I don't get why nearly all the old buildings that look have character have been bulldozed and replaced by buildings that are incredibly boring and ugly
C x Thats because city forced the people to go into the new suburbs that they were making at the time. They did this so that they could expand on the financial district that is there now. But most businesses had shut down or given up over time and the city didn't get rid of them. There basically doing the same cycle that they did before and it won't work. Have you seen downtown L.A.( not the financial district) but the small shops. Most of them are kinda like Detroit's downtown now.
@@GNOLEB Lol! Yeah my parents were born in the 30s and when I was really young I asked them when did color happen before I was born. I don't remember getting an answer so I still don't know. 😂
@@rashadvq Maybe, just maybe both of them are related. Son probably carry Dad's legacy in continuing filming the streets. Or is it just the same person been doing this since the 50s till now??
I'm struck by how LA in the past resembles San Francisco, with the Victorians, bay windows, decorative street lights, hills and views; not to mention the street cars. LA took a wrong turn after the 1940s.
I honestly think i prefer the older L.A more. I like cities that kept their older buildings, they end up looking so much more important and classier. Like NY, or SF, or Boston etc.
if you like older city architecture take a loook at the european cities ;) almost every great city preserves its old centrum. for example take a look at Amsterdam at google maps ;)
In Germany WW II had destroyed our old cities and we are still sad about it. And in America they do it voluntarily?Downtown L.A. looks really beautiful in the 1940s !
Sufficient Because everything is still gray where the older, Victorian style homes and buildings were sure to be much more vibrant. Still waiting for California to secede because that state is like the annoying aunt at a family reunion shoving her new essential oils down your throat
No one seems to have noticed the street trees and general greenery that exists now that was not present back in the 40's and 50's. Yes, the buildings are larger and not at human scale but the trees certainly make the street look more walkable in the heat.
yea, then the car ruined it. I bet you drive one, too (car) so don't go complaining. Get rid of your cage and we will have character and people back to our cities :)
NNT Flow Exactly. OP only says this because we didn’t live in the 1940’s. In fact, it has WAY more character today then the dull style of the 1940’s with it’s look alike cars and dress code like cloths. (Although I do prefer the look of the 1940’s)
It did look much nicer in 1947.. No graffitti anywhere in the old one.. No shaved head weirdos covered in tattoos blasting rap out of their cars.. Human scale buildings, cars that had some visual interest, not the squat blobs we have now.
Berlin, though bombed to ash in WW2 still kept more character than LA that was torn down by real estate sharks and speculants to an ugly cold and depressing concrete landscape.
Although most German cities are still full of horrible buildings, nothing like what was before (traditional German buildings). The same is in every city in Europe, but most of all cities that were once a part of the Eastern Bloc.
Continue just outside the city limits and the area was still very agricultural. My grandparents grew walnuts and lemons a few miles southeast of downtown. There are now cheap strip malls, stack-n-pack housing, and nothing left that even resembles a working rural community.
@@EastSideGz ....and driving further east to West Covina and Covina would have been considered being out in the open country. Nothing but orange groves and open land.
yoto101- Yep. Everyone drives everywhere in LA. It totally normal to see only a few people walking around their office buildings. Also, downtown LA is not huge like Manhattan.
This video reminds me, a few years ago the house I grew up in went on sale and had an open house. I decided to go just to take a look. I had not been in the house in over 40 years. Everything had changed. Of course the carpeting was different. The bathrooms and kitchen were remodeled and unrecognizable. The bedrooms had new doors, windows and paint and so were also unrecognizable. I told my sister that I could be standing anywhere in that house and if I did not know I was in our old house, I wouldn't have guessed that was were I was.
Nope. LA had legal segregation back then, with laws against mixed race marriages and specific areas which were off limits to immigrants. LA is more inviting now, character never left, and the vibe is better.
Historical preservationists were doing their best to save Bunker Hill begging the city not to move forth with Bunker Hill Towers. Then one night the last of it all burnt down, under suspicious circumstances of course!
Fantastic! I had seen the original version years ago on TH-cam, but never this comparison. Well done! (L.A. looked a heck of a lot nicer back then than now.)
What a beautiful city Los Angeles was back then. It was full of character. There isn't enough money that could pursued me to live there now. What a shame.
when they were scouting locations for "LA Confidential" they had quite a hard time looking for good places to film since a lot of the buildings that existed in LA in the 40s aren't there any more
Imagine if big buildings werent built though. The economy would have turned out different because of less people and business. Also lets say for example if there was to be a strong earthquake they couldve been destroyed easily and tons of damage may have been caused.
aCynicalName LA has a way stronger economy, LA metro area has only 4 million people with a gdp over 700 billion. Bay Area metro has a population of 7 million with a gdp of just under 500 billion. Also, there’s a *LOT* more buildings that aren’t up to code in San Fran.
