1930s - Views of Los Angeles in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Los Angeles 1930s, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight, Scene Street,
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source
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Would you like to visit the 1930's? Which city would you like to visit?
New Orleans
Odessa
No way
I liked Los Angeles I will choose it to visit it at this time 1930s
Chicago
The center of American cities were so much more thriving back then. There was so much pedestrian activity, businesses, trains...etc. This looks like it could be New York. Downtown Los Angeles today is a ghost town compared to this.
Yes Daniel. It’s tragic indeed. At least a few of those ornate street lamps survived to this day.
No malls, or stip malls. Every little town had it's hub. That was our "mall."
@@smallfootprint2961 When malls began to appear in the early 1960's, I think they were largely welcomed until the past twenty years or so with the increase of on-line shopping and many aging out into disrepair. They seem to be going the way of the telephone booth and unfortunately strip malls are like many fast food chains being a blight of the American cultural landscape. With the birth of suburbia post WW2, the network of freeways, interstates, expressways and the cars spelled doom for many American business core shopping hubs. Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is a prime example of this. Americans like our conveniences and cars. Ever notice when stuck in a LA freeway traffic jam and there's 9ninety percent of the time only the driver in the car?
The burbs killed downtown and LA had room to grow in the outskirts. Today, it’s landlocked
A ghost town? More like Hobo Town.
I'm English, I live in U.K.
Once visited L.A. some years ago ( 1979 )
I recall many, many Streets / Roads, void of pedestrians.
Watching this marvellous film ( absolutely loved it )
Peace to all the residents of L.A.
As a fan of the old 1930's Hollywood, how I wish I could just climb right into the screen and experience this for real🙂
Why? Zero has changed. Jay walkers, people speeding, and too many people in one area. I thought i would feel nostalgic watching it but it actually made me sad knowing our city has always been claustrophobic and chaotic
Not me. I’m not white so there would have been a lot of discrimination. Plus you had to wear suits all the time. No thank you.
Same. Fan of 30s, 40s and 50s
@@fohpono8884 non-whites flee their own countries and peoples to live off of white ingenuity and hard work
Soon
Its crazy to think in the 1930's LA had clean, reliable public transportation. LA looks more like NYC here too, I wouldn't have guessed it's LA without the title. And so many pedestrians! Plus I love the cars of this era. So classy. I think even people of the time appreciated the look.
Street cars were outdated by 1930s. They were causing traffic jams. They had to go. it was a big mistake in hindsight.
This is during the Depression and still looks better then today
I think that this is really Key West, Fla
Too bad these times are long gone. If the States had still gone with expanding the railroad system instead of the highways and increasing reliance on cars, it would be so much more encouraging for folks today. I hate lobbyists with all my heart.
People had different societal values back then. They were more patriotic, and they conformed more to the status quo. There were harsher punishments for breaking the law and people had higher expectations of how a person should behave in public back then too.
These are extraordinarily good. As though it transports you back in time.
thank you so much🙏
Welcome to the current. Fake western news and flying cars all over the world
@@dritanovic3331 Well sadly, it is kinda true what you said.
The times when Nerdy did not exist, tiktokers did not exist, youtubers did not exist, there were no idiotic computer games, there was no internet and no brain feeders. The times when people lived normal lives. The times of gold and times of social and cultural normality.
@@capriomrowkicz1751
U forgot to add
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Los Angeles was growing so fast in the early part of the 20th Century. Went from a little over 500,000 in 1920 to 1,250,000 in 1930.
No wonder they built the Boulder renamed Hoover Dam to create Lake Meade to feed the thirsty burgeoning city.
If the title was not shown where this was, I would think this is NYC.
The times when Nerdy did not exist, tiktokers did not exist, youtubers did not exist, there were no idiotic computer games, there was no internet and no brain feeders. The times when people lived normal lives. The times of gold and times of social and cultural normality.
@@capriomrowkicz1751 and people jaywalked lie crazy and killed by lunatic drivers
Gold rush
Beautiful. This is the closest thing to time travel that we can experience.
The times when Nerdy did not exist, tiktokers did not exist, youtubers did not exist, there were no idiotic computer games, there was no internet and no brain feeders. The times when people lived normal lives. The times of gold and times of social and cultural normality.
totally!
