Grew up there in the 50-60s. It was my paradise. I remember the smell of honeysuckle and orange blossoms. Climbing to get the elderly folks fruit from their trees while they let me keep most of it. My friends and I would find some shade to eat our fill of English walnuts, big oranges, plums, avocado and pears. Seeing the "stars" being regular people at the grocery stores and restaurants or out with their kids having fun. Everyone seemed happy. Now I'm elderly, but have these wonderful memories. These videos bring it all back recognizing houses, streets and even lamp posts. This one was of my grandparent's era.
Really happy you have the opportunity to see all this again in such good quality.. I don't often get jealous but that must be an awesome experience !! I am a real nostalgist if there's such a word.
@@justinawilkes8502 That's like living in Belgium, smelling African, Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai food... but hardly ever good old fashioned Belgian cooking.
One of my favorite hobbies is matching old videos to current locations, I gave this one a try. 1:38 the house with a turret closely matches a still existing house on Belden Drive in the Hollywood Hills. 2:47 could be a still unpaved section of Mullholland Highway near the old "Hollywoodland" sign. 3:18 Soon after are cars driving on what my best guess says would be Highland Avenue. 4:00 Check out "Yamashiro Hollywood" centered on a 600-year old Japanese Pagoda and an incredible history since this video was taken. It is now a high end bar/restaurant. As of July this year it was said to be on the market for a cool $100 million. 4:18 (behind the tree in the polluted air!) the still standing Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, built in 1926 so we know this would have to be in the late 20's. Finally, 6:50 based on what I could find is the horse track at Agricultural Park with the Hollywood Hills in the background, later Exposition Park and the Beverly Hills Speeway. Those horses are racing on what now is Rodeo Drive! Fantastic video, I had fun with this. No guarantees on the accuracy, it's just a hobby.
@@thomasliangus The 14th century Pagoda was built in Japan then moved to California in 1914. Thanks for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts for you.
What amazes me about this video is that you walk around that area and around Los Feliz/Griffith park and it still the houses look the same. It feels like walking into the past.
Coming from the UK I always associate LA, in particular, with a lack of architectural permanence. Videos like this, and comments like yours, make me realize my error!
You're right. I was engaged to a girl who lived in Los Feliz area (Silver Lake, actually) and it's very cramped, cluttered and hilly. Looks great on video, but feels claustrophobic and surrounding from all sides.
@@bentonrp yeah with beat up roads so you need an suv to drive around comfortably. Anyways it's damn expensive so I guess people want that weird close next to each other type neighborhood?
It's a fake video. They did not have the technology to get sound on tape. Look for air polotion. The sky is brown in the beginning. And none of the restored videos of laurel and hardy had color so this is much later.
At 2:30 the video shows a car backing up the hill. That was because model t's and other cars made in the 1920s did not have a fuel pump. The engine was gravity fed. The gasoline would not flow to the engine if it was going too steep. It could go in reverse the gasoline would flow to the engine, that was the way people had to get up a hill if it was too steep.
I could watch these all day! Thank you! Born and raised in S. CA in the 50’s, I can remember orange groves, more open areas, less traffic! I have a copy of a 1934 old film which includes my father in it from a news event (Fox movietone news collection) back then, it’s archived at the University of South Carolina where a lot of these old films are archived. Couldn’t believe it when I found it. They are so precious!
2:21 Fun fact of the day. In the 20's many cars didn't have enough power to go up steep hills ... so they went up backwards because reverse gear is much lower ... and obviously slower ... but it would get you to the top as a last resort.
Most cars in use then did not have mechanical fuel pumps and relied on gravity to get the gasoline from the tank to the engine's carburetor. Backing up the hill solved the running-out-of-gas problem.
You are absolutely correct regarding the lack of a mechanical fuel pump. Most cars in that era (Fords) relied on gravity feed with the fuel tank under the front seat, while other cars had vacuum fuel pumps. I know. I actually own a stock original 1926 Ford Model T.
In the mid-60s my mom and me worked in Hollywood during the summer Hollywood was such a wonderful town. I remember everything. I was an extra in Hollywood One of the things I really miss are all of the old cars just driving on the street was an adventure. I miss the places that my mom used to take me with Barbara Stanwyck her friend we used to go to the brown derby. I really liked that place they had the best chocolate cake well enough blabbering I’m sure no one wants to hear what I have to say. Take care, everyone
My Mom was born in 1921. She’d often talk about “kicking the crank” in the front of a Model T Ford to get it to start. Her Dad taught her how to drive. She drove all over L.A. by herself at age 12. You didn’t need a Driver’s License back then.
