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I was born in 1946 and lived my childhood years in Santa Ana. Our neighborhood was exactly like this one in Burbank and just as clean, well-maintained and well-landscaped. This video truly carried me back with warm memories to my childhood. Thank you.
0:06 - California from Magnolia (“Foodmart” appears to be at 3221 W Magnolia, where “DIY” is today.) 0:36 - Right turn onto Clark 0:51 - Left turn onto Lima 1:25 - Lima & Avon 1:35 - Right turn onto Verdugo 1:56 - Verdugo & Whitnall 1:58 - Break, then repeat of the same route 1:59 - California from Magnolia (“Detroit Furniture” appears to be at 3315 W Magnolia, where “It’s a Wrap” is today.) 2:47 - Right turn onto Clark 3:03 - Left turn onto Lima 3:40 - Lima & Avon 4:00 - Right turn onto Verdugo 4:07 - Verdugo & Whitnall
It would be very interesting if someone took your street directions and filmed this exact same route today. Comparing 1940s with the 2021 would be fascinating.
Nicely done Mr. Schmitt. My grand parents lived just a couple of blocks away on West Alameda near the horse stables across that street from the Pick Wick Drive-in.
OMG! Both my grandparents lived next door to each other on Avon, just north of Magnolia from the 30's thru the 70's. My dad literally married the girl next door. This looks almost exactly like I remember the neighborhood in the 60's, except for the 40's era cars. I remember walking with my grandparents down to Magnolia for ice cream in the evening. Thanks for the memories!
This was back when kids were able to be raised by a parent, many people were craftsmen, and so they either built and/or maintained things, and took care of them, many people were not on the welfare system, so whatever people owned, they wanted to maintain, because nothing was "free" in life, and people that we now call "homeless", actually have mental disorders. Back then, there were a lot more institutions where they were housed, where doctors would try to treat them/medicate them, which sounds horrible, until you realize that the modern alternative has them try to live on their own, homeless, in-and-out of jail. ...and the most important thing of all, the only "hard" drugs that were tolerated at all, were tobacco products, and alcohol. There really was almost nothing else to use and abuse, to screw with a person's mind.
@David Brown Possibly. All I know, is that the push for their own autonomy, when they cannot properly take care of themselves without continual guidance, has punished all of us.
I was born in 45 and remember our large house in Burbank, it had a small house in the back for the House-Keeper and a stable for two horses. My father was just a manager, not rich and I remember the Helm's truck and the smell of the baked goods as he opened up the drawers.
No you didn't come from a rich family. Everyone had a large house, with another house out back, for their house keeper to live in and a horse stable. Your idea of "rich" might be a bit different than most!
@@boballen1294 Bobby...just read the man’s comment. He’s saying he came from a working class background. Dad was a manager (Foreign concept today I know) of men who came home from the horrors of war on a global scale (the commenter’s father) , and worked very hard to earn a living and provide for their families. California was THE place to be at that time. Lots of these houses have a second smaller apartment on the property...not uncommon at all
I grew up in Southern California. Born not long after this film was shot and, yes, it really did look like that. Might have been filmed mid-day during the week(no children) and either those who worked had already driven to work (few, if any cars driving around) or for the most part the vehicles were in garages. We do see some parked(a ‘47 or 48 Packard, a 46 or 47 Dodge, a 48 Mercury, and a 49 Pontiac). Thank you for posting this, such memories!
@@almeggs3247 It was. I do remember what were called ‘street car buttons’ in a small middle lane in the center of certain boulevards where people waited for the streetcar. The Red Trolley was different, it was operated by Pacific Electric and was in and around Los Angeles.
I used to live a block away from there, one block over other side of Magnolia! The camera truck goes south on California, turns right on Clark, then left on Lima, then right on Verdugo. Must have been before the California theater was built in 1949(?) since it's not in the film.
So pretty, I've been living in Burbank since 2011 and one of the things I love about it is the wide tree lined streets and how clean it is. Residential streets are narrower in LA, Hollywood in particular.
Born in Burbank 1946 - Miller Elementary, Emerson Elementary, John Muir Jr High, Burbank High. A lot of Burbank still looks like this, but much has changed. Lockheed was the main employer in th 40s-70s. Then slowly pulled out. Burbank survived somehow. The one thing I don't miss is the smog. In the 50s and early 60s it was so bad sometimes you couldn't see more than about 100 feet. Smelled terrible and hurt the lungs. Love this footage. Thanks for posting it.
I went to Emerson for a few weeks in 1969 before we moved to Reseda. I remember walking to my grandma's house after school and the smell of carnations at a house along the way.
My Uncle Art Miley was a supervisor at Lockheed into the 1970s, he was revered at Lockheed by the men who were supervised by him. He and my Aunt, my father's sister, lived in Sherman Oaks. Good people. Miss them so much.
Wow, so cool! I live these restored vintage videos! I’m so glad that I stumbled upon this channel and look forward to going through all of your videos. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work!
This is remarkable ..My guess 1948 ish given the cars and a few TV antennas ...Someone born the day this was filmed would be at least 72-73 years old now ...Incredible ...
Yeah, can you imagine what it feels like for the old peeps that grew up in this time compared to the shit that goes on nowadays, probably disgusted with society and rightly so.
@@oveidasinclair982 As a Hispanic this comment made me chuckle. But then again, it's Burbank, wealthier White people still take control of the city. If you're talking about California as a whole, that is the fault of White democrats in the government. Regards!
I live in a 1946 house on Clark ave! This is amazing. Love the grease buckets placed at the curb. Its amazing how little has changed. If this were anywhere else. South valley, west side, Hollywood. Most all of these houses would have been torn down and in their place mini mansions. I love Burbank. Slow to change, and people who live here like the modest mid century vibe, and don’t want it destroyed.
@@jeremymacdonald5584 the cracks in the concrete are covered with a special fluid tar that cures quickly and somewhat rubbery, to fill the crevasse, 1:40.
@@defiverr4697 Lol I was being sarcastic to see how polite you are. Your spirit guide has seen that you got an A+ with respect to internet civility. That puts you ahead of 102 percent of human beings.
Living in Burbank most of my life (I'm 70), I would say that this was filmed May/June 1949. The camera passes a 1949 Pontiac. Growing up in Burbank back then was the Best Place to Be!
I’d agree that it was sometime 49 or after. How many had those terrazzo floors too? Not a car parked on the street. Now, it’s full of parked cars on street and in driveways.
Comment reposted from the originally soundless video posted by Wes Clark: "The driver starts out on N. California St close to Magnolia. The Food Mart is where the DIY center is currently located. They head south and make a right on W. Clark Ave, left on N. Lima and finally a right on W. Verdugo Ave. ending at N. Whitnall Hwy. Both clips are the exact same route, but the second one has a different view."
I'm from Maine & grew up with the television always on. This is exactly the way I've always pictured the revered state of California. I always (still do) watch the background scenes in tv shows that are filmed in southern California. My parents lived there for 2 years in San Diego. My father was in the Navy & worked at the hospital. They loved it. My oldest brother was born in the San Diego Naval hospital. So in my mind California, in general is like a paradise to me. It looks so happy, bright & American. The sun' s always out, my parents told me. So nice! I still have not gotten there to see it, but will. It's my favorite place on the whole planet that I want to see. Thanks for these awesome videos. They're beautiful!
I can relate to your impression of California. I was born here and lived here most of my life and I can tell you that compared to other places, California feels like a movie set, but real! It feels like its Saturday everyday.
@@martinmg8947 Yes! You exactly summed up what I mean. & it's cool that you are from there, and know what I'm trying to say. Thankyou. I try telling people that, but they don't know what I mean. Anyway, I just know that it's like nothing else in southern California! 🌴🌵☀️🎬📺
Yes, we do have some areas that have run down over the decades, much homeless in the big cities, and a variety of problems. But, that being said, some areas are still as nice as in this video. We have some gorgeous architecture up through the 1940s, and we do have some of the most beautiful natural areas in the country, IMO! Plus our climate is fantastic! Hope you get to visit someday! :)
Hi Mark..I'm at least glad for technology and the ability to see places we can't get too! I came from Long island as a kid and grew up here in California and Burbank 😂 It was as special as you think and there are so many great areas still here. Keep enjoying TH-cam until you come 🤗💜🤗
It's hard to find videos from the 30s or 40s of residential neighborhoods. It's always downtown or tourist attractions. This is great! Been looking for something like this.
