Driving 405 freeway North, 1988, 24 years before Carmageddon II - also watch Driving South in 1988
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- Driving the 405 freeway from Culver City to Sherman Oaks August 26, 1988.
Check out Driving the 405 freeway South in 1988, 24 years before Carmageddon II - บันเทิง
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Damn this guy had a vision of the future...recording himself driving
:D
And with image stabilization p.
yeah, but footage is awfull...
@@gogo-vq4vr there is no better footage from time (80s)... no HD video in the 80s ... and for decent picture , those cameras where expensive professional equipment
@@gogo-vq4vr it looks pretty good
Ah yes, getting pissed off at wrong way drivers 31 years ago still hasn't changed. A timeless annoyance.
People have gotten worse at driving
DGAF
@M Detlef Damn dude, i guess you could say his comment was an ANNOYANCE!!
ANNOYANCE, ANNOYANCE, ANNOYANCE, ANNOYANCE, ANNOYANCE :P
@@fbghetto5 Yeah, definable are, everyday i notice someone making a maneuver so bad that if i wasn't paying attention they'd cause an accident
Yes, that is a sad truth; even back then in 1988, there were bad drivers. The only difference between 1988 and now is that 2020 brings us even more technology in our cars to promote even worse driving. I would hate to be behind the wheel in a hypothetical world where we had the technology to make a Tesla as fancy as they are now back then. Fully automatic driving systems would not only be commonplace, but the Tesla Supercharger network would also be far more widespread as it would have had more time to evolve as well.
This guy was ahead of his time. Doing a dashcam with a freaking vhs recorder
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
this is no dashcam here, this is pure POV.
Andrew Eric I’m about 18 years too old to be a zoomer, boomer
@@Dunkaroos248 ok boomer
@@usernameonutube "zoomer" made my day XD
As a car guy I’m just sitting here in amazement over all of the rare old cars which you can hardly find anymore, and imagining how most of them could be bought new during this time period.
It makes me so sad because I wish I grew up in this time, it's a much simpler time.
As a car guy, I can relate, but I also can't help but wonder what modern cars will be "rare old cars" or "classics" in thirty years. These people riding around in these cars when they were new were seeing them as just a car, like modern car owners view their modern cars. It's just a car, will drive it until I want something else or it dies, then off to the scrap yard. I own a truck that would have been three years old when this video was recorded. An 85 Nissan 720. It has seen better years for sure. Funnily enough, it came from somewhere in the southwest, so there is a slight chance it wasn't too far away from where this video was recorded when it was recorded lol.
Who the hell is gonna admire a Hyundai sonata 20 years from now or a Chevrolet Kalos😂😂
@@mikaelsiivonen You never know. There is currently a small following for the Ford Pinto and the Yugo...
@@mikaelsiivonen I'm not a fan of hyundai, I'm more into Japanese car brands, but you never know how tastes will change in thirty years.
Amazing how something so mundane in 1988 can be so enjoyable in 2017.
dup yea, why is that?
In 2020
2020*
No kidding.
I beat off twice during this
And in 2020
"Wrong way, stupid bitch" that is absolute gold!
I forget stupid drivers existed back then and have been around forever 😂 they’ve just more and more common nowadays though. I also couldn’t help but notice the guy at 7:35 who had his turn signal on for over a mile lmao
Look at all those 90 degree, right angles on the cars.
Yes. Very Lee Iococca. Look him up.
John Foltz The Tesla Cybertruck would fit right in during the 80s.
Rhett Krecic Not really. It looks like an 80s concept car or a movie car.
@@DigitalMovies55 Did his own commercials
@Roger Dodger Not really. Producing smooth, curvy vehicles was more expensive with the tech they had. With the main benefit being aerodynamics --> higher MPG, it was not a huge concern with how cheap gas was.
“Hey man, would you like to see year 2020?” He imagines flying cars, living on different planets, etc. when in reality the future is looking back at him in amazement. How ironic...
We do have flying cars but it's not what you think. Levitation cars is pretty much impossible. They do have drones that can carry 1 person now.
