Los Angeles Airport, Supelveda South Bound, I110 North Bound, 7th and the I110, Sunset Blvd. Music by Jimmy has been replace with John Deley and the 41 Players - Hold on a Second
Foreign cars were so much more fun than American cars, heck you could fly thru the canyons and get to the beach Way before the chevy or ford!!! Lol my 12 cylinder jag did 70 in first gear, 125 in second, and I had tons of pedal left when I took it up to 155 on 395 near red rocks one evening going to mammoth lakes.
Walter, GOD gave you a brain to be able to think for your Self!!! Don't believe everything they tell you or else you'll wind up lost. Before you were born America made electric cars that could go 100 miles on a charge.. but then the oil industry was created to poison the air you breathe until you are too poisoned to think for yourself... America is the problem, but you might think otherwise...!
I arrived in SoCal in 1962 at 10 years old. To me it was paradise. Although my mom who grew in Van Nuys told me it was a paradise, until WWII began, people moved to SoCal to work in defense plants, many service men and families moved there after the war. In 1939 population was almost 7 million, in 1946 almost 10 million then climbed steadily through the 70s. In 1962 population was 17,07200. In 2022 was 39,29032. I guess the thoughts of paradise are relative to the individual. My dad was in the building trades in ‘62, my mom stayed home. My siblings and I grew up in a four bedroom house and parents had 2 cars. I don’t know if it’s possible to do that in an L.A. suburb in 2023. My heart goes out to the younger people trying to get a home and start a family. Watching some of these vintage films takes me back. Thanks for uploading!
Teresita Ortal Yes people dressed to leave the home and neighborhood. Men wore suits to work unless they were in manual labor, and then they wore uniform work clothes. Ladies dressed to go shopping, visiting and even to the grocery. Only kids would wander the streets scruffy. As our society gets more prosperous childhood extends well into later life, thus middle aged people dress like they did when they were 14. Travel was an event as was going to a movie or concert.
You mean Armenia Airport. They changed the name when they sold your ass down the river. Russians didn't want them now we got them and they are doing the same shit. Running welfare and medical fraud. Thanks US government as if the Mexicans gangs and the joy they brought wasn't enough. All while filling their pockets crime jumps and drugs soar.
R ef. Yes but even poor people dressed for public, unless they were completely destitute. You see train travel films of the same time and people are well dressed. Trains weren't especially expensive and everyone used them. Even buses had a good number of passengers that dressed. Really the pop culture of the late 60s degraded the aesthetic in the western world over the past 50 years. Large scale immigration in the 90s and 00s from third world nations pretty much solidified it. See Japan today. They didn't buy into the counterculture and they are borderline xenophobic barely allowing immigration. They still dress well for public.
The 60s can't help us. They're what got us here. There's no help coming. Just more of the same. Masks and lock downs. Citizens ratting each other out for wrongthink. Brothers, 2020 was not an aberration; it was the harbinger. You're welcome.
Those people born in the 60s, 50s, 40s, and even the 30s, are very lucky to experience those good times, I miss the old times, when it was all cool, no technology, and BS back then.
@@samt.8533 people weren't required back then to wear their seat belts but we always did, my mother made sure of that, she was tossed out of a car in 1953 and slid across an intersection on her backside; couldn't sit on a hard chair for the next 25 years. And back then in the early 60's the cars had steel dashboards which weren't too forehead friendly.
@@rlmye65 I was born in the late 50's and remember many of the cars on the roads back then. I just wished I could have been a few years older old enough to understand the significance of and remember JFK's assassination, ie age 11.
Icarus look on RU-vid for RALPH STORY L.A. and "Things that aren't there anymore" by Stephanie Edwards. RALPH STORY was an anchor on channel 2 KNXT the CBS affiliate in L.A in the 1960's. Another trip back down memory lane is if you can find the clips of SLIM BARNARD doing the HAPPY WANDERS. FORD gave him as car (as a promotional) and he toured all around California and the west with his wife on weekend outings.
@@glennredwine289 why wasn't born until 65 however my mother basically pioneered the 50s by riding those trains to and from work up until she learned how to drive does back in the day when her office was in Vernon
@@cashouttdan 1954 was when Brown vs Board of Education when into law deeming segregation unconstitutional. That is what eventually led to the end of segregation. In '64 the civil Rights act was a formality introduced by JFK to guarantee that every American has the same rights. Read a fucking book.
+George Vreeland Hill Yes it was, but wasn't life itself much better ?.the worlds technology may have moved into unbelievable orbits, but our quality of life has gone backwards.just like the moral standards along with it.We had the golden opportunity to make our world a much better place for everyone, but we have failed miserably.
+George Vreeland Hill I was 10 back in 1965 and I have clear memory of the LACK of traffic on the freeway. I guess that marks me. Calling them the 'Free Ways'... as New England gets the high way taxes. Anyway, I remember when back then, when WEEKDAY traffic looked like today's SUNDAY traffic. Fewer people back in 1965 California. Too many people now.
