Yesss , I wasn't born in that era and a i feel very nostalgic but I love Los Angeles ca , my father used to take me to los angeles to buy goods for our store
Videos like this are priceless catching it exactly as it happened! This is the closest thing you will get to time travel ! Love it ! Thank you, a jewel!!!
Some of the best styling ever, the most iconic engine displacements, the most features. There's a reason why these cars are highly collectible and restored today.
I sure like seeing those old cars again. I remember when they were everywhere. Notice that there are NO dark gray bubble-cars with angry looking headlights!
Turns out that 30s Car you are referring to was a Bentley 2.5 Litre from 1932. Nice looking car. Also, most of the scenes in this video (especially the Plymouth and Bentley chase) are actually from a 1964 film called "Sex and the Single Girl".
OK, so THAT explains why traffic on Sepulveda moved on both sides of the carriageway. I was about to ask how did that traffic pattern work...I'm like Ving Rhames in that Arbys advert for Loaded Curly Fries..."WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE?!"
Arthur Cholakyan Of course it is. Half of Latin America was not here yet. There was much less people on the street too. Taxes & cost of living was much more affordable in relation to wages too.
Its almost as if he went back in time to the early 60's to record the video and the radio playing from his smartphone and then came back to our time to upload this gem of a video for us on this platform. What a great video and sound quality of the radio!
Are you aware that cars of that era rusted out faster than modern treated cars? Most Detroit products looked "done" in 4 or 5 years. They lasted longer in California than in a snow belt state. but corrosion never sleeps.
@@donofon1014 Tell that to my 1978 Oldsmobile with no rust! Daily driver. In 1980, the "Jap Scraps" "Rice Grinders" came in big, and those Toyota 4x4s were totally rusted out in 4 years.
@davidlinge4794 1979 Ford LTD II owner here. Nice car man, I can confirm they don't rust out as fast as they say. Great reliable cars those old things. Everyone turns their heads
@@davidlinge4794 well done for you. You never saw a 5 year old Maverick, Pinto Chevette, Gremlin in the Great Lakes region. And you are right.. the early Japanese and Korean cars dissolved in two winters. That all changed. I am trying to remember the metal condition of our family 59 olds when it got replaced by a 64. The 64 rusted badly and fast. I got 14 years out of a Toyota Tercel .. the skin intact, outlasted the trans. I almost got to teach my daughter to drive in a car I bought in her birth year. The subsequent X CAR Chev Cavalier was the notorious mistake.... my worst car purchase ever. I live in a GM town and the pressure was on to buy the cars your neighbours build. F that.
I've owned over 40 cars since the mid '70s, many of them back when I lived in the Midwest (now in CA). Although all cars back then rusted much quicker and worse than vehicles today, the rustiest vehicle I ever owned was a '79 Toyota I bought when it was less than ten years old. I got it just as a snow car and work commuter and paid only $1000 for it so I wasn't picky about how it looked, and the interior was in great shape, but what a rust bucket. It ran well and got good mileage though, which was all I needed to allow me to keep my better, newer car garaged and out of the salt and snow. Japanese vehicles from that era had notoriously poor corrosion resistance in the snow belt.
My grandpa was stationed in California for the airforce in the 50s when it was nice and he still couldn't wait to get out of the "goddamn desert" like he knew what was coming LOL
Very rare car at 1:37 a white 1961 Facel Vega Facellia convertible in the far right lane. A French luxury/sports car company that made cars for just a few years in the late '50's -early '60's.
@@davaroonid1527 Well freeways in Los Angeles were built over a period of time, mostly between the 40s and 70s. Certainly the freeways being relatively younger (which they would have been in this video) would explain in part why they looked cleaner. But I suspect maintenance was simply much better at the time and the population was significantly smaller.
It's a clip from a '60s movie starring Natalie Wood. The road (Sepulveda, I believe) was closed for the filming of the movie and all of those cars are driven by movie studio drivers. It's common to see those same scenes as well as clips from many other Hollywood movies shot on roads around L.A. from the '20s - '70s presented on these YT channels as though they were actual random street scenes.
I think this is the one of the best things about the internet, I spent many hours on that very stretch of Sepulveda, theres even a tree I remember I would look at as I was sitting in traffic .
Yes, it was rare even then,but not out of place. I grew up around Newport Beach, we saw a few exotics from time to time. My brother and I were pretty amazed while walking on Balboa Island one summer afternoon in 1965 and saw a Mercedes station wagon.
My DREAM CAR, in high school, was the Facel Vega Facel II, A 6.7L Mopar hooked to a 4-speed "Pont-a-Mousson" transmission! Talk about rare! Only 180 were built, probably worth a couple "mill" now!
The song being played here is "I Fought The Law" (1966) by the Bobby Fuller Four. Bobby Fuller died mysteriously of asphyxiation in the front seat of his car in 1966. The cops claimed it was suicide but others said it was a homicide so it remains unsolved to this day.
Good fact. If I remember, he died in his mother's blue car (Which I think it was a 1960s Oldsmobile or 1960s Chrysler). It has also been featured on the show "Unsolved Mysteries".
stumbled across this weird twilight zone of youtube where its just an almost endless tirade of incredible videos of like everyday life that , are now only memories for some and a style for most so much history here and there but gone forever. somehow here it is still. incredible this is something i never, knew i needed in my life
California looks so nice. I live in Canada where winter's suck. It would be cool to hang out in California during the winter.I can even watch NHL hockey there.
The low humidity weather is superb especially along the coast and there's hardly any bugs to wreck a nice evening.... but you'll end up working all the time just to pay for living out here. Unfortunately 56% of Californians' income goes toward real estate expenses like rent or mortgage. Combine that with a minimum 10% tax on everything including food and clothing (not every state taxes necessities) and that makes it really expensive, which is why so many are moving out of state.
