Old Los Angeles. 1940s in colour. How did people dress at that time.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 เม.ย. 2023
- I have restored, colourized and added the sound of the atmosphere of those years. In this video, I explore how people dressed in Los Angeles in the 1940s. We take a look at what people were wearing, where they were shopping, and more.
B&W Video Source: Internet Archive archive.org/
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Did you see that one guy with his pants pulled down exposing his underwear ? Me neither. Our current culture is degenerate.
Agreed
I love your comment about "the one guy with his pants pulled down exposing his underwear". When this vulgarity
surfaced (in the late 1990s or early 2000s?), I was utterly disgusted!
Right!!
Yes! And all the grown women with blue hair.
Aggressive capitalism
So beautiful! Elegant people, clean streets, safety...I feel as we live in a hell now.
Seee
there are still sections of Los Angeles which are almost the same as in this footage. such as Uptown Whittier or Old Torrance.
The blessings of cultural enrichment.
@@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf Indeed! Los Angeles has a more vibrant culture now than in the 1940's.
@@caraqueno uglier too in most respects, but as time goes on we can hope for change!
What? No fat, scantily clad, tattoo covered people? No guys with man buns? Wish we could go back to those days...
I’m with you. I can remember my parents talking about getting dressed up to go to town. I really hate how people look and act today. This was a little before my time but I could go back and live in this era very easily.
I have no objections to heavy people, but I agree with the rest of what you are saying.
@@michaelbenardo5695
The point to be taken from the comment is before the days of fast food and most of the processed food of today, people worked much more and eating was somewhat more healthy. Thanks for the high rate of obesity Ray Kroc.
Lol
@@dave1956 People didn't eat out nearly as often as today because eating out was expensive and, therefore, regarded as a special treat. The restaurants, diners, lunch counters, and soda fountains were a daily occurrence for a minute portion of the population, not for the average American, as today. Home cooking was regarded as ideal eating. The average diet of people was, if anything, worse than diets today. People were more prone to harder physical labor than today because many labor-saving appliances today were either nonexistent in the 1940's or in more primitive form that didn't save as much labor as they do today. Food options were not as plentiful as we have today. Note to commentators: this film looks as if it might've been filmed in 1945 or 1946. Bear in mind that war rationing was in place and, while each American family was allotted what was thought to be enough food for a family of 6, on average, food was consumed carefully and made to last the entire month until new rations were allotted. Meat was particularly scarce, so a family's diet had to rely more on vegetables and white carbohydrates to be satisfactory to most civilians. So calorie consumption was more measured than today, where there is no rationing and the food choices and quantities are extraordinary.
How did people dress in 1940's Los Angeles? They dressed GOOD! Men in suit and tie with a hat, women in dresses and nice shoes. In those days you didn't go out in public dressed like a slob, like most people do today.
Totally agree!
Mom used to ask are you presentable? Of course! Today not always...
My Dad always looked decked out; mom too!!
It is the filthyness of downtown that is unacceptable!!
100% agree ! You took the words right out of my mouth.
You don't see Men and Women with tattoo's all over their arms. Not particularly appealing.
Thats cause they had good upbringing and morals, no look at me freaks like today.@@vernpascal1531
They dressed better back then than they do now
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Growing up on a family farm, Dad lived in overalls and Mom in plain housedresses. But going to town, it was jacket and tie for Dad and a tailored suit for Mom. It was that way for most everyone. Looking your best in public was a point of pride.
We were poor and lived in the country back in the 60s but when we went to town or church we wore something nice and cleaned up.we could dress very well on someone's hand me downs. I have money now but I am well dressed even with good will clothes
"looking your best in public was a point of pride". You're right - and not only in America but also in Europe and other countries as well!
Never went downtown SF in the late 50s without dressing nicely.
LA was a great city. Big but clean. It all ended in the 60's. How many tents and drug addicts did you see in this video?
NONE.
Zero.
Cost of living was also much, much cheaper!!
Another thing you don't see in that video are minorities. You're focusing on the negative.
@@MikeTMike So, you're conclusion is that minorities equal negatives?
I LOVE the 1930's-1950's scenes. Men and women dressed so nicely back then. Something that's sadly lacking Today! Thanks for the upload.
No rap, no pants hanging off the arse, no booty shorts. These people were very classy. Todays generations are bankrupt and lost.
Agreed
Segregation, Jim crow, no civil rights protection. Nope. I'll stay here and deal with the man buns, tattoos etc
@@AsherMolina Why don't blacks segregate themselves from whites, build yourself a Wakanda here in America. But NO you guys have to follow us where ever we are happy and leech off us and our success.
