Yes. Things such as taking photos of grocery/department stores, even their parking lots can be golden to future generations. Store shelves with products, restaurants as you walk in, hotels, hospitals. Documenting the now because in an instant it becomes the past. Lots of instagram fakeness online today, but people who didn't live it want to see how it really was.
@@BananasananaB Before I play around with camera, I don't have that much photo of my old house, and the memory is nearly all faded away. So,when there's a chance, I try to take a photo and video as much as I can in the best format, resolution I can afford and back it up properly in safe place. Not much of a pic outside but usually my family, my house, or when just having a breakfast together, mum driving a car, dad fixing a motorbike. Not even 3 years in, looking at those shots is already felt good.
@@Ocinneade345 1988 a VHS camera was $2000 and they were 24fps in LP mode and 30fps in SP mode.All of the footage was interlaced, it wasn’t until digital 8 cameras came along in the early 2000s that 60fps was available to consumers. My Dad bought his first VHS camera in 1986 it was $2800 and weighed a ton. He still has it because he’s a pack rat and it still works lol
Same here! I feel like I’m the only one thats checking out every other car when driving. I play this game where I try to guess what car is behind me just by glancing at their headlights at night 😂.
Yes, the infrastructure and landmarks are all indistinguishable. The only real difference between the two videos is the resolution and dated automobiles.
I was 9 on the left and 43 on the right. I hope the take away from those younger than me is that things don't change as rapidly as one thinks. Anyone from 1988 would be able to get around in 2022 LA and while they'd notice subtle changes indicating "the future" it's not as crazy different as one might think.
Electric and self driving cars would be a trip. Same with those bird scooters and Lyfts instead of cabs would be weird and half the city wearing masks would be weird but I totally get what you’re saying. The roads and architecture are vastly similar but I’d still be tripped out seeing everyone in their cars on cell phones too haha. I’m 41 so I somewhat remember 88 as a 7 year old 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Things have changed WAY MORE than you realize. Mostly in terms of society at large (not for the better) but also technology has advanced a lot. Most of what has changed are things you can't really see. At 9 years old you wouldn't have really realized the state of things to understand the profound differences. Not criticizing you just saying children aren't aware of adult topics and concerns. That's why everyone who was an adult in the 1980's (almost to a person) wishes we could go back. Also, not the same point, but even for a 9 year old today vs. back then things have changed a lot. What hasn't changed that much is just the feeling of cruising down the expressway listening to tunes (in general) and I guess that's what you are referring to in your comment. Anyway, not criticizing your comment at all just want to make sure that younger people understand that there has been lots of change... don't be fooled by your eyes.
@@aliceberethart This is one of my favorite things on youtube and there are many others like it. Here's an 87 year old man being interviewed 93 years ago when talking films just came out. ruclips.net/video/RS27u6IqWt0/видео.html This man was born 180 years ago and has a good point of reference on the human condition.
yes, the 1988 video is pure nostalgia. Esp the songs playing on the radio and the news. Ex: about women getting right to vote and the Helen Reddy song "I am woman"! That was the anthem in late 70s and 80s. Anyway! I got teary eyed also.
For those of you who are not from LA or may have missed it, a couple of really big, noticeable points are 1. The Getty Center built on the left (west) side of the freeway was completed in 1997, and 2. the 405 was widened significantly around the top of the grade. This required the tall bridge almost to be completely rebuilt, and also the mountainside was significantly altered and graded to allow for the extra lanes. At around 13:20, you can see one of the retention walls and the removed mountainside. This stretch of the 405 is one of, if not the busiest freeway interchanges in the world, and was required to be closed for one weekend, leading many locals to leave the area for the weekend to avoid the major traffic disruptions.
The roads were maintained back then. Now that Democrats run shit, roads are shit. Like the rest of LA and every other place they control. Oh but their banks account have grown by millions!
yeah, unlike today. i dont listen to the radio anymore because every station just plays this modern trash. every single modern "song" is just mumbling with generic music in the background
@@snackler6102 you are lucky you have them, here in manchester uk, as far as i could find every station plays autotune trash except classic fm, and that plays classical music
Is that why he skips stations several times every few minutes? 😂 there was bad music back then too, it’s just that you only remember the good songs and people today only ever play the good songs from that period. Like how people think that all old tools are great and modern ones are junk. “They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.” There were junk tools from a long time ago too, they’ve just all broken and been thrown away. Of course it’s only the *good* old tools that have survived, thus making you think that all the old tools were good. Survivorship bias.
This is why I really like the algorithms on RUclips. I would NEVER have searched for something like this. Being in my early 20's in 88 and now in my late 50's this year, I appreciate this. What I've noticed is the trees and population growth. I so appreciate this video and for having the mind to do this in 88, ahead of their time! Thank you!
I'm not from LA but this is really fascinating how you matched up the timing. I like how at 11:45 we hear 3 straight songs that, 34 years later, are STILL radio staples!
Always found the original video intriguing. I absolutely admire the fact that you remade this so accurately. I look forward to "Driving in 2056 vs 2022" 😂
When there was a "WAR ON DRUGS" (in the 80's)!! And wow the vegetation/trees that existed back then (before DAVEY's) Also looks like they took out some mountains too. Look at all the Pintos and VW Bugs! Great Videos.
As someone who pays attention to trees (tree nerd!) I found it fascinating that many trees looked shockingly similar in size 25 years later. The two palms on the left at 8:36-8:41. The three palm trees at 8:59 aren't that much taller. Even the tree at 27:49 on the left doesn't look that much bigger considering it's 25 years later.
@@tanside979 LOL, I know, I realized that shortly after but didn't bother to edit my comment. Truth is I cannot believe 1988 was 35 F'ing years ago. Like how F'ing OLD am I????? How did this happen?
