A Day in Los Angeles 1950's in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added 

admit NASS... you're a time machine, and you're going back to the past to record

Wished I go back then and live in those days, were the best

I would pick up a nice unindoctrinated 1950s wife too.

a cap of MDMA?

oh a cab probably hey

@@mikedudu2966 Take me with you

This is a fake video

Cars look like upside down bath tubs

Somehow we're "more advanced" today than then? I call bullshit. We need people to care again, apathy kills entire civilizations

@@michaelstaengl1349 thoughtful response. I look at the physical world. The last time any major infrastructure and home building occured was in the 1970's. We're on outdated and crumbling infrastructure and people are concerned about whether it's socially acceptable to cut your dick off and be considered a female. From a freedoms and material wealth standpoint, we've regressed. There were gays, bi's and cross dressers back then, it just wasn't a source of pride or how one defined themselves. People used to define themselves by their job, which helped maintain the society. Now people have flame wars online while levees break, roads crumble and the power shuts off. We built products to last instead of the modern throw away economy and most people's carbon footprint was less. People weren't just sheep and had useful skills

@@hud86 Your comment on the infrastructure thing Mr. Hudson just so reminds me in the current situation of Munich. In my home world city of Munich (for instance) I live in a really large quarter for newly built homes created in the early 2000s for several thousands of residents and I see many more of these projects around. Our public transportation network currently has one central main line connecting all the lines available in the public transportationo network which runns from east to wes through (beneath) the downtown. Now, Munich is building the "Zweite Stammstrecke" (The second root line) which is a gigantic modernization and infrastructure project. Many of the older subway and fast line stations had been refurbished on the outside and beneath that too. Regarding the gay rights thing, it's good that they finally get the same rights as the normals but there's a lot of feces bovine going on on the politically hypercorrect part of the western population (see the male sportsmen going as women to win contests and such nonintelligent things). Regarding this practical education thing and parts of the ecco friendliness due to the quality of products I'm fully with you. I have to add that back then the words of scientists doing their jobs for decades, publishing papers in peer reviewed magazins and other ways how science works was more accepted due to the lack of an antiauthoritarian way of thinking on the rightwinger as well as the leftwinger side. Back in the 50s the people would have stood together to fight that chinese virus to not let China win. New Zealand did it recently with the "Team New Zealand" approach and this country was one of the first to reopen stadiums and doing what people love, namely parties without to have to worry too much.

My family moved from crowded Chicago row houses to a neighborhood like these in 1954. They did indeed think it was paradise.

Now it's a ghetto shithole

People Like me Moved Out here by the Droves! Today L.A. Stands Out at Nearly 4 Million, but The Problems Began... & Look at L.A. Today!

@@waynewright2886 the problems started in the 60s during the watts riots and the city becoming increasingly less white. Racial divisions destroy once great cities. Look at detroit as exhibit number 1.

@@1994CPK Look at White suppression and taxing people without giving them adequate schools.jobs.redlining from the banks.poor Healthcare..etc. Why do and how do you think it got like this ??

not any more, now it's a cess pool

What do u mean? Half of it is filthy and dirt. Half the cars are shitty. Idk if it’s cause people were poorer then or because in LA 1/2 the cars today are 15-30 years old and crappy as hell too. It’s cool to see but LA wasn’t exactly clean then, the 1970s maybe but then nah

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se I think it felt more clean by watching, cuz there is so much more space.

@@terriaaseth3019 It’s true. I was born there in ‘52. Unbelievable dregs now.

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Hey Lucas, what you are seeing is perhaps the Valley! Don’t know if it was incorporated yet back in the early Fifties. You also don’t know that Los Angeles was just recovering (still) from WWll. It wasn’t really populated until the late Fifties. Why? You ask? Something else you apparently were not around for, Television! That’s what helped with the post war housing boom. Once people were getting more post war jobs, they bought TV’s. Advertising started up on people’s favorite programs. Interestingly, TV had most of their programs on after 6pm, so the families were all together to watch. Only 2 or 3 local stations were available then. Feeds from the East Coast happened years ( a few) later. So now you understand better?

thank you so much

Yes just amazing

16mm film has a resolution of 4k, 35mm is 8k and 65mm is 18K.

