A Drive Down Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills 1935
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- čas přidán 11. 02. 2013
- The car carrying the camera that shot this footage starts near Canon Drive and travels east along Wilshire Boulevard through Beverly Hills.This may be as close as you can hope to get to experiencing what it was like then.
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This was a real blast to watch.
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Wow, no lanes. It must have been fun and dangerous at the same time.
Lots of city streets outside the US are still like that, even in places like Europe.
Yeah, and no road rage :)
yeah, same I was thinking and it's a good thing texting wasn't invented yet. ;)
I live in Vietnam now and they don't have that many traffic laws, they do have lanes but they don't mean anything. It's crazy to drive here but it works, everyone flows with what is ahead of them swerving to miss a pedestrian or slower moving car or motor scooter. 3 times as many scooters as there are cars. Strangely enough hardly any accidents.
I was incredulous to see no lanes, just everyone more or less driving side by side in three lanes, then two ... whatever.
Amazing!! Everything's clean and new and there's so much space! Have you noticed how young the trees are? Fantastic footage. A blast from the past. I wasn't even born yet!
+Cordelia Brown . Yes, I too wondered about the trees. They look recently planted and today are probably beautiful mature trees.
if i could just grab a couple a dozen of those cars .....id be living in Beverly Hills
My mother and grandparents were in Los Angeles in 1935.
Mine, too. They lived in Laurel Canyon. My grandfather was a carpenter, worked for Bette Davis & other stars.
@@JohnDoeXYZ Wow! Your grandparents must have had some good stories to tell.
At 1:11 they've passed a sign that read's "Eaton's Steak & Chops." Found a matchbook cover for the place on ebay that indicates this was at Wilshire & Doheny. There were two other locations, but this was the only one on Wilshire.
1:46 they make the slight bend at Robertson.
When it goes to that shot that shows more of the South side of the street, they seem to start over at Canon, or at least close. It starts out with a sign for free parking for the Warner Brother's BH theater which is where the whole video starts. 9404 Wilshire is where the theater was. The other tall building across the street (the one that looks like it had bug antenna holding something up) was California Bank.
Okay, this is way too fun and not why my employer is paying me so I should stop...for a while.
Based on your excellent sleuthing I found this: waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Beverly_Hills.html, which has an image of the Creswell drugstore seen at the bend at Robertson.
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The movie camera is our Time Machine! Great soundtrack!
So much in this video is blowing my mind. Primarily all the open space!!! Open fields on Wilshire!?!?! And I love when you can see past Wilshire, into what are now neighborhoods. Looks like portions of the Midwest all open with grass and trees. That area is so densely populated right now it's just brilliant to see how much it's changed.
And like others, the people are captivating. Just going about their daily business which now, 80 years later, has become a thing of magic to others. I can't help but think, "that person is long gone now, what was their story?
I've tried to pull up Streetview to see if I could line up any of the larger buildings. Unfortunately with so much in the way now on the current image, I haven't gotten far.
Yeah ,pity he didn't drive a bit slower from the side view,to see the pedestrians,still, a bit late now.
History...glorifies life and gives you a skewed/artificially framed view of things. Most people lived a mundane life....they lived, ate, drank, loved, hated and died. Certain "special" people did "great things," but they also lived similar lives as the others (except they lived them on a larger scale; they had more hate, more love, more drink, more food, etc.). In the end, Historical remembrances are a certain kind of fantasy.
Bullshit. Life is harder in some times and better in others. Are you going to say that life in the Depression was basically the same as life in the 50's? o much bullshit posing as wisdom, asshole.
@@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 thats funny because all the sources I here say that the past was basically hell. Is it wrong to say something positive about the time, there were remarkable things happening daily, I know you aren't used to that.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar In 50 years time, they will say remarkable things were happening now. Some people will say these were the greatest of times, others will say they were the worst of times. History is a fantasy that all sides can identify with and use to their own ideological advantage.
Back when cars actually drove down Wilshire Blvd. Now they just sit there.
Fantastic. Everything so clean and not crowded.
So cool that vintage film footage of scenes like this exist. 1935 had to be a great time to be in Hollywood and L.A. in general. Hell, you could probably have bought an acre of land in Malibu for a $1000 bucks...if not less. PCH must have been an amazing and beautiful uncluttered drive back then.