@@DavidParke84 Did you also alter the time? At the first glance it seems that both took 27 mins to complete the journey even if one side or the other was slowed down.
Great work. Moved to LA in 1989 (since left), so the 1988 footage was like a time machine. Excellent effort syncing and the original 1988 audio from radio really adds to the 1988-ness.
I cant get enough of the music, brings me back to my childhood when going on roadtrips in the late 90’s to southern California to visit my Grandparents ❤️❤️
What a really cool thing to do. Thank you. Great decision keeping the original audio. I grew up in Anaheim during the 80's early 90's. I remember a lot of the old footage ride. What a flood of memories. Somewhere out in the distance my dad is driving home from work. I miss him.
Your father was part of a beautiful thing, and the memory of this time period is immortalized with the memory of the people who lived in it. Tell his stories, pass them down to your children or nieces and nephews or just the internet even if no one sees it now. We can only learn so much about the past through pictures and videos, stories is how you immortalize the memories. Tell your story, trust that someone someday will appreciate hearing it. We’re all going to depart this ride someday, but our stories and memory don’t need to die along with us 🕊️
I'm 3 minutes in and this is one of the most incredible videos I've ever seen. It's unreal how some things are just the same after 34 years. What a world! And what is it about nostalgia? I was only 3 - barely even alive - but I feel like I'd give anything to go back and live in 1988... why is that? Honestly like whole buildings or abutments are torn down and replaced or rebuilt, and then some sign or telephone pole just chills there the whole time.
Boy the music back then sure beats the snot outta what they blast today. Great job on the side by side comparison! Sherman oaks hospital building grew quite a bit.
This absolutely brought back memories! I'm a retired pilot. Back in 88, I lived on Addison, right off of Van Nuys Blvd. I would drive back and forth to LAX listening to KFWB (traffic) KROQ, KMET, for music. Someone in the comments mentioned that "there are a lot less trees and shrubs along the freeway today." This appears to be so. I live in northern California now. We still have trees up here. But, the wild fires are taking its toll on nature here too. Sad state of the times. Nevertheless.. Great Video!
@@RobtheAviator ayy bro what classes you take? I’m a student at csula major in aviation administration and my career goal is to become a FedEx pilot. 😭
@@interfuze9470 I got a degree in Aviation Management from Embry-Riddle and went to civilian flight school and became a flight instructor to build hours. I went to the regionals after that to build time and eventually made it to my airline of choice!
This is amazing! Reminds me just how fascinating RUclips can be sometimes. I moved to LA around ‘89. Glad you thought to preserve these memories and share them with us.
@@robdisner Oh , I thought you might be one of the loonie leftist that have left,or thinking of leaving, Calipornia to infect their political leftist disease of liberalism thru out the country... so you're the smart one to move to Northern Calipornia?
I can't thank you enough. I am from LA and moved out of there in 1989; a year after I turned 40. It was great seeing how things had changed. I took my grandkids to LA a few years ago to show them the areas where I hung out but there was no appreciation; maybe when they are older!!! Again, thank you so much
As someone who has lived in Sherman Oaks for a very long time... this is fascinating, because I have driven this exact route countless times. Only difference is that I turn right after exiting on Van Nuys Blvd. Many of the differences between the 2 videos are changes I remember having to deal with months of construction headaches, if not years. People talk about how bad traffic has gotten lately... I usually reply that traffic has ALWAYS sucked, and this video is proof
Been 4 years since I've been in Van Nuys/Panorama. Now live in Spain. This was a nostalgic memory because it's the same route I would take going home. It's insane how not much has change in the Valley all these years. Mad respect for taking your time to do this drive and editing this. Awesome work.
My son came up with the idea and I jumped at the chance it was just too crazy not to do I held the camera and he drove and then because he's a professional editor he edited together perfectly
It was pretty cool how you were behind two GMs that probably would’ve shared a platform (80s Buick and a late model Cadillac ATS). Then there was a white Sentra and a white Camry in almost the same position relative to you. Also, at one of the lights, you were behind the quirky 80s Isuzu Impulse and the quirky 20s Toyota Mirai. There were more examples but those stuck out to me. Thanks for your incredible work. RUclips is truly a visual and aural encyclopedia. You were truly ahead of the curve in the 80s! The next time you go back there, please leave your DeLorean parked in the open so we can see how it looked when it was new. I understand why you couldn’t drive it to film; as it would’ve been such a distraction. 😁
Totally appreciate how you slow down the footage to match location and traffic conditions to fit the landmarks. Thank you for the hard work. I enjoyed the old footage's music, too. Thanks for doing this.
Looking at the cars and hearing the radio from back then really took me back...thanks man....for a few minutes I was at peace from the cluster we are living today....
If it’s a Friday evening and still light out, it will be bumper to bumper for miles in this section of the 405 going northbound like the video. Wouldn’t be possible to make a comparison. That’s why he took a drive at 1pm
The music from the Radio make me recall that time. And even same landscape, all trees grown up. Very interesting video. Thank you for posting such a nice video.
The Doors 20th Century Fox was playing on the radio! Wow. That was the soundtrack to my first romance in 1982. I never hear that song on the radio. Wow. On 28 AUG 1988, I was an Active duty Marine at MCAS EL TORO, just down the 405 in the opposite direction. Thanks. What a great idea.
I grew up in Van Nuys and was 25 years old in 1988. I remember most of the streets and landmarks you passed, they bring back great memories. Thank you!