Matrox One not to be rude but CHEVY is way less American than TOYOTA at this point. That Chevy is probably built in Canada or MEXICO while that Toyota was probably built in California, the carolinas or Alabama, maybe Georgia. The foreign car brands are definitely more American at this point then the big 3
Matrox One you are well aware that despite some american cars looking better than most, doesn’t make them better. American made cars are so shitty. They can’t compete with german, japanese, or Korean cars. Maybe if the American cars decided to put time and effort into the reliability of their vehicles I would be on your side.
All of that part of this video with the cars driving on both sides of the road and weaving back and forth is footage from a 1964 Warner Brothers movie called "Sex and the Single Girl" starring Natalie Wood. The road was closed for the filming and all of those cars and the people driving them are part of the movie.
@@richthepontiacguys1412 thats the movie that told good girls that having sex while on the pill was fun.....starting the greatest decline in morality in history
1:40 starts southbound Sepulveda Bl. exiting the tunnel underneath Mulholland Dr. 2:04 is the intersection of Skirball Center Drive which connects to Mulholland Dr. I wish I could go back in time and take Skirball Center Drive to my home which was in existence back in 1964. It is located less than a mile from this intersection.
My family had a 1960 Dodge Seneca like the taxi at 1:41 that can't seem to stay in it's lane, only it was more turquoise- the only car we ever bought new, until after I'd graduated high school. This footage is obviously near completion of the 405- it looks like one direction (south?) is up on the interstate portion, but this footage is of the other way now occupying what had been the old road in both directions- the explanation of the double yellow line being ignored. I lived on Sepulveda in Van Nuys for a year or so back in '86- I think it's called the longest continual running boulevard in the LA area, or was then at least.
Nice car you owned back then. Although, I think the taxi that you're mentioning (The light green one) is actually a 1958 Plymouth Fury. I just realized you were talking about that white car on the opposite lane, my bad.
Прикольно. Учитывая, что я живу в России и родился в 1991 году, у меня старые американские авто вызывают ту же ностальгию. Сразу ассоциации с фильмом терминатор 1984. У моего дедушки очень давно была машина "ГАЗ-24 Волга". Она была очень похожа на те старые американские авто. Если интересно найдите её в поисковике. До сих пор когда вижу "стоковые" экземпляры меня переполняют только положительные чувства. Сам езжу на "Hyundai Verna"😊
I'm 10...But I love 1950s, 1960s and 1930s!I also love the classical cars.I wish I was raised in this time.It looks so happy!Though people say I'm "unique" for liking this stuff at such a young age.But is what I like.So I really do hate it when people say that, but that's just the downside.Though I will still love it!This me and this is what I like.So beat it!
@@davidmettam1134 It's fine. Just make sure to ALWAYS put a space after each period, exclamation mark, question mark, etc (more in latin) . I hope that helps!
I don't think they had designated it as Interstate 405 (aka "the 405") yet in 1964. I think back then it was just called The San Diego Freeway. I was a kid living in "the valley" back then. This Freeway thru Sepulveda Pass was brand new at about the time of this footage.
@@ChatGPT1111 Well you’re mostly correct. It was State Route 7 from 1961 to 1964 and then became I-405 when it was completed in 1964. Yes I did miss the sign in the beginning of video.
@@richardgerlach5156It was a little confusing before the 1964 "Great Renumbering" because "Route 7" included not just the current 405, but also parts of I-5, SR 14, and US 395. To make it worse, there were "Legislative Route Numbers", which didn't correspond with the "route" numbers (or the modern numbers). For example, US 99 (now SR 99) was part also part of Legislative Route 7. And 20. And 24. And Routes 4, 161, 165, 2, 26, 3, 6, 232, 245, and 87. And others. And I didn't see any cars with the blue and gold plates they started issuing in 1969
My Dad used to make it from our home in the West San Fernando Valley to his job in Westwood in just over half an hour back in these days...every day.... And gas was what, a quarter a gallon??? This was when LA was paradise...just glad I knew it back then....
I remember in 1968 on a Saturday morning you could go from Burbank to Sorrento Beach (right where California Incline meets PCH) in 30 minutes. Gas? Why it was only 25 cents a gallon...Natch!
Saw a ‘’65 Ford wagon. Thanks for uploading this! KRLA, KFWB, and Boss radio KHJ. It was a great time and place to be a high school kid at that time. The black freeway signs, ivy along the sides of freeways. Awesome!
I grew up when they were building the 405 freeway. I lived on Sepulveda between Exposition and National. Nice video, best times with music with the Bobby Fuller 5. It is amazing that someone had the idea to film this footage, because those were the good old days, carefree and simplistic.. Those were real all metal cars, not these plastic junk cars.
Did you catch the red 68 Pontiac station wagon @ 11 seconds in? We had one of those and never did see many even back then. Sedans yes, but not the wagon.
This is a great video, I love it! And so everyoneknows, this isn't a typical clip (1:30) of a random day/time in ordinary circumstances. This was set up with all these special cars for the video.
One thing that is better now. The barriers they have now between the two sides of the freeway are far, far superior than the cables with the chain link fence they had back then. I remember seeing sections of the fence just tore up and cars just ripped apart. Many wrecks invloved both sides of the freeway, with head-on's not that uncommon. On the flip side, LA was a way nicer place; way less people and way cleaner, and way less dangerous. Music was hell of lot better too.
Gordon, As an old resident of metro LA back in the day, I agree with most of your thoughts. However, air quality was a BIG problem----air quality is better now. Also, LA dumped huge quantities of untreated sewage into Santa Monica Bay back then, so in that sense, it was not a cleaner city in the 1960s. As for crime......We had the Watts Riots. But yeah, most neighborhoods in the Valley and west side were very safe.
@@bbouchardeYou are right about the smog and air quality. The air is way better now. Like they say, "Paris will always be Paris." Well, Watts will always be Watts.
The first part of this video was filmed sometime in 1966 because I see a 1966 Ford Country Squire at the 0:00 minute mark. The other part was filmed sometime in late 1964 or 1965 may be slightly off but it was filmed somewhere around that time.
John Schunk a late 60’s or Ford County Squire from 1972 is one of my dream cars. I may only be 21 but I’d still would choose a car from the 60’s or 70’s over most of the boring mundane cars of today.
