Late forties, yes, not early 40s. I wouldn't want to have to worry about fighting in the deadliest conflict in world history and even if I wasn't doing that, I couldn't get a new car post February 1942-45. And had to use the same old tires for the entirety of the rest of the war, rationings would be hard to come simply because of the demand for the war effort, and even in the late forties, the best was yet to come, the 1950s
@@TraumaER there’s a possibility. If they’re not dead yet they’ll be dead any day now. Would be honestly really cool to talk to them if they’re still around
@@MeatPez bro this was 80 years ago and he's driving so he was probably 20 something during this video meaning he's over 100 also meaning no he's no longer alive and no there's no chance he is
@@musicpro7278 who pissed in your panties bro? We don’t have the verified age of anyone. I said there’s a POSSIBILITY you absolute moron. I doubt they’re alive but we’re on the brink of it still being possible. I genuinely cannot fathom your level of misunderstanding and ignorance to fundamental conversation and not even to mention slightly more in depth concepts.
It is cool, probably one of the best uses of a camera. Yeah my dad was born in 41 and died in 2010, his sister is alive who was born in 45. My friend who was born in 35 died in 2017. I know a man in Hawaii was was born in the late 20's. Thomas Sowell who was born in 1931 is still alive and healthy, Health is wealth.
I'd blame the hyper-activity that is pushed these days. There's videos of NYC in the 1920's like this. Slowwww. Today, you needing to be off "hustling", being busy doing something all the time, staying up late to do more, or to see more, driver faster, and keep your brain at 100mph.
Yeah! Cuz one tiny mistake and you'll hit a house or telephone pole. That was a complete hellhole. Ever notice how clean a dirty carpet looks in pictures?
That would have been one of the joys of a much lower population.. look at the difference between then and now 🤷♂️ that's JUST the California population as well.. 1940s - 6,907,387 2022 - 39,185,605
It's interesting how the addition of color makes the 40s seem not so far removed from the present day, or somehow easier to conceptualize or more tangible. The effect of seeing old film in black and white on the other hand enshrines it in the past - makin it unquestionably of a different time and place. Nice work!
You have to take a moment to appreciate the people who captured these videos and the people like NASS who went through the efforts of finding them and giving us literally a snapshot of time from the 1940s. ♥
@@Mikebuster its called its already there, neither of you ever take time to learn the eras your staring at in these videos, too focused on thinking it was so unadvanced it needed a clueless AI to help it. th-cam.com/video/H2lr1V_G3vQ/w-d-xo.html This is just one of thousands of examples of real color footage back then.
@@LSK2K I'm a random stranger to you on the internet. So I don't want to pretend even for a second that you know me. You can call me anything you want and make fun of an honest compliment I gave above. I will pray that nothing but love and goodness comes your way.
What a great look into the past! Having grown up in SoCal, specifically Newport Beach, I was able to recognize a lot. First segment is Balboa Fun Zone area, that’s Balboa Blvd then pans towards Palm street where you would get onto the Ferry. Second segment is 101 Fwy then transition to 101 NB thru that tunnel. I’ve gone that route 100’s of times. It’s still the same!! 3rd segment is the view of the Balboa Island bridge, then pans right towards the cliffs and up Jamboree road towards PCH. Probably wasn’t called Jamboree back then. Jamboree was named from the Boy Scout Jamboree held in Newport in 1953, on land that is now Fashion Island. To the left of Jamboree, the bluffs are where Promontory Point apartments are now, and the land below it is a shopping center now. It was a SAFEWAY (now Pavilions) and a bank at the other end next to Jamboree. The rest was filled in with little shops. Bayside drive was the intersection there. Looked like most people as today did rolling stops thru Stop signs!!😂
Thanks for clarifying, John. Outside of City Hall (where my dad worked in the 60s & early 70), none of it looked recognizable to me. I thought maybe Ramona Pkwy was Pomona and maybe the beach drive at the end was going north on PCH in Santa Monica Bay toward Oxnard. But that still didn't make sense: too many structures on the road for that stretch of PCH.
I can't believe how clean LA looked! So amazing. It wasn't crowded and none of the downtown buildings we see today were there. This is what my grandmother described to me. I imagine that this is what it looked like shortly after she bought her house there. I wish things had of stayed that way. Thanks for sharing this awesome drive before my time.
I don't think anyone has realized that you just made an outstanding observation: the fact that old color videos feel so real, like you're just there, while black and whites feel static, just like old pictures! Now I understand why, whenever I saw old colorized videos of streets and people, they felt different but I couldn't pinpoint why until now, thanks to you! 👍 Now, going the way AI and virtual reality are going, I can only imagen when technology recreates whole color animated backgrounds based on just one still, black-and-white picture! Imagen recreating everything that it was around when a black-and-white picture of your grandparents was taken! That'd be the end of longing for your long-gone, loved ones! Thanks for sharing guys!
@@onlyoneamong300 Imagine a VR application that creates a whole historical city you can walk in based on a dataset of old photos and videos and maybe some map data. It wouldn't be accurate, but it'd fill the gaps with believable content, and it would feel real.
My grandmother was in the Philippines watching the Japanese Zeros fly overhead during the IJN invasion of Luzon. Certainly a little different from sunny California! Crazily enough she and all her family ended up moving to California, where we mostly all are to this very day.
This is one of those videos where you just have to drop everything you were doing and just stare in awe as you watch from beginning to the end. There is just something fascinating about watching old footage in color. It really makes you feel more connected with the people in the past, makes you think that yeah, just like you living right now, there were people living their everyday lives 80, 100, 200... years ago, and that It's not just a random black&white footage.
I've been binge watching these. New subscriber 👍 a cal girl myself, find these back in time entertaining. the area looked so peaceful..fascinating, like I'm back in time driving behind them. The cars are so cool, no congested traffic, searching for parking, road rage, etc.. just coasting down the road.
What’s craziest to me is seeing someone walking along the side of the road, living their life. To think that that was 80 years ago and that they lived their whole life between them and now, thinking about what their life was like then, what they were doing that day, where they were walking, what they were thinking about, etc is all so mind bending. And to think 80 years from now is 2100….
100%. Crazy to see someone just going about their average Tuesday- but 82 years ago. It's so immersive with colour and sound it's like you're there. Completely surreal, videos like these are actual time machines.
I've ALWAYS thought the same when I'm watching old home movies, or even in actual movies, I pay attention to the extras and the crowd, and wonder the same thing.
It's crazy to think there was a time when you could walk down the streets of LA without having to worry about stepping on an AIDS needle or a pile of bum dung, or being stabbed.
This is truly incredible and hard to believe! Lived in SoCal 45 years. I felt completely at home from the first day. I was 23. Newport Beach was so pristine. Lived in Corona Del Mar, and I surely wish I could have seen it then! Thanks for posting this piece of history. It made me cry! We love LA ... and every inch of Southern California,,,,,!
I remember going to Newport Beach when I was a little girl in 50s. I remember there was always sand all over the streets back then. Clear out to the parking areas blocks away!
5:04 the fact that those kids would now be in their 80's and 90's, if even alive, is mind-blowing. To see something so close to real life, yet so far from it. It's truly an experience in itself.
I'm one of those kids you spoke of, in my 80s. Those times take me back to my innocence and joy of just living. Not mad at anyone. Just a new adventure every day.
I love footage like this especially cleaned up to this extent... It's almost like peering thru a window back in time... You can almost feel like you are looking in at the world of a different time.
The only thing missing from the sound effects is the sound of STICK SHIFTS in all the cars. Shifting gears all the time as you pick up from a stop. I remember it well from the early 50s when I was a very little kid. All the cars left the stop at different speeds as everyone shifted through the gears, and I heard their engines alternately roar and quiet as they fed the gas pedal between gear shifts.
What I love about this is it reflects that reality they mostly avoid in movies because it flattens everything - that intense and bleaching noon sun power, that reaches right into the back of your eyeballs, some days in LA: that pure, dry and fierce, mid-day California light.....Watching this, I felt pure heat on my face and neck, my throat got dry, and the image of an ice cold root beer with a question mark next to it, floated into my mind. Just beautiful.
That's because security cameras need a ton of storage depending on the quality setting and not everyone has deep pockets - so they compromise - it's got nothing to do with the cameras themselves
What change? I've been here all my life, You'd be surprised 80 years on It's all same more or less, save for the traffic, Cosco, Tesla charging stations and the billboard ads these days!
That long shot behind the white car starts on I 10/US-101, a little ways before Exit 1C to Cesar Chavez Ave. You'll recognise that distinctive gray roof.
