1977, 4.2 billion people on Earth. 2019, 7.2 billion people on Earth. I remember Los Angeles in the 70's as being a lot less crowded than it is today. Less congestion, more parking spaces, less stress, lots of killer rock songs hitting the airwaves...easy groovy best decade!
@savage 069 I grew up in Dog Town Santa Monica and Venice area back in the 70s, the Dog Town clique, is a mixed racial gang, we have Orientals, Latinos, African-Americans and caucasians in our group, just got to be cool, tough, Beach territorial and dog like loyalty to belong. But I agree, our open door border policy at the southern border with our finite, limited space, jobs and resources in America, it's getting kind of out of control and overcrowded to the nearest big city to occupy in America.
@savage 069 Mexicans have always lived in Los Angeles too, you dummy. The city of Los Angeles was founded by Mexicans but of course trailer trash like you cant read worth shit
I remembered back then I was the only Asian kid in my Junior High School in Long Beach and I got to watch Star Wars in a old fashioned cinema theater from the 1920's before it got torn down in the 90"s.
I was 11 yrs. Old in 1977.I would love to spend some time back then because to me whenever, I see the year 1977 it brings back memories of a happier time and place in my life..
I arrived in LA in 1979 at age 8, I could feel the energy and magic in the air when I got here, it is such an exciting place to live with so many differnt cultures to know and places to visit.
The 70s wasn;t al that. America was spiraling down day by day by the late 70s. The 50s and 60s were better. But no modern time in history is worse than now. The only good thing today is the technology.
ua-cam.com/video/959lqR0fXmU/v-deo.html If you look at this video most people are looking ahead and its 2019 1:30 like barely anyone is looking at their phone
I was 9 in 1977 L.A. CA. I remember seeing the patrolmen on their motorcycles on the freeways.. I didn't make the connection between CHiPs being an international show and the real thing. I guess I just assumed it was a common thing since we saw them all the time. But I did think the cops were cool on their bikes (before they started going roque). In the intro to CHiPs, I still get the tingles when the music crescendos and they shift gears...I thought that was so cool.
@@brianreed7145 ChiP's was filmed in L.A. (mostly) So was Emergency!, The Incredible Hulk (my brother had a friend Dale Pullum that was in an episode of the Hulk and The Dukes of Hazzard...also shot in CA)
@@esetek It is now. That's why it's a shithole! Historically, Los Angeles was an old Spanish mission, and hardly any squatty Mexican resided there until the 20th century. In fact very few Mexican citizens lived north of the Rio grande. That is why Americans were invited down into Texas to settle & ranch in the 1830's. Of course this led to a little famous incident you may have heard of.
Glad you captured the KMET sign! So much good music was released that year! Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, CSN, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Night Moves. The best time to ever, ever be in LA.
Just started the 7th grade, hated Junior High it was horrific. We would ditch school sometimes and hangout in Hollywood and, or Griffith park. My God the 70's were the greatest years!!!
That's funny, you said school was horrific, then you said it was the greatest years ever, lol, we count our blessings after time goes, but at least we know what's real and happy
Graduated just barely in ‘77. Things have changed. I remember corona was way the hell out there. Nothing on the way to the Cajon pass. Cows in chino, orange groves with smoke pots in Tustin and Irvine.
This film footage is gold. I was 14 the summer of 1977. And I had to wait two weeks before Star Wars came to Ohio. Where I lived at the time now, I live in LA I would have loved to have lived in La during the 70s. . Thanks for uploading this thumbs up.
I was a young Marine station at El Toro airbase in 1977- 78 living off base in Stanton, I spent my weekends In the LA area dancing the night away. Plus driving the streets seeing the sites. I spent a lot of time at the Hollywood USO. Life was exciting. thank you for sharing this video.
My family moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 1974 my big three of my older sisters already lived here. The rest of the family went to visit in 1973 and fell in love and followed a year after. In 1977 we moved to West Los Angeles and lived our best life. Visiting movie sets and going on TV shows. My two older sisters went on the dating game. And they got to pick. The guys. Universy Studios, going Disneyland every summer. The beaches. Los Angeles was so much fun. We never looked back. Still live here today. Never went back to New Orleans.
Reading your story ,Sounds like my life ,we moved there from France in the mid-70s to WESTLOS ANGELES,I lived in the building directly across the street from UNI HIGH AT 1441 Westgate ave went to Emerson jrhigh in Westwood village!went to the arcade&santa monica beach every wkend&sometimes the Starwood to go dancing
My family had just moved to So. Cal in May of 1977. God, I miss those days! We lived in Santa Ana for a little while, then moved to Ontario. California was like going to heaven for me. After 27 years of living the good life, I moved to Florida in 2010 because of the insanity that had taken hold of my beloved state. I hope to someday return to California and once again live where my heart lives.
I was 2 in 1977 too, don’t remember it but I actually have memories from 1979, like going to Ralph’s grocery store and hearing Supertramp on the store radio, lol
Miss those years Just Graduated 1976 James Monroe High School San Fernando Valley Los Angeles Cruising Van Nuys Blvd in my Van Mom and Dad Alive Miss you 😘 Guys
carl weezer Car exhaust plus L.A. is a basin surrounded by foothills that lock the smog in. Low emission cars and unleaded gas got rid of it. You used to be able to see a ring of smog around L.A. when you came in to land at LAX. If you watch old episodes of Adam-12 from the late ‘60’s early ‘70’s you can see layers of smog in the background.