It has never been about the camera. It's always about the Camera-Person!

@@samsen3965 in this case it's about the guy doing the restoration.

Wow... thank you for sharing ( I'm sorry you got sick & all the bad luck endured as a youngster in L A). Love how you tell your story. It was as if I was there seeing your life through me eyes by your description ( eerie - even got goosebumps)👍( You must be a writer). Irony, never been to LA. But I remember my mom ( RIP) use to tell us of all her travels there and everywhere. It would probably be shocking to see it now. Hmmm, I think I will keep the video image of this Los Angeles ( & mom's- rip memories)and pretend it still looks somewhat like video - minus the 🔥 classic rides.

@@selah7779 hey thanks a lot. Well I'm not exactly a writer but I am a person who writes. I was a terrible student but I've read a lot in my life and that is a better education than any school sometimes. I have had five songs published, none of which you've heard of LOL, I've written a lot of reviews Etc and I enjoy it and I also enjoy seeing Improvement in my style, if not my grammar. Really appreciate your comments.

Many of us hope so too. I spent a few years working there in the late 80s... There was still a lot to like even then... Today? .. well we can hope it turns around. Its a quagmire of taxes, regulations, and filth, and tolerance of crime. Sad, ... especially if you knew it when it had hope and good energy.

@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 I hear you. It probably sounded like I was blind to the problems in California today and I'm not, and I certainly couldn't afford to live there. But having lived there when I was young I have a glowing Nostalgia for it that perhaps fogs the present-day, though as I said I really really love my trip out there three years ago. It's still a magic place for me. I know there's much nicer and much more affordable places to live, it's certainly more affordable here in South Florida where I live. But the world in general is in transition and I have no idea where it's going to end up and since I had such a great time in the 60s 70s and 80s, and even some kicks since then LOL, I'm glad I'm old and experienced what I experienced.

wow you are an expert! agreed. ...Montana & 4th building still kinda there.... and north on Ocean Ave in Santa Monica lol... parked just as densely as today...same walk by the incline!

Think it's the Valley.

Bravo. Anywhere else that you know, even if not sure but only a guess? I'm really curious to see how much can be recognized when looking at the old scenes, by the locals. Anyways, thanks for your input.

@@jimcarlile7238 Some good ref with timestamp is made by James Sirkit in his comment above. Have a look.

@ James Sirikit: Thanks for posting the locations! I knew that was Santa Monica.

Unsafe, inefficient, heavy, slow, uncomfortable and a terrible steering? Oh yeah, this is a classic car.

Mexicans know they worth until this day.

@@danfazylov5952 true only 1981 - 2022 cars are better

@@danfazylov5952 It all depends on your point of view. I strongly dislike modern cars because they're filled with tons of absolutely useless electronics. They're very fat, most of them look exactly the same as the next and the manufacturers hate it when you fix your own car. But yes, they're safer and faster. If that's the most important thing to you.

@abcde but u gotta trust the fact that they were unsafe...no airbags, pretty much nothing considered as much of safety

In 2021, the Feces are the Star of the Show!

I'm impressed by the openness, the houses are not crammed together like sardines as they are out there now and there's actually open lots and big yards for the homes that are there. And the traffic is quite light.

@@tj8771 Yes, the trees are surprisingly mature even though some of them must have been planted when the structures were built.

What street is that at 2 min in

@@1994CPK This is Wilshire Boulevard, just west of Alverado Street, about a half-mile west of downtown Los Angeles. The trees on each side are part of MacArthur Park, which is still there today.

👍 👍

Thx ;) 👍

Unbelievable reminisce! Thanks. What makes you particularly unhappy about Akron just out of curiosity?

