Busy Los Angeles 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มี.ค. 2024
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of busy street of Los Angeles 1940s we can 9th Street & Hill Street with buses, streetcars, and Walkers
00:51 Looks like Pershing Square in background.
2:41 Eastern Columbia building at Broadway and 9th
1:03 Hill street between 4th and 5th streets looking north. Hollywood Subway Terminal Building subway building is on left.
1:09 Closer view of Pacific Electric's Hollywood Subway Terminal. This building is still standing today.
5:27 The intersection of 7th and Grand. The J. W. Robinson's department store building on the southwest corner is still there today. I worked there in the mid 1980's
5:42 Looking north from 7th and Grand
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Internet Archive (LACityClerk)
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Nice! How come men don't wear hats like that anymore?
Beautiful !
Remember this fondly from the early 1950s. Folks dressed up. Civilized; traffic, streetcars , and pedestrians muddled through, obediently, mostly, and everybody got through just fine. Lunch at Bullocks and a pleasant ride back home on the P car
I had to look it up, because it's way before my time, but the P car was pas part of the last batch of streetcar lines in L.A. that ran until early 1963. I think it's a shame the streetcars were ever abandoned.
@@arndaniels1117
They weren't abandoned : General Motors bought them up and destroyed them.
@@arndaniels1117I rode the P when I was an infant. Late 1961 to the end in early '63. We lived right around the corner from 1st & Boyle Ave. My grandma rode the P downtown to Grand Central every day. And the Pico bus after they ripped out the streetcars.
@@michaeledwards2251Yep, the GM lobby in Washington destroyed the old public transit and walking street scenes. Some public transit was rebuilt in the 1990's, but it's not very good in most cities nor do we have a vibrant culture anywhere in America. However there is a drive to make cities and places more pedestrian friendly for lots of people want that in order to have vibrant communities and culture to be experienced like can be done in European and other countries still.
@@TUBESPECIFIC1
The difficulty now is the way Cities have become spread out : without fossil fuel driven cars, they are impractical. The availability of fossil fuels for cars is expected to end in a generation. Electrically driven public transport will be the only option left.
Some electric cars will be available, but the billion plus personal transport vehicles world wide will not be replaced. Even China won't have the capacity to do so.
My Mom was born in 1932. She grew up in Santa Monica, so she would have lived this first hand! She passed in 2022. For me its just so unbelievable what changes she saw in her lifetime!!! Thanks for posting this wonderful time machine!
Thx!!!!
I'm sorry to hear about your Mom's passing. My father was born in 1933 and will be 91 in May.
I was born in L.A.- Queen of Angels hospital! More than 85 years ago! I'm starting to feel like a run down time machine !
Your restorations are the best on TH-cam NASS as far as I’m concerned. As I former editor, I know how painstaking this whole process is. Excellent work as always. Cheers. 👍💯😎
thank you very much 👍
@@NASS_0
I can attest to the quality : usually such reconstructions grate, I was born in 1953, and know how they should sound. Your don't.
I watch a lot of movies from the 1930s and 1940s as much for their entertainment as their look into all of the socio-cultural assets. Your work is a real treat in every way. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you
When I watch movies from the 1930s and 40s, I observe how America - and the whole world - has changed since then. For example, the way people dressed back then and the way they dress now. Or the way people lived back then and the way they live now. In music: from beautiful, melodious songs to rap and gibberish - not to mention the loud noise and the screaming, which young people listen to nowadays.
Well said! I too watch classic movies for entertainment as well as (or maybe even more) for the socio-cultural window into an earlier, more civil era…
Probably the best video of a typical day for a 1940's traffic officer. The added audio was unusually well matched. Thanks NASS!
thank you very much
Nass, I am trying to find your film restoration of strap-hangers on a subway or streetcar...it was awesome...I think it was California in the 1940s or early 50s...can you help me? @@NASS_0
Looks really nice, but also the though of nuclear bomb dust and radiation comes to mind.
Well said!
Bring this era back!
Heck yea. Most European cities are still vibrant and walking based like that, but also have modern highways and logistics like America. So many old American places I've been and thought, during the past era there were lots of people and vibrancy here, but not anymore.