Yeah, but why didn’t they wear clothes with stable colors? I never saw sport coats and dresses that constantly change color like that. This looks like something you might have seen on a prototype color TV in about 1952.
I love the part about "no rap, no pants hanging off his arse"! (Today's generations are degenerate & desperate!)
Nicely dressed. What a mess we are today. The don't care look is what we have now or anything g goes.
There are 2 identifiable businesses in the film -- "Hamner and Sons" and "Kelly Music". Both buildings are still standing as of 2024 in Westwood Village, CA, adjacent to the UCLA campus. Hamner and Son building is located at 1093 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, and Kelly Music building is located at 1043 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (currently an Italian restaurant).
Interesting comment! (I was wondering how many buildings seen in this video are still standing.)
Note the absence of human excrement and used syringes on the sidewalk. Also no piles of rotting trash and shopping carts doubling as mobile homes anywhere. Ahh, there's nothing like progress, is there? Coming soon to a city near you.
Courtesy of your local Liberal Progressives.
Lol, totally agree brother!!
What, no Walmart plastic bags in the bushes?
Remember that people had their dress clothes and their everyday clothes. Their clothes were good quality & they had fewer clothes than today.
My mom and my aunts would "dress" to got "downtown". Hats and dresses and nylons and sometimes gloves. It was like going to a wedding or something for the clothes they'd wear. Now I see people in the city in pajama pants.
Not 1950s, although pretty. This footage is 1940s.
As the disruption says. 1940's.
This is the 40's. Women didn't wear paded shouldes in the 50's. This looks to be about 1947 going by the clothing and cars.
this is when a person could rent a 2 bedroom house with a yard & garage for around $40.00 a month in Los Angeles.
And the G.I. Bill for all those 12 million WWII vets paid $90 a month while they were in school.
I did a quick inflation calculator on what the buying power of $40 in 1948 would equal in 2024. The answer is $520.00.
Pretty expensive when you make .35 cents an hour
@@vintagerecordambassadeur4098 I check the minimum wage for 1950. It was 75 Cents per hour. That translates in 2024 buying power to $9.72 per hour. I also checked the average worker's annual wages in 1950. That was $3, 300. 00. In 2024 money, that's $42, 767.00.........In 2023, the average worker's wage was $59, 384.
It is gorgeous, respectable, high class, impeccably dressed people because then it was nice white and bright, get my drift?
The beautiful women back then were classy and absolutely breathtaking!!! The 1940s were a young mans paradise! Perfect era to find a wife.
Sunny,clean,prosperous , people with self respect.
Very Dapper Dressers InThis Era, My Grandparents And Great Grandparents Days🎥👍
Before freeways and parking lots tore the city apart, people did a lot more walking.
America's greatest generation!
Paradise….my mother first came to Long Beach in 1950 from winter Pennsylvania……she thought she had died and had gone to heaven……now you just may die
Better in black and white. This color tells you nothing it changes constantly
THANKS A THOUSAND Times for this lovely, informative video! I was born in 1953 and that period for me was sweet and peaceful.
I was born in the late 50’s. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
One of the BEST decades (sweet memories!)
Now every woman has the same outfit, black yoga pants a tshirt and flip flops, ha h a
And tattoos......ugh!!
And definitely never any of the fairer one with tattoos!
The yoga pants are not as bad as the pajamas and socks & crocs that has become a trend of late.
That maybe in LA..I don't dress like that.
My grandmother was living in the LA area in the 40s. She married my grandfather in Long beach in 44.
The way it used to be, no more it's all over............................
Earth will bury us for sake of survival but not the animals.
we had way more class back in the day.
They say the morals of that time would be unacceptable today. I say the immorals of today would be unacceptable then.
The immorals of today would jail people then, 2024 will never have the right to decide what is moral, it isn't exact the resounding example of modality. The only thing people did wrong in that era was the SMALL majority whom were racist, the 2% who were actually sexist in society (women were treated like goddeses at the time, I don't know how society today thinks the opposite), and lets not forget that period modern movies have never represented real life then, and are made by a director narratizing dislikable features where if you were to travel back to 1940 in Los Angeles, you would hardly ever find them, sometimes never since this was real life, not a storied look at an era.
