meaning paid off your house and stayed out of debt, you work because it keeps you healthy. Life is much better when you don't have a house payment, or debt.
@@craigslistrro709 aahh but we are not all given the same playing field.
@@LJRiley-io7nh Nobody has a level playing field, Everybody has obstacles to overcome.
Beautiful production, great TWA vintage memories!
I LOVE this video!
Great video...made me long for the good ole days
Very nice video. Thank you
I remember flying on props when I was a little kid. It was exciting watching the engines start up. I remember upon arrival, the pilot would often shut off the two outer engines (on four engined aircraft) taxiing in on only two engines.
We don't get a pillow any longer, Not even in first class and looks at how comfy those seats are! Not anymore :-(
Kizer Vonzinger those were all first class..
The 50's what an awesome time to live!
Yes, it was, although there,was a lot bubbling under the surface that would come bubbling up due to Ike's Vietnam Nam.
mega tron You mean the bracero program.
EXCEPT FOR DENTISTRY AND GAY RIGHTS.
JustAPerson Who cares about gay rights they need to keep that to themselves
Skyfire FUCK YOU HOMOPHOBE. YOU ARE PROBABLY A RACIST TOO.
Old is gold forever and thank you
This is so wonderful!
Women were gorgeous back then!
And with no stupid ass tattoos on them.
No brow, nose, lip or tongue piercings, either.
THELIONGUY1981 and no wigs!!😂😂
THELIONGUY1981 i find those things hot on a woman. Tats, piercings etc.
Yes they had respect for themselves and dressed appropriately
I can remember curtains on aircraft windows....and dressing up to get on an airplane....my mom dressed me of course....but you dressed up like you were going to church or something
Maybe as late as early 1990's? Why did everyone dress so nice years ago? Might we had been more cultured and family oriented back then when everything was personal, small business oriented, and not so corporate in nature like today?
Speaking of curtains on aircraft windows, my wife and I just flew to Honolulu and back, and everybody in the window seats, I mean EVERYBODY, had the shutters closed on their windows so they could stare at their little phone screens. What a dull lot people have become.
@@CaryCotterman When I flew in 1988 I read books and magazines in the plane, so now I read on my tablet, no difference.
@@CaryCotterman And what would passengers be doing if there were cell phones in 1952? Exactly
I remember dressing up before flights. Excellent in flight meals. Good memories.
Can’t watch these old neat videos without comments from the older generation who still wish it was 1957
Or in this case 52
In 1957 (or 1952, when this film was made), you could walk down the street in Los Angeles without seeing or smelling a hobo village or stepping in shit. Yep, I wish it was still that way.
Golly gee, what a swell little motion picture 😃
Those cool Constellation aircraft are so cool and represent such a nice era
we went from prop driven pleasure liners to jet powered flying city busses, something DEFINITELY went wrong
Flying back then was only accessable to the very rich; if you want a nice seat like those, buy first class
Classy people everywhere, even in San Francisco and L.A.
fmcprogrmr those days are gone ruined by Democrats
Classy in SF now means you shit on the grass not the sidewalk.
Wow...this brought back memories of my first flight on TWA when I was 10 yo. I fell in love with the stewardesses & wanted to be one. It was a beautiful plane & it feels like yesterday...thanks for the memories! xo
Well did you? Did you become a flight attendant? Or did your dreams not come true?
@skot66 don't forget this is a commercial, not real life in 1952
People _Do_ realize that this is a promotional video created by TWA and/or the State of California? I wouldn't take it as a completely accurate picture, but it does give a good general idea. Just that the people are probably a little bit more beautiful, and the smiles a little wider and faker, etc. It's an ad. Ads never change much.
No way! This wasn't a real honeymoon?
And the interior airplane shots were filmed in a studio unless the cameraman was riding on the wings
"Everything had been so perfect" I grew up in Pacific Palisades went to summer camp on Catalina, friends in Malibu, sunshine, parties, pretty girls, the beach, so heavenly.
Nothing perfect about racism and discrimination
@@josefromtexas much better today.well done
Life from another planet.
so clean and classy back then, love 1048
PAMAROSHOUSE
That was a LONG time ago... did they even have video cameras back then?
TheUtuber999 What? Did you watch the video? It was filmed by a camera. It’s authentic to the 50s.
@@masonm1124 in year 1048 😆
PAMAROSHOUSE yes I liked watching the crusades
Yes, California - no longer the country of my dreams but the country of wonderful memories... :)
I've been a Californian my whole life. Raised in SF and moved to the burbs in 57. My only complaint is overpopulation and congestion. It's killing the quality of life.
Ironically, the actor who played Henry (Richard Beedle) died on a plane crash in Peru 12 years later. Body was never recovered. He was William Holden's younger brother.
Well how nice. Around that time my folks were passengers in the colored section of the train leaving the south and headed to California.
Get a load of the gate at the airport right on the flight deck, you won't be seeing that today. Family & friends accompanied the traveler all the way to their aircraft. Oh those truly were the good old days.
"Served hot from special galley equipment !" (It's called an "oven" )..
As opposed to, "here's a box of GMO crap, that'll be $10..."
