A Drive Through California 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/added sound
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2021
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of California 1940s, Trip to Los Angeles and down Bunker Hill , we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight,
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: A/V Geeks on archive.org
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/pet1169r2la
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/pet1169r1...
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The white lines in the road were only a suggestion
😂😂
Thats funni but maybe true
they still are in California
@@GiveItUpDot ,🤣🤣🤣
@MarkNoah - It’s hilarious how the cars and pedestrians make up their own lanes as they go… first the cars are two-wide, then three; then FOUR WIDE! 😅😂🤣
I love how lane markings meant absolutely nothing to those people, including the cops.
The first shots looked like they were taken on a Navy base or something during shift change. You can see the guard shacks and barbed wire at points. Even today they'll sometimes have both lanes going in one direction during certain mass ingress and egress times.
Cars where still kind of new and people didnt drive as good. Nowdays even people without a driving license know basic driving rules (so they dont get hit by a car for example) Back then they where like "DUUH WHAT SHOULD I DO OH WALK ON THE ROAD I GUESS"
Even today nothing has changed.
So true! And the cop standing in the middle directing traffic!! Jeez, we sure have come a long way babe!
That is because these videos are fake.
The classic cars and clothing of this era are some of the best.
^^
i think the 50s & 60s had better design tbh
These cars were polluting the environment and they could not pass California’s emissions test . Gas guzzlers at about 8 miles a gallon on leaded gas along with asbestos brake pads.
@@holdenmcgroin9774 you're right but damn they looked good though.
@@holdenmcgroin9774 Nobody gives a fuck
6:02 Pause it here exactly - given the direction of the sun, this is definitely looking due west. Look in the background on the high point of the hill and you can see what appears to be some type of radio antenna. If the left of the hill is the southern tip of the San Pedro peninsula, it might be San Pedro Hill Radio station, which is still in operation today.
Makes sense.......Capt. Mike....SAT
Long Beach ship yards. Thats Pedro in the background.
@@BobABooey. my thoughts also
I agree
I have observed all of the different time periods of the twentieth century , and I find that I like the 1940s a lot. The Fifties are cool too, but for some reason I find the Forties to be quite regal in an overall sense. Very cool video of the time.
But the 30's were a great time too. The art, architecture, the music was incredible. But WWI was hell, so many damaged men and women came home from that. I need a time machine, we are facing so much power in our country to kill Democracy, so many people who are so disenfranchised and kept poor by those who hide behind our flag. America can disappear in a few hours, the insurrection came so close to destroying all we love about the USA. Outside powers and down trodden Americans who can't get ahead, want to take the easy way out and let all of us be controlled by a fascist outside power, to let go and let someone dictate how each of us live. Us "Boomers" are tired, because we know the history of the USA, and its all about war, and the rich dictating how we live. This has to end. We need to take care of ourselves, and everyone from the poorest person, and make the rich pay to live and do business here. Our Senate is full of people who joined in to kill Democracy, they think they are TV stars, egos out of control, abusing their power for money and sex and 5 minutes on national TV. Eventually the Dark ones will turn to war again, convince us we need to destroy foreign people we don't know that get villainized on TV and kids drafted again to go kill them without knowing a thing about them. The CYCLE MUST STOP.
Minus the Holocaust and segregation etc..., but I otherwise agree
@@SDPickups what the fuck? First of all, it was men who came back scarred by WW1, women had nothing to do with it. It was young men, patriots who died for their country. And the “insurrection” was not an insurrection at all: the people weren’t armed, they weren’t dangerous, and the only people who actually died were “insurrectionists.” Joe Biden has crashed the economy, politicized the army, used BLM and ANTIFA, two domestic terrorist organizations, as a strong arm to bully Americans into submission to his Socialist regime. Democracy has already died in America, and ironically, it’s thanks to the Democrats.
@@billysinge8977 You won the Spot On award! Cheers!
we can see a lot of future buildings
Beautiful! And the lack of screaming visual advertisements is stunning. Perhaps we should ban advertisements and restrict them to only storefronts, newspapers, magazines, and screens.
And “screens” so basically they’ll still be everywhere…
Get up
Lady bird Johnson did a lot to control the use of billboards in the 60 s and 70 s with her beautification program while lbj was in office as us president.
