What surprises me is how many early and mid 1930s cars are still on the road. That would be the equivalent of seeing a bunch of early 90s cars on the road today which is a pretty rare sight.
Yeah; a great, bouncy, smooth, and mellow record from that time: That's the first thing that I'd thought when this vid started: "is the music going to be *on-point ?"* Thankfully, the person that posted this fine vid did their research. I can imagine the song playing in the vid as one that would be heard in LA during the time when the film was being shot. Cheers.
I was six years old in 1954 and have memories of Los Angeles looking like this, especially the streetcars. I also remember passing by the big studios like MGM..
I was also 6 years-old at the time, although I didn't live in California. I lived just outside of Washington, D.C., and I also rode the streetcars. Today I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone.
My dad once told me that people of 30s,40s,50s had to behave properly otherwise they would get their ass kicked and not necessarily by a police officer. The same in schools lots of times students would straighten out the troublemakers believe it or not.
Thank you. I needed that more than any tonic I can get. I cried for the loss of my home town and ran into a wall of reflection where the happiness of my past is gorgeous when compared to today's dystopian outlook. WOOF!
@@malcolmlane-ley2044 To run with your ball further; Eastern Europe during that same era, looked at Western Europe as 'California', NOT that dystopian hell hole that Stalin, etc controlled
@@Sshooter444 Damn right. I live about 75 miles east in Riverside County and the idea of living in LA, or pretty much anywhere in LA County is a definite "no way".
You are same age as My dad then.... He was born in Jan 1951 while I was born in april 1989..... some spot doesnt seem to be changed that much from 50s and 90s and today 2020s covid era.
I was born in the 70's but love the 50's. The cars were just so cool. It's like they didn't even care about how much steel they used or how heavy it was, just that it looked super cool.
These videos are priceless to me...my grandparents and great grandparents lived in Baldwin park and La puente and worked in the city of Los Angeles...this is they way they seen it.
@@billl1127 *than and no it was not. Petty lies about fuel emissions and carbon footprint. It was not as bad as you would think, not that you would know since I'm sure you had ought to be born in 1976 and up.
@@artdecotimes2942 Thank you for correcting my grammar even though it was only to make yourself appear smart. And for point 2, you're delusional if you think 1950s LA air was better than today. And strike 3, I wish I was born in 1976. In fact, when I was born there were only 48 states. I'm guessing your cynical self was born when there were only 13.
@@billl1127 "your clinical self" doesn't exactly accentuate being born before Hawaii and Alaska being stated. Do not begin to play that game of age with me, I can tell by your language far more than what year you happen to be born. I correct your grammar to make you understand that if you wish to make a handsome point, do it in a correct ounce of grammar and spelling. If its a long quarrel of point, then you are free to make a few mistakes as is gentle curfew of common sense. By jove that word is forbidden, people always wonder how we drove back then without crashing all the time and people weren't hit, it's because we had common sense and were fast and bustling; quite especially in the locals of a city.
@@artdecotimes2942 You are indeed one pompous old fool. I recognize a troll when I see one with no life other then to wait for responses to your argumentative asinine comments. Feel free to respond as I know you will but I've moved on, sonny. Ain't that swell? lol
Was born on this year..grew up near a place of what is now known as Knotts Berry Farm; Dad was a bus driver and Mom a home-maker..what I would give for a time machine just about now - thanks for the video//
People Moved out here because of the Weather, the Beaches, the Mountains, Jobs, Etc & Nearly 70 Years after this Ciip was Shot things have Changed Greatly here in L.A. & the Region.
@@formwiz7096 The whole country is crap now! You’re hardly safe anymore, anywhere . Shopping not the same. Crazy ass people everywhere. I’ve never been to LA, but you can see and tell in old movies how things were! I’m closer to Chicago...yes, it was always ‘ rough’ in parts , back in the day, but we still could go there for shopping and fun in the loop and all! Not now, I haven’t been there in years.
Looks like a drive around Havana, 2021. In 1954 I moved with my mom and my twin brother from New York to Los Angeles. This clip brings back those days of earliest rock 'n roll.