Now on the flying car. It's a car that they hook up wings on to. Another one I saw was a car but the wings and parts fold when in land mode and extend in flight mode.
so true
LOL yes!!! instead a nerd from South Africa trying to be American , does Space X, working 20 years on sending a rocket into Orbit..smtg Nasa did in 1962 LMAO! And we have a couple of small phones.... no flying cars, no spaceships.... wtf happened!
@@MacReviewzOnline Nothing out of the ordinary happened, expectations were just insane, we have to consider reality when aiming high. Unless we figure out a levitation system that eliminates noise and prop wash, flying cars are dead. We technically already have flying cars, had em for a long time, they're called helicopters. The problem with those is that they're insanely loud so you can't just take one to your suburb house, they require a fair amount of training to fly, and they're just not practical when scaled up to the level of cars. People think of The Fifth Element when talking about flying cars. How do those cars fly? Some anti-gravity shit that won't exist for a long time. We also need AI to fly them for us so we don't run into each other, and we're still working on AI driving cars on a two dimensional plane without them taking out an unsuspecting cyclist.
What’d he’d see was the emptiest the 405 has been in 60 years.
Songs:
1:00 - Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell in Love
3:10 - The Animals - It's My Life
3:21 - Dan Fogelberg - Face the Fire
3:38 - Foreigner - Double Vision
3:48 - Pretty Poison - Catch Me I'm Falling
3:55 - Gary Newman - Radio Heart
6:40 - The Woodentops - Maybe It Won't Last
7:30 - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Rebels
7:38 - Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music
10:40 - Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over the Line
12:46 - Tom Petty - American Girl
12:50 - Van Halen - Jump
12:54 - UB40 - Red, Red, Wine
12:57 - Big Audio Dynamite - E=mc2
15:20 - The Doors - Twentieth Century Fox
25:24 - Frozen Ghost - Round and Round
25:28 - Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy
25:33 - David Bowie - Young Americans
27:00 - The Who - We're Not Gonna Take It
There were a few while he's at the traffic light scanning channels that were too short to identify, but hopefully this helps a few people.
@@mikiudovcic3246 I have benefited from so many others before in YT comments, so I figured it was my turn.
26:35 - Teena Marie - Lovergirl
@@brianb.8295 Good catch, thanks!
telecomguy10 you are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.
Yup... great music tooo
I'm 20 years old why did this make me feel nostalgic
Ghost Ball Because you a real one my nigga 🗿🚬
When we were younger, this music is what our parents played. At least, that's a part of it
It didn't. It's a different feeling.
because you lived in San Andreas Carl
@GYPSY KING FURY lmao!
I wonder what got in his head to record a 30 minute drive down a freeway in 1988? It's like he was anticipating TH-cam well over a decade before it's debut
More then 17 years later lmao
time to record yourself driving at your local avenue to upload it on whatever platform replace youtube in 20 years.
edit: i would but i dont even have a bicycle
Probably the same reason we have dash cams today, to prove your innocence in case of an accident
Yep
The mind set to record and archive probably for personal memorial reasons.
He took 30 minutes to drive from Culver City to Sherman Oaks or Van Nuys, currently takes about 2 hours to get same distance, the traffic is sucks, any day any hour 2019...
Wish the government wasn't attempting to make the traffic so bad here, but this probably because they'll get extra taxes on gas out of it.
MarvinC Vlogs it’s more like an hour. I do that drive everyday. Still sucks tho
Andrew Eric 20 without traffic
Public transport?
@@Bobbie_1999 worse..
30 years later and here we are watching a guy drive down the 405 on TH-cam. I was in highschool at the time getting ready to join the military. Now I work as a contractor and I'm sitting in my office halfway across the world in a small African country no one has ever heard of called Djibouti, this being the 10th country that I have lived in. Wonder where I'll be in the next 30 years. Life's amazing!
@Jhonson Kashka He's a contractor so he does security
Not yours.
I was about 1 month old during this time. I graduated high school the same year the iPhone was released
did u go to the Gulf ?
CurrencyTraderXAUUSD I’ve heard of Djibouti
No FB, no instagram no cel, no internet - just you the radio and the freeway -
No spotify no bad signal wait wat?? Ugh
Right!😄👍
A lot of shit music though. Back then that music was pop but later became "good' once those adults got out of the edge phase. I would not like to live at that time. It looks boring. How can one drive on the 405 and not keep their sanity with some Joe Rogan blasting?
