LOL. I was just thinking the same thing. It jumped 25c over night & a pack of Marlboro's went over a buck too. Everybody was saying I'm going to stop smoking & I'm going to stop driving!
Typical Californians complaining about gas prices. 2004 was the last time gas in California was an average of $1.80 2020 average gas prices in California is $3.00! Or higher!
ALL of the 80s. Best decade of MY life, bar none. Born & raised in L.A., was stationed in Port Hueneme from '84 to 86' and made that drive along PCH all the way from there to the Long Beach NSY every single morning and back in the afternoon. Were it not for my beautiful wife and awesome kids waiting up for me I wouldn't have done that commute; sometimes took 3 hours to get from the shipyard back to Port Hueneme in the afternoons. A sane person wouldn't have done it. Someone young and in love did do it.
G-body Porsche 911, Toyota AE86, Mercedes W124 and W126, Porsche 914, BMW E30, Datsun 280z, Datsun B610, Mazda RX7 FC, Corvette C4, VW Beetle, Honda CRX, Porsche 356, etc etc what a great time to be on the road
$0.99 in 1989 adjusted for inflation in 2020 dollars is $2.11, around where the price of gas is at right now. $4.25 in 1991 adjusted for inflation is $8.17 which is worth more than the current minimum wage.
Never been to CA but retro video are great to watch. Teen days in the early and mid 80s, lots of reminiscences of running the streets and learning to become independent.
I have lived in Los Angeles my whole life. It was great. It's not now. Expensive shit hole now. Dirty and dangerous. Drive down to places like Irvine. You will see the proper way to use tax money. I am retiring to anywhere else asap
Man, I am officially old! This was the year I graduated from HS. Just seeing the gas price below a dollar brought back memories when I first started driving in 1988 and paying as low as .69 cents a gallon for gas in SoCal. In those days, that will get you half a tank. I really miss the boxy look of cars during those times. Wish I could go back and revisit that time.
I was 7 in 1989, the family trip that summer was to Los Angeles, I remember going to that exact Hard Rock Cafe!!! The late 80s and early 90s were an awesome time.
I spent the bulk of my time in LA as a truck driver starting in 2009-2021. Retired now in the Philippines but visiting family in Texas now. I always wanted to live in LA after watching Chips on TV in the 70s as a teenager..It's a shame what is happening to great cities of America now..
Oh my gosh that Denny's sign makes me think of my grandmother back in the day in the late 80's early 90's. She loved going to Denny's for the big grand slam slam breakfast for senior citizens that came with the senior discount. She always loved the Denny's commercials back in the day that featured the tree old ladies sitting in the restaurant and they're talking about the big grand slam slam breakfast and how great it is and how it comes with a senior discount. Then at the end of the commercial they would say something to the effect, "you can get it only at Denny's.". Then one of the old ladies's who was hard of hearing would shout "what did you say?! Lenny's!. Then the two other old ladies would correct her by shouting back "No, Denny's!". My grandmother got a kick out of that commercial and would laugh every time. The old ladies commercial advertisement worked on my grandmother because she always wanted us to take her to Denny's for the big grand slam slam breakfast.
1989 was my favorite year of all-time ! I was 14 yrs at the time. Incredible year for Hollywood movies: Tim Burton's Batman, Lethal Weapon 2, Ghostbusters 2 and James Cameron's The Abyss ! The Sega Genesis system released that year. My Grandmother gifted it to me and my brother, Christmas '89 ! This video brought me tears of nostalgia. I thank you for posting this, time traveller 👍
OMG the.memories, my old neighborhood Ia Cienaga and Beverly, Culver City. Everyone iny family was healthy and alive including my beautiful Mom, my sisters and I had a children Production performing all around Cali and Sanfricisco. Also our family reunion that summer in Los Angeles, life was innocent and carefree.
I was just reminiscing last night about growing up in LA. Class of 1990 Monrovia High. I use to lie about where I was from I was so embarrassed at what a shit hole I grew up in. I left in 1990 and never looked back.