Most people today would fight you on the people walking down this street in the video if you hadn't shown them, they'd argue that only the top 1% were wearing these outfits and that you were crazy and seeing the era through rose colored glasses (heard that one MANY times by hateful fiends who make it their living duty to work harder at gatekeeping a random era they've never studied past rumors and misconceptions..., than trying to be successful in life)
I think that you have to split it down to specific things. Basic decency, politeness, civic and personal pride have been lost, but I wouldn't want to go back to their attitudes towards women and race.
@@freebornjohn26874/23/2024: Love your comment and I agree. 🎯👍🏾🎺🤍
Notice how CLEAN the streets were, and NO vandalism?
This looks more like 1940s.
Agree.
It is the 40s. Look at the cars. Not one 1950s car in the video.
Agreed. Late 1940s perhaps, but the moment the economy picked up, the girls started wearing full skirts and dumped the shoulder pads. I didn't see cars that looked like 1950s either.
@Joe ConanIndeed. 😉
The women look beautifully feminine.👍👍
And the men were well-dressed, handsome and sexy! (A male admirer)
The obesity and narcissism epidemic walks the streets today..
I don't care about other people's weight.
@@michaelbenardo5695 I do, its sight pollution.
The obesity causing Adventist cult food pyramid and the never proven lipid hypothesis did not exist.
Most people can not lose weight and keep it off on the same diet advice that farmers use to fatten livestock cheaply. But some can. They use those people to gaslight everyone else.
To contol weight you need to control insulin. The old 1950s British diet in the prologue of Good Calories, Bad Calories is such a diet. Also you need to get pancreas destroying seed oils out of the diet as well.
So where is all the trash? Looks like a sane place to be.
*...and then, one day, someone said, "_Hell no, I don't want to spend the day hot and uncomfortable in all these clothes+." Over time, others followed suit and eventually all hell broke loose...*
For centuries, since the Middle Ages, men and women of a certain class always tried to look their best, till the mid-1960s. It all changed in the late 1960s - with Carnaby Street in London, the Sergeant Pepper LP by the Beatles, hippies, long hair and beards for men..." anything goes" since then!
Voice-over at start says 1950s.....but written title says 1940s
Compared to the way they dress now...
Now that's the way to look sharp. Not like today, people wearing fricken pj's !!! And wearing their pants down around their ankles !!!!!
There are people and there are slobs.
even the bums and hobo's dressed up well.
1940’s Los Angeles - when even the zoot suiters looked classy
We have fantastic patriotic Hispanic-Americans and Mexican-Americans going all the way back to the Alamo and earlier. In fact, one of them is my closest veteran friend on a personal level. However, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot in L.A. in 1943 is a different story. Those were Mexicans (including illegals?) who were NOT patriotic and not helping with the war effort at a dangerous time. Instead, they were "rolling" (or robbing) drunk U.S. sailors as they staggered back across that area of bars from a late night out. The sailors, naturally, finally got fed up with it and took matters into their own hands when it happened one more time. They went in and "cleaned house" on the perpetrators. Today's PC media, Hollywood, and Wiki-liars are not likely to tell you the truth of what happened. Instead, get ORIGINAL sources. Get the LIFE magazine issue, for example, from 1943 (which I have read). It's the same with Executive Order 9066 and the temporary relocation of the ethnic Japanese in the West Coast Defense Zone. Today's media LIES about it. Get an original source reference such as WWII Japanese Relocation Camps & the WRA: A Prudent, Emergency, War-time Measure by Cain for the true story.
Hats and Pipes 😃
Wow, nice to know everyone was wearing color shifting blue/purple/orange fabric. AMAZING
Cars too. Wish they had that kind of car paint now. I remember when color shifting paint was popular in the late 90s/early 00s
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things was better no graffiti
To everyone complaining about today's fashion, there's honestly nothing stopping any of us from dressing up nicely when going out. Sure, most men would prefer to ditch the tie, most women the high heels. But we can choose to dress nicely (while also remaining comfortable). Even in 2024.
I've seen this footage before - particularly the very beginning where the people are walking down the street, window-shopping. I read at the time that this was staged - people didn't really dress so impeccably and formally just going out and doing errands. They may have been models or actors.
" people didn't really dress so impeccably and formally just going out and doing errands"
Yes they did too, especially in the big cities. In fact people dressed better in blue collar jobs than many in public do today. Women dressed nicer while working in the textile mills in the pre 1950's than you see women at Wal Mart today(FACT).
Damn right people used to dress up everyday. Self respect is dead today. Just for example tattoos everywhere or a ring in the nose like a farm animal.
The phone addiction is what bugs me the most!
