Yes. Things such as taking photos of grocery/department stores, even their parking lots can be golden to future generations. Store shelves with products, restaurants as you walk in, hotels, hospitals. Documenting the now because in an instant it becomes the past. Lots of instagram fakeness online today, but people who didn't live it want to see how it really was.
@@BananasananaB Before I play around with camera, I don't have that much photo of my old house, and the memory is nearly all faded away. So,when there's a chance, I try to take a photo and video as much as I can in the best format, resolution I can afford and back it up properly in safe place. Not much of a pic outside but usually my family, my house, or when just having a breakfast together, mum driving a car, dad fixing a motorbike. Not even 3 years in, looking at those shots is already felt good.
Yes, the infrastructure and landmarks are all indistinguishable. The only real difference between the two videos is the resolution and dated automobiles.
@@Ocinneade345 1988 a VHS camera was $2000 and they were 24fps in LP mode and 30fps in SP mode.All of the footage was interlaced, it wasn’t until digital 8 cameras came along in the early 2000s that 60fps was available to consumers. My Dad bought his first VHS camera in 1986 it was $2800 and weighed a ton. He still has it because he’s a pack rat and it still works lol
I was 9 on the left and 43 on the right. I hope the take away from those younger than me is that things don't change as rapidly as one thinks. Anyone from 1988 would be able to get around in 2022 LA and while they'd notice subtle changes indicating "the future" it's not as crazy different as one might think.
Electric and self driving cars would be a trip. Same with those bird scooters and Lyfts instead of cabs would be weird and half the city wearing masks would be weird but I totally get what you’re saying. The roads and architecture are vastly similar but I’d still be tripped out seeing everyone in their cars on cell phones too haha. I’m 41 so I somewhat remember 88 as a 7 year old 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Things have changed WAY MORE than you realize. Mostly in terms of society at large (not for the better) but also technology has advanced a lot. Most of what has changed are things you can't really see. At 9 years old you wouldn't have really realized the state of things to understand the profound differences. Not criticizing you just saying children aren't aware of adult topics and concerns. That's why everyone who was an adult in the 1980's (almost to a person) wishes we could go back. Also, not the same point, but even for a 9 year old today vs. back then things have changed a lot. What hasn't changed that much is just the feeling of cruising down the expressway listening to tunes (in general) and I guess that's what you are referring to in your comment. Anyway, not criticizing your comment at all just want to make sure that younger people understand that there has been lots of change... don't be fooled by your eyes.
@@aliceberethart This is one of my favorite things on youtube and there are many others like it. Here's an 87 year old man being interviewed 93 years ago when talking films just came out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RS27u6IqWt0.html This man was born 180 years ago and has a good point of reference on the human condition.
Same here! I feel like I’m the only one thats checking out every other car when driving. I play this game where I try to guess what car is behind me just by glancing at their headlights at night 😂.
yeah, unlike today. i dont listen to the radio anymore because every station just plays this modern trash. every single modern "song" is just mumbling with generic music in the background
@@snackler6102 you are lucky you have them, here in manchester uk, as far as i could find every station plays autotune trash except classic fm, and that plays classical music
Is that why he skips stations several times every few minutes? 😂 there was bad music back then too, it’s just that you only remember the good songs and people today only ever play the good songs from that period. Like how people think that all old tools are great and modern ones are junk. “They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.” There were junk tools from a long time ago too, they’ve just all broken and been thrown away. Of course it’s only the *good* old tools that have survived, thus making you think that all the old tools were good. Survivorship bias.
Always found the original video intriguing. I absolutely admire the fact that you remade this so accurately. I look forward to "Driving in 2056 vs 2022" 😂
The roads were maintained back then. Now that Democrats run shit, roads are shit. Like the rest of LA and every other place they control. Oh but their banks account have grown by millions!
I'm not from LA but this is really fascinating how you matched up the timing. I like how at 11:45 we hear 3 straight songs that, 34 years later, are STILL radio staples!
