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yeah ...I visited Hollywood last year because I have an appreciation for old hollywood! it was kind eerie driving through the hills in hollywood knowing that it was filled with all these stars but now its kinda dumpy...but was cool exploring old hollywood!
It WAS! I was there. Well, not in Westwood which was only later after '65; recollections of the Forties are mainly from the Bay Area. In Ww things got really casual what with the onset of Glorious Hippydom -- a delightful opportunity for guys to get laid, which otherwise never would or could have. True!) Memories of scenes such as these are very familiar here. We might remember too, that much of what was left over from the Twenties, remained to be seen in the Forties and early Fifties even. In Culver City for instance, much of it still appeared as it did in Our Gang silents! In Venice CA, a lot left over from the late 19th Century was still present, the ocean park playground stuff and whatnot.
I'm not even American and I wasn't even born until 1960, but looking at this just gives me an amazing feeling of time travel! Happy to upvote... Keep up the good work👍😊
My grandparents at their prime during this time. My parents were both born in 1946. Life looked so grand with everyone dressed up just to shop and go about their day. I wish I could have experienced life back then in America.
Footage starting at 2:53 is looking at the house located at approximately 10080 and 10084 Valley Spring Lane in Toluca Lake (house demolished and replaced with at least two houses). Car travels north and northwest on Navajo Street. The house that appears at 3:19 to 3:21 is 4262 Navajo Street - if you look at 2015 and earlier Google Street View, you can see the original house - an addition has been added over the garage since then. At 3:33 the car makes a left/south turn onto Forman Avenue then at 3:50 makes a right/west turn back onto Valley Spring Lane. At 4:18, the car passes Arcola Lane, at 4:36 Ledge Avenue, and at 4:57 Strohm Avenue. Many of the houses on this section of Valley Spring Lane have survived being torn down and rebuilt, like the two shown at 4:58, one with a fun turret. Though this section of the video ends at 5:04, the upcoming intersection is Cahuenga Blvd.
No Homeless camping out, no graffiti, no obesity, every house and car is clean and well kept, people dressed nice, maybe I’m crazy but it just seems like everything had so much more class back then.
@matthewpatrick7964 Exactly. If you haven't any history then this was an idyllic moment. If this is around WW2 or thereabouts, America's economy was never fitter - production and output positively fierce compared with a thrashed Europe. Before the war the world shadowed the pound. Afterwards, it was the dollar. If people want simple answers, there's a whole lot of them floating around.
Much more simpler time back in those days. Even thou that was when my grandparents were young hadn't even met or married yet. More peaceful then as well it seemed
Everybody dressed up. I’m fascinated by the apparent cleanliness of just about everything. No loitering, no begging, not overcrowded, just beautiful, thank you.
Yes, it is so as you describe but, the MISERY had yet to be distributed evenly: That is the goal, and has been for a very long while, now. What one observes here in the comparison and elsewhere is that equal opportunity of misery, is now visibly/experientially coming to it's planned fruition -- no more mere 'buds'. Scenes such as we have here will be removed from proximity to any human memory, "1984" style. Believe me, the total wreckage project has only YET BEGUN!!! Most humans enjoy precisely minus-zero control over their destinies, collectively or severally. (Sadly, admittedly I do wrestle with the nagging notion that, in their conclusions, the geneticists just might be right.)
@@jamesmiller4184 “Equal Opportunity of Misery” That’s your interpretation? We see things quite differently. I see it more of an over population which has become intentional, but we won’t travel that road. BTW, soon none of this will matter. Have a good one….
@@waterheaterservices Not going to matter much longer. In case you’ve been on holiday the U.S. is on the verge of total implosion. Suckers get what suckers deserve🙂
Looked like Westwood to me and at 1;56 we can confirm that it is - Kelly Music 1041 Westwood Blvd. Building is a cultural landmark and still there. All the houses that follow are Westwood. When it goes to night, we're downtown LA 1937. Champagne Waltz opened on February 4th at the Paramount downtown but not on this double bill so not quite sure what theater that is - still researching. Completely baffling. The Young in Heart came out in late November of 1938, so why the previous year's Champagne Waltz is top billed is the enigma. Solved. It's 1942! The theater is the Olympic - we're driving on 8th and the Maxwell House Coffee shop is 8th and Broadway. The key to the theater was the small side of the marquee's Merritt Building - on B'way and 8th. Whew!!! Week of March 4, 1942. I need a drink.
@@MichaelDembinski The nighttime footage is EXACTLY the week of March 4, 1942. There is no arguing that. If you're talking about the daylight footage in Westwood, I have no idea of that date - but the night footage is exactly what I say it is.
One of the realities of our society that I miss the most is the respect most folks had in the way they dressed and the way they presented themselves in public. Self-respect is a lost phenomenon these days. Too many folks are complete slobs with no self-discipline. I so appreciate the producers of these videos for all of the efforts their work reflects. These snapshots of life back in the day are such a wonderful reminder of how far our society has fallen.
I couldn't agree more-one trip to Walmart is a perfect example of 21st century America., t-shirts with obscenities, dirty clothes-a total lack of caring of how one appears in public.
Indeed, we don't see any multi colored hair, fat feminist, hairy looking circus freaks walking around! Instead we have slender sexy stylish ladies here....🤩🤩
@@glendalestoner420 Personally, I think it was a definitely footage taken with "actors." There's a camera right in front of you and people don't stop to look or even ask what the camera is for? Definitely not random footage.
Film was actually pretty good back then. That is why classic movies look really good in 4K rerelease. Film also has a higher dynamic range than even modern digital cameras.
European society once had a high standard of living. Aesthetics and looking sharp mattered. Architecture was designed to uplift, unlike today in which it is designed to demoralize.
California is a terrible place. There "Babylonian Center". The sorcerers live there. Masons, killer psychopaths, Hollywood Kabbalist, Church of Satan, Scientologists, Charles Mansons. I would not say that this is a normal place. His whole story is covered with horror. I'm serious now. As if during these years, the Sumermsmous architecture was built))))
@@kenw4930 "get help" Well, I am an ordinary white man atheist with higher education. I am not in the Masonic Lodges or Shreiner; do not make sanologic enema; I do not use nrokes or anti-depressants; Do not guess on tarot maps; Not use numerology All my ancestors engaged in important professions (inventors, engineers, doctors, nurses, sailors and captains, farmers) It is very strange to hear from a crazy city, where everywhere occultism, suffering, heroin addicts, abducted children, racial war. - You are not normal! - I know who I am :)))
My wife and I (both born in the late-'40s) love your videos. Our son and his family live in LA (we live in NC) and we visit often, and have become interested in LA and Hollywood history. One thing I'd love to see added to the description of each video are the locations and street names, if that's even possible. I find it helpful when viewers identify those, but often there are no locations cited by viewers and subscribers. Still, I won't stop watching these fascinating videos.
Each of your restorations gets better. You can the improvements when the camera car shoots on an angle, like the night scenes, where you can really see the names on the stores. This is really incredible work you are doing.
Unbelievable how nice,how clean, well dressed, wish it was like this now. Truly sad how we’ve degraded and become so grungy! In more ways than one. “ Mr. Wizard take me back”.
This was a good era to be alive in a city like LA. The weather was great as always but the population was still relatively small and the city wasn't a homeless overclogged crime ridden nightmare yet. Did you notice how orderly society was back then? People dressed so well. Cars were kept in such good condition. Streets were clean and civil. And the people in those homes usually were one guy working a middle class job and a housewife with a couple kids. That era of great life balance is sadly over.
