Yep... My mother was a teen in the 50s. She said, "You wern't afraid to walk the street alone at night, now I wouldn't walk the street alone in the daytime."
Seemed quite awkward, for a state named by the Spanish. I mean, I come from a town highly Hispanic, but I found out, even here there were designated areas for Hispanic-white and Blacks in the 50’s & 60’s. I thought that to be terrible. But even white hispanics if you will, were singled out in more Anglicized cities if they became aware of your surname.
@@robertvillarreal4525 Don't be ridiculous, most Spanish spoken folks were given a lot of opportunity wether that be from being Hollywood stars, workers in office, buying a good home and settling in usually priced to $7000 to $9000 dollars. I have the voice of the owner of a restaurant who was a Hollywood star to tell me, then moved to mexico for another acting gig in the 1940s, met him in the 1960s later, before moving to Florida, same as me. Owner of sarvendaus.
@@jameson32 ur...the cure for a polio vaccine happened in 1953 March 26, 1953 On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
A high-flying, free-wheeling time to grow up in L.A. I spent my childhood in University Park and Belmont Shore in Long Beach in the 60s. My dad made his $millions in real estate at a time when exponential growth was exploding in SoCal. So we were exceedingly lucky to have a nice house and a couple boats and a cabin in Mammoth Lakes. The relative opulence in which I grew up, though, meant far less to me than the *opportunity* it gave me to explore all of the State of California, and I cherished that more than anything in my childhood. A lot of social and political craziness going on back then so it wasn't ALL idyllic, but L.A. -- SoCal in general -- was a place that never looked back, always looked forward but at the same time never forsook the history of the State. Even today I pine to explore, travel, and live in my native state; the only thing that keeps me from doing it is the damage that has been done by politicians there over the past couple of decades. I couldn't afford to live there now and wouldn't want to. CA is a shell of what it once was and it's literally a crying shame. I miss L.A., at least the L.A. I knew; I miss the State -- a more diverse state you won't find anywhere among the other 49 -- and I pray that before I die people living there will realize what they have, what's been done to it, and what is possible, and take control of their state instead of waiting for self-serving, opportunistic, ideological politicians to fail to deliver on their promises. It can be done and I'm praying it will be.
As a young boy, I lived on Alcott Street in the mid 50s, and I remember buying glazed and jelly donuts from the Helms trucks that would come up our street. They were something like 5 cents to 7 cents for each donut.
I remember the Helms Bakery trucks coming through our neighborhood. I don’t remember donuts but I remember their raisin bread was so good. After Helms went out of business (in the late ‘ 60’s I think) hippies bought up the old Helms trucks and turned them into campers. Lol. You would see them trucking down the road with flowers painted on them and homemade curtains hanging in the back windows.
We had a sense of “GOOD HUMOR” in those days too 5859 melrose my first address 1942 ice delivered for the ice box and back yard incinerators as well, got a tad smoggy around 4 or 430 stop and go shingles
It's like a third world country now. What a disgrace we've allowed corrupt politicians, drugs and gangs to ruin our cities. Mass deportation and harsh penalties for criminals. Great video, thanks for sharing 😁
@@vanillaexplosion99 well that was white people's fault they should have never went to Africa brought them here. Know how smart was that now you're stuck with them. And don't you want them to go back to Africa. But instead go to Africa for yourselves for a vacation.
@@andredupuis5461 The first slave owner in America was a black man. He brought them here. www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/flashback-first-legal-slave-owner-america-black-man/
@@marciadiehl5733 Welllllll, I guess that was a good excuse for everyone else to have slaves, hmmm. Michael Vick had dog fights but nobody followed suit with that. The people went uproor after Vick over dogs but copied the black slave owner.
@@Luca-nu2zg Hey, They called themselves white at least here in America. I don't know where you are but this is the description they put and USA put. If this wasn't you then don't worry about it. Personally I say pink people
These days women are more health conscious, join spas , work out and diet regularary , are better educated and have family planning. Not like the 1950's. Back in the 50's women didn't wear track suits or jeans, noooo! You could see them coming down the street, overweight , wearing a house dress tent , munching on a hero sandwich to keep up with the choirs, and lugging about 3 to 5 kids with them. But hey, at least they didn't have tattoos and wear jeans.
@@ndogg20 ..Your characterization is pure fiction. People are overweight today compared to the 50s when they cared more about their appearance in general. Being well dressed carried an importance then. They were more happier in that simpler and sane period. More hospitable. Life revolved around the family and society benefited because of it. But hey, much of the rhetoric today is anti-family so what do you care.
@zz zz "Negro Baseball League World Series of 1951"??? The Negro National League ended in 1948, so what was this "world series"? Beyond that, get a clue, this video is about Los Angeles, and none of the other things you mentioned ever happened here. That's OK, just make shit up as you go along, like the rest of your ilk.
My dad use to complain cause gas was a quarter per gallon back in 1969. A dollar bill was like 20.00 bill today or more.Cigarettes were 30 cents a pak.A 20 oz. bottle of soda was a dime you could turn the bottle in for a nickle.Those days are gone forever.Pretty soon people wont be able to afford to drive a car.
I remember eating Ice Cream at Thrifty Drug Stores with Thriftymart Supermarket next door to each other on Beverly Blvd in Montebello back in the 60's. Back when a 3 Scoop Ice Cream Cone was only 15 Cents.
Back when nearly anyone could afford to live there and before the city started going down hill. Even though i was thrown out in 94, a part of me will always be there.