What's interesting is back then, most people would say "What's the point of aimlessly recording driving around?" Yet now, so many of us yearn for this kind of time capsule material that takes us to a different and, arguably, better time.
That's the point. When I was driving a car with holding a big camera, or with mounting it, many people gazed on me. When I was parking the car, I was asked so many times "Why are you taking a video in a car?" "Are you making a movie or something?" "Did you make this camera mounting system yourself?" Now I think that record of usual scenery, not a special event, is valuable.
I was in my 20s in the '80s and lived in SoCal then and now. I remember lots of traffic in the '80s and people complaining about it just as much as they do now. There were fewer cars then but also fewer freeways and fewer lanes on the freeways that existed then. Also the national 55 mph speed limit was in effect then, from the mid '70s to the mid '90s. It was ridiculous, like constantly being in a construction zone. I can't drive 55!
Oh Thomas Guide! A fat map book that was must have for LA drivers. I remember that opened the destination grid page and looked for the small printed street name. Now all we have to do is put the address into Google Maps or car navigation screen. What an evolution of information technology!
0:17 so smoggy you can't even see the old UCB tower ( United california bank / now Aon ) . Anyone remember smog alerts and the stages / level of the alert on the news .
Wow! It looked so peaceful back then. This is the year I graduated from high school. Unfortunately 3 years later the riots happen and that changed everything.
I agree. Only trouble was when the car broke down in the suburbs, when the time without cell phone. Had to look for a call box, or wait for a police car passing.
i was just at that intersection (lankershim and cahuenga blvd) 2 days ago at 1:32. as you are turning left, that pharmacy is now a liquor store, gribin von dil building is now a mexican restaurant, however, the baked potato is still there 31 years after you shot this.
My family moved to L.A in 1991 when I was 4, and have been here since then except for university. Beverly Center looked like that well into the future, up until recently. I wonser however how Century City mall looked back then.
@@Hyperion031 Thank you for the response. The average taxi driver or Uber driver drive about 250km (160 miles) a day in Tokyo. But, the average customer rides only 4km (2.5 miles) in central Tokyo area. So taxi driver picks up customers about 40 times! a day. lol
The '70s were even worse, but yeah, the smog was still pretty bad in the '80s. It actually made my eyes water on some days, and for most of the summer it was rare to see even the foothills, let alone the mountains. A popular bumper sticker in SoCal back then said "Never trust air you can't see!"
The person driving in this video was driving a late 80's model Mustang. I recognize the wipers, hood, cowell and dashboard as I drove an '88 Mustang myself.
Cool. A drive from Santa Monica to Downtown LA would take 30-40 minutes at rush hour in 1989. Today that same trip can easily take 2-3 times that or even longer. That's one of the major differences in driving in LA (especially West LA) and that the morning and evening 'rush hours' are far longer lasting 3-4 hours today.
i think the hollywood freeway between hollywood and the valley is gridlock literally 247 365..unless you're out at 4am i dont think there's a freeway in the county where you ever get to drive the speed limit for any period of time..had to drive someone to lax from like Hancock park weekday afternoon..gave ourselves 3 hours and barely made it lol..
I lived in LA in the 1960s and the only freeway congestion back then was the Ventura Freeway during morning rush hour and the Santa Monica freeway going west near the San Diego freeway interchange. No need for express lanes back then either.
Thnak you for the information. I checked the time when I stayed at LA, and probably the date of this video is likely to be April 1989. I will correct the title year.
Closest thing to time travel.
Film was so terrible here in the US, just for the real life stuff. For Japan, everything is clear and you can see exactly what it is.
@@SylkaChan cool?
Videos??
I remember when gas first hit $1 /gal and everyone freaked lol.
Me too!! lol
LOL. I was just thinking the same thing. It jumped 25c over night & a pack of Marlboro's went over a buck too. Everybody was saying I'm going to stop smoking & I'm going to stop driving!
Lol..hard to imagine ha...wow big changes
Typical Californians complaining about gas prices.