Man, those cars look just absolutely amazing, beautiful deep curves, bright and really different colors. Wish the 40s-50s era style of car would come back, everything was so unique
@@kennixox262 oh for sure, I mean if you got into a wreck on either side, you’d be screwed. I’m mainly thinking, if they brought back that aesthetic, body/interior style with all modern technology in new cars. Cuz of course we wouldn’t want those things on the roads now as they we’re back then. But shoot, I think the streets would look a lot nicer with the older style
@@YerBoiTex I'm not a car expert but todays' cars are designed with various safety aspects, crash worthiness, pedestrian safety, fuel economy is why so many of todays cars look alike in order to meet the mandates.
This is incredible. I was born and raised here in southern California and know some of these areas. That clip of driving into los Angeles blew my mind. 2 lanes and hardly anyone there. Paradise! Now it's 4 lanes each side and a million cars moving 3 mph...HELL!
That narrow street part with all the oil rigs is likely what is now Seashore Drive in Newport Beach. There was one frame that had a street sign, but it was too small to read. The houses today sit next to the street just like in the video. Love this view into LA's past!
Thanks for your comment. As I was watching that, I was thinking about how narrow the street was, and how close the houses were to the street, and was wondering if it could possibly still be like that today!
@@TenMinuteTrips I was wondering too. I grew up in HB and know it started out as oil rigs. Kind of looks like the area near Sunset Beach (the homes look like that area) if it’s not in south HB.
I recognized Balboa right away, the Fun Zone gave it away! I worked on the Newport pier as a teen. That is the best colorization I have seen in a long time. LA was easy to pick up on too. What a great ride-along!!!
I moved to Los Angeles about 30 years after this was filmed in 1972. How different it was by then. Moved away 30 years ago in 1992. How different it is now is amazing !! Great job restoring this. Much of it looks like it was filmed recently !!
In Huntington Beach CA , they drilled a lot of oil wells. There was such a low number of people living in southern California that they could build the housing for the well workers right next to where they were working. I lived in one of those old places last summer. There was an well head right out side the front door. And the beach was across the street 30 yards away.
yeah at first I was surprised by all the oil derricks but the I remembered the "Labrea Tar pits" which is, of course all tarry oil. I was thinking as they drove through Huntington Beach how shocked they'd be by the 2023 cost of housing in LA and surrounds! LOL
@@dod2304 This footage is not Huntington Beach. It is now called Marina Del Rey Peninsula. Southern strip just south of Venice Beach. Huntington was very similar. All very expensive housing now for both areas.
HB has had an interesting history. When Henry Huntington owned it, he couldnt give the land away. Some farmers planted sugar beets, and thrived. BY 1921, oil was discovered., so oil derricks every 10 yards.The huge Holly sugar plant, only 12 years old was dismantled, and rebuilt in Wyoming, where it exists to this day. They then drilled for oil, and made millions, pouring it into their sugar co. Now the oill derricks are long gone, but the local HS is still the Oilers.I can remember, as an 8 year old in 1963, some oil derricks in HB and Long Beach, but nothing like the 40"s.
@@rubiconnn It looks like a water Color painting because the colorisation is done by AI, so is the upscaling/sharpening. The only thing that was done manually was the sound engineering but even with that I’m a bit skeptical.
Saludos desde Argentin. Me encanta ver esto videos. Tengo 50 años y ver estas imagnes, me hace pensar que no nos damos cuenta, que antes de nostros habia gente, hermanos que ya estaban haciendo historia y un camino, para que las siguientes generaciones disfruten lo que hoy se tiene. Si no hibieran existido los anteriores, nosotros no existiriamos y deberiamos dar las gracias a Dios y a ellos, por estar hoy donde estamos. Bendiciones a todos. Excelentes videos.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 True. But we didn't have to hear people constantly whining about being oppressed. Or being offended by pretty much everything.
AMAZING!! To those that don't know at 2:25 that white narrow building on the left is LA city hall and it looks the same to this day. That curving tunnel before you see city hall is also the same accept it looks terribly old. This recording is pure gold👌 I greatly appreciate this upload. Los Angeles looks its age now when you take the same drive.
Beautiful to look at maybe but also Looks boring. No TV, no internet, no jet skis, no bikinis, no sushi restaurants, cars were slow as sh*t.... nah, I'll stick with today thanks.
This is as close as you can get to a time machine. Kudos to the editing! Great sound and color. It feels more like a memory being played by those sci-fi machines from comics in those days.
@@wilsondassumpcao2089 I also imagine that, at this point, the oil companies were in the process of buying up that land. SoCal and LA have had a long history with oil wells populating the skyline. There was a time when oil companies realized the gold Cali was sitting and went overkill on it, putting those towers up absolutely everywhere. Just as London was once known as “the city of churches” due to the immense amount of church steeples seen across the skyline, LA was famous for it’s oil drilling towers. Now they hid them decently cleverly in concrete towers and other art pieces.
I always love seeing these old films of my city, it’s exciting to see landmarks I know, freeways as they once were, and I enjoy trying to guess the locations. Very cool!
I liked the ride down the freeway with no impatient drivers , or tailgaters trying to shove you along. That empty freeway made my day. Those 40's cars were fabulous to see in action.
Wow, that was SO cool. I’ve been transported back in time. I wasn’t around in the ‘40s but it makes me feel nostalgic. So few cars on the roads and cars driving much slower. Fabulous cars. Thanks for posting. ❤
Yet another great video, NASS! And even though you gave some info in the comments, I was able to find some more specific locations for part of it. The footage beginning at 2:49 is located in Newport Beach and the camera is on the southeast corner of Bayside Drive and Marine Avenue. The film begins looking south on Marine Avenue. You can see the bridge crossing the Balboa Bay - North Channel to Balboa Island. Some of the facades of houses to the right of the bridge can still be seen little changed today on Street View - the fourth house on the right, above the white car, still has the same roofline, with a tiny triangular gable right at the top. The house to its right is basically unchanged, and you can see Onyx Avenue to its right with the same vintage streetlamp there today. The camera then swings west to north, crossing Bayside Drive at 3:05 and shows the bluffs that were still undeveloped on Historic Aerials in 1963. The cars then ascend to the north side of Bayside - once it crosses Bayside, Marine Avenue becomes Jamboree Road starting at 3:16 where you can still see the bluffs on today's Street View. Jamboree Road intersects with Pacific Coast Highway just 1/4 of a mile north of Bayside and from there you travel to L. A., Huntington Beach and Long Beach. The directional sign was what clued me in - it shows that Los Angeles, Huntington Beach and Long Beach are straight ahead from Bayside, so therefore the cross-street shown at 3:05 can't be Pacific Coast Highway. Also, the sign shows Corona Del Mar going what would be east, in a different direction than the others, and is one mile away, so this is the correct location. Coordinates are: 33.610324, -117.889829 if you want to check it out.
I wouldn't know, I'm 22. But seems like these were simpler times or at least that's the feeling this video gave me, would be super awesome to go back in time and experience this for real.
"Simpler" being a matter of perspective. Try being a Japanese American. Soon there was going to be a knock at your door and you and your loved ones would be imprisoned till the end of the war in this very state.
I’d live to see Del Mar, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Hillcrest, Kensington, South Pasadena, Pasadena and San Marino! I LOVE your videos! Born in the 50s in SoCal, so anything before that is absolutely fascinating. Seeing my parents’ and grandparents’ worlds is mind expanding! Thank you so much!
What's funny is, that what we consider modern day today, will also be looked at the same way 80 years from now! Time really does fly! Enjoy your lives people, because we do not get to stay here very long! Great video of the now long past!
@@tias.6675 Looks Like YOU Are In The MINORITY That Wants To Hurry Up And Check Out Of This Place. The Rest Of Us Want To Make The BEST And LEARN THE MOST During Our Lives While We're Here...Sorry To Learn About Your Miserable Existence...
Amazing footage. Even when driving into LA at 3:00am which I occasionally do, do I see the kind of traffic levels shown here. This is what it SHOULD be like driving in. Interesting to know that even in the 40's folks were doing "Californian stops" at stop signs!
Wonderful..I miss California. I was stationed at Ft Ord just as it was closing in 1993. I went overseas with the army and never have been back. I have good memories there
Wonderful! The sound really brings it to life. The 'giant chimneys' are natural gas storage tanks (gas holders), the tops are on rollers and raise or lower depending on how full the tanks are. The last part appears to be Signal Hill and then Long Beach--both were lousy with oil rigs and those weird houses RIGHT on the narrow streets.
I'm almost positive the beach at the end is driving from Playa del Rey thru Marina del Rey & Venice. Playa has a very distinctive house on the hill that stands today. Marina was obliterated with oil wells back then.
How much i love these beautiful videos,i hear the voices and the sounds of the past... I go to these beautiful seasons,how much i would to live then...i learn these beautiful seasons by your videos.Thanks a lot...🙏❤️
It looks really healthy. Not. Oil wells were extremely toxic. There was a total disregard for safety back then. I sure would not want to time travel back to the 40s. I was in elementary school in the early 60s and at the time there was terrible air pollution, and frequent oil slicks. There wasn’t even a warning to keep people away from the oil and tar in the water, and you didn’t find out until you went in and came out covered in tar and crap. It was like “no big deal”
@@DJarry394 People didn’t know any better back then. Thank goodness things have changed. I am your age and I remember the black smog clouds over Pittsburgh before they cleaned that city up.
