Spirit of 77 in Los Angeles
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- An impressionistic movie of life in Los Angeles filmed during the centenary year 1976 and 1977. The movie intercuts scenes from life in Orange County and downtown LA with sequences depicting urban schools, inner-city neighbourhoods, a suburban street party, religious gatherings, a Pink Floyd ('Animals') concert, freeways, the beach, the mountain ski-slopes, and Disneyland. There is an emerging environmental awareness in the depiction of the energy, beauty and excess of LA life. The reportage is intercut with images and sounds from the press and news and music radio stations, including a station devoted to religious programming. For more about the movie, how it came to be made, and its reception at the time of Trump, go to johnhodgson.or...
I lived in Northridge ca during 70's and 80's. I was a kid in 70's, best memories ever. Up at sunrise and gone all day on my bike and eating oranges from trees all day. Home at dinner. No stress, no worries. Just good times
I lived in Northridge at the same time. I was in Porter Ranch off of Tampa and Rinaldi. Up in the hills a bit on Thunderbird ave. How cool was it when E.T. Came out and, you knew some of the locations?!
@@racafritz yeah man I had friends that lived in your neighborhood. I saw ET at Northridge fashion center. I loved Porter ranch before it got all built up with homes. I used to swing on a cool rope up there that would go over a deep ravine.
brock Lee the ravine at the bottom of the hills along Tampa? If so, that was the view from my house! It sucked when they put those homes on the hills. The fashion center pre earthquake was the best. Bullocks, Broadway, Orange Julius oh, and that crappy restaurant called Fiddlers Three! What part of Northridge did you grow up?
@@racafritz yeah it was the ravine off Tampa. Classic man. I agree the Northridge mall was legit. Orange julius was way better back then. Good memories for sure. Too bad everything got overcrowded and got worse.
@@racafritz I lived on sunburst st. I was walking distance from CSUN. I went to prarie street elementary.
No computers, no mobile phones -- a lot of time to spend with family and friends and trying to find interesting things to do during the summer breaks. The 70's and 80's sure was different and i loved them decades for it. ^^
They did have computers in 1977, but mainly on college campuses or with the federal government. We had "pong" at our house that year- a video game that you had to hook up to the TV to play.
Theme Park Patrol. I was born in the 90's and caught the very last end of American life before the internet absolutely chained us in doors. It was such an amazing time. People were real, raw, rugged. They were humans. Now everyone is on edge, suspicious, paranoid, anxious, depressed, stressed, jaded and moody. It's almost like the internet exposed to too much at once and we all feel like we know all there is to know about one another. Nothing is novel anymore. Yet we're still on this ridiculous thing every day. I hate the internet like a heroin addict hates black tar.
@@SevenFootPelican haha yea
Noo! those were not computers for regular use, I remember in junior college using the key punch machine to write a simple FORTRAN program...
That was not a computer..
A wonderful time capsule of an America long gone.
Like they sing in the song Beach Baby: "But now it's fading away..."
Vos sOS arg?
So True.
Bethany Bible College. Gone.
Scottville, California
[right by Santa Cruz].
Sunflower Natural Foods & Restaurant, 1977. Santa Cruz Avenue.
“We May Never pass this way again.”
: Seals and Croft.
Sad that the best of America life is long gone
I’d turn back time in a second to 1970 Cali if I could. I wouldn’t give you a dime for it today.
Jeff Barnes we don’t want your Stinkin’ dime anyway. We don’t need your ilk around here.
@@alvarofavela2918 What exactly is his "ilk?"
@Adam Kowalski your an idiot. Illegals make California go round. No gardeners , no real hard working construction workers , no one to clean toilets or your damn house. Y'all would lose your privilege minds without immigrants.
@Adam Kowalski Truth!
Don’t call it Cali.😡
8:01 I think I just hit the jackpot! That’s definitely my dad at 20 and his 1969 Monte Carlo called (El tercer deseo), i have photographs of it and my dad still has the keys for it! The car was stolen in 1988 and found stripped which was a total loss! My dad is very amused to see footage of him and the car and said he misses that hair very much hahaha
Wow !!
Haha yeah right about
That is too cool.... :D
where was ur driving too lol ???u got instagram would really to see more pics
Sure, Jan.