I've taken this same drive quite possibly 1000 times and was doing it in 1988 as well. Still drive it probably twice a month. Born and raised in L.A. and was 31 when the video on the left was taken. This was great
This is so dope! I love the original video because it's the closest thing we'll get to time travel. I appreciate that guy for filming his drive all those years ago, and I appreciate you for recreating it so that we can see this side by side comparison!
Aug 26 , 1988 I had just come back from South America visiting some family. At about that hour I was at Miami international airport. I was just 14 years old and starting HS in two weeks. I still have the passport and ticket stub from that trip. I was living in the OC in La Palma at time. And much later I would be living in Venice for 11 months in 2011- 2012. So I know that area fairly well.
Wow!!! I really enjoyed this trip back in memory lane. I grew up in Long Beach and went to school at Cal Poly-SLO. This drive brings back memories taking the 405 to the 101 from home to SLO (in my Datsun 610B). Thank you David.
At @08:30, the triple cluster of high rise apartments(?)/offices(?) on the right side of the freeway is still being built! That's an image that REALLY sold me on this video. It's so surreal, like actual time travel.
How fun! I took that route 5 days a week from 1969 through 1992. I enjoyed watching many of the taller buildings go up, including the round tower at 11:11 and the Getty Museum. Thanks for doing that!
Perfect job keeping the videos synced, including timely lane changes. This must've been a lot of work, but a labor of love I'm sure! Thank you for creating this!
By pure coincidence the day the modern video was recorded was the 50th anniversary of when the song "Listen To The Music" by the doobie brothers at 8:00 was released!
This was a cool video, good job videographer….brought me back to when I was an 18 year old young man…..today the 52 year “old” man reminisces of a bygone time, thank you
This is cool. Great job editing. I was 25 yrs. Old and lived in Santa Monica in 88. Drove “the 405” all the time. Listening to KFWB and KLSX 😅. Thanks for the trip down memory Lane. I don’t feel old though.
What an Amazing Video!! I could watch these all day. You did an amazing job. For me I had an eerie feeling the whole time. The commercials and music top it off. Lived in LA from 66 to 76 then Bakersfield. Now Seattle. Thumbs up to you sir!!
Fascinating :) Not sure if anyone else does this, but when I see a video shot at a time when I was alive, but in the past, I always try to think where I was and what I may have been doing at the same time. For me, when the original was shot, I was 8 years old and very likely sound asleep. I was in the then West Germany and 6pm LA time is 3am in Europe the next day. Nothing more interesting than seeing what folk 6 thousand miles away were doing while you slept!
Definitely! I was watching a RUclips video from 89 that was filmed at the mall I went to as a kid, and you feel like you’re time traveling for a moment, and I wondered where 12 year old me was at that moment in time.
Definitely. I grew up in Tarzana, about 5-6 miles to the west of where this ends, and Aug '88 was the summer between 6th and 7th grade for me. Seeing the old, iconic Sherman Oaks Galleria logo around 21:47, before it was demolished in the years after the 1994 earthquake, is bittersweet as hell. What a trip down memory lane.
Dood! You scratch right where I itch! It is just amazing how everything worked out with locations, knowledge etc. Thanks for allowing me to ride shotgun!
This is so well done and so fascinating - especially because it's not at all what I expected! Starting the video, I expected to see all sorts of differences and also expected traffic to be much sparser in 1988, but I was struck by how remarkably similar it all is, down to many of the same buildings being there, virtually unchanged. I moved to LA just a couple years after the first video - in early '91 - and my mind is somewhat blown! Also, I miss just listening to the radio while driving! Thanks for this great video.
It would be better if they were done at the same time of day to ge a better traffic reference. The one in '88 was at 6:30 pm, the one in '22 is at 1 pm. Also, traffic got really bad while all of that was under construction, which was most of the in between time. They have been perpetually re-building all of that. I'm amazed this video is only 27 min long. I have taken that route, many times, at all hours, It is very similar to my commute in a number of those years. It can take up to 3-4 hours depending what is going on. At that point one has likely gotten off and has taken Sepulveda, or other ways across the hill. But really, it's amazing how little has changed. A few new structures, but really it's just an upgraded freeway.
That was so cool. I listened to all those radio station, too. I still listen to KROQ, sometimes. I was hoping to see myself in my Ford van in that older video. Thanks for making this. It was fun to watch.
Videos like this are so interesting to watch. I've never been to California in my life but seeing the comparison between the different eras is incredible.
Amazing! I wish I had thought of this while I still lived in San Diego. In 1992, I videotaped a trip from San Diego up to our corporate office in Torrance. Then the next day, as my friends and I drove around West Los Angeles. It would be fun to retrace those videos. You did impressive editing. I remember the 405 in 1988 as I lived in Venice, CA in the mid-80s.
26:56 Rolls Royce in the old video, 5:16 Rolls Royce in the new video, never lived in LA, but that's about what I expected. Super cool video, I love these types of new and old comparison.
I'm not from the area but this was oddly satisfying to watch with the side by side views both past and present. I don't know how this popped up on my youtube recommendations but thank you for doing this!
can we appreciate the effort of this man, traveling back in time just to capture a footage of himself driving in 1988, really impressive.
No, sorry, I’m afraid that won’t be possible.
@@joesweeney6152 you don't say
@@joesweeney6152 r/woooosh
@@joesweeney6152 goofy asf
Everyone knows going back in time is impossible. This guy traveled to the future to take a video.
An interesting takeaway for me: no matter how mundane a home video might seem to us now, in 34 years, it might be absolute gold.
Yes. Things such as taking photos of grocery/department stores, even their parking lots can be golden to future generations. Store shelves with products, restaurants as you walk in, hotels, hospitals. Documenting the now because in an instant it becomes the past. Lots of instagram fakeness online today, but people who didn't live it want to see how it really was.
