California 1950s, Driving Wilshire Blvd in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

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I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of California 1950s, We're on Wiltshire Blvd. we can see Mayco building anywhere. Actually, the first big giveaway was that Prudential sign, and then things were immediately familiar. We take several trips down here. Not to worry, there's lots to look at here. Plus they go on the other side of the street too, that's a mighty big Arthur Murray sign
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: A/V Geeks on archive.org
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/pet983r1la
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Комментарии : 5 тыс.

@NASS_0 Год назад

Would you like to visit the 1950's? Which city would you like to visit?

@MrLeh81 Год назад

Las Vegas !

@patriciawatkins9539 Год назад

New York

@marthagomez7335 Год назад

Anaheim, California

@redflipper992 Год назад

any of them. the coloreds knew their place back then.

@isaacsrandomvideos667 Год назад

Vegas, definitely.

@alexk7656 2 года назад

Is it just me that thinks the cars of that era blend in so well with the surrounding architecture and scenery?

@fretho8410 2 года назад

I think part of the reason is that reds are poorly rendered with this type of film-coloring.

@youchris67 2 года назад

Lot's of Art Deco everywhere.

@stuartculshaw5342 2 года назад

@@youchris67 Yes, Art Deco starting in the 30's transformed cities across the US. Such a vibrant and exciting style.

@jamesshea897 2 года назад

iT'S JUST YOU.

@youchris67 2 года назад

You are so right. Everything has that 50's look we all see on old TV shows and movies of that era.

@snazz1158 2 года назад

My 94 year old grandpa watched this and really enjoyed seeing his memories again, so clear. Thank you from felix

@michaelchapman4955 2 года назад

Both my folks grew up in this area during the 30s & 40s, My dad in Hollywood & West Hollywood & My mother a little further east

@AnsweringMusic 2 года назад

Wow that is amazing! God bless him.

@fox_den 2 года назад

Was this a Jewish neighborhood back then too?

@PND1719 2 года назад

Твоему дедушке очень повезло жить в то время!

@saintjabroni 2 года назад

Thank your grandpa for his service.

@r.c.anderson5632 2 года назад

I was raised in Los Angeles in the 1950s and this was amazing to watch. Most of this footage was made as background for movie scenes which show a driver and the passing scenery outside the windows, but how wonderful just to see the city as it was back then! WOW! Everyday people wearing nice clothes doing everyday things. We had great style back then and the architecture and storefronts were so charming and clean! The "MAYCO" building was actually "The May Company Department Store", so the sign actually says "MAY CO"... and that same building today is the newly remodeled and revitalized ACADEMY MUSEUM (which shows movie props, costumes and sets from famous movies over the years). It looks as beautiful as ever. My mother worked for the MAY CO. Department Store for over 30 years. They were still in business in the 1980s. THANKS FOR SHOWING THESE! I'm a fan!

@steveanacorteswa3979 2 года назад

It's amazing how beautiful all the Art Deco style buildings don't exist anymore, even MayCo looked fab, we need to stop tearing down history but too late for that.

@siddrajput1029 2 года назад

Yes, I remember going to May Co. in the mid '80s.

@EvelynnLandrum 2 года назад

@@siddrajput1029 May Co, Robinsons, The Broadway, Bullocks, Montgomery Ward 😊

@angelo_giachetti 2 года назад

Thought I seen Perry Mason!

@Mostlyonoff 2 года назад

I had the pleasure of doing work on Mrs. May's house in Beverly Hills late eighties. Very nice lady

@hiddenmanna3683 2 года назад

The most striking thing is how fresh and new everything is without litter and people screaming on the corner. Good times.

@chadfren 2 года назад

no gang violence or taco stands. it's beautiful

@milkdud0 2 года назад

@@chadfren enjoy your burgers and hotdogs btw your sister is waiting for you on your bed

@chadfren 2 года назад

@@milkdud0 your mad at something beautiful... lol. you people fuck everything up

@nslouka90 2 года назад

Yet people were still stupid enough back then to bolt across the street in traffic even though there was a crosswalk 50 ft away. Some things never change!

@karimmoop9560 2 года назад

Alot of these buildings & so forth were newly built; they weren't as settled in as other places in LA.

@haineshisway 2 года назад

Incredible. This is, to be precise, the week of August 1, 1951. Just about a year prior to this, my father owned the restaurant that would become Du-Par's - it was called the Kiru Cafe. Was there from 1948 through January 1950. By June, it was Du-Par's. Amazing how empty Wilshire was in 1951. And equally amazing that some of the buildings west of Fairfax are still there.

@charliekilo8944 2 года назад

Looked like a nice place!

@pgannon1948 2 года назад

I got 1951 from "The Frogmen", but how did you get the exact week?

@haineshisway 2 года назад

@@pgannon1948 Movie section of the LA Times - that was the only week that double bill played there :)

@W7DSY 2 года назад

Excellent. I would date this in the latter part of 1950, account the latest model cars I saw were 1951 Fords, but not many of those, which would indicate the 3rd quarter of 1950 to me. Saw no 1952 model Fords. Might you be off a year?

@haineshisway 2 года назад

@@W7DSY Nope, I was able to pinpoint the exact week because of the double bill that was playing at the El Rey - that double bill only played there the week of August 1, 1951.

@01FUMBLE 2 года назад

The buildings, cars, billboards, the way people dress is a form of art.

@zacrl1230 2 года назад

Just as it is today, was then, and has always been.

@glennhankins6927 2 года назад

@@zacrl1230 As it is today?? lol.... urine and excrement on LA streets, frumpy women going to the mall in pyjamas and messy hair....

@zacrl1230 2 года назад

@@glennhankins6927 "frumpy women" That comment says more about you than it does the current state of LA. . . And hey, you can do something to improve that situation, think about it.

@SPACECOWBOY_Hej 2 года назад

is not was

@unrealmagic6519 2 года назад

@@zacrl1230 keep coping.. LA is a dump

@puckvoice 2 года назад

Clean, uncongested, great weather... no wonder so many moved out there in the 50s!

@dhalsim-1 Год назад

That's how it became dirty and congested

@armandobroncasegura1608 Год назад

Ahora está llena de negros 😃

@GridnetGaming Год назад

what decade did california go downhill?

@Plikten Год назад

They certainly made solid cars in the 50s but the downside was they smelled a lot

@onesaucynougat7471 Год назад

@@GridnetGaming I’d say 80’s

@GeorgeVreelandHill 2 года назад

The real Los Angeles. The one everyone dreamed about and the city we wish we had back today.

@bobcuster8930 Год назад

#Nonsense. I love history, but we need to move forward.

@bobcuster8930 Год назад

#Nonsense. I love history, but we need to move forward.

