Early 1950s Los Angeles | 4k and Remastered
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- čas přidán 6. 10. 2022
- Remastered clips of Los Angeles, California, likely from the early 1950s. Most of the video shows driving on Wilshire Boulevard. We see the May company and the Prudential building. The later parts of the video are likely captured in the surrounding areas of Los Angeles.
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The video has been restored and colorized using state-of-the-art machine learning methods.
The restoration steps included:
- motion stabilization
- noise reduction
- colorization
- frame interpolation for increased FPS
- upscaling to 4K
- adding ambient sound
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These folks have no idea they were living at the pinnacle of civilization.
Exactly.
yea right it was fucked up back then, just less crowded
So the pinnacle of civilization is racism, segregation, women being beat by their husbands and being expected to be perfect housewives and being treated like property and nasty cigarette smoke everywhere? Yeah, that's the life!
@@Jacevo. actually it does go downhill 🤷🏼♂️ Biden president, lgbtq+~$|¥$% SJW etc.
Remember driving down Wilshire Blvd as a kid. Women would dress up and go to department stores like Bullocks and May Co. It's was neat to have lunch in the store cafeterias. A gentler time for sure.
The feeling of cleanliness and calm, beauty out of times, priceless.
Porque los angeles no era gigantesca ciudad como lo es ahora
It’s just a feeling. I grew up there at the time. On the positive- Quite a few film stars (none rich like today) lived there. It was very middle class. Buster Keaton, Larry Fine of the Three Stooges were two I remember. Negative- the food was terrible, the coffee was worse, the air was unbreathable, the cars leaked oil like they were faucets on drip, racism was open and everywhere, and the cops-jeez- the LAPD. Nuff said.
But other than that…! 🥰
White America
@@xada2397 100%
I grew up in the 1950s in Los Angeles and can tell you that back then drivers were more polite to each other, they yielded the right of way even when they didn't have to, they were not in a rush, did not run through yellow or red lights, did not cut off other drivers, did not tailgate drivers in front of them and treated driving as a privileged rather than as a right. The rules of the road were studied and put into practice and road rage was something completely unheard of back then.
Maybe because we weren't so angry
Ha cambiado mucho en todo el mundo...yo soy del viejo continente nací en España..y en esa época aquí también eran educados conductores, ahora son bestias , chillones y agresivos en la conducción..educación cero.
@@annelizabethcarroll3396..no solo enojados.., la educación brilla por su ausencia en los días actuales..notienen principios o los principios son moda del momento según el viento.
i genuinely envy you 😭 i was born in 2010 and i love love love love this time. so upset i'll never really experience ittt
bro, your old !
Imagine telling the person filming this that in 70 years nearly a million people will be watching this on their phones and wish they lived during this time compared to now
I do not wish to live in this era.
why not?@@lll.636
I do not wish to live in this era sorry
lol no one cares@@TeW33zy
I'd be offended ngl. (It wasn't perfect I know that)
Clean streets, no graffiti on the buildings, people dressed nice , it’s great to see it again thanks for sharing this.
America before the invasion of leftist ideology and culture.
Everyone is slim. No high fructose corn syrup.
Looks safe back then...actually like a pleasant place with decent people - the exact opposite of what it is now.
open carry back then
No homeless, either...
Does anyone know why watching these videos of the old days when I wasn't born makes me happy? I think it's just seeing how life was in different eras and how things have changed, I have always been fascinated by history.
The old days. This is what our parents and grandparents could only tell us about.. Nice to see those old vehicles in their element...
Things were simpler then, people valued the family as a whole, and LOVED their country. They would have NEVER burnt our flag.
There is certainly less traffic, homes were much more affordable, and there was a lot more open space and greenery. That all results in less stress. It is easy to see why everybody wanted to (and millions did) move to Los Angeles at that time. Just an observation: I've watched a number of these old remastered films and can't remember seeing a motorcycle in any of them. Cop cars are very rare, too.
Same for me. I love it. And the Los Angeles and San Fransisco footage from the 40s 50s and 60s are my favourite films!
😊😊😅 Crazy ha? 😂
Im 38yrs old male and from the North East of England, i have recurring dreams of me walking the streets of America even attending a school, ive never been to America ever but i feel like ive lived it already especially around these times, i find myself watching any footage of America from 1940 upto 1960 never understood why other than dreams i have. My go to music if im poorly, happy, or sad is Doo-Wop music im obsessed with it, ive even got my mates hooked on it, if anybody knows a little town called Middlesbrough that's where im from and it's different in a billion ways to America at any period and people are normally into dance, rave music i like it but Doo-Wop is my thing, loved how they dressed back then to and the girls all looked beautiful if anybody seen me you wouldn't put me with anything 1950's especially doo-wop music, thanks for the video hope to find many more.