Did they misspell the name on the building? Because it says "Phillip". What was produced there? And is there any relation to the B. Kuppenheimer men's clothing company? I'm living near a town named Kuppenheim in Germany where the family lived until about 1850.
@@peanut422hb "Brought from Japan where it was built in 1300's." Does that not mean it was built in Japan in the 1300's then brought to LA sometime after that?....Was it actually originally built here and the original poster is incorrect that it was built in Japan in the 1300's then transported here? Honest question..
So enjoyable! I’m a big classic movie fan and all of my grandparents were born in 1900 my dad in the 1920’s these films bring life to stories that they told 😉
Hi 👋🏽 I don’t mean to flex on someone else’s video, but I react to exclusively classic films here on YT if you’re interested, if not, that’s cool too, but you are welcome to my channel anytime 😁 it’s Movies with Mia!
Great as always Nass! It's always neat to see the Hollywoodland sign that was erected in 1923. Funny how it was supposed to be a temporary land development advertising sign but became so widely recognized they decided in 1949 to drop the land part of the sign and just leave Hollywood up. The rest is movie history. Be well Nass!!👍
amazing. I love seeing older times of places I have been to. Would be fun to see a side by side comparison video of 1920s and 2020s since most of those places I am sure are still there.
The race track at 6:28 is Agua Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico. The Foreign Club seen at 7:59 was a casino and nightclub, part of a complex that included an airport, a hotel, and restaurants. During the Prohibition, Americans, including Hollywood stars and film industry VIP’s, flocked there for entertainment, gambling, booze, and other amusements. Margarita Cansino, later known as the world famous actress Rita Hayworth, was discovered at the club while dancing professionally with her father. The racetrack is portrayed in the 2003 film Seabiscuit and also in the 1931 film The Champ starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper.
I love that so many of the houses still remain on those hills, I can't imagine little model T's chugging along those roads. It's like you get to walk back in time.
It usually wasn't Model Ts "chugging" along those roads. It was proper vehicles, something any of the people in the video were accustomed to knowing except you, who never cared to know and taught yourself your own way.
@@serenatwilite4005 They might be protected properties now, like they're not allowed to demolish them because of the historical nature of them, but I may be wrong on that.
I was wondering what that was when it showed up in the video, such an unusual name to see in big letters, thanks for the info. It's amazing it still came up in a search.
Well-dressed rich well-fed not particularly fit people is more accurate, the average lifespan around then was mid 50's, child mortality rates were terrible, diseases rampant, medical science primitive and life very tough for the majority, but that did look lovely through the rose colored lens of time.
My mom was born in Hollywood in 1925. My dad was born in LA in 1918. They told me pre-WWII LA was paradise. No freeways, no traffic, no smog, Hollywood was booming. The land of opportunity…how times have changed!
my grandparents were in brentwood long before the freeways and the stories seemed like out of a cartoon. orange groves, bouganvilla, and chico marx lived a few doors down.
At about 6:14 I recognized the Spreckels organ pavilion in Balboa Park, San Diego. Spent 57 years there, in San Diego, not the organ pavilion. It would appear they started in Hollywood, and headed south. Great fun, thanks so much!
I live in LA. Crazy how it looks so much the same...yet different. I LOVE looking at the people, too. Fascinating to me. Spooky...it's like looking at ghosts and they smile and wave back at you through all that time. Makes me melancholy and grateful all at the same time. Thank you for this❤
Good ol’ Beechwood! Loved it the back apartment at the lower left of the screen. That is a beautiful area. I especially love the little cafe at the top of the hill!
My grandfather worked as a surveyor at Hollywoodland around this time. My other grandfather was a driver for the owner of a department store at Hollywood and Vine around 1930. I've never been able to find the name of it.
Nass, Great job with this footage! At 1:37 the "Hollywoodland" sign was built and put up in 1923 by Los Angeles publisher Harry Chandler for a housing development. The sign was just supposed to be up 18 months. But the sign became so popular it stayed up. In 1949 they removed the "Land" from the sign name and in 1978 the sign was replaced by a more durable all steel structure.😊❤
Just to think, my grandfather was a toddler at this time still living in a tiny town in Texas before he moved to LA, joined the Navy and raised our family in Studio City. This is the best restored footage I've seen from that era.
Loved this. I had never thought about it before, but LA had experienced a huge dynamic growth spurt in the 1920's with the new entertainment industry. Everything looks new and modern.The people who took the movie footage must have been visitors with a bit of money; not many people had a movie camera back then. Were they staying at the Roosevelt Hotel and visiting with friends up in the Hollywood Hills? Fun to speculate.
