Apart from watching all the cars and architecture, what I find so fascinating is seeing all the people. They're not actors, they are just everyday people of that era going about their lives and just by chance a very small portion of it was caught on film, and here we are almost 80 years later watching them. i often wonder about where they are going and what they are thinking about. It also makes me think about my mom and dad. By the cars, I'm placing this about 1949 so my dad would have been 19 and my mom 16, their whole lives still ahead of them. Both are gone now, my dad at 83 and my mom at 88. It's so remarkable how you can remaster all this vintage footage and make it seem so real and lifelike. As someone who has always felt like he was born into the wrong era, I want to thank you for making it possible for me to go back in time, even if only for a few minutes!
This is one aspect of the video's I too love, seeing people going about there daily lives and one reason's I enjoy this channel, I often wonder what they got up to or how there life turned out, I'm from New Zealand and in 40's be lucky to have city like this let alone cars in such numbers or sights.
In contrast to many cities SF looks basically the same 80 years later at least as far as streets and buildings go. Which makes it so much easier to relate to these videos. For some reason it makes me emotional memento mori -style to watch them. That world doesn't exist anymore and yet it feels so close. Those people who were so full of life are all gone now.
WOW!!!! I saw a building in San Francisco that I once lived in back in the 70's. I remember walking the hill as a child to the grocery store. Didnt expect that!!!!! My warmest thanks and continued admiration to NASS for his unceasing and perpetual efforts/talent in bringing us these amazing films. This truly is the best site on RUclips. We are all fortunate to be a part of it.
I love the Taxi Driver in the DeSoto Yellow Cab at 1:06 thru 1:12 mugging for the camera......could he ever have imagined that people would be watching in on screen 75 years later? Just amazing when you think of it.
Well, who knows what happens to all the videos that are made today, and what people will say about them in 70 years from now? And compared to the post war time, its a ginormous amount of video and photos that are made now. Lets hope the digital form of those will survive the time as well.
Very funny .... it's like if he was saying the camera "ok ! ok !! i stop there ! never mind..." I laughed too !! the rage road was not existing yet... Only polite each other drivers....
I always find solace in watching such rare scenes taken more than 77 years ago. I assume it must be around 1945. I love watching the way people go about walking swinging their hands with no sign of stress and worry on their faces. I also love the simple houses then. Even the plants and trees are worth watching. I sometimes feel, really feel that my soul is yearning to go back to live the in those lovely days. The Second World War must have just ended. I sometimes imagine what were those people in the scenes doing then. I really want to thank NASS for the great effort in producing this wonderful video. It is never boring to watch it again and again. God bless all the souls no longer alive today. May they rest in peace. Amen!
I agree with the others, I saw one 1949 or 1950 DeSoto, most of the DeSoto cabs were post war 1947 or 1948. There were a few of the 1948 or 1949 Studebakers too driving around.....so newer than 1945, it's Post WWII
@@davidkastin4240 I started in Las Vegas in 1983. That was a time. We never used the "M" word. And it's very true - what happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas. 👌🖖
What extraordinary compilations of high quality, beautifully photographed and splendidly developed scenes of yesteryear. I wish every city in the country did this kind of pictorial commentary for each year of their existence. What a wonderful library of the past we would have. I am amazed NASS hasn't been asked to use these films in major motion pictures. With computerized technologies, you could integrate actors and cars into these scenes without any need to build sets.
The beginning of the first clip shows that even though all other car designs have changed dramatically, Jeeps have looked pretty much exactly the same for 80 years.
I am experiencing an eerie sensation while driving around this amusement park with no person to be seen, only the sense of the silent breeze across the ground. It is as if it has prepared itself and is now ready to be forever lost in time.
I was relocated to San Francisco by my company about 6 months ago and the urban landscapes look exactly the same. Most other cities knocked down all their old buildings and replaced them with ugly glass facades but not SF. I'm curious to know who was in charge of urban development in the city over the past half-century, whoever you are, hats off!
My late mom was born in 1930 southern California. That footage reminded me of The Pike in Long Beach. My mom told me that she would hang out at The Pike as a kid. She said she would talk to this very nice man. He told her all about his wife and kids. He would shoo her away when people crowded around. He had a naturally very hairy body, he wore chains and he would growl at the crowd. He was a sideshow freak, Hairy Gorilla Man or something like that.
Tonga Room in San Francisco at 1:07 is still going strong. You can get a massive mai-tai cocktail at the Friday happy hour for only $10. Also, we lament the passing of Bunker Hill (including at 4:00) in L.A. due to the city fathers' complete lack of interest in preserving L.A. heritage and architecture.
I remember the Tonga room growing up in The City. Isn’t it downstairs in the Fairmont Hotel? I thought that was an interesting few minutes of filming an old broken down house. I didn’t understand why the scene was so long. I did recognize L.A. City Hall in the background.
Dontcha just love those old style cars, still looking almost brand new. Fantastic footage. As far as picture quality goes, it looks as fresh as if it were filmed yesterday.