🤙 Thanks for sharing bro….I mean it, thank you for sharing. I live in the US…it’s quite depressing at the moment. Wish you the best mate.
This gives me strong "past life" vibes.
What a great story, thank you for sharing all this. I am born and raised in California and though the 1950's is before my time, my mother is 89 and she says this is exactly what it looked like in LA then. You should really come to California, but avoid the bigger cities and just see the mountains, deserts and beaches. I have been to Middlesbrough in 1999 because a pen pal of mine worked at the Dorman Museum, which I'm sure you've heard of. Anyway, cheers!
No obesity, no anti-social screen addicts, no latin kings, no crips, no graffiti, no welfare, no depression, no china viruses, no corrupt elderly presidents, people were friendly, people took pride in their appearance and their work, everything was made in America, and America was #1.
Latin kings? You're getting cities confused. There's no such thing as Latin kings in LA
99% white.
No orange blobs squatting in the WH cheering as his thugs storm the Capitol. MAGA.
No Natives of the land - what tragedy and evil befell them?
@@giash1 Nobody is "native" on the American continent. You have been fooled by inferior schooling, propaganda, and not keeping abreast of the advances in Anthropology 101 in the last 30 years. The American Indians were no even here first. They came thousands of years LATER, across the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia. THEY displaced (i.e., "stole") the land from the ones who were here BEFORE them. None of the oldest skeletons in the Americas are Indians. None of them.
The sidewalks and streets looked so clean
Now it a nightmare of bums, cops, thugs, drugs and scam artists.
That’s what I was thinking.
Damn Republicans kept the city clean
@@toosweet6046I think you meant to say before post 1965 third world immigration began.
@@toosweet6046 Go troll somewhere else.
No one seemed to be in a rush. I love watching these videos. It gives me a sense of peace for a second.
Of course it's mostly people of european descent
rich people
True! But remember you would have needed your fathers or husband signature to get a banking account. Not to mention you could be fired for being gay or killed if you voted as a person of color. It wasn't all that great :0 Toodles
There's no Tyrones chasing the whites and Asians in an attempt to rape them sooooo no rushing needed
@@johnpaulkane6153What does that have to do with what she was saying 🤦♂️.
What fascinates me is the fact that somebody thought (from that time period) it would be cool to film a video like this from a car with I’m assuming a Very big camera at that time. In this day and age where this would not be common, I’m happy that somebody made this video for us people from the future to see how the world was like during our grandparents early days.
This was probably filmed to be used as background in a movie - you know, the images through a car's rear window as the stars talk in the front seat.
Despite what the government and media tell you, this was a wonderful time.
segregation lil bro
If you were white 😂
@@I_literally_dont_know The people in Harlem were happier, too. There were far more black businesses. Blacks had the highest rate of marriage of any group. There were all-black movies even in the 1930's! Lena Horne and others were major stars. What are you talking about, public school and media indoctrination?
@@Itsseebfr Noone cares about browns and blacks. Europeans are the only people that matter, sorry.
People look mostly peaceful, patient, mentally healthy. When I watched videos like this, I recollect my grandparents. They were steady moderate gentle people. I miss them. They died 2012, 2013, 2016. I still remember our last conversations.
Free love? Recreational drugs? independent woman?
Bro what. Free love hasnt made people happier and it's made marriage worse, you can live without your drugs for your highs, and nuclear families were and still are very successful
Mentally healthy? At a time when lobotomies were a form of therapy?
Mine too. Good way to put it
WOW, LOOK no traffic!
@@Christopher.Colbergonly because they were forced into it most of the time
A better country. No internet, no cell phones, no Facebook, no Twitter but a MUCH better country.
No filth, no tent cities, no drug zombies, no homeless people, no litter.
Old cellphones : am I a joke to you
@@vibrantgleam Landlines that were stuck on the wall? Definitely!
they also had segregation of ethnic minorities, women, and lgbtq so i wouldn’t go that far
@@summerthelesbianThat time was even better, don't go crying 😂
I love how modest the women are dressed, how courteous and patient people were walking/driving in LA. Those old classics were once the latest!
Everything so clean and peaceful. America before the invasion of leftist ideology and culture.
