Ontario California - Rare footage of Ontario Circa 1950's
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- čas přidán 30. 03. 2017
- Hey everyone!! So here is some rare footage of what Ontario was like back in the 1950's. This is rare footage and i hope you all enjoy it. Please like, share and subscribe.
I was born in 1959. We lived near Benson and 6th street. Spent my entire youth in that area. It was mostly orange groves at that time. A great place to grow up before it became a world destination. So glad I have memories of when you could travel places and not wait in lines. Used to go do Disneyland twice a year on Lockheed night (father worked there) where there was virtually nobody in the park.Such good memories! I am sad when I hear other people say they can go back to where they grew up and it hasn't changed much. I'll never see the place I grew up again. Looks nothing like itself anymore.
I was born in Upland and my parents had a home across the street from the Sunkist Plant off Park Street. Before the plant was built there was a park there. We moved to San Diego when I was 4 years old because my father noticed the increase in crime where lived and the gangs that were everywhere. I am glad we moved I am now 58 years old and ALL of my cousins my age where either killed in gang violence or died in some sort of car accident. All of my parents siblings and my grandparents are buried at Bellevue Cemetery. I recently drove down down Park Street to see if our old house was still there and it was not. It is a vacant lot with junk everywhere. Ontario has changed very much throughout the years,
My home town sure has changed a lot over the years . I used to shop at that Alpha Beta at d street and Mountain ave . I grew up just around the corner from there on the 900 block of F street from 1972 to 1981 . I miss that area very much . Still go there every once and a while to visit my moms grave site .
My great grandparent's had a farm in Ontario. They bought it in the 50's and I remember being there when I was a little kid. Luckily the original house and much of the property has survived all of the recent suburban development. I wish it would have stayed in the family.
Keep sharing...thanks you made my day...much love.👍
Who here went to Chaffey high ?
Not much is left of the once Golden Days of Ontario, California. Strip malls and Freeways with a lot of cement and housing developments is all you will see today. A shame what has happened to the Guasti Wine Vineyards and even the Guasti Mansion and once large area of land. Sad, very sad indeed. San Secundo Catholic Church on the Guasti property which is still active and looks the same, only now with the sound of Jet Liners taking off all the time. Guess the Mansion is just boarded up?
This footage is incredible. Thanks for sharing. Ontario looked beautiful back then. It still has some of that charm.
This is so cool! I was born in L.A. in 1952 and lived in Ontario till 1963, on Calaveras Ave! Del Norte Elementary was right around the corner, the Alpha Beta straight up the street! I have always remembered a store there also called Rascoe...unless I have MISremembered it all these decades! Anyone know? In my mind it was a hardware or drug store, more likely a drug store since there is a hardware store called Roscoe.
I was born here in 1970, lived on Princeton Ave, went to Chaffey High School, so did my mother, father and entire family. My family grew for Sunkist and was involved in the Masonic lodge in Claremont. I helped my girl scout troop paint a mural in the library basement, I remember parades up and down Euclid Avenue and playing on the Old Trolley mule car before they removed it and every Christmas they would line Euclid Avenue with the nativity scenes, my Aunt worked for the Daily Report and my grandmother worked at the General Electric Plant and so did my father and I know that the papers they are handing out in this video are the weekly employee newsletters ! I've even been in those newsletters myself as a young child . Growing up here with so fun because my grandfather managed apartments next to Vina Danks middle school, next to Chaffey... and who remembers Mrs. Ruth Musser? great teacher taught every generation of my family who attended 💙 and beautiful libraries at Chaffee high school and the actual tiger mascot out front of the Gardnier Springs Auditorium, what a building!!! it was a time when we got to walk home from school before they closed the campus, before the freeway befor the schools were built in Etiwanda and Cucamonga there was only Ontario (unless you remember Montclair and Claremont ) it was a beautiful city and a beautiful time there. thank you for the Memories!! 😊
6:26. I used to go to Howell's House of a Million items. Also, the Carnegie Library 6:48 at Euclid and?? The Police Dept. was behind City Hall (1936) in those days. 20:27 The Thrifty Drug was destroyed in a spectacular fire in about 1966. U.S. 70 was decomissioned, and became I-10. U.S. 99 became I-5 24:01.
I’ve never seen these on your channel. I was born there in 1955 Thank you!
Hey, Brother... Great stuff... I'm a bit of an Ontario History enthusiast too... You do a great job... Thank's... ~
Hat's Off, " Cheers " ~
Thank you Marty! I've watched your videos of Ontario when your dad is on a Harley & in the hot rod, many times. Priceless footage and thank you for sharing.
Thank you! I loved the replica of the Mule Cars at the end. RIP Sanky and Moody!
Thanks for posting this!
Love this video ❤️. Learned a lot about my home town !!! Thank you 😊 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽good job
More, more!! Very good video.
I really enjoyed this!
The first video I saw was you losing your shit and getting real scared at the entrance of a tunnel at Mt. Baldy, I'm glad I subbed, good videos, there's a fountain made of round stones and was on Euclid, I used to drink from that fountain when I was 5yrs old, it's gone now.
Post office is still there today!
Very nice
Graber Olives
On the 4th they turned 7 mi Euclid into one picnic table… Holt to 19th st
Was Central the name of the Elementary school? We used to live on G Street.
Yes
Central school
Where is vineyard stem school?
Corona elementary 1995
State and cucamonga