This clip was taken after late December 1952 and before September 1954, and most likely in 1953. The Red Car was still running on Hollywood Blvd., but the San Fernando Valley line on Highland Ave. was already abandoned. Tracks were still in place, but the wires were gone.
I know we're looking back through nostalgic eyes, but LA looked so sun washed and romantic in those days. The cars are so much more interesting and beautiful than today's SUVs. I wonder if 70 years from now people will look back with the same fondness for our times. Something tells me no.
It looks like everyone was driving in a relaxed, cool manner. People worked together and helped the traffic flow. A few moves I noticed would bring on the road rage these days.
Great video, I love the musical sound track, the tune is an old jazz standard called "Old Folks", written in 1938 by Willard Robison and Dedette Lee Hill. One of the most notable things I noticed is the almost complete lack of foreign cars. I saw only one, a Jaguar, probably an XK 120 model. It appears at the front of a row of cars parked on the right hand side of the street at 1:14, just before the mail truck pulls out from the side street and turns left in front of us. It would have been quite an uncommon sight even in Hollywood in 1954. Today if you were to drive that same stretch of road probably more than half of the cars would be foreign cars (including foreign makers even if they have manufacturing facilities in the US)
This is where My Grandparents lived & My dad grew up... They lived on N Bronson Ave just below Melrose across from Paramount Pictures & RKO which later became Desilu Gower Studios 'Was My All time Favorite neighborhood 'So Rich in Cinema, Television & Recording Studios history & The homes were built in Early 20s 'Wallach's Music City' use to be on Sunset & Vine & Sy Devore's was next door where My Grandfather bought All his clothes for decades- My dad went to the same Middle School as Carol Burnett, 'Joseph Le Conte' on North Bronson Ave 'Still there today...
To solve the mystery of when it was shot. The give a way is the quick appearance of a 1954 Plymouth. This was the newest car I could make out, so it is fall of 53 or early to mid 1954.
I was born in 55 so right before that. I wish someone would drive the same route and split screen it with this so we could see all the changes. That would be great to see. Some were commenting about the attractive women crossing the street, I was amused as to why the delivery truck stopped. All of the people and their lives in this video in all likelihood are now deceased. A slice of time and history. Love watching videos like this.
0:01 Hollywood Boulevard going East (Arriving from Laurel Canyon) 1:16 Soon to be UPS truck!😲 1:26 Soon to be Marylin Moonro 🤓(Neeeeeh) 1:49 Roosevelt Hotel, Far on the right, (the largest building) 2:10 Crossing with N. La Brea Ave 2:25 Hollywood First National Bank /Stella Adler Academy of Acting (Tall white building on the far left side) 2:35 Grauman's Chinese Theater (Ahead on the left) 3:54 into N. Highland Ave 4:00 Hollywood United Methodist Church
Seeing the flower girls at 03:40 is something you would never see in a Hollywood "recreation" of the period. That's the sort of telling detail only an actual visual record like this can preserve. Love the authenticity of this video.
What a beautiful world that was, to think this was real time, is a complete blow away. The Yellow Cab Man(1950) in L.A. Red Skelton. Take us back, Oh Lord.
wow thanks Tony. I grew up here also, in L.A. County, Norwalk. I recall the '70s and '80s the most when I was younger. I wish we had a little bit of this time back in this country. xx
i see these streets going by and think that they could have been so familiar to movie people we know from the past, humphrey bogart lauren bacall and many others.
Ooooh what beautiful and so special I think in the 40th the most beautiful place my California this video is long before I was born I'm from 1974 but I love this so much please more of this gr Jeffrey 🍀🌞☕😘🌴.
Around 1:46 .. I think that's Hollywood approaching La Brea.. probably around Hollywood & Formosa. Not too long ago, a lot of those same apartment buildings were still up & operating. Haven't been by there for a while.
The movie playing at the Chinese Theater in this video was "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef" This was showing there from December 11, 1953 - February 4, 1954. "The Robe" had just finished it's engagement there
Good eye. I don't see any Christmas decorations along the street so I'd guess it was closer to the end of that time frame (late Jan. - early Feb. '54) after the decorations had been taken down.