@@seana806 they were built solid, but required lots of maintenance. Tech wasn't as good as today. Electronic ignition and fuel injection is much more trouble free. I still like the old stuff though. More pride in the ride!
John Schunk cars from the 60’s and early 70’s do require mechanical adjustments every now and again but if you drive them gently they would give you much trouble but if you drive them like in modern day traffic in Los Angeles or New York City they will be more problematic but being gentle on them is the key to have them be trouble free.
What on earth were those people doing? It looked like people were parking randomly in the middle of the road in an attempt to re-create a video game that had not yet been invented.
The cars werent backing up. The film was reversed. The camera would have been mounted on the rear of the camera car, and driven forwards against the flow of traffic. The traffic would have been moving forwards slowly as the camera car drove through. Then the film was reversed.
@@2259r3z yes was a movie with with Natalie Wood if you notice there there driving on both sides of road. in same direction with double yellow line its staged footage for movie.
Some of this apparently is stock footage for a movie (this was explained in the comments section of a similar clip of this uploader), hence the driving in opposite lanes, etc.
Yes. It was filmed in 1964, all of the four lanes were going north in their perspective instead of the regular two lanes, and Sepulveda was closed for that exact purpose with cars like the Green 1958 Plymouth Plaza Sedan and the Blue 1932 Bentley 2.5 Litre Roadster.
Not always. I remember driving up 405 from Long Beach, where we lived, to Mammoth Lakes on a Wednesday night in 1970 to spend Thanksgiving weekend. Took 4 1/2 hours to get from Long Beach to the San Fernando Valley. I could've WALKED to Palmdale faster than that.
first visit to Los Angeles was back in 1978 to celebrate my 21st birthday. Then I went again in 1981, in 1983, and in 2015. In fact, I stayed at the Best Western Royal Palace on Sepulveda Blvd; just about a block and a half south of Pico Blvd. on my last visit there back in 2018. Although I'm a lifelong and native Pennsylvanian (I was born and raised right here in Philadelphia area), Los Angeles is still my very favorite vacation spot.
As they say in Monty Python, “ I’m not dead yet” Although you have a point depending on the age of the drivers. I didn’t get a drivers license until 1966 but I had a learners permit before that and drove over Sepulveda pass from the Valley to Westwood Village and UCLA. Some of us that remember those times are still around to talk to. Take the opportunity if you have it and you could learn something.
Grew up there/then, been down every one of those streets and ate at more than a few Bob’s. 93 KHJ and the competition KRLA ‘were it was at’, the Nilsson track is a bit out of location (NYC) and that time frame. Some Beach Boys and Canned Heat, ‘On the road again’ brings it home for me!
I remember! I remember when most freeways were actually what the word means. And you also felt free to see what was all around you. There weren't the ubiquitous walls blocking your view. Graffiti was only seen in lower-income neighborhoods, not on walls or buildings near the freeway. Never thought L.A. would decay into the cesspool like most democrat run cities.
If true, that means all US cities are "democrat-run", because urban decay is everywhere. The reason for urban decay is in the failed capitalist system, not to be blamed on only one of the factions, be it "democrat" or "republican". Those two factions make up a single party system, the business party, and BOTH should be blamed for American decay, letting millions of US jobs to be deported to Latin America, China, and elsewhere.
It is true. Just do a cursory examination of the cities with high crime rates. I don't know what you mean by failed capitalist system. The way in which democrats have carried out their policies, yes...they have failed it. It didn't begin 20 or 30 years ago. It began much earlier than that, and perhaps with good intentions. But the capitalist system is not evil in and of itself. The kinds of policies and the way in which they're implemented are the problem, not the capitalist system.
Communism is much worse. I don't know what the dude is saying about capitalism... but even tho this is a video of a road I'll just say democrats and republicans both are bad for the country. We need liberty (and less taxes cuz taxes are theft) not the bullshit from those 2 cancerous parties.
@egmjag, America's golden age concluded in the late 1970s -- i.e., the era of American made products, America the manufacturer, unionized jobs, and lots of domestic Federal spending came to an end. Starting in the 1980's the era of deregulation, tax-cuts, outsourcing, and perpetual warfare became the standard with the Reagan Revolution. And we're still in this era of deregulation, tax-cuts, outsourcing, and perpetual warfare. Although I believe such terrible policies are coming to an end -- as they are not sustainable nor popular for the long haul. @Zorro Alphonso, You're absolutely right. Essentially capitalism has been fleeing: US, Europe, and Japan. Capitalism is like a locust -- it only remains as it has used all valuable resources, then bounces off. Or, better yet, when things have become saturated for the locust to really make it hard to function. Emerging economies/countries are always capitalism best friend whereas established countries/economies are its enemy. Both political parties are to blame for what has happened. Ultimately, we the people have allowed for both political parties and for mega donors to control our politics/policies. That will change soon as the "musical chair" game cannot sustain itself forever, something has to give.
This video and music took me way back to the third seat in the back of my dad's 68 Impala station wagon out on a weekend drive through the valley through Hollywood to check out the Weirdos on Hollywood Blvd a stop at Tiny Naylors and back home to Wilshire district before they changed the name to Korea Town !
Back then, Bakersfield was used as a "Control City" for both the 405 North of Santa Monica and the 5 North of the East L.A. Interchange, even though the 5 never goes through Bakersfield proper. They have since changed the rulings on what is considered a "Control City" and currently lists Sacramento as such. A "Control City" BTW is what the highway department lists as a eventual destination for a route(s) for directional signage purposes.
@@willcampbell8997 Interesting. Thanks. The same thing occurs on CA-SR 99 up by Red Bluff in Northern California. Two destinations - Redding 19, and Portland 400. The rest of Oregon is on its own.
I was looking for the Kravit's and the Steven's in one of these cars going by......coming back from a neighborly dinner in their 1967 Chevy Bel Air or something.....ha ha
On December 21 of 1962, the 8-lane 405 freeway opened through the Sepulveda pass with a ribbon cutting, a caravan of cars and LA Mayor Sam Yorty arriving via helicopter to kick off the festivities.