Now that there's no film it's all stored digitally until the data's lost. I bet there will be very little footage like this in 35 years
@@BananasananaB
Before I play around with camera, I don't have that much photo of my old house, and the memory is nearly all faded away.
So,when there's a chance, I try to take a photo and video as much as I can in the best format, resolution I can afford and back it up properly in safe place.
Not much of a pic outside but usually my family, my house, or when just having a breakfast together, mum driving a car, dad fixing a motorbike.
Not even 3 years in, looking at those shots is already felt good.
in 34 years the world may look like fallout
it will be, we’ll miss these times
The amount of work that went into driving the 405 and then syncing the two videos is incredible. Kudos and thanks!
Glad you dig it! It was fun to do and my dad was super excited when I told him I wanted to do it. So much so he said he had to come along.
I really wanted to see Wrong Way Bitch in 2022.
@@dougfisher1813 that would have included a shootout
It took 34 years but it was worth it.
imagine if he drove at the exact date and time. wonder if traffic would be similar.
Can we appreciate how stable and smooth the older footage is? It's just insane how well it looks.
ikr it looks better than the new
@@babachicken333 I swear I grew up with top of the line vhs cameras in the 80s and none of my families footage looks this stable. LOL
Ya this dude definitely knew what he was doing. Plus the weight of the camera alone helped.
This was around the time when 60fps cameras were becoming more mainstream
@@Ocinneade345 1988 a VHS camera was $2000 and they were 24fps in LP mode and 30fps in SP mode.All of the footage was interlaced, it wasn’t until digital 8 cameras came along in the early 2000s that 60fps was available to consumers. My Dad bought his first VHS camera in 1986 it was $2800 and weighed a ton. He still has it because he’s a pack rat and it still works lol
So basically we still have plastic dashboards after 34 years...great!
Actually the cybertruck dashboard is made of paper deposit materials.
As a car nerd, I love seeing these older cars on the road still as relatively new cars. Very cool!
Same here! I feel like I’m the only one thats checking out every other car when driving. I play this game where I try to guess what car is behind me just by glancing at their headlights at night 😂.
Old cars are cool especially 70s and prior. The late 80s and 90s were kind of boring as far as the automobile goes.
@@malcorub Nah japanese cars were just goated during those times
Same heree supra, stanza trans am, prelude , 928, corolla
@@prodbasedmystik we had RX-7 TURBO ii we had the supra turbo 1JZ, WE HAD THE TURBO Z, celica all trac, mr2 supercharged, starion turbo,
It's very interesting to see how relatively little things have changed 34 years later, right down to the roadside shrubbery and trees.
Yes, the infrastructure and landmarks are all indistinguishable. The only real difference between the two videos is the resolution and dated automobiles.
It's the people and politics that have changed. I might as well be living in an alternate universe, as much as it has """"""progressed"""".
Yeah that's a good thing cuz it makes not feel old lol
Not seeing the Getty center on the hill did surprise me
The difference is now that once there was a break between rush hours but the traffic has gotten worse.
I was 9 on the left and 43 on the right. I hope the take away from those younger than me is that things don't change as rapidly as one thinks. Anyone from 1988 would be able to get around in 2022 LA and while they'd notice subtle changes indicating "the future" it's not as crazy different as one might think.
Electric and self driving cars would be a trip. Same with those bird scooters and Lyfts instead of cabs would be weird and half the city wearing masks would be weird but I totally get what you’re saying. The roads and architecture are vastly similar but I’d still be tripped out seeing everyone in their cars on cell phones too haha. I’m 41 so I somewhat remember 88 as a 7 year old 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Things have changed WAY MORE than you realize. Mostly in terms of society at large (not for the better) but also technology has advanced a lot. Most of what has changed are things you can't really see. At 9 years old you wouldn't have really realized the state of things to understand the profound differences. Not criticizing you just saying children aren't aware of adult topics and concerns. That's why everyone who was an adult in the 1980's (almost to a person) wishes we could go back. Also, not the same point, but even for a 9 year old today vs. back then things have changed a lot. What hasn't changed that much is just the feeling of cruising down the expressway listening to tunes (in general) and I guess that's what you are referring to in your comment. Anyway, not criticizing your comment at all just want to make sure that younger people understand that there has been lots of change... don't be fooled by your eyes.
@@aliceberethart This is one of my favorite things on youtube and there are many others like it. Here's an 87 year old man being interviewed 93 years ago when talking films just came out. ruclips.net/video/RS27u6IqWt0/видео.html This man was born 180 years ago and has a good point of reference on the human condition.
@@Robasaibot There are no self driving cars yet, and electric cars were made in the 1910's lol
@@omi_god when you said, "signaling the beginning of the end of the American way of life" I felt that.
This is quite possibly one of the coolest videos I've seen. The nostalgia is hitting me hard right now.
The nostalgia hit me hard too. Got teary eyed.
What nostalgia? He's driving through the same shit
yes, the 1988 video is pure nostalgia. Esp the songs playing on the radio and the news. Ex: about women getting right to vote and the Helen Reddy song "I am woman"! That was the anthem in late 70s and 80s. Anyway! I got teary eyed also.
For those of you who are not from LA or may have missed it, a couple of really big, noticeable points are 1. The Getty Center built on the left (west) side of the freeway was completed in 1997, and 2. the 405 was widened significantly around the top of the grade. This required the tall bridge almost to be completely rebuilt, and also the mountainside was significantly altered and graded to allow for the extra lanes. At around 13:20, you can see one of the retention walls and the removed mountainside. This stretch of the 405 is one of, if not the busiest freeway interchanges in the world, and was required to be closed for one weekend, leading many locals to leave the area for the weekend to avoid the major traffic disruptions.
