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California 1935, Wilshire Blvd in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2024
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of California 1935, a time travel Trip east down Wilshire Blvd, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight,
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.
Thanks to Jeff Kaplan for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: Jeff Kaplan on archive.org
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How many FPS did the original film have? I don't know much about old movie film, but it seems like something would break if it were running at 60FPS. Did you digitally enhance it to 60 FPS?
Did they have novacain (sp) then?
Would like to see this same drive from current time, same time of day, day of week, route, on a split frame view, just for fun.
Well seems like you've convinced enough people cause I doubt any of them read through the ENTIRE description.....I saw a few things that could use some cleaning up with, but overall looks pretty good.
No Capp !!!!
Just remember almost all these people are gone and we are watching them through our eyes from their point of view. God bless that man who recorded this for us to see in our timeline.
well not all of them, my mom was born in 1930 and still chugging along at 91 ! but God bless the one's that have passed.
@@flipflopsguy8868 he didn't say all of them, David said almost all of them.
@@flipflopsguy8868 your mom would’ve been 5 at that time. Majority are adults shown in this video, don’t think they are alive today obviously.
here here God Bless n Happy Christmas from Ireland
Shit really? All dead? I thought they must still be driving down the road in those same cars too.
Just 50 years prior to this:- No electricity, no phones, No radio, no TV, no planes, no cars. The wild west was... wild. Imagine what it must have been like for someone born at that time, seeing all the developments occurring before their eyes, over those next 5 decades.
And then, imagine a child from the 1930s who is still alive today and all the changes they've seen. It's certainly not all great change, but the technology we have today compared to back then would be mind blowing for anyone still alive from that era.
Amazing
Mindboggling truly!
Yes, that must have been an interesting experience.
But we also live in exciting times. I grew up with tube TVs and no internet. I experienced the first cellphones that were small and light and the battery lasted a week. "What's next?" I thought. I saw the first blurry images of Mars, and now rovers are driving around there. I can't imagine what our world will look like in 20 or 30 years that I, God willing, will still experience.
@@peterpetersen4619 . Same here but I think the change in technology in the 50 years prior to the video and today are not comparable. Most people went from doing things by hand to having machines to do things for them and having digital media for the very first time.
My neighbor was born in the 1920s, He recently passed away, but I can’t imagine all these changes in his life that he’s been through. it must have been weird for him and fascinating.
3:08 a man strolling through the parking lot of that gas station, probably on a very mundane errand, had no clue he was caught on camera for a brief moment. Its quite possible that he was just an ordinary guy whose life was never recorded in history in any meaningful way. And yet now, nearly 2 million people have caught of a glimpse of him in this video; many wondering what he was doing and thinking at that moment. Film has a wonderful way of making the ordinary appear extraordinary, given enough time.
Also the guy on the bicycle at 4:25
That's a good perspective!
My Italian grandma, Caterina De Gasperi, just passed away last month at the age of 101. Seeing this video I really wonder what was she doing when it was shot. She was already a young woman, 16 years old, back in my hometown of Padova. God bless her soul.
🙏
wow 101 that's so wonderful, I sincerely hope you learnt a lot from her and have that wisdom passed down to you
RIP. Your granny was 16 y/o in 1935. What is doing girl of this age? What is she dreaming of? May be about love? About couple of bucks for cinema? Youth has it's needs and laws.
What a journey huh?
@Jack Clark Rude. Reported. Bring your nonsensical juvanile humor somewhere else
The car in the center, at the very beginning, is an early Rolls Royce. I cannot tell if it is a Silver Ghost (1907-1925) or a Phantom I or Phantom II. What a delight to see the car in its natural habitat during its heyday. Priceless to a collector. The barrel headlamps indicate it's an American version built in Springfield Mass.
Thanks for sharing that info.
It’s not a pre WWl model
@@ericsmith5730 The Silver Ghost was produced until 1925. It looks like a late Ghost, about 1923-1925. The Phantom 1 started production in 1926.
What a beautiful sweet ride. Thanks for sharing
I saw Pierce Arrow parked on the street.
Beverly Hills on Wilshire; The large building on the right with the two towers was California Bank now called, Sterling Plaza. Eaton Steak and Chops was on the corner of Doheny and Wilshire. The bend in the road is at Robertson Blvd. The edit @2:53 starts at Canon Drive looking south. The Warner Brothers Beverly Hills Theater was located near 9404 Wilshire, The movie that showing is Oil for the Lamps of China which came out on June 8th 1935.
I went to google street and looked up what was left. I searched and searched when, had I just saw your comment, would have saved me time, lol! I love art deco! It does look like the base of the street lamps are still there and a few buildings!
My dad was about 9 years old in 35. He is 95 today and not in great health but his mind is sharp and he still walks around some. He rode his bicycle a lot with his cousins back then and would of course, see scenes like this regularly. It's interesting to me to get to see what he saw as a 9 year old kid riding around town and now to talk to him about it. The car he has now practically drives itself. My mom who is 86 drives it. Cars have changed a lot.