I Wish the movie studios had spent more time driving around So Calif back in the 30's and 40's filming all the farms, orange groves and open land before it was all lost to development. I hope some day a realistic VR game will be developed to recreate what So Calif looked like back in the day.
Thank you for the incredibly detailed images, Mr Nass; these shorts are the best I've seen. Thank you for the memories; I just subscribed to your channel.
yes i agree...i love the concrete driveways and curbing...and streets are so beautiful...homes are just beautiful...i do wonder what year pictures were taken..
My dad's childhood home is in this video. He said the movie studios regularly filmed this area for stock footage, so you're not wrong about it looking like a movie set.
Or maybe there was nothing to do back then in the house so they went out. Like these days you can survive entertainment off of anything in your home so you see a pile of cars.
@@Dance_Party Cars were also more expensive and not attainable, so the average family only had one car. Now it's not uncommon for families to have 3 or more cars.
Most people didn't actually own cars, if they did, they had one, and it was much smaller and could fit in the garage. A modern card wouldn't fit down the driveway into the garage in the back. I know b/c I live in one of these houses. A mini might make it...
The old America isn’t over, it just doesn’t exist in Demoncratic ran city’s and states anymore because the law abiding, tax paying citizens are tired of footing the bill for lazy lowlifes that feel entitled to everything, what that city is made up of now. The Demoncrats will not be satisfied until our great nation is that of a third world country. Look at every city that’s ran by Demoncrats. They’re sh*thole city’s with crime through the roof and homeless at an all time high. Can’t drink the water and people are sh*tting in the same streets that they sleep. Let’s add millions of refugees to that pile of scholars and it will make our country so much better. Everything for free it’s like magic! Bunch of knuckleheads🖕😂
Wow. This looks like my neighborhood now! That's crazy to see how little has changed over the decades. Even the black lines all over the road where they repaired the cracks are just like that today.
@@KA-vs7nl - they look pristine because the population then was much smaller than today and as a a result less vehicles on the road. The roads were not over used that contribute to wear and tear.
Being able to capture just a small moment in time is so priceless, we take it for granted everyday. Even a video just filming the streets of burbank 80 some years ago is so amazing to Me. Simply because at some point in this crazy messed up time line that we're all in right now, that was the present, even if merely for a moment... It's beautiful
You should read some of the Raymond Chandler novels from this era. He writes about what a dirty, nasty city LA is, with thugs and cheats and scoundrels seemingly hiding in every alley and around every corner. Of course, it was fiction. But romanticizing the past is a dangerous road to go down. People have been doing it for millennia, but in general, most things have gotten better, not worse.
I played this at 0.5x speed (bicycle) and there's more details to pick out. In the last 90 seconds I spotted many roof mounted TV antennas for a video that has 1940's in its title.
@@cascade5682 Roof mounted TV antennas ought make a big time comeback as greedy cable TV is getting it's cord righteously cut! And ground antennas (both indoor and outdoor) just simply don't receive well enough if you live in a dead zone. I speak from experience. I have never had cable TV in my life while living alone. Nor will I ever! If my on-air TV has nothing good on at the moment, I watch TH-cam over my cellular internet, with help from my #WeBoost "Eqo" cell signal booster. Unfortunately, where I live, I can only mount it on the ground. But it still helps! I quit CoNcast home internet in 2015, never to return!
I Wish the movie studios had spent more time driving around So Calif back in the 30's and 40's filming all the farms, orange groves and open land before it was all lost to development. I hope some day a realistic VR game will be developed to recreate what So Calif looked like back in the day.
This area looked similar to my neiborhood in Long Beach CA where I lived from 1960 to 1964. I remember this time in California well. I rode my bicycle for miles from home without any fear at all. This was the best time to be a boy growing up.
@@Uaarkson It's definitely not, the streets are in terrible condition and a lot of the grass is dead. You can look for yourself on google earth street view, another person commented the locations above.
On the original B&W video, "doubleueyett" posted the route as being: "The driver starts out on N. California St close to Magnolia. The Food Mart is where the DIY center is currently located. They head south and make a right on W. Clark Ave, left on N. Lima and finally a right on W. Verdugo Ave. ending at N. Whitnall Hwy. Both clips are the exact same route, but the second one has a different view." I checked it out and it is the route. Pretty cool to see most of the homes still there today.
@@deandarvin553 compared to everywhere else ???? You know there was a world war going on lol American was nice and cozy on the other side of the world so yes I would say nice and peaceful
@@lonemaus562 Not like an entire generation was traumatized without proper mental healthcare or anything. Nope. Absolutely no consequences from that! WWII was just a cakewalk for the US /s
@@lonemaus562 That's a bit of a stretch given that this video was taken mid day when most people were at work. Most streets would view the same way in any city.
@@deandarvin553 Hardly. How can you even say such a thing with all that the US lost in human lives? My dad was in the Pacific and what he described to me, now I understand why he never talked about it, the horrors of it. People back here at home had no clue of the horrific realities that played out overseas.
From the time when America was a Great, Proud , Hard Working nation. I was fortunate enough to born in the mid 50's & enjoy some of the greatness of our country. Not so much any more.
Dutch Elm Disease was heading west and about to hit Detroit. California still had a few more years, but the day was fast approaching when it would lose these trees. Nice video, love the vintage vehicles and white picket fences.
I grew up near Burbank and know the area well, the residential neighborhood looks the same, it's the surrounding area outside the neighborhood that has changed.
I was born in Glendale in 1948 and lived in Burbank, east of Glenoaks in the 70's. My Mom lived in Glendale then Burbank until she passed about 5 years ago. I know the city pretty well but don't recognize any of these streets. Anyone know where this is? Would be cool to compare then and now using Street View.
No its not Sun Valley, it is at the start of the film, on California st facing North toward Magnolia Ave (the Magnolia Theater was on the left corner) traveling south to the next street Clark Ave. (I lived at 2610 Clark Ave, a few shortblocks to the left.) turning right the vacant lot is Verdugo Park now and the swimming pool at the end of the block. Over one block on Clark Ave then left on Lima st. Avon st and the alley turn converge into Lima. Turn right on Verdugo Ave. Next right is Whitnall Highway. End. So as it turns out Burbank looks different after all. You know the big green dome on Hollywood Way by the Air port..? That dome is right on top of the exact spot my family's home was at. I lived there till 7th grade, then we moved to 2610 Clark Ave. LOL.. LOL Burbank looks way different. Good or bad I think it's all in the eye of the beholder. What I learned is I should read the comments, I actually thought I was the one who ID where the streets were. I am not sure about the autos I am glad to know. I am 73 now. You know you younger people are not wrong it probably does look the same. Do you want to trade..? I am tired of being 73....LOL
I'm a former Burbank resident and still live just a stone's throw away. I'd wager that most of the unassuming little houses you see in this clip are still standing. Of course now, they sell for 4-5 times what they would in other parts of the country.
I lived over on Keystone St. Between Alameda Ave and Oak St. The house was built in June of 1941. My mom and dad bought it that month for approximately $5,000. Over the next 58 years they added a bdrm, den .5 bath and remodeled the kitchen. After my parents passed away, we sold it for $320,000 in 1999. Last September (2020), it was sold for $1,005,000. That's right. An 80 year old house with NO POOL sold for over $1,000,000. JEEEZ!
@@spiff8862 i would love to move there and own a house. I worked my whole life i'm single, and now in 55 and lucky to afford a crap apartment. Never could afford a car ever so i'm stuck alone in a crap place. And now they tearing up everything to build $2000 a month apartments i can barely afford a $600 one. I been working my whole life for nothing to live like crap. And prices go up everyday and make it worse.. I have no idea how people can live like that unless you are a moviestar or drugdealer..
@@kensims4086 You're 55 and could never afford a car? Are you serious? What have you been doing with your life and what have you been blowing money on?
@@spiff8862 in 1980 I bought a house on Keystone between Oak and Alameda for $74,000 3 years latter $260,000. My GT-500, 2014 cost more. I chose the road of " A rolling stone never gathers any moss = no pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of"..... I wish I was joking.
Except for the vintage cars, a lot of streets in Southern California still look exactly like this. Check out Riverside south of downtown (magnolia ave).