Carmageddon. That was quite a moment. The city was totally transfixed by it! Haha
@@user-ke4kz3in9j yeah we went wine tasting that weekend to avoid it all. Good times!
Haha man I remember when they closed the freeway, it was like the apocalypse
@@sublimelove23 That's what I was thinking exactly. Everyone stayed home in fear of everything being overcrowded.
Don't forget about the tents at 2:45
Rock solid suspension and/or camera mount back in 1988. Impressive.
The roads were maintained back then. Now that Democrats run shit, roads are shit. Like the rest of LA and every other place they control. Oh but their banks account have grown by millions!
Yes it‘s so solid, almost like it‘s part of the vehicle
yeah, I think he has it mounted in his car. I think he video taped a lot of his life, so it was permanently in there.
The biggest plus of driving in 1988 with the radio on... every station brings great music!
yeah, unlike today. i dont listen to the radio anymore because every station just plays this modern trash. every single modern "song" is just mumbling with generic music in the background
@@snackler6102 you are lucky you have them, here in manchester uk, as far as i could find every station plays autotune trash except classic fm, and that plays classical music
@@ogorekkiszony7236 funny how these "mumbling"s are going to turn to classics for some
Is that why he skips stations several times every few minutes? 😂 there was bad music back then too, it’s just that you only remember the good songs and people today only ever play the good songs from that period.
Like how people think that all old tools are great and modern ones are junk. “They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.” There were junk tools from a long time ago too, they’ve just all broken and been thrown away. Of course it’s only the *good* old tools that have survived, thus making you think that all the old tools were good. Survivorship bias.
@@StevenAkinyemi quite unfortunate isn’t it? Almost like the further we go on in time, the more people lose taste for good music
This is why I really like the algorithms on RUclips. I would NEVER have searched for something like this. Being in my early 20's in 88 and now in my late 50's this year, I appreciate this. What I've noticed is the trees and population growth. I so appreciate this video and for having the mind to do this in 88, ahead of their time! Thank you!
16:16. "Win a compact disc player". Love it. Excellent work syncing this. Genius. Brings back memories. Thanks so much. 👍
This is so interesting and well-done.
And I STILL love Chocolate Rain!
I swear my recommended is just TayZonday’s watch history
How’s it going today TayZonday
Yooo the OGs are here. Hope youre doing good man.
my man you are everywhere lol it's pretty impressive
I'm not from LA but this is really fascinating how you matched up the timing. I like how at 11:45 we hear 3 straight songs that, 34 years later, are STILL radio staples!
difference is they weren't classic hits then lol. In the 80's 1950s music was what classic rock was
I used to listen to klsx back when I lived in that area. I remember the classic rock back in those days was considered 60s and 70s.
Jump!
@@ralphishere5756 Hell yeah. I learned that on Keyboard about 8 years ago. Very fun to play!
Should have left it on ub40
I've never seen a video quite like this one before. The 405 was a lot greener in 1988. Kudos to the job you did here.
damn. I wasnt even born at that time
Global warming!! 😂😂
It just rains less nowadays
@5 0 I was mainly focused on the initial portion of the 405. There are far more trees along that portion of the freeway than there are today.
Well, time for you to watch this now... even crazier. ruclips.net/video/7TqqdOcX4dc/видео.html
The side by side makes me feel like a time traveler, your dedication to faithfully re-creating deserves a gold medal
I remember driving around there back then and still do now. Love the time travel.
Kept looking to see if 1988 MrDoug passed by on the fwy in the 72 ford wagon! Cool to see how many palm trees made it all those years. Incredible job!
Always found the original video intriguing. I absolutely admire the fact that you remade this so accurately. I look forward to "Driving in 2056 vs 2022" 😂
Or, perhaps, _hovering_ in 2056? 😉
@@hlcepeda no
@@hlcepedawhere we’re going…we don’t need roads.
@@RiffMusic1970 I'm buying stocks in Mr. Fusion the moment it goes public.
He's probably not going to be alive in 2056
Bro was shuffling the radio and every song came on was a hit 😂 what a time I have big respect for it
This is a prime example of quality content. Thank you for making the video
I was not expecting this video to have the bonus expletives at 0:35 😂
When there was a "WAR ON DRUGS" (in the 80's)!! And wow the vegetation/trees that existed back then (before DAVEY's) Also looks like they took out some mountains too. Look at all the Pintos and VW Bugs! Great Videos.
As someone who pays attention to trees (tree nerd!) I found it fascinating that many trees looked shockingly similar in size 25 years later. The two palms on the left at 8:36-8:41. The three palm trees at 8:59 aren't that much taller. Even the tree at 27:49 on the left doesn't look that much bigger considering it's 25 years later.
I can clearly tell you are a tree nerd, but you're definitely no math nerd since it was more like 35 years ago and not 25. 😁
@@tanside979 LOL, I know, I realized that shortly after but didn't bother to edit my comment. Truth is I cannot believe 1988 was 35 F'ing years ago. Like how F'ing OLD am I????? How did this happen?
@@neilmoryson 34
@@AnastasiaLUVSU yeah, definitely not a math nerd 🤣
@@neilmoryson feels like last night it's crazy. time fly's
I was a salesman back in 88 living in La Crescenta. Traveled all the freeways and listened to the radio all day in the car. Good times.
The similarities are striking. Things seem so similar, even the timing is within seconds.
He would stop or slow the video on the right to sync with the location of the left.
Nailed it. Spent a couple hours dialing in the landmarks. It’s wild how many street signs moved or were completely removed over the years.
@@DavidParke84 Bro the editing is great, you killed it with this. Great idea to do this
@@DavidParke84 Did you also alter the time? At the first glance it seems that both took 27 mins to complete the journey even if one side or the other was slowed down.