Nass, Great video! You notice not many men wore beards in the 1930's and 40's in the big cities. Plus, by the late 1940's not as many men and females wore hats as much. I think the young people especially started to style their hair more and did not want to cover it up in a hat. While older people continued to wear the hats in general. Wow! it's amazing only a few of the little kids and young teenagers would be still alive today from this video.
Thx bro❤️
Any guy wearing a beard back then was suspected of being a commie!
Nass, Great video as always! Cannot go wrong with me with your 1920-1940's New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco stuff! Not to mention your other years videos too! I always loved the men's dress style in these years with the hat, suit and nice shoes. Something that's sadly lacking today! Plus, at 2:34 seems like the camera guy got distracted by the beauty there! LOL. 😁
Hi!! thank you👍
I notice that. No matter what year, man is always be a man
When no one was afraid to go outside.....
If you're afraid to go outside you have agoraphobia. Crime is near historic lows.
What are you talking about? No one is afraid to go outside.
@JB-lg2kz Not true, crime is dropping at a fast rate, but are far from historic lows.
That literally applies to today too.
Walk down skid row and then tell me that@@sandiegotrafficlightstrain354
Such clear imagery that one can discern the “Foot Police” handbook/manual the policeman is carrying.
People dressed up to go shopping back then. Now it is sweat pants and an undershirt for shopping.
My Grandad used to put a suit on to mow the lawn. People had standards.
It seems the richer one gets the worse they dress! In the old days, poor people dressed up to the helt! to look like the rech
@@TUBESPECIFIC1The standard of living in the old days were much lower! People dressed up in order to look rich and important! There seem to be less crime in those days! No drugs, graffiti, I could walk the streets of downtown L. A. and feel safe!! . Things were much more orderly.
"I see dead people" I'm sorry, I just had to say it 😊
Nah I have always dressed nice watching my family growing up taking care of themselves was always big in my family
It’s really not the same life anymore. No woman wears pants in the city at that time. Most people are cared for in their outfits. What a beautiful restoration work! I am excited with each new video put online. A huge THANK YOU Nass!
thank you so much
Take me backkk man! I love these cars
^^
YES! Those Street Cars are fantastic!
Even though the camera operator of the time, to us now - is nameless and a part of history as well - I will take this opportunity and thank the one who took the time to document what The City of the Angels looked/felt like - the culture of the times. And I would also like to thank the restorers of this film stock, to such a degree as this.
Plus thank NASS for bringing this video to us on YOU TUBE!
Outstanding footage as usual....Imagine, people in LA actually walking to their destinations..with shined shoes!! Thanks again for sharing your work..
thank you very much ;))
@@NASS_0 I really enjoy what you do. Good job. Keep em' coming. Please!!!
Wow definitely a huge contrast between then and now.. pretty sad everything we lost!
Absolutely, now it's nothing but bums and people in pajama bottoms.
It was so vibrant and booming. When I went to South Korea, China, and other places like Kuala Lumpur, it was happening in the same manner. Can't think of anywhere like that in America today except Times Square has a bunch of tourists at times.
People well dressed and walking with a purpose. Today, people walk around aimlessly not knowing what's going on.
Everyone looks so much more relaxed and attentive. I guess not enough psychoactive medication and drugs.
Excellent restoration!!! Well done job!!! ❤😊
thank you very much ❤
Watching this is a fantasy come true for all who wondered what our recent past looked like but couldn't see it before the World Wide Web let us in. Thanks to all who posted and restored this wonderful footage. Needless to say, most of the people we see here have left us.
Some of the kids might be still with us. My father, born in 1933, is still going.
Well said!
Every person in this is either deceased now or very elderly !! Amazing restoration and historic dedication.❤😊
Yes, probably a few of the little girls and boys with their parents shown in this video are still living.
Yea, it was a long time ago like maybe 80 years ago. Our bodies are the same thing as there's; just a different century.
@@Sonnycorleone162 My father was born in 1933 and is still living. I don't know the exact year of the video, but he was around.
@@stephendacey8761 Great! Glad your father is still living Stephen. This video is 1946 I heard from some commenters here. Thanks for reply! 😊
Lord, take me back in time...