Thank you John
Class of 74
Great times
Seems like the world has changed a lot
Watching people playing and not in much of a hurry was refreshing
So your like 63 or somewhere around there
I don’t know why I am such a nostalgic person but I feel an extreme nostalgic and dreamy feeling towards this I guess I will just imagine and enjoy my time
Not hard to feel nostalgic if you lived there in that period and compare it to the shape it's in today. I loved growing up there; I've always loved California and its diverse culture, history, geography, geology, and the limitless opportunities to make a good living and find places to go and things to see and do; and so it breaks my heart to see what's become of my native state. As much as I pine for the California I grew up in, there is no way in hell that I would move back to SoCal in its present state.
Brian E where do you reside now ? I left LA too but not so much for the better
@@jai7184 I'm living in the Pac NW, been up here 31 years now. My career has been pretty good to me and I love it up here -- but it ain't Cali. And the politics up here are no different, just not quite as populated where I'm at.
Born and raised in West Hollywood during the
70’s. It was the best!
I did a lot of swimming pool service work there, before it was incorporated.
What an amazing video, such a privilege to look back in time. I have not lived through those times since I was born in 85 but anytime I watch these videos I get nostalgic regardless. It saddens me seeing kids on phones and tablets these days. I grew up in the 90s, best time ever!!
This clip proves that how normal and healthy life was. Getting old in the era of tight yoga pants, social crap, ugly music and plastic cars is SUCK!!! I wish there is a time machine.
I wish you spoke better english.
Was born and raised in So-Cal, didn't know what clean air was until I moved to Washington State.
@@Jadecrest123 LOL. Yeah I didn't get it until I drove over the mountains.
@Beth Sprung
Yeah and all you Californians moved up here and destroyed what was magical about the Pac NW.
Look at all that SMOG!!! WOW!! The entire city is yellow from the stuff!
whiteclifffl yes - often the sky was white rather than blue and you could only see nearby buildings
whiteclifffl I remember it well. No blue sky just light from above.
whiteclifffl So you found something negative about this video!😁
Just an observation of reality, worth pointing out. In the comments for these kind of videos, there's a repeated refrain of how much better the world was. Believe me, THESE are the good old days, in a lot of ways. Be grateful, and learn from the past using a critical eye.
I remember that smog sometimes burning my eyes back then.
I don't have the words to express how homesick this video makes me. I miss those days so much. I guess probably because it's the last time I remember being happy. I was too young to understand the tragedy that stole my life. I wish I could make the world understand how important love is. And how hate and anger have no place in our lives. Life is short is an understatement. People don't know how short it is until they're staring down the Reaper and his scythe.
It certainly was in Orange County, and probably in or near Yorba Linda, where we lived at the time. Thanks for viewing and commenting!
John Hodgson placenta, calif. ❤️👍🏻
The Land of Gracious living....
Hush Money - indeed!
This is brilliant! I grew up in Orange County in the 70s and this captures such a great overall vibe of everything going on. You've created a distinct mood here with both your subject choices and the editing. I love it!
Incredible documentation of history!! Love the inner-city footage. Brilliant!
We lived on 18th street, Longwood ave, Bronson (which is what Charles adopted his stage name), and Citrus ave. Hostess Ding Dongs were bigger and foil wrapped. Pringles and the plastic soda bottles came out in 2 liter bottles, the Marathon and Chocolite candy bars. Ronald McDonald still visited McDonald's restaurants, the banana seat bicycle, the older lady 6:25 was no doubt born in the very early 1900's. I remember the C&R Clothiers commercials 10:40. The rotating signs and the old orange 76 ball 11:53.
As someone who was a kid back then, I can attest that the mustard yellow blanket that smothered the city was smog, and not a camera defect. There air was downright terrible. Although the skies aren't as smoggy in L.A. these days, the air quality is still the worst in the nation.
Cool footage of the 57 freeway going over the 10.
When it was still the 210 going south for a bit.
What time stamp?
@@josecarranza7555 - at minute 7:47
@@chickywilly What?
@@josecarranza7555 - 3 months ago someone posted a comment on this video that said:
“Cool footage of the 57 freeway going over the 10.” and then you posted this question:
“What time stamp?
So I’m just replying to your question by telling you where to look in the video.
Hope this helps. Take care man. 👊🏼
A lot of this footage reminds me of growing up in Baldwin Park in the early 80s / late 70s. As kids we used to play hide & seek , freeze tag , tying cans to cars during weekend nights. Summer time we would drink out of the water hose & make Slip n slides out of trash bags .... Great times 👍😀😂
Thanks for your comment. Yes, these were great times for my family: you see my young son and daughter playing in the park.