The air quality is a million times better than it was back in the '60's and '70's. Just like Kendall Evans said I can remember playing on the playground at recess and it hurt to breathe in deeply. We also had smog alerts where we had to go into the gym and watch films instead of playing on the playground at recess. We used to go to LAX to drop off and pick up my grandparents and we would watch the jets take off. Thick BLACK smoke and exhaust poured out of those huge jets. You don't see that anymore and that's a good thing. If things had stayed the same and car makers had not been forced to make low emission cars that take unleaded gas and if factories had not been made to comply with air quality standards L.A. would not be an area where anybody would be able to live in today.
It's all relative. Despite the fact myself and others wax nostalgic about the seventies, it was a tough time financially for a lot of people, including my parents. I think the seventies was the first time cracks began to appear in the giant engine that was the post WW2 economy. It kind of set into motion a lot of the troubles we are dealing with to this day. Still, it was a great time to grow up. Wouldn't change that for the world.
I was 17 and living in Santa Monica in 1977. I love seeing these pics. It is funny, just VW's and American cars on the road. The air looks real smoggy.
Ah! The year I was born. However, I feel that I should've been born 5-10 years earlier. I've always gotten along best with people slightly older than me. Even when I was a kid, most of my friends were a few years older. Great video. The '70s was probably the best decade that I didn't get to experience.
The 76 Trans Am made me miss my 77 T/A. I miss those days.I miss those gas prices. Things were simpler back then. All the great music and concerts I went to.
@@fredgarvinMP KROQ played punk rock and new wave not oldies but yes it was a good station. KROQ was a county station before it changed to new wave. KISS FM was good also.
@@waynek3366 I grew up on the punk/new wave KROQ but them being a country station was before my time. KRLA was good too. Not too much into KIIS. I could tolerate KLOS and K-EARTH 101 though. Have a good day!
@@fredgarvinMP Agree I'm not a KISS fan either. I do like K-Earth music they are playing today. In 1977 I was 14 most everyone I hangout with liked the oldies. I was in to skateboarding then and now I'm in my mid 50s I still can ride surprisingly lol
I know I never go out to eat anymore, not even at Denny's, and what's up with no waitresses, all there is are a bunch of pansy ass man waiters everywhere lol
See's Candies! One thing I miss from that time is record stores. The one I went to had records, tapes, books, and merchandise in one room and guitars, keyboards, & drum kits in the other.
One of my best friends had that car; 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass. He got it for high school graduation. The 70s and 80s were a magical time if you were young.
The year I graduated high school from Palmdale about 50 miles north of LA. Brings back great memories of a different California then what it is today. I remember FM radio KMET...."The MIghty Met"......
I lived in Long Beach in '77. I would take the bus up to the Strip on weekends and see bands at the Roxy, the Whisky, and shows at the Forum, Santa Monica Civic Center, like Bob Marley, Rory Gallagher, Frank Zappa. Then I moved to West Hollywood in '79 for a year and worked in Century City in one of the buildings at 1:31. I remember hitchiking down Santa Monica Blvd to get to work during a bus strike, and I remember the gas shortage where you could only buy gas on odd/even days, according to the number on your license plate.
Talked to a friend of mine the other day who grew up in LA in the late 70s & early 80s and remembers seeing ‘CHiPs,’ ‘Starsky & Hutch,’ ‘Greatest American Hero’ & ‘Incredible Hulk’ being filmed on location.
The Star Wars shirt the cut-off shorts the T tops the Billboards all the classic cars and remember all that like yesterday My dad owned an electronics Warehouse Superelectronic on 12th Street from 1975 to 1982 used to go there every day as a kid from 7 years old till 11 this reminds me of that what a view what a memory
chemie chemie not like the old days. My teacher in the 90s told me that in the 60s and 70s the smog was so bad that she had lived in LA for years before she even realized that there were mountains just a few miles north of the city. Nowadays, most days you can see those mountains, but you do get those bad days here and there.
Awesome! I was living in Eagle Rock during the 70s. I recall when they were constructing the Glendale fwy to Echo Park area in the late 70s. We used to sneak in during the weekends and literally play on the freeway...
@@davidochoa9469damn. You a real one , I was in Glassell Park Elementary when it was still Irving Junior High but by the time I got there they changed it to Irving Middle School!
At 1:48 is the old train tracks. North and South Santa Monica blvd. are on either side. When I worked at the Troubadour we use to run outside and slap the train as it lumbered by, accompanied by Steve Martin.
Lived in West Covina, in the ‘7’0s, L A area. At Texaco gasoline station was 37 cents per gallon, i could fill up my ‘66 Mustang n get around at no time! 🎶”Those were the days my friend.. I thought will never end”🎶 etc. Thank so much for sharing. Love ❤️ that era❤️🥂🇺🇸 San Francisco, California 8-11-2019
Growing up as a young kid in New Jersey in the late ‘70s and watching “CHiPs” I was absolutely convinced that Southern California was THE coolest place on Earth. Toured out there with a band in the late ‘90s and my suspicions were confirmed - it’s magical.
