LA in 1982 was my first meeting with USA. I remember the people were polite, the friendly bus drivers, and the smog. I hope to go there again from New zealand but know it will have changed.
Of course people were more polite Los Angeles today has 6 times more population than it did in this video And people were not distracted by electronic instruments that they carry in their hand and stare at all day so there you go.
Some of the video was filmed in the mid to late 1980's. You can tell my the cars , I spotted a mid 80's nissan hardbody and a Hyundai excel which was first produced in 1985.
Man, 2:35-2:47, that's a visual I'll never get to see again live. All those RTD buses driving around downtown LA. I was probably in kindergarten or about to go to first grade when this video was made.
Those RTD buses used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid, with their tinted windows and gang graffiti. Safer to stick with the Big Blue Bus back then lol
My dad was stationed in Long Beach back then and I remember being too young for a car and riding the RTD through South Central to get to the clubs in Hollywood and downtown. What an educational experience that was.
I miss the theater district. So many movie palaces on North Broadway and I'd been to many of them when I was a kid. They looked like opera houses from the inside with balconies which is something that was lost with modern movieplexes. I've notice the Tower Theater had that "Opening Soon" on it's marquee, but it sat abandoned for decades once they stopped showing films and closed in the mid to late 80's.
Can some of you tell me which camera it is he / she is recording because I want to know it because I forgot what this camera was called if you know it is welcome to answer my questions
If you kept going down Central Ave. in the beginning of this video, you woulda passed by my street. Wow, everything looks different, but all buildings are still the same.
Where did you get these film of LA in the 70's-80's?! Did you have a weird hobby as a kid or family of taking all those footages in those times to show now?
Affluent areas are boring because they usually stay the same, seedy is far more interesting yet change over time for better or worse. I've been through North Broadway countless times growing up in the 70's and 80's and even then I was always scared of getting mugged whenever I went Downtown. It was scary back then but not as much anymore with the gentrification.
