Los Angeles early 50's,60's in color, Freeways [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

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I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of the Los Angeles freeways from the early 1950's to the mid to early 1960's, you can clearly see what is going on during the day, the first part is from the 1950's the latest model cars seen here are 1954 Buicks and 1954 Cadillacs, After 2:30 the second part is the early 1960's, lots of cars with Mercury Comets and Plymouth Valiant's. Otherwise, some Packard's, Caddy's Fords, Mercury Turnpike Cruiser and Buick's.
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)
✔sound design added 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.
B&W Video Source from: Internet Archive
B&W Video Source: archive.org/de...
Rights to the black and white 35mm Video Source are held by Internet Archive. under the Creative Commons Attribution License

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@NASS_0 2 года назад

Do You want to live in Los Angeles in the 50s or 60s??

@crazydrive18 2 года назад

50s!

@StonerSquirrel 2 года назад

nnnope, computers are life!

@Paultje118 2 года назад

A time where whites and blacks still where seperated.

@ProfZoomer 2 года назад

No sir

@ProvHAckzKy 2 года назад

@@Paultje118 great time

@Vassil00 2 года назад

Amazing to see that LA has made no progress curbing freeway traffic in 60 years.

@bodybait 2 года назад

That is because they lie. It never will get better.

@jenniferwhitewolf3784 2 года назад

With thousands leaving Cali every day, at least part of the traffic today is people leaving for better places.

@andytaylor5476 2 года назад

@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 Let me guess-places like Texas and Florida?

@will7its 2 года назад

@@andytaylor5476 Yep all is lost......

@t.texastimmy1022 2 года назад

@@andytaylor5476 Arizona and Nevada mostly, according to the Post Office.

@12345682900 2 года назад

At 2:04 a kid, sitting in the middle of the front seat in a 1950 Buick, waives at the camera. Simply AMAZING! He could've NEVER IMAGINED that almost 70 years later, 100,000 + people would witness his act of kindness. Simply AMAZING!

@djmips 2 года назад

back when there was a front bench seat and you sometimes had one or two kids sitting up front in the middle!

@12345682900 2 года назад

@@djmips "Bench seat?" What's that? A seat in a car that looked like a bench...made of wood?

@berkinerengurman1401 2 года назад

@@12345682900 go and learn from google what it is. Also look for bucket seat.

@12345682900 2 года назад

@@berkinerengurman1401 It was a joke. I'm well aware of and quite familiar with bench seats.😏

@berkinerengurman1401 2 года назад

@@12345682900 😂

@teneresand 2 года назад

Excellent video ! Note the dark lines in the middle of the lanes , those are almost gone now, since vehicles do not leak so much oil anymore.

@1940limited 2 года назад

Interesting point.

@garcjr 2 года назад

When I was a kid I remembered those dark lines in between lanes.

@billwells8054 2 года назад

OOPS! I did not see your comment, just left another, same observation.

@FordHoard 2 года назад

It's not "leaking" oil. It's from exhaust venting from the crankcases on the cars, and tires naturally will lighten the road, except for the middle. You can still see it today.

@teneresand 2 года назад

@@FordHoard Yes, venting the fumes from the crankcase directly out on the ground, was also a part of it. Either way, the vehicles was spilling more oil back then, than today. Also, i said that the dark lines are ALMOST gone now.

@darkninjacorporation 2 года назад

This is just surreal. I imagine most of us have daydreamed of traveling back in time and seeing thousands of these classics filling the roads, but I’ve never been able to fully comprehend what it’d look like. It’s like watching the biggest antiques car show convoy in history

@jadon2740 2 года назад

So deep

@allaansnackbar4269 2 года назад

A lot more white people and a lot nicer

@ARDG89 2 года назад

@@allaansnackbar4269 actually less white people

@kalelwilson8337 2 года назад

@@allaansnackbar4269 you sound like a racist..

@BRAINFxck10 2 года назад

Everyone is just cruising stress-free and the way those old cars float over the road all add to the surrealism from our perspective

@GlendonFrank Год назад

It's so amazing to see all the old cars -- it looked to be about 1960 in most scenes. I was a child in the 1950s -- it looked like my childhood

@jenniferwhitewolf3784 Год назад

mine too..

@sterlinsilver 2 года назад

that first half would have to be sometime around 1953-1954, but that second half would be from 1961-1962. awesome to see the transition from delightful tubs to towering tailfins in only a decade. I'd kill to drive any one of them!

@gabrielcalebe8959 2 года назад

I think the first half is from 1954, several model 1953 cars appeared during the video and some model 1954 as well.

@sterlinsilver 2 года назад

@@gabrielcalebe8959 you're right, saw a 54 ford this time

@sonnycorleone3251 2 года назад

Sterling silver, I agree.

@jimmydee1130 2 года назад

They did look great. Don't forget tho - modern cars are about 100x's more reliable and safe. Unfortunately most modern cars look like cr/\p.

@sterlinsilver 2 года назад

@@jimmydee1130 absolutely, not to mention far more fuel efficient. They just don't have that charm though

@NASS_0 2 года назад

Like and Share Please

@sharkboss 2 года назад

What happens to Queen Elizabeth? oh my god

@sharkboss 2 года назад

What happens to Queen Elizabeth? oh my god

@peterheidgerd5418 2 года назад

I certainly do not mind them not being b/w... But please leave the speed that these cars were really going alone!!!! Thanks.