Back in 1954 cars didn't have any emission controls on them. There was no pcv (positive crankcase ventilation) unleaded gasoline, NOx emissions controls etc. I don't even think the EPA was in existence until 1976 and this was shot WAAYYY before that. These days California has their own environmental protection called CARB. (California Air Resources Board) That is why when you buy a new car in California it has to be certified for California emissions. I can tell you I can't stand behind my 1965 Ford while it is running even today with unleaded gasoline. It absolutely suffocates you. So, I highly doubt the air was cleaner.
jhanlon1903 also cars aren't bumper to bumper ahhhh this is around the time the automotive industry bought out the rail network and got rid of most of them dooming us Los Angeleian for generation to come 😭😭
Did he just make a left on Cahuenga at the end of the video? Awesome footage, worked as a courier for NBC for 5 years, so I got attached to Hollywood... This was sooo interesting and fun to watch!
But funny how it stopped at the traffic light where the blonde crossed, and even hesitated to take off once it went green.. Sight seeing much there?...lol Interesting footage nonetheless, thanks!
If the camera would have kept rolling on Highland, you would have come to the entrance of the Hollywood Bowl in about a half mile on the left. Info for people not familiar with Hollywood.
Us too. We're Boomers who grew up in the enchanting hills of Hollywoodland's Beachwood Canyon. We knew and loved every inch of Hollywood Blvd. from early childhood. Those golden years in gorgeous Los Angeles were magic.
@3:40 you can see my Nana trying to cross the street. She bought a bouquet of flowers from the shop across the street. While waiting to cross someone driving by grabbed the flowers and took off. She tried running after the car but her high heels got caught in the tracks, she fell down and broke a tooth. She got up and continued to chase the driver and caught him at the next red light. She punched him in his good eye (he had a patch on this other eye) and he started crying. She called him a big baby, took his keys and threw them in a garbage can. She went home to her apartment, made fried chicken and dumplings and bread pudding for desert. We had a nice dinner despite the turmoil earlier in the day. True story.
Spotted a Studebaker Lowey Coup, so this can't be earlier than when that model was introduced. The 1953 model year, but I don't know when they actually first hit the street.
***** I can't really tell what year this was shot, but I think it was a little later than some think. The sports car at 1:13 looks a lot like a '55 1,500cc MGA, or at least something of that vintage.
It looks to me like a 1954 or earlier Jaguar XK 120 two seat Roadster, it has fender skirts on the back wheels, also the back Bumper is not all the way across like an MG has, It just has the upright Guards below the Tail lights,Very Expensive Car back then and now is thousands more at todays auctionsJust think ?, back then the Cars all had their own style with lots of chrome on,and was easy to Identify, not like today, they all look the same no Distinction,The problem then was many cars had No A/C, No Seatbelts, No Disc Brakes,No Air Bags, and was on Bias Ply Tires, now they are safer to drive and ride in,I like to see the Old Classic Videos and enjoy watching the videos. I have one.
@@brianlawton6153 XK120s were sought-after in the early '50s: Gable and Tyrone Power had them, and I think it's an XK that Ralph Meeker's Mike Hammer drives in the 1955 "Kiss Me Deadly" (which also has some Bunker Hill location footage).
When I watch videos like this one, I always think about the cars, the clothes, all the things in the houses...from furnitures to books. Where are they now...how most of it disappeared?
RalphCastro, it was my take that Mamie does believe the young woman is herself, but she simply does not remember that moment in time. She does recognize the clothes & confirms that she lived in this neighborhood.
Andy Ross cahunga pass over muholland to burbank; I went to Collin McQuine over from the church sold papers on the corner of hollywood and vine corner with Broadway, this really was a different time in the US.
+Animated Film Reviews They definitely aren't "girls"; they appear to be much older than that. Also, my mother-in-law told me about how she would wait for streetcars in LA in the 40s and 50s inside those painted islands (and pray that she wouldn't be clobbered by an inattentive driver). Streetcar tracks were laid in the center lanes, and people would have to wait for them in the middle of the street. If you look closely on the north side of Hollywood Blvd. (in front of Grauman's Chinese at Orange Drive (around 3:02), you can see a westbound bus discharging a passenger at one of these islands, so I guess this practice wasn't limited to streetcars. It makes you wonder what the pedestrian vs. auto death rate was back in those days. Ugh. Regardless, this is a great clip of the area. I grew up in Hollywood in the 1960s and it's always fascinating to see how the area had changed, even by that time.