I absolutely love these! I am putting this one up on my flat screen TV as we speak to really soak it in. Another job well done and can't wait for the next video. Greetings from New York City and keep up the Great work!
thank you so much 🙏
Привет из России
The vivid, high-def clarity of this video is almost creepy - like someone went back in time with a modern video camera and shot these scenes. Most excellent work, A/V Geeks!! Thank-you for sharing it.
This clip is wonderful to see on a 65” tv!
The cars are so close to eachother but still wont bump into eachother.
Thanks NASS! 😁👍
Thx!!
Yep and with the terrible brakes (by comparison) of the time.
02:16 A billboard advertisement for RCA televisions. I wouldn't have expected that.
I looked up 1946 RC TVs and found these exact models.
Particularly if this was movie stock footage, considering how much the Hollywood Studios loved Television.
@@roydidlock1867 I don't think Hollywood felt threatened by TV in 1946. Read Gilbert Seldes' "The Great Audience" (1950.) That's when they started to lose it. He says it was their own fault. They made movies that insulted the intelligent.
Model A's still rocking it! Cool motorcycle cops and almost every vehicle in that age was a coupe. Amazing!
So SOOOO good! The ambient sound and the fluid and seamless visuals give it immediacy and make it so easy to imagine stepping through one's screen and into that world.
^^
Back in the day, when a car was built like a tank (3 tonnes of steel and 200 KG of glass) and most importantly all products were made in the United States of America.
Probably 7 miles a gallon with leaded gas. Asbestos was everywhere including brake pads.
@@holdenmcgroin9774 who cares? it's better than the soulless crap nowadays and all the people born and raised in this time that I've met have turned out to be good people.
Another stunning piece of work NASS!
Thx bro🙏
5:45 clearly says California Shipbuilding Corporation on the building which is the Terminal Island, Long Beach area. The very beginning might be might be Long Beach with the hills of San Pedro in the background, but after that there are too many hills to be Long Beach near the coast. It might be San Pedro to the west of Terminal Island area.
The area with the hills (starting at 2:13) must be near downtown L.A.. Because at 2:20 you can see the big JESUS SAVES sign in the background. I don't remember exactly where that is, but when I worked at 7th & Figueroa (1969-1973) it was within a few blocks of my office.
yeah, I think it's the aircraft assembly plant
Beautifully remastered film - most of the cars look as if they have just been washed - all is so crystal clear. Thanks for your work, most enjoyable.
Thx ;)
Well Celeste, there is the odd jalopy from Oklahoma in there.
A nation at war with two fronts in land, sea,and air at still growing.
What a great country America is.
I was born in the late 50s, this reminds me of what I remember from the 50s.
@NASS You are an extremely talented individual. I hope you are able to make a living doing this because this is a true skill. Thanks for sharing!
The cars, the architecture, even the people, everything seems to have just a little more class then today.
Than
@@ceesklumper see someone with " class" would of not said anything about the minor error in grammar,,,,,so he proved his point.
A lot more class at that time
@@ceesklumper Full-stop.
Funny to think but I get there were people of that era who felt same way about the Civil War era and how kids in 80 years who might look back on the 2020s as a simpler and classier time
Absolutely incredible to watch!!!! Thank you
back when California was a nice place to live
It looks so polluted and empty
Back when LA had racial covenants/redlining and essentially legalized housing segregation. "Nice" is relative.
@@alcien5258; yes, but the sidewalks weren't full of "home-less" tents. The old cars were driving or parked, they weren't up on blocks on someone's front lawn.
@@Exxtol1; That was California, not South Carolina. Housing in LA was no more segregated in 1946 than it is in 2021. Don't believe the crap social science professors have been spewing for years. In 1954 the school I attended had 50% Black students, 25% Hispanic students, and 25% White students, (and no one was being bused across town). How was that possible if there was "essentially legalized housing segregation"? The house three doors west was occupied by an Hispanic family, but you had to walk a whole 2 blocks south to visit the Black family. Race was never a consideration with us back then, but apparently it is with you now. Sorry, but I have no patience with people who talk smack about a time that was 50 years before they were even born. I lived in California back then, and I know better.
@@oldgysgt that’s only true because my dad migrated from Mexico at 16 in 1952 but he was a white Mexican who already learned English in Mexico his family had money so he fitted nicely in the USA he never told anyone he was Mexican nobody suspected it and he hung out with other Hispanics who eventually admitted they weren’t white when they would get drunk and they never told anyone if they did they wouldn’t have had the same opportunities
The traffic police take their lives in there own hands.