Yes, I remember live in Los Angeles In "77", The Chick wearing the Star Wars, I had that shirt, when I saw the street sign"Centry City", Saw Star Wars first time at Centry City cinima, The day Elvis died!, Mom Cried when they announced it on the radio, going home after the movie, We lived across the street from Dorsey High School, when to Collisum Street School,. My childhood !, Next year moved to Tucson
Man taking my back! Old address 4903 W Santa Barbara Ave, around the corner, Safeway, Clark Drugs, Newberrys, across the street Thriffys 5 cent Ice cream cones
Okay I was born in 1977, but as soon as I read your comment I could smell that shirt. I can't describe it, but I'm pretty sure I'm correct at it and I can smell it strongly. Weird. I'm pretty sure I'm remembering the same smell. However, I haven't smelled it in decades.
@@RS-dm4yo Lol, someone who understands what i'm talking about ! I had the same thing when skateboarding came into my life...the plywood decks, the urethane wheels....it all had this wonderful smell..
760jjsole Exactly. The late 70's still looked like the 60's in many ways. Watch Dragnet,Adam 12,Emergency, Chips etc. The early to mid 80's still looked like the mid to late 70's. Now it's all changed sadly.
Oh! Snap! I was hooked the moment that lady pointed out her freshly ironed on Star Wars t-shirt , in fact I had that exact same one! But I was only 7 years old then . 😆
Just checked up on all the license plates in this clip. "700 KFT" (a normal passenger plate, not personalized) was still registered to that 1974 Dodge Dart (at 3:47) until at least 2002 when it had its last smog check! It could still even be on the road, since pre-1976 cars are no longer required to pass smog checks.
Born and raised in L.A., had a happy life growing up in Long Beach. I Loved every corner of California. Navy took me from CA for many years and when I got orders back there in 1984 it had changed so drastically I couldn't recognize the state I grew up in. I recently flew back to San Diego for a grandniece's wedding, and even though the I-15 corridor has gotten unbelievably built up and the population taxed and priced outta their homes, the state itself has the same appeal it had when I was younger. I'd love to set the clock back on its politics, because the state itself is still beautiful and has everything every other state has put together. I miss California; but in the shape it's in today I could never move back.
Where do you live now? Jerry Brown was a very unpopular governor in the early 80s, but Gavin Newsom is a bottomfeeder by comparison. Just an absolute lowlife.
Soy de México y mi mente siempre ha estado enfocada a la cultura californiana y me encantaría vivir en ese lugar!!! Me encanta ver cómo era desde los 70 hasta la actualidad y mi propósito a largo plazo es terminar siendo ciudadano estadounidense recidente en alguna parte de los angeles
I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid visibility was less than a mile because of the smog. That's why I don't complain about the smog regulations that we have now.
My parents moved to California in 1975, they tried to get an apartment in Los Angeles but no one would rent to us for some reason and we ended up in San Diego where I was born in 1977 the year of this video. I still got to go to LA to see my aunt and uncle.
I was 16 years old and lived in Phoenix,AZ. It was less crowded,people actually communicated with one another in person 👍Miss the 70s...Thank you for the awesome video 👍👍👍 takes me back to a less stressful time 😁💚👏
So many memories, and changes. I was glad they filmed the gas prices, and so many other things that aren't around anymore. However, Factors Deli is still open, and im still buying Sees Candy. The Star Wars Tshirt is cool, and the lady wearing it seems like a nice person with natural beauty.
I know JUST where this was filmed.Pico blvd near Beverly Dr ,Beverly Hills and Pico blvd from Robertson to Doheny! I was 19 then and life was good,,,and still is
Amazing vintage 8mm footage Mackenzie Some of LA reminded me of parts of downtown Orlando Florida just after Disney World had opened up and just before the construction boom of the mid 80s when I left. Both cities had both a busy yet laid back vibe of the time. The fire truck opening scene reminded me of watching the TV show Emergency back in the late 70s great times. Love your old films they are a real treasure!
The closest I'll get to time travel. Fantastic footage.
I'm in the same boat!!!!!!!!!!
1977, 4.2 billion people on Earth.
2019, 7.2 billion people on Earth.
I remember Los Angeles in the 70's as being a lot less crowded than it is today. Less congestion, more parking spaces, less stress, lots of killer rock songs hitting the airwaves...easy groovy best decade!
@savage 069 I grew up in Dog Town Santa Monica and Venice area back in the 70s, the Dog Town clique, is a mixed racial gang, we have Orientals, Latinos, African-Americans and caucasians in our group, just got to be cool, tough, Beach territorial and dog like loyalty to belong.
But I agree, our open door border policy at the southern border with our finite, limited space, jobs and resources in America, it's getting kind of out of control and overcrowded to the nearest big city to occupy in America.
@Hater TheCreator still thinking zombie outbreak, alien invasion, or A.I hostile revolution...
@savage 069 Mexicans keep the city of L.a. thriving too. You forgot to mention that trailer trash!