I should add that the smog really, really sucked back then; we had to stop playing sports outside because lung pleurisy would set in. Otherwise, L.A. really was paradise for a kid just out from crowded New York -- especially for a kid who loved cars.
Why when something is nice, can we not just keep it, like brightly colored cars, nice clothes, clean uncluttered sidewalks. Those were great times from a design point of view, as well as optimism, vibrancy, no Amazon, no Coronavirus, no fear of saying the wrong thing. It wasn't utopia but it was a lot closer than we are now.
Well winning a world war and indebting major nations to us helped. Then there was the sweeping under the rug of anything ugly, the internment of the japanese in prison camps, the destruction of "ugly" mom and pop shops for major brands, the industrialization of the earth to create senseless gadgets. Finally it requires suppression of authenticity, flaws, dissenting points of view, and widespread puritan conformism. George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949 as a response to this utopia.
I tried. But a homelss person thruw up right on my camera, and then someone had carckajed me. I had to take the bus back, dont even get me started what has happened then.
I can remember LA during the 50s. I can remember 1955 on with more clarity but I do remember a little of 1954. My Dad and I would go to the different theaters on Hollywood Blvd during those years on Friday or Saturday nights. We would also eat at Du Pars, the Tick Talk, Musso & Frank, Ben Frank's and Tommy's. Those are good days and you didn't have to worry about gangsters North and South of Hollywood Blvd. There was crime but people respected each other better.
The 1950s were the Golden Days in America. The economy was in a huge post-war boom. An older friend of mine who was a young man in LA during that time said "money grew on trees". For many people, that was the reality. It sure ain't like that no more.
I lived in the Bronx then and at 5 o’clock my mom would call me home to watch the Mickey Mouse Club. I was so envious of the kids on that show because they got to live in California. What they turned it into today is a sin. I live in beautiful Florida now and I’m so grateful I never settled in California. Be careful what you wish for.....very true.
Los Angeles just amazing back in those days the way it looks today it is just this race for unbelievable how they let that City go down so bad and I'm talking about two blocks from city hall building that famous building that's always on TV it's on their police badge it was on dragnet the TV show you can't even go down there anymore beautiful Mexican city is gone and that was just a few blocks away it's time for people to stand up and demand this kind of atmosphere to stop immediately and clean it up and bring it back to the old days that it was once a marvelous video by the way I give it five stars ⭐❤️💯🇺🇸🇨🇮
It is kind-of a myth. Drive around Warner Center, Northridge, Burbank, and it is nicer today. Yes a lot of trailers and homeless tents but they are trying to work on it.
I was born in 1950 and grew up in the suburbs of LA. It was a great time & place to grow up and things have definitely deteriorated badly since then. However, it’s not good to idealize the 50’s too much because there were many problems in society back then too. As kids we were unaware of that.
LA was good up until the early 80's and then like every other city in the USA went all downhill.We are all now at rock bottom-2021....Somebody Help!!!!!!
Was so much cleaner back then. But again that generation from that era actually cared and took pride in their city and respected other people's property. Those days are long gone.
Recognized that Safeway on Third St. and Vermont Ave (1:08). That's where my mom shopped. Back then, you could actually go have a good (and safe) time at Westlake Park just off Alvarado (Wilshire Blvd runs through it on a nice curve). Now?
What you see here in this old video of Los Angeles is reflection of the culture of the times. We tend to blame government for our ills, but politicians rarely lead, rather they respond, and not always well... The family was largely intact back then. More people were church going. Entertainment was far less crass than today, though it was starting to change in the 1950's. People put a little effort into their behavior....manners, dress, etc... I rarely meet a woman, rather lady from that era who ever cursed. Now it's considered fashionable. So you are looking at what we were and you can compare that to what we've become.
People had respect for themselves and others, today they don’t even know what it means. People even dress like children on a playground on the weekends. Or like bums
I wish I was apart of that generation! It was so perfect! Great food, great since of humor, discipline was great, an you could say whatever an people wouldn’t get so sensitive an jump to conclusion. Today generation a joke!
