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At 11:45 can see zip riders above the crowd. Look at the top of the screen. That is cool.

Patriotic Showgirls Waving to the camera 3:59

If you see something you like please put a time stamp and shrare it. 2:46 watch Child's Play Chucky the street performer.

If you had 1 million back then you were rich. You could live off the interest alone and be set.

I came to Hollywood in 1994, it was great then and it is great now. Yes, there are problems, and they are shared all over the country.

As a long time resident of LA and a 1974 graduate of Hollywood High, I say that was a wonderful time portal to the past. I love the perfunctory narrator and his old-fashioned colloquialisms, and the music too is a reflection of the period. Hollywood somewhat fell into a state of disrepair in the 1970s, but has since been redeveloped and become more in tourist demand than ever. The Dolby Theater brought the Academy Awards back to Hollywood where they belong. But one can't help feeling that the Covid plandemic and HD home viewing has forever damaged the long-running concept of theatrical distribution. What do I miss most? Cafe Figaro, CC Brown's, The Shack, Lou's Quickie Grill, Tiny Naylor's, A&M Studios, La Villa Taxco, Jacopo's (actually Beverly Hills), Tower Records Sunset, Group 4. Even World Book and News on Cahuenga has closed down. The internet conquers all.

Like 100s after the war, my family both sides moved to California. From north to south. The 50s were fabulous. Orange groves ,clean, and exciting. My husband worked for family ,largest roofing company in San Fernando Valley . He met many celebrities and supervised jobs on celebrities homes. In the early 1980s we were sitting at a red light on Reseda Blvd.I looked at my husband and asked " how many hours are we going to waste in our lives sitting at red lights". We decided rite then to move to the mid west. Now we are in Florida . Fortunately for us .. I am disheartened to see California so downtrodden.

What a gorgeous place it was in the 'Golden Age'. Like a magical dream!

they all drove big SUV's back then. No compact sedans.

Just a murderous shithole now what a shame

Geeee, that's swell !!!!!!! I'd love to visit that time and just ogle those autos !!!

Hollyweird 🥴

That awful corny "music" drowns out all the classic vocals here. Fix it!

Remarkable how everyone lies about car colors at this time. It's offensive to the real history and manufacturing, and makes the era seem dull and lifeless when it was the complete opposite. The city scene is a perfect example, and proves that black and white is a terrible representation compared to how vibrant color is in comparison (nothing wrong with B&W but making guesses as to the colors is the issue and why it often slips you up). This is a long comprehensive list but thorpughs my point on this fine, fine era: 3:28 coupé in dark green with maroon fenders (vague but obvious at the same time) 3:31 a corner roadster in milkweed brown for the fenders, and river stone gray for the body 3:32 a 1929 Buick with two tone lining and directly behind it a very interesting model with a California top, butter esk color. Next three vehicles are various unsaturated shafes of green, last being more gray, with a sweet little coupé in gray green centerstage. 3:33 directly behind the driving coupé is a Rauch and Lang model from 1930! Bright vanilla colored fender with a sort of stormy brown body color, beautiful two tone lining across the hardtop doors. 3:35 a 1926 Imperial in a lovely shade of green, brighter than it's fellows on the left of it and rich in color, light yellow wire spoke wheels. 1929 Pontiac (?) in eggshell at the corner with a black two tone for fender and hardtop, right of that is a turning 1928 Ajax (?) in a dark emerald color barely perceptible to the human eye, and a vehicle in silver screen light gray that I'm honestly not too sure on the make..though Diane comes to mind; Black two tone being a lovely accompaniment..! 3:38 inspires a new front running line of vehicles notably 3 models in similar shades of gray which is really fun to look at (blue green, olive green, and gray at close up), very notably a 1923 Chalmers in light blue (a guess unfortunately but I'm thinking it's that for a good reason) at 3:39 there is a 1927 Studebaker with a daring white wall on the back rear only! very dark mint green paintjob almost unnoticeable, especially if it were in B&W. 4:00 and take a gander at this tritone Willys knight roadster. Soft brown two tones, with striking frosted orange disteel wheels or perhaps spokes a almost maroon looking vehicle to the right of it! 4:03 at this time here, we have a wash of blue that enters, first with a elegant storm blue colored roadster, and then a striking phaeton top with a rich light aqua and white two tone!.. 4:09 appears a light gray vehicle, terribly interesting looking Rolls royce or perhaps a late Roamer open top, and a equally classy two tone brown enclosed sedan directly behind it..Packard I think. 4:18 offers a little wink of greenish-blue on a passing coupé model.