Wow, what a difference. That's really sad to see. IMO, LA is much worse off now. Its always been a 'car town', built around the automobile, but you can clearly see that the human scale and simple walk-ability was at least considered in the 1940s. Modern LA looks hostile to pedestrians. So many wasted, nowhere spaces and blank facades. Generally just divorced from the street.
The oil companies also bought up all the electric trams - forcing disgusting diesel buses on everyone. Look it up. It was actually a sizable scandal. LA used to have public transportation in the 40's that ran on electric lines.
The reason the older view looks more walkable is because the Bunker Hill neighborhood with its ornate Victorian mansions was developed before cars existed. You can already see, however, the parking garages and the "Auto Laundry" exist in 1947 in among the 19th century homes and business buildings.
LA took out many of its hills over the years and tore down blocks of Victorian houses to build the "Metroplex". There is a lot of interesting information and before-after photos available online, such as here - www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-lost-hills-of-downtown-los-angeles
LA and SF used to be a lot more similar. In the '60s and '70s LA bulldozed most of its Victorian neighborhoods for "slum clearance" effectively destroying the oldest parts of the city.
...love seeing "before/after" pictures of landmarks, landscapes, cityscapes, etc... ...and this is moving pictures! ...very cool & great production! ...really enjoyed this! ...please do more!
Left screen - guy yelling "Jesus Cole, do you even know how to DRIVE" while Det. Phelps drives into pedestrians Right screen - Trevor, Franklin and Michael driving into pedestrians
Herr Richtig and you're lame. Laugh a little, live a little. Nothing wrong with a little humor every now and then. Life's too short to be so uptight and serious all the time.
It looks bland, and the opposite of claustrophobic. It looks like theres too much space, and definitely too much parking space. It's just.. bland with small hints of unique (which arent even unique anymore since it's so common to put down a Bauhaus like building now). It seemed alot more claustrophobic back then, which isnt a bad thing. It seemed tightly knit, and yet you could see for miles. It seemed like a place worth calling "Lala Land" or "The city of angels". Now? It just looks like LA.
There were many happy Blacks living in America during segregation even during slavery stop thinking all Black people were sour pusses pre civil rights..
As a native Angeleno, I used to mourn the loss of the few "old" buildings we still had as they were torn down in the 80s and 90s. Then I realized in a such a dynamic place as Southern California, change is constant and it's best to embrace it, so I do now. It's just how it is when you live in such a powerful economic area that is such a draw to so many people -- it's just change all the time so you might as well make peace with it instead of constantly mourning the past.
It seems that not one building survived the "developers" It was once a beautiful city, LA was unique. Now it looks like any big city anywhere in the world
2:19 That's a pretty cool coincidence. You should have pulled over and told that man someone else flagged down a taxi in that same location 70 years ago.
Herr Richtig My 1955 Ford is almost 100% Steel. I have this buddy, 1939 Mercury, almost 100% Steel. Bumpers are chrome plated Steel, some trim might be aluminum.
pal joey yeah since newspapers are vastly available on every corner but I guess not everyone wants to move ahead in life, some just want to stay blind with a backwards state of mind and blame others for their failures lol. It's usual people like you want things to be given to you without working hard so you blame immigrants or American's who are not white of skin for the loser that you are today. It's laughable how you think Trump is saving the country, I think once you realize what he's doing it'll be too late.
Notice there were a lot more apartment buildings and those old long term hotel type buildings, I.e., way more housing for people, as downtown had evolved that way. Those people have been kicked out to make way for developer glam.
its just amazing how residential space becomes business etc. however you can still see a lot of these old looking homes around fairfax blvd/rampart blvd.
Lmao at all the dummies saying liberals ruin everything. Earthquake codes are the very reason why most of the old brick and mortar buildings are gone in LA. They’re fun to look at but useless during a 7.1 earthquake.
@@lotus20856 sorry, just makes me angry when people think of the past as a "good" time. Just like those idiot Trump supporters who want to "make America great again".
@@BranMan10 yeah except it isn't people liking the *look* of L.A. in the 40's compared to now isn't people wanting the segregation and racism of the 40's to come back, jeez
I agree but imagine if People saw what 2017 looked like, they would think its far more interesting than their present. It would only be interesting to you because it would be so different and have such a new feel. I wouldn't mind living in the 1940's though, a more alive society, fresh air, life changing things to still be invented, music, dancing, real food, it was honestly way better.
I saw the original long ago and thought how cool it would be to do a comparison. This was a remarkable job with some details that make it even better. Someone did a great job.
