How did people dress in 1940's Los Angeles? They dressed GOOD! Men in suit and tie with a hat, women in dresses and nice shoes. In those days you didn't go out in public dressed like a slob, like most people do today.
Mom used to ask are you presentable? Of course! Today not always... My Dad always looked decked out; mom too!! It is the filthyness of downtown that is unacceptable!!
Growing up on a family farm, Dad lived in overalls and Mom in plain housedresses. But going to town, it was jacket and tie for Dad and a tailored suit for Mom. It was that way for most everyone. Looking your best in public was a point of pride.
We were poor and lived in the country back in the 60s but when we went to town or church we wore something nice and cleaned up.we could dress very well on someone's hand me downs. I have money now but I am well dressed even with good will clothes
I love your comment about "the one guy with his pants pulled down exposing his underwear". When this vulgarity surfaced (in the late 1990s or early 2000s?), I was utterly disgusted!
I’m with you. I can remember my parents talking about getting dressed up to go to town. I really hate how people look and act today. This was a little before my time but I could go back and live in this era very easily.
@@michaelbenardo5695 The point to be taken from the comment is before the days of fast food and most of the processed food of today, people worked much more and eating was somewhat more healthy. Thanks for the high rate of obesity Ray Kroc.
@@dave1956 People didn't eat out nearly as often as today because eating out was expensive and, therefore, regarded as a special treat. The restaurants, diners, lunch counters, and soda fountains were a daily occurrence for a minute portion of the population, not for the average American, as today. Home cooking was regarded as ideal eating. The average diet of people was, if anything, worse than diets today. People were more prone to harder physical labor than today because many labor-saving appliances today were either nonexistent in the 1940's or in more primitive form that didn't save as much labor as they do today. Food options were not as plentiful as we have today. Note to commentators: this film looks as if it might've been filmed in 1945 or 1946. Bear in mind that war rationing was in place and, while each American family was allotted what was thought to be enough food for a family of 6, on average, food was consumed carefully and made to last the entire month until new rations were allotted. Meat was particularly scarce, so a family's diet had to rely more on vegetables and white carbohydrates to be satisfactory to most civilians. So calorie consumption was more measured than today, where there is no rationing and the food choices and quantities are extraordinary.
My mom and my aunts would "dress" to got "downtown". Hats and dresses and nylons and sometimes gloves. It was like going to a wedding or something for the clothes they'd wear. Now I see people in the city in pajama pants.
Note the absence of human excrement and used syringes on the sidewalk. Also no piles of rotting trash and shopping carts doubling as mobile homes anywhere. Ahh, there's nothing like progress, is there? Coming soon to a city near you.
There are 2 identifiable businesses in the film -- "Hamner and Sons" and "Kelly Music". Both buildings are still standing as of 2024 in Westwood Village, CA, adjacent to the UCLA campus. Hamner and Son building is located at 1093 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, and Kelly Music building is located at 1043 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (currently an Italian restaurant).
I am 74, born in 1950. Until about 1965 each and every time my parents took me to a restaurant, I would have to be dressed in a sport coat and tie. Then, slowly, things started to change and casualness creeped in, as well as casual manners and misbehaved kids (whose parents defended such behavior as "kids being kids"). Funny how I was never permitted to be a "kids being kids", something that I am always thankful for. - David Lyga
@@vintagerecordambassadeur4098 I check the minimum wage for 1950. It was 75 Cents per hour. That translates in 2024 buying power to $9.72 per hour. I also checked the average worker's annual wages in 1950. That was $3, 300. 00. In 2024 money, that's $42, 767.00.........In 2023, the average worker's wage was $59, 384.
@@donneary7104 So, if you were making 50000 today but your house rent was only 520 that seems pretty doable. That would be about one eighth your monthly income. But, not the reality overall today. Rents are way up there!
@@michelles2299 "No obese people" was the result of having a good, RAIL-BASED public transit system (LA had TWO!); it's precisely the excessive use of rubber tires and steering wheels, among other things, that caused the obesity epidemic.
