Baby Boomers Tribute "Everything I Own" San Fernando Valley So Cal. A Video slideshow of places gone by! To donate to my channel ... click here www.paypal.com...
God, I miss the 70’s...so simple, no social media, no selfies...people actually TALKED in person, to each other. Drive-ins, muscle cars, bell bottoms, amazing music, love all around...good times
👍👍I like this as the top comment, feel much the same. Wanted to say, for those good at putting memories into words, "let it roll" " down the highway"..❤️🙏👉🇺🇸
Yeah those were the best days ever we can never go home again .Kids and even me other grown ups with cell phones they have taken away from us they have destroyed today's youth damn cell phones too hell
It was great growing up in the 70's down in the LA area I had to finally move out of there in 86, you couldn't pay me enough to live down there today sure went to s##t fast.
@Erwin Monti..... All very well said. I get misty eyed with all of these kinds of videos. My wife and I dated while Bread was popular. Sadly she passed in 2015.
@@rogerd9150 YES IT WAS A GREAT TIME IN OUR LIVES..BUT I GUESS LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT..A LOT OF US STILL HAVE A LOT OF CARS AND WE LIVE FOR SUMMER TO GO TO THE DIFFERENT CAR SHOWS BETWEEN CLEVELAND AND AKRON. WE ARE ALL IN OUR 70s STILL BEING KIDS AND RACING ON THE STREETS( AFTER MIDNIGHT OF COURSE )...GOOD LUCK IN ALL YOU DO. BE SAFE...AND ROGER, ABOUT YOUR WIFE, SHE IS PATIENTLY WAITING FOR YOU, SO LIVE YOUR LIFE EVERY DAY BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU WILL GET THE CALL...
@@erwinmonti5066 Hey Erwin. Thanks for the good words! My brother and I just finished a 5 year body-off total restoration of my 1972 Corvette which I do enjoy taking to shows. Wish I could say I have multiple cars like you but I only have garage room for daily driver and one classic. I feel very blessed though.
I was born in '57 also; 64 in May. I'd extend the best years out by another 7 to also include up to, but ending with 1986; the last full year of my 20s.
Amen & Agreed! There will never be another time like this! We were Free from technology! At a young age...we actually went outside n played! Had the greatest toys n games. Imagination was still a thing! Wonderful Muscle Cars n things related to them! I can only remember 2 Bad things about the 60's/70's....The Vietnam War & LBJ!!
I turned twenty in the spring of 1974 what a magical year that turned out to be. I miss the seventies everyday it was the decade that started the summer of my life. Now I am in the winter of my life and the seventies seems so far in the past but still so fresh in my mind. I will never forget that special time and how wonderful life was than. There is nothing like being young and free with no responsibility.
The kids of today have no idea how good it was, if one did not have to go to war, which I was lucky enough to miss, having been born in 1960. Such a precious time. There’s no way I would trade it for youth - no way.
I wasn't 18 until after I grad'd from HS @@Archer335 and the war ended about when I had to sign for the draft. ...but this is exactly where you'd find me every Wednesday night (on Van Nuys Blvd.) in my "Surfer Van" after 1972. It was heaven...
@@XRacerify, Congratulations on not having to go to Vietnam. I moved to the SFV in 1978 and found myself in the middle of one of those cruise nights on Van Nuys Boulevard one night. It was really packed. The traffic moved at a glacial pace. I had never seen anything like it. It made sense though. I understood right away that it was a place to see and be seen and where kids displayed and compared their cars. I only experienced it once, but I never forgot it. It reminds me of one of my favorite movies: American Graffiti.
That's right Pat,they missed the best part of the 20th century.Something that never was before and never will return.We boomers were the truly lucky ones.😊✌🍻
This was a time when all the muscle cars that you would see parked together didn't turn out to be a car show, but a typical high school parking lot. Growing up back then, it sure did seem like simpler times. The people, places and things we did...sure do miss everything about those days.
I miss my Pontiac Tempest and Mustang Mach 1. I remember giving my Mustang to the fire department to practice putting out car fires. Turned it into a firebird
Born and raised in Burbank. Sunset and Van Nuys blvds, Bob's Big Boy, Santa Monica and Malibu. Remember, carefree and thought we would live forever, listening to 93 KHJ. The absolute best of times!