The film starts at Reeves Dr. and Wilshire, headed east. By measuring the time against the distance we travel, we're moving at about 20mph. The film switches to a side view at about Hamel Dr, just two blocks past the Creswell Drugs at 8801 Wilshire. Oddly enough, when it switches to side view, we are back at Reeves Dr. and Wilshire again, passing by the old Warner Brothers Beverly Hills theater at 9404 Wilshire. The film playing at the theater is "Oil for the Lamps of China" starring Pat O'Brien, which was released in June of 1935, so this footage is most likely summertime in Beverly Hills. We continue on in side view, ending about two blocks earlier than the first portion at about Robertson Rd. and Wilshire. You can see the same hand rails and gas station we passed in the rear facing footage at about :25-:30 again in the side view at about 3:33 - 3:39. These were evidently shot at different times, as different cars are seen passing us during this time segment. Very cool footage.
Thanks for sharing that info.
This is exactly the comment, I was looking for! 👍👍😍😍
This is the closest we're gonna get to time travel. If you think about it, it's still amazing to watch how this video takes your mind for a ride as if you are on a time travel tour on a time machine.
How do you know that? People who talk like you, are only speaking for themselves. There are others among us who never say never and instead wonder how. You will always be following us with skepticism, followed by awe, and round it will go again. I bet you lined up obediently for a mystery shot in the bloodstream didn't you?
I doubt this will be the closest. In 20-30 years we will have virtual reality so convincing, there will be time travel tourism.
We still time travel when we sleep and dream.
FBI or black suit will watch you from doing making time traveler
@@GrassPossum Time is a man made construct. You cannot travel back, there’s nothing to travel back to. It doesn’t exist. The earth is made of minerals, that get shaped into another form. You can’t undo that.
I grew up in LA, right near where this was filmed. Some of those old billboards were still up when I was a kid. Los Angeles truly was paradise in the old days.
One thing I always love about these old films is how clean, well kept, and uncluttered the cities once were.
This was a brand new, affluent neighborhood in the 1930s. Los Angeles has always had rough, sketchy areas - it's just that their locations shift over time.
@@joebehrdenver I watch these kind of movies from Englands cities and towns too. All were much better kept than today.
@@keithianlocke you allways can pick up broom and go clean it atlast near your house ...
It was about having care and thought about your fellow person. Additionally, the fear of an atomic bomb being dropped at any moment meant you had to keep everything neat and tidy so when you have to rush for shelter you can get there quickly.
@@joebehrdenver This is Beverly Hills when it was still fairly new.
Just amazing. I can't get over how clear it looks and the quality.
This film has been enhanced. They certainly did a great job.
I agree! You feel that you’re actually there. Amazing job!
china was not producing 1 trillion tons of crap everyday back then
Do you work in the tradeshow industry Nth Degree
@@jmz421 No I don't actually. Just love watching these videos
What surprises me is that how incredibly clean those streets are and also that there are practically no people walking anywhere. So strange.
Back when people had pride and standards
@@ace-ww4pc and good ol racism
@@_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- that too
Who ever walked in LA?
@@_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Your Gov so great they Took on SS Nazis after the war to help the Apollo Project Biden was alive at this time.
The streets are so clean. Also amazed how modern the streets, curbs, signs, and sidewalks look.
I love seeing when those super tall palm trees were babies. Think of all they've seen over the years. I grew up close by here, in Santa Monica, in the 60s. It really was the perfect place, heaven on earth. I miss those old days. We never learn from our mistakes.
Many in the country had moved away from God Almighty. Then heaven disappears and hell comes into play. Sad.
My grandparents came to Los Angeles from Indiana in 1932. My grandmother said it was like heaven on earth. Beautiful weather, movie stars, the beach. Couldn't believe how wonderful it was.
I am Italian, and for me this looks like a wonderful place, at least back then. I don't know today, I never visited LA
@Road Relics. You would not want to... It's a mess. Everyone who be is no one, think they are someone.
I bet it was wonderful!
@@roadrelics8162 LA is a wreck now, a real miserable town to be in. The metropolitan area just sprawls forever, everything is nasty and busy and dirty. Traffic is a nightmare. Housing costs are astronomical. My grandpa used to live in san Diego in the 50s and 60s, it was clean and friendly and beautiful he says. Nothing like it is today. California's hay day has come and gone by now
@@imthedarknight-8755 And San Diego is a lot nicer than the nightmare that is modern L.A.
All that vacant land facing Wilshire reminded me of movie star Mae West telling me back in the 1970s the reason she was so rich was that she had invested the bulk of her earnings during the 1930s in buying up real estate along Wilshire Blvd. That sure paid off. Brilliant lady.
I would be interested to hear more of anything you have to say, thanks!
Lots of stories and jokes about Mae West, probably most not true. Heard she said, “A hard man is good to find.” (:-))?
Me too I'd be interested in learning about Mae West's Real Estate on Wilshire 😃 Facinates me 😃
It’s amazing how similar Wilshire is today, yet how different: it’s also neat seeing all of the newly planted rows of trees.
@@somedumbozzie1539 Around Canon Drive and Wilshire in Beverly Hills.