I grew up in that era around Riverside . We had streetcar “lanes” too. On the side of the “waiting box” painted on the pavement where the cars would be were a type of raised button- like feature painted in a reflective white. They resembled oversized marshmallows. It kept cars from swerving in and accidentally striking someone. I do recall the streetcar tracks and that rumble the heavy streetcars made.
This is such a great video. My friend lived at Peyton Hall and I was so sad when they demolished it in 1980. I recognize many of these buildings that are still standing. Any chance you have more Peyton Hall?
Ha ha, that "hot blond" as you say,@1:25, would now be about a hundred and sixteen... To feel weird to be attracted to somebody, from nearly 80 years ago? So is he that beauty is timeless, and also how fleeting and truly unimportant it is....
you know what of been cool, if there was a split screen . one playing the past and the other the present, but at the same time. starting from the same point. and maybe you can get a blonde female to cross the street as well in unison with the blonde from yester year. do u guys kniw what im talking about?
Starting at frame 112 on LEFT is my old apt house, PEYTON HALL at the corner HOLLYWOOD Bl and FULLER. A beautiful garden apt complex w/a 4 lane swimming pool ...while I was there, McClean Stevenson (MASH) Robin Williams, DAVE FLEISHER (Popeye cartoons) HERMAN HOVER (owner of CIRO'S Rest), Timothy Patrick Murphy (DALLAS) Richard Guthrie ( Days of our Lives) and Peter Chaconas (The LATE MR PETE Show on KTLA 5) lived there...you can see some MR PETE shows on RUclips
...which explains why we now have red light cameras... check out those ladies waiting in the middle of the street for the trolleys at 3:40-56; not sure that would be a good idea today...
Evidence in this clip leads me to believe it was made in late January or early February of '54. All of those dowdy, boxy, upright cars were about to become very dated looking as auto styling was on the verge of a revolution in a very short period of time. The introduction of the 1955 "Forward Look" Chryslers ("Suddenly it's 1960!") was just a few months away when this film was made. By the 1957 model year cars would be longer, lower, wider, with much swoopier jet-inspired styling and soaring tailfins that peaked (literally) in 1959, and bright, two, three, and four-tone pastel paint schemes. Anything from 1954 would look very dated by comparison even though it was only a few model years old. The Corvette had just been introduced in '53 and would take a big step forward in late '54 for the '55 model year as Ford debuted the Thunderbird.
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This clip was taken after late December 1952 and before September 1954, and most likely in 1953. The Red Car was still running on Hollywood Blvd., but the San Fernando Valley line on Highland Ave. was already abandoned. Tracks were still in place, but the wires were gone.
That never gets old, Alison! So fun! I now watch it on a 50" TV and get goosebumps. Yes... I'm a nerd for our home.... and time travel.
I remember those old buses along Hollywood Blvd and La Brea Ave. Today it's the 212 bus to Inglewood.
I know we're looking back through nostalgic eyes, but LA looked so sun washed and romantic in those days. The cars are so much more interesting and beautiful than today's SUVs. I wonder if 70 years from now people will look back with the same fondness for our times. Something tells me no.
U probably right sadly
They will if say everything gets much worse
It looks like everyone was driving in a relaxed, cool manner. People worked together and helped the traffic flow. A few moves I noticed would bring on the road rage these days.
Great video, I love the musical sound track, the tune is an old jazz standard called "Old Folks", written in 1938 by Willard Robison and Dedette Lee Hill. One of the most notable things I noticed is the almost complete lack of foreign cars. I saw only one, a Jaguar, probably an XK 120 model. It appears at the front of a row of cars parked on the right hand side of the street at 1:14, just before the mail truck pulls out from the side street and turns left in front of us. It would have been quite an uncommon sight even in Hollywood in 1954. Today if you were to drive that same stretch of road probably more than half of the cars would be foreign cars (including foreign makers even if they have manufacturing facilities in the US)
This is where My Grandparents lived & My dad grew up... They lived on N Bronson Ave just below Melrose across from Paramount Pictures & RKO which later became Desilu Gower Studios 'Was My All time Favorite neighborhood 'So Rich in Cinema, Television & Recording Studios history & The homes were built in Early 20s 'Wallach's Music City' use to be on Sunset & Vine & Sy Devore's was next door where My Grandfather bought All his clothes for decades- My dad went to the same Middle School as Carol Burnett, 'Joseph Le Conte' on North Bronson Ave 'Still there today...