...and a "stupid bitch."
How did y’all manage to get through traffic?
Hehe a notepad suction cupped to the windshield! Different than our phone holders on the windshield
kaitlin i thought that was a smart phone at first then was like wait 1988 🤣
Even the phone holders are antique. Now its blutooth hooks up to your radio with phone controls mounted on the steering wheel.
I’m finna cop
We used to have these in my parents cars!
GPS = hand written directions.
Dude this guy was living in the future, he recorded a "POV" drive with a vhs recorder, and he also has a tennis ball hanging in the garage so as soon as it touches the windscreen he knows he's in the right spot... legend
my grandma on my mom's side used to do that.
1987 Toyota Celica
wow. Ive always wanted to 1985 toyota celica supra
I knew I recognized the steering wheel design and AC vents in the center of the dash. Awesome car.
different dash on the fx16 and aw11
I had an 86’. Loved the flip up headlights!
I had an 89 Camry and that car got broken into a lot.
You know you're old, watching these videos, when you can remember the mixture of cars like this driving on the roads. I got my driver's license exactly 2 weeks before this was shot.
I turned 16 and got my license in Nov. 1987. But what's weird is I look at this and it's hard to un-know things. That is, I do remember in the 1990s when I started to notice how new cars all adopted the bubbly design look that persists to this day. Look how boxy everything was! Yet, when I look at this video, it just looks so weird, and even though I drove right in this neighborhood in these days, it's hard to grasp that's how it was.
Funny thing is, these are the kinds of cars I remember seeing on the road when I was a kid. But I was born in ‘87 so my memories are from the ‘90s
OutKast yeah the early 90s mostly had boxy cars on the road as only some of the new cars had the round designs
confucius12012 my mom got her license in 86 I think, I got mine in 2018
I name every car in the video!!
first cars you see: Corvette and a Rolls Royce, pretty decent
dont forget that foxbody...
another Rolls or Bently on Van Nuys. Slugbugs everywhere (ow!)
@@FC3Concepts thats my FJ60 turning right at 26:15. Still driving it.
The Porsche 928 on the highway, back when it was somewhat reliable.
@@martyspargur5281 Is that you in it? Can you provide context? Do you know where you were going and what you were doing?
SUVS were rare in the 1980s, SUVS back then were the 2 door Ramchargers, Broncos, Blazers, international scout ,or the large Jeep wagoneer, suburban type of cars. And Minivans were rare too, the Chrysler vans and the ford aerostar were the first modern minivans and the jeep cherokee was the first modern suv
They had the suburban too and 4runners too.
The XJ Cherokee was marketed as a sport wagon but legally is a station wagon, not a SUV
You forgot about the Astrovans and the Toyota Van Wagon.
Patrick Bateman lol I had a 88 4Runner now I have a 04 and a 17 4Runner
Suv and minivans are basically cancer
that radio scan is amazing.
Yea george washington
@@sudipta_archive yeh Vladimir Putin
@@oliversoderberg299 Yeh Barack Obama
Moron politicians in the news. trump was a stud back then, and still is today
@RICKY still a boss.. quit being a loser.. make something great happen. There's opportunity all around you
Thanks for posting this. At 52, divorced, caring for aging parents, stresses at work, you took me back to a time when was full of hope and enthusiasm for life. It feels good too.
I often think of the things that were going on at those moments and what were to come, almost like visions. God bless you
Cars used to be diverse and interesting now they are all tall bloated crossovers or 7 foot wide pickups
More colors too.. now it's all white, black or grey for the most part
@Jeston Xi or yellow, red, green,
Same with shirts in the stores.. no designs. Everything is plain and basic. nobody has any style.
Amen modern cars as dull and tasteless as a slice of Papa Johns pizza!
@@mattr8251 My car is dark Pearl green
Honestly, most cars after around 2013 are bland as shit.
all song frequency changes.