@JoanWasQuizzical1 0 seconds ago It looks like all of this footage was background process shots for Sex and the Single Girl 1964 with stand-ins for Lauren Bacall and Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood and Henry Fonda etc., on Sepulveda Blvd., parallel to the then newish 405; how does Getty get the copyright? Weird.
On a second note, what version of I Fought The Law is this? I like the echo in this version. It sounds more beefier and in your face and especially the drums.
I’m not American but something needs to be done about the freeways because back in the 60s they thought that freeways would help but in reality building them doesn’t say oh now you can speed down the road to home it says get a car because you obviously need one look at those empty spaces there they need to do something that implies yes get a car and arrive on time it is probably impossible but I bet someone will figure it out hay it might even be me
The biggest was a certain former Communist and SAG president closing all the psychiatric hospitals in order to nya-nya at Jimmy Carter and with a big Hollywood smile escorting their patients to your sunny sidewalks. We can point to any other cause for the change but that was the biggest and worst of all. Walk outside here in any LA suburb see his legacy.
I'm sure someone has already mentioned this in comments that some of these vids are taken from the movie "Sex and the Single Girl" 1964 (Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall. Henry Fonda).
It looks like all of this footage was background process shots for Sex and the Single Girl on Sepulveda parallel to the then newish 405; how does Getty get the copyright? Weird.
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The biggest pain in life is Nostalgia. I simply cant go back to where i was born and raised. IT has been ruined. Great video
Yesss , I wasn't born in that era and a i feel very nostalgic but I love Los Angeles ca , my father used to take me to los angeles to buy goods for our store
I believe it.
Well played
Where you live now
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Sigghhhh 😷
Videos like this are priceless catching it exactly as it happened! This is the closest thing you will get to time travel ! Love it ! Thank you, a jewel!!!
I miss the old car colors.
costernocht and air colors too
Some of the best styling ever, the most iconic engine displacements, the most features. There's a reason why these cars are highly collectible and restored today.
I really dig that green and white t-tone Ford that zips by at 0:44/4:18 .
I sure like seeing those old cars again. I remember when they were everywhere. Notice that there are NO dark gray bubble-cars with angry looking headlights!
how can you remember the cars back then as semen.
I call the many small SUVs of today as button cars. Cuz thats what they look like.
No Abi-normal Brains back then.
--Igor from Young Frankenstein.
Ya cars these days look pissed to match our current culture
Hi. What are dark gray bubble cars?
The ‘58 Plymouth & 30s Cars interaction was very wholesome
Turns out that 30s Car you are referring to was a Bentley 2.5 Litre from 1932. Nice looking car. Also, most of the scenes in this video (especially the Plymouth and Bentley chase) are actually from a 1964 film called "Sex and the Single Girl".
1:40
That sure looks like the tunnel from the 1971 film DUEL with Dennis Weaver.
I’m thinking it might be the one.
You have the best old Los Angeles videos I really enjoy them
Look at that. The 405 is actually moving.
Arthur Cholakyan Hah! Yeah,baby. Oh, how times have changed...
and with Sepulveda closed for a Film Shoot... today it would be a nightmare... :)
OK, so THAT explains why traffic on Sepulveda moved on both sides of the carriageway. I was about to ask how did that traffic pattern work...I'm like Ving Rhames in that Arbys advert for Loaded Curly Fries..."WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE?!"
Arthur Cholakyan
Of course it is. Half of Latin America was not here yet.
There was much less people on the street too.
Taxes & cost of living was much more affordable in relation to wages too.
Justin Thompson dwo& carpet pilots were a lot fewer too
Its almost as if he went back in time to the early 60's to record the video and the radio playing from his smartphone and then came back to our time to upload this gem of a video for us on this platform. What a great video and sound quality of the radio!
This makes me so happy look at all those cool cars made of real STEEL.
Are you aware that cars of that era rusted out faster than modern treated cars? Most Detroit products looked "done" in 4 or 5 years. They lasted longer in California than in a snow belt state. but corrosion never sleeps.
@@donofon1014 Tell that to my 1978 Oldsmobile with no rust! Daily driver. In 1980, the "Jap Scraps" "Rice Grinders" came in big, and those Toyota 4x4s were totally rusted out in 4 years.
@davidlinge4794 1979 Ford LTD II owner here. Nice car man, I can confirm they don't rust out as fast as they say. Great reliable cars those old things. Everyone turns their heads
@@davidlinge4794 well done for you. You never saw a 5 year old Maverick, Pinto Chevette, Gremlin in the Great Lakes region. And you are right.. the early Japanese and Korean cars dissolved in two winters. That all changed. I am trying to remember the metal condition of our family 59 olds when it got replaced by a 64. The 64 rusted badly and fast. I got 14 years out of a Toyota Tercel .. the skin intact, outlasted the trans. I almost got to teach my daughter to drive in a car I bought in her birth year. The subsequent X CAR Chev Cavalier was the notorious mistake.... my worst car purchase ever. I live in a GM town and the pressure was on to buy the cars your neighbours build. F that.
I've owned over 40 cars since the mid '70s, many of them back when I lived in the Midwest (now in CA). Although all cars back then rusted much quicker and worse than vehicles today, the rustiest vehicle I ever owned was a '79 Toyota I bought when it was less than ten years old. I got it just as a snow car and work commuter and paid only $1000 for it so I wasn't picky about how it looked, and the interior was in great shape, but what a rust bucket. It ran well and got good mileage though, which was all I needed to allow me to keep my better, newer car garaged and out of the salt and snow. Japanese vehicles from that era had notoriously poor corrosion resistance in the snow belt.
O, I wish there was a teleporter that could teleport me back in time to the 60’s in California. That would be a dream come true.😃
Let me know if you find one. I'd love to catch a ride.
Yes, that would been " California dreaming "😍
Belle LaVerne...This video is and... I really don't want to go back to the future.
If there was one, sign me up!
