Los Angeles 1940s, Residential Area in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ธ.ค. 2021
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of shots of Los Angeles 1940s, residential area, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight, Scene Street,
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source
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B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/pet1182r5la
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Do You wante to live in 40s era?
No, because my mom spoke of having to dive underneath her desk to hide as a little girl at grade school because of having to do practice drills due to world war II. The cars were amazing then though!
@@Earthy-Artist Far better than what we've been doing lately.
@@Earthy-Artist Our kids will speak about the years they had to hide at home and wear face masks for no reason.
@@edwardr5084 Very sad but true indeed.
@@Earthy-Artist Hell, we had to do that in the 80s because of the Cold War “Russkies”. And with the earthquakes, there was always reason to dive under a desk or run for a doorway.
It looks like it did when I visited my great grandmother there in the 50s. You have made this 73 year old feel like 7 again! Thank you so much!
That's very cool to hear
good old days LIZ ....
How you doing today Lizbeth
A noticed it to, at 3:24.
That's very good to hear, Lizabeth
I grew up in California in late 60s and 70s. My parents have since passed. Life is a blink. Goes so fast. Puts tears on my eyes.
do you know the Doors? )
@@vv-cy5sk If you mean the music group, yes. Bunt not personally.
@@vv-cy5sk my favorite band. i was only born in 1996 but would have loved to have grown up in the 50s and 60s where my grandfather grew up. i would have loved to have seen them live at The Whisky A-Go-Go or London Fog. if only Jim lived longer as they transitioned more into more of a bluesier sound. i'll always have their music and many other bands and artists to listen to whenever i want to get a taste fo the 60s.
Jeanette Griffin. I hear you.! Life is a blink. Being ten in '63 in The Bronx seems so so long ago, like a very long life..but the last few decades have slipped bye and disappeared! The 2,000's and 2010's are gone in a blur. Definitely tears in my eyes.. over the enormity of events of humanity. Ahh, and just when you have a big part of the puzzle figured..the body wears out and dies.!! Keep smiling!
yeah too fast. most of the people will be dead now from this time only the really young ones left oO
It’s so crazy how there’s people on TH-cam these days doing walking/driving videos in diff cities and towns and now we find out there were people in the 40’s and 50’s that were doing the same thing before any of todays technology existed. I find this so cool.
Not sure how I ended up on this video... but it's really cool! At 3:25, you see a P38 Lightning taking off from what was then Lockheed Air Terminal, today called the Burbank Airport. The Lockheed factory was right there in Burbank, and they built a lot of P38s, something like 10,000. It's entirely possible that you are watching a P38 on a maiden voyage (probably not, but nice to think). Sadly, there are only a couple dozen P38s in existence now.
Lol and initially i thought it looked like a drone!
@@Raxian I thought it was a drone. It just came out of nowhere.
Thanks for the clarity. It takes off so fast and straight up, it does look like a drone. But I see the tail now.
That gold dome looking buildings
I was wondering if anyone else noticed. What an awesome sight.
The video is from Burbank CA
0:06 -Victory Blvd & Pepper St - west on Victory
0:24 - Victory & Screenland
0:42 - Victory & Kenwood
0:56 - Right turn on Maple St - north on Maple
2:11- Maple St & Pacific Ave
Break
2:15 - Portal of Folded Wings / Pacific Park - Pacific Ave & Maple St -south on Maple
2:36 - Monterey Ave & Maple St
2:56 - Victory Blvd & Maple St
3:23 - Lockheed P-38 taking off from Lockheed Air Terminal
3:35 - Right turn at Jeffries Ave & Maple St - west on Jeffries
4:25 - Park on Jeffries between Rose St & Valley St
Break
5:27 - Repeat previous sequence
Right on the money. Thanks for that!!
thank you, I wanted to see what these places look like now. I'm from the East Coast so I'm not familiar with the area.
@@PF_Health Thanks for saving me the work. It nice and pink today or is that the sun shining on it.
I watched this video on my big 85" TV, and the P-38 Lightning suddenly appearing nearly brought tears to my eyes! What a historic capture!
Good work.
This video is literally a time machine. Thank you so much. My father was born in LA in 1948. My grandfather owned a locksmith store. I remember my grandparents always saying how life was hard but beautiful at the same time. Rip dad he passed in 2007.
Mine did too 2007
Probably lived longer no GMO foods round up - chem trails - if he was lucky enough not a agent orange war victim - now all these Covid booster shots. To say the least. My grandmother lived out there. In CA both to 90s.
Sorry to hear, my grandmother was born in 1950 in the Hollywood area, I can only imagine what life was like there so long ago.
I was born there in 1949.
L.A. was a beautiful place to live.
I finally left at the age of 65.
@@laurieclark2456 gmo is good and chem trails aren't real
3:25 Drone in 1940? :D:D
that would be a plane
@@DrywallMuncher_Its actually the Lockheed P-38 lightning
@@P51foxpilot ik
I truly got lost into this video. I feel like I time traveled into it.❤ It seems like it was filmed right after school as I see all the kids carrying what seems to be books/bags and their sweaters back home. Just a lovely everyday scene.