@Quatt lol.. I'm sure they were also complaining about too many genders and pronouns like they do today.. Oh wait... Indeed, things have not changed for the better.
Actually no. Back in the 40's it was thoose buildings or western style wood Cabs. And Aldo nobody complained bacause of a period called post-war developement.
Its cool to note that Los Angeles had a lot of Victorian apartment blocks in it's city center and mirrored San Fransisco. The Villa style apartments were further out. The iconic terraces were in the hills
I love the modernization, it gives the city new life with the gorgeous sky scrapers and buildings we have, you get some beautiful old style building, with some newer skyscrapers with beautiful leds too
Yes that's the Central Library. It's on the National Register Of Historic Places. Where the man is waiving is where they expanded years later. Beautiful building.
There is something wrong with TH-cam when it isn't blindingly obvious how to tag a nationally known publisher without googling how to @users and still getting it wrong. You can make fun of me but really? This isn't a well...and I mean WELL established and known step to hold up creativity? Shame on Google.The world knows you; your simplicities should be obvious to the world.
What a beautiful city it was. A touch of Old Hollywood glamour and architecture. I definitely can see Bette Davis or Douglas Fairbanks filming some scenes on those streets.
Man, so many buildings back then that don't exist anymore, and so many buildings today that didn't exist yet. This is so fascinating, but also sad, even a bit eerie, at the same time.
I don't get why nearly all the old buildings that look have character have been bulldozed and replaced by buildings that are incredibly boring and ugly
C x Thats because city forced the people to go into the new suburbs that they were making at the time. They did this so that they could expand on the financial district that is there now. But most businesses had shut down or given up over time and the city didn't get rid of them. There basically doing the same cycle that they did before and it won't work.
Have you seen downtown L.A.( not the financial district) but the small shops. Most of them are kinda like Detroit's downtown now.
THAT PROGRESS FOR YA. SMILE !
Because the old buildings were Earthquake prone. The Newer Buildings were designed with Earthquake Resistant Structure.
@@alexdebrew3132 L.A. has no respect for its history.
You don't want to have the same boring style for 500 years do you or do you want to stick to old earthquake prone moldy buildings?
Am I the only person who think old 1940's LA looks so much nicer than it does now!
NO ! And LA. Isn't the only place that looked better in the 1940s
No, youre not
Yes, you’re the only in thousands who watched this video
Salvatore Ricca Right there with you
Well i see no difference except in cars
LA looks like it used to be more colourful, despite the lack of colour from the film
I am sure the buildings had different colors like grey, white, green, blue...
Did they have color back then?😁
Dale Wells ~ I ask my mom that same question to bother her 😂
It just looked like a nice small town
@@GNOLEB Lol! Yeah my parents were born in the 30s and when I was really young I asked them when did color happen before I was born. I don't remember getting an answer so I still don't know. 😂
2:18 did these two dudes really wave at the camera on the same street? Thats absolutely fascinating
@lasthumankind if not, this is the biggest coincidence
Just a time traveler that's all.
Maybe he asked the dude to wave at the camera on the right moment
@@rashadvq Maybe, just maybe both of them are related. Son probably carry Dad's legacy in continuing filming the streets. Or is it just the same person been doing this since the 50s till now??
Its called acting and producing. Im pretty sure the guy in the right was involved in this youtube video production.
I love how everything in L.A got bulldozed and turned into a parking garage lol
gary g the g how can you love that? you stupid hag
@@gerardosalas9477 sarcasm
That was the complaint in the 70s and 80s.
Open your eyes dude
I hate how they destroyed my city, so New Yorkers can move west.
Outstanding synch with two ladies at 1:10
Yep
Very creepy.
Time travelers man
WOW, that looks really cool
Actually I noticed later in the video that many elements were staged to give it this sync feeling. The man waving at the camera. Some cars.
I'm struck by how LA in the past resembles San Francisco, with the Victorians, bay windows, decorative street lights, hills and views; not to mention the street cars. LA took a wrong turn after the 1940s.
Agree...I had no idea there were so many hills in LA.
...look at all the palms lining the streets...
Totally agree!
The left video really reminds me of SF.
Nothing but skycrappers on that island.
It was a mecca for Art Deco architecture. Most of those buildings are sadly gone.
I honestly think i prefer the older L.A more. I like cities that kept their older buildings, they end up looking so much more important and classier. Like NY, or SF, or Boston etc.
if you like older city architecture take a loook at the european cities ;) almost every great city preserves its old centrum. for example take a look at Amsterdam at google maps ;)
@@animationexamples6101 nice one internet "tough guy", you showed them.
All those buildings collapsed in earth quakes.
Thtat is Grand St downtown LA. Its all office business buildings.