Love getting notifications from you, can't get enough of your videos. I was at Grace Cathedral (right behind the Yellow Cab) @0:50 mark in August of this year, it's magnificent structure standing up close to it, but also weird seeing it not finished in this video. Don't know where you get all these video but don't stop now, keep it coming. Thank you very much.
@Camping Comrade The part of San Francisco that contains 99% of the homeless population in 2022 was a dicy area back even in the 50's so it's not seen in this video. Most of these street blocks in this video you can visit today and they look exactly the same, except there are Teslas driving up and down the street instead of 50's Chevys.
I can't stress how much I loved the 3 stationary video scenes from 1:13 for the next few minutes. It's as though you just standing on the sidewalk as things are happening. For years I've always thought about what if you could just pick someone up and put them down in another time period, what would you observe about the people of that era. This is about as close as I'll ever get to doing that and it's so fascinating even though nothing actually seems to be happening to the people who are going about their daily lives.
Not sure if anyone's already mentioned this but the later half of this video was of Ocean Park Pier, Santa Monica which shutdown & sold in the mid 50s. Pacific Ocean Park was built on the same pier & along the beach from Santa Monica to Venice Beach & rivaled Disneyland until it shutdown in the late 60s. The dilapidated buildings & pier burned down in the mid 70s leaving just a part of the pier remaining which is now known as Santa Monica Pier, unless it's changed in the last 20yrs I've been away.
Fascinating as always BUT...Nass, are you sure the footage of all the massed taxicabs across from a hotel at 2:33 to about 3:50 is California? It looks more like New York to me. The street is made of dark paving stones, the men on the opposite sidewalk are mostly wearing topcoats, there is a Rheingold Beer truck (well-known New York brewery) and a truck that says "Crawford Clothes" - which was based in New York in the 1940's (I checked). Just wondering.
You are correct. The "Skyview" taxi cabs were exclusive to NYC. You also see 2 1950 Checker A2 cabs which were not used significantly in California but were everywhere in Chicago and New York City. That one scene is from NYC....besides the Rheingold truck also being a give away.
@@OsbornTramain Thanks, Osborn. Although you just see the letters "ST" after "hotel" on the sign, I assume it was possibly the Statler or Statler Hilton Hotel at 7th Ave. and 33rd Street. That would've been about 1950.
Another great video really enjoyed wonder if some of these places and buildings are still around, as always thanks for your hard work and sharing with us this moment in time and as always great seeing the people walking about
With AI technology coming along in leaps and bounds, will there be a time when we can go back to this era with the assistance of AI headsets and immerse ourselves in this world? There's enough film footage and stills around to help recreate the era. Maybe beyond our time, Web 3 users will choose to virtually live in the world that best simulates this era for its style and simplicity. The juxtaposition of using the latest tech to go back before tech. Great video! Thanks for bringing it to life!
that's crazy, looks like we are in the same city in just another era... Like no other old film can let us feel. This kind of edit make it looks like so actual and immersive
Here is a challenge for all who love that chase scene. Count the number of VW’s in that scene. Background, foreground, parked or driving. Bugs, vans, karmen ghias. After watching numerous times and using pause and rewind I counted…..I’m not telling I want your number. Hint there is one that is shown twice and didn’t get edited out.
Another masterpiece!! Those were the days when women were WOMEN and man were MEN, all well dressed, clean, pristine, elegant. Streets were calm and a post war quietness was percieved. You can feel the "inocence" of people, the candidness....A whole nation of progress was emerging with many changes ahead.. Never stop saying to myself 1940s-1960s was the right era to have lived on and not this dirty crazyness we live on now...Only in dreams were possible to travel to past.. but this changed with your videos... Now IT IS POSSIBLE.. thanks a lot
That's the potent influence of unbridled nostalgia talking, my friend. For a host of people, the time period you consider to be the "right era to have lived in" was one of world war, genocide, systemic racism, polio, institutionalized homophobia (see Lavender Papers for reference), Red Scare witch trials, suffocating air pollution (e.g., 1966 NYC smog), urban decline, and the existential threat of Nuclear Annihilation. Every historic era holds alluring aspects that attract people having jaded views about contemporary society to life in an era distinct from one's own and motivate romantic notions of what life must've been like for the average person, but such conceptions are largely the stuff of imagination. Most popular conceptions of the past are based more in the realms of personal fantasy and nostalgia than in hard, bare-faced historic facts and truths. Nostalgia and romanticization of the past are nothing new. Many Victorians, disheartened and startled by the quickening pace of life brought about by technological marvels like the steam engine and telegraph, longed for a return to an eighteenth century they perceived as being more gentle, relaxed, and tranquil. Of course, these backward looking Victorians neglected to mention in their nostalgic writings the highly unpleasant realities of life in the preceding century, like high infant/childhood mortality rates, regular outbreaks of plague, endemic smallpox, the ubiquity of illiberal penal punishments, and the frustrating burden of long-distance travel and communication. As far as the problems of the modern era are concerned, I for one will take the uncertainties today over the injustices and horrors of yesteryear.
