ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-959lqR0fXmU.html If you look at this video most people are looking ahead and its 2019 1:30 like barely anyone is looking at their phone
@@esetek It is now. That's why it's a shithole! Historically, Los Angeles was an old Spanish mission, and hardly any squatty Mexican resided there until the 20th century. In fact very few Mexican citizens lived north of the Rio grande. That is why Americans were invited down into Texas to settle & ranch in the 1830's. Of course this led to a little famous incident you may have heard of.
1977, 4.2 billion people on Earth. 2019, 7.2 billion people on Earth. I remember Los Angeles in the 70's as being a lot less crowded than it is today. Less congestion, more parking spaces, less stress, lots of killer rock songs hitting the airwaves...easy groovy best decade!
@savage 069 I grew up in Dog Town Santa Monica and Venice area back in the 70s, the Dog Town clique, is a mixed racial gang, we have Orientals, Latinos, African-Americans and caucasians in our group, just got to be cool, tough, Beach territorial and dog like loyalty to belong. But I agree, our open door border policy at the southern border with our finite, limited space, jobs and resources in America, it's getting kind of out of control and overcrowded to the nearest big city to occupy in America.
@savage 069 Mexicans have always lived in Los Angeles too, you dummy. The city of Los Angeles was founded by Mexicans but of course trailer trash like you cant read worth shit
I remembered back then I was the only Asian kid in my Junior High School in Long Beach and I got to watch Star Wars in a old fashioned cinema theater from the 1920's before it got torn down in the 90"s.
I was 11 yrs. Old in 1977.I would love to spend some time back then because to me whenever, I see the year 1977 it brings back memories of a happier time and place in my life..
The 70s wasn;t al that. America was spiraling down day by day by the late 70s. The 50s and 60s were better. But no modern time in history is worse than now. The only good thing today is the technology.
I was 9 in 1977 L.A. CA. I remember seeing the patrolmen on their motorcycles on the freeways.. I didn't make the connection between CHiPs being an international show and the real thing. I guess I just assumed it was a common thing since we saw them all the time. But I did think the cops were cool on their bikes (before they started going roque). In the intro to CHiPs, I still get the tingles when the music crescendos and they shift gears...I thought that was so cool.
@@brianreed7145 ChiP's was filmed in L.A. (mostly) So was Emergency!, The Incredible Hulk (my brother had a friend Dale Pullum that was in an episode of the Hulk and The Dukes of Hazzard...also shot in CA)
Graduated just barely in ‘77. Things have changed. I remember corona was way the hell out there. Nothing on the way to the Cajon pass. Cows in chino, orange groves with smoke pots in Tustin and Irvine.
I arrived in LA in 1979 at age 8, I could feel the energy and magic in the air when I got here, it is such an exciting place to live with so many differnt cultures to know and places to visit.
Glad you captured the KMET sign! So much good music was released that year! Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, CSN, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Night Moves. The best time to ever, ever be in LA.
Just started the 7th grade, hated Junior High it was horrific. We would ditch school sometimes and hangout in Hollywood and, or Griffith park. My God the 70's were the greatest years!!!
That's funny, you said school was horrific, then you said it was the greatest years ever, lol, we count our blessings after time goes, but at least we know what's real and happy
This film footage is gold. I was 14 the summer of 1977. And I had to wait two weeks before Star Wars came to Ohio. Where I lived at the time now, I live in LA I would have loved to have lived in La during the 70s. . Thanks for uploading this thumbs up.
I was a young Marine station at El Toro airbase in 1977- 78 living off base in Stanton, I spent my weekends In the LA area dancing the night away. Plus driving the streets seeing the sites. I spent a lot of time at the Hollywood USO. Life was exciting. thank you for sharing this video.
carl weezer Car exhaust plus L.A. is a basin surrounded by foothills that lock the smog in. Low emission cars and unleaded gas got rid of it. You used to be able to see a ring of smog around L.A. when you came in to land at LAX. If you watch old episodes of Adam-12 from the late ‘60’s early ‘70’s you can see layers of smog in the background.