@@mrHoppedupford wtf no where not
Saleah Afghan93 Only in Syria
In Germany WW II had destroyed our old cities and we are still sad about it. And in America they do it voluntarily?Downtown L.A. looks really beautiful in the 1940s !
Sinful...both
the right one has color in it yet it's still more depressing
Sufficient Because everything is still gray where the older, Victorian style homes and buildings were sure to be much more vibrant. Still waiting for California to secede because that state is like the annoying aunt at a family reunion shoving her new essential oils down your throat
@@SpudEater About 18% of the Federal Budget is funded by California. Good luck convincing the federal government to let California secede.
Ok boomer
@@SpudEater im guessing you're midwestern with that attitude.
the doge master Nope
This is terrific. My mom was a messenger girl in the early 40's around Bunker Hill, so this gives me an idea of what she saw. Thank you.
Nope. 50's. My mom had me very late in life, she was born in 1924 and just died last year at the age of 92.
Laura Hodges I
Laura Hodges Wow, can you tell what year did LA started getting bland?
Vince McMahon In the 60's.
My Leg - You mean when did America started getting bland. The answer was in the 1960's.
Lanterns, houses and cars all were prettier 70 yrs ago...What happened to people's longing for beauty?
No one seems to have noticed the street trees and general greenery that exists now that was not present back in the 40's and 50's. Yes, the buildings are larger and not at human scale but the trees certainly make the street look more walkable in the heat.
I think the old cars were way nicer looking. And they were American. No ugly Hondas and Toyotas back then!
Anton Zuykov
Cars used to have more personality and be more robust than the soap bars of today.
hedgerowclose it’s because we realized that those buildings couldn’t withstand earthquakes
😂😂😂😂
alot of nice old buildsing are gone. like GONE
gentrified
Why renovate if you can G E N T R I F Y
But, some of the trees look as though they have survived.
L.A. is definitely not what you would call a "static" city.
randomrazr
At least there’s more trees
I think I like the 1940's cars, buildings, and everything else over what has replaced it. Looks better, calmer, and more civilized than now.
Those buildings were built before the 1940s
I couldn’t agree with you more. It looks more like a hometown one can live in. Today it just looks plain ugly.
Bruh, the cars back then aren’t as aerodynamic as they are now.
Non whites
Yes, I agree. Times were better when blacks were being discriminated against.
So sad that there is practically nothing left of 40's L.A....
It had way more character in the 40s.
yea, then the car ruined it. I bet you drive one, too (car) so don't go complaining. Get rid of your cage and we will have character and people back to our cities :)
There would be an idiot in 2060 that would said that LA have more character in the 2020.
NNT Flow Exactly. OP only says this because we didn’t live in the 1940’s. In fact, it has WAY more character today then the dull style of the 1940’s with it’s look alike cars and dress code like cloths. (Although I do prefer the look of the 1940’s)
I agree
Kris Tofer The houses in the 70s and 80s may have been ugly, but homes today are so much worse in terms of quality.
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
Braulder ohhhhhh bop bop bop ☺️☺️☺️ So true!!!
They paved it with bad intentions....
WHICH part
I don't know that old Los Angeles was a paradise, it only seemed to look nicer.
Put up parking structures.
Sure looked a lot nicer back then.
Everything looks better in black and white.
Everything looks good in white, idk about black though.
you must be kidding lol
Sure did.
It did look much nicer in 1947.. No graffitti anywhere in the old one.. No shaved head weirdos covered in tattoos blasting rap out of their cars.. Human scale buildings, cars that had some visual interest, not the squat blobs we have now.
Berlin, though bombed to ash in WW2 still kept more character than LA that was torn down by real estate sharks and speculants to an ugly cold and depressing concrete landscape.
Or... You know... We started caring about earthquakes...
LA needs to entertain the world, needs new stuff. Not live in the past.
Berlin can’t even build an airport properly. Look it up
Although most German cities are still full of horrible buildings, nothing like what was before (traditional German buildings). The same is in every city in Europe, but most of all cities that were once a part of the Eastern Bloc.
@@alijamili95 But they finally mad it but then came corona (Covid19) and broke the party.
Continue just outside the city limits and the area was still very agricultural. My grandparents grew walnuts and lemons a few miles southeast of downtown. There are now cheap strip malls, stack-n-pack housing, and nothing left that even resembles a working rural community.
When was this
🍐🍐;-)
Yeah, those are the stories an old timer used to tell me as a kid.
My great uncle moved to east la in 1938. He said after Lorena st coming east on 1st it was all dirt roads & stayed that way until the 60’s
@@EastSideGz ....and driving further east to West Covina and Covina would have been considered being out in the open country. Nothing but orange groves and open land.