@76Schoeneberg30 2 года назад

Stop begging for likes and shares pls.

@Psythik 2 года назад

No.

@SummerlinRealtor 2 года назад

The clarity of all of your videos makes me feel like I’m back in that actual time of the video! Truly amazing work! There’s always been traffic in my former home town no matter the decade!

@fangslaughter1198 Год назад

I'm amazed by the level of polite cooperation. No signaling required. There would have been 10 road rage fatalities in this video, nowadays

@kimkim2718 2 года назад

It's nice to see, after 60 years no one has yet figured out how to use their turn signals.

@az0970449 Год назад

I did notice that also

@skipperclinton1087 5 месяцев назад

Or arm signals!

@Lpreilly72 4 месяца назад

In India, they don’t use turn signals. They honk. Delhi has got to be the noisiest city in the world.

@JerryEledge 2 года назад

Southern California from the 20’s to the 60’s had to be the best time and place to be alive in the history of your world.

@20alphabet 2 года назад

Agreed

@jimmydee1130 2 года назад

95% Agree. (Born in Ventura County in '58, so I sorta missed it.) 50's and 60s had hellacious smog tho. That's the 5%.

@matrox 2 года назад

It was the Golden state then. Now a bonifide Sh!thole State.

@jimmydee1130 2 года назад

@JRG The Great War (WWI) was 1914-1918. Everyone should know that. Depression started in 'late '29

@matrox 2 года назад

@JRG WW1 was over in 1918 long before the 1930s. Viet Nam vets will tell you the 60s was not peaceful. The early 60s was fairly peaceful on the home front, became less so in the late 60s with lots of protesting and civil rights and assassinations. If you compare it to today's sh!thole it was heaven. The hippies were late 60s and 70s. Over all the 50s and 60s were a great time for most kids though who were growing up. My mom who was a young adult agrees with me when I say that era was much better than todays crime ridden corrupt society we have today.

@PintoPopProductions 2 года назад

Fun little game to spot the "foreign" cars in traffic. 1:57 Porsche 356, 2:03 MG roadster, 2:30 Autobianchi or Fiat?, 2:39 Renault Dauphine, 2:45 VW T1 microbus, 2:54 Alfa Romeo Giulietta?, 3:00 might be Peugeot 403?, 3:01 Austin Healey roadster, 3:03 VW Beetle, 3:23 VW Beetle, 3:25 Rootes Group something - Hillman Minx/Singer Gazelle?, 3:29 Renault Dauphine, 3:36 Citroen DS/ID, 3:50 Mercedes 220S?, 4:07 Renault Dauphine, 4:16 VW T1 panel bus. Note how the imports become much more prevalent in the later footage as they became more accepted in American culture- especially the German cars.

@nortex010 2 года назад

3:50 is a Mercedes 180 (W120). The 220S doesn’t have the extra openings near the headlights :)

@hurri7720 2 года назад

I was there in 1965 and rented a Mustang. I did not spot any so I suppose this was before 65. Looks so "old" now but fellt very modern then.

@mrbiglarge8820 2 года назад

the days when every car was cool. sort of

@assaultenjoyer1750 2 года назад

Good eye!

@seeharvester 2 года назад

Those were the communist drivers.

@tucsontim8841 2 года назад

With how heavy these cars are and how terrible the brakes were, I’m amazed how close they all follow each other.

@STFUSTi Год назад

not to be that person... However, cars of this era, especially the early 50's were significant lighter than cars today. E.G. 1951 Studebaker - Common car in this video : 2695 pounds 2023 Toyota Corolla - 3252 Brakes and tire technology has definitely gotten better..

@Icu-812-me2 Год назад

Manual transmission were the norm. You can always emergency down shift for them pucker factor moments. Just pump you breaks too. No abs system to do it

@jaysverrisson1536 5 месяцев назад

@@STFUSTi The tubby contours of early '50s cars tended to make them look weightier than they really were. A bigger car, like 1950 Cadillac, Buick Roadmaster, or Packard might weigh in the lower 4000s. (Bringing one of those to a stop in the era before power brakes still took some advance planning!) Increasing size, as well as AC and other accessories added a lot of weight to cars as the 50s & 60s progressed.

@Suddenlyits1960 2 месяца назад

Cars are heavier in the 70's than back then,and suvs weigh more than a 1957 car

@tucsontim8841 2 месяца назад

@@jaysverrisson1536 Yes. I own a 1956 and know it is lighter than my 2018 Toyota. Hence the reason I put disc brakes on my classic and mention the fact that the risk with close following is both a factor of weight and brakes. But, thanks for the history lesson.

@gravanon1577 2 года назад

It's amazing how they were able to gather all those old cars together to make this video.

@billiebobbienorton2556 2 года назад

I saw a 1993 Buick LeSabre on this video.

@martitinkovich4489 2 года назад

@@billiebobbienorton2556 That was a '92.