Thanks for the locations. I thought it was the San Fernando Valley because of the spaciousness. In the late 50's I lived on Riverside Dr one block west of Coldwater Cyn the 101 freeway was being built right behind our house. Sugar cookies were 2 cents and a can of soda 8 cents at the nearby bakery

@@ilikequiet6474 Pretty good pricing. I remember until the late 80s or 90s that restaurants use to charge for refills...then I think everyone realized that soda is cheap to manufacture. There's a grocery store by my house that sells soda for $0.35 a can. In 2021...not too bad. I must say those sugar cookie prices you mentioned can't be beat!

@@Allan-et5ig :Oh.... it’s not that I am unhappy here in Akron I love Akron did you know that Akron is the home of the GoodyearBlimp?! when you see those Goodyear Blimps flying around SoCal they come from! here! when I see them flying around here in the skies of Akron it’s like a bit of memories of LA it’s just that I grew up spent most of my life in Los Angeles. (West side Pico Fairfax area) And then from the time I was 18 until 65 the San Fernando Valley the area shown In that video, I lived in the same house in Van Nuys for 46 years or so and then all of a sudden Bam! I find myself 3500 miles away in the Midwest it’s a bit of a culture shock and I get nostalgic for that part of LA since I spent a big chunk of my life there if not most of it and as I am a musician there is much work here in Akron as you can imagine for a practicing musician Especially now since the pandemic! But I like Akron the crime rates a little higher lately and that’s a shame! I like the place I just miss my home in LA I get nostalgic for it you know melancholy sometimes that’s about it

Thank you so much for the location. I was trying to figure it out as I was watching and I guesses correctly Sherman Oaks area. I’ve never lived there but drive through occasionally so it’s amazing to me that it has such a distinctive and recognizable feel to it even after decades and changes.

These days we get Ariana grande talking into a microphone about how god is a woman and putting autotune over it :( she didn’t even read the Bible :( back then people had knowledge

@@adrianothegoat you said it all !

@@adrianothegoat god is a woman in other religions so what about it?

LA isn't overcrowded. It's over-sprawled and under-developed.

You mean, "Ah, the San Fernando Valley without traffic and overcrowding." Try going to Downtown Los Angeles during this same era and you'd have bumper to bumper traffic.

@@andrewstinson3284 minus the gang, trash, homeless, drugs, etc

@@IIII...... So, what's your point? Did you miss the part where I wrote, '...Downtown Los Angeles..." in my comment? The San Fernando Valley is not part of Downtown Los Angeles.

Thank you democrats

It looks like if the camera man was someone of today that traveled back to record the 50's with current cameras, or something like that. Maybe the guy who rules this channel is hidding us some secret.

It does, in a sense, but I have to question the benefit of doing this. The frame rate modification makes it very jerky and distracting, and possibly even adds to the blur. I'm no expert on this stuff, but I have seen other examples that did not result in the jerkiness, etc.

@@charlessmith3847 like the original camera. Not to mention Kodachromes clearly show Los Angeles 50,000,000 times better than this dismal showcase they call color. Real early 50's automobile colors were undescribable. Ruby maroons, mints, light yellow, tan blues, dusty rose, iridescent gold, really it's nothing like people make the time out to be...it's so much better. Why just look at Florida's showcase, and you'll finally see what it really looked like. No smudgy dirty effect over the film..true natural authentic common sensical beauty and by certain why so many Americans fell in love with the time and places.

ME TOO!!! I wouldn't think twice! I'd give up everything.

Same.

Take me with you

Licky to be white back then

When white people weren't oppressed..... sigh.

@brzzzz Two 1950 Studebakers. The front end was changed in 1950 and is easy to recognize.

Later in the 50s, when I was old enough to pay attention, new cars were introduced in August of the year previous to their designated 'model year'. If that was so in the post-war years 1950 cars would be sold beginning in August 1949. My guess is that this film was shot in the late summer of 1950.

2:14 - 1951 Nash

Good observation

Think I saw at least two early 50's "pregnant elephant" Packards.

Do you mind giving some timestamp & location references, if you recognize the place. Thx.