The RCA television billboard seen at about 2:17 and a 1947-49 Studebaker at 2:59 parked along the road help determine about when some of this footage was shot. Love the Associated "Flying A" and Richfield gas stations seen here along with the old LA area semaphore "STOP-GO" traffic signals that were replace with newer traffic lights by 1956.
Hi, you can help me find the year of this footage, i think it's san francisco?
archive.org/details/pet1186r5sf
@@NASS_0 The city footage was filmed proceeding south (I believe) on Market St. in San Francisco (you can see the San Francisco Ferry Building way in the distance with its famous tower almost centered with Market St.). The year seems to be 1943 judging from two theater marquees on the left with movies released in that year. Those movies are "Cry Havoc" and "The Song of Bernadette." Other things that indicate this was at least filmed during WWII are the presence of many U.S. Navy sailors walking on the sidewalks, the Red Cross and U.S. flags suspended above the street (commonly seen in cities probably to help encourage much needed blood donations during the war) and you'll see on the right side of Market St. a USO sign in front of a storefront. Hope this helps you with the year and location. Could find no postwar cars at all in these shots. Can't help you with the beach scene!
@@WAL_DC-6B thank you so much my friend you are awesome! 🙏
Wal did you fly the six?.......My dads favorite AC......hated the connie......Capt. Mike.....SAT
@@dawnboyd1753 No, I never flew the "six" nor did I ever fly as a passenger on one back in the day. It is my second favorite aircraft after the Lockheed Constellation. I can understand how the Douglas DC-6 was your dad's favorite aircraft as the DC-6B is considered to have been the best piston engine airliner ever built in terms of profitability. Where the "Connie" exceeded most of its contemporaries in terms of looks, the DC-6B was a just a very good, straightforward airliner powered by four highly reliable Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines.
This is beautiful! I've always been intrigued with how life was back then. The people, the cars, the fashion sense...thanks for sharing!
Thanks for posting, another great video. Enjoying watching them.
These appear to be background plates used as rear screen projection for shooting a motion picture driving scene. Fantastic!
Love these videos, thank you for sharing these..
Thx!!
Classy cars , loved the style in this period , the colors were incredible ....beautiful video , Thank you very much🇨🇦
Nice channel, thank you. It would be very interesting to see images from 70s.
That entire video is driving past the California Shipbuilding Corporation. Insanely massive facility. Tens of thousands of worked a shift all at the same time. They had over 100 cranes. We will never see anything on that scale again. Not with nukes. Truly would have been insane to witness at home or at war. The scale of everything is hard to wrap your mind around.
I wonder if the person that recorded this video was plotting something maybe a spy perhaps ooh haha
@@lifeindetale
No. Just recording a video of a drive.
FDR had the power to reinvent America. No real opposition like we have NOW.
@@SDPickups
I think FDR held America back economically but he was still a good president compared to the modern troupe of presidents.
Where we are now is sort of like the 1970s were it was the era of one term presidents and a divided congress.
@@bighands69 Shocking, how foolish and emptyheaded your ilk is, incapable of understanding even rudimentary economics, and believing every lie fed you. Absolutely shocking.
2:34 Richfield gas station, its a historical landmark now in California
Thank for great job.
Love from Brazil.
..Great stuff. Thanks for posting. I could watch for hours.
Nice work as always. Really interesting footage...
Thx!
Amazing video!
What about splitting video window showing then and now of the same areas to give us a view of the changes through the pass of time?
I love these old footage. They certainly bring the past back to life.
I like how they just drift all over the road. With shoving and jostling for position. It’s like Pamplona with cars
What beautiful cars, I would like to go back to that time for a while to be able to drive them
Yet I wonder how many of them were melted down & crushed for the war effort? Sad.
This is why you need to respect photographers and videographers, they are true historians
That RCA Television billboard tells me its likely no earlier than 1946.
So agree
J’adore regarder vos vidéos, j'ai une fascination pour cette période de l'histoire des États-Unis, des codes vestimentaires, de l’architecture et les voitures...magique !
I am now nearly 70 and so I grew up in the 1950s. However it was in Auckland ,New Zealand ..which in some ways was like an American city but with an English culture. The houses were more like that of the States with a lot of colonial styles and the California bungalow from the 1910s -20s and the Hollywood style deco house emerged in the 30s as well as apartments. Watching these I get a real sense of going back in time when we were driving into the city in the family car .. although the freeways were not in existence back then. It really evokes the sense of the "being there once more". Great work!