For those of you who are not from LA or may have missed it, a couple of really big, noticeable points are 1. The Getty Center built on the left (west) side of the freeway was completed in 1997, and 2. the 405 was widened significantly around the top of the grade. This required the tall bridge almost to be completely rebuilt, and also the mountainside was significantly altered and graded to allow for the extra lanes. At around 13:20, you can see one of the retention walls and the removed mountainside. This stretch of the 405 is one of, if not the busiest freeway interchanges in the world, and was required to be closed for one weekend, leading many locals to leave the area for the weekend to avoid the major traffic disruptions.
@@DavidParke84 Did you also alter the time? At the first glance it seems that both took 27 mins to complete the journey even if one side or the other was slowed down.
I cant get enough of the music, brings me back to my childhood when going on roadtrips in the late 90’s to southern California to visit my Grandparents ❤️❤️
As someone who has lived in Sherman Oaks for a very long time... this is fascinating, because I have driven this exact route countless times. Only difference is that I turn right after exiting on Van Nuys Blvd. Many of the differences between the 2 videos are changes I remember having to deal with months of construction headaches, if not years. People talk about how bad traffic has gotten lately... I usually reply that traffic has ALWAYS sucked, and this video is proof
As someone who pays attention to trees (tree nerd!) I found it fascinating that many trees looked shockingly similar in size 25 years later. The two palms on the left at 8:36-8:41. The three palm trees at 8:59 aren't that much taller. Even the tree at 27:49 on the left doesn't look that much bigger considering it's 25 years later.
@@tanside979 LOL, I know, I realized that shortly after but didn't bother to edit my comment. Truth is I cannot believe 1988 was 35 F'ing years ago. Like how F'ing OLD am I????? How did this happen?
This is why I really like the algorithms on RU-vid. I would NEVER have searched for something like this. Being in my early 20's in 88 and now in my late 50's this year, I appreciate this. What I've noticed is the trees and population growth. I so appreciate this video and for having the mind to do this in 88, ahead of their time! Thank you!
This absolutely brought back memories! I'm a retired pilot. Back in 88, I lived on Addison, right off of Van Nuys Blvd. I would drive back and forth to LAX listening to KFWB (traffic) KROQ, KMET, for music. Someone in the comments mentioned that "there are a lot less trees and shrubs along the freeway today." This appears to be so. I live in northern California now. We still have trees up here. But, the wild fires are taking its toll on nature here too. Sad state of the times. Nevertheless.. Great Video!
@@RobtheAviator ayy bro what classes you take? I’m a student at csula major in aviation administration and my career goal is to become a FedEx pilot. 😭
@@interfuze9470 I got a degree in Aviation Management from Embry-Riddle and went to civilian flight school and became a flight instructor to build hours. I went to the regionals after that to build time and eventually made it to my airline of choice!
I'm 3 minutes in and this is one of the most incredible videos I've ever seen. It's unreal how some things are just the same after 34 years. What a world! And what is it about nostalgia? I was only 3 - barely even alive - but I feel like I'd give anything to go back and live in 1988... why is that? Honestly like whole buildings or abutments are torn down and replaced or rebuilt, and then some sign or telephone pole just chills there the whole time.
What a really cool thing to do. Thank you. Great decision keeping the original audio. I grew up in Anaheim during the 80's early 90's. I remember a lot of the old footage ride. What a flood of memories. Somewhere out in the distance my dad is driving home from work. I miss him.