Sharp contrast between the two scenes, Latino L.A. and Suburbs.. my life was smack in the middle of both...
Thanks! I was trying to bring out the contrast.
@@johnmphodgson Very Well Done.. Beautiful actually, I was left in thought of my youth, I'm 46 as of a few days ago, grew up here in Orange County, with Family in L.A. Thank you very much for the Post..
Talk about a blast from my husband's childhood. Whooo Nellie. In 77/78 he left panorama city van Nuys for San Jose his good Ole days
60 cent gas was cool, but back then 60 cents was expensive with the minimum wage something close to $2.50 an hour.
roachtoasties we moved to Cali in 1985, and I clearly remember a Big Mac cost one dollar. Meaning the minimum wage was three Big Macs per hour. Today it is not even two per hour.
Love this footage
That Monte hitting the switches was freaking badass
i was born in october 1992 and it is nice to see the old times that i did not live. thanks for sharing!
Love it....thanks for posting this video
S.F. Valley Alumni here. Thanks for this great video.
Lefty Koufax How's it going in SF?
John Hodgson I'm sorry John I meant the San Fernando Valley where I grew up and lived for 38 years, this is just how I remembered the 70's in LA, thanks again John.
Lefty Koufax Thanks, I loved the Valley too. Glad you like the video
Late 70’s/early 80’s us kids made go carts out of found material, scrap wood, old big wheels, and we’d race down the block pushing one another.
God damn
Hate to tell you that the LA area started to go downhill in the Seventies. The Fifties and Sixties were the last of the Golden Age. I was a paid intern at Lockheed Burbank in 1954 and live at Adams and Western. After graduating from Purdue, I went back to work at Lockheed and lived in Toluca Lake. I left in 1972, when companies and their skill workers started to live. The Liberals moved in.
The 60ies, till 2 the 80ies....best century's...2 Live....in my opinion
I lived in East LA in 1977. I was 19. Carter was in office. He was for energy reform and a consumer agency. We could use a President like that today!
liberty Ann Yes, I admired Carter. I think he is still alive and living in Georgia.
nice...I was at The Pnk Floyd concert at the Big A in 1977...
Jamie Martinez How many purple micro dots did you eat??
nice vid, i was a ten in the valley in the early 70's, brings back memories.
Look at how much nicer and cleaner it was just 40 short years ago. So sad to see how far it has declined.
What do you mean by 'it'? Air quality has been significantly improved - compare the early scenes of Griffith Park to the view today. This is despite the exponential growth of traffic, which brings other kinds of pollution. A good public transit system is overdue.
i remembered back then it was nothing going on but the monday night movie and the 5 o clock news,,
I was living in Montebello ca. In 1977😊
When I was growing up in the 80s/90s California was somewhere you dreamed of going someday. Sadly not anymore .
This is the good part of this eea. We have technology to watch old clips of a time before I was even born.
Yes - how did you come across it? Thanks for your comment.
Thanks for sharing. It was on my timeline
What happened to hang gliding? I was moved to L.A. by my east coast employer in 1983. My weekend hobby was hiking and other outdoor activities but I was chickenshit to hang glide. But it seemed that whenever I was on a mountain top or the top of an ocean facing cliff or the more remote beaches, there were hang gliders poised to jump off the mountains and cliffs and gliding over the ocean and landing on the beaches. Has this activity completely gone away or become outlawed? Or maybe I just don't get out and around the way I did in my active youth to see it.
So beautiful
7:47 I think this is the north bound on the 57. The 210 used to stop right at foothill blvd in La verne.
What's the last tune? "Do do do do do California Sun"??
California Strut by Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band. It was the B-side of A Fifth of Beethoven as heard in Saturday Night Fever, which was a number 1 in 1976. Walter Murphy is still writing music for Family Guy.
Notice all the smog in the beginning? CA had to chg emissions standards to clear that up. I still remember when freeways weren't so congested. My family moved down the street from USC in the 50's. I was born during the 70's era. I feel like I'm looking at my childhood.
The video looks exactly like the pictures that were taken around the same time... we would take a 110 cartridge to Walgreens to get developed and it would take days to get them back. Ha!