@@jkorshak Theres more to racism in the 50s than history usually teaches. The west and north? Not anywhere near as racist as the south. When Jackie Robinson (who grew up in California) started traveling East and south to play baseball he was shocked at things like white only bathrooms and whatnot, it wasn't around so much in the northwest. The south though was bad news in terms of racism
@@imthedarknight-8755 2nd class citizenship for racial minorities was, and in many ways remains a part of the black experience in this country and the same can be said for other Americans with minority backgrounds. The fact is you couldn't say what you wanted then without others reacting negatively. Whether it was the Hollywood blacklist or to tell anyone you're gay. Polio and Jim Crow are just two significant examples of how the 50's wasn't the shiny American utopia it's often thought of - mostly by the boomers because they grew up in it - definitely a great time to be a white, suburban kid in America - better after the polio vaccine. Make no mistake, the 50's had its issues. There was crime and urban blight, pollution and drug addiction, and intolerance and injustice - not to mention the background dread of sudden nuclear annihilation. My point was really about rose colored glasses.
This is my LA. I used to commute from Adam and Western to Lockheed Burbank by car during the summer of 1954. I returned to Purdue for my senior year at the end of summer.
When I watch this movie, I remember another one; "Grease" with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. Carefree youth. Unfortunately, we lived in a different world - in the world of communism, behind the "Iron Curtain". America is great. Don't change it. Greetings from Poland.
What a glorious time to be alive. No smog. No smut. No disrespect. No tattoos on every girl you see. I want a time machine. Cultural Marxism destroyed it all
@COVID 46 the worst is the people of now, their outputs on the time. They act like they lived it, pretend it was all lynching and slave wives, bizzare rockibilly tunes and hotrods. Hot rods were not a majoritys keen interest ever until the 1980s truth be told but they all think about the route 66 nonesense with ladies having their bras out in tight outfits and harley motorcycles in front of and diner. Funniest part is I've been to route 66 on my Colorado trip in winter of 1953, felt more like a exciting downtown with fancy motels and shops galore.
@COVID 46 sure yes. Personally we never needed phones, cameras were helpful and enjoyable, holding them out and refocusing and fixations to the lense. Good days, I hadn't realized I'd left on this comment since morning, might as well end it here.
@COVID 46 this should be a warning to all cities what happened to Los Angeles could happen to your city too if you want to keep your city a peaceful place you better keep tough policing because without it your city will end up lie Los Angeles is today
Of course, jobs paid a living wage, pensions were normal, and even the wealthy paid their share of taxes. $400,000 - and over was taxed at 84% Imagine that.
@@jkorshak And not so much drug use, and people with real mental problems weren't out on the street. I agree they should have been better cared for in the institutions they were in, but, putting them out on the streets is not the answer.
I first went there in 1966 and relatively little had changed so I at least got to see a large part of it. By the 1970s a lot had changed and not always for the better. One by one the old landmarks were being torn down.
@@ZPLS18 Maybe this happened in the 50’s. But boy, have I got news for you, domestic violence even happens much more nowadays. Time machine please! A.S.A.P. 😃
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Everything looked so beautiful in the 50's, the cars, the clothing, buildings 😲
When we were children all things looked beautiful and magical. I was 9 years old in 1954
Agreed.
It was, we didn’t have Tik Toc, Instagram or Face Book. People knew their neighbors and there was not a huge homeless problem. Take me back……now!
@@dave1956 Everyone was dressed to impress. Looking their best and quality was everything.
Now under communist control
What surprises me is how many early and mid 1930s cars are still on the road. That would be the equivalent of seeing a bunch of early 90s cars on the road today which is a pretty rare sight.
U mean early 2000s
👍 Finally! A nostalgic tour of the 50s with the RIGHT music playing! 🎶
Yeah; a great, bouncy, smooth, and mellow record from that time:
That's the first thing that I'd thought when this vid started: "is the music going to be *on-point ?"*
Thankfully, the person that posted this fine vid did their research. I can imagine the song playing in the vid as one that would be heard in LA during the time when the film was being shot. Cheers.