Ahhhh so this is what it looked like when my grandparents got married, bought a house and started a family out in California. This is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing!
... and fuked everyone down the line ....aaaahhhhh.
@Tweakz and Gem
it’s not about him being a loser it’s about the neighborhoods we grew up in being unrecognizable. But I definitely think it’s a bit of an overreach to say that OP’s grandma is to blame. It’s not her fault a bunch of dirty smear merchants weaseled their way into our higher government and defunded our southern border
@@tweakzandgem4785
I see you don’t take any accountability for your generation. Nice
@@sabrinatscha2554Dear Kraut: Well since most illegal immigrants came into this country in the 80s, 90s, and the millenial decade, I guess we know who the "smear merchants" were.
Before massive diversity...yes.
My grandparents lived on this exact block at the 7:54 mark. the black dog you seen on the corner was named rufus and the owner was Shirley (walking across the street) and her son Eugene (on the corner with the dog) . i was 7 at the time. i used to see them every couple of weeks
(2-26-22) Alright guys and gals i gotta confess. I made all this up lol. Just a troll comment...had no idea it would get this much attention. thanks to all who commented and liked...i actually had a private message from a local new station asking for an interview bc they saw the comment and wanted to make a story. But anyway, thanks for the publicity and R.I.P. Rufus just for the hell of it
wow...you remember this? what a coincidence? this is incredible.
Wow
oh wow..... that is amazing!
Out of the 10's of 1000's of videos on YT, you just happened to come across this one. Well done.
That is insane that you could look back at this....wow. I can't imagine how it makes you feel.
These are my favourite types of videos it's the closest thing we have to a time machine and it's beyond fascinating to see life before we existed
At 2:16, there's the jump cut with the dark sedan turning from westbound Pacific Ave. to southbound N. Maple St. in Burbank, Calif. That's the corner of what's now (8-24-2022) the Pierce Bros Valhalla cemetery. The gold dome is the Shrine to Aviation, which is still there. Not too many years ago, a small plane, taking off from Burbank Airport, crashed into the dome.
Following the cars south, as another viewer pointed out, at 2:35, that's a Lockheed P-38 Lightning taking off. The first time I saw this on a tv, it wasn't so easy to keep going back to figure out what that flying box was.
There was an airshow at the Camarillo airport last weekend. There was a Lightning there, and I spoke to the pilot. After I told him how much I liked the look of the 38, he told me it wasn't a great plane in the following sense: most fighters had a more-or-less similar profile. The air combatants couldn't necessarily identify a plane as friend or foe until they got close. But the 38 was identifiable from a considerably farther distance, making it more vulnerable to air attacks and AA ground fire.
The P-38s were designed and manufactured at Lockheed Vega, then Lockheed, before WWII and retired from the USAF in 1949.
P-38s attacked, and killed, Adm. Yamamoto in April 18, 1943, one year to the day after the Doolittle Raid on tokyo. Lt. Rex Barber was finally credited with downing the plane carrying Yamamoto.
As for that possibly being a P-82 Twin Mustang, they would have a similar boxy appearance at that distance, but the Mustangs were built by North American. The NAA California plant was in El Segundo/Inglewood, next to Mines Field (now the detested LAX), making the P-82 an unlikely candidate. Kansas City, KS was North American's other plant.
The North American plant at El Segundo built the 16 planes in Doolittle's Raid.
Who can identify the newest year/model of car in the segment driving south on N. Maple? Cars aren't my metier.
Cheers
From watching this video, it was winter in Burbank, so I'd say Jan/Feb '47 or '48.
Since cars weren't readily available to the general public, I'd say the latest models would be '41 or '42's.
Amazing footage of the San Fernando Valley, all in Burbank. Someone may have already posted this, but the first sequence starts at what is now the Petco on Hollywood Way & Victory Blvd, and ends up on Maple street. The second sequences at 2:25 starts at the top of North Maple at the junction with Pacific (basically the car just turned around before starting to film the second sequence).
The car is then heading south, our POV is due north. After a few seconds we see a small intersection on the left, which is Monterey Avenue. Then the major road we cross is Victory Boulevard. There's still a church where the white church stood on the NW corner, but it's since been rebuilt. The building in the background is the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, which still stands today. It's very near the modern Burbank Airport (the old Lockheed works I think).
At 7:15 the car turns right onto Jeffries Avenue. The waste ground behind the car is now the Maple Street Playground.
OK I'm probably the only one who thinks this is interesting so I'll stop now! Most of the houses in this footage still exist in their original form though I doubt any of them will sell for less than $900k in 2022.
Wow. And absolutely a straight up robbery for a 900k house for one of those old ass original houses. Homes should depreciate like any other asset we own. The land is valuable the building is old and dilapidated. 900k for hookers to be standing on every corner. No thanks. Get real, California
Thanks for the information.
