Old Los Angeles. 1940s in colour. How did people dress at that time. 

Agreed

I love your comment about "the one guy with his pants pulled down exposing his underwear". When this vulgarity surfaced (in the late 1990s or early 2000s?), I was utterly disgusted!

Right!!

Yes! And all the grown women with blue hair.

Aggressive capitalism

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there are still sections of Los Angeles which are almost the same as in this footage. such as Uptown Whittier or Old Torrance.

The blessings of cultural enrichment.

@@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf Indeed! Los Angeles has a more vibrant culture now than in the 1940's.

@@caraqueno uglier too in most respects, but as time goes on we can hope for change!

Totally agree!

Mom used to ask are you presentable? Of course! Today not always... My Dad always looked decked out; mom too!! It is the filthyness of downtown that is unacceptable!!

100% agree ! You took the words right out of my mouth.

You don't see Men and Women with tattoo's all over their arms. Not particularly appealing.

Thats cause they had good upbringing and morals, no look at me freaks like today.@@vernpascal1531

I’m with you. I can remember my parents talking about getting dressed up to go to town. I really hate how people look and act today. This was a little before my time but I could go back and live in this era very easily.

I have no objections to heavy people, but I agree with the rest of what you are saying.

@@michaelbenardo5695 The point to be taken from the comment is before the days of fast food and most of the processed food of today, people worked much more and eating was somewhat more healthy. Thanks for the high rate of obesity Ray Kroc.

Lol

@@dave1956 People didn't eat out nearly as often as today because eating out was expensive and, therefore, regarded as a special treat. The restaurants, diners, lunch counters, and soda fountains were a daily occurrence for a minute portion of the population, not for the average American, as today. Home cooking was regarded as ideal eating. The average diet of people was, if anything, worse than diets today. People were more prone to harder physical labor than today because many labor-saving appliances today were either nonexistent in the 1940's or in more primitive form that didn't save as much labor as they do today. Food options were not as plentiful as we have today. Note to commentators: this film looks as if it might've been filmed in 1945 or 1946. Bear in mind that war rationing was in place and, while each American family was allotted what was thought to be enough food for a family of 6, on average, food was consumed carefully and made to last the entire month until new rations were allotted. Meat was particularly scarce, so a family's diet had to rely more on vegetables and white carbohydrates to be satisfactory to most civilians. So calorie consumption was more measured than today, where there is no rationing and the food choices and quantities are extraordinary.

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We were poor and lived in the country back in the 60s but when we went to town or church we wore something nice and cleaned up.we could dress very well on someone's hand me downs. I have money now but I am well dressed even with good will clothes

"looking your best in public was a point of pride". You're right - and not only in America but also in Europe and other countries as well!

Never went downtown SF in the late 50s without dressing nicely.

NONE.

Zero.

Cost of living was also much, much cheaper!!

Another thing you don't see in that video are minorities. You're focusing on the negative.

@@MikeTMike So, you're conclusion is that minorities equal negatives?

Agreed

Segregation, Jim crow, no civil rights protection. Nope. I'll stay here and deal with the man buns, tattoos etc

@@AsherMolina Why don't blacks segregate themselves from whites, build yourself a Wakanda here in America. But NO you guys have to follow us where ever we are happy and leech off us and our success.

Yeah, but why didn’t they wear clothes with stable colors? I never saw sport coats and dresses that constantly change color like that. This looks like something you might have seen on a prototype color TV in about 1952.

I love the part about "no rap, no pants hanging off his arse"! (Today's generations are degenerate & desperate!)

Courtesy of your local Liberal Progressives.

Lol, totally agree brother!!

What, no Walmart plastic bags in the bushes?

Interesting comment! (I was wondering how many buildings seen in this video are still standing.)

My mom and my aunts would "dress" to got "downtown". Hats and dresses and nylons and sometimes gloves. It was like going to a wedding or something for the clothes they'd wear. Now I see people in the city in pajama pants.

As the disruption says. 1940's.

And the G.I. Bill for all those 12 million WWII vets paid $90 a month while they were in school.

I did a quick inflation calculator on what the buying power of $40 in 1948 would equal in 2024. The answer is $520.00.

Pretty expensive when you make .35 cents an hour

@@vintagerecordambassadeur4098 I check the minimum wage for 1950. It was 75 Cents per hour. That translates in 2024 buying power to $9.72 per hour. I also checked the average worker's annual wages in 1950. That was $3, 300. 00. In 2024 money, that's $42, 767.00.........In 2023, the average worker's wage was $59, 384.

The immorals of today would jail people then, 2024 will never have the right to decide what is moral, it isn't exact the resounding example of modality. The only thing people did wrong in that era was the SMALL majority whom were racist, the 2% who were actually sexist in society (women were treated like goddeses at the time, I don't know how society today thinks the opposite), and lets not forget that period modern movies have never represented real life then, and are made by a director narratizing dislikable features where if you were to travel back to 1940 in Los Angeles, you would hardly ever find them, sometimes never since this was real life, not a storied look at an era. Most people today would fight you on the people walking down this street in the video if you hadn't shown them, they'd argue that only the top 1% were wearing these outfits and that you were crazy and seeing the era through rose colored glasses (heard that one MANY times by hateful fiends who make it their living duty to work harder at gatekeeping a random era they've never studied past rumors and misconceptions..., than trying to be successful in life)

I think that you have to split it down to specific things. Basic decency, politeness, civic and personal pride have been lost, but I wouldn't want to go back to their attitudes towards women and race.

@@freebornjohn26874/23/2024: Love your comment and I agree. 🎯👍🏾🎺🤍

I was born in the late 50’s. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

One of the BEST decades (sweet memories!)