Little 3”X4” squares with this same (green hue)
I always remember going to Universal studios and getting that WAX FRANKENSTEIN toy from those vending machines there....
Does anybody recognize those people , cars or them self in a blog , would be interesting to find out where are they now ?
liked the video so much!
can i use it in a video i am making describing 1970s life?
+andrey ibrahim Glad you liked it. A few others have used extracts. Please write to me privately at bristol.john@gmail.com.
John Hodgson Everyone wants a piece of you or something from you here. It's time for them to give back instead of take take take take take, give me, I want, me, me, me,
When most everyone’s values there and throughout America were still Biblically-based and practiced.
All the good old 1970's ghetto.
May 13, 1977 Compton, CA
Hi John
Is there any stock footage in this film?What did you shot it with?When shot was it intended as a home video and later edited?
JJ JJ no, there is no stock footage. I shot the movie when I was living in LA in 1976-77 and working as an exchange teacher in a high school. I didn't think of it as a home movie. I was trying to make a record of LA as I found it at the time.
Guarantee Quentin watched this when doing his research for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Cheese cloth shirts!!!! Endless summer feelings!!! with heat that would melt tarmack in the roads!!!! Street party's!!!! Chopper bikes!!! Queens silver jubilee!!!! Punk!!!! I was 7 in 77 !!!life in general seemed more laid back!!!!
Man people said the 70s-80s were better in LA but were they really? Way less homeless ppl but 80s LA seemed way more dangerous way more shootings more violence, guys were getting stabbed in LA streets since the 50s and getting shot since the mid 70s and automatic weapons were hitting the streets by 78-82, crack cocaine became hot commodity by 83 which contributed to the 800+ yearly homicides. the suburbs were probably the nicest especially in those times though but the city seemed grim.
HELLO FELLOW BOOMERS
Ok boomer!
Bellbottoms ❤️
'70s was a time where we got to reap the benefits of social change and equal rights that we fought SO hard for. But alas, the fight will always continue. Thank you for inviting us into your time machine John!
Strange to see people outside playing with genuine smiles. Think today they are not happie being out if they dont recive internet connection
Real Memories~From The Wonder Years to Boyz in the Hood.~
77 was the last time I saw LA
Your lucky.
born in 70. much of this brings back memories of the divorced 70s. haha
The red car on the thumbnail almost looks like a newer challenger
We're you living in L.A. in 1977? This footage should remind you of the smog. Catalytic converters, introduced and mandated in 1975, made a huge difference. Cry all you want about " how much better things were in the good old days", while take a breath of measurably better quality air.
I was aware of catalytic converters, which were fitted to recent cars. Many viewers have commented on the smog levels evident in my movie. The sky was usually white and health alerts were not infrequent.
Been to DC lately? In 1977 we didn't have a country being taken over. I'll take the smog any day..
The smog back then was so bad. yellow fog. this screams 1970s TV music. it's pretty cool though. I think the population is like 3 times what it was back then? over 2 times for sure. especially Orange county. back then you had lots of farm land and open spaces. Not anymore.
The song at 10:07 is California Strut, by Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band. It was on the b-side of A fifth of Beethoven, which was a big hit in 1976. Murphy is still working as one of the composers on Family Guy.
That was a nice trip back in time to my high school days in Southern California! Was that the Torrey Pines Gliderport, above Black's Beach?
Yes, it was above Black’s Beach. You’re the first to point that out.
@@johnmphodgson one of my favorite nude beaches in the U.S. The other is Rooster Rock State Park in Oregon.
@@MensAsses33 Is Black’s still a nude beach? I understood there was a campaign to close it when we were there.
@@johnmphodgson it was when I was there two years ago. Still as beautiful, but quite a hike up and down from the parking area 😀
@@MensAsses33 Yes - getting around in LA was usually easy, but not that hike down to the beach!
Would love to re-live the 70s and 80s again. The two best decades ever. It sucks growing old.
I'm with you..I'm 58 but still feel a part of those good ol daze...lotta fun and craziness!!
I don't like the effects of aging but I'm glad to be alive because it beats the alternative. I'm 65, and 1977 was a pretty damn good year for me.
I was in NYC,the heat wave,the blackout,son of sam...talk about a hot summer!
@@windsorkid7069 What made 1977 a good year for you?