You're missing so much of how great it really was. Its not even in color for heaven sakes, could you imagine how it would look to the human eye in color.
Not sure when, but I think until the 1920's or so, Malibu was all privately owned and not until the PCH went through did property go to sale.
Wow, no lane discipline - hell, no lanes! - no signalling, no traffic control whatsoever. Driving in those days must've been a real adrenaline rush!
It's still like this in a lot of countries!
Did you see the crashed vehicle being hauled by a truck? Yikes! No safety features in those days. I hate to think of what became of the passengers.
One guy did signal just with his hand
@@adamnelson4428 That's the way it was done. :-)
At the beginning I was getting ready to look for numbers and sponsors on the side of the cars. They were like 4 wide like it was a one-way street for a second.
Wonderful, fascinating, historic and literally 'awe inspiring'... as always! TY Alison for sharing yet another great video.
beautiful post!! Nice work! Enjoying immensely!
If that isn't the coolest video?? What a time to be alive back then...
Hell ya! Except the depression....
In the middle of the Great Depression with World War II looking right around the corner? Yeah, man...that would have been a blast (rolls eyes).
Trey Warnock better than today
wow how cool was that. crazy driving, no trash or homeless in the streets, no graffiti, and full service stations, I missed my calling.
Anthony Villareal There are no homeless in Beverly Hills
Luv the one hand out the window with one hand on the wheel..nothing there has changed!
I love all those different Cars!
I'm amazed at how very few pedestrians there are. So many cars parked yet hardly anyone on foot. I'll bet it was a Sunday cause back then not many stores or businesses were open on Sundays.. Wishire Blvd is paked and crowded every day 7 days a week today.
No walkin in L.A.
No Depression going on there!
monoceros1222 My thoughts exactly. Plenty of traffic and activity going on at the height of the Great Depression
monoceros1222 Eh, you could tell by the amount of 1920's vintage autos rolling around and in the car parks.
Good point. I guess I didn't notice the difference between '20s and '30s cars.
ummm so seeing 10 yo cars is a sign of economic depression?
j g Yes. :)
What I love to see is how much open space there was within a city. Of course there were all sort of problems as there always is in any era but it sure FEELS romantic just the same.
Truly amazing footage of town. Thank you.
Thank you. This is wonderful.
I saw a 1936 Cadillac Coupe yesterday. Made my day.
I thought I saw Laurel and Hardy on their way to deliver a piano.
1:55 - Pierce-Arrow with headlights in the mudguards parked at the kerb.
Real nice drive back in 1935 and thanks
People who say that nowadays all cars look the same should watch this... It's hard to tell most cars from the ones around.
No centerline, no lanes, just drive anywhere !
Love your videos.
I couldn't see it here, but in a video from the 40's it was $2.00 all day parking. In most places now it's $2.00 for 15 minutes. Also noticed the no lane lines. I used to drive Wilshire from the 70's thru 2007.
2 dollars in 1940 is worth about 43 bucks now, so if its 2 bucks for 15 minutes like you say. A days worth of parking then only gets you 30 minutes
what a joy it must have been to not have to stop at every light like today...great historical video.
beautiful cars and video I love it gr Jeffrey 🍀🌞☕😘🌴
Wow! What a way back classic, with classic cars that did not crash! The city seemed to have been thriving; even though it may have been the depression! Also, where are the people walking? Good post!! 👍👍
Thank you for video ! Very interesting !
At 45 seconds, Gas is 9 1/2 cents!!!! It's highway ROBBERY!!!
They got cocky with that GIANT 9 too!
Taking inflation into account it would be around $166.63 in 2018. So it IS robbery.
Wow! I can just visualize Jean Harlow cruising around there.
Maybe even William Powell, Carole Lombard, Katherine Hepburn, and Cary Grant.
Awesome, the LA of my grandmother and her sisters, My GGF worked at Mullen and Bluett, further east on Wilshire at this time!
I wish traffic was still that light around Wilshire and Canon.
Using the images available at Google Maps I "drove" down almost to La Cienega. There's a buiilding on the SE corner of Wilshire and Willaman that probably was there in 1935, but (as you'd expect) everything else is gone. What's also gone is the sense of fresheness and freedom, of real life. Now it's grim and, although the buildings may not be old, they're cold. I'd rather live now than then, but along this strip at least the best days probably had passed by the 50s or even earlier.