The way women dressed back then was ugly. Where are the crop tops and thigh high short jeans?
Its called Christendom, and its over.
2 Cor 4:4@@allenh.7373
@@allenh.7373
Nope, it’s going to make a big revival in the near future, after the great chastisement.
The best days. Quiet and peaceful. People had morals and respect
I'm just shook over how clean the sidewalks are, no gum tar, it was so quiet too
It's just ambient sound added to the video. It's fake.
no tents, no junk, no feces, no wee wee.
@@spankyharland9845 The Streets of San Francisco are an Open outhouse.
💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Welcome to diversity and equity.
and there are no Mexicans, obese people, or homeless bums
Everybody’s driving sooo slow! Seems they were enjoying the ride better than today’s.
as well they should. watching some people crossing the street, cars going through crosswalk and not looking or slowing down. I guess due to less cars at the time, laws and signs hadn't been implemented too strictly. Wonderful none the less.
You needed to drive those old cars a lot more carefully- 20 to 30 seconds to get to 60, unpowered worm and roller steering and 4 bias-ply tires on wheels with drum brakes. Todays cars make people think they’re much better drivers than they are.
@@tompease3022 Very true!
When I lived in LA in 1990, I couldn't believe how slowly everybody drove. At the 35 speed limit, coming from Melbourne, Australia, where I used to drive everywhere at 50, I couldn't get used to it easily.
Pretty sure that the speed of the video has been slowed down. If you change the speed to 1.25 it's more realistic. But slower is better to see all the sights and businesses!
I feel a calm positive energy from this video
This was my Los Angeles. You can see the Matterhorn being constructed at Disneyland from the freeway. This Purdue '55 had a summer job as an engineering intern at Lockheed Burbank. It turned into a permanent job when I graduated. I left LA area in 1972. I was working for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton. Those were good times.
Are you so blind, you CAN'T TELL this is FAKE? NOT REAL! A VIDEO GAME!
My dad worked for Lockheed Burbank in ‘55. He was an engineer, did a lot of work in telemetry for missiles. He then ended up at Bendix Pacific-telemetry. Remember RocketDyne static firing rocket engines in the 60s? In the west end of the valley. The noise was terrific and it’d light up the night sky. I remember the Matterhorn off the freeway in OC. And the orange fields. We would drive to San Diego all the time from Woodland Hills.
The Disneyland Matterhorn is in Anaheim, not Los Angeles.
@@miguelwc True. I should have said the LA area. To me LA was all the area covered by Hollywood, Pasadena, Harbor, Ventura and Santa Ana freeways.
A perfect example of how technology induces anxiety. Everyone here is calm, steady, and have everything calculated perfectly
Yes I'd think technology induces that as over decades and so much now ..I never thought technology was doing good for things as in the last 10 years it worsened ..
@@joemeyers4131ok boomer
I think you may have missed the billboard advertising bomb shelters
My guess is that this was filmed during the middle of the day or the weekend.
@@skywishr1313 Okay, kid. Now it's your time. Show us what you've got..
Must be very early 1950's. I didn't see a car much newer than 1951. Also fascinating to see empty lots in the Wilshire District. So much open land in the west valley as well: Hidden Hills, Canoga Park, Woodland Hills, now just endless miles of tract homes.
Yes, I grew up in Woodland Hills. There was a big boom in the 50s! The house I grew up in was built in 1953 on Burbank Blvd (between Fallbrook and Woodlake). So this is definitely the WAY early 50s… 1950 or 1951! These were the final days of it looking like this in the West Valley. I was able to pinpoint every street heading east down Ventura Bl. Video starts just east of Woodlake Ave., and it goes all the way to Canoga Ave.… And then back/westbound again. Never thought I would see anything like this… It is awesome!
I was thinking the same thing, 50, 51 were the newest cars I saw. Grew up in Woodland Hills in the 60"s and 70's, neat to see how it looked way back
@@mikewhitcomb6558 Hey Mike, if you want to see that part of the valley in its early days check out the movie Bachelor In Paradise with Bob Hope and Lana Turner from 1961. It's a dumb old film, but I think it was filmed in Woodland Hills.
Notice the billboards for $795 bomb shelters? Early Cold War era, no doubt
@@TiltBrookthanks for the perspective.