@savage 069 Mexicans have always lived in Los Angeles too, you dummy. The city of Los Angeles was founded by Mexicans but of course trailer trash like you cant read worth shit
savage 069 yup
I remembered back then I was the only Asian kid in my Junior High School in Long Beach and I got to watch Star Wars in a old fashioned cinema theater from the 1920's before it got torn down in the 90"s.
Not much has changed as your Asian kid is the only Asian kid in School as all others are Mexican's
now that same junior high school in Long Beach has only one White kid...
I went to Hughes Middle School from 1993-96-----
@@marklarson3934 they are all Africans in that area.
Og chino from lb
I was 11 yrs. Old in 1977.I would love to spend some time back then because to me whenever, I see the year 1977 it brings back memories of a happier time and place in my life..
Me too
Omg" I was 16 years old driving all over LA in my 1970 Ford torino extra wide tires jaja i really miss those days.
My god, my beloved Los Angeles. What has happened.
There gone now.move on
Boring ! Nowadays is fucking better!
My first car was a Datsun pick up, and I drove, drove, drove, much less traffic then!!
@@Ernie15621 , why not make good on your own suggestion?
I arrived in LA in 1979 at age 8, I could feel the energy and magic in the air when I got here, it is such an exciting place to live with so many differnt cultures to know and places to visit.
That was smog
@@colinthomas867 and illegal immigrants...
@@alainvosselman9960 and the gangs and the homeless all over the streets.
If you have a chance to go back , will you go in a heartbeat?
The glorious 1970s... What an awesome time to live!
Remember the smog alerts?
It was great time growing up
The 70s wasn;t al that. America was spiraling down day by day by the late 70s. The 50s and 60s were better. But no modern time in history is worse than now. The only good thing today is the technology.
I wish it were 1977 again. Such a slower pace. People are actually looking ahead walking and not down at their cell phones
What an old people thing to say lol
ua-cam.com/video/959lqR0fXmU/v-deo.html If you look at this video most people are looking ahead and its 2019 1:30 like barely anyone is looking at their phone
I feel the same way
@@itsaaronlolz You're four years older now...soon it'll be forty years older. Don't be so smug.
Hell no that society and the society before damn near killed mother earth!
The only time I saw L.A. in the 70's was when I watched "Chips" as a kid.
Chips and The Rockford Files...
Awesome opening and closing credits to that show. The beginning may have been filmed on the not yet open 210 Frwy not positive never lived there
Then u never saw Los Angeles. Chips was a fictionalized version of Los Angeles
I was 9 in 1977 L.A. CA. I remember seeing the patrolmen on their motorcycles on the freeways.. I didn't make the connection between CHiPs being an international show and the real thing. I guess I just assumed it was a common thing since we saw them all the time. But I did think the cops were cool on their bikes (before they started going roque). In the intro to CHiPs, I still get the tingles when the music crescendos and they shift gears...I thought that was so cool.
@@brianreed7145 ChiP's was filmed in L.A. (mostly)
So was Emergency!, The Incredible Hulk (my brother had a friend Dale Pullum that was in an episode of the Hulk and The Dukes of Hazzard...also shot in CA)
Ahh Los Angeles was so cool before all the UA-camrs and Instagram influencers overpopulated it 😍
Sup bitches
And 1/3 of Mexico
You stole this joke
Don Johnson la is mexico dummy
@@esetek It is now. That's why it's a shithole! Historically, Los Angeles was an old Spanish mission, and hardly any squatty Mexican resided there until the 20th century. In fact very few Mexican citizens lived north of the Rio grande. That is why Americans were invited down into Texas to settle & ranch in the 1830's. Of course this led to a little famous incident you may have heard of.
Glad you captured the KMET sign! So much good music was released that year! Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, CSN, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Night Moves. The best time to ever, ever be in LA.
Too hip, gotta go!
Whoo ya!! The mighty met!
Just started the 7th grade, hated Junior High it was horrific. We would ditch school sometimes and hangout in Hollywood and, or Griffith park. My God the 70's were the greatest years!!!
Why was it so bad?
@@ss_wholeGangs and crappy teachers!
That's funny, you said school was horrific, then you said it was the greatest years ever, lol, we count our blessings after time goes, but at least we know what's real and happy
@@MrCoconutcatAmen Brother!
Same here. I agree
That old firetruck sure does bring back memories , Was and is my favorite style of the firetrucks
I graduated in 1977 and I am from Los Angeles. Great memories
That's cool, I'm from imperial beach California
Graduated just barely in ‘77. Things have changed. I remember corona was way the hell out there. Nothing on the way to the Cajon pass. Cows in chino, orange groves with smoke pots in Tustin and Irvine.
This film footage is gold. I was 14 the summer of 1977. And I had to wait two weeks before Star Wars came to Ohio. Where I lived at the time now, I live in LA I would have loved to have lived in La during the 70s. . Thanks for uploading this thumbs up.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was a young Marine station at El Toro airbase in 1977- 78 living off base in Stanton, I spent my weekends In the LA area dancing the night away. Plus driving the streets seeing the sites. I spent a lot of time at the Hollywood USO. Life was exciting. thank you for sharing this video.
Hi Jerry. I'm glad that you enjoyed seeing my home movie.
KMET 94.7 was my station back in the '70s and '80s. Little bit of Heaven.