@billiebobbienorton2556 2 года назад

@@martitinkovich4489 🤣👍

@k-town8163 Год назад

@@billiebobbienorton2556 correction 94*

@billiebobbienorton2556 Год назад

@@k-town8163 Correction 1963 🤔

@lowkeygato2133 2 года назад

We are looking at a bunch of people that have passed on, so fascinating to look back in time with such clarity

@Lpreilly72 3 месяца назад

“passed on”? 🥴. I’m still here, and I drove this stretch every day from 1965 on!

@8avexp 2 года назад

The days before PCV valves came into use. You can see the dark, oily film down the center of each travel lane from the oil mist being discharged from the crankcase breather.

@20alphabet 2 года назад

Lol, you don't know what you're talking about.

@8avexp 2 года назад

@@20alphabet You're probably not old enough to remember those days.

@tenhoruohoranta 2 года назад

Road draft tube

@8avexp 2 года назад

@@tenhoruohoranta Aka crankcase breather.

@aphex14 2 года назад

I'd still pick these over the electric nonsense. No ABS, No driver assist of any kind...Those were actual Drivers.

@qman66 2 года назад

I wonder how many fender benders happened back then. Everyone tail gates each other, turn signals don't seem to exist. Amazing footage

@MadCarTK 2 года назад

To them it was an annoying traffic jam, to me it's a dream to see that many classics all on the road at once.

@onlyoneamong300 Год назад

Totally agree with you! This video is like a beautiful time machine!

@Abigail_NS 2 года назад

0:13 Earlier appearance of the traffic maneuver where you cross multiple lanes to take your exit in one smooth motion now commonly known as the Jersey slide.

@8lazingSaddles 2 года назад

Notice that dark, wide strip down the middle of each lane? That's all the oil all these oid leakers used to drip onto the freeways. It really did get very slick after a sudden rain and add no anti-lock brakes at that time led to a much more interesting driving experience. I'm glad I lived mostly in the country back then.

@hermanvonshaft4662 Год назад

I don't believe you

@8lazingSaddles Год назад

@@hermanvonshaft4662 According to some sources, oil leaky cars were more common in the 1950s and 1960s because of the type of oil used, the quality of the seals and gaskets, and the lack of proper crankcase ventilation systems. Some of these issues were addressed by using synthetic oils, which were introduced in the 1970s. However, oil leaks were still a problem for many classic cars and required regular maintenance and repair.

@8lazingSaddles Год назад

@@hermanvonshaft4662 The breather tube for all blowby gases from the engine vented directly downward on to the road from the engine. All those grease fittings on driveshaft and all over the car just oozing out grease over time. Plus all aforementioned seals, gasgets and goop and stuff from the dirty engines.

@Mr.Rico.101 2 года назад

Thank you for making these video's.

@OSTARAEB4 2 года назад

They needed eight lanes each way back then too! Looks like the 101 or the 5 freeway. The first segment is 1951, ‚52 and the latter is about 1961. Saw a couple of „compact“ cars with Mercury Comet and Plymouth Valiant. Otherwise, some Packard’s, Caddy‘s Fords, Mercury Turnpike Cruiser and Buick’s. Good clip NASS.

@michaelmartin4552 2 года назад

That's the 101 South, after passing through Hollywood and is about to enter downtown Los Angeles. That was before they had Interstate Numbers, but the "Santa Anna Freeway" is the I-5, the "Arroyo Seco Freeway" is the I-110 North, the "Harbor Freeway" is the I-110 South. One can tell that is the 101 and not the 5 because the south side of the 5 looks very different. And it shows how confusing it was at that time, before the Highway and Freeway numbers were presented clearly. One literally had to know the name of the freeway and what places were in which direction. The later segment is also the 101. This is obvious at the 4 minute mark as in the background you can identify the "Western Extermination Company" building, with their iconic sign and logo.

@OSTARAEB4 2 года назад

@@michaelmartin4552 Martin, thanks for the Update. I was trying to zoom in on the sign. I believe the Arroyo Seco was the first freeway during the early forties. I know this clip is heading South with the tank in the background and wasn’t North on the old Arroyo called the Pomona Freeway sixty, seventy years ago? I forget if that was the 110 and yes, South is The Harbor Freeway and 5 south of DTLA was the Santa Ana I believe. I’m not a native Los Angeleno but have driven the network many times. It’s quite fascinating when it all moves at 3am. Too bad there’s not a capture of City Hall.

@michaelmartin4552 2 года назад

@@OSTARAEB4 Not Pomona, you are thinking Pasadena Freeway. That is the name the 110 North (Arroyo Seco Parkway) is normally known as today (CalTrans officially renamed it back to the AS in 2010 but not many call it that). And yes, that is the first "Freeway" in LA, but it was called a "Parkway" then. But the Pomona is State Route 60, that runs East from Downtown LA But having once driven that freeway daily, the Western Exterminators sign is iconic. And it looks the same way even today as it did in 1952 when they moved to that location.

@user-221i 2 года назад

@Usual Suspect William Hamilton Need better public transport

@steveurbach3093 2 года назад

There was no 5 freeway back then. US99 or US101 was how we got from NorCal to LA. I started driving there back in 63. I saw a MG roadster and only a couple of SMALL semi-trucks. Most were box trucks.