@@edmonddupris8422 you seem to have a very insular view. Is that the only asian country genius ? What about Japan, Singapore, Russia.. the list goes on.
Some say, best American life is 40's post war, 50's till 60's. Hard work but very well people n life. That's what I've heard. I'm not American, was born in 80's.
@@Blackadder75 Hispanic male here, I would take the prejudices to see the old world, it was beautiful, now everything is crackhead territory. So much for equality, probably equal living in trash. Also there were many gay communities, more prejudice true, but still there were movements, and not the toxic ones we see today. People have their rights and they continue to fight for nothing.
@@Dance_Party hello - American here who has lived next door to almost everyone at some point in my life - pride in yourself, personal responsibility, much less drug dependency..... forget about what you look like, values is what I miss....
And that’s kinda like what it was like. Unfortunately, there are so few who will remember wonderful it was. Life was simple, meaningful, and rewarding. Forget it, it’s gone forever.
Every one of these videos has this predictable comment. It's like this NOW. A drive through a placid suburb? Come on. I did a drive just like this three days ago. If your life lacks both reward and meaning because there's a couple more cars parked on the street than in 1940, that's on you, bub.
My dad just excitedly told us, "That was my family car! And my childhood home!" We also learned a few new things we'd never heard thanks to memories being reignited by this beautiful trip down his childhood lanes.
This is the post war years after WWII. It seems like the tail end of the 40s or beginning of the 50s. My dad tells me about similar areas like this where he grew up in ELA from the 30s to early 60s, before it became predominantly hispanic. One area was known as Lan Franco in the late 30s to early or mid 40s, and another El Sereno sometime in the 40s. It was absolutely nothing like it is today and since the early 60s when it started going to the dogs. It was multicultural but in a good way, and everyone was proud to be American, kept up their small homes and front lawns, and worked very hard. Those places are slums and very dangerous at night. Sad to see how hardly anything changes for the better, always for the worst. But I've been to some neighborhoods that still look like this today! There are a few in Paso Robles and at least one or more in San Dimas. Amazing little towns with original homes in clean, safe neighborhoods. SoCal is not all bad but it's unfortunately rare to find nice, clean neighborhoods with old homes like the ones shown in this video.
South Pasadena, Glendora, La Verne, Upland…. There’s actually quite a few smaller cities that are still pretty close to the original state. The route from El Sereno into Alhambra must’ve been gorgeous! A lot of those areas are still beautiful but unfortunately they’ve seen better days.
What really stands out to me is the incredibly neat appearance. There is no trash, all the homes and lawns are very well cared for, it looks like real American middle class pride. Compare it to today... Someone, please tell me WTF happened?
Actually, littering was far more of a problem in the 1940s than it is today. So big of a problem that in 1956 they finally launched anti-littering PSAs. While tossing garbage onto the sidewalks and public parks is taboo now, it wasn't back then. I've spent most of my adult life living in Europe where litter on the streets is commonplace in places like Italy and Greece precisely because the generations didn't grow up with the same conditioning.
@@posysdogovych2065 Mate you’re gonna dislodge the OP’s rose tinted glasses! You’re right OP, modern life is rubbish and everything was better before you were born. It’s just a coincidence that everything became awful when you turned up!
And Craftsman style was everywhere as well, along with the Spanish hacienda style of course. Stucco city. Looks inviting, this neighborhood. Back when one could go on a stroll even later at night and not worry about a thing.
Our family moved to 726 Maple St in Burbank in either 1942 or 43. I was 3 or 4 years old. Then when I was in the middle of the 3rd grade we moved to 620 Keystone. I went to Roosevelt and Lincoln grammer schools, Jordan Jr High and then to Burroughs. Graduating class of Summer of 1957. I remember Burbank as a great place to grow up. Dances at the Olive Recreation Center. Great swimming pools. The Pickwick Swim Park was the place to hang out. I would go back in a heartbeat.
"Beautiful downtown Burbank," Gary Owens would say on "Laugh-In" back in the '60s - and it does look beautiful here, with streets and sidewalks nearly spotless, lawns and hedges well manicured, and neat-looking houses, some in Mission or Art Deco styles. I wonder what these streets look like today?
I lived in this area until 2005. For the most part everything was very well-kept until I left. The houses seen in this video are now selling for a million dollars, so if you're able to afford that, you want to make it look nice as you can. When the houses were we built new, they were affordable to more average people.
There's a lot more vegetation, trees are bigger, etc. I followed the video's path on Google and most of the homes are virtually the same, but a lot are more hidden by trees.
"...shot a month ago!" well, not really. Look again at the sky in this film clip. Today, the air is much cleaner. Remember, most houses came with an incinerator in our back yards and we burned the trash almost everyday causing that infamous brown haze...
@@rwfetterman2546 Seriously. As a nice counterpoint to all the "there were no drug-crazed homeless and libturd politicians letting them rob and rape anyone back then!" comments, let me say you should watch the similar "restored" video of downtown LA to see how the air was almost opaque back then. Yes, as early as the '40s people were starting to notice air pollution in LA.
@@oveidasinclair982 In case you haven't noticed, black population is on the decline in CA since at least 20 years ago. There s no "black invasion" in CA.
Yeah, I grew up in Los Gatos in the 60,s. There were still pockets of orchards around. Remember the Frontier Village amusment park in San Jose? I left in 1975 when I joined the Navy and went back to look around about 20 yrs ago. It had totally changed into a suburban nightmare. Cant imagine what it looks like now.
Having lived in this neighborhood for almost 40 years I love seeing what it looked like 80 years ago! Thanks for posting and bringing it to life with color.
@@cheema33 pfff all anyone wants to talk about today are the negative parts of history, its just a way to make excuses for certain individuals and their unwillingness to contribute anything of value
It surprises me how many cars and houses with a garage for a car there were in the 1940-s. Here in the Netherlands there were 8 privately owned cars in every 1000 people in 1948.
Europe was, and still IS today, much backwards compared to USA. Today the situation is even worst, we are in totally dramatic regression... Europe is becoming a s#!th0le
Jeroen- Good observation! However this film is suburban southern California. Footage taken at the same time in the Eastern US , (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey) would reveal much fewer cars per-capita. Not on a scale of the Netherlands, but nothing like Southern California!
I find it eerie to see these old videos in high quality. All these people going about their day in 1940's CA immortalized on film. I always wonder who they were, where they were driving to... Everything looks very familiar to a suburb today except for how the vehicles look and how calm the roads are.
This reproduces film has amazing clarity! The driver must have had plenty of experience as there wasn't any noticeable changes in speed or rapid panning. I was born in L.A. a couple decades later, but it is still fascinating footage, especially the nearly uniform cleanliness and manicured yards. I'm hooked and subscribed!
This would be late 40's based upon the Ford pickup at :11, could even be 1950, 1951. I lived in No Hollywood = 1 mile away, 1982-1990. Burbank was very nice, sleepy, very clean. I could not place the "X" intersection at 3:40, though it could be Burbank and Victory. Lockheed was probably the largest employer, but there were at least 2000 small businesses surrounding Lockheed doing all manner of metalwork, deburring, etc; I am sure the unemployment rate back then was zero. Indeed, the area around Burbank airport was actually called Lockheed in the 20's. The Burbank airport was an absolute joy to deal with, you could drop off a pax and they could buy a ticket and be on the plane in under 10 minutes. Pre 9/11, or course.
My dad owned one of those businesses into the 70s, on North Victory Place, just north of The Dip. He did centerless grinding (fastener manufacturing). The building is still there.
I can almost imagine myself with an almost perfect grasp of how it was like walking those streets. Almost like today but with different a car shape and different current event.
This is amazing! In color at 60 FPS it's like someone went back in a time machine and recorded it with a smartphone 😱 I wish they recorded more of these in the 1940s I would watch hours of it
Se ve todo tan nítido, tan real; es como si lo hubieran filmado ayer. Ellos ignoraban por completo lo que estaba por venir, como nosotros ignoramos por completo lo que está por venir.
Yo me crie en Burbank...era muy bonito...el clima, los jardines, las escuelas.. la jente era muy amable...aqui filmaban muchas peliculas y shows...otros tiempos.
The newest car I saw was a 49 Pontiac, so I guess that's the date. Does it still look like this today?No wonder people wanted to go to CA back then. Not so much today, I think.