I'm from New Zealand and in Auckland where my parents were a young couple just after WW2 they dressed smart like in these photos to go into the city to have an afternoon shopping or a day at the races and definitely out dancing. And they were living in a temporary caravan on wheels with a tent addition because there was nowhere to rent due to housing shortages on account of building having ceased during wartime,etc . All the snap shots show their friends looking smart as well, but they have casual outfits to knock around at the beach and the yard as well.I recall my Mother looking nice when she took us to the city to go to the big cinemas or the zoo on the school holidays . She always took the trouble to dress well. I guess there was a context and she wasn't doing some sort of glam when she was out with the kids , but gee she sure looked great! Now I see so much black and faded synthetic and sagging or badly fitted kit on people.
This was definitely a high end shopping district. Not all of America looked like this.
I’d like to see European heritage dominated age even though I am not.
is that a fancy way of saying you'd like to see a society where only white people exist
because that's everyone's secret dream
Voice is wrong. This is the late 40s, just like the title says.
I was born during WWII. As a boy, I remember my Mother would make sure to be presentable in public by wearing a dress, hat, and gloves just to good food shopping.
I've watched this beautiful video several times. Now, I'm quite sure it's STAGED. Several people in the video appear twice or more on the same street or in different locations. At the beginning of the video, a well-dressed, middle-aged woman, wearing a hat, carrying a handbag and with a sexy gait, appears on the scene, looks left and moves on. She's shown in a different location. Another middle-aged woman, a pretty blonde who looks like a movie star, appears twice in different locations. A good-looking man, who seems to be in his early 40s, wearing a well-draped suit, appears at the beginning of the video, returns in front of the camera, and walks as if he's on a march.
I was born in 1940 and remember how beautifully dressed people were. Women looked like women in their dresses, suits, nylon stockings, heels, gloves and hats. You didn’t see jeans, sneakers, flip-flops, tattoos, piercings, pink or green hair. Everyone looked first class, trim and stylish! Those days are gone with the wind never to return!.
It was WW2 that put millions of people, even buck privates, into hats and neatly tailored suits for military dress, and for the next 30y or so, that population wore the same styles. Before the war people wore work clothes out and about, so you would see more dungarees and overalls on the street. 30y after the war, they switched to leisure wear, which is where we are now.
Everyone has hats on!
i950s just only imagine when the true Decade of the 1950s will come how developed we will be ? We are totally in a wrong Time-Line.
You got that right
@@kenward7203 thnx respect
There will be a return to civility and refinement but long after my time. Probably 100 years or so from now.
Awesome
I noticed that while the women wore dresses, most had very low heels on. 1 to 3 inchs. Not 4 or 5 inch heels. Shoes that can be worn with a dress, but are also practical for walking.
I can not wear heels. Extreme pain from the moment they go on. The last time I wore them was at a wedding for 3 hours. I took them off and walked barefoot back to the car. 2 1/2 inch.
I manage to find comfortable, but dressy, sandals to wear with summer dresses last year.
It seems that people wore the most amazing color-changing clothing then. 😮 Even the automobiles could color shift. Boy, wouldn't that be cool if we knew their technological secrets today?
While the joke is hilarious, 13% of automobiles at the time were colored metallics like dark pine green pearlescent, iridescent maroon, silver bullet gray, mayan gold, indian sunburn poly, even metallic biege which was a pearl finish (much better than the "pearl" tesla has)
Great ..... beautiful time , afortunados los que vivieron en esa epoca
Hermoso 😍
Y así vestian cualquier dia de la semana, ni hablar los sábados, cines, bailes, teatros, reuniones con amigos, qué época!!!
The clothing technology was amazing back then wasn’t it? It’s incredible how their clothes changed color as they walked along!
I guess people honked every two seconds because no one had turning indicators?
May I know what's the software name to colorize the video?
HitPower
I love it
In the beginning of the video, they sure over did it with the honking sound effects. People weren't that impatient back then.
I can only imagine what that street looks like today and it won't be a pretty sight or a pleasant smell....
love it, love it, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT,
You’ll never see a tub of lard waddling along the street cramming food down their gullet in these old movie reels.
It looks nice because it was filmed in a nice area. Society hasn’t changed much
Early to mid 40s.
It was still nice in the 70s and 80s.
why do i expect to hear the perry mason theme to begin
Gente muy bien vestida, calles limpias, no graffitis, no homless, no drogadictos, en suma ambiente tranquilo y de prosperidad.
Same here in London We are lost
Dystopia is now.
1:14 Nowadays, that lovely plate glass display window would be smashed and the clothes stolen
right off the mannequin.
