Fremont St, Las Vegas scenes: 0:24 the cowboy sign 'Vegas Vic' was only about a year old. 0:36 49'er Club lasted only a few months. Looks like the driver was just going back and forth around a three block area. 0:49 they're on 2nd St, and 1:30 they're on 1st. 1:37 Boulder City
@@ChrisSmartFilms That CA footage is amazing. They're driving in along the foothills through La Verne. 7:45 Brown Derby sign, maybe the one they now have at the Museum of Neon Art.
Thanks for all these details. I'm glad you're enjoying this film as much I am. I have 2 other films from the same family but this one is the best out of the 3
Home movies were a popular hobby back in the day. Bet there Is a lot of old films like this just stashed away awaiting discovery. Hope to see many more.
I agree, people seemed more neighborly and friendly back in those days. Just about all videos from those days everyone waved to the camera, now adays they run up and scream at you to turn it off.
I lived in Wendover in 1952, I remember well the Stateline and the owners, Jim and Anna Smith, we lived just to the west of the Stateline...my Dad had a 1949 Mercury and in 1954 bought a four door Ford. He used to take me out every year to the Salt Flats to see the racers and their cars, a highlight to a kid that loved cars and I still go to Speed Week when I can. He's been gone over 25 years and I'm an old man myself now but I still have my memories of simpler and in my opinion, better times then these.
Oh well I visited wendover in early 2000's and my experiences were quite different. Casino with $5 blackjack, cheap motels and a small strip club joint :)
I worked @ the Gold Coast for several years & the old America featured in this film is sadly long gone! The culture, the music, the cars & the pace were so much better than the nightmare we're living in today.
I remember driving across the desert in the back seat of my mom and dad's 1957 Pontiac. Hot as hell. No A/C back then. It was a wonderful time to grow up in California.
newstart49---Everything you say is true, but what you left out is things like centuries-old ingrained racism (causing social divides) in-grained sexism (causing gender divides) and over zealous patriotism (causing the Vietnam War) in pre-1965 America fueled the gradual rise of the Left-Wing which gradually over decades broke down the good side of the society that we see here. Hollywood had a lot to do with too, pre and post 1965.
I was born in New Zealand in 1951, and it was post war, still fairly austere but bloomed into the best era/generation of our country with personal freedoms, employment, respect for workers and indeed everybody. It was the very best time to be a child and a teenager and a young adult. Only 40 - 45 years to turn It into such a restricted, separatist, fearful, government controlled country. We just never learn.
Glad these were saved. My family spent the summer of '54 living in the San Joaquin Valley for my dad's work. We did a major cross country auto trip, returning to Alabama. These views bring back many memories.
Back then family vacations were real adventures. That ‘51 Ford Deluxe with a flathead was a pretty reliable car for its time, but imagine breaking down in the desert in the intense heat with no one around and god forbid- no cellphone. We lived back then without a thought or fear. No advance registration at motels, just drove until you got tired and looked for a vacancy sign…if they had a cafe it was a bonus. By the late 50’s the Holiday Inn and Howard Johnson chains added a reliable consistency to sleeping in comfort but it took away the uniqueness of the mom and pop roadside motels. This was real America as I remember it
my uncle was a chp officer in cali in the 50ties--he would come home all the time dirty from working on somebodies broke down car,drive my aunt crazy--cars would over heat,break hoses,would not start was vert common--we had '57 dodge wagon with ac--nobody had ac--people would come over and look at it and go "wow"!!!
America was really impressive back when they taxed their rich. They had the strongest blue collar and entry to middle class the world had ever seen. Those people enjoyed the strongest dollar ever that made everything within reach of the majority of their citizenry. Truly a golden era.
Amazingly good quality. Loved the Ford and seeing other cars. Frightening to compare the water level in Lake Mead today with the level shown in this movie. Thanks for posting
What I would give to start over back then at age 25………no mobile phones no internet. Just plain simple hard honest work which will result in success anyway.
Went through Wendover about 5 yr ago. I get a kick out of seeing how sparse it was in the early 50s. This was a lot of fun to look at, thanks for posting.
In the '70s you could drive I-5 at night through the Central Valley and go dozens of miles without seeing a single light let alone another car. Things have sure changed.
In the late 1980s, my father and my sister (then a teenager) drove through Death Valley together. My dad told me that there were times when he turned the car radio on, and couldn't pick up a single station. He was annoyed with my sister, because she sped past a cop who was lying in wait for speeders. Both my dad and sis are dead now, sadly.
@@gardendormouse6479 I can confirm that there are many locations in California, and particularly Death Valley, where there is no radio signal across large stretches of highway
Thanks for sharing, and not letting this amazing footage get lost or thrown away. I always wonder at what point my home videos will be thrown out. My kids may enjoy them, and maybe my grandkids, but at some point...