To solve the mystery of when it was shot. The give a way is the quick appearance of a 1954 Plymouth. This was the newest car I could make out, so it is fall of 53 or early to mid 1954.
Agreed!
You are absolutly right.
I was born in 55 so right before that. I wish someone would drive the same route and split screen it with this so we could see all the changes. That would be great to see. Some were commenting about the attractive women crossing the street, I was amused as to why the delivery truck stopped. All of the people and their lives in this video in all likelihood are now deceased. A slice of time and history. Love watching videos like this.
Except for the cars, and street car rails, still looks pretty much the same today. Grauman's Chinese theater on the left at 2:33.
Love seeing those streetcar tracks on the road. How I wish they and the Red Cars were still there!
0:01 Hollywood Boulevard going East (Arriving from Laurel Canyon)
1:16 Soon to be UPS truck!😲
1:26 Soon to be Marylin Moonro 🤓(Neeeeeh)
1:49 Roosevelt Hotel, Far on the right, (the largest building)
2:10 Crossing with N. La Brea Ave
2:25 Hollywood First National Bank /Stella Adler Academy of Acting (Tall white building on the far left side)
2:35 Grauman's Chinese Theater (Ahead on the left)
3:54 into N. Highland Ave
4:00 Hollywood United Methodist Church
Seeing the flower girls at 03:40 is something you would never see in a Hollywood "recreation" of the period. That's the sort of telling detail only an actual visual record like this can preserve. Love the authenticity of this video.
What a beautiful world that was, to think this was real time, is a complete blow away.
The Yellow Cab Man(1950) in L.A.
Red Skelton.
Take us back, Oh Lord.
Life seemed to move at a much gentler pace in those days, and was all the better for it.
Now days we drive like there is no tomorrow
Great video...makes me sad. Thanks for using Max.
Before I was born....Love them old cars though...
that trumpet; wow! totally adds thx!
wow thanks Tony. I grew up here also, in L.A. County, Norwalk. I recall the '70s and '80s the most when I was younger. I wish we had a little bit of this time back in this country. xx
That Church behind Hollywood Chinese theater on Highland street is still there. wow!
The 50s, early 60's were probably the best time for Hollywood, and LA, because it went through so much growth, and was booming.
Just that technology back then sucked - otherwise society looked so happy
I was a teenager in the 60s and L A was the best
i see these streets going by and think that they could have been so familiar to movie people we know from the past, humphrey bogart lauren bacall and many others.
It still looked familiar when I was going to high school nearby in the early 1970's.
Ooooh what beautiful and so special I think in the 40th the most beautiful place my California this video is long before I was born I'm from 1974 but I love this so much please more of this gr Jeffrey 🍀🌞☕😘🌴.
Around 1:46 .. I think that's Hollywood approaching La Brea.. probably around Hollywood & Formosa. Not too long ago, a lot of those same apartment buildings were still up & operating. Haven't been by there for a while.
Came for the video, kept playing for the music :)
The movie playing at the Chinese Theater in this video was "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef" This was showing there from December 11, 1953 - February 4, 1954. "The Robe" had just finished it's engagement there
Good eye. I don't see any Christmas decorations along the street so I'd guess it was closer to the end of that time frame (late Jan. - early Feb. '54) after the decorations had been taken down.
Gotta LOVE it! At 0:40, the camera truck/car goes around a stopped car and runs a red light. ;-)
Reading through the comments, I see I'm not the only one to see the violations.
Think the traffic offences are time-expired by now ....
They still drive like that in LA
They stopped when it was necessary.. 1:25
WOW so clean and little traffic. Looks like hell now, with all the homeless, poop in the streets and trash all over.
Remember Back to the Future? In 1955 the town was pristine and clean, in 1985 it was a dump.