I like this video but at the same time, it made me feel sad? I guess because you actually see the people in these pictures OUT doing things, going places & living life. Not stuck at home, inside staring into a screen (phone, computer, etc.) Progress... :o|
Your post is spot on! It really made me think of how profoundly different things are today..life was a lot simpler and less stressful back then. Your post is a wake up call...we need to get out and DO things..life is short, and it'll pass you by if you're not careful. Thanks and God Bless!
Born in 57. Went to Hale junior high. Ice skating at topanga plaza Friday nights. Riding dirt bikes, discovering girls. What a incredible time to be a kid!
Wow perfect year to be born! Experiencing all the decades young. I’m 18 from 2004, I like it but being a teen now is hell; I’m having a great time but everyone around me is either depressed, toxic, creepy, or mentally ill. Very few fun down to earth people left. Can I hear some stories of the good old days please?
I moved to the Valley from northern IL in 1966. Rented an apartment on Reseda Blvd. betweeen Roscoe and Sherman Way. What an exciting time to live in the Valley. Moved several times in the Valley during my 20 years out there. I cherish those times. I know it's not the same now.
In the 70s the religious parents were offended, and if you're ever around teenagers now they're not easily offended, it's a minor amount of college kids and adults.
My adult kids make cynical and dismissive remarks about the 1960s, and peace-and-love of the 1970s. But I tell them we had hope and optimism then and the belief for a better world. Okay, we were naive, but those years were good while they lasted. I'm 65 and fear for my grandkids future. Peace.
Born and raised in So Cal 60s and 70s. Life was so blissful then. Sure, there were problems, but they were NOTHING... I mean NOTHING compared to the post 2000s, 2020, 2021 and beyond. I had no clue life in the USA would evolve into this. I wonder if it will ever get back to good.... but I fear I already have the answer.
Yes I spend much time wondering why and how...I have many answers........My parents were immigrants Ireland and Italy went through the depression and then WW2 they came home to build us a beautiful life.........but sadly we allowed the criminals in our govt and corporations to destroy what they built..........we didnt pay attention they stole it all away.
Welcome Back My Friends to the show that never ends....I went to the Blvd for the first time in 1971 age 14. I was hooked Not just Wednesdays, but most every night. From Chandler to Sherman Way. There was always something happening. at Bob's Big Boy, Bob's Jr., Jack in the Box, Arby's, Bank of America, Firestone, June Ellen's etc. Especially the Street Races! All things must pass I guess.
Yes, it was a magical time happy fun & easy. We would cruse Van Nuys Blvd. through Bob's Big Boy down to June Ellen to turn around & cruse all the way back up to a Drive Inn called Oscars. Great Memories of being a teenager in my 57 chevy.
That brought tears to my eyes...I was just a kid in the 70's but so many memories...There was something magical about the valley back then but now...it's all gone...it's a shit hole of crime and over crowding..
@Robert Freisler Wow, that's that's the longest time between I've ever seen! I miss cruising, think it's illegal now, need a permit or something. Been reminiscing alot lately..
I'm from NorCal, but we had family in No. Hollywood and visited a lot in the 60s and 70s. For a small town yuck from up north it was an amazing place - so much fun running around with my cousins. I went back for the first time in decades recently. My family's long moved away and it doesn't bear much resemblance to the place where they lived for 30+ years. The SF Valley of post war baby boomer development was a very brief moment and I don't think folks appreciated it at the time (you never do when living in the moment).
same here. lived in sonoma county and went down to LA to visit relatives in redondo late 60's. My mother grew up there in the 40's and 50's and her first time in a jack in the box drive thru the clown spoke to her and it scared the crap out of her. we laughed the rest of the day about that
I was born in 63 and being from Tennessee we did all of this ourselves and I know this is nostalgia but the 1970s were a magical time And most importantly we had the freedom to enjoy it and people lived by the code of decency and respect to one another and that among other things is missing today.
+@@twentiethcenturyboy6328 Your right! Notice how every machine on the road looks alike today. Except for $700.000 Italian sports cars. Damn! Even Range Rovers, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW,s and Jaguars are starting to look alike.
