The streets of Los Angeles in the 1940s
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- Remastered clips showing Los Angeles in the 1940s. First some scenes in the city and later at a port.
Can you identify where exactly the original footage is from?
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The video has been restored and colorized using state-of-the-art machine learning methods.
The restoration steps included:
- motion stabilization
- noise reduction
- colorization
- frame interpolation for increased FPS
- upscaling to 4K
- adding ambient sound
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You may think that somebody thought filming this was such a stupid idea and a waste of film at the time but look how precious and valuable it is now.
The person who shot is dead long time ago before it was recognized lol
@@sebastian3004 What could have been his thinking when he shot it? Something like, "Hey I have an idea, I'm going to make some street shots for no reason whatsoever.", or did he have a purpose for the people of the future like us? lol
I can’t get enough of this type of video.
@@jcv71 it was probably for B-role footage in films, like for transitions. Like when at the start of a scene it shows a city before cutting to the actors inside a room to say "Hey this scene takes place in a city".
@@thatdsiguy8919Maybe you are right
And maybe you are wrong 😂
Legend has it that guy is still trying to drive away at 1:40
He is still trying to get a feel of the clutch !
God Damn it. I was going to make this exact comment.
@@MrGittz 👍
Yeah. What was that guy doing? I thought for sure he was signaling with his arm to pull out. But typical L.A. drivers weren't letting him out.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
My mother grew up in Los Angeles in the 1940s and early 1950s. Her parents bought a home in the suburbs in 1954 when she was in high school.
I used to send videos like this to my mother for her to enjoy; unfortunately these days she's in a memory care home. In her mind she's still in southern California back in those times....
Im sorry to hear that. :(
I know that is not the right video, but I hope she is still doing well apart from her memory.
I am 85 and the memory is getting slower but lucky enough to remember a lot of this I was raised in the Seattle area.
@@ireneeickenhorst2326god bless Irene.
Alles Gute deiner Mama soll sie noch lange leben gruß aus old germany cologne ❤
Hoffe das es deiner Mama gut geht gruß aus old germany cologne ❤
Closest thing to a time machine.
Legend has it that the guy in the pickup at 2:00 is still waiting to pull out into traffic.
Wow...I thought it was just waiting for him to pull out..lmao!!!
I was thinking some of those car could have been kind and let the poor guy out, but they were all pricks. 🤨
He lived a good life on that curb. An uneventful life though.
It’s so crystal clear! It’s almost looks like a live stream! Well done on the film restoration!
I think they used AI To bring this back🤔
What load of crap. The computer colourisation is is hideous.
@@ace_money3488 me too. It looks so unreal
@@here1994 subscribe thanks 👍
Yes, but colours are messed up.
Amazing how adding color makes the scene and people so much more real.
Yes! It wasn't all black and white like I imagined it when I was little!
@@angels.1778 🙂
Whenever I see people walking or talking to someone else in these videos I imagine that they continue on with their day as if it were happening at this very moment. That's the beauty of these videos. Even though this time came and went decades and decades ago. Kinda hard to explain.
hello.....they're dead....don't worry though, it's just the beginning, for believers in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!!!
Yeah, I do too. As if life were an endless continuum. Einstein taught us that nothing is static, every aspect of the world is in constant movement, perhaps these people are stuck in the dimensions of time.
Is that Beavis or Buthead?
I can't remember
@Terence O'Neil I only believe in God. All those Semitic middle eastern and eastern religious scare me and they all say that they are the only way. Seems very cultists, exceptionalist, my way or no way, special initiation, my religion is miraculous the rest are demon magic, freemasonish mind control to me.
@@terenceoneil7670 They're dead? 🤔
No shit Sherlock!
To answer many questions I've seen here.
- Some of this footage was shot in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles probably in the spring of 1948. Notice the billboard at 0:07 for RCA TV sets that features a boxing donkey and elephant. It's reference to a current event - the 1948 California primary election. The Billboard says "Pick a *Sure* winner!"... meaning an RCA TV set.
-Circa 1890 this was a posh neighborhood. By 1948 this was a crummy down on your luck neighborhood. The Victorian mansions had been chopped up into crummy, depressing apartments and piss smelling hotels. Raymond Chandler used this neighborhood in his novels as a depressing setting for depressing, dipso characters. So don't feel nostalgic about this good old neighborhood.