I was six years old in 1954 and have memories of Los Angeles looking like this, especially the streetcars. I also remember passing by the big studios like MGM..
I was also 6 years-old at the time, although I didn't live in California. I lived just outside of Washington, D.C., and I also rode the streetcars. Today I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone.
You guys are definitely in somewhere 70s as of 2022.... sounds like you guys do have grandchildren as well.
Did you have a horse when you were a boy?
My dad once told me that people of 30s,40s,50s had to behave properly otherwise they would get their ass kicked and not necessarily by a police officer. The same in schools lots of times students would straighten out the troublemakers believe it or not.
Is the truth, police were the nice guys.
yeah, like Josey Wales said, Governments don’t live together people live together.
It's the culture and it evolves over time like evolution.
Il '68 amico, il' 68..
No se q dijiste pero está bien
Thank you. I needed that more than any tonic I can get. I cried for the loss of my home town and ran into a wall of reflection where the happiness of my past is gorgeous when compared to today's dystopian outlook. WOOF!
Showing pride by looking good and decent in public was thrown out with the bathwater. Not everything old is bad and not everything new is good.
the body follows the mind.
Amen to that!
At the height of the Hollywood Blacklist. The inconvenient truth is this fabulous era practiced "cancel culture" on steroids.
Yes now you see people walking around in public with their pajamas on ... :(
@@jkorshak True, that and racism/sexism, but there were lots of good things that were done away with for no good reason.
Nine years after WWII and one year after the Korean War. Los Angeles was at its prime.
Bump it forward about 4 years and it was really prime.
one year before Disneyland opened
Imagine the same film in London, Berlin and Warsaw; Britain was only just ceasing food rationing.
Yep. North American, Lockheed, Douglas, Northrup and Hughes were all there.
@@malcolmlane-ley2044 To run with your ball further; Eastern Europe during that same era, looked at Western Europe as 'California', NOT that dystopian hell hole that Stalin, etc controlled
I was born at Queen of Angels hospital in 1954.
Great images of my once-beautiful hometown of Los Angeles...
I was born there in 1969, when I left most of the homeless were still on skid row, wouldn't go back if you paid me to live there!
@@Sshooter444 Damn right. I live about 75 miles east in Riverside County and the idea of living in LA, or pretty much anywhere in LA County is a definite "no way".
This is giving me nostalgia of memories I never had
Was a great time in America back then, in general, a distant fine memory. Nothing good lasts forever.
1950s in america was truly the golden age .the 60s would change america forever
I would’ve loved to of lived in Pasadena California in the 50s. Pure utopia.
My aunt lived in Burbank. She said she thought Disney was crazy putting a theme park all the way down in Anaheim.
@@billl1127 Walt Disney Studio was on Burbank Blvd near Hollywood Way and Warner Bros Studio.
Really, I'm with you on that one, S Tomlinson. I love Pasadena.
Yes. But the smog was real bad, then. Much, much better today. About the only thing in Sourhern California that is better today.
@@danielgolus4600 What made it better, less cars or less manufacturers?
Been watching Dragnet with Jack Webb filmed in the 1950's. Being born then like watching the cars and how people dressed.
Similar and nice life
My 84 year old mom just told me the other day ...this is when America was great..
Mom was right!
My 94-year-old grandmother says the same thing.
Tell mom how right she was. The Good Old Days really were.
Looks like The Best to me.
@COVID 46 yes, we were torks for joining the war of Vietnam.
I was born there in 51. Too many cars and people. Glad we moved to Lompoc were a kid could play and run the hills.
You are same age as My dad then.... He was born in Jan 1951 while I was born in april 1989..... some spot doesnt seem to be changed that much from 50s and 90s and today 2020s covid era.
I was born in the 70's but love the 50's. The cars were just so cool. It's like they didn't even care about how much steel they used or how heavy it was, just that it looked super cool.