My dad grew up in Pacoima, then mostly orchards. At fifteen he drove the other kids to Van Nuys High School, in the bus! I was born in Santa Barbara, and whenever we drove to the grandparents in Hollywood Riviera, upon entering the Valley, dad would command, "Buckle up, we´re descending into hell!" But one night, with a buddy, we drove to Van Nuys Blvd. in my tricked Camero and had a blast. Years earlier a friend's mom took us ice skating in Topanga Plaza, I couldn't believe the heat outside and coolness inside. I went to CSUN with a lot of other students from Dos Pueblos and other Santa Barbara high schools. The change in culture and vibe was amazing. Marie Calendar mai tais, Tennessee Gin and Cotton, Summer House, a small family run movie theater on the north of Reseda Blvd. (I don't remember the name) that had pop corn with real butter, P.I. McFlys, and all the Valley girls with their blue eye shadow, hip hugger, bell-bottom jeans and tube tops! Doing EST and buying my first new car, a 1981 Corvette with the glass tops that kept getting stolen. The two "Tommy" burger joints at 2:30 am. (the better one had fries with loads of Lawry's salt). Finally topping it all off with a great view of Balboa Park and the entire valley from my office on the top floor at 16000 Ventura Blvd. Great memories! Thanks.
Remember Cruising Van Nuys Bl. on Wed. Night then go up to Mulholland and Race ... The Americana Theater & Laurel Plaza ... the ice skating rink, I think the Northrigde quake took that out.
You who selected this song as an accompaniment to this video have seen the inside of my heart. I grew up in SoCal in the 60’s and 70’s and the memories these images evoke are nearly overpowering. Thanks for your simple but powerful tribute to these bygone years…a time before we were overcome by inflation, globalist ideology, and lies about pandemics…a time when life was to savor, and was really worth living 😢
But that was a time we were dealing with the repercussions of two world wars and the Korean War. We were knee deep in the Vietnam War. There was the ever present threat of nuclear war. We were absolutely dealing with globalisation and inflation.
I sat in a trance watching this it brought me back to those times like it was yesterday...then I couldn't believe its all gone....did you notice on all the peoples faces in the video.... were always smiling.......
Living in San Francisco....My father being a traveling salesman, used to take me to Los Angeles in the middle 70s. Great times...... even as a young man .....wow the ladies were so pretty..... Dad showed me all over that damn town....I'm still here in SF....... but LOS ANGELES has a permanent place in my heart
The best part of my life was living in that area at that time. Born and raised.I thought those memories only exsisted in my head. Thank you to all involved, honoring that neighborhood, capsuring those years, places, events. My father was good friends with the owner of the palamino we would be invited to watch movies being filmed there all the time. Down the street rusty restaurant, also a family friend, we would go to his ranch ride horses, and in the middle....Roma's, my father ran that store, where we grew up,hanging out. I could spend a whole day just watching these. Reminiscing, sobbing, smiling.☺thank you again!
Wow so many iconic places in this video that mean so much to a Valley Girl growing up in the '70s! I was those girls, long hair blowing in the warm breeze, hanging my head out the car window on Wednesday night cruisin' Van Nuys Blvd... Great memories.
What really makes this video even better is all the great comments and the fun you all had back in the good ole days. You can take away material things but you will never take memories from the heart. I will leave it at that and peace to all of you out there.
So very true.....been a Norcal guy ....all my life...... but have many great memories of family trips to Los Angeles in the 70s... for various adventures or points of interest
@@MgtowRubicon I’m 61, my father passed away 26 years ago and I still tear up when I think about missing him. I was 35 when my father died, my older brother was 40 and cried the entire funeral.
Moved to mission hills in1956. Watched the Valley grow up along with us all. Graduated San Fernando HS in 67. What an incredible place to grow up. Nothing like summer nights in the San Fernando Valley. Thanks so much.
BRENT MOORE!! I know you! I went to SFH with your brother Mike! You dated my cousin Sharon! Small world. I hope you and your families are all safe and healthy. Tell Mike 'Tiny' say's "Hi!" btw, the Valley really was A GREAT PLACE TO GROW UP. PEACE.✌
WOW! Some of these pictures made me cry because I grew up in North Hollywood and I lived near Laurel Plaza. We went to the park that was just down the street and went shopping in the area and at May Co. would go ice skating Friday and Saturday nights and just hung out with friends. Life was good back then and so was The Valley. It’s so trashy now unfortunately. It makes me sad. I miss it alot.