The immorals of today would jail people then, 2024 will never have the right to decide what is moral, it isn't exact the resounding example of modality. The only thing people did wrong in that era was the SMALL majority whom were racist, the 2% who were actually sexist in society (women were treated like goddeses at the time, I don't know how society today thinks the opposite), and lets not forget that period modern movies have never represented real life then, and are made by a director narratizing dislikable features where if you were to travel back to 1940 in Los Angeles, you would hardly ever find them, sometimes never since this was real life, not a storied look at an era. Most people today would fight you on the people walking down this street in the video if you hadn't shown them, they'd argue that only the top 1% were wearing these outfits and that you were crazy and seeing the era through rose colored glasses (heard that one MANY times by hateful fiends who make it their living duty to work harder at gatekeeping a random era they've never studied past rumors and misconceptions..., than trying to be successful in life)
I think that you have to split it down to specific things. Basic decency, politeness, civic and personal pride have been lost, but I wouldn't want to go back to their attitudes towards women and race.
@@AsherMolina Why don't blacks segregate themselves from whites, build yourself a Wakanda here in America. But NO you guys have to follow us where ever we are happy and leech off us and our success.
Yeah, but why didn’t they wear clothes with stable colors? I never saw sport coats and dresses that constantly change color like that. This looks like something you might have seen on a prototype color TV in about 1952.
Agreed. Late 1940s perhaps, but the moment the economy picked up, the girls started wearing full skirts and dumped the shoulder pads. I didn't see cars that looked like 1950s either.
To everyone complaining about today's fashion, there's honestly nothing stopping any of us from dressing up nicely when going out. Sure, most men would prefer to ditch the tie, most women the high heels. But we can choose to dress nicely (while also remaining comfortable). Even in 2024.
We have fantastic patriotic Hispanic-Americans and Mexican-Americans going all the way back to the Alamo and earlier. In fact, one of them is my closest veteran friend on a personal level. However, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot in L.A. in 1943 is a different story. Those were Mexicans (including illegals?) who were NOT patriotic and not helping with the war effort at a dangerous time. Instead, they were "rolling" (or robbing) drunk U.S. sailors as they staggered back across that area of bars from a late night out. The sailors, naturally, finally got fed up with it and took matters into their own hands when it happened one more time. They went in and "cleaned house" on the perpetrators. Today's PC media, Hollywood, and Wiki-liars are not likely to tell you the truth of what happened. Instead, get ORIGINAL sources. Get the LIFE magazine issue, for example, from 1943 (which I have read). It's the same with Executive Order 9066 and the temporary relocation of the ethnic Japanese in the West Coast Defense Zone. Today's media LIES about it. Get an original source reference such as WWII Japanese Relocation Camps & the WRA: A Prudent, Emergency, War-time Measure by Cain for the true story.
The obesity causing Adventist cult food pyramid and the never proven lipid hypothesis did not exist. Most people can not lose weight and keep it off on the same diet advice that farmers use to fatten livestock cheaply. But some can. They use those people to gaslight everyone else. To contol weight you need to control insulin. The old 1950s British diet in the prologue of Good Calories, Bad Calories is such a diet. Also you need to get pancreas destroying seed oils out of the diet as well.
@JAZZ4643lindy The obesity epidemic was caused by the excessive overproliferation of rubber tires and steering wheels. Being forced into the use of a motor vehicle for extended time periods, coupled with drive-thru restaurants, equals a recipe for a mass medical disaster.
*...and then, one day, someone said, "_Hell no, I don't want to spend the day hot and uncomfortable in all these clothes+." Over time, others followed suit and eventually all hell broke loose...*
For centuries, since the Middle Ages, men and women of a certain class always tried to look their best, till the mid-1960s. It all changed in the late 1960s - with Carnaby Street in London, the Sergeant Pepper LP by the Beatles, hippies, long hair and beards for men..." anything goes" since then!
Hello, I would really like to see more videos of Cuba from the past decades of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s. I am Cuban and I am very excited to see more. I congratulate you on your editing work. God bless you.
I've seen this film before elsewhere. It was a commercial Film made for one of the stores. The proplr walking by are models and actors, so of course they are well dressed and attractive.
I've watched this beautiful video several times. Now, I'm quite sure it's STAGED. Several people in the video appear twice or more on the same street or in different locations. At the beginning of the video, a well-dressed, middle-aged woman, wearing a hat, carrying a handbag and with a sexy gait, appears on the scene, looks left and moves on. She's shown in a different location. Another middle-aged woman, a pretty blonde who looks like a movie star, appears twice in different locations. A good-looking man, who seems to be in his early 40s, wearing a well-draped suit, appears at the beginning of the video, returns in front of the camera, and walks as if he's on a march.