Remember their motto? "A little to the left" because 95.5 KLOS was the bigger more mainstream station. The Mighty MET was my favorite too.
I was 27 years old and I moved to LA.
Good and bad, I'm still here.
It's a fascinating place to live
My family moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 1974 my big three of my older sisters already lived here. The rest of the family went to visit in 1973 and fell in love and followed a year after. In 1977 we moved to West Los Angeles and lived our best life. Visiting movie sets and going on TV shows. My two older sisters went on the dating game. And they got to pick. The guys. Universy Studios, going Disneyland every summer. The beaches. Los Angeles was so much fun. We never looked back. Still live here today. Never went back to New Orleans.
I remember the Hhoks in front of Hollywood HighSchool.
Reading your story ,Sounds like my life ,we moved there from France in the mid-70s to WESTLOS ANGELES,I lived in the building directly across the street from UNI HIGH AT 1441 Westgate ave went to Emerson jrhigh in Westwood village!went to the arcade&santa monica beach every wkend&sometimes the Starwood to go dancing
I lived in the states from 1977-1984. Glory days.
My family had just moved to So. Cal in May of 1977. God, I miss those days! We lived in Santa Ana for a little while, then moved to Ontario. California was like going to heaven for me. After 27 years of living the good life, I moved to Florida in 2010 because of the insanity that had taken hold of my beloved state. I hope to someday return to California and once again live where my heart lives.
Denise McNamara Heck yeah hope to have you back we will keep the light on for you!
I miss the orange groves in Santa Ana..
lol it's waaaayyyy more expensive now. Even a Santa Ana home is 400-500k average
Denise McNamara well you better learn how to speak Spanish because that will be t the official language of California in 20 years
FILM STUDIO SOCIAL MEDIA PLANT
Probably more like 770 to 880 thousand dollars
Thanks for the upload. Love the Star Wars T shirt!!! It was a great time to have grown up in the 70s.
I'm glad that you enjoyed my home movie.
I was one year old in 1977, I don’t remember the 70’s but I do have a passion for that era and enjoy watching 70’s tv shows and movies
For reals I was born in 1979, but I love me some disco dancing
I'm the same way! And I was 2 in 1977 but don't remember anything back then! I was too young to remember that far back but very interesting!
I was 2 in 1977 too, don’t remember it but I actually have memories from 1979, like going to Ralph’s grocery store and hearing Supertramp on the store radio, lol
Miss those years
Just Graduated 1976
James Monroe High School
San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles
Cruising Van Nuys Blvd in my Van
Mom and Dad Alive
Miss you 😘 Guys
Granada Hills High 1975 grad here!! I share your sentiments!!
South Gate High, Class of 1975.
Carlos Carpinteyro God Bless
Pat (Smithson) Peña God Bless
@@ppena4128 I actually attended Paramount High, as well, not too far from Southgate.
In the 70's, I never would have thought I would miss them.
But, wow I sure do !
Me too
I was a teen-ager who rode my bicycle daily in the Pico Blvd/Beverly Drive area during the 1970s. Good memories!!
The smog was horrific back then. They used to have smog alerts where kids couldn't play at recess..
Remember very well! After a day playing it would burn to breath deeply. Funny how all the glassy eyed nostalgia buffs don't bring that up!
What's it from?
carl weezer Car exhaust plus L.A. is a basin surrounded by foothills that lock the smog in. Low emission cars and unleaded gas got rid of it. You used to be able to see a ring of smog around L.A. when you came in to land at LAX. If you watch old episodes of Adam-12 from the late ‘60’s early ‘70’s you can see layers of smog in the background.
@@kendallevans4079 it has nothing to do with that, a steam train can also give you a nostalgic trip.
The air quality is a million times better than it was back in the '60's and '70's. Just like Kendall Evans said I can remember playing on the playground at recess and it hurt to breathe in deeply. We also had smog alerts where we had to go into the gym and watch films instead of playing on the playground at recess. We used to go to LAX to drop off and pick up my grandparents and we would watch the jets take off. Thick BLACK smoke and exhaust poured out of those huge jets. You don't see that anymore and that's a good thing. If things had stayed the same and car makers had not been forced to make low emission cars that take unleaded gas and if factories had not been made to comply with air quality standards L.A. would not be an area where anybody would be able to live in today.
Late 70's Los Angeles was a strange and crazy place But very cool
L.A. is a different kind of metropolis, it is magnificent and unlike anything else in the world, no other city compares.
new York does they was there first like hundred years ago @@CHUUMPASS
Real active time . No cameras either sheeeesh
It ‘s still strange!
@@MissSiobhanCatherine No, the air quality is much, much improved today than then.
Ah, yes, 1977. I grew up in Beverly Hills, so you're showing my old stomping grounds. That was the year I started attending BHHS.
It's all relative. Despite the fact myself and others wax nostalgic about the seventies, it was a tough time financially for a lot of people, including my parents. I think the seventies was the first time cracks began to appear in the giant engine that was the post WW2 economy. It kind of set into motion a lot of the troubles we are dealing with to this day. Still, it was a great time to grow up. Wouldn't change that for the world.
Thank You! Your footage captures so many aspects of Los Angeles that are gone forever.
You're very welcome.