I miss that Van de Kamp’s restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard just east of Fairfax. My parents used to take us …my brothers and I to Van de Kamp’s for their halibut fish and chips dinner. It was so delicious! so fresh and tasty. So sad to see that restaurant is gone now the waitresses all had blue and white Dutch girl uniforms, the halibut was delicious! tender flaky and sweet with french fries I would smother with ketchup we get a salad with the meal with blue cheese and then for dessert pumpkin pie with whipped cream topping. This was in the 1950s and early 1960s (I was born in February 1951) when we were little kids this makes me so sad and melancholy to see these buildings the ORBACHS department store, the La Brea tar pits, the May company where my mom used to take me shopping all the time that building on Wilshire and Fairfax on the north east corner. Those were good times!. I love to just dive into this video and go back there the 21st century is bullshit!
But we’re stuck with it we’re stuck in it and we have to make the best of it. Good luck to everyone! We’re all gonna need it! The only thing missing from this video was a good year blimp flying over Wilshire Boulevard!
The oceans are now so polluted, especially by communist China, that ALL of the ocean game fish are loaded with mercury. It is no longer edible at all.
Washington doesn't even try to hide their contempt for old America anymore: They're destroying the country while we watch and there's nothing we can do because it starts with the feminine controlled education system and young college students are in lockstep with hating old America. Its a race to the bottom now. Old America doesn't have friends in high places anymore, the country did nothing while the education system was taken over by the feminine mind.
*literally hugs the 1950s.* Wow. 1920-1960; just respect.
I'm old enough to remember this time....a time when people left their doors open at night in the summer, without being afraid...people were kind and respectful towards one another....my father drove a 1950 Chevy, it sure was much different than now.
En France c'était pareil
how old are you ?
it’s better now. Women can hold seats of government and they don’t have to be housewives or get sexually harassed at work. People are still kind and respectful. The only difference is they can love whoever they want now.
@@ddespair hoefully we will have full equality and they also weill be drafted in times of war
В Советском Союзе было так же. Потом в 90е всё дерьмо из США притекло у нам.
These videos are amazing. I can't imagine who drove around with a camera back then. Great job with restoring and colorizing.
Thank you :)
Quite often, clips like this of driving on a city street were filmed to be used as background in a movie scene inside a "moving" vehicle. There are a number of them here on CZcams.
@@genedryer-bivins8314 that makes all the sense in the world considering most of the angles these videos are filmed in 🚀✨🚀✨🚀
My friend and me drove around Melbourne in Australia for hours on different periods, over many years. None of the video footage is recognisable as the same place anymore. We took a lot of freeway footage in and around the city, and the new buildings now conceal the views.
Don’t streets look cleaner?
Post-WWII. America was proud then. Went from the disaster of the Great Depression to the horrors of war, to finally settling down. Most of the men walking there are post-war vets. So many mom and pop businesses, clean streets, people enjoying a nice sunny day.
Ask yourself who ruined it all in LA
Wow!
A life without scumbags.
We could bring these times back.
Nope, the scumbag is out of the bottle. No turning back
"In 1950, the average family income in the United States was $3,300, which was $200 higher than in 1949, according to Roy V. Peel, Director of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.01 The increase in income during this period probably represented a significant increase in purchasing power for the average family.1 Medical doctor salaries in the 1950s ranged from $8,272 to $28,628 for a neurological surgeon, and the average salary of a physician was $11,058. A new house cost $8,450.00, "
BTW.... the average cost of a new car was $1,510. And some of them are still running today!
My first car was a VW bug, bought it new from the dealer. Off the lot price was $1500.
In Cuba yes.
In Canoga Park, CA in 1973. $1500, off the lot. You couldn’t buy one in Cuba at the time.
Amazing how time has changed. I was borned in 53. I misses the good old days for sure
MONEY is not the key element in the change.
This is amazing to see. It is almost like time travel.
It is totally time travel,, even the car ride footage has absolutely zero movement.. and in those days if you were walking around with a big video camera people would be looking and hiding from the camera,, but no response from anyone, almost like the camera is hidden,, and the footage looks way to high definition for the time period
Our family was living there then .my dad is 88 and he has tons of stories abour la in the 50s
If you could please share some of his stories it would mean the world to
Those cars are soooo much more beautiful than today's cars... I wonder why that industry completely lost any sense of aesthetics.
Government regulations.
I was in LA and Long Beach around 1952-1953. My uncle had a Studebaker with the bullet front. I remember how milky blue the skies were. I didn't realize how little traffic was on the road during the middle of the day and how wide the streets were.
Nice car!
Now vehicles just sport bullet holes in the front 😔
Based on your profile picture, are you Danny DeVito?