The air quality is a million times better than it was back in the '60's and '70's. Just like Kendall Evans said I can remember playing on the playground at recess and it hurt to breathe in deeply. We also had smog alerts where we had to go into the gym and watch films instead of playing on the playground at recess. We used to go to LAX to drop off and pick up my grandparents and we would watch the jets take off. Thick BLACK smoke and exhaust poured out of those huge jets. You don't see that anymore and that's a good thing. If things had stayed the same and car makers had not been forced to make low emission cars that take unleaded gas and if factories had not been made to comply with air quality standards L.A. would not be an area where anybody would be able to live in today.
My family moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 1974 my big three of my older sisters already lived here. The rest of the family went to visit in 1973 and fell in love and followed a year after. In 1977 we moved to West Los Angeles and lived our best life. Visiting movie sets and going on TV shows. My two older sisters went on the dating game. And they got to pick. The guys. Universy Studios, going Disneyland every summer. The beaches. Los Angeles was so much fun. We never looked back. Still live here today. Never went back to New Orleans.
Reading your story ,Sounds like my life ,we moved there from France in the mid-70s to WESTLOS ANGELES,I lived in the building directly across the street from UNI HIGH AT 1441 Westgate ave went to Emerson jrhigh in Westwood village!went to the arcade&santa monica beach every wkend&sometimes the Starwood to go dancing
My family had just moved to So. Cal in May of 1977. God, I miss those days! We lived in Santa Ana for a little while, then moved to Ontario. California was like going to heaven for me. After 27 years of living the good life, I moved to Florida in 2010 because of the insanity that had taken hold of my beloved state. I hope to someday return to California and once again live where my heart lives.
Miss those years Just Graduated 1976 James Monroe High School San Fernando Valley Los Angeles Cruising Van Nuys Blvd in my Van Mom and Dad Alive Miss you 😘 Guys
It's all relative. Despite the fact myself and others wax nostalgic about the seventies, it was a tough time financially for a lot of people, including my parents. I think the seventies was the first time cracks began to appear in the giant engine that was the post WW2 economy. It kind of set into motion a lot of the troubles we are dealing with to this day. Still, it was a great time to grow up. Wouldn't change that for the world.
I was 2 in 1977 too, don’t remember it but I actually have memories from 1979, like going to Ralph’s grocery store and hearing Supertramp on the store radio, lol
Ah! The year I was born. However, I feel that I should've been born 5-10 years earlier. I've always gotten along best with people slightly older than me. Even when I was a kid, most of my friends were a few years older. Great video. The '70s was probably the best decade that I didn't get to experience.
Lived in West Covina, in the ‘7’0s, L A area. At Texaco gasoline station was 37 cents per gallon, i could fill up my ‘66 Mustang n get around at no time! 🎶”Those were the days my friend.. I thought will never end”🎶 etc. Thank so much for sharing. Love ❤️ that era❤️🥂🇺🇸 San Francisco, California 8-11-2019
One of my best friends had that car; 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass. He got it for high school graduation. The 70s and 80s were a magical time if you were young.
Talked to a friend of mine the other day who grew up in LA in the late 70s & early 80s and remembers seeing ‘CHiPs,’ ‘Starsky & Hutch,’ ‘Greatest American Hero’ & ‘Incredible Hulk’ being filmed on location.
I was 17 and living in Santa Monica in 1977. I love seeing these pics. It is funny, just VW's and American cars on the road. The air looks real smoggy.
@@fredgarvinMP KROQ played punk rock and new wave not oldies but yes it was a good station. KROQ was a county station before it changed to new wave. KISS FM was good also.
@@waynek3366 I grew up on the punk/new wave KROQ but them being a country station was before my time. KRLA was good too. Not too much into KIIS. I could tolerate KLOS and K-EARTH 101 though. Have a good day!
@@fredgarvinMP Agree I'm not a KISS fan either. I do like K-Earth music they are playing today. In 1977 I was 14 most everyone I hangout with liked the oldies. I was in to skateboarding then and now I'm in my mid 50s I still can ride surprisingly lol
Okay I was born in 1977, but as soon as I read your comment I could smell that shirt. I can't describe it, but I'm pretty sure I'm correct at it and I can smell it strongly. Weird. I'm pretty sure I'm remembering the same smell. However, I haven't smelled it in decades.
@@RS-dm4yo Lol, someone who understands what i'm talking about ! I had the same thing when skateboarding came into my life...the plywood decks, the urethane wheels....it all had this wonderful smell..