-The old buildings were torn down and the hills were graded down and in the 60's so you can't go there now.
-This is not video; it's 35mm black and white film, that's been colorized. Old 35mm film had better resolution than HD video has today.
-This was done by a Hollywood studio for use in a theatrical movie.
-This footage is still around because studios sold this kind of footage to stock footage libraries that cheapo movie and TV studios could buy and re-use later on.
-This kind of footage was used in the studio to make it look like actors were driving around. They were actually in the studio inside a mocked up car. This type of "plate" footage was played on rear projection screens outside of the mocked up car windows to make it look like passing scenery.
-At least some of the Bunker Hill footage was shot for driving scenes in the 1949 movie *Shockproof* - filmed June 28 to August 9,1948. This plate footage was undoubtedly shot somewhat before the primary footage. So I'm guessing this was May or early June 1948.
th-cam.com/video/22WsOVu8bd8/w-d-xo.html
There's much more *Shockproof* footage elsewhere.
Other footage is from other Hollywood movies, also used for driving scenes. The section starting at 4:17... Other people have said is Terminal Island - The Port of Long Beach, which I think is good info. The license plates say California 1942 and the "A" and "B" stickers on the windshields tell you what kind of gas rationing card the owner had. An “A” card/sticker allowed the car owner to purchase about 4 gallons of gas each week. If you were employed in a factory that supported the war effort, you were issued a “B” card; good for 8 gallons a week.
Thanks for the details 🙂
@@paulkremastiotis6296 More *Shockproof* footage here:
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Compare:
0:45 of *that* video, and...
th-cam.com/video/22WsOVu8bd8/w-d-xo.html
...of *Shockproof*
We also see the RCA Victor TV billboard from another angle at 4:25 in *that* video, and later the Keswick Hotel.
I liked the different styles of the autos all manufactured in the good USA. Thks. for the memories.
Thanks for the information. 👍
I miss film. The HD stuff is overrated to me & all looks bland & the same to me. Film had its own character imo but what do I know
I always wonder who the people we see on the street were, what their life stories were, and what became of them. Case in point, the older woman walking at 00:25 in a stooped manner.
you and me both. i love this old footage but always a little frustrated wanting to know who they were, what kind of lives they had, what became of them, etc.
to me "common folk" like this have always been far more interesting than celebrities and whatnot.
@@NoirL.A. yeah each one of us and our lives are so precious and interesting for future generations to contemplate.
Most are now dead. 💀 ⚰️
Pretty sure no different than today. Except they had a major world war just around the corner. Most obviously they've all passed on with a few exceptions for any young school age children.
sao pessoas de um cotidiano como hoje só que no passado
None of these people walking around would never have been able to think that they would be immortalized in this film.
Well all that ship building and manufacturing has been off shored, thanks to the career criminal politicians being paid off to do so and our brilliant business leaders selling out.
I'm kinda glad it was. Look up videos of India and other countries were the ships go to be recycled. The ocean is polluted, the land is dangerous to live on due to all the chemicals. I can only imagine how trashed America would be if we ever take on the job of recycling waste. ♻️ Even industrial mining and metal manufacturing ruins a country.
Usually Scheming Aristocrats 🙄
I can almost feel the ocean air and smell it. There was always the change in the air when we would get near the beach.
U.S IS MADE IN CHINA
And thanks to uninhibited capitalism! They would sell you to make a buck if they thought they could get away with it
I really enjoy the fashion and music of the 1940s and 1950s so this is really nice to see a glimpse of life back then 😊
White America was a great America
I'd wear a suit and tie and hat every day with clothes cut like those
And the racist and animosity was very fashionable too
@@PeachBlossomHoney . As American becomes less the the more it becomes a 3rd world toilet
@@PeachBlossomHoney not that different to modern day expect people were less clued up on the bad side of racism
It's like being transported in a time machine, and looking at the past, excellent, thank you.
It’s mind-blowing how much building only fifty years from the Wild West. And what an amazing time and place to have lived.