So realistic.. one of your best THANK YOU
thank you so much
Fascinating , just fascinating!
🙏
Great video as always NAAS 🤩
thank you so much bro!
Chaos! This is worth watching just for the cars, trucks and Harleys alone. Excellent video!
No butt-ugly SUVs, MiniVans, Crossovers or steriod-laden trucks! Totally...A W E S O M E!
all rear wheel driven, manual trans too!
@@ncvwrx2759 Yes!!!
Wouldn’t it be nice to step back into the pass to revisit this time period.?
Yes it would
Im black, so no.
@@thatxonexguy5438 why my friend
Leftist propaganda! It was clearly better back then. The racism you fear is predominantly in the democrat party. Sadly, racism exists. What we all need is to obey God and stop sinning, then we will finally have true peace.
@@thatxonexguy5438 so, now then ?
That was so awesome, and so beautiful, thanks
Quel beau travail de restauration. Vous m’avez scotché ! 👍
Merci beaucoup 👍
Great Job really a clean clear video bravo ! Love how they use to drive we would call that crazy driving today lol...
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That driving is unreal, so close to each other, not much rhyme or reason.
These are "background plates" made for rear projection in making movies. The close traffic may have been deliberate I don't think this is the way people drove normally. . I am glad some of these have survived because they are a good record of what the city, or at least parts of it, looked like long ago.
@@richardknoppow3319 I was guessing it too, it really looks like background screens for in-studio driving scenes in old movies.
Looks to me like the first 2 minutes were in the San Pedro area, with the cranes and all the workers. Baldwin Hills in the background, possibly. Next 2 mins probably Bunker Hill area. Then starting 4:12 with the giant industrial bldg back to San Pedro or Long Beach. The whole corridor from downtown to San Pedro, now thought of as Harbor Fwy corridor, was massively industrialized during the war. Fantastic footage, as always!
At 5:42, we pass the California Shipbuilding Corp. on Terminal Island, which built Liberty ships. It looks like early 1945 -- the workload is winding down. Thanks for posting this video!
Thx ;)
Hi bro, you can help me find the year of this footage, i think it's san francisco?
archive.org/details/pet1186r5sf
@@NASS_0 I'm almost sure it's the summer of 1944. At around 0:45, we see that the Esquire, at 936 Market, is showing newsreels of Kwajalein, Tarawa, and Anzio, which took place in late 43 and early 44. And the camera is traveling southwest on Market, away from the Embarcadero. Again, thanks so much for posting these wonderful films!!
This looks like Long Beach during WWII.
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@@NASS_0 I love your videos and this time in history though it is a little before my time. I look at the signs and see if I can find any info on the companies or the apt complexes. All of these cars look prewar. Love your channel and your restoration.
Wow, this film is so crystal clear it looks as if it could've been taken yesterday instead of all those years ago. I put the year at about 1947 or '48. Keep up the good work and I can hardly wait to see more.
@@tonyw973 I didn't see any post WWII cars? I guess I could have missed one.
That entire video is driving past the California Shipbuilding Corporation. Insanely massive facility. Tens of thousands of worked a shift all at the same time. They had over 100 cranes. We will never see anything on that scale again. Not with nukes. Truly would have been insane to witness at home or at war. The scale of everything is hard to wrap your mind around.
I was born in the 90s but I miss this era 😞 Thanks for the lovely footage 😊
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@Ayaz Jamali she's a girl and a science believing atheist so please tell this time travel is real thing to someone else
1890s?
Incredible .... what a time travel trip. So well done to step into a real time machine. thank you
Absolutely Amazing 👌
I have one of those sturdy vehicles tucked away in my garage. Amazing to comprehend how many there once were and how few remain. Without a doubt, I was born in the wrong era. Fabulous re-masters. Appreciate your hard work.
It appears there has been no shortage of traffic in LA for many many years.
WOW this is a GEM :) I've always loved the 40's cars. In early 60's rummaging in our attic, I found my late uncle's toys and trains. Among them were beautiful ceramic miniatures of 40's cars. I also found photos of him showing off his first car...... make and actual year unknown, but I always associated him with cars like these.
He always had one foot left in the era. For most of his years he was a jazz drummer, and pretty much the house drummer aboard the Queen Mary docked in Long Beach, where "big band" was the prevalent style.