Naww the 50's and 60's were the best 2 decades ever! That was a very magical time to be alive 😎
The 70s were wonderful
I had a hot car 69 camaro and a hot girlfriend
Now here in 2019 they are both gone and I’m old lol
At least you lived it and I’m sure it was amazing now you have a memory
Glad you are still here Don !!
rip
Hell yea Don. You had it all man. Damn, Build another 69 Camaro. Round 2 bro :)
How great our life was in the 70´s! we didn´t have all this technology and that, gave us great opportunities to meet other people face to face, not like today. I simply loved this clip! Congrats!
Floydian76 yes this!!! The block party reminded me of my parents when they were young and all their friends getting together every family in the neighborhood. That must have been awesome!💗
Thanks! Yes, I filmed this in 1976/77 on a pre-war 16mm film camera.
John, you filmed this on 16mm? Do you have the original reels? This looks like it was transferred to VHS or something. There are companies that can upscale the originals to 4k and HD. It would bring new life into some of these.
Thank you for sharing this
@@maxamillion2140 There is a better digital version but it is 24 GB & I can’t upload it to TH-cam.
@@johnmphodgson As long as you have it, that's all that matters.
@@johnmphodgson That's nice to hear. Glad you still have it.
Everyone is skinny or fit in this video. Processed food wasn't as rampant as is today. Obesity wasn't even a thing
People got up and actually did things. No Facebook for hours on end, no extravagant videogames that take months to complete, no "social media" making people lazy. People then simply didn't sit on their butt all day and night.
Actually...the 1970s were the big boom of processed food and obesity started to become a gradual problem, but yes people were thinner. Doesn’t necessarily mean they were healthier :)
What? There was lots of processed food. We were at McDonald's a couple times a week and snacking at night on chips pop and Pizza.
@@WinslowLeach1974 they came home and watched TV all night after dinner.
That's right, it wasn't as rampant as it is today, but even junk food was made different as it is today. T V dinners still tasted like real food, the other day I actually bought one only to throw it in the trash lol.
back when all us kids would be out side playing.
until it was too dark to see no more
or until your parents called for you or told you to be home before the lights came on.
sportster1988, this was also before the government allowed bigagra to fill our food with chemicals and preservatives.
A 12 ounce can of soda was all the soda you wanted.
unless there were smog alerts...
things will never be same again, technology has ruin humanity.
Much of America turned its back on God, influenced by the liberal media & its use of technology indeed.
He says, typing on a piece of high technology. GROAN
Well your Generation wanted it so bad, even before baby boomers. "Space Odyssey 2001" then after baby boomers "Back to the Future" smh y'all created the problem now what to blame it on someone else. Also let me not forget StarTrack and the Jetsons smh.
@DC PARODIES Air quality in LA sucked in the 70s, but the streets were cleaner and there were no homeless in tents crapping on the streets.
I realize this all the time
Beautiful. Wish I could step into the screen :) Thanks John
The '70s seemed to good to be true.
Same here in Germany.
I agree less racism it was all peace and love
I grew up in the Bay Area, but my dad was from Socal. Every now and again, he would take me down to visit his family, my mom hated Los Angeles, and refused to go. We drove through Boyle Heights, San Fernando Valley, Riverside and San Diego. The video allows me to remember how far less crowded Socal was nearly forty years ago, in fact, the first sheep I ever saw were on Beach Blvd in Huntington Beach. All that remarkably fertile farmland was destroyed to create the artifacts for a "modern" life, all of the rivers that flowed from mountain to ocean had long been herded into evaporation ponds. Dry, dusty, lot less lush than home, but a fascinating place, nevertheless....
that was the golden years
I remember it all. going to Disneyland still have the pictures and bell bottoms were in. notice everyone was outside playing having fun. .not like today's playing video games. . and Disneyland was cheaper to enjoy with family and friends now is costs half your check to go to Disneyland with family and friends. .
thanks for sharing my memory's.
Disneyland also had the ticket books
It costs about two of my checks if I want it to be real fun.
One of my earliest childhood memories was going to Disneyland at the age of four in the summer of 1977.
You are Latino ?
@@jasoncampbell2365 That was the first time I went (was 10 years old) was in the summer of 1977. Space Mountain had just open up there & the line to ride it was insane. It was a 3 hour wait (or longer) to ride that damn attraction back in the day.
ahh... the good times, when people were outside and kids playing because there was no social media. everyone is stuck on electronic gadgets. shame.