+George Vreeland Hill And I just saw your Tribute to David Bowie. He was a super talent. I have been in-love with D.Bowie since I was in high school, and it was - a sad transition of my life, in letting him go recently. I was in-love with this man (only 8-years older than I was) who created such wondrous effects. Back in H.S. I appreciated his skills, inventiveness, .. talent. Super genius. Anyway, thank you for your input and tribute. A lot of us loved him. Thank you.
+George Vreeland Hill Hay man, I live on the other side on the planet and here we are always watching american films filmed in California and especially L.A. it looks soo nice,so sunny place with a lot of people,the beaches are my favorite LA is a center of many world events I've always dreamed to go there just on an excursion but my country requires a visas for america and not everyone is allowed to go!So can you share your thoughts about the live in LA :) Regards from here!
A time when people had more common sense... not every goddamn thing was political. No political correctness and cancel culture... What has happened to this country?
One thing that really strikes me about these old clips from the 60s is just how goddamn stylish everything was back then compared to today. The cars, the people's clothes, just the general aesthetic.
The best part of being 64 years old, is actually having been able to experience THAT Los Angeles you see in the video. It's my hometown and I love it, but I'd be lying if I said today's L.A. compares.
Dude, I was born ( '47) and raised in L.A. it was a great place to live during the 50s and 60s. I lived near Western and Vernon, walked to Rams and Dodgers games at the Coliseum. Once my buddies and i rode our bikes thru the Crenshaw Shopping Center b and up the hills to that big Water Reservoir.....a few years before it collapsed. You think a group of 6 or so 13 yr old boys could do that now-a-days? Great times but I left in '70 to join the Army and never returned...except to visit family. I retired to Florida 10 years ago and love it. I visit SoCal yearly.....it's like being in enemy territory.
A great time for me. My parents had just imagrated from England. Landed in. LAX 1967, with 5 little kids. A job and $35 in their pocket book. Lived in South central LA. The community support was like no other. With in a year my Dad was able to buy a new house in s little known community called Fountain Valley. Costing $22,000... No welfare or public assistance! This was definitely the land of milk and honey. What happened?
Jeanette Griffin ~ Cool story, and I won't get into what went wrong since then. It would be a book lol. Oh and if your family came to the US in '67, it was a few years after this film clip, which was 1964.
@@brianchase9251 ~ Doesn't seem likely. Here's the thing. This is extra footage, made during the production of the movie Sex and the Single Girl, released 12/64 (referenced IMDb). I've seen the archives when I worked in the film business. Possibly you saw a '65 Impala that would've been brand new at the time, practically off the showroom floor. As I'm sure you know, new models are released a few months prior to the actual year, and it was a similar body style to the '66, with slight differences. I saw what appears to be a '63 or '64 Buick Riviera on the far left, beginning about the 2:24 mark. Then a '65 Mustang takes front and center between 3:25 and 3:30... or could it be a '64 and 1/2? In closing, it's tricky to discern details in this film.
@@rickmcnulty3757 Definitely not 1964, theres a 65/66 mustang at 3:30. Also, sad to see the racists come out luckily they all left the region, good riddance. What happened? Capitalism and its worse variety of fictitious finance capitalism happened. Its not 'blacks' fault the city is unaffordable, polluted, and some areas deeply poverty stricken.
The kind of quality that meant short life -- 70k miles life -- and more repairs. Very low reliability compared to todays cars. Also cars were death traps.
@@samt.8533; Remember actual, unsimulated crash sites in the 1980s when real cars were crashing alongside and into modern tin cans? One you walked away from, the modern ones get obliterated with soft pillars and torn sheet metal ripping soft flesh to pieces.
Yes,beautiful cars who made me dream growing up in France and once foreign ones started to take over,that was it for me,America losted his appeal,you're fucked now,in fact w're fucked!!! lol
Born in the San Fernando valley in 1960 and it was so fun back then and safe for us kids..Mom and Dad got us out of there in the early 70's before things got real bad.
I get physically and emotionally affected watching videos of this era. My stomach begins to churn and I have this aching feeling in my heart. The mental connection is so strong my mind starts digging up memories and takes me back. Life was good for me back then. I suppose the heart yearns for those years again.
AGREED, the cars all just look like blobs now, too much emphasis on streamlining. Chrysler was a pretty innovative carmaker but they managed to put out some pretty ugly cars. Slant six was a great motor.
@@BillLaBrieHow is it hidden exactly ? Pretty much every documentaries, tv shows and movies nowadays heavily focus on these negative sides. Your opinion is by no means subversive, it actually has become mainstream thinking
Me, too. It's amazing that that look (traditional Ivy League) is truly today's alternative (a 'punk-rock', of sorts), as 'alternative' has become safe, run-of-the-mill mainstream (e.g. blue hair, tattoos, piercings, etc.) Whoever would have thought?