One thing I consistently observe in these old images and videos is that almost 99.9% people are slim and fit.
number1 reason why people are obese nowadays is higly processed food thats made to be addictive, so its a simple conclusion
@@panbestia6959 and kids stay inside on their devices, no exercise.... they worked back then
@@rickyestes7477 mm child labor.
@@rickyestes7477worked for nothing
@@vibrantgleam I worked at 13 for a construction company, with FICA deductions for social security and medicare. The billionaire J.R. Simplot left home at 13 and WORKED. I recommend it to all of you FAILED PARENTS today. Work ethic, you idiots.
I was born in Los Angeles in 1951. I'm 72 years old, and I've seen everything! Cindy We had fish every Friday at Van de Kemp.
"Jist you wait, 'enry 'iggins, jist you wait" [until January 20, 2024].
These people did not know how happy they were
The closest thing we have to time travel, thanks. Almost every car shown is a collectors item now. Ah yes, Wilshire at LaBrea. Crossed that intersection a million times. 4k is outstanding
Thank you :)
What if this was a time travel...no redlightssno green light
Yes....
Use to work and club on Wilshire Bl❤
That’s Wilshire and Fairfax not la brea…you can see the academy museum
No sorry, you are incorrect. The video starts at Dunsmuir Ave. looking east. In the background you see "General of America Insurance building" which is definitely on La Brea Ave. (at Wilshire). You apparently are viewing much later in the video where, yes, the old May Co. store (later the renamed the "academy museum" - which was done like 50 years later) is shown at Wilshire and Fairfax @@pornneliushubbard1967
I was there as a small boy and I recognized the buildings. Note the streets were clean, women were dressed in a more traditional way without tattoos and piercings everywhere. People were of a more decent type. What happened?
Times changes, in 1400's, they used to dress differently too.
The politicians sold us out.
Social Media
we advanced
Freedom, and all the bad things that comes with it.
The first part of that clip was on Wilshire, Miracle Mile, just W of La Brea, Eastbound. I remember going to that Carnation store with my dad for strawberry malts, not milkshakes, in the 70s... good times. (not the TV show, which just happened to be filmed not far from there...) I graduated from Daniel Murphy High School, 3 blocks north, in '78. Thanks for the memories!
Not much traffic, people know how to drive, the car's look great, the streets and sidewalks look good, must have been a really good time to live in America.
Not it you weren't Carcasian..😆😂🤣
@@user-ig5wm8ms5gLearn how to spell, also what is your excuse now, stop, people like you brought society down, keep stealing from Walmart.
@@user-ig5wm8ms5gblack people had there own civilized communities way better then the hood nowadays
Where they’re shooting each other over small things
@user-ig5wm8ms5g dumb.. People of Color lived just fine in the 50's too. Don't be stupid.
@@user-ig5wm8ms5g Isn't your country so makes sense.
As a retired Angeleno, who still has a 2 1 3 phone number, I really appreciated this. The part going West on Wilshire went right by my old living quarters. Now this area is called Koreatown. Superb stuff! If we all had bought property in LA back then, we'd all be millionaires now.
If you wouldn’t have voted Blue it would still be a decent place to live in instead of the third world country it became with Gavin
Ha! My grandparents bought property on Wiltshire Blvd just past Westwood and went to look at it after it rained before they built the house. There was a huge deep puddle of water so they turned around and resold it. 😢
@@aliceputt3133 over a puddle?
Truly wonderful, restored film. Los Angeles in that peaceful time, how clean, slow driving vehicles, well kept home lawnsetc., Growing up not far from the Wilshire area, stirs my heart, with blessed memories. Thank you. James
My mother and I came out to southern Calif. in 1966 - it was more built-up than this video shows - but it was uncrowded; not many vehicles; very clean streets and affordable. The video showing May Co. and Van de Kamp Restaurant on Wilshire Blvd. --- we used to shop and eat in both places. We were both "poor" but were able to shop and eat in nice places - it's close to Santa Monica. Gas was 26 cents/gallon and the attendant pumped the gas, washed the windshield.
And it was 98% white, which you never grasped as THE key element of all.
Born there in 1954 ... up until the 1970' early '80's it was the greatest place to be! LA has been in decline ever since!
Wow....look how considerate and kind and alid back everyone was back then. No rioting, looters, hoods, people smiling and driving 25 mph. Not like that now.