0:21 Elvin Bishop - 'Fooled Around And Fell In Love'
3:09 The Doors - 'It's My Life'
3:21 Dan Fogelberg - 'Face The Fire'
3:39 Foreigner - 'Double Vision'
3:44 Pretty Poison - 'Catch Me I'm Falling'
3:51 Gary Numan - 'Radio Heart'
6:40 The Woodentops - 'Maybe It Won't Last'
7:30 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'Rebels'
7:38 The Doobie Brothers - 'Listen to the Music'
10:34 Brewer & Shipley - 'One Toke Over the Line'
12:35 Brewer & Shipley - 'One Toke Over the Line'
12:44 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'American Girl'
12:48 Van Halen - 'Jump'
12:54 UB40 - 'Red Red Wine'
12:57 Big Audio Dynamite - 'E=MC2'
13:02 Brewer & Shipley - 'One Toke Over the Line'
13:06 Van Halen - "Jump'
13:09 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'American Girl'
15:10 The Doors - 'Twentieth Century Fox'
25:20 Frozen Ghost - 'Round and Round'
25:26 Blue Oyster Cult - 'Astronomy'
25:30 David Bowie - 'Young Americans'
26:23 The Who - 'We're Not Gonna Take It'
26:34 Teena Marie - 'Lovergirl'
26:39 Sparks - 'Love-O-Rama'
26:44 Frozen Ghost - 'Round and Round'
26:48 Blue Oyster Cult - 'Astronomy'
26:52 The Who - 'We're Not Gonna Take It'
6PM on the 405?? That's a parking lot at that time nowadays.
24:38 Vice City Radio it seems.
405 is a parking lot almost any time not only at 6PM
And they didn't slam on their breaks around turns and curves and hills like they do now.. 😒😑
I know right! I gave up on the freeway I just take streets now
Larger population sucks
I’m watching this exactly 30 yrs later Aug 26 2018
Air Aero It’s 2020 now, the year 1980 is 40 years past, and the movie Back to the Future is now 35 years old. It’s crazy to think about, how far away we are from the 80’s.
I watched the Porsche 928 in front of him then after realized my cat was drinking my coffee
George Almeter I had a 928 such great cars
My cat was watching this video...
Such an underrated Porsche
George Almeter Crazy to think they wanted to replace the 911 with that. Imagine a world without 911s today!
THIS IS INSANE-- i take this freeway every single day-- this still looks really similar THIS IS SO WEIRD
Why would it look any different?
Anterifar it is different. Different cars... music isn’t even played on the radio anymore. Most use Spotify or something through their phone.
@@andyteri777 buildings get demolished. rebuilt. roads change. it's been decades.
@@andyteri777 Umm... years have passed. Most cities evolve, but LA is not like most. The infrastructure will never change.
@@xepa273 :) do you actually miss commercial breaks and DJs that talk too much?
Looks like the driving was more peaceful than today...
LondonUnderground186 1:32
@@GangStarr4life96 LMAO
@@GangStarr4life96 Oh...
28 years ago today. Those classic tunes are still being played of the radio today👍🏼
Ricardo Carlos I love the old classic songs, man.
In the '80s in SoCal I listened to KRTH ("K-Earth One-Oh-One") because they played oldies, which in the '80s meant songs from the '50s and '60s. I still like listening to K-Earth, but the oldies they play now are '80s. Weird.
662wc They played Nirvana the other day.
KMET was long gone by then, KLOS ran a distant second, KROQ was all we could turn to in case of ambush by "Chevy Van" or "One Tokeovertheline". Actually, I kind of liked KGIL.
@@662wc5 crazy to think grunge wasn’t even around yet
I was 14. My Mom had a truck with a camper shell and a carpet kit no air conditioning, my dog hanging her head out the shell all of us kids piled in the back cruising with some good music on. The best days!
For those of us who live in Southern California; this is awesome to watch because we recognize the location. Not only that, for me, it is part of my history.
I remember watching Tabatha on Bewitched in the 80's.
@@bradmyers7109 Lol, that's where I got my name from!
@@9250td That thought crossed my mind.You must have gotten a lot attention for your famous name when you were going to school.
Ha,I remember it in 1970,you're watching reruns!
This is artwork.
what a jorney what a masterpiece it to bad the atmosphere of today can not capture such a thing
Nothing but great tunes on every station back then.