Robert Tiscione In the mid 1950's a friend and I did a monumentally stupid thing by letting two young sailors pick us up on Atlantic Blvd, on their way from Alhambra to Long Beach.Neither made a move on us, and we got home safely. A bit later we were living in Pasadena. As a young woman in the late '50's I sometimes had insomnia so would walk around town in the middle of the night. No one ever tried to pick me up in a car or stopped to talk to me. Of course there were very few cars on the street at that time, and I was probably just very lucky. In 1976 my mother was still living in Altadena on Christmas Tree Lane, but by then had put bars on her windows and was afraid to go out at night. Sad.
At 1:48, I believe the image is of South Main Street and Romie Lane in Salinas, Monterey County, about 350 miles north of Los Angeles. This is a great video, thank you for sharing...
Whats wrong with people not speaking english? You seem like the typical racist white guy who is mad foreigners come to this country and work harder than you do at your own job. Go back to Europe if you want to be surrounded by whites only.
Well, Rudedoggie, you're too young to have experienced it, but you sound like one of those guys who would have an extremely tough time getting along with people of any sort if you went back in time. The culture shock would be so severe that most people would look at you in in horror, once you started speaking from your post-literate, reality show, isolationist perspective. Even the most conservative white person of that time would be shocked and more than a little saddened by you.
karen103-America is full,we need no more low IQ foreigners from Latin America. Comparing Latinos emigrating to the other mass migrations,like the Ashkenaz Jews(highly intelligent), into the USA is not the same.
When the kids screw up, they don't discipline them or teach them what they did was wrong, What they do is defend the actions of the kid no matter what. A lot of parents feel their upbringing was "too strict", so they bring their kids up with NO rules or discipline. Every generation it seems to get worse. Parents are lazy and ineffective. They want to be "cool" and be on a friendship basis with these monsters they are raising.
Yes, & also one near the fair oaks freeway,& another on Colorado Blvd in pasadena & a couple of others.I grew up mostly in the San Gabriel Valley. I liked comics too.Donald Duck,,Classics illustrated,Scrooge McDuck come to mind. Mad magazine & Cracked were like the forbidden fruit.lol I was kind of shocked when Thrifty's went away.I felt pretty sad when all my favorite Drive-In movies became swap meet yards & then disappeared too.But,I'm glad I lived through that time.
Took a "Google map" trip to my Grandparent's house of yester-year in Huntington Park, CA. Happy to say that whoever owns the Spanish Style beauty has kept her in perfect shape. It made me VERY happy. Thanks for posting "the good old days". I hadn't thought of POP or the LA Farmer's Market in years. My Mom, Dad and Grandfolks would take us school clothes shopping every August on Wilshire!
Thanks for the photos. What surprises me the most about the old days is all the things which were around back then that I thought weren't, like Ralph supermarkets, Mc Donald's, Jack in the Box, and Denny's for example.
Every generation lusts for their youth. LA and Hollywood were new and exciting. Disneyland opened and we were blown away. Now the infrastructure is 50 plus years older and not much has been replaced. Now a sad frantic city falling into decay. A date to the drivein theater - double feature, with cartoon - for $1.00 a carload ($10 in todays dollars). Going to Wallaces Music City to listen to albums in play booths. Records costing about $4.00 ($40 today) were expensive. Playa del Rey firepits under the end of the runways at LAX. Cruising Delores Drive In. Good memories. Thanks for the vid.
It was "Wallich's Music City" I can still remember the radio jingle. It was about a half mile bike ride from where I grew up. I still live in L.A., and I wouldn't call most of it "sad," but it is going downhill at a pretty good clip, the victim of the ultra-liberal Dem politics of the City, and of the State of California, too. Following San Francisco and Portland in becoming an open air sewer in many places.
"Every generation lusts for their youth." And the USA lusts for its past, that is, its "youth" as a country, the golden era of the 50's and 60's, and that means, the USA has degenerated to the equivalent of human old age!
Disneyland was a little cheaper back then and you get to get in almost all the ride, without paying too much money just to stand in front of the line before you even get in.
I grew up in LA. lived there from 1954 to 1972, near Pico and Sepulveda. All the keys were in our cars. I never had a key to our house because we never locked the doors. Smog was bad because burning your trash in the incinerator was normal. In 1962 they built the 10 freeway right next door to my house. The definition of traffic was much different then.
I remember some of those places in downtown L.A. in the early 70s were still like the ones shown here in the video. You could walk around many areas in downtown without worrying about muggings and especially druggies pissing in their pants all strung out on drugs. Homeless were very few and far away from the public even in the early 70s and all the way up to the mid 80s! Unfortunately, I was born too late☹️ My dad and his dad though saw the best of L.A. Paternal grandfather and grandmother arrived in the L.A. area in the early 20s, so they probably saw it when a lot of it was still rural. Father has a lot to say about L.A. throughout the 40s to the early 60s...both good and bad. Mostly good though. L.A. went to hell after about the mid 70s when mayor Tom Bradley became mayor, but probably even before that after the 1965 riots. There are many reasons for it dilapidating, not just a few. Several newspaper articles about Pomona in the late 19th century discussed how advertising it back then caused a huge influx of people to flood that area. That was before the 20th century! So developers seem to be the main culprit for ruining CA.
I'd rather spend the rest of my life in the year 1972, if it could be possible. The year the Lakers won their Very First World Championship in Los Angeles.
I nearly forgot about the Sherbet! That was mighty fine as well. Say,did you thirsty after the ice cream ( or Sherbet ) & guzzle water from the drinking fountain they usually had nearby? Or go to the magazine rack & read the Mad magazines your parents wouldn't let you buy?
There were "low rider" gangs in San Fernando and Pacoima near where I lived in the late 50's and early 60's. But in those days the Mexican gangs had "honour". If there was a beef between car clubs...errr gangs. It was settled man to man - no guns involved - that wouldn't be "manly". And Mexicans were fearless football players and fighters. Many of us anglo kids imitated them greasing our hair back etc. We admired the "low riders", their style and their cool cars (and drugs).