These videos are priceless to me...my grandparents and great grandparents lived in Baldwin park and La puente and worked in the city of Los Angeles...this is they way they seen it.
Saw it....
From La puente - lived away. It’s awful today 💔
very clean..clear skies too...
Must have been winter because the air was much, much worse in the 50s then today
@@billl1127 *than and no it was not. Petty lies about fuel emissions and carbon footprint. It was not as bad as you would think, not that you would know since I'm sure you had ought to be born in 1976 and up.
@@artdecotimes2942 Thank you for correcting my grammar even though it was only to make yourself appear smart. And for point 2, you're delusional if you think 1950s LA air was better than today. And strike 3, I wish I was born in 1976. In fact, when I was born there were only 48 states. I'm guessing your cynical self was born when there were only 13.
@@billl1127 "your clinical self" doesn't exactly accentuate being born before Hawaii and Alaska being stated. Do not begin to play that game of age with me, I can tell by your language far more than what year you happen to be born. I correct your grammar to make you understand that if you wish to make a handsome point, do it in a correct ounce of grammar and spelling. If its a long quarrel of point, then you are free to make a few mistakes as is gentle curfew of common sense. By jove that word is forbidden, people always wonder how we drove back then without crashing all the time and people weren't hit, it's because we had common sense and were fast and bustling; quite especially in the locals of a city.
@@artdecotimes2942 You are indeed one pompous old fool. I recognize a troll when I see one with no life other then to wait for responses to your argumentative asinine comments.
Feel free to respond as I know you will but I've moved on, sonny. Ain't that swell? lol
Was born on this year..grew up near a place of what is now known as Knotts Berry Farm; Dad was a bus driver and Mom a home-maker..what I would give for a time machine just about now - thanks for the video//
The USA had it all, and then threw it all away.
I hope for my kids sake we get it back.
If it's anyone's fault it's the entitled Boomers who ruined society
@@ronniebishop2496we had the Jim Crow Laws...no thanks.
@@hirameberhardt8643 Obviously you’re not a very happy person. LA never had Jim Crow laws lol 😂
@@hirameberhardt8643in the South, which is still bad.
Imagine the paradise 1950s California must have been
Yes.
Before the third world invasion.
Not just CA, but the whole country. It was like this everywhere.
People Moved out here because of the Weather, the Beaches, the Mountains, Jobs, Etc & Nearly 70 Years after this Ciip was Shot things have Changed Greatly here in L.A. & the Region.
@@waynewright2886 You are 100% correct.
@@formwiz7096 The whole country is crap now! You’re hardly safe anymore, anywhere . Shopping not the same. Crazy ass people everywhere. I’ve never been to LA, but you can see and tell in old movies how things were! I’m closer to Chicago...yes, it was always ‘ rough’ in parts , back in the day, but we still could go there for shopping and fun in the loop and all!
Not now, I haven’t been there in years.
Looks like a drive around Havana, 2021. In 1954 I moved with my mom and my twin brother from New York to Los Angeles. This clip brings back those days of earliest rock 'n roll.
I should add that the smog really, really sucked back then; we had to stop playing sports outside because lung pleurisy would set in. Otherwise, L.A. really was paradise for a kid just out from crowded New York -- especially for a kid who loved cars.
Why when something is nice, can we not just keep it, like brightly colored cars, nice clothes, clean uncluttered sidewalks. Those were great times from a design point of view, as well as optimism, vibrancy, no Amazon, no Coronavirus, no fear of saying the wrong thing. It wasn't utopia but it was a lot closer than we are now.
oh no there was very much fear of saying the wrong thing you got labeled a commie you would be black listed
What is wrong with Amazon?
Well winning a world war and indebting major nations to us helped. Then there was the sweeping under the rug of anything ugly, the internment of the japanese in prison camps, the destruction of "ugly" mom and pop shops for major brands, the industrialization of the earth to create senseless gadgets. Finally it requires suppression of authenticity, flaws, dissenting points of view, and widespread puritan conformism. George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949 as a response to this utopia.
Good old days my dad says. RIP
Would be real interesting to drive around and take pictures of those same places today. Bet we would be shocked!