Definitely the 40's
I love this video! Los Angeles, 1940s - how people dressed at that time. Well dressed indeed! I'm not American, but I remember America in the 1950s. I loved the way America and Americans looked and dressed at that time - until the mid-1960s. So nice to see men in Los Angeles in the 1940s wearing fully draped suits and hats, and women smartly or elegantly dressed and with hats on. This is in contrast to the way young men look nowadays with their ill-fitting, tight hipster pants with short legs, skimpy jackets, and ugly facial hair.
The sixties brought the flower children, dont believe anyone over 30 people and more drugs! That is when we started to go down hill!
I don't know about the clothes.....although pretty classy.........but I would die to have one of those cars. You could probably get at a song back then....but now........thousands and thousands to have just one of them. I was born in 53.......so really too young to appreciate all the cool things back then.
It looks like a movie set
Certainly much better compare tp now days.
Less if non wash machine dryer amd they looked sparkly clean no wrinkle on cloth Quite elegantm for day time casual
Imagine weekends much better
The gradual change in western society is shocking... particularly in Western Europe. The reasons are mostly obvious, but given the clamp down on free speech it's best not to elaborate...
Is this actual film from the 1940's? Or computer generated?
this is actual film from the 1940's
The USA ended in 1963
The United States definitely peaked between the end of WWII and the JFK assassination
@@epice6463 Also peaked in 1920-1942 but no one studied that ever :(.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar that’s when the Great Depression took place
@@epice6463 That's when real life happened. People make the great depression sound like the only event that ever happened in the 1930s, I can assure you it was not that damning.
I'm not American but I remember America in the 1940s & 50s. I loved the way America and Americans looked till the mid-60s. It's all on record in the color movies and black and white T.V. shows of that time. It all changed in the late 1960s - for the worse!
After viewing this video, the saying, "Make America Great Again" becomes abundantly clear.
It is the 40's the dresses say 1945-48 or there abouts
Where did we go so wrong?
Answer: Desegregation, feminism, social Marxism taught in colleges across America starting in the 1960's, The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the most important the invention of television and the internet. You want to go back then turn back all I mention and it will be like a time machine back.
Ted Kennedy and 1965 Immigration Act (followed up by the Refugee Act of 1980). The voters of Massachusetts kxxled the nation. "Land of the free" and "pursuit of happiness" are gone, thanks to Ted.
This was not filmed in the 1950's -- it is 1940's at the latest. Not a single auto, either driven or parked was later than the 1940's - most were earlier, even pre WWII.
2:03 is a ..very interesting shot with the modern 1942 Oldsmobile, and... Perhaps a...well okay, I see spoke rims which is beyond curious. Maybe a Crossley but, not with wood spokes.
Anyway, I can eye down this based on fashion and automobiles, and the primitized versions of their original manufactured products such as a missing white wall, or white wheel well faux white walls (which I do like the look of). This is about 1944-1945.
I think the only outfit available for guys were suits.
Boy they sure dressed nice ,and no fat people with tattoos nice ❤❤❤❤❤
So the title says “1940’s” but the beginning of the video says “ 1950’s”.
Beautiful video
So, which time period are we talking about? The Fifties, or The Forties. They were NOT the same!
Survivors of the 1930's
There goes the neighborhood
Man some of these comments are short-sighted. There’s a whole lot more to people and humanity than dressing elegantly. There’s absolutely something to be said for the way you choose to present yourself, but it’s not the end all, be all. How about the open racism during this time or the rates of domestic violence? Saying bigoted and disgusting things in a suit and tie still means you’re saying bigoted things and harboring hate in your heart. There were so many things about this time period that are better than contemporary times but there are also a lot of things about today that are better than they were back then. The grass is always greener on the other side; don’t let your nostalgia and retrospection blind you
The way people dress is very important, its called self respect. Nothing wrong with racism at all. Racism is a mechanism of evolution Gavin. Racism is tribalism, tribalism is a system for the survival of ones own kind. Diversity does not occur naturally but is brought about by the building of empires. Without strong central government(threat of violence) diversity withers away and fractioning into ethnic and political regions becomes inevitable. In the 1940's the US population was 90% white European. Now America is more diverse and racial tensions and baiting is higher than ever by far.
@@vanillaexplosion99 you just said a whole lot of nothing in there. Your line of logic isn’t a line at all. I don’t even know what else to say to you “vanilla explosion”
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Don't forget the customary hat + black wingtip shoes there pardna 🧙♂️ ya heer ?