Thank you for this. From 0:44 to 0:54, those two shots feature my late partner, Doreen Mulman, webmistress to voice stars and patient rights advocate. Her friend Hope, trying to hide in the front seat, says Doreen would have been about 14 then. How I miss that beautiful smile and smelling that shiny, Timotei hair. :) I will treasure this forever.
Sorry to hear the loss of your friend. Your memories will last forever and no one will ever take that away. Rest in Peace to your friend Doreen Mulman.
WOAH!!! the red Dodge Caravan at 2:46 - 2:53, that's my dad driving! We got the van at Murphy Shelby Dodge in (the city of) San Fernando (out of business) and we live right down the street on Vanowen St. Love Reseda, Love the Valley!
@@chuckchambers9565 Exactly Chuck. I was born and raised in Van Nuys in the '60s and '70s when it was great and inexpensive. Now (like California as a whole) is an extremely expensive, ugly shithole that's also dangerous.
Lots of memories. Going to the Northridge Fashion Center and the bowling alley on Nordhoff and DeSoto with my friends who went to Chatsworth High. They moved to the Valley from South LA in the early 70's. My friends and I took 3-4 buses to get out there. Sadly,they're all gone. So is the Valley I knew. #RIP
I lived in the valley from 1977-1979 as a 9 to 11 year old pre-adolescent. I remember it being one of the best times in my life. My parents had just gotten divorced and my mom and I lived in Tarzana. I remember going to a kids disco on Ventura Blvd. I remember Pic n' Save off Ventura Blvd, I remember Zuma Beach being so amazing. I remember going to so many Jewish deli's and mexican restuaruants. Many of the deli's are now sadly gone. The cool, fun vibe of the area is etched in my memories as a little girl. I also remember going to a camp called Cottontail Ranch, which sadly closed down many years ago. Things never stay the same:((( It makes me sad.
Are you talking about Van Nuys Boulevard?! If so, my girl (and now my wife of 63 years) cruised the Boulevard. I graduated from S.F. High Summer "55" that's just a bit ago!!!!!!
@@meleisenberg9240 Yes Bob's on Van Nuys Blvd. That's the one. I lived in Granada Hills from '61-'66 before moving to Woodland Hills. Remember many great football games with SF. Phenomenal teams. I graduated from Taft in 1969. Both Granada and Taft had 50-year reunions last September. Now I live in New Zealand but I am still in touch with me mates from that era. We were lucky.
Slow rotating beacons, girls on curbs, guys with a 6 pack on a tailgate of a Ford Ranchero or El Camino, dinner at the Drive In, frolicking with girls on the back row seats of the movie theatre, and never seeing the film, but seeing lots of other things, Guys on chopper motor cycles asking where the party was, and see you there. Different world, different time. I lived through this era.
The only thing that seems to still be there is Oxnard Street Elementary School, Robt Fulton & Walter Reed Jr High, NoHollywood High, Poly High & NoHollywood Park & Library! My childhood places are just photos & memories now! I was lucky enough to keep some of my childhood photos. Watching this video brought back some memories & I almost shed a tear. Almost. Big Girls Don't Cry.
Did you go to oxard elem. What year, we lived on vineland around 1969 70....im 57years old..lol...do you remember a mrs. Golber? Such a great teacher. Small, alot of makeup, carol channing hairstyle..hahahha..boy is my mind wondering. Just thought id ask. Have a grreat day.
Looked at each other, and said "Hello" I still like to greet people, but if they avoid my gaze, usually by looking down at their phone, I don't, my bad..
I was born in 1955, moved to Granada Hills, 1959. My dad was one of the original sellers at the Saugus Swap Meet back in the 60’s, which was also the Speedway. I used to go with him sometimes. We’d be there about 4:30 am to set up and visit with the other sellers and eat breakfast from the big cooler of food my mom packed for us. Very good memories. It was very special and cause to dress up when we went shopping in Panorama City. The only time I cruised Van Nuys Blvd, I was 12 or 13 and fell sound asleep in the back seat, wasn’t my thing, but all my friends loved it.
@@wanaraz I went to Tulsa elementary, Patrick Henry Jr Hi, Granada High and then transferred to the new Kennedy Hi. My class was the first graduating class of Kennedy. When we first moved to Granda Hills, it was still full or orange groves and horse property. It changed quickly.