I am truly amazed at this!!! This scene next to the Balboa Fun Zone and also Newport Beach is only three miles from where I grew up during the 70s! Everything looks amazingly different and very sparse compared to the 70s and 80s! The Fun Zone had been redone by the 1980s. The whole area has been immensely filled in by houses, businesses, restaurants, parks, and shops since the 1940s!!! But the sand and water look the same, I guess! 😉 Thank you so very much for posting this! I value seeing the history of the area immensely, since I would be a “future resident” years later. It was so fun to see this!!! ❤
And even with all the changes by the 60s 70s when I was growing up in the OC, I still was able to recognize that is Balboa Peninsula. Go figure! Pretty fun.
Wow! I watch a lot of these 1940s and 50s videos, and this is the first time I spotted a backyard INCINERATOR! When I was a little kid in Los Angeles in the early 1950s, we had a backyard incinerator. My mother burned all our trash that wasn’t metal in the incinerator - boxes, egg cartons, egg shells, coffee grinds, food waste, dog poop, even wooden boxes - I can still picture all that stuff burning in the incinerator in our backyard, and I remember the odor. We moved to the suburbs when I was 4, and no more incinerator. I don’t know exactly when people stopped using them, but I am sure they added greatly to air pollution with everyone burning their trash in the backyard in cities instead of putting the can out for the trash collector to pick up. That’s wild. I haven’t seen one of those in 67 years!
I grew up in the Hollywood East area and we lived in an apartment building that had an incinerator in the back. No longer functioning in 1967 I believe. They were outlawed due to pollution control but I don't know when. I was such a young kid I didn't pay much attention to it.
I feel like I literally went back in time. I think this is the closest I’ll get to a Time Machine.AMAZING !!!!!!!! Thanks for your hard work and posting this masterpiece.👍🏽
Thank you for bringing this old film to light for us to enjoy,I can only imagine the time and effort involved,also the person filming this seemed to capture things like close ups of leaves swaying on branches and I think oil pumps working too,this really is a gem. Once again thank you,best wishes to yourself,family,friends,fellow viewers and a thought for the folk back then who like ourselves had dreams and aspirations.
I love how the people of this era dressed "up" to go anywhere. They took pride in how they presented themselves and the way they represented their families. So beautiful! ( Wouldn't they cringe at a Walmart visit w the people in PJs and some in, let's just say costumes)
@@SFDom415-pe8qo lol yes I believe what I said. Back then they put on their "Sunday Best" to go out... Today is very different. I go to Walmart for example in my sweats, tee shirt, hair up in a bun, and usually slides. In this era they went out in their best. If it was a fancy suit or a simple dress it didn't matter. They did their hair and make up as opposed to MY CHOOSING not to, just throw the hair in a bun and go... That is my point. And I'm not sure what you mean by "depends on who you are showing" or why you chose to comment on my post. Certainly not sure why you are so offended by what I said. If all the things out there this offends you? It was different times, people acted, spoke, and lived differently compared to 20 years ago, 10 years ago and today. We live in a different time. Have a great weekend.
@Karl with a K Wow, I never thought someone would be so triggered by a basic fact that Trees can live hundreds of years, in fact I had one on my property. Immature comment Karl K.
I’m 66, lived in CA all my life, and can tell you it was amazing in the old days. It hurts me to see how much it has deteriorated in the last few decades.
@@tartgreenapple so? After that segregation you got the country with homicide up to the roof. You got gangs after that as well. Now you have gender problems, people don't even know their own gender. I am not for slavery, i am for communities like they were in the 60s , freedom like people had back then.
You're not wrong and I can barely keep up with modern technology anyway, very distracting in my opinion. The whole social media side is another example.
NASS, I'm not sure if you're aware of the thousand + drums of DDT dumped in the waters between Long Beach and Catalina Island in the 50's. One company did it and always at night. The drums are still there many of which are leaking. It's a disaster. If I could go back in time I'd catch and kill the bastards responsible
This was great! I didn't realize that Ca., had oil fields on the beach! I felt like I was in the car driving along the highway. This is wonderful! All those people in the background all long deceased, and all that open property along Huntington Beach with sand dunes was spectacular. The 4 way, just tooting a horn to let someone know you were going across, no stop signs! WOW! This video impressed me!
I grew-up in southern California, so these California videos fascinate me, especially since I remember some of these locations, having been born in 1955. I was born and raised in San Diego, so I wish there were some videos of that area. I zeroed in on a '47 or '48 Studebaker in this video, so I have a good idea when the film was shot. I'm an artist, and there are so many moments in these videos I want to paint, especially when I see palm trees. I live in Grand Rapids now, so California is a memory for me. Thanks for the trips!
@@georgemorfesi8022 I just took a look, and when I first saw it I thought it was a foreign car of some kind! I've only seen Crosleys in books, long ago. Thanks for the tip!
They fascinate me as well and I only ever visited California a few times when I was a kid. I love Hal Roach comedies. They were filmed on location all over Los Angeles, but particularly around the studio. Also a TH-cam channel called Chris Bungo makes before and after videos of LA, using old Hal Roach footage. These videos are worth watching because it shows LA before it became too densely populated and before the homelessness and drug use.
My grandfather would get out of high school in DTLA and would drive to the beach in 20 minutes. I couldn't imagine what that was like until 2020 shut us down and the roads suddenly went back to 1940's traffic.
0:41 The first part is the Babloa Peninsula in Newport Beach. The side street gives way to Balboa Boulevard, then there are very short streets that dead-end to the beach. 100% positive at 2:27 that is Los Angeles City Hall and the Spring Street Courthouse. 100% positive 2:52 is the south end of the 55 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway - the current south-bound hilled off-ramp that takes you onto PCH. There are not a lot of hills in that area, and the small bridge shown goes over a modern-day canal. You can also see the sign pointing to Corona Del Mar which is to the left of view and would be PCH south-bound . 3:52 EDIT: Split consensus: The last section might be Long Beach. There were a lot of oil rigs in the area, it is clearly along the coast but the key is you can see a tall hill in the background which is likely modern-day Signal Hill. Some say it's Playa Del Rey, another coastal area that has a hill nearby.
@@paulmaudlin7651 There were definitely oil rigs in Huntington Beach but it's flat until quite far inland - the hill in the background is likely Signal Hill and the area is most likely Long Beach.
Great video! My sister and her boyfriend took me to Balboa Beach here in 1955. I remember a lot of cabanas along the beach, but at the age of 6 I don't recall much else. Now it's multi-million dollar residences everywhere.
The pavement where the concrete meets the asphalt at the Civic Center and Ramona Parkway signs (1:27) is exactly the same in this footage as it is today. Pretty cool to see.
I'm thinking that area with all the oil rigs might just as easily be Huntingdon Beach, there were loads and loads of oil rigs in that area as well. But I am unsure, you could be right it could be long beach.
Man, cars moved sloooooow back in them days! Now I understand why so many highways/freeways have outdated speed limits of 55 MPH cuz for those cars that would be blazing speed for them! 🎵"I can't drive...... fifty fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!" 🎵🎶
Incredible footage! At 2:45 you can clearly see a Pacific Electric Railway "Big Red Car" ahead of the white Ford the camera car is trailing. Both vehicles are heading west on Aliso Street, about to pass the south side of Los Angeles Union Station before the railcar turns south onto San Pedro Street and eventually end its trip at the railroad's main terminal at the southeast corner of Sixth and Main streets. When Aliso Street was turned into the westward extension of the 101 freeway through Downtown L.A., Pacific Electric lost its only easterly route into and out of Downtown (despite having paid a portion of the cost to rebuild the Aliso Street viaduct over the river just a decade or so earlier), prompting the company to end all passenger rail service to Pasadena, Monrovia, Glendora, and the rest of the San Gabriel Valley.
I would say the're on Santa Ana Fwy since they're coming down a bridge. Also they're passing the Friedman Bag Company to their left, which is at 801 Commercial Street. Too bad the clip is so short. I'd love to see Union Station
"On the 101 freeway, we pass through a tunnel, and we see a HUGE chimney." On the left (south) side of the bag factory were big natural gas storage tanks. They were bladder-like affairs that rose and fell with the change in gas pressure as it was used. Before the tunnel there is a sign, "Ramona Parkway," an offramp to which is now the San Bernardino (I10) freeway going to the east. Just before that in the video was Boyle Heights on the right, and on the left, not visible, an area on the left known as Flats, which was demolished and replaced with a public housing development around this time. Thanks for the effort done with this movie!
0:50 I take this freeway often to get to work. Looks remarkably different but still familiar, especially that little tunnel to merge heading north. The lack of traffic on that freeway is mind boggling. There was no way to predict how reliant we would be on cars.