It's funny just observing the people back then. The people looked sharp, more focused and confident than the mess we have wandering aimlessly around town.
@@stephendacey8761 I lived in L.A. for 25 years. Even while visiting L.A. from San Diego in the late-'70s, the demographics of these streets were changing from working people during the day to being populated by raving mental cases, bums, druggies, illegal aliens, gang members by night. I finally moved TO L.A. in '89 and saw it just get worse. Left in 2015 because of the traffic, 3rd-world crowding, taxes, noise, and general chaos. What a shame that utopia was being ruined by the early '70s.
@@shootfirst2097I know, it's happening everywhere. This country has been on a downward spiral for quite some time.
The Warner Bros. Downtown Theatre plays "Cloak and Dagger" with Gary Cooper. Premiere 1946.
So it can't be 1945 then
7th & Hill. Bullocks was across the street.
@@bardo0007 Post-war LA !
Broadway, and seems to 1946 based on the movie marquee advertising Cloak and Dagger with Gary Cooper. Beautiful. Many of the buildings remain, but the populace is nothing like it was.
:027 I just read your comment! I love playing detective!
Me born 1947.in Pasadena. My Mother always went to L.A. to shop!! Thank you for your work!!👍🏼🇺🇸
thank you very much ;))
I'm a baby boomer, too. Born in 1962.
Absolutely love the Los Angeles scenes. Lived there for a while and can usually pinpoint locations to compare to present time. As always....well done NASS!
Hi!! thank you very much ❤
Thank you for playing these beautiful clips from a time where i wish we were now.
President Biden has a plan.🤣🤣🤣
1946. There is a poster for "Centennial Summer" a '46 film.
yes! 1946
👍I was wondering what that was! I saw the marquee above the Warner Bros. Downtown theater to get the title of the Gary Cooper film.
0:58 nice 32 ford with the later style 16 inch wire wheels! lots of cool cars in this video thanks
Brilliant and interesting as always! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼😊
That guy on the left at 0:10 in leather jacket looks like he has a greaser/rockabilly style hairdo from the 50s.
But perhaps this style was already common in the 40s?
Not so much common, but it obviously existed among a certain group of young men.
Everyone is being so civil
@2:33, even back then the cameraman understood his assignment lol.
Damn shame what's become of this once-great city.
That can be said of any city.
@@jflo7674 Not Moscow or St Petersberg.
@@OZnationalist umm. What?
@@OZnationalist Not Tampa either 😉
@@jflo7674 Most (or a lot) of Russian cities still look great, and haven't been affected by the ugliness of modernity. Besides the commie blocks, Moscow looks great!
NASS is back! Thanks for the hard work bringing us these Gems. Thanks NASS.
thank you very much ;)
People all were dressed so much better when they went downtown! The ladies all in high heels, hat and gloves. It is also remarkable how slender people in general were, in the days before highly processed, junk and fast foods. No fatsos anywhere in sight, except maybe the traffic cop, lol. And amazing how crowded the streets were compared to today (before suburban malls and internet shopping)! I just love to watch these videos...keep them coming.
There is a pregnant lady at 3:06 cossing the street. Imagine her kid would be around 80 years today. Hard to believe!
thank you very much
the traffic cop probably ate a lot donuts and coffee.
Wow! I want to go back! Where did we go wrong!😢
We went wrong by getting rid if the non-polluting electric street cars. You can blame corporate greed.
@@Jeff-uj8xi Street cars got stuck with traffic, buses can change lanes at least.
"Where did we go wrong?" The downward spiral started in the late 1960s. All standards of clothing and behaviour fell by the wayside. Now, anything goes!
The police man smoking and reading newspapers in the time of duty . 😂😂😂
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Correct I notice that. 1940 is freedom for all human. 😂
Probably bored …very little crime
You didn't need to keep up some phony image back then. Just doing your job was good enough.
Most people behaved themselves
Nice slice of life in downtown L.A. The two traffic cops were doing their jobs so easily. It was almost like they were directing a symphony orchestra. They kept that traffic flowing and held back the pedestrians for the drivers making right turns. The people actually obeyed them, too. Great video, Nash! So very entertaining.