The gradual change in western society is shocking... particularly in Western Europe. The reasons are mostly obvious, but given the clamp down on free speech it's best not to elaborate...
Yes, I like this video but I'm beginning to have second thoughts about it. It looks too good to be true. Everybody is perfectly dressed. It seems to be STAGED, just like a movie. At the beginning of the video, notice the way some people walk. For instance, the woman with a handbag and her "sexy walk", looking to the left & then moving on. Or note the way some of the men walk. It's as if they were told to go in front of the camera - and just walk! I wonder what other viewers think.
I wonder if this is authentic documentary or if it’s staged for a movie? This looks like GVs and long shots for a movie. The same woman appears in 3 shots, maybe a stand-in in long shots for a leading character? No one looks at the camera placed on the sidewalk. At that time people did dress formally and attractively, but everyone here is perfectly costumed, there are no children or old people and almost no one blue collar. One person has a pipe, looks unlit, no one is smoking. Everyone looks choreographed. All the cars are latest models and sparkling clean, there are no trades vehicles with signage and the streets are perfect. Just an observation.
How they dress they dressed decent they dress etiquette they dress like human beings should be the address in according to the way they live it's beautiful we can never come back to that we today people look like s*** everywhere they go
It was WW2 that put millions of people, even buck privates, into hats and neatly tailored suits for military dress, and for the next 30y or so, that population wore the same styles. Before the war people wore work clothes out and about, so you would see more dungarees and overalls on the street. 30y after the war, they switched to leisure wear, which is where we are now.
Answer: Desegregation, feminism, social Marxism taught in colleges across America starting in the 1960's, The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the most important the invention of television and the internet. You want to go back then turn back all I mention and it will be like a time machine back.
Ted Kennedy and 1965 Immigration Act (followed up by the Refugee Act of 1980). The voters of Massachusetts kxxled the nation. "Land of the free" and "pursuit of happiness" are gone, thanks to Ted.
SoCal went wrong as soon as the two rail-based public transit systems were removed in favor of Hitler's imported autobahn, which encouraged the excessive use of rubber tires and steering wheels....
It seems that people wore the most amazing color-changing clothing then. 😮 Even the automobiles could color shift. Boy, wouldn't that be cool if we knew their technological secrets today?
While the joke is hilarious, 13% of automobiles at the time were colored metallics like dark pine green pearlescent, iridescent maroon, silver bullet gray, mayan gold, indian sunburn poly, even metallic biege which was a pearl finish (much better than the "pearl" tesla has)
They over did it with the honking horns. You seldom heard that, even in the later years. They made it sound like a city in India where they have no traffic lights, or traffic lanes. That's where you hear honking horns. Other than that, I enjoyed the video. Wish people dressed better today.
This is barely Los Angeles but rather a high-end neighborhood on the far westside. It must also have been filmed during the cooler months because I can not imagine overdressing like this on a daily basis during the warmer and hotter months in SoCal. If they did, I would like to know some of the tips they employed to avoid constant perspiration and related issues.
I agree with all the comments . I like to look nice when I fo out and encourage my children and grandchildren to do so as well. We really don't need to look like slobs at home either.
I noticed that while the women wore dresses, most had very low heels on. 1 to 3 inchs. Not 4 or 5 inch heels. Shoes that can be worn with a dress, but are also practical for walking. I can not wear heels. Extreme pain from the moment they go on. The last time I wore them was at a wedding for 3 hours. I took them off and walked barefoot back to the car. 2 1/2 inch. I manage to find comfortable, but dressy, sandals to wear with summer dresses last year.
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So beautiful! Elegant people, clean streets, safety...I feel as we live in a hell now.
Seee
there are still sections of Los Angeles which are almost the same as in this footage. such as Uptown Whittier or Old Torrance.
The blessings of cultural enrichment.
@@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf Indeed! Los Angeles has a more vibrant culture now than in the 1940's.
@@caraqueno uglier too in most respects, but as time goes on we can hope for change!
I LOVE the 1930's-1950's scenes. Men and women dressed so nicely back then. Something that's sadly lacking Today! Thanks for the upload.