Man, look at all those classic vehicles. Nice job, the color really brings out the watchability.
Thank you :)
Much more better looking than today's cars or trucks.
When the chrome was thick and the men were.........
Goodness me, it's so refreshing to see historic footage without the typical background music of that era accompanied by an old documentary voice.
Simply amazing. I remember being there and how you’ve made it look like the present is exactly how all times were. You see we have been brought up thinking that history is what they show us in documentaries with old footage and the style and entertainment but it wasn’t. It was people making it through another day. I could just hug those people.
Can you explain a lil more in depth about what we been taught about history?.
How do they do this videos ?
Are those videos faked. I love them
@@ingridramirez4436 Yeah all CGI.
@@garyfrancis6193 I am sorry for my ignorance. What is that?
@@ingridramirez4436 CGI= Computer Graphic Image. They are typically in movies. This video is not fake. It's colorized and "cleaned" to make it look so vivid.
Notice how clean everything is. People respected their city and didn't throw garbage all over. Now we have people who are selfish and won't take the 3 seconds it takes to throw away a wrapper.
Did they even have rotary phones back then yet?
A lot more packaging exists now. In the 40’s, people still wrapped their sandwiches in waxed paper 😅and reused anything they could in the way of containers. You didn’t have the amount of prepackaged, processed foods and snacks and material goods. I have a couple of those old, household tips booklets often given out as premiums by banks and the like. It is also like a Time Machine, creating a more intimate picture of the lives at home back then.
@@TheFrenchPug Technically, rotary phones were invented in the 1890s, but didn't really come on the scene for consumers until the 1920s. Then it was a gradual phase-in over many years, I'm sure.
@@jaysverrisson1536 Oh wow. Good history lesson.
The vast number of people living in LA at that time were pro American, patriotic, and dressed up in a more classic attire. They cared about how they dressed and how the streets looked. Unlike today, with people throwing everything from their car windows. These were Americans who were born here. They didn't treat the environment like 3rd world immigrants.
We will never find out if he was able to pull away...
Left arm just dangling..
The era I wish I was born in right after WW2 was a great time in the USA for families growing.
If you were a white male and didn't get drafted into Viet Nam being born between 1940 and 1950 and growing up in Southern California made you one of the luckiest humans to ever exist, past or future. I know, I'm one.
Plot twist you’re born in watts and black 😂😂
I am so glad that someone took the time and effort to make these old films. They are videos of unimportant and normal life in a bygone time that really show what normal life was like. Thanks for posting this.
This looks like it was shot just yesterday. Amazing restoration.
Thank you :)
@@vividhistory2092 my goodness.. no graffiti sprayed, or scribbled upon the walls, windows and buildings.. no groups of selfish minded, entitled ppl trying to intimidate others - is this really los angeles?
All the workers heading to their shift (or off shift) were working on Terminal Island in Long Beach. You can see the California Shipbuilding Corporation sign at 7:48. I spent a good year in the '70s on Terminal Island while my Navy ship was being overhauled. Long Beach was a shell of its former self. I remember seeing winos driving golf carts on downtown Long Beach streets, that's how sad it KINDA was. It was still great to be there, though. You could take a bus to L.A. to see concerts and hang out at music clubs. Good times
Yay I figured correctly then! I lived in LB for a while during the 80’s-90’s. Worked down at Matson and also regularly commuted through there between LB and other South Bay cities via the Vincent Thomas and Gerald Desmond bridges. I was just through there during the recent holiday season and the area is very changed. The GD bridge got a nice face lift and is now a bridge that one takes notice of. 👏
Do you call Terminal island the port of LB, as well as there is a Terminal island-LA? In my (non-local) opinion, the last movie was shot in Terminal island-LA along Dock street, wich now is smaller and has changed its name for New Dock street.
@@robingirard7768 yea confusing. It’s all referred to as World Port LA 👍🏻
i’m 22, i always like to ask when i have the chance. do you enjoy this time period more or a different time period and if so what specific decade you would say is you’re best/favorite that you’ve lived thorough
@@NickJThibault 1967 to 1977 is my favorite ten-year period
I couldn't help but notice how clean the streets were. No graffiti everywhere, people being courteous to each other, no drive by's like today simpler life gas was probably less than 20 cents a gallon. and no homeless people either. WOW ! 🕊️
People like to think it was paradise but you can see the heavy air pollution and the industries that contaminated ground water even to this day there are sites that are uninhabitable due to the pollution from that time.
