”EVENTS OF 1929” SALT LAKE CITY TO LOS ANGELES HOME MOVIE MT. LOWE RAILROAD MT. WILSON XD52044
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This silent black-and-white home movie, titled “Events of 1929” chronicles a family’s trip out west from Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California and its suburbs. The elaborate, well-produced film includes illustrated title cards between each clip which indicate where the footage is from. Scenes from the film were taken from various points on the family's trip including their visits to Mount Lowe, Mount Wilson, and Santa Monica Pier.
Opening scene of illustrated rooster saying “Hello everybody” (0:13). “Events of 1929” comes on the screen (0:16). Illustration of a family traveling out west to California (0:21). Footage from along the shore of The Great Salt Lake in Utah (0:27). Snow-covered mountains (0:59). Two young boys stand and pose in front of a snow-covered mountain (1:26). The young boys pose with their uncle Gus outside of The Maryland, perhaps referring to the condominium complex The Maryland in Salt Lake City, Utah (1:34). Scene of a highway amongst a valley of trees in Los Angeles (3:07). Suburban car-lined street with lots of trees and foliage (3:27). Cars parked along the road, perhaps the 1929 Essex by the Hudson Motor Company (3:34). Footage from the Cawston Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena, California (3:40). Views from Mt. Lowe on the southern fold of the San Gabriel Mountains (4:20). Mount Lowe Railway and the Mount Lowe funicular railway sequence (4:31). The young boys walk the grounds of Thaddeus Lowe’s Echo Mountain House and “The White City in the Sky” (6:47). Perspective from inside a funicular as it ascends down the mountainside (7:46). Mount Wilson and the astronomical observatory Mount Wilson Observatory (8:03). Los Angeles as seen from Mount Wilson (9:29). Footage from Santa Monica, California and its beach (9:29). The views of and from The California Limited (10:49). The family stands and waves from the end of the Santa Fe Line train after pulling into the Dodge City train station in Dodge City, Kansas (12:28).
The California Limited train shown, was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It carried train Nos. 3 & 4 and ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah.
The Maryland is one of the most famous condominium residences in Salt Lake and was built in 1912 by architect Bernard Mecklenburg.
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Where does something like this come from? An attic, a garage sale, a thrift shop, a basement. I have gotten old movie films from garage sales but this one is pure gold.
Now that film is a gem. mt Lowe! Fantastic! 1929. Uncle Gus looks as if he could have met Abe Lincoln as a younger man.
He probably met him at a gay orgy
When I was twelve years old in 1969 and in Boy Scouts we hiked along the ruins of the abandoned Mount Lowe Railroad. The litle used trail had more rattlesnakes per mile than I've ever seen before or since. We spent the night camping under the stars at the burned out ruins of the old Echo House hotel. I have to say that it was more than a little bit spoiky and creepy. I've avoided the place since then, though the summit had a great view, even in the days of the 60's when LA was often smoggy (very rare now). Very interesting film.
Those boys probably all went on to fight in WWII. Really enjoyed this video.
My Dad's born that year. He's alive and kicking
I very good episode showing the beautiful mountain s and all the places they visited and the Way uncle Gus and the children were wearing in 1929
Holy Toledo! The Mt Lowe railway, I've heard of it, cool to see it operating
Beautifully filmed and edited. Sadly, several of those places are just a memorial plaque. But films like this keep them alive for us all ❤
Well said!
visited in 1929, saw the 1920 automobile on road the steam locomotive and telephone/telegraph poles beside railway track, thanks for sharing fantastic video.
Very well could have the last civil war reunion happened was in 1938.
Thank you for posting this! ❤️👍
Incredible thanks!
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Boy America sure was a lot simpler back then
That's actually the Maryland Hotel on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena.
Great video 👍
Thanks for the visit.
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Fabulous! Super enjoyed this, and can identify most all the locations!
Wow!
Please share! I've lived in Southern Calfornia for 45 years and there is little I can identify.
My whole life 64 years. So lucky to grow up playing at the Aboredum, Huntington Library, and Arroyo secco.
Mt. Lowe Railway story, is my area of high interest!
Thx
Should have stayed with the ragtime piano throughout
Try getting Amtrak to let you hang out the door or window of a moving train. Great stuff!
3:51 slightly strange but I remember that song from Chris Sawyers Locomotion
My dad would've been the same age as the oldest boy. I have a photo album of when he and a friend rode the freight trains (ahem) from Minneapolis to California, Oregon, and back in the late 1930s. They had to dodge the "yard bulls" (railroad police) of course, but the only time they ever had trouble with the law was when they got home and were walking down Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. They were picked up by the police for vagrancy, lol! He said he thought they would strike it rich picking peas in Oregon for 37 cents a bushel. That lasted a day... and paid 37 cents. Must have been amazing to have lived in those times. Then, WWII broke out... but that's another story. 😑
My grandfather and his brothers worked in hotels after emigrating from Ireland in the 19 teens. Hoboing was common for young working class men with few funds traveling to seek work, and that's what they did. Hotel workers tended to be migratory. Either alone or the brothers together. There were rather large groups hopping trains. Around 1917 near Sacramento a yard bull threw grandpa off a train and broke his leg. While he was recuperating he had a chance to look around California and even made it to LA. He liked it a lot. In the mid 1920's, as a married couple fleeing the gangster ridden North Chicago slum they lived in, he and my grandmother moved to LA (pretty much on her orders after he almost got shot by being around an infamous mob hit). We've been here ever since and my dad married my mother whose family had emigrated here to LA from Germany and Ireland in the 1890's. Your father was following a long tradition of working men. In no way could these mostly young and honest men be described as bums. They were just poor.
3:07 is def the colorado st bridge
NASCEU MEU PAI 9 DE JUNHO DE 1929! GLADIS BONILLA!
This Realm is so weird.
Next year they were eating out of cans.
Pretty sure this family wasn’t. Even if they lost half of their fortune they probably were still getting by okay.
@@frankgarrett242 I agree, My grand dad was a radio repairman. he did just fine.
It's funny how everyone was so stiff and scripted in these old videos.
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I look at those boys and think that they probably have lead privileged lives. Can you imagine the cost of making home movies? They also look fairly ell done. Professional? Semi professional? Where did this movies come from?