How did people dress in 1940's Los Angeles? They dressed GOOD! Men in suit and tie with a hat, women in dresses and nice shoes. In those days you didn't go out in public dressed like a slob, like most people do today.
Totally agree!
Mom used to ask are you presentable? Of course! Today not always...
My Dad always looked decked out; mom too!!
It is the filthyness of downtown that is unacceptable!!
100% agree ! You took the words right out of my mouth.
You don't see Men and Women with tattoo's all over their arms. Not particularly appealing.
Thats cause they had good upbringing and morals, no look at me freaks like today.@@vernpascal1531
Growing up on a family farm, Dad lived in overalls and Mom in plain housedresses. But going to town, it was jacket and tie for Dad and a tailored suit for Mom. It was that way for most everyone. Looking your best in public was a point of pride.
We were poor and lived in the country back in the 60s but when we went to town or church we wore something nice and cleaned up.we could dress very well on someone's hand me downs. I have money now but I am well dressed even with good will clothes
"looking your best in public was a point of pride". You're right - and not only in America but also in Europe and other countries as well!
Never went downtown SF in the late 50s without dressing nicely.
@@lindaa.5740 As opposed to Los Angeles, San Francisco is, at the VERY LEAST, a true, real city!
Did you see that one guy with his pants pulled down exposing his underwear ? Me neither. Our current culture is degenerate.
Agreed
I love your comment about "the one guy with his pants pulled down exposing his underwear". When this vulgarity
surfaced (in the late 1990s or early 2000s?), I was utterly disgusted!
Right!!
Yes! And all the grown women with blue hair.
Aggressive capitalism
They dressed better back then than they do now
💯💯💯
verdade . True.
People had far mose class back then.
What? No fat, scantily clad, tattoo covered people? No guys with man buns? Wish we could go back to those days...
I’m with you. I can remember my parents talking about getting dressed up to go to town. I really hate how people look and act today. This was a little before my time but I could go back and live in this era very easily.
I have no objections to heavy people, but I agree with the rest of what you are saying.
@@michaelbenardo5695
The point to be taken from the comment is before the days of fast food and most of the processed food of today, people worked much more and eating was somewhat more healthy. Thanks for the high rate of obesity Ray Kroc.
Lol
@@dave1956 People didn't eat out nearly as often as today because eating out was expensive and, therefore, regarded as a special treat. The restaurants, diners, lunch counters, and soda fountains were a daily occurrence for a minute portion of the population, not for the average American, as today. Home cooking was regarded as ideal eating. The average diet of people was, if anything, worse than diets today. People were more prone to harder physical labor than today because many labor-saving appliances today were either nonexistent in the 1940's or in more primitive form that didn't save as much labor as they do today. Food options were not as plentiful as we have today. Note to commentators: this film looks as if it might've been filmed in 1945 or 1946. Bear in mind that war rationing was in place and, while each American family was allotted what was thought to be enough food for a family of 6, on average, food was consumed carefully and made to last the entire month until new rations were allotted. Meat was particularly scarce, so a family's diet had to rely more on vegetables and white carbohydrates to be satisfactory to most civilians. So calorie consumption was more measured than today, where there is no rationing and the food choices and quantities are extraordinary.
Remember that people had their dress clothes and their everyday clothes. Their clothes were good quality & they had fewer clothes than today.
My mom and my aunts would "dress" to got "downtown". Hats and dresses and nylons and sometimes gloves. It was like going to a wedding or something for the clothes they'd wear. Now I see people in the city in pajama pants.
Nicely dressed. What a mess we are today. The don't care look is what we have now or anything g goes.
Sunny,clean,prosperous , people with self respect.
Note the absence of human excrement and used syringes on the sidewalk. Also no piles of rotting trash and shopping carts doubling as mobile homes anywhere. Ahh, there's nothing like progress, is there? Coming soon to a city near you.
Courtesy of your local Liberal Progressives.
Lol, totally agree brother!!
What, no Walmart plastic bags in the bushes?
In Ike's day, the US population was about 150 - 180 million. Today, it's around 332 million. More people, more mire to sink into.
@@stephenspence1192
LA was a great city. Big but clean. It all ended in the 60's. How many tents and drug addicts did you see in this video?
NONE.
Zero.
