Jim, your collection of videos from the Los Angeles area are nothing short of spectacular. I personally hated LA when I was there, but I spent most of my time in OC (Both LA and OC were just nasty) but your videos have given me a temptation to go back and try it again. I absolutely love your soundtracks in the LA videos as well. Terrific work!
Thank you for the kind comment, glad you enjoy the videos. LA is just. a wonderful place to drive when traffic cooperates, I wish I could go back more often.
Funny thing about the music selection is that our family trips had oldies like these playing for the drive. Oldies, particularly from the 60s, always make me nostalgic for the family trips in the 80s and 90s. This music just resonates with California's concrete ribbons for me. It was always Disneyland, Knotts, Universal, and Sea World. I'm also reminded of our trips to Laughlin and Vegas with this music.
The Arroyo Seco has some of the shortest off ramps and on ramps in all of so. cal. from 55 mph to stop in as little as 50 feet, and just the opposite getting on. zero to 55 in 50 feet lol. this is the freeway I learned to driveon in back in the early 70's Great video Jim.
I've been reminding myself to go into the wayback machine and re-watch this one again. Glad I did, too. I'm feelin' groovy! There's an old "Archies" tune that I could have sworn was part of this video, but nope... I must be thinking of a different video... OR, I'm having flashbacks, or something. 😅
Very very cool. I love it. The LA videos are always a good watch and seeing it filmed like this and with this music just made it even more enjoyable! I would love to see more content like this.
+Grave Flower Thank you, I have about a dozen from 2013 and 12 this year (5 more to come). here is the entire LA playlist. czcams.com/play/PLqKr0VZxEGwCrjTwVydiSqBAfpt_aRoi6.html
+acfhs2010 Thank you! I filmed the bridge in a couple videos from the 2013 season, that port area is really interesting, the camera does not do it justice.
Wow!, that was an extremely exciting ride and the old classics you played hit the mark! I must have watched the episode of the (Flinstones) a lot of times, and I love the synthetic vinyl sounds between each song, now a days all music is digital. That was a Classy, Classic, cruise down memory lane!!!! ;-)
I think AM 60's pop is the greatest driving music. Love the crackling sounds. Brings back memories of the vinyl record days. Unlike then the crackling in your video was only at the end of the song.
Awesome! That interchange Judge Harry Pregerson is extraordinary! It's one of the world's largest, right? Bridges are also beautiful... Congratulations for more this video! Thank you!.....
Same thing? Nooooooo, not really. There are no 120 foot high flyovers on the Springfield and it is more spread out, plus this interchange has a transit station on the 3rd level.
My favorite video of yours so far. Seems like an amazing, scenic freeway to drive, no matter what the weather's like! I hope to drive there some day in the future!
Very cool! I've seen several of your videos so far, and they're great, really enjoying them. When you posted this video, I was actually in L.A. that weekend, and left on Oct. 12th. I flew out there to visit friends, and we went to Catalina island on the 9th. Then came back into L.A. the next day and had a blast visiting Griffith park, Huntington gardens, Getty museum, and Santa Monica. Great fun!
Scratches means vinyl !!! Kiddies that is how we old timers played music before cds. Vinyl and cds sound even better on a vacuum tube stereo console. All that was missing was the M and P's "California Dreaming", the ultimate California song imo. Your gear should have been a 65 Mustang, a Kodak Super 8 camera and a reel to reel tape deck. Another great video.
Really enjoy your videos. NIce to get a perspective on American Freeways, and love how you match the video with the sound of the music, and the facts on the freeways. You should come to Australia and do some driving on our freeways (we call them motorways btw). I'm in Brisbane, we've built a lot of tunnels to join all our motorways, very nice to drive in. Sometimes watching your videos, the similarities with Australian and American freeways is quite evident. You would love Melbourne, they've invested a lot into create visual interest with their motorways with murals on the sound barriers and pillars of interchanges and even art works alongside the motorway.
+gde1989 Thank you, I have some friends in Australia who make videos like this so I've gotten to see some of it, Melbourne does indeed look very interesting.....maybe someday. This guy is especially good at the videos. czcams.com/channels/EjRy2pRKBzcL4sdymxooVg.html
I like the appearance of the older freeways and older signs of LA. The cool thing is that you can see the age of things, but its not dilapidated. On the East coast these things would be falling apart and forgotten.
Nice ride! Always good to see those two bridges- always did like them ever since I first saw them in the first-season CHiPs episode Taking it's Toll- also great trippy music and a great trippy effect as well! I know what I said may come out corny... but it was a great vid! Always good to see California highways and bridges!