760jjsole The good part of electronics is the vast information you get in seconds that would take a huge amounts of time otherwise. The time I spent at the library and the expense my parents put out for encyclopedias. Who knows what will be available in 30 years from now. ; D
760jjsole but don't judge we had our share of 70s tech for instance the mattel electronic football game , the pong and asteroids arcade machines and the space invaders game, and for tv well remember because in our time of the 70s the tvs were huge ,bulky , and not much color out of and well music really the only thing tech related was a record player and we had to buy the records for 14,15 dollars and when we got home you would put the needle on the record and when you listened to it ,it felt like if you were in heaven .
760jjsole And Disneyland in the 70s had a Futureworld where we could experience tech developments like picture phones - now used by everyone everyday
760jjsole, there's a real, albeit slow awakening taking place. People are getting fed up with the whole social media, internet, reality TV bullshit that's being dumped onto us. We're being profited off of it. Before we know it, the internet, hopefully, will be like the TV or the phone. People were fascinated by it when they were first around, but they eventually just became tools, no more, no less. It didn't disrupt people from living their real lives. Of course the internet is entirely different, but one can only hope...
SevenFoot Pelican That's one of the best posts I've ever read on TH-cam. Bless you for putting it in perspective for us.
What a great feeling that must have been living in California in the 70’s or earlier.
It was great then in Whittier you could walk the streets, take your girlfriend to the park and not worry about getting shot.
It was. I was there.
Yeap it was. I had long blonde hair.. Vans tennis shoes and bell botton Levi's. Rode our bikes everywhere. Its was so carefree
@@mrsandmom5947 Remember custom made Van's shoes were a big deal? I had mine made in yellow and blue. Those were fun times.
Brings me right back to my childhood. I lived in Cali from 1965 to 1978. I do remember those days. Dick Haynes at the reigns KLAC. the swap meet at the drive ins. The North woods inn restaurant. KRLA was the rock station. and Jerry Dunfee was at ABC channel 7. can't forget Cal Worthington. dealership. This really makes me home sick.. Thank you for this video.
+James Dauphinais Thanks, James!
That's "Dunphy," not "Dunfee."
beat me to it....
KHJ was a rock station too.
It’s not cal Worthington it’s cal Worthington and his dog 🐶 spot
back then Los Angeles seems wonderful.
It was. There was a feeling of hope and optimism, but the strains were already showing.
@@johnmphodgson Out of curiosity, what were the "strains" and their causes?
Jeffrey Wiseman People in the affluent white suburbs where I lived had a good standard of living but seemed to work very hard and were worried about health insurance. In the UK we have universal health insurance and everybody gets a month’s paid vacation every year. Also, I had always thought of the US as the land of freedom and equality (the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to escape oppression) and the poverty of East LA, Watts and other areas was distressing. I felt menace and didn’t get out of the car when filming in some neighbourhoods.
@@johnmphodgson Thank you.
SEEMS wonderful, and by modern-day comparison it might've been in some cases. But every generation has its share of +'s and (-)'s. I was born and raised in L.A., with the good fortune of having a father who made a lot of money there in RE development. It allowed us to live comfortably in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach, and so when I'd turn on the news and watch rioting in Watts barely 8 or 9 miles away, it drove home a serious disconnect between the life I'd grown up in and the lives of so many others just a few miles inland who were red-lined into poverty and vice. As a 10 y/o I had a hard time reconciling the two worlds I saw on the news but it struck fear in my heart and because of that there were areas of L.A. I wanted no part of. I will say, from the perspective of someone who grew up there, that the 70s was a lost decade for many of us -- burned out from the upheaval of the 60s and people turning inward seeking fulfillment and purpose. Certainly the toughest 10 years of my life and I wouldn't want to repeat it.
there weren't so many grossly obese people back then either.
Tom Julian Not as much welfare.
Because there wasn’t a fast food place every other city block .
I think there was more welfare.
Dang, integration of schools was still an issue in 1977! Smh! Amazing footage and songs! Feel nostalgic about a time that I wasn't even close to being alive in. Sad, people are so into themselves and their phones now.
normandyangel What are you talking about. Integration was already happening
1977 was the first year kids from the Eastside were bused to once all white schools in the Valley. My brother took a bus to Mount Gleason Jr. High and Verdugo Hills High in Tujunga, Sun Valley. Those neighborhoods presently have more Latinos now than they did in 70s.