Great movie, and great memories. Thanks for sharing! I had that same Star Wars shirt! LA was my playground as a teenager in '77. Good times.
I was 17 and living in Santa Monica in 1977. I love seeing these pics. It is funny, just VW's and American cars on the road. The air looks real smoggy.
There were a few "ricers" here and there..
Ah! The year I was born. However, I feel that I should've been born 5-10 years earlier. I've always gotten along best with people slightly older than me. Even when I was a kid, most of my friends were a few years older. Great video. The '70s was probably the best decade that I didn't get to experience.
The music goes perfectly with this video. I was a young kid in south OC, not LA, in '77 but can remember the culture surprisingly well.
Ditto.
The 76 Trans Am made me miss my 77 T/A. I miss those days.I miss those gas prices. Things were simpler back then. All the great music and concerts I went to.
I miss those GOOD wages, $10/hour
KRLA the best AM oldest radio station with Wolf Man Jack and Casey Kasem back then.
No way, man. KROQ ftw...
@@fredgarvinMP KROQ played punk rock and new wave not oldies but yes it was a good station.
KROQ was a county station before it changed to new wave.
KISS FM was good also.
@@waynek3366
I grew up on the punk/new wave KROQ but them being a country station was before my time. KRLA was good too. Not too much into KIIS. I could tolerate KLOS and K-EARTH 101 though. Have a good day!
@@fredgarvinMP Agree I'm not a KISS fan either. I do like K-Earth music they are playing today.
In 1977 I was 14 most everyone I hangout with liked the oldies. I was in to skateboarding then and now I'm in my mid 50s I still can ride surprisingly lol
K-WEST 106
During this time fast food joints used to actually put out good food. Taco Bell was even really good. Times have changed in America.
How bout Titos Tacos?
Yes Sir. Worked at Taco Bell back then in Seal Beach. Prepped the food. It was good. Can't touch their crap today.
I know I never go out to eat anymore, not even at Denny's, and what's up with no waitresses, all there is are a bunch of pansy ass man waiters everywhere lol
@@backyardbassist893 tits tacos
@@backyardbassist893 , don't forget El Pollo Loco.
Before everything went to hell. I truly wish I could just walk in to this video and never, ever come back.
See's Candies!
One thing I miss from that time is record stores. The one I went to had records, tapes, books, and merchandise in one room and guitars, keyboards, & drum kits in the other.
They just shut down Amoeba.
@@ten4k964 Amoeba sold the property to a developer. The store is moving to Hollywood Blvd.
Auditory Odyssey, Moby Disc.
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Thats great news, thanks 4 the update
@@ten4k964 Yeah. I love that building. Lots of space. And Big Nate at the door.
I was a kid back in 1977 and remember riding the RTD bus along Santa Monica Blvd from West LA to the beach for just 25 cents.
RTD aka Rough,Tough & Dangerous
@@happywifehappylife3614 We weren't snowflakes, lol.
You probably had a little tight soft ass
ha ha I still do during non commute hours, though it's 35 cents for me.
During the corona virus stay at home order, I ride the bus for free when I go get my lunch.
One of my best friends had that car; 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass. He got it for high school graduation. The 70s and 80s were a magical time if you were young.
The year I graduated high school from Palmdale about 50 miles north of LA. Brings back great memories of a different California then what it is today. I remember FM radio KMET...."The MIghty Met"......
I lived in Long Beach in '77. I would take the bus up to the Strip on weekends and see bands at the Roxy,
the Whisky, and shows at the Forum, Santa Monica Civic Center, like Bob Marley, Rory Gallagher, Frank Zappa.
Then I moved to West Hollywood in '79 for a year and worked in Century City in one of the buildings at 1:31.
I remember hitchiking down Santa Monica Blvd to get to work during a bus strike, and I remember the gas shortage
where you could only buy gas on odd/even days, according to the number on your license plate.
Oh yeah, seeing *Van Halen* in the clubs, mainly the Whisky for me, was the best ever!!!
Van Halen played The Whiskey New Year's Eve 1977
Cool seventies funk playing in the background...🎵😊
Little did those fireman in the fire truck know that 42 years later, they would be seen by someone through a phone
Yes they had this weird idea back then that phones were used for talking to friends and cameras took photographs
Talked to a friend of mine the other day who grew up in LA in the late 70s & early 80s and remembers seeing ‘CHiPs,’ ‘Starsky & Hutch,’ ‘Greatest American Hero’ & ‘Incredible Hulk’ being filmed on location.
Moved out that way in 79 when I was 9 years old. With my mom and brother.
The Star Wars shirt the cut-off shorts the T tops the Billboards all the classic cars and remember all that like yesterday
My dad owned an electronics Warehouse Superelectronic on 12th Street from 1975 to 1982 used to go there every day as a kid from 7 years old till 11 this reminds me of that what a view what a memory
Wow , brings back such good memories, like those smoggy days in LA
Its still smoggy in LA
@@chemiechemie2879 not anymore. not compared to the 90s. dallas is more smoggier now.
I remember the smog being so bad in the S.F. Valley, hacking at times to breathe!!