@@ChrisSmartFilms I agree and I'm a pianist composer. Just let the footage unspool with no audio whatsoever. It makes it that more haunting. I was 8 years old in 1952 and my parents would drive to Vegas maybe three times a year from Glendale, Ca about a 4 ½ hour drive with one picnic stop along the side of the road.
@@comfeefort Well, there were songs on the radio which I purchased in 45rpm form but the trips to Vegas from Glendale were mostly minus any music. I don't remember my father-the driver- putting on the radio. Even if I had a small transistor radio with me the times along the side of the road half way to Vegas were filled only with conversation. We've abused the magic of music for mundane reasons for maybe seven decades.
I did some film to digital conversions, 16mm, 8mm, and super 8. For the audio, I left the click, click, click of the projector in because that is what you heard in the old days when you were viewing them on the projector screen.
Thanks for sharing. would it be a paradise on Earth, there was in west of America. Impressive footage for sunny and colorful ole automobiles and cool ranch style houses of stunning 50's.
Chris, I’ve got to thank you for the post. My parents lived in Utah at the same time this was filmed. Ironically they drove a 1951 Ford too. They traveled these same roads, on similar journeys. To see what they witnessed is priceless. I have a lot of slides that they took back then and recognize the sights. You have really come across a fabulous series of films. It looks like something they would have done. Once again thank you, I owe you my gratitude.
@@ffarmchicken Yes I drove through my old neighborhood in Anaheim a few years back, the demographic has changed. It's all run down now. Of course, back then, even Disneyland was new. I also lived in Toluca Lake, where a freeway runs where my house once stood. The reason for living in two places is because I changed jobs from Lockheed Butbank to Hughes Aircraft Fullerton.
I grew up in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. Great place to be a kid. A couple of awesome, safe towns back then. My mother was a stay at home mom, you could afford do that in Orange County in the early 60’s. So we got to see everything before it started going down hill.
This is cool. About the same year that my dad and grandparents visited boulder dam and last frontier. I have their still pictures they took. Even found the same location on the dam that was taken of my dad and then took picture of me at same place when I visited a few years ago. Thanks
Sure has changed since I was there in 2004 . Flew from Australia and a mate and I drove about 5000 miles through 18 states. Amazing what the little 8mm Kodak film could capture especially the colours.
Thank you for this wonderful video. As I watched it, how sad it made me to think that organized criminal gangs in some California cities have made it impossible or nearly impossible for small business owners to make a honest living.
Whoever bought this on E bay made a great purchase. Not only is this a great historical record of Las Vegas back in 1952 and in color but to have the original film that is a great find. Also thanks for not adding music I hate when people on RUclips think there Steven Spielberg and add some god awful horrific sounding music.
Thanks! The film is in pretty bad shape and already starting to disintegrate. Im going to try and record at a higher quality before it's too late. And yes I also hate it when people force their taste in music on to others. It's the worst.
At 10.16 we can see the car driving along the Grauman's Chinese Theater in which at 10.26 we can see a poster for the movie The African Queen (Humphrey Boogart and Katherine Hepburn). Accordong to wikipedia, «The African Queen opened on December 26, 1951 at the Fox Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills[». We can see the Fox Theater at around 10.06
I moved to California with my family in 1960. My dad was in the Army and we had been in Germany since 1950. In fact I was born there in 1951. When I heard we were moving to California I couldn't believe it. California was the epicenter of everything and seemed like the promised land. I was not disappointed when we arrived. Although we lived in rural northern California, it was still a great place and time to live there. I went to school and university there and married a local. We raised 2 kids and lived there until last year. Unfortunately California is not what it was. High taxes, extreme homelessness everywhere, illegal immigrants, poor infrastructure maintenance and traffic among other thing caused us to leave the state. It is a beautiful place with mountains, deserts, beaches and much more, but it is difficult for many to live there now. Last year was the first time the population declined in recorded history. Those times are gone-never to return. RIP to the California that was.
Agree 100%. I watch these old videos of California, and it’s pretty sad what the state has become. Something changed in the last 30 years and it continuously get worse every year.
I like the road scenes. They remind me of being a little girl in the 1960's and sitting in the back of Mom & Dad's old blue Pontiac. They liked to take us on a driving vacation every summer, and get some sun. Oh and those nice little motels.