That was definitely very different and interesting. Excellent looking video and a fun ride. Little nostalgia as far as the music, went but it was still great. Thanx for posting this.
So Beautiful. L.A. Downtown is nice and love the freeways. I didn't know the Vincent Bridge and haven't herd of it. Now I did. I'll check on Google Maps. Thank you! LA is the second most populous city after NYC. In case you knew it.
Wow, been watchin some more on my Kindle Fire..just got a new one in & haven't learned to leave comments yet.I mean I know how but couldn't remember my login & password,lol..So gotta see if I can find it..cause I got it saved in this one...Oh mercy theres the Beau Brummels singin..always loved them, specially this song,,,,I showed Hubby part of the video I was watching when u was in NYC & he remembered a lot of the places that I didn't, but he said ya sure had one good camera..& they are so good..I don't have much time for the other stuff since I started tryin to watch all of these..& got one paused right now on my big 47 inch TV in my bedroom..... .its the one where ya was in Las Vegas..so gotta get back to it,,,u sure got a great talent for knowing where your goin in the big cities,,but I guess livin in Atlanta makes it a lot easier,Ok, take care..
+ladytrucker67 Thanks, glad you and hubby are enjoying the rides...yeah I think my sense of direction and ability to read maps is a gift, was good with it even as a kid. Take care.
Humm, well now this was really interesting...hey , you must live out there pretty close or you would get lost in all this mess,lol..Oh, loved every min of it....
Try driving the 110 north in between Manchester and 6th street on any weekday between 3pm - 7pm lol omg Wow now I see the traffic lol good video. You showed what I go thru every day
+Freewayjim every since our former mayor privatized the 110 car pool lane and made it a toll lane, traffic is crazy from where the toll lane starts and ends The idea for the lane was to relieve traffic. Now nobody ever pays for the lane and traffic is a nightmare. But I'm used to I guess. Lol. The 405 is a nightmare too lol
Route 110 in California is I-110 south of I-10 and CA-110 north of I-10. From Long Beach to Pasadena and vice versa, this is a thriving drive. It's like two spurs in one of I-10.
6:14 I love the palm trees. Los Angeles is a very average American city, however after adding palm trees, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Mountains, beaches, and usually great weather.
Hi Jim, when you played the song A Taste of Honey, I wanted to sk you if you have ever heard of a Parody singer by te name of Alan Sherman, if not he was kinda like Weird al and took ordinary and played around with them giving them new funny names with also funny lyrics, well he actually took this song and did the same thing, and he named it A waste of Money, you really ought to listen to it if you get the chance
@@FreewayJay-g1l Why not? different conditions, I was there and I try to make the most of the time I travel and I was able to capture this, I don't really understand the need to question it, the videos have completely different moods/vibes to them.
+beepbeepme50 I never got to Louisville, I had dinner with a friend in STL and left town around 8:30 or so and just drove straight through to ATL (got home at 6:45 AM)...started the day in West Kansas (Goodland) Not bad eh? :)
+beepbeepme50 I've been to and filmed Louisville...really no sense in going until the construction on the I-65 Bridge is done but I have no immediate plans to go there.
Jim, your collection of videos from the Los Angeles area are nothing short of spectacular. I personally hated LA when I was there, but I spent most of my time in OC (Both LA and OC were just nasty) but your videos have given me a temptation to go back and try it again. I absolutely love your soundtracks in the LA videos as well. Terrific work!
Thank you for the kind comment, glad you enjoy the videos. LA is just. a wonderful place to drive when traffic cooperates, I wish I could go back more often.
Funny thing about the music selection is that our family trips had oldies like these playing for the drive. Oldies, particularly from the 60s, always make me nostalgic for the family trips in the 80s and 90s. This music just resonates with California's concrete ribbons for me. It was always Disneyland, Knotts, Universal, and Sea World. I'm also reminded of our trips to Laughlin and Vegas with this music.
Listening to K-EARTH 101 when it played oldies, and not music from the 80s and 90s as it is now.
Amazingly awesome. Exuberant..BD
Thank you!
I adore this kind of music!
Thank you!
Awesome Video!
The Highways are so amazing, not only LA, hole America! :)
Kind regards from Switzerland
The Arroyo Seco has some of the shortest off ramps and on ramps in all of so. cal. from 55 mph to stop in as little as 50 feet, and just the opposite getting on. zero to 55 in 50 feet lol. this is the freeway I learned to driveon in back in the early 70's Great video Jim.