@etherealtb6021 Год назад

This is my neighborhood. Except for the 20- storied buildings where the parking lots were - it isn't that different.

@charliereed9925 Год назад

Indeed!

@quentindaniels7460 Год назад

@@bobcuster8930 We most definitely did "move forward", and look where that ended.

@matrox 2 года назад

The street were spotlessly clean back then. Everything looks so sane.

@1990758 2 года назад

Lol That's only what you see on this particular video

@SixpackLeanStrongMind 2 года назад

@@1990758 yeah? You think so, well how about, In this particular video, what you’ll see in this video today is shit AND litter all over the city while the recording of this in 1950 was NOT shit AND littering. At least this recording showed cleanliness, go there now at the location and you won’t be able to say that

@1990758 2 года назад

@@SixpackLeanStrongMind Oh and this video is very clean. It's a shame some things can't stay the same. Other than the segregation I'll take those days over today

@based9930 2 года назад

@@SixpackLeanStrongMind Another win for diversity.

@Superstarseven 2 года назад

@@based9930 Now there's some of that subtle racism I was expecting when I clicked on this. 👏

@alphaphoenix55 2 года назад

From a French point of view, it seems to be a much more civilized and prosperous era for everyone. The streets are clean, the people well dressed and elegant, you can also recognize the "Art Deco" architecture used for almost every building, the streets were really classy back them. I would have loved to walk in the streets of that time.

@leemoore9933 2 года назад

At 4:28 bomb shelter I guess $795.00 wow. Maybe they thought China was coming.

@stevenfetzer4911 2 года назад

This is after ww2. The United States was still experiencing the benefits of the war machine and every other industrialized nation was destroyed.

@Pimp-Master 2 года назад

Yep, technology has made the world a less interesting place, less creative, and far more authoritarian.

@nicholaslittlefield4424 2 года назад

Because our culture was not centered around sports and joggers.

@danfrench3861 2 года назад

@@nicholaslittlefield4424 Not a jogger in sight.

@JohnMcaulay-gp6nb Год назад

At 4.38 when the camera car pulls over and the 3 generation family, kids, mother & grandmother notice the camera , it feels like you're seeing it in real time as they look right at you . this is only made possible by the magnificent restoration & presentation of this film . I get a wee sad feeling when I think that if the 2 kids are still with us they will be well into their eighties. Some have commented that it's like looking at ghosts, but I actually feel that the quality of the restoration makes us the ghosts visiting them in their lifetime , and I love that feeling that as we watch in wonder , they are all alive again and going about their daily lives. So, my fellow ghosts let us journey back with a big contented smile .

@briansmith48 4 месяца назад

My mother is 82 and a half right now. So those kids could still be around.

@DavidBrown-dj7tw 3 месяца назад

You made a great reply to this film.My compliments.

@yahstino Год назад

That windmill on the Van De Kamp's sign is absolutely incredible! It's a shame they don't make signage like that anymore. Way more thought was put into the architecture even for simple places like coffee shops

@AaronandKat 2 года назад

This totally feels like a nostalgic familiar dream, even though I wasn't here yet, it feels so familiar and comforting. It's like a live painting into another world. The 50's era is awesome!

@AlltelJohnny12 2 года назад

Maybe in a past life 😉

@byte01010101me 2 года назад

And you could feel safe in your very own bomb shelter 4:28

@richpryor9650 2 года назад

Unless you were Black, gay, Asian, crippled, Latino, Arab, or just about anything that wasn't white and Christian.

@ballaking1000 2 года назад

@@richpryor9650 Why are you saying that like it's a bad thing?

@richpryor9650 2 года назад

@@ballaking1000 Don't cut yourself on that edge bro.

@Skyrilla 2 года назад

Never knew California could be clean and neat

@amunra4015 2 года назад

This is back when California was republican and 90% white. The floodgates of Mexico hadn't been open yet.

@Ghostleakchannel 2 года назад

@@amunra4015 let’s not forget California was once Mexico.

@amunra4015 2 года назад

@@Ghostleakchannel How many Mexicans were there in 1821 when it was still part of Mexico? Oh, almost none? So that means Mexicans didn't want to come here until whites made it great.

@moisesojeda1085 2 года назад

@@Ghostleakchannel When USA annexed California in 1849 there where less than 5,000 Mexicans in the entire state

@V1AbortV2 2 года назад

…clean and neat with NO MINORITIES. Go figure!

@nmm190 2 года назад

Amazing how clean and fresh Wilshire Blvd was back then, and the art deco buildings so very cool. Born there in the 50's, what a great city it was then

@rafachrzaszcz6997 Год назад

Art Deco and Streamline Moderne were the best architecture styles!

@etherealtb6021 Год назад

It is still clean. I live in this neighborhood. Thankfully, many of the Art Deco buildings are still here, but we keep an eye on them, as everything is being torn down for ugly apartment buildings!

@oldgypsytap 2 года назад

It is hard to believe that ordinary people actually dressed well simply to go on errands or to work. How refreshing! Seems the 'fashion" industry has managed to make everyday citizens look like slobs, or freaks. L.A. looked so clean...even though we were having our terrible SMOG days. This footage is glorious! Takes me back to my time and neighborhood. WOW! Well done! and thank you!

@wurok871 Год назад

Ikr, now Los Angeles is turning into Detroit. The houses are crappy and they're expensive, and the value of those houses are only increasing and there will be more homeless people and soon people will move out.

@briane173 Год назад

@@wurok871 Already happening. My memories of growing up in L.A. were _so_ great compared to now. Now, whenever I drive to SoCal I go outta my way to avoid L.A. proper, and I keep my head on a swivel when on the freeways down there.

@TomSpeaks-vw1zp 9 месяцев назад

Can’t push the blame onto someone else for looking or dressing like slobs. Its on us as individuals.

@mookytc 2 года назад

Everything looks so clean and well kept.

@whyyeseyec 2 года назад

@Proper There was still no garbage on the streets.....

@stevenfetzer4911 2 года назад

The CIA psychology movement of the 60s aka hippie movement had not yet destroyed society.

@valfletcher9285 2 года назад

The most beautiful time to have lived in California ... really until the late sixties. Gorgeous.

@jrbleau 2 года назад

The decline began when the Clampetts moved in...

@shrimpflea 2 года назад

Yes, as long as you were white.

@reptiliandomination1 2 года назад

@@shrimpflea Good old days

@gplunk 2 года назад

@@shrimpflea white; and well to do....

@erebus79 2 года назад

@@shrimpflea go back to CNN, buddy.