What a great time to be alive around then. No smartphones, no influencers at any streetcorner. No huge traffic jams, no ghetto's, no unaffordable houses. Just the good life, I would trade my life in this era any day to live in the era from the 40s to 70s.
I recognize the drive from East LA into downtown. The Friedman Bag Company building is still here! I loved it as a kid, those towers on top were painted different colors and I enjoyed seeing them. What are they for, ventilation? The houses at the beach haven’t changed much. We are still living in them today! Loved this time travel to the past. Thank you
Wow! Very nice footage of a bygone time in LA and environs! However, I wouldn't have wanted live in those neighborhoods in the midst of the oil derricks! Oh, the petroleum smell must've been super strong there! Thanks NASS. Your content is always tops!
The wells won't be around all that long and after they are gone within a handful of years the location will be very valuable real estate. The house on the left at 4:40 is now worth more than $2M. Oil wells aren't forever and the value they created and the advanced technological society they made and continue to make possible allowed that small modest house to be worth what it is today. The smell of oil wells is the smell of money and a foundation of the modern world.
Thank you for your excellent work. The care taken in the layering of sound is particularly wonderful I think, because it's practically unnoticeable - It just seems so real and such a natural accompaniment to the picture. Outstanding! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Would You Like to Live in the 1940s???
I would like to very much. I would be ten years ahead of my time - I was born in 1950 in this tiny state of Singapore.
Late forties, yes, not early 40s. I wouldn't want to have to worry about fighting in the deadliest conflict in world history and even if I wasn't doing that, I couldn't get a new car post February 1942-45. And had to use the same old tires for the entirety of the rest of the war, rationings would be hard to come simply because of the demand for the war effort, and even in the late forties, the best was yet to come, the 1950s
Absolutely. The 1940's is the most fascinating decade for me.
Yes. I was born in the mid 50s so I missed it by a little. Seams so simple back then.
Let’s just appreciate the random person who decided to film a drive through a town for 8 uninterrupted minutes of history
Is that person still alive?
@@TraumaER there’s a possibility. If they’re not dead yet they’ll be dead any day now. Would be honestly really cool to talk to them if they’re still around
@@MeatPez bro this was 80 years ago and he's driving so he was probably 20 something during this video meaning he's over 100 also meaning no he's no longer alive and no there's no chance he is
@@musicpro7278 who pissed in your panties bro? We don’t have the verified age of anyone. I said there’s a POSSIBILITY you absolute moron. I doubt they’re alive but we’re on the brink of it still being possible. I genuinely cannot fathom your level of misunderstanding and ignorance to fundamental conversation and not even to mention slightly more in depth concepts.
It is cool, probably one of the best uses of a camera. Yeah my dad was born in 41 and died in 2010, his sister is alive who was born in 45. My friend who was born in 35 died in 2017. I know a man in Hawaii was was born in the late 20's. Thomas Sowell who was born in 1931 is still alive and healthy, Health is wealth.
None of those people filmed ever thought that I would see them 80 years later on my hand held computer
Yeah and that too in 60fps
Imagine 80 years from now?!?
@solinvictus1868 yes they thought we Will be on mars or big space ship toward another stellar system
Cars seems ride slow as there were no lot of traffic
Computer? What computer
This is the closest thing to time travel we might ever experience. Beautiful
Human beings age quickly, so it seems that 80 teares ago is another world. It's not true, 80 years is a snap of fingers within this universe.
..thats an understatement because I own a time machine. Sure I can't change the past, but I can sure visit it.
So true.
Actually they just came out with a time traveling app.
@@Diego70938 I'm sure there's some truth to that. But no way to prove it
It’s astounding how slowly and calmly folks drove back then, I wish drivers today had that same patience
I'd blame the hyper-activity that is pushed these days. There's videos of NYC in the 1920's like this. Slowwww. Today, you needing to be off "hustling", being busy doing something all the time, staying up late to do more, or to see more, driver faster, and keep your brain at 100mph.
And here I am wondering why this dude is going 30 on the highway lol
Sorry Jeremy, the spirit of Ricky Bobby flows through my veins. 😤 #iwannagofast
It’s because cars got faster more quickly than drivers could adapt to
I wonder why.. :D :D
i like how everything is clean - no traffic jams - people are driving slower then they should...
everything seems so chill and relaxed
lmao people in the video are driving as FAST as they COULD. But yeah, I can't imagine California with no traffic jams.
Yeah! Cuz one tiny mistake and you'll hit a house or telephone pole. That was a complete hellhole. Ever notice how clean a dirty carpet looks in pictures?
and no homeless, or trash everywhere...
That would have been one of the joys of a much lower population.. look at the difference between then and now 🤷♂️ that's JUST the California population as well..
1940s - 6,907,387
2022 - 39,185,605
I wonder what changed that?
It's interesting how the addition of color makes the 40s seem not so far removed from the present day, or somehow easier to conceptualize or more tangible. The effect of seeing old film in black and white on the other hand enshrines it in the past - makin it unquestionably of a different time and place. Nice work!
Exactly my thoughts!
It's the same time as now accept the style of fashion and cars
"why it's almost as though we future people could say to those in the past, we are not so different you and i." ~ criswell
Living shacks right on some oil fields, yeah, not so far.
It's the exact same as today, same sky, same trees, same grass, same sunlight, just cars and technology are different visibly.
L.A Noire really captured the vibe of LA during this time, just magnificent!
Yeah it really looks like this footage
That’s what I like about video games, they really send you back in time. The Mafia games also did a fantastic job on this as well.
You're so right! My husband loves playing that game and I always wondered how accurate it was. Now I know! Very cool.
yep, my first thought watching this footage.
A very underrated game by Rockstar that had a lot more potential
I grew up in California during the 40's and 50's. It was a good time and I still love California.
I really don’t know why you would. Thank god I left that heII hole in the 80’s.
Very interesting. It is a fascinating time period and, of course, a lovely area of the world.
me too except i grew up in the 80s but i am still here and i still love it sure we have issues
You have to take a moment to appreciate the people who captured these videos and the people like NASS who went through the efforts of finding them and giving us literally a snapshot of time from the 1940s. ♥
You know there's better ways of achieving this?
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar get to work then
@@Mikebuster its called its already there, neither of you ever take time to learn the eras your staring at in these videos, too focused on thinking it was so unadvanced it needed a clueless AI to help it. th-cam.com/video/H2lr1V_G3vQ/w-d-xo.html
This is just one of thousands of examples of real color footage back then.
You sound exactly like one of those youtube bots.
@@LSK2K I'm a random stranger to you on the internet. So I don't want to pretend even for a second that you know me. You can call me anything you want and make fun of an honest compliment I gave above. I will pray that nothing but love and goodness comes your way.
This may be your best one yet, it's the next best thing to a time machine
We couldn't even go back this far in a time machine 🙁
The quality of these films is outstanding.
th-cam.com/play/PLUcjoO2Bj8AsiGYdzfqZyXae1lhMw_p2s.html
Would love to go back in time
@John Evans Well said
What a great look into the past! Having grown up in SoCal, specifically Newport Beach, I was able to recognize a lot. First segment is Balboa Fun Zone area, that’s Balboa Blvd then pans towards Palm street where you would get onto the Ferry.
Second segment is 101 Fwy then transition to 101 NB thru that tunnel. I’ve gone that route 100’s of times. It’s still the same!!
3rd segment is the view of the Balboa Island bridge, then pans right towards the cliffs and up Jamboree road towards PCH. Probably wasn’t called Jamboree back then. Jamboree was named from the Boy Scout Jamboree held in Newport in 1953, on land that is now Fashion Island.
To the left of Jamboree, the bluffs are where Promontory Point apartments are now, and the land below it is a shopping center now. It was a SAFEWAY (now Pavilions) and a bank at the other end next to Jamboree. The rest was filled in with little shops. Bayside drive was the intersection there. Looked like most people as today did rolling stops thru Stop signs!!😂
I remember it..
Thanks for clarifying, John. Outside of City Hall (where my dad worked in the 60s & early 70), none of it looked recognizable to me. I thought maybe Ramona Pkwy was Pomona and maybe the beach drive at the end was going north on PCH in Santa Monica Bay toward Oxnard. But that still didn't make sense: too many structures on the road for that stretch of PCH.
Nice ❤
Always found it amazing that someone thought it would be important to make films like these back then. Such a treasure! 🎉
I can't believe how clean LA looked! So amazing. It wasn't crowded and none of the downtown buildings we see today were there. This is what my grandmother described to me. I imagine that this is what it looked like shortly after she bought her house there. I wish things had of stayed that way. Thanks for sharing this awesome drive before my time.
Then Democrats took over!
Now it’s a rats nest
it's like when marty mcfly sees his high school back in the '50s and says, "wow, they really cleaned this place up".
