Wonderful California 50's in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of California 1950s, in a classic car. This video captures the essence of a sunny day, showcasing the lively streets filled with vintage cars, shops, and the atmosphere of mid-century life.
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)
✔sound design added 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.
B&W Video Source from: Internet Archive
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Do you want to live in the '50s??
Yes I do ,oh I did live in the fifties love them miss those times ❤❤
Maybe the 1960's or 70's thru 80's. I just feel that medical advances and employment opportunities were better than the 50's. I love your channel!
Yes
I was there (albeit very young) and can tell you, it was truly the Golden State. Open, free, beautiful, perfect climate...someone get me a time machine.
I suppose the answer would vary quite a lot if you would ask this question
a) to "whites" or "blacks", to protestants, catholics or jews...
b) to males or females
c) to people who expierenced the 1950's, almost experienced them (born in the 1960's such as me) or to Gen Z folks
d) whether that living would be in sunny California or rural Kansas, posh Kensington or in the former East-Germany...
Not an easy question.... There are pro's (aesthetically for example) there are cons (suffocating pressure groups like the church, the KKK, McCarthy-Ray Cohn-Nixon kind of commie-eaters, pollution, far less developped health sciences etc.
But I'm definetely happy I'm no Gen Z woke soaked teen today... Blame it on May 1968 and the anti-authoritarian education, that was quite a disaster...
If I had a time machine, I'd go back and just take a few nice long walks in these places. See the sights, hear the sounds, smell the smells.
The little things.
Except everyone smoked and you’d have to deal with lead paint in almost every building you walk into.
I was 3 in '55 arriving to Van Nuys from Detroit with my parents. The first thing I remember getting out of the car was the fragrance of oranges & the sound of a meadow lark ! Nostalgia Hurts So Good !!!
Nostalgia is lifes cruel trick I'm afraid..it does hurt..
WOW!
I was born in Burbank in 1955 and as a child my Dad used to take us on driving trips around the Valley (San Fernando Valley) every Sunday. This was filmed a little before my time, but a lot of the street scenes are similar to what I saw. The majority of the video seems to be filmed in the West Valley, possibly on Ventura Blvd. Not sure about the first part, could have been another (poorer) part of the Valley. Great video, thank you.
thank you very much
I think that last sign said Canoga Ranch. I think warner brothers bought that land....
@@bobc.5698good catch!
@@bobc.5698 I also thought it was mostly on Ventura Blvd... but since Conoga is further north, I then thought it might be Topangan Canyon Blvd.
It starts out going west on Ventura Blvd from like Canoga Ave and stops around Woodlake I believe. Then goes back east on Ventura Blvd. You can see a sales office for homes in Hidden Hills. Great film clip.
What always hits me is the feeling of space and freedom that we don't have now in our densely populated urban hellholes. It's so dream like.
You are idealizing the past..there were other problems and difficulties then,,,
@@jacknox6526 I'd take those problems in a heartbeat over the ones we have today.
Yes!
Yes well what was the population of California then, plus there were much less cars, and less cars per capita or family household.
@@adamspiller4842 Ummm yeah that’s kinda my point 🙄
Great restoration job! Amazing how sparse the development of the SF valley was back then, looks a lot like CA central valley. My guess on the date is 1955, based on the 1984 DeLorean that can be seen hidden in the shrubbery.
ha ha.
lol nice one 👌
Thx!!
Late 55' or early 56', 56 Ply 00:42 sec in.
I saw a couple '56 Chevies, and a '54 or '55 Pontiac. I was born in Santa Clara Valley in '45; it was a different world then.@@matrox
This is before my time, making it that much cooler! I love seeing how southern California looked back in those days and reading the comments of people that lived during that time.
My mom was a child in the 1950s, and she often said those "where the days".
It's almost hard to believe southern California was once easy to drive through! No waiting in traffic. It's sad that these buildings and all those beautiful trees are gone because of greed. Taking every piece of land space for building is what we see today in most parts of California. Unfortunately, the past wasn't preserved. Which makes this video that much more special. A huge thank you, for sharing a part of history with us long gone.
I watched the orange groves get whacked for homes etc. out in Redlands🥲
those were the days. only we didn't know it at the time. Like the song says, you don't know what you've got until it's gone. It is gone. I remember it and I miss it.
@3:54 into the video, The motel on the right is the Old Woodland Motel and coffee shop @22621 Ventura blvd In Woodland Hills. The time period is spot on ! Thanks Nass for this video of the past. Things sure seemed so much slower and peaceful.