Raised in San Fernando California from 1944 until I moved to Wisconsin in 1967. Born NOV 28 1942 in Ajo (garlic in Spanish). Southern California was paradise when I was young. My maternal grandfather helped settle the north end of the San Fernando valley. He was an Italian immigrant as were most of his friends. They worked their asses off and prospered. My grandfather owned a plumbing company, they all bought land. Even back then the towns melded together. San Fernando, Burbank, panorama city, Glendale, sylmar, pacoima and so on south down the length of California you had the deserts, mountains and the Pacific Ocean within a few hours drive. Then there was Hollywood, the film Capitol of the world as it is today. I went to high school with Richie Valenze, disneys Mickey Mouse club was made up of mostly Hollywood and valley kids. Some went on to lasting fame. I met Annette Funicello and Lassies owner and trainer Rudd Weatherwax. I went to military school with his son Robert who at that time was a heroine addict but I have seen pictures of him recently and he is now in charge of training movie dogs and seemed squared away. I met Jay Silverheels and Roy Rogers while I was in military school. JAy Silverheels was the Lone Rangers side kick. So cal was all it was cracked up to be.
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I was born in 1946 and lived my childhood years in Santa Ana. Our neighborhood was exactly like this one in Burbank and just as clean, well-maintained and well-landscaped. This video truly carried me back with warm memories to my childhood. Thank you.
thx! 🙏
I, too, was born in 1946 and I used to visit Burbank and Grenada Hills a lot when I was young.
@@Dr.Pepper001 I've lived in So. Cal for most of my life and have honestly never heard of "Grenada Hills" What is that?
@@albear972 -- You can look up Grenada Hills on Google Earth. It's just one of many rural communities in the Greater Los Angeles area. Cheers!
@@Dr.Pepper001 OK! I know of Granada Hills, not Grenada Hills. I live not too far from them hills. of *GRANADA*
0:06 - California from Magnolia (“Foodmart” appears to be at 3221 W Magnolia, where “DIY” is today.)
0:36 - Right turn onto Clark
0:51 - Left turn onto Lima
1:25 - Lima & Avon
1:35 - Right turn onto Verdugo
1:56 - Verdugo & Whitnall
1:58 - Break, then repeat of the same route
1:59 - California from Magnolia (“Detroit Furniture” appears to be at 3315 W Magnolia, where “It’s a Wrap” is today.)
2:47 - Right turn onto Clark
3:03 - Left turn onto Lima
3:40 - Lima & Avon
4:00 - Right turn onto Verdugo
4:07 - Verdugo & Whitnall
Thx!!!!
yep, I just looked on google streetview and most of the houses have barely changed.
It would be very interesting if someone took your street directions and filmed this exact same route today. Comparing 1940s with the 2021 would be fascinating.
Thank you for the great memory you have.
Nicely done Mr. Schmitt. My grand parents lived just a couple of blocks away on West Alameda near the horse stables across that street from the Pick Wick Drive-in.
Wish I go back to this past for a day and just look around on the streets everywhere
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It’s funny you said they always think about things like that going back in time walking around to see it was like
@@mohammedguketlov5619 in less than 10years computer AI will offer 3D tours of the past where footage like this is available. It’s inevitable
@@NASS_0 I would go get as many coins from that era to take back with me
Not to mention comic books to
Won't work you would want to stay forever especially with the 1950s just ahead. I was born in 1945 so this was a special time for me.
And we still live in these same homes almost 100 years later!
Albeit now in a Godless liberal shithole
These same homes are now worth 10000000x their original value! Hahahah fucked
And for super inflated prices and much higher crime rates! Absolute bargain 😎
80 years.
True. Lived in Pasadena for yrs. Most of the houses still look like this. Wish i could go back to thr 40s and buy a bunch
OMG! Both my grandparents lived next door to each other on Avon, just north of Magnolia from the 30's thru the 70's. My dad literally married the girl next door. This looks almost exactly like I remember the neighborhood in the 60's, except for the 40's era cars. I remember walking with my grandparents down to Magnolia for ice cream in the evening. Thanks for the memories!
I'm amazed at how neat and tidy the area was back then...
Amazing what wooden spoon parenting can do to a place.
This was back when kids were able to be raised by a parent, many people were craftsmen, and so they either built and/or maintained things, and took care of them, many people were not on the welfare system, so whatever people owned, they wanted to maintain, because nothing was "free" in life, and people that we now call "homeless", actually have mental disorders. Back then, there were a lot more institutions where they were housed, where doctors would try to treat them/medicate them, which sounds horrible, until you realize that the modern alternative has them try to live on their own, homeless, in-and-out of jail.
...and the most important thing of all, the only "hard" drugs that were tolerated at all, were tobacco products, and alcohol. There really was almost nothing else to use and abuse, to screw with a person's mind.
@David Brown Possibly.
All I know, is that the push for their own autonomy, when they cannot properly take care of themselves without continual guidance, has punished all of us.
@@badreality2 Those are all pretty good points. Especially the drug part, I can count on my fingers the amount of sober people I know in this world..
@@gittyupalice96 Thank you.
I was born in 45 and remember our large house in Burbank, it had a small house in the back for the House-Keeper and a stable for two horses. My father was just a manager, not rich and I remember the Helm's truck and the smell of the baked goods as he opened up the drawers.
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That's amazing. What else do you remember from that period?
No you didn't come from a rich family. Everyone had a large house, with another house out back, for their house keeper to live in and a horse stable. Your idea of "rich" might be a bit different than most!
@@boballen1294 Bobby...just read the man’s comment. He’s saying he came from a working class background. Dad was a manager (Foreign concept today I know) of men who came home from the horrors of war on a global scale (the commenter’s father) , and worked very hard to earn a living and provide for their families. California was THE place to be at that time. Lots of these houses have a second smaller apartment on the property...not uncommon at all
You were rich buddy...don't try to church it up.
I grew up in Southern California. Born not long after this film was shot and, yes, it really did look like that. Might have been filmed mid-day during the week(no children) and either those who worked had already driven to work (few, if any cars driving around) or for the most part the vehicles were in garages. We do see some parked(a ‘47 or 48 Packard, a 46 or 47 Dodge, a 48 Mercury, and a 49 Pontiac). Thank you for posting this, such memories!
thx ^^ 👍
And Jeeps, build after 1940.
Not sure but was the red car trolley in existence?
@@almeggs3247 It was. I do remember what were called ‘street car buttons’ in a small middle lane in the center of certain boulevards where people waited for the streetcar. The Red Trolley was different, it was operated by Pacific Electric and was in and around Los Angeles.
I also note that there are TV aerials on some houses but they are few and far between.
Damn, my family home on California St at 2:00! The tree looks like it was just planted
Oh!! 🥰 👍
That’s impressive!
Whoa, that's gotta be a weird feeling!
I used to live a block away from there, one block over other side of Magnolia! The camera truck goes south on California, turns right on Clark, then left on Lima, then right on Verdugo. Must have been before the California theater was built in 1949(?) since it's not in the film.
@@JO-ze9cg You should totally retrace the same path the cameraman took and show us how it looks today.
So pretty, I've been living in Burbank since 2011 and one of the things I love about it is the wide tree lined streets and how clean it is. Residential streets are narrower in LA, Hollywood in particular.
Everything looks so clean and peaceful.
@@m.dewylde5287 No
Whites do it better. Most of Utah and Idaho are similar to this.
@@Spiritoid yes
I work in burbank
It used to mean something to be American, to have a culture believing in God, country, and family.
Right!
the people who recorded this 80 years ago knew it would blow up on youtube one day
Well, they likely had an idea but they wouldn't have imagined 720 or 1080p when they uploaded the videos to TH-cam.
@@Del-Canada Or adding surround sound.
Born in Burbank 1946 - Miller Elementary, Emerson Elementary, John Muir Jr High, Burbank High. A lot of Burbank still looks like this, but much has changed. Lockheed was the main employer in th 40s-70s. Then slowly pulled out. Burbank survived somehow. The one thing I don't miss is the smog. In the 50s and early 60s it was so bad sometimes you couldn't see more than about 100 feet. Smelled terrible and hurt the lungs. Love this footage. Thanks for posting it.
I went to Emerson for a few weeks in 1969 before we moved to Reseda. I remember walking to my grandma's house after school and the smell of carnations at a house along the way.