This may be your best restoration! I'm so excited I don't know where to start @3:49 - we have Yamashiro Restaurant Hollywood. Originally the home of New York importers of Oriental goods, Eugene and Adolph Bernheimer built in 1912 prominent Hollywood knoll. @0:55 - @2:12 - Many of these are known as "Storybook" homes. Snow White cottages, Witch houses, Hobbit homes, Normandy Village houses, ... Many in the Hollywood hills, but can be found all over Southern California. An architectural design idea of the times. I will add which ones I recognize as homes of the Hollywood celebrity's if I can. @6:30 - Santa Anita Racetrack (pretty sure as Hollywood Park opened in 1938)
When my Grandmother was 10 her parents hired a well known architect at the time and had a home built I(Spanish Style) n Los Feliz and moved in the home in 1923. She would tell me stories of growing up in and around the Hollywoodland Hills. Learning to drive on winding dirt roads. The home is still there and at one, time many years after they moved out, it was known as the Ackermansion. Fun videos to watch and thank to those who track down the locations. Neat.
My parents were born in the 1920s. My dad used to say they didn't have a lot of clothes, but what they did have was pressed and clean and sharp looking, so no one suspected you were as poor as you were.
Uno de los vídeos antiguos más sugerentes que he visto nunca. Es una pena no conocer el nombre del autor.Sin duda era un fotógrafo artista. Qué maravilla de luces del atardecer. Muchas gracias por compartirlo 😍
Ironically, for most of the country, the crash of 29 and the Great Depression was a disaster. However, for the movie industry it catapulted them into the golden age of movies. Struggling people flooded the theaters to get away from their dreary lives for a few hours. The movie theater business boomed.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar An unemployment rate of 25.6% in 1933 with 15 million people unemployed. My great-grandfather would have disagreed with your opinion.
Oodles of Eucalytus trees, an imported spiecies from Europe but the perfect So. Cal. tree that tolerates warm/hot weather. Something you wouldn't see in No. Cal.
Here in January 2025 and wondering which of the houses, orange groves, vineyards, etc., have survived the ravages of time and the devastating fires. It was a truly beautiful place a 100 years ago.
When I see those steep stairs leading up to precariously situated homes, I think of the Three Stooges. That's all I got. Oh, brilliant footage as always.
@@alegriadelahuerta3268 Did you know that you can still visit those steps, only today instead of vacant lots left and right, it is completely developed.
Theres a Laurel and Hardy movie short with the same flight stairs scenario in L.A. early 30's thats called I think 'the piano movers'..hilarious. Robert at 69.
@@alegriadelahuerta3268 Those steps are called the "Music Box Steps" and are still there. The exact location is 923 N. Vendome Street in Los Angeles and are just a short drive off Sunset Blvd. They have a historical sign there. Google maps will take you right there
this made me think of the Beverly hillbillies when they were paid $25 million (in1962) for their land back in Arkansas or wherever it was. In today's dollars that would be about $250 million worth. Now I know how they could afford to move to Beverly Hills because back then $1 million house was enormous.
Love these videos. All these people, walking by, driving by or simply just being in these clips are no longer with us. wish one cld know how many are reincarnated at this time & then show them these clips & say"look! that's what u did in 1920's on that particular day! " Wow!
Even today, the Hollywood Hills are a blast from the past. There's like a Leave It to Beaver vibe if you look around. People driving past you wave and smile, which you never experience in Hollywood proper or anywhere in LA for that matter.
Long before jet airplanes. By the end of the 1920s, it would still take 3-4 days to fly cross country on small, unheated airplanes that fit maybe a dozen people. Primary travel during this time was by train.
My parents moved there in the 1940s and in their view it didn't really start losing it's magic until about 1960. Like many they migrated to the shiny new suburbs at that point.
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Do You Like Living in the 1920s???
the architecture is magnificent 👌
Absolutely stunning job with the video.
Yes, I believe many people now, would love to be living back in the '20's.
I can’t remember ❤❤
@@NASS_0 Well, …no. LA in the 50$….😺
Beats the 2020's by a wide margin.
Grew up there in the 50-60s. It was my paradise. I remember the smell of honeysuckle and orange blossoms. Climbing to get the elderly folks fruit from their trees while they let me keep most of it. My friends and I would find some shade to eat our fill of English walnuts, big oranges, plums, avocado and pears. Seeing the "stars" being regular people at the grocery stores and restaurants or out with their kids having fun. Everyone seemed happy. Now I'm elderly, but have these wonderful memories. These videos bring it all back recognizing houses, streets and even lamp posts. This one was of my grandparent's era.
I have the same memories, thanks
Amazing! I live near by too but im 49.
Now I smell tacos, burritos and enchiladas
Really happy you have the opportunity to see all this again in such good quality.. I don't often get jealous but that must be an awesome experience !! I am a real nostalgist if there's such a word.
