California 1940s, Bunker Hill and LA in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2021
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of California 1940s, This was wonderful daytime downtown Los Angeles and part of the then Bunker Hill area .
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 Mr Rick Prelinger for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: Rick Prelinger on archive.org
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/ADriveThr...
Rights: black and white 35mm Video Source Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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Share Please! 🙏 🙏
I did! This was so good.
@@ritzcrackerThx!!🙏
Camera guy is 33 year old as 1945. Camera guy born ( 1912 - 2000 ) Died in at Kansas.
Can you tell us who made these videos or where you got them on the screen before you roll the footage. Hope you get to a 100k level soon and well beyond in the near future.
Check "4K DeOldify | A drive through 1940's Los Angeles in COLOR" by Neural Networks on CZcams. Same movie but far more yellow which makes the weather look better, but contrast is better here and looks more realistic. Also see The New Yorker for 2 parallel videos of the original movie and a contemporary view of the same roads.
I love seeing the old buildings, and businesses that probably aren't there anymore, and the vintage cars. People didn't drive as crazy as they do now.
We have to thank the cameramen from that time, already thinking about keeping memories of what it was like at the time, not only in big events or in wars but in daily common life
Yes. Yes indeed.
It was stock footage that was filmed for a movie 🎬.
The cars, I'm always looking at the cars, the old cars are beautiful, a masterpiece.
Cars now look nice to
@@mkeolver we all have opinions i can like whatever i like and i like futuristic cars to and that's my opinion
Yes! Real chrome, quality steel, well-made interiors. No gadgets and self-driving failures, just fill her up and go!
Yes, me too. I love the cars from this era. I own a 1950 Plymouth 2-door and a 1947 Ford pickup.
I will always remember driving my 1942 Chrysler fluid drive! What a solid tank!
The best car show you could possibly ask for. All you had to do was walk out into the sidewalk and look around. No homeless tents, either. Wow!
I'm from a rural area in the Midwest. You seriously saying that there are literally tents there? I love old cars too. I have my grandad's 72 Malibu he bought new. I also have a 1965 Schwinn bicycle made in Chicago Illinois.
@@walterweddle7644 LA and San Diego (where I’m from) have literal homeless camps throughout the city. Impossible to walk through some downtown streets without tripping over somebody sleeping or passed out on the sidewalk.
No liberal guilt back then
Fantastic! This was right before freeway construction destroyed L.A. And the clearing of Bunker Hill and scraping off the top thirty feet or so was one of L.A.'s biggest mistakes, along with killing off the Pacific Electric and city streetcars.
Before it exploded in population as well.
@@TS-gf6ou Thank you. Reading all these "before Freeways destroyed...etc" bugs me. I understand the sentiment but LA has EXPLODED in population since the 40s. Unfortunately, we NEED those freeway, and as much as I loved the old Red Line trollies, there's no way they'd survived with the amount of people that live here in 2023
@@ChristianCanterbury I am going to partially agree with you. Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway would have been seen as having way too much street running. They would have had to invest in tunnels.
As for the freeways, I can think of a few that should never have been built and a few that should be removed.
@@jamesparsonA few of those freeway routes could have been better thought out too. Some destroyed some beautiful neighborhoods. They should have preserved Bunker Hill and temple street neighborhood and built the high rises down in the industrial areas closer to the river, but I’m sure the residents at the time had no political clout.
@@JPVillalobos27 Absolutely. I personally would not live within 1/4 mile of a freeway, just because of the polution. That eliminates huge portions of downtown Los Angeles.
It’s a somber feeling to see people going on with there daily lives as we are know. Each with there own own story and too our own will end. Be happy and have understanding...life is short.
goosebumps ..the quality is remarkable ..i felt as if i was there in real time....if it was for 800 Minutes i would watch every moment of it repeatedly...thank you ...
Anyone ever play the video game "L.A. Noir?" The game was set back in the mid to late 40's right after WWII. This is just like 'free roam' inside the game. Looking for Cole and his partner making an arrest along side the street.