I grew up in Southern California, born just after the Korean War. Growing up in Newport Beach 🏖️ and seeing how much it has changed - oftentimes not for the better - I watch these videos and remember quite well just how it all looked back then. My folks had a ‘49 Ford two door sedan, my grandparents had a ‘50 Buick Riviera. We kids always felt safe playing away from home out in the neighborhood somewhere. We just had to be home when the streetlights came on.
Most of what I recall is just what you see here. Sure there were problems, what time in history were there never problems?
Back then America was the shining city that the world looks up too
Honestly, that is the funniest comment I ever heard. I think you need to work on sarcasm because if you actually believe then you really failed history class. geez
@@ll-cd9zgWhat? He was just say "America was the shining city" why did you connect this to sarcasm?
@@ll-cd9zgI think you were the history class failure. The 50s were an amazing jump-start of American prosperity and culture. You have no idea indeed. Go back to watching your Amy Schumer special
Wilshire Boulevard’s Miracle Mile.....amazing. Again, many thanks for preserving, archiving, and presenting.
Great to see Harris & Frank!! I worked there on Wilshire in 1976 till 1979!
That looks an even nicer time to live in then the 1960's. And its a much slower pace of life which is what I like.
I'd rather live in this time period than in 2023.
That's exactly what AH was teaching people in 1933, but most just aren't capable of getting it.
@@davidb2206yep. We got played beyond belief.
@@gello8518 Yep. Full on truth. That is why it has to be demonized continuously today.
The film quality makes it look like it was day before yesterday
Beautiful video, thank you for sharing. The 50s were the best times in the USA. Society has been in decline since.
I still say the hippies were the beginning of our society going to shit 😂. Not saying they were bad people, but hear me out. They stopped dressing nice, grew out their hair, smoking bud and doing lsd. Were okay with promiscuity. I swear it's just been downhill from there ever since lol
racism..?
How sanely beautiful and meaning-laden it is! Many thanks for posting.
It's not just the color, it's also the motion, you could literally be there. Amazing clips.
Not a bit of trash anywhere. Lots of small, private businesses - not corporate sprawl. Low stress, high quality, self respect that translates into respect for others is so very obvious. People were MUCH happier back then!
You crazy . Thats not the truth
@@F_antomas The burden of proof is on you.
My grandpa had a business downtown.. he would always sweep the sidewalk every morning.
70 years ago, this video would be boring, today, its fascinating
What astounds me is how little has changed in over 70 years. The street lights, power lines and buildings are quite similar to what we have now. The cars are obviously from a different time, but the street and how the roads were marked are not that dissimilar from today.
Now, if you went 70+ years back from 1950, there would be no roads, no cars, no street lights or signals.
Obviously, the advancement between 1950 and 1880 would be significantly greater than from 1950 to the 2020s.
Wow. I can recognize some big landmarks and the roads in the beginning but then as I kept watching, there was so much undeveloped space!! Yet still feels very LA. This is fascinating!!
These vids are incredible! What an outstanding job in recreating them. It's like going back in time and being there exactly as it was. I watch them all the time.
I used to live on the block from the second shot. Something was so familiar... I looked up the area and when I realized where the columns were I was blown away!!! 🤯 Incredible!! The first shot is in the same area, called Miricle Mile. Thank you SO much!!
Imagine being old enough to remember how peaceful, clean, and calm and prosperous life was in the 50s compared to now. Fast, chaotic, filthy, and homeless everywhere.
An excellent video. Not sure how you got ahold of this priceless gem but thanks for sharing. Definitely appreciate this one. Good job!
To think that most of the people driving these cars are super old or already dead makes me sad, time flies by so important to live your life
Some of them may be surviving in thr 80s or 90s... but they may be in thr youth at that time...such videos makes you nostalgic...
I'm a Woodland Hills native, born in Van Nuys in 1960, parents bought a house on Canoga south of the Blvd in 62, I remember when it was still pretty open and lots of agriculture, my first wife lived on Platt Hill, they were still grazing cattle there in the early 80's
I'm guessing that the road showing the Woodland Hills and Canoga Park signs is Ventura Boulevard, before the 101 Freeway, and it was the main highway to get to Ventura and Santa Barbara.
Ей Амерканцы калай сендердің жағдайларың
@@danoc51Venture Blvd was the 101. You could take that highway north all the way to Canada.
Its crazy to see an restored video from the early 50s, a time when my grandmother was born. How different everything is. Must be a great time to be alive.
I love this , appreciate the Remastering, gives a clear view!