@@PokrPro21 don’t worry bro providence will bring “balance to the force” very soon. We are on the very edge of the apocalypse, there is no turning back now.
This is fantastic, Jack! No, you're certainly not the only one that finds your observations interesting, and thank you for them! (I'm one of those people that likes to A/B between these old videos and the current street view on Google Maps, so I do appreciate your handiwork!)
Thanks. Good insights...
As a car guy this is incredible. Anyone else noticing all the oil stains in the driveways or in front of the houses? That’s how the drivetrain in cars were until the 60’s when they started getting sealed better! And when they came out with the PCV system which did away with the draft tube.
Imagine how slippery the roads were after rain?
As a plane guy that reminds me of the old radial engines from that time and the 50's. They all leaked oil continuously . We used to say that they were just marking their territory.
Stayed lubricated
Yes! I was going to make a similar comment. The automobile has definitely advanced greatly from those days!
And let’s not forget the dozens of grease fittings.
@2:15 to the left of the screen the dome shaped building is the Portal of the Folded Wings, Shrine to Aviation in Burbank. You can also see there was a soldier standing guard to the right of the moving car. And @3:25 you can also see a F-82 Twin Mustang just took off from Burbank airport.
You’re correct. I thought it was a P-38, but close inspection shows it has no central cockpit nacelle. What else could it be but an F-82? Good job. And that soldier seems to be guarding a scruffy vacant lot-maybe it’s the perimeter of some sort of secure installation?
No question it is a P-38 Lighting. Burbank Airport was a major manufacturing plan for Lockheed during the War and the F-82 was a North American product @@drawn2myattention641
This is the most amazing video I have seen yet like this. It felt like riding around "now"! Unbelievably well done !
The building in the background to the left upper screen is the Portal Of The Folded Wings Shrine To Aviation In Burbank CA. It is in the cemetery South of Burbank Airport and old home of Lockheed Skunkworks (where many historic jets were designed and produced). The film starts at w. Pacific Ave (South of the old Frys Electronics). The camera car travels South on Maple Street towards Victory Blvd. and crosses it. The church on the NW corner of Maple and Victory is smaller. Things to look for and compare is the alley directly North behind the church, The house North of the alley the door way is the same, the second house on the right side of the video (located at Pacific and Maple where this portion of the ride starts) has a unique pointed arch forming a triangle. Google maps street views was used to compare.
thank you so much for this information🙏
Good catch! If you look at google maps, it looks like the majority of those houses are still there, amazingly enough.
Can you add time stamps for the building references you mentioned? This discovery is pretty amazing since I live fairly closeby
Are you talking about the dome like building that stands out?
Excellent catch! I was thinking Burbank--maybe Covina, leaning Burbank, but couldn't quite place it. At 3:28 seems like a twin tailed P-38 is taking off into the pix. I didn't see a single house with a double garage.
The cars, the fashion, the general aesthetic. It’s so clean and nice.
Not any more....it's the hood now.
@@KB-ke3fi Same story throughout the country...
@@doritos6548 no the people....you could trust lol!!!
alot more class right ?
@@RockinProfessor Another racist conservative, no surprise.
This looks absolutely amazing! Even while I watch it, I totally take it for granted. It looks new while being very old. Amazing job!
No burning crosses with black people on them?! shocking!!!
This is so cool that someone had the foresight to film this stuff for the archives, I love this channel!
I read that studios made these films for movie backgrounds.
To Think the kids outside the houses are now like 80 years old is like mind-blowing
As we will be.
Some of those kids were bell bottom hippies in the 1960s. :)
I just wrote a similar comment. I wonder if they’re still alive and if so have they seen the video
I am so glad someone thought to do this back then because at the time it would have felt mundane to just film a row of houses. I don't know how many people would even do that today, but this guy was thinking ahead. Thank you sir, whoever you are!
AVERY CHASTAIN: I was just thinking that this almost seems like the Google Maps of its day. I wonder if this is actually how they plotted the cities for the phone book maps. Hmm...
Most likely movie studio B-roll to be used as background in scenes with actors driving around
@@kkfoto Ohhh. Good idea. That seems very plausible
@@kkfoto Or for montage sequences which were popular in the day. Lots of directors,ike Don Siegel, got their start with these.
People actually do it a lot
This is extremely well done. It seems that movies often 'dress up' periods and romanticize the atmosphere, so it's cool to see (what I assume is) a more realistic look into what it was like. Doesn't feel quite as far in the past as it is.
Growing up in the Appalachians you see a lot of communities with these same houses and neighborhoods, and feels like that time period besides the newer cars. Mostly where the poor live. There might be a few updates but not much.
because it's in color. i detach from black and white
probably a gang infested toilet now!