When Cali was awesome
No local ever says “Cali”
@@robdavidson993 It's funny how often I hear people say that even though natives actually use the term.
My grandpa was stationed in California for the airforce in the 50s when it was nice and he still couldn't wait to get out of the "goddamn desert" like he knew what was coming LOL
@@robdavidson993 nobody from la says “Cali” ever……
@@ADDrecords He was lucky to have experience it
Very rare car at 1:37 a white 1961 Facel Vega Facellia convertible in the far right lane. A French luxury/sports car company that made cars for just a few years in the late '50's -early '60's.
you mean 1:32 ?
OMG and I had my eyes on the 59 Caddie and Buick!! missed it!!
Maybe you mean the black and white Nash? A red Studebaker Lark is driving right next to it.
Forget the cars, look how much cleaner and well kept the freeways looked back then
I’m probably wrong but isn’t that cause they just stared building freeways back in the 60s all over the country? Please correct me If I am wrong
@@davaroonid1527 Well freeways in Los Angeles were built over a period of time, mostly between the 40s and 70s. Certainly the freeways being relatively younger (which they would have been in this video) would explain in part why they looked cleaner.
But I suspect maintenance was simply much better at the time and the population was significantly smaller.
@@humzahj. ahh gotcha thanks
The 405/ Sepulveda Pass opened on December 21 of 1962. The footage of this part of the 405 is approximately from that era.
This really takes me back, especially the dead cars on the side of the road. Used to see that all the time.
I still see it.
People tend to forget that.
Why are they driving in both side of the road and bettween the yellow solid line?
@@isaaccollazo2874 I think it was a race/car show. They reversed traffic on the opposing lanes.
It's a clip from a '60s movie starring Natalie Wood. The road (Sepulveda, I believe) was closed for the filming of the movie and all of those cars are driven by movie studio drivers. It's common to see those same scenes as well as clips from many other Hollywood movies shot on roads around L.A. from the '20s - '70s presented on these YT channels as though they were actual random street scenes.
Such a wonderful variety of vehicles,
I think this is the one of the best things about the internet, I spent many hours on that very stretch of Sepulveda, theres even a tree I remember I would look at as I was sitting in traffic .
Love seeing these old videos. Wish i could go back in time
1:33 facel Vega convertible a very rare car only 1045 were made from 1960 to 1963
Yes, it was rare even then,but not out of place. I grew up around Newport Beach, we saw a few exotics from time to time. My brother and I were pretty amazed while walking on Balboa Island one summer afternoon in 1965 and saw a Mercedes station wagon.
My DREAM CAR, in high school, was the Facel Vega Facel II, A 6.7L Mopar hooked to a 4-speed "Pont-a-Mousson" transmission! Talk about rare! Only 180 were built, probably worth a couple "mill" now!
Very good! My dad had a 63 Facel Vega Facel II with the Chrysler auto and 383ci engine.
Was surprised to see it. I would have preferred a HK500. They are well out of my price range now.
A brand new 405 going into The Valley!
Commuted from West LA to Valley State College 63 to 65. Loved it with the traffic moved like that. Couldn't do it today.
The song being played here is "I Fought The Law" (1966) by the Bobby Fuller Four. Bobby Fuller died mysteriously of asphyxiation in the front seat of his car in 1966. The cops claimed it was suicide but others said it was a homicide so it remains unsolved to this day.
It Was First Made In 1964.
Also I Think He Was Killed By Somebody, Maybe The Mob? I Don't Think So...
Good fact 👍
Good fact.
If I remember, he died in his mother's blue car (Which I think it was a 1960s Oldsmobile or 1960s Chrysler). It has also been featured on the show "Unsolved Mysteries".
Thanks so much man, Getty Images...I see your work all over the place, news, etc...youre the best man!
stumbled across this weird twilight zone of youtube where its just an almost endless tirade of incredible videos of like everyday life that , are now only memories for some and a style for most
so much history here and there but gone forever. somehow here it is still. incredible
this is something i never, knew i needed in my life
Great videos like this brings back so much fine memories. I was 8 or 9 and already loved cars. Thank you so much.
California looks so nice. I live in Canada where winter's suck. It would be cool to hang out in California during the winter.I can even watch NHL hockey there.
The low humidity weather is superb especially along the coast and there's hardly any bugs to wreck a nice evening.... but you'll end up working all the time just to pay for living out here. Unfortunately 56% of Californians' income goes toward real estate expenses like rent or mortgage. Combine that with a minimum 10% tax on everything including food and clothing (not every state taxes necessities) and that makes it really expensive, which is why so many are moving out of state.
And we have ice hockey and skating year round.
Was a BIG L.A. Kings fan in the 70's & 80's.
Buy yourself a nice RV or rough it in a tent and you can make it happen, Son.
It's Sad To See The Situation On L.A Now...
Looks like real America with American cars.
@Matrox One trump for prison 👍
Matrox One why does the car someone drives matter? Japanese cars are good too.
@Matrox One American cars are off the street for a reason...
Matrox One not to be rude but CHEVY is way less American than TOYOTA at this point. That Chevy is probably built in Canada or MEXICO while that Toyota was probably built in California, the carolinas or Alabama, maybe Georgia. The foreign car brands are definitely more American at this point then the big 3
Matrox One you are well aware that despite some american cars looking better than most, doesn’t make them better. American made cars are so shitty. They can’t compete with german, japanese, or Korean cars. Maybe if the American cars decided to put time and effort into the reliability of their vehicles I would be on your side.
Bobby Fuller rocked! Love the Clashs' version as a kid.
I need time machine...😳Good cars and simple peple !!!
Very cool song Bobby Fuler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG😱😃😃😃😃
1:30 apparently a double yellow line didn't have quite the same meaning as it does today...
All of that part of this video with the cars driving on both sides of the road and weaving back and forth is footage from a 1964 Warner Brothers movie called "Sex and the Single Girl" starring Natalie Wood. The road was closed for the filming and all of those cars and the people driving them are part of the movie.
I see now...now I understand what is with the weird trafic patterns, I was wondering if that was a rush hour thing...