The streets are clean, evidence of education. Also, there is no nudity, no temptation, no problems, and no fighting
you forgot to add racism
That's on Ventura Blvd, passing then West Hills and then Canoga Park, the small hillside you see is the 101 before it was built, I've driven down this road since the early 80's and still do daily, i see a few small buildings still there, just modernized. All that empty land you see is now is all shopping centers. WOW
I couldn't quite believe I was looking at Ventura Blvd.... glad to see someone else confirm it! What a tranformation - even 15 years later. It's like another world.
So clean, beautiful and so modern looking. Apart from the cars it could almost be today
Loved this! Thank you.
Also: I’m surprised at the stabilized camera platform used on the car/truck that filmed this Excellent quality footage.
Got me thinking about what must be a massive studio library of stock footage that the various production companies filmed for back street projection during all the scenes they had take place in motor vehicles. Most of it is probably in black and white and could certainly use this kind of enhancement. That is, if they’re still in storage somewhere.
This is the way America used to be.. clean, green and wide open.
So cool to see such high quality footage!
Paradise lost...
Incredible work! Thanx! Born in LA in 49 - really takes me back!!
Still living in LA ?
I certainly remembered the 60’s when I was in my pre-teen. I remembered looking at magazines, books with advertisements on those decades of cars. Seems like the cars are the stars in that era. Very relaxing to watch. Thank you so much for this video.
I lived in LA back in the eighties. Went to USC. Downtown LA was already a rough neighborhood. Suburbs were always as serene as the pictures in this lovely film. It's so sad to see a paradise becomes hell.
The architecture and the design of the storefronts and retail signage is amazing! No expense was spared in presenting one's "best" in those days.
The "bomb shelters $795" sign at 3:25 is wild.
I'm so glad and thankful that these videos are still around. You don't have to tell me how you got them or where you got them, but was it difficult to obtain these videos? Stuff is easy to get online these days, but originally all this footage on your channel must have been physical footage stored/archived in some special place right? Like a city hall or something. I wonder who originally filmed and stored away all this footage.
Footage shot to be used as background for a movie scene inside a "moving" vehicle.
Awesome. Someone went around filming streets. Beautiful restoration. Amazing how they achieve this wonderful colorization. It looks like it was filmed yesterday.
Wow. So surreal to watch,,,,how clean ! Definitely a trip back in time
The billboard ad for a bomb shelter at 3:26 was something to see. Gave me Fallout vibes. Videos like these is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
Great job, so nice to watch life at that time, so cool and relaxing. will be very cool if you make a video for the same street nowadays to see the difference between now and then. Thank you.
Love these vintage videos, the colors are amazing!
Thank you :)
This is amazing. I lived right there on Wilshire and Cloverdale Ave in 2007-2010 looks very similar but newer shops of course.
What have we done to our once peaceful, respectful, and calm society. We have ruined our once Great Moral Nation
Your 1940s selections are just mesmerising. I read sometime ago that we all cleave to a period about ten years before our birth, and certainly the 1940s are ‘my’ era by this calculation!
Odd that it’s the USA that is so much more entrancing to me, as I’m a Londoner, but I am wondering about the huge effect of absorbing all those classic American films from (and books written/set in) this period. I can watch these movies endlessly, eagerly drinking in all the background detail, the cars, styles etc, and it’s all very familiar by now of course. Yet....seeing this genuine, real life stuff is really weirdly trippy, almost mystical even, and you realise how your mind kind of sets itself to a limiting ‘Fiction Mode’ when you watch a Hollywood movie for its period detail, for that elusive connection. If you see what I mean!
It’s as though these real life scenes are somehow very different from everything seen in a movie, even though essentially they do look the same me. I dunno, but it’s absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much
Your comments about the US being entrancing to you and our movies amused me. I grew up in LA during the 50s-70s and all I cared about was Masterpiece Theater and Alastair Cooke explaining what MI-6 was. I thought everyone in CID had to be either Inspector Morse or
Lord Peter Wimsey.
I'd pay a million dollars just to go back to that for a weekend.
@@KB-ke3fi I was born in the Valley in 1948 and I remember when it looked like this. You aren't the only one who'd pay a million dollars to go back and visit those days. We lived next door to Mr. Sperks's horse ranch in North Hollywood. Jim and Ruth Hurd's camellia farm was east of us. Sarah Street was a dirt road. The only freeways were the Harbor, Pasadena (1943) and Hollywood (1949.) I wish the person who posted this video would identify what street in the Valley this is. I recognize old Wilshire Blvd. I was in and out of Ohrbach's many times with my mom.