Why people keep coming to LA, I’ll never understand as long as I live! All my grandparents lived there for a time and both my parents were born there in the 1930s and as soon as everyone could, they moved away from LA. When I was little, my mom used to hate having to visit other relatives or friends there. As I looked around, I could see why! Now I avoid going there to visit. I just do not find it interesting! There are , fortunately, still nice places to be found that are a good drive away from LA, so I’m thankful for that!!! These places may even have a guy with a middle class job with a wife who stays home with a couple kids or more! ;)
I especially missed riding on the Daylight express ànd all of the steam trains- also remember fedora hats. Almost died of nostalgia! Especially loved the chicken at Knots berry farm!
Unbelievable. It seems, the high quality restoration, makes it so hard to imagine which time period you are watching. It seems we identify so much the time period with the picture quality of the film.
Yes.., the quality of a film (or lack thereof) helps to place the time it was done. At the highest quality, the film itself becomes transparent to the point that it doesn't exist as an artifact. It's a bit disorienting, to say the least.
This could be 1949 or 1950 because there's a '49 or '50 Mercury in a driveway @ 3:19. The bike that kid is riding is worth $5,000-$10,000 today in mint condition. 4:26 is a 1941 Cadillac Sedan. @4:31 a kid left toys on the sidewalk. Try that today!
I was trying to figure out the year myself. The first clue I had was the same as yours -- probably 1949 because that Mercury in the driveway was the new body design that year. I'm convinced that the film was cobbled together from several films because others here remember landmarks from earlier in the '40s. In some other parts, no cars beyond the early 40s can be seen at all.
Oh yes. My grandmother lived in Lincoln Heights at the time of this video, but if she would've been walking in these Westwood streets at the time, she would have blended in just fine 🙂
I was just thinking the same thing. So California back then was one of the most beautiful and highly productive agricultural areas in the US. From 1948 to 1958 it all changed. SAD!
I do remember my folks and their siblings along with my grandparents dressing like these people we just saw. It was every day dress. Unlike today where most people appear to have selected their wardrobe in a potluck at a laundromat. Sad, really, how far we’ve tumbled from the past. Not that it was some magical time. There were social issues and difficulties then, too.
@@FirstLast-gv1zl For someone who liked the genteel times shown in this video (although it was in a prosperous area-there were still slums etc. at the same time) you would not know it by your crude rude last question. Obviously my reference to blaming hippies was meant to be funny but my humor went over your head. However I do not blame any political movement or party for the current wave of mostly druggies on the streets-I blame the idiot individuals for their decision to take illegal drugs. If you are into trying to blame political parties, who did you blame for the 1930's Depression and dust bowl days (which was much worse and widespread than the current problems) following the stock market crash of 1929? Progressive liberals?? LOL. P.S. April 14, 2022 Apparently "First Last" deleted his/her comment.
Perhaps my favorite thus far... simply for the opening scene showing everyone walking about in such breathtaking fashions on such pristine sidewalks before such beautiful store fronts. Sadly, such days of quiet elegance, class and mutual respect, of understated pride of country and civility are all long gone, now. All that is lost forever thanks to the well-orchestrated social and political upheavals begun in the 60s. Go take a look at these same streets today to appreciate just how far we have fallen as a society.
Hi, the opening scene was staged, with actors and extras. One man walked through the scene twice, and one tall woman has appeared in other videos here. So, the scene does not represent reality, or the way things really were back then.
@@Jesvox1234 I seen old ones that were not staged and everyone curiously checks out the camera filming them. They will directly look at the camera and the person filming them. No one does in this clip even though it appears to be in that era.
Well, I'll have you know I live in small town America, just a paltry town in southern Arizona, where you can drive down and film streets that are just as clean, peopled with folk just as "fashionable" as these in this clip, and with the same feeling of security and community. The "America doesn't exist anymore" hyperbole is just that, its overblown windbaggage. Yes, many cities have their issues now, but that doesn't mean America is dead. Its heart is still beating, you just have to know where to look. As for "political upheavals"...they're common, they're nonsense, and blame is rightly equalled out to all sides for the fallout. I get that a lot of it is staged but the comments decrying modern America compared to what we once were just get to me. Yeah, the people are well dressed at this time but "certain folk" weren't allowed in freaking diners at the time. "The Good Old Days" are always a goddamn myth.
My dad would have been 6 years old in 1942. What intrigues me are some pockets of L.A. County kept some of those street lights to this day. Like, a block or two in places like Pasadena, Glendale and the like. I also see old bridges built in the 20’s with the turrets that cities have kept. I wish we had forethought in the 40’s to really keep a lot of buildings or structures that have been torn down. We’d have way more charm in our cities to this day.
Los Angeles is going to replace all of their street lights with solar powered ones.Besides saving some on their electric bill they want to keep the criminals from stealing the copper wire from the lights they now have.That project will go on for years.
I was 5 years old in 1943 and traveled to Los Angeles with my mother on the Southern Pacific Daylight from San Francisco to Union Station to visit her grandmother who lived in Riverside and had a summer home in Laguna Beach. We were met by one of her uncles and driven to Laguna. There were actually expanses of undeveloped land and large citrus groves in what is now Orange County. My memories have faded over the years but these clips are doing a lot to refresh them. One thing I strongly recall from that trip is all the soldiers and sailors that were everywhere. I especially remember the anti-aircraft drills that were held one night on Laguna Beach near the Hotel Laguna that involved searchlights and listening devices (huge horns or earphones that could track distant engine sounds out to sea).
@@johnmanning4577 , I was a child of the 70’s and a teen in the 80’s. I lived in Riverside in 1968 at age 4. We moved to Fullerton, in Orange County when I was 5. Then, we moved into a house in East Anaheim bordering Yorba Linda in Orange County in 1973. There were citrus orange groves and farmland. I rode horses with my Dad on the weekends and our close family friends lived in Laguna Beach. We frequented to Laguna. You are right. It was undeveloped land and I remember hiking with my older brothers as a very small child and witnessing prairie dogs barking at us in Fullerton. I had to walk 3 miles to the nearest little store gas station called Stop and Go in E. Anaheim to buy little candies that were 2 for a penny with my best friend. That experience you had with the anti-aircraft drills must have been captivating. I do remember taking the train to SF and to Denver with my mom. The train was a charming way to travel. The train cafeteria has good food. Not great but not bad either. I’m sad that urban encroachment took so much wild land away. I wish city developers had the forethought to keep patches wild with TLC. I don’t mind my tax dollars going to maintain natural reserves.
Спасибо оператору снимающему всё это. В то время наверное казалось бессмысленной тратой пленки, снимая обыденные вещи, но сегодня это смотрится с восторгом. Наверное нынешнее видео с видеорегистратора через 70 лет тоже будет вызывать такие же чувства у зрителя.
Wow, all the ladies look so trim and fashionable in high heels! I only spotted one tall gal in flats walking with a gentleman who was no taller than her. Beautiful restoration NASS
@@father7713 I meant back then. Westwood was not a place full of tourists. Most of the people that you see dressed up to the nines lived in Los Angeles.
@@chrisdarling3617 prior to about 1960, many people had their clothes altered to fit properly, and dry cleaned because tailors and cleaners were everywhere. dry cleaning a shirt was only a dime, starched , pressed and packaged.
Note the difference in the headlight configuration between the newer 1940s model cars and the older models. The newer models have their headlights embedded into the fenders while the older ones have theirs mounted (on a bar). Nice to see a few late 1920s models still puttering about. Love the rumble seat on the car early on in the video! Always enjoy your uploads!
I loved the neighborhood ride, I love that the majority of houses in LA have kept their architecture intact, so the footage looks current, that's why I love LA houses, they give a special character to each neighborhood, as opposed to new constructions in other states.
Sandaglad, Yes, I agree ! She does look SMASHING !! Plus the man on the far left window shopping, wearing the gray single breasted suit at 0:29 is a timeless suit too. Males could wear that suit and be in style 1900 to TODAY!
it's amazing starting at 2:58 that the neighborhood footage (other than the age of the cars) could be today. the houses look surprisingly modern. it's easy to think of past generations as "different than us" when the footage dates them. take that away, and you realize people 80 years ago led very similar lives to us today, overall.