Thank you!
I've been reminding myself to go into the wayback machine and re-watch this one again. Glad I did, too. I'm feelin' groovy! There's an old "Archies" tune that I could have sworn was part of this video, but nope... I must be thinking of a different video... OR, I'm having flashbacks, or something. 😅
I've never used and Archies tune, but thanks for checking back with this one.
Great video, and I found out yesterday (9-24-20) that the new Gerald Dessmond bridge is going to be opening up to traffic on Monday October 5th 2020.
Thank you very much and yes indeed on the new bridge.
Very very cool. I love it. The LA videos are always a good watch and seeing it filmed like this and with this music just made it even more enjoyable! I would love to see more content like this.
+Grave Flower Thank you, I have about a dozen from 2013 and 12 this year (5 more to come). here is the entire LA playlist. czcams.com/play/PLqKr0VZxEGwCrjTwVydiSqBAfpt_aRoi6.html
Epic!! Especially the soundtrack.😎😎😎
Great video, music of my childhood. Well done! Liked the popping of scratched records.
Just love all the LA drives... Takes me back to youth without a care...
Wow another awesome video FWJ!!! I didn' know LA had a suspension bridge. Also nice view of the port cranes near the bridge and also the LA skyline
+acfhs2010 Thank you! I filmed the bridge in a couple videos from the 2013 season, that port area is really interesting, the camera does not do it justice.
It’s so hidden
Nice to see some urban scenery and heavy traffic
+Fábio Marcos Euzébio Usually filming in heavy traffic doesn't work to well but we got lucky here, thanks.
Some tight turns and short merge lanes early on. Typical of older city freeways everywhere.
Absolutely wonderful, as always!
+luvcarsgay Thank you!
I can't hear 'Laugh, Laugh' by the 'Beau Brummelstones' without thinking of the Flintstones. I was 5 years old in 1965.
+lllBoggylll Sal Valentino's voice is all but gone now .
That Judge Peterson interchange keeps getting me. I would nearly call it art
+H Hoef Oh it is art for sure.
Wow!, that was an extremely exciting ride and the old classics you played hit the mark! I must have watched the episode of the (Flinstones) a lot of times, and I love the synthetic vinyl sounds between each song, now a days all music is digital. That was a Classy, Classic, cruise down memory lane!!!! ;-)
I think AM 60's pop is the greatest driving music. Love the crackling sounds. Brings back memories of the vinyl record days. Unlike then the crackling in your video was only at the end of the song.
+Edward Kollin Thanks....I was trying to simulate the crackling between songs on an old LP. Yes that era produced some really good music
Awesome! That interchange Judge Harry Pregerson is extraordinary! It's one of the world's largest, right? Bridges are also beautiful... Congratulations for more this video! Thank you!.....
+SANDRO Yes it is among the world's greatest interchanges, thank you!
Springfield interchange is the same thing lol
Same thing? Nooooooo, not really. There are no 120 foot high flyovers on the Springfield and it is more spread out, plus this interchange has a transit station on the 3rd level.
Great music and a great ride.L.A.is a very alluring mistress
+Fred Shampine Thank you and she truly is, well said.
My favorite video of yours so far. Seems like an amazing, scenic freeway to drive, no matter what the weather's like! I hope to drive there some day in the future!
Thank you, the drive is very cool (check out Video 17-02, a different take from a different clip of it), hope you get to drive it someday.
Very cool! I've seen several of your videos so far, and they're great, really enjoying them. When you posted this video, I was actually in L.A. that weekend, and left on Oct. 12th. I flew out there to visit friends, and we went to Catalina island on the 9th. Then came back into L.A. the next day and had a blast visiting Griffith park, Huntington gardens, Getty museum, and Santa Monica. Great fun!
Thank you for watching!
was fun to watch, enjoyed that
+LimmingKenny Thank you very much!
Scratches means vinyl !!!
Kiddies that is how we old timers played music before cds.
Vinyl and cds sound even better on a vacuum tube stereo console.
All that was missing was the M and P's "California Dreaming", the ultimate California song imo.
Your gear should have been a 65 Mustang, a Kodak Super 8 camera and a reel to reel tape deck.
Another great video.
+avioncamper Thank you! The M&P version of California Dreaming is coming in a future video, these songs needed to be more upbeat and happy.
Really enjoy your videos. NIce to get a perspective on American Freeways, and love how you match the video with the sound of the music, and the facts on the freeways.