Great video...cannot take away from that. But if this had audio too............this would have been an outstanding video! Not to take away anything from this wonderful film. Back in these days a picture said 1000 words. I love everything , a gem! For sure
I saw Tonopah, NV in there. I lived about 50 miles away in Smoky Valley NV until 2008. I love that part of the country. I bet who ever shot this film had no idea that nearly 70 years later, people from all over the world would be able to watch it. I will say this again….”The beauty of Kodachrome”
7:34 - Flagpole at Orange Grove Blvd & Colorado Blvd in Pasadena 8:11 - Roberts drive-in at Olive Ave & Victory Blvd in Burbank 9:14 - 11725 Sunset Blvd in Brentwood 10:57 - Mulholland Fountain Riverside Dr & Los Feliz Blvd
Nice seeing quality, color 8mm film, street/road footage of "Vegas", Hoover Dam, the L.A. area, California and Utah in the early 50s. Interesting to see the cars, people, businesses and homes back then. If you look quickly, you'll see a vintage (even then), semaphore traffic light displaying "STOP" along Hollywood Blvd. at 10:45. The car the folks were riding in and filming from was a 1951 Ford Victoria hardtop. Thanks for sharing!
My Mom said when we drove out from Nebraska to live in California 1967 there was a small town that looked completely deserted but the lights in the stores were all on like people were there. She said it was near Vegas and it scared the heck out of her and my Grandparents.
Nice seeing old 8 mm film. Reminded me of watching movies my grandfather took when I was a kid. Good job putting this together and thanks for not adding any music or narrative. It was great seeing the America I remember.
LOVED seeing Red Rock Canyon , Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills , Mt. Whitney , Hwy. 6 outside of Bishop and all the Welcome to California Signs , one of them at Topaz Lake I believe .
That 50s architecture of Vegas was the pinnacle. Vegas died when they changed gambling into gaming and put up those hotel monstrosities on the strip. They will never see one dollar of mine.
Me Logan, UT, first night in Vegas, NV. Second night across Harbor Blvd. from Disneyland in Anaheim, CA in summer of 1958. A few days later eventually arrived in LA.
These were the best days in america. Life was simple. You could work most anywhere and make a living. Homeless people didn't exist. Streets were clean. Most people were nice and respectful. Far cry from the america today. Now everything is trashed and half the country is on welfare. Government is a joke and the country's that liked us now hate us. America is no more. Just ruins of a once proud country.
All the Hispanics I know had a perpetually drunk dad and were always poor broke. There was a lot of domestic abuse and drunk violence as well. I would NEVER go to that era. The life stories of those growing up then was a hell, not a utopia. It was common for both parents to beat their kids for no reason at all. And by beat, I mean beat, as in bar-fight style beatings. Then families kept TONS of secrets, no one sought help, and families were cheated out of their money in heritage claims. - 1980s born Hispanic.
Fabulous to look at. That culture is passed, a good people and solid folk have gone. I was born in 1958 and was blessed to know these sorts of people from that generation. Now we have a different culture, a disgrace. I hear it spilling like sewage from cars passing my home. I opted out from it long ago. It was an amazing country. I thank God I got to know some of those people.
So cool..we have taken two trips to Cali this year and on both trips while visiting Death Valley I am almost 100% positive that we stayed at that same little motel in Lone Pine...it is the Portal Motel. I have no idea what it was named then. It has been really well updated.
@@ChrisSmartFilms there are two or three old 40s-50s era style hwy motels in Lone Pine and all of them are restored-refurbished...we love staying in those on our trips.
At 10:56 that's the Mulholland fountain in Griffith Park (LA). It was used in the final scene of one of the Nightmare on Elm Street joints. I think it was either 3 or 4, but I can't remember exactly..
This was my first ( second hand ) car, a Ford Customeline from 1950/51 in Holland ( the Netherlands )a very solid car and was provided with a bumper crick !
It would be great if one of these old videos contained conversations about whatever people talked about at that time. It would also be great if the people filmed here somehow found this online and commented about it.
6:36 I think that may be Cajon Village, rather than Cajun Village. Cajon Summit is on I-15/US 66 just north of San Bernardino. 11:00 Based on the travel plan, that's probably the South Sierra Nevada out of Bishop and Lone Pine, from US 395. Mt. Whitney should be in there somewhere. 13:12 Tonopah wasn't quite there yet, but the Air Force was coming. 15:57 You're right. The El Rancho in Murray, Utah, just south of SLC. Well to do suburb now, that wreck is probably long gone. That family sure took a traveling vacation. Thanks for posting this.
Look at the low water level in Lake Mead at 2:43, 2:53 & 3:07. The water level in Lake Mead was at a near record high level in 1952, then it dropped precipitously in 1953 and 1954, hitting a record low level in 1955 that wasn't matched until 2007. Looking at the cars in this old film, I don't see one that looks as new as 1955, so my guess is this film was shot in 1953, or 1954 at the latest.