Really good post. Thank you. I totally agree, but also respect that considering the better aspects of the past can help us work towards a better version of today and tomorrow. Nostalgia has its place in helping us recognise the not so good parts of today. We can all take small steps to valuing the best of the past…..
I would love to see Christmas footage from these places during this era. It was so wholesome and folks TRULY meant peace on Earth GOOD WILL toward men. A time when children's eyes were filled with wonder and amazement, hopes and dreams, faces mashed against the glass while imagining themselves Christmas Morning with one of the toys in the window ... Such a time of peace and hope. I'd love to see some footage from different places of that time. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful time, when people cared and life was kinder. Be blessed
0:47 San Francisco. I recognized that Right turn was from North-bound Mason street (which, today, runs One Way South bound) onto East bound on California street. The Cable Car tracks in the street and Grace Cathedral on the Right are distinguishing features.
@@RetroCaptain the rise and fall of plastic Imagine disposable plastic forks being regarded as some splendid futuristic thing back in the era where this video is from
Background shots for movies. Hollywood made thousands of hours of film like this, it is known generally as "Second Unit" work. Either spliced into movies, or in the case of the one at POP, that would be projected onto a screen behind a vehicle in a sound stage where the actors would be interacting. That is why many like that show two or three different angles. One if looking at the actors to the rear of the car, another if looking at an actor from the side. That is why the vast majority were taken around LA in the "Studio Zone". That is 30 miles from Hollywood or less. Also known as the "Thrity Mile Zone", that is where TMZ got their name from.
@@michaelmartin4552 Interesting! Thanks for that. It's fascinating that these cinematographers had no idea people in the future would watch it in this way.
@@bencinnamon Rear projection is fascinating, and is still used to this day. There are some great videos in her eon how it is done. ruclips.net/video/dwe4Fan41Is/видео.html
In 1948, the price for a gallon of gas was .25¢. Today, the average price in US for a gallon of gas is $3.29, which you could still buy for a pre '65 silver quarter and have (cupronickel) change to spare! It's not the gas or the silver that has changed. it's the fiat (money backed by nothing) dollars that have lost their value.
I love these videos and can't imagine the work involved in re mastering these. I have been to San Francisco many times over the years. I have loved its quirky people and old buildings. In 2010, we saw several naked men just minding their business, and no one even cared. The last time I went was in 2014. I can not speak of how it is now. But in my previous trips, it was cleaner than most other cities. I didn't see any homeless. I am sure that they were there, I just didn't see them.
0:05 San Francisco 1:11 Los Angeles downtown (Second Street) 2:33 ? 3:52 Los Angeles downtown (Bunker Hill) 5:18 Not Pacific Ocean Park, but perhaps Long Beach, with its Pike and Whip roller-coasters?
How much i wish go the time back to this year.. i m sure how the people then lived very nice,very harmony,i don't care if now i was dead,but i was very lucky 😔😔😔💜
Wow San Francisco! And look how people are dressed. Men in suits and women in dresses. Men even wore suits to baseball games. Loved how people dressed back then, classy. They gave a d*** about how they looked. Yeah women were dresses now, but they were classy back then.
I was born in the 80s but wow i love those cars. They are beautiful. I love this era. I like that cool Jeep at the beginning. Not from Cali but what is that tall white building? I see it in alot of movies. That city hall?
Mr. Koda, don’t know where you’re referring to but it’s probably the Mark Hopkins hotel or the old Ferry Building Terminal at the base of Market Street at the piers. I don’t see City Hall in this piece but it’s probably the most beautiful City Hall as well as Los Angeles’ City Hall in the entire country for a large City although San Francisco with the beautiful roof is indeed probably the most beautiful in San Francisco. Philadelphia also has a beautiful City Hall too.
@@Hey_its_Koda It could be the back of the Mark Hopkins Hotel but I’m somewhat doubtful. It’s not the Ferry Building I mentioned either and it’s definitely not SF City Hall. I don’t have a definite answer for you.
The reason why people seemed so carefree was that there was no cell phones or internet. When one left the house, they were free. Freedom was real then. No one could track you down or call you. People kept their word. People helped each other. Satan was not yet let loosed.
Clean streets, no graffiti no homeless or drug addicts, American cars, nice place back then, some people had it tough, but overall it was a great time in America, long gone, what it was then and what it is now.🎤🎶🎵🎶🎥👀
I do have a fascination about time and place and to think that, that happened here or there! Thank you for this treasure of a previous time, almost like a different fairytale film, although I would say times were tough enough back then. From someone who is also filming my city in Dublin,Ireland, can anyone tell from this footage of what type of film and camera would have been used at this time to make these clips? Note: It looks like a passer-by is giving the cameraman a wave at 4 mins 18seconds in! Great stuff!