See's Candies! One thing I miss from that time is record stores. The one I went to had records, tapes, books, and merchandise in one room and guitars, keyboards, & drum kits in the other.
Awesome! I was living in Eagle Rock during the 70s. I recall when they were constructing the Glendale fwy to Echo Park area in the late 70s. We used to sneak in during the weekends and literally play on the freeway...
@@davidochoa9469damn. You a real one , I was in Glassell Park Elementary when it was still Irving Junior High but by the time I got there they changed it to Irving Middle School!
I know I never go out to eat anymore, not even at Denny's, and what's up with no waitresses, all there is are a bunch of pansy ass man waiters everywhere lol
The 76 Trans Am made me miss my 77 T/A. I miss those days.I miss those gas prices. Things were simpler back then. All the great music and concerts I went to.
Yes, I remember live in Los Angeles In "77", The Chick wearing the Star Wars, I had that shirt, when I saw the street sign"Centry City", Saw Star Wars first time at Centry City cinima, The day Elvis died!, Mom Cried when they announced it on the radio, going home after the movie, We lived across the street from Dorsey High School, when to Collisum Street School,. My childhood !, Next year moved to Tucson
Man taking my back! Old address 4903 W Santa Barbara Ave, around the corner, Safeway, Clark Drugs, Newberrys, across the street Thriffys 5 cent Ice cream cones
Growing up as a young kid in New Jersey in the late ‘70s and watching “CHiPs” I was absolutely convinced that Southern California was THE coolest place on Earth. Toured out there with a band in the late ‘90s and my suspicions were confirmed - it’s magical.
The year I graduated high school from Palmdale about 50 miles north of LA. Brings back great memories of a different California then what it is today. I remember FM radio KMET...."The MIghty Met"......
chemie chemie not like the old days. My teacher in the 90s told me that in the 60s and 70s the smog was so bad that she had lived in LA for years before she even realized that there were mountains just a few miles north of the city. Nowadays, most days you can see those mountains, but you do get those bad days here and there.
Just checked up on all the license plates in this clip. "700 KFT" (a normal passenger plate, not personalized) was still registered to that 1974 Dodge Dart (at 3:47) until at least 2002 when it had its last smog check! It could still even be on the road, since pre-1976 cars are no longer required to pass smog checks.
At 1:48 is the old train tracks. North and South Santa Monica blvd. are on either side. When I worked at the Troubadour we use to run outside and slap the train as it lumbered by, accompanied by Steve Martin.
The Star Wars shirt the cut-off shorts the T tops the Billboards all the classic cars and remember all that like yesterday My dad owned an electronics Warehouse Superelectronic on 12th Street from 1975 to 1982 used to go there every day as a kid from 7 years old till 11 this reminds me of that what a view what a memory
Oh! Snap! I was hooked the moment that lady pointed out her freshly ironed on Star Wars t-shirt , in fact I had that exact same one! But I was only 7 years old then . 😆
Born and raised in L.A., had a happy life growing up in Long Beach. I Loved every corner of California. Navy took me from CA for many years and when I got orders back there in 1984 it had changed so drastically I couldn't recognize the state I grew up in. I recently flew back to San Diego for a grandniece's wedding, and even though the I-15 corridor has gotten unbelievably built up and the population taxed and priced outta their homes, the state itself has the same appeal it had when I was younger. I'd love to set the clock back on its politics, because the state itself is still beautiful and has everything every other state has put together. I miss California; but in the shape it's in today I could never move back.
Where do you live now? Jerry Brown was a very unpopular governor in the early 80s, but Gavin Newsom is a bottomfeeder by comparison. Just an absolute lowlife.
760jjsole Exactly. The late 70's still looked like the 60's in many ways. Watch Dragnet,Adam 12,Emergency, Chips etc. The early to mid 80's still looked like the mid to late 70's. Now it's all changed sadly.
My parents moved to California in 1975, they tried to get an apartment in Los Angeles but no one would rent to us for some reason and we ended up in San Diego where I was born in 1977 the year of this video. I still got to go to LA to see my aunt and uncle.
So many memories, and changes. I was glad they filmed the gas prices, and so many other things that aren't around anymore. However, Factors Deli is still open, and im still buying Sees Candy. The Star Wars Tshirt is cool, and the lady wearing it seems like a nice person with natural beauty.