I suspect people did appreciate what they had more back then. Nowadays, a walk down the street on a nice day isn't even worth it if you can't catch Pokemon & post selfies on Fakebook, along with a self-absorbed, pointless commentary. And that's before you even leave your driveway.
Its crazy what colour does. In black and white it feels old and nostalgic but in colour it almost resembles today.
Very cool! Sad to think that probably everyone in this video is all gone 😔
Actually some of the people that lived in the 1940s are still alive. Like my grandma's friend's mom who was born in 1926.
The only sadness is a stark reminder of our own mortality. We all get our moment on this planet. Question is, what we do with that time?
This neighborhood today looks even better than the video. Completely taken care of and preserved by the homeowners over the decades. Extremely rare. Check out N. Maple Street just south of W. Pacific Ave. in Burbank, around where this footage was shot. See that big domed structure at around 5:30? That’s the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, which was built in the 1920s and looks the same today.
Definitely, the domed structure gave it away. That's right next to where Lockheed was. You can see a P38 taking off in the background.
This is shot is taken likely from 34.188304532746265, -118.35349164345807 looking north to the building. The car is going down southbound N Maple St
Im glad to hear that. Any neighborhood can be beautiful but only if people care and have good taste.
I looked on Google maps and it does look. The houses are still the same, just different facades and a good many expanded! Beautiful neighborhood.
It’s not a diverse neighborhood
So incredibly fascinating to watch. The typical B/W and sped up footage we see from old days makes it difficult to see that era as "real". Your videos make the past seem that much closer and real🙂👍🏼
thank you so much
@@NASS_0 Anytime! 🤗
Old sped up footage wasn't meant to be sped up. Silent amateur film camera speed was 16 frames per sec to save raw stock. When projected on a home projector motion was normal. But pro equipment was designed at sound speed of 24 fps. Hence motion is sped up unless corrected.
@@2mikelim I know 😉 And thanks a lot for the detailed explanation 👍🏼😊
Yes like if tomé never really passed. I dure it would happen with any time in history.
Depending on your age...I have always thought it fascinating if one was to spot themself, parent, or grandparent on one of these clips! How cool would that be to catch a glimpse of that moment in time so long ago. Thank you NASS for providing the closest thing we have to a time machine!
The best restoration I’ve ever seen. It makes the 40s look so good… and real!
it was....not anymore!
Crazy! My dad was born in 1942 in Glendale. I was also born there. He would tell me stories about the good old days and I always wished I could go back in time to see what it was like then. He passed away, but this is like visiting his childhood. Thank you!
P38 Lightning taking off@3:27. Early 40's probably. Seeing the past in HD is awesome. Feels like you are being transported back in time.
Well spotted! Taking off from what is now Bob Hope Airport.
I saw that too. Pretty cool!
excellent eye!
Yep, I saw it too. Wondered if anyone else saw it! Awesome aircraft!
Top right corner at around 1:33-1:40...possible DC-3 ??
Great video! I went on Google Earth to compare to present day. You can clearly see how about half of the front yards were taken to widen Victory Blvd. But the homes are, for the most part, unchanged. So cute and neat.
Amazing job! Really wonderful!
These restored videos are almost like a dream, there's a strongly surreal quality to seeing such old footage moving so smoothly at high resolution. I've always had a fascination with old shows and films from that time, mainly because TV stations when I was a kid in the 80s filled a lot of their timeslots with old reruns from this era so it was also something to bond over with my parents and grandparents. That we have the technology now to allow us to see real life footage in such clarity from that time of just normal people in normal everyday life is absolutely amazing.
So Nostalgia
Hello how are you doing.
This is pretty incredible. The colorization and the smoothing of the frames makes it almost look like video tape and so much more true to reality.
frames are added not smoothed
Colour video existed since the dawn of the 20th century.
I feel like I went back in time with a time machine amazing pictures!😆♥💯
Wonderful job!
This is absolutely delightful to watch. Many thanks. 🌷
I always imagined the 40s would have had a less developed residential area. Everything from the house to the driveway and the landscaping looks modern. Not much of a difference outside of the cars and culture of the neighborhood
Did they even have video recorders that were battery operated back then?
It's modern because those houses are still standing and are valued at a million dollars
@@ThatsTheWayItGoes Lithium ion batteries were developed in the 80's and mass produced in the late 90s.
@@Brikid My question was meant to be rhetorical. But, your response then begs the question of how was this footage captured?
@@ThatsTheWayItGoes I guess mercury based batteries in a film camera? Couldve even been manually operated with a crank. Looking into it its actually kinda interesting.
The 40's? Looks like it was filmed just yesterday. Great job!
That’s right, when it seems that it looks so crisp and clear especially with the sound. It’s just so good to be true.
Because he's a time traveller.