Filming starts at junction of Sutter St & Mason St, car then turns right onto California St with Grace Cathedral on the right, formerly millionaires row Nob Hill, the Flood House can be seen on the right rebuilt after the quake and fire of 1906, It is now the Pacific-Union Club.
Post war, definately. Some weird scenes again, with a clear purpose in mind, probably for use as backdrops in movies. Who else would film a bunch of weeds on the corner of a shabby house - and that in professional quality? Interesting to see the amusement park, even if it is closed. Although its a permanent thing, it all looks kind of improvised. That large round wooden structure, where 2 of the clips start, is a thing in which stunt guys drove motorbikes up the inside walls. Very few of those still exist, one can be found on the Munich Octoberfest every year - ruclips.net/video/6TwjL3Qt9zQ/видео.html
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Which City Would You Like to Visit in The 1940s ??
Knoxville TN, or Mamaroneck NY(a suburb of NYC) or anything in lower westchester county NY. Maybe Seattle or Miami too. Great nostalgia videos though!
I would like to see Baltimore, MD or Morgantown, WV from the 40s and back if possible. Your videos are wonderful- great job and thank you for sharing!
St Petersburg, Florida or any of those touristy cities in florida, wonder if it was any different to now
Los Alamos.
Baltimore
Apart from watching all the cars and architecture, what I find so fascinating is seeing all the people. They're not actors, they are just everyday people of that era going about their lives and just by chance a very small portion of it was caught on film, and here we are almost 80 years later watching them. i often wonder about where they are going and what they are thinking about. It also makes me think about my mom and dad. By the cars, I'm placing this about 1949 so my dad would have been 19 and my mom 16, their whole lives still ahead of them. Both are gone now, my dad at 83 and my mom at 88. It's so remarkable how you can remaster all this vintage footage and make it seem so real and lifelike. As someone who has always felt like he was born into the wrong era, I want to thank you for making it possible for me to go back in time, even if only for a few minutes!
This is one aspect of the video's I too love, seeing people going about there daily lives and one reason's I enjoy this channel, I often wonder what they got up to or how there life turned out, I'm from New Zealand and in 40's be lucky to have city like this let alone cars in such numbers or sights.
Hugo Brown, exactly my thought! So fascinating
@Camping Comrade 😂 😂 😂
In contrast to many cities SF looks basically the same 80 years later at least as far as streets and buildings go. Which makes it so much easier to relate to these videos. For some reason it makes me emotional memento mori -style to watch them. That world doesn't exist anymore and yet it feels so close. Those people who were so full of life are all gone now.
@Camping Comrade What a very racist comment!
What shocks me is the amount of Taxi cabs there are. Amazing work you did here thanks.
What a beautiful city then versus today! Remember visiting Frisco in the late 70’s for first time and was so impressed - clean,safe and beautiful!
As a history prof who specializes in WW2 and the early Cold War, these videos are priceless. Thank you.
Thank you
You’re welcome
how can you specialize in something if the true hasnt really been told.
WOW!!!! I saw a building in San Francisco that I once lived in back in the 70's. I remember walking the hill as a child to the grocery store. Didnt expect that!!!!!
My warmest thanks and continued admiration to NASS for his unceasing and perpetual efforts/talent in bringing us these amazing films. This truly is the best site on RUclips. We are all fortunate to be a part of it.
thank you very much! ;)
I love the Taxi Driver in the DeSoto Yellow Cab at 1:06 thru 1:12 mugging for the camera......could he ever have imagined that people would be watching in on screen 75 years later? Just amazing when you think of it.
Well, who knows what happens to all the videos that are made today, and what people will say about them in 70 years from now? And compared to the post war time, its a ginormous amount of video and photos that are made now. Lets hope the digital form of those will survive the time as well.
Very funny .... it's like if he was saying the camera "ok ! ok !! i stop there ! never mind..." I laughed too !!
the rage road was not existing yet... Only polite each other drivers....
It would be amazing if one of his decendants would recognize him
I always find solace in watching such rare scenes taken more than 77 years ago. I assume it must be around 1945. I love watching the way people go about walking swinging their hands with no sign of stress and worry on their faces. I also love the simple houses then. Even the plants and trees are worth watching. I sometimes feel, really feel that my soul is yearning to go back to live the in those lovely days. The Second World War must have just ended. I sometimes imagine what were those people in the scenes doing then. I really want to thank NASS for the great effort in producing this wonderful video. It is never boring to watch it again and again. God bless all the souls no longer alive today. May they rest in peace. Amen!
Those days were no different from now. They had their problems.
This was probably filmed around ‘49 or ‘50 as there’s a few cars of that vintage.
50-51 a lot of 1948 Plymouth dodge taxis
I agree with the others, I saw one 1949 or 1950 DeSoto, most of the DeSoto cabs were post war 1947 or 1948. There were a few of the 1948 or 1949 Studebakers too driving around.....so newer than 1945, it's Post WWII
Agree I love watching too especially the people and wonder what they got up too that day or there life in general
I Recognized San Francisco and lived 15 min north in Marin county in the 1960s. From the late 70s to the present it changed dramatically.