Yep, there is a sign at @2:37 saying Woodland Hills. Maybe is Ventura Blvd heading toward Ventura County.
Going just past that motel, I guess that would make the intersection to the left either Ponce Ave if that driver is headed west or Sale Ave if that driver is headed east?
I think the driver is headed west based on the directions of the curves in the road.
5:16 The signs on the right say “B.M. Hansen Real Estate.” I found a biography online for him and it says he opened a real estate office at 22833 Ventura Blvd. which is just west of Fallbrook Blvd.
That’s how I found this location too. The woodland motel is a Wendy’s now 👧
can literally watch these videos and be lost in time.. just simply amazing
Film and video really is the closest we’ll have to a Time Machine, a Time Machine where you can only look out the window.
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I live waiting for my eternity 😊
... Some Nutter Scientist Will Surely Invent a " Total Recall " Type Injection or Pill 💊
If we could go into one of those gas stations or knock at the door of one of those homes and just chat. What were they thinking what were there ideas. We from the future just listen.
Well done as always NASS. Loved the color and sharpness. Didnt want it to end. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Thank you ;)
Wow, these old videos are priceless, thanks for posting.
I'm watching this on my 50" Screen TV now and it's like I can literally jump right in. Brother, you are amazing!🎖
thank you very much for your comment ^^
Amazing work. You should do side by side comparisons of these places then and today.
Thank you
@NBrippafan9000 I hear you, but doing so could be too depressing to watch.
@@21stCenturySpaceOdyssey good point lol
The Woodland Hotel that is seen several times in this was at 22621 Ventura Blvd. There is a Holiday In Express there today, but on Pinterest I found a postcard from the hotel seen in this film that was dated to 1952.
The Woodland Hotel stood until about 2000 I think, when it was torn down. By that point it was quite seedy. Based on your geolocation, the hill on the left side of the street at the 3:15 mark is probably where the 101 Freeway overpass is today.
Those videos relax me so much. They bring me back to a simpler and more pleasant era.
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The video is a facade of what was a time of some much that was wrong.
This restored footage is amazing, wonderful job
thank you very much
Interesting trip back in time in California circa 1955 or '56 (based on the cars seen in a few places). Thanks for sharing!
thank you very much
Exactly!
It’s amazing that 70+ yrs later we can see this. Thank you.
My grandma was born in California in 1957. Telling from the cars this was probably 1953-4, but only a few years difference. Now I know what she used to see as a kid. Wish I was there.
Make California great again.
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This video looks like from about 1952-53, I just turned 70 on October 12. My step Dad had a small auto body shop near Van Nuys in 1971, when I started driving more, I would go out to the Valley and cruise with a few friends, Gas was about 25-30 cents or so a gallon. Man, it looks downright small town Rural here. Wide open land. When California truly seemed to be the "Golden" State of many opportunities. For Anyone who came here from wherever. I lived in WLA growing up in the Pico-Robertson area. Remember driving through either Laurel Canyon or Coldwater Canyon and also, Sepuveda Blvd, my first car was too weak for the Freeway, A 1960 Studebaker Lark 8
Everyone agrees the 2nd part is Ventura Blvd. I suspect the first was San Gabriel Valley (Mtns in background). Someplace like Rosemead, Temple City. Things you couldn't get away with now, such as dirt parking lots. Everything was smaller - little stand-alone markets, stores, bars. Very little corporate ownership. Burger stands were......just that. Basically shacks that sold burgers. I'm 65, grew up in Ventura County, and yeah, that's pretty much how things looked then as a little kid.
You are very close. the address of 10143 is the only clue. Auto salvage yards, Trailer courts, and many demolished buildings are visible. Also the San Gabriel Mountains. As it turns out this is in El Monte. The clip begins at Valley and Rowland. Valley Fence is at 10217 Valley and that building is still there.
everything looks so spread out in those days, today 2023 everything looks so crowded out I guess the population loves California to the max, Thank You beautiful footage of the old amazing days!
I don't have any idea how hard it is to colorize film, but at 6:22, the Coca-Cola truck turning into Mary Costa's Cafe should probably be red. Also it is not entirely certain the double line in the middle of the road would be yellow. Road signage had not been standardized yet. Having said that, growing up in SoCal, I do not remember the double lines being anything but yellow or white.