L.A Noire anyone?
Hah just started another play through on PC. Such a great game.
Really. Love that backsound. 😊
yes I was playing it today, so I wanted to see videos of 1947 Los Angeles or LA in the late 40's lol
I was looking for this comment
Yep! Looks exactly like it.
I live in Los Angeles and this video is the most beautiful thing I've seen in a while. Simply stunning. Thank you.
i wished live there(( help plz
the city seems so dead, there is nobody in the street walking. Is it like this for real ?
yoto101- Yep. Everyone drives everywhere in LA. It totally normal to see only a few people walking around their office buildings. Also, downtown LA is not huge like Manhattan.
Ryan, well said.
@@Sweetybboy where do you live
The blandness of today's architecture is staggering. It's like a prison - high, blank walls, sharp angles, etc. Simply awful.
Its the legacy of the Bauhaus movement of architecture and art.
yeah but also more green, better roads, cleaner
It isn't LIKE a prison; it IS a prison!
Why not a clean city with better roads and nice architecture. Why does good taste has to be compromised in the name of "progress".
The "after" footage is what happens when you allow a society to fall prey to runaway capitalism.
This video reminds me, a few years ago the house I grew up in went on sale and had an open house. I decided to go just to take a look. I had not been in the house in over 40 years. Everything had changed. Of course the carpeting was different. The bathrooms and kitchen were remodeled and unrecognizable. The bedrooms had new doors, windows and paint and so were also unrecognizable. I told my sister that I could be standing anywhere in that house and if I did not know I was in our old house, I wouldn't have guessed that was were I was.
America in the 50s/60s looked really classy. Now it just looks depressing even with coloured video
Now, it’s just full of obese and arrogant jerks.
1943.
@@Luca-nu2zg Racist idiot
@ᚪᚢᛏᚢᛗ ᚱᚪᛇᛝᚹᚪᛏᛠᚱ Most Jewish people are white there not a different race
@@ieatlemons288 Jews are not white.
Clearly LA was more inviting back then, it had a lot of character, a way better vibe!!
Nope. LA had legal segregation back then, with laws against mixed race marriages and specific areas which were off limits to immigrants. LA is more inviting now, character never left, and the vibe is better.
Yeah way less illegals, bums and gangs compared to today unfortunately plus all the beautiful Victorian homes and buildings are almost gone.
jnuval just no
@@jnuval
That's why segregation needs to come back to the US.
Moses The Meek “Inviting” lmao
The destruction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood in my opinion was one of the worst decisions the city made.
Historical preservationists were doing their best to save Bunker Hill begging the city not to move forth with Bunker Hill Towers. Then one night the last of it all burnt down, under suspicious circumstances of course!
Fantastic! I had seen the original version years ago on TH-cam, but never this comparison. Well done!
(L.A. looked a heck of a lot nicer back then than now.)
Biggest difference I saw is that there was a bunch more people walking then there is now. Looked more alive and safer.
L.A. Noire VS Grand Theft Auto V (PS4) 2019
LMAO it's kinda true
LMAO so true
Nice! I’m actually playing GTA V on my PS5 though.
What a beautiful city Los Angeles was back then. It was full of character. There isn't enough money that could pursued me to live there now. What a shame.
I lived there back then in the 40's up until the 1980's Yea Im old. It was a beautiful city. Now its crap.
where you live now? Has alot change? Im pretty sure it has😜 obviously. what area in LA you lived back in the 80s?
How old are you?
Lora Williams he’s not talking to you
@@bobleach1281 stfu
L. H. Bruh moment
is there any irony to be found in a video about Los Angeles made by The New Yorker?
New York is the older sister to Los Angeles.
there is also a split clip of new york
Amen, brother! Two coasts cities "both alike in dignity," as Shakespeare would say. :D
Yeshua the savior of the world WTF, why would reply to a comment that was last posted 8 months ago?
whats your problem?
It looks more homely back then more cozy and serene.
when they were scouting locations for "LA Confidential" they had quite a hard time looking for good places to film since a lot of the buildings that existed in LA in the 40s aren't there any more
They constantly film on 5th and Main/Spring. And the Rosslyn Hotel is going to be around forever, I think. :0)
LA Confidential sucks and isn't noir at all.
@@MrMathExpert bitter, little man
@@MrMathExpert Wrong x 2.
@@MrMathExpert LA Confidential's alright, Math. It aint Chinertown or The Big Sleep, but its alright.
all these beautiful victorian homes torn down for concrete blocks
GermanDabs Dean makes no since
I don’t why they did that
Imagine if big buildings werent built though. The economy would have turned out different because of less people and business. Also lets say for example if there was to be a strong earthquake they couldve been destroyed easily and tons of damage may have been caused.