Insane to see these people walking around in Vegas. How surreal that they would appear again on a computor screen 69 years later when they have long gone. Vegas and Utah etc was well into being poisoned, by this time with the first atomic test on Jan 27 1951, all for nothing.
Two things: 1. At 7:00 mins and beyond, they are driving Old Route 66 though the Inland Empire and into Los Angeles. 2. At 9:40 mins, there is a very quick shot of P.O.P. (Pacific Ocean Pier) on the edge of Santa Monica and Venice.
If the film is in chronological order, then the red sandstone bluff at 11:01 is probably Red Rock Canyon State Park near Ridgecrest, California. this is on Highway 14 which connects to 395 and Lone Pine.
Cars back then has no lumbar support or headrests. I grew up in the 80s and 90s...we had our home videos of crappy VHS. Film and 4k are much better alternatives now.
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Fremont St, Las Vegas scenes: 0:24 the cowboy sign 'Vegas Vic' was only about a year old. 0:36 49'er Club lasted only a few months. Looks like the driver was just going back and forth around a three block area. 0:49 they're on 2nd St, and 1:30 they're on 1st. 1:37 Boulder City
Thanks for the details!
@@ChrisSmartFilms That CA footage is amazing. They're driving in along the foothills through La Verne. 7:45 Brown Derby sign, maybe the one they now have at the Museum of Neon Art.
Thanks for all these details. I'm glad you're enjoying this film as much I am. I have 2 other films from the same family but this one is the best out of the 3
Drive straight up Fremont Street without turning and you end up in Boulder City.
Home movies were a popular hobby back in the day. Bet there Is a lot of old films like this just stashed away awaiting discovery. Hope to see many more.
I miss this America. The last 70 years haven’t been all that good.
I agree, people seemed more neighborly and friendly back in those days. Just about all videos from those days everyone waved to the camera, now adays they run up and scream at you to turn it off.
What a beautiful country out Fathers built for us. Its as gone now as they are. I enjoyed the Boulder City views.
I lived in Wendover in 1952, I remember well the Stateline and the owners, Jim and Anna Smith, we lived just to the west of the Stateline...my Dad had a 1949 Mercury and in 1954 bought a four door Ford. He used to take me out every year to the Salt Flats to see the racers and their cars, a highlight to a kid that loved cars and I still go to Speed Week when I can. He's been gone over 25 years and I'm an old man myself now but I still have my memories of simpler and in my opinion, better times then these.
Oh well I visited wendover in early 2000's and my experiences were quite different. Casino with $5 blackjack, cheap motels and a small strip club joint :)
Just think, Hank Williams was alive and on the radio. Elvis was still in high school.
Everything in these old films always looks so quaint.
I worked @ the Gold Coast for several years & the old America featured in this film is sadly long gone! The culture, the music, the cars & the pace were so much better than the nightmare we're living in today.
I remember driving across the desert in the back seat of my mom and dad's 1957 Pontiac. Hot as hell. No A/C back then.
It was a wonderful time to grow up in California.
I miss America - and I live here. When people were smart, hard working, clean, respectful and proud to be an American.
Leftist sub culture has destroyed that.
And we weren't shooting each other in schools and stores and parking lots.
@@jameswilson313 Far-right gun nuts have destroyed that. Can you imagine teachers carrying guns in the 1950s.
Beautiful...
newstart49---Everything you say is true, but what you left out is things like centuries-old ingrained racism (causing social divides) in-grained sexism (causing gender divides) and over zealous patriotism (causing the Vietnam War) in pre-1965 America fueled the gradual rise of the Left-Wing which gradually over decades broke down the good side of the society that we see here. Hollywood had a lot to do with too, pre and post 1965.
If I could go back to this period in the USA, I would certainly do so. Great movie, thanks for posting it!
Thanks for watching!
I was born in New Zealand in 1951, and it was post war, still fairly austere but bloomed into the best era/generation of our country with personal freedoms, employment, respect for workers and indeed everybody. It was the very best time to be a child and a teenager and a young adult. Only 40 - 45 years to turn It into such a restricted, separatist, fearful, government controlled country. We just never learn.
you did!
I also arrived in Los Angeles in 1952. That is when I was born.
Now, I'm in Lost Wages.
Dan Born in '52 in Detroit Moved to Van Nuys in '55 then to Vegas in '61 /// 60 yrs in Lost Wages; Lost a little - Took plenty !
Look how hazy and smoggy Los Angeles was back then. The skies are a whole lot bluer now. At tease one thing got better over time.
Glad these were saved. My family spent the summer of '54 living in the San Joaquin Valley for my dad's work. We did a major cross country auto trip, returning to Alabama. These views bring back many memories.