I think it was illegal to park on the sstreet
Yes , i think so ...classic timeless
Yes 💯%
2022 and not much has changed... we're not flying around in cars, aliens or robots haven't taken over... the quality of this is amazing! Nice work👍
This footage is in and around Burbank, CA. At roughly 2:18 you see an ornate, domed structure to the left rear, that is “The Hall of the Folded Wings” at Valhalla Cementary, at the end of the runway from Lockheed/Burbank. If you look in the deep center background you’ll see the camouflage netting that covered Lockheed during WWII. At around 8:48 the camera starts at the same location again. If you look in the center background you see an armed army guard, I assume he is guarding the employee parking at Lockheed. Sometime later you’ll see, what looks like, a P-38. These were produced at Lockheed during the war.
This is Burbank, CA.
Oliver Hardy's grave is in the cemetary.
I wondered if this was Pasadena or Burbank. Thank you for posting this comment!!
James Schmitt
8 months ago
The video is from Burbank CA
0:06 -Victory Blvd & Pepper St - west on Victory
0:24 - Victory & Screenland
0:42 - Victory & Kenwood
0:56 - Right turn on Maple St - north on Maple
2:11- Maple St & Pacific Ave
Break
2:15 - Portal of Folded Wings / Pacific Park - Pacific Ave & Maple St -south on Maple
2:36 - Monterey Ave & Maple St
2:56 - Victory Blvd & Maple St
3:23 - Lockheed P-38 taking off from Lockheed Air Terminal
3:35 - Right turn at Jeffries Ave & Maple St - west on Jeffries
4:25 - Park on Jeffries between Rose St & Valley St
Break
5:27 - Repeat previous sequence
This is awesome. Watching a neighborhood back in the 40s is so interesting. I loved watching the kids playing outside, how they're dressed, and the neighborhood was so peaceful. Parents didn't have to worry about their kids playing in the front yard. Thank you for posting this. It gave me a glimpse of how life was at the time.
1990s generation were the last generation to know what playing outside was!
Don't have to worry about kids playing in the yard any more now than in the past. It's perception that we need to worry more, so we do.
I noticed that too. I saw at least five children in the first minute or so. Also saw at least one person walking briskly.
@@rolandos64 1980 was the cut off year , anyone born after 80 never experienced what this country once was. I'm on the fence as I was born in 76 . I grew up In Manchester NH , parents built a house in the country in 85 so we moved when I was 10 .
The west side of Manchester was kept up for the most part , most of the neighborhoods consisted of French Canadians . The area started to go down hill by the late 80's and is now a shadow of it's former self . Most of the tenant buildings are being bought up by investment companies that do not care about anything . 35+ years ago most apartment buildings in this area had the landlord living on the first floor and often rented to friends and family members .
@@manchesterexplorer8519 I was thinking the same thing not too long ago... I was born in 76, May.
Watching all those lovely classic cars in high resolution is simply stunning. I get the sensation of time travelling watching this fantastic video. Thank you for this great job in restoration. Thank you for the upload.
It’s nice 👍 seeing the older vintage 🚙 and the other things that are just seem so quiet and calm without all the clamor and clutter. Thank you 🙏 for sharing this beautiful video.
Hi I've only recently discovered your channel and I have to say I'm loving it. I am from Iran and a new subscriber of your channel. I'm very happy to watch this video 🙌, thanks very much for sharing this beautiful video.
This is remarkable. Most of the houses in this neighborhood haven’t really changed much. Until recently , Burbank has always had a small town vibe. Thanks for posting this video.
gentrification is hell :(
Yea but Burbank is super weird lol
Indeed the houses haven't changed
If possible, it would be amazing if somebody could redo the same route in present day LA. I'm sure the contrast would be startling !!!
I agree, it would be very interesting to see the same drive 80 yrs later!
I don't know if you could make that drive today without running into thugs, bodies in the gutter, prostitutes roaming, etc.
That's probably Compton today lmao
LA looks harmonious
There are videos then and now of the Hancock Park area in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles. A very affluent area and the now video looks exactly like the then video from the past. Amazing.
Beautiful work!
Thank you for the video Host.
I love this trend of adding color (and sound) and adjusting the speed. It really brings it to life opposed to the usual sped up soundless black and white footage we usually see from this era.
In my mind when imagine the 40s I immediately think brown. I don’t know why. But this video shows the same blue sky and green grass we see everyday and it feels shockingly familiar. Love this you earned a follower.
I can't wait until it's available to us or something you can have done to home movies, I have some footage of my great grandfather in the 20s, my grandfather, my dad and his siblings as babies in the 40s and on. I've watched them 1000 times but I'd love to see the early ones remastered like this. That would be incredible.
It looks & sounds completely fake.
@@NoTaboos the sound is fake, as noted in the title.
I didn't realize that houses were built that close together as far back as the 1940s. Thank you so much for posting this!
They go way back even in the 20s
@@dattepo7534 Wow. I had no idea. Thank you.
Wow the footage is so clear, it's like filmed yesterday.
Awesome, thanks for the video.
"Our life on earth passes like a shadow ..."; so poignant to watch. Thanks for your great work.
thank you so much🙏
I love watching these. It’s taking a peek into how my grandparents lived.