Anyone that thinks the air was cleaner and the beaches were cleaner either didn't live here or is naive. I could hardly breath in the early 60s when I went to grade school. The beaches were laden with trash and the "dont be a litterbug" campaign had just started. We used to Bolsa Chica Beach in Huntington "tin can beach".
People were more actively involved raising a family. They were not overweight in the 50s. And, of course, they actually dressed much better. Beautiful stylish cars. That's obvious. If you were going to be a slob or tramp you weren't going to be very popular. Today, they could care less. Obesity is now at an all time high. There were family lunch and dinners and home style cooking. And that's, generally, what you got. Fast foods weren't a staple but more of a treat. They're absorbed with their smartphones and not happier. A family could buy a home, support itself on one income and have a number of children. Today, they're so self-absorbed many don't even want a family, the bedrock of a healthy society, happiness, and community strength. And many don't have the character and simply shun that kind of responsibility and systematically kill-off all their ancestors. We've abandoned high culture for low brow nonsense. We live in political systems that have abandoned us and killed God. It's become increasingly morally, aesthetically, and spiritually dead. When a society has nothing to believe in, it self-immolates. Faithless, hopeless. The west has lost it's roots and is wilting and dying. Technology is better but society is not.
"Today, they're so self-absorbed many don't even want a family, the bedrock of a healthy society, happiness, and community strength." Sole parent families are on the rise though.
My grandma lived in Buena Park. We lived in Blythe and would visit a couple of times a month. Mom and Grandma would go shopping (mostly looking or window shopping in Anaheim, Santa Monica, Pomona. I remember Van Nuys Blvd and the parking garage in Pershing Square... Ah, the memories!
Buena Park, home of Knott’s Berry Farm, Lincoln Drive-In theatre, All American grocery store on Knott and Ball Road, Nabisco on the north side of the Santa Ana freeway & Knott Avenue, and strawberry fields before housing tracks took over,.
I think of my childhood in Manhattan Beach and recall my family being encouraged to buy up vacant lots all around them!! Nobody had any money! And probably not the foresight either==Bob Hope and Bing Crosby did amoung many many others-- Oh, well--I still visitmy home that my folks sold for 20,000 in late fifties and is now selling for 1.4 MILLION==it's crazy==basically the same house! Crazy!!
I knew that was Manhattan Beach at 1:40. I live in Redondo Beach In the Hollywood Riviera. My folks bought their first home in 1965 in Redondo Beach for $17,500. Today that home is worth $1.7 million. I wish my Dad had never sold my childhood home. It’s just crazy how real estate has skyrocketed in the South Bay.
I use to work for a company, Transport Clearings in LA; travelled all over Southern Cal except Orange and San Diego Counties. I live in Tennessee now. Southern CA was great then but would not like to live there now.
The 50's and early 60's were a great time for me. The only thing better today is health care, which I can hardly afford. Cars are better engineered today too, but I can hardly afford those either. That's OK because they're only half the fun, half as exciting and twice as complicated as the cars from back then. Dad worked in retail, mom stayed home, a lawyer lived next door and our doctor lived around the corner. No Mc Mansions in our neighborhood. Just good people.
Your religion is non-descimanate, you judge other religions yet your religion of non-judgment has decayed all of the United States and that is the single biggest reason this country has fractured and has lost all unity and pride which made us once great.
Entitlement society created by the Liberals to ensure they stay elected , The new slogan for the Dem's ask not what your country can do for you, What can this country do for me if they want my undecided vote.
I lived near San Fernando from '61 -'66. We had - whites, Mexicans, blacks, asians at our school and we all got along. There were fights but it was never racial. Kennedy was president, everybody had a job. It was better times. Look how clean it was. There were "low riders", because "car clubs" were popular. If they had a beef it was fists, never guns (knives amongst themselves). Guns were not "manly". There was an honour code amongst the low riders. All that ended in the early 70's with guns.
Being in Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s were the best times to live and grow up! I love the buildings and its architecture is fantastic! Those were the good old days! Great video! I love it. I would like to one day visit Los Angeles!
I was born and raised in Southern California. It was a great time to be a teenager in the’60’s. The beach, KHJ radio, 9th Street West dance show on TV hosted by Sam Riddle, Where the Action Is TV dance show hosted by Michael Blodgett with Paul Revere and the Raiders as the house band, my brother had a ‘60 Mercury with a good radio - Surfin USA, Norwegian Wood, Somebody to Love, Land of a Thousand Dances playing as we drove down to Huntington Beach or even Corona del Mar. what a privilege to grow up there (and have a cool brother, too). We didn’t think about it at the time as being ‘cool’, it was just what we did.
LA back when dreams could really come true and anything was possible, the beginning of the music revolution, and Hollywood shooting some great pictures and nobody was offended at everything. Was if perfect, of course not but if you had talent, You had a place to let people see you. I loved it, but didn’t want to live there by the time I actually could have done something. It’s to filthy and dangerous and crazy now.
The air quality was better...The food quality was better. The beaches were cleaner' No gangs....No..graffiti. Not 'one' piece of paper on..the floor' The streets were..clean' This....Is...the...Los..Angele's....i..have..always dreamed..of..knowing' This...Is..the...world...I..never...meet'..and Never...will' :(
I was born in 1993 and would kill to live during this era! Things just seem so peacefully back then. Can anyone tell me how life was like during this era in Los Angeles? I would love to listen about your life during the 50s/60s.
No need for apology. This was my world growing up. I am a white female, born in L.A. in 1952. I remember these things, but I also remember having arguments with my bigoted parents about people of color. I hated it. In my schools there were many black children so I was always very comfortable with being around them. My best friend was Mexican. None of them talked about negative experiences of being colorful; we just hung out and had fun. But, as an adult I know it must have been very, very hard.
