Houston, TX Vintage 1980s Downtown Driving Freeway Footage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2021
- Clips from the 1980's showing Houston, TX.
*Ignore the people in this video. The main purpose of posting this is to show old 80s footage of Houston freeways and downtown scenes.
I arranged these clips in order as they were filmed, even if the events/locations don't make any sense.
The end of the video will mention where it came from. I recorded this manually using my iphone off the screen. I don't own the footage.
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Royalty Free Music: "Basic Rock Anthem" - got it off youtube several years ago and don't remember the artist.
#houston
#vintagehouston
#1980shouston
#houston1980s
When Houston was still a good place to live!
Love the 97 Rock billboard!
It’s still a great place to live what are you talking about
@@C0astinG4mer I know what he's talking about
@@C0astinG4merHouston is a 💩 hole now. Lost all the fun things and radio. Full of illegals and crime. I'm homesick, but not sad that I left
Moby was the Best!!
This was 1984.
Houston had nearly 1 million fewer people and had far more homicides and incidents of crime than today.
Houston is a much better, safer, and cleaner city today.
It's amazing how nostalgia clouds the reality of which was yesterday.
moved to Houston in 83 and it was a cool somewhat big country city with Ice Houses everywhere. You could drink a cold beer in different parts of town, have fun and it was cool. Not so much now. Too many crazy drivers, like everywhere and the city is being ran by corrupt people like most city's now but that's the sign of the times. I still love Houston
I got married and moved here 3 months before hurricane Alicia in 83. It was much different.
That traffic way too chill compared to today lol... got lots of memories riding with my dad around Houston in the 90's.
Buildings and freeways look very similar to now. It's the cars that have changed.
You're absolutely right
2:59 wow the Eastex Freeway was really tiny. 😮
I moved to Houston near the end of 1986, this is how it pretty much looked around the downtown and freeway areas.
When I came to Houston in 1980, there were more than (5) buildings under construction at the same time. I loved walking around downtown, all of the stores that existed at the time, like FOLEY’S, WOOLWORTH’S and SAKOWITZ. I miss those days. 😢
3:06 Billboard for Cullen Bank, now Frost (it was already co-owned), and 3:43 for RepublicBank, now BofA. The drive-thru bank at 0:17 was Texas Commerce Bank, now Chase.
The bank shown at the beginning is now abandoned, they use it for parking for events at post sometimes though
Cool video. Video quality and edit is nice. Thanks for sharing!
OMG…..Bless you for this!
1:57, amazing you can get on here without a brick wall of traffic. 2:40, good to see people back then also couldn't get in the correct lane to exit. Good footage, weird how everything is so different but still the same. Coming from someone who was born that year.
Im only 43 but takes me back to before all the panzies took over. Lol seeing I10 back at two lanes is a trip.
I'm 43 as well. I grew up in Alief.
@@matthewvoss7365 That means back in 1984, you two were only 5 years old. I am 46 years old so in 1984, I was 8 years old back then.
I remembered the old north 59 when I was a kid. The stores and homes used to look alot more rundown than it is today.
Billboard @3:29 reminds me of the "97 FM Rocks" and the "Rock 101 KLOL" days!
This is just footage from the film Paris, Texas.
That boy's name is Hunter...he's Karen Black's son.
I remember watching this movie on HDNet Movies back in the 2000s. One thing that bothered me is they went from I-45 to suddenly being on 59 and then 610 and Shepherd. Anyone from Houston would see that.
Freeways looked so chill back then, but now we’re the new LA 😩😩
That NIGHT TIME footage was ON-POINT!!
This is all footage from the 1984 movie “Paris, Texas”.
If I could only spend just a day in 1983 again….
Hurricane Alicia.
Very cool what you did here!
such clear video!
0:20 that’s the drive-thru bank seen in the movie Paris, Texas when Travis and his son Hunter are following his mom driving the red Chevette.