Thank you for taking us on a trip to another place and time,the colour and sound brings the film to life,each time I view these uploads I notice more, leaves blowing on a tree,reflections in shop windows,if this film wasnt saved it would just be another film reel sitting in a tin gathering dust or deteriorating lost forever,
And don't forget, leaving keys in the ignition and front door unlocked in case a neighbor wanted to borrow a cup of sugar and you're not around... the trust was amazing... because people were law abiding citizens !
0:02 - 1:13 Nancy's fashion around 6366 hollywood blvd. 1:48 1043 Westwood Blvd, westwood 3:19 4268 Navajo st. in Toluca lake. 3:32 corner of Navajo and Forman Toluca lake 4:55 house with rounded castle "turret" is still at 10451 Valley spring lane Toluca lake..near Strohm intersection 5:54 turning off of Olive onto 8th street 6:05 423 west 8th street Bristol and Golden Gopher still there 2023
Seeing them in full colour like this feels like some sort of crime, it bridges the gap in time to a scary degree. So much more intimate than seeing black and white grainy footage.
Love all of your colorized videos ! I was born in April of 1946 and have owned several classic cars throughout my life, now driving a beautiful 1940 Ford Sedan DeLux in the Cloud Mist Grey color that actually looks more green in color to me. The youngsters around my town seem to really enjoy the old cars like I did when I was in grade school during the 50's. I had wanted to own a 1940 Ford ever since I was about 16 or so and I couldn't pass up the chance to get a beauty in all original condition with wonder original paint and interior. These videos take me back to the awesome times when I grew up. So much safer and more calm. Thanks for your efforts. 😀😀😀
I hope someday a game developer will recreate what Southern California use to look like back in the early 1940,s in a high-resolution VR format using Unreal Engine 5, so we could actually experience what it was like back then with all the Citrus and Walnut Orchards, and farms. Imagine being able to visit any city or town back then or being able to walk among the Citrus and Walnut Groves in areas like Covina or West Covina back then. Covina was once the citrus king in California and West Covina was mostly Walnut orchards.
You could always play LA Noire? Admittedly it came out more than 10 years ago… But for its time it was way ahead, and the amount of research that they did into developing the game and to make it authentic was astounding. (I am sure there are some TH-cam videos on the making of the game)
@@AlphaGeekgirl I actually bought that game years ago when it first came out but what I'm talking about is recreating what all of Southern California used to look like in a high-resolution VR format, that would be sweet.
my grandma grew up in LA in the 30s and 40s, and she always talked about her family's farm and horses. I would always wonder how she had a farm and horses in LA, but it was quite a different place back then lol
I hear ya, but it will probably be a Fallout 5, L.A. Edition. Or a dystopian Blade Runner. LOL. Nobody born tomorrow would ever believe that was Southern California. S. CA today gives me nightmares from what it used to be.
@@AutomatedPersonellUnit_3947 These are Elite created and funded groups to keep us divided and from uniting. Easier to conquer and control the masses that way.
At 6:06, The Hotel Bristol is now the Bristol Apartments. At 6:08,:the Golden Gopher bar is still in existence today!!! 80 years later! Very rare. I plan to visit just to check it out.
I am convinced that this is footage shot on location in Westwood Village, Los Angeles by the major motion picture studios to be used as background projections in what was then referred to as a "process shot." This was a common practice -- to shoot, what appears to be an exterior shot, on a sound stage instead of taking an entire crew on location. This would explain why everyone you see in this footage is dressed to the nines, and why everything (sidewalks, storefronts, etc.) all appear clean and neat. The people you see walking in and out of the shots are all extras. I spotted the same woman in two different shots. This does indeed look like Westwood Village in Los Angeles. In the distance of the first shot you can see the perimeter wall (now gone) of UCLA that use to run along Le Conte Avenue.
2:00 The Kelly Music building still lives at 1043 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024 in Westwood Village. I dined there a few times in the early 1980's when it was Alice's Restaurant.
Wow, so much class and style. Imagine time jumping from today into those streets with distressed jeans and ripped T-shirt while fully tattooed arms and neck :))
The Selznick movie “The Young in Heart” on the marquee of the movie theater came out in 1938. The other movie with Fred MacMurray and Gladys Swartout “Champagne Waltz” came out in 1937.
The night scenes were photographed during the first week of March 1942. The Olympic theater at 8th and Broadway showed "Young in Heart" and "Champagne Waltz" together during that week.
I get that it seems that way. But I don’t think it is actually those streets. I’ve not been able to find a single house that matches this footage. Many houses have changed. But there is not one. Also on VSL there are several older homes that would be present in the two blocks where there are no homes at all. And the thing that tipped it off for me is the lack of the Forman residence on Toluca Drive and Forman. That house was the first built in Toluca lake. And this shows a Tudor.
WOW! Another blast to the past. Beautiful daylife and nightlife in 1940's California! I love these regular street scenes with people walking and seeing how well they dress and the cars of the period. Just fabulous. Plus Don't forget guy's and gal's do not leave your house without putting on your black and white spectator shoes ! LOL. Alway's loved the style of men dress in the 1930's and 40's ! Almost look's like you could step in the video and be with them. At 2:54 till 5:03 it almost look's like your in the 1970's or 80's with the look's of the homes and neighborhood in Color if you did not see the 1940's cars.Just fantastic. Thank's for the upload !
Even in New Zealand my Aunts and my Mothers friends were smart dressers in the 1940s when they went to town or the race track ,like these ladies. Except that rationing carried on until 1949 for clothes-they managed to look chic with sewing machine made items as well!
Oh absolutely! Standards of appearance were universal in those days. Hat and gloves were a must! If there were old footage of streets in New Zealand the people would look absolutely sharp in their clothing.
This is torture for me. I've heard how wonderful it was there and how downtown L.A. was safe and even enjoyable to walk not just during the day but at night. Imagine a safer, cleaner and better city 70 plus years ago. No graffiti and everyone spoke the common language...English. We're definitely devolving.
As a historian who has read at least 3 dozen books on LA history as well as poring through archival newspaper articles, it wasn't as "safe and clean" as this film makes it appear. And you find everyone speaking the same language comforting? Sounds pretty stifling to me. I take it you've not traveled much?
@@dadduorp yes, deny reality and question the values of a homogeneous society when the results reach correlates almost never seen in social sciences. It's quite clear that parts of the country with the highest diversity also have the highest crime and it is no coincidence.
@@dadduorp I never knew someone who identified as a historian who read only 36 books on a topic and then poured through archives on a whim to think it was not safe and clean. IT WAS. I, too, am a historian and I read well over 200 books on said topic from the 40s and 50s and, too, read archives. Everything WAS clean and they WERE speaking the same language, ENGLISH.
Kelly Music Co (1043 Westwood Blvd just north of Weyburn Ave, West Los Angeles 90024); night shot-in the rain : The Golden Gopher = 417 W. 8th Street Los Angeles CA 90014; The Owl Drug Co. = 5th & Spring Street Central downtown Los Angeles 90014)
Stunning. The residential lawns look like carpet and and the gas powered mower hadn't become popular yet. You could see one of the classic push mowers in someone's yard. Awesome.
Amazing footage -- the digital enhancement process is getting better and better. Thanks for posting this video! And we see Hamner and Son Clothiers at 1:32 -- location is 1091 Broxton in Westwood. (Not that there is any doubt about the location.)
The movies being played at 6:59 were David o Selznick’s young in heart from 1938 and I believe the other is Champaign Waltz since I saw starring Fred McMurray and Gladys Swarthout. They appeared in that movie in 1937.