Back then family vacations were real adventures. That ‘51 Ford Deluxe with a flathead was a pretty reliable car for its time, but imagine breaking down in the desert in the intense heat with no one around and god forbid- no cellphone. We lived back then without a thought or fear. No advance registration at motels, just drove until you got tired and looked for a vacancy sign…if they had a cafe it was a bonus. By the late 50’s the Holiday Inn and Howard Johnson chains added a reliable consistency to sleeping in comfort but it took away the uniqueness of the mom and pop roadside motels. This was real America as I remember it
my uncle was a chp officer in cali in the 50ties--he would come home all the time dirty from working on somebodies broke down car,drive my aunt crazy--cars would over heat,break hoses,would not start was vert common--we had '57 dodge wagon with ac--nobody had ac--people would come over and look at it and go "wow"!!!
Capo Dewey......small world , was gonna send you tapes and shirts . But your afraid to send me email
I was 4 months old when this film was shot... damn time zooms by so fast.
Great footage. Thank you for posting.
My pleasure
America was really impressive back when they taxed their rich. They had the strongest blue collar and entry to middle class the world had ever seen. Those people enjoyed the strongest dollar ever that made everything within reach of the majority of their citizenry. Truly a golden era.
Amazingly good quality. Loved the Ford and seeing other cars. Frightening to compare the water level in Lake Mead today with the level shown in this movie. Thanks for posting
I noticed that as well , it was full ,
love all the old cars
Yes, everyone drove a classic. 😉
What I would give to start over back then at age 25………no mobile phones no internet. Just plain simple hard honest work which will result in success anyway.
Absolutely, unlike this crap nowadays.
Yup
Went through Wendover about 5 yr ago. I get a kick out of seeing how sparse it was in the early 50s. This was a lot of fun to look at, thanks for posting.
Back in the 50s, some places in the West, your car would be the only car on the highway.
In the '70s you could drive I-5 at night through the Central Valley and go dozens of miles without seeing a single light let alone another car. Things have sure changed.
In the late 1980s, my father and my sister (then a teenager) drove through Death Valley together. My dad told me that there were times when he turned the car radio on, and couldn't pick up a single station. He was annoyed with my sister, because she sped past a cop who was lying in wait for speeders. Both my dad and sis are dead now, sadly.
@@gardendormouse6479 I can confirm that there are many locations in California, and particularly Death Valley, where there is no radio signal across large stretches of highway
That’s still the good-mail in Australia
That was before M-TV and cell phones and computers ruined everything.
Born and raised in las vegas . Wish it still looked like that . Awesome video
Great video ,América was the envy of the world ,so sad where you guys are today .
Thanks for sharing, and not letting this amazing footage get lost or thrown away. I always wonder at what point my home videos will be thrown out. My kids may enjoy them, and maybe my grandkids, but at some point...
I've started making my own 8mm films in the hopes that one day, when I am long gone, someone will discover them.
@@ChrisSmartFilms Thanks to RUclips, your movies may last forever.
YOU see to it they get on the net
great film. Always so cool to see these great places long ago in full color.
Couldn't agree more!
I'm so happy that no soundtrack was dubbed to this video Thank you...
You are very welcome. I feel the same way. These were meant to be viewed in silence.
@@ChrisSmartFilms I agree and I'm a pianist composer. Just let the footage unspool with no audio whatsoever. It makes it that more haunting. I was 8 years old in 1952 and my parents would drive to Vegas maybe three times a year from Glendale, Ca about a 4 ½ hour drive with one picnic stop along the side of the road.
Please share, what songs are playing in Your Own head, if any....😆
@@comfeefort Well, there were songs on the radio which I purchased in 45rpm form but the trips to Vegas from Glendale were mostly minus any music. I don't remember my father-the driver- putting on the radio. Even if I had a small transistor
radio with me the times along the side of the road half way to Vegas were filled only with conversation. We've abused the magic of music for mundane reasons for maybe seven decades.
I did some film to digital conversions, 16mm, 8mm, and super 8. For the audio, I left the click, click, click of the projector in because that is what you heard in the old days when you were viewing them on the projector screen.
Thanks for sharing. would it be a paradise on Earth, there was in west of America. Impressive footage for sunny and colorful ole automobiles and cool ranch style houses of stunning 50's.
Chris, I’ve got to thank you for the post. My parents lived in Utah at the same time this was filmed. Ironically they drove a 1951 Ford too. They traveled these same roads, on similar journeys. To see what they witnessed is priceless. I have a lot of slides that they took back then and recognize the sights. You have really come across a fabulous series of films. It looks like something they would have done. Once again thank you, I owe you my gratitude.