Era of great jazz music and great musicians.
Only in Hollywood would you see what you see at 1:26. Perfect.
Probably Jayne Mansfield before she became famous.
Wasnt MM she was a star by 1954
Familiar turf!! Neat to see it so long ago. Thanks for posting!
SO good! Is there a HD version coming?
Thanks so much for this, I love it so much.
Everything is so clean! Including the air!
LOL, the air in LA was always the dirtiest air in the USA. You know... leaded gasoline? Smog of 1943? Smog of crappily ever after?
I doubt it was cleaner. Not sure how you surmised it was from a black and white 8mm film either.
@@sredson a fucking lot more cleaner than the year 2020.
@@baccaratfitness2360 @Ed Nicolai a fucking lot more cleaner than the year 2020.
Back in 1954 cars didn't have any emission controls on them. There was no pcv (positive crankcase ventilation) unleaded gasoline, NOx emissions controls etc. I don't even think the EPA was in existence until 1976 and this was shot WAAYYY before that. These days California has their own environmental protection called CARB. (California Air Resources Board) That is why when you buy a new car in California it has to be certified for California emissions. I can tell you I can't stand behind my 1965 Ford while it is running even today with unleaded gasoline. It absolutely suffocates you. So, I highly doubt the air was cleaner.
Based on the latest model cars - best guess 1953 / 1954.
the sun shined a little brighter back then
jhanlon1903 also cars aren't bumper to bumper ahhhh this is around the time the automotive industry bought out the rail network and got rid of most of them dooming us Los Angeleian for generation to come 😭😭
Everything was black and white
jk
A LOT BRIGHTER
Heh. This film footage was shot in color. It only looks black and white because of the smog.
LA was such a beautiful place to live then.
Did he just make a left on Cahuenga at the end of the video? Awesome footage, worked as a courier for NBC for 5 years, so I got attached to Hollywood... This was sooo interesting and fun to watch!
No.. He was driving north on Highland, about one block north of Hollywood Blvd.
I could listen to this music all day.
Love the video, but whoever was driving the car CLEARLY ran two red lights!!
ha
But funny how it stopped at the traffic light where the blonde crossed, and even hesitated to take off once it went green.. Sight seeing much there?...lol
Interesting footage nonetheless, thanks!
@@johnny_6T8 They seem to do that in all the videos in the 1950s, in no hurry at green. Oncoming car did the same.
Ran a red light at :42???
But stopped at the intersection @1:18 and even hesitated to take off once it went green.. guessing there was some sight seeing going on there...lol ;)
If the camera would have kept rolling on Highland, you would have come to the entrance of the Hollywood Bowl in about a half mile on the left. Info for people not familiar with Hollywood.
I wish I could jump into the screen and disappear back into this era
Us too. We're Boomers who grew up in the enchanting hills of Hollywoodland's Beachwood Canyon. We knew and loved every inch of Hollywood Blvd. from early childhood. Those golden years in gorgeous Los Angeles were magic.
@3:40 you can see my Nana trying to cross the street. She bought a bouquet of flowers from the shop across the street. While waiting to cross someone driving by grabbed the flowers and took off. She tried running after the car but her high heels got caught in the tracks, she fell down and broke a tooth. She got up and continued to chase the driver and caught him at the next red light. She punched him in his good eye (he had a patch on this other eye) and he started crying. She called him a big baby, took his keys and threw them in a garbage can. She went home to her apartment, made fried chicken and dumplings and bread pudding for desert. We had a nice dinner despite the turmoil earlier in the day. True story.
Spotted a Studebaker Lowey Coup, so this can't be earlier than when that model was introduced. The 1953 model year, but I don't know when they actually first hit the street.
1:13 / 1:14 what low (sports?) car is that on the right?
***** I can't really tell what year this was shot, but I think it was a little later than some think. The sports car at 1:13 looks a lot like a '55 1,500cc MGA, or at least something of that vintage.