The best clue for where this is on Ventura Blvd is at 7:47 where the sign shows Hidden Hills subdivision 2 miles back the other way. You can see the sign earlier in the video at 2:51, but you cannot read the 2 miles sign in the corner.
Sensational!...Another beautiful video from this channel!...It makes me feel like I'm in the tranquility of 1950, just admiring the landscape and far from the turbulence of 2023.
thank you
@5:28 where the semi with a load of lumbers making a right turn onto Fallbrook Ave.. That's is the intersection of Ventura Blvd and Fallbrook Ave.
After the turn, you can see the power grid to the right. That landmark still stands today but with a high beige/cream wall surrounding it now.
I was around 8 years old when this video was shot. It is so incredibly nostalgic for me. I lived in California but not this exact area. Even so, it looks EXACTLY as i remember it. The businesses, the cars, the scenery and landscaping is all very familiar. Great video and colorization...
thank you very much
I lived in California from 2009-2014 and by then the decay had already started. The fifties was the golden age. You are lucky to have lived there when the state only had 15 million people.
@@600micsofacid The 1970's were great too. The 1980's were the 'turning point', I think
@@MrDaydreamer1584Yeah. The rise of the massive corporations shifting manufacturing overseas. Everything for sale under one roof. The beginning of the end of "mom and pop" business. Now it's order from home. The closure of the malls. Even get your car delivered like a pizza. Wealth in the hands of the world's richest billionaires. Peace 🕊️
I'll bet if one could go to the front door of any of the homes seen in this video they would find they were not locked. People in those days didn't lock their doors. Kids in our neighborhood walked into their friends homes to visit. It was a different America for sure....
As always thank you for this NASS.....you do important and wonderful work
thank you very much
Most of the footage is Ventura Blvd. Thank you for another great find gem.
Thx ❤
Keep 'em coming..Love this
This is super cool! This shows what Ventura Blvd looked like in the very early '50s. There's even a billboard advertising real estate in Hidden Hills. Incredible how quickly everything developed along that stretch of the Ventura Blvd in just 10 years.
The cars for sale at the used lot didn't look much better than the carcasses at the junk yard next door. Great video!
Around five minutes in, while they are driving along Ventura, my grandfather’s real estate office is on the north side. B M Hansen, 22833 Ventura Blvd.
That’s so incredible my Grandfathers RealEstate office was on Laurel Canyon between Magnolia and Chandler. He built our family house in the early thirties in Valley Village. Nothing but wide open spaces and farms with orchards.
Thank you for making these video's.👍
Thank you ;)
It’s hard to believe this was only around seventy years ago. That was the California my Uncle would have known , when he first emigrated there in the fifties.
@@iriewaregl very interesting and I’m sure you’re probably right. What’s it got to do with my comment though?
@@chrisblaySorry, I must have responded to the wrong comment which doesn't seem to be on here anymore.
Beautiful footage! Great look on to classical California spirit!
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Spotted: WOODLAND HILLS and CANOGA PARK signs - West End of the San Fernando Valley - Very nice.
Notice the darken centers upon the roads which became after much use. Many vehicles back then upon aging and lacking wise servicing eventually leaked drops of oil and also they always had vented motor crank cases to allow both oil vaporization and crank case pressure to escape directly into the atmosphere. Changes done by the1970's addressed these issues but caused some new challenges to be remedied later.
It's been too long since I've watched one of your videos. Really enjoyed this. Well done.
at :20 into the video is 9901-9909 Valley Blvd at the corner of Rowland in El Monte. The building was just torn down. Thank You Sonia.
I'd love to be able to go back in time and spend just a few days driving around LA
Another beautiful trip to a certain time, this time to the calm and/or quiet 1950s. Gracias /Thank you @NASS
thank you
Great work!!! Hoping someday some source material comes your way from Rochester NY, where the Kodak film originally came from.
This is how most of Southern California looked. I was born in Downey and remember streets in Bellflower looked the same. Fullerton had businesses that looked similar
0:00 - 1:53 is one road and (part of) town. Then the entire rest of the video is driving up and back on one street. @1:54 As "we" drive, we are given a front window, whole street kind of view (we are able to see both sides of the street). After the car turns around at 4:43, it's as if we are getting a back window or back seat driver's side view of things, just on the one side of the street now, albeit at a 'better' angle.
0:00-1:53 is no where near Ventura Blvd in Woodland Hills. It is on Valley Blvd. from about Rowland to Shirley in El Monte.