2004 was the last time gas in California was an average of $1.80
2020 average gas prices in California is $3.00! Or higher!
Damn ur account was made the year I was born lol
That is one cool video! I'm going to look for more of my 1988 fwy videos and post it up.(I have a few somewhere)
Gilbert Arciniega saw one of yours it was really cool.
hey gilbert
You are a time traveler
Gilbert I’m a huge fan bro!!!
Your fan here 😉
Man you have no idea what I would do to go back to the late 80’s.. I honestly have to stop watching this because I miss this time so much..
ALL of the 80s. Best decade of MY life, bar none. Born & raised in L.A., was stationed in Port Hueneme from '84 to 86' and made that drive along PCH all the way from there to the Long Beach NSY every single morning and back in the afternoon. Were it not for my beautiful wife and awesome kids waiting up for me I wouldn't have done that commute; sometimes took 3 hours to get from the shipyard back to Port Hueneme in the afternoons. A sane person wouldn't have done it. Someone young and in love did do it.
Yesss.!
I know there was color and life
G-body Porsche 911, Toyota AE86, Mercedes W124 and W126, Porsche 914, BMW E30, Datsun 280z, Datsun B610, Mazda RX7 FC, Corvette C4, VW Beetle, Honda CRX, Porsche 356, etc etc what a great time to be on the road
And a Subaru Brat
The best years of my life was living in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. Thanks for posting
Hope there could be a sustainable solutions for many problems plaguing this beautiful city like smog & crimes and homeless issues !
I was 18 years old in 1989! I miss the 80s, take me back!!!
In 1989, $0.99/gallon per gas was considered outrageous for the time.
1 year after 9-11 there was a gas surplus and arco had gas at 99 cents.
@Jason Lee Trater working for $ 3-4 and hr? holy fuck dude
$0.99 in 1989 adjusted for inflation in 2020 dollars is $2.11, around where the price of gas is at right now. $4.25 in 1991 adjusted for inflation is $8.17 which is worth more than the current minimum wage.
@@benkleschinsky Gas is $1.15 here in Michigan right now, it was $0.99 last week. It hasnt gone that low in so long I cant even remember, its crazy.
@@davidca96 For reference, that $1.15 would be about 50 cents in 1989.
Never been to CA but retro video are great to watch. Teen days in the early and mid 80s, lots of reminiscences of running the streets and learning to become independent.
It's been 30 years since I came to LA.
The distance of the time has not changed much.
L.A. I love you.
I have lived in Los Angeles my whole life.
It was great.
It's not now.
Expensive shit hole now.
Dirty and dangerous.
Drive down to places like Irvine.
You will see the proper way to use tax money.
I am retiring to anywhere else asap
@@pauliescott that's sad good luck
4:09 Back when the Bonaventure Hotel was kind of a big deal. And downtown L.A. with a minimum of trash, graffiti, and transient encampments.
That scene is in Long Beach, the building covered with mirror glass is not Bonaventure Hotel.
What I wouldn't give even to go back to the 1980's
That MR2 was pretty cool
You know you grew up in LA when you can tell the difference between downtown, Hollywood and the valley within seconds
Man, I am officially old! This was the year I graduated from HS. Just seeing the gas price below a dollar brought back memories when I first started driving in 1988 and paying as low as .69 cents a gallon for gas in SoCal. In those days, that will get you half a tank. I really miss the boxy look of cars during those times. Wish I could go back and revisit that time.
Время свободы! Свободы слова и передвижения...
0:50 - Only 99 cents per gallon!!!! It's also just nice to see cars that aren't round and bloated....I like the boxy styles. Nice find!
99cents back then is equal to $2.05 todays money
I checked and adjusting for inflation that's still only $2.09. Wouldn't that be nice?
@@MtnNerd 2 dollar gas was a reality just a couple years ago. (unless you live in California)
@@wind5518 но в 20 году вы выбрали демократов...
I turned 13 in 1989, I just turned 44. Where does time go? lol.
I just turned 40 a couple days ago!