Dang it took me back 32 years ago I was driving a truck had an accident right on the curve getting the 101 minute 23:43 heading to Oxnard. How weird was that.. same year same month. August 1988 still remember..
"Every person in this video is now either very old or already passed away" - my smart ass nephew.
Im still her yo! I was 18
I'm afraid of becoming old
@@acnconstruction so you were born in 1970?
Man, I seriously wish I lived back then before technology was so pervasive in our every day lives.
This confirms how I remember it on the freeways back then. I live in Mexico now, but grew up in the Valley and Hollywood. Life was so FUN back then..
Now we're inundated with you guys. No offense but it's just too much.
@@mattr8251 Yeah I know, too many ex-pats living here now.
@@spark20 sure, I don't mind alot of them, I shoot pool with some and great people.. but so many parasites that just take from the system
and the way our politicians use our money to buy their votes so they can stay in power is disgusting...
For example, California just made health insurance mandated again or I will face a financial penalty.. but they are giving it for free for illegals.. every Friday the illegals mail their extra free money back home, they do this for a few years and then move back to Mexico or wherever and buy land or farms. They offer no benefits to this country just take.. and the fact they are undocumented work under the table taking jobs and lowering wages here..
u dont have anywhere near that problem with ex pats.. the only downside is they drive up housing costs over there.. we get that issue too with so much more demand for housing
Im nonhispanic white and im happy that america is filling up with nonwhites.
We raped and destroyed nonwhites countries.
So the least we could do is help nonwhites
@@jasinbiggs7189 that's fine but keep in mind they hate you.. when they take over the population and dominate politically it's payback time.. the white male has a huge Target on our back.. you'll see.. u take your social standing for granted
LA looks exactly the same today, except for the cars on the road. I'm seeing Porsche 928s and Mercedes 300E's... brand new. Jeez. I was 4 years old, and I don't really remember what the traffic looked like back then. I vaguely remember what the 90s traffic looked like. This was a true time machine journey, 29 years into the past...
I spent half my life driving these roads and not only recognize the roads and landmarks but also the radio stations, news and traffic reporters, and music delays, even some of the advertisements. Before cds, mp3s, mobile phones the radio was the heartbeat of the freeway. Everyone carried paper maps and Thomas Bros was the best. If you got lost you would pull off the road and find a coin operated pay phone to get directions.
That thing on the dash isn’t a phone holder, it is a paper holder for handwritten notes or driving directions.
You mean people in L.A used their blinkers??
Do people in California know what ‘blinkers’ are?
@@wollyhood not in LA or SF and especially not in OC 😂
@@wollyhood Don't confuse us for Texas buddy. We use blinkers, don't believe me, ask anybody who got pulled over by the Highway Patrol for the most minor infraction.
Wow a GoPro from 1988!
As soon as the car started up and the radio came on and Elvin Bishop was playing,I knew I was along for the ride. 👍
RIP Selina!
1:34 that line still holds strong to this day
From 1972 to 2001 I drove that route almost daily from Century City and El Segundo to Tarzana. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!
Today (in 2018) the 405 has been widened and that drive will now take at least an hour. I may very well have been on the freeway in the video, heading from Inglewood to Granada Hills!!! Fantastic time capsule!!! Thanks for posting it!!!
I drove for supershuttle at this time, I am positive he passed me!!
LMAO 1:33. btw thanks for uploading. i was born in 97 and im turning 20 this sunday wishing i could live in the late 80s and early 90s. this made me super nostalgic
Original Misfit How is that possible?
Oh 2 years ago
Well enjoy that shit, this shit made me realize that I forgotten my 30s, like seriously where TF did they go...
This is no joke kid, seriously enjoy your youth this thing called life is fast...
Enjoy your youth kid, I was 13 when this vid was filmed and am 44 about to be 45 in April. Where the Hell did the time go? It flew by wayyy too fast.
Youll be able to experiance the greatest decade to be alive yourself oneday. Time travel is a thing.
Some of the Hondas and Toyotas you see here are still on the road. Thanks for this time capsule into the past, I was 6 and living in Monterey CA at the time.
So is my 1983 Chevrolet Chevette 4 door.