I think it's a mistake to think that, this place must be the cancer alley
It doesn't look that clean to me with oil derricks everywhere and inefficient cars leaking oil
I love how if you see it in color, you feel like you're there, but if its not, its just simply a memory
I don't think anyone has realized that you just made an outstanding observation: the fact that old color videos feel so real, like you're just there, while black and whites feel static, just like old pictures! Now I understand why, whenever I saw old colorized videos of streets and people, they felt different but I couldn't pinpoint why until now, thanks to you! 👍 Now, going the way AI and virtual reality are going, I can only imagen when technology recreates whole color animated backgrounds based on just one still, black-and-white picture! Imagen recreating everything that it was around when a black-and-white picture of your grandparents was taken! That'd be the end of longing for your long-gone, loved ones! Thanks for sharing guys!
The sound ambiance also does a lot of heavy lifting in making you feel like you're immersed in that environment.
Colour**
@@wyattchilton15 nope, it's color. fuck french influence.
@@onlyoneamong300 Imagine a VR application that creates a whole historical city you can walk in based on a dataset of old photos and videos and maybe some map data. It wouldn't be accurate, but it'd fill the gaps with believable content, and it would feel real.
It's always interesting to see the world as my great grandparents would've seen it. Makes me wonder what they were doing at these exact moments
something ribald, no doubt.
My grandpa was 17 in 1940.
My Mother was 2 when this was filmed.
My grandmother was in the Philippines watching the Japanese Zeros fly overhead during the IJN invasion of Luzon. Certainly a little different from sunny California!
Crazily enough she and all her family ended up moving to California, where we mostly all are to this very day.
fighting in world war II combats
This is one of those videos where you just have to drop everything you were doing and just stare in awe as you watch from beginning to the end. There is just something fascinating about watching old footage in color. It really makes you feel more connected with the people in the past, makes you think that yeah, just like you living right now, there were people living their everyday lives 80, 100, 200... years ago, and that It's not just a random black&white footage.
How true is that mesmerising
My grandmother who's still alive was only 10 years old
I've been binge watching these. New subscriber 👍 a cal girl myself, find these back in time entertaining. the area looked so peaceful..fascinating, like I'm back in time driving behind them. The cars are so cool, no congested traffic, searching for parking, road rage, etc.. just coasting down the road.
One of the “cleanest” colorized videos I’ve ever seen. Good job!
thank you so much ;)
@@NASS_0 do you use topaz video enhance to restore these?
yh, the editing and restoration is next level. Much appreciated!
the drone work is excellent
@Moon Cricket bro wtf is this comment
Oil wells right at the beach! Crazy California. Beautiful restoration.
Thx
I saw one on my way to Los Angeles a month ago (September 2022), somewhere near Malibu.
Terri I was shocked that there were so many big oil wells right on the beach.
What’s craziest to me is seeing someone walking along the side of the road, living their life. To think that that was 80 years ago and that they lived their whole life between them and now, thinking about what their life was like then, what they were doing that day, where they were walking, what they were thinking about, etc is all so mind bending. And to think 80 years from now is 2100….
100%. Crazy to see someone just going about their average Tuesday- but 82 years ago. It's so immersive with colour and sound it's like you're there. Completely surreal, videos like these are actual time machines.
I've ALWAYS thought the same when I'm watching old home movies, or even in actual movies, I pay attention to the extras and the crowd, and wonder the same thing.
It's crazy to think there was a time when you could walk down the streets of LA without having to worry about stepping on an AIDS needle or a pile of bum dung, or being stabbed.
@@rswindol Here comes the "back in my day" guy. 🤣🤣🤣
So amazing like it was today, except for the cars, and we're walking across a street or driving the road.
This is truly incredible and hard to believe! Lived in SoCal 45 years. I felt completely at home from the first day. I was 23. Newport Beach was so pristine. Lived in Corona Del Mar, and I surely wish I could have seen it then! Thanks for posting this piece of history. It made me cry! We love LA ... and every inch of Southern California,,,,,!
I remember going to Newport Beach when I was a little girl in 50s. I remember there was always sand all over the streets back then. Clear out to the parking areas blocks away!
5:04 the fact that those kids would now be in their 80's and 90's, if even alive, is mind-blowing. To see something so close to real life, yet so far from it. It's truly an experience in itself.
I'm one of those kids you spoke of, in my 80s. Those times take me back to my innocence and joy of just living. Not mad at anyone. Just a new adventure every day.
@@bobdillaber1195 your last name proves it ! I bet it was so easy to find a wife back then . Unlike today
@@ssj3vegett0 Yes it was. In fact I found a couple. 😄
@@bobdillaber1195 sure
The fact that people age is mind blowing?
I love footage like this especially cleaned up to this extent... It's almost like peering thru a window back in time... You can almost feel like you are looking in at the world of a different time.
Its amazing seeing this and realising just how accurate the video game L.A Noire is.
The only thing missing from the sound effects is the sound of STICK SHIFTS in all the cars. Shifting gears all the time as you pick up from a stop. I remember it well from the early 50s when I was a very little kid. All the cars left the stop at different speeds as everyone shifted through the gears, and I heard their engines alternately roar and quiet as they fed the gas pedal between gear shifts.
Here in Germany, we still have mostly manual shift cars
What I love about this is it reflects that reality they mostly avoid in movies because it flattens everything - that intense and bleaching noon sun power, that reaches right into the back of your eyeballs, some days in LA: that pure, dry and fierce, mid-day California light.....Watching this, I felt pure heat on my face and neck, my throat got dry, and the image of an ice cold root beer with a question mark next to it, floated into my mind. Just beautiful.
Taking over for Joan Didion?
It be real cool if you could do a then and now drive through. I’d love to see how these areas have changed over the decades.
That's because security cameras need a ton of storage depending on the quality setting and not everyone has deep pockets - so they compromise - it's got nothing to do with the cameras themselves
@@PaulCarmona You responded to the wrong post.
What change? I've been here all my life, You'd be surprised 80 years on It's all same more or less, save for the traffic, Cosco, Tesla charging stations and the billboard ads these days!
That long shot behind the white car starts on I 10/US-101, a little ways before Exit 1C to Cesar Chavez Ave. You'll recognise that distinctive gray roof.
@@octavius8562 Are the oil wells still pumping?
Man, those cars look just absolutely amazing, beautiful deep curves, bright and really different colors. Wish the 40s-50s era style of car would come back, everything was so unique
Death traps on four wheels. Poor handling, braking and crashworthiness by today's standards.
@@kennixox262 oh for sure, I mean if you got into a wreck on either side, you’d be screwed. I’m mainly thinking, if they brought back that aesthetic, body/interior style with all modern technology in new cars. Cuz of course we wouldn’t want those things on the roads now as they we’re back then. But shoot, I think the streets would look a lot nicer with the older style
@@YerBoiTex I'm not a car expert but todays' cars are designed with various safety aspects, crash worthiness, pedestrian safety, fuel economy is why so many of todays cars look alike in order to meet the mandates.
I'd be happy with just bringing back body on frame cars.
@@kennixox262 nor am I an expert and I’m sure that that’s the case that why they look the way they do, but I’m still a dreamer for the looks
This is incredible. I was born and raised here in southern California and know some of these areas. That clip of driving into los Angeles blew my mind. 2 lanes and hardly anyone there. Paradise! Now it's 4 lanes each side and a million cars moving 3 mph...HELL!
That narrow street part with all the oil rigs is likely what is now Seashore Drive in Newport Beach. There was one frame that had a street sign, but it was too small to read. The houses today sit next to the street just like in the video. Love this view into LA's past!
I thought this might be near Huntington Beach but I’ll take a look on Google Earth and see if you’re right. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for your comment. As I was watching that, I was thinking about how narrow the street was, and how close the houses were to the street, and was wondering if it could possibly still be like that today!
@@TenMinuteTrips I was wondering too. I grew up in HB and know it started out as oil rigs. Kind of looks like the area near Sunset Beach (the homes look like that area) if it’s not in south HB.
I recognized Balboa right away, the Fun Zone gave it away! I worked on the Newport pier as a teen. That is the best colorization I have seen in a long time. LA was easy to pick up on too. What a great ride-along!!!
I moved to Los Angeles about 30 years after this was filmed in 1972. How different it was by then. Moved away 30 years ago in 1992. How different it is now is amazing !! Great job restoring this. Much of it looks like it was filmed recently !!
In Huntington Beach CA , they drilled a lot of oil wells. There was such a low number of people living in southern California that they could build the housing for the well workers right next to where they were working. I lived in one of those old places last summer. There was an well head right out side the front door. And the beach was across the street 30 yards away.
yeah at first I was surprised by all the oil derricks but the I remembered the "Labrea Tar pits" which is, of course all tarry oil. I was thinking as they drove through Huntington Beach how shocked they'd be by the 2023 cost of housing in LA and surrounds! LOL
@@dod2304 This footage is not Huntington Beach. It is now called Marina Del Rey Peninsula. Southern strip just south of Venice Beach. Huntington was very similar. All very expensive housing now for both areas.