Thank you for your comment! I'm so happy you enjoy the films
Beautiful transfers of this footage. Color corrected and as clear and clean as possible.
Thanks! I did no color correction. This is a straight up conversion. Kodachrome is beautiful
This is my era, 1953-1956 in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. No better place on earth for me, back then. It's not the same today.
Ha, LosAngeles has REALLY changed from the 50’s. You don’t dare go some places in the shithole now.
@@ffarmchicken Yes I drove through my old neighborhood in Anaheim a few years back, the demographic has changed. It's all run down now. Of course, back then, even Disneyland was new. I also lived in Toluca Lake, where a freeway runs where my house once stood. The reason for living in two places is because I changed jobs from Lockheed Butbank to Hughes Aircraft Fullerton.
I grew up in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. Great place to be a kid. A couple of awesome, safe towns back then. My mother was a stay at home mom, you could afford do that in Orange County in the early 60’s. So we got to see everything before it started going down hill.
@@ffarmchicken You lived in the rich area.
@@howellwong11 Hollywood is a (rich area) too. Look at it now.
This is cool. About the same year that my dad and grandparents visited boulder dam and last frontier. I have their still pictures they took. Even found the same location on the dam that was taken of my dad and then took picture of me at same place when I visited a few years ago. Thanks
What a great find. Surprisingly good quality for 1952.
Sure has changed since I was there in 2004 . Flew from Australia and a mate and I drove about 5000 miles through 18 states. Amazing what the little 8mm Kodak film could capture especially the colours.
Wow. 5000 miles???? Sounds fun. Can you do that in Australia?
Thank you for this wonderful video. As I watched it, how sad it made me to think that organized criminal gangs in some California cities have made it impossible or nearly impossible for small business owners to make a honest living.
Whoever bought this on E bay made a great purchase. Not only is this a great historical record of Las Vegas back in 1952 and in color but to have the original film that is a great find. Also thanks for not adding music I hate when people on RUclips think there Steven Spielberg and add some god awful horrific sounding music.
Thanks! The film is in pretty bad shape and already starting to disintegrate. Im going to try and record at a higher quality before it's too late. And yes I also hate it when people force their taste in music on to others. It's the worst.
The people over there, in their ignorance, think that they’re Steven Spielberg.
At 10.16 we can see the car driving along the Grauman's Chinese Theater in which at 10.26 we can see a poster for the movie The African Queen (Humphrey Boogart and Katherine Hepburn). Accordong to wikipedia, «The African Queen opened on December 26, 1951 at the Fox Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills[». We can see the Fox Theater at around 10.06
I moved to California with my family in 1960. My dad was in the Army and we had been in Germany since 1950. In fact I was born there in 1951. When I heard we were moving to California I couldn't believe it. California was the epicenter of everything and seemed like the promised land. I was not disappointed when we arrived. Although we lived in rural northern California, it was still a great place and time to live there. I went to school and university there and married a local. We raised 2 kids and lived there until last year. Unfortunately California is not what it was. High taxes, extreme homelessness everywhere, illegal immigrants, poor infrastructure maintenance and traffic among other thing caused us to leave the state. It is a beautiful place with mountains, deserts, beaches and much more, but it is difficult for many to live there now. Last year was the first time the population declined in recorded history. Those times are gone-never to return. RIP to the California that was.
CA was run by Republicans in the past. That's why it was golden. The Treasury even had a surplus of money. Now its all DEBT.
Agree 100%. I watch these old videos of California, and it’s pretty sad what the state has become. Something changed in the last 30 years and it continuously get worse every year.
Yes, you lived in California during the best of times.
So you’re an old hick who’s upset that a state progressed and didn’t stay perfect for an inbred like you? Got it.
@@messyfilms6325 ...''progress'' is another word for communism.
I like the road scenes. They remind me of being a little girl in the 1960's and sitting in the back of Mom & Dad's old blue Pontiac. They liked to take us on a driving vacation every summer, and get some sun. Oh and those nice little motels.
Great video...cannot take away from that. But if this had audio too............this would have been an outstanding video! Not to take away anything from this wonderful film. Back in these days a picture said 1000 words. I love everything , a gem! For sure
I saw Tonopah, NV in there. I lived about 50 miles away in Smoky Valley NV until 2008. I love that part of the country. I bet who ever shot this film had no idea that nearly 70 years later, people from all over the world would be able to watch it. I will say this again….”The beauty of Kodachrome”
At 12:17 they are at the sign at the following google map
37.9020057,-118.4343439
The absolute beauty of Kodachrome!