I wonder if his Celica is still on the road
@@hrolflemarcheur2165 Several of us wonder the same thing... What fate will all those vehicles have had?? Most sure got crushed 😔
Love it! I was 25 years old. He started out with a right turn on Venice Blvd and Glendon. The same area where I live now. Even on video things just seemed so calm and peaceful back then and they were. No cell phones no rush. If I had a time machine.
6:15 pm on a Friday afternoon and the 405 looked like THIS!!!!
I know. It's 5:25 p.m., and I'm in West L.A., and I have to drive to Encino. It will take me an hour.
A lot of good songs you passed up at 13:00: Van Halen's "Jump," UB40's "Red, Red Wine," which was charting in the summer of 1988, but before settling on Tom Petty's "American Girl."
I was in my 20s in the '80s, and I hear all of those songs as much now if not more than I did in 1988. So many stations have a '70s and '80s "classic rock" format these days.
One toke over the line also at 13 min
12:57 I also heard E=MC2 by Big Audio Dynamite, released in 1985.
Hahaha!! I was thinking the same!!
@@reginald3874 E=MC2 is one of my favorites. But being born in 95, I was never sure if it hit American airwaves or not (at least on pop stations). Really cool to hear it here.
Each car was so unique in design back then I miss that
Aug 26,1988 here... a great time in L.A.sports
The LA kings had just acquired Wayne Gretzky two weeks earlier
The LA Lakers had just won a Game 7 to clinch the NBA championship two months previous
And in 50 days Kirk Gibson would launch a back-door slider into the Right Field Pavilion for a historic Game 1 winning Home Run. Helping to propel the LA Dodgers to the 1988 World Series victory a few days later
Thank you sir for this video! Being from the LA area, it's amazing to see it from a time I wish I could say I lived through. The way LA looks hasn't changed dramatically but the music, culture, fashion, cars, etc sure have. You were way ahead of your time recording this considering dashcams are just starting to catch on.
Every one had one
@@briankelly9347 negative
Agreed. Everything looks pretty much same since I was born in 1989..... streets and some buildings...
We didn't need no stinkin' GPS; we had note pads and paper maps!
Wow your comment made me remember how i did it back in the days im not that old, born in 1989, but as a teenager i had to move around, i remember i reviewed maps before going out or just telling the taxi driver the location. It was like an adventure sort of
Thomas guide.
George Stone ok boomer
So ypu still have no gps in your car.Noo remember the times when you had to fold and undfold maps a million times and still not finding your destination,glad that changed
You get directions from the person you travel to and you wright them on a note pad
zoned out on this like it was time travel.
It's so amazing to hear the Doors being referred to as "classic rock" back in 1988!!! Morrison was only dead for 17 years back then. By this point in time we are closing in on the 50th anniversary of his death.
i guess its like in 2013 people calling 2pac classic 90s hip hop, the genre was younger
what is the Doors
Classic rock got its own genre and station (KLSX) in L.A. around 1987-ish.
Classic rock stations today play Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, etc. Some songs less than 20 years old. The format evolves as the years go by
This is how LA looked last time the Dodgers won the World Series
Lmao
And last one they'll ever win!
Wanna bet?
And we haven’t won since due the the Red Sox cheating. What an absolute rip off. Robbed us of all those new memories.
Fuck Kirk Gibson
28:20 No joke, every weekday I was cutting through this dude's neighborhood taking this same exact turn after driving from my job in Burbank 🤣🤣🤣
@@mikiudovcic3246 Pretty certain it was my current car a 2018 blue Hyundai Elantra 😆
I was suprised when he took the same turns to get to his house becuase i work close by his house lmao.
I was born in 77. Love the 80s, playing out all day long. Good times 😊
I absolutely would have loved to see this done every decade since the 50s
Why was this so interesting to watch? It's literally just some random guy driving home from work which I presume. I just watched through this after reading Jalopnik's article about it and didn't think I'd watch through the entire 31 minutes of it but I certainly did. There's also not one song he played on his radio as he kept changing the channels that I didn't like. So nostalgic. Times certainly have changed and how I wished I could travel back to this time period.
Flashback time...at 22:40 ish..lapd deputy chief glen levant on the radio...a few years earlier I dated his oldest daughter..awesome girl..should have stuck around LA...but life happens
As he is surfing the radio, I hear different songs on different stations that all play on the same station now...