Yup. I loved that game.
Developers did amazing jobs capturing real traffic
I’d love to check that out
It was in 1947
Love going back in time for a few.
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@@NASS_0 😐
These are such a joy I feel revitalized after watching them
out of all of your fabulous work, this one is the best. You really feel like you are there in this one...
So happy I subscribed to this channel. It's amazing to me how these remastered videos brings you back in time. It genuinely makes me feel like I'm there despite the year it was made. It's very "connecting" if that makes sense...
thank you very much
I feel the exact same way!
good old times, so much that we could learn from Dubai,Singapore in terms of clean streets, but also it is often when watching these color films, how somehow clean and calm streets were in the 30s-40s
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There was no ghetto slob mentality back then.
I’ve been to Dubai and the reason it’s clean is mostly due to culture. Unfortunately modern Americans are very lazy because life is easy here compared to the rest of the world. You can clean every inch of a modern American city and it will be trashed in one day because people here don’t care and they’re bored.
I think that population number has a lot to do with it, as well as just advancing capitalism and poverty. At this point in history, for this part of the world, looking into the future will always be looking into a more populated and more commercialized world.
More people, more one-time-use products, more trash, more social stratification.
@@TemenosL West could be much better if we manage to get rid of the LUNATIC LEFT
Late in the video, you can see in hte background the Richfield Building, an art deco skyscraper topped with a metal tower--a beautiful building that, sadly, was scrapped in 1969.
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Ohhhh! I was wondering what that building was, was going to look into it! They scrapped a number of buildings in the 60s that were beautiful in Los Angeles....I think they did that on purpose to bring in socialism and Marxism in the US. Learn about the Tartarian culture and Tartary tribes that used to live here in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Europeans. Both the great world wars were to wipe them out and wipe out their building culture etc their car culture....
That skyscraper is A-mazingly beautiful! Notice it had a big lightning rod tower, the people used to get free energy from that!!
@@rmorris1904 The company that owned the building merged with another oil company from back east to form ARCO. ARCO required more space than what was available at that previous building. Hence the black twin towers located along Flower Street today.
@@Bryan-ed6ee I remember that building, I believe it was called the Atlantic Richfield Company.
The library @ 4:40 looks the same today.
This is quietly turning into one of my favorite channels. Love thjs.
So cool I was born in 1950 Los Angeles Hollywood area
I own two 1937 Cadillac coupes
Beautiful California! Love from Brazil 🇧🇷
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I don't know how I got here, but I liked it! 🇧🇷
My mother lived in this area and worked in Downtown LA right around this time. I wonder how many times she drove or walked down these same streets.
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My dad was a teenager living there back then. He was born in LA in 1930, joined the Navy the day he turned 17 in 1947.
Does Bunker Hill still exist? Is it North of f downtown? I lived in LA from 1990 to 2005, I don't remember it....
@@kraig7777 wonderful, your Dad's a hero!
@@rmorris1904 I assume it’s still there. Just would not recognize it with all the changes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_Hill,_Los_Angeles
8 minutes of escape. OK. Back to bizzarro world.
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Today is nuts! We are devolving as a country, the Marxist Elite clones are in control. Humanity must fight back!
Nowadays we are in collapse
So sad!
Could be as late as 1948 or so, according to some of the cars in this film clip. Awesome!!
I agree. Saw a couple '48 Studebakers.
@@wacoflyer at 5:19 I also saw a billboard for RCA Victor television.
Sounds about right, but cars from the 1930s were everywhere, and cars from the 1920s weren't at all rare, at least a couple on every block.
It was 1947
My dad might have traveled up some of these streets around this time since he grew up and lived near this area. He probably would have loved to see these videos if he were still living.
Uhhh that's nice. Thanks for sharing! The quality is amazing!
Thx!!!^^
So cool! I’ve worked down on Bunker Hill for 6 years right across from the Biltmore and Public library. Amazing.
Seeing these images gives me a sense of my own mortality. All of the people filmed here are long since dead yet they all look as vibrant and real as any one of us today…but they’re not.