Cost of living was also much, much cheaper!!
Another thing you don't see in that video are minorities. You're focusing on the negative.
@@MikeTMike So, you're conclusion is that minorities equal negatives?
There are 2 identifiable businesses in the film -- "Hamner and Sons" and "Kelly Music". Both buildings are still standing as of 2024 in Westwood Village, CA, adjacent to the UCLA campus. Hamner and Son building is located at 1093 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, and Kelly Music building is located at 1043 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (currently an Italian restaurant).
Interesting comment! (I was wondering how many buildings seen in this video are still standing.)
Thank you. Wondering where that was.
Before freeways and parking lots tore the city apart, people did a lot more walking.
I just CAN'T stop mentioning that very same fact throughout this post!
Notice how CLEAN the streets were, and NO vandalism?
I am 74, born in 1950. Until about 1965 each and every time my parents took me to a restaurant, I would have to be dressed in a sport coat and tie. Then, slowly, things started to change and casualness creeped in, as well as casual manners and misbehaved kids (whose parents defended such behavior as "kids being kids"). Funny how I was never permitted to be a "kids being kids", something that I am always thankful for. - David Lyga
this is when a person could rent a 2 bedroom house with a yard & garage for around $40.00 a month in Los Angeles.
And the G.I. Bill for all those 12 million WWII vets paid $90 a month while they were in school.
I did a quick inflation calculator on what the buying power of $40 in 1948 would equal in 2024. The answer is $520.00.
Pretty expensive when you make .35 cents an hour
@@vintagerecordambassadeur4098 I check the minimum wage for 1950. It was 75 Cents per hour. That translates in 2024 buying power to $9.72 per hour. I also checked the average worker's annual wages in 1950. That was $3, 300. 00. In 2024 money, that's $42, 767.00.........In 2023, the average worker's wage was $59, 384.
@@donneary7104 So, if you were making 50000 today but your house rent was only 520 that seems pretty doable. That would be about one eighth your monthly income. But, not the reality overall today. Rents are way up there!
The women look beautifully feminine.👍👍
And the men were well-dressed, handsome and sexy! (A male admirer)
This is the 40's. Women didn't wear paded shouldes in the 50's. This looks to be about 1947 going by the clothing and cars.
I agree and no obese people
@@michelles2299 "No obese people" was the result of having a good, RAIL-BASED public transit system (LA had TWO!); it's precisely the excessive use of rubber tires and steering wheels, among other things, that caused the obesity epidemic.
Very Dapper Dressers InThis Era, My Grandparents And Great Grandparents Days🎥👍
Paradise….my mother first came to Long Beach in 1950 from winter Pennsylvania……she thought she had died and had gone to heaven……now you just may die
America's greatest generation!
I can only imagine the stares I would get wearing my usual attire of a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops if I were suddenly transported back to then! 😲
I suggest you get a bit of pride in yourself and stop dressing like a slob.
Exactly what happened to us people look like thay are, wearing undergarments outside
Not 1950s, although pretty. This footage is 1940s.
As the disruption says. 1940's.
Looked like a mini New York fashionable, classy,people walking shopping....wish there was a time machine
They say the morals of that time would be unacceptable today. I say the immorals of today would be unacceptable then.
The immorals of today would jail people then, 2024 will never have the right to decide what is moral, it isn't exact the resounding example of modality. The only thing people did wrong in that era was the SMALL majority whom were racist, the 2% who were actually sexist in society (women were treated like goddeses at the time, I don't know how society today thinks the opposite), and lets not forget that period modern movies have never represented real life then, and are made by a director narratizing dislikable features where if you were to travel back to 1940 in Los Angeles, you would hardly ever find them, sometimes never since this was real life, not a storied look at an era.
Most people today would fight you on the people walking down this street in the video if you hadn't shown them, they'd argue that only the top 1% were wearing these outfits and that you were crazy and seeing the era through rose colored glasses (heard that one MANY times by hateful fiends who make it their living duty to work harder at gatekeeping a random era they've never studied past rumors and misconceptions..., than trying to be successful in life)
I think that you have to split it down to specific things. Basic decency, politeness, civic and personal pride have been lost, but I wouldn't want to go back to their attitudes towards women and race.