America before the great decline. It's surreal to see this knowing these aren't actors in costume, and that this time was real. Every frame tells some kind of story if we're wise enough to catch the meanings. Example: Notice the bicycles casually parked on the sidewalks? Crime was low in many (most?) California neighborhoods in those days.
California is a terrible place. There "Babylonian Center". The sorcerers live there. Masons, killer psychopaths, Hollywood Kabbalist, Church of Satan, Scientologists, Charles Mansons. I would not say that this is a normal place. His whole story is covered with horror. I'm serious now. As if during these years, the Sumermsmous architecture was built))))
If people had a clue what OLD L.A. was like in the day, the year round warmth, the atmosphere, the possibilities, the relative friendliness, the cars, the scenery, architecture, the shopping/stores, etc. you'd think you were almost in heaven. I'd kill just to be 40 in 1950. Robert at 68.
The past always seems so beautiful, calm and peaceful... It's a false impression, especially for the 40s, but so sweet. Thank you for this moment of nostalgia.
Incredible cleanliness and calmness. People Can’t believe its California, or anywhere else now, for that matter. People actually cared about their attire and grooming, unlike the animals now roaming our world. I can only attribute it to the lack of certain demographics which are conspicuously absent in this video - Fact! What a shame our society was like this at one time, and now EVERYTHING is ruined. Wish I had lived as an adult in this time period. A wonderful world, now gone forever.
If I’m not mistaken, I believe I saw a 1950 Mercury in one of the driveways as we “ rode” through the neighborhood. It could have been filmed around that time .
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yeah ...I visited Hollywood last year because I have an appreciation for old hollywood! it was kind eerie driving through the hills in hollywood knowing that it was filled with all these stars but now its kinda dumpy...but was cool exploring old hollywood!
Couldn't agree with you more.
It looks like a whole new different world. Everyone was well dressed & neighborhoods look clean & neat.
It WAS! I was there.
Well, not in Westwood which was only later after '65; recollections of the Forties are mainly from the Bay Area. In Ww things got really casual what with the onset of Glorious Hippydom -- a delightful opportunity for guys to get laid, which otherwise never would or could have. True!)
Memories of scenes such as these are very familiar here.
We might remember too, that much of what was left over from the Twenties, remained to be seen in the Forties and early Fifties even. In Culver City for instance, much of it still appeared as it did in Our Gang silents!
In Venice CA, a lot left over from the late 19th Century was still present, the ocean park playground stuff and whatnot.
This is a nice white neighborhood lol.
Because certain demographics hadn’t arrived yet to destroy everything. What a shame.
@@ERTChimpanzeemaybe there’s a reason it’s so clean then… 🤔👀
@@JWashington754 White as snow ;)
I'm not even American and I wasn't even born until 1960, but looking at this just gives me an amazing feeling of time travel!
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As a native Californian, the Welsh word Hiraeth perfectly describes scenes like this. A homesick yearning with grief for a place that is long lost.
For some a world they never knew.
Pre 1965 immigration act . When America was great .
@@martinhanley9524 The US belongs to NATIVE Americans
@@martinhanley9524 correct
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Whitaker Chambers warned all about this in 'witness' -
This is one of the best I've seen so far. Especially the sidewalk shots, so clear like they were just taken.
Their dressing all also like nowadays kan? That time also all very modern already la ya.
Yes, I agree.
Some film restorations are like watching new black & white videos !
My grandparents at their prime during this time. My parents were both born in 1946. Life looked so grand with everyone dressed up just to shop and go about their day. I wish I could have experienced life back then in America.
Infants are people “in their prime”?
@@lookbovine she said her parents were born then, slow down when you read.
Footage starting at 2:53 is looking at the house located at approximately 10080 and 10084 Valley Spring Lane in Toluca Lake (house demolished and replaced with at least two houses). Car travels north and northwest on Navajo Street. The house that appears at 3:19 to 3:21 is 4262 Navajo Street - if you look at 2015 and earlier Google Street View, you can see the original house - an addition has been added over the garage since then. At 3:33 the car makes a left/south turn onto Forman Avenue then at 3:50 makes a right/west turn back onto Valley Spring Lane. At 4:18, the car passes Arcola Lane, at 4:36 Ledge Avenue, and at 4:57 Strohm Avenue. Many of the houses on this section of Valley Spring Lane have survived being torn down and rebuilt, like the two shown at 4:58, one with a fun turret. Though this section of the video ends at 5:04, the upcoming intersection is Cahuenga Blvd.
Thank you so much for your awesome description of the video!! Well done !
No Homeless camping out, no graffiti, no obesity, every house and car is clean and well kept, people dressed nice, maybe I’m crazy but it just seems like everything had so much more class back then.
Exactly! No wokeness! Also men were men and women were women. The fruit cakes stayed in the closet! It was a beautiful time!
@Proper I’m so glad you agree
@@sdcoinshooter Touche ! Or should I say...check mate ? lol
Btw, I agree too
@matthewpatrick7964 Exactly. If you haven't any history then this was an idyllic moment. If this is around WW2 or thereabouts, America's economy was never fitter - production and output positively fierce compared with a thrashed Europe. Before the war the world shadowed the pound. Afterwards, it was the dollar. If people want simple answers, there's a whole lot of them floating around.
Much more simpler time back in those days. Even thou that was when my grandparents were young hadn't even met or married yet. More peaceful then as well it seemed
Everybody dressed up. I’m fascinated by the apparent cleanliness of just about everything. No loitering, no begging, not overcrowded, just beautiful, thank you.
Yes, it is so as you describe but, the MISERY had yet to be distributed evenly: That is the goal, and has been for a very long while, now.
What one observes here in the comparison and elsewhere is that equal opportunity of misery, is now visibly/experientially coming to it's planned fruition -- no more mere 'buds'. Scenes such as we have here will be removed from proximity to any human memory, "1984" style.
Believe me, the total wreckage project has only YET BEGUN!!!
Most humans enjoy precisely minus-zero control over their destinies, collectively or severally.
(Sadly, admittedly I do wrestle with the nagging notion that, in their conclusions, the geneticists just might be right.)
@@jamesmiller4184 “Equal Opportunity of Misery” That’s your interpretation? We see things quite differently. I see it more of an over population which has become intentional, but we won’t travel that road. BTW, soon none of this will matter. Have a good one….
We need to keep voting for humanist socialist Democrats
@@waterheaterservices Not going to matter much longer. In case you’ve been on holiday the U.S. is on the verge of total implosion. Suckers get what suckers deserve🙂
These were the days of LA police chief William H. "Boss" Parker who had zero tolerance for riff-raff and uncivilized behavior.
No wonder why everyone wanted to go there back then! It was absolutely gorgeous!
Looked like Westwood to me and at 1;56 we can confirm that it is - Kelly Music 1041 Westwood Blvd. Building is a cultural landmark and still there. All the houses that follow are Westwood. When it goes to night, we're downtown LA 1937. Champagne Waltz opened on February 4th at the Paramount downtown but not on this double bill so not quite sure what theater that is - still researching. Completely baffling. The Young in Heart came out in late November of 1938, so why the previous year's Champagne Waltz is top billed is the enigma. Solved. It's 1942! The theater is the Olympic - we're driving on 8th and the Maxwell House Coffee shop is 8th and Broadway. The key to the theater was the small side of the marquee's Merritt Building - on B'way and 8th. Whew!!! Week of March 4, 1942. I need a drink.
McSleuth you are!
Well done! It's so much fun nailing that stuff down.
Not 1942 - it's later - there are quite a few post-war cars on the streets.
@@MichaelDembinski The nighttime footage is EXACTLY the week of March 4, 1942. There is no arguing that. If you're talking about the daylight footage in Westwood, I have no idea of that date - but the night footage is exactly what I say it is.
@@haineshisway Night-time footage - several years older, not a single postwar model-year car.