@winklestiltskin 2 года назад

Crazy! This video starts out at the 5600 block Wilshire Blvd & Ridgeley. The camera starts out facing west & just to the right you can see a side street. That's Hauser St. I used to work on the 5th & 6th floors of Hauser & Wilshire (where the windmill is) . It's just crazy that the video starts looking directly at the place I used to work. It's not the same building, but it's just fascinating. Thank you NASS for this, it's just incredible.

@ageoff684 Год назад

Everything is so clean well kept,and people dressed with class!

@FortniteOG420 Год назад

I wish these times would come back, most people are slobs now

@ugaais Год назад

No filth was let into the country then

@BruselskySluzebnik Год назад

@@ugaais cmon, only filfth in America are Americans and ur christianity and baptism. Don’t you think that natives consider you for a filfth tho? Wake up 😂

@ugaais Год назад

@@BruselskySluzebnik no they would have fought harder

@HoIIandC Год назад

@@BruselskySluzebnik How can you say Americans were filthy whilst looking at a pristine city in the 1950s compared to what it is like today?

@daggerman12 2 года назад

It’s almost dreamlike, it baffles me that this was 60 years ago

@newfie-dean5803 2 года назад

More like closer to 70 years ago.

@ronemoboy 2 года назад

Дружище, учись считать мой папа родился в 1963 и ему сейчас 60+

@reptiliandomination1 2 года назад

Now its a nightmare with all of the Tent cities, crime, drugs, Gangs, high taxes, cost of living, Sky high real esate.

@LAwoman1956 2 года назад

@@reptiliandomination1 The Powers that be opened the flood gates too much. L.A. isn't really that large to hold 4 million people who are mostly scavengers.

@hereforit2347 2 года назад

@@ronemoboy: This was 1951.

@maurits4606 2 года назад

Born in 1980. But when I look at this beautifull scenery, I would loved to be 18 in those Californian 50's ❤️❤️

@broman7271 2 года назад

I feel same way I'm 34

@northmaineguy5896 2 года назад

My Dad was born in 1925 and passed away in 2019; I'm sad to say that I'm almost glad he missed seeing the mess we are in today.

@patriciawatkins9539 Год назад

My dad was born in 1927 and passed away in 2018 and like you I feel the same way. He loved this country. He would be heart broken to see the direction it's going.

@isaacsrandomvideos667 Год назад

My grandad was born in 25 and died in 2019 aswell.

@skywishr1313 Год назад

@Mister Google Haha no

@patr70 Год назад

@@mistergoogle1951 You think? Wow. You must not be paying attention.

@acidfrogs10 Год назад

The mess were in today? He was born in 1925 I dont think he missed much

@feurigerStern 10 месяцев назад

This sure brought back memories. I lived in Hollywood in the 1950s as a very young child. Names long forgotten: Ontras, Standard, Richfield, Innes Shoes, Ohrbachs, Van DeKamps, DuPars, Foreman & Clark's. Can you hear the manual clutches on the cars? My dad drove us up and down Wilshire back in the day.

@kharakim 2 года назад

Lived it! Built a "fort" with neighborhood buddies up in the framework behind one of the double billboards just west of Fairfax. The underbrush of the La Brea tar pits was our playground. Got caught one night (underage) working as a doorman at the El Rey theater by one of the office staff at my junior high school. We walked to school and hitchhiked everyone, without incident or concern. Looking back 70 years, everything seemed much more human, both in scale and even kindness.

@bannedheretic2971 2 года назад

Wonderful memories, thanks for sharing

@JErnst-pl5xk 2 года назад

Amazing! 😊✨

@Alexander_l322 2 года назад

Very cool thanks for sharing 😄

@None-zc5vg 2 года назад

Today, half of your taxes go on paying for the debt run-up on funding the enormous military build-up (on such things as the giant disfunctional 'Gerald Ford' aircraft-carriers, 'F-35' fighters that cost $40,000 an hour to maintain...) while jobs are 'outsourced' and the country falls apart.

@spajda02 2 года назад

The clean architecture of the buildings is amazing...

@lindawilson2589 2 года назад

I have always considered that architecture to be ugly.

@kennethnero2011 2 года назад

It really is beautiful

@jacksuggs9078 2 года назад

@@lindawilson2589 No one cares.

@mrn13 2 года назад

@@lindawilson2589 Its ok to be different.

@jessewolf6806 2 года назад

And No Graffiti!!!

@jdthegreat1238 2 года назад

This wonderful time capsule takes us Back to when plastic bags weren’t flying across the street or every building on the street being lined with graffiti. This was truly California at its best

@richarddegen6184 Год назад

Was is right

@uncletrick1 2 года назад

Beautiful. My mom was a teenager in the 50s. What a time to be a kid!

@leoniedejong9549 Год назад

So refreshing!! There was no one with a smartphone and people were socializing with each other. That's how human life should look like. What have we done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@OB-LA 2 года назад

Man I really love these old Los Angeles restorations, it’s wild to see places I know SO well looking so different. Is it odd to feel nostalgia for a time in which you never lived…?

@NASS_0 2 года назад

thank you very much🙏

@roberto1519 2 года назад

I feel the same, even for places I don't know well, some more than others, while other places there's no nostalgia whatsoever, it really depends on the "click" while watching. Apart of that, it's amazing how these old times feel more serene, fraternal, calmer, at least, it's my impression.

@mgtowacademy8433 2 года назад

There a word for it: Anemoia “Anemoia is a new and nearly unheard-of word. Its meaning is just as the title would suggest; a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived. It is nostalgia for the “good ol' days”; more specifically, the good ol' days you are too young to have known.”

@Bebe7077 2 года назад

@@mgtowacademy8433 Anemoia is a greek word and I know exactly what it means and all that strange feeling. Greetings from Greece!

@mgtowacademy8433 2 года назад

@@Bebe7077 good to know; greetings from Florida!

@vdsilva6806 2 года назад

These were the “wonder years” of American History. Back in 51, my Dad tells me everyone was working and enjoying the best life. All the guys would show up in work clothes, use the company showers after, and walked out wearing a suit. He was a “Blue collar” at Bethlehem Steel which had a workforce of over 1000 strong. We were a family of 6, living in a modest home where my Mom was a “housewife”. We even had milk and bread delivery. Those were the days.

@deannemencher 2 года назад

Yes so true

@kyselykovac2477 2 года назад

this makes me revel in nostalgia

@kevinharris7902 2 года назад

except if you were black

@kyselykovac2477 2 года назад

@@kevinharris7902 nah the blacks were doing fine back then

@JENDALL714 2 года назад

@@kevinharris7902 In California Black people had it good, stop listening to your liberal teachers. Did you know Compton, California was a very nice upper middle class Black neighborhood, until the Democrats got a hold of it?

@joycebevins6014 2 года назад

I was born in 1950. Enjoyed the video and would love to go back to that year at the age I am now. Thank you for sharing.

