1946 Los Angeles at Night | 4k and Remastered
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Most videos of the past are shot during the day, but how was life during the evening and night? In this clip, we drive through Los Angeles at night in 1946. People walk on the sidewalks on their way to their nightly entertainment. We also see more quiet neighborhoods.
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- adding ambient sound
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0:30 - I believe the second car from the front in the parking lot is a 1942 De Soto, with hidden pop-up headlights
1:00 - RKO Theatre at 801 S Hill St. Closed in 1964 and demolished in 1965
1:45 - Gordon's Luggage Shop at 200 W 8th St
2:48 - Clifton's Pacific Seas Cafeteria at 618 South Olive St
3:07 - Car at kerb may be a Cord 810/812, Graham Hollywood or Hupmobile Skylark
9:20 - Dave Tipp Jewellers & Watches at 561 S. Broadway
Thank you for the context information :)
I SAW A GLIMPSE OF THE ROXIE,CAMEO AND ARCADE THEATRE= THE ROXIE AND CAMEO WOULD SHOW 4 MOVIES EVERYDAY FOR 99 CENTS.THE ARCADE THEATRE WOULD 4 MOVIES SUNDAY THRU FRIDAY ON SATURDAYS 6 MOVIES FOR 99 CENTS. THE BOX OFFICE WOULD OPEN AT 10:00 A.M AND THEY HAD AN EARLY BIRD SPECIAL WHERE YOU PAY 50 CENTS BEFORE 12:00 P.M AND EVERY NIGHT THEY A KENO GAME. THEY WOULD GIVE YOU A KENO CARD WHEN YOU PURCHASED YOUR MOVIE TICKET.
BY THE WAY, THOSE THEATRES ARE LOCATED ON BROADWAY BETWEEN 5TH AND 6TH ST. THEY'RE CLOSED DOWN NOW.
Oh how I miss Clifton’s Cafeteria back in the 60’s after you eat your breakfast ,lunch, or Dinner, you could go up as a child into this wonderful treehouse that had the best area for children to go up into. You could hear the birds they had film about deer and antelope and you could hear all the sounds, and children wouldn’t want to ever leave that treehouse.Oh how I miss being there with my mother and my family. Those were the days I will always cherish them.
The best, most modern, and most exciting place to live in the world in 1946. Think about the work that went into all those buildings, most probably built in just the previous 20 years. And the work that went into keeping those businesses and that city humming. All those people outside at night were in awe of this place...most of them had never seen anything like Los Angeles. My parents were one of them...I have a postcard they saved from that Clifton's Pacific Seas Cafeteria where they ate one month later in June 1946. From their scrapbook!
Everyone had jobs in those days. We were told that they had elevator operators running the elevators for people in those days.
What a beautiful era. Only wish experienced it. Just can not stop watching it.
God bless whoever thought to make this video archive. When almost the majority of that era is seen in black and white it is so surreal to watch. Absolutely awesome thank you for uploading and remastering this amazing footage.
Looks a lot better than now.
if you were white
Is so boring right now.
Dinner are closing and also with all social media people are not going out at night to talk to friends like before.
A lot of restaurants & dinners used to be open 24 hours.
Your videos are absolutely amazing. Feels like I actually drove around LA and checking the video. Just wonderful! 😃👍❤️
A labor of love, Vivid History. Thank you.
Amazing remaster! I can't over the high quality of the film. The one thing I noticed is that most of the people were well-dressed. I also noticed the film "The Outlaw" was playing. That was a Howard Hughes film! Lots of Sailors were walking around. This came out when Europe and Japan were in ruins, Truman was the President and the Marshall plan hadn't yet existed. History coming to life--if only for a few minutes! Wow!
You gotta love the use of 4k in these restorations. Stunning.
Looks like you stepped back in time and you are there right now... Amazing!
Absolutely amazing, classic times
LA in 1946. Bogart and Bacall's stomping ground. A great post-war epoch.
Thanks for Sharing. It made me fill if I was there. Love that Era.
Looks so clean
Where do you find these treasures. I can’t get over how elegant everyone was. A bygone era for sure. Your skills at remastering these are superb. Thank you. I was born in ‘71 but yearn for the time when life was simpler & the world wasn’t so horrid like now.
I have a hard time describing it because it is a love that has no words...awesome!!!
The movie GILDA was released in 1946...so that is the year of this street film., 1:00 minute mark.
Thank you for the hint :)
The peaceful and quiet of Los Angeles here. No more crazy people anywhere
Love videos like this.
Look How clean the city looks. Whether you like it or not the white Folks did keep it clean.
Yes, there were mostly white folk but don’t forget to. They were a lot of Chinese, Japanese and Hispanics. Because my mother got there in the 50s and she said it was quite mixed but of course overall it was probably 70% to 75% white.
@Living in the Forest , your Right .
No.... My grandaddy kept it clean. He was a black man, He would work in the middle of the night cleaning up in those buildings after WW2, He had a master's degree, but nobody would hire him because of his color, so he had no choice but to clean those buildings right after WW2. Those were hard times if you weren't white.
LA is still white. What are you talking about? It's always been a dirty immoral place, it was just that white folks were better at hiding it
@@rondothard1698 Now they'e hard times if you are white.