Amazing! It was so pretty back then and people dressed so classy. What a difference!
And those great looking cars !
Like stepping into a time machine! Awesome . Wish I could step into the film and be there!
We all wish we could deport all the liberals that destroyed societies like this!
@@HelloThere-dc1sh 100% agree!
@@bridgetc.taylor257 Ditto!! 👍👍
@ Tim Acosta..I too wish I could be there as well!! This is great footage!
Every one wants to go back and bring back stuff to sell on E Bay All you will need is a trip to the dump
One of the realities of our society that I miss the most is the respect most folks had in the way they dressed and the way they presented themselves in public. Self-respect is a lost phenomenon these days. Too many folks are complete slobs with no self-discipline. I so appreciate the producers of these videos for all of the efforts their work reflects. These snapshots of life back in the day are such a wonderful reminder of how far our society has fallen.
Yes indeed, David! Totally agreed! See my post. I definitely need a time machine!
I couldn't agree more-one trip to Walmart is a perfect example of 21st century America., t-shirts with obscenities,
dirty clothes-a total lack of caring of how one appears in public.
So true and people that do dress well , are considered to be a phony . Blame the Hippies of the 60's , they got the ball rolling .
Mmmm! Fallen? In some way maybe yes, but in a lot ways there has been much more progress .
Indeed, we don't see any multi colored hair, fat feminist, hairy looking circus freaks walking around! Instead we have slender sexy stylish ladies here....🤩🤩
The footage is so crisp and clear that it looks like it is from a modern movie. Well done! 👍👍👍
WHICH MAKES ME CURIOUSLY SUSPICIOUS...
@@TheSacred55 Suspicious about what? Do you think it's a modern recording, and they are just actors?
@@glendalestoner420 Personally, I think it was a definitely footage taken with "actors." There's a camera right in front of you and people don't stop to look or even ask what the camera is for? Definitely not random footage.
@@steveahn6650 Thats modern thinking, most old footage people seem camera shy and focused on their day, most you’d get is a slight glance in passing.
Film was actually pretty good back then. That is why classic movies look really good in 4K rerelease. Film also has a higher dynamic range than even modern digital cameras.
Everyone is so well dressed. I think I was born in the wrong decade.
We were.
It’s almost like when people leave their houses to buy things they dress different... 😮
Aside from the misogynistic nature of the time period, sure.
I don't own a pair of pants 😀. I'm 51 years old and I live by the beach....
You and millions of people, I’m sure.
Included me.
European society once had a high standard of living. Aesthetics and looking sharp mattered. Architecture was designed to uplift, unlike today in which it is designed to demoralize.
Well said.
Yep
California is a terrible place. There "Babylonian Center". The sorcerers live there. Masons, killer psychopaths, Hollywood Kabbalist, Church of Satan, Scientologists, Charles Mansons.
I would not say that this is a normal place. His whole story is covered with horror.
I'm serious now.
As if during these years, the Sumermsmous architecture was built))))
@@ХозяинПолянки get help
@@kenw4930 "get help"
Well, I am an ordinary white man atheist with higher education.
I am not in the Masonic Lodges or Shreiner; do not make sanologic enema; I do not use nrokes or anti-depressants; Do not guess on tarot maps; Not use numerology
All my ancestors engaged in important professions (inventors, engineers, doctors, nurses, sailors and captains, farmers)
It is very strange to hear from a crazy city, where everywhere occultism, suffering, heroin addicts, abducted children, racial war.
- You are not normal!
- I know who I am :)))
My wife and I (both born in the late-'40s) love your videos. Our son and his family live in LA (we live in NC) and we visit often, and have become interested in LA and Hollywood history. One thing I'd love to see added to the description of each video are the locations and street names, if that's even possible. I find it helpful when viewers identify those, but often there are no locations cited by viewers and subscribers. Still, I won't stop watching these fascinating videos.
Each of your restorations gets better. You can the improvements when the camera car shoots on an angle, like the night scenes, where you can really see the names on the stores. This is really incredible work you are doing.
From reading the comments it sounds as though viewers really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!
Unbelievable how nice,how clean, well dressed, wish it was like this now. Truly sad how we’ve degraded and become so grungy! In more ways than one. “ Mr. Wizard take me back”.
This was a good era to be alive in a city like LA. The weather was great as always but the population was still relatively small and the city wasn't a homeless overclogged crime ridden nightmare yet. Did you notice how orderly society was back then? People dressed so well. Cars were kept in such good condition. Streets were clean and civil. And the people in those homes usually were one guy working a middle class job and a housewife with a couple kids. That era of great life balance is sadly over.
I’m glad to see someone mention population. LA’s population in 1940 was 1,500,000. In 2020 it was 3,900,000.
Why people keep coming to LA, I’ll never understand as long as I live! All my grandparents lived there for a time and both my parents were born there in the 1930s and as soon as everyone could, they moved away from LA. When I was little, my mom used to hate having to visit other relatives or friends there. As I looked around, I could see why! Now I avoid going there to visit. I just do not find it interesting! There are , fortunately, still nice places to be found that are a good drive away from LA, so I’m thankful for that!!! These places may even have a guy with a middle class job with a wife who stays home with a couple kids or more! ;)
There were standards during that era, we do not have standards any longer. When you remove standards = problems
I especially missed riding on the Daylight express ànd all of the steam trains- also remember fedora hats. Almost died of nostalgia! Especially loved the chicken at Knots berry farm!
That's bc the white people were the majority.
Unbelievable. It seems, the high quality restoration, makes it so hard to imagine which time period you are watching. It seems we identify so much the time period with the picture quality of the film.
Xenofon, I agree 100%. At 2:54 to 5:03 it look's like 1970's to 80's if you did not see the 1940's car's.
It's very easy to tell based on fashion, automotive design and architecture
@@sydneysmooth21 Yes, but you know what I mean. Not everyone is astute as you are.
Yes.., the quality of a film (or lack thereof) helps to place the time it was done. At the highest quality, the film itself becomes transparent to the point that it doesn't exist as an artifact. It's a bit disorienting, to say the least.
This is 1946-8 is my guess.
This could be 1949 or 1950 because there's a '49 or '50 Mercury in a driveway @ 3:19. The bike that kid is riding is worth $5,000-$10,000 today in mint condition. 4:26 is a 1941 Cadillac Sedan. @4:31 a kid left toys on the sidewalk. Try that today!
I was trying to figure out the year myself. The first clue I had was the same as yours -- probably 1949 because that Mercury in the driveway was the new body design that year. I'm convinced that the film was cobbled together from several films because others here remember landmarks from earlier in the '40s. In some other parts, no cars beyond the early 40s can be seen at all.
@@ronsmith4601 The first scenes in Westwood Village are from 1947.
Im always fascinated (entranced, actually) by the architecture and storefront designs....and the cars....and the fashions...and the cleanliness...
Be brave and honest...we know what today's problem is. We know what is really destroying America.
My great grandmother was a widow and poor, but I remember she would never go downtown unless she was properly and respectfully dressed!
Oh yes. My grandmother lived in Lincoln Heights at the time of this video, but if she would've been walking in these Westwood streets at the time, she would have blended in just fine 🙂
What a different world it was in California back then.
I was just thinking the same thing. So California back then was one of the most beautiful and highly productive agricultural areas in the US. From 1948 to 1958 it all changed. SAD!
@@robertsamson4610 damn, I wonder what changed? /s
That’s when America was great
@@mosiac- That which cannot be spoken, but we all know anyway.
@@emilkarpo --- Dog whistle.
I do remember my folks and their siblings along with my grandparents dressing like these people we just saw. It was every day dress. Unlike today where most people appear to have selected their wardrobe in a potluck at a laundromat.