Beautiful.especially no drugs or Holmes people
Is literally light time travel
Based on the cars, this is 1934 - several places in the video where '33 or '34 Fords pop up, and one '34 Dodge, which was the newest car I spotted in the whole video. Once again, outstanding footage.
The cameraman certainly didn't suffer from vertigo! Good color work Nass.
thank you so much🙏
Amazing how many people used to walk in LA! I used to see throngs of people walking in the old movies from the 20s-40s but I was never sure if it was just the studios putting in more walker extras than there really were. I've also always been interested in how the street cars and cars determined the right of way. It looks like the cars were allowed to use the streetcar lanes and hold them up if the cars were making a left-hand turn. I also love how people used to be able to catch and get off the streetcars in the middle of the road and be able to just walk in between the cars to the sidewalk. Thank you NASS for all your videos! Especially this one.
Now we drive our cars across the road to get mail 🙄
I can remember going downtown on a streetcar with my mother and then walking around.
Actually that's one of the things that contributed to the decline of the streetcar in LA. Car companies lobbied to let cars share streetcar lanes and won. The streetcars were already struggling financially and had some quality issues, and this made it worse.
@@meijiishin5650 ironically it being so built around streetcars is what doomed it, since it allowed wide streets for trams to be converted to car lanes and the downtown was less centralized as in other cities like Chicago and nyc
Very good synchronization with the added audio. And of course very good video.... thanks! That was a pure joy to watch
OMG, this is fantastic! This is a window into my grandparent's and my father's Los Angeles. God, please let me go back and spend one 24-hour period in 1934 Los Angeles...I want to watch my 21 year-old Dad working in the Notions department at Bullock's at Broadway and 7th...I want to ride the P.E. red car out to Echo Park and visit Grandma and Grandpa in their home on Laveta Terrace, overlooking Sunset and Echo Park...let's make it a Sunday, so I can attend mass at Saint Anthony's Croatian Church, where my grandparents married in 1912.
Oh, and I want to ride the red car through the Hollywood subway to the Subway Terminal Building, get off and see a picture at the Los Angeles Theater...then eat at Clifton's Cafeteria. PLEASE!
I wish you I could grant this wish for you....I'd be there right with you.
@@bigstar75 and me too!
@Heretic are you from Croatia?
Me too, my great great grandfather arrived in LA about 1870, my grandfather was born here as was my father. They lived closer to 4th and the railroad tracks. I always try to see it from that perspective. How fun.
@@jocaboca1395 my father's mother was Croatian; grandpa was from Mostar, we think.
I love all of the vintage Los Angeles footage you've posted. Broadway might have been dingy for a long time but, it architecturally stayed the same and now is being reborn. Thanks for posting this!
Remember as beautiful as this looks lynchings of black people were also happening during these times .
Great work!
It's like waking up suddenly in 30's and look out the window.
Would be nice to see a side-by-side comparison with today's traffic at the same locations !!! Thank you for this.
Saw recently that it's pretty dead. We used to go to the jewelry district about once a month 10 years ago, and it was not quite this crowded with people, but more crowded with vehicles.
It's like if the "Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven" videogame would become a nowadays reality! You did an amazing job sir, keep going.
thank you so much🙏
I hope one day video game companies will make experiences like this where you can just drive around period accurate places in extreme detail in VR
You HAVE to play LA Noire.
But but but... You realize that this is really the city that was all based on. You're looking at it. Reality.
@@jaushuagray4901 Exactly. But I meant 'nowadays reality'
Edited my post
From 3:35 to 4:33 it blows my mind how orderly pedestrian crossings at a 4-way intersection were way back in 1934
civilized
@@jnielsen1956 Fr man, fr
@@LOLman21213 It's called, the population was lower. And most people weren't out at the time. You might recall that the 1930s was the Great Depression (the worst time in American history). It's likely most people were passed out drunk at home. And remember that these are the people who would be drafted just a few years later into a World War that killed 50-60 million people. They also lynched black people for fun. Nothing about this era was civilized, but the camera always makes it look that way doesn't it?
My goodness! These videos are pure magic. A portal that takes us into the past!!! THANK YOU for producing such exquisite footage. It sure brings the past back to life!😍😍😍
Просто немыслимое количество людей! Улицы города очень понравились, большое спасибо Вам!