KangosTango san francisco has kept its old buildings and they have a strong economy + mostly earthquake resistant
aCynicalName LA has a way stronger economy, LA metro area has only 4 million people with a gdp over 700 billion. Bay Area metro has a population of 7 million with a gdp of just under 500 billion. Also, there’s a *LOT* more buildings that aren’t up to code in San Fran.
Wow, what a difference. That's really sad to see. IMO, LA is much worse off now. Its always been a 'car town', built around the automobile, but you can clearly see that the human scale and simple walk-ability was at least considered in the 1940s. Modern LA looks hostile to pedestrians. So many wasted, nowhere spaces and blank facades. Generally just divorced from the street.
The oil companies also bought up all the electric trams - forcing disgusting diesel buses on everyone. Look it up. It was actually a sizable scandal. LA used to have public transportation in the 40's that ran on electric lines.
The reason the older view looks more walkable is because the Bunker Hill neighborhood with its ornate Victorian mansions was developed before cars existed. You can already see, however, the parking garages and the "Auto Laundry" exist in 1947 in among the 19th century homes and business buildings.
City not a town
@@ToniCarrington are you serious? It doesn't matter.
Also the junkies and homeless have taken over
Aside from the vintage cars, LA in the 40's looks much like San Francisco still does today.
I thought the same thing. SF has kept itself quite well considering the years.
LA took out many of its hills over the years and tore down blocks of Victorian houses to build the "Metroplex". There is a lot of interesting information and before-after photos available online, such as here -
www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-lost-hills-of-downtown-los-angeles
SF is practically an island, while LA was built for sprawl.
LA and SF used to be a lot more similar. In the '60s and '70s LA bulldozed most of its Victorian neighborhoods for "slum clearance" effectively destroying the oldest parts of the city.
Minus all the human feces on the streets and sidewalks...SF and LA are both shitholes today.
...love seeing "before/after" pictures of landmarks, landscapes, cityscapes, etc...
...and this is moving pictures!
...very cool & great production!
...really enjoyed this!
...please do more!
This is wonderful. The sound track is perfect - the bass, so good.
Left screen - guy yelling "Jesus Cole, do you even know how to DRIVE" while Det. Phelps drives into pedestrians
Right screen - Trevor, Franklin and Michael driving into pedestrians
Herr Richtig if you don't even get the reference, don't comment.
Good ol' fashion LA Noire
Herr Richtig and you're lame. Laugh a little, live a little. Nothing wrong with a little humor every now and then. Life's too short to be so uptight and serious all the time.
At least it's not raining.
Your job is worthless. Do you even earn more than 30k?
looks so claustrophobic today with the buildings and trees vs back then
It looks bland, and the opposite of claustrophobic. It looks like theres too much space, and definitely too much parking space. It's just.. bland with small hints of unique (which arent even unique anymore since it's so common to put down a Bauhaus like building now). It seemed alot more claustrophobic back then, which isnt a bad thing. It seemed tightly knit, and yet you could see for miles. It seemed like a place worth calling "Lala Land" or "The city of angels".
Now? It just looks like LA.
maybe because more people live there...
Except for a few seconds, it was a lot better back then esp the architecture.
they mostly drove through the financial district of downtown. The historic core (old bank district) a block away is untouched.
And the cars were much cooler... a Packard taxi!
Just hope you don't crash in one. The car will be fine, you'll be in a bit of a state though lol.
or mexican
There were many happy Blacks living in America during segregation even during slavery stop thinking all Black people were sour pusses pre civil rights..
As a native Angeleno, I used to mourn the loss of the few "old" buildings we still had as they were torn down in the 80s and 90s. Then I realized in a such a dynamic place as Southern California, change is constant and it's best to embrace it, so I do now. It's just how it is when you live in such a powerful economic area that is such a draw to so many people -- it's just change all the time so you might as well make peace with it instead of constantly mourning the past.
It’s amazing how the camera man is still alive and filming
Looks like LA lost it's soul.
@Mekehl Lane
No Capitalism is why it was once beautiful. Open borders, outrageous taxes & Democrats are why it looks like 3rd world now.
@Mekehl Lane
Open borders and Demoncrats are why it’s bad today. I think I’d rather live In London
Hmm, Los Angeles had interesting architecture once upon a time...until the 1960s.
La has ugly 60s buildings.
It seems that not one building survived the "developers" It was once a beautiful city, LA was unique. Now it looks like any big city anywhere in the world
Even clearly late 1930's buildings are gone.