@goat2503 Год назад

This is absolutely amazing, it makes these earlier times so much more relatable to me, I was born about 30 years after this footage and I am so envious that I wasn’t alive during this wonderful period of history.

@BrotherMJ808 2 года назад

At about :48 seconds in, they drive by the El Rey theater. It was showing "Fugitive Lady" (aka La strada buia) which was released in the U.S. on July 15, 1951 (not to be confused with the 1934 film of the same name). "The Frogmen", the other film playing, was released in the U.S. on May 24, 1951. The two films played the week of Aug. 1, 1951 at that location.

@matrox 2 года назад

Exactly!

@brentsummers7377 2 года назад

Good spotting!

@3DBlastDotCom 2 года назад

Now THAT is how you do your research, kids! Bravo.

@GUITARTIME2024 2 года назад

I see several more buildings just past El Rey that still exist on Streetview.

@troybabs 2 года назад

Fugitive Lady, starring Janis Paige... whom is still alive today at 99 years old! Cool.

@deannemencher 2 года назад

brings back memories: Having milk shakes at VanDe Kamp's; shopping at Ohrbachs, and visiting the swamp land in La Brea Pits before the museum existed. Also this Ralph's architecture is the same as the first one in Westwood - The architecture of that building is stunning.

@oceanlover3530 2 года назад

Is that a Ralph’s grocery store? So cool to see things from back then that still exist today! ✌🏻🙂✌🏻

@leslieharris9088 2 года назад

We ate pretty often at Van DeKamps as well as Orbachs and May Co. I still drive along this section of Wilshire Blvd.

@deannemencher 2 года назад

@@oceanlover3530 yes

@AntiMasonic93 2 года назад

What is the cross street where the Ralphs is at?

@deannemencher 2 года назад

@@AntiMasonic93 I don’t know but it isn’t there anymore

@Suspicious-Cat Год назад

It looks amazing, better than the present. I like the fonts of the lettering on the stores and restaurants, the design of the cars, and the mix of foliage and buildings.

@jeffbarnes54 2 года назад

You have done a fantastic job on this project. I have never seen such clear movies of real life from the past. It is really interesting and you can pause it and really look at things. Thank you for creating this documentation on what our country was like back in whatever decade. I often wish I could go back to that time and live, much happier and easier times then what we are dealing with today.

@MothGirl007 2 года назад

Cars from this era were soooooooooo much more attractive than modern day ones.

@trevorjameson3213 2 года назад

Well, they actually had style, were made of steel instead of plastic, and didn't have to conform to all the government BS.

@xavier3211 2 года назад

@@trevorjameson3213 ahhh yes. Safety=bs

@xavier3211 2 года назад

@@trevorjameson3213 crash one of those cars at 20 mph and you die

@FlyingKipperEh 2 года назад

After they invented car designed by the wind tunnel, all style went out of the window

@jonp2338 2 года назад

@@xavier3211 nah - made of american steel - strong - clearly youve never driven in one or crashed one

@notlistedgreminger8873 2 года назад

"They" say you can't go home again. You've just disproven that. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to stroll the streets of my childhood pretty much as it was when I was born. You have literally brought tears to my eyes.

@tessy1111 2 года назад

Love both comments 🙏

@ueau 2 года назад

Why is it they say "you cant go home again"

@peterhladky5481 2 года назад

Your videos are awesome ... and that's a massive understatement. Thank you for sharing!

@leemoore9933 2 года назад

Very cool, everything looked so clean, every one dressed nice, the street was even clean. It looks like art. My parents always said LA or Cali period was paradise back then, I can see why.

@T77pt 2 года назад

I grew up in the 1950’s and it was quite different, better in some ways, yet not so good in others. People valued work and the American dream of owing ones own home. Everyone dressed up much more than today

@anthonyhaycox1561 2 года назад

The streets and sidewalks are so clean and tidy - and no graffiti to ruin and bring down the area. Some lovely cars, and stores that lend character to the place. Thanks for sharing - I loved watching it.

@See_through866 Год назад

Your gayness is hearting my soul

@etherealtb6021 Год назад

This neighborhood is still clean and tidy. There's no graffiti. This is still an upscale area. Who thinks every inch of L.A. is covered in graffiti? 🤷‍♀️

@See_through866 Год назад

@@etherealtb6021 people who only study the media

@paulrevered4136 Год назад

Mass and illegal immigration changed everything.

@richardbeaver9836 9 месяцев назад

I remember those street lights along Wilshire Blvd, they still had some of them up when I moved here in 1966.

@genexxer1 2 года назад

The background noise is perfect. It gives the video depth. I love the old signage, too.

@mariocabello3285 2 года назад

I was born in 1949, many of these things are very familiar to me, others I had forgotten, the person who filmed these images had no idea that 70 years later they would be more widely publicized than then, NASS… thank you! Everything looks peaceful, LA after the 60 'changed drastically, those people almost and all of them already deceased couldn't imagine that this city would be as it's today with drugs and other vices, with so much violence, what a shame!

@tommycat1213 2 года назад

This is like going back in time. One thing though - it wasn't as peaceful as we'd like to remember. Note the sign for "Bomb Shelters'" for only $789.00!

@monteceitomoocher 2 года назад

Filmed apparently one month before i was born, it looks so clean and beautiful, everything on a human scale, no drugs or violence and vagrants, we have super technology today but we've lost an awful lot of nice stuff on the way.

@constitution_8939 2 года назад

America Was Paradise.....before Our and the Western World's Enemy Screwed Our Great Country with their "Hart-Celler Immigration (Invasion) Act of (Treason) 1965" thank's to the "'Tribal"' Members of Emmanuel Celler & Jacob Javit's. Anyone who neither understands or believes this was Always the Biggest Problem for America, the Freedom and Liberty We had and the Traitor Scumbag and Freemason Franklin D. Roosevelt who brought us into WW 2 Just so We could Destroy Germany and Uncle Adolph who Only wanted to Destroy Communism and prevent it's further infiltration of Europe. Look it up and know Who and What the World's Greatest Enemy Really is. Here's a hint: "'They"' are the Deniers of Jesus Christ and had him Crucified because He was Exposing "'Them"' for what and Who they really are; the Synagogue of Satan!!

@Pimp-Master 2 года назад

I believe that the beginning of the end was 1967 when the GI generation simply gave up trying to educate the youth then. Now those same youth have political jobs and are imprisoning the world.

@kestas7433 2 года назад

thats because USA walked away from gold standard in 1971. everything changed for the worse.

@paulhewson4600 2 года назад

So clean,,,and people actually dressed for the day and not wearing Pj's and Flip flops into stores

@artoo45 2 года назад

If you think the sky in LA was that color in 1951, you're living in a fantasy land. That said, people did dress a lot better in those years.