It makes no sense in a movie or not.
@@2259r3z your are correct I noticed that also it'ds from 64 movie good clip
@@richthepontiacguys1412 thats the movie that told good girls that having sex while on the pill was fun.....starting the greatest decline in morality in history
1:40 starts southbound Sepulveda Bl. exiting the tunnel underneath Mulholland Dr. 2:04 is the intersection of Skirball Center Drive which connects to Mulholland Dr. I wish I could go back in time and take Skirball Center Drive to my home which was in existence back in 1964. It is located less than a mile from this intersection.
My family had a 1960 Dodge Seneca like the taxi at 1:41 that can't seem to stay in it's lane, only it was more turquoise- the only car we ever bought new, until after I'd graduated high school. This footage is obviously near completion of the 405- it looks like one direction (south?) is up on the interstate portion, but this footage is of the other way now occupying what had been the old road in both directions- the explanation of the double yellow line being ignored. I lived on Sepulveda in Van Nuys for a year or so back in '86- I think it's called the longest continual running boulevard in the LA area, or was then at least.
Nice car you owned back then.
Although, I think the taxi that you're mentioning (The light green one) is actually a 1958 Plymouth Fury.
I just realized you were talking about that white car on the opposite lane, my bad.
Прикольно. Учитывая, что я живу в России и родился в 1991 году, у меня старые американские авто вызывают ту же ностальгию. Сразу ассоциации с фильмом терминатор 1984. У моего дедушки очень давно была машина "ГАЗ-24 Волга". Она была очень похожа на те старые американские авто. Если интересно найдите её в поисковике. До сих пор когда вижу "стоковые" экземпляры меня переполняют только положительные чувства. Сам езжу на "Hyundai Verna"😊
Love the 58's plymouth fury, that's the most beautiful front car for me !
bobby fuller is the best! i love these videos!
Produced by the maestro (Barry White, r.i.p.) on the late Fury record label.....
Almost reminds me of an episode of "CHiPs..." At least you can identify the cars not only by color but also by make and model
I'm 10...But I love 1950s, 1960s and 1930s!I also love the classical cars.I wish I was raised in this time.It looks so happy!Though people say I'm "unique" for liking this stuff at such a young age.But is what I like.So I really do hate it when people say that, but that's just the downside.Though I will still love it!This me and this is what I like.So beat it!
Btw.I did some grammar mistakes.OOPS
So, you didn't like the 20s or 40s? Hmmm. Interesting.
@@davidmettam1134 It's fine. Just make sure to ALWAYS put a space after each period, exclamation mark, question mark, etc (more in latin) . I hope that helps!
I don't think they had designated it as Interstate 405 (aka "the 405") yet in 1964. I think back then it was just called The San Diego Freeway. I was a kid living in "the valley" back then. This Freeway thru Sepulveda Pass was brand new at about the time of this footage.
Did you actually look at the video? The signs say 405 quite clearly.
@@ChatGPT1111 Well you’re mostly correct. It was State Route 7 from 1961 to 1964 and then became I-405 when it was completed in 1964. Yes I did miss the sign in the beginning of video.
@@richardgerlach5156It was a little confusing before the 1964 "Great Renumbering" because "Route 7" included not just the current 405, but also parts of I-5, SR 14, and US 395. To make it worse, there were "Legislative Route Numbers", which didn't correspond with the "route" numbers (or the modern numbers). For example, US 99 (now SR 99) was part also part of Legislative Route 7. And 20. And 24. And Routes 4, 161, 165, 2, 26, 3, 6, 232, 245, and 87. And others.
And I didn't see any cars with the blue and gold plates they started issuing in 1969
My Dad used to make it from our home in the West San Fernando Valley to his job in Westwood in just over half an hour back in these days...every day....
And gas was what, a quarter a gallon???
This was when LA was paradise...just glad I knew it back then....
I remember in 1968 on a Saturday morning you could go from Burbank to Sorrento Beach (right where California Incline meets PCH) in 30 minutes.
Gas? Why it was only 25 cents a gallon...Natch!
Then they opened up the borders and everything slowly went to hell with the results of today... This is just the blunt truth!
Saw a ‘’65 Ford wagon. Thanks for uploading this! KRLA, KFWB, and Boss radio KHJ. It was a great time and place to be a high school kid at that time. The black freeway signs, ivy along the sides of freeways. Awesome!
Beautiful cars
I grew up when they were building the 405 freeway. I lived on Sepulveda between Exposition and National. Nice video, best times with music with the Bobby Fuller 5. It is amazing that someone had the idea to film this footage, because those were the good old days, carefree and simplistic.. Those were real all metal cars, not these plastic junk cars.
Música muito boa, carros incríveis, tinham personalidade.
Parabéns pelo vídeo.
Magnificent clips...breathtaking
Love these time capsules.
The clip is from the movie sex and single girl 1964 with Natalie Wood & Tony Curtus
Did you catch the red 68 Pontiac station wagon @ 11 seconds in? We had one of those and never did see many even back then. Sedans yes, but not the wagon.
@@weelgunny I did.
Those Sedans were pretty powerful and pretty awesome!
Beautiful happy time and beautiful old American cars 🚩
2:40 looked like the time froze and the cars suddenly stopped in mid highway
This is a great video, I love it!
And so everyoneknows, this isn't a typical clip (1:30) of a random day/time in ordinary circumstances. This was set up with all these special cars for the video.
well...that`s pretty obvious because cars travelling the other way on an opposite lane
It was for the 1964 Warner Brothers drama/comedy film “Sex And The Single Girl”.
Maannnn....wish I could go back....
One thing that is better now. The barriers they have now between the two sides of the freeway are far, far superior than the cables with the chain link fence they had back then.
I remember seeing sections of the fence just tore up and cars just ripped apart. Many wrecks invloved both sides of the freeway, with head-on's not that uncommon.
On the flip side, LA was a way nicer place; way less people and way cleaner, and way less dangerous.
Music was hell of lot better too.