Your father was part of a beautiful thing, and the memory of this time period is immortalized with the memory of the people who lived in it. Tell his stories, pass them down to your children or nieces and nephews or just the internet even if no one sees it now. We can only learn so much about the past through pictures and videos, stories is how you immortalize the memories. Tell your story, trust that someone someday will appreciate hearing it. We’re all going to depart this ride someday, but our stories and memory don’t need to die along with us 🕊️
It was pretty cool how you were behind two GMs that probably would’ve shared a platform (80s Buick and a late model Cadillac ATS). Then there was a white Sentra and a white Camry in almost the same position relative to you. Also, at one of the lights, you were behind the quirky 80s Isuzu Impulse and the quirky 20s Toyota Mirai. There were more examples but those stuck out to me. Thanks for your incredible work. RU-vid is truly a visual and aural encyclopedia. You were truly ahead of the curve in the 80s! The next time you go back there, please leave your DeLorean parked in the open so we can see how it looked when it was new. I understand why you couldn’t drive it to film; as it would’ve been such a distraction. 😁
If it’s a Friday evening and still light out, it will be bumper to bumper for miles in this section of the 405 going northbound like the video. Wouldn’t be possible to make a comparison. That’s why he took a drive at 1pm
Great work. Moved to LA in 1989 (since left), so the 1988 footage was like a time machine. Excellent effort syncing and the original 1988 audio from radio really adds to the 1988-ness.
This video is insane. I was born in 1999 so this was recorded when my mom was a kid. I have a feeling the air was just different back then, Much like how it felt when I was in school.
@@DjJooze no, he is right actually. The chemtrail spraying really has amped up over the last decade. The air actually was better. Lmao you thought he was basing his opinion off the look of the footage? You sound like the zoomer.
This is amazing! Reminds me just how fascinating RU-vid can be sometimes. I moved to LA around ‘89. Glad you thought to preserve these memories and share them with us.
@@robdisner Oh , I thought you might be one of the loonie leftist that have left,or thinking of leaving, Calipornia to infect their political leftist disease of liberalism thru out the country... so you're the smart one to move to Northern Calipornia?
Been 4 years since I've been in Van Nuys/Panorama. Now live in Spain. This was a nostalgic memory because it's the same route I would take going home. It's insane how not much has change in the Valley all these years. Mad respect for taking your time to do this drive and editing this. Awesome work.
My son came up with the idea and I jumped at the chance it was just too crazy not to do I held the camera and he drove and then because he's a professional editor he edited together perfectly
Fascinating :) Not sure if anyone else does this, but when I see a video shot at a time when I was alive, but in the past, I always try to think where I was and what I may have been doing at the same time. For me, when the original was shot, I was 8 years old and very likely sound asleep. I was in the then West Germany and 6pm LA time is 3am in Europe the next day. Nothing more interesting than seeing what folk 6 thousand miles away were doing while you slept!
Definitely! I was watching a RU-vid video from 89 that was filmed at the mall I went to as a kid, and you feel like you’re time traveling for a moment, and I wondered where 12 year old me was at that moment in time.
Definitely. I grew up in Tarzana, about 5-6 miles to the west of where this ends, and Aug '88 was the summer between 6th and 7th grade for me. Seeing the old, iconic Sherman Oaks Galleria logo around 21:47, before it was demolished in the years after the 1994 earthquake, is bittersweet as hell. What a trip down memory lane.
By pure coincidence the day the modern video was recorded was the 50th anniversary of when the song "Listen To The Music" by the doobie brothers at 8:00 was released!
At @08:30, the triple cluster of high rise apartments(?)/offices(?) on the right side of the freeway is still being built! That's an image that REALLY sold me on this video. It's so surreal, like actual time travel.
Boy the music back then sure beats the snot outta what they blast today. Great job on the side by side comparison! Sherman oaks hospital building grew quite a bit.
Totally appreciate how you slow down the footage to match location and traffic conditions to fit the landmarks. Thank you for the hard work. I enjoyed the old footage's music, too. Thanks for doing this.
Find it interesting how, LA being a giant, old (by American standards) megacity, so much of it hasn't changed in 34 years. Lots of aesthetic changes, but almost all of the large and medium buildings you see in 2022 were already there in 1988. I'd love to see a similar comparison to my own city Melbourne in Aus. It's grown so rapidly even in the last 20 years I bet it would look almost unrecognisable. I've seen some footage of what the main street, Swanston St, looked like in 1988, and honestly, it's barely the same place. So open and medium sized, lots of 5 - 10 story buildings. Nowadays parts of it feel like a mini Manhattan, with dozens and dozens of 30, 40, 50, 60 etc story towers built since the 90's.
its cause the government refuses to allow people to build anything unless you have enough money to bribe them. cash is king in California, they have some of the most corrupt people on planet earth running things over their. in normal states you just build shit and you dont have to bribe your local inspector to do it.