@monkeysfromvenus 2 года назад

@@artoo45 I think he's referring to there being no trash on the streets.

@Allan-et5ig 2 года назад

@@artoo45 Horrendous air pollution was not an everyday thing in 51.' That came later. There were certainly weeks of it for sure in 51' but I just read a thing recently about the smog index and the 'insufferable,' bit didn't start until later in the decade.

@MikeyRedNose 2 года назад

I wish vintage fashion was still seen on the streets. I'll sometimes go out wearing a brimmed hat and overcoat etc but feel out of place... one kid even asked me if I was from WW2 😂

@randomvintagefilm273 2 года назад

Or with nasty tats all over there bodies and metal things hanging out of every orifice and their pants hanging below their underwear 😁😂😁😂

@robertmandell526 2 года назад

I know that drive well. Drove right down onto Wilshire at 4:14 from my studio apartment on 1st Street, headed west every morning on my motor bike most of mid-60s as I raced to school at UCLA, miles out in Westwood. Nothing like biking it early mornings almost alone on the boulevard, ten or twelve miles to school. And even better in the dark of night, heading home to study into the wee hours. Air in my hair. Mind racing with new vista's. A beautiful place. A beautiful time. I knew it was special and I knew it wouldn't last.

@fultonyt8989 2 года назад

No one in my life seems to understand exactly how much I want to have experienced the 40’s through the 80’s

@user-ik4kh9lt6d 2 года назад

Late 40's to late 90's - best era to be alive.

@guerralg63 2 года назад

Me too! Actually, just the 40s, 50s and early 60s. I remember this street and the rest of Los Angeles and Southern California, from about 1966 on. Wilshire blvd remained the same up until the mid to late 80s. It was white flight, especially Jewish flight was the death of the wilshire miracle mile area of Los Angeles.

@Limosethe 2 года назад

But instead you get to experience the 20s... The shitty 20s

@manila1909 2 года назад

I do understand you because I would’ve loved to live during the early 40s- the early 60s

@DoomJoy666 2 года назад

@@user-ik4kh9lt6d for a white man for sure

@RosygreyglassesS 2 года назад

Looks so different without all the homeless people.

@thunderboltpenetrator8498 2 года назад

Well... They had employment for everyone Then crack came in thanks to government and voala And don't forget how this is the west not the east. The east has and will forever be tainted like the waters of Michigan

@georgewashington5746 2 года назад

Yup banks made homes affordable now they out of reach for most people in the cities

@messyfilms6325 2 года назад

Yup, we fought our way out of capitalism to gain a bit of economic stability but now the terrorists on right have destroyed it like they did during the Great Depression.

@hellowell3743 2 года назад

@@georgewashington5746 affordable homes **eye roll Another person with zero understanding of the homelessness crisis. You see the word "homeless" and assume it's all to do with a _physical home_ excluding real issues of drugs, violence and mental health... They're investing millions into "affordable housing" and literally getting worse.

@hellowell3743 2 года назад

@@messyfilms6325 the right? California turned into it's current wasteland under Democrat leadership? What on earth are you talking about. Look to Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia... You need to start accepting flaws for your own idiocy.

@BigBoy74X 2 года назад

I google mapped this same scenery side by side and wow!! What a big change, first thought that came to mind was. Life goes on after you're gone. Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year...Remember to always make the best of your time because your time is limited the second you're born. Cheers!!!

@voiceofreason7856 4 месяца назад

2:32 in - Movie on the theatre marquee is " The Frogmen " - released in 1951 !!! That's how old this wonderful street scene is ! Look how clean everything is - no litter, people dressed nicely ..those were the days.

@Nicefoolkilla 2 года назад

5:33 I'm in complete awe at how clean those windows of that appliance store were, they gleamed! Everything around it, like everywhere else in this scene was immaculate!

@SoCalSeaChaser 2 года назад

Today it would have graffiti from one end to the other and the areas that were clean will have scratch marks all over. 🤦‍♂️

@jess4metoo 2 года назад

@5:28 that’s the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures! Amazing!

@TomSpeaks-vw1zp 9 месяцев назад

That’s when people took pride in themselves and their work. They put their heart & soul into making a living, and their kids took over and pissed it all away.😢

@dgatan 2 года назад

The streets are too clean. Almost looks like a movie set at Universal studios

@patrickmccarron5059 2 года назад

People had respect back then.

@zflynn2 2 года назад

Most location shots were done back then as opposed to on lots if it was a city or Los Angeles shot. You couldn't build better sets than what they had everywhere.

@markdc1145 2 года назад

Hardly recognizable today with all the trash lying on the sidewalk and curb. LA is a mess.

@dgatan 2 года назад

@Larry David it’s called a “Figure of Speech” like saying it’s “better than new”. Learn something everyday (patting you on the back)

@chonjacki 2 года назад

@@markdc1145 Everywhere is a mess now compared to what it was even 30 or 40 years ago. It's a goddamned shame really.

@DanPackard Год назад

Incredible restoration! So much cleaner and steadier than the original B&W. It would be interesting to film the same passage today to compare and contrast.

@stewartteaze9328 11 месяцев назад

The '51 Fords look so cool and modern in comparison to all the older cars... they go PERFECTLY with all the newer art deco buildings. I owned a house by SDSU, built in 1951, from 2003-2017, and I could NEVER imagine what it would have looked like back then no matter how hard I tried... now I can! I used to think those rounded 50's busses looked so frumpy in the 70's (I had to take a "special" one every morning to Jr. High in San Diego); but seeing them in this context, they look so cool.

@craigsanderson4330 2 года назад

I would give everything to be able to walk around in this era, experience life like that.

@briane173 Год назад

I did -- was born in L.A. in 1956; some of the best times in America at that point. Something we didn't take for granted; we were only 11 or so years removed from a world war and rebuilding an economy that was second to none by the time I entered school in the 60's. Back then it was all about the new cars that came out every September, the new TV shows that came out in September, and a middle-class lifestyle enjoyed by almost everyone there. Plus I had brand-new Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm practically in my backyard. Being a kid back then was heaven. Wouldn't have traded it for anything.

@zyzyila5438 Год назад

how old are you

@TomSpeaks-vw1zp 9 месяцев назад

It still had its problems. But not the problems we have today. We can see for ourselves how sad we’ve become.

@yt_energy 7 месяцев назад

black kids may have disagreed @@briane173

@yt_energy 7 месяцев назад

he is 67@@zyzyila5438

@Oneinazillion1 2 года назад

No starbucks on every corner yet, just good ol’ coffee shops

@markwaldron8954 2 года назад

The general lack of chain stores, restaurants, etc in this video is really striking.