Yes...smoggy we have. But no Donald Trump 😆.
chemie chemie not like the old days. My teacher in the 90s told me that in the 60s and 70s the smog was so bad that she had lived in LA for years before she even realized that there were mountains just a few miles north of the city. Nowadays, most days you can see those mountains, but you do get those bad days here and there.
The soundtrack to this Video is Awesome like the 70s!🇺🇸
Thanks
Awesome! I was living in Eagle Rock during the 70s. I recall when they were constructing the Glendale fwy to Echo Park area in the late 70s. We used to sneak in during the weekends and literally play on the freeway...
Me too, I used to walk to Irving Junior High from York Bl. and Ave 50.
same with the 118 freeway. CHIPS!
@@davidochoa9469damn. You a real one , I was in Glassell Park Elementary when it was still Irving Junior High but by the time I got there they changed it to Irving Middle School!
KISS "Alive II" recorded at The Forum, Inglewood. August 1977. I Was There!
'PETER CRISS ON THE DRUMS' !!!
1977 > 2018
So was I - Cheap Trick
Never cared much for them. Some of kinda of made fun of the make-up bit. My sister like the band's music.
My pops came to LA in ‘78. I followed in ‘79 at four. I remember all the songs, cars, styles and places of that time. Memories
1:12 Star Wars!! Damn I miss the 70's and 80's. I would gladly go back and stay if possible.
At 1:48 is the old train tracks. North and South Santa Monica blvd. are on either side. When I worked at the Troubadour we use to run outside and slap the train as it lumbered by, accompanied by Steve Martin.
My hometown! It was so good and affordable in the 1970s!
My favorite part is the girl with the Star Wars shirt on
Julio Diaz sounds so cheesy
She should’ve flashed us some real headlights
Kind of a woof, woof, seen better..
Pacific Telephone Van and the Mighty Met KMET sign...HELL YA...
I was there. Don't miss Pacific Telephone, but I sure miss KMET!
KMET...Mary the Burner Turner. BC Bob Coburn. JJ...great rock station. The might MET
Nice to see no one is talking on the phone while walking on the street!
They had mobile phones then just cost a great deal
You could...................with a VERY LONG extension cord! lol
@@RoadDawgLife The first Mobiles didn't go for sale to the public until 1983 .
They would've if they could've.
Lived in West Covina, in the ‘7’0s, L A area. At Texaco gasoline station was 37 cents per gallon, i could fill up my ‘66 Mustang n get around at no time! 🎶”Those were the days my friend.. I thought will never end”🎶 etc. Thank so much for sharing. Love ❤️ that era❤️🥂🇺🇸 San Francisco, California 8-11-2019
Hi, I'm so glad that you enjoyed my movie.
Growing up as a young kid in New Jersey in the late ‘70s and watching “CHiPs” I was absolutely convinced that Southern California was THE coolest place on Earth. Toured out there with a band in the late ‘90s and my suspicions were confirmed - it’s magical.
L-A 15, 7 Mary 3 and 4 ...
Thanks for the video those where the days... 70s 80s and 90s are the best decade...
Yes, I remember live in Los Angeles In "77", The Chick wearing the Star Wars, I had that shirt, when I saw the street sign"Centry City", Saw Star Wars first time at Centry City cinima, The day Elvis died!, Mom Cried when they announced it on the radio, going home after the movie, We lived across the street from Dorsey High School, when to Collisum Street School,. My childhood !, Next year moved to Tucson
Man taking my back! Old address 4903 W Santa Barbara Ave, around the corner, Safeway, Clark Drugs, Newberrys, across the street Thriffys 5 cent Ice cream cones
We also lost John Wayne and Groucho..
I was 13 rode my Puch moped around the streets of Carson CA... it was paradise , what a time to be alive....
I still remember the smell on the print of those star wars t-shirts when they came out of the store... lol
Steam from the iron?
Okay I was born in 1977, but as soon as I read your comment I could smell that shirt. I can't describe it, but I'm pretty sure I'm correct at it and I can smell it strongly. Weird. I'm pretty sure I'm remembering the same smell. However, I haven't smelled it in decades.
@@RS-dm4yo Lol, someone who understands what i'm talking about !
I had the same thing when skateboarding came into my life...the plywood decks, the urethane wheels....it all had this wonderful smell..
@@alainvosselman9960, its funny how a smell can take you back, or someone just mentioning something and your brain can create a smell via memory lol
@@RS-dm4yo Yeah, i love that type stuff. I play music and 'affinity' with smells... or places is my main source of inspiration. It works so well.
I was 14, and I'm so grateful to have grown up in this city then!!
Yes, no one seems to like it these days!
This is a pretty cool window into the past. Thank you for sharing!
I'm glad that you enjoyed my home movie.
L.A. 77' reminds me of CHipS
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Yaaaa bud,chips!! Emergency!
760jjsole Exactly. The late 70's still looked like the 60's in many ways. Watch Dragnet,Adam 12,Emergency, Chips etc. The early to mid 80's still looked like the mid to late 70's. Now it's all changed sadly.
760jjsole just like chips with the low-budget porno music...🐸🐢🐢
Waiting for Philo Beddoe and Clide to drive by
Chips and starky hutch
Oh! Snap! I was hooked the moment that lady pointed out her freshly ironed on Star Wars t-shirt , in fact I had that exact same one! But I was only 7 years old then . 😆
Oh, man. Iron-on transfers...