I was 7 in 1989, the family trip that summer was to Los Angeles, I remember going to that exact Hard Rock Cafe!!! The late 80s and early 90s were an awesome time.
I spent the bulk of my time in LA as a truck driver starting in 2009-2021. Retired now in the Philippines but visiting family in Texas now. I always wanted to live in LA after watching Chips on TV in the 70s as a teenager..It's a shame what is happening to great cities of America now..
Oh my gosh that Denny's sign makes me think of my grandmother back in the day in the late 80's early 90's. She loved going to Denny's for the big grand slam slam breakfast for senior citizens that came with the senior discount. She always loved the Denny's commercials back in the day that featured the tree old ladies sitting in the restaurant and they're talking about the big grand slam slam breakfast and how great it is and how it comes with a senior discount. Then at the end of the commercial they would say something to the effect, "you can get it only at Denny's.". Then one of the old ladies's who was hard of hearing would shout "what did you say?! Lenny's!. Then the two other old ladies would correct her by shouting back "No, Denny's!". My grandmother got a kick out of that commercial and would laugh every time. The old ladies commercial advertisement worked on my grandmother because she always wanted us to take her to Denny's for the big grand slam slam breakfast.
Wasnt that long ago... Until it is.
How LA looked last time the Dodgers won the World Series
Michelo Nyaundi Headass
This is like watching the movie Beverly hills cop the 4th and the best Disneyland ride I've been on lately
1989 was my favorite year of all-time ! I was 14 yrs at the time.
Incredible year for Hollywood movies: Tim Burton's Batman,
Lethal Weapon 2, Ghostbusters 2 and James Cameron's The Abyss !
The Sega Genesis system released that year. My Grandmother gifted it
to me and my brother, Christmas '89 ! This video brought me tears of nostalgia.
I thank you for posting this, time traveller 👍
the 80's ruled
0:17 Blista Compact
Glad I'm not the only one! xD
I know what you mean but in the real world it's Called a honda crx
2:56 Banshee
4:02 Greenwood police
0:08 Fujinko
I was 20 when I first came to LA in 1989 and am still here kicking butts and having a beer !
I am from the year 2020. Turn back now!
brings back so many childhood memories of visiting my aunt in LA. great video!
OMG the.memories, my old neighborhood Ia Cienaga and Beverly, Culver City. Everyone iny family was healthy and alive including my beautiful Mom, my sisters and I had a children Production performing all around Cali and Sanfricisco. Also our family reunion that summer in Los Angeles, life was innocent and carefree.
I was just reminiscing last night about growing up in LA. Class of 1990 Monrovia High. I use to lie about where I was from I was so embarrassed at what a shit hole I grew up in. I left in 1990 and never looked back.
The mid 80s my Favorite era!!
He’s driving a 1988 or 89 5.0 Mustang, can tell by the V8 rumble, I had a white one just like his in 1988.
As you guess! It was a fox body 5 litter mustang GT.
The driver was our colleague and loved American muscle cars.
2:20 The Beverly Center - a lovely place to shop. That mall was on top of the world before the Internet.
What's interesting is back then, most people would say "What's the point of aimlessly recording driving around?" Yet now, so many of us yearn for this kind of time capsule material that takes us to a different and, arguably, better time.
That's the point. When I was driving a car with holding a big camera, or with mounting it, many people gazed on me. When I was parking the car, I was asked so many times "Why are you taking a video in a car?" "Are you making a movie or something?" "Did you make this camera mounting system yourself?"
Now I think that record of usual scenery, not a special event, is valuable.
So little traffic in those times. Every time I go there it’s absolutely packed.
I was in my 20s in the '80s and lived in SoCal then and now. I remember lots of traffic in the '80s and people complaining about it just as much as they do now. There were fewer cars then but also fewer freeways and fewer lanes on the freeways that existed then. Also the national 55 mph speed limit was in effect then, from the mid '70s to the mid '90s. It was ridiculous, like constantly being in a construction zone. I can't drive 55!