Sad, really, how far we’ve tumbled from the past. Not that it was some magical time. There were social issues and difficulties then, too.
amazing time. I love the cars back then also. the only way I'm going to experience this is through these videos, film and games (la noire). 😭
The difference is these people had morals and class. Something that's becoming more and more rare these days.
@Jan Brady Shall we blame those darn hippies? LOL.
@@FirstLast-gv1zl For someone who liked the genteel times shown in this video (although it was in a prosperous area-there were still slums etc. at the same time) you would not know it by your crude rude last question. Obviously my reference to blaming hippies was meant to be funny but my humor went over your head. However I do not blame any political movement or party for the current wave of mostly druggies on the streets-I blame the idiot individuals for their decision to take illegal drugs. If you are into trying to blame political parties, who did you blame for the 1930's Depression and dust bowl days (which was much worse and widespread than the current problems) following the stock market crash of 1929? Progressive liberals?? LOL. P.S. April 14, 2022 Apparently "First Last" deleted his/her comment.
"There were social issues and difficulties then, too." Yeah, like the second world war and having to fight on two fronts: the pacific and Europe.
Love your work man. These are amazing!
Perhaps my favorite thus far... simply for the opening scene showing everyone walking about in such breathtaking fashions on such pristine sidewalks before such beautiful store fronts. Sadly, such days of quiet elegance, class and mutual respect, of understated pride of country and civility are all long gone, now. All that is lost forever thanks to the well-orchestrated social and political upheavals begun in the 60s. Go take a look at these same streets today to appreciate just how far we have fallen as a society.
Hi, the opening scene was staged, with actors and extras. One man walked through the scene twice, and one tall woman has appeared in other videos here. So, the scene does not represent reality, or the way things really were back then.
@@2MuchPurple Makes sense because if it wasn't staged, all the people would look into the camera and look surprised like in previous videos.
@@Jesvox1234 I seen old ones that were not staged and everyone curiously checks out the camera filming them. They will directly look at the camera and the person filming them. No one does in this clip even though it appears to be in that era.
We live in a.sloppy, rude, uncivil society now.
Well, I'll have you know I live in small town America, just a paltry town in southern Arizona, where you can drive down and film streets that are just as clean, peopled with folk just as "fashionable" as these in this clip, and with the same feeling of security and community. The "America doesn't exist anymore" hyperbole is just that, its overblown windbaggage. Yes, many cities have their issues now, but that doesn't mean America is dead. Its heart is still beating, you just have to know where to look. As for "political upheavals"...they're common, they're nonsense, and blame is rightly equalled out to all sides for the fallout. I get that a lot of it is staged but the comments decrying modern America compared to what we once were just get to me. Yeah, the people are well dressed at this time but "certain folk" weren't allowed in freaking diners at the time. "The Good Old Days" are always a goddamn myth.
My dad would have been 6 years old in 1942. What intrigues me are some pockets of L.A. County kept some of those street lights to this day. Like, a block or two in places like Pasadena, Glendale and the like. I also see old bridges built in the 20’s with the turrets that cities have kept. I wish we had forethought in the 40’s to really keep a lot of buildings or structures that have been torn down. We’d have way more charm in our cities to this day.
Truvelocity, My parent's were the same age as your dad at the time. !
My dad exactly the same age too! My mom a year younger.
Los Angeles is going to replace all of their street lights with solar powered ones.Besides saving some on their electric bill they want to keep the criminals from stealing the copper wire from the lights they now have.That project will go on for years.
I was 5 years old in 1943 and traveled to Los Angeles with my mother on the Southern Pacific Daylight from San Francisco to Union Station to visit her grandmother who lived in Riverside and had a summer home in Laguna Beach. We were met by one of her uncles and driven to Laguna. There were actually expanses of undeveloped land and large citrus groves in what is now Orange County. My memories have faded over the years but these clips are doing a lot to refresh them. One thing I strongly recall from that trip is all the soldiers and sailors that were everywhere. I especially remember the anti-aircraft drills that were held one night on Laguna Beach near the Hotel Laguna that involved searchlights and listening devices (huge horns or earphones that could track distant engine sounds out to sea).
@@johnmanning4577 , I was a child of the 70’s and a teen in the 80’s. I lived in Riverside in 1968 at age 4. We moved to Fullerton, in Orange County when I was 5. Then, we moved into a house in East Anaheim bordering Yorba Linda in Orange County in 1973. There were citrus orange groves and farmland. I rode horses with my Dad on the weekends and our close family friends lived in Laguna Beach. We frequented to Laguna.
You are right. It was undeveloped land and I remember hiking with my older brothers as a very small child and witnessing prairie dogs barking at us in Fullerton. I had to walk 3 miles to the nearest little store gas station called Stop and Go in E. Anaheim to buy little candies that were 2 for a penny with my best friend. That experience you had with the anti-aircraft drills must have been captivating. I do remember taking the train to SF and to Denver with my mom. The train was a charming way to travel. The train cafeteria has good food. Not great but not bad either. I’m sad that urban encroachment took so much wild land away.
I wish city developers had the forethought to keep patches wild with TLC. I don’t mind my tax dollars going to maintain natural reserves.
Спасибо оператору снимающему всё это. В то время наверное казалось бессмысленной тратой пленки, снимая обыденные вещи, но сегодня это смотрится с восторгом. Наверное нынешнее видео с видеорегистратора через 70 лет тоже будет вызывать такие же чувства у зрителя.
Wow, all the ladies look so trim and fashionable in high heels! I only spotted one tall gal in flats walking with a gentleman who was no taller than her. Beautiful restoration NASS
It is, after all, Hollywood. Lots of slim beautiful women.
@@chrisdarling3617 Not anymore 😂
@@father7713 I meant back then. Westwood was not a place full of tourists. Most of the people that you see dressed up to the nines lived in Los Angeles.
@@chrisdarling3617 prior to about 1960, many people had their clothes altered to fit properly, and dry cleaned because tailors and cleaners were everywhere. dry cleaning a shirt was only a dime, starched , pressed and packaged.
Note the difference in the headlight configuration between the newer 1940s model cars and the older models. The newer models have their headlights embedded into the fenders while the older ones have theirs mounted (on a bar). Nice to see a few late 1920s models still puttering about. Love the rumble seat on the car early on in the video! Always enjoy your uploads!
Yeah this is good
There were cars in the mid-30s that had integrated headlamps.
Yes and that's when cars were cars! I'm a real classic car buff myself.
The late 1920s weren’t that long ago for people in the 40s, though. I still have my 98 honda prelude in my garage in 2022
I have seen tons of vintage footage but this is so lifelike and natural, the night footage is like it was shot last week!
It was shot last week. They have a ti emachine.
@@garyfrancis6193 Good, put me in it and send me back!
@@markkotishion2379 Unless you were a straight white male like I am then I can do it.
I loved the neighborhood ride, I love that the majority of houses in LA have kept their architecture intact, so the footage looks current, that's why I love LA houses, they give a special character to each neighborhood, as opposed to new constructions in other states.
People look so elegant and Maxwell House coffee shop looks amazing..
Before Starbucks there was Maxwell House. ☕😉
Have you ever tasted Maxwell House coffee. Yuck! Coffee is far better today than it was back then. I'm old so I remember how it was.
Movie, "The Young In Heart," at the theater, was released in 1938.
The gorgeous blonde woman in dark tailored jacket & white skirt (and spectator pumps) at :10 would stop traffic today. The look is timeless.
Sandaglad, Yes, I agree ! She does look SMASHING !! Plus the man on the far left window shopping, wearing the gray single breasted suit at 0:29 is a timeless suit too. Males could wear that suit and be in style 1900 to TODAY!
it's amazing starting at 2:58 that the neighborhood footage (other than the age of the cars) could be today. the houses look surprisingly modern. it's easy to think of past generations as "different than us" when the footage dates them. take that away, and you realize people 80 years ago led very similar lives to us today, overall.
true observation and comments.