@miltoncallan1471 2 года назад

It was wonderful to see so many 50's Cadillacs and so few foreign cars.

@JuniorJr... 2 года назад

I saw a Renault Dauphine, a Citröen and a Beetle. Amazing!

@toddbob55 2 года назад

Foreign cars are goofy plastic junk....... Gimme a 1950's lead sled all day long

@johnjones393 2 года назад

@@MrHurricaneFloyd You can't argue with a fool. The cars of today are vastly superior in every single way but the old timers still mistakenly think these old lead sleds were safer and lasted longer. And styling is subjective. There are a few design standouts from back then, the tri-five Chevys come to mind. But overall all the cars looked the same back then, just like they do today.

@consul6262 2 года назад

@@JuniorJr... I noticed a Austin A30 or A35, didn't realise they were sold in USA.

@johnp139 Год назад

Well, when US cars only lasted two years, what do you expect?!?

@Jason97 2 года назад

It's nice to see videos like these and not vandalized with a watermark.

@unclemayhem6696 2 года назад

Yep, that’s LA traffic alright. Some things never change.

@20alphabet 2 года назад

Back when America was great! Back when the freeway system was well maintained... before foreigners intruded into our traffic.

@Terranallias18 2 года назад

Holy fucking shit, why do these videos always draw in degenerates

@matrox 2 года назад

Exactly!

@1994CPK 2 года назад

economic interlopers must be expelled.

@Terranallias18 2 года назад

@@1994CPK If you mean foreigners, we're doing all the shit jobs you don't want to do

@hsun7997 2 года назад

You're just race baiting.

@steves7896 2 года назад

It's like the entire metropolis of LA is putting on a car show.

@chriscar1527 2 года назад

So many amazing cars! While I was watching, I was trying to name the cars as they passed by, pretty tricky without pausing 😂. Loving these videos!

@subaruthug 2 года назад

I saw a few nice Chevy's, some Customlines and a T-Bird.....ah the good old days lol

@Robert8455 2 года назад

Very cool. Easy to spot the imports. Love the styling of the old cars but don't miss their pollution or that they crumple badly on impact. Very nice footage.

@ThreeDaysOfDan 2 года назад

they dont crumple at all, crumple zones were added into new cars to protect you LOL

@shtupidmate 2 года назад

@@ThreeDaysOfDan lol look up Chevy Malibu vs bel air

@simonfarrell6841 2 года назад

@@ThreeDaysOfDan your confused day.

@ARDG89 2 года назад

@@ThreeDaysOfDan at least the new cars actually protect you. They may look horrific when in collisions but unlike old cars which come out fine in crashes practically yet it's a death sentence....

@ThreeDaysOfDan 2 года назад

@@ARDG89 Did i ever say they didn't ? New car's crumple to protect you, old car's don't crumple and you get bashed around in them .

@theoldsilvercat7523 Год назад

The freeway scene from 2:30 on reminds me how bad the smog was in the 60s. Thank you for uploading these films. I’m 71 now, these scenes really light up my memories! 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 really 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.

@onlyoneamong300 Год назад

Thanks for sharing your memories! It was just like being there!

@marstondavis 2 года назад

The last couple of seconds showed a T-Bird. It looked completely out of place because of its styling. It was so modern and futuristic that it stands out against all of the other cars on this video. Thanks, Ford Motor Company. You did a great job.

@zachmatt3 2 года назад

When I was a kid I had a model of that T-Bird.

@JackF99 2 года назад

The '61 Ford/Lincoln car line blew everyone's mind.

@MGarrison 2 года назад

I noticed that to.

@dudethebrojohnson7018 2 года назад

Also, I see a Citroën DS at 3:36 - very futuristic looking as well

@marstondavis 2 года назад

@@dudethebrojohnson7018 Yeah man, those were really cool.

@andrewhunter5037 2 года назад

Cars back then were sculpture on wheels, works of art.

@ptingz9307 2 года назад

So are cars now

@1940limited 2 года назад

@@ptingz9307 BS!

@ptingz9307 2 года назад

@@1940limited The cars back then were built way better yes, but they were all show, no go with too much chrome and huge tail fins that made fuel economy worse, cars these days are designed with better aerodynamics.

@worldcomicsreview354 2 года назад

@@ptingz9307 I'd rather have the show, ta.

@andrewhunter5037 2 года назад

@veryslyfox good work. You've done your job for today, take the rest of the day off.

@mg73456 2 года назад

There is no doubt about that the first half of this video shows the early 1950s ( the newest/latest car models seen here are 1954 Buicks and 1954 Cadillacs) while the second half of the video clip shows the early 1960s.

@MyKnifeJourney 2 года назад

Amazing to think that the vast majority of these motorists have passed away now. Their commutes preserved for all time.

@onlyoneamong300 Год назад

Or they're probably in their 80's or 90's!

@babakbabak5329 2 года назад

Cars were so cool! I noticed they did not signal when they changed lanes. And you don't see many foreign cars on the road.

@1AloneX2 2 года назад

such a cool channel NASS! Thank you and keep up the good work!