Теперь всё в бомжах и торчках
@@EPMAK100 ur a homeless junkie - your mama
A thriving city during the Depression. Then came the suburban sprawl and the destruction of Bunker Hill and so many of those old theaters were either demolished or fell into disrepair. At least they saved the old United Artists and Los Ángeles, El Rey, The Regent closed in 2010 and the great work through the LA Conservancy. I know DTLA has tried to resurrect herself but loft conversions and coffee houses only go so far. Thankfully, the old Subway Terminal now lofts and The Biltmore Hotel survived while the Roslyn Arms, Hotel Stilwell, Barclay, and the sad history of the Hotel Cecil. I have walked around all of this at night years ago and didn’t feel safe. Los Ángeles is a great Art Deco city and imagine the “LA Confidential” corruption during Prohibition days. Too bad they tore down the old Court House in 1939-40 and the Hall of Records in the mid-1960’s across the street from the beautiful, iconic LA City Hall.
California didn't suffer nearly as much during the Depression like other parts of the country. That's why my parent's families moved here. There was work at much higher wages than Oklahoma.
My maternal grandfather worked
at the city hall from
1955 to 1966. Amazing
To see the building
Back in the early 1930's.
I believe the old Hall of Records was torn down in either 1971 or 1973, but it made it into the 70's.
@@phillipphinney206 You’re right Phillip. I was mistaken as I researched and the demolition was July, 1973. What a shame they didn’t save it but thankfully the massive square Hall of Justice wasn’t demolished. I know that building went through a major renovation about twelve years ago or so.
My father worked at the Hall of Records, title searching. He would take the bus from Gardena to LA every day.
amazing how the city center was packed, people didn't live in the suburbs yet
@@user-mv9tt4st9k What's TOC? Thanks.
@@thomashernandez8700 likely means Turn of the Century. 1900s to 1920s, 30s
@@thomashernandez8700 Turn Of the Century.
My great great grandfather came to LA in 1870 ish and lived in the areas from 1st st and the railroad tracks. In following them and the whole extended family, it was interesting to see them move by checking the censuses. My family moved mostly to the west by USC and south to the Gardena area. That original area got worse and worse.
yes they did
Jaw-dropping. I'm watching on a large screen TV. It's a time capsule-Stunning. No book can adequately convey what I see here and the scale of humanity going about their lives in another era. Fascinating. Seeing this makes me realize the 1930s were more modern than I gave it credit for.
@NASS another well done video! Really enjoyed this one. It's amazing to see all the people out and about. The streets were organized so much differently.
This is amazing footage and everything looks so clean.
better society
No minorities
@@scottanderson8167 Do you mean the native inhabitants of these lands?
@@martinob2007 There was nothing here before White people came and built America. The native people are White Christians.
@@scottanderson8167 brother you are so right,.. Time after time it's proven.
Beautiful work. Thank you for posting!
thank you so much🙏
@@NASS_0. Great job! I used to work downtown so this was really neat to see. Some of those buildings are still there today. The building I worked in was quite haunted with people from the 1930’s. It was quite an interesting place! The film is amazingly clear! It’s like we stepped back in time.
Ah yes, when LA had one of the best streetcar systems in the world.
The times when Nerdy did not exist, tiktokers did not exist, youtubers did not exist, there were no idiotic computer games, there was no internet and no brain feeders. The times when people lived normal lives. The times of gold and times of social and cultural normality.
The largest by rail miles. Largest system in the world.
The time when LA is not the homeless heaven
My dad drove streetcars for LA transit back then. Yes I'm old.
I’m glad it’s gone. We aren’t in Europe.
As an "Angelino" born and raised, I am reminded how much I love my town and I love these clips.....
Holy cow! Look at all those horseless carriages. I had no idea Los Angeles was such a modern city.
Yes, Tony Seba and Adam Dorr might be delighted to use this footage to illustrate their points about fast technological disruptions.
Either you're being sarcastic, or you don't know anything about history.
@@28Pluto Cheeky.
The times when Nerdy did not exist, tiktokers did not exist, youtubers did not exist, there were no idiotic computer games, there was no internet and no brain feeders. The times when people lived normal lives. The times of gold and times of social and cultural normality.