Kmet 94.7 sign my favorite radio station back in the days.
Yes kmet the mighty metal shop
I remember Dr. Demento on Sunday evenings, earliers in the 70's playing all those wacky songs!!!
Doctor Demento that's right,
I was 19. Elvis died that year...my home town
Jimmy Carter became POTUS and Reggie hit three HRs in a World Series game.
and yankees beat the dodgers in the world series lol
Native Angelino here. Thanks for the memories! I was fifteen in '77. What an innocent time that was for me.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Just checked up on all the license plates in this clip. "700 KFT" (a normal passenger plate, not personalized) was still registered to that 1974 Dodge Dart (at 3:47) until at least 2002 when it had its last smog check! It could still even be on the road, since pre-1976 cars are no longer required to pass smog checks.
My grandma was 11 and lived in East Los Angeles at the time and she said she loved those years
I was 9 years old living there then . I still have my L.A. public library card.
I love this I was 15 living in Palos Verdes peninsula at the time going to Rolling hills high school the 70's we're the best
Born and raised in L.A., had a happy life growing up in Long Beach. I Loved every corner of California. Navy took me from CA for many years and when I got orders back there in 1984 it had changed so drastically I couldn't recognize the state I grew up in. I recently flew back to San Diego for a grandniece's wedding, and even though the I-15 corridor has gotten unbelievably built up and the population taxed and priced outta their homes, the state itself has the same appeal it had when I was younger. I'd love to set the clock back on its politics, because the state itself is still beautiful and has everything every other state has put together. I miss California; but in the shape it's in today I could never move back.
You probably couldn't afford it! I own my own home in Orange County since 1985, couldn't buy it today.
@@danielgolus4600 The NIMBYs have taken over!
Where do you live now? Jerry Brown was a very unpopular governor in the early 80s, but Gavin Newsom is a bottomfeeder by comparison. Just an absolute lowlife.
I was a year old, living in Gardena, California, South L.A
Soy de México y mi mente siempre ha estado enfocada a la cultura californiana y me encantaría vivir en ese lugar!!! Me encanta ver cómo era desde los 70 hasta la actualidad y mi propósito a largo plazo es terminar siendo ciudadano estadounidense recidente en alguna parte de los angeles
Sir, L.A. is not like that anymore. It's very hard to live there now.
Wishing you success
I was 7 year's old..such awesome memories.i do miss home so much but moved away and never looked back..wild life
I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid visibility was less than a mile because of the smog. That's why I don't complain about the smog regulations that we have now.
This was such a treat to watch. Thank you for posting.
I'm glad that you enjoyed my home movie.
I love L.A. 70s, 80s, 90s, now, I don't care, L.A remains the most beautiful city in my heart
So cool to see all the "old" cars. And oh yeah, that movie Star Wars came out that year.
Signs, signs, everywhere is signs.
signs persecute you? 😁😄
XLNT, reminds me of the song :-)
Exactly!
That’s cool
It's called advertising -- the same crap you got on the internet !
I love this video, I was there, I was 14 years old in 77
My parents moved to California in 1975, they tried to get an apartment in Los Angeles but no one would rent to us for some reason and we ended up in San Diego where I was born in 1977 the year of this video. I still got to go to LA to see my aunt and uncle.
san diego is better anyway!
I was 16 years old and lived in Phoenix,AZ. It was less crowded,people actually communicated with one another in person 👍Miss the 70s...Thank you for the awesome video 👍👍👍 takes me back to a less stressful time 😁💚👏
So many memories, and changes. I was glad they filmed the gas prices, and so many other things that aren't around anymore. However, Factors Deli is still open, and im still buying Sees Candy. The Star Wars Tshirt is cool, and the lady wearing it seems like a nice person with natural beauty.
Great film footage, I love seeing and touching and smelling everything "classicly futuristic"
Graduated magnolia high anaheim class of 78 life was good then
Check the guy on the Honda motorcycle. No helmet laws then. I remember it well. I used to ride in the 60s here in L. A.
kawasaki KZ1000
Nice time travel, I was born in 76 the 80 where fantastic awesome times for me.
I'm glad that you enjoyed my home movie
Must not have lived in South Central,Compton,watts or Long Beach
it nearly 46 years on spring break April
Factor's Deli is still there on Pico.
cette ville me fera toujours autant rêver ... surtout durant les années 70/80....
I know JUST where this was filmed.Pico blvd near Beverly Dr ,Beverly Hills and Pico blvd from Robertson to Doheny! I was 19 then and life was good,,,and still is
🎵Pico And Sepulveda🎶
Dr. Demento😆
Carol 4652 ; My old stomping grounds, the “GOODYEAR TIRE DEALER”, nice Jewish area now and always been!
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Amazing vintage 8mm footage Mackenzie Some of LA reminded me of parts of downtown Orlando Florida just after Disney World had opened up and just before the construction boom of the mid 80s when I left. Both cities had both a busy yet laid back vibe of the time. The fire truck opening scene reminded me of watching the TV show Emergency back in the late 70s great times. Love your old films they are a real treasure!
I'm so glad that you are enjoying my home movies.