7:34 - Flagpole at Orange Grove Blvd & Colorado Blvd in Pasadena
8:11 - Roberts drive-in at Olive Ave & Victory Blvd in Burbank
9:14 - 11725 Sunset Blvd in Brentwood
10:57 - Mulholland Fountain Riverside Dr & Los Feliz Blvd
Thank you for the extra details!
the cars of that time were really beautiful
Nice seeing quality, color 8mm film, street/road footage of "Vegas", Hoover Dam, the L.A. area, California and Utah in the early 50s. Interesting to see the cars, people, businesses and homes back then. If you look quickly, you'll see a vintage (even then), semaphore traffic light displaying "STOP" along Hollywood Blvd. at 10:45. The car the folks were riding in and filming from was a 1951 Ford Victoria hardtop. Thanks for sharing!
This is the type of footage I love finding. Wish I could find some footage of a classic diner
@@ChrisSmartFilms Yeah, footage of a diner from this time would be nice.
My Mom said when we drove out from Nebraska to live in California 1967 there was a small town that looked completely deserted but the lights in the stores were all on like people were there. She said it was near Vegas and it scared the heck out of her and my Grandparents.
Nice seeing old 8 mm film. Reminded me of watching movies my grandfather took when I was a kid.
Good job putting this together and thanks for not adding any music or narrative. It was great seeing the America I remember.
From a guy that grew up in that area, and that era, I say Bravo! Very well done. Also in the video is Mt. Whitney, and Tonopah, NV.
Nothing beats the Lone Pine area, right?
I would rather see home movies than anything else......thank you for upload
LOVED seeing Red Rock Canyon , Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills , Mt. Whitney , Hwy. 6 outside of Bishop and all the Welcome to California Signs , one of them at Topaz Lake I believe .
Good steady camera work.Today's 'vlogers' could learn something here.
Amazing picture quality! Feels like actually being there!
I'm loving their '51 Ford Victoria. I hope it had Overdrive, going 90 miles an hour across the desert.
Such a cool car
That 50s architecture of Vegas was the pinnacle. Vegas died when they changed gambling into gaming and put up those hotel monstrosities on the strip. They will never see one dollar of mine.
Me neither, I have a Grandmother and a Great-Grandmother buried there, not the town I remember.
Wasn't Vegas a one-stoplight town not too long before this was filmed? Yes, it's definitely different from the giga-hotels we see today!
@@DeflatingAtheism yes, to be fair if you last visited from the pre-war era you wouldn't have recognized the town by the 50s.
Nobody cares if you go to Vegas or not. You’re that desperate for attention where you have to announce it on social media?
Me Logan, UT, first night in Vegas, NV. Second night across Harbor Blvd. from Disneyland in Anaheim, CA in summer of 1958. A few days later eventually arrived in LA.
These were the best days in america. Life was simple. You could work most anywhere and make a living. Homeless people didn't exist. Streets were clean. Most people were nice and respectful. Far cry from the america today. Now everything is trashed and half the country is on welfare. Government is a joke and the country's that liked us now hate us. America is no more. Just ruins of a once proud country.
It all ended when JFK was shot.....the difference between 63 and 68 was enormous .
All the Hispanics I know had a perpetually drunk dad and were always poor broke. There was a lot of domestic abuse and drunk violence as well.
I would NEVER go to that era. The life stories of those growing up then was a hell, not a utopia. It was common for both parents to beat their kids for no reason at all. And by beat, I mean beat, as in bar-fight style beatings. Then families kept TONS of secrets, no one sought help, and families were cheated out of their money in heritage claims.
- 1980s born Hispanic.
Fabulous to look at. That culture is passed, a good people and solid folk have gone. I was born in 1958 and was blessed to know these sorts of people from that generation. Now we have a different culture, a disgrace. I hear it spilling like sewage from cars passing my home. I opted out from it long ago. It was an amazing country. I thank God I got to know some of those people.
can you imagine the changes coming in the next 70 years 2092
Great video and in color. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
So cool..we have taken two trips to Cali this year and on both trips while visiting Death Valley I am almost 100% positive that we stayed at that same little motel in Lone Pine...it is the Portal Motel. I have no idea what it was named then. It has been really well updated.
Thats amazing that the motel still exists!
@@ChrisSmartFilms there are two or three old 40s-50s era style hwy motels in Lone Pine and all of them are restored-refurbished...we love staying in those on our trips.
Just subscribed, hopefully more to come, great work Chris.
Awesome, thank you!
At 10:56 that's the Mulholland fountain in Griffith Park (LA). It was used in the final scene of one of the Nightmare on Elm Street joints. I think it was either 3 or 4, but I can't remember exactly..
Wow...I had a back flash( Better than a flashback) ...I was 7 when this was filmed. Thanks for time travel to the 50"s.