@@justinawilkes8502 That's like living in Belgium, smelling African, Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai food... but hardly ever good old fashioned Belgian cooking.
One of my favorite hobbies is matching old videos to current locations, I gave this one a try. 1:38 the house with a turret closely matches a still existing house on Belden Drive in the Hollywood Hills. 2:47 could be a still unpaved section of Mullholland Highway near the old "Hollywoodland" sign. 3:18 Soon after are cars driving on what my best guess says would be Highland Avenue. 4:00 Check out "Yamashiro Hollywood" centered on a 600-year old Japanese Pagoda and an incredible history since this video was taken. It is now a high end bar/restaurant. As of July this year it was said to be on the market for a cool $100 million. 4:18 (behind the tree in the polluted air!) the still standing Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, built in 1926 so we know this would have to be in the late 20's. Finally, 6:50 based on what I could find is the horse track at Agricultural Park with the Hollywood Hills in the background, later Exposition Park and the Beverly Hills Speeway. Those horses are racing on what now is Rodeo Drive! Fantastic video, I had fun with this. No guarantees on the accuracy, it's just a hobby.
dwhitty, Thanks for the Hollywood History! Much appreciated. I have a comment of my own for this video! All the best. 😊
The street before the part you mentioned at 1:38 looked a lot like Beachwood Canyon to me. I could be wrong though.
Yep, I do the same thing....
600-year old Japanese Pagoda？ The Japanese discovered the America?
@@thomasliangus The 14th century Pagoda was built in Japan then moved to California in 1914. Thanks for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts for you.
What amazes me about this video is that you walk around that area and around Los Feliz/Griffith park and it still the houses look the same. It feels like walking into the past.
Even in these old videos, the houses and buildings still look old, were they ever new?
Coming from the UK I always associate LA, in particular, with a lack of architectural permanence. Videos like this, and comments like yours, make me realize my error!
You're right. I was engaged to a girl who lived in Los Feliz area (Silver Lake, actually) and it's very cramped, cluttered and hilly.
Looks great on video, but feels claustrophobic and surrounding from all sides.
@@bentonrp yeah with beat up roads so you need an suv to drive around comfortably. Anyways it's damn expensive so I guess people want that weird close next to each other type neighborhood?
It's a fake video. They did not have the technology to get sound on tape. Look for air polotion. The sky is brown in the beginning. And none of the restored videos of laurel and hardy had color so this is much later.
My time travel dream destination is 1920s Hollywood. You just made it come true. I love this. Thanks so much for all of your restorations.
Have you seen the movie "Somewhere in Time"?
At 2:30 the video shows a car backing up the hill. That was because model t's and other cars made in the 1920s did not have a fuel pump. The engine was gravity fed. The gasoline would not flow to the engine if it was going too steep. It could go in reverse the gasoline would flow to the engine, that was the way people had to get up a hill if it was too steep.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing!
WOW!!
What about the other two going forward?
@@melaniexoxo : I reckon they were of a different brand & had mechanical fuel pumps.
Thankyou!
I could watch these all day! Thank you! Born and raised in S. CA in the 50’s, I can remember orange groves, more open areas, less traffic! I have a copy of a 1934 old film which includes my father in it from a news event (Fox movietone news collection) back then, it’s archived at the University of South Carolina where a lot of these old films are archived. Couldn’t believe it when I found it. They are so precious!
Yes groves as far as eye could see ! So special.
You must b white
2:21 Fun fact of the day. In the 20's many cars didn't have enough power to go up steep hills ... so they went up backwards because reverse gear is much lower ... and obviously slower ... but it would get you to the top as a last resort.
I remember my grandfather telling me stories of having to go up hills in reverse 😂
Most cars in use then did not have mechanical fuel pumps and relied on gravity to get the gasoline from the tank to the engine's carburetor. Backing up the hill solved the running-out-of-gas problem.
That is a fact.
You are absolutely correct regarding the lack of a mechanical fuel pump. Most cars in that era (Fords) relied on gravity feed with the fuel tank under the front seat, while other cars had vacuum fuel pumps.
I know. I actually own a stock original 1926 Ford Model T.
Thank you.
In the mid-60s my mom and me worked in Hollywood during the summer Hollywood was such a wonderful town. I remember everything. I was an extra in Hollywood One of the things I really miss are all of the old cars just driving on the street was an adventure. I miss the places that my mom used to take me with Barbara Stanwyck her friend we used to go to the brown derby. I really liked that place they had the best chocolate cake well enough blabbering I’m sure no one wants to hear what I have to say. Take care, everyone
It's history Guy, and it's interesting. Anything to do with old world California fascinates millions around the globe. 😀👍
What fantastic memories. And your mom was friends with Barbara Stanwyck? That's awesome! She's was a great actress.