I don't know where you find these videos, but I greatly enjoy watching each one of them. People rode in style in those taxicabs!
As a former cabby I really enjoyed seeing those beautiful cabs.
thank you very much
@@mikeyh0 Yes me too. I used to work for what I call the Yellow Mafia 😄
@@davidkastin4240 I started in Las Vegas in 1983. That was a time. We never used the "M" word. And it's very true - what happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas. 👌🖖
FBI SURVEILANCE UNITS.
Another place and another time. I find these vids so intriguing!
What extraordinary compilations of high quality, beautifully photographed and splendidly developed scenes of yesteryear. I wish every city in the country did this kind of pictorial commentary for each year of their existence. What a wonderful library of the past we would have. I am amazed NASS hasn't been asked to use these films in major motion pictures. With computerized technologies, you could integrate actors and cars into these scenes without any need to build sets.
I can't believe how crisp this is. This could've been filmed yesterday.
The beginning of the first clip shows that even though all other car designs have changed dramatically, Jeeps have looked pretty much exactly the same for 80 years.
I am experiencing an eerie sensation while driving around this amusement park with no person to be seen, only the sense of the silent breeze across the ground. It is as if it has prepared itself and is now ready to be forever lost in time.
I was relocated to San Francisco by my company about 6 months ago and the urban landscapes look exactly the same. Most other cities knocked down all their old buildings and replaced them with ugly glass facades but not SF. I'm curious to know who was in charge of urban development in the city over the past half-century, whoever you are, hats off!
It strongly resembles an eastern Pennsylvanian city; not that esthetically appropriate for the west coast, I should say
San Francisco at a time when it was beautiful. Thank you for colorizing this 😊
Thx!!
San Francisco is still beautiful.
San Francisco is still beautiful.
@@bartonlee3594 Yes, the beautiful shell is still there, but it has lost its soul.
@@antoniahamilton3201 See my comment to Barton Lee.
tremendous video you can tell a lot of work went into this. huge thanks
thanks
It’s fascinating
Like and Share Please!
Perfect representation or not, I love the color effects you put into these!
Thank You
My late mom was born in 1930 southern California. That footage reminded me of The Pike in Long Beach. My mom told me that she would hang out at The Pike as a kid. She said she would talk to this very nice man. He told her all about his wife and kids. He would shoo her away when people crowded around. He had a naturally very hairy body, he wore chains and he would growl at the crowd. He was a sideshow freak, Hairy Gorilla Man or something like that.
Nass, One of my favorite cities, San Francisco. Thanks for another blast into the past. Would love to get into my Time Machine if I had one! 😊
Thanks!! ;)
Access to a Time Machine, and I'd have changed many things for the better of the Republic 👽🇺🇲
Tonga Room in San Francisco at 1:07 is still going strong. You can get a massive mai-tai cocktail at the Friday happy hour for only $10. Also, we lament the passing of Bunker Hill (including at 4:00) in L.A. due to the city fathers' complete lack of interest in preserving L.A. heritage and architecture.
Oh Thx!!!
But other than that, the City rivals Calcutta
I remember the Tonga room growing up in The City. Isn’t it downstairs in the Fairmont Hotel?
I thought that was an interesting few minutes of filming an old broken down house. I didn’t understand why the scene was so long. I did recognize L.A. City Hall in the background.
@@sfeddie1 Yes, downstairs at the Fairmont. They still have the boat show at night, too. Worth a visit if you have friends from out of town.
@@AutomatedPersonellUnit_3947 You really should move to a better neighborhood.
Dontcha just love those old style cars, still looking almost brand new. Fantastic footage. As far as picture quality goes, it looks as fresh as if it were filmed yesterday.
Filmed on 35mm film no doubt.
Love getting notifications from you, can't get enough of your videos.
I was at Grace Cathedral (right behind the Yellow Cab) @0:50 mark in August of this year, it's magnificent structure standing up close to it,
but also weird seeing it not finished in this video. Don't know where you get all these video but don't stop now, keep it coming. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much
@@NASS_0 the honor is mine.
Grace Cathedral was also where Barbara Eden married actor Michael Ansara in 1958. She is a San Francisco native who grew up there.
@@luislaplume8261 Learn something new everyday and Jeanie was my first crush growing up. Thank you for the infos.
@@luislaplume8261 I never knew those two got married. Awesome. :-)
Great footage of POP. Before it really started to decay
Great video nass, amazing footage, beautiful old cars👌, great work 👍👌😀
thank you very much
The streets with the cabs is a masterpiece.
Amazing work! I would love to see a 1930’s versus 2022 location comparison ..
Thanks
It's actually 1949 or 1950....but still very amazing!
@@OsbornTramain thanks ,I read it wrong …
@Camping Comrade The part of San Francisco that contains 99% of the homeless population in 2022 was a dicy area back even in the 50's so it's not seen in this video. Most of these street blocks in this video you can visit today and they look exactly the same, except there are Teslas driving up and down the street instead of 50's Chevys.