@NASS_0 2 года назад

thank you so much

@CJDiecast 2 года назад

What a beautiful sea of classic American cars that once devoured our freeways. The color enhancement and added sound really helps give you a feel of the environment as if you were actually there. What I've noticed are two things that haven't changed. One: the amount of traffic seems to be just as dense back then as it is today. Two: lots of last minute decisions are made in the very first clip that occur on a regular basis or worse today. I've noticed a lot of cars making last minute lane changes and even cutting across multiple lanes to catch their exit. The only difference between then and now is the lack of road rage. Nowadays that would turn into a brake check and a harsh verbal conversation whereas back then, it was just another day and life goes on. Plus, I'm sure people were just more patient back then.

@MGarrison 2 года назад

Don't forget about people getting screwed up because of bugs in gps or not being able to hear what she said 2 miles before the exit or 800 feet etc. or not knowing at all then almost or causing a wreck to make their exit instead of being smart and patient and going and turning around.

@dennisalexanderreilly8624 2 года назад

@@MGarrison You must have have missed the Citroen, also looking completely out of place

@klocknerdeutz 2 года назад

Every single car is a thing of beauty… imagine it.

@Claydood 2 года назад

Back them people respected one another, nowadays social media and the internet has turned everyone against each other now that people can spend so much time worrying about how people they will never meet live their lives, instead of socializing with the local community.

@Hiiamsamm 2 года назад

How do you know? are you some time traveler? I can guarantee there was road rage. Cars were just slower back then.

@danieljohnson9351 2 года назад

I'm glad videos like this exist. Sometimes I think I was born too late.

@allaansnackbar4269 2 года назад

Less diversity must have been really nice too

@onlyoneamong300 Год назад

Yeah! It does feel that way! My mother was in her mid to late 20's back then and she still misses the 50's and 60's so much! And from seeing how things were back then, I see her point! We were born too late! 😁

@onlyoneamong300 Год назад

@@allaansnackbar4269There you go!

@SloMoShort 2 года назад

I would bet people back then were dreaming of a better road system like we do today

@Cabin_Fever13 2 года назад

Surprising to see vast majority of cars are all within same rough age. 10-20 year old cars back then were basically just model T and A, but just about all of these look only few years old at most. It used to be a lot more common for people to get a new car ever 2-5 years, now most people only can afford a “new to them” car every 5-10 years. Economy from 1950-60s far better than what people today experience

@samp7003 2 года назад

So great to go back in time. I noticed a few Renaults in there. I owned one back in the 70's. It was 32 horsepower and had oversized winter tires on it. It had a crank to start the engine in the rear. One winter the battery was dead and I used the crank. Instant start!

@1940limited 2 года назад

At 45 cents a gallon or less, peopel still worried about the cost of gas.

@bighands69 2 года назад

@@1940limited But the cars were much cheaper as was housing, clothing, food and appliances. in the 1950s a 10 pound bag of potato would have cost about 35 cent and today it costs about $4. When that 35 cent is adjusted for inflation it comes out at $1.25 which is much cheaper.

@1atblridkcoem1atblridkcoem9 Год назад

@@bighands69 gallon of ga cost 10x as much, bag of potatoes cost x10 as much

@shootfirst2097 2 года назад

Mesmerizing. Lord, take me back to that time.

@johnwheaton1659 2 года назад

I know these intersections and ramps well. Nothing has changed in 60 years - other than scores of hobo encampments and gang graffiti. You can imagine what the air quality was like with all of that fully loaded gasoline being used.

@matrox 2 года назад

Yeh...look who is running the state. Used to be the Golden State...now called the ShIthole State and people leaving in droves.

@activelow9297 2 года назад

I like leaded gas.. don't breathe anything you can't see!

@kenw.1112 2 года назад

Yes .. Good point . LEADED GASOLINE

@markjohnson8260 2 года назад

It's not directly leaded gasoline... cars have reduced pollution vastly over the years. I don't have actual numbers but I think like 98%. The catalytic converter is essential to this and it *needs* to avoid lead in gas.

@WendyWilliamsLiving 2 года назад

I remember the smog in the 70's was UNREAL. Air quality much better now!

@joestihl2234 2 года назад

dont miss that oil slick dead in the centre of each lane,caused from the old vacuum breather tubes that just dumped oil mist from blow by directly onto the road,worn out motors would drip heaps of oil,soon as it rains you have a slick over the entire road surface,PCV valves are a good thing!

@jwils52 2 года назад

Cool. I learned to drive in a 1960 DeSoto - it was great looking at some of the 'newer' cars later in the video - you can tell when the decade changed.

@davediamond7228 2 года назад

my friends father had a 59...two tone salmon and cream

@AlcibiadesMD 2 года назад

Happy and elated to see LA when life was simpler, cars were outstandingly gorgeous and people in general dressed and groomed themselves in an orderly fashion, a sense of patriotism was felt at this time from the majority of men and women. On the other side of the coin I’m horrified and mortified as to how in a few decades it has become a cesspool of filth and crime, even mayor streets are overloaded with hobos, bums and graffiti. Sire Nass I thank you for showing us a glimpse of once upon a time a very important, beautiful and successful city,🌆 Love your work.

@McClellan71 2 года назад

@@filmbuff000 Clean it up then. It's a shithole in 2022 because Liberals ruin everything they are involved in.