That's why they built the San Diego Freeway. The traffic would crawl over Sepulveda. There were lights at Ventura Blvd. And the big cars belched out the smoke. The smog could be terrible - could hardly breath.
clarkewi Since you were I believe young enough to remember segregation, I wonder what you think of it now that is has been long gone, and what you think about how America has changed until today. Do you wish somethings would change and if so what?
The issue isn’t bipartisan. It’s symptomatic of intense demand and a capitalist system that is run on a speculative real estate market where values of property *magically* go up every year.
The traffic was redirected in one direction for the Natalie Wood movie "Sex and The Single Girl" if you watch the movie they had a car chase with the motorcycle cop. This is stock footage for the movie.
It's answered several times in other comments on this thread. It's staged, extra footage from a 1964 movie starring Natalie wood. Not only are the cars all going the same direction, but they and the motorcycle officer are not driving normally. Apparently it was footage for a chase scene in the movie. In the real world, who or what would be following a motor officer that closely?
It's a dual style of freeway, there used to be a few out in Balboa in San Diego. Basically they look like separate roads but the upper/lower halves merge together at some point (and have entrances). They follow the california valleys so it looks narrow but there's actually several other oncoming lanes out of view to the far left.
The road you see on the other side is actually the 405 freeway. If Sepulveda was part of the freeway, then why is there a double yellow line down the middle? I'm guessing they must have used it a a reversible lane during rush hour? Anyone remember?
Not everybody is driving in the same direction. At 00:53 on the left side of the screen is somebody going in the wrong direction. Yes, this road is definitely confusing.
I'm not sure why people don't read the other comments in a thread before asking or responding to questions, but this clip has been explained several times in this thread. It's footage from a 1964 Warner Brothers movie called "Sex and The Single Girl" starring Natalie Wood. The road was closed to all other traffic so the scene could be filmed and all of those cars in this clip and everyone driving them are part of the movie. If you look up the movie and watch it you will see this scene.
Amazing footage and good music. A lot of the videos have horrible music that doesn't match what's shown. This one is perfect. I also like how there was dead silence in the end. What a fitting way to end a video like this. Even though I was born in 1966, I have quite a few clear memories from the very late 60s, especially 1969. I do remember the layout of small stores and boulevards and their architecture. The street light color, especially the beige lighting, and tear drop lamp posts always intrigued me. Something about the 60s that was so special.
My family moved to North Hollywood from Des Moines Iowa in 1960, and I swear, I saw my dad’s ‘59 Plymouth in one of those scenes. I loved growing up during that era. But the JFK assassination has never left me. On the bright side, Beatlemania hit our neighborhood just the same as the British scenes in Hard Days Night. And yes, the smog was unbearable! I’ve had asthma my entire life and spent so much time in the hospital there. I always considered Southern California/ Los Angeles as my home town and always desired to move back, until I did in 2015. You can’t find a road with traffic that light unless you drive at 4am on a Sunday morning now. The graffiti and trash are similar to a post nuclear war now. Driving from Pasadena to Long Beach is a 2 hour trip to go 30 miles, on a 6 lane freeway. The popular line to tell newcomers is the 405 freeway was named because it takes 4 or 5 hours to reach your destination. The smog is barely noticeable, but you lose half of your life sitting in a car. If you are determined to be on time for anything, anywhere, you need to get up early enough to leave by 4am if you have to travel 30 miles or more. It’s sad for me, because it feels like my childhood was a dream. It still is a great place to live, if you are wealthy and have time to waste sitting in traffic
I feel the same way Jim. The only thing that has improved is the air quality. No more third-stage smog alerts but unfortunately, everything else has gone to crap. I've lived in LA all my life since 1969 so I've seen the changes first hand.
I love the music. My son and his family live in Orange. We usually fly into LAX. I do not think the drive up area at the airport has changed. I love all of the vehicles. I am 64 and grew up in the 60s. My first trip to LA was in 2010.
In the mid sixties, they limited Sepulveda Blvd. over Sepulveda Pass to one way traffic during the rush hours. one way southbound in the AM and the same northbound in the PM.
I was a little kid in LA in the 60's. A big thing that stands out is how clean and well-maintained everything is. But I'm really confused about why Sepulveda Bl seems to be set up as four lanes of one way traffic, rather than two and two. They show it like this going in both directions. You can see sparse traffic on the 405, so it wouldn't have been some kind of rush-hour thing. Also, back in the 60's, the Harbor Fwy was not I110, but rather was California 11.
Mr. Craig! I was 'gone' on this one at :46! Living in L.A. as a teen in the 60's has just gotten even better. No wonder Ohio has bored me to tears ever since.