Looking close it appears to be Valley Blvd in El Monte. not positive. but I see the word "valley" on some of the addresses. The Y-Not Cafe. now where could it be? it is Valley Blvd and the "Valley Fence" building at 10217 Valley is still there. as are a few other buildings.
Cannot wait to watch ! Much love from Texas!!
1956 and lots of 1930s and 40s cars still on the road.
This has to be in the late 1940's. I was in CA in the 1960's and ALL of the vehicles on the road here were gone.
Great work.Brings back great memories.Im starting to think you shot it yourself.
Thx :)
Мне нравится смотреть такие видео! 👍Спасибо
Wonderful video that brings back a wonderful time in my young life.
thank you
The beginnings of the car-centric hell hole 😍
Yawn
Canoga Park and Woodland Hills undeveloped backwater towns- so wild. Sad that it wasn't build up with more thought and planning-- no one thought this city would get as big as it has. It's just not that long ago that this was a rural area. I remember in the early 70s my father being stunned that "They're now building home developments all the way out in Canoga Park." forget about Calabasas, Agoura, Westlake, Thousand Oaks--- there was nothing out there.
Great footage! Oh wow, I think I just recognized Topanga Canyon Blvd but I could be wrong! Part of it definitely seems to be in the west San Fernando valley.
I see there were as many liquor stores back then as now.
Most of this was filmed on Ventura Blvd. in the Valley. If anyone noticed the big sign for Chinchillas that wasn’t a restaurant it was a chinchilla ranch where you could buy one. My Mom’s aunt and uncle lived near there about this time.
I was 3-4 years old in late 50's and grew up in California. I recall a lot of two lane roads and trees everywhere. This was before the Interstate Highways laced the nation. You had to drive on a 2-4 lane road at 40mph to get anywhere in those days. People drove slow.
Excellent material. WOW! XX Century and we are already in the XXI . I was 4 years old in my country of birth 🫢My mistake,now you know my age!🤫 Please do tell anybody🤪 What a valuable materials we are enjoying! Thanks for sharing with us your priceless work👏👏
Thx!!!
I was from north of there, way up the coast near the Oregon state line on the beach. I do have some memories from before I was one which would have been May of 59 blowing out that first candle. To me it all looks depressing now but back then people were happy. Had you known to buy land back then you would now be enormously wealthy. But look at the pollution, the air is cleaner now than it was then with 3 times the population now. I think the Central Valley was in fact a lot poorer back then, it was all agriculture and food was dirt cheap. The gas, 24 cents per gallon, I suppose that would be like $2.40 now. When I started driving the cheapest I ever paid was 35 cents, but it was 1972 and only a few months later the embargo hit and it went to a $1.50 almost overnight. When fuel goes up 425% in a matter of a few weeks you just stop driving, we went from a time when $2 per hour was a good job to a time when $5 per hour just did not cut it in less than a few months. Inflation has never looked back since, now I would not live in my home state on less than $100,000 per year, which by the way $135,000 per year is low income enough in San Francisco County to get subsidized housing.
Wow, what absolutely glorious funktown! Canoga Park/Woodland Hills. Rural, very lightly settled and built up.
At 2:42-2:44, a sign on the left says, “Woodland Hills,” and one on the right says,”Canoga Park.” So this must mean the film was shot in the San Fernando Valley, but on what street, I don’t know.
I think it may be Ventura Blvd heading west?
Edit: Also, at 7:47, a billboard advertising homes in Hidden Hills, which is directly west of Woodland Hills.
I beleive the 3rd segment to be what now is the 101 Fwy, between Mulholland and Las Virgenes Rd near Calabasas (the give away was the "Hidden Hills development sign)
This was amazing thank you for sharing Nass
Ваши видео чудесны! ❤ Но в 50е я почему-то не хочу А вот 20е😊
Wow..this was fascinating..thanks for sharing.
Great work..I really enjoy these..Thank you..
Thx ❤
Very nice. Is this Canoga Park?
Terrific footage! I’m trying to figure out how the valley went from such a serene place to a magnet for people with anxiety disorders.
Much of the structures are still there.
Many thanks for your comment ;)
@@joel6427 so far what I can tell probably Burbank.
@@JSFGuyI saw a Woodland Hills sign. Pretty cool
Quite good... Thanks again nass..
Saludos desde buenos aires argentina ❤
Thanks!
1956''' I seen a 56' Plymouth at 00:42.☝😆
I saw that.