While in college in Long Beach in mid-70's I worked at a gas station; in those days it was strictly full-serve. There was a set list of mandatory services while pumping gas....... wash both windshields, check oil, check radiator water, top off air in tires. I was AMAZED at the number of vintage (late 40's ---> 50's) cars in absolutely great condition. In cars like these if you need to work under the hood you could practically sit inside the engine compartment :) And inside the cabin it seemed you could fit 8 passengers....... not much unlike the low-riders in their 50's Chevys :) No doubt what city this is....... the orange smog a giveaway.
Check out the road hog at 0:46 right of center screen....... amazing there wasn't arms flailing and horns honking. You were probably considered a "square" if you complied with roadway lines. You even ALMOST TOUCH a line these days you get a field sobriety test and if you come up clean they still have "negligent" and "reckless" driving for an ace up the sleeve.
thanks for this, NASS.
Looks like WWII, shipyard workers leaving. California Shipbuilding Corporation you can see in the background ran from May, 1941 to September 1945. It build Liberty and Victory ships. Notice all the steel plate and shipyard type cranes.
Wish I knew exactly what streets they were driving down. Steady camera work!
Back then you could drive on both sides of the road?
By the way, absolutely beautiful restoration, the added sound is fantastic!
thank you so much 🙏
This was a shift change lane reversal. Day shift departing all lanes go in one direction for a brief period of time. Reverse had just happened an hour before.
This was common in the boomtown situation around shipyards and factories that exploded in 1939-42 and often remained until the late 40s.
It was a way to deal with the sudden heavy traffic.
These are so fun to watch! I am addicted to them.
A great video. Thank you!
My dad lived in California at this time, he was probably 10 when this was filmed. They lived in LA. Did you guys notice the smog or pollution in the air? Those old cars produced a lot of smog. Great video, it’s like being in a time machine!
Smog from cars is nonsense. Natural haze and natural dust is what people can see. Fumes from cars stay at a low level they do not rise to the upper atmosphere.
@@bighands69 ok
Great video. I am wondering though if the US had road rules back then. Between the lack of staying in the lanes, cutting corners and looking like a slow race it looked a bit of a worry.
Sir: love your videos...the color is ok but could darken more sometimes but I'm sure you're doing the best you can to achieve results. hard to believe how long ago these pics are. most of the people in these videos are gone now. the quality really brings the times back in those days. thank you keep em coming. I love the media.
Que grande desenvolvimento ! Parabéns ao dono do vídeo.
Should be titled, "Driving around the Long Beach ship yards in the 40's."
was that LBC? I thought it might have been San Diego. most of these socal vids have been LA area though so your probably right.
Wow beautiful
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Thanks to new technology, but also many intensive hours if devoted work makes us enjoying such a valuable documentation of the living over the hundred years ago. Thank you so much for sharing your work with us. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
That was a wild ride. Thanks.
Thought we were going to see some classic road rage on the right @ 00:50 🤣🤣 Man I LOVE those old cars! So cool!
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The air looks absolutely terrible, this must be why the EPA happened.
Leaded fuel back then too.
Was wonderful thanks. Life during the war effort. I did see parts of downtown L.A. driving around the old Bunker Hill and also the Long Beach shipyards.
At 2:18, a billboard advertising RCA Victor television for sale at the Broadway is visible in the upper left. The Broadway store was on Wilshire Blvd. in the late 1940's. Does anyone know when TV sets first came on the market in Los Angeles?
First minute feels like the start of banger's demolition derby... So close these cars.
No wonder everyone flocked to California back then. There were jobs.
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Not now
There were hundreds of thousands of jobs up in LA until the late 80's.
@Scott Manerez and republicans are going to solve the problems? No politician can solve the homeless problem in California.
@Scott Manerez don’t reply anymore
all those cars of the 30s & 40s were like Sherrman tanks, the carriage was wide, and always a front grill, or something reminiscent of an old horse and buggy carriage - a box with wheels, like a Model T, however car design changed and in this video you can see the stream line type of bullet car, usually 4 door but looked like a design typical of the art deco or air stream age --the look of the future! The Ford Mercury comes to mind as well, or the early STudebakers with the round bullet on the front grill.
Very cool video!
I believe this to be sometime during the War. Maybe 1942- 1943. I see the gas ration A decal on the car windshields. The footage does look like it is Long Beach, Terminal Island San Pedro maybe. I think I saw a tiny bit of Santa Monica. Not sure on that one. Some serious tail gating going on, cars all over the road, and I thought LA driving was horrible in this day and age. Thanks NASS for another great video.