Just taller glass and steel skyscrapers that’s all
It is like watching a parallel universe through a screen.
Naam Tao Yes, indeed it is.
closest thing to a time machine.
I can't stress how much I loved the 3 stationary video scenes from 1:13 for the next few minutes. It's as though you just standing on the sidewalk as things are happening. For years I've always thought about what if you could just pick someone up and put them down in another time period, what would you observe about the people of that era. This is about as close as I'll ever get to doing that and it's so fascinating even though nothing actually seems to be happening to the people who are going about their daily lives.
Well at 1:25 mark guy stops and starts looking at camera, then 2:00 joins in another guy. Some how reminds me Men in Black movie lol.
Nearly "soap-opera-effect" in a recording before the advent of video tape (1951). "Remastered," no joke! Kudos!!
California used to be beautiful and respected.
Until Democrats came and ruined it all.
Not sure if anyone's already mentioned this but the later half of this video was of Ocean Park Pier, Santa Monica which shutdown & sold in the mid 50s. Pacific Ocean Park was built on the same pier & along the beach from Santa Monica to Venice Beach & rivaled Disneyland until it shutdown in the late 60s. The dilapidated buildings & pier burned down in the mid 70s leaving just a part of the pier remaining which is now known as Santa Monica Pier, unless it's changed in the last 20yrs I've been away.
Always nice to time travel via your channel
Thank you again for the great ride-along....such great memories for me...too bad we didn't get a chance to see "Laffing Sal".
Thx!!!
At about 4 minutes the operator shows for several seconds some bushes in front of an abandoned house... Pure poetry!
fantastic video👍
Fascinating as always BUT...Nass, are you sure the footage of all the massed taxicabs across from a hotel at 2:33 to about 3:50 is California? It looks more like New York to me. The street is made of dark paving stones, the men on the opposite sidewalk are mostly wearing topcoats, there is a Rheingold Beer truck (well-known New York brewery) and a truck that says "Crawford Clothes" - which was based in New York in the 1940's (I checked). Just wondering.
You are correct. The "Skyview" taxi cabs were exclusive to NYC. You also see 2 1950 Checker A2 cabs which were not used significantly in California but were everywhere in Chicago and New York City. That one scene is from NYC....besides the Rheingold truck also being a give away.
@@OsbornTramain Thanks, Osborn. Although you just see the letters "ST" after "hotel" on the sign, I assume it was possibly the Statler or Statler Hilton Hotel at 7th Ave. and 33rd Street. That would've been about 1950.
Another great video really enjoyed wonder if some of these places and buildings are still around, as always thanks for your hard work and sharing with us this moment in time and as always great seeing the people walking about
thank you very much!
people didn't seem to be in much of a hurry back then, I love it
With AI technology coming along in leaps and bounds, will there be a time when we can go back to this era with the assistance of AI headsets and immerse ourselves in this world? There's enough film footage and stills around to help recreate the era. Maybe beyond our time, Web 3 users will choose to virtually live in the world that best simulates this era for its style and simplicity. The juxtaposition of using the latest tech to go back before tech. Great video! Thanks for bringing it to life!
imagine finding these locations and shooting new video and merging, inter-mixing with the old video at the same location. that would be cool!
that's crazy, looks like we are in the same city in just another era... Like no other old film can let us feel. This kind of edit make it looks like so actual and immersive
Opening looks like the street scene from the movie Bullitt, with Steve McQueen.
Here is a challenge for all who love that chase scene. Count the number of VW’s in that scene. Background, foreground, parked or driving. Bugs, vans, karmen ghias. After watching numerous times and using pause and rewind I counted…..I’m not telling I want your number. Hint there is one that is shown twice and didn’t get edited out.
This is great. Maybe the highlights are a little bit overcorrected (maybe more than a little) but you probably know a lot more about it than me.
Very late 1940's, 1948 Chevy/GMC pickup 1:57. Amazing footage!
Another masterpiece!! Those were the days when women were WOMEN and man were MEN, all well dressed, clean, pristine, elegant. Streets were calm and a post war quietness was percieved. You can feel the "inocence" of people, the candidness....A whole nation of progress was emerging with many changes ahead.. Never stop saying to myself 1940s-1960s was the right era to have lived on and not this dirty crazyness we live on now...Only in dreams were possible to travel to past.. but this changed with your videos... Now IT IS POSSIBLE.. thanks a lot
Thank You
That's the potent influence of unbridled nostalgia talking, my friend. For a host of people, the time period you consider to be the "right era to have lived in" was one of world war, genocide, systemic racism, polio, institutionalized homophobia (see Lavender Papers for reference), Red Scare witch trials, suffocating air pollution (e.g., 1966 NYC smog), urban decline, and the existential threat of Nuclear Annihilation. Every historic era holds alluring aspects that attract people having jaded views about contemporary society to life in an era distinct from one's own and motivate romantic notions of what life must've been like for the average person, but such conceptions are largely the stuff of imagination. Most popular conceptions of the past are based more in the realms of personal fantasy and nostalgia than in hard, bare-faced historic facts and truths. Nostalgia and romanticization of the past are nothing new. Many Victorians, disheartened and startled by the quickening pace of life brought about by technological marvels like the steam engine and telegraph, longed for a return to an eighteenth century they perceived as being more gentle, relaxed, and tranquil. Of course, these backward looking Victorians neglected to mention in their nostalgic writings the highly unpleasant realities of life in the preceding century, like high infant/childhood mortality rates, regular outbreaks of plague, endemic smallpox, the ubiquity of illiberal penal punishments, and the frustrating burden of long-distance travel and communication. As far as the problems of the modern era are concerned, I for one will take the uncertainties today over the injustices and horrors of yesteryear.