Yes that's what I was thinking , it's nearly exactly the same and feeling too . . 😃
Amazing when film is cleaned up and enhanced it looks very modern. Looks like a antique modern car club going down the road but its real. Well done! Thank you for this amazing film! 👏
It would be fair to assume that californian roads have not been patched ever since then
@John Cocktoaston With how in state taxes you guys pay the roads could've been paved in gold. lol
@@Adamz678 This is why we have a State Lottery - lol 😂
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Right?! 😂😂😂
Toady they would be asking what all hose sideway tents are about and where is the sewage plant they smell.
Amazing how many Service stations
(gas station) and car dealerships. Auto was a huge growth business back then.
Ironically... There's about 50x the number of cars now, but most of the stations are gone.
Oil was a big business back then
Yes, GM bought the train stations entire in California and shut them down.
@@xray606 Amazing how much more reliable cars are now - All the service stations were because cars needed maintenance every 1000 miles.
These cars are high maintenance and the fuel wasn't great they didn't get great miles per gallon.
I love seeing old film footage of big cities. For whatever reason, the businesses fascinate me. They were mostly mom and pop stores. Very few chains. And look - not a Starbucks in sight!
I'm always fascinated by the businesses as well.
I just love those old stock films, especially when they are digitalised and colourised. It’s like going back in time.
The original films are SO much better.
the colorizing makes it appear like all the cars are coated in rust! 😣
@@potatoegirl31 It made the cars look purple. Newer enchantments are better... it has improved.
At around the 3 minute mark a movie theatre is showing Oil for the Lamps of China - released 8th June 1935.......
Yep at the Warner Bros. Beverly Hills Theatre.
Great observation!
We should not be giving anything to China these days!
@@gmar7836
When those
nasty aliens are heading our way, or a giant killer
asteroid is on a collision course with Earth...
Then we'll ALL be friends...China...USA...UK...AU...Russia...etc
.
@@klyvemurray I’m willing to be friends with any country except China, North Korea and South Korea Now that I know what really goes on in those countries. Evil
I was born in Dec.1931,so my early recollections are a bit fuzzy,however I remember when I was four or five how we would gather around the radio to listen Radio Mystery Theater or Amos and Andy .Soap operas were plentiful during day such as Ma Perkins etc.The streets were safe for kids to go outside and play without a parent handy close by.Moms were at home raising the while Dad was at work but Moms kept tabs on and talked to each other about family etc.
Really????
wow really? You are 90 years old! most probably the oldest person to comment here 🔥🔥
Interesting to learn that Amos ‘n’ Andy started out as a radio show with white actors playing the roles. I remember the TV show playing in the UK in the 50s and very entertaining it was too.
Parabéns quantos anos você tem hoje. Brazil
@@clintonearlwalker fun! Thanks for Radio Dismuke steer.
Wow, impressive! I looked at the source video and I'm really impressed you got it to look as good as you did! Keep up the good work!
For the first time in history we have the entire rise and fall of an empire captured on film. Simply amazing.
Yeah, but the video and pics from the 1700s are low rez.
wow the streets and sidewalks look so clean, you don't see garbage and shits all over like today.
@@cba4389 well someone should create a flip book from the paintings
@@cba4389 best comment ever
This video is tripping me out, in a good way. It really does feel like stepping into a time machine. If those people only knew that in the year 2021, people would be watching them driving their cars on something called a computer. Most of these people are spirits/souls now. The only bummer is knowing that the audio is not real--it's been added on. Even knowing that, the audio does a good job of immersing us me into the film and makes me feel like I'm in the same car as the videographer. The coolest thing I've seen in years!
They're not spirits/souls now..., they're probably watching this video in a brand new body saying that this view reminds something in their memorie..., reincarnation !
In 2121 they will watch footage of people driving during 2021 lmao.
We all lived on earth before these people can very well be alive right now
The audio isn't a problem, there are videos from the late 20's with real sound, and they sounded just like we sound now.
@@broiven2680 Do you seriously believe in that shit?
Who’s disliking this video? What, you can’t handle how things were 86 years ago? Great picture quality and nice to have a window back in time.
they hate classic cars I suppose
@@roadrelics8162 They hate anything that deals with history.
@@roadrelics8162 Classic cars are awesome. Me and my dad own a Rover P5B from 1971. Not as old as the cars in the video obviously, but we love it.
Those cars parked along the side street at 2:52, those were some really nice cars! Probably belonged to movie execs or actors. They look like the kind Carole Lombard would be driving in a high society kind of role.
thank you so much ;) !
City for people. I would be more than happy to see modern cities like this.
Love it!!
My Grandmother was born in 1928 and Grandfather in 1925, they are both gone now but I always admired their childhood stories they would share with us. 1937 would have been smack dab in the prime of their childhoods!!
I remember once a cousin of mine bought a 1999 Gmc pickup truck 5 speed stick shift, my Grandmother who hadn't drove in over 30 years at the time jumped in grabbed a gear and took off down the road we lived on in Texas. All of us grandchildren were blown away, when she turned back into the yard she reminded us all that automatics were not optional when she was coming up lol!!
"STAY IN YOUR LANE!"
"What lane?"
that's what happens when everyone owns the same car. you just yielded to the car in front of you, and passing someone took considerable effort
Hey, at least the mono lane is not two way too.
I didn't get the point of the thick white line, since several vehicles wandered back and forth across it, as if it had no real significance. Driving was much more dangerous back then. No seat belts, no crumple zones, non-safety glass windscreens, no eyesight tests, a lot of drink-driving, no doubt.