@@capriomrowkicz1751 They didn’t know what they were missing! 😜
Fantastic! This is a case study for urban planning. Downtowns were really downtowns then. So much economic activity and vibrant life. High population density and efficient use of land. People did exercise to do their chores and shopping.
It also had to do with the fact that modern automobiles and highways weren't a thing, nor was there a middle class strong enough to afford such "niceties" as a detached suburban home and a car in those days. Most working-class folks had no choice but to live crammed together in city centers close to work. The actual experience back then was far from the quaint.
@@michlo3393 ...nor a middle class strong enough to afford such "niceties" as a detached suburban home or car, but nice TIES-yes us dudes back then were still thin enough to look good with a tie.
My aunt used to walk with me to Kresses when I was five. They had glass candy bins. They put 5 cents worth of jelly beans or gumdrops in a little white paper sack, using a large metal scoop.
wow downtown LA was actually that busy then,or anytime.......amazing
чудесное было время,никто никуда не спешил,красивые стройные люди,красивые и качественные вещи во всем,класс
Они такие спокойные потому что отсталые, про колективизацию ничего не знают и не понимают. 🤣
@@Maria-zd1rc и Неграм запрещено с ними рядом находится !
@@Maria-zd1rc зато знают, что негров нельзя в автобусы пускать вместе с белыми
@@user-ku4cm2rd7w В ебучем совке неграми бьіли все)
И про геев и лисбиянок не слышно и не видно
Great shots of Broadway .. I see the Los Angeles theater and then the old sign of Clifton's Cafeteria. Thanks for bringing back memories.
It’s so clear and crisp. Amazing work. Love the legendary tram in action.
Just saw this on a retro L.A facebook channel...over 4 million views there already!! Great Job!
oh!! give the link please! thank you so much🙏
Amazing footage. Your work makes it so real - what an ocean of humanity!
Had no idea it was so busy there. Interesting how the pedestrians and cars interacted smoothly, now these clowns don't get out of the way. Also the art deco sidewalk was cool. i'd like to seer if it's still there. nice vid!
I noticed the same thing in this video that you did how tolerant the pedestrians and drivers were of each other.😌👍🏻✨
@@toboldygo5823 Um, no. The pedestrians are terrified of being run over, and the drivers are terrified of running someone over.
Nowadays, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings work BETTER to keep everyone safer with more refined rules and notifications of the right-a-way.
This is nothing more than a computerized cgi production, none of it is "real footage". Don't be fooled.
The contrast amazes me. The mass of people on the streets is so much greater than now.
I am nostalgic person for old days, nothing can be compared with that life and today ....... in that time everything was thriving business, streets, people happy, markets working day and night, families strong and connected, living cost was cheap and affordable, simplicity, healthy life, stable mentality nothing you chasing like today ....... i am from 80s generation but i feel the time in 30s, because when time proceed life becomes more and more difficult rather than improve .
Life was much simpler then! Wished the price of things, would have stayed the same! A loaf of bread cost between 4 to 5 cents a loaf then!
This is what they stole from us
Who's they ?
@@JuanLopez-do6tf You know, they control everything and now are trying to start a war
@@JuanLopez-do6tfthe lefty democrats who hate America
@@JuanLopez-do6tfthe car industry
I was talking to my mom one time about how beautiful the old cars were, and she said she remembered the classic cars from the 1930's. She was born in the early 30's. My grandparents, remembered just before this era, cars that had no heat or windows ! They said those cars had curtains you snapped in place to keep the wind out, and in the winter you covered yourself with big heavy blankets and quilts to keep warm. My grandparents said it was a big deal when heaters that ran off of the hot water from the engine became standard. My grandparents said before they had hot water heaters, they tried using gasoline to produce heat, but that was not reliable and some people died from noxious fumes, so free hot water heat was a big deal. Of course by then cars came equipped with glass - and maybe even safety glass windows all around. I like how almost everyone who is out and about on the street, they all appear to be wearing hats, men and women both.
Fascinating...as Mr Spock would say 35
Years later!!!
Thanks for the post.
Beautiful work. Looks amazing
Love it Love it Love it.The way it has been remastered.It looks like it was all going on yesterday.Thank you. xxxx
This is when all of Greater Los Angeles was under 3 million people, and there was actual farmland between downtown and the beaches.