It’s all taken from the film PARIS, TEXAS
Hey I emailed you two weeks ago about the tree branches that were sitting in the driveway. Are you still going to pick them up?
Bruh
Looks the same, except that the cars are different, things are more run down though
@0:21 we would use that bank's (NationsBank?) parking lot and walk to Power Tools! The Shephard exit off I-10 looks the same today.
That stretch of 59 before it splits into 45 looks the exact same hahah
I've heard that most of those skyscrapers were built in the 80's during the oil boom. Is that true?
Yes
Indeed. The Gulf building (with its rotating lighted logo sign on top) was the tallest building for many years, until 1971. That's when One Shell Plaza went up. A couple more good-sized buildings went up in the 70's, but in the late 70's and 80's, the taller ones sprouted up like dandelions. That's also when the Transco Tower (now Williams Tower) was built.
As of 2022 sad to see still almost same infrustructure and no improvement and investment since then.
i think road quality looks better (No pot holes and patches) than today.
I love not seeing Honda Accords weave in and out of traffic. Everyone is driving cool in this video
Is there a way i can get and use this footage for a project?
It's almost as if cars define the time.
I find it hard to believe there were that few cars on the freeway and traffic wasn’t moving at 5mph
Wow, I lived close to there. But I was 5 years old.
Good footage for it to be 1983
It's from a movie called paris texas
The great and legendary Mayor Kathy Whitmire! She was ahead of her time and wanted monorail 🚝 even then.
Taken from the movie Paris, Texas (1984).
Ha! All the transplants need to catch up with the city's film history. This is footage taken for the making of the excellent film, Paris, Texas (1984) directed by Wen Wenders (I saw you mentioned this at the end). The local punk band, MyDolls, are featured in the film at one point.
As a native Houstonian, the city has only improved.
Pearce elevated been a problem 😩
The H In the 80's traffic wasn't that bad compared to now it's a nightmare driving on the freeways .
Depends what time you go
Man i miss those days. Compared to now.
The traffic on I-45 looks exactly the same as it does now lol
Wow! At 2:35 that’s where I used to work! Met my future wife. Moore Paper.
This is from the movie Paris, Texas. I lost my virginity at the Houston Zoo.
Poor ape..
What area?
Still the same ole potholed streets and freeways 43 yrs later, just 10 times the vehicles.
City looked just as post-modern back then as it does today.
Omg 😳
I was 4 yrs old then...😎
amazing thank you so much, I wonder if that old white guy in the suit that was looking at the camera is still alive ...lol..anyways i was born in 1992
I was there
I still am
I love Houston.
When US-90 went through Houston (it still does, TxDOT just doesn't advertise it anymore).
And US 75, which now officially ends in Dallas as I-45 begins on the unsigned I-345.
The music .. oof! Bailed
When Chrome ruled…
I guarantee that man was at Rankin Road every weekend, lol
That looks more 90s
Funny how downtown still looks the same
2:22 U S. 75 co-signed with I-45
Sim City 4 vibes
I’m surprised that Judge Middleton does everything from evictions to lawn code violations to assaults. The man has to really know his law.
the scammers in gov't ruined it. sad, but true. around 1995-200 Houston kicked ass. now these same roads are clogged like other big shitties, from 7am until 10pm
How did gov ruin it to be clogged? Genuinely asking..
It’s so much better today. Back then no one lived downtown and the entire east side was empty parking lots. Now thousands live there, sports stadiums and no more parking lots! Just look how empty and dead the streets were back then. Now is alive and happening.
A lot of us lived there for generations now it un affordable
its a crime infested crap hole nowadays
Yes and they’re plowing it down to widen the freeway because that always works perfectly.
@@tbewin1z143too much republican propaganda and Fox News for you.
@@jw77019 imagine using 2008 talking points, also pssst 90% of media is horribly biased in favor of the Democrats
Stolen from Wenders’ film PARIS, TEXAS
Raggedy ass city
yeah, but why are the showing a hitchhiking homeless boy being picked up by a full grown man?///not cool