My house was built in 1955. It's been a living hell to keep in repair for me, but it must have been paradise to the original owners.
What an incredible way to get the feel of what 1940's streets were like! It's like watching a video taken at that time - well done!
In a wealthy part of town.
Thank you for taking us on a trip to another place and time,the colour and sound brings the film to life,each time I view these uploads I notice more, leaves blowing on a tree,reflections in shop windows,if this film wasnt saved it would just be another film reel sitting in a tin gathering dust or deteriorating lost forever,
To all you young people, this is a world we lost. It is a pity you will never experience it.
I am pretty sure our parents were saying the same thing.
@@BODEGA1940 because the world keeps getting worse
@@BODEGA1940 they were the ones that ruined it
@@mrmeener625 The Boomers were left an amazing society, not perfect, but so much better than today.
@@davidc9396 boomers destroyed every foundation the West was built on. the ruined the family structure in place for 2500 years since the Greeks
This is what California was like when I was born (1948). The newer cars in these clips are from 1948-1950.
I agree, I was born at the end of 46. People dressed up to go shopping almost like they were going to church.
@@johnhanes5021 I was born in the 50s, the kids riding bicycles on the sidewalk reminds me of when I was a kid in the early 60s.
Don’t see any fuel ration stickers.
When Calif was great! I was born in Pasadena Ca.1947 Never had any thing stolen! People were polite, and mostly honest!
And don't forget, leaving keys in the ignition and front door unlocked in case a neighbor wanted to borrow a cup of sugar and you're not around... the trust was amazing... because people were law abiding citizens !
@@mikeanderson9278 people had mutual respect for one another and for the law
@@shaunsteele8244 exactly! We're living in total lawlessness with no love, beauty and peace. Sad. Very very sad.
Very clean streets. No graffiti anywhere.
0:02 - 1:13 Nancy's fashion around 6366 hollywood blvd.
1:48 1043 Westwood Blvd, westwood
3:19 4268 Navajo st. in Toluca lake.
3:32 corner of Navajo and Forman Toluca lake
4:55 house with rounded castle "turret" is still at 10451 Valley spring lane Toluca lake..near Strohm intersection
5:54 turning off of Olive onto 8th street
6:05 423 west 8th street Bristol and Golden Gopher still there 2023
It looked familiar to me, ha ha.
Очень рад, что теперь можно смотреть старые видео в таком качестве!
As a European I can only admire how fantastic was your great country once.
You're right! Once!!
Thanks so much for that observation, Simon.
Very much of your own were and are-still that -- zero question!
It is over.
These video's show the Ozzy & Harret side of town! There was another side of town and still is!
It's still nice in some parts, just not the liberal ones.
_Loved_ the beginning, where we can see close-ups of regular '40s people walking down the street.
Seeing them in full colour like this feels like some sort of crime, it bridges the gap in time to a scary degree.
So much more intimate than seeing black and white grainy footage.
Love all of your colorized videos ! I was born in April of 1946 and have owned several classic cars throughout my life, now driving a beautiful 1940 Ford Sedan DeLux in the Cloud Mist Grey color that actually looks more green in color to me. The youngsters around my town seem to really enjoy the old cars like I did when I was in grade school during the 50's. I had wanted to own a 1940 Ford ever since I was about 16 or so and I couldn't pass up the chance to get a beauty in all original condition with wonder original paint and interior. These videos take me back to the awesome times when I grew up. So much safer and more calm. Thanks for your efforts. 😀😀😀
Magnificent! One of the greatest channels on TH-cam.
Úžasné. Lidi jsou krásně upraveni, nádherná auta, obchodní domy....zdravím z České republiky🇨🇿
Ahoj!
A friend told me that they had TV in New-York in before the US wentcto war.Automatic gear in cars,frigidaire...
Dobru Novy Rok !Ahoj z Francie !
No yoga pants, ball caps or sneakers! Fantastic footage! THANKS.
Great video. The movie playing at the theater was "The Young in Heart", 1938
I hope someday a game developer will recreate what Southern California use to look like back in the early 1940,s in a high-resolution VR format using Unreal Engine 5, so we could actually experience what it was like back then with all the Citrus and Walnut Orchards, and farms. Imagine being able to visit any city or town back then or being able to walk among the Citrus and Walnut Groves in areas like Covina or West Covina back then. Covina was once the citrus king in California and West Covina was mostly Walnut orchards.
You could always play LA Noire?
Admittedly it came out more than 10 years ago… But for its time it was way ahead, and the amount of research that they did into developing the game and to make it authentic was astounding. (I am sure there are some TH-cam videos on the making of the game)
Here it is… th-cam.com/video/h1VyskSNq2o/w-d-xo.html
@@AlphaGeekgirl I actually bought that game years ago when it first came out but what I'm talking about is recreating what all of Southern California used to look like in a high-resolution VR format, that would be sweet.
my grandma grew up in LA in the 30s and 40s, and she always talked about her family's farm and horses. I would always wonder how she had a farm and horses in LA, but it was quite a different place back then lol
I hear ya, but it will probably be a Fallout 5, L.A. Edition. Or a dystopian Blade Runner. LOL. Nobody born tomorrow would ever believe that was Southern California. S. CA today gives me nightmares from what it used to be.
What a lovely time to live! Yes, there was a terrible war but I miss the patriotism so very much! I miss the decency in people as a whole.
Thank God someone was filming 🎥
Amen!
When I say we as a nation have gone down, that is a gross understatement.
Yup. See my post
Yes. Back then, most anyone could afford a modest house. Not so today. Today, the richer are much richer, the poor much poorer.
Depends on who "we" are.
@@billhandel4923 Then you should work harder.
Hey you should change your name to that names already taken by a goofball. KFI
@@billhandel4923 I was talking about MORAL DECAY. We do not love our neighbors.
Wow amazing videos, really cool to see the world 75 years ago
Yes no BLM or ANTIFA
@@AutomatedPersonellUnit_3947 These are Elite created and funded groups to keep us divided and from uniting. Easier to conquer and control the masses that way.
The way the people were dressed was the best about this video. Back when folks cared about how they looked.
I agree 100%. There are some things that changed, for the better, for sure but I like you wish people took some pride in how they dressed.
I also note that there are many overweight people, that show in the video at least. Interesting
cringe
At 6:06, The Hotel Bristol is now the Bristol Apartments. At 6:08,:the Golden Gopher bar is still in existence today!!! 80 years later! Very rare. I plan to visit just to check it out.
The California everybody wanted to move to instead of moving out of.
I am convinced that this is footage shot on location in Westwood Village, Los Angeles by the major motion picture studios to be used as background projections in what was then referred to as a "process shot." This was a common practice -- to shoot, what appears to be an exterior shot, on a sound stage instead of taking an entire crew on location. This would explain why everyone you see in this footage is dressed to the nines, and why everything (sidewalks, storefronts, etc.) all appear clean and neat. The people you see walking in and out of the shots are all extras. I spotted the same woman in two different shots. This does indeed look like Westwood Village in Los Angeles. In the distance of the first shot you can see the perimeter wall (now gone) of UCLA that use to run along Le Conte Avenue.
2:00 The Kelly Music building still lives at 1043 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024 in Westwood Village. I dined there a few times in the early 1980's when it was Alice's Restaurant.
I thought the same and also Robertson Blvd fot some reason
This is the era I grew up in. Nice to see it again. Thank you.
Wow, so much class and style. Imagine time jumping from today into those streets with distressed jeans and ripped T-shirt while fully tattooed arms and neck :))
Yes, people would make a logical assumption that you’re a crazy misfit!!
Walmart and Waffle House customers
2022: it's like "Check it-- that dude's full-circus!" 1940: it's like "Dear, I believe the circus must in town."
