Thanks Freeway Jim! Love the comments. My folks loved the Mama's and the Papas. I can listen to California Dreaming a million more times. Highway 101 is my favorite Herb Alpert instrumental song, perfect for driving, studying, anything. I cannot drive on highways like these, so I can do so vicariously with your videos. My favorite RU-vid Channel, along with Comrade Dobler's 1970 nfl films.
I love this video! I'm from SoCal, and the 101 goes right through my hometown of Thousand Oaks, CA. Love the 101. And I love your great taste in music!
I'm using these videos as reference for our SoCal inspired Minecraft city build. I'm building out the highways and this is definitely giving me mad references for what the freeways look like at ground level. I've been to L.A. a few times and have been on these roads, but memory is nothing compared to seeing actual video you can start and stop. Thanks for posting this!
@@Freewayjim Also, you're in luck... someone did make an extended version of Herp Albert... you're welcome in advance ;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yDjNPvrY5ao.html&ab_channel=Piratea%C3%B6pudretE
One thing I like about the freeways in the Los Angeles area is their consistency of naming them after the highway's destination or the area that the freeway occupies. There are the Ventura, Santa Monica, Riverside, Santa Ana, Pomona, San Diego, Harbor, Long Beach, Hollywood, Antelope Valley, San Gabriel River, Foothill, the original Pasadena Freeway, Artesia, etc. I know there are several that do not fit this criteria, but I think it is a great idea.
@@Freewayjim my name is Jim too , some people call me Jimmy or James though either way doesn't matter to me I'm cool with getting called by both names I traveled on us 101 to San Francisco on Google maps before by the way and let me tell you one thing us 101 is indeed a long hwy indeed starts on the coast of Washington state and goes all the way to freaking California i couldn't believe my eyes
@@jamesgillis6759 US-101 is a great drive, I've yet to see it in Oregon and Washington, but there are longer routes, the ones going east-west for example like US-20 (the longest route in the US), US-30, US-40, US-50 and such.
Great video and music (for the most part). I have driven that 101 stretch one time. On my way home from Palm Springs after a night of partying. Um, I was on my way home to San Jose. That ended up being the longest drive I've ever driven. Never ended and got home at 10 pm. But it was very scenic I must admit.
Very awesome ride and this ride has made it's way onto my bucket list of freeways to ride! I love it! You have the coast, you have the mountains, you have it all- I want to one day ride the 101! Though, part of me knows I have been through the downtown LA parts of the 101 when I was there in 1990- I want to see the coast on this beautiful highway! Very awesome ride and a great soundtrack to go with it!
as an armchair traveller from Australia i love watching driving videos of the los angeles area/s freeway/interstate system, there is something mesmerizing about so much traffic, great video keep them coming please.
I feel the same as Jim Black. Keep them coming Freeway Jim. It's like I'm traveling on the good 'ol West Coast. Quite Scenic also. After all, I'm stuck here in boring Connecticut. Ps, California is great.
R.I.P. Herb Alpert!!! I love that song too; it puts me in a zone while driving. That marine layer wouldn't break for NOTHING. I love seeing the variety of scenery along the route. Kudos.
Thank you, that is the goal pretty much, to find music that "works", although some of it is not what I'd normally listen to on a consistent basis either, thanks for the comment.
yay - Missing Persons - saw them in the Valley in like 1983. I feel like I know every square inch of this route. I spend a loooootttt of time in my car.
Didn't you know that US Route 101 have the longest controlled access highway section in the United States Numbered Highway System? From Los Angeles to San Francisco for 434 miles. It's also a scenic highway too when you drove near the Pacific Ocean and the mountains of California. I'm glad AASHTO did that years ago.
+TCP Thank you and simple, road maps like the one in the intro, Rand McBally atlases go back to the 1930's. I don't really need a GPS although my car has one, I study maps before a trip..
Thanks, Jim, you really made my Monday morning with this ride! While I watched this, I was thinking about how US-101 (mostly the Ventura Freeway part) was such an integral part of my daily life before I moved to Florida and how much better my life is without having to deal with it's traffic. I was also surprised, shocked really, to hear Dale Bozzio's voice in one of your videos but, I would have expected you to have used "Walking In LA" instead of "Destination Unknown".
+ca2fla Thank you! I tried to use "Walking in LA" in a couple earlier videos and it just didn't fit, at least not to my liking (and I do like the song), maybe another time I'll get the right footage for it. "Destination Unknown" has more of a flow and steady tempo to it so it was easier to use.
I was surprised also. Missing Persons is one of my favorite groups from my favorite genre. This video had great variety of genres that flowed nicely. I agree that all the genres back them were superior to the autotuned music of today. Thing is New Wave was really something new after the 70's. So I guess that means we won't be hearing a dubstep recording on one of your videos. Great scenery also. Looking forward to Frisco and the "bonus" video of the scenery between Santa Barbara and Frisco.