‘These are all MY lanes’
@@SuperLittleTyke right/left lanes. stay on either side of line for 4 lanes
On that day all these drivers had places to go and were probably casually thinking their day ahead or their families. Now all lost in time. To capture someone's life so long ago is a strange thing but it gives us an amazing insight into how people lived then. You see these cars in museums but to see them in use 86 years later is even better especially with the amazing colour that has been added. Probably takes a long time, thank you for doing it.
thank you so much 🙏
Would really get you thinking
Makes you realize so many of us need to slow down and enjoy this crazy ride of life and not always live in the future but live in the present.
It certainly makes one think
Back when you can own a home while working at a gas station
Yep thats true nowdays if you owned the station it might not be enough, Lol.
Well you don't want to do that in LA for sure but hell California is a fucking big state and the minimum wage of $15 an hour is state wide so why not live in I don't know, how about Ridgecrest? or Hesperia? Or Victorville? or the other like 1000s of cities and towns that have a gas station in CA. My friend moved to Placerville on a 10 acre lot with an out of this world home 2400 sqft with like 5 bedrooms, really incredible, with deep forest, small lake, and great views for only $370k he paid for it with his 401k. You don't have to be rich and have a good life in California just get out of the $$ cities.
My father moved from Ft Smith, Ark to Los Angeles in 1932 looking for work. This video gives me a glimpse of the Los Angeles my father knew. A better time.
This is mindblowing!!! All those empty lots on Wilshire. Gas stations and cars, cars cars, cars everywhere. Thanks for the quick trip in a time machine. While i'm glad i'm alive now, this is so awesome to see this little slice of 1935 Wilshire Blvd....
Yeah, the empty lots on Wilshire is the most dramatic difference from then to today!
9 cent gas at the one station. LOL!
@@buckykattnj Yeah but that was prob pretty expensive for 1935 Im guessing.
@@leemoore9933 After looking into things a bit, it looks like gas was never 9 cents a gallon... more likely 19 cents a gallon, which just happens to be the 1935 average price. I imagine the '1' on the sign had disappeared.
As far as it being expensive... prices in the 1920s had been higher, as economies of scale were only just kicking in... so 19 cents would have been a new low in 1935, but with 1935 being the depths of the Great Depression, it must have still hit a lot of people in the wallet hard. Expensive, no, but still not affordable.
That said, with fuel and engine technology improving yearly, 1930's cars would have squeezed a lot more mileage out of a gallon of gas than a 1920 model... which wasted a lot of fuel on cylinder wall washdown and incomplete combustion due to the extremely low compression... the earlier cars were pretty finicky and required a lot more maintenance that a 1930s car... which all cost money.
One thing for sure, 1935 raised some tough-as-nails people, which I always enjoyed talking to... shame they are mostly gone now... a generation of resourcefulness gone in a blink of time.
I want to jump through the screen and stay there. To be 86 years away from 2021 would be heaven to me.
sure it sounds fun, but WWII is about to happen. god help you if you are a woman and you go back.
@@mikepayne1350 The 4 years of WWII in the U.S. was a walk the park compared to the time we're living in now. I'd take that in a second over 2021. And I don't know why you say "God help you if you are a woman and you go back". Every decade since women won the right to vote has been progressively better for them. Millions were in the work force in the early to mid 20th century and were living very happy, productive lives.
@@Christopher070 unless you were drafted
@@mikepayne1350 At 51, there'd be no chance if that. My original comment was personally speaking. :)
@@mikepayne1350 or black
It’s amazing how clean the area is and brand new the sidewalks are.
Looks like paradise to me
Nice to see the level of California driving skill hasn’t changed a bit...
Ha! That's funny. The lines on the road are more guidelines than actual rules. It seems back then you just drove in the general direction you wanted to go and try to not hit anything.
@Deport ALL Trump Voters troll
@Jail EVERY Trump Voter tell your doctor to rebalance those meds :)
@Arrest ALL Trump Voters well... no. However it doesn't matter because t&%$p is completely irrelevant now, as are his worshippers so stop bringing them attention they no longer deserve. Let them all fade away.
at least they drive in a straight line
It's an extraordinary remastering. It is just like going back in time. Can't get over the lack of lines on the street pavement, and everyone is just kind of meandering in the same direction. There isn't even a center line to divide traffic. But there were lines in crosswalks. Fascinating how many service stations and car dealerships were on this stretch of Wiltshire, too.
There were no crosswalk grids or ADA compliant sidewalk corners either...
thank you so much!!
I laughed when I saw the "Used Cars" dealership.
No traffic lights either. All the safety measures came down the many years since. I love all the old gas stations!!
They drive better back then for sure.
The cleaned up footage and sound actually puts this into our time. It's amazing how the lack of these things separate us from the past.
Vacant lots on Wilshire Bl. just blows my mind! Those old time filling stations are all gone too.
People really loved classic cars back in that era
Wrecked them, too. Did you see the one on the back end of the wrecker?
Those cars weren't classic at the time. "Classic" would be a horse-drawn carriage.
I guess they had no choice unfortunately.