@@freebornjohn26874/23/2024: Love your comment and I agree. 🎯👍🏾🎺🤍
No rap, no pants hanging off the arse, no booty shorts. These people were very classy. Todays generations are bankrupt and lost.
Agreed
Segregation, Jim crow, no civil rights protection. Nope. I'll stay here and deal with the man buns, tattoos etc
@@AsherMolina Why don't blacks segregate themselves from whites, build yourself a Wakanda here in America. But NO you guys have to follow us where ever we are happy and leech off us and our success.
Yeah, but why didn’t they wear clothes with stable colors? I never saw sport coats and dresses that constantly change color like that. This looks like something you might have seen on a prototype color TV in about 1952.
I love the part about "no rap, no pants hanging off his arse"! (Today's generations are degenerate & desperate!)
Those were the days … of elegance and style 😢
Hats!
Elegance.
And cars with character.
And then the cars became overproliferated, and the entire area went straight to an Earthly HELL!!
This looks more like 1940s.
Agree.
It is the 40s. Look at the cars. Not one 1950s car in the video.
Agreed. Late 1940s perhaps, but the moment the economy picked up, the girls started wearing full skirts and dumped the shoulder pads. I didn't see cars that looked like 1950s either.
@Joe ConanIndeed. 😉
To everyone complaining about today's fashion, there's honestly nothing stopping any of us from dressing up nicely when going out. Sure, most men would prefer to ditch the tie, most women the high heels. But we can choose to dress nicely (while also remaining comfortable). Even in 2024.
That's true, but back then everyone dressed nicely, which made everything look good.
Now every woman has the same outfit, black yoga pants a tshirt and flip flops, ha h a
And tattoos......ugh!!
And definitely never any of the fairer one with tattoos!
The yoga pants are not as bad as the pajamas and socks & crocs that has become a trend of late.
That maybe in LA..I don't dress like that.
Better in black and white. This color tells you nothing it changes constantly
Now that's the way to look sharp. Not like today, people wearing fricken pj's !!! And wearing their pants down around their ankles !!!!!
There are people and there are slobs.
The way it used to be, no more it's all over............................
Earth will bury us for sake of survival but not the animals.
we had way more class back in the day.
The beautiful women back then were classy and absolutely breathtaking!!! The 1940s were a young mans paradise! Perfect era to find a wife.
They dressed a lot nicer than society today.
A magical time,. Marvelous
even the bums and hobo's dressed up well.
It is gorgeous, respectable, high class, impeccably dressed people because then it was nice white and bright, get my drift?
"WHITE", HUH?!
Que bella época, la gente bien vestida, presentable, hace contraste con la pésima e impresentable vestimenta que se observa hoy en día.
So where is all the trash? Looks like a sane place to be.
1940’s Los Angeles - when even the zoot suiters looked classy
We have fantastic patriotic Hispanic-Americans and Mexican-Americans going all the way back to the Alamo and earlier. In fact, one of them is my closest veteran friend on a personal level. However, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot in L.A. in 1943 is a different story. Those were Mexicans (including illegals?) who were NOT patriotic and not helping with the war effort at a dangerous time. Instead, they were "rolling" (or robbing) drunk U.S. sailors as they staggered back across that area of bars from a late night out. The sailors, naturally, finally got fed up with it and took matters into their own hands when it happened one more time. They went in and "cleaned house" on the perpetrators. Today's PC media, Hollywood, and Wiki-liars are not likely to tell you the truth of what happened. Instead, get ORIGINAL sources. Get the LIFE magazine issue, for example, from 1943 (which I have read). It's the same with Executive Order 9066 and the temporary relocation of the ethnic Japanese in the West Coast Defense Zone. Today's media LIES about it. Get an original source reference such as WWII Japanese Relocation Camps & the WRA: A Prudent, Emergency, War-time Measure by Cain for the true story.
THANKS A THOUSAND Times for this lovely, informative video! I was born in 1953 and that period for me was sweet and peaceful.
I was born in the late 50’s. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
One of the BEST decades (sweet memories!)
The obesity and narcissism epidemic walks the streets today..
I don't care about other people's weight.
@@michaelbenardo5695 I do, its sight pollution.
The obesity causing Adventist cult food pyramid and the never proven lipid hypothesis did not exist.