+Aspie-Autistic1957 Thanks...there's no bonus video between this video and SF, sorry, the next video starts near SFO on US-101...good points on the music, but no, I won't be using any dubstep :)
Alright first off great video as always. This video really made me home sick. I have been living in Huntsville Alabama for over 15 years now and haven't been back to California once since I moved away.You drove through my home town of Ventura on my birthday of June 14th...I think its time that I take a trip back out west and enjoy beautiful California.
You MUST re-do this one day if you can when the weather is nicer. Doesn't do Santa Barbara justice. Oh and thank you so much for all of these videos. This is the best channel I have found in a very very long time.
+Freewayjim Liked the music & the video. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE SAN FRANSCISCO!!! I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO GO OVER THAT NEW OAKLAND BRIDGE THAT PREVENTS EARTHUAKES!!! (The white bridge) Have a blessed day Freewayjim!
I can't believe the first 101 miles of US Route 101 is all but a freeway. But that's not all. It's a scenic freeway in central to southern California for over 500 miles. However, there's a freeway gap in the streets of San Francisco to access the Golden Gate Bridge and I-80.
I enjoy every video you have, this is AWESOME. Are you planning on doing a video here in Houston soon? TX 99 (Grand Parkway) has a large portion completed. Still undeveloped but not for long.
I see many of these are native Angelenos, or are bands that got started in LA; I like how you try to choose music from people who are from the area you showcase in the video. :)
Why was the Us 101/ California state route 2 never built between the Vermont avenue and Melrose street exits. The middle median on this section of US 101 between Vermont and Melrose is super wide. Was this wide median originally gonna be the location of the California state route 2/Us 101 interchange? I was just asking why the 101’s center median is so wide between Vermont and Melrose?
Great work! This section of US 101 is actually the freeway that I took for the most times during my college time (I went to UCSB and visited LA a lot). I noticed that when the video ends, you already passed downtown Santa Barbara. Did you take SR 117 and take a break in Isla Vista?
Did you have the famous Santa Maria bbq? I'm a vegetarian myself so I've never had tried it, but I hear it's really special and distinct from other bbq's.
Bbgunn325 Could be because most NS truck traffic would be diverted to I-5 the main designated truck route out of LA, while 101 is just an alt truck route
Did you know The I-405/ US 101 interchange is the most congested interchange in the United States? Also I've been wondering, why is there a I-110 and I-710 in L.A. but no I-310 or I-510?
3-digit interstates that start with odd numbers are used for loops or bypasses... maybe there aren't any other freeways in the area that technically meet that criteria so those numbers weren't used.
Hey, great work, Jim. A suggestion, for you... I know you put your song information in the video, but I think it would be neat if you put the title, artist and timestamp in the description so people can pull up a particular song they may of liked with the click of a button when you do these montages. :)
+Rudolf Strudel It's the marine layer, check this video which was shot the day before, once we get out of the LA Basin it's quite sunny. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4CrZNBC5G0c.html
Paula Abdul? Wasn't she married to Emilio Estevez for about six weeks? Songs I wish you could use: THEN CAME YOU by Dionne Warwick, BABY I NEED YOUR LOVIN by Johnny Rivers, LONG COOL WOMAN, by the Hollies, BANG A GONG by T Rex, TIME WON'T LET ME by the Outsiders, NICE TO BE WITH YOU by Gallery, I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW by Johnny Nash, TOO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW by Cornelius Brothers, THE VOICE by Moody Blues, REACH OUT by the Four Tops, SUGAR SUGAR, by the Archies, TURN THE BEAT AROUND, by Vickie Sue Robinson, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM, by Maxine Nightingale, IT DON'T COME EASY, by Ringo Starr, DRIVIN MY LIFE AWAY and I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT by Eddie Rabbit, SUNDOWN by Gordon Lightfoot, TRAGEDY by the Bee Gees.
Great stuff, Jim. When you passed through Camarillo I naturally thought of the great Zappa tune, Camarillo Brillo, about a female patient from the State Mental Hospital there. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6diCm4x3iRg.html And of course Ojai is where The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman grew up. In fact the freeway speed limit was also their top speed. ;-)
+miker555 Thanks, it's done to show the difference over time, been doing it a few years, you are the first to question it, but I may do something different with next year's videos.
Recorded November 1965, Released December 1965, it charted in 1966, you can use either year and be correct, no need to split hairs, I tend to go by when the song was released. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Dreamin%27
+nacho8888 Thank you, the weather did not match it but it was considred, I used it here in 2013, same stretch, opposite direction. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kw4DyQ0aVXg.html
+Multiblue Blanket I wouldn't film it with that much traffic, that would make for a pointless, horrible video, and I have experienced it, just smart enough not to film it.
1:55 I remember how there was no homeless people on the overpasses! It was already happening but not as bad as now! Today homeless people everywhere thanks to these corrupt politicians destroying what once a California dream!