$5 a ticket for Graumanns in the 1930’s??? That’s over $100 today. I imagine that was just the ticket for the premier.

I don’t see any…

Wow, how clean and beautiful the place was back then. Not anymore. Glamour is completely gone now and never to be again.

Sad its filthy ghetto and full of drugs now

Back when LA. was the place to be!! NOT ANYMORE now it's a TOILET!!

That's crazy they got color film back then but yet color TVs didn't come out till the '60s nuts and the guy mentioned the architecture of the old world that was a trip there was some pretty cool stuff there Fancy buildings Hollywood in the '30s???

"Trader Horn" M-G-M 1931. Wow, this is really back there.. They didn't have Cinecolor then. Must be a reissue print from two-strip Technicolor..

3:38 - the radio station mentioned here was KWBC/KFWB. There is a good article about this station on The Radio Historian web-site.

5$ a ticket 🎫 then to go to the premier 😂. love the footage❤

Norma Desmond!

94 yrs ago. Wow

I recognize what was Bob Barker's future home-2 minutes into the video but no swimming pool yet. former residents in backyard. 2min to 2:10 mark. the home as of this entry is currently for sale.

A time when nobody dressed like freak's at premier's

Well, this must be a victory celebration film. We see the depravity of Beverly Hills in the early 20th century. Now, our streets are flush with diversity and inclusion !!!!!!!!

Hollywood is a district NOT a suburb.

That's Groucho Marx narrating!!!!!

Great video of old Hollywood, people should read Hollywood and Babylon.

Being an only child with abusive parents was difficult, especially not having a sibling to lean on and get/give support. It makes you socially inept.

Hilarious! They did not build those structures. They were found and repurposed....lol! Like our tiny beings could build anything except for cubes. Propaganda to promote Hollywood indulgence so that we would idol worship it.

Thank you for posting this most enjoyable video. This was before I was born. But my dad lived in the area at that time and had very fond memories of it. Thank you again for this nice trip down Hollywood's Memory Lane

I would love to see a comparison of the area but in the 50's or 60's, once modern appliances and technology started to go more mainstream. I bet in those few decades that TONS had changed in these areas, and that's probably when the over-building and crowding started to happen.

That voice almost certainly is Groucho. I would guess there is more than one house that looks like the one in Beverly Hills in which Ben Siegel was shot, but if it really was the same one, obviously a complete coincidence because that happened more than a decade later in 1947.

at ​​⁠4:11 the story of Carl Laemmle, then Universal Studios founder and owner, is that he paid $350,000 for the Hollywood and Vine empty Northwest corner lot in 1925, and was offered, but turned down, the $1,000,000 in 1928, it was reported at the time that the lot had been offered for sale in 1912 for only $15,000, Laemmle finally had a building built there in 1932, which was many things over the years, including a Howard Johnson’s restaurant, and was a nightclub called the Basque Club when it burned down in 2008, making that Northwest corner lot empty once again (still empty today in 2024)

Own a home, and lived here on and off my whole life. It is a beautiful place to be. I have homes in other states too, but come back always. No place like it. For those that bad mouth and only dwell on the negative, I feel sorry for.

Everything well kept and all secrets nicely tucked away.

it was nice white and bright, get my drift?

These old travelogues don't show any of the problems. Now the algo is far too eager to show you nothing but problems.

I wonder did the Sydney Opera House get their inspiration from this arena in Hollywood. 🤔☘️

I lived in Hollywood from February of 1986 until 1993 when I moved to Long Beach. I felt very privileged to have been living there. Found so much to do and explore. I meet some really wonderful people and a long term friend. I especially like Griffith Park, the Hollywood Bowl, Greek Theater, movie theater's on the boulevard and services at Hollywood Presbyterian and so much more. It was a great time in my life and many positive experiences. Hooray for Hollywood!

This was the Great Depression for everyone else.

the movie premiere was April 3, 1931, so this probably was filmed in March/April of that year

That is fabulous footage!! A bygone era to be sure-- thank you for posting this! 💗

Opening sequence filmed at Yamashiro restaurant, still very much part of Hollywood. An authentic Japanese temple reerected circa 1914, as a house and art gallery.

Weird to think, if you were a millionaire back then, you were Big Time. Now you need to be a Billionaire or Trillionaire. 🤯 Now back to my dinner of Cereal.😢🥣

Beautiful times😘!…not anymore !

JO's making Tea Party driven Negative BS comments, the hills above Hollywood & the Whole Santa Monica Mountain Range is some of the most expensive, well taken care of real estate in the World