My Grandma lived in Long Beach in 1935. The house they rented was $25 and two blocks from the beach. She would ride the trolley cars into LA for one dime. There were some farms in between the cities back then, like Knotts Berry Farm.
Look at all that open space!
jbellami and now we are being yelled at in traffic jam
Lol the truck that made a left said "I DON'T GIVE A HOOT!"
+NotAboutMe79
That was close!
He probably didn't have any brakes. :) All kidding aside, brakes were very marginal to almost non existent on vehicles back then. You really had to plan your stops carefully ahead of time and use downshifting (lor range) and engine braking as much as possible even on fairly lightweight cars like Model Ts. Heavier vehicles even more so.
Wow, has such a small town feel.
Mannn this is awesome. That would have been the time to be in L.A when the joint was buzzing with glamour and excitement. I've read Robert Parrish's book so I can guess at some of the thrills, disappointments and sexuality of that period. Great stuff.
Really great, thx for posting. Unusual, too, in that there's no commercial purpose to this -- they weren't trying to sell or rent the real estate they passed, nor anything for the cars shown. Just some guy with a new-fangled camera. I noted the bouncy suspensions -- mostly buggy-type transverse springs, front and rear -- indifferent lane discipline, and lack of any signalling, even hand signals. For awhile I thought he was circling the same big block or two, b/c the periodic maint. garages, gas stations, empty lots (each with a jalopy for sale) and tree-lined intersecting streets all seemed alike -- and to appear in the same order.
Very cool upload. . WOW, no signal lights, stop signs, no lanes no stopping period! !
My mother and her family lived in Beverly Hills in 1935...she was two years old...hard to believe she was alive when this video was shot. She turns 87 tomorrow and lives in Santa Barbara
Man,these were the days...
Such immaculate sidewalks. One of these days, I hope!
........and it was the middle of the depression.
What a great clip.
There are people in this footage that are either driving or walking the side walks that seen the civil war; some that migrated from the east/south that fought in it or experienced it.
As always you have great vids
This from Archive.org. "Shotlist
00:00 Reverse process plate, shot from car moving down daytime unidentified Los Angeles or Beverly Hills street; automobile traffic seen
02:09 Reverse 3/4 angle process plate, auto runby, same description; passing by Warner Bros, Beverly Hills Theatre, showing "Oil for the Lamps of China" on marquee
04:11 sign explaining Broken Egg Spring; Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming."
I've never seen so many gas stations so close to each other
I wish that I could have been there, but I would be only 3 years old. I see a lot of vacant lots, and small two story apartments. I lived near Hollywood in 1955, so I did experience a little of Wilshire Blvd, but I don't remember any vacant lots.
I’m from California and love old Hollywood❤️
Back when California was awesome.
@@whiteclifffl and it still is
Incredible footage! And everything was so clean!
Holy cow. There's no lanes or center divider and barely any traffic lights. Some traffic lights I did see looked completely different than today. What a trip.
at 3:13 theres a lady in the car, cute little hat, driving into the past. This clip is all that is left of her. That's a 1934/5 chevy tudor she's driving Wonder who she was.... where she was going?
Carol, I understand exactly what you're talking about.
Maybe there's more left of her than this clip: her children and grandchildren and many memories of her by different people.
Carol. Like you I find moving snapshots like these very compelling not only for their obvious "time capsule" fascination but for what you've described also - individual people caught by sheer chance and frozen in time for as long as the films exists. Who were they, what were they thinking, did the lady even notice the camera ..... poignant and intriguing.
I saw her too. Just crusing only triple that amount of cuties such as her these days.
Jeez, finally found some other people like me....I always wonder about people in these videos....I thought I was alone and weird thinking that way...LOL....Just assuming she was young at 20 years old, she would be at least 100 today....Have to assume she is long gone....
I'm the same way Carol. I always think about who they were and the likelihood that in this momentary glimpse of her that no one would have ever thought (including her) that there would be this "thing" where literally thousands of people would see her again and even wonder who she is.
Extraordinary!
There are an awful lot of gas stations close together. Like one on every bloke.
Great video ...the only thing there now that was there in 1935 are trees. I didn't know Old Faithful was on Wilshire Blvd. I was there in December of last year. I always thought Old Faithful was in Yellowstone. I will be on Wilshire Blvd in about 3 weeks I will look for it again. Thanks:) Love the old cars.