Actually a food warmer
This film was nominated for four academy awards.
I want to go back in time!!
@6:12 … "Oh, look, Henry!" "For God's sake, woman, I'm trying to sleep!"
mistofoles Lolol
Those were nice times, polite people, happy people...
Racist people
@@mmsibi moron
You realize this story is make believe, right?
amazing video
Wonderful picture perfect so very entertaining. It was a delight meeting these four lovely people. I hope that they all had a very happy and healthy abundant life and marriage lolx. 😀❤😀❤
*Only* 3 hours to San Diego! and NO guards at the Mexico border crossing...amazing! - definitely a different way of life. Fun to watch....
It's 2 hours to SD
Loved the empty freeways.
One thing is for sure, life back in the 50s was less crowded, less expensive, and was slower paced.
That one dude had a cute wife, Edie.
The first plane I flew in from Sydney to Port Moresby stopping at Brisbane and Rockhampton. The only security was a 4’6” fence on the tarmac where you said goodbye to your family.
Yes, the 1950's.... Home of the two-martini lunch, Las Vegas, Marilyn Monroe, and "The Apartment."
Not three-martini?
The Apartment was in the 60s
@@lanacastillo49 1960, to be exact, but a culmination of 50"s living I'd say!
My Wife says they (The Carlesons) would be arrested in these times for being too nice.
most likely killed.
Yep, not creating all ....
Wise words, Mrs. Peachie! 👍😊
fascinating times, how wonderful it was to fly o/b twa,pan am, airlines not to forget ever!
thank you for showing us how wonderful is california!
Flew by myself, age 5, 1952 from LA to NY. Two plane changes. Walk out onto the field. In those days, there were even sleeper areas on planes. Yes, people did dress up - and not just in the movies.
OH MY GOD! THE LA FREEWAY WITH NO TRAFFIC?
This is Fake News
What's the "LA Freeway?" The 5, 405, 91?
@@Dutchinvegas all of them you specific potato wedge
John McClain looks the same right now thanks to COVID-19 🤷🏼♀️
In 1952, there were only about 11 million people in California. Today there are almost 4 times that.
Monique MnK you stole my thunder
It must have been truly amazing to live in the post-WWII era. It was pretty much an era of building America. I know not everything was "Leave It To Beaver" for everyone, but it must have been amazing watching the interstate highway system being completed, technology beginning to explode, and industry reaching new levels of productivity and domination.
It wouldve been better if the Communists didnt win the war.
Yep. Truly a great country.
@@thecapone45 For degenerates and thieves. America is the new Babylon, perfect for the enemies of Christ
I think you might find the reality pretty scary. Everybody smoked, deaths from cancer was a certainty (I wouldn't be here bugging you, I'd be dead ), equal pay for women didn't exist, racial segregation. Be careful what you wish for.
@@johannesbols57 Only the South had segregation in the 50's, there had been improvements in that area but I agree with you that the strides that have been made since then or better, since the 20's, are staggering. I realize there are many making political capital on the way things were but it is ridiculous when there is nothing we can do about the past. Growing up in the North, people were frankly nicer to each other in stores, gas stations and neighborhoods. True most women did not work, but children were raised with respect and mothers looked out for their own children and others. Most children were reared by two parents, divorce was less and illegitimacy was rare. The only way a teenage boy could see a naked woman was by thumbing through National Geographic. Exhibitionism, slovenly behavior brought shame. We were taught not to swear, now one even hears our President using foul language. Being raised Jewish in a small town my parents taught me not only to respect black people but to go out of my way to help them as they had struggles much like Jews. My father purposely drove way out of his way to buy gas at a black owned station, contributed to both white and black charities and my mother taught me to always correct the other kids if they said something which would now be considered racist. We were raised to be respectful and call grown-ups sir, hold the door open for women and give our seats up to women and the elderly when we took the bus to the nearest small city. . Nearly every kids father had been in the War, including my Dad fighting in the South Pacific. I first learned about the concentration camps from an Italian friend, whose father helped liberate one. By the way, the strides against heart disease have increased the life span of American more than the strides against cancer. Men don't drop dead in their 50's of heart attacks nearly to the extent that they did in the fifties. There were many more young widows in their 40's and 50's back then.. So many of us are on statin drugs (developed by two Jewish doctors by the way) and Type Two diabetes is far better controlled. My mother was from California so I flew cross country three times in the 50's and the flight portrayed was pretty well accurate ( except I remember getting little wing pins, and loved the spearmint gum they gave out). I remember one time we took United and they had "Red carpet" service where they rolled out a red carpet. The best seats at a major league park cost $3.50, hot roasted peanuts were 10 cents and we kids idolized baseball players. We did not have color TV but B&W was fine. We watched the Saturday TV shows like Lassie, Rootie-Kazootie, Fury, Rin-Tin_Tin and then went out to play. Sometimes, we went to the local theater and spent the whole afternoon watching movies, a serial, newsreel....for 25 cents. The theater would be packed with kids, who would bump into each other coming out as our pupils adjusted. I could go onbut you get the drift.
Good job Henry!
great vid, thx