Love these montages. Would love to see the place names made larger for easier reading. Also, nostalgia is fun, but it’s just a period of time in the arc of time. Remember what you think of as the good ol days sat on top of a someone else’s good ol days. Time marches on. Nothing stays the same. Never has. Never will.
I was at the Sears with the Palm tree....1974.... Visiting with mom and dad from San Francisco... Left my shoes at the beach 🏖️....... and they got me a new pair...was gold for a 7 year old
I remember going to Van Nuys Blvd. on Wednesday Nights. The 1970's were the best, best cars, music, and general freedom. No homeless throughout Balboa Park and the Sepulveda Basin Recreation area. RKO Movie Ranch is now a residential neighborhood with houses built in in the late 1950's. Grandparents lived around the corner from Valley Plaza, and later Laurel Plaza with the Ice Skating Rink and May Company. I remember seeing bands and singers perform at Tower Records, and at the Roxy, Rainbow Room, Gazzarri’s, Whisky a Go Go, and some I don't remember :) Reseda Theater is still there. I remember seeing demolition derby at the Saugus Speedway, today it's a swapmeet. Loved the Palomino Club, saw many acts there. There were so many other great things about the valley back in the 1960's and 70's too. Today, it's overcrowded, homeless are everywhere, everything is expensive, there is no more funky Laurel Canyon musicians and artists, even Topanga Cyn is now filled with mc mansions.
What a great video I lived in Woodland Hills from 1959 to 1982 all around the Topanga Mall was Strawberry Fields in Orange Groves ride my motorcycle to Topanga Beach cruising Van Nuys Boulevard in my van yes me it's all gone to shit now worked at Forest TV & Appliance on Sherman Way hanging out at Chatsworth Park by the railroad tracks in the tunnel going out to Hollywood Boulevard
We used to cruise Van Nuy's Blvd. on our bikes. Friends had Triumphs, Hondas, a lonely Suzuki.....There were two of us who had Kawasaki Triples, mine was a 500, my friends was a 750. Long haired blondes, with long legs, and short-shorts..... those were the days!
A nice film. 0:07 Before the Tujunga River was dammed up the San Fernando Valley was a wetland where hundred of thousands of birds would migrate through. 2:36 The Cornell Theater in Burbank. My main theater as a boy. Including when the three stooges came to promote "The Three Stooges in Orbit" 1962. 4:05 Saugus Speedway is still there.Used only for weekend swap meets.
Thank God I experienced the 50’s and the 60’s , cruising, Bob Big Boys, drive-in theaters, school dances, muscle cars, cute girls, surfing at Malibu, high school football games, being with your steady, the greatest music, school pride, cruising Van Nuys Blvd and the “The Sunset Strip, seeing the Doors and other great groups in concert. Simplicity and and steady wearing your class ring.
Born and raised in SOCAL. I sure miss those days of Hot Rods and girls! At 18 years of age (1977) I moved to St. Louis, MO to attend Washington University in St. Louis. Upon graduation I accepted a job with Anheuser-Busch at their world headquarters in St. Louis. I became home-sick after five years and put-in for a transfer to SOCAL, It never happened. This year will mark my 40th year with the brewery and I will retire this summer. When I came to St. Louis as a teenager I made friends and they all called me the California Kid. Some of those friends still do...😎
Another one of your excellent montages, beatiful music as well!!! A slight correction re: the Americana Theatre in Panorama City, 2:13-2:21. It opened in 1965. I saw the James Bond "Goldfinger " movie there in 1965. It was right after the debut of the Ford Mustang, which was featured prominently in that Bond movie.
In the 50's I think it was the "Panorama". I lived in Van Nuys on Wyandotte between Van Nuys Blvd and Kester 1953-1963. The first few years I lived there we would play in the old street cars that were retired and stored in a field at Wyandotte & Van Nuys Blvd.
I was born In 89 but I would have loved to be a kid during the years I see in these old pictures it looked so chill I would have loved it now a days it all about technology
David Gates was IMO an under appreciated genius. His songs spoke from the heart and touched so many people. So glad to have grown up in southern California during the 60's and 70's --- When California was the 'Golden State' and life was sweet, as yet untouched by heartbreak. Have no desire to ever go back to those places that were the playgrounds of my youth - Time has not been to the area. But memories remain as perfect as David's voice.