At 1:42 the cars are traveling east, about to cross Wilshire and Robertson. The building on the northwest corner - 8801 Wilshire Blvd - is still there, now as Beverly Hills Collateral Lenders.
Great video.
My grandparents were 2 and 4 years old at the time
Wow! I didn’t know that Yellowstone National Park was on Wilshire Boulevard!
This is so cool
superbe......merci pour ce blvd que j aime
Doing my best to try to give us some markers to figure out where they are at various points in the film. Definitely starts near Canon as you can see the Warner Brothers Beverly Hills Theater and it's spire camera left. This site has a great picture where you can see the theater on the left and the other tall building across the street.
sites.google.com/site/wilshiremoviepalaces/warner-bros-beverly-hills
Will keep trying and post as I figure things out.
1935! Chevrolet Suburban was born! Still kickin' the asphalt in 2020 since then.
great vid loved it
With all the stock footage houses serving the motion picture industry, LA must be the most photographically documented city in the world. Pick a street, pick a decade and watch the future unfold out of the past.
All that vacant land. If only you could have purchased a few of those, and lived long enough, you definitely would be set. Kept looking for Laurel and Hardy in their American Bantam tiny car.
Just think, in some other's sim someone is watching nostalgic warp space travel from galaxy to galaxy with giggles at how quaint it was in the warp travel days. 💥
Every single car looked identical lol
Even the music in 1935 is better than the crap today.
The year I was born wow
Imagine that in 80 years people will see videos of California as it is today and think of how nice it looked
The alternative opening for Beverly Hillbillies
Really cool. I wonder where everybody was going?
Wow how did they not all wreck?! Wow. Crazy the way traffic worked
+passion777 It's called "watching where you're going." No smartphones in those days, thank God.
For the life of me, I can't tell where on Wilshire this was filmed. I used to live & work off Wilshire in Miracle Mile, and commute along it every day, and the only thing that stands out as a vaguely recognizable landmark is the tower on the left at the start of the video (is that near Wilshire & Vermont?) I LOVE these videos!!!
Well, Southern California was a paradise, now look at it.
good eye, that does look like Wishire and Robertson with the way it curves out, but Beverly Hills Collateral isn't there anymore, they moved out of that space about 6 months ago, now they're remodeling that space
9 cent's a gallon during the great depression wow!
I kept looking for a car wreck, the closest I got was the towing job at 1:40. Looks like the cab was hit.
Amazing to think some of these sights might have been familiar to Cary Grant, Gable, Joan Crawford, William Powell, etc., etc., just to name a few a few of Hollywood's Golden Age immortals.
The Sun is the same that shone on everybody in History
Gotta wonder what the motive was to shoot these films back then. It doesn't make much sense that anybody would shoot this back then, but I'm glad they did.
Man, people drove like shit back then too.
Ahh...Wonderful Footage...And Not A Sign OF Road Rage Anywhere...Everybody is just cruising along !!!
Awesome... Thanks for sharing!
Was that springs and geiser somewhere in Beverly Hills/Wilshire Blvd as well?
haha. No silly, Wilshire Blvd leads straight to Yellowstone in Wyoming!
No traffic lanes and hardly any traffic signals.
i love it.
....even back then “...nobody walks in LA”...
Wide open. You could have picked those lots up for a song.
coolest cars ever .. not like today
Piggy Wiggly at 1:00 !!
J'adore votre musique Спасибо за роскошную музыку.
Would it have killed them to drive by Cantors?
A little out of the way since they’re on Wilshire in Beverly Hills…especially since CANTER’S was in Boyle Heights in 1935! Unless you meant that you knew of a CANTOR at a synagogue in the area ;).
At 1:30 that car had to swerve to avoid the pickup making a left turn. Bad drivers even back then.
Right. He made a left right in front of those two cars. Do that today & somebody will pull you out of your car for an azz beating.
the music is wonderful, may I ask you which band is playing, or what is the title of this music
Ooooh what beautiful I love it gr Jeffrey 🍀🌞☕😘🌴
Does anyone know the name of the song? Man, it really swings!
+thepointlessnostalgic It sounds like a "Tuxedo Junction" knockoff.
Next Stop Pottersville
What happened to Broken Egg Spring?