People are so into themselves and their phones... as compared to what? CIgarettes? Think back, if your are old enough, you couldn't walk into anybody's home back then and not suffocate from cigarette smoke. Bars and restaurants served food while you could barely see through the air. My parents used to tell me to "go outside and chop wood", if I complained about the air quality. I'll take the "people into their phones" any day of the week, over people into breathing in 10,000 poisonous gases with every puff.
@@BrisLS1 Wow. No one I know had that experience and only a few people in our family smoked and had to go outside if they did. This seemed to be true for nearly all of the people I spoke to about it. So, maybe it depends on how your family and friends thought about it.
@@BrisLS1 That was definitely not my experience in the 70s. I didn't grow up knowing anyone who smoked. Smoking was an issue in the 70s, but it was not an issue with my family or friends.
You really captured the era real well John. I was turning 9 in the fall of '77. I remember the music and ads on the radio of the era well. it brings back memories of a simpler time. My biggest memories were Star Wars being released and Elvis dying. I grew up in Canada so culturally it wasn't that far off the US. Thanks for sharing this. Peace
+randy moyan - I agree. '77 was good and lousy for me. I remember seeing Star Wars at the Chinese Theater, getting my first guitar, and then the summer of '77, particularly August 16th, where I was watching TV in the afternoon, and they broke in with the news of Elvis' death, which bummed me out the rest of the summer.
I'm the same age, and from Canada as well. This video brought back a lot of childhood memories from the 70's.
Me too.
I remember summers of bike riding and running around thru yards jumping fences, exploring abondonded places , junkyards, drinking out of water hoses.
And like that radio broadcast YES IM FINDING JESUS.! YALL BE GOOD
Was 20 yrs old in 77. Lived it. Loved it. Much love and hurt. Early 70's and 60's were more pure. Miss those simple days.
I was 16 in California when this was filmed and watching this makes me feel pretty old. You don't realize how much time has passed until you see a reminder like this.
No cell phone zombies then.
yes, the need for wheels as a teenager was prioity #1
Thanks! I enjoyed trying to catch the moment of '76-'77.
John Hodgson thank you for sharing this.
I was a senior in high school and remember that time well. It's sad how much has changed and how much hasn't. More than anything, this film reminds one to enjoy every moment, because they don't last.
I wish you would do one of Orange County in the 70's- 80's.
Wow, this is a wonderful time capsule.
Great capture of the era of 77 in LA! Wonderful video!
Star Wars: A New Hope was released summer 77'
Smoov Operata i understand that back then it was just called “Star Wars”...cuz there were no others, just this original -kinda weird to think about but good the movie turned into a franchise 💗
It was just called .star
Wars in 77.
That when you actually were able to see kids playing outside, when you knew your neighbors when everyone look at you when you talking not to your cellphone 📱 technology helps but also destroy a lot more
Back at a time when it was always fun to go to A Park and play.
1976 was the first year that I came over from Europe, as a teenager, to visit my relatives who all lived in Glendale at that time. It was so special and impressive for me too as a young person. Also meeting my cousins highschool friends. Later on, the family moved to La Crescenta and Las Vegas. Visited them several times. But the seventies was the most special era. Wish I could also go back there in the sixties. That gives me a special feeling.
I lived in Highland Park Glendale in 70s riding my Big Wheel and playing with my Evel Knievel stunt cycle going to Dodger games
Lol the low low hitting switches
God I miss those times, when life was simpler and enjoyable!! Good stuff Mr. Hodgson
Nothing is ever perfect but it was better then than now and I mean those of us that know the difference for ourselves not what some revisionist radical thinks.
this is the year i was born, then everything went to hell ,, sorry bout' that .....😔....
Big Dog, you’re not lying. I, too, was born in 77. The beginning of the self-esteem movement and pushing college down every kid’s throat...which has led to this point in history. The beginning of western civilization’s rapid decline into mad impatience, fake hate crimes, and dressing up children as sexy drag queens.
John, this deserves a proper transfer and restoration. I am very impressed. You captured something about the period. Very cool.
Many thanks for your comments. As it happens, I did submit this for entry to film school but it didn't conform to the aesthetic of the time. I was told at a UK film festival that it needed a British voice-over to explain it - but I eschew voice over! It's only been appreciated since I uploaded it to TH-cam. It's on 16mm film and could probably be re-transferred as you suggest. Thanks again for your kind remaks.