I think of the same thing too.
The colorized version is a nice change. I've seen the b&w a hundred times.. 👍
Thx!!! ^^
So amazing seeing the trolley tracks going down the road, and to think they tore all that out in favor of highways, and now they're tearing out the highways in favor of trolley tracks and their modern equivalent
It's amazing to see the Millennium Baltimore hotel and the LA county library as references to today's city. I wonder what 5th st. looked like down toward skid row (San Pedro St.) back then.
Fantásticas imágenes.Bellísima la ciudad de Los Ángeles, California . Cordialmente desde Córdoba, ESPAÑA .
Great video and awesome editing skills. Thank you !
Thank you !
I heard a few comments about smog keep in mind the fog off the coast in the mornings pick Waldoboro off looks like smog
Take a look at the man on 4:28 who is shaking hand to the filmmaker :) It a such a great experience to see how they were living that time. Better times. Take me back!
Wow. The cars 🚗 🚘 🚙 were bouncy
Thx!!!^^
Like they’re all bouncy beds!
I think Americans came pretty late to the idea of the shock absorber - or at least the "critically damped" variety.
Autos were much more softly sprung that era, and not well damped at all.
As always thanks for the time travel.
It's amazing to see all the Homeless in this video ... OH! I guess there weren't any? What great progress we've made!
Mayor Bowron and Chief Horrall (or his replacement Parker) would not have tolerated homeless in the streets.
@@michaelsnider5293 You're 100% right. Thing is the term "homeless" is a misnomer. These are not just people without homes ... they are VAGRANTS (the old term), with drug, alcohol and mental issues. Being homeless is a symptom, not a cause.
What almost happened in my city (Santa Barbara) would have been a disaster ... But we just elected a new mayor, and got rid of the "WOKE Marxist" idiot mayor. The old mayor wanted to build 1000 tiny "homes" in the middle of town and fill them up with VAGRANTS! Not happening now!
@@michaelsnider5293 Cheap hotels could be found for $1 a night.. Boarding room houses could get you a room for $20 a month.
1947 or later Studebaker traveling in the opposite direction at 1:19. Note the L.A. traffic lights with the stop-go semaphore arms. These stop lights disappeared by 1956.
There were a few left into the very early 1960s..
Good job love the color its real good, back when times were a lot more simple...
thank you so much🙏
The beginning of this clip and other bits of it can be seen in the Cornel Wilde movie "Shockproof" (released to theaters in 1949), starting at about 20.27: this footage was filmed from a camera-truck just for "movie background" purposes and has survived as an accidental record of a 'lost world' of neighbourhoods,where people could still walk around, that have been replaced (using taxpayers' money, as always) by the obligatory thruways, business towers, expensive apartments and eccentric architectural carbuncles.
This looks A LOT like San Francisco, especially the Russian Hill/Upper Polk/Nob Hill Areas descending down to Union Square. Very similar architecture, roads, cable car tracks, and hills. So depressing to see that LA simply obliterated this entire neighborhood- demolishing all these houses and even flattening the entire hill itself to make way for gigantic skyscrapers!
They destroyed it because it is from a different group of beings, human beings, from The Great Tartary. America Lost world war I actually to the Nazi Marxist and they took over our country the elites and systematically destroyed all of our culture including the architectural culture
All that clearance was paid-for out of public money.
Read also about the destruction of homes in Chavez Canyon in '59, when millions of tax-dollars were diverted into a baseball stadium instead of funding public housing projects.
@@rmorris1904 Increase the medication...
@@None-zc5vg Yes, I did watch a doc about Chavez Canyon. Disgusting how people (mostly generations of Mexican residents) were evicted and treated by the LA city govt. Imagine what kind of beautiful neighborhood could still be there today (as well as Bunker Hill).
@@donpelon4568 I read about Chavez Canyon. That was pretty criminal and gross, but Bunker Hill was quickly becoming a horrific slum. It was prime real estate that was becoming crime ridden. As much as I'd love to go back to the Noir 40s and check out those old Victorians, it really needed to happen. Unfortunately, the entire city LA of TODAY after Covid is becoming like Bunker Hill. I love this city but its pretty sad here right now.