This is what I try to describe to people when I say I want to go back and live in the past. How could you not look at that and feel inspired just by the way that it looks. Plus old cars are just all inspiring!
Love watching these. Very well done and it transports you back to that time. 🖖
Those cars! Those street lights! This is terrific, thank you!
This is amazing! It's like a trip in a time machine.
Did you see the newspaper boy run out into the street to grab a bunch of late-edition newspapers to sell?
I saw the traffic guard, acting as the stop light and cross walk for the people and cars. :)
I like all the hand-written, or hand-painted looking traffic signs. They look long to read in the amount of info on them. :) Amazing!
This is great. For some reason we never get to see the CBD of Los Angeles in the Australian media. We see all of the other large cities but not LA.
Hint: call it downtown if you want Americans to know what you're talking about.
You're right, because downtown L.A. was in decline for decades after this, as all of the development focus was in outlying areas. Downtown has only recently become more important.
Deep immersion with the sounds. Thank you!
It's incredible to see how industrialized we where back in the 1930's. We've come a long way in such a short time. Love seeing the by gone year's.
Yet DTLA has the same vibe
3:55 Though the pedestrians presumably have the right-of-way in the crosswalk, look at how the drivers force their way through while making the right turns. Try that today and at least one of those pedestrians will jump up on your vehicle and stomp your windshield.
6:05 Newspaper vender races out into the street to meet the pickup truck delivering the latest edition hot off the presses.
Note the officer standing in traffic in the lower right corner of the frame. He gave the cars permission to turn, and would have blown his whistle and motioned for the peds to stop if they had tried to block the car. There's another officer in the opposite corner of the intersection, and between them they are an intelligent traffic light that does what is necessary to maximize traffic flow with minimum disruption. "Traffic" means both vehicles and pedestrians.
Downtown Los Angeles 1934. It's sad how DTLA sank from this to a crime ridden slum over the next 40 years.
I don't see a car newer than 1931
Actually you don't know what you're talking about my guy.. 1934 was the depths of the Great Depression. There were Homeless people and Homeless camps everywhere and just like in today's compilation vids, they're going to edit that out or not record the homeless. The average person did not have a ideal life back then, far from it, more than 25% were unemployed and people were starving in most places. This went on for 10 years until FDR and WWII pulled the US out of it. Discrimination and bigotry was at an all-time high, it was even normal. It was an awful time for many US citizens if not most US citizens in all ethnic groups.
@@Darius_Icewood these video's are polluted by the view's of people who have no idea what life might have been like back then. I enjoy the video's, but come on. It was not a 'beautiful time' for many people, as you say.
I posted above "1933". But I was thinking 33-34 based on ankle-length hems.
@@thomashernandez8700 that is precisely my guess as well.
Nice to see The Broadway Dept Store, Kress 5 &10, and The Paramount Theatre back in day. It's just like being there with the colorization.
TY for Posting!!!
I may just sit and watch this for hours! Thank you!
Yes, they did have traffic signals. You can see one of LA's unique type of signals at 3:36 to 3:47, bottom, right. First, the arm comes out to show "STOP", and then "GO" with red and green light. A bell also sounded when changing. I often found these signals captivating, back there when I was young.
We called them "wigwattles" for the arms,, flipping back and forth!
Those style signals lasted till mid 50's
How awesome! Looks like you have invented a way to time travel 😊
Yeah I agree never seen anything like it before its like we are there looking out of a window. Kinda creepy in a good way.
This is what it will feel, sound and look like if I stepped out of a time machine into 1930s LA. Excellent work!!
First one, looks like it's Spring Street...I see Broadway Arcade Building in the foreground. On Google Maps, you can still see the brick building and most of the sign. Amazing footage!
1st scene shot on top of LA Railway building, 1060 South Broadway
Looks like rush hour with officers controlling traffic. Looks a bit like old Pasadena in Downtown Los Angeles. Very metropolitan and populated. I wouldn’t be born until about 30 years or more from that time. My parents may have already been born.
Yep I came along about 23 yrs later in New York City. Queens.
First time I actually felt like I was back in time,
watching from a window after arriving through
my time machine! Like watching a LIVE Cam!
Why does something like this have to decay?
Look at those streets and sidewalks!
They are all still there. They are what comprises the modern skid row and vicinity.