And tattoos......ugh!!

And definitely never any of the fairer one with tattoos!

The yoga pants are not as bad as the pajamas and socks & crocs that has become a trend of late.

That maybe in LA..I don't dress like that.

And the men were well-dressed, handsome and sexy! (A male admirer)

Earth will bury us for sake of survival but not the animals.

I don't care about other people's weight.

@@michaelbenardo5695 I do, its sight pollution.

The obesity causing Adventist cult food pyramid and the never proven lipid hypothesis did not exist. Most people can not lose weight and keep it off on the same diet advice that farmers use to fatten livestock cheaply. But some can. They use those people to gaslight everyone else. To contol weight you need to control insulin. The old 1950s British diet in the prologue of Good Calories, Bad Calories is such a diet. Also you need to get pancreas destroying seed oils out of the diet as well.

Agree.

It is the 40s. Look at the cars. Not one 1950s car in the video.

Agreed. Late 1940s perhaps, but the moment the economy picked up, the girls started wearing full skirts and dumped the shoulder pads. I didn't see cars that looked like 1950s either.

@Joe ConanIndeed. 😉

For centuries, since the Middle Ages, men and women of a certain class always tried to look their best, till the mid-1960s. It all changed in the late 1960s - with Carnaby Street in London, the Sergeant Pepper LP by the Beatles, hippies, long hair and beards for men..." anything goes" since then!

There are people and there are slobs.

We have fantastic patriotic Hispanic-Americans and Mexican-Americans going all the way back to the Alamo and earlier. In fact, one of them is my closest veteran friend on a personal level. However, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot in L.A. in 1943 is a different story. Those were Mexicans (including illegals?) who were NOT patriotic and not helping with the war effort at a dangerous time. Instead, they were "rolling" (or robbing) drunk U.S. sailors as they staggered back across that area of bars from a late night out. The sailors, naturally, finally got fed up with it and took matters into their own hands when it happened one more time. They went in and "cleaned house" on the perpetrators. Today's PC media, Hollywood, and Wiki-liars are not likely to tell you the truth of what happened. Instead, get ORIGINAL sources. Get the LIFE magazine issue, for example, from 1943 (which I have read). It's the same with Executive Order 9066 and the temporary relocation of the ethnic Japanese in the West Coast Defense Zone. Today's media LIES about it. Get an original source reference such as WWII Japanese Relocation Camps & the WRA: A Prudent, Emergency, War-time Measure by Cain for the true story.

Cars too. Wish they had that kind of car paint now. I remember when color shifting paint was popular in the late 90s/early 00s

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is that a fancy way of saying you'd like to see a society where only white people exist because that's everyone's secret dream

You got that right

@@kenward7203 thnx respect

" people didn't really dress so impeccably and formally just going out and doing errands" Yes they did too, especially in the big cities. In fact people dressed better in blue collar jobs than many in public do today. Women dressed nicer while working in the textile mills in the pre 1950's than you see women at Wal Mart today(FACT).

Damn right people used to dress up everyday. Self respect is dead today. Just for example tattoos everywhere or a ring in the nose like a farm animal. The phone addiction is what bugs me the most!

I'm from New Zealand and in Auckland where my parents were a young couple just after WW2 they dressed smart like in these photos to go into the city to have an afternoon shopping or a day at the races and definitely out dancing. And they were living in a temporary caravan on wheels with a tent addition because there was nowhere to rent due to housing shortages on account of building having ceased during wartime,etc . All the snap shots show their friends looking smart as well, but they have casual outfits to knock around at the beach and the yard as well.I recall my Mother looking nice when she took us to the city to go to the big cinemas or the zoo on the school holidays . She always took the trouble to dress well. I guess there was a context and she wasn't doing some sort of glam when she was out with the kids , but gee she sure looked great! Now I see so much black and faded synthetic and sagging or badly fitted kit on people.

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While the joke is hilarious, 13% of automobiles at the time were colored metallics like dark pine green pearlescent, iridescent maroon, silver bullet gray, mayan gold, indian sunburn poly, even metallic biege which was a pearl finish (much better than the "pearl" tesla has)

The sixties brought the flower children, dont believe anyone over 30 people and more drugs! That is when we started to go down hill!

Answer: Desegregation, feminism, social Marxism taught in colleges across America starting in the 1960's, The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the most important the invention of television and the internet. You want to go back then turn back all I mention and it will be like a time machine back.

Ted Kennedy and 1965 Immigration Act (followed up by the Refugee Act of 1980). The voters of Massachusetts kxxled the nation. "Land of the free" and "pursuit of happiness" are gone, thanks to Ted.

this is actual film from the 1940's

2:03 is a ..very interesting shot with the modern 1942 Oldsmobile, and... Perhaps a...well okay, I see spoke rims which is beyond curious. Maybe a Crossley but, not with wood spokes. Anyway, I can eye down this based on fashion and automobiles, and the primitized versions of their original manufactured products such as a missing white wall, or white wheel well faux white walls (which I do like the look of). This is about 1944-1945.

The United States definitely peaked between the end of WWII and the JFK assassination

​@@epice6463 Also peaked in 1920-1942 but no one studied that ever :(.

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar that’s when the Great Depression took place

@@epice6463 That's when real life happened. People make the great depression sound like the only event that ever happened in the 1930s, I can assure you it was not that damning.

I'm not American but I remember America in the 1940s & 50s. I loved the way America and Americans looked till the mid-60s. It's all on record in the color movies and black and white T.V. shows of that time. It all changed in the late 1960s - for the worse!