I would love to hear more!❤
Orange groves -- so beautiful. My dad, who lived there in the '40s, always talked about smelling orange blossoms.
Hi, Robb, I was born and grew up in Pomona. Our house was surrounded by orange groves -- the scent of the blossoms was amazing. Best wishes.
That sounds wonderful, the smell of orange blossoms nearby. I use orange blossom fragrance lotion for massage therapy and it's a memorable fragrance.😊
Everything was so much better. People used to have something we don't today. Respect.
My Mom was born in 1921. She’d often talk about “kicking the crank” in the front of a Model T Ford to get it to start. Her Dad taught her how to drive. She drove all over L.A. by herself at age 12. You didn’t need a Driver’s License back then.
There was no traffic lights and policeman on the road. No speed limit, as well. Freedom.
Amazing!
This channel is truly a window to past times. Almost like time traveling. So amazing. Keep doing what you’re doing NASS!
Thx!! ;)
Absolutely Gorgeous! Los Angeles back then looks like some wonderful dream.
The AI colorization seems to be getting more accurate. The scene in the orange grove looks like it was filmed in color! Great job!
Thx ;)
Agreed it was very nice!
The cars however are a sorry excuse. There's also real color videos from that time.
Seeing the Philip Kuppenheimer building blew my mind. I worked for them in the late 1980's. I didn't know they were around then.
Oh!! ^^
Did they misspell the name on the building? Because it says "Phillip". What was produced there? And is there any relation to the B. Kuppenheimer men's clothing company? I'm living near a town named Kuppenheim in Germany where the family lived until about 1850.
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This is so cool to see!
Pagoda at 3:49 is the oldest structure in Los Angeles. Brought from Japan where it was built in 1300's. The larger building afterward is Yamashiro.
Built in California in the 1300's😉
I thought the oldest building in Los Angeles was the Avila Adobe house built in 1818 🤔
@@peanut422hb Read it again....
@@SteveBaker-cq2fg claiming that it was built and brought over from Japan when it was originally built here. Read it again!!!!
@@peanut422hb "Brought from Japan where it was built in 1300's." Does that not mean it was built in Japan in the 1300's then brought to LA sometime after that?....Was it actually originally built here and the original poster is incorrect that it was built in Japan in the 1300's then transported here? Honest question..
Thank you for the wonderful videos. I had no idea the architecture varied so much in the hills. Such a beautiful area before it became overpopulated.
and full of charmless white box homes
So enjoyable! I’m a big classic movie fan and all of my grandparents were born in 1900 my dad in the 1920’s these films bring life to stories that they told 😉
Hi 👋🏽 I don’t mean to flex on someone else’s video, but I react to exclusively classic films here on YT if you’re interested, if not, that’s cool too, but you are welcome to my channel anytime 😁 it’s Movies with Mia!
@@MoviesWithMia Thanks
Great as always Nass! It's always neat to see the Hollywoodland sign that was erected in 1923. Funny how it was supposed to be a temporary land development advertising sign but became so widely recognized they decided in 1949 to drop the land part of the sign and just leave Hollywood up. The rest is movie history. Be well Nass!!👍
Hi!! thank you very much!! ;)
4:02 Yamashiro (Japanese for mountain palace) has been a Hollywood landmark since 1914.
This is AMAZING footage ! Thank you NASS!
Thank you
The good life. Why my grandparents left western Pennsylvania. So Cal will always be in my heart.
Thank you so much for this! Your hard work was worth it !! People watching with families that were living there at the time ,this is priceless!!!
amazing. I love seeing older times of places I have been to. Would be fun to see a side by side comparison video of 1920s and 2020s since most of those places I am sure are still there.
The race track at 6:28 is Agua Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico. The Foreign Club seen at 7:59 was a casino and nightclub, part of a complex that included an airport, a hotel, and restaurants. During the Prohibition, Americans, including Hollywood stars and film industry VIP’s, flocked there for entertainment, gambling, booze, and other amusements. Margarita Cansino, later known as the world famous actress Rita Hayworth, was discovered at the club while dancing professionally with her father.
The racetrack is portrayed in the 2003 film Seabiscuit and also in the 1931 film The Champ starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper.
That's where they invented Cesar Salad and the dressing, I believe.
Awesome! I wonder how long the trip from LA to Tijuana would have taken back in those days.
Another brilliant restoration with the sound etc..The 60 fps really makes the film look like it was filmed today.......I absolutely LOVE what you do.