You should come to Australia and do some driving on our freeways (we call them motorways btw). I'm in Brisbane, we've built a lot of tunnels to join all our motorways, very nice to drive in. Sometimes watching your videos, the similarities with Australian and American freeways is quite evident. You would love Melbourne, they've invested a lot into create visual interest with their motorways with murals on the sound barriers and pillars of interchanges and even art works alongside the motorway.
+gde1989 Thank you, I have some friends in Australia who make videos like this so I've gotten to see some of it, Melbourne does indeed look very interesting.....maybe someday. This guy is especially good at the videos. czcams.com/channels/EjRy2pRKBzcL4sdymxooVg.html
+gde1989 And this is the outher person from Australia who does videos. czcams.com/channels/yeVvDERx7vJztE7R-Q_qOA.html
I like the appearance of the older freeways and older signs of LA. The cool thing is that you can see the age of things, but its not dilapidated. On the East coast these things would be falling apart and forgotten.
Nice ride! Always good to see those two bridges- always did like them ever since I first saw them in the first-season CHiPs episode Taking it's Toll- also great trippy music and a great trippy effect as well! I know what I said may come out corny... but it was a great vid! Always good to see California highways and bridges!
+cjs121675 Thank you!
Interesting video. Thank you again.
+Ruy C. T. Thanks!
+Freewayjim I liked the music & the video. Good thing they're replacing THIS bridge just like the Oakland Bridge. Have a blessed day FreewayJim!
+Justin Hundley Thanks Justin, glad you liked it.
That was definitely very different and interesting. Excellent looking video and a fun ride. Little nostalgia as far as the music, went but it was still great. Thanx for posting this.
+writer125 Thanks...little nostalgia? well, there's that "Spirit of '67" video from LA I did in 2013 that I wanted to avoid copying.
So Beautiful. L.A. Downtown is nice and love the freeways. I didn't know the Vincent Bridge and haven't herd of it. Now I did. I'll check on Google Maps. Thank you!
LA is the second most populous city after NYC. In case you knew it.
+Blanding Cassatt Thanks...yeah I kind of knew that.
i liked the dose of hippieness on this one.
+mcpish Thanks, just trying to change things up a bit.
I love your new graphics package - you certainly are making great use of it. Enjoyable ride.
+JMV FRVA Thank you, yep, sometimes you just have to explore what's available.
Great concept Jim! You timed that Herb Alpert track PERFECTLY!
+TheSolarcatcher Thank you, the soundtrack definitely took some work to get things right.
Wow, been watchin some more on my Kindle Fire..just got a new one in & haven't learned to leave comments yet.I mean I know how but couldn't remember my login & password,lol..So gotta see if I can find it..cause I got it saved in this one...Oh mercy theres the Beau Brummels singin..always loved them, specially this song,,,,I showed Hubby part of the video I was watching when u was in NYC & he remembered a lot of the places that I didn't, but he said ya sure had one good camera..& they are so good..I don't have much time for the other stuff since I started tryin to watch all of these..& got one paused right now on my big 47 inch TV in my bedroom..... .its the one where ya was in Las Vegas..so gotta get back to it,,,u sure got a great talent for knowing where your goin in the big cities,,but I guess livin in Atlanta makes it a lot easier,Ok, take care..
+ladytrucker67 Thanks, glad you and hubby are enjoying the rides...yeah I think my sense of direction and ability to read maps is a gift, was good with it even as a kid. Take care.
Humm, well now this was really interesting...hey , you must live out there pretty close or you would get lost in all this mess,lol..Oh, loved every min of it....
+ladytrucker67 Thank you...I live in Atlanta, that was only my 2nd time in LA, I just have a good feel for the freeway system.
Try driving the 110 north in between Manchester and 6th street on any weekday between 3pm - 7pm lol omg
Wow now I see the traffic lol good video. You showed what I go thru every day
+arnola88gt Thanks, I suppose you get used to that kind of traffic.
+Freewayjim every since our former mayor privatized the 110 car pool lane and made it a toll lane, traffic is crazy from where the toll lane starts and ends
The idea for the lane was to relieve traffic. Now nobody ever pays for the lane and traffic is a nightmare.
But I'm used to I guess. Lol. The 405 is a nightmare too lol
+Freewayjim شوارع ناعمه وحلوه .
Love these oldies you used, Jim! Good vid.
+tall32guy Thank you!
Amazing as always!! And great editing to bring the video and the music in sync :)
+kimi kimster Thank you very much!