My Uncle Art Miley was a supervisor at Lockheed into the 1970s, he was revered at Lockheed by the men who were supervised by him. He and my Aunt, my father's sister, lived in Sherman Oaks. Good people. Miss them so much.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there - L. P. Hartley
Wow, so cool! I live these restored vintage videos! I’m so glad that I stumbled upon this channel and look forward to going through all of your videos. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work!
This is remarkable ..My guess 1948 ish given the cars and a few TV antennas ...Someone born the day this was filmed would be at least 72-73 years old now ...Incredible ...
Everything looks so beautiful and well cared for. Not a spot of trash anywhere!
A lot of smog. No graffiti!
Yeah, can you imagine what it feels like for the old peeps that grew up in this time compared to the shit that goes on nowadays, probably disgusted with society and rightly so.
No blacks, or mexicans either, that goes a long way in explaining these old videos.
@@oveidasinclair982 As a Hispanic this comment made me chuckle. But then again, it's Burbank, wealthier White people still take control of the city. If you're talking about California as a whole, that is the fault of White democrats in the government. Regards!
@@oveidasinclair982 You mean no Armeanians. As far as Mexicans. Well, there where there long before white people intruded along.
Man it would be cool if you could do a then and now comparison. Great work, its like being there .
Thx!! ^^
Hasn't changed all that much. , A nice place to live really , I lived in Burbank
Sometimes I have the crazy idea that someone in the future went back and filmed this, the video quality is amazing!
I am eternally grateful to whomever took these videos back in the day.
All those houses are worth millions now if they are still standing. Burbank is an expensive city to live now.
Burbank is expensive because it was nice in the 1940s, and it's nice in the 2020s.
Non smoking city too! As a kid my grandparents would take us to the movies there...they had ashtrays for smokers....
@@josephgaviota this is the complete truth. I love this city so much.
@@m.dewylde5287 Yea 😬 I remember people would smoke as they grocery shopped...then they had smoking section and non smoking section in Restaurants.
@Joe S van nuys, burbank, the whole valley blows chunks.
I live in a 1946 house on Clark ave! This is amazing. Love the grease buckets placed at the curb. Its amazing how little has changed. If this were anywhere else. South valley, west side, Hollywood. Most all of these houses would have been torn down and in their place mini mansions. I love Burbank. Slow to change, and people who live here like the modest mid century vibe, and don’t want it destroyed.
1:42 what impresses me is the asphalt crack coverage, and still done that way today.
Lines look the exact same too
@@jeremymacdonald5584 they were repairing the cracks just like they repair them today. LA has concrete streets, and not just asphalt.
@@defiverr4697 what are cracks? I don't understand
@@jeremymacdonald5584 the cracks in the concrete are covered with a special fluid tar that cures quickly and somewhat rubbery, to fill the crevasse, 1:40.
@@defiverr4697 Lol I was being sarcastic to see how polite you are. Your spirit guide has seen that you got an A+ with respect to internet civility. That puts you ahead of 102 percent of human beings.
What a great time to be alive, you can see the pride of ownership everybody had in their homes
Burbank still looks like this. That's one reason why it's so expensive.
Homes and things to maintain homes were affordable
Had money.
People used to be able to marry, raise a family, send them to school and retire on a single income
@@Mikesonbikes before demon-crates
Living in Burbank most of my life (I'm 70), I would say that this was filmed May/June 1949.
The camera passes a 1949 Pontiac.
Growing up in Burbank back then was the Best Place to Be!
thank you for sharing your perspective!
I’d agree that it was sometime 49 or after. How many had those terrazzo floors too? Not a car parked on the street. Now, it’s full of parked cars on street and in driveways.
Comment reposted from the originally soundless video posted by Wes Clark: "The driver starts out on N. California St close to Magnolia. The Food Mart is where the DIY center is currently located. They head south and make a right on W. Clark Ave, left on N. Lima and finally a right on W. Verdugo Ave. ending at N. Whitnall Hwy. Both clips are the exact same route, but the second one has a different view."
So they are in North Hollywood and Burbank
Yeah, but he just cut the truck off, like fun buddy
That’s a beautiful downtown. 🙂
Anywhere near verdugo park on verdugo Ave where I used to live back in the late 80s and 90s?
Thank you for the excellent sleuthing.
I'm from Maine & grew up with the television always on. This is exactly the way I've always pictured the revered state of California. I always (still do) watch the background scenes in tv shows that are filmed in southern California. My parents lived there for 2 years in San Diego. My father was in the Navy & worked at the hospital. They loved it. My oldest brother was born in the San Diego Naval hospital. So in my mind California, in general is like a paradise to me. It looks so happy, bright & American. The sun' s always out, my parents told me. So nice! I still have not gotten there to see it, but will. It's my favorite place on the whole planet that I want to see. Thanks for these awesome videos. They're beautiful!
I can relate to your impression of California.
I was born here and lived here most of my life and I can tell you that compared to other places, California feels like a movie set, but real! It feels like its Saturday everyday.
@@martinmg8947 Yes! You exactly summed up what I mean. & it's cool that you are from there, and know what I'm trying to say. Thankyou. I try telling people that, but they don't know what I mean. Anyway, I just know that it's like nothing else in southern California! 🌴🌵☀️🎬📺
Yes, we do have some areas that have run down over the decades, much homeless in the big cities, and a variety of problems. But, that being said, some areas are still as nice as in this video. We have some gorgeous architecture up through the 1940s, and we do have some of the most beautiful natural areas in the country, IMO! Plus our climate is fantastic! Hope you get to visit someday! :)
Hi Mark..I'm at least glad for technology and the ability to see places we can't get too! I came from Long island as a kid and grew up here in California and Burbank 😂 It was as special as you think and there are so many great areas still here. Keep enjoying TH-cam until you come 🤗💜🤗
@@lisalee2885 🙂 Yes Lisa, being able to see these amazing movies is nice. I only just found these & they are so interesting & fun to watch.
It's hard to find videos from the 30s or 40s of residential neighborhoods. It's always downtown or tourist attractions. This is great! Been looking for something like this.
Thx!! 👍
I Wish the movie studios had spent more time driving around So Calif back in the 30's and 40's filming all the farms, orange groves and open land before it was all lost to development. I hope some day a realistic VR game will be developed to recreate what So Calif looked like back in the day.
Damn this looks clear, it’s like someone took an iPhone, went back to the 1940’s, recorded this video and came back to the present and uploaded it.
If they really want high quality they would have used a Samsung phone.
It is called AI. Literally it was upscaled and cleaned up and the computer even adds color basically.
@@BFKAnthony817 Still it’s impressive
@@SinisterServal Yep, the closest thing we have to a time machine is TH-cam.
Thank you for the incredibly detailed images, Mr Nass; these shorts are the best I've seen. Thank you for the memories; I just subscribed to your channel.
This was super fascinating, I sat here in awe watching this. Thank you for the vids!
Thx!! 👍
So clean, neat, and manicured. It looks like a movie set, but it was real life. Beautiful!
yes i agree...i love the concrete driveways and curbing...and streets are so beautiful...homes are just beautiful...i do wonder what year pictures were taken..
@@loaferlover From looking at the cars, I’d say it was 1948.
My dad's childhood home is in this video. He said the movie studios regularly filmed this area for stock footage, so you're not wrong about it looking like a movie set.
It still looks very similar today you can go visit. It’s the suburbs of LA.
Hardly any cars. I guess back then they actually put them in the garage as opposed to now with the garage full of junk and the cars in the drive way.
Or maybe there was nothing to do back then in the house so they went out. Like these days you can survive entertainment off of anything in your home so you see a pile of cars.
@@Dance_Party Cars were also more expensive and not attainable, so the average family only had one car. Now it's not uncommon for families to have 3 or more cars.
Most people didn't actually own cars, if they did, they had one, and it was much smaller and could fit in the garage. A modern card wouldn't fit down the driveway into the garage in the back. I know b/c I live in one of these houses. A mini might make it...
@@e.m8805 Cars were bigger back then.
I didn’t see one broken 40oz bottle of malt liquor anywhere! 😂
No hookers, pimps, drug dealers or bums either lol.