@bobmyers5924 2 года назад

America was built on small businesses, and still is to this day. They employ 47.1% of the people. And surprisingly they make up 99.99% of u.s businesses! Some info for ya

@No_Deal 2 года назад

no homeless encampments on every sidewalk.

@guerralg63 2 года назад

Yes, and the time to sit and have a cup. My grandmother used to work in downtown Los Angeles and when she had a coffee break she would go downstairs to the coffee shop and have her coffee and danish.

@hurryandleave9680 2 года назад

@@guerralg63 Plus you could smoke.

@chuckf6163 Год назад

I love these videos so much!

@Strange_Man1911 Год назад

It's so cool how are are able to see glimpses of the past in live action through our phones. Back then that was almost impossible.

@geosophik9369 2 года назад

LA's and America's Golden Age without a doubt. Everything clean, spotless, people well dressed and mannered... Treasures long gone and forgotten. Today driving between La Brea and Fairfax is a different story.

@huy2800 2 года назад

demographics lol

@andyanderson6522 2 года назад

I'm glad I left LA

@SA-hz1rs 2 года назад

Lmao That area is great now

@SA-hz1rs 2 года назад

@@andyanderson6522 nobody cares

@patrickgallegos113 2 года назад

@@SA-hz1rs Not so great. Traffic is a nightmare, good luck if you can find parking, very expensive and homeless people everywhere.

@fraufarbissina9870 2 года назад

It's NOT the city, it's the people. When people are disciplined, courteous, respectful and kind. You get a clean and beautiful city, period.

@troelembiid6970 2 года назад

The city only looks clean because of the poor quality. Cleanliness on the street wasn’t taken seriously till the 70s.

@euphoricmonk 2 года назад

@@troelembiid6970 Man your IQ must be below 80 to write that lol

@troelembiid6970 2 года назад

@@euphoricmonk It’s not lol. streets in the 50s were literally filthy. just because they shown you sunny side california on a perfect day doesn’t mean it was clean.

@euphoricmonk 2 года назад

@@troelembiid6970 literally no trash on the streets in this film lol. Today almost every street in LA has / is trash. It's the people period wake up to the regression political parties.

@kyucklebeans 2 года назад

Indeed. What were the demographics of LA back then?

@jeeptransport-tutorials7761 Год назад

I love how clean the streets are

@uncletrick1 4 месяца назад

❤Thanks! Keep up the great work!

@NASS_0 4 месяца назад

thank you very much god bless you!!

@hertzair1186 2 года назад

Interesting to see bill boards advertising “Bomb Shelters”

@ApartmentKing66 2 года назад

Yeah, I noticed that too. Cold War and everybody afraid of getting nuked by the Soviets.

@mufdiver9406 2 года назад

Unless you're an older person you just don't get it these were awesome times and you'll never have it again

@mattkierkegaard9403 2 года назад

We could have it all again tomorrow, if we got back to the political policies and social morals of those times.

@TECHLOVER_91 2 года назад

It's Gone get over it you had 10 long years to enjoy that decade

@Megacooler96_ Год назад

Wow, everything looks so nice and clean

@TechnoKid_ Год назад

First thing I thought as well - solidly built too.

@middleclassic Год назад

At 04:28 only $795.00 for a Bomb Shelter! This footage is really exceptional for anybody familiar with the area. Such as that area a short distance before the bomb shelter sign that looks like a large park is the La Brea Tar Pits. Some buildings are still there and very recognizable such as the original May Co (Saban building) on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, a short distance past the tar pits. It’s now the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum, directly across from the Peterson Automotive Museum which won’t be built for years later … very futuristic design. If it weren’t for the hellacious traffic in that area I’d visit more often for the museums as well as Canters deli of Fairfax, that stretch of Ethiopian restaurants on Fairfax as well. There’s so much cool LA in that area.

@freewheeler8924 2 года назад

I'm starting to think that the 1950s and early 60s was when Western Civilization peaked.

@aequoria2949 2 года назад

You’re right. It’s been all downhill since then.

@James-yy1oe 2 года назад

I want you to rethink what you said…slowly….👨🏿👩🏿

@aequoria2949 2 года назад

You need to start thinking.

@kartgal 2 года назад

For some demographics, yes it certainly was. For others, not so much

@brucemarsico6 2 года назад

I'd agree....the USA probably peaked around 1955 and after that year....slowly.....very slowly, the country began to run down....gathering momentum in the late 1960s and then....full downward spiral in the 1970s...continuing to this year (2021). Same in Europe and South America. The West is collapsing under its own weight of ineptness. The vast gulf between wealth and poverty can only grow....this decade (2020s) will determine the final outcome.

@TWTexasA1 2 года назад

Now there’s something you’ll never see these days …People actually walking across the street at a brisk pace like you should. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@goldenhourkodak Год назад

That's a good thing. People should be prioritized over cars. The 1950s was the beginning of the ideal that cars should rule the worlds and we're still suffering from to this day.

@dante340 2 месяца назад

Love this 💯 Wilshire is still one of the prettiest streets to drive on in LA, even today. It's definitely nowhere near as clean and classy as this was lol but it's still a nice cruise. Especially around the holidays when there's very minimal traffic

@c0nquadr0 2 года назад

Just seeing the streets and sidewalk being clean and empty fills me with so much joy… things could still be like this but for some reason humans decide to keep advancing to their literal doom

@richhenderson4541 2 года назад

I’m noticing how clean the streets are.

@gonewiththekale 2 года назад

Back in a time when most had decency, respect, and class.

@pillowdaily7431 2 года назад

Only for white men. Respect didn’t really apply to women and minorities back then. Kale’s husband when she doesn’t set the table for a dinner party in time in 1951: 👊👊👊

@gonewiththekale 2 года назад

@@pillowdaily7431 Sadly, you speak ignorance Respect DID apply, but you wouldn't know that because you just parrot off what someone tells you on the telly.

@lifeisgood628 2 года назад

@@pillowdaily7431 so you say pocs had more respect to women? Especially towards White women?

@pillowdaily7431 2 года назад

@@gonewiththekale “Telly” -🤓

@judychristensen5689 2 года назад

I'm not white, I grew up in the 50's, never experienced racism.

@moniquedeitz4356 2 года назад

At 0:48 is the El Rey Theatre which is still in existence: "The El Rey Theatre is a live music venue in the Miracle Mile area of the Mid-Wilshire region in Los Angeles, California. This art deco building was designed by Clifford A. Balch. Much of the theatre, including the lobby, still retains its art deco roots, admired for its Zigzag and Streamline Moderne design. Address: 5515 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036" Shown at 4:00, the old May Company building, where I shopped many times during its long life as a department store, is on the corner of Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard. It was completely renovated and now houses the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures collection.