Really good post. Thank you. I totally agree, but also respect that considering the better aspects of the past can help us work towards a better version of today and tomorrow. Nostalgia has its place in helping us recognise the not so good parts of today. We can all take small steps to valuing the best of the past…..
Indeed. People had morals and higher standards for personal behavior then.
Stunning work ❤
I would love to see Christmas footage from these places during this era. It was so wholesome and folks TRULY meant peace on Earth GOOD WILL toward men. A time when children's eyes were filled with wonder and amazement, hopes and dreams, faces mashed against the glass while imagining themselves Christmas Morning with one of the toys in the window ... Such a time of peace and hope. I'd love to see some footage from different places of that time. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful time, when people cared and life was kinder.
Be blessed
Superb quality picture.
The film is at least 1949 as shown by a 1949 Packard Eight taxi cab.
0:47 San Francisco. I recognized that Right turn was from North-bound Mason street (which, today, runs One Way South bound) onto East bound on California street. The Cable Car tracks in the street and Grace Cathedral on the Right are distinguishing features.
WOW 😮😳 IT'S LIKE GOING ON A TIME MACHINE TO BACK IN THE DAY. AWESOME 😎
In special, I like the model of the Cars, thank You, thank You so much
Hace 82 años de este video... La gente que sale ahí o ya está muerta o los más jóvenes en ese momento ahora están entre los 80 y 90 años...
I grew up with the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
but this looks WAY better.
Incredible content
I devour all of your output
Thank you
Mark England
the video is so clear it looks like it was just made i dont know how you do this nass, but glad you do amazing as always
Wow this was amazing to watch!!
thank you very much
Some interesting choices made by this camera man. Fascinating to see it as 'real' as this.
0:08 all the cars have changed, but the Jeep still looks the same 😂
Just don't do any "jumps" like the films of that original one in today's (or you will end up with a pile of broken plastic on the road)
@@RetroCaptain the rise and fall of plastic
Imagine disposable plastic forks being regarded as some splendid futuristic thing back in the era where this video is from
The amusement park at the end of the video, completely empty, sunny, has an absolute metaphysical magic.
Look at how focused the people are. Completely undistracted. That’s why people had better control of things back then
Stupendous! One of your very best!
Fascinating to me.
I'm so curious, what were all these videos taken for originally? Student film projects?
Background shots for movies.
Hollywood made thousands of hours of film like this, it is known generally as "Second Unit" work. Either spliced into movies, or in the case of the one at POP, that would be projected onto a screen behind a vehicle in a sound stage where the actors would be interacting. That is why many like that show two or three different angles. One if looking at the actors to the rear of the car, another if looking at an actor from the side.
That is why the vast majority were taken around LA in the "Studio Zone". That is 30 miles from Hollywood or less. Also known as the "Thrity Mile Zone", that is where TMZ got their name from.
@@michaelmartin4552 Interesting! Thanks for that.
It's fascinating that these cinematographers had no idea people in the future would watch it in this way.
@@bencinnamon Rear projection is fascinating, and is still used to this day. There are some great videos in her eon how it is done.
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In 1948, the price for a gallon of gas was .25¢. Today, the average price in US for a gallon of gas is $3.29, which you could still buy for a pre '65 silver quarter and have (cupronickel) change to spare! It's not the gas or the silver that has changed. it's the fiat (money backed by nothing) dollars that have lost their value.
its the tribe that did that and print more to bankrupt you
I need a time machine just to go back there and see pigs slide! 7:19
Thanks Nass! 🤠👍
At that amusement park, us kids had to pay 25 cents to see the rare heavy tattood woman. Now it is free and in abundance.
Was the "Guess your Weight" game there?
Priceless comment!!!
And the bearded lady.
Great. Thanks for sharing.
LOTS OF 1946/47 DESOTO TAXIS !
Wow theres something a bit Spooky about your vids. I wish Grandad was still around to see these. Keep up the awesome work guys.
Beautiful. The cabs were my favorite as a former taxi driver. Where did you get this? An amazing find.
thank you very much
Time travel 🤔
No homeless encampments, 400 lb people in latex, flash mobs, carjackings, transgenders, tattoos, nose rings..........paradise.