All Wrong directions= left wing directions.

Most things are a hell of a lot better now than they were then.

@@7775Kevin rubbish.

@@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 Cop out reply!

@Robert Slack Yeah let's ignore the fact that Cali has high rates of homelessness , very high rates of crime and so many of these homeless people are shooting up drugs or fucking each in the streets. San Francisco also has people shitting in the street , and so much trash everywhere. Atleast us hillbilly state residents don't have to explain to our 3 year olds what those homeless people screwing in the street are doing. Also , too many people don't want to live in California......more people leave California in a year than settle there and it's been this way for around 10 years now.......

That might describe us (Changemakers) in the first place🤓

@@samsen3965 open borders for Israel.

@@rockybalboa8781 ??!?

Lol. LA economy is bigger than your trash republican states

@@remoir6273 it's bigger than almost every red states economy combined.

Thx!

Thx 👍

Think if you had today’s mindset visiting back then

And I'd be singing at the piano

And I’ll be at the cinema watching the latest film starring Marilyn Monroe

@@Nebulasecura ...and that cinema would be the Grauman's Chinese Theater, which is across the street from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel...Marilyn & Jane Russell with their names up in lights on the marquee for the new sensational comedy/musical, *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* 😊🎥🎞🍿💋

Looks like crap.

Try google maps. You can get the street view.

@@andyelliott8027 If you have the google map of then, please share a link.🥴

@@samsen3965 I'm just going by the street names somebody else mentioned in these comments. Woodman Avenue, Oxnard Street etc.

@@andyelliott8027 🙏

thank you 👍

My favorite song is the first one called my heart goes crazy (1947)

Anyone know what the last song is? So beautiful

@@NASS_0 mafia 2 live action edition

thank you 👍

my grandfather played Texas swing with Bob Wills in the big dance halls back then...they played to tens of thousands of people at once. It kinda died out in the early 50's...WW2 put a big dent in the dance hall bands.

@@KB-ke3fi king of western swing.

Big Band music had a lot of class and style.

I still do.

@@KB-ke3fi He was lucky to not live in this present era. He only met the good old days when God ruled the nation.

👍 👍

I believe this is footage for movies, to simulate someone driving a car (i.e., projected in the background).

@@Page-Hendryx You must be right. I'm a child...But it's still lovely.

Charles Williams Nash would be proud. Those aerodynamic automobiles were attractive to some. I love the upside down bathtub look. I love all old cars, because they had character.

American was extremely wealthy during that period and there would have been a lot of cameras. And those cameras would have been used by different people with different interests.

Today ..they move away, again ..

yeah....mostly early 40's during the war effort. Before then it was really an unpopulated, laid back, low crime paradise with perfect weather, beauty and great schools. Now, fill in the blanks.

Oh once upon a time!

@@tomrhodes3456 Texas sucks

thank you so much 😍

Then get off RU-vid cause you won't have it if you do 🤣

Same. But look at all the pathetic, envious sad-sacks denigrating the greatest state in the union.

Ah, a cockroach returning to the drain....

It's not almost 100 years later😖😖

@@elainelane1119 well ok then....... a long long long time later ... better ?

Orion. Great comment.

@@tula1433 thanks

@@elainelane1119 Hows about seventy years ago? 🙂

Two story apartment complexes and u complain? In the UK we have 20 plus floor ones you can see for miles and they're full of addicts, dealers and stink of piss

Hi Rob Swan you can help me find the years of this footage : archive.org/details/pet986r4phl thank you so much

@@chadhaire1711 You are wrong. As early as 00:13 on the video a 1951 Nash comes into view in a driveway on the left. The 1950 m0del has a very different rear end and tail lights than do the 1949 - 50 models, the '52 was an entirely different design. There are many 1946 through 1951 autos evident in the film. Your assertion that pre WW2 cars were "all scrapped for the war effort...[sic]" is ludicrous.