Yeah no tent city and garbage.
did it ever occur to you that the film might be editied, that the cameraman chose to avoid some ugliness> i didn't think so.
This video is refreshing. The world went crazy in 1980.
@@franciscovasquez9781 you must not get the video? It's not about pollution? Today is way worse and the contaminated ground in Ohio. You must have been born in the 2000s. Go cut your grass.
The interpolation is incredible! Amazing to see how far frame blending has evolved.
I had never realized how most cars from the 1940's looked pretty much the same. Thank goodness the 1950's brought in new and very distinctive designs and colors that are now synonymous with the classic American automobile.
Except cars nowadays all look pretty much the same too, everyone has an SUV
@@WaverBoy car designs got very bland by the 1990's. SUV's today bore the heck out of me. Even high-end SUV's look pedestrian.
True. The 50s were a whole new decade. America was rich again. 🥰
I think reason 1940s cars looked so similar over those years is because there were no new cars made during the four World War II years of 1942 through 1945.
Cars today also look preatty much the same , only more boring looking compared with the 40s .
2:30: Legend has it that he's still waiting for traffic to clear so he can be on his way!
😄
I was in downtown LA just the other day, and I saw this hundred and something year old guy in a old AA Truck still waiting for a gap! I cut him by the way LOL.
@@crazyeightsize That was too easy. He was probably dead anyway.😄
@@tome7016 Just a skeleton, but still lookin' for someone to let him in. 😆
Realistically, The Guy In The Old Truck Probably Had A Dead Battery. And Was Waiting For A Longer Break In Traffic To Coast Out Into The Street, So He Could "Pop The Clutch" And Get The Engine Running Again. I've Done That LOTS Of Times With My Old Plymouth When The Old 6-Volt In It Wouldn't Start It. But You KIDS Probably Don't Even Know What A Clutch IS, Let Alone Be Able To Properly Drive One Of Those Classics...
Wow! Clean, no graffiti, and no animals running around!
Did you see a different video?
Right! I noticed the trash -everywhere- more than anything else
Thanks for uploading this film!
To think my parents were walking around L.A. when this was filmed. Crazy!
Man those cars were beautiful!
Some of the cars still have their wartime gas rationing decal on the windshield.
funny because Paul Hoffman Studebaker closed in 1937. Or so I'm told.
OMG, the video is so clear and the sound so perfect its like you're looking through a window!
Thank you :)
Exactly right
@@vividhistory2092 I agree. The post production work on this is really incredible! Give your editor a raise.
I’m shocked that the 1940s suburbs, roads, buildings, and palm trees look very modern as today. I didn’t know people in the 40s lived basically the same lifestyle as us except with tech ofc. Color really shows it all
Exactly but I was trying to explain to someone else. You can make this same video today. And make it look like fifty years ago. Especially if you do it on a sunday morning and you picked a right street to drive down.
NEWEST CARS SEEN, THIS FILM, 1948 FORD, 1948 PACKARD !
Yes, it seemed a bit too much rich and near from the current lifestyle
Than 1940 exact i mean. But wow imagine beeing americain from middle class in 40´s u can get your own big home. 2 cars. Full comfort, greatest period 33-73 for USA, 50 years building a new humanity
I will alaway be depressed about the fact that i will never never know a world as an normal american boy at 20 years old in 30' and seeing all his adulte life how much technologies and lifestyle has improve.
One of those cars looked very expensive for back then. Early on in the clip. Might have went for $1500 or so. Not sure what it was but it stood out.
I didn't see the '48 Packard. I saw 2 or 3 Clippers, which were no later than 1947, and could be pre-War.
Fascination stuff 👏👏Thank you for uploading ❤
Thank you :)
Man, look at the smog. I remember that, and the overhead trolley wires and loud rumble of trolleys in the downtown areas. Then the tide and waves out at the beach, and strawberry fresh cream pie at Coffee Dan's in Santa Monica.