+Lt Col Speirs www.classiccar4you.com/gallery/cars-of-the-stars/petula-clark-mga_001.jpg
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It looks to me like a 1954 or earlier Jaguar XK 120 two seat Roadster, it has fender skirts on the back wheels, also the back Bumper is not all the way across like an MG has, It just has the upright Guards below the Tail lights,Very Expensive Car back then and now is thousands more at todays auctionsJust think ?, back then the Cars all had their own style with lots of chrome on,and was easy to Identify, not like today, they all look the same no Distinction,The problem then was many cars had No A/C, No Seatbelts, No Disc Brakes,No Air Bags, and was on Bias Ply Tires, now they are safer to drive and ride in,I like to see the Old Classic Videos and enjoy watching the videos. I have one.
@@brianlawton6153 XK120s were sought-after in the early '50s: Gable and Tyrone Power had them, and I think it's an XK that Ralph Meeker's Mike Hammer drives in the 1955 "Kiss Me Deadly" (which also has some Bunker Hill location footage).
Guessing it's 1954 because that was the newest car year seen.
the love for years 1950s
Beautiful lady crossing @1:27.she looked like about early mid-twenties or so, my mom's age then, year I was Born, in October
Nope. She was waiting for the Southbound Streetcar. It surprises me how much I still remember from my childhood.
thank for sharing --canada
When I watch videos like this one, I always think about the cars, the clothes, all the things in the houses...from furnitures to books. Where are they now...how most of it disappeared?
RalphCastro, it was my take that Mamie does believe the young woman is herself, but she simply does not remember that moment in time. She does recognize the clothes & confirms that
she lived in this neighborhood.
Eastbound on Hollywood. Runs red light at :42 Turns northbound on N. Highland, towards Methodist Church.
Andy Ross cahunga pass over muholland to burbank; I went to Collin McQuine over from the church sold papers on the corner of hollywood and vine corner with Broadway, this really was a different time in the US.
I love how people stood in the middle of the street in the painted "islands" (3:44, 3:55)to wait for the street car.
+Animated Film Reviews
They definitely aren't "girls"; they appear to be much older than that. Also, my mother-in-law told me about how she would wait for streetcars in LA in the 40s and 50s inside those painted islands (and pray that she wouldn't be clobbered by an inattentive driver). Streetcar tracks were laid in the center lanes, and people would have to wait for them in the middle of the street. If you look closely on the north side of Hollywood Blvd. (in front of Grauman's Chinese at Orange Drive (around 3:02), you can see a westbound bus discharging a passenger at one of these islands, so I guess this practice wasn't limited to streetcars. It makes you wonder what the pedestrian vs. auto death rate was back in those days. Ugh.
Regardless, this is a great clip of the area. I grew up in Hollywood in the 1960s and it's always fascinating to see how the area had changed, even by that time.
Clearly flower girls. Notice there is one in each direction of travel. They were all over the country during the '50s and '60s.
I grew up in that era around Riverside . We had streetcar “lanes” too. On the side of the “waiting box” painted on the pavement where the cars would be were a type of raised button- like feature painted in a reflective white. They resembled oversized marshmallows. It kept cars from swerving in and accidentally striking someone. I do recall the streetcar tracks and that rumble the heavy streetcars made.
I stood in those islands in downtown LA waiting for the Yellow Car when I was a little kid.
@0:12 is a 1949-1950 Ford
It must be before the summer of 1956. The Hollywood Hotel is still there and it was demolished in August 1956.
Alison "big giant clown glasses" Martino
I think Beneath the 12 Mile Reef is at the Chinese, which would make this December of 1953.
The roads are in excellent shape too...
That curve at 2:15 - Wow!!! Wonder how many collisions occurred there??? P.S. Can't believe how many low-lifes can't appreciate great Jazz...
Great video. No pimp mobiles, and no low riders.Take me back now.
Low riders were & are ridiculous.
“An idle mind is the devil’s playground.”
Those existed in the 70s and 80s. Gone by the 90s
Wow a gas station on the left in front of the church on Highland and Fountain Avenues at the end has been there forever I see.
You can see the old street cars in this video, that's pretty cool. These days the red line subway runs under Hollywood.
Pacific Electric aka Red Cars, running on standard gauge track. The Yellow Cars were narrow gauge.
ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡso cool ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ
Thanks for posting, this is aa very good historical video.
This is such a great video. My friend lived at Peyton Hall and I was so sad when they demolished it in 1980. I recognize many of these buildings that are still standing. Any chance you have more Peyton Hall?