@@-oiiio-3993 ypu are correct..I was replying to 6 videos and got this mixed up with the railroad video he did.....however I never said pre WWII cars were scrapped..I said that all pre WWII car parts were scrapped....and they were...

Great work!

Back when 10 years on a car was equivalent to just broken in!

Also an early 50s Cadillac.

Hi you can help me find the years of this footage : archive.org/details/pet1114r5stpetersburgfl thank you so much

PLEASE CARE TO LEAVE A TIMESTAMP FOR SUCH A VALUABLE COMMENTS

I worked at Neiman Reed's in the 1970s.

Hi Jack Goldstein you can help me find the years of this footage : archive.org/details/pet986r4phl thank you so much

yeah this doesnt look liek classic 5ies cars - mor elike early early 50ies - those cars look liek 40ies lol....

@@massivebeatzz Well if you paid attention, he did say that the newest one he saw was a 51 Nash, meaning that the others are older. So yeah thanks for that, Captain Obvious.

Unless you got sick. Then it was the dark ages.

@@NowOffYouGo or if you were black.....

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF NO THANKS

Wrong future? Nah, just you MAGAchimps 😆

@@JErnst-pl5xk of course you wouldn't comprehend it, you are used to living in trash.

@@robfolks trump 2020 was an expiration date loser 😂

@@white3768 the election was rigged, Einstein. You are too dense to have noticed that.

@@robfolks sure was

Thank you for sharing your memories 🤗

All of Southern Ca was beautiful back then. That’s what drew the millions of people here. Housing was cheap, maybe not then, but unbelievable today. Maybe 18,000-23,000 for a three bedroom new home with a front and back yard, later on in the decade, maybe a in ground pool! Neighbors were nice, well brought up people, many in my neighborhood would have get togethers after work, for a couple of hours before they left for dinner. A lot of Aerospace firms back then were hiring young men, with military experience, to develop new technology in Los Angeles and out in the Valley. Highways and freeways (what’s that?) were being built almost as fast as all the housing. It was a great time to be a kid. Everything was affordable, people had jobs, schools were crowded with good teachers. As a kid, one could usually bike to the nearby town. Cars were huge, gas was 20 cents or so a gallon!

While culture

The world was mellowing out from going crazy in WWII

Back when they were new.

I have walked / bicycled / driven these same streets so many times, though mostly in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Video starts northbound on woodman. Turns west onto oxnard. You can see the pharmacy

@OrionTallica78 Are you sure you're not thinking of the drugstore/pharmacy shown at 1:03? When we first see video at 0:09, yes, there is a drug store with a curved architectural wall like the other one we see at 1:03. There's also a diagonal building right across from it as the corner is turned that appears to be a garage/gas station.

thank you 👍

It was an underpopulated cesspool in the 1940s . I know, I was there.

I sure like living here in this cesspool! Thanks for letting me live in your state!

LA was full of smog then......

@@hillyweitzel4897 Shut Up!!!!!!!!! Liberal!!!!!!!!!

Hi Erice Esteby you can help me find the years of this footage : archive.org/details/pet986r4phl thank you so much

@@NASS_0 With the vehicles and architecture im going to guess 1952-1955

I definitely doubt '55. The newest car i spotted was a '53 Chevy.

Eric, you're absolutely correct, that's a 1951 Nash Ambassador at 2:11, and it looks new. This film is circa 1951 to 1953 at latest.

@Jan Brady -- I could be wrong but I thought there was a 1953 Chevy Bel-Air in the video. The grill was different on the '53 versus the '51 and '52. I would have to watch the video again to see. It could have been a different car altogether, LOL.....

You're seeing it now... but what happened, why are there no palm trees?

@@burtpanzer You would have to ask the city if Los Angeles that question...

@Jason Lol Okay I'll bite- That's pretty funny. Considering a sold my house, a 1030 sq ft house, for $680. per sq ft, I'd say you're talking out of your @ss. Is everyone in your lineage as ignorant as you?

@@RSTI191 yes a “third world hell hole” with $680/sq.ft home sales 🥴 Clearly.