What are the "Intrenet Archive" of the video source from, if not a secret? Sorry for my english)
The frame rate at the beginning was making me a bit sick to my stomach. Usually these videos are smoother.
OOHHH NASS WE ARE LOOKING FOR OUR CAR A 1958 DODGE CUSTOM ROYALE ITS A GREAT CAR MY SON MAX 8 YR.S WANTED IT SO BAD AT A CAR SHOW HE CRYED FOR IT WE BOUGHT IT!!! WE COULDNT FIND ONE ITS STILL IN THE 30S- 40S,, WE LOVE THE CAR SOUNDS .. BEEPPPPP CLINKK.. THX.
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Love it! Can anyone recognize any other specific buildings or landmarks that still exist with a time stamp?
For the second half of the video - Ventura Blvd on the west side of the San Fernando Valley - I don't think ANY of the buildings (or the trees for that matter!) still exist. It is completely unrecognizable.
@@LaurenMirandaGThank you for your insight.
The buildings on the left side of the street still do. That is the old part of Woodland Hills along Ventura just east of Topanga Canyon.
@@LaurenMirandaG
The market building for lease was on Valley at Rowland and was just torn down. (first 30 seconds) Valley Fence (the building) still exists at 10217 Valley, the building that held 'Vern's Drive In" is still there. So are both liquor stores albeit modified but still recognizable.
A beautiful State back then . If ya had a dream, you could realize it here .
The first 1:53" of this video is shot on Valley Blvd in El Monte. At 1:55" it jumps to Ventura Blvd in Woodland Hills and Canoga Park.
at last, a time machine- thank you,
To those of us in the third decade of the 21st century (!), this may seem like a slower pace of life. But to many of the people who lived in the 50s, I dare say, they would have experienced their lives as considerably faster and more hectic than 30 or even 20 years prior to them. What will our future look like?
People filming from cars or tramway knew that they were witness of their time.
They did that for us.
They were conscient that someone like you will take care of their work.
LA doesn't look too much different from today!😮
another gem!!!
Thx!!!
what software do you use for remastered and upscaling video??
What a great time to be alive
Our beautiful country! Where did we go wrong?
NASS - would there be an archive footage such as this is, of the Whittier area in the 40's?
"Malt Sundaes .20 cent"? I'm 66 and this was true! The thing is, no one had .20 cents! Acme gasoline .24 per gallon! This is the San Fernando Valley. Could be Ventura Blvd 1954-1955.
My father said the same thing about the depression. Lunch for 25 cents, but nobody had a quarter.
People had money in the 1950s.. it was the postwar boom.. It wasn't the Great Depression.
@@MarinCipollina I was a kid in the early 60s. We had no money. I knew no one with money.
@@choward5430 well yeah.. kiddies tended to not have money, but if you were middle class average living in Los Angeles during the 1950s during the postwar economic boom, I'd bet your parents had money. Even we kiddies managed to have a dollar or two most of the time.
@@MarinCipollina My parents both worked. My dad worked two jobs. We were low-middle class. We always had a home, food, and adequate clothing. But we never ate out. My mother cooked every meal we ate! A soda was a luxury!
I saw a sign for Canoga Park so I am thinking this is Topanga Canyon Blvd which was the main drag through Canoga Park. I remember the trees along the side of the road.
Waoooo Richie valencia...
At the start is the 126 West. Then it is Ventura to Woodland Hills.
at the start is Valley at Rowland in El Monte.
I want to go back there.
allways look for the newest car did see a 55 chevy@1:08 and a cool old trailer court @1:11 @1:36 acme gas regular 24.9/10 a gal, location @2:40 Woodland Hills 2:44 canoga park
thank you very much
3:16 part of the old road ,3:29 hanging old st light globe. woodland motel innkeeper on roof @3:54 . bill board hidden hills county homes 2 miles @ 7:47. canoga ranch bill board @8:42
@@NASS_0 one of my new favs. love the ones on whilsre bld
Orange car at 1:08 is not a '55 Chevy... I can't quite figure what it is, however. At 1:13 there is a white 1955 Pontiac.
Good old Woodland Hills!
That’s where I would go if I were a time traveler. 1950
Better set your destination closer to 1955 if you want to be at this video.
NEWEST CAR SEEN THIS FILM, 1956 PLYMOUTH, YEAR I GRADUATED HI SCHOOL 1956 !
Amazing!
Canoga Ranch at 8:45 is today West Hills LA
Back then, everyone was staying in their own lane!
This video reminded me of the movie 11.22.63 :))