I moved to LA in 1962. I rememeber the smog and the overhead trolly wires. The troly wires were gone by 1965 but the smog was still there.
Beautiful restoration and artistry in creating a kind of vividness with color that takes historic film into another dimension. I don't know how you do this but frame by frame very exacting work too. I suppose this took weeks to finish and thank you for opening a unique window to the world of our world.
I think it’s being accomplished using AI technology, so not the same frame by frame process as has been used in the past. Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong!
@@catherineromero1862 Hi Catherine! Thanks for your input as I'm so behind the times! Amazing with AI they can achieve this. You are abreast of the times!
It seems overly purple.
@@stevemorlock5366 Hi Steve! You have a good eye! I also noticed it seems there is a dusting of a rusty red over things, yet my mind replaces it with a hazy sun California smog day kind of effect maybe Vivid History created as a design decision . I somewhere read a comment that there is a form of artificial intelligence that colorizes old films like this so maybe an anomaly or intentional in whatever company created the AI program for this. I was thinking of the past times when maybe they did a restoration a frame at a time where now it might just be done with the push of a button. Also maybe the combined effect of daylight on black and the gradation effect where it gives a kind of tint of purple to black cars etc.
Yes, I use some AI software. However, some manual work is still involved depending on the footage as the quality of the results differ. Further, some work is required to make the colorization of the individual frames more consistent.
Great Footage! Great Job Colorizing and Upgrading the Footage!
Thanks for sharing with us, some incredibly cool things we've never seen.
I own a 38 Pontiac sivivor, its in my profile, every time i get in it, its a time machine to this prewar time frame for me... she turned 85 this year, i call her the blue lady
Thank you for keeping her alive. Happy birthday blue lady.
Some observations from a one-time Angelino (1962-68)
1. I was horrified at how bad the smog was.
2. I put the date between 1946 and mid-1948. In late 48 the 1949 models would have been out and there was nary a one. Some cars looked new and there weren't any new cars from 42-45.
3. Try to imaging driving in that traffic when no cars had turn signals and probably 25% had cable operated brakes!
Great video!
Clips may come from different times. One sign for a factory that workers were leaving was California Shipbuilding Corporation, which closed down in 1945.
They used hand signals in those days which has been forgotten.
Your videos make me happy, thank you! 😊👍
This was really interesting! Thanks for sharing!
This video makes me want to weep. I grew up there in the 60s. What a paradise. It's terrible what has happened to our once beautiful country. I retired and moved to the Philippines. It's great. No jerks.
Excellent very clear format footage 👍👍👍
Who was filming these things, and why? It’s just a camera bolted to a car and left to just roll as they drove? I’d love to know the purpose
And from where did Viviv history get them?
Thanks for sharing! This is amazing :^)
Also, did they record the sound or is it sound effects added later?
This was done by mobsters who were scoping the area for a quick getaway! It was baby-face nelson's great idea!!!
The sound is added later and not included in the source material. The source for this video is obtained from the internet archive.
These were usually shot and used as the background traveling footage in movies when the stars are being filmed inside a car, so it looks like they're really driving along. You would need to have different angles of the same stretch of road in case the interior car shots switched from head-on to side-shots, as when the actors were having a conversation. This is an example of the same effect in a modern movie: th-cam.com/video/ceTv7reQiR8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ChisengaPhiri
I never realized people were so cluttered when they drove. Did no one follow the lines in the street? They're all over the place
Doesn’t look like there were lanes and no traffic lights, there were probably many accidents, and driving on the freeways was extremely risky because of the lack of the center dividers.
@@franciscovasquez9781 kinda reminds me of videos I seen of street driving in India
@@b00mheadshot96 And imagene: no turn signals and 25% of the cars had cable operated brakes.
Legend has it, guy in the truck is still waiting to pull out.
Love the shape of American coupes from the late ‘30s to early ‘40s. Beautiful cars.
Absolutely were!
same they was so unique and just well-made, now cars are very boring
Me too exactly, the sloped down back with the split rear windows.
Video is so clear. Fantastic!