@@viperjason777 yes it's synced
I drove the 405 from the 101 to El Segundo back in 87... Wow... Awesome video! Lots of memories...
did u work in El Segundo?
Great work. Moved to LA in 1989 (since left), so the 1988 footage was like a time machine. Excellent effort syncing and the original 1988 audio from radio really adds to the 1988-ness.
I cant get enough of the music, brings me back to my childhood when going on roadtrips in the late 90’s to southern California to visit my Grandparents ❤️❤️
Dude, you should've lived there back then! It was a hell of a time.
What a really cool thing to do. Thank you. Great decision keeping the original audio.
I grew up in Anaheim during the 80's early 90's. I remember a lot of the old footage ride. What a flood of memories. Somewhere out in the distance my dad is driving home from work. I miss him.
"Somewhere out in the distance my dad is driving home from work. I miss him." Cool observation and thought. Cool thing to say. I miss my pop too.
👍
Your father was part of a beautiful thing, and the memory of this time period is immortalized with the memory of the people who lived in it. Tell his stories, pass them down to your children or nieces and nephews or just the internet even if no one sees it now. We can only learn so much about the past through pictures and videos, stories is how you immortalize the memories. Tell your story, trust that someone someday will appreciate hearing it. We’re all going to depart this ride someday, but our stories and memory don’t need to die along with us 🕊️
I'm 3 minutes in and this is one of the most incredible videos I've ever seen. It's unreal how some things are just the same after 34 years. What a world! And what is it about nostalgia? I was only 3 - barely even alive - but I feel like I'd give anything to go back and live in 1988... why is that?
Honestly like whole buildings or abutments are torn down and replaced or rebuilt, and then some sign or telephone pole just chills there the whole time.
I worked at Sherman oaks hospital. Interesting to see it hasn’t changed at all in 30+years. Thank you.
the white building?
Boy the music back then sure beats the snot outta what they blast today. Great job on the side by side comparison! Sherman oaks hospital building grew quite a bit.
This absolutely brought back memories! I'm a retired pilot. Back in 88, I lived on Addison, right off of Van Nuys Blvd. I would drive back and forth to LAX listening to KFWB (traffic) KROQ, KMET, for music. Someone in the comments mentioned that "there are a lot less trees and shrubs along the freeway today." This appears to be so. I live in northern California now. We still have trees up here. But, the wild fires are taking its toll on nature here too. Sad state of the times. Nevertheless.. Great Video!
I’m a pilot and am LAX based. I make the drive up the 405 a few times a month. Blue skies to you in retirement sir!
No way! We’re neighbors! Small world.
@@RobtheAviator ayy bro what classes you take? I’m a student at csula major in aviation administration and my career goal is to become a FedEx pilot. 😭
@@interfuze9470 I got a degree in Aviation Management from Embry-Riddle and went to civilian flight school and became a flight instructor to build hours. I went to the regionals after that to build time and eventually made it to my airline of choice!
@@RobtheAviator my professor is from embry riddle Daytona 😭 also I am majoring in something similar with urs. Appreciate it bro
This is amazing! Reminds me just how fascinating RUclips can be sometimes. I moved to LA around ‘89. Glad you thought to preserve these memories and share them with us.
So when are you leaving? and going back where you came from?
@@mingching2480 When am I leaving? I haven’t lived in LA for the last 15 years.
@@robdisner Oh , I thought you might be one of the loonie leftist that have left,or thinking of leaving, Calipornia to infect their political leftist disease of liberalism thru out the country... so you're the smart one to move to Northern Calipornia?
@@mingching2480 Even worse. I moved to the south!
I can't thank you enough. I am from LA and moved out of there in 1989; a year after I turned 40. It was great seeing how things had changed. I took my grandkids to LA a few years ago to show them the areas where I hung out but there was no appreciation; maybe when they are older!!! Again, thank you so much
I was born n raised in SoCal but been living in CO for the past 6 years. I stumbled on this a couple months ago. This helps with the homesickness!
That's awesome...going north on the 405..... memories... Loved seeing the sign that said Sa Mo ,Wilshire and Sunset...Thanks for posting
It was cool to see the same trees still standing after all those years! Just bigger or trimmed up!
It's so comforting to know that the colorful road rage the man had at the beginning is just like it is today! LOL! Nice video.... 😋😋🙏🙏
Road rages these days cause people wanting to get out of their cars and murder other drivers
@Phillip Banes well said
@Phillip Banes You should see how it was in the 90s, before christ.
Excellent work. Love that he set the camera up in the same exact spot and synced the two videos. Absolutely incredible to watch
Awesome video, I grew up near venice blvd so this is awesome, this was before i was alive. Real cool
As someone who has lived in Sherman Oaks for a very long time... this is fascinating, because I have driven this exact route countless times. Only difference is that I turn right after exiting on Van Nuys Blvd. Many of the differences between the 2 videos are changes I remember having to deal with months of construction headaches, if not years. People talk about how bad traffic has gotten lately... I usually reply that traffic has ALWAYS sucked, and this video is proof
It’s kinda crazy seeing some parts of the 88 video having traffic on the streets meanwhile the 22 video barely had any.
Been 4 years since I've been in Van Nuys/Panorama. Now live in Spain. This was a nostalgic memory because it's the same route I would take going home. It's insane how not much has change in the Valley all these years. Mad respect for taking your time to do this drive and editing this. Awesome work.
I live in Panorama. It’s true, not much has changed!