This was my first ( second hand ) car, a Ford Customeline from 1950/51 in Holland ( the Netherlands )a very solid car and was provided with a bumper crick !
Would like to see more home movie road trips.
Nice to see the California that no longer exists. Great to see Tiny Naylor's on Sunset Blvd. I was still going there in the early 70s.
Sadly, it was demolished in 1984.
Thanks! This is very awesome stuff!
It would be great if one of these old videos contained conversations about whatever people talked about at that time. It would also be great if the people filmed here somehow found this online and commented about it.
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6:36 I think that may be Cajon Village, rather than Cajun Village. Cajon Summit is on I-15/US 66 just north of San Bernardino.
11:00 Based on the travel plan, that's probably the South Sierra Nevada out of Bishop and Lone Pine, from US 395. Mt. Whitney should be in there somewhere.
13:12 Tonopah wasn't quite there yet, but the Air Force was coming.
15:57 You're right. The El Rancho in Murray, Utah, just south of SLC. Well to do suburb now, that wreck is probably long gone.
That family sure took a traveling vacation. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for all the details!!
Came here to say that the 11:00 mark looks like Bishop. Definitely looks like they're in one of the motels off the main drag.
I Thought Bishop too. They filmed 'Bad Day ay BlackRock,' not to far from there!
1:44 Boulder City, It looks the same......They always wanted to keep it that way, far away from the RiffRaff.....that image is very familiar
great of you too share these
Glad you like them!
I really enjoyed this! Such good stuff in 17 minutes.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is great! love the timecodes you provided!!! we subbed you !
Thank you very much!
Great vid , thanks for sharing them. Very cool 😎
For an European like myself, this is the only one american dream in the most glamourous decade ever !!! GO AHEAD USA !!!
Raridade. Acho que alguém no passado pensou no futuro um dia,e disse: olha como éramos e veja como somos hoje. Espetacular viagem! Grande postagem.
Thank you for sharing it.
So cool, thanks for uploading this
Im happy you enjoyed it!
Show. Very beauthiful. I like Shoebox and Studebaker. From Garibaldi RS Brazil.
Ahhhhh, the good ole days that I truly long for 😟
I was only born in 1975 but I can see that the 50's were a truly remarkable time to be alive.
Yes sir nice time !
from 1952-72 cars fashions and music really changed, a lot, but the last 20 years not much change at all
Look at the low water level in Lake Mead at 2:43, 2:53 & 3:07. The water level in Lake Mead was at a near record high level in 1952, then it dropped precipitously in 1953 and 1954, hitting a record low level in 1955 that wasn't matched until 2007. Looking at the cars in this old film, I don't see one that looks as new as 1955, so my guess is this film was shot in 1953, or 1954 at the latest.
At 4:56. there is a 1950 Cadilac Series 62 parked in the foreground and what appears to be a 1950 Packard convertable in the background.
Insane to see these people walking around in Vegas. How surreal that they would appear again on a computor screen 69 years later when they have long gone. Vegas and Utah etc was well into being poisoned, by this time with the first atomic test on Jan 27 1951, all for nothing.
Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to 1952 and make another go at the future ,
Two things: 1. At 7:00 mins and beyond, they are driving Old Route 66 though the Inland Empire and into Los Angeles. 2. At 9:40 mins, there is a very quick shot of P.O.P. (Pacific Ocean Pier) on the edge of Santa Monica and Venice.
Thank you for the extra details!
The Lake Mead water line was low that year too. GoreBull Worming!!!! We’re all going to die!!!!
We have overpopulated this beautiful area. So sad.
Once upon a time when hoover dam wasn’t under it’s history’s worst drought conditions in over 65 years
Wow, Nevada had it all back then. Imagine having a place to, well, you know...12:14
When I glanced at the picture of the video, I thought it was from "Rainman".
There's a machine called a Wolverine that digitizes 8mm and Super 8, then they can be saved, Then send a copy to your kids and siblings..
If the film is in chronological order, then the red sandstone bluff at 11:01 is probably Red Rock Canyon State Park near Ridgecrest, California. this is on Highway 14 which connects to 395 and Lone Pine.
Thank you very much for the details!
Qué maravilla. Ojalá estar allí.
I didn't see any guys handing out po rno cards on the sidewalks of Vegas. And no "Address-Free" individuals.
Cars back then has no lumbar support or headrests. I grew up in the 80s and 90s...we had our home videos of crappy VHS. Film and 4k are much better alternatives now.
Oh Great another one of Dad"s old home movies we have to sit through!
When I was a kid, my family moved to California...
...but I found them.
He had that old Ford just humming coming across the dessert and salt flat