Downtown Los Angeles 1940s
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Nighttime views of Los Angeles, California from the 1940s. Old cars, buses, and police motorcycles. Silent, black-and-white footage.
#LosAngeles #LA #1940s
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This was filmed in 1946. The movie that is being shown at the theater is Gilda starring Rita Hayworth. Most of the cars are pre-war but that's to be expected since '46 was the first year they allowed civilian car production since 1941.
jec1ny My mother moved to LA from Boston in 1946. She lives on Third and Rampart and worked in Downtown LA.
The people are dressed like actual adults. Amazing.
Thanks for posting this! Just saw one filmed during day time and this one is just amazing. I even spotted a theater showing "Gilda" with Rita Heyworth. Watching these raw, but clear, un-edited films is surreal, like watching a film noir movie, but all the while knowing that the images are real life. Thank you so much!
I just love these old videos, especially the rare footage of all the orchards and farm land that use to exist. From 1948 to 1958 everything changed, and I for one am very sad that it did.
same here! I love that stuff!
Thanks to whoever posted this for the trip back in time. Wow.
I love Downtown, I live in Echo Park 4 miles away. My mom would drive me down Broadway along miles of department stores, and drop me off alone so I could see a movie, and wander around,. as a kid in the 60's... Hollywood Blvd was great then too! I would walk through a time portal and go back if I could.
this was taken in 1946, there is a movie marquee showing Gilda w Rita Hayworth which came out in 46
I want to live there when can time travel
Eisen Bandrakin Yea but dont be black ,Mexican or Philippine you’ll not get seated at a table. But it does seem like a more orderly and decent world back then
Los Angeles looked so glamorous back then...its coming back nowadays but if you didn't know any better you thought that this footage was of New York.
Man I wish I was born in the in the early 1900's to experience the 40's. I think it was the daily life of seeing people in suits and dresses, the vintage vehicles, attending restaurants and movie theaters as an family and life in general. Everything look so spectacular and perfect and now is looong gone
+Enigma 6
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Chances are that you would have died in the war, and wouldn't have had the chance to experience any of that. The middle-class families had more money back then compared to today.
I feel a little bit of motion sickness, but this is a great video! LA back in the 40’s must have been splendid, everything looked so neat and put together. I would love to see my streets like this! ✨✨
Thank you for the video! I wish I could go back in time!
OMG, Clifton's Cafeteria at 2:39! I thought I saw it, then to make sure, I re-winded and there it was.
abc64pan they should bring that back ...
Those "old cars" were "new cars" when this was filmed...LOL
I love these reels!
i wanna go back in time !!! foreal
1:05 "Gilda" playing at RKO Theatre in 1946 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda
Wish there was Audio with this Video, The City, Los Angeles actually looks Attractive & Clean here!! There's No Excuse for Trashing Your Enviornment in Countless Ways, Be it a Big City, Small Town Or Anywhere In Between..... NO EXCUSE!!
Slow down, dammit! I want to see things.
lol
around 3:20 I saw a motorcyclist..those & bicyclist seemed rare back then.
Super cool, eyes to a night so long ago, how it looked. 🙏
I love these things. I like the jacket of the guy holding the clapboard at the start.
Would've been dope if it had listings and street names of the areas it was cruising thru... Great video tho! This video makes me think of Elizabeth Short who was murdered in 47' She roamed around downtown LA streets and Hollywood until her death. I wish I could find out who her killer was... Sucks the case is still unsolved :(
It looks like the Broadway , Fashion District to me around Broadway and Olympic.
It was very difficult to solve the murders of drifters and prostitutes until DNA recognition technology became so sophisticated, and was paired along the interstate crime records access of the Internet. That's why you see so many serial killers and unsolved murders from the 1800s until the early 1980s, and see a lot of known mass public shooters now, but very few serial killers, I think one of the last big ones was in Louisiana in the 1990s.
Slow it down. I get dizzy trying to read the signs.
Parking rates in DTLA have always been outrageous.
You should see the parking rates in downtown San Diego. I visited there about 2 years ago and paid $38 a day for parking across the street from the Omni Hotel.
When things get expensive it is usually a great sign.
Romantic Vintage
a lot of people don’t notice how dirty the streets were and how run down the buildings were, they are lost in the memories of innocent past.
I love this!
If I were making a period movie of LA and I wanted a scene where there was a dialogue in a movie car with my actors, I would super impose this vid as the back drop. So cool. Oh, right, I got to address the blk white film thing or just make my whole movie in blk and white.
That looks like Queens, N.Y. in the 40s.
Frame 5:50 shows a movie: THE OUTLAW / JANE RUSSEL (6th week) Puts this film at march 1943.
Actually, it's better this way. Audio can be distracting.
good thing it's being fixed.
Sad thing is that it's gonna go from shitty and unlivable to expensive and unlivable.
Anybody have any more videos or photographs from the 1940's in Los Angeles? I'm currently doing research for a firm interested in the re-creation of L.A. during that time for investigative / design purposes.
Did you ever get your answer?
I saw a little three year old kid on the corner with a sign saying universal healthcare is a right...it’s Bernie sanders!
Clifton's cafeteria!
No gang warfare
Tis color
Why, pretell, art thee showing thy film in Blackith of white???
Not bad. But it would've been better seeing where you were going instead of where you've been
I agree--it's like riding backward in a pickup truck. Also, I wish he would SLOW DOWN!
Speed it up, you can almost see things Shit
Without audio this is worthless!
L.A NOIRE
Zoot Suit Riots. Riooooots. Throw back a bottle of beer....
No baby boomers ....that’s reason enough to back in time
Home is where the heart is. Watching this does take me back in time, seeing how Los Angeles was really like.
Reminds me of LA Noire.
Phenomenal video👍🏻👍🏻
Are there any "african american" people in this video?
I wonder if you can telll how racist this era was by summing the ratio.
No, they were still kept under control before 'Boyz in tha Hood' came out.
African-Americans didn't start coming to LA from the South until the 1960s.
Yes there were, and in La segregation was more domineering in terms of location, not people since the majority of LA was richer more accepting groups.
Yeah, so what?