HB has had an interesting history. When Henry Huntington owned it, he couldnt give the land away. Some farmers planted sugar beets, and thrived. BY 1921, oil was discovered., so oil derricks every 10 yards.The huge Holly sugar plant, only 12 years old was dismantled, and rebuilt in Wyoming, where it exists to this day. They then drilled for oil, and made millions, pouring it into their sugar co. Now the oill derricks are long gone, but the local HS is still the Oilers.I can remember, as an 8 year old in 1963, some oil derricks in HB and Long Beach, but nothing like the 40"s.
80 years and still a better camera than our security cameras today.
still a better camera than DVR in my Lada
@@flance911 ... не жалейте заварки!
@@igorzavoritko5763 для тех функций, которые мне были нужны, когда я ее покупал, она подходит идеально)
Everything looks even better than now very beautiful
Show it on ur digital smart tv to worsen it.
Your enhancement of these videos is amazing. You make them so immersive that I feel like I’m there. Your sound engineering is great too.
thank you so much
I think the de-noising and sharpening are way too overdone. It would be nice if it looked more natural and less like a watercolor painting.
@@rubiconnn 🙄
@@rubiconnn It looks like a water Color painting because the colorisation is done by AI, so is the upscaling/sharpening. The only thing that was done manually was the sound engineering but even with that I’m a bit skeptical.
@@oneAndyHicks its all weakly done and NASS literally never impresses since hardly any of the work is his.
Saludos desde Argentin. Me encanta ver esto videos. Tengo 50 años y ver estas imagnes, me hace pensar que no nos damos cuenta, que antes de nostros habia gente, hermanos que ya estaban haciendo historia y un camino, para que las siguientes generaciones disfruten lo que hoy se tiene.
Si no hibieran existido los anteriores, nosotros no existiriamos y deberiamos dar las gracias a Dios y a ellos, por estar hoy donde estamos.
Bendiciones a todos. Excelentes videos.
Thanks!
thank you for your support god bless you 🙏
Born in 45. Grew up in Long Beach. I truly miss those days.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Diversity? in what? Times are horrible and people thinking they can identify as horses. No thanks!
dude, you were born at the perfect time! bet you saw the beatles, man.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 True. But we didn't have to hear people constantly whining about being oppressed. Or being offended by pretty much everything.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Everyone has the right to point out anything they wish. I doesn't make their claims true.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318
My rabbi agrees.
AMAZING!! To those that don't know at 2:25 that white narrow building on the left is LA city hall and it looks the same to this day. That curving tunnel before you see city hall is also the same accept it looks terribly old. This recording is pure gold👌 I greatly appreciate this upload. Los Angeles looks its age now when you take the same drive.
The crazy part is that underpass he passed at the 2 minute mark looks very familiar
@@gurunuggetit's part of the 101 now
40's California Dreamin >>>>> 2020's California nightmare.
It must have been perfection to live in California back then. It was so beautiful and so few people.
Beautiful to look at maybe but also Looks boring. No TV, no internet, no jet skis, no bikinis, no sushi restaurants, cars were slow as sh*t.... nah, I'll stick with today thanks.
The quality of the movie is abolutely stunning. Watching it is like you are actually in it.
This is as close as you can get to a time machine. Kudos to the editing! Great sound and color. It feels more like a memory being played by those sci-fi machines from comics in those days.
And 80 years later…. Truly amazing and mesmerising
Beautiful footage. It's shocking to see near empty freeways and I see the "California Roll" through stops signs started way back when...lol
This is beyond fabulous. I previously had no idea family dwellings existed right atop the oil wells!
And often light industry.
I think is because it was rather cheaper to live there
Imagine the aroma.
@@wilsondassumpcao2089 I also imagine that, at this point, the oil companies were in the process of buying up that land. SoCal and LA have had a long history with oil wells populating the skyline. There was a time when oil companies realized the gold Cali was sitting and went overkill on it, putting those towers up absolutely everywhere. Just as London was once known as “the city of churches” due to the immense amount of church steeples seen across the skyline, LA was famous for it’s oil drilling towers. Now they hid them decently cleverly in concrete towers and other art pieces.
yeah unbeliveable, and it looks horrendous^^
I see this and I cannot believe it was once like this ,this is one of the best things about the internet
I always love seeing these old films of my city, it’s exciting to see landmarks I know, freeways as they once were, and I enjoy trying to guess the locations. Very cool!
I liked the ride down the freeway with no impatient drivers , or tailgaters trying to shove you along. That empty freeway made my day. Those 40's cars were fabulous to see in action.
@@johnbockelie3899 If only driving in this city was so pleasant today!
@@OB-LA it's probably stuffed with cars like every where else. This made driving look like fun.
Wow, that was SO cool. I’ve been transported back in time. I wasn’t around in the ‘40s but it makes me feel nostalgic. So few cars on the roads and cars driving much slower. Fabulous cars. Thanks for posting. ❤
Yet another great video, NASS! And even though you gave some info in the comments, I was able to find some more specific locations for part of it. The footage beginning at 2:49 is located in Newport Beach and the camera is on the southeast corner of Bayside Drive and Marine Avenue. The film begins looking south on Marine Avenue. You can see the bridge crossing the Balboa Bay - North Channel to Balboa Island. Some of the facades of houses to the right of the bridge can still be seen little changed today on Street View - the fourth house on the right, above the white car, still has the same roofline, with a tiny triangular gable right at the top. The house to its right is basically unchanged, and you can see Onyx Avenue to its right with the same vintage streetlamp there today. The camera then swings west to north, crossing Bayside Drive at 3:05 and shows the bluffs that were still undeveloped on Historic Aerials in 1963. The cars then ascend to the north side of Bayside - once it crosses Bayside, Marine Avenue becomes Jamboree Road starting at 3:16 where you can still see the bluffs on today's Street View. Jamboree Road intersects with Pacific Coast Highway just 1/4 of a mile north of Bayside and from there you travel to L. A., Huntington Beach and Long Beach. The directional sign was what clued me in - it shows that Los Angeles, Huntington Beach and Long Beach are straight ahead from Bayside, so therefore the cross-street shown at 3:05 can't be Pacific Coast Highway. Also, the sign shows Corona Del Mar going what would be east, in a different direction than the others, and is one mile away, so this is the correct location. Coordinates are: 33.610324, -117.889829 if you want to check it out.
thank you so much
Fabulous
As I live in the UK I have no perspective or geographic context, so your comment is much appreciated
❤
Hope you don’t mind me following you, this enhanced my enjoyment of the NASS output
@@UpTheVillaMark Thanks! Glad you enjoyed - it's fun to do. :)
What a wonderful world.. of cars. Too bad the film stopped, it could go on for ever ...
💙 Thanks for the trip ! 😘
I wouldn't know, I'm 22. But seems like these were simpler times or at least that's the feeling this video gave me, would be super awesome to go back in time and experience this for real.
Places like this are what you get when you vote Republican.
California today is what you get when you vote Democrat.
"Simpler" being a matter of perspective. Try being a Japanese American. Soon there was going to be a knock at your door and you and your loved ones would be imprisoned till the end of the war in this very state.
The 70s and 80s were way simpler never mind the 40s, I wonder what it was really like though
@@doricdave uh WW2 was going on
Saw some late 1940s Fords and Studebakers. So this is after WWII.
I'm on a trip through time. I started with videos from the 1900's. Then 1910's. Then 20's. Then 30's. And now I'm here. Pretty cool.
I’d live to see Del Mar, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Hillcrest, Kensington, South Pasadena, Pasadena and San Marino! I LOVE your videos! Born in the 50s in SoCal, so anything before that is absolutely fascinating. Seeing my parents’ and grandparents’ worlds is mind expanding! Thank you so much!
What's funny is, that what we consider modern day today, will also be looked at the same way 80 years from now! Time really does fly! Enjoy your lives people, because we do not get to stay here very long! Great video of the now long past!
Lol no one in their right mind wants to stay in this insane asylum very long.
@@tias.6675 I plan on living forever and so far, so good!
@@tias.6675 Looks Like YOU Are In The MINORITY That Wants To Hurry Up And Check Out Of This Place. The Rest Of Us Want To Make The BEST And LEARN THE MOST During Our Lives While We're Here...Sorry To Learn About Your Miserable Existence...
@@tias.6675 certainly not surrounded by people with that attitude anyway
Amazing footage. Even when driving into LA at 3:00am which I occasionally do, do I see the kind of traffic levels shown here. This is what it SHOULD be like driving in. Interesting to know that even in the 40's folks were doing "Californian stops" at stop signs!