I always say to people that old is absolutely elegant and gorgeous and new house and clothes and cars they are ugly like but nobody listens to me.
Well, 18 likes beats my usual 1 or 2, so there are people who are listening.
What a fantastic memories. And what an incredible difference with the present. Those footages are historical. May me ask myself “WHAT HAPPENED “? Thanks,superior as always👏👏👏💐💐💐
thank you very much
"What Happened?" was "Tune in and drop out" in the 69's (The Berkeley Movement) and the Democrat (not so) Super Majority seizing power in CA after Gov. Pete Wilson's term.
Wish I was around in that era.
That was fascinating to watch. Sad to think though that most of the people in the video are probably gone. That cop though, smoking and reading on the job. LOL! Great as always,NASS!
thank you very much
I love this video! I love viewing all of the people from way back.
2:12 I love the natty, stylish woman standing on the curb wearing a hat. Just another world.
No smart phones, plastic cars or activists. Life was goood
I think the first traffic cop is at Broadway & W 9th street... Downtown L.A.
Incredible to watch this.
Is it me or cars from the 1940s were beautiful
beautiful
Thanks for the ride NASS!!
What a job!👍
The traffic in Los Angeles was the same as it was in Brooklyn, that's how the "Dodgers" got their team name....."Trolley car Dodgers" was too long so they shortened it to "Dodgers". (It's a fit for both cities)😉
Can you imagine directing that traffic and pedestrians every day! 😳
I LOVE this traffic cop! He reads the newspaper, chats with his buddies, has a smoke...all while on duty. Dont tell me the LAPD was corrupt.
Today, they would be at Dunkin Donuts.
LA circa 1948? The smog was already there. I recognized every one of those streets. My family lived in Boyle Heights on 1st St,and they rode the streetcar downtown all the time. I was born years later in late 1961.
Jannett, People are saying it's 1946 by Marquee sign.
@@Sonnycorleone162 Saw that also.
0:55 Lady wearing trousers and a plaid cropped jacket. Looks like something someone would wear nowadays!
Also, it’s amazing, even with a cop directing traffic, around 5:30 or so, cars seem to have the right away over pedestrians. The pedestrians had to wait for the cars to turn. I noticed also in other videos how erratic drivers were back then. Anyways, thanks for the videos. My favorite are of Los Angeles/Hollywood of the 40’s. I was born in 1986 but it was in LA; what it used to look like is amazing. I’m also obsessed with the Black Dahlia case and it’s interesting to see what Elizabeth Short experienced. I also wish there was a 1930’s-1940’s Hollywood video of Beachwood Dr around the 2600 block (2608 Beachwood Dr on Google Maps street view is best) of the Hollywoodland Sign.
Thanks for another awesome video. It makes my day when you post. Truly. You bring a lot of joy to a lot of people.
thank you very much
Really well done video. Such a great glimpse into the past, thanks for this!
thank you so much
The first thing that HIT me when I watched this video is that everybody is WELL-DRESSED, including men wearing suits and hats and women decked in elegant outfits and hats!
Hola..amo tus videos!!!te sigo desde Buenos Aires Argentina!!!🇦🇷saludos👋
That's the hardest working officer I've ever seen. He is worth 10 of today's overpaid bully's.
Always a pleasure NASS
thank you very much
Always love the Owl Drug Company stores whenever they pop up in films like this. Great restoration, thanks!
I wholeheartedly agree!
2:34 This camera man is a cinematographer at heart.
Wow Downtown has changed 😮 if you know you know
Thanks Nass
I know.
Amazing Restoration again for me to travel in my time machine. But I do want to visit LA one of these days so this gives a nice historical tour
Dont waste ur time on L.A.
Terrific job remastering this video, look like this vid was just shot recently. Keep up the great work!
thank you very much ;))
nice job, the impression of life in the streets is impressive, well done for the sound dubbing!
1:46 an unbreakable friendship.
NASS! Great video, Thanks for posting this video.
thank you very much
Looked on google maps for the same corner today….sigh. Totally deserted. Stores boarded up. What happened to LA?
Freeways
Leftist-Democrat policies.
Flight
1:58 I spotted one guy with blue jeans on. It’s crazy how much has changed. Most everyone back then wore business attire everyday.