Thank you ;)
I’m here watching this today because a lot has been burned down in LA for the past few days and it’s so sad to see history has been wiped out by fire.
I loved the orange groves and the birds singing. Loved the video.
Amazing historic remastered video of LA in the 1920's, the Hollywood Hills.
Thx!!! ^^
I like to smash the like button on NASS's videos because 1) I genuinely like the content and 2) I want the channel to succeed.
Oh Thx!!!
I love that so many of the houses still remain on those hills, I can't imagine little model T's chugging along those roads. It's like you get to walk back in time.
I was wondering if they were mostly or all gone by now.
It usually wasn't Model Ts "chugging" along those roads. It was proper vehicles, something any of the people in the video were accustomed to knowing except you, who never cared to know and taught yourself your own way.
It's amazing that any remain at all, considering the way people in LA seem to like to tear down and build something bigger.
@@serenatwilite4005 They might be protected properties now, like they're not allowed to demolish them because of the historical nature of them, but I may be wrong on that.
Phillip Kuppenheimer was a mens clothing store from that era. I just googled it.
I remember seeing that name at the end of some TV shows in the 60s. The male stars cloths provided by them.
I was wondering what that was when it showed up in the video, such an unusual name to see in big letters, thanks for the info. It's amazing it still came up in a search.
Well-dressed slim people and back in the day California was a top oil producer. Beautiful Spanish homes.
One of the women had chipmunk cheeks. Pretty chubby.
@@boogaria554 Chubby perhaps but not obese as is so common today.
@Bbarfo No fat chicks!
Well-dressed rich well-fed not particularly fit people is more accurate, the average lifespan around then was mid 50's, child mortality rates were terrible, diseases rampant, medical science primitive and life very tough for the majority, but that did look lovely through the rose colored lens of time.
@@sg-yq8pm it was 20s, everything wasn't that bad. Ecology was much better and food. But I agree, life was harder.
Excellent homemade video which gives an accurate view of daily life in that era. The houses were gorgeous.
They still are. However, the Hills are fairly dense now.
WOW, I love your work. Another good one. TY for the trip back in time.
thank you very much
So quiet. You can hear the peacefulness there
Another great video as always,NASS! Nice to see Hollywood in the roaring 20's. Still serene.
thank you very much
NASS, your videos never cease to amaze me! Thank u for all the hard work u do bringing these to life ❤ it's like traveling back in time
My mom was born in Hollywood in 1925. My dad was born in LA in 1918. They told me pre-WWII LA was paradise. No freeways, no traffic, no smog, Hollywood was booming. The land of opportunity…how times have changed!
Alll that beauty been bulldozed over and replaced with crap. Wow
@philliplaplante8086 it's still stunning but there is more traffic.
Well at one time the whole world was that way.
my grandparents were in brentwood long before the freeways and the stories seemed like out of a cartoon. orange groves, bouganvilla, and chico marx lived a few doors down.
If you're interested in making your mark on the entertainment world you still see it as a land of opportunity compared to anywhere else in the US.
I like those 20's compared to today's 20's
Its nice to see the land before all the buildings covered it all up. Beautiful hills!
1:37 Wwwoh! The Hollywoodland Sign in technicolor is wild. Thanks for showing this. 😊
Thanks
Yes, I think that's my favorite part.
The oil industry was huge in the area in those days, and some of it still remained in the early 70's when my family moved to the LA area.
At about 6:14 I recognized the Spreckels organ pavilion in Balboa Park, San Diego. Spent 57 years there, in San Diego, not the organ pavilion. It would appear they started in Hollywood, and headed south. Great fun, thanks so much!
Thanks
They drove all the way to Tijuana, Mexico. 😊
I live in LA. Crazy how it looks so much the same...yet different.
I LOVE looking at the people, too. Fascinating to me. Spooky...it's like looking at ghosts and they smile and wave back at you through all that time.
Makes me melancholy and grateful all at the same time. Thank you for this❤
The people in this video are actually ghosts now 😮
Good ol’ Beechwood! Loved it the back apartment at the lower left of the screen. That is a beautiful area. I especially love the little cafe at the top of the hill!
My grandfather worked as a surveyor at Hollywoodland around this time.
My other grandfather was a driver for the owner of a department store at Hollywood and Vine around 1930. I've never been able to find the name of it.
Broadway or barker bros😺
It still amazes Me, They built homes on odd hilly lots
Thank you for your work, dear ones. This is better than a hundred history lectures.
NASS, you never disappoint. Just think, many of the military aged who would be fighting in WWII are yet to be born!
Thx ;)
Wow, that’s crazy to think about!
They would be born yet, they'd be born around 1920-27.