Gayle Tube. Well OK. You are ashamed to be White. Well your Parents were right. And they were not ashamed of being White. And I am very glad for them. But you are a big disgrace to your own race.
If it was only that simple. Mexicans have been immigrating to this country since the Mexican-American War. The problem was globalization, the outsourcing of jobs, NAFTA, the loss of industry, & the rise of the service economy. The question is what can we do about it when our politicians, in the left & right, have sold out the country.
How could Mexicans have "immigrated" to their own land, as most southern parts of the USA were part of Mexico, annexed by force by the US when Mexicans lost the war.
Wow, that must've been a LONG TIME AGO. I've never seen anywhere in Southern California look like that @0:22. Also, 0:43 is either Santa Monica Blvd or Wilshire. The 'General Insurance' building now has a Samsung screen on top, you can see it for miles around at night.
You have to understand, A Sherbet is a Fruit Flavored Ice Cream. It was basically like making Ice Cream out of Fruit Juice, and it is almost like drinking Fruit Juice, something that really quenches your thirst on a Hot Summer Day. But yes, at times I did go to the Refrigerated Drinking Fountain when I was thirsty. But when I was a Small Boy, I never knew what Mad Magazines was then. I was into Comic Books. You sound like someone who has occupied the Thrifty in Montebello once upon a time.
When you were born and raised in a beautifull area and then watch it destroyed and ripped apart area by area to what it is today, then you preach to me about "diversity". Problem with you people that come to California is you try and shove your east coast values down everyones throat's. I've lived my entire life here. I've seen what they have done. Pretty hard to tell me I havn't seen what I have seen.
Shame on you. Diversity is a California value. You can say that crime and poverty hurt the city, but to say that "diversity" (the arrival of different ethnic groups) was the true problem simply makes you a racist. We don't like racism here in California.
It really sucked indeed, but the magic of the 1940s and 50s overtakes me. If I ever get a chance, I may still go back in time. At least I'll know that it'll get resolved eventually, so I don't have to worry.
I'm 30, and damn if I don't feel the exact same way about that! If, by some miracle, they really do invent time travel in my lifetime, you better believe this time is straight where I'm going! Especially to see the old architecture and spots that only exist in photos now, to say nothing of the culture!
Yep... My mother was a teen in the 50s. She said, "You wern't afraid to walk the street alone at night, now I wouldn't walk the street alone in the daytime."
wow great shots! i am an LA native and I really can reminisce whenever I see photos like this....takes me back in time.
Same here was smiling ear to ear watching this!!!! Awe the great ole days…
No trash...
No homeless people...
Just good old days 😎
EXACTLY!!!! We are degenerate today.
Must have been glorious time to have lived in the 50's. This is coming from a 20 year old!
back when america was a great place to live and before political correctness and when we still prayed as a country.
EXACTLY!!!!! Miss my times so frakn bad I can’t get over how much we have lost!!!! Unbelievable WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!
I can attest to the fact that the 50's and 60's were fabulous decades to be a teenager, and in your 20's!! Cheers!! :)
Back when people spoke to each other face to face.
Unless you were non-White, then it was a different reality. Separate everything.
Seemed quite awkward, for a state named by the Spanish.
I mean, I come from a town highly Hispanic, but I found out, even here there were designated areas for Hispanic-white and Blacks in the 50’s & 60’s.
I thought that to be terrible.
But even white hispanics if you will, were singled out in more Anglicized cities if they became aware of your surname.
@@robertvillarreal4525 Don't be ridiculous, most Spanish spoken folks were given a lot of opportunity wether that be from being Hollywood stars, workers in office, buying a good home and settling in usually priced to $7000 to $9000 dollars. I have the voice of the owner of a restaurant who was a Hollywood star to tell me, then moved to mexico for another acting gig in the 1940s, met him in the 1960s later, before moving to Florida, same as me. Owner of sarvendaus.
@@fischkopf Nothing but Racism right off the bat! Getting worse, getting real tired of this!!
Clean, neat and orderly--and no graffiti. great architecture.
I would have loved to live in the 50s and 60s. The fashion, the city, the vibe,
.the polio
Which was wiped out in the 50's, Serendra.
@@jameson32 ur...the cure for a polio vaccine happened in 1953 March 26, 1953
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
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A high-flying, free-wheeling time to grow up in L.A. I spent my childhood in University Park and Belmont Shore in Long Beach in the 60s. My dad made his $millions in real estate at a time when exponential growth was exploding in SoCal. So we were exceedingly lucky to have a nice house and a couple boats and a cabin in Mammoth Lakes. The relative opulence in which I grew up, though, meant far less to me than the *opportunity* it gave me to explore all of the State of California, and I cherished that more than anything in my childhood. A lot of social and political craziness going on back then so it wasn't ALL idyllic, but L.A. -- SoCal in general -- was a place that never looked back, always looked forward but at the same time never forsook the history of the State. Even today I pine to explore, travel, and live in my native state; the only thing that keeps me from doing it is the damage that has been done by politicians there over the past couple of decades. I couldn't afford to live there now and wouldn't want to. CA is a shell of what it once was and it's literally a crying shame. I miss L.A., at least the L.A. I knew; I miss the State -- a more diverse state you won't find anywhere among the other 49 -- and I pray that before I die people living there will realize what they have, what's been done to it, and what is possible, and take control of their state instead of waiting for self-serving, opportunistic, ideological politicians to fail to deliver on their promises. It can be done and I'm praying it will be.
California had it all. Or at least it seemed that way for a long time.
When people had manners,dress well and no stupid media.
People were better behaved, but the media was as stupid.
Born in the 80s, but I would kill to have been born in the 50s
Wish i can time travel back to this era
Does anyone remember the Helm's Bakery Truck coming to your Neighborhood Daily back then?