Most people can not lose weight and keep it off on the same diet advice that farmers use to fatten livestock cheaply. But some can. They use those people to gaslight everyone else.
To contol weight you need to control insulin. The old 1950s British diet in the prologue of Good Calories, Bad Calories is such a diet. Also you need to get pancreas destroying seed oils out of the diet as well.
@@michaelbenardo5695 You WOULD, if one of them accidentally FELL ON YOU....
@JAZZ4643lindy The obesity epidemic was caused by the excessive overproliferation of rubber tires and steering wheels. Being forced into the use of a motor vehicle for extended time periods, coupled with drive-thru restaurants, equals a recipe for a mass medical disaster.
*...and then, one day, someone said, "_Hell no, I don't want to spend the day hot and uncomfortable in all these clothes+." Over time, others followed suit and eventually all hell broke loose...*
For centuries, since the Middle Ages, men and women of a certain class always tried to look their best, till the mid-1960s. It all changed in the late 1960s - with Carnaby Street in London, the Sergeant Pepper LP by the Beatles, hippies, long hair and beards for men..." anything goes" since then!
Hello, I would really like to see more videos of Cuba from the past decades of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s. I am Cuban and I am very excited to see more. I congratulate you on your editing work. God bless you.
I've seen this film before elsewhere. It was a commercial Film made for one of the stores. The proplr walking by are models and actors, so of course they are well dressed and attractive.
I miss having good hats.
Opening says 50's, this is obviously the 40's.
Voice-over at start says 1950s.....but written title says 1940s
There will be a return to civility and refinement but long after my time. Probably 100 years or so from now.
Compared to the way they dress now...
Everyone has hats on!
Streets look clean! …love the way people dress…..No homeless urinating on the streets!….love it😘👍😘
Hats and Pipes 😃
So classy and clean.
Wow, nice to know everyone was wearing color shifting blue/purple/orange fabric. AMAZING
Cars too. Wish they had that kind of car paint now. I remember when color shifting paint was popular in the late 90s/early 00s
😆😆😆😆😆
My mom and dad were born in 1943 and still around, but I don't know for how long 😢😢😢 I hug them every day ❤❤❤
Voice is wrong. This is the late 40s, just like the title says.
I've watched this beautiful video several times. Now, I'm quite sure it's STAGED. Several people in the video appear twice or more on the same street or in different locations. At the beginning of the video, a well-dressed, middle-aged woman, wearing a hat, carrying a handbag and with a sexy gait, appears on the scene, looks left and moves on. She's shown in a different location. Another middle-aged woman, a pretty blonde who looks like a movie star, appears twice in different locations. A good-looking man, who seems to be in his early 40s, wearing a well-draped suit, appears at the beginning of the video, returns in front of the camera, and walks as if he's on a march.
I also thought that it was made for rear projection in a movie.
My memory of then was that of very mild times very calm ❤
The gradual change in western society is shocking... particularly in Western Europe. The reasons are mostly obvious, but given the clamp down on free speech it's best not to elaborate...
Beautiful and classy I love it 🥰
I grew up in the Valley in the 1950s where people dressed more casually. But when we went "over the hill" to "downtown" this is what I recall.
I’m glad these historical videos - Chicago, LA, NYC - exist for they clearly document the progressive end of civilization.
Diagonal curbside parking without meters! I grew up in the 50-60. We really did dress up to go shopping. We wore hats, gloves to church.
Y así vestian cualquier dia de la semana, ni hablar los sábados, cines, bailes, teatros, reuniones con amigos, qué época!!!
Un trabajo de restauración bien hecho .
Ricardo Alegria Zambrano
Popayan cauca Colombia
Great ..... beautiful time , afortunados los que vivieron en esa epoca
They dressed a lot better than we do today.
I love it
My ancestors dressed this way. They could be in one of these videos! They lived all around LA and Hollywood.
I’d like to see European heritage dominated age even though I am not.
is that a fancy way of saying you'd like to see a society where only white people exist
because that's everyone's secret dream
Hermoso 😍
Man, suits must be flying off the shelves, a go to clothing option back in the days.😅
I wish I knew where in L.A. this was filmed. It looks vaguely familiar.