It was a lot more affordable back then damn
Nostalgia,, from the good old days,,
Thank you to whoever did this video...wish I can go back in time...wish I were camera happy like you!
0:48 OH MY GOD WHAT I WOULD GIVE TO HAVE THOSE PRICES.
At the time, my American friend used to say "gasoline is cheaper than drinking water".
I really like the Radio Station in the back😮
I didn't even watch the video, I just spent the time reading the comments!
I wish I grew up there I really do. Too late now. 😔
ícҽís թհօҽղíx I was 9 years old In 1989 and it was a great time to grow up in Los Angeles . We were very free!
Passing by the RTD police station off the 10 fwy... that L.A. County is bringing back,😙
Is that a XJSC Jaguar at 2:01? Favorite car.
I remember navigating in LA with a Thomas Guide getting lost etc ....GPS really is a game changer
Oh Thomas Guide! A fat map book that was must have for LA drivers. I remember that opened the destination grid page and looked for the small printed street name. Now all we have to do is put the address into Google Maps or car navigation screen. What an evolution of information technology!
I would be born the Summer of this year at Centinela Hospital and it's real cool to see glimpses of what L.A looked like back then, thanks for this.
Centinela Hospital is in the City of Inglewood, not LA.
0:17 so smoggy you can't even see the old UCB tower ( United california bank / now Aon ) . Anyone remember smog alerts and the stages / level of the alert on the news .
anyone remember the “Welcome to California, Now Go Home!” auto stickers
I was born in the wrong era😏
Same here!! What I would give to be in the 1980's 😩
Wow! It looked so peaceful back then. This is the year I graduated from high school. Unfortunately 3 years later the riots happen and that changed everything.
I lived there in 89 off Colorado Blvd near Eagle Rock, those were good times, no cell phones and internet but we survived lmao 😂
I agree.
Only trouble was when the car broke down in the suburbs, when the time without cell phone.
Had to look for a call box, or wait for a police car passing.
I was 10 years old... I remember this LA very well
i was just at that intersection (lankershim and cahuenga blvd) 2 days ago at 1:32. as you are turning left, that pharmacy is now a liquor store, gribin von dil building is now a mexican restaurant, however, the baked potato is still there 31 years after you shot this.
GTA SAの世界のようで楽しいです！
Well we better start recording for the next 30 years
My family moved to L.A in 1991 when I was 4, and have been here since then except for university. Beverly Center looked like that well into the future, up until recently.
I wonser however how Century City mall looked back then.
Still some 1970s cars !
懐かしいですねー。オレンジCounty出身ですが、今住んでいません。
この動画ありがとうございます！
私はニューポートのファッションセンターの雰囲気が洒落てて好きでした。
ファッションアイランドでした。どうでもいいことですが（笑
@@kamepo なるほど！はい、ファッションアイランドを知っています：）好きですね！
Thank you. Thank you so much for this.
4:09 Beautiful
As a former Uber driver, I recognized most of the streets haha.
How many miles did a Uber driver in LA drive every day?
@@kamepo my average was around 200 miles a day. Lowest I've done was around 100 miles in a day and the highest was 400 miles.
@@Hyperion031 Thank you for the response.
The average taxi driver or Uber driver drive about 250km (160 miles) a day in Tokyo. But, the average customer rides only 4km (2.5 miles) in central Tokyo area. So taxi driver picks up customers about 40 times! a day. lol
@@kamepo I love Tokyo. I hope to come back and get a work visa and become an AV actor 😊😊☺☺☺
@@drewjitzoo4378 You love Tokyo for the wrong reason lol
Amazing footage..I was 8 by that time
It took a hell lot for a bank loan. In 2018 it took 3 minutes to have one!!
The year the Sega Genesis came out!!
I remember.99cents gas😄😄
Holy shit look at all that smog! I know pre 2006 Socal was pretty hard to breathe but wow, all the footage looks like it's overcast 24/7
The '70s were even worse, but yeah, the smog was still pretty bad in the '80s. It actually made my eyes water on some days, and for most of the summer it was rare to see even the foothills, let alone the mountains. A popular bumper sticker in SoCal back then said "Never trust air you can't see!"