Gordon, As an old resident of metro LA back in the day, I agree with most of your thoughts. However, air quality was a BIG problem----air quality is better now. Also, LA dumped huge quantities of untreated sewage into Santa Monica Bay back then, so in that sense, it was not a cleaner city in the 1960s. As for crime......We had the Watts Riots. But yeah, most neighborhoods in the Valley and west side were very safe.
@@bbouchardeYou are right about the smog and air quality.
The air is way better now.
Like they say, "Paris will always be Paris." Well, Watts will always be Watts.
The first part of this video was filmed sometime in 1966 because I see a 1966 Ford Country Squire at the 0:00 minute mark. The other part was filmed sometime in late 1964 or 1965 may be slightly off but it was filmed somewhere around that time.
I had a 72 Ford Country Sedan. Great big station wagon. Could use as camper, pickup, anything. No 4 wheel drive, but roomier than most modern SUVs.
John Schunk a late 60’s or Ford County Squire from 1972 is one of my dream cars. I may only be 21 but I’d still would choose a car from the 60’s or 70’s over most of the boring mundane cars of today.
@@seana806 they were built solid, but required lots of maintenance. Tech wasn't as good as today. Electronic ignition and fuel injection is much more trouble free. I still like the old stuff though. More pride in the ride!
John Schunk cars from the 60’s and early 70’s do require mechanical adjustments every now and again but if you drive them gently they would give you much trouble but if you drive them like in modern day traffic in Los Angeles or New York City they will be more problematic but being gentle on them is the key to have them be trouble free.
What on earth were those people doing? It looked like people were parking randomly in the middle of the road in an attempt to re-create a video game that had not yet been invented.
I was wondering the same thing. I also noticed that all of the cars are actually backing up. Weird...
It's explained elsewhere in this thread. It's footage from a 1964 Warner Brothers movie.
The cars werent backing up. The film was reversed. The camera would have been mounted on the rear of the camera car, and driven forwards against the flow of traffic. The traffic would have been moving forwards slowly as the camera car drove through. Then the film was reversed.
@@incargeek yep
@@2259r3z yes was a movie with with Natalie Wood if you notice there there driving on both sides of road. in same direction with double yellow line its staged footage for movie.
Some of this apparently is stock footage for a movie (this was explained in the comments section of a similar clip of this uploader), hence the driving in opposite lanes, etc.
Sex and the single girl is the movie
Yes. It was filmed in 1964, all of the four lanes were going north in their perspective instead of the regular two lanes, and Sepulveda was closed for that exact purpose with cars like the Green 1958 Plymouth Plaza Sedan and the Blue 1932 Bentley 2.5 Litre Roadster.
Some of this is B-roll from 'Sex And The Single Girl' and 'I Love You, Alice B. Tolkas'.
Late 50's - Early 60's = Golden Age Of Cars (American of Course)
Back when we didn't need no stinking seat belts, or air bags, so much fun being impailed by the steering wheel. good times good times
For me, 40s to 80s. Golden era is the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
@@matthew-emerson-cadmer-7409 I agree completely
They must have closed other direction of traffic since they were using both sides for all traffic in one direction
Jesus Christ you mean the freeways actually *MOVED* ?!?!?!
Ronbo710 filmed on sunday morning
Jesus The Christ Amen!
Not always. I remember driving up 405 from Long Beach, where we lived, to Mammoth Lakes on a Wednesday night in 1970 to spend Thanksgiving weekend. Took 4 1/2 hours to get from Long Beach to the San Fernando Valley. I could've WALKED to Palmdale faster than that.
first visit to Los Angeles was back in 1978 to celebrate my 21st birthday. Then I went again in 1981, in 1983, and in 2015. In fact, I stayed at the Best Western Royal Palace on Sepulveda Blvd; just about a block and a half south of Pico Blvd. on my last visit there back in 2018.
Although I'm a lifelong and native Pennsylvanian (I was born and raised right here in Philadelphia area), Los Angeles is still my very favorite vacation spot.
April 1969 to December 1969 life begins!
I can't help but think, when I see vintage scenes like this, how many of the people shown driving by are now dead?
Lol,same here
ha so funny
I'm thinking the same when I respond to old comments on youtube.
As they say in Monty Python, “ I’m not dead yet” Although you have a point depending on the age of the drivers. I didn’t get a drivers license until 1966 but I had a learners permit before that and drove over Sepulveda pass from the Valley to Westwood Village and UCLA.
Some of us that remember those times are still around to talk to. Take the opportunity if you have it and you could learn something.
What a beautiful time no coronavirus
Except for car clubs, vintage cars like those are not seen very much today.
There are few on us
Very exclusive french car at 1'33 : white Facel-Vega Facellia convertible type FA ! Production 1960 -1963 : 1045 copies.
French cars were ugly. US cars of the 50's and 60's were much better styled.
Now they all look alike.
This is very nice.
From "Sex and the Single Girl", 1964 Starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, and Lauren Bacall. So "Getty Images" owns that movie now?!?
Grew up there/then, been down every one of those streets and ate at more than a few Bob’s. 93 KHJ and the competition KRLA ‘were it was at’, the Nilsson track is a bit out of location (NYC) and that time frame. Some Beach Boys and Canned Heat, ‘On the road again’ brings it home for me!
The falcon sedan delivery!
I remember! I remember when most freeways were actually what the word means. And you also felt free to see what was all around you. There weren't the ubiquitous walls blocking your view. Graffiti was only seen in lower-income neighborhoods, not on walls or buildings near the freeway. Never thought L.A. would decay into the cesspool like most democrat run cities.
If true, that means all US cities are "democrat-run", because urban decay is everywhere. The reason for urban decay is in the failed capitalist system, not to be blamed on only one of the factions, be it "democrat" or "republican".
Those two factions make up a single party system, the business party, and BOTH should be blamed for American decay, letting millions of US jobs to be deported to Latin America, China, and elsewhere.