Great footage. I can't imagine though how much pollution that cop was breathing in. Cars didn't have any pollution controls on them, Just straight exhaust.
And leaded gas was used to lubricate the valves on those engines!
Spent a lot of time on Officer Krupke, which was rather nice. Looks like he knew nearly everyone that passed by his corner.
Time machine..... Take me away, I'm ready! We lived in Southern California circa 1960 and it was still very much like this then. I remember going to the Hollywood Boulevard Christmas Parade and seeing all the stars. I would give anything to go back to the Los Angeles of that time. No it wasn't perfect, but I can't stand the social media world of today.
I was 10 in 1962, L.A. was awesome!
The ladies and gents of yesteryear took pride in their appearance, not like nowadays people walking about like tramps.
Heyy! The people of today spend lots of money on those ripped jeans!
Only complaint I have is with the way it was filmed or edited. You'd get a great shot of a Los Angeles Railway street car or bus and then it would cut away to another scene. Did you notice the street with the dual gauge tracks. There was only one very brief shot of a Pacific Electric red car on the standard gauge tracks. The city cars were narrow gauge.
When did the street cars and their tracks end?
@@kristensorensen2219 in 1963,
Thank you for the images... a true time machine and one that I would like to have lived through!!
thank you very much
I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks this, especially with videos of earlier periods than this one, that probably 99%-100%, depending on if there’s kids, of everyone we see in these videos are no longer alive.
Great video. Around the time my now 79-80 year old parents, now failing😢, were born. So many of the people would've been born in the 1800's. Long time ago...
thank you very much
Thank you very much for this
thank you very much
Switching from one scene to another, then another, then another, rapidly , makes it a bit harder to soak up the atmosphere of each scene. Unless that's all the footage you've got to play with ??? Anyway, other than that, great restored old footage, as always.
Wow how beautiful womans dressed. Stunning. Such a shame our time got sloppy. And those beautiful cars🚘 so lovely shapes not like today 😢.
I agree with you! But Not just the woman. The men looked nice as well in their suits and nice shoes and hats.
@@Sonnycorleone162 true sorry I missed it
@@erikas974 No problem, just wanted to point it out is all. All the best.😊
Cop has paper in front, comic book in one back pocket, daily racing form in the other
My Dad is 79, and he still shines his own shoes with shoe polish. My grandparents had gardens and grew their own food. Gotta love Baby Boomers and their parents. They knew how to do a lot of stuff. Generation X and Generation Y don’t know how to do a damn thing other than how to work a cell phone.
Too funny!!!
Dignified people everywhere.
Amazing work BTW!
thank you very much
@@NASS_0 👍
nobody sleeping on the sidewalk, imagine that🙄🙄
There was plenty of that in LA in the 40's, it's just not in this film. Homelessness isn't new and it isn't even the worst it's ever been.
Wow everyone is so much thinner back then … the huge takeover of processed food in the 50s was just around the bend.
Always enjoy your videos but I’m puzzled why they were made in the first place, do you know who made them and for what purpose ?
What I see in this video is such obedience from it's citizens. Nice and orderly.
Man, everyone dressed like it's a special occasion. It's really nice to see what it was like back then, but I'm still glad I wasn't born back then.
2:41 Appears to be the Eastern Columbia building at 849 S. Broadway.
Brilliant, another triumph NASS. As a transport planning engineer I also thought it was fascinating 😊
thank you very much!
I can remember downtown LA in the 1960's and it was almost the same as in this footage. we could get an ice cream cone or popcorn almost anywhere.
Another great video from Nass top quality sound and colour lots to see people and traffic and the policeman on duty this video was like it was yesterday amazing
thank you very much ;)
Thank you Nass
Probably pre 1947. In early 1947 skirts got much longer and fuller with the New Look.
1946
Love the old cars .We are watching an era in time.
Wow. No traffic lights to deal with the heavy traffic and pedestrian traffic.
A real time machine. Thanks. So realistic.
thank you very much
At 2:34 the cameraman saw something he REALLY liked.
The street and sidewalks were so clean!
yes!!
Phenomenal picture quality on this one!
Thx ;)