I see young trees and wonder about how they look today.
I love the cars!
Been torn out for strip malls.
@@itsjohndell most not
At 3:56 on the right is a house at the intersection that has a distinctive bay window and a small tree in front. On Street View. at the corner of Jeffries and Pass in Burbank, you can see this same house and how huge the tree is now.
@@cozmorio Nice to know the house and tree are still around.
This is just before my time having been born in '49. Certainly the colorization but also the realistic speed of the playback helps to better connect with that era. Black and while and quick jerky motion makes it seem like a big disconnection ... like they weren't people like we are. Yet, they were people ... just like we are people going through our lives. Thanks so much for this video.
I think you have a wonderful endeavor on this channel .... I love seeing this kind of stuff , it's very nostalgic for me , and it will be educational for all the younger folks who have no idea what America looked like long ago .... People need to see this , well done
Literally like being in a time machine and visiting the past. Amazing.
The usa now look amazing ahead of time
But I want to step out of this time machine and experience this glorious time for myself
@@LukeLovesRose Yes, but keep in mind that if you were a man of "fighting age" you'd be drafted into the war, not experiencing Los Angeles...
@@BoatMurderedDF And I'd be fighting for the Axis if I could... so we could keep California the paradise it was
@@LukeLovesRosebro what
Looks like my grandparents neighborhood that I grew up in outside of Chicago. Seeing the clothes line with the clothes hanging out to dry REALLY brings back memories for me lol. Even after my Grandma got her first washer and dryer she still hung her sheets on the clothes line out back and my sister and I would run through them like a maze. They moved to the suburbs from the southwest side of Chicago after WW2 and they lived in the same house until they both passed away this past decade, 60+ years. You can tell the houses from that post war era because like my grandparents house their whole subdivision were 1 story ranch house with a car port or a bungalow style house with a single car garage in the back. My grandparents got to choose from 3 designs and then the company sent out a semi truck with pre fabricated sections and the house was erected in 12 hours or "by the end of the day when you get home from work" was the company's slogan. I loved growing up in their neighborhood because everyone knew everyone and all their original neighbors were WW2 and Korean war vets and were neighbors for 60+ years... but sadly they've all passed away too and now the houses are being torn down and massive big multi story homes have taken over.
Bet these houses were also affordable for normal people working normal jobs. Thesedays, young people like me - 28yo, looks at 1bds tiny ass garage space like flat and think what a luxury it is. Crazy.
@@p2p104 Oh for sure. That was the whole idea of the post war idiology. Esp during the 1950s is when the suburb boom took off with affordable housing back when the normal household was Dad goes to work and mom stays home and takes care of the kids and the whole family survived and thrived off of dads $10,000 a year job while living in their single story 3 bedroom, 1 bath, single car port $14,000 ranch house. Thats exactly how it was for my grandparents when my mom and uncle were growing up. They were the ideal postwar family lol. Things were cheaper back then too but it amazes me how much things have changed and how inflation dictates how things are.
Yeh...I was a kid in the very early 60s and every back yard had clothelines. Many had home washers, but dryers were rare at that time.
@@matrox and air conditioning units were rare too or a luxury item. My folks didn't get their 1st unit installed until the early eighties lol.
@@eldiablo3794 In the earl mid 60s we had a window A/C in my parents bedroom. On real hot days thats were we would be watching TV.
Thank you for the awesome video. Two things: I didnt see a single TV antenna, so this was shot during WW2? The P-38 takeoff was amazing!
It would be great to see the same route filmed today. Very interesting thanks.
I had to constantly remind myself this was filmed in the 40s. Incredible video.
This is just mind-blowing!!! I was born in the 80's and I've always been fascinated by those old films. Such a time machine and so good to see this in color. Thanks for sharing this 🙏😊
Same here
So here's some food for thought. People seeing footage of the 80s today is the same equivalent of people in the 80s watching this footage of the 40s. Music from the 90s is basically the same distance of time as what we called "Oldies" in the 80s. I guess I'm officially old now. Waaaaaah!
@@2WhiteAndNerdy same it's scary how fast time goes by, our lifespans are way too short.
What a gem. Great job.
Unbelievable it' s from the forties...so clean and professional made video...very great...the classic cars were soooo beautiful
LA Noire really did a good job of making you feel like you were in the 40s. It looks exactly like this!
They really did do well working from hundreds of photos and film clips. When playing it I thought the trees in residential neighborhoods were too small and sparse but it was exactly right. The city was growing fast and almost everything was new.
Was just coming to comment how this makes me want to play LA Noire...
@@macmacsk I think they wasted the fantastic world they created. If I remember correctly, there was very little to do outside of the main quest line. In fact I can't remember a single side quest or activity. Such a shame because it was a great map.