Sad that this commute at the same time today would be twice this amount of time.
Dang, he entered at the Venice Blvd. entrance and look at how much greener the 405 used to be!
Now it’s condos left and right
Great memories for me. I was 20 and had just moved to San Diego for school but made that trek up the 405 many a time. Some observations: 1) On a Friday at 6pm, it may take twice as long now to make this same trip to Van Nuys Blvd. 2) At 12:10, you'll notice a cylindrical building on the west side of the 405. It's the old Wang Labs building and it was turned into apartments/condos. I believe you can see it from the hills above from a scene in the movie, To Live and Die in LA. Speaking of the hills above.... 3) I would've lost a bet about the Getty being built at this time. Seems like you can clearly see the trolley track going up the hill on the left. I didn't think construction started until the 90's. 4) There's a good chance you would hear "We're Not Gonna Take It" by both the Who and Twisted Sister on 94.7 KMET and 95.5 KLOS (and maybe 105.5 KNAC) but not 97.1 KLSX in the 80's. 5) KMET turned into "The Wave" in 1987 as radio started its slow and painful demise. 6) This driver is very courteous. Going north on the 405, I was one of "those guys" that stayed to the left and then cut over to the 101 transition as late as possible. Home for me was Ventura county, so I'd head north (really west) unlike this driver. 7) I was a KNX 1070 listener more than KFWB 980. But really I'm reminded how much everyone flipped between AM and FM. Anyone remember XTRA, the Mighty 690, a 50k watt blow torch from Tijuana? Or KWST 106 (really 105.9) before Power 106? Or KTNQ 1020? OK, I'll stop now...
Having to prepare for a freeway entrance.... Now that's nostalgia.
Why? (writing from Italy)
Daniele Cognome We still have to do it, not sure what he's talking about.
@@danielecognome7501 I just mean slower Affordable cars at the time
cant get enough of this time capsule
i was born on 1988 lol , and this is amazing, all cars are good manufactured and are reliable , i really miss the 90s.
I'm addicted to los angeles oldskool driving video. Makes me wonder what I was doing at the same time just a city away.
Straight Outta Compton album was released in August 1988.
For the most part, I am still listening to the same songs today.
That's a quality sunset ride, great music on the radio (today is unbearable), civilized number trucks and SUVs on the road and ok traffic in the freeway and downtown for 6pm.
he never went downtown
I gotta say, *This is like stepping into a time capsule. Very cool to watch. Makes you think of how much has changed throughout the years eh?*
I am SHOCKED at the lack of traffic on the northbound 405 to the Ventura Fwy.!!!!!!! 6 PMish on a Friday?!!!!!!!!! Also, hearing KLSX 97.1 with news briefs gives this video a real time capsule feel. After all, '88 was an election year. Thank you.
Godbless this man for filming this way back then. Gives us youngsters a window into the past
The cars are sooo much better than today, soo much eye candy
Watching this on 8/26/19 by coincidence, exactly 31 years later. This same commute tonight will take me nearly 2 hours.
To think, as a 10 year old kid, riding my bike (mostly pushing) it up the mounds and mounds of dirt, finally reaching the top where this beautiful new bridge was being built, AT GRADE LEVEL. I wondered how cars would fit under a bridge that's eye level. Of course, months later they dug the dirt out from under the bridge some 25 or more feet and paved the new San Diego Freeway going up the pass from the San Fernando Valley and that bridge would become the Mulholland Highway bridge, a masterpiece of engineering and; if you were northbound on the 405, a grand gateway to the beautiful San Fernando Valley beyond. Some days, from that vantage point, you could actually see the Busch Gardens and the huge fermentation buildings housing the Budweiser's and Busch beers we so fondly consumed. At that time, the 405 southbound ended just beyond Sunset and dumped onto Sawtell Ave to Olympic, where the 405 picked up again. I loved the valley then, but probably due to the 405 and other modern improvements, it became an apartment jungle and the quality of life from sheep and cow and ag farms to mixed development, which beckoned me to long for other towns ....eventually settling in Manhattan Beach. That beach city is no wide open space, but that outlet to the west makes it all worth while.
the car is a 1987 Toyota Celica
🌹👍WOW!!!! THANKS FOR POSTING this time machine. 1988 good music, beautiful cars.