@AAZEDLARC Год назад

Thank you! This is my neighborhood and you've done an amazing job!!

@BillVol 2 года назад

Of course it wasn't perfect then. But when you have strong families, discipline, good schools, law and order, this is what you have.

@mayc.onaise5649 2 года назад

this is what white people had

@danwelterweight4137 2 года назад

@@mayc.onaise5649 black people had much stronger families too, better schools and more discipline then too. Very few black children back then used to be born out of wedlock. Most Black folks to get married young and soon after they started dating. The education they used to get back them compared to what they are now getting in the inner cities was much better too. Black folks from that time period were a totally different people. That is why a lot of them from that time look at this current generation and wondered what the hell went wrong.

@tumsfestival8027 2 года назад

There was also 50% less people in the US during that time. It’s easier to keep things clean, and orderly with a smaller population. I mean think about how many cars drive down wilshire Ave now? This is probably the biggest difference in why things are the way they are now

@mayc.onaise5649 2 года назад

@@danwelterweight4137 did slaves have "more discipline"?

@mayc.onaise5649 2 года назад

@Alex as long as you were rich, male, straight, and christian

@heinzbucksandcastle2053 2 года назад

America was a real cultural power back then, nobody walked around homeless. Look at Cali now. Very sad.

@KoRnKnoTTeR 2 года назад

Blame wealth inequality that has continuously increased in this country for decades now.

@aeneasbarone6753 2 года назад

@@KoRnKnoTTeR more like corrupt polticians who giva a f*ck about their ppl

@sadlife8495 2 года назад

@@aeneasbarone6753 SAME THING corruption in every field not just politics but yes that certainly does a big part

@garyschultz7768 2 года назад

@@aeneasbarone6753 👍👍👍👍

@skk3940 2 года назад

That's because Europe was still rebuilding after wwii and they had to buy everything from USA. USA thought we could do the same thing in Korea and Vietnam...but nope..Vietnam is really what set USA on wrong course in terms of opportunity costs.

@Nystromj1 2 года назад

A different time! Born in LA in the 50's, grew up mostly in the 60's/early 70's before leaving. Wouldn't have traded that experience for anything ... the L.A. area was the best place to grow up then. As a teen, we used to build bonfires at the beach in the evening, hang out ... and spent a lot of time on a surfboard. But, things change. Had an opportunity to go back and live there, but as a frequent visitor over the years, it was clear that the entire L.A. area was in serious decline, so said no! Could never understand how the area could become so expensive at the same time it was becoming a 3rd world slum!

@hereforit2347 2 года назад

Lived and went to school in Ocean Park just a couple of blocks from the beach in the 60s through early 70s. Need I say more? ❤️

@richarddegen6184 Год назад

right on!!

@mariocabello3285 2 года назад

Nass, wooww, you are a genius with showing this video. I don't know if you could record a video with this same tour today and show it both at the same time, synchronizing on a shared screen, so you can see very graphically what has happened in these 70 years, thanks for your effort someone living there could do it and share it, we would appreciate it...

@tcxiv3767 2 года назад

The future of this city has become like a dystopian sci-fi movie,sadly it's not the only city.The 50's weren't a utopia either,but clearly better than the present.Great remaster!

@SA-hz1rs 2 года назад

Wrong

@chibiromano5631 2 года назад

would love to see a movie about that; guy from 2040 LA goes back to 1950s LA, tells one person what the future is like Ele Geh Beh communities, favelas, China is now a super power , Texas is on the brink of sucession, All our youth wants to be Japanese , spanish is now mainly spoken in LA, a Maya ah te president, the dems like upton sinclair now rule the state. Gosh, they would think that guy was just joking and laugh their a55es off ...but its haunting to know that he wasn't kidding. But the ending would be like him not wanting to leave to 2040 and to remain in 1950 ; meanwhile in the 2040 world, the world is going into chaos. He goes back but instead to 2080, and know people like him are being held in museums and amusment shows and hes being showcased like ISHI the Yahi. .. and people of the future study him and record him as a last relic of a peaceful great era.

@plpfctn2007 2 года назад

Those days were not better than today. Too much leave it to beaver. There were so many broken families. Women weren’t happy. Wives wanted to leave abusive husbands but couldn’t because they has less rights and opportunities as men. Extreme inequalities regarding Black communities. Black schools received pennies compared to white schools. Black HS graduation rates were almost zero. Today it’s much better.

@chibiromano5631 2 года назад

@@plpfctn2007 No manches guey. .. you just described the golden age minus the womens rights parts , rights for latina, white and asian women are a good thing.

@brianfeller6142 2 года назад

@@plpfctn2007 Hate to break it to you but feminists definitely aren't ever happy.

@TheChrisEMartin 2 года назад

Wow! We have lost something, nowadays, haven't we? How well-dressed everyone looked and everything was clean and well ordered... I can just about remember the feeling from the late 1950s

@massivebeatzz 2 года назад

this is early 1950 (1951 exactly), so a big difference to Elvis, Rockn Roll, Fonzie lifestyle of 56/57 and onward!

@V1AbortV2 2 года назад

This is what happens when minorities move into an area. They DESTROY it.

@artistnyc123 2 года назад

@@V1AbortV2 you are completely ignorant if you think this is about minorities coming in and destroying everything. Imagine if they actually paid minorities a living wage back then we wouldn't have the problems that we have now. Of course, now the majority of people are being paid the way minorities were being paid back then so now everybody's fucked

@artistnyc123 2 года назад

And all of those clothes were super affordable and sold at JCPenney's, Sears, and Montgomery wards, they were manufactured in the USA, primarily in New York City's garment district. Now everything is manufactured in China by slave labor and everybody's running around in basically underwear (T-shirts) and all the profits are being funneled up to a very few.

@sergeant2039 2 года назад

@@artistnyc123 yeah I'm sure throwing cash at minorities will magically make them act like us. LOL.

@davegoldspink5354 2 года назад

Although I was born here in Australia way this film was made like all the other films like this I’ve seen it still makes me smile. Thanks for sharing.

@janetgies8698 2 года назад

This is just one Wow! after another! Thank You!

@marilynnjacobsen1077 2 года назад

I remember riding in those cars as a child. Life was simple. The Studebaker was really plush on the inside and vehicles were made very well. Some towns back then turned into citys now. Kids ran and played outside instead of in front of a computer. We could not wait to see our friends. No social distancing BS unless you were sick you stayed home. Touching and huging spreads love while communicating which is good for your soul. The laws and rules now are only to divide us. Don't buy into that scam.