Thank you :)
I remember as a teenager riding the red car to work at the fish cannery. My dad used to get me on working nights cleaning the cannery This was in 1956. 57. What fun.unloaded the fish boats also.Last year 022 drove to San Pedro with my son and told him about the cannery's they are gone now and that was Part of California Gold. Rich Time in my life
Wow ! Did I just entered into a time travel machine ? So cool, I don't wan't to come back to the future !
So clean the buildings and the streets.... .love it! Awesome video
Is clean that's open to interpretation. Is in this particular area yes.
How beautiful, clean and cozy everything was!
I see trash and unkept areas
Legend has it that guy at the curb is still waiting to pull out into traffic.
At first I thought it was around the signal hill area,also looks like terminal island area in long beach or Port of Los Angeles, one thing is certain though, what you are looking at are the factories and left over materials used for the manufacture of war goods in WW2.
I didn’t realize such things existed. It makes sense as these films are of such a professional quality. Thanks.
Amazing video keep up the good work
4:26 So apparently lane markers were only a suggestion back then.
I thought for sure they were going to sideswipe each other! 😳
Aside from the cars it doesn’t look too much different…my great aunt and uncle were in Vaudeville and moved to Los Angeles in the 1920s to get work at the studios…they bought a bungalow there…my Aunt Jean used to fly out in the 50s in one of those tiny planes to visit them and they would go to Tijuana
2:17 legend has it, that man is still waiting for someone to let him pull out to this day
This must be about 1946. There is a billboard at the beginning advertising RCA TV sets and I doubt RCA was selling TV's during the war.
Someone else said there are some 1948 model year cars in this film.
Just love these vids ! Amazing thankyou see how beautiful LA was i want one of those old cars
Thank you :)
I saw the older lady walking alone... she no doubt was born in the 1800's... what story she must have to tell...
Well she lived through several world wars, revolutions, and a global pandemic for starters.
@@lincbond442and was not allowed to vote
Bless her. 🥰
@@60zeller Go drink your Bud Light!
Good video. Great use of the "hushing sound" instead of music. Thumbs up, subscribed.
Back when it was all built here. Way better quality back then… Thanks great video.
Thank you :)
The cars were crazy unreliable compared to today. Rebuilds at 30,000 miles were common. Brake failures were common. American cars began to improve when the Japanese cars arrived in the 1960s.
Who remembers this time yet you were not even born then? Like I love listening to OTR Old Time Radio programs from 30's on and ,always have since my 20's and as a kid the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre played in the car or on the radio at night was such great entertainment. Have a nostalgic affinity for Big Band Music even though I was not even a thought in my parents mind then. Have to wear thick rugged clothes the thin ones of today do not feel as sturdy.
Wow. This is really impressive. Technology bringing visuals back from old time.
It's incredible how different world It was.
Fascinating footage. Thanks!
WOW !!! SO CLEAR AND GREAT THANKS!!!!
Love the old cars .it was. A fun time I remember
この時代にこんな撮影✨
素晴らしい映像をありがとうございます。
本当にリスペクト🙌
I love these videos, so relaxing to watch. Is there any information you can post that lets us know locations?
It’s crazy to think a hitler ago there was no traffic in la
How Los Angeles had changed from this great footage to present day
to what it's become now
The video was well captured..thanks for sharing..it took me in a different world while watching this clip..this is more like 80 yrs ago.
This is an authentic historic document. Thank you for sharing.
The original Original Pantry restaurant, at 2:47/9:21 -- 9th and Francisco Streets, according to Wikipedia's article.
Yay I got that one correct as well! Thank you!
Bunker Hill. If you go to the location where Angels Flight is today, the little town existed west of the landmark. It is all gone today.
Ok thanks for that. I visited that area last summer and for once rode the fenicular. That confirms my guess 👍🏻
You can catch a glimpse of mid-century Bunker Hill in films like Cry Danger, Kiss Me Deadly, The Turning Point, Shockproof, Criss-Cross, The Exiles, M, Chicago Calling, and many others. Most of these are solid crime noirs and worth checking out.
In the early part of the video, the style (in general) is reminiscent of Art Deco, and those CARS - they're fabulous to look at!