Nass, Great job with this footage! At 1:37 the "Hollywoodland" sign was built and put up in 1923 by Los Angeles publisher Harry Chandler for a housing development. The sign was just supposed to be up 18 months. But the sign became so popular it stayed up. In 1949 they removed the "Land" from the sign name and in 1978 the sign was replaced by a more durable all steel structure.😊❤
Good stuff, except for the "land" part coming down I didn't know that about the sign. And oh yeah, "leave the gun, take the canoli" 😆
@@dwhitty25 😁
Now thats fun fact 👍🤩
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@@minkeuk549 Thank you!❤❤
lovely architecture. absolutely charming...oh, how i wish it still looked that way
Born in Burbank. Thank you for uploading this! Loved it.
Just to think, my grandfather was a toddler at this time still living in a tiny town in Texas before he moved to LA, joined the Navy and raised our family in Studio City. This is the best restored footage I've seen from that era.
Think I just saw Norma Desmond..she used to be in pictures…she used to be big😺
It was the pictures that got small!
No, your eyes have gotten smaller 😅
Maybe, but it didn't fool William Holden, now he's dead floating on top of the pool..LOL!!@@gloriaortiz1227
“I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.”
@@wgcds7jyg897 day late and a $ short😺
Loved this. I had never thought about it before, but LA had experienced a huge dynamic growth spurt in the 1920's with the new entertainment industry. Everything looks new and modern.The people who took the movie footage must have been visitors with a bit of money; not many people had a movie camera back then. Were they staying at the Roosevelt Hotel and visiting with friends up in the Hollywood Hills? Fun to speculate.
This may be your best restoration! I'm so excited I don't know where to start
@3:49 - we have Yamashiro Restaurant Hollywood. Originally the home of New York importers of Oriental goods, Eugene and Adolph Bernheimer built in 1912 prominent Hollywood knoll.
@0:55 - @2:12 - Many of these are known as "Storybook" homes. Snow White cottages, Witch houses, Hobbit homes, Normandy Village houses, ... Many in the Hollywood hills, but can be found all over Southern California. An architectural design idea of the times. I will add which ones I recognize as homes of the Hollywood celebrity's if I can.
@6:30 - Santa Anita Racetrack (pretty sure as Hollywood Park opened in 1938)
thank you very much!!!! ^^
Wouldn't the Santa Anita Race track have mountains in the background? Mount Wilson?
When my Grandmother was 10 her parents hired a well known architect at the time and had a home built I(Spanish Style) n Los Feliz and moved in the home in 1923. She would tell me stories of growing up in and around the Hollywoodland Hills. Learning to drive on winding dirt roads. The home is still there and at one, time many years after they moved out, it was known as the Ackermansion. Fun videos to watch and thank to those who track down the locations. Neat.
That dragon bowl in the swan pond was awesome
Glad there isn't any corny music in this.
How special.. Would love to see more Beachwood Canyon/Hollywoodland content
Look at all those oil wells.California had a lot of it at one time.
You know what happens when you pump oil out of a deposit? The deposit depletes.
They still have some oil derricks running inside empty buildings.
I thought they were electricity pylons 😅
@@TheDanEdwards They have plenty more oil. The people running the state will not allow it to be developed.
@@TheDanEdwards ELLO INCREIBLEMENTE NUNCA LO SUPO LOPEZ OBRADOR EN MEXICO!!!! NI LOS MEXICANOS ;!!GENTE DE TERCERA!!!!
Suits and ties everywhere!
I know; right? Today everyone is tattooed up wearing jeans and pants cut up with holes. What does that say about where we are all heading???
My parents were born in the 1920s. My dad used to say they didn't have a lot of clothes, but what they did have was pressed and clean and sharp looking, so no one suspected you were as poor as you were.
Uno de los vídeos antiguos más sugerentes que he visto nunca. Es una pena no conocer el nombre del autor.Sin duda era un fotógrafo artista. Qué maravilla de luces del atardecer. Muchas gracias por compartirlo 😍
Love these videos! Thank you
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Winter of 1927 or 1928. Crash of 29 not far ahead.
Ironically, for most of the country, the crash of 29 and the Great Depression was a disaster.
However, for the movie industry it catapulted them into the golden age of movies.
Struggling people flooded the theaters to get away from their dreary lives for a few hours. The movie theater business boomed.
@@athos1974 The unexpected truth is that the great depression didn't affect many.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar An unemployment rate of 25.6% in 1933 with 15 million people unemployed.
My great-grandfather would have disagreed with your opinion.
This was gold! Thank you.
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Love all of those amazing old mansions. ❤ Wish more were still around.
there's a bunch in Los Feliz, Silverlake and the Hollywood Hills
Take a drive out Sixth Street between Western and San Vicente. There are entire neighborhoods of wonderful homes.