Notice how nice most of the homes and yards were as well
@Jose don't blame capitalism on people's nastiest and lack of morals that's their boomer parents fault. They should have aborted
The old America isn’t over, it just doesn’t exist in Demoncratic ran city’s and states anymore because the law abiding, tax paying citizens are tired of footing the bill for lazy lowlifes that feel entitled to everything, what that city is made up of now. The Demoncrats will not be satisfied until our great nation is that of a third world country. Look at every city that’s ran by Demoncrats. They’re sh*thole city’s with crime through the roof and homeless at an all time high. Can’t drink the water and people are sh*tting in the same streets that they sleep. Let’s add millions of refugees to that pile of scholars and it will make our country so much better. Everything for free it’s like magic! Bunch of knuckleheads🖕😂
@Jose always blaming others ...
Wow. This looks like my neighborhood now! That's crazy to see how little has changed over the decades. Even the black lines all over the road where they repaired the cracks are just like that today.
80 years from now, people will look at videos of us now and say, "I wish I could go back to those times and just look around."
The question is 'How will L.A. look 80 years from now?'
No they won't.....
To a certain degree, yes, but what’s here to look at right now isn’t as interesting as what was here decades before.
@@kbs1212 it's all relative. They would have said the same thing in 1940 as well.
@@tammyw.5781 You must have been hit with the dumb branch when you were born. Actually, I take that back. You got hit with the dumb forest.
Crazy that they had those Google vehicles mapping roads even back then
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You stupid there whas no Google or internet in that time
@@miketerbrake7358 Well good thing there is today because you should google "sarcasm"
@@wendysremix Or even just "joke"
It looks exactly like this today minus the vintage cars and telephone poles. Mind blowing.
& BG buildings. Clear skyline is odd!
Eddie L, do you think this will look the same in 100 years from now or 50 years ?
@@elserrano1969 - More development but many of the vintage homes will be there 50 years from now my guess. Those old homes were built to last.
What are you smoking? Government roads are godawful now, especially in california. The government roads in the video looked almost pristine.
@@KA-vs7nl - they look pristine because the population then was much smaller than today and as a a result less vehicles on the road. The roads were not over used that contribute to wear and tear.
Being able to capture just a small moment in time is so priceless, we take it for granted everyday. Even a video just filming the streets of burbank 80 some years ago is so amazing to Me. Simply because at some point in this crazy messed up time line that we're all in right now, that was the present, even if merely for a moment... It's beautiful
WOW! Thank you for taking the time to do this. Amazing
It amazes me that so many of the streets are lined with trees where not too long before that time it was semi-desert.
Ahh the days when you didn't have to lock your door at night and didn't have to worry about someone breaking into your detached garage.
So America isn't GREAT again yet?? Hahaha
There's no such thing as original sin. Yes, even one life time ago.
You should read some of the Raymond Chandler novels from this era. He writes about what a dirty, nasty city LA is, with thugs and cheats and scoundrels seemingly hiding in every alley and around every corner. Of course, it was fiction. But romanticizing the past is a dangerous road to go down. People have been doing it for millennia, but in general, most things have gotten better, not worse.
@@GlennC789 Not one used syringe or filthy tarp to be found. Things aren't better today.
@@RW4X4X3006 You still had crime back then that’s equivalent to what’s going on today, there’s nothing new under the sun.
CAN'T WAIT TILL VIRTUAL REALITY GETS MAINSTREAM AND THESE VIDEOS CAN HELP US FEEL WHAT ITS LIKE GOING AROUND A NEIGHBORHOOD BACK IN TIME
I played this at 0.5x speed (bicycle) and there's more details to pick out. In the last 90 seconds I spotted many roof mounted TV antennas for a video that has 1940's in its title.
@@cascade5682 Those are tv antennas. Put down the pipe and edibles.
And in those days we wanted to go back in time to a better life.
Life is a pain in the ass all the time🤔
@@cascade5682 Roof mounted TV antennas ought make a big time comeback as greedy cable TV is getting it's cord righteously cut! And ground antennas (both indoor and outdoor) just simply don't receive well enough if you live in a dead zone. I speak from experience. I have never had cable TV in my life while living alone. Nor will I ever! If my on-air TV has nothing good on at the moment, I watch TH-cam over my cellular internet, with help from my #WeBoost "Eqo" cell signal booster. Unfortunately, where I live, I can only mount it on the ground. But it still helps! I quit CoNcast home internet in 2015, never to return!
I Wish the movie studios had spent more time driving around So Calif back in the 30's and 40's filming all the farms, orange groves and open land before it was all lost to development. I hope some day a realistic VR game will be developed to recreate what So Calif looked like back in the day.
So awesome! Hope you can do more of these video's! Time travel is real watching these!
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This area looked similar to my neiborhood in Long Beach CA where I lived from 1960 to 1964. I remember this time in California well. I rode my bicycle for miles from home without any fear at all. This was the best time to be a boy growing up.
Lost America 🇺🇸💔 look how neat everything is: lawns, yards, homes, streets. So beautiful
I guarantee you this neighborhood is just as beautiful and well-maintained today
@@Uaarkson you guarantee? Lol. Sorry but it's not.
@@bigjoe330 It is, but it ain’t cheap.
@@Uaarkson It's definitely not, the streets are in terrible condition and a lot of the grass is dead. You can look for yourself on google earth street view, another person commented the locations above.
@@bigjoe330 I found it on Google Maps. Looks basically just as nice.
On the original B&W video, "doubleueyett" posted the route as being:
"The driver starts out on N. California St close to Magnolia. The Food Mart is where the DIY center is currently located. They head south and make a right on W. Clark Ave, left on N. Lima and finally a right on W. Verdugo Ave. ending at N. Whitnall Hwy. Both clips are the exact same route, but the second one has a different view."
I checked it out and it is the route. Pretty cool to see most of the homes still there today.
Would be nice for people to see what simple life really looks like! Very peaceful.
1940s America. Peaceful?
I mean not even close man
@@deandarvin553 compared to everywhere else ???? You know there was a world war going on lol American was nice and cozy on the other side of the world so yes I would say nice and peaceful
@@lonemaus562 Not like an entire generation was traumatized without proper mental healthcare or anything. Nope. Absolutely no consequences from that!
WWII was just a cakewalk for the US /s
@@lonemaus562 That's a bit of a stretch given that this video was taken mid day when most people were at work. Most streets would view the same way in any city.
@@deandarvin553 Hardly. How can you even say such a thing with all that the US lost in human lives? My dad was in the Pacific and what he described to me, now I understand why he never talked about it, the horrors of it. People back here at home had no clue of the horrific realities that played out overseas.
I love old america more than new america, specialy Califórnia
It seemed to really start going wrong in the 1980's.
@@CarbageMan Reagan happened. 🙄
@@CarbageMan I'd almost say 70s with the gas crisis
@Eduardo Montanhamia Yep when California was a Republican State..
Yeah there wasn’t us minorities their. Am I right?
From the time when America was a Great, Proud , Hard Working nation. I was fortunate enough to born in the mid 50's & enjoy some of the greatness of our country. Not so much any more.
These vids are insane bro
thx!!! 🙏
Dutch Elm Disease was heading west and about to hit Detroit. California still had a few more years, but the day was fast approaching when it would lose these trees. Nice video, love the vintage vehicles and white picket fences.
Note the miniscule trash cans-nowadays people put out half a dumpster.
Yeah, plus recycle can, debris can. We consume a lot of crap.
The lifestyle of excess came a little bit later, in 50s and 60s.
That was the first thing I noticed too-- we throw away a lot more now than they did back then, an interesting and rather disturbing revelation...
My 1946 house in Sherman Oaks had the small original incinerator in the back when i bought it. People use to burn their trash!
@@frenchustube Interesting point, I had forgotten about that.
This makes me feel like a time traveler.
As a Trekkie, I get a vicarious thrill from it!🖖🏿😹
perhaps we'll all be able to step into a real simulator soon...and experience the streets of 1950s LA in person 😊
Wow! The the added color and clarity of the picture really adds life to this!
I grew up near Burbank and know the area well, the residential neighborhood looks the same, it's the surrounding area outside the neighborhood that has changed.
How?
@@daleandrews3552 Well, for starters there's a mall and lots of shopping that didn't used to be there.
I was born in Glendale in 1948 and lived in Burbank, east of Glenoaks in the 70's. My Mom lived in Glendale then Burbank until she passed about 5 years ago. I know the city pretty well but don't recognize any of these streets. Anyone know where this is? Would be cool to compare then and now using Street View.