Wonderful..I miss California. I was stationed at Ft Ord just as it was closing in 1993. I went overseas with the army and never have been back. I have good memories there
Wonderful! The sound really brings it to life. The 'giant chimneys' are natural gas storage tanks (gas holders), the tops are on rollers and raise or lower depending on how full the tanks are. The last part appears to be Signal Hill and then Long Beach--both were lousy with oil rigs and those weird houses RIGHT on the narrow streets.
jackshenhouse Huntington Beach had more than it's share of those oil derricks also.
@@lilorbielilorbie2496 Venice Beach as well.
I'm almost positive the beach at the end is driving from Playa del Rey thru Marina del Rey & Venice. Playa has a very distinctive house on the hill that stands today. Marina was obliterated with oil wells back then.
Thanks. I would love someone like you to watch these with. So many questions.
@@joypower3199 You are right! Marina Del Rey Peninsula. Great place back then. Before the Marina was even dug.
Respect to those who traveled back in time to record this in colorul HD 😘
great, scott...yer doin' a good job.
Good one!!
The exact same thing i was thinking man, time traveler's do exist period!
How much i love these beautiful videos,i hear the voices and the sounds of the past... I go to these beautiful seasons,how much i would to live then...i learn these beautiful seasons by your videos.Thanks a lot...🙏❤️
It's not real sound
@@sergeylazarev4569 it's meant to sound like it though
@@tomu4725 I know but still
@@sergeylazarev4569 I didn't know,thank you
I wouldn't want to go back to those times because I'd be dead by now :>)
My father would of been about 14 then ..Passed at 95 ❤️..Mother still going at 93 tough as old boot leather 👍
I love how everybody drives slow and they don't mind it one bit.
LOL, they aren't driving slow because they want to , that's all those cars could do. You still see them running (bump and roll) stop signs.
I love how everyone is white
@@zognaldblormpf5127 how do you know? You cant see the cars
@@NationalismDjazair LA was a majority white city at the time. 🤣 the entire country was 90% white.
@@zognaldblormpf5127 who cares about race
It's interesting to see the homes among the industrial oil fields. Also, a car runs the stop sign at 3:28. Some things never change :-). Fun video!
I noticed that too!🤣
It looks really healthy. Not. Oil wells were extremely toxic. There was a total disregard for safety back then. I sure would not want to time travel back to the 40s. I was in elementary school in the early 60s and at the time there was terrible air pollution, and frequent oil slicks. There wasn’t even a warning to keep people away from the oil and tar in the water, and you didn’t find out until you went in and came out covered in tar and crap. It was like “no big deal”
@@DJarry394 People didn’t know any better back then. Thank goodness things have changed. I am your age and I remember the black smog clouds over Pittsburgh before they cleaned that city up.
Get his plates!
@@ho0t0w1 LOL!
I am truly amazed at this!!! This scene next to the Balboa Fun Zone and also Newport Beach is only three miles from where I grew up during the 70s! Everything looks amazingly different and very sparse compared to the 70s and 80s! The Fun Zone had been redone by the 1980s. The whole area has been immensely filled in by houses, businesses, restaurants, parks, and shops since the 1940s!!! But the sand and water look the same, I guess! 😉
Thank you so very much for posting this! I value seeing the history of the area immensely, since I would be a “future resident” years later. It was so fun to see this!!! ❤
thank you so much ;))
@@NASS_0 Thank YOU so much!
Do you have any other old footage of the beaches along OC, before it was as crowded as it is today?
And even with all the changes by the 60s 70s when I was growing up in the OC, I still was able to recognize that is Balboa Peninsula. Go figure! Pretty fun.
Yes! I was about to say that! Balboa still is recognizable!
@karlwithak1835 Apparently you've never seen an antique store. Or a 100 year old building. 🤦♂
Wow! I watch a lot of these 1940s and 50s videos, and this is the first time I spotted a backyard INCINERATOR! When I was a little kid in Los Angeles in the early 1950s, we had a backyard incinerator. My mother burned all our trash that wasn’t metal in the incinerator - boxes, egg cartons, egg shells, coffee grinds, food waste, dog poop, even wooden boxes - I can still picture all that stuff burning in the incinerator in our backyard, and I remember the odor. We moved to the suburbs when I was 4, and no more incinerator. I don’t know exactly when people stopped using them, but I am sure they added greatly to air pollution with everyone burning their trash in the backyard in cities instead of putting the can out for the trash collector to pick up. That’s wild. I haven’t seen one of those in 67 years!
I grew up in the Hollywood East area and we lived in an apartment building that had an incinerator in the back. No longer functioning in 1967 I believe. They were outlawed due to pollution control but I don't know when. I was such a young kid I didn't pay much attention to it.
Man your restorations are incredible, these just look like 10 year old home videos at most!
thank you very much ;))))
Restoration is the wrong word really, the neural net basically guesses and makes stuff up.
I feel like I literally went back in time. I think this is the closest I’ll get to a Time Machine.AMAZING !!!!!!!! Thanks for your hard work and posting this masterpiece.👍🏽
Thank you for bringing this old film to light for us to enjoy,I can only imagine the time and effort involved,also the person filming this seemed to capture things like close ups of leaves swaying on branches and I think oil pumps working too,this really is a gem. Once again thank you,best wishes to yourself,family,friends,fellow viewers and a thought for the folk back then who like ourselves had dreams and aspirations.
thank you so much
@@NASS_0 My pleasure,
those " leaves on a branch" was a technique used by early photographers to "frame" a photo.
@@suppylarue220 Hi Larue,thanks for that info,, Best wishes.
I love how the people of this era dressed "up" to go anywhere. They took pride in how they presented themselves and the way they represented their families. So beautiful! ( Wouldn't they cringe at a Walmart visit w the people in PJs and some in, let's just say costumes)
Depends on who you are showing People still dress now and people dress poorly then too
You seriously can’t believe what you said
@@SFDom415-pe8qo lol yes I believe what I said. Back then they put on their "Sunday Best" to go out... Today is very different. I go to Walmart for example in my sweats, tee shirt, hair up in a bun, and usually slides. In this era they went out in their best. If it was a fancy suit or a simple dress it didn't matter. They did their hair and make up as opposed to MY CHOOSING not to, just throw the hair in a bun and go... That is my point. And I'm not sure what you mean by "depends on who you are showing" or why you chose to comment on my post. Certainly not sure why you are so offended by what I said. If all the things out there this offends you?
It was different times, people acted, spoke, and lived differently compared to 20 years ago, 10 years ago and today. We live in a different time.
Have a great weekend.
@@SFDom415-pe8qo Agreed. It would be nice to watch other films on the "wrong side of the tracks" and see what we find....
Look at how the poor in the Depression-era slums dressed. Little has changed for the urban and rural poor.
@@thl205 that is not even close to the point I was making. Even those struggling and 'poor' dawned their best.
I lived in SoCal all my life, and the 1940’s version of Orange County looks like a peek into another world.
@Karl with a K Not every single Tree, many of these trees are still there..thriving in the chaos of the modern world.
@Karl with a K Wow, I never thought someone would be so triggered by a basic fact that Trees can live hundreds of years, in fact I had one on my property. Immature comment Karl K.
@Karl with a K my dude, this is the 1940s, not the 1840s. Aside from the tree thing, some of the kids from that time could definitely be around now
@Karl with a K My dad was born in 1929, my mom in 1940. Both very much still here and can view this video on their iPhones just like you.
I’m 66, lived in CA all my life, and can tell you it was amazing in the old days. It hurts me to see how much it has deteriorated in the last few decades.
People walking, no traffic, beautiful Californian sun. Wish we can go back in time and live there.
WWII (60 million deaths) and racial segregation were happening at that moment in time.
@@tartgreenapple so? After that segregation you got the country with homicide up to the roof. You got gangs after that as well. Now you have gender problems, people don't even know their own gender. I am not for slavery, i am for communities like they were in the 60s , freedom like people had back then.
I'd give up all the luxuries today to go back to these times. In a heartbeat.
You're not wrong and I can barely keep up with modern technology anyway, very distracting in my opinion. The whole social media side is another example.
Me too but without all of the oil wells on the beaches.
few days later you'd realise what an utter mistake you've made
@@rdmz135 it’s all what you condition yourself to accept. I believe some people would do better in yesterday’s world.
Me too!
Masterpiece. Thanks to the person who was filming this back then & thanks to you for this beauty.
I gotta admit, California in the 40's looks like it was a paradise
it was run by republicans
@@yozoamate America is going to fall
4:00 wtf kinda paradise is that?
@@SeZ_LeZ those are the oil fields genius
It was, that's why everybody moved there over the years and made it awful.
Which City Would You Like to Visit in The 40's??
Milano
San Luis Obispo or Catalina Island would be my first choices
NASS, I'm not sure if you're aware of the thousand + drums of DDT dumped in the waters between Long Beach and Catalina Island in the 50's. One company did it and always at night. The drums are still there many of which are leaking. It's a disaster. If I could go back in time I'd catch and kill the bastards responsible
Vancouver!