Amazing footage. Some of the homes are recognizable too!
Cool film. Interesting to see how things looked back then. Looks nice and clear, thanks
You notice the palm trees are really short like they just planted them, maybe a few years earlier.
Oodles of Eucalytus trees, an imported spiecies from Europe but the perfect So. Cal. tree that tolerates warm/hot weather. Something you wouldn't see in No. Cal.
Good show mate! I guess the wrong continent. Say 'hi to Adelaide & Melborne.. @Inspireworkshop
Nothing to be sorry for, I like them. It's so Southern California like, especially years ago in city in the outskirts.@Inspireworkshop
Simply put, WOW!!!! Thx
Thank you
All these houses on Hollywood hills are now worth millions and billions. And all the hills look more greener back then than now.
Millions yes, billions heaven no!
I would imagine many of those smaller, frame houses were town down and replaced with newer ones. It’s been a hundred years.
Here in January 2025 and wondering which of the houses, orange groves, vineyards, etc., have survived the ravages of time and the devastating fires. It was a truly beautiful place a 100 years ago.
When I see those steep stairs leading up to precariously situated homes, I think of the Three Stooges. That's all I got. Oh, brilliant footage as always.
I thought of Laurel and Hardy trying to carry a piano in a crate up those steps.
@@alegriadelahuerta3268 haha. That’s exactly what I thought of.
@@alegriadelahuerta3268 Did you know that you can still visit those steps, only today instead of vacant lots left and right, it is completely developed.
Theres a Laurel and Hardy movie short with the same flight stairs scenario in L.A. early 30's thats called I think 'the piano movers'..hilarious. Robert at 69.
@@alegriadelahuerta3268 Those steps are called the "Music Box Steps" and are still there. The exact location is 923 N. Vendome Street in Los Angeles and are just a short drive off Sunset Blvd. They have a historical sign there. Google maps will take you right there
You all do fantastic work! Filling in the sound as well!!! Thanks!!
6:15 This place looks extremely peaceful
Wow! Awesome footage! Thank you showing this.
My heart aches when I watch this. We have fallen so far.
The depth & color is very good, imho, depth is not lost in background 👍 great video, thank you!
this made me think of the Beverly hillbillies when they were paid $25 million (in1962) for their land back in Arkansas or wherever it was. In today's dollars that would be about $250 million worth. Now I know how they could afford to move to Beverly Hills because back then $1 million house was enormous.
Danke!
Hi!! Thanks !!! ^^
0:23 - Norma Desmond, "I've got oil in Bakersfield, pumping …pumping …pumping. What's it for but to buy us anything we want."
What a treat! Wow. Thank you !
Wow , awesome video thank you
Thx!
Beautiful city, people dressed properly. Thank you for sharing 🙏
Love these videos. All these people, walking by, driving by or simply just being in these clips are no longer with us. wish one cld know how many are reincarnated at this time & then show them these clips & say"look! that's what u did in 1920's on that particular day! " Wow!
Some narration or captions of specific locations would be interesting.
Even today, the Hollywood Hills are a blast from the past. There's like a Leave It to Beaver vibe if you look around. People driving past you wave and smile, which you never experience in Hollywood proper or anywhere in LA for that matter.
Another Excellent Video! Thank you
Thx!!
Long before jet airplanes. By the end of the 1920s, it would still take 3-4 days to fly cross country on small, unheated airplanes that fit maybe a dozen people. Primary travel during this time was by train.
Great video super NASS Hollywood was amazing in 1920 big support from Croatia
Thx bro!
It had to be exciting to be there during that time period, everything just starting out. Yep, .... it's always good in the beginning.
My parents moved there in the 1940s and in their view it didn't really start losing it's magic until about 1960. Like many they migrated to the shiny new suburbs at that point.
To them it wasn't just beginning, it was modern times.
How times have changed. Nice video!
Nice sound effects
Ya, no goofy, annoying, out of place music.
1920s, nice and in color. January 2025, everything in black and white.
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Back when it took 10 mins to travel 10 miles 🥲😭
Very true. Cars are much faster today, but in LA today 10 miles can take over an hour!😅😂🤣🤣
Those cars would struggle to do 60 mph. Model Ts 40 max. And real bad brakes!
@@jrutt2675 it’s soo insane. I drove around today and it took 1.5 hours to go 11 miles 😩😂😂that’s what good music/podcasts are for
@robbaur3911 Yeah, but no traffic jams.
LOL!! Now it's 30 minutes unless its 2 in the morning.
Your videos are jus awesome NASS!! Thanks for your work!👍👏🇺🇸
Thx!!! ^^