@@wayned1807 It looks like Sun Valley/ Sunland right before Burbank. I had a friend live there and I remember the wide streets.
No its not Sun Valley, it is at the start of the film, on California st facing North toward Magnolia Ave (the Magnolia Theater was on the left corner) traveling south to the next street Clark Ave. (I lived at 2610 Clark Ave, a few shortblocks to the left.) turning right the vacant lot is Verdugo Park now and the swimming pool at the end of the block. Over one block on Clark Ave then left on Lima st. Avon st and the alley turn converge into Lima. Turn right on Verdugo Ave. Next right is Whitnall Highway. End.
So as it turns out Burbank looks different after all.
You know the big green dome on Hollywood Way by the Air port..? That dome is right on top of the exact spot my family's home was at. I lived there till 7th grade, then we moved to 2610 Clark Ave. LOL.. LOL Burbank looks way different. Good or bad I think it's all in the eye of the beholder.
What I learned is I should read the comments, I actually thought I was the one who ID where the streets were. I am not sure about the autos I am glad to know. I am 73 now. You know you younger people are not wrong it probably does look the same.
Do you want to trade..? I am tired of being 73....LOL
I'm a former Burbank resident and still live just a stone's throw away. I'd wager that most of the unassuming little houses you see in this clip are still standing. Of course now, they sell for 4-5 times what they would in other parts of the country.
IN 80'S THOSE HOUSES WERE GOING FOR $80,000
TODAY THEIR OVER 1 MILLION DOLLARS
I lived over on Keystone St. Between Alameda Ave and Oak St.
The house was built in June of 1941. My mom and dad bought it that month for approximately $5,000.
Over the next 58 years they added a bdrm, den .5 bath and remodeled the kitchen. After my parents passed away, we sold it for $320,000 in 1999.
Last September (2020), it was sold for $1,005,000.
That's right. An 80 year old house with NO POOL sold for over $1,000,000. JEEEZ!
@@spiff8862 i would love to move there and own a house. I worked my whole life i'm single, and now in 55 and lucky to afford a crap apartment. Never could afford a car ever so i'm stuck alone in a crap place. And now they tearing up everything to build $2000 a month apartments i can barely afford a $600 one. I been working my whole life for nothing to live like crap. And prices go up everyday and make it worse.. I have no idea how people can live like that unless you are a moviestar or drugdealer..
@@kensims4086 You're 55 and could never afford a car? Are you serious? What have you been doing with your life and what have you been blowing money on?
@@spiff8862 in 1980 I bought a house on Keystone between Oak and Alameda for $74,000 3 years latter $260,000.
My GT-500, 2014 cost more.
I chose the road of " A rolling stone never gathers any moss = no pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of"..... I wish I was joking.
This is when we had our real America. And I would love to go back in time to see and live again that great Decade.
Real America? Ewww idk about that
Except for the vintage cars, a lot of streets in Southern California still look exactly like this. Check out Riverside south of downtown (magnolia ave).
This neighborhood still looks like this today lol you can go visit. I lived in a 1928 Spanish bungalow for years.
Wow! Everything looked so clean, no trash, no homeless ppl, no graffiti.
Yes back then America made the sofas, cars, dishwashers, etc.
No shit, they're driving around the suburbs. If they shows you downtown LA in the 40s it would be a very different story.
These same neighborhoods still look like this today lol it’s the suburbs.
let's make racism cool again!
i'm joking lol
No democrats.
One thing that stood out the most is how few cars were parked on the street. Probably because everyone owned one car at most back then
Clean like it should be. Sad what southern California has become now.
Cuz it was white
Orange County is clean. Lol
Burbank still looks like this
@@manager4409 what do you want 2 say, White means clean ? FYI the cleanest cities are in asia not in europe. Get out of your bigoted mentality
@@edmonddupris8422 you seem to have a very insular view. Is that the only asian country genius ? What about Japan, Singapore, Russia.. the list goes on.
Some say, best American life is 40's post war, 50's till 60's. Hard work but very well people n life.
That's what I've heard. I'm not American, was born in 80's.
If you were a white heterosexual male it was pretty good. Female, hm a bit less, black? Tough luck, gay? Forget it.
@@Blackadder75 Yes / you are quite right.
@@Blackadder75 Hispanic male here, I would take the prejudices to see the old world, it was beautiful, now everything is crackhead territory. So much for equality, probably equal living in trash. Also there were many gay communities, more prejudice true, but still there were movements, and not the toxic ones we see today. People have their rights and they continue to fight for nothing.
@@Dance_Party hello - American here who has lived next door to almost everyone at some point in my life - pride in yourself, personal responsibility, much less drug dependency..... forget about what you look like, values is what I miss....
no air conditioning. no other stuff. But mainly no air conditioning. In September it's hot. Back then too.
Increíble... what a great piece of art... On the other hand, I'd love to live in Burbank in those days
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Burbank is still very much like this.
I'm amazed that the buildings still look so modern until today
Nass...I love what you're doing! It brings to life the days we think of in black and white. I can watch these all day, keep up the good work!
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And that’s kinda like what it was like. Unfortunately, there are so few who will remember wonderful it was. Life was simple, meaningful, and rewarding. Forget it, it’s gone forever.
Every one of these videos has this predictable comment. It's like this NOW. A drive through a placid suburb? Come on. I did a drive just like this three days ago. If your life lacks both reward and meaning because there's a couple more cars parked on the street than in 1940, that's on you, bub.
@@EV-wp1fj Exactly.
I remember 😁 I'm 56 now...it was beautiful and you could walk for miles or go to Hollywood Bowl...loved it 💜💜💜
@@EV-wp1fj I see you don't care for aesthetics or art. The most trivial of features can have a profound impact when looking at the whole picture.
@@EV-wp1fj Naw - The difference today is the effect of the population bomb. You would have to be pretty blind not to see that.
I'm a kit house enthusiast and I recognize a lot of these homes, they are from Sears and Pacific Ready Cut
My dad just excitedly told us, "That was my family car! And my childhood home!" We also learned a few new things we'd never heard thanks to memories being reignited by this beautiful trip down his childhood lanes.
This is the post war years after WWII. It seems like the tail end of the 40s or beginning of the 50s. My dad tells me about similar areas like this where he grew up in ELA from the 30s to early 60s, before it became predominantly hispanic. One area was known as Lan Franco in the late 30s to early or mid 40s, and another El Sereno sometime in the 40s. It was absolutely nothing like it is today and since the early 60s when it started going to the dogs. It was multicultural but in a good way, and everyone was proud to be American, kept up their small homes and front lawns, and worked very hard. Those places are slums and very dangerous at night. Sad to see how hardly anything changes for the better, always for the worst. But I've been to some neighborhoods that still look like this today! There are a few in Paso Robles and at least one or more in San Dimas. Amazing little towns with original homes in clean, safe neighborhoods. SoCal is not all bad but it's unfortunately rare to find nice, clean neighborhoods with old homes like the ones shown in this video.
South Pasadena, Glendora, La Verne, Upland…. There’s actually quite a few smaller cities that are still pretty close to the original state.
The route from El Sereno into Alhambra must’ve been gorgeous! A lot of those areas are still beautiful but unfortunately they’ve seen better days.
It's truly amazing the technology we have today where we can take an old grainy video with little life to it and transform it into this.
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What really stands out to me is the incredibly neat appearance. There is no trash, all the homes and lawns are very well cared for, it looks like real American middle class pride. Compare it to today... Someone, please tell me WTF happened?
Its just because its all new! Hasnt had time to mature!
Looks like a fairly new Neighborhood to me.
libtardism...
Burbank still looks great now...stop whining....
we all know
A time when people took responsibility, even the trash cans are tidy.
FWIW, Burbank is still one of the tidiest cities I have ever lived in. Most of the residential streets (I live on one) are still just as nice.
Actually, littering was far more of a problem in the 1940s than it is today. So big of a problem that in 1956 they finally launched anti-littering PSAs. While tossing garbage onto the sidewalks and public parks is taboo now, it wasn't back then. I've spent most of my adult life living in Europe where litter on the streets is commonplace in places like Italy and Greece precisely because the generations didn't grow up with the same conditioning.