People yearn for the old days, but in a lot of ways, things are much better now. Be grateful for the time we live in.
The smog never really left. The only difference was that it hurt like hell when you took a deep breath in the 1960s and into the early 1970s.
4:33 Plays Bye Bye Baby From Max Coveri
speaking of gas, I just belched at the thought of that freeway on a hot friday afternoon in August
15 years later, I was born
And 15 years after that was 2019
Wow lets build a time machine and go back in time
The person driving in this video was driving a late 80's model Mustang. I recognize the wipers, hood, cowell and dashboard as I drove an '88 Mustang myself.
As you guess. The car was a fox body Mustang 5.0 GT.
in the 80s it was still 70s 90s was still 80s 00 was still 90s and thats how it goes
I watch this video in 2020, thinking what years will be really relaxed and cool)
I lived there then. It was great.
4:33 ae86
0:05 COOL MR2
0:20 that CRX tho 😳
2:43 damn i live in this area now redondo beach. thats so trippy
I used to stay in Torrance area, because it's close to Redondo Beach, and there was a big Japanese supermarket "Yaohan" (now Mitsuwa).
@@kamepo You’re right, i luv mitsuwa lol
It's the JETSONS HOUSE!!!
amazing
can I use parts of this footage for my channel please? it's beautiful!
It's no problem to use my video source for your work. Please indicate my youtube name "kemepo" and this video URL. Thank you.
@@kamepo awesome, thank you! (And I will of course credit!)
Traffic still sucks as much as it does today...
No chemtrails...
All those cars are crushed by now.
I miss 89. I miss gf Monica, She was the one that got away 😪
1:51 デニーズがあるね！看板今と変わらないですねー！
Looks like you left LA and went to Orange County.
thanks for the footage! it is clear for the time! | got through youtube recommend - 15:00 | 22: 10.06
Radio stations sure had ton of money back then posting ads all over LA
I remember then. KISS, KBIG, KOST, KTWV, KKGO, KMET, , we could see many billboards of them, and car stickers also.
The year I was born. Good year.
99 cent one galons! waooo!!
Cool. A drive from Santa Monica to Downtown LA would take 30-40 minutes at rush hour in 1989. Today that same trip can easily take 2-3 times that or even longer. That's one of the major differences in driving in LA (especially West LA) and that the morning and evening 'rush hours' are far longer lasting 3-4 hours today.
i think the hollywood freeway between hollywood and the valley is gridlock literally 247 365..unless you're out at 4am i dont think there's a freeway in the county where you ever get to drive the speed limit for any period of time..had to drive someone to lax from like Hancock park weekday afternoon..gave ourselves 3 hours and barely made it lol..
I lived in LA in the 1960s and the only freeway congestion back then was the Ventura Freeway during morning rush hour and the Santa Monica freeway going west near the San Diego freeway interchange. No need for express lanes back then either.
L O S A N G E L E S
Best shit ever😍😍😍! A time when every single person had a retro cool car!!!!
Wasn't this in 1989? Because I just saw a 100.3 FM Pirate Radio billboard in this video and that station didn't exist in 1988.
I have taken many videos every year then. I'm not sure but this maybe 1989.Thank you for your comment.
@@kamepo 3:43 A new Ford Thunderbird (debuted on December 26th, 1988).
Thnak you for the information. I checked the time when I stayed at LA, and probably the date of this video is likely to be April 1989. I will correct the title year.
I had just turned 18..everyone in family was alive and healthy..now 30 yrs later,all my uncles ,dad and friends have passes away😞
that mr2!
Was only 4 years old in 1989 now 39 years old in 2024 I’m getting old!!! lol
i love the camera! what is it?
teddybearcloud VHS or beta…
Sony 8mm video camcorder, which is not Hi8.
Old
As I watch this video, you can definitely see the beginning of the tidal change compared to what's there today and it's only going to get worse.
That gas price makes me wanna cry