@@MarkWhich - Unfortunately? Would love to have owned a car from that era. I still have vivid dreams about my uncle’s first car which he parked at the back of our house when I was aged 3 or 4. It must have been built in around 1935 and survived perhaps 40 years.
@@romanval69
(psst...he *knew* that. He was being funny.)
You really go back in time and FEEL like how it was like to be living in 1930s... Thank you for making these..
Canturk Civelek: That's what makes these so awesome to see. It's really beautiful, isn't it? As a native Angelino, I'm a little surprised, but it's been awful for so long, it's nice to see when it was new.
But, that driving is horrible. haha
@Umb O Aren't you a ray of sunshine
I got a kick of hearing those horns honking!
Ahh man, as a car guy I absolutely love this!! So many original cars, and so so so many potential hot rods!!
Half of these are hopefully still on the road today, as said hot rods hahah
We know at least one that is not, if you look at the wrecked car on the back of the wrecker at 2:15
Back when California was still a dignified state to live in. Very, very long ago.
Great Depression wasn't fun however
This wasn't an accurate depiction of society in 1930s California. Beverly Hills wasn't exactly a place where you'd ever see poverty. Love these videos though.
This is so dang cool! I can't imagine the person shooting this had the wildest idea it would be watched by so many nearly a hundred years in the future.
to me, what really stands out is how CLEAN it was then..
It's due to segregation. Something I hope Biden brings back.
Pictures of New York and Los Angeles during the Great Depression show that even at our supposed “lowest point” as a nation, the streets were still spotless. Today in San Jose if an important official comes to our city they pressure wash all the streets, sidewalks, and buildings because they’re literally stained black with caked on piss, shit, and garbage.
@@APT420 segregation or cleaning up??
@@cuanking2311 The two are related.
@@APT420 what the fuck?
Looked a lot better back then than it does now.
Both my grandparents were born the year prior in September and December of 1934. It’s crazy that they were still babies when this was filmed. My grandpas mother (my great grandmother) was born in 1905 so she would’ve only been 30 years old when this was filmed (similar to whatever age the lady was at 4:11), she passed away in 2004 at 99 and 1/2, I was only 2 years old at the time. My grandpa then passed away in 2017 at 82 years old and my grandma passed away 3 years later in 2020 at 85 years old. I miss them a lot, it’s crazy how much things change in a short amount of time.
G'day from Australia...This is truly remarkable ....This is better than any TV show ...it's real ...THANK YOU ...
thank you so much!!
It’s the real original america. La noire style
It's sort of real. The color was added and the sound is outright fake. I used to own a Ford Model A. That car was famous for having an ah-oo-gah horn but very few others did, especially the big expensive cars. Nobody in a Packard (equivalent of a big Mercedes today) would have an ah-oo-gah horn -- they would have a big loud look-out-for-me horn. Yet in the video the ah-oo-gah horn is the only horn you ever hear, and you hear it over and over -- but there aren't any Model A's following or passing the camera. Sorry, that detracts from the realism.
@@johnsimion2893 thanks Captain buzzkill
@@Don-qb1vi - I thought @John Simon’s post very interesting
Crazy drivers! My Dad was 7 then! He has seen a lot of changes over the years. Still with us at 92.
@Linda K, what a blessing to still have him
Cool
This video gave a small hope to me that people in my country will start driving sane in another 50-70 years. (it's like what you see in this video now)
I love how so many drivers approaching the camera are driving on the wrong side of the road, not giving a damn about oncoming traffic going the other direction!
This is awesome. I just drove down Wilshire the other day on my way home. Really cool to see it old-timey style.
The whole Town was a Car Show
Would love to go back in time. I’d be shouting about the certain ones lol. Very few left
Now it's a town full of show offs!
Probably because this is the 30s when cars looked like this
cant say what the town is now......
Many car businesses along the way, seems to be Model A type vehicles though the Model A production ended several years earlier. Most are a frame with engine and controls, a passenger box, and engine covering. The country had just emerged from horse and buggy 20 years earlier and out west it might be less time.
My Father was 2 years old back then. He goes on and on about that era I think I'll start listening to him.
My father is around the same age. He does not talk much now, though I got his stories years ago and wrote them down.
You should consider preserving your father's stories while you have him and he is willing to tell them. 😁
Yes, listen to him while you still can. My mom was two then, and she's no longer with us. My dad was 12; he's gone too.
You should! I always talk to my dad and he will tell me how things look back then and I will always enjoy listening to his story. Unfortunately now I won’t able to because he is already gone and I wish I can talk to him more about it.
Way more autos on the road than I would have imagined for the period. When I came along in 1940 my dad had two autos, a 1937 Chevy sedan (musty brown) and a black 4-door Chevy sedan-we had those two cars until 1949 when he bought a 1949 Chevy fast-back sedan. Surprisingly, both of the older cars were very reliable and performed well.
That was great, it really does make things appear more natural and relatable.
May I offer you all a minor history lesson to put 1935 in some perspective:
In terms of horrific historial events it's still pre-WW2/Hitlers madness, pre-Pearl Harbor, pre-nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1934: A certain mafia dude - Al Capone - has just been moved to a new prison that opened the same year: Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
1935: The world famous Hollywood-sign is still being spelled "Hollywoodland".