I thought exactly the same thing 😁
Yes they did a beautiful job it’s one of my favorite games to play just to drive around and imagine if I lived in those days
Did anyone else notice that starting @ about 3:45, there are no stop or yield signs at any of the intersections in the neighborhood. The times WERE a little more laid back then. Great vids, thanks. So nice to go back in time for a few moments during these trying times.
And the cars didn’t have indicator lights. Everyone just seemed to turn randomly
@@craiggillett5985 Yep I noticed one car crossing behind the camera car nearly got hit by another car, nobody was stopping!
I was wondering about that. Were all those intersections treated like a 4-way stop back then or was it more random?
@@craiggillett5985 @7:24 you can see the driver in the car following signal a left turn with the old timey hand signal (arm straight out indicating a left, whereas holding one's hand upright, i.e. in the form of a right angle, signaled a right turn).
People died All the time took years for even seat belts to become standard
So many beautiful cars. Great footage !
I'm subscribing to this channel, I'm fascinated with this time machine.
Hey fun fact: this was the exact area that Tim Burton grew up in. It was the inspiration for how the neighborhood of Edward Scissorhands looked like. I guess living so close to a cemetery had quite the effect on Tim’s gothic feel to his films haha.
No.
True. The "Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation" @ 2:20, next to the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, is in the area where Tim Burton grew up in.
My great grandmother was a teenager in the 40’s . She had my grandmother at 17 in 1947. She was born in Los Angeles. It’s nice to see what it looked like 👍🏽
Let me guess your grandma had your mom at 17 and you had your kid at 17
@@whitneywilliams317 nope. I didn’t have any children at 17. Nice guess though. 👍🏽 Neither did my mom. But ima pray for you, seems like you’re having a bad start to your day.
@@Coach_MarcyBob it's not an insult
My Grandmother was a teenager too back then. I would love to go back in time and experience what life was like back then.
@@Coach_MarcyBob I'm am only 28 and my Grandmother was a teenager during WW2 in Europe and my Grandfather on the other side fought for the US Army in the Pacific in the same war. It's called when your parents have you later in life for both generations is when you end up with super old grandparents
Would be nice to see a comparison drive-by of the same street today.
Loved this la .such a high quality of life back then.
0:25 The house on the corner (and undoubtedly others similarly situated), thanks to having frontage on two streets, is able to vary its base design by placing the garage at the rear. Makes for a "cleaner" look when viewing the front façade.
Props to the person who filmed this. All those houses, if they haven't been torn down yet are worth minimally $750,000 or more today.
My dad bought one of these homes in 1956 for $11,000.00 and is now worth over $800K according to zillow
😳😳😳
A run down shack in Watts goes for 350 to 500k, these Burbank homes are in the 850 to 1,000,000+ range.
@@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428 your name is perfect!
Robbie, you were never the sharpest tool in the shed, but the houses are not worth more, the dollar is worth less so it takes more of them.
love this video. so relaxing. what do you think the neighborhood looks like in present day? I think I would have like LA at this time
Thanks for uploading this film!
To think my parents were walking around in L.A. during this time!
Opening scene I deliverd to all those homes as a UPS driver. City of Burbank. I deliverd to the entire city back in the 1990's. The quality is fantastic.
That’s amazing thanks 😃
Did it look the same in the 1990's as it did in the 1940's?
@@kfl611 All the homes sure did. Seeing this and knowing that from the 1940's to the 1990's that 50's years had passed, that some of the kids walking in these scenes would've been in their 60's/70/s in the the 90's, and I could've delivered to them and their kids is really kind of cool to ponder. There was much less greenery, tree's and bushes. The Portal Shrine looks the same in this footage. It would be really cool to take the same route in 2021 with the camera rolling.
This makes me feel like I had just stepped out of a time machine. I could be seeing this with my own eyes!
How could a Christian country go wrong....
@@angeloferreira7488 Because it's not Catolic
Come to think in it, this is as close as it can get to a Time Machine. Especially with the clarity of the footage and Sound too.
@@angeloferreira7488 because our society had pushed God out. Now we teach CRT in schools, and install Tampon machines in the boys restrooms in Oregon, and boys are isolating themselves playing World of Warcraft all night. Parents don’t play an active role in the children lives and fathers don’t stick around.
Well, aren't you seeing it with your own eyes?
Yes that was the good ole days . You can just tell. Thank you for this. It was great to watch.
Thank you for the hard work you put in to preserve this!! It’s no wonder why my Grandparents moved to this area around the time this was filmed. He was in the Airframe profession with early turbo props, and lived not too far from here! Such pride people took in their homes and lawn appearance back then.
WHAT? It looks like SHI T! It does not look great. NO trees, it looks FUG
@@Retroearthling You do realize that the neighborhoods are new? No trees yet....go troll somewhere else.
green laws were only such color because water was abundant then. look at population then and compare to todays. thats a start. you want green grass, move to the east coast! its green for days! The west coast is all desert!!! Its like vegas! Only reason you see all the lights in vegas, is because they have been installed and are powered by the colorado river! grass in the west coast is artificial. we grow it!