I tried. But a homelss person thruw up right on my camera, and then someone had carckajed me. I had to take the bus back, dont even get me started what has happened then.
Definitely, our best is behind us!
Great video Don, 1954 the year I came to California
Bob Lupo
I started the first grade at Don Julian school in Basset CA. Remember it well in those days T.V. screens were very small. 1954 Pontiac chief.😎🌟😎
I can remember LA during the 50s. I can remember 1955 on with more clarity but I do remember a little of 1954. My Dad and I would go to the different theaters on Hollywood Blvd during those years on Friday or Saturday nights. We would also eat at Du Pars, the Tick Talk, Musso & Frank, Ben Frank's and Tommy's. Those are good days and you didn't have to worry about gangsters North and South of Hollywood Blvd. There was crime but people respected each other better.
Code3forever You probably remember the The Nickodell Restaurant on Melrose, shopping on Larchmont Blvd and Restaurant Rowe on La Cienega .
1:18 Good old Thrifty's I used to drink many a 6-pack in that parking lot.
The 1950s were the Golden Days in America. The economy was in a huge post-war boom. An older friend of mine who was a young man in LA during that time said "money grew on trees". For many people, that was the reality. It sure ain't like that no more.
Yes, you went to the market &30-40 bucks & you had full card. Try that today, 2 bags mucho sad.
Yes. 40.00 went far. Full cart. Try that today, 2 bags.
Because the federal reserve did away with the gold standard in 1971
This was a time before globalization.
People don't realize that things change and most of the negative changes came from the entitled Boomers
It's kind of neat seeing L.A. the year I was born. The first thing that struck is: All the cars look alike!
I remember it well!
Great living in the L.A. of the 50's and 60's
I lived in the Bronx then and at 5 o’clock my mom would call me home to watch the Mickey Mouse Club. I was so envious of the kids on that show because they got to live in California. What they turned it into today is a sin. I live in beautiful Florida now and I’m so grateful I never settled in California. Be careful what you wish for.....very true.
Los Angeles just amazing back in those days the way it looks today it is just this race for unbelievable how they let that City go down so bad and I'm talking about two blocks from city hall building that famous building that's always on TV it's on their police badge it was on dragnet the TV show you can't even go down there anymore beautiful Mexican city is gone and that was just a few blocks away it's time for people to stand up and demand this kind of atmosphere to stop immediately and clean it up and bring it back to the old days that it was once a marvelous video by the way I give it five stars ⭐❤️💯🇺🇸🇨🇮
Do they use any punctuation or just run-on sentences?
It is kind-of a myth. Drive around Warner Center, Northridge, Burbank, and it is nicer today. Yes a lot of trailers and homeless tents but they are trying to work on it.
PURE GLAMOUR. BEAUTY CALIFORNIA. NICE VIDEO.GREETING FROM ARGENTINA.
Thanks for posting this
Thanks for this film! I remember.
I was born in 1950 and grew up in the suburbs of LA. It was a great time & place to grow up and things have definitely deteriorated badly since then. However, it’s not good to idealize the 50’s too much because there were many problems in society back then too. As kids we were unaware of that.
LA was good up until the early 80's and then like every other city in the USA went all downhill.We are all now at rock bottom-2021....Somebody Help!!!!!!
Joe Biden will do what trump wouldnt
LA had its problems before the 80s. The Watts riots of 1964 were not good.
@@davidmoser3535 Raise taxes.
@@davidmoser3535 Yeah,ruin the f**king country !
Because of trevor
Its so sad what has happened to California
wtf america was built on them
@@igormarinkovic1531 latin imigrants, not european imigrants
Democrats destroyed it just like Detroit.
Another racist comment
Mass migration is what happened to California period
OMG! L.A. was once new and clean. Compare it to today's nightmare
One of the largest economies in the world 🤷🏻♂️
Love this. Love the music!
Awesome! Was before my time but so neat to see color video like this. Love the cash register at 1:30 mark. Wow!