Wow! That's the Grace Cathedral before it was finished! I lived near it growing up and it's so cool to see footage of that area pre-modern times
The Jeep at the beginning of this video looked like it had come from the Future
Back to the future 👍👽
Indeed
Man, those things are timeless.
Got to admire Jeep. They kept the same basic look for 70 years.
37silverstreek1: Well said 🌹 👏
Good analysis of 82 years ago era. Almost I have similar feelings
I love these videos and can't imagine the work involved in re mastering these.
I have been to San Francisco many times over the years. I have loved its quirky people and old buildings. In 2010, we saw several naked men just minding their business, and no one even cared. The last time I went was in 2014. I can not speak of how it is now. But in my previous trips, it was cleaner than most other cities. I didn't see any homeless. I am sure that they were there, I just didn't see them.
0:05 San Francisco
1:11 Los Angeles downtown (Second Street)
2:33 ?
3:52 Los Angeles downtown (Bunker Hill)
5:18 Not Pacific Ocean Park, but perhaps Long Beach, with its Pike and Whip roller-coasters?
Wow - spectacular, thanks so much for posting.
How much i wish go the time back to this year.. i m sure how the people then lived very nice,very harmony,i don't care if now i was dead,but i was very lucky 😔😔😔💜
Wow San Francisco! And look how people are dressed. Men in suits and women in dresses. Men even wore suits to baseball games. Loved how people dressed back then, classy. They gave a d*** about how they looked. Yeah women were dresses now, but they were classy back then.
I think the amusement park at the end was Long Beach. Ala the movie 1941.
Fun Fact: You can find Codsworth as a companion near the arcade.
I was born in the 80s but wow i love those cars. They are beautiful. I love this era. I like that cool Jeep at the beginning. Not from Cali but what is that tall white building? I see it in alot of movies. That city hall?
Mr. Koda, don’t know where you’re referring to but it’s probably the Mark Hopkins hotel or the old Ferry Building Terminal at the base of Market Street at the piers. I don’t see City Hall in this piece but it’s probably the most beautiful City Hall as well as Los Angeles’ City Hall in the entire country for a large City although San Francisco with the beautiful roof is indeed probably the most beautiful in San Francisco. Philadelphia also has a beautiful City Hall too.
Notice the yellow stop sign at right at 0.27. When last does anyone remember these as standard?
@@OSTARAEB4 at 5:00 mark that tall building in the back.
@@Hey_its_Koda It could be the back of the Mark Hopkins Hotel but I’m somewhat doubtful. It’s not the Ferry Building I mentioned either and it’s definitely not SF City Hall. I don’t have a definite answer for you.
@@OSTARAEB4 ahh ok.
The reason why people seemed so carefree was that there was no cell phones or internet.
When one left the house, they were free. Freedom was real then. No one could track you down or call you.
People kept their word. People helped each other. Satan was not yet let loosed.
"Satan was not yet let loosed"
@@TheDanEdwards Oh, I beg to differ.
I love the old buildings and the sloping streets.
Like a peek back to life in January February 1950 by the looks. Nobody shouting burning fighting shooting just quietly going about their day.
Clean streets, no graffiti no homeless or drug addicts, American cars, nice place back then, some people had it tough, but overall it was a great time in America, long gone, what it was then and what it is now.🎤🎶🎵🎶🎥👀
I would like any city of that time. Thanks.
This has to be SF. No other city in US has undulating streets like this
I do have a fascination about time and place and to think that, that happened here or there! Thank you for this treasure of a previous time, almost like a different fairytale film, although I would say times were tough enough back then. From someone who is also filming my city in Dublin,Ireland, can anyone tell from this footage of what type of film and camera would have been used at this time to make these clips? Note: It looks like a passer-by is giving the cameraman a wave at 4 mins 18seconds in! Great stuff!
This is beautiful art. It makes me cry
Filming starts at junction of Sutter St & Mason St, car then turns right onto California St with Grace Cathedral on the right, formerly millionaires row Nob Hill, the Flood House can be seen on the right rebuilt after the quake and fire of 1906, It is now the Pacific-Union Club.
Imagine 80, 90, 100 years from now people watching videos of us in the 2020's.
and shaking their heads, screaming 'hold the bloody camera horizontally you morons'
Love it thx🎉
Thanks!!!
Post war, definately. Some weird scenes again, with a clear purpose in mind, probably for use as backdrops in movies. Who else would film a bunch of weeds on the corner of a shabby house - and that in professional quality?
Interesting to see the amusement park, even if it is closed. Although its a permanent thing, it all looks kind of improvised. That large round wooden structure, where 2 of the clips start, is a thing in which stunt guys drove motorbikes up the inside walls. Very few of those still exist, one can be found on the Munich Octoberfest every year - ruclips.net/video/6TwjL3Qt9zQ/видео.html
Glorious!
The Jeep was like from the future, with the pure white color
I feel my self travelling in time machine, thank you👏👏👏
thank you very much