Hi bro, you can help me find the year of this footage, i think it's san francisco?
archive.org/details/pet1186r5sf
thank you so much for your comment! 🥰 🙏
@@NASS_0 I think your right San Fran. Looks like it might be Market St. I'd say its during the War probably between 1942 and 1945. The beach scene that followed I have no idea where there is.
@@NASS_0 Yes I would say that is Market St in San Francisco during the War. Sometime between 1942 and 1945. The beach scene that followed that video, I have no idea where that is
@@bluesky4385 thank you so much my friend you are awesome! 🙏
Amazing cars. Looks like the smog was starting already...
I was just about to comment on the smog, it looks terrible. I remember some smog alerts I experienced in the 70s growing up in LA. Thankfully, it has gotten better over the years.
I can remember when smog was considered an honor of great progress and advancement!
This was a period in which America manufactured the vast majority of consumer goods, when middle class jobs were plentiful and working class people took pride in their contributions. One can't help but notice how clean and orderly things were - no garbage, no graffiti. There was far less bureaucracy compared to today and honesty and integrity were valued. This was America's golden era, to last only a few more decades and now a distant but wonderful memory. What a shame. Now the 'working class' is disparaged, education has been watered down to indoctrination, manufacturing is sourced out to Asia, income disparity only increases and social unrest prevails. At 77, I am blessed to have grown up in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's.
Geez, look at how clean the streets were, I grew up in the Pico-Robertson area '50's and 60's, delivered the Herald-Examiner for two years, summer of '66-'67. Fun times, used to ride our stingray bikes and skateboards all over, it seemed fairly safe too. My brother, and a few of our friends.
I cannot love this shit enough. thanks
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2:16 RCA Victor Television billboard dates this to the late 40s.
Thx!!
I saw the site where I believe they came to that same conclusion, but I think they're wrong. To me it looks like the license plates are colorized wrong in this video. They should be yellow on black. It also looks like they got the 1942 validation tab on the top. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_California. Plus the numbering and lettering sequence seems to be 41-44. 47-50 were yellow with black letters and and the sequencing is different.
Most of the cars have the A ration stickers on the windshields. They show not to have been issued on the west coast until December of 42 and the rationing ended in 45. I can see a few of the older cars still having the ration stickers, but not so many of them. Tell me what you think after checking that wikipedia page on the plates. I may be wrong.
@@markd5625
I think this video has two separate clips in it. The rear facing shipbuilding scenes are war time, whilst the rear diagonal scenes are circa 1948.
@@geoffreykeane4072 Two separate clips would make sense. Los Angeles, as other cities, didn't have anything but experimental TV during the war. There were only a few thousand TVs in existence nationwide. Regular broadcasts and TV sales happened after the war.
@@geoffreykeane4072 Ahhh, could be.
What incredible film quality!
Great!
Thank you.
"Boy, the way Glen Miller played...🎺🎙🎵"
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I could hear Edith the second I read your comment!
@@mlynn2161 "Those were the days...🎶🎵😅
@@campbellpaul Yes!!!! I love listening to old tv themes and this has always been one of my favorites! Those indeed were the days!! 😊
Some of those cars would probably be worth money today.
I'm known for my flair-for-the-obvious.
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are you kidding. alot of money
Wonder how many were crushed and melted down for the War effort?
Wow! A longer lens for more foreshortening effect, or was there really such crazy bunching of cars, dangerously close to each other? Noticeable in this clip not in ones I've enjoyed so far...
Clock out time at a factory. They did reverse lanes, everybody leaving work had one way out. They used to do reverse lanes on Sepulveda Blvd and Highland ave in LA
F***in' 'ell , this looks like some magic dreamland place i'd like to drift off into and never f***in' wake up from.
i.e a world of no mobile phone attachments , no Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , and especially no f***in' stupid-ass TikTok.
. . . and no radio playing seemingly endless repeats of the same Justin Bieber , Ed Sheeran , Taylor Swift , Little Mix songs.
Crazy stuff
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I finally figured it out. California Shipbuilding Corporation was located on Terminal Island (next to Long Beach. California) The company existed from 1941 to 1945 and built liberty ships for the war effort in World War II. Look at 5:44
You captured our midcentury smog so perfectly!