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Mate you’re gonna dislodge the OP’s rose tinted glasses!
You’re right OP, modern life is rubbish and everything was better before you were born.
It’s just a coincidence that everything became awful when you turned up!
@@posysdogovych2065 ^^ Good post. It's annoying when people blindly glorify the past without first doing research.
I see a few art deco houses here. Pretty neat.
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I didn't notice any what's the time stamp so I can go back and see them 😁
And Craftsman style was everywhere as well, along with the Spanish hacienda style of course. Stucco city. Looks inviting, this neighborhood. Back when one could go on a stroll even later at night and not worry about a thing.
@@daleandrews3552 there are a few craftsman houses where I live too. Pretty neat.
Our family moved to 726 Maple St in Burbank in either 1942 or 43. I was 3 or 4 years old. Then when I was in the middle of the 3rd grade we moved to 620 Keystone. I went to Roosevelt and Lincoln grammer schools, Jordan Jr High and then to Burroughs. Graduating class of Summer of 1957. I remember Burbank as a great place to grow up. Dances at the Olive Recreation Center. Great swimming pools. The Pickwick Swim Park was the place to hang out. I would go back in a heartbeat.
Thankyou so much for putting this up. I am checking our family photos to see if you drove past my granddad's house! Thankyou.
I m surprised how good quality filmed those days
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"Beautiful downtown Burbank," Gary Owens would say on "Laugh-In" back in the '60s - and it does look beautiful here, with streets and sidewalks nearly spotless, lawns and hedges well manicured, and neat-looking houses, some in Mission or Art Deco styles. I wonder what these streets look like today?
@@stoneplaysstone5974 Thanks for letting us know!
It hasn't changed much at all. Aside from basic modifications (yard fences and such) most of those properties are intact.
I lived in this area until 2005. For the most part everything was very well-kept until I left. The houses seen in this video are now selling for a million dollars, so if you're able to afford that, you want to make it look nice as you can. When the houses were we built new, they were affordable to more average people.
There's a lot more vegetation, trees are bigger, etc. I followed the video's path on Google and most of the homes are virtually the same, but a lot are more hidden by trees.
If it weren’t for the cars it would look like a movie shot a month ago!!
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"...shot a month ago!" well, not really. Look again at the sky in this film clip. Today, the air is much cleaner. Remember, most houses came with an incinerator in our back yards and we burned the trash almost everyday causing that infamous brown haze...
@@rwfetterman2546 Seriously. As a nice counterpoint to all the "there were no drug-crazed homeless and libturd politicians letting them rob and rape anyone back then!" comments, let me say you should watch the similar "restored" video of downtown LA to see how the air was almost opaque back then. Yes, as early as the '40s people were starting to notice air pollution in LA.
This is what San Jose looked like when I was a little boy. I grew up in San Jose in time to see San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley destroyed.
The Black and Mexican invasion you are referring to.
@@oveidasinclair982 No. I am referring to the orchards and farms that were destroyed and replaced by concrete, asphalt, and traffic congestion.
@@oveidasinclair982 In case you haven't noticed, black population is on the decline in CA since at least 20 years ago. There s no "black invasion" in CA.
@@malcorub there was one, but the illegals from Mexico and Central America pretty much started running them out in the late 90's
Yeah, I grew up in Los Gatos in the 60,s. There were still pockets of orchards around. Remember the Frontier Village amusment park in San Jose? I left in 1975 when I joined the Navy and went back to look around about 20 yrs ago. It had totally changed into a suburban nightmare. Cant imagine what it looks like now.
Having lived in this neighborhood for almost 40 years I love seeing what it looked like 80 years ago! Thanks for posting and bringing it to life with color.
This is GOLD în these days
When people had respect, self dignity and lived clean life. Leave keys in car and front door unlocked without fear.
I am not sure that time ever existed. Sometimes, we view the past through a less critical lens.
@@cheema33 pfff all anyone wants to talk about today are the negative parts of history, its just a way to make excuses for certain individuals and their unwillingness to contribute anything of value
It surprises me how many cars and houses with a garage for a car there were in the 1940-s. Here in the Netherlands there were 8 privately owned cars in every 1000 people in 1948.
Europe was, and still IS today, much backwards compared to USA. Today the situation is even worst, we are in totally dramatic regression... Europe is becoming a s#!th0le
Jeroen- Good observation! However this film is suburban southern California. Footage taken at the same time in the Eastern US , (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey) would reveal much fewer cars per-capita. Not on a scale of the Netherlands, but nothing like Southern California!
I find it eerie to see these old videos in high quality. All these people going about their day in 1940's CA immortalized on film. I always wonder who they were, where they were driving to... Everything looks very familiar to a suburb today except for how the vehicles look and how calm the roads are.
This reproduces film has amazing clarity! The driver must have had plenty of experience as there wasn't any noticeable changes in speed or rapid panning. I was born in L.A. a couple decades later, but it is still fascinating footage, especially the nearly uniform cleanliness and manicured yards. I'm hooked and subscribed!
Fun fact: This was the beginning of Google Maps.
I don’t buy it.
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This would be late 40's based upon the Ford pickup at :11, could even be 1950, 1951. I lived in No Hollywood = 1 mile away, 1982-1990. Burbank was very nice, sleepy, very clean. I could not place the "X" intersection at 3:40, though it could be Burbank and Victory. Lockheed was probably the largest employer, but there were at least 2000 small businesses surrounding Lockheed doing all manner of metalwork, deburring, etc; I am sure the unemployment rate back then was zero. Indeed, the area around Burbank airport was actually called Lockheed in the 20's. The Burbank airport was an absolute joy to deal with, you could drop off a pax and they could buy a ticket and be on the plane in under 10 minutes. Pre 9/11, or course.
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My dad owned one of those businesses into the 70s, on North Victory Place, just north of The Dip. He did centerless grinding (fastener manufacturing). The building is still there.
I can almost imagine myself with an almost perfect grasp of how it was like walking those streets. Almost like today but with different a car shape and different current event.
This is amazing! In color at 60 FPS it's like someone went back in a time machine and recorded it with a smartphone 😱
I wish they recorded more of these in the 1940s I would watch hours of it
Thanks James for the street identification sequence. I love comparing these types of videos with Street View on GoogleEarth.
Google Street View has been around for a lot longer than I realized...
I love how cities were so well planned. No wonder current generation is moving to new and old suburbs from packed cities. Great video, thanks.
Such beautiful landscaped yards!!
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I like how garages were behind the house, instead of in-your-face arrangements; later here I see some on the side...still like them further back...
Very impressive clean and lovely looking.
Bet it’s not like that now.
Se ve todo tan nítido, tan real; es como si lo hubieran filmado ayer. Ellos ignoraban por completo lo que estaba por venir, como nosotros ignoramos por completo lo que está por venir.
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Yo me crie en Burbank...era muy bonito...el clima, los jardines, las escuelas.. la jente era muy amable...aqui filmaban muchas peliculas y shows...otros tiempos.
A Mixture of House Styles. I love this!
The newest car I saw was a 49 Pontiac, so I guess that's the date. Does it still look like this today?No wonder people wanted to go to CA back then. Not so much today, I think.
Raised in San Fernando California from 1944 until I moved to Wisconsin in 1967. Born NOV 28 1942 in Ajo (garlic in Spanish).
Southern California was paradise when I was young. My maternal grandfather helped settle the north end of the San Fernando valley. He was an Italian immigrant as were most of his friends. They worked their asses off and prospered. My grandfather owned a plumbing company, they all bought land. Even back then the towns melded together. San Fernando, Burbank, panorama city, Glendale, sylmar, pacoima and so on south down the length of California you had the deserts, mountains and the Pacific Ocean within a few hours drive. Then there was Hollywood, the film Capitol of the world as it is today. I went to high school with Richie Valenze, disneys Mickey Mouse club was made up of mostly Hollywood and valley kids. Some went on to lasting fame. I met Annette Funicello and Lassies owner and trainer Rudd Weatherwax. I went to military school with his son Robert who at that time was a heroine addict but I have seen pictures of him recently and he is now in charge of training movie dogs and seemed squared away. I met Jay Silverheels and Roy Rogers while I was in military school. JAy Silverheels was the Lone Rangers side kick. So cal was all it was cracked up to be.
Burbank has preserved well, many residential neighborhoods in Burbank still look like this.