@egmjag 2 года назад

Definitely true what you're saying. Paternal grandparents arrived in the L.A. area in the early or mid 20s and my father grew up in a suburb (now dangerous ghetto) a few miles away from downtown from the 30s to early 60s. He saw the negative changes beginning in the early 60s. An entitled group with a chip on their shoulder arrived from across the border, filling the neighborhoods with violence and refusing to become part of the mainstream culture. Demographics changed for the worst.

@AlcibiadesMD 2 года назад

@@egmjag I Wholeheartedly concur with your sentiment, and those of your paternal grandparents and your father, I’ve seen in person the effects that mass migration has had on the once mighty city, there are some areas in LA where police don’t even bother go to as they themselves are also understaffed. I understand how supposedly progress and Father Time operates, but in the majority of cases in major cities that progress is hindered by horrible people, same thing happened in Paris and London, I lived a few years on each of the aforementioned cities.

@matrox 2 года назад

The 1960s roadways is just how I remembered it. Many of the cars looked so cool. I like how people just stayed in their lanes and not a constant weaving in and out of lanes like the assholes today.

@beerosaurusrex 2 года назад

I'd disagree, one thing I noticed when watching is that oh, people did wait until the last minute to take an accident, or would cut people off to get into a faster lane. It's all still there.

@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 2 года назад

From what I just watched it looks like nobody can stay in their lane properly lol

@matrox 2 года назад

@@beerosaurusrex I said 1960s. Few lane changes in the early 60s clip.

@matrox 2 года назад

@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 I said 1960s. Few lane changes in the early 60s clip. The 1950s were different. They drove more dangerously in the 50s because of so many Rebels.

@johnp139 Год назад

If people would stay in THE PROPR LANE, this wouldn’t be a problem!

@Justin-Outdoors Год назад

I can’t believe how close everybody is driving

@alanriley9754 Год назад

Quite a number of 20 to 30 year old automobiles seen in the early 60s footage ... 👏

@lamotte 2 года назад

70 years later and the traffic is still the damn same smh

@AshA-ww8hc 2 года назад

The same? Don't you see the cars are moving smoothly. Today it is a damn standstill and significantly worse.

@michaeltrower741 2 года назад

come to houston where traffic is just a wall of metal moving at 90 mph. good luck changing lanes.

@hsun7997 2 года назад

The solution is to stop building freeways and make cities more densely populated.

@Jamcad01 2 года назад

@@hsun7997 LA is already the most dense metro area in the US and there's less freeway miles per person than average.

@BalticoYT 2 года назад

@@hsun7997 More densely populated? That'd make things worse! Get people out of the LA, and finally build some things in California City. Then you'd have less traffic in LA, and a city that can actually be a city.

@DeadbeatGamer 2 года назад

wow, LA is capable of being respectful on the highway

@finthefilmkid.youtube 2 года назад

It feels so peaceful compared to 2022

@goldenhourkodak Год назад

A highway isnt peaceful no matter what the year

@seanthe100 Год назад

It looks like you can't even breathe

@tonyarioli3979 Год назад

Los Angeles had the first freeway in the country, the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now part of the Pasadena Freeway) that opened in Dec.1940.

@thedreamer4222 Год назад

And to think many kids of this era are still alive today, any old man you meet might remember these days

@HHH-ye1ro 2 года назад

I definitely prefer the 50s style.

@chaosplan 2 года назад

I recognize one shot as near the Pasadena and Hollywood freeway interchange, facing south. Haven’t seen it much in the last 15 years but it looks like not much has changed other than the center divider.

@rogeto9351 2 года назад

Awesome, thanks for posting! Looks like green was a common color on cars back then. Wow more traffic on highways then I thought it would be.

@Nutella2004 Год назад

The colors aren't accurate, the film was colorized so who knows exactly what color some of those cars were

@Lilsportshady Год назад

Seeing all these classics on the interstate almost makes it look like a carshow

@hudentdw2 2 года назад

it is hard to believe most of the people in the video are no longer with us but beautiful video indeed!

@EarthenDam 2 года назад

Looking at that traffic makes me appreciate the fact we don’t use leaded gas anymore.

@20alphabet 2 года назад

Lol, you don't know what you're talking about.

@Terranallias18 2 года назад

@@20alphabet Leaded gas, aka gas with lead in it. You must've inhaled a lot

@20alphabet 2 года назад

@@Terranallias18 👈🏼thinks lead floats

@Terranallias18 2 года назад

@@20alphabet doesn't matter, you're dying

@20alphabet 2 года назад

@@Terranallias18 👈🏼coward who deletes his comments

@waynejohnson1304 2 года назад

The first part of this film was done (up to 2:30) no later than 1954. Almost all of those people are dead now. If they were 20 back then, they would be 88-89 years old now. How time flies.

@onlyoneamong300 2 года назад

Oh yeah! Somehow, whenever I watch old videos of freeways, I always think of where the drivers would be by now. Thus, just like you said, only some of the young ones must still be alive! Fortunately, my mother's 90 making us happy and proud and sharing how the world used to be back then without all the movie sugarcoating! Thanks for sharing!