Why; Overpopulation income disparity and ignorance. Did I mention ignorance.
Wow. Amazing view of Los Angeles!! Fantastic shots!!!
It’s so awesome to see my hometown at this time. Thank You!
Having lived in LA for over 3 decades, watching this video saddens me…to know that this city was once a clean, orderly and thriving place with vitality is a true wonder. To know that less than a century later, that these same streets would be full of potholes, the buildings in disrepair, homeless vagrants everywhere, endless trash in sight, criminals at each corner, etc…who then could have imagined it would all fall apart so quickly.
Yes, a classy moral society full of men who protected women, children, and their country. Now L A is full of filthy soulless greedy cowards with no moral compass.
back then we had leaders who actually cared. years of corruption, greed, and anti Americanism is why the cities are an embarrassment nowadays
@brzzzz not to mention there is a cannibal restaurant that several celebrities have stated they enjoy eating at, home of Harvey Weinstein, home of Nexium Satanic sex cult, we all know what it's really become.
Ah, it was beautiful, and every generation reminisces about the “good old days”. They’ll say the same in the future. You exagérate, as all people who like to hate on LA. Homelessness is not just a home grown issue, also, home owners have voted down (twice) a rent control proposition in the last 2 elections, but are the first to groan about people falling out of the housing crises. Times change, moods change. In the 60’s westsiders stopped coming to DTLA, so the city built them Century City and the Wiltshire Corridor. So, patterns changed.
Back then it was VERY good for Anglo Americans of the city, minorities stayed in south central or east LA. Reaganomics from the 80’s, CIA sanctioned crack dumps in urban city centers to fund his anti communist wars dealt many downtowns the death blow in the 80’s of which we are barely recovering of.
@@Kenikex all that aside, people were more loving and morally upright
Magnifique travail merci beaucoup 😎😎😎
Merci à vous
Love the color and sound. feels like were really there. just like a living time capsule. Thanks :)
Hi Nass I saw you got some well-deserved recognition by the Daily Mail UK on this video. Congrats!
The air must have been choking with all those cars and trucks. Even one old car from that era today fouls an entire street as the proud owner drives by. Thank god for the catalytic convertor.
@Dennis Wilson My father incinerated fall leaves in Birmingham.
Yeah, the smog was real bad in the mid 60's. I lived
2 blocks from the 10 freeway in West Covina,
and we were breathing
Dirt for air.I had serious
asma as a result.
A lot of power generation & heating from coal within the city as well back then.
Just as well that catalytic converters didn't exist-they'd be such HOT commodities in the Depression and it would be a lot easier to get away with it-no security tech to track down thieves like it does nowadays.
They didn't have smog in the old days- it was a orange haze and was considered a sign of great progress!
Imagine these people would never know we would be watching footage of them on a phone that can go in a pocket
Everyone in the video is dead
That is incredible. Well done!
Thanks for sharing! 💛
it's amazing how in a few shorts years within any given decade - you can tell when it's either early 60s or late 60s - early 30s or late 30s - just going by car models and other things - also interesting how The Wiltern was named after the 2 streets near it - Wilshire and Western....never knew that until now.
The architectural, auto stylings of the late 1930's prefigured the post-war trends through the early '50's, the early '30's were like a continuation of the 1920's
Absolutely Incredible!!!!
Great job.
Liked the original overhead filming.
Amazing!! well done sir!!!
My god! This is just staggeringly amazing to see. BTW do you see the "time traveler" at about the 1:13 mark. He is wearing light colored trousers, a light short sleeved shirt and _no hat_ ! He is dressed in a way that is identical to today (25 Dec 21). Some things never really _do_ change. Or is everything old, new _again_ ?
Many men would be wearing casual clothes like that depending what they are doing. It's a false impression from cinema that everyone was dressed in tuxedos or three piece suits always. My dad was casual often as he was a carpenter after he came back from the war. But there are lots of snaps of him and my mother dressed up smart with him in his suit and tie..or he has a sports jacket and tie on.
I was expecting to see Jake Gittes in these film clips!
Outstanding work..!
Mulțumesc! 😍
Super imagini!
Awesome. Fantastic light rail system 👍.
Los Angeles with two shared lanes of public rail transit in the center of the road. What a concept.