@@SMIERTC and that's a good thing, watching iconic movies from the 80's shot in LA and some areas still preserve that vibe
My son came up with the idea and I jumped at the chance it was just too crazy not to do I held the camera and he drove and then because he's a professional editor he edited together perfectly
Ahh, España...great choice, not missing much here, almost everything is upside-down...
How did you end up in Spain? lol
It was pretty cool how you were behind two GMs that probably would’ve shared a platform (80s Buick and a late model Cadillac ATS).
Then there was a white Sentra and a white Camry in almost the same position relative to you.
Also, at one of the lights, you were behind the quirky 80s Isuzu Impulse and the quirky 20s Toyota Mirai.
There were more examples but those stuck out to me. Thanks for your incredible work. RUclips is truly a visual and aural encyclopedia. You were truly ahead of the curve in the 80s!
The next time you go back there, please leave your DeLorean parked in the open so we can see how it looked when it was new. I understand why you couldn’t drive it to film; as it would’ve been such a distraction. 😁
My daughter was born 8/8/88... she was 18 days old when the first video was filmed.
Amazing synchronization!!
Totally appreciate how you slow down the footage to match location and traffic conditions to fit the landmarks. Thank you for the hard work. I enjoyed the old footage's music, too. Thanks for doing this.
Looking at the cars and hearing the radio from back then really took me back...thanks man....for a few minutes I was at peace from the cluster we are living today....
Back when america was america
Would love to see this filmed on a Friday evening for a direct comparison of the traffic conditions.
And rush hour not lunch time like updated version.
@@88997799 I would too but all things considered I think he did a very good job putting this together.
stop and go... lots of red lights in the back of cars lol
So a video of a parked car is what ya want to see?
If it’s a Friday evening and still light out, it will be bumper to bumper for miles in this section of the 405 going northbound like the video. Wouldn’t be possible to make a comparison. That’s why he took a drive at 1pm
Great effort put into this❤
Those 2 trees on the right 23:22 have not changed a bit.
I LOVE the diversity of cars there.. 17:49 you can see both a honda Hatchback and a luxoboat to the left.
I miss my 1980 accord. Thing was rad!
7:01 that's a porsche 928 on the left lane. You don't even see those anymore
The music from the Radio make me recall that time. And even same landscape, all trees grown up. Very interesting video. Thank you for posting such a nice video.
The Doors 20th Century Fox was playing on the radio! Wow. That was the soundtrack to my first romance in 1982. I never hear that song on the radio. Wow. On 28 AUG 1988, I was an Active duty Marine at MCAS EL TORO, just down the 405 in the opposite direction.
Thanks. What a great idea.
Amazing dedication, driving on the same road for almost 40 years straight! Truly a miracle their dash camera survived such a long time.
I grew up in Van Nuys and was 25 years old in 1988. I remember most of the streets and landmarks you passed, they bring back great memories. Thank you!
Damn. You are 60 years old now huh. Time flies I bet
yeah, he passed the Sherman Oaks Hospital on Van Nuys Blvd.
I swear RUclips is the closest thing we have to a time machine. I know this took a lot of effort to sync.. thank you for the great video! 🤟
I've taken this same drive quite possibly 1000 times and was doing it in 1988 as well. Still drive it probably twice a month. Born and raised in L.A. and was 31 when the video on the left was taken. This was great
Great job! The radio announcing and songs took me back. The freeway lanes were wide back then. This was a fun drive … on video.
This is so dope! I love the original video because it's the closest thing we'll get to time travel. I appreciate that guy for filming his drive all those years ago, and I appreciate you for recreating it so that we can see this side by side comparison!
Aug 26 , 1988 I had just come back from South America visiting some family. At about that hour I was at Miami international airport. I was just 14 years old and starting HS in two weeks. I still have the passport and ticket stub from that trip. I was living in the OC in La Palma at time. And much later I would be living in Venice for 11 months in 2011- 2012. So I know that area fairly well.
Wow!!! I really enjoyed this trip back in memory lane. I grew up in Long Beach and went to school at Cal Poly-SLO. This drive brings back memories taking the 405 to the 101 from home to SLO (in my Datsun 610B). Thank you David.
I loved listening to his 80s radio stations. That brings me back. Had to watch this again to finally look at the right side of the screen.
At @08:30, the triple cluster of high rise apartments(?)/offices(?) on the right side of the freeway is still being built! That's an image that REALLY sold me on this video. It's so surreal, like actual time travel.
I worked in the tallest of the three two years later. Corner of Santa Monica and Sepulveda.
Westwood Gateway office complex. The one still under construction is Gateway ll East, it opened in 1989. Gateway ll North opened a year earlier.
How fun! I took that route 5 days a week from 1969 through 1992. I enjoyed watching many of the taller buildings go up, including the round tower at 11:11 and the Getty Museum. Thanks for doing that!
Was hoping someone would drive the wrong way again, on the first road out of the driveway, so he could cuss again in 2022. 🤣
I busted out laughing myself. xD
listening to the radio, weather and traffic, man... really takes me back! This is and amazing video, thank you for doing this! Brilliant.
The amount of time and patience this guy put into this to satisfy our curiousity is remarkable! Thank you.
Perfect job keeping the videos synced, including timely lane changes. This must've been a lot of work, but a labor of love I'm sure! Thank you for creating this!
By pure coincidence the day the modern video was recorded was the 50th anniversary of when the song "Listen To The Music" by the doobie brothers at 8:00 was released!
interesting co-ink-a-dink
As an LA native born in Venice in 87, thank you for this piece of history.
I was 4 years old when back in 1988 born and raised in Los Angels in 1985. Thank you for sharing this video time line a lot has changed since then
This was a cool video, good job videographer….brought me back to when I was an 18 year old young man…..today the 52 year “old” man reminisces of a bygone time, thank you
Awesome idea. Very fascinating. Also, loved hearing what was on the radio from 1988 as well. I appreciate all of the effort you put into this.