@@scfp57 Prior to the Chinese and Indian takeover? Nice
So great. BTW, I've seen two 1949 cars, a 49 Mercury and a 49 Ford. Driving into downtown LA sure has changed.
This was great! I didn't realize that Ca., had oil fields on the beach! I felt like I was in the car driving along the highway. This is wonderful! All those people in the background all long deceased, and all that open property along Huntington Beach with sand dunes was spectacular. The 4 way, just tooting a horn to let someone know you were going across, no stop signs! WOW! This video impressed me!
Huntington Beach? It looked like Playa & Marina del Rey/Venice to me. Nevertheless - WOW!
I grew-up in southern California, so these California videos fascinate me, especially since I remember some of these locations, having been born in 1955. I was born and raised in San Diego, so I wish there were some videos of that area. I zeroed in on a '47 or '48 Studebaker in this video, so I have a good idea when the film was shot. I'm an artist, and there are so many moments in these videos I want to paint, especially when I see palm trees. I live in Grand Rapids now, so California is a memory for me. Thanks for the trips!
After the Studebaker went up the hill, did you spot the Crosley ( 3:29 )coming down?
@@georgemorfesi8022 I just took a look, and when I first saw it I thought it was a foreign car of some kind! I've only seen Crosleys in books, long ago. Thanks for the tip!
They fascinate me as well and I only ever visited California a few times when I was a kid. I love Hal Roach comedies. They were filmed on location all over Los Angeles, but particularly around the studio. Also a TH-cam channel called Chris Bungo makes before and after videos of LA, using old Hal Roach footage. These videos are worth watching because it shows LA before it became too densely populated and before the homelessness and drug use.
@@georgemorfesi8022 I wondered if it was a SAAB; but yeah its probably a Crosley.
@@mr.bnatural3700 See the little bullet nose above the grill? That makes it a 1948.
Stunning work here - these are SO important to keep, and so enjoyable to watch.
My grandfather would get out of high school in DTLA and would drive to the beach in 20 minutes. I couldn't imagine what that was like until 2020 shut us down and the roads suddenly went back to 1940's traffic.
My jaw is on the floor. This is basically time travel. I’m legit blown away. So beautiful. I wish things were this simple and innocent still.
Me too!
riiiight
So true
Very impressive. I feel transported back in time. Everything is so clean and unobstructed.
this was before california went nuts
@@greenwave819 Yeah... throwing fellowing Americans into interment camps wasn't nuts at all.
People have said it before, but I’ll say it again, these videos are like time machines.Amazing.
That's the idea of photography lol
0:41 The first part is the Babloa Peninsula in Newport Beach. The side street gives way to Balboa Boulevard, then there are very short streets that dead-end to the beach. 100% positive at 2:27 that is Los Angeles City Hall and the Spring Street Courthouse. 100% positive 2:52 is the south end of the 55 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway - the current south-bound hilled off-ramp that takes you onto PCH. There are not a lot of hills in that area, and the small bridge shown goes over a modern-day canal. You can also see the sign pointing to Corona Del Mar which is to the left of view and would be PCH south-bound . 3:52 EDIT: Split consensus: The last section might be Long Beach. There were a lot of oil rigs in the area, it is clearly along the coast but the key is you can see a tall hill in the background which is likely modern-day Signal Hill. Some say it's Playa Del Rey, another coastal area that has a hill nearby.
The oil wells are definitely Huntington beach..i'd say
Late 1940's early 50's.
Awesome time travel, Nass.
@@paulmaudlin7651 There were definitely oil rigs in Huntington Beach but it's flat until quite far inland - the hill in the background is likely Signal Hill and the area is most likely Long Beach.
Great video! My sister and her boyfriend took me to Balboa Beach here in 1955. I remember a lot of cabanas along the beach, but at the age of 6 I don't recall much else. Now it's multi-million dollar residences everywhere.
The pavement where the concrete meets the asphalt at the Civic Center and Ramona Parkway signs (1:27) is exactly the same in this footage as it is today. Pretty cool to see.
I'm thinking that area with all the oil rigs might just as easily be Huntingdon Beach, there were loads and loads of oil rigs in that area as well. But I am unsure, you could be right it could be long beach.
Man, cars moved sloooooow back in them days! Now I understand why so many highways/freeways have outdated speed limits of 55 MPH cuz for those cars that would be blazing speed for them! 🎵"I can't drive...... fifty fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!"
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Incredible footage! At 2:45 you can clearly see a Pacific Electric Railway "Big Red Car" ahead of the white Ford the camera car is trailing. Both vehicles are heading west on Aliso Street, about to pass the south side of Los Angeles Union Station before the railcar turns south onto San Pedro Street and eventually end its trip at the railroad's main terminal at the southeast corner of Sixth and Main streets.
When Aliso Street was turned into the westward extension of the 101 freeway through Downtown L.A., Pacific Electric lost its only easterly route into and out of Downtown (despite having paid a portion of the cost to rebuild the Aliso Street viaduct over the river just a decade or so earlier), prompting the company to end all passenger rail service to Pasadena, Monrovia, Glendora, and the rest of the San Gabriel Valley.
Makes me wonder what's the future of transportation. Are we all just going to Uber?
Good find, I noticed the rails in the street, but didnt see the red car!
I would say the're on Santa Ana Fwy since they're coming down a bridge. Also they're passing the Friedman Bag Company to their left, which is at 801 Commercial Street. Too bad the clip is so short. I'd love to see Union Station
Thank you for taking us back to a bye-gone era! It was truly awesome!
Looks like it was filmed this year with a smartphone camera and someone added a filter. This is highly impressive!
"On the 101 freeway, we pass through a tunnel, and we see a HUGE chimney." On the left (south) side of the bag factory were big natural gas storage tanks. They were bladder-like affairs that rose and fell with the change in gas pressure as it was used. Before the tunnel there is a sign, "Ramona Parkway," an offramp to which is now the San Bernardino (I10) freeway going to the east. Just before that in the video was Boyle Heights on the right, and on the left, not visible, an area on the left known as Flats, which was demolished and replaced with a public housing development around this time. Thanks for the effort done with this movie!
0:50 I take this freeway often to get to work. Looks remarkably different but still familiar, especially that little tunnel to merge heading north. The lack of traffic on that freeway is mind boggling. There was no way to predict how reliant we would be on cars.
That is absolutely surreal! It’s like actually being there, all those years ago.
What a great time to be alive around then. No smartphones, no influencers at any streetcorner. No huge traffic jams, no ghetto's, no unaffordable houses.
Just the good life, I would trade my life in this era any day to live in the era from the 40s to 70s.
Just Wait for WW3 you get that era
Yeah when black people were invisible!
Not a good time to be something other than a straight white male.
Would you like to go as a black or white man??
I recognize the drive from East LA into downtown. The Friedman Bag Company building is still here! I loved it as a kid, those towers on top were painted different colors and I enjoyed seeing them. What are they for, ventilation?
The houses at the beach haven’t changed much. We are still living in them today!
Loved this time travel to the past. Thank you
The resolution seems the best yet. I could almost smell the sea air!
thank you so much
Wow! Very nice footage of a bygone time in LA and environs! However, I wouldn't have wanted live in those neighborhoods in the midst of the oil derricks! Oh, the petroleum smell must've been super strong there! Thanks NASS. Your content is always tops!
thank you so much
this appears to be an unincorporated area . note that the homes appear to be newer and build without setback from the road.
@@suppylarue220 Yes, no setback for some-scary!
The wells won't be around all that long and after they are gone within a handful of years the location will be very valuable real estate. The house on the left at 4:40 is now worth more than $2M. Oil wells aren't forever and the value they created and the advanced technological society they made and continue to make possible allowed that small modest house to be worth what it is today.
The smell of oil wells is the smell of money and a foundation of the modern world.
@EmilKaepo...Did you just cash in a mineral lease check? LOL!
From someone who actually lives and works in the oil patch, STFU....
The quality of this one is truly stunning. What a trip into the past!
I know all these places. Newport Beach, The Fun Zone, Huntington, East LA driving into DT LA. Great to see them so long ago
I can believe how close the roads where to each house!
yeah that neighborhood was WILD, with all the drilling towers
Thank you for your excellent work. The care taken in the layering of sound is particularly wonderful I think, because it's practically unnoticeable - It just seems so real and such a natural accompaniment to the picture. Outstanding! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Patrick Treadway, what do you mean by "layering"? At any given point in time, I can only hear one sound.
Don't know what iPhones they had in the 40's but the image is really good.
Hopefully none now that a lot of people are addicted to their phones!
@@ArthurShelbyJr He’s joking.
Must have been an Android phone then.
Phone Communications Back Then Roberto Cost You A Nickel, And Was Attached To A WALL...
LOL