Yes, I like this video but I'm beginning to have second thoughts about it. It looks too good to be true. Everybody is perfectly dressed. It seems to be STAGED, just like a movie. At the beginning of the video, notice the way some people walk. For instance, the woman with a handbag and her "sexy walk", looking to the left & then moving on. Or note the way some of the men walk. It's as if they were told to go in front of the camera - and just walk! I wonder what other viewers think.
I wonder if this is authentic documentary or if it’s staged for a movie? This looks like GVs and long shots for a movie. The same woman appears in 3 shots, maybe a stand-in in long shots for a leading character? No one looks at the camera placed on the sidewalk. At that time people did dress formally and attractively, but everyone here is perfectly costumed, there are no children or old people and almost no one blue collar. One person has a pipe, looks unlit, no one is smoking. Everyone looks choreographed. All the cars are latest models and sparkling clean, there are no trades vehicles with signage and the streets are perfect. Just an observation.
🇺🇸 The pinnacle of American civilization : post-war but before TV 📺 entered every home. 🏡
In the beginning of the video, they sure over did it with the honking sound effects. People weren't that impatient back then.
There was also MUCH MORE RAIL-BASED PUBLIC TRANSIT back then as well!
How they dress they dressed decent they dress etiquette they dress like human beings should be the address in according to the way they live it's beautiful we can never come back to that we today people look like s*** everywhere they go
It was WW2 that put millions of people, even buck privates, into hats and neatly tailored suits for military dress, and for the next 30y or so, that population wore the same styles. Before the war people wore work clothes out and about, so you would see more dungarees and overalls on the street. 30y after the war, they switched to leisure wear, which is where we are now.
Where did we go so wrong?
Answer: Desegregation, feminism, social Marxism taught in colleges across America starting in the 1960's, The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the most important the invention of television and the internet. You want to go back then turn back all I mention and it will be like a time machine back.
Ted Kennedy and 1965 Immigration Act (followed up by the Refugee Act of 1980). The voters of Massachusetts kxxled the nation. "Land of the free" and "pursuit of happiness" are gone, thanks to Ted.
Когда негров сделали равными и пустили мигрантов не из белых стран.
SoCal went wrong as soon as the two rail-based public transit systems were removed in favor of Hitler's imported autobahn, which encouraged the excessive use of rubber tires and steering wheels....
i950s just only imagine when the true Decade of the 1950s will come how developed we will be ? We are totally in a wrong Time-Line.
You got that right
@@kenward7203 thnx respect
It seems that people wore the most amazing color-changing clothing then. 😮 Even the automobiles could color shift. Boy, wouldn't that be cool if we knew their technological secrets today?
While the joke is hilarious, 13% of automobiles at the time were colored metallics like dark pine green pearlescent, iridescent maroon, silver bullet gray, mayan gold, indian sunburn poly, even metallic biege which was a pearl finish (much better than the "pearl" tesla has)
They over did it with the honking horns. You seldom heard that, even in the later years. They made it sound like a city in India where they have no traffic lights, or traffic lanes. That's where you hear honking horns. Other than that, I enjoyed the video. Wish people dressed better today.
It looks nice because it was filmed in a nice area. Society hasn’t changed much
It looks like a movie set
The clothing technology was amazing back then wasn’t it? It’s incredible how their clothes changed color as they walked along!
This is barely Los Angeles but rather a high-end neighborhood on the far westside. It must also have been filmed during the cooler months because I can not imagine overdressing like this on a daily basis during the warmer and hotter months in SoCal. If they did, I would like to know some of the tips they employed to avoid constant perspiration and related issues.
Awesome
I agree with all the comments . I like to look nice when I fo out and encourage my children and grandchildren to do so as well. We really don't need to look like slobs at home either.
Beautiful video
Time when men were men and women were women and God was present.
He's STILL just as present TODAY as He was back then; the Bible clearly mentions that.
May I know what's the software name to colorize the video?
HitPower
love it, love it, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT,
This was definitely a high end shopping district. Not all of America looked like this.
I noticed that while the women wore dresses, most had very low heels on. 1 to 3 inchs. Not 4 or 5 inch heels. Shoes that can be worn with a dress, but are also practical for walking.
I can not wear heels. Extreme pain from the moment they go on. The last time I wore them was at a wedding for 3 hours. I took them off and walked barefoot back to the car. 2 1/2 inch.
I manage to find comfortable, but dressy, sandals to wear with summer dresses last year.