As a young boy, I lived on Alcott Street in the mid 50s, and I remember buying glazed and jelly donuts from the Helms trucks that would come up our street. They were something like 5 cents to 7 cents for each donut.
I remember the Helms Bakery trucks coming through our neighborhood. I don’t remember donuts but I remember their raisin bread was so good. After Helms went out of business (in the late ‘ 60’s I think) hippies bought up the old Helms trucks and turned them into campers. Lol. You would see them trucking down the road with flowers painted on them and homemade curtains hanging in the back windows.
We had a sense of “GOOD HUMOR” in those days too 5859 melrose my first address 1942 ice delivered for the ice box and back yard incinerators as well, got a tad smoggy around 4 or 430 stop and go shingles
@@lisamarielund6292
Probably the Early 70’s. I remember those Helms Trucks as early as 1971-72.
@Auggie
When I was a child back in the Early 70’s, we used to call those Helm’s Bakery Trucks “The Doughnut Man”.
It's like a third world country now. What a disgrace we've allowed corrupt politicians, drugs and gangs to ruin our cities.
Mass deportation and harsh penalties for criminals.
Great video, thanks for sharing 😁
Absolutely right. Horrible
LA was great in the 60s...everything seemed new and exciting.
Not many blacks helped.
@@vanillaexplosion99 well that was white people's fault they should have never went to Africa brought them here. Know how smart was that now you're stuck with them. And don't you want them to go back to Africa. But instead go to Africa for yourselves for a vacation.
@@andredupuis5461 The first slave owner in America was a black man. He brought them here. www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/flashback-first-legal-slave-owner-america-black-man/
@@marciadiehl5733 Welllllll, I guess that was a good excuse for everyone else to have slaves, hmmm. Michael Vick had dog fights but nobody followed suit with that. The people went uproor after Vick over dogs but copied the black slave owner.
@@Luca-nu2zg Hey, They called themselves white at least here in America. I don't know where you are but this is the description they put and USA put. If this wasn't you then don't worry about it. Personally I say pink people
I WANT TO LIVE IN THE 50S SO BADLY
It is when America was America.
Back when women wore the earrings, people had manners and respect for each other. And spoke well/
Today many women have so may tattoos,are fat,dress poorly that you think that America has been influenced by the circuses of old.
I just read the other day that the average weight of American women is what the average man weighed in the 1950's(166 pounds).
These days women are more health conscious, join spas , work out and diet regularary , are better educated and have family planning. Not like the 1950's.
Back in the 50's women didn't wear track suits or jeans, noooo!
You could see them coming down the street, overweight , wearing a house dress tent , munching on a hero sandwich to keep up with the choirs, and lugging about 3 to 5 kids with them. But hey, at least they didn't have tattoos and wear jeans.
@@ndogg20 ..Your characterization is pure fiction. People are overweight today compared to the 50s when they cared more about their appearance in general. Being well dressed carried an importance then. They were more happier in that simpler and sane period. More hospitable. Life revolved around the family and society benefited because of it. But hey, much of the rhetoric today is anti-family so what do you care.
@zz zz "Negro Baseball League World Series of 1951"??? The Negro National League ended in 1948, so what was this "world series"? Beyond that, get a clue, this video is about Los Angeles, and none of the other things you mentioned ever happened here. That's OK, just make shit up as you go along, like the rest of your ilk.
My dad use to complain cause gas was a quarter per gallon back in 1969. A dollar bill was like 20.00 bill today or more.Cigarettes were 30 cents a pak.A 20 oz. bottle of soda was a dime you could turn the bottle in for a nickle.Those days are gone forever.Pretty soon people wont be able to afford to drive a car.
Don't worry, the banks are there to help you. $15 trillion US private debt.
I remember eating Ice Cream at Thrifty Drug Stores with Thriftymart Supermarket next door to each other on Beverly Blvd in Montebello back in the 60's. Back when a 3 Scoop Ice Cream Cone was only 15 Cents.
BEST PLACE TO LIVE AT THE BEST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
True. Both of those things have gone right down the toilet since then.
@@tommytruth7595 Because we let it.
EXACTLY!!!!!! None better the golden age of America. We have degenerated!!!!!
Back when nearly anyone could afford to live there and before the city started going down hill. Even though i was thrown out in 94, a part of me will always be there.
Thank you for sharing . God bless America 🇺🇸
Very clean and all was new. No more.
Robert Tiscione In the mid 1950's a friend and I did a monumentally stupid thing by letting two young sailors pick us up on Atlantic Blvd, on their way from Alhambra to Long Beach.Neither made a move on us, and we got home safely. A bit later we were living in Pasadena. As a young woman in the late '50's I sometimes had insomnia so would walk around town in the middle of the night. No one ever tried to pick me up in a car or stopped to talk to me. Of course there were very few cars on the street at that time, and I was probably just very lucky. In 1976 my mother was still living in Altadena on Christmas Tree Lane, but by then had put bars on her windows and was afraid to go out at night. Sad.
***** I know I lived there.
Yes when Rudy was Mayor. The 1960's and 1970's were the bottom of the barrel.
At 1:48, I believe the image is of South Main Street and Romie Lane in Salinas, Monterey County, about 350 miles north of Los Angeles. This is a great video, thank you for sharing...
My Grandmother lived in Salinas on River Road out in the country. She lived there for 67 years until she passed at 94 years old.
I just had a strange feeling.... A feeling that as if I had been there, and I suddenly realize what I've lost from seeing this video.
Ooooh what beautiful this is so beautiful to see I love it gr Jeffrey 🍀🌞☕😘🌴.
Looks like the good old days to me. Everyone spoke english and drove American cars!
***** No ""Los Angeles" is Spainish for "The Angels". The Spainish made what Mexico is today and why so many leave and come to America!