Wow that is interesting because I wish I experienced the 70s, I was borned in the 80s
can u tell me about it?
I was born in Singapore in 1950 and I presume this nostalgic footage of California must be from 1954 - 1957. I notice that the buildings were not tall. I really enjoy every second of the footage. Great life then.
The cars all suggest 1951, LA is not a city of tall buildings because of the earthquakes.
54-57 Republican Years
Great
Buildings were limited to 12 floors for years. There was an exception for the city hall.
Even today, the entire S.W. United States doesn't really have "Tall" buildings. Except for city centers (Downtowns). ALOT of room to spread out. But "Urban Sprawl" has created an entirely different problem.
I had a funny thought watching this video. My mom used to tell me about the trip she made with her parents from Wisconsin to California when she was a teenager which would have been just about the time when this footage was shot. My Grandfather got sick from ulcers while out there,so my teenage mom had to drive their 1939 Buick through Los Angeles because my grandpa was too sick to drive and my Grandma didn't know how. I know the chance of it is very remote but wouldn't be funny if they might have been accidentally caught on film somewhere in the back ground. Miss you mom!
Los Angeles today is Tijuana North.
So peaceful to watch, makes me wish I could time travel, as well as fly somewhere!
This is good enough for me, for now though! Stunning video, thanks for sharing! 😁
I have a '51 Buick Roadmaster and a '49 Plymouth Special DeLuxe and I have seen examples of both in this video. Especially a close up view of a '49 Plymouth diving down the street at the 4:06 mark. Oh, how I wish I could take one of mine through this window in time and spend a day driving though old Los Angeles!
Give them to your kids and let them enjoy them you can't take them with you
Unfortunately these vintage cars are and their maintenance aren't something kids nowadays can afford
@@VilleGardian I'm older (58) and I can't afford them...but you're right kids nowadays would sell them off after a couple months just to get a quick dollar
@@VilleGardian I have a 72 Cheyenne truck that I bought from harry gant 30 years ago and I plan on giving to my daughter if she agree not to sell it lol
@@VilleGardian It's not even about expense. None of my cars are in show condition and don't really spend a lot of money fixing them. It's more about interest and even basic mechanical ability. Most kids today are basically slaves to technology and they don't even teach mechanics in school anymore. And if it requires any kind of effort on their part, forget it! Sorry for the rant. I'm 58 and transitioning into my grumpy old man phase. I'll just enjoy them while I'm alive and after that, well I won't care anymore after that!
Awesome video! Absolutely awesome!
So amazing to see the footage from 1950s ✨
You guys rock. Keep posting these awesome videos.
Thank you :)
I love the world in the past . Every thing is very peace and very beautiful .
Love the old times, thanks for posting.
I was raised in Los Angeles, California in the 70’s. I recognize some of the buildings in the video, to include what may be the City Vernon area that it possibly shows and Canoga Park in the Valley area of northern Los Angeles County.
From researching past historical records of both the City and County Los Angeles, many regions in the video were farmlands.
Earlier in this same video, around the downtown Los Angeles area, the vehicle might have been traveling through Alameda street. For those not aware, the Spanish word “Alameda” means or is recognized as a street surrounded on both sides of the street by tall trees. While studying some art history accounts for images of downtown Los Angeles’ Alameda Street (circa 1800’s), many drawings depicted Alameda Street as being the street where at the time people could go and buy seeds for their farm from warehouses there. I think, from some of the footage of this video, some areas of what may have been Alameda Street still possibly had many of the trees depicted in the 1800’s art drawings.
By the 1970’s, although still relatively peaceful and economically sound, downtown Los Angeles had dramatically changed from what the video showed, and the deteriorating of Los Angeles only got worse in the decades afterwards.
I love watching historical videos that have been restored because they offer throves of evidence of how life was for many in earlier generations.
Personally, I really do miss the simplicity and the beauty of everyone in general carrying themselves with good character, having good morals, ethics, and values. Yes, things were slower and more peaceful before the digital age.
The decade of Marilyn Monroe. No internet and no cellphone. Men wore suits and women wore skirts.
And redlining kept the minorities away.
@@danielebrparish4271 oh dear here pops a racist..🙄
@fraser_mr2009 Now Women wear the Pants & Men wear the skirts.
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@@davidwesley2525Yeah, and? Move along, we got a new generation incoming. Yall boomers got to rest now. This generation don't keep traditions if we don't want to just because yall want to see it this way.
@@DefeatedMelon You don't speak for our new generation.