Frank Sinatra got his first break at the age of 20 in 1935 when his mother persuaded a local singing group, the 3 Flashes, to let him join.
Publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst's massive Hearst Castle (now a landmark) in San Simeon (between Los Angeles and San Francisco) is still under construction.
Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures merge to form 20th Century Fox.
Jimmy Stewart, 27, and fresh from the theaters, signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). His first Hollywood role was a minor appearance in the Spencer Tracy vehicle The Murder Man (1935). It would take another 11 years before he starred in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, considered one of the greatest films of all time.
Notable movie premieres: Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, Marx Brother's A Night at the Opera, Mutiny on the Bounty, Boris Karloff's Bride of Frankenstein and Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo)
7th Academy Awards 1935: Frank Capra's influential romantic comedy It Happened One Night made a clean sweep, taking home
the top five award categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. (FYI: It wasn't until 1936 in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars").
At the same Award show, child star Shirley Temple received the first Juvenile Award at age six, making her the youngest Oscar recipient ever. The same year she also put her handprint in the cement at
Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
Top Five Money Making Stars: 1. Shirley Temple 2. Will Rogers 3. Clark Gable 4.Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 5. Joan Crawford
Judy Garland, only 13 years old, signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Four years later she starred in The Wizard of Oz (1939), seen as one of the greatest films of all time.
Elizabeth Taylor is still a child (3 years old), at the time living in London.
Mickey Rooney is just 15 years old and hasn't even begun acting in the enormously popular Andy Hardy-film series (1937-1946)
Legendary slap sticks/comedy series/short films are still very much under production: Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, Marx Brothers, and The Three Stooges.
Born in 1935: Elvis Presley, Diahann Carroll, actors M. Emmet Walsh, Dudley Moore, Charles Grodin, Darth Vader/David Prowse, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Jerry Orbach, Diane Ladd, and Mr Woody Allen..
Film debuts 1935: Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Danny Kaye, Frances Langford, Vivien Leigh, James Mason, Burgess Meredith, Roy Rogers
1933-1939: dancing legends Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers stars in nine films together at RKO Pictures,
Film producer, "The Boy Wonder", and co-creator of MGM, Irving Thalberg is still alive (died 1936).
1936: Margaret Mitchell's epic novel Gone with the Wind is published. The same year film producer David O. Selznick buys the rights and starts planning the production.
Classical films yet to be released:
Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Marx Brother's A Day at the Races (1937)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ninotchka (1939, Greta Garbo)
Stagecoach (1939 - John Wayne's breakthrough role)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
And finally:
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film ever made. (FYI: David Fincher's Mank (2020) that just earned a leading-ten nominations at the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards in April, is a biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Citizen Kane)
The End
I guess with the new movie Manc we'll get to see some of that again recreated when the town wasn't a crap hole like it is now.. also when you could safely walk the streets without being accosted
1935: America was still deep in the Great Depression. Fascinating to see how California Motor Vehicle Code had a long way to go, roads were unstriped and largely unblemished, parking lots were unpaved.
Seemed like a little too liberal application of the horn sound effect, and always the same voice, duration, stereo placement, and level. But this is a wonderful reworking of the original! Keep it up!
Agreed except for Kane. Vertigo is now the greatest movie ever made. Beat Kane a few years back. Nothing, is Vertigo!
This is not history, this is your obsession with movies and actors.
Thank You for the capsulated history lesson...some of our younger viewers have no idea, but it puts things in perspective, especially concerning Hollywood.
NO graffiti and no trash, AMAZING.
I was noticing how clean the streets and sidewalks were vs. today
Don’t be fooled...my guess is that this footage was used by developers as part of a marketing campaign to bring laborers to LA. One block in either direction would likely reveal the reality of depression-era malaise.
Every one took pride in their cities..
No liberals
Not that we can see
Being from LA; it’s mind blowing how small the palm trees were. Nowadays they’re the tallest things on the street
The fact that people are actually driving in 1935 was amazing. This was in the middle of the great depression. When you think about it many people were lucky at this point to have a car at all.
Well, this was a fairly high income area. I haven't figured out what stretch of Wilshire it is, but they pass a Packard dealership... Packard was high, high end. I imagine this is near Rodeo drive.
That said, a lot of those cars are upwards of 10 years old. Cars generally didn't last as long, and it wasn't socially acceptable in some cases to be driving last year's model, let alone a 10 year old car.
I read somewhere that the movie studios kept a lot of people employed at that time.
What a charming world they lived in, visually speaking.
There's no bums crapping on the sidewalk, no tri colored mohawk hairdos. Can't be the same place can it?
Yes, because people still have “tri-colored Mohawks”...
@@brandong1026 They do, but there's stuff that makes that look normal..
Like people crapping on the sidewalk. Usually in the entrance of some business
@@mike6932 You're right, etiquette is dead.
Another difference that stands out to me is the lack of graffiti and litter. Forget Great Reset; I want a Great Rewind 👍😃
Proto streetview! If you'd like to follow this today in streetview, here is an Itinerary
0:06 - starts at about Wilshire and Canon, we are looking west and traveling eastward. The Beverly Wilshire is visible in the background on the left side of the street, and the Sterling Plaza building on the right.