Wonderful! Thank-You.
NICE TO SEE THE OLD CARS AND PEOPLE MOVING IN REAL TIME. EXCITING!!!!!
Good God, the clarity of this video. Excellent video, its like you feel you are there man.
Superb job. Thank you NASS. It's so real! As mentioned below, even then the smog was very much in evidence.
Yes, I would trade living now to living back then in a heartbeat. Thanks for this, NASS!
A little smoggy back then....and i'd say filming was done around mid-day.
Unbelievable. So quiet and peaceful compared to now.
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@@luismantaras6460 En el Street view de Google Earth mi pueblo luce increíblemente limpio y no es verdad.
The light pollution alone nowadays would drive one bananas. 😂🤣
Wow! I saw a 1929 Ford hot rod parked along the street. Great cars overall!
Happy to see the Nass Again. Thank you for this nice job.
Thx bro!!
The Zelda Apartments were located at 321 Bunker Hill Avenue Los Angeles - now located at 401 South Grand & 4th Street on the western edge of Chinatown in east LA
Men in hats driving cars. Every great LA noir film ever made.
At 2:30 on the right, the house with the long veranda was in fact used as an exterior in Criss-Cross (1949) one of the greatest Noirs ever made.
What does it mean...noir
I'm Ukrainian...bear with me
@@futureoftheearth8100 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
@@mbsnyderc thanks a lot
All they need to do now is a SAFETY DANCE.
#Illgetmycoat
Thanks for the nostalgic ride. 👍
@NASS I love what you do - thank you! Were most all cars black and grey in the late 40’s or were we starting to see some color? By the 50’s cars got really bright. Too bad nowadays everyone realizes that boring-colored cars are best for resale value and other than red or navy there’s not much out there.
I’ve seen the original B&W of this, so this made my day
These videos are amazing I think I’m another person convinced that you are a time traveler and if so i want in let me know when is your next trip lol
We keep hearing about all the wonderful progress in every single way supposedly. But for some reason I think these previous societies had some things better than us.
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I agree with you
much more h o m o geneity, shared history, purpose, identity, social cohesion.
Yessss! You're correct!
@@OilBarron84 exactly
Nice of the man at 4:27 to wave hello.
x))
He's waving to us from the past.
Thanks for sharing !
Nice share 1940 looks of California. Thanks for sharing 👍
Fantastic!! Please, add more footages about WWII...
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une belle vidéo merci à vous
Awesome stuff!
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@@NASS_0 😃
Even in the 40s L.A had a lot of smog and haze
Yeah, filters were a good invention.
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Yes smog and it got much worse in the 50s and 60s.
Smog started during the war. At first people thought it was a Japanese chemical attack.
Very very beautiful thanks to this video Nass
thank you so much🙏
I wonder about each of the people I see in the video. Where were they going that day and what did they do that evening? Fascinating seeing these, thanks.
I feel like I'm watching a portion of the LA Noire video game ;-)
I was right - LA was a PARADISE back in the 40's. The contrast with the fermented bucket of pig vomit it is now is mind boggling.
Just tried to find some pics on the net of bunker hill today. Unrecognizable. They've lost it all. It's disgusting.
Cities are supposed to be LIVED in. They're supposed to be places where people don't just commute in to work, but where they settle down, have kids, raise families.
Modern cities are crap. And I say this as a city boy - NY Metro born and raised.
I share your concern. What happened to Bunker Hill was appalling.
Nice work
I am sure many of us would prefer music from that era!
NONO NO NO NO Music oh hell NO
"Dreams from bunker hill"
I amazing what road inftrastructure was in US so early
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These are hypnotically fascinating!
Love those cars!!! Those are REAL cars not the sardines cans from today. All the city is beautiful.. I love it.
Makes me feel oh so young, growing up in such a beautiful City.
Someone must have known I'd be quarantined with covid and enjoying this in 2021, way back then.