Route 110 in California is I-110 south of I-10 and CA-110 north of I-10. From Long Beach to Pasadena and vice versa, this is a thriving drive. It's like two spurs in one of I-10.
6:14
I love the palm trees. Los Angeles is a very average American city, however after adding palm trees, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Mountains, beaches, and usually great weather.
A 1960s ride on CA-110/I-110 South in Los Angeles
very cool highway. that right of way is so narrow and tight.
texas would never make a road like that.. :(
It was built in 1940, Texas didnt even think of building a freeway at that time.
Very cool!
Thanks Jim for an interesting trip. Definitely different than your videos of the 110 from 2 years ago.
+ca2fla Thanks, I was conscious of that while making this one :)
1:25 "Along Comes Mary" was also covered by the Blood Hound Gang :)
I hope to drive the freeway of southern California once someday. :)
Arroyo Seco Parkway reminds me of the portrayal of the los Angeles freeway system in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Great Video!
+Nash wayz Thanks Nash, glad you liked it!
Freewayjim You're welcome, always a pleasure to watch your videos!
Reminds me of my Grand Theft Auto days.
"Magic portal" LOL!
5:23 Magic Portal 😂 It’s the most legendary portal in LA
the first sector looks incredibly bendy and claustrophobic even.
Another drive on the 110.
Funny enough, you can walk on the Arroyo Seco FWY
+Alex2001646 With LA you gotta film what's moving and on a Saturday afternoon that's not a given as evidenced by the oppisite direction on the 110.
As far as I am concerned it will always be the "Pasadena Freeway".
5:20 CA-110 will become I-110 once we pass under the “magic portal” called I-10 what a good thing to say
I have a fever.....and the only cure for it is more cowbell!!!!
+Joseph Dugan lmao
Hi Jim, when you played the song A Taste of Honey, I wanted to sk you if you have ever heard of a Parody singer by te name of Alan Sherman, if not he was kinda like Weird al and took ordinary and played around with them giving them new funny names with also funny lyrics, well he actually took this song and did the same thing, and he named it A waste of Money, you really ought to listen to it if you get the chance
+Andrew Silva Have not heard of him, might have to look that up.
Awesome video! BTW, are you going to record the trip across the new bridge once it's finished?
+West Coast Highways Thanks...if I am out there with a chance to I will, I live in Atlanta so that's not a given.
Lame loved to compare and contrast this video with the one from a couple years ago. Great work and lambs everywhere would agree.
+Upeedina Lamb Thank you! I may re-work that 2013 video someday, the traffic was better.
The view is like in the 1950s. Is that right?
Can you cover CA 85, CA 17, CA 237, and CA 87 in. San Jose if you have time please.
+The 405 I've been back in Atlanta for 4 months now, sorry
Dammit.
+The 405 I'm sure FreewayBrent and rockersk08 have some if not all of those roads covered on their channels.
+Freewayjim they have. sorry
Didn't you already make a video of this place in the cool sunset video?
That was from 2013, this video is different footage from a differemt trip.
But what i'm trying to say is that why did you make it again?
@@FreewayJay-g1l Why not? different conditions, I was there and I try to make the most of the time I travel and I was able to capture this, I don't really understand the need to question it, the videos have completely different moods/vibes to them.
Why didn't you jump in the express lanes to go around some of that traffic?
Because I don't live there (I live in Atlanta) and don't have a transponder.
😀
Could you use A7X - Streets? If not, then it's okay.
+GoWarriors Splash Bros. I use what I feel fits the footage and mood but that song could fit somewhere someday, I used "Buried Alive" in 2013.
+Freewayjim Okay, cool.
+GoWarriors Splash Bros. If you have not seen it. czcams.com/video/EibTg3cMIbM/video.html
I recommend dropping a half an acid hit 1 hour before viewing this, for maximum grooviness 8-)
100th like!!!
+TJBellamy99 Thank you!
Traffic🙄
Cool vid! 9:21 You cant do that
+beepbeepme50 The motorcycle? That's legal in California.
Just goes to show, Cali people are impatient people.
BTW, did you film a vid in Louisville?
+beepbeepme50 I never got to Louisville, I had dinner with a friend in STL and left town around 8:30 or so and just drove straight through to ATL (got home at 6:45 AM)...started the day in West Kansas (Goodland) Not bad eh? :)
Do you think you will get to Louisville anytime soon?
+beepbeepme50 I've been to and filmed Louisville...really no sense in going until the construction on the I-65 Bridge is done but I have no immediate plans to go there.