@robertchilders8698 2 года назад

I remember riding with my folks in their brand new Studebaker and the rations during the war! Bread was oñly 10 cents a loàf , añd milk arrived at our doorstep in glass bottles! That was the good old days,! I feel sorry for the kids of today with all the drugs and scamming that's that's going on!

@eugeniofernandez8101 2 года назад

You are right. Now we can´t even say hi or invite a woman to dinner because it´s considered harrasment....

@total2199 2 года назад

This clip is about time when American dream was real

@bentonrp 2 года назад

Real for some. For me? I would be the type to still complain that the country fell apart when Woodrow Wilson allowed the Federal Reserve to take over, that they were behind the sinking of the Titanic to pass the vote, that Roosevelt had permanently ruined the social structure with his socialist policies, knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor and intentionally did nothing, and that the world officially ended when Truman dropped that goddamn bomb ! ...But that's just me...

@V1AbortV2 2 года назад

Absolutely. The American dream consisted of family values, good education, NO minorities, minimal crime, and respect for authority. Those days are since LONG gone.

@tvgator1 2 года назад

@@V1AbortV2 You mean White America? You people are as disgustingly bitter as you are openly racist.

@tvgator1 2 года назад

Before Reagan helped destroy the middle class.

@CR7GOATofFootball 2 года назад

@@bentonrp They were not behind the sinking of the Titanic.

@dct3588 2 года назад

Wow. Just like taken yesterday.i could watch it over and over again.

@bond0666 2 года назад

I was born in 70's, but love the 50's era, I love movies from 50"s, and the cars

@1940limited 2 года назад

The newest car I see is a 51, so that must be when the movie was shot. I don't know who took all these street scene movies but I wish there was even more of them. Lots of pre-war cars still on the road back then. Fascinating! Thanks for posting.

@Zalnut1 2 года назад

See my post above, the El Rey was showing the Frogmen, released 1950-1951.

@eedoamitay3341 2 года назад

The newest car I see is a 52 actually, so that must be when the movie was shot. I don't know who took all these street scene movies but I wish there was even more of them, also. Lots of pre-war cars still on the road back then. Fascinating! Thanks for posting

@dday9257 2 года назад

@@eedoamitay3341 What 52 did you see? I didn’t see any car over a 51 either.

@1940limited 2 года назад

@@dday9257 52 Cadillacs are tricky to spot. Not much different from 51; wheelcovers, emblems under the headlights.

@peashooterc9475 2 года назад

@@1940limited 1950 Willys Jeepster at 2:53.

@IndyCrewInNYC 2 года назад

30+ years before I was alive and it's magnificent. So CLEAN! That Ralphs store facade at 6:55 is gorgeous! Thank you, once again, for a five-star job!

@trondog8503 Год назад

I’ve never even been to the states but can’t get enough of looking at these amazing images, what an amazing place the USA must have been back then.

@dlk7003 Год назад

According to the movies playing at the El Rey theater, this was filmed approximately July 1951. The Frogmen was released June 29th, and Fugitive Lady July 15th, 1951.

@kellycoleman715 2 года назад

What a remarkable time capsule! The streets and buildings were so clean and neat. Almost pristine. No homeless druggies or prostitutes. The signage on the businesses was amazing. My how we have fallen morally in 70 years. So sad.

@hugoramirez9622 2 года назад

Thanks gob Gavin nu

@JordanWilliams-ix2td 2 года назад

Meanwhile black people were treated as second class citizens in their own country at this time

@kellycoleman715 2 года назад

@@JordanWilliams-ix2td The black family was stronger by far though. LBJ’s so-called ‘Great Society’ programs set in motion the rapid decline of the nuclear black family with responsible fathers. That’s an undeniable fact. But yes, I am old enough to remember Jim Crow in the South and segregation. Now liberals are pushing for segregation again. Hmmm.

@theFurDeficit 2 года назад

There were plenty of homeless, "druggies", and prostitutes. They were deeply marginalized and cast out of the public view in order to keep up the idyllic American image. I'm not denying that this footage shows some stunning urban scenery. Now every city feels the same, lacks character, and feels disorganized.

@kellycoleman715 2 года назад

@@theFurDeficit Nothing like today. Moral decay is destroying our nation.

@nthdegree1269 2 года назад

Awesome! I like looking at the shops and advertisments along the drive.

@HJ-eb7jv 2 года назад

Same...its amazing

@lucianosantelli1076 2 года назад

Shops looked so modern

@user-mv9tt4st9k 2 года назад

The old May Company building (northeast corner) at Wilshire and Fairfax was many businesses; it is now the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum. I remember that drive well, I worked across from the La Brea tar pits and buildings along Wilshire.

@lukaku10832 Год назад

the only difference in sound design is the fact that you put people voice background in streets without people in the streets. :) despite this old-man observation... this is an AMAZING VIDEO!!!

@kingz9916 2 года назад

Wonderful video. Brings back many memories of Wilshire Blvd in the 1950s and 1960s. At about 1:03 of the video is a BBQ restaurant called the Flying Saucer. Pretty much the only restaurant my parents took us kids to when we went out for dinner. Dad sure loved those ribs. 😂

@helaine625 2 года назад

Out of all the wonderful old places in this film, The Flying Saucer is the one I got the most excited about, I think! It was SO SO SO good I can almost taste it, just thinking about it!! I'm glad others remember it too.

@tagbarzeev3571 2 года назад

@@helaine625Down the street from the Flying saucer was a barber shop shoe repair and a small parking lot.

@drscopeify 2 года назад

Indeed I think it is like how when I go to the Starbucks or Subway next to where I worked you become a "usual". Heh

@helaine625 2 года назад

@@tagbarzeev3571 Those places I don't remember.... it wasn't VERY close to where I lived, so I didn't do barbering or shoe repairing right there. But good to know! 😃

@Ardyen317 2 года назад

When we used to visit my grandparents about this time we would go to a bbq place just off of Century Blvd, either on Normandie or Vermont. I used to love to sit at the counter and watch the cooks pull the ribs off the racks in the pits. The best food and memories.

@felineth56 2 года назад

I wish I had known this era in the US!...Definitely my era! The music, the clothes, the cars and people!

@mr.blackhawk142 5 месяцев назад

Geez! The REMASTERED videos are crystal clear!

@depletable 2 года назад

Look how new everything is. That's the thing about time. When things first pop up (especially buildings) they're brand new and looking top-notch. Then after time, it's totally dependent on how well it's taken care of to slow the effect of time, but nothing will look as good as it did when brand new. The sidewalks, streets, and cars are all relatively new in this video. Those old time classic suburbia pictures, etc., were all fresh and people were on top of taking care of it because not enough time passed where people then start to not care anymore. It would've been nice being around when there was so much newness.