Very beautiful!!!👍
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These are so amazing...I don't recognize anything and I was born and raised in L.A. Looks like DTLA and Sunset Blvd. area.
You can see L.A. already had smog back then.
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@@NASS_0 ⤴️⤴️
Man what I wouldn’t give to just spend an hour during this time! People in la probably didn’t realize how lucky they were to live in those time and how bad it would get in these present times!
And there were many people back then saying the exact same thing when they were reminiscing about the turn of the century.
@@gordon3186 Andthey will probably be saying it about today in the future.
Yes I agree. I'd want a week though, just cruising around, get a coffee, take in the sights and enough dollars to fill up. I'm amazed how carefully everyone drove then, they seem to do no more than 20mph. It seems nowadays with seatbelts, and electronic aids people think they are invincible and therefore drive like nutters :)
They lived through World War II. Not that easy.
@@CUTproductionsLtd A few dollars in silver coin change could cover a week's expenses, cheap hotel room on Bunker Hill for a $2 a night.. pack of smokes for 15¢... Ice cold glass bottle Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola for a nickel. Breakfast meal at a diner for 45¢, dinner for 75¢ - 85¢.. Nice restaurant meal for $3..
Another great job! By NASS
thank you so much🙏
Very nice roadster @ 4:00
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ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!
Excellent video, super colorizing. Many 1947 cars. So probably early 1948,
No it’s 1945 in color. Camera guy born ( 1912 - 2000 ) Died In Kansas. 33 year old as 1945.
@@YamMCPE There are some vehicles that are certainly 1947-1948, completely different body than 1946.
At 4:58 advertisement for car rental $2.50 a day. It was one day wage back then.
Yes, around that time, 1947, a new car could be bought for around $1400.
@@waterheaterservices Depending on the car.. A Buick Roadmaster would have been closer to $1975. A Cadillac would have been $2500..
Cars just don't have the design today that celebrates the specialness of the very concept of having a bubble of steel that goes where you want when you want with beauty and elegance like they did in the late 40s '/ early 50s. Today's vehicle design is as pedestrian as the people walking beside them (maybe they would rather do so?) , and Warhol was right, even the supermarket tins in the 50s had elegance.
Amen! I now am going to buy a 40s car and truck!!
Sooooo nice!
Does the road at the start of the video still exist? a google map link would be appreciated.
That's all high rise office buildings. .now
What a wonderful temporary time machine. I wish I could go back and stay there.
You would lose your mind within a week.
@@MarinCipollina Doubt it but I'll risk it.
@@pmafterdark Think about it.. any money you have will get you arrested for counterfeiting. You won't be able to talk to anyone you know.. and you damn sure couldn't talk about being from the future.. And of course, any identification you have would be worthless..
Fantastic.
always great vids... the only thing I would ask is that you not use modern electronic sirens as urban sounds. They were only mechanical sirens until the late 60s and then only rarely unlike today.
I really enjoy these films, I wonder what that area is like now in 2021
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Not as nice that's for sure!!!😧
I've been searching on google maps. Can you believe it's no longer a hill? They've flattened it!
Flattened
Tell me the truth ... you are a time traveler and you record with a modern camera.😜😁😂
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Love the stop light at 4:24!
Those old semaphore traffic signals are a classic.
Beautiful
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Back then: the best is yet to come
Today: so much better before
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What are you smoking?
@@bermondseyboy1660 🤣
Maybe some things are better but alot of things are worse!!
@@bellanniepickles a lot of things are better and some are worse
Beautiful show quality roadster parked by the side of the street at 4:01
So cool. I grew up in LA in the 70’s. This video shows LA before smog alerts.
Smog was pretty bad that era.. It remained bad at least through the 1990s.. Mostly gone now.
Great Video. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from germans travel Chanel
2:08 1932 Ford roadster Hot Rod with rumble seat amazing !
LOVE IT
This is crazy. Like seeing scenes out of LA Confidential in its original era.
Can you also do this with some 80's 90's and modern 2000 videos ?