1:32 - A block after the Wilshirmart on the left I expected to see the Lumiere Music Hall, but it was not built until the following year.
1:41 - the CLEANERS building on the left is the Takano Hair and Nails building at 9006 Wilshire.
2:26 - the DRUGS building on the is still there today, at 8800 Wilshire.
2:41 - the RAINER building on the right now houses the Caravan Rug Co. at 8725 Wilshire.
2:51 - Part 2 starts, looking SW across Reeves, traveling eastward along Wilshire.
3:02 - The OIL LAMPS OF CHINA building ais gone now, but is also visible on the left at 0:06 of this video.
3:28 - the north side of 121 S. Elm.
3:34 - 120-122 and 124 S Elm
3:40 - 121 S Rexford
4:09 - 128 S Oakhurst
4:26 - A cyclist!
4:36 - 121 S Wetherly
4:43 - 9006 Wilshire
Here's a good birdseye shot of this same stretch of road around the same time. waterandpower.org/7%20Historic%20Photos%207/Wilshire_Blvd_ca1939.jpg
That is some pretty cool video, historically and Visually. You get to see how much things have changed. And it's in color which is nice.
Nice video Thanks for sharing my Dad was two years old in 1935 wow this is awlsom thanks!
That would be fascinating if someone filmed the exact same drive today and put the videos side by side.
It’s cool to see this. Thanks!
Thx ;)
Yes!
You’ll only see playwood windows..
This showed lots of open spaces. I bet there are near zero today.
it would also be at least a 1/2hr long considering traffic and lights LOL ... I am curious though. I may try to do this if I can pinpoint the taller buildings at the beginning if any of them are even still around. I will definitely be looking though. This was awesome to watch
Almost a century ago, but the roads, the buildings, everything looks so neat.
^^
Thats because our President had Californians who were not off their rockers yet. There was pride in being a Californian then. Now people whisper it, to prevent a DNC mob from destroying their homes.
@@kathyrogers2065 no you moron it’s because almost everything you see there would have around 10 years old. The population was a fraction of what it is now and a wealthy community. And there wasn’t as much of the corporate, “cheap” market-driven disposable products which litter our streets today. Plus given the time of film, the post-Depression, Roosevelt government actually would have been more “socialistic” than any today.
@@markw-s5734 You are wrong, I have been to places older than 100 years where people have not let it turn into a shithole, you been to Europe?. This video was many years into the depression, but politicians and people still had the backbone to call out bad behavior by a few that ruins it for everyone in the community.
Can we not pull politics into every corner of our lives?
0:07 Still DRE is playing in my head
Those gas guzzling 103 octane fully leaded motors sounded beautiful :)
This is neat. The city looked clean, dignified, the cars classy.
I think I see some litter at 3:11
@@MattRichardsonX - Compare that to today.
it was white back then
"I see dead people", "Where", "Everywhere they don't know their dead yet".
@Deep Moticons- Clearly you are not dignified, then, if you don't even know what it is. How amusing.
A pigeon struts around ,crapping on what others built, exudes a bad smell, churtling nonsense with puffed out chest acting like it won something. But all it's doing is walking around in its mess.
Say, you wouldn't be one of those ''useful idiots' the Democrat Communists call their followers, would you ? That IS what they call you.
"You will own nothing, be nothing, achieve nothing, live in idiocracy and be happy."
Some people like being that, like being the crab the pulls others down that almost escaped the crab pot, because they can't do what others can. Its the gaslighting mooch syndrome, not wisdom.
Here's a clue - that you don't understand something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Better footage than most convenient store surveillance today.
👍
Because it’s shot on motion picture film with a good lens.
TRUE INDEED.
Not to mention N.A.S.A. lol
@@fukngroovnkc3700 Not being able to make a picture of earth from the moon rofl 🤣
Fabulous. It’s like a movie set. Nobody spaced out of there heads . So clean. Amazing.
This is incredible restoration work. If you'd just told me this was a period film made in the last couple years, I'd have believed it.
I was reading David Niven’s autobiography and the way he described California in the 30s was like this. He said, and I’m not sure of the exact number, but he said when he lived there in the 30s there were something like 4 people to a square mile. It was absolutely a paradise. Zoom to the present day and California has become overpopulated and overrun by wilders: people living like zombies in the warm California sun. Moreover, like so many places of former glory, I live a few hours drive from coast of the Mediterranean Sea and when you read from artists like Matisse, the painter, how the French sea-side village of Colure was as something from another time, it makes you cry. Now, every village---anywhere in the world---looks the same: leather shop, gadget shop, souvenir shop, ice cream hut, etc. It’s modern life, but I cringe at how every time there is something unique about anything, we mass produce it and mass tourism it, iron out its rough edges, and smooth it down to mediocrity. Venice has cruise ships come in to port that are stories higher than any building in the city. The throngs of tourists are like ants running through the winding streets making it a sea of suntanned gaping wonder-seekers who only look and drink cokes. What’s a heartbreaker about California is that because of zoning laws, and too many people, they have ruined many beautiful places there by paving over just about everywhere to plant another subdivision. To see tent cities and faceless street dwellers in every city in California is bad enough, but imagine the people living there who have to see rough sleepers everywhere they go? It’s no one’s fault, but it seems the more we advance the more we tend to screw things up.