You took me back to a good time. Thanks for the flashback of memories.
That's 10726 McCune Ave where he pulled out of, took a left on Glendon Ave, and a right onto Venice Blvd. Then went west and made a left on Sepulveda Blvd to take the 405 north.
this is actually PRICELESS. Can't thank you enough for this time machine :)
Thank you so much for this glimpse into the past
Love these old videos, it's amazing how many little things you're reminded of just by watching them.
Wow. What a cool idea to have back in 88. I was in my early 20s. Ugly cars but some of the best times. The radio was your friend. There was nothing else unless you were a ham radio operator. Forget a cell phone, no such thing as unlimited call time for the every day guy. I used to flip between kfwb and knx for traffic. Watched the clock to make sure I caught it. KROQ was the bomb back then. Its all sh**t music now. But I guess I'm just old now LOL. Thank you for posting this.
New York?
The Car Spotting alone is so Awesome on this video!! This was a Friday Rush Hour on the 405 1988.. I remember Fridays at this time being that lite because most people who could got off earlier on Fridays to head home for the weekend and beat any traffic.. I live in Mexico now, but I was in my early 20s in 88 and drove the same drive he's driving countless times. I'm a Valley Boy and definately remember that traffic used to be this way!! Great Retro Video!!
This is exactly what I tell recent transplants to LA what traffic used to be like in the 80's - If you were going 50mph at 6:00pm , you were pissed.
Wow you were probably one of the first drivers in LA to have a “Dash Cam.” Now Dash Cams are every where! You captured a time capsule of the 405 long before the bumper to bumper traffic! There was no Getty Center Museum at the time! In 1988 I was 21 years old working in Venice by the beach even though I lived close to Downtown LA. Now I live in Texas so it was a nice video to see, bringing back memories! Thank you for capturing the good old days of the 405 when traffic actually moved smoothly!
Thank you for preserving this footage, the atmosphere is unreal. I own a 1986 Honda Prelude that looks like the blue car on the right at 15:08, it's the same color and trim model as mine.
so cool to see this video! he had the concept of the “dash camera” way ahead of time.. also, the radio, the road rage, the stupid things drivers do, people still tend to do now in 2019... very interesting to see..
This is truly fascinating to watch! Thank you for this!
I'm so glad you did this back in 1988😊 so nostalgic to watch as a 40 yr. old lifelong Southern Californian.. thank you!
Look how different those cars look like they all dont look the same like today
Thank you so much for uploading this. I feel like I'm right there in the backseat, along for the ride.
As an '06 guy, this feels strangely familiar. It reminds me of countless '80s and '90s films that I watched young which had many driving scenes with similar vehicles and scenery to this. Although I've never been to the US, this feels like home in a way. Shame to hear what's happening in CA and the US in general, but then again the same here is happening as far as I know. All I'll say, good luck and take care!
Hi Adam... If you haven't seen it yet, look up "Live and Die in L.A" from 1985. Great movie. The feeling is the same here. Greetings from Argentina.
As a car guy, I am always fascinated by the rolling stock as an indication of the times. Lots of boxy, square cars and no SUVs in this period. You see the driver directly behind an early '70s Trans Am at the beginning and a high-end Porsche as he heads north, and an early Nissan Pathfinder as our driver approaches the Van Nuys Blvd exit from the 101. Curious to know what model car we are in for the ride...
I like how the roads, trees, landscape, and city haven’t changed but the songs and cars have.
I think the driver has an 86 or 87 Toyota Celica
Surely many of us wonder what future and death all those cars will have had, as well as who the people who drove them will have been!
It’s an 85-88 Celica
I was wondering why his car looked so familiar!! I have an 89 Celica!
So cool. I was 12 years old in 1988. I remember that year my parents owned a 1981 Oldsmobile Omega and a 1979 Buick Opel. My grandmother owned a green '77 Ford Thunderbird, grandpa, a red '78 Ford F250, my other grandparents, a 1988 Chrysler New Yorker.
One of the last years of decent car styles and music.
Most of the music in this video is from the 60's and 70's