@ukiyo5283 Год назад

Just sounds of V8's in literally everything, what an era

@timewarpambience1956 Год назад

This is so incredible, reminds me of the stories my grandparents told me about cars driving by or the traffic on the highways. ❤❤❤

@stomper2888 2 года назад

They didn't have blinkers back then?

@sterlinsilver 2 года назад

you can see a '62 Thunderbird using one at 4:19

@stomper2888 2 года назад

@@sterlinsilver oh ok at first I didn't see any I was like damn and they manage to not crash on the freeways today everyone would be haha

@sterlinsilver 2 года назад

@@stomper2888 if you watch films from the 1930s though that's exactly what it's like. It's crazy how everyone can just weave in between each other. I guess when the speed limit is 45 you have a bit more leeway...

@stomper2888 2 года назад

@@sterlinsilver oh true

@stomper2888 2 года назад

@@sterlinsilver id go crazy i always go 60 to 70 on the freeway lol

@ULTRAWEN7 Год назад

Офигенные кадры, буквально другая реальность.

@gaijincoolgoods9955 2 года назад

Back in those days, when you were stuck in traffic and came home, your clothes and hair reeked of exhaust fumes.

@johnjones393 2 года назад

That's right and you probably had a headache from sucking in all the exhaust fumes. God forbid if somebody got into an crash, those old cars would fold up like a tin can.

@davediamond7228 2 года назад

and cigarettes' ...everyone smoked..

@madmanmechanic8847 11 месяцев назад

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the smell of Leaded Premium I would love to smell it again

@gaijincoolgoods9955 11 месяцев назад

@@madmanmechanic8847 good and good for you

@madmanmechanic8847 11 месяцев назад

@@gaijincoolgoods9955 Good for you as you are not as stoned as you think I am .....................

@MrRT1966 2 года назад

Thanks for the video. I noticed that no one was using turn signals to cross lanes or exit.

@vibeofthee80s_ 2 года назад

this is great footage :-) thank you for sharing and uploading, looks really good in color and the time speed is perfect.

@uwillnevahno6837 2 года назад

It would be amazing to see a side by side to contrast the then and now videos!

@uwillnevahno6837 2 года назад

@@octavius8562 how the roadway has changed, lol the traffic certainly hasn't.

@hectora7479 2 года назад

@@uwillnevahno6837 the only interesting comparison would be the cars themselves, but yeah, the actual setting is exactly the same.

@uwillnevahno6837 2 года назад

@@hectora7479 Well the road construction and buildings are also going to be different

@MrMrsregor 2 года назад

probably way more rudeness and aggression in modern day driving :(

@oskarkarrera 2 года назад

theo only thing different is thw cars concrete will be concrete asphalt clouds trees buildings etc etc

@dave1956 2 года назад

I just love the old cars.

@simgobel Год назад

Beautiful cars

@DoctorWonka Год назад

Wow! All those cool cars! What a gold mine!! 😀

@calartian85 Год назад

That interchange has been jammed since I was born.

@jakeneko 2 года назад

Wow. Even in the 50s, nobody knew how to use the highway.

@OzzyTheGiant Год назад

They don't even have blinkers from what I can tell

@TouringBassist 2 года назад

Everyone is nostalgic for a time that was literally identical, so surreal to watch this. It sucked back then too! This actually makes me feel way better about LA traffic now, it's not really worse! Somehow that's a strange positive!

@bighands69 2 года назад

It was a lot cheaper to live back then with more career opportunities. Starting a family was a much cheaper and easier thing to achieve. That could all be achieved on one income. A Buick in 1958 which would have been built to the standard of a mercedes would have cost $3000 and that today would be about $10000. Life was of a much higher standard back then.

@EYE_GOTCHA 2 года назад

I would love to be able to time travel back to the Los Angeles of the 1930s.

@allaansnackbar4269 2 года назад

@JRG summers weren’t as hot back then

@CcOLaGeN 2 года назад

@@allaansnackbar4269 how come ? Did you travel back in time ?

@seanthe100 Год назад

You would find agriculture in the valley, and many homeless encampments people think homelessness is a new phenomenon but it goes way back to the start.

@kubek555 2 года назад

that rumble is insane, all V8s ..not like turbo charged vacuum cleaners we have now

@SideMoneyGarage Год назад

3:54 center lane - a '58 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, baby!! 😍😍😍

@tchildres 2 года назад

Take me back.

@tchildres 2 года назад

@@ErikThomasMusic I need the DeLorean time machine

@jaimelimadasilva5364 2 года назад

Esses vídeos nos levam a um tempo que a gente não viveu! São uma verdadeira máquina do tempo!!😁👍🏼

@illmerica322 2 года назад

Thanks... Blast from the past

@hestheMaster Год назад

So at the end of the video there is a stairway leading down to the expressway. It was because at an earlier time the Pacific Electric trolley ran two tracks in the middle of the expressway. There was a station stop here. You can see a pole to the left of the stairway that supported the trolley pole line! That ended in December of 1952 and this is a few years later , tracks are gone and soon the highway will be expanded and stairs will be just a memory. That expressway was the Hollywood freeway and goes through Cahuenga Pass.

@Kringspiermusketier 2 года назад

It's so weird to see footage of a time i didn't exist in yet. And it feels so real...