Was so much cleaner back then. But again that generation from that era actually cared and took pride in their city and respected other people's property. Those days are long gone.
Better and cleaner today. Most whites moved to suburbs Calabasas, Moorpark, TO, 75% of LA today is world races. People go home and watch netflix.
They should have passed a law right then that it was illegal to change anything. Because if you filmed those same places today, they’d be a mess.
Recognized that Safeway on Third St. and Vermont Ave (1:08). That's where my mom shopped. Back then, you could actually go have a good (and safe) time at Westlake Park just off Alvarado (Wilshire Blvd runs through it on a nice curve). Now?
This is the city Los Angeles California. I carry a badge. Just the facts madam said joe friday on dragnet.
love the music. look how clear the sky is.
Wow look at the style there
WOW!!! It truly was LA LA Land!!!!
Beautiful I love it !!!
How I love the Los Angeles that used to be.
Drove that freeway from Pasadena into LA many times . Yes I remember the oil tower pumping stations everywhere .
Unvaluable 👍🎼
Great song choice for that wonderful era.
Respect. Thankyou. Always
1954 I was 4 years old
Classic!
Life itself doesn't change a whole lot... they just come out with new models of everything
Opening image: Wilshire Blvd at Norton Ave, looking east.
I love the cars from the 1950's!!! 😊😊😊
What you see here in this old video of Los Angeles is reflection of the culture of the times. We tend to blame government for our ills, but politicians rarely lead, rather they respond, and not always well... The family was largely intact back then. More people were church going. Entertainment was far less crass than today, though it was starting to change in the 1950's. People put a little effort into their behavior....manners, dress, etc... I rarely meet a woman, rather lady from that era who ever cursed. Now it's considered fashionable. So you are looking at what we were and you can compare that to what we've become.
People had respect for themselves and others, today they don’t even know what it means. People even dress like children on a playground on the weekends. Or like bums
Muy buenas imágenes de una época dorada..
when america was still big and great
California was a Paradise of America in those times 😍😍😍😍😍 I was there in 2019
No pants hanging down
Excellent
I wish I was apart of that generation! It was so perfect! Great food, great since of humor, discipline was great, an you could say whatever an people wouldn’t get so sensitive an jump to conclusion. Today generation a joke!
Oh, people were always sensitive, just that now there's the internet
@@APerson-qb8po ya but it seems people are even more sensitive then in the past
Don't forget Polio and Jim Crow! Good times.
@@jkorshak Theres more to racism in the 50s than history usually teaches. The west and north? Not anywhere near as racist as the south. When Jackie Robinson (who grew up in California) started traveling East and south to play baseball he was shocked at things like white only bathrooms and whatnot, it wasn't around so much in the northwest. The south though was bad news in terms of racism
@@imthedarknight-8755 2nd class citizenship for racial minorities was, and in many ways remains a part of the black experience in this country and the same can be said for other Americans with minority backgrounds.
The fact is you couldn't say what you wanted then without others reacting negatively. Whether it was the Hollywood blacklist or to tell anyone you're gay.
Polio and Jim Crow are just two significant examples of how the 50's wasn't the shiny American utopia it's often thought of - mostly by the boomers because they grew up in it - definitely a great time to be a white, suburban kid in America - better after the polio vaccine.
Make no mistake, the 50's had its issues. There was crime and urban blight, pollution and drug addiction, and intolerance and injustice - not to mention the background dread of sudden nuclear annihilation.
My point was really about rose colored glasses.
This is my LA. I used to commute from Adam and Western to Lockheed Burbank by car during the summer of 1954. I returned to Purdue for my senior year at the end of summer.
Born in Canoga Park CA in 1956. California, R.I.P. All of the old neighborhoods are unrecognizable in 2021. Pathetic really.
When I watch this movie, I remember another one; "Grease" with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. Carefree youth. Unfortunately, we lived in a different world - in the world of communism, behind the "Iron Curtain". America is great. Don't change it. Greetings from Poland.
What a glorious time to be alive. No smog. No smut. No disrespect. No tattoos on every girl you see. I want a time machine.