Whats wrong with people not speaking english? You seem like the typical racist white guy who is mad foreigners come to this country and work harder than you do at your own job. Go back to Europe if you want to be surrounded by whites only.
Well, Rudedoggie, you're too young to have experienced it, but you sound like one of those guys who would have an extremely tough time getting along with people of any sort if you went back in time. The culture shock would be so severe that most people would look at you in in horror, once you started speaking from your post-literate, reality show, isolationist perspective. Even the most conservative white person of that time would be shocked and more than a little saddened by you.
karen103-America is full,we need no more low IQ foreigners from Latin America. Comparing Latinos emigrating to the other mass migrations,like the Ashkenaz Jews(highly intelligent), into the USA is not the same.
Not the Europe of today, lib. Those who think like you have flooded it with third world types.
Grew up there in the 50's and 60's...such a fun time
Stop tormenting me with this lost magic!!!
At 53 years old, I'm just old enough to remember all that goodness, that was L.A. in the 60's.
I was a Sherbet Boy myself. Back then I remembered Thrifty having, besides The World Famous Rainbow Sherbet, Cherry, Lemon, Lime and Orange Sherbets.
I was just watching an older video of kids praying in school as I used to do and i wonder if that is even allowed now?? Might offend someone now
You mean any of the kids who might not happen to be Christian?
How amazing would it be to go eat at McDonalds back then?? I bet everything would taste how it's supposed to!
This is great, and the music was just right. Thanks!
Back when L.A. was a nice place to eat, sleep, and shop. Before it became the cesspool it is today!
When the kids screw up, they don't discipline them or teach them what they did was wrong, What they do is defend the actions of the kid no matter what. A lot of parents feel their upbringing was "too strict", so they bring their kids up with NO rules or discipline. Every generation it seems to get worse. Parents are lazy and ineffective. They want to be "cool" and be on a friendship basis with these monsters they are raising.
Pandering to bad ways, including "laws"made by statutory pimps that support them, led to cutural and moral degeneracy.
There were thugs and hobos, but they never forgot themselves and dressed with some dignity.
Yes, & also one near the fair oaks freeway,& another on Colorado Blvd in pasadena & a couple of others.I grew up mostly in the San Gabriel Valley.
I liked comics too.Donald Duck,,Classics illustrated,Scrooge McDuck come to mind. Mad magazine & Cracked were like the forbidden fruit.lol
I was kind of shocked when Thrifty's went away.I felt pretty sad when all my favorite Drive-In movies became swap meet yards & then disappeared too.But,I'm glad I lived through that time.
Took a "Google map" trip to my Grandparent's house of yester-year in Huntington Park, CA. Happy to say that whoever owns the Spanish Style beauty has kept her in perfect shape. It made me VERY happy. Thanks for posting "the good old days". I hadn't thought of POP or the LA Farmer's Market in years. My Mom, Dad and Grandfolks would take us school clothes shopping every August on Wilshire!
Thanks for the photos. What surprises me the most about the old days is all the things which were around back then that I thought weren't, like Ralph supermarkets, Mc Donald's, Jack in the Box, and Denny's for example.
Every generation lusts for their youth. LA and Hollywood were new and exciting. Disneyland opened and we were blown away. Now the infrastructure is 50 plus years older and not much has been replaced. Now a sad frantic city falling into decay. A date to the drivein theater - double feature, with cartoon - for $1.00 a carload ($10 in todays dollars). Going to Wallaces Music City to listen to albums in play booths. Records costing about $4.00 ($40 today) were expensive.
Playa del Rey firepits under the end of the runways at LAX. Cruising Delores Drive In. Good memories. Thanks for the vid.
teachgold ; I was there!!!!
a hit single cost $1
It was "Wallich's Music City" I can still remember the radio jingle. It was about a half mile bike ride from where I grew up. I still live in L.A., and I wouldn't call most of it "sad," but it is going downhill at a pretty good clip, the victim of the ultra-liberal Dem politics of the City, and of the State of California, too. Following San Francisco and Portland in becoming an open air sewer in many places.
"Every generation lusts for their youth." And the USA lusts for its past, that is, its "youth" as a country, the golden era of the 50's and 60's, and that means, the USA has degenerated to the equivalent of human old age!
Disneyland was a little cheaper back then and you get to get in almost all the ride, without paying too
much money just to stand in front of the line before you even get in.
I grew up in LA. lived there from 1954 to 1972, near Pico and Sepulveda. All the keys were in our cars. I never had a key to our house because we never locked the doors.
Smog was bad because burning your trash in the incinerator was normal. In 1962 they built the 10 freeway right next door to my house. The definition of traffic was much different then.
I remember some of those places in downtown L.A. in the early 70s were still like the ones shown here in the video. You could walk around many areas in downtown without worrying about muggings and especially druggies pissing in their pants all strung out on drugs. Homeless were very few and far away from the public even in the early 70s and all the way up to the mid 80s! Unfortunately, I was born too late☹️ My dad and his dad though saw the best of L.A. Paternal grandfather and grandmother arrived in the L.A. area in the early 20s, so they probably saw it when a lot of it was still rural. Father has a lot to say about L.A. throughout the 40s to the early 60s...both good and bad. Mostly good though. L.A. went to hell after about the mid 70s when mayor Tom Bradley became mayor, but probably even before that after the 1965 riots. There are many reasons for it dilapidating, not just a few. Several newspaper articles about Pomona in the late 19th century discussed how advertising it back then caused a huge influx of people to flood that area. That was before the 20th century! So developers seem to be the main culprit for ruining CA.
I'd rather spend the rest of my life in the year 1972, if it could be possible. The year the Lakers won their Very First World Championship in Los Angeles.
I nearly forgot about the Sherbet! That was mighty fine as well.