@zonaryorange8734 Год назад

It’s utterly surreal to glimpse into the past, a time when the freeways of Los Angeles were freshly constructed and a new culture was blooming onto the world stage. Now, nearly 80 years later, we have a mess of a city in which the shouts of that new and brash culture are still going but fading away into echos. As life goes on and the world changes, Los Angeles sure has done gone through a lot of change yet so little at the same time. The very last shot of the 101 South, with the stairs in the middle of the freeway; it is absolutely mind boggling to think about how they lay closed off and abandoned today, walked only by the graffiti artists who paint over them. If 80 years can make and break a city, God willing that 80 more will bring upon better changes. I hope this city and country is simply going through growing pains, and that someday our descendants will look back and learn from the mistakes of the 20th and 21st centuries

@alex11alex52 2 года назад

Полный эффект присутствия в тех годах, так здорово!

@md9680 2 года назад

Drum brakes, heavy chrome bumpers which were really meant for "bumping". No worries, though people generally didn't tailgate as much as they do today. We kids would be standing on the tunnel in the back seat area, arms hanging over the front seat back. Or, if there's room in front and my mother's driving, she would be slamming her forearm across my chest every time she came to a stop. No mandated children's car seats, no seat belts (until the mid-60s) to hold them down. (Lots of dead people from crashes, though no one suggested the banning of cars.) No AC. All windows open. Ahhh, the smell of concentrated leaded gas exhaust! How did we manage to live so long?

@godschild5587 2 года назад

research: Common US foods that are banned in other countries

@1940limited 2 года назад

We did just fine. How did it happen?

@1940limited 2 года назад

@PJM1 In other words you had to have some brains and technique. You were actually driving something. It's almost a lost art.

@drifterman319 2 года назад

Back in the day out east The Long Island expressway could be equally as notorious. But no matter where out east we lived at the time driving to relatives or friend's houses In the tri-state area there was always a pot with ice and a few beers in it at my mother's feet for my dad. "Nother beer dear". "Yes dear". Pssst.

@snorrevonflake 2 года назад

Damn i want a time machine, would sit there for hours just watch those awesome cars.

@cancel1913 2 года назад

It's amazing all those people could afford to have all those vintage cars!

@sshyshy6097 Год назад

Look how clean the freeways are!

@CDV99 2 года назад

Very cool. 70 years later, still gridlock traffic. Lol

@toomanyhobbies2011 2 года назад

Those views are the absolutely busiest the freeways ever got back then. The first is clearly and accident of some kind, the second was rush hour. I learned to drive and grew up on freeways that were never crowded. And there were very few accidents.

@xixielilong8806 2 года назад

Merci pour ces vidéos, vraiment votre travail est excellent. Je suis française et j'ai connu l'époque, debut 60 où il fallait mettre de l'argent ds la télévision pour pouvoir la regarder, une seule chaîne à l'époque. Jamais je n'aurais pensé, que j'aurais connu les I phones où l'on peut regarder, le journal tv, par exemple tout en étant ds le train, où à la terrasse d'un café. Les jeunes gens sont sidérés qd je leur dis, que début 60, on louait des téléviseur et qu'il fallait mettre de l'argent dedans. 😅

@stepa82 2 года назад

Европа восстанавливалась довольно долго после войны, только США территориально она не коснулась,. Война дала только США толчок в развитии

@xixielilong8806 2 года назад

@@stepa82 hélas il n'y a pas de traduction, je ne comprends pas , belle soirée à vous ✨

@stepa82 2 года назад

@@xixielilong8806 позже появится, у меня появился

@evad49h Год назад

I got startled at 2 minutes and 2 seconds when I saw the black MGTD. We lived in the SF Valley and my dad had a black MGTD and wore the same style and same color hat and drove this same freeway everyday. It was not him though as we moved to California in 1957 and this a a few years before that. Your videos are wonderful. Thank you.

@muf722 2 года назад

The tailgating is crazy!

@lolahunter8851 2 года назад

Interesting to see no brake or signal lights. I bet there were less accidents back then due to drivers having to pay attention and not worry about cell phones

@richmanwisco Год назад

I'll take that bet.

@Cantakor 2 года назад

so it took 72 years to upload it on youtube? man that internet connection must be slow... :D

@RealmsofPixelation 2 года назад

The existence of nostalgia confirms one thing: that things used to be better.

@slavicdollx 2 года назад

Better as in constant fear of nuclear annihilation? Or better yet, black ppl weren't allowed to go in shops with white people or better yet cars didn't have airbags so you would most likely die going at 45-50 mph. Yes totally "better" times if you say...

@davediamond7228 2 года назад

oh please the 50's started with the Korean war...then the sixties brought us Vietnam ..i guess if we all had bone spurs and didn't have to serve, nostalgia could be great

@johnp139 Год назад

Horrific pollution!!!

@onlyoneamong300 Год назад

They were better in so many, many, many ways that it would take a long list to include them as all here! We also have seniors and videos to prove it!

@povertyspec9651 2 года назад

Back then, they didn't have median barriers. Head-ons from cars losing control and crashing into the opposing direction were constant. A lot of these roads the traffic is still driving on the original concrete pavement, and CalTrash still has a lot of signage from the 1960's in place because they are too lazy to replace the signs.