Cultural Marxism destroyed it all
There was noticeable smog in videos taken in the Forties, but only became worse when few people use public transport.
Say what you want, but our country has really slipped into the trash heap since this footage. Thanks for showing.
Opening and closing is Miracle Mile on Wilshire isn't it? That's the Samsung building on the left now.... oh man I miss Carnations.
Still good to go at that time. Sadly, look at it now.
Wow Amazing, Nice to see it before it turned into a shit hole.
L.A. has become quite. . ."diverse"
@COVID 46 the worst is the people of now, their outputs on the time. They act like they lived it, pretend it was all lynching and slave wives, bizzare rockibilly tunes and hotrods. Hot rods were not a majoritys keen interest ever until the 1980s truth be told but they all think about the route 66 nonesense with ladies having their bras out in tight outfits and harley motorcycles in front of and diner. Funniest part is I've been to route 66 on my Colorado trip in winter of 1953, felt more like a exciting downtown with fancy motels and shops galore.
@COVID 46 sure yes. Personally we never needed phones, cameras were helpful and enjoyable, holding them out and refocusing and fixations to the lense. Good days, I hadn't realized I'd left on this comment since morning, might as well end it here.
@COVID 46 this should be a warning to all cities
what happened to Los Angeles could happen to your city too
if you want to keep your city a peaceful place you better keep tough policing because without it your city will end up lie Los Angeles is today
Like Europ.
Merkel destroy s everything here.
0:45 Intersection of Normandie and Wilshire, for the most part still looks pretty much like this.
The buildings look very modern for 1954
Don’t see homeless lining the streets.
Wow, incredible observation, A+
Of course, jobs paid a living wage, pensions were normal, and even the wealthy paid their share of taxes. $400,000 - and over was taxed at 84% Imagine that.
@@jkorshak And not so much drug use, and people with real mental problems weren't out on the street. I agree they should have been better cared for in the institutions they were in, but, putting them out on the streets is not the answer.
Where are the mexicans???
@@jkorshak Demography is destiny. Imagine that.
I first went there in 1966 and relatively little had changed so I at least got to see a large part of it. By the 1970s a lot had changed and not always for the better. One by one the old landmarks were being torn down.
1970s was peak dystopia in all major global cities; the boomers were large and in charge. They also made cool movies like Bladerunner about it.
We forgot the smog. On a bad day, your eyes would burn as soon as you stepped outside.
Bittersweet
Beautiful! The Year I was born *1 9 5 4*
The US was the most affluent country in the world in the 1950s. Any person in a good blue collar job could buy a house.
I was 4 years old!
GREAT video and cool music, HELLO LOS ANGELES
Looks like it was much cleaner and safer than today!!!!!
Okay "Cesar". Delusional bastard
Thanks...
Imagine checkout people today having the skill to operate that cash register and do basic math.
Geeze louise... that was a huge cash register.
As nice as this seems, what the Lord has planned for the new heavens and new earth is awesome. Don't miss it!
I was just one year old.
No crips or bloods in those days.
They knew better.
The crime was better organized, paid off the cops as was their due, and the cops just beat up or killed whoever they felt had it coming. Freedumb.
@@ikilledthemoon
I really don't believe that's the reality of their history.
Looks safely homegrown.
@@ikilledthemoon 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@georgegibson1961
Soooo, my detailed comment is removed again by the communists at CZcams.
..... you.
Remove that.
@@ikilledthemoon
Cointelpro?
I want a time machine and I want it right now !
Why? So you could be beaten when your husband came home drunk and you only role was to get pregnant and shut up? Cool. Do your thing
@@ZPLS18 Maybe this happened in the 50’s. But boy, have I got news for you, domestic violence even happens much more nowadays. Time machine please!
A.S.A.P. 😃
@@ZPLS18 sounds good to me 😍
Cool!
Interesting clip thanks
There's still a few recognizable landmarks, but not many.
Watta Great Nation America is !!
back when people weren't 400 lbs ground hogs with ketchup stained sweatpants.