Say,did you thirsty after the ice cream ( or Sherbet ) & guzzle water from the drinking fountain they usually had nearby? Or go to the magazine rack & read the Mad magazines your parents wouldn't let you buy?
Miss those days.... the simple life where you don’t need to lock your doors!
Michael Fina Is that really true? Even in a city like LA? Around what time period did that change?
Ryan Sani the 90s probably
Wow you didnt have to lock your door now we use double locks and have fences with locks and a gun must of been nice to live and not worry about idiots
There were "low rider" gangs in San Fernando and Pacoima near where I lived in the late 50's and early 60's. But in those days the Mexican gangs had "honour". If there was a beef between car clubs...errr gangs. It was settled man to man - no guns involved - that wouldn't be "manly". And Mexicans were fearless football players and fighters. Many of us anglo kids imitated them greasing our hair back etc. We admired the "low riders", their style and their cool cars (and drugs).
So many memories. Thank you.
Anyone that thinks the air was cleaner and the beaches were cleaner either didn't live here or is naive. I could hardly breath in the early 60s when I went to grade school. The beaches were laden with trash and the "dont be a litterbug" campaign had just started. We used to Bolsa Chica Beach in Huntington "tin can beach".
there was gangs in the 60's and the air was really bad back in the 40's, 50's and 60's
People were more actively involved raising a family. They were not overweight in the 50s. And, of course, they actually dressed much better. Beautiful stylish cars. That's obvious. If you were going to be a slob or tramp you weren't going to be very popular. Today, they could care less. Obesity is now at an all time high. There were family lunch and dinners and home style cooking. And that's, generally, what you got. Fast foods weren't a staple but more of a treat. They're absorbed with their smartphones and not happier. A family could buy a home, support itself on one income and have a number of children. Today, they're so self-absorbed many don't even want a family, the bedrock of a healthy society, happiness, and community strength. And many don't have the character and simply shun that kind of responsibility and systematically kill-off all their ancestors. We've abandoned high culture for low brow nonsense. We live in political systems that have abandoned us and killed God. It's become increasingly morally, aesthetically, and spiritually dead. When a society has nothing to believe in, it self-immolates. Faithless, hopeless. The west has lost it's roots and is wilting and dying. Technology is better but society is not.
"Today, they're so self-absorbed many don't even want a family, the bedrock of a healthy society, happiness, and community strength." Sole parent families are on the rise though.
That is how LA looked when I was a kid in 1958. I used to play in the "Fox Lot" before Century City was built. An amazing era.
Back when humanity still existed. 😔
I notice the areas shown look newer, neat, and clean. I guess things have gotten a rather worn look over time.
Where’s all the homeless sleeping and doing drugs on the sidewalks???
in the mental asylums
My grandma lived in Buena Park. We lived in Blythe and would visit a couple of times a month. Mom and Grandma would go shopping (mostly looking or window shopping in Anaheim, Santa Monica, Pomona. I remember Van Nuys Blvd and the parking garage in Pershing Square... Ah, the memories!
My Grandmother lived on Marlton right off of Crenshaw up untill they had to move or be killed
Buena Park, home of Knott’s Berry Farm, Lincoln Drive-In theatre, All American grocery store on Knott and Ball Road, Nabisco on the north side of the Santa Ana freeway & Knott Avenue, and strawberry fields before housing tracks took over,.
This is very cool. Good job.
Incredible
Beautiful times
Just shows how accurate L.A. Noire is. Driven past quite a few of those locations in the game.
I think of my childhood in Manhattan Beach and recall my family being encouraged
to buy up vacant lots all around them!! Nobody had any money! And probably not the foresight either==Bob Hope and Bing Crosby did amoung many many others--
Oh, well--I still visitmy home that my folks sold for 20,000 in late fifties and is now selling for 1.4 MILLION==it's crazy==basically the same house! Crazy!!
I knew that was Manhattan Beach at 1:40. I live in Redondo Beach In the Hollywood Riviera. My folks bought their first home in 1965 in Redondo Beach for $17,500. Today that home is worth $1.7 million. I wish my Dad had never sold my childhood home. It’s just crazy how real estate has skyrocketed in the South Bay.
I use to work for a company, Transport Clearings in LA; travelled all over Southern Cal except Orange and San Diego Counties. I live in Tennessee now. Southern CA was great then but would not like to live there now.
The 50's and early 60's were a great time for me. The only thing better today is health care, which I can hardly afford. Cars are better engineered today too, but I can hardly afford those either. That's OK because they're only half the fun, half as exciting and twice as complicated as the cars from back then. Dad worked in retail, mom stayed home, a lawyer lived next door and our doctor lived around the corner. No Mc Mansions in our neighborhood. Just good people.
Damn look at L.A...back then and look at it now lol...
Kind of looks the same the clothes and cars changed but they did a decent job to preserve the culture of the area.
Your religion is non-descimanate, you judge other religions yet your religion of non-judgment has decayed all of the United States and that is the single biggest reason this country has fractured and has lost all unity and pride which made us once great.
Super thank you
Entitlement society created by the Liberals to ensure they stay elected , The new slogan for the Dem's ask not what your country can do for you, What can this country do for me if they want my undecided vote.
I lived near San Fernando from '61 -'66. We had - whites, Mexicans, blacks, asians at our school and we all got along. There were fights but it was never racial. Kennedy was president, everybody had a job. It was better times. Look how clean it was. There were "low riders", because "car clubs" were popular. If they had a beef it was fists, never guns (knives amongst themselves). Guns were not "manly". There was an honour code amongst the low riders. All that ended in the early 70's with guns.
Being in Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s were the best times to live and grow up! I love the buildings and its architecture is fantastic! Those were the good old days! Great video! I love it. I would like to one day visit Los Angeles!