Looks like a P-38 lightning climbing out at 3:29!!!! how awesome is that!
Good eye. I had to re-watch a few times to find it lol. Very cool.
Twin fusealage !!
I noticed that too!
I’m amazed by the quality and the stillness of the cameraman in the back of that shaker old pickup truck.
It's incredible to see such modernity, such standardization and finally a certain disgust with this standardization. But you can feel the life of the people of the time, both a peaceful life and a boring life to die for.
What is the monument we can see on the left at 5:27 ? The observatory ?
It looks like shots shot for a film location.
Thank you, nice return.
The quality of this video is amazing! Thank you for bringing this era to life! ♥️
This is amazing! To the best of my knowledge this would be the area of Burbank CA. That huge dome structure is quite beautiful and called Portal of the Folded Wings, Shrine to Aviation. It was completed in 1924 and is the burial site of famous aviators. Planes landing at Burbank Airport in the background, fly over the portal and reverberate in the space. It's magnificent to visit as I have many times. It's located at the Burbank entrance of the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. There's also an entrance to the cemetery on Victory Blvd in North Hollywood, CA. Thank you for this treasure :)
thank you so much🙏
In the clip driving away from the Shrine, they are driving south on Maple St. That church is now the Victory Hispanic Church on Victory Blvd. The car continues south and turns right onto Jeffries Ave. They pass N Pass Ave, Evergreen St, N Rose St, and finally pull over alongside to what would currently be 1900 N Valley St on the Jeffries Ave side. #thanksGoogleEarth
And I give those directions, not so people can go and interrupt these neighborhoods, but to let people know where to look on Google Street view of they wanna see how the trees have grown.
@@thechad4485 Can confirm
@@thechad4485
How are people going to go and "interrupt" those neighborhoods exactly?
Notice how clean the streets look and how quiet
Still like that in most suburbs today. Well Atleast where I’m from.
AWESOME that someone thought to do this!
Another great video!
You’ve been pumping them out lately.
It's a fascinating to see life back in the 40s and I'm very grateful to the videographer who recorded this. And I'm grateful for whoever kept this video for future generations to see.
@James Hama Ella is fine
@James Hama yea I’m Ella who are you?
@James Hama how would you know James? I just want to be friends
it's film, not video. This is in the 40s, there IS no video yet.
Very very nice 👍 . Amazing!
2:16 This is Burbank - circa 1940. That dome building in the background is the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine, which was built in 1924. They are driving South on N. Maple Street between W. Pacific Ave and Monterey Ave. Director Tim Burton grew up two blocks West on Evergreen Street.
It's probably an atlantean building built before the population reset... Like the Palace of fine arts building & all of the world's Fair complexes, & giant castle looking: "colleges" "prisons" "government buildings" & "insane asylums", were probably all here before America was "settled". Like New Earth, Jon Levi & other people talk about.
Someone must have traveled back in time to shoot this, the image quality is just out of this world even with the restoration. Amazing video though!
When you have the original Film, you can upscale it to up to 8k digital quality. It’s just people have been seeing videos form 70s and 80s with the “VHS” tech and think 1940s FILM should be worse when in reality Film is always super high quality as long as you can reproduce it to a compatible digital format
I can't believe the quality! It makes me feel like back to past. Thank you for sharing. :)
The quality of this one is incredible, i've watched a couple of times ..👍🕷️🐍😁
I've been watching these videos over the last several months. Fascinating stuff. Where do they come from? Who made them in the first place?
Thanks to one of the other viewers who identified the streets of this residential neighborhood just west of Burbank. I just did a Google street view. Interesting to see how the area still looks the same, yet different today. The houses still look the same. A lot more cars on the street, the trees are all big and mature now. If anything, it looks a lot more clean now with nicely landscaped lawns. Back then, it was probably an affordable area to live. Now, anything in LA is so ridiculously expensive, so that might encourage homeowners to do more for curb appeal.
True, the neighborhood looks a lot nicer now, but it hasn't changed a lot -- except for real estate prices...
Tbh I hate the look of old growth trees in a subdivision. I love the clear cut look with the dinky trees and the look of freshly unrolled sod grass. The new construction aesthetic is so pleasing for some reason. Everything is sparkling and everything has an aura of freshness
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Yes, new subdivisions have a certain appeal too. As different as they are, I also enjoy a mature, mid-century subdivision. I would have loved to combine those two things and be a homeowner of a brand new mid-century modern home in southern or central California in the 1950s or 1960s. Get the best of both worlds.
What a fascinating walk back in time...thank you for all your work on this video and thank you for posting it!
This is an amazing restoration. Thank You. Any idea what the original footage was filmed for? Was it for some real estate company trying to sell homes in the neighborhood or something?
Probably for a film company to project behind a car in the studio to make it look like they're driving down the street.
There was a peaceful spiritual quality oozing from every frame..:)
PS- was that a P-38 fighter in the upper the left at 3:25?