@@hellfreezer3037 China builds (seemingly) empty concrete high-rises the way spiders weave cobwebs. I do love Vancouver but I agree, those glass condos are soulless. I wouldn't say LA's skyline is all that "beautiful" either. It's only when you really zoom in on specific blocks, building or neighborhoods within LA that there is a type of beauty. The way the Formosa Cafe stands defiantly next to a ridiculous 2 story Target/Best Buy shopping plaza. Things like that.
he was making this not thinking anything. 40 years later you take the same drive. for some reason it makes me feel like you guys had similar lives or were connected in some weird way. just weird how the world works sometimes. and thinking of that gives me the chills
When there was a "WAR ON DRUGS" (in the 80's)!! And wow the vegetation/trees that existed back then (before DAVEY's) Also looks like they took out some mountains too. Look at all the Pintos and VW Bugs! Great Videos.
There doesn't appear to have been much in the way of changes, except for a few concrete embankments and retaining walls to the right of the roadway. This must have been very time-consuming to synchronize so precisely -- thanks for sharing!!
The power of Civil Engineers and their genius inventions/dedication to public safety as a result of years of experience and education. Impactful for the quality of daily life but disgustingly marginalized and unrecognized compared to lawyers and doctors.
Looking at the cars and hearing the radio from back then really took me back...thanks man....for a few minutes I was at peace from the cluster we are living today....
Aug 26 , 1988 I had just come back from South America visiting some family. At about that hour I was at Miami international airport. I was just 14 years old and starting HS in two weeks. I still have the passport and ticket stub from that trip. I was living in the OC in La Palma at time. And much later I would be living in Venice for 11 months in 2011- 2012. So I know that area fairly well.
I grew up in Van Nuys and was 25 years old in 1988. I remember most of the streets and landmarks you passed, they bring back great memories. Thank you!
This is amazing. I grew up in The Valley in the 80s & now am in LA. It is funny how little changes in a lot of LA. A few new retaining walls, new businesses in strip malls, etc. but it is very much the same. The effort to sync the shots is impressive. And don’t you miss KROQ?!
Videos like this are so interesting to watch. I've never been to California in my life but seeing the comparison between the different eras is incredible.
This is so dope! I love the original video because it's the closest thing we'll get to time travel. I appreciate that guy for filming his drive all those years ago, and I appreciate you for recreating it so that we can see this side by side comparison!
This is AWESOME. I find this kind of stuff fascinating. I have looked into old road maps as far back as 1910 and photos of old roads and highways from back then. I love this kind of stuff and I thought it was great you tried to recreate it. I would've been even more awesome if you would've recreated the date and attempted to film it on August 26. But, this is cool enough as it is. Thanks for taking on this project. I certainly appreciate it.
I can't thank you enough. I am from LA and moved out of there in 1989; a year after I turned 40. It was great seeing how things had changed. I took my grandkids to LA a few years ago to show them the areas where I hung out but there was no appreciation; maybe when they are older!!! Again, thank you so much
The music from the Radio make me recall that time. And even same landscape, all trees grown up. Very interesting video. Thank you for posting such a nice video.
The Doors 20th Century Fox was playing on the radio! Wow. That was the soundtrack to my first romance in 1982. I never hear that song on the radio. Wow. On 28 AUG 1988, I was an Active duty Marine at MCAS EL TORO, just down the 405 in the opposite direction. Thanks. What a great idea.
It's crazy to see how much has and hasn't changed in the last 30+ years. I live over by national and sawtelle and routinely drive past the on ramp you got on at. I remember seeing some dude get arrested in the carls jr parking lot at 4:50.
They re-built that freeway twice over the years. I think this is the first time since 1988 that there HASN'T been significant construction along this stretch.