Wow,looks great colorized,my dad was in his late teens-early 20’s and living in City Terrace at this time
God bless the alien who had the foresight to shoot this amazing footage once again
I was thinking that many of those stores are closed up and all those people are long gone. Sad.
Nobody gets out of here alive.
The children are in their late 70s and early 80s.
@@antoniahamilton3201 great phrase of the lizard king
@@antoniahamilton3201 No shit Sherlock💀
Extraordinary ! The vivid clarity is phenomenal . Was this footage filmed originally in B&W , and subsequently colorized ? And also I reckon vintage auto enthusiasts would cherish this imagery because there's a surfeit of riches for them here . I wonder if that motorist wanting to pull out from the curb ( 2:23 approx.) is still waiting ....... I've heard LA traffic is pretty bad !
I just became a Sub " your vintage videos are excellent "
Thank you "
Le premier film montre Flower street (rue de la Fleur) depuis la Cinquième rue direction nord. La voiture grimpe Bunker hill à partir de la Troisième rue et tourne dans la Première rue Ouest. Dans le virage, on aperçoit au loin le building Richfield de 1928, un beau gratte-ciel à degrés, disparu aujourd'hui. Le deuxième film montre la concession-garage de Paul G. Hoffman (qui vendait les Studebaker) le long du boulevard Wilshire et court jusqu'à l'hôtel Ingraham, plus à l'est. Tout ça a été remplacé par une autoroute. A 2:43, on aperçoit un énorme building, celui des frères Barkers ("Barker bros"), ouvert en 1926 sur la Septième et la rue Figueroa, toujours debout.
Genius! Merci beaucoup!!
À Bunker Hill,ds les 40's comme aujourd'hui, il est difficile depuis 3rd street de tourner à droite ds 1th...elles sont parallèles,avec 2nd street entre les deux.
3rd street ne pouvait être emprunté sur la colline qu'entre Olive St à l'est jusqu'à seulement South Bunker Hill Av....au numéro 255 pour être précis. Longueur,environ 200 metres de rue(au milieu, le carrefour avec Grand Av).
Lower 3rd courait et court toujours ds le tunnel qui passe sous Bunker Hil...d'est en ouest.
Le reste...bien vu,merci.
@@emmanuelrichard9129 Are you American? I think you misunderstood my french. I said about the first movie that the car was on Flower street running up the hill starting Third street that you see on left. Then it turns right on First street where you can see all along Flower street until the vanished Richfield buidling. But you're right about Third street and its tunnel.
@@robingirard7768 Bonsoir!
Non,je suis français...désolé si je vous ai mal compris...j'ai trouvé votre explication en anglais sans ambiguïté...en français celà me paraissait moins clair.
C'est pas grave...je pensais juste éclaircir votre très bonne connaissance de la géographie de Downtown.
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Look at how clean the streets were before plastic.
I don't know about that, the first few seconds you can see a lot of rubbish on the sidewalk and gutter.
@@teejaybee8222people littered a lot more back then.
Everything was filthy with dirt and weed easements, stained concrete, and quite a few run down looking cars. Looked like white trash heaven
I can see a lot of trash in the beginning
Does anyone else notice how immaculately clean the streets are of any trash? Peopl had so much pride in their neighbourhood.
Thanks for😊😊 viedo it's like stepping back in time
Amazing. Especially around the old Bethlehem Shipyards.
Just think: WW2 had ended 3 years before (1948 was the newest car, so I’m going from there). Much looks so familiar to me, I grew up around Long Beach area.
That is awesome, I love these old videos.
It’s great seeing videos like these cuz had I been living in those times I wouldn’t have been able to see these things safely
WOW!! the streets were so clean back then.. No low class sub humans around yet.
That comment is kinda racist
@@ndipabunawcharles4303 Who cares
The original Google Map street level.
Thanks for posting, what great footage!! I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley (West Covina to be exact), but my Dad worked downtown for the LA County Sheriff's Department. And I remember quite well, trips taken in LA and surrounding areas in the 60's and early 70's...before moving to the central coast (Cambria).
Thank you :)
Thanks for the time capsule
This is so wonderful. I am absolutely begging you on my knees to remake the old fight films, the old racing films like the Indianapolis 500 back in the Black and White days so we can see things better. That would be fantastic!