At 1:26 , Is that Mamie Van Doren crossing the street ?
Nice "BOD" at 1:26 !!!
Did you see the Hot Blonde crossing the street?
YUP!
I see that
Ha ha, that "hot blond" as you say,@1:25, would now be about a hundred and sixteen... To feel weird to be attracted to somebody, from nearly 80 years ago?
So is he that beauty is timeless, and also how fleeting and truly unimportant it is....
Somewhere in the Eighty-Four thousand views (84,000), someone teared up.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. :)
you know what of been cool, if there was a split screen . one playing the past and the other the present, but at the same time. starting from the same point. and maybe you can get a blonde female to cross the street as well in unison with the blonde from yester year. do u guys kniw what im talking about?
lucien augustin There are other videos that do that, without the blonde, though.
@@653j521 using this vid? please share a link. I've seen others but not with this reel.
Stanley Avenue Still Looks Impressive - Gone Sadly Those Mansionettes - Love This Jazz Track .
Came back for the Music,
Roach is CHOICE!!!
Nice looking girl walks by she must be a free spirited gal that wears pants in public cool!
Starting at frame 112 on LEFT is my old apt house, PEYTON HALL at the corner HOLLYWOOD Bl and FULLER. A beautiful garden apt complex w/a 4 lane swimming pool ...while I was there, McClean Stevenson (MASH) Robin Williams, DAVE FLEISHER (Popeye cartoons) HERMAN HOVER (owner of CIRO'S Rest), Timothy Patrick Murphy (DALLAS) Richard Guthrie ( Days of our Lives) and Peter Chaconas (The LATE MR PETE Show on KTLA 5) lived there...you can see some MR PETE shows on RUclips
Palm trees have grown much taller.
1:24, ' WOW ' !
1:26 is that marilyn monroe crossing the street?
Clearly not. That woman was much more slender than Marilyn. Maybe it was Mamie Van Doren...or just a streetwalker.
Look at all those palm tress
Love '59 Max Roach!
I posted this on mamie facebook page...she does not remember this....are there any other facts about this shoot and Mamie crossing the street?
Hollywood from 1950s was nice back then
Do car in 50s have turn signal?
Just posted a video that follows the same path as this film.
For those of you who have gotten used to third word conditions in the US, this is what the 1st world used to look like.
Shoe box woodie @ 2:08.
Nice music selection, who is it?, I'm not a jazz afficianado.
Really great film footage, but the sound track is way too loud and kinda annoying. I had to mute the video.
Me too! Its certainly a different world now.
no trash or bums around, I call BS!!
Bang on cue at 1.25 hot lady crosses the road as cool as a cucumber ....
You were probably more at danger that way waiting for the red car with passing cars.
She is not so hot today if she's still alive...
@@hopydaddy and no one who is hot today will be so hot 70 years from now. What's your point?
Actress/Model no doubt. ( Maybe a "good time girl" too.)
...which explains why we now have red light cameras... check out those ladies waiting in the middle of the street for the trolleys at 3:40-56; not sure that would be a good idea today...
They were selling flowers. The trolleys stopped operating by that time.
Marilyn Monroe @1:26
Amazing how crazy drivers were if there wasn't a traffic signal at the intersection.
Evidence in this clip leads me to believe it was made in late January or early February of '54. All of those dowdy, boxy, upright cars were about to become very dated looking as auto styling was on the verge of a revolution in a very short period of time. The introduction of the 1955 "Forward Look" Chryslers ("Suddenly it's 1960!") was just a few months away when this film was made. By the 1957 model year cars would be longer, lower, wider, with much swoopier jet-inspired styling and soaring tailfins that peaked (literally) in 1959, and bright, two, three, and four-tone pastel paint schemes. Anything from 1954 would look very dated by comparison even though it was only a few model years old. The Corvette had just been introduced in '53 and would take a big step forward in late '54 for the '55 model year as Ford debuted the Thunderbird.
Planned obsolescence, making people chase the latest model for its looks rather than for any functional improvements.
In those days the cars looked fat and the people looked thin...
was that Marilyn who walked by?
Too slim for M. M.
Hey ! How much !? 1:26 She's probably an old crow by now.