I literally saw 3 buildings in the 1940’s film still standing today
went there a few weeks ago, I think its an amazing city completely fell in love with it, am dying to go back
Globalism
There is actually a lot more trees in the city now and I believe that L.A plans on adding more trees and plants to the city area
It's like a massive bomb has hit the place and it's all just been rebuilt.
Yea, it's like one of those ugly rebuilt towns in Western Germany. With the only exception to never have been bombed. :/
A bomb call money.
2:19
That's a pretty cool coincidence. You should have pulled over and told that man someone else flagged down a taxi in that same location 70 years ago.
If you watched until the end you noticed they staged the car behind the camera too
The old cars looks so much better than the ones we have right now.
Niall Is Lit Af hipster
made of steel - unlike todays plastic cars
OT Just because they're mostly Steel doesn't mean they're safer. Take a look at that movie, 1959 Chevy vs. 2009 Chevy. It's sad, but it's the truth.
Herr Richtig My 1955 Ford is almost 100% Steel. I have this buddy, 1939 Mercury, almost 100% Steel. Bumpers are chrome plated Steel, some trim might be aluminum.
No
tear down old houses and put big corps in their place. bumping up house prices. ohhhhh the american dream
LA was way cooler in the '40s
False. Those ugly electrical poles are not there today (thank god).
For the KKK.
OceanBlue don’t forget Asians
OceanBlue well with a name like Los Angeles, you'd think there would be a large Hispanic population
And safer
SOUL VS SOULLESS
Love this!! There's been so much change in 70 years, that it literally looks like two different streets, side by side
It is interesting how the language evolved. "auto laundry" for car wash and "mutual garage" (at 15 cents!) for public parking.
Thanks John, I saw that auto laundry sign and I was wondering what it was.
'15 cents' wasn't cheap in the days before runaway inflation.
Weird how coin wash is still a thing though...
I found the old LA to be more attractive than the new one. The new one is so much more impersonal and inauthentic.
Just like the people there.
I mean, it’s California. What do you expect?
It all comes down to that taboo subject......................... Population.
chamboyette853 that’s all the new arrivals pushing LA to be the film capital of the world. Fakes come and have my town a bad facelift
No wonder Americans admire European architecrure... cause we dont let greedy business men tear down old buildings!!!
Amen!
livamilAVA you maybe right America sells to the highest bidder. I mean just look at our President, America is being sold right in front of our eyes.
pal joey yeah since newspapers are vastly available on every corner but I guess not everyone wants to move ahead in life, some just want to stay blind with a backwards state of mind and blame others for their failures lol. It's usual people like you want things to be given to you without working hard so you blame immigrants or American's who are not white of skin for the loser that you are today. It's laughable how you think Trump is saving the country, I think once you realize what he's doing it'll be too late.
Jazzy Jaz It's your very attitude that is going to take us back, not TRUMP! Go move to North Korea, you stupid communist!
pal joey Sad Fox fake News has you so racist and stupid.
Notice there were a lot more apartment buildings and those old long term hotel type buildings, I.e., way more housing for people, as downtown had evolved that way. Those people have been kicked out to make way for developer glam.
its just amazing how residential space becomes business etc. however you can still see a lot of these old looking homes around fairfax blvd/rampart blvd.
So much Character back then. Todays buildings/ homes are boring.
Literally nothing is the same. Only a handful of old buildings survive
People ruin everything! So much nicer in the 1940s!
Liberals ruin everything.
Scobey scobe it started going down hill when Hispanics and wannabe actors moved in around the 80s/90s
Yeah and racism
Lmao at all the dummies saying liberals ruin everything. Earthquake codes are the very reason why most of the old brick and mortar buildings are gone in LA. They’re fun to look at but useless during a 7.1 earthquake.
@@virginiansupremacy
Hispanics were there way before you morons were
Insane synchro. Loved this editing.
1940s Los Angeles is so beautiful compared to now. The character that every building had. I love it.
Do you also love racial discrimination?
@@BranMan10 you're fun at parties
@@lotus20856 sorry, just makes me angry when people think of the past as a "good" time. Just like those idiot Trump supporters who want to "make America great again".
@@BranMan10 yeah except it isn't
people liking the *look* of L.A. in the 40's compared to now isn't people wanting the segregation and racism of the 40's to come back, jeez
Tell me again how great modern society is other than modern medicine and air conditioning? The 40s look far more interesting to me.
shesnailie They're more homophobes nowadays.
Shesnaillie There were blacks there and nothing happened to them.
Bill DeVercelly i wish you were in poland or france in the 40s
Says the guy using the internet to watch videos for entertainment
I agree but imagine if People saw what 2017 looked like, they would think its far more interesting than their present. It would only be interesting to you because it would be so different and have such a new feel. I wouldn't mind living in the 1940's though, a more alive society, fresh air, life changing things to still be invented, music, dancing, real food, it was honestly way better.