And when windshields were vertical panes of glass. I wonder if cars on those streets had a no left turn rule. Otherwise it would have slowed public transit quite a bit. Wow some of those crosswalks must have been 40 feet wide, so many pedestrians downtown!
One video 6mins 50secs long. Thousands of dead people. I'm not being morbid, It's just that the quality of Nass's restoration makes it look so much more recent than film from this time normally would, and it hits you a bit harder because the people we see are much more defined & with the 60fps & colour added, fascinating & enjoyable to watch. I personally can't help but think with a little sadness, that all these people are gone. Thousands of them in this one video, but these videos are a thing of beauty, genuinely bringing these pieces of film from the 30s, the 40s, the 50s & the 60s back to life in a way that looks like very recent times.
8 I was born in the Queen of Angels hospital in 1939! These old films really tweck my memory?! Especially downtown L.A. - Clifton's restaurant, Angels Landing! My first car was a 42 Chrysler, fluid drive! State of the art! Thank goodness they don't make tanks
like that anymore! While cars advanced, people have regressed ! We were slimmer and dressed better than! Hàd more pride in our self appearance! Ñow I am old and super confused,,! But you can't change the progression of time! Living in a time "warp". Some things get better and some things get worse!
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Impressive. Thanks for doing this.
I was raised in L.A. in the 50's & DTLA was just as busy as it appears in this video. Everyone shopped in DTLA before malls & most streetcars & busses would start/end there. someone decided L.A. would be designed around the automobile, so they started ditching streetcars in the 50's. Today, the business area & hotels are farther west where skyscrapers are now.
Remember the air raid siren? I remember it in the early 60s.
Our families house was at 111 S. Norton.
It can be seen in many Hollywood productions starting with the three stooges to current day.
My grandfather move to LA in 1924 and was friends with Earl Warren.
Remember Stan Chambers the news guy. He was a family friend, my uncle live next-door.
Just by chance my children met him before he passed. He met four generations of my family!
Legend has it that Standard Oil, Goodyear Tires and the Detroit auto industry all colluded in buying up the trolly companies around 1952-53 and over the next several years closed them down, thus making buying automobiles and the fuel to propel them a necessity. Couple that with the development of suburban living in the open areas surrounding LA and the construction of the freeway system (which also led to the demolition of whole square blocks of houses and businesses) and you have the confluence of the very conditions that destroyed the old central LA business district.
It's interesting to see how Los Angeles used to look like New York City with all the high-rise buildings lining side by side. I guess this was before urban sprawl became a thing.
In 1933, there was an earthquake in L.A. (mainly Long Beach, I believe) with a lot of structural damage. After that, building heights were limited to 12 stories (except for City Hall) until the ~1970s.
That was the begining of suburban "sprawl"!
Everything appears so human scaled. The cars, the blocks, the width of the street, the stores and even the street lamps in their frequency.
Amazing work 👍🏻
Some of those tramcars will be donated to Seoul after the Korean War, and used until 1969. Also, didn't know there were sections that had dual gauge tracks: standard gauge for Pacific Electric (red cars) and cape gauge for Los Angeles Railway (yellow cars). The yellow cars were the ones donated to Seoul since they use the same gauge.
Wow!!! 🤩
This is beautiful, just looking at the streets the people the vehicles the sun and the shadows it cast is just like a dream.
Thanks for the time travel when things seemed so much better. 🙌
Great outtakes! It would be nice if you would let us know what productions these are from.
Just think, the guy who took those films probably never would think that decades later they would be seen on the internet.
Amazing and beautiful
These are completely fascinating!
I am just impressed how advanced 1930's was..
It has become apparent, that during the last few years, scrapping the trams and street cars from many of the world’s major cities was a big mistake. Over the last few years I have visited cities as diverse as Jerusalem, Dublin and Krakow, and their tram networks are very successful. It has helped to reduce pollution and eased traffic congestion.
If you talked to people in LA in the 50's most wanted the streetcars and interurbans gone, and go full auto. So it happened, and too many cars and people begot the trains...AGAIN. History can be interesting
Es increíble mirar esas imágenes y pensar que todas esas personas ya no están en el mundo!!! Es una vista impresionante al pasado!
Remarkable footage - both content and quality! 👌👌👌👌👌
Amazing. Thank you!