This is definitely the coolest video I’ve watched on TH-cam in a while.
thank you so much!
Clean streets, looked classy, and safe. Now those days are long gone. Amazing what bad policies can do
How wonderful!! Because automobiles and the driving experience were still very new, everyone was enjoying the experience, instead of being consumed with getting somewhere on time, or concerned with the guy who wavered a bit in the lane next to them. Instead of cussing, giving somebody the finger, or trying to run them off the road, they just keep motoring along, glad that they no longer need to ride a horse. This modern world could sure use a bit of what's NOT in this film. I'll bet kids weren't worrying about being shot in school, either. This modern world sucks, and it's we humans that have nobody to blame but ourselves.......
The cars then looked like a cross between a modern SUV and an Amish horse buggy. And I agree about the modern world. It's awful.
Interesting, because I often think about this video called 'Driving Around New York City 1928' though I think it was filmed in 1927. But I often think about the cop asking him, "You crazy nut, where did you learn how to drive?" And the guy responds, "I didn't. It's a gift." And that took me aback, because in my mind driving is so new, but he's basically saying that he was born to drive, and also the cop's comment, it's like driving is a very established part of everyday life. And it made me think that to them in 1927, driving is the same as cellphones for people born after 2000.
The style of the vehicles was like no other. Rolling art pieces
@Umb O wrong
The Rolls Royce at the begining is bad ass cool.
When traffic lanes were just a suggestion. If I’m not mistaken, break lights might not have been standards on cars. Outstanding job NASS!
It's 'brake lights'. Sorry, but couldn't help but notice.
thank you so much ;)) !
No, brake lights pretty much became standard with wiring harnesses. Or brake "light", as lower end cars only got one.
Amazing how clean and neat everything was in that area. It might the remastering and AI software but still impressive.
Viewing these may be as close to time travel as we'll every get. It's almost surreal to watch, and hard for my mind to fathom it was an actual, REAL time experienced as 'normal' by people back then.
My gramps was born this year, he's still kicking💪💯
I wish him all the health!
I everybody, one of my favorite past times is to try and figure out where some of these old videos were actually taken. Well I don't know if anybody else knows this but the large building you see on the right is the old Californis Bank which is now the Sterling Plaza, and if you look closely on the left, you can see the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, both of which are still standing today. As the cars are travelling eastbound, they come across and old grocery store called the WilshirMart , which was located at Wilshire and Doheny. When I know where it was actually shot, I can imagine myself actually being there at that time. What a trip Back to the Future!!!
Thanks, I was hoping for someone like you to come along! I'm from OC; LA is familiar, but not enough to figure out something lime this!
Ha - you're right! For some reason I kept thinking they must be traveling west and Sterling plaza is so hidden nowadays, I didn't realize what it was and thought they must be somewhere around Koreatown.
Notice how clean everything is
Everything looked a whole lot cleaner and safer than it is now !
This starts in Beverly Hills. The bend in the road is at Roberston.
Confirmed!
Thanks for the info!👌
I grew up on La Cienega & Cadillac 👍😁
...building on the left at Robertson on the southwest corner that says Drugs on the sign...is still there...
I love these videos, many of the buildings are still there. It would be nice to see walls without graffiti again, sidewalks free of trash and tents, businesses reopened. A great city built over decades of hard work and effort by so many people, all squandered in just a few short years. So very sad.
Graffiti is everywhere on fences, walls and buildings, and trucks. What really astounds me is that there are enough idiots around to do all of the work involved in defacing so much of other people's property. I can't understand why they would even bother. It really makes me angry to see it. How mankind has changed since those times, and not for the better.
Only 68 years after the last wagon train.
From absolutely nothing to this in 70 years.
Pretty amazing.
Very beautifully done, can’t wait too see the rest of your stuff, what a cool channel!
That is 31,620 frames!
That is alot of frames and alot of work!
Thank you for your diligence and obvious perfection of your craft!
I think it's done using AI type algorithm
It would be cool to film the same route today and do a side-by-side comparison
Today’s version would be a bunch of cars stuck in traffic lol
the same tree
I thought the same thing.
Dude you are absolutely right I want to see that it's crazy how beautiful it was then and now with pollution and littering also all the f'n crapy graffiti such a huge difference I bet my life on it
Today's version would be full of homeless people, graffiti, and garbage.
What a coincidence. I'm studying old 1930's car design and I picked this video randomly to see some cars. And then in the video we drive by two different car dealerships! Pretty great stuff
Not a single homeless!
LA in 1935 looks better than LA in 2021
How do you mean?
Most definitely!
@@liampatrick3110 democRATS ruin everything
@@joedirte716 How so?
@@liampatrick3110 the video explains everything.what a shithole la is now
Amazing piece of film; there's such clarity the license plates can be easily read. Thank you for your effort; much appreciated by myself, and I'm certain many more.
It's as if someone time traveled with a 4K camera to capture this.
@@elleg.7880 If they used 35mm film, it is as good as 4K. Although film that old was shot in black and white. This was colourized.
Would any of these people have even imagined that we’d be watching this in 2021? This was so clear! Like time travel! Thank you.