There are some other interesting videos like this on YT. I saw one in downtown LA in the 40s vs now.. This one really took me back even though I hadn't been in the LA area until 20 years after this '88 video.
Incredible! I lived in LA during this time, and remember all those radio stations and the 405. It’s literally going back in time. Great idea to put it up on RU-vid. Great work with the timing.
At around 11:25 : Who remembers the distinct radio jingle that used to play for KFWB news 98 radio station? One of their slogans was, "you give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world." Interestingly enough, back then that was the average length of a commute in the Los Angeles area. I grew up there as a young child in the 1980s and distinctly remember hearing that jingle play all the time on the radio whenever my dad would drive us around. This video brings back so much nostalgia for me. Nowadays, KFWB news 98 is no more. Its last broadcast was in 2009. It is currently a Mexican radio station called "La Mera Mera 980."
Wow!!! I really enjoyed this trip back in memory lane. I grew up in Long Beach and went to school at Cal Poly-SLO. This drive brings back memories taking the 405 to the 101 from home to SLO (in my Datsun 610B). Thank you David.
Dood! You scratch right where I itch! It is just amazing how everything worked out with locations, knowledge etc. Thanks for allowing me to ride shotgun!
This is so well done and so fascinating - especially because it's not at all what I expected! Starting the video, I expected to see all sorts of differences and also expected traffic to be much sparser in 1988, but I was struck by how remarkably similar it all is, down to many of the same buildings being there, virtually unchanged. I moved to LA just a couple years after the first video - in early '91 - and my mind is somewhat blown! Also, I miss just listening to the radio while driving! Thanks for this great video.
It would be better if they were done at the same time of day to ge a better traffic reference. The one in '88 was at 6:30 pm, the one in '22 is at 1 pm. Also, traffic got really bad while all of that was under construction, which was most of the in between time. They have been perpetually re-building all of that. I'm amazed this video is only 27 min long. I have taken that route, many times, at all hours, It is very similar to my commute in a number of those years. It can take up to 3-4 hours depending what is going on. At that point one has likely gotten off and has taken Sepulveda, or other ways across the hill. But really, it's amazing how little has changed. A few new structures, but really it's just an upgraded freeway.
26:56 Rolls Royce in the old video, 5:16 Rolls Royce in the new video, never lived in LA, but that's about what I expected. Super cool video, I love these types of new and old comparison.
I'm not from the area but this was oddly satisfying to watch with the side by side views both past and present. I don't know how this popped up on my youtube recommendations but thank you for doing this!
Lived in LA (West Covina) from 58' to 72'....then moved to the central coast (Cambria) for high school & junior college near San Luis Obispo. Back to LA (Chatsworth) to attend Cal State Northridge in 1980...finally escaping to northern California in 1986 (Santa Rosa). Santa Rosa went from a population of 60K to 160K over the next 11 years....so moved again, this time to the far northwest corner of California, next to the ocean. Though I had good times in LA, twice...I much prefer rural over urban living...and your video shows me exactly why (101, 405, and 118 freeway traffic has always sucked).
Something about listening to this 80's radio station is comforting. I ended up just listening to it in the background while I'm working. I think you've accidentally opened up some interesting ideas here.
so cool to see what has changed and what still remains decades later. As a car guy my favorite part was comparing cars, people like to say todays cars are too much the same but honestly its not a huge difference from 1988, looks like its just a thing people will always say
Perfect job keeping the videos synced, including timely lane changes. This must've been a lot of work, but a labor of love I'm sure! Thank you for creating this!
How fun! I took that route 5 days a week from 1969 through 1992. I enjoyed watching many of the taller buildings go up, including the round tower at 11:11 and the Getty Museum. Thanks for doing that!
What an Amazing Video!! I could watch these all day. You did an amazing job. For me I had an eerie feeling the whole time. The commercials and music top it off. Lived in LA from 66 to 76 then Bakersfield. Now Seattle. Thumbs up to you sir!!
What a great idea! Record while driving through the city (all the hot spots & not) with the radio on. Save it for+/- 50 years & repeat . I love seeing this stuff