After growing up in Ohio, I lived in LA for several years and still get back there to visit as often as possible. I like SoCal and consider it my second home, but there were things I also missed about Ohio while living there such as four distinct seasons, perfect Midwestern falls, etc. Some Midwestern transplants I knew out there missed snow especially around Christmas, but I never did. I much prefer winters in SoCal. Both places their pros and cons.
Proto J ~ Huh? Obviously the cars had good control back then. It wasn't the 1920s ding dong. The car with the camera is weaving all over, and going faster than the others. It has nothing to do with why drivers were more civil and polite.
This was a movie shoot (with the motocop) It is not normal traffic. Note the reversed lanes. The later freeway segment was real. The freeways worked to ease the already problematic LA sprawl traffic in the early 60s. The Red Car and the Yellow Car (Southern Pacific streetcar lines) created the sprawl because the owners were selling land developments at the streetcar stops in 1900, far from Central City. By the 70s everyone was on the freeways and they were being upgraded to connect them with the full interstates. Construction caused gridlock. It gets a bit better for a few years, and then bottlenecks again causing more construction. Cars are a result of the sprawl, not the original cause in LA.
I visited LA a dozen times in the '60's. It was pretty cool back then. As a Bay Area resident most of my life, visiting LA has been an increasingly dismal event ever since. We Bay Area folks now often say "LA Sucks!"
@@randymoran67 HEY ASSHOLE KNOCK OFF THE HOMOPHOBIC BULLSHIT YOU FUCKING PRICK.. JESUS CHRIST IT SOUNDS LIKE U KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE HOW IT FEELS.. GOT ANY SMARTASS COMEBACKS I WILL GLADY BE HERE WAITING FOR YA....!!
Wow. Great video. Someone from the 1960's would be shocked how clean L.A.'s air is today (those classic cars were actually rolling chimneys) ... and how crappy pretty much everything else is.
Oh, L.A. had its problems like any other era; but I had the good fortune of growing up in Long Beach in an upper-middle class lifestyle thanks to my father. It offered me a different vantage point from which to look at the progress all around us in L.A., the money flying around, the endless diversions and leisure and recreation opportunities in SoCal, and frankly an entirely different set of social values from what we've come to lament presently. If I had to live in Watts or East L.A. at that time I'm sure I would've had an entirely different view of what it was like to grow up there in the 60s. So I obviously wouldn't trade in what was my experience for anything. My only regret? That I didn't appreciate it then as much as I do now. I look upon my memories of L.A. in the 60s fondly and with some sadness for not realizing how good I had it then.
It depends on the girls you are talking about today. There are still many without tattoos and obesity. And they are no were near as trashy as women were in the 1980s. That was a damn skanky decade. Big ugly hair and heavy makeup. Yuck!
Clearly, you were not around in the 1980s to remember what a trashy decade it was. I will grant you that you did not see the widespread tattoos on people that you do today or the obesity. But, my god were those fashion trends terrible.
So what's crazy is that is Sepulveda Blvd. during rush hour next to the 405. Those 4 lanes mostly still exist and that freeway is much larger. But, honestly changing all those lanes in both directions at rush hour would probably really help alleviate the traffic. It is not half a bad idea.
Back when California was still the "Golden State" I lived there for over 30 years I loved it the land of getting ahead and opportunity also beautiful landscape anywhere. Those were the days but no more. California has gone down the drain with all there leftism and not being much more conservative back in those days. It has been almost ruined into shambles so so sad sad!!!
Hahaha. Are you serious? LA has changed alot however they are making it better little by little.. some areas have done a 180' pivot. Example hollywood.. it has become somewhat respectable again.. areas that were dumps are now great neighborhoods. The transit system has really improved by leaps and bounds. There is the homeless problem and there is no simple solution to this difficult problem..
So the tax cuts of the uber rich had nothing to do with it? White people deciding to ditch and abandon public schools and neighborhoods? Prop 13 passed to directly defund public schools from local property taxes? The auto-industry buying the red car and dismantling it? Oh demonizing policies like higher wages, unions, state run healthcare, (You know public healthcare for all would mean the severe mentally ill are in a facility instead of on the streets?) Lets not also forget your conservative buddy Regan giving his homies in South America freedom to sell large amounts of drugs in the United States unmolested. Lets not forget the fact that it is by and large free enterprise and subcontractors paying people under the table that resulted in the illegal immigration problem. I could spend hours listing how it is by and large white people who made LA what it was. Oh and for 20+ years ignoring the homeless problem.
Blame Jerry brown, Gavin newsom, Maxine water, Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein For destroy the state of California and they voted democratic every Another year election that’s a fraud and cheating I voted republican party
Abinadab Orozco wym la is the best it’s ever been for everyone except the kkk...look at all these neighborhoods from sunset to Hollywood even Compton is better...