WOW the car driving driving way too fast to enjoy the history of the film!!!
It's so nice back then to go out at night ,now your not safe to do so anymore because of the crime ..
At 4:57 that’s the Biltmore hotel which is still operating today. That would’ve been the last door Elizabeth short would’ve exit out of since that’s olive street. She exit olive street and headed south on it. Never to be seen Alive again. I stay at the biltmore I know it when I see it. That ramp that goes down and that garage next to it is still there today
The unsolved Black Dahlia case. Hotel staff said she used the phone in the lobby.
25 cents to park that's outrageous. There are lots further down the street for only 10 cents
I NOTICED THAT TOO!
I'm chuckling.
Maquina do tempo,fantástico.
That guy standing at the magazine place at 1:26 sure doesn't want to be seen on film...
Wow, classic old film tour of LA night scene in 1946
Great film, it is not the 1950s. this remarkable footage was recorded in May 1946.
Thank you for the information :)
Don't know about you, but those buildings and shops just ooze personalty.
Not one single tent in sight
Has anyone else noticed at 5.04 the guy who appears to be walking backwards, looking at the camera as it passes ?
Yo i saw that too lol i was wondering what the hell.that was
I love these videos
great job bro.. love from india
Gorgeous, and no homeless! Unlike now ….Architecture was beautiful. Its a shame America ripped down so many of its beautiful pre-50s buildings
The Vietnam war was the start of the downward spiral of American society, veterans and adolescent youth turned to drugs been a mess ever since!
Ya!! Those damn homeless!! Forget helping your fellow American!! Gross!!
Now they destroy anything the millennials tell them too! Its disgusting!
So am I ❤️
Yep that what happens when your country makes the car more important than the people
Cole Phelps is somewhere there interrogating an individual
How do you get these clips?
What happened to our society? Why do I feel like everything in this video is better than today? Clean streets, elegant people, education, people don't appear to be anxious, frustrated or sad. What happened so wrong with this modernity we live in today? our children are lying around with smartphones in their hands, depressed, anxious and spoiled. I wanted to live in that world portrayed in the video, it doesn't seem like a dystopian world to me. Dystopian is what we live in today, we live in a completely corrupt and immoral society of people, even companies and governments....
What happened? Failed parents. Blacks. Drugs. Socialism/marxists in schools, media, and government, just like Senator McCarthy said.
When Los Angeles was still livable.... well done 👍
1:13 8th and Hill
Was a May Company then.
Wow cliftons 😮
One can only imagine the current value of the all the goods that were in those blocks and blocks of stores, not to mention the automobiles. America was a much, much different place then…..
Who else can see a lot of cars from 'Back to the future' 😅
It practically looks the same
Before was good ,and show it NOW. !!!
Plenty of pedestrians and stores they could visit then. Auto dependency eviscerated the cities and made the streets lifeless today. The art of colorization has become quite advanced these days; it's a complement rather than a distraction now.
Need to have reduced speed on traffic shots
Pretty
Let’s not forget when the US began off-shoring and importing from overseas.
Тяжёлые послевоенные годы.
Safe and white at night. The thin, well-dressed women are just gorgeous.
So did traffic signals only have red and green lights then?
Not sure how safe I’d feel. Not well lit.
Just thinking, if I was back in that time with money I have now which isn't much, I'd be a millionaire.
3:13
dang the cars remind me of school uniforms. All look the same
Cities worked well...when the main source of shopping and entertainment was outside the home. The internet and a big shove by the covid shutdown has changed that. Cities are dying a painful death
Must be mid 50s can't see a car no older than 52 james Dean must be around there some where maybe him who film this wow the real back to the future 😳
Lots and lots of Robin's Egg Blue-- that is unless the people that augmented this footage this AMPED UP the R.E.B. color ?
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a bit grimey but not nearly as bad as what it turned into
Larry Harnisch copy editor for the LA times said, this footage was stolen from NASS
And not a single set of bars on any of those windows!
This could be damage control: wh!te supremacist-promoting Hell's Angels affiliated w/ Aubrey: being paid, asked, etc. by Drake's industry massas; to distant their ambush on Rick Ross-- from DRAKE. Still cool content though!!
It looks gloomy.
I like things now.
Well dressed people you see were either mexicanos/pachuco zoot zuiters and some of the lame sailors walking around messing with our raza people. This was filmed three years after the zoot zuit riots in 1943. Los angeles history.
It's your so called"raza" that completely ruined downtown L.A. and there were many Hispanics in our military including what you refer to as "lame sailors". Grow up and stop blaming whites every time your little feelings get hurt.
The Zoot Suit Riot was CAUSED by criminal Mexicans who "rolled" sailors after a night of drinking. It was a natural reaction. The sailors had enough and went after the Mexicans (including illegals?) after one more robbery one night. Get the LOOK magazine article published that year, not some modern PC revisionist/marxist and wiki lies.
NOW LA is Zombie Town . Very sad .
Thank you Walmart,Amazon,and Costco for taking away our small stores and shopping malls. Also thank you for making us pay you to shop at your stores.
It was Amazon the one that did all that.
People chose to shop at the big box stores instead of the small neighborhood stores. Now you know the rest of the story.