Amazing, i feel nostalgia even if I'm not from there...crazy video.
Same here... that feeling is called saudade. Its nostalgia for something you haven’t experienced or seen
Cars were art then. Now they're rounded metal bubbles.
#aerodynamics
Yeah and much safer, more reliable, better gas mileage, and put out less emissions.
You're delusional
QuantumBraced cars are art now. Its just that theyre more beautiful the pricier you go.
and have crappy electronics that wont last long.
I saw the original long ago and thought how cool it would be to do a comparison. This was a remarkable job with some details that make it even better. Someone did a great job.
2:31 pretty much only building that still stands after 70 years.
That's our beautiful Central Library.
And the trees
It was nicer back then. Today, just concreate
41Djfu#lksdkjfd *C O N C R E A T E*
To true.
The Deer Hunter then, just flammable wood and brick and mortar that were useless in an earthquake.
Looked better before
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In the 1940s people were complaining just like the commenters here.
They had TH-cam back then?
Scobey scobe yeah
@Quatt lol.. I'm sure they were also complaining about too many genders and pronouns like they do today.. Oh wait... Indeed, things have not changed for the better.
Quattuordecillion yep, people can never shut their f***ing mouths.
Actually no.
Back in the 40's it was thoose buildings or western style wood Cabs.
And Aldo nobody complained bacause of a period called post-war developement.
Out with the Old, In with the New. That's Life
Its cool to note that Los Angeles had a lot of Victorian apartment blocks in it's city center and mirrored San Fransisco. The Villa style apartments were further out. The iconic terraces were in the hills
Thanks for a GREAT video.I really liked the old version of LA.
It's interesting that someone actually recorded this back in the day. As if they knew one day this would be compared to modern times
The '40s film was just made for movie back-projection use and it's somehow survived for 70 years.
Ok arnold kevorkov
Make Los Angeles great again!
Make The Lakers great again lol thats not happening in years
LA was so much more urban and nice back then. It's a whole new city today, not exactly for the best.
Old LA looks clean and spacious
I love the modernization, it gives the city new life with the gorgeous sky scrapers and buildings we have, you get some beautiful old style building, with some newer skyscrapers with beautiful leds too
Can't wait for the next video in 70 years when people are gonna complain about how they miss 2010s LA.
I kind of don't think that would happen. What's to miss about 2010s LA?
You mean Cyberpunk-Style then?
Nah, I won’t miss all these obese and tattooed idiots roaming the streets. 🤣😭😂
@@blackroan2276 people are all ready complaining how they want the 200p's and 2010's back.
LA sure looks claustrophobic now, especially at 3:37.
It's like a sci fi horror film showing a nightmare scenario of the future, but it's now.
right!! everything looks so dense and crowded 😣
STUNNING & SAD! So much for progression. Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much.you took me real back to the future.
2:30 finally something that stayed the same!
Yeah somewhat
Yes that's the Central Library. It's on the National Register Of Historic Places. Where the man is waiving is where they expanded years later. Beautiful building.
I wish they drove down Broadway, where a lot of the original buildings and theaters are still in place.
Everything looks wayyyyy cooler back then. Now it’s just large buildings for all the people there 😭
I just want to write to the man who made this film that you did an incredible job making it. An EXCELLENT job.
Am I the only one who likes the old cars thousand times more than the cars now?
Uncomfortably eye opening. Well done +The_New_Yorker
There is something wrong with TH-cam when it isn't blindingly obvious how to tag a nationally known publisher without googling how to @users and still getting it wrong. You can make fun of me but really? This isn't a well...and I mean WELL established and known step to hold up creativity? Shame on Google.The world knows you; your simplicities should be obvious to the world.
1:10 two girls passing in both images was so cool.
If it was intended then nicely done producer!
its looks like they teleported to the left
2:19 the guy walking waves. guy 70 years before also waves in the exact same spot. Time traveler.
Unforgettable & Knowledgeable.
1:11 that transition was so smooth
Watching this makes my heart hurt for some reason
But I think we could see why. :-|
1940’s LA looked way better. It’s crazy how they tore down so many beautiful structures and replaced them with ugly no character having buildings.
When people were kind and respectful.
The 40’s when blacks and other minorities were hated and discriminated against or did you forget about that?
What a beautiful city it was. A touch of Old Hollywood glamour and architecture. I definitely can see Bette Davis or Douglas Fairbanks filming some scenes on those streets.
Man, so many buildings back then that don't exist anymore, and so many buildings today that didn't exist yet. This is so fascinating, but also sad, even a bit eerie, at the same time.