I also loved hearing the time machine throwback to that radio era!
This is a classic. Awesome synchronization. 1988. A great year.
Love this video.
They drove the 405 so you don't have to. Honor these men. Great idea for a video!
You sir are a madman and a gem! Not quite sure why I watched it, but I'm sure glad I did. Thanks for this.
This is cool. Great job editing. I was 25 yrs. Old and lived in Santa Monica in 88. Drove “the 405” all the time. Listening to KFWB and KLSX 😅. Thanks for the trip down memory Lane. I don’t feel old though.
What an Amazing Video!! I could watch these all day. You did an amazing job. For me I had an eerie feeling the whole time. The commercials and music top it off. Lived in LA from 66 to 76 then Bakersfield. Now Seattle. Thumbs up to you sir!!
Fascinating :)
Not sure if anyone else does this, but when I see a video shot at a time when I was alive, but in the past, I always try to think where I was and what I may have been doing at the same time.
For me, when the original was shot, I was 8 years old and very likely sound asleep. I was in the then West Germany and 6pm LA time is 3am in Europe the next day. Nothing more interesting than seeing what folk 6 thousand miles away were doing while you slept!
I would have been on my way home from preschool off La Tijera just a few miles from where this started
Definitely! I was watching a RUclips video from 89 that was filmed at the mall I went to as a kid, and you feel like you’re time traveling for a moment, and I wondered where 12 year old me was at that moment in time.
Definitely. I grew up in Tarzana, about 5-6 miles to the west of where this ends, and Aug '88 was the summer between 6th and 7th grade for me. Seeing the old, iconic Sherman Oaks Galleria logo around 21:47, before it was demolished in the years after the 1994 earthquake, is bittersweet as hell. What a trip down memory lane.
I wish I had long term memory. I can only try and think what I was doing but won't be correct. For sure I was six years old. 😮💨
Very cool 👍
Dood! You scratch right where I itch!
It is just amazing how everything worked out with locations, knowledge etc.
Thanks for allowing me to ride shotgun!
Omg this footage is gold. Right down to the kroq station and that clip on note pad. I remember all of it! Best of times
There is, on RUclips, a time-corrected (film) video of nothing but a tram going down Market St. in San Francisco...before the earthquake.
Being from the mid city/culver city area, and recognizing the streets in this is really fascinating, thanks for sharing!
Happy you made this video! Its crazy to think this was 34 years ago to the date.
Not much has changed in LA since then :(
Lol, my dad was born in 1988! This is eons ago! ;p
what? How is it to-the-date when the original was shot in August, and the new one is shot in July?
Wonder if he will be alive in another 34 years to make updated crap cover freeway roads filled with homeless camps along the edge.
This is so well done and so fascinating - especially because it's not at all what I expected! Starting the video, I expected to see all sorts of differences and also expected traffic to be much sparser in 1988, but I was struck by how remarkably similar it all is, down to many of the same buildings being there, virtually unchanged. I moved to LA just a couple years after the first video - in early '91 - and my mind is somewhat blown! Also, I miss just listening to the radio while driving! Thanks for this great video.
It would be better if they were done at the same time of day to ge a better traffic reference. The one in '88 was at 6:30 pm, the one in '22 is at 1 pm.
Also, traffic got really bad while all of that was under construction, which was most of the in between time. They have been perpetually re-building all of that.
I'm amazed this video is only 27 min long. I have taken that route, many times, at all hours, It is very similar to my commute in a number of those years. It can take up to 3-4 hours depending what is going on. At that point one has likely gotten off and has taken Sepulveda, or other ways across the hill.
But really, it's amazing how little has changed. A few new structures, but really it's just an upgraded freeway.
I enjoyed this, and will view it again. I’m Sharing to my Facebook today. Thanks for the memories David Parke. Great job!
That was so cool. I listened to all those radio station, too. I still listen to KROQ, sometimes. I was hoping to see myself in my Ford van in that older video. Thanks for making this. It was fun to watch.
Videos like this are so interesting to watch. I've never been to California in my life but seeing the comparison between the different eras is incredible.
I grew up in Northern California, but all of the state is very, very naturally beautiful.
It’s pretty cool seeing a lot of the big trees in the new video being small and recently planted in the old video.
I have seen the older video once before. But the work you did David to match the two is fantastic.
Love the music !
Fooled around & fell in love.
Elvin Bishop😎
That 928 at 7:05 though...I lived at Hawthorne @ Manhattan Beach Blvd in the eighties as a kid and the 405 was always humming...
Amazing! I wish I had thought of this while I still lived in San Diego. In 1992, I videotaped a trip from San Diego up to our corporate office in Torrance. Then the next day, as my friends and I drove around West Los Angeles. It would be fun to retrace those videos. You did impressive editing. I remember the 405 in 1988 as I lived in Venice, CA in the mid-80s.
I honestly think it looks better today in the 2020s.. but I appreciate the nastolgic flashback bc I wasn't even thought of in 1988.
26:56 Rolls Royce in the old video, 5:16 Rolls Royce in the new video, never lived in LA, but that's about what I expected. Super cool video, I love these types of new and old comparison.
Also there is a tan colored RR Silver Spirit sedan at the beginning of the video (0:03-0:08) Its parked at the bottom of the stairs.
just for the idea of this this video should have a million likes 👍
KFWB News Radio. You give us ten minutes, we'll give you the world. Instant fan
I'm not from the area but this was oddly satisfying to watch with the side by side views both past and present. I don't know how this popped up on my youtube recommendations but thank you for doing this!
I wondered how this random post showed up as well!😋