@Ronald Williams Racism was everywhere in America in the 1950s and 60s not just in Los Angels.
I was born and raised in Southern California. It was a great time to be a teenager in the’60’s. The beach, KHJ radio, 9th Street West dance show on TV hosted by Sam Riddle, Where the Action Is TV dance show hosted by Michael Blodgett with Paul Revere and the Raiders as the house band, my brother had a ‘60 Mercury with a good radio - Surfin USA, Norwegian Wood, Somebody to Love, Land of a Thousand Dances playing as we drove down to Huntington Beach or even Corona del Mar. what a privilege to grow up there (and have a cool brother, too).
We didn’t think about it at the time as being ‘cool’, it was just what we did.
for like 15 years, before that it belonged to Spain...It belonged longer to the U.S. than Spain and Mexico...you must have forgot your history...
LA back when dreams could really come true and anything was possible, the beginning of the music revolution, and Hollywood shooting some great pictures and nobody was offended at everything. Was if perfect, of course not but if you had talent,
You had a place to let people see you. I loved it, but didn’t want to live there by the time I actually could have done something. It’s to filthy and dangerous and crazy now.
Take a look pal, we live in LOS ANGELES MEXICAN for City of the angels and Mexicans NOT White people you'd be much happier somewhere else!!!!
Nicely done George!
Nice video,l.a. has grown up from a small town to the 3rd richest city and one of the save one in the world
It's a pig sty now.
It is a third world dump now.
Tommy Truth. Not just Los Angeles. The whole Country is now very close to being another 3Rd World Country.
You can't beat the seventies !
The air quality was better...The food quality was better.
The beaches were cleaner' No gangs....No..graffiti.
Not 'one' piece of paper on..the floor'
The streets were..clean'
This....Is...the...Los..Angele's....i..have..always dreamed..of..knowing' This...Is..the...world...I..never...meet'..and Never...will' :(
aside from the racism, sexism, drug trafficking, human trafficking, more crime and violence and heaps of dead hippies, its fucking great
Blame the Democrats for ignoring immigration laws.
Also, the crime rate was lower in the 1950s than today.
Rockefeller Creative Media No, poverty doesn't breed crime; it only justifies it. Crappy values and lack of self-control is what breeds crime.
The air quality is actually MUCH better, now.
I was born in 1993 and would kill to live during this era! Things just seem so peacefully back then. Can anyone tell me how life was like during this era in Los Angeles? I would love to listen about your life during the 50s/60s.
"No matter what your elders say, the past is always romanticized." - John Updike
Historical facts are not "elder stories".
When we were little, we called them "The Doughnut Man". Lol
I was a Little, Little Boy back then.
When the Helm’s truck came by, we yelled, “bakery man!”
Thanks George
No need for apology. This was my world growing up. I am a white female, born in L.A. in 1952. I remember these things, but I also remember having arguments with my bigoted parents about people of color. I hated it. In my schools there were many black children so I was always very comfortable with being around them. My best friend was Mexican. None of them talked about negative experiences of being colorful; we just hung out and had fun. But, as an adult I know it must have been very, very hard.
Gayle Tube. Well OK. You are ashamed to be White. Well your Parents were right. And they were not ashamed of being White. And I am very glad for them. But you are a big disgrace to your own race.
If it was only that simple. Mexicans have been immigrating to this country since the Mexican-American War. The problem was globalization, the outsourcing of jobs, NAFTA, the loss of industry, & the rise of the service economy. The question is what can we do about it when our politicians, in the left & right, have sold out the country.
How could Mexicans have "immigrated" to their own land, as most southern parts of the USA were part of Mexico, annexed by force by the US when Mexicans lost the war.
Wow, that must've been a LONG TIME AGO. I've never seen anywhere in Southern California look like that @0:22. Also, 0:43 is either Santa Monica Blvd or Wilshire. The 'General Insurance' building now has a Samsung screen on top, you can see it for miles around at night.
This is great! Thanks!
You have to understand, A Sherbet is a Fruit Flavored Ice Cream. It was basically like making Ice Cream out of Fruit Juice, and it is almost like drinking Fruit Juice, something that really quenches your thirst on a Hot Summer Day. But yes, at times I did go to the Refrigerated Drinking Fountain when I was thirsty. But when I was a Small Boy, I never knew what Mad Magazines was then. I was into Comic Books. You sound like someone who has occupied the Thrifty in Montebello once upon a time.
I grew up in LA in the 60's and remember when it looked like that. Nice trip down memory lane.
When you were born and raised in a beautifull area and then watch it destroyed and ripped apart area by area to what it is today, then you preach to me about "diversity". Problem with you people that come to California is you try and shove your east coast values down everyones throat's. I've lived my entire life here. I've seen what they have done. Pretty hard to tell me I havn't seen what I have seen.
Shame on you. Diversity is a California value. You can say that crime and poverty hurt the city, but to say that "diversity" (the arrival of different ethnic groups) was the true problem simply makes you a racist. We don't like racism here in California.
California forever!!!
Imagine having the power to travel in time … oh just imagine
A time in history when the United States was at its peak.
All I see is the great amount of glorious cars!
It really sucked indeed, but the magic of the 1940s and 50s overtakes me. If I ever get a chance, I may still go back in time. At least I'll know that it'll get resolved eventually, so I don't have to worry.
It would be great to see the same locations taken today, for comparison.
They were mean back than,no tents in the streets LOL.
Not exactly LA. I saw Pomona, Buellton, Pasadena, LA and more. It was better then.
I’m only 24 but god I wish I was my age during those times
I'm 30, and damn if I don't feel the exact same way about that! If, by some miracle, they really do invent time travel in my lifetime, you better believe this time is straight where I'm going! Especially to see the old architecture and spots that only exist in photos now, to say nothing of the culture!