Soy de México y mi mente siempre ha estado enfocada a la cultura californiana y me encantaría vivir en ese lugar!!! Me encanta ver cómo era desde los 70 hasta la actualidad y mi propósito a largo plazo es terminar siendo ciudadano estadounidense recidente en alguna parte de los angeles
I lived in Long Beach in '77. I would take the bus up to the Strip on weekends and see bands at the Roxy, the Whisky, and shows at the Forum, Santa Monica Civic Center, like Bob Marley, Rory Gallagher, Frank Zappa. Then I moved to West Hollywood in '79 for a year and worked in Century City in one of the buildings at 1:31. I remember hitchiking down Santa Monica Blvd to get to work during a bus strike, and I remember the gas shortage where you could only buy gas on odd/even days, according to the number on your license plate.
I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid visibility was less than a mile because of the smog. That's why I don't complain about the smog regulations that we have now.
I know JUST where this was filmed.Pico blvd near Beverly Dr ,Beverly Hills and Pico blvd from Robertson to Doheny! I was 19 then and life was good,,,and still is
Even though now it's no longer a nice place to live, I still want to be respectful. I'm your average Joe! I still ride the Metro bus. Have a nice conversation with someone. Be nice to people wherever I go. Eating at a burger stand. A cheeseburger with fries and a coke. Smile. Thank you. Have a nice day! ☺
Jose Hernandez No other place like L.A.!!! Beautiful sunny weather, beaches, mountains, Hollywood, theme parks, beautiful women in all shades shapes and sizes, weed🚬!!!! ......and oh yeah, earthquakes!!! What more can you ask for. Continue enjoying life, Jose. Pleasure to meet you.
I loved seeing the twin towers in Century City. I've worked there since the 90's. The only thing I remember about 1977 was seeing Star Wars in the theater as a 5 year old. Good times.
MOMO IS YOUR FRIEND alright I’ll try again. Mexicans are part of a race which is Hispanics. Therefore you’re speaking about Mexicans which is again part of a race. Race baiter. Get your fake ass profile out of here.
he said it was better than now. greed such as international entrepreneurs from real estate to the automobile industry along with outsourced jobs and government infusing drugs became the rooted cause of homelessness and unemployment. not to mention crime.
Thanks for the memories, I was 20 years old back in 1977 and how I miss this time! The future looked bright and with a lot of hope and now look at what has happened to my beautiful America! I feel very sorry for the youth of this America! The best of our country's time is sadly behind us! Now that I am 60 and still in good health, I can only expect nothing but darkness and decay is ahead of us and things are going to get worse! Sorry, but very true!
Yes, you are quite right they were great times, the World has gone potty, I'm from Britain and much the same is going on there, it is complete madness to leave The EU. We have lived in South West France for 12 years and have no plans to return to The UK! Yes who would want to bring a baby into this World!
Its crazy because I'm 20 now in LA and I can't even imagine about having kids or even being a homeowner haha theres no room here, or anywhere in Southern California. Suburbs are being overfilled with people and things in DC are going to shit. I see a little hope in our generation, but like always, when theres is a small spark of hope, the powers that be do anything the can to divide us. We saw it back in your time, and again we are seeing it now. Hopefully now, the internet can help us UNITE as humans to save whats left!
Thank you for uploading such high quality video. Unfortunately i was born in 82 and did not have any chance to see or experience 70s. However while watching the video i realized, everything looked more lively compared today. I mean you feel the dynamic around you even watching it as a video. Now, we are living in a world that driven by chaos. Although thanks again sharing this video and reminding us, how we used to be and what we have become :)
(in my best late night radio DJ voice) "Ohhhh yeahhhhh. " Born in '69 this is the era I grew up in. I can still remember having to lay down for an hour after soccer games because I could barely breath.
4:02 Oil tower (far left) is on the north side of Pico Blvd, by Doheny. I can still smell the pollution from there. Cars going towards camera are heading westbound towards Beverly Drive
On a darker note, wasn’t this during the period the ‘Hillside Stranglers’ were most active and getting a lot of news coverage? Not to mention a number of active ‘serials’ simultaneously wreaking havoc in the hills, canyons and on the freeways and byways of the City of Angels?