It is true. Just do a cursory examination of the cities with high crime rates. I don't know what you mean by failed capitalist system. The way in which democrats have carried out their policies, yes...they have failed it. It didn't begin 20 or 30 years ago. It began much earlier than that, and perhaps with good intentions. But the capitalist system is not evil in and of itself. The kinds of policies and the way in which they're implemented are the problem, not the capitalist system.
Communism is much worse. I don't know what the dude is saying about capitalism... but even tho this is a video of a road I'll just say democrats and republicans both are bad for the country. We need liberty (and less taxes cuz taxes are theft) not the bullshit from those 2 cancerous parties.
@egmjag, America's golden age concluded in the late 1970s -- i.e., the era of American made products, America the manufacturer, unionized jobs, and lots of domestic Federal spending came to an end. Starting in the 1980's the era of deregulation, tax-cuts, outsourcing, and perpetual warfare became the standard with the Reagan Revolution. And we're still in this era of deregulation, tax-cuts, outsourcing, and perpetual warfare. Although I believe such terrible policies are coming to an end -- as they are not sustainable nor popular for the long haul.
@Zorro Alphonso, You're absolutely right. Essentially capitalism has been fleeing: US, Europe, and Japan. Capitalism is like a locust -- it only remains as it has used all valuable resources, then bounces off. Or, better yet, when things have become saturated for the locust to really make it hard to function. Emerging economies/countries are always capitalism best friend whereas established countries/economies are its enemy. Both political parties are to blame for what has happened. Ultimately, we the people have allowed for both political parties and for mega donors to control our politics/policies. That will change soon as the "musical chair" game cannot sustain itself forever, something has to give.
egmjag the whole state of kaliforiner
TH-cam brother in the 1960s this will be the most highest quality at that era
A 4:18 carshow. Love it!!👍🏁
REAL CARS & REAL MUSIC
This video and music took me way back to the third seat in the back of my dad's 68 Impala station wagon out on a weekend drive through the valley through Hollywood to check out the Weirdos on Hollywood Blvd a stop at Tiny Naylors and back home to Wilshire district before they changed the name to Korea Town !
Wow the reckless driving is amazing.
Nice, but I don't get the mountain side footage
Green 58 Plymouth Taxi is my pick.Hes in a hurry too.
i think a part of this is from a movie called Sex & the Single Girl.it starred Henry Fonda and Natalie Wood.
1:57 road is road drive where you want...
0:17 I like the freeway sign there on n/b 405. Because there's nothing, really, between Santa Monica and Bakersfield, right?
Back then, Bakersfield was used as a "Control City" for both the 405 North of Santa Monica and the 5 North of the East L.A. Interchange, even though the 5 never goes through Bakersfield proper. They have since changed the rulings on what is considered a "Control City" and currently lists Sacramento as such. A "Control City" BTW is what the highway department lists as a eventual destination for a route(s) for directional signage purposes.
@@willcampbell8997 Interesting. Thanks. The same thing occurs on CA-SR 99 up by Red Bluff in Northern California. Two destinations - Redding 19, and Portland 400. The rest of Oregon is on its own.
I was looking for the Kravit's and the Steven's in one of these cars going by......coming back from a neighborly dinner in their 1967 Chevy Bel Air or something.....ha ha
I love it
American made autos…what a concept
I just love Cali .
Where you from?
Crazy driving!!
Wow!!
2:05 Am I crazy or are all the cars going the same way on both sides of the road (with a double solid line dividing it)?
Yeah, I knoticed that to, bloody hell what is wrong with thoes people
If only cars still looked like this today…
On December 21 of 1962, the 8-lane 405 freeway opened through the Sepulveda pass with a ribbon cutting, a caravan of cars and LA Mayor Sam Yorty arriving via helicopter to kick off the festivities.
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It looks like all of this footage was background process shots for Sex and the Single Girl 1964 with stand-ins for Lauren Bacall and Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood and Henry Fonda etc., on Sepulveda Blvd., parallel to the then newish 405; how does Getty get the copyright? Weird.
great movie
On a second note, what version of I Fought The Law is this? I like the echo in this version. It sounds more beefier and in your face and especially the drums.
This version is by the Bobby Fuller Four
@@ThisGuyRightHereXB I figured out it's because this is mono. I'm used to the stereo version. The mono sounds way better on this one.
Bobby fuller 4 , 1966.
This is when California was golden.
2:46........why are the cars stationary!
2:24 This clips looks way weird... Looks like the camera is looking backwards with the clip rewinded so it looks like it’s going forward.
Or perhaps a stunt driver showing off/filming his high speed reverse driving skills.
Vegas Jay But it looks like all the cars are moving slightly backwards too
@@Veroxzes , speed is relativ! Prof.Einstein declared it 100 years ago
I’m not American but something needs to be done about the freeways because back in the 60s they thought that freeways would help but in reality building them doesn’t say oh now you can speed down the road to home it says get a car because you obviously need one look at those empty spaces there they need to do something that implies yes get a car and arrive on time it is probably impossible but I bet someone will figure it out hay it might even be me
What happened to life?......
Socialism, communism, politically correct, that's what happened....
The biggest was a certain former Communist and SAG president closing all the psychiatric hospitals in order to nya-nya at Jimmy Carter and with a big Hollywood smile escorting their patients to your sunny sidewalks. We can point to any other cause for the change but that was the biggest and worst of all. Walk outside here in any LA suburb see his legacy.
Matt H. Socialism? There are some stupid socialist liberals, but California isn’t socialist at all. You’re overreacting.
Well he was almost assassinated by a mental patient so kharma is real
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Lost Memories
I wonder why all the cars stopped as though they were still moving towards the end ? 🤔
Sounds so much better with the sound muted
I'm sure someone has already mentioned this in comments that some of these vids are taken from the movie "Sex and the Single Girl" 1964 (Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall. Henry Fonda).
It looks like all of this footage was background process shots for Sex and the Single Girl on Sepulveda parallel to the then newish 405; how does Getty get the copyright? Weird.
They changed the 405 bakersfield sign to sacramento
😂
Why were cars going the same way on both sides of Sepulveda?
I never knew people drove so crazy and chaotic back then.