@@waterheaterservices Where I live now, Vermont, PJ's with fuzzy slippers seem the preferred garb for Walmart.
The Selznick movie “The Young in Heart” on the marquee of the movie theater came out in 1938. The other movie with Fred MacMurray and Gladys Swartout “Champagne Waltz” came out in 1937.
I checked that too...!
The night scenes were photographed during the first week of March 1942. The Olympic theater at 8th and Broadway showed "Young in Heart" and "Champagne Waltz" together during that week.
Can't help but admire how well people were dressed back then.
You can't smell how clean the air is in this video.
2:55 Toluca Lake Ave, 3:33 Forman Ave, 3:53 Valley Spring Lane all in Toluca Lake.
I get that it seems that way. But I don’t think it is actually those streets. I’ve not been able to find a single house that matches this footage. Many houses have changed. But there is not one. Also on VSL there are several older homes that would be present in the two blocks where there are no homes at all. And the thing that tipped it off for me is the lack of the Forman residence on Toluca Drive and Forman. That house was the first built in Toluca lake. And this shows a Tudor.
Hi Richard. I struggled to find a match before I posted but finally did at 4:57 seconds. It is a perfect match.
@@traintechburbank7478 I agree, the house with the round tower is 10451 Spring Valley Lane.
Born in '47 at Hollywood Presbyterian this is the world I grew up in. Looks other worldly
I would like to melt into this footage and never return. Everyone and everything is so beautiful.
Yup, me too.
How times have changed. Back then everyone dressed to the tee when going out in public. Now all you see are baseball caps and frumpy clothes.
WOW! Another blast to the past. Beautiful daylife and nightlife in 1940's California! I love these regular street scenes with people walking and seeing how well they dress and the cars of the period. Just fabulous. Plus Don't forget guy's and gal's do not leave your house without putting on your black and white spectator shoes ! LOL. Alway's loved the style of men dress in the 1930's and 40's ! Almost look's like you could step in the video and be with them. At 2:54 till 5:03 it almost look's like your in the 1970's or 80's with the look's of the homes and neighborhood in Color if you did not see the 1940's cars.Just fantastic. Thank's for the upload !
In many ways true to Norcal as well. Lost to time/developers. Although San Francisco is somewhat preserved (protected) architecturally.
Videos like this one make it clear that we are living in the much talked about dystopian future.
Even in New Zealand my Aunts and my Mothers friends were smart dressers in the 1940s when they went to town or the race track ,like these ladies. Except that rationing carried on until 1949 for clothes-they managed to look chic with sewing machine made items as well!
Oh absolutely! Standards of appearance were universal in those days. Hat and gloves were a must! If there were old footage of streets in New Zealand the people would look absolutely sharp in their clothing.
الذوق العام كان رائعا و أحسن من الآن بكثير ، إنظروا لأناقتهم و نظافتهم و كل شيء .أتمنى لو عشت في ذلك الزمن .
This is as close to going back in time in a time machine as it gets. Amazing
This channel is the next best thing to a time machine
Thankyou so much
Love all the vehicles in the 40s‼️👍✌️
This is torture for me. I've heard how wonderful it was there and how downtown L.A. was safe and even enjoyable to walk not just during the day but at night. Imagine a safer, cleaner and better city 70 plus years ago. No graffiti and everyone spoke the common language...English. We're definitely devolving.
As a historian who has read at least 3 dozen books on LA history as well as poring through archival newspaper articles, it wasn't as "safe and clean" as this film makes it appear. And you find everyone speaking the same language comforting? Sounds pretty stifling to me. I take it you've not traveled much?
@@dadduorp yes, deny reality and question the values of a homogeneous society when the results reach correlates almost never seen in social sciences. It's quite clear that parts of the country with the highest diversity also have the highest crime and it is no coincidence.
@@ttmike42 Please do not annoy us with facts
@@dadduorp I never knew someone who identified as a historian who read only 36 books on a topic and then poured through archives on a whim to think it was not safe and clean. IT WAS. I, too, am a historian and I read well over 200 books on said topic from the 40s and 50s and, too, read archives. Everything WAS clean and they WERE speaking the same language, ENGLISH.
@@HelloThere-dc1sh and it is was White. See a pattern?
Kelly Music Co (1043 Westwood Blvd just north of Weyburn Ave, West Los Angeles 90024); night shot-in the rain : The Golden Gopher = 417 W. 8th Street Los Angeles CA 90014; The Owl Drug Co. = 5th & Spring Street Central downtown Los Angeles 90014)
Stunning. The residential lawns look like carpet and and the gas powered mower hadn't become popular yet. You could see one of the classic push mowers in someone's yard. Awesome.
Footage does not have enough resolution, and AI interpolates a lot. So all grass texture is lost. Same is with pavement - unnaturally smooth
Amazing footage -- the digital enhancement process is getting better and better. Thanks for posting this video! And we see Hamner and Son Clothiers at 1:32 -- location is 1091 Broxton in Westwood. (Not that there is any doubt about the location.)
Acho que nunca mais, teremos uma época, com pessoas tão elegantes.
Parabéns pelo vídeo.
The movies being played at 6:59 were David o Selznick’s young in heart from 1938 and I believe the other is Champaign Waltz since I saw starring Fred McMurray and Gladys Swarthout. They appeared in that movie in 1937.
Quite obvious our quality of life has changed a lot since the 40's.
And not for the better.
@@WillieJamesOutlawJr indeed!
Thank for the clear video. The sign on the cinema said the movie was "Young In Heart" that was released in 1938.
America before the great decline. It's surreal to see this knowing these aren't actors in costume, and that this time was real. Every frame tells some kind of story if we're wise enough to catch the meanings. Example: Notice the bicycles casually parked on the sidewalks? Crime was low in many (most?) California neighborhoods in those days.
damn, I wonder what changed? /s
@@mosiac-The Hippie Generation and modern day Liberalism!
@@luislaplume8261 Ronie Raygun and the fascist Republicans who sold and continue to sell out the nation and it's people to corporate capitalism.
California is a terrible place. There "Babylonian Center". The sorcerers live there. Masons, killer psychopaths, Hollywood Kabbalist, Church of Satan, Scientologists, Charles Mansons.
I would not say that this is a normal place. His whole story is covered with horror.
I'm serious now.
As if during these years, the Sumermsmous architecture was built))))
@@tomguyone brainwashed by Leftist propaganda for decades
my grandmother was 1-year baby in this era as she was born in 1939, now she is 83 year old.
Thanks for these live scenes from California. The new spring fashion seems somewhat retro this year. ;-)
If people had a clue what OLD L.A. was like in the day, the year round warmth, the atmosphere, the possibilities, the relative friendliness, the cars, the scenery, architecture, the shopping/stores, etc. you'd think you were almost in heaven. I'd kill just to be 40 in 1950. Robert at 68.
I love how couples walked arm in arm. Everyone had good posture.
Inacreditável como esse vídeo nos leva ao passado!
6:00 Hotel Bristol & Golden Gopher - 417 West 8th Street Los Angeles, California
everyone is well dressed and walk with dignity
how times have changed....
The past always seems so beautiful, calm and peaceful... It's a false impression, especially for the 40s, but so sweet.
Thank you for this moment of nostalgia.
Incredible cleanliness and calmness. People Can’t believe its California, or anywhere else now, for that matter. People actually cared about their attire and grooming, unlike the animals now roaming our world. I can only attribute it to the lack of certain demographics which are conspicuously absent in this video - Fact! What a shame our society was like this at one time, and now EVERYTHING is ruined. Wish I had lived as an adult in this time period. A wonderful world, now gone forever.
The first part looks 1945 or so. The latter portion at night might be 1938... the movie marquee/cars would indicate that.
If I’m not mistaken, I believe I saw a 1950 Mercury in one of the driveways as we “ rode” through the neighborhood. It could have been filmed around that time .