It must have been wonderful to live in sunny california in the fifties if you had a job and were young and healthy...and not here in the freezy Sweden 🥶
After moving to Los Angeles in February 1963, I took a job at an oil company in downtown Los Angeles. The city looked pretty much the same in 1963 as it does in this video. It was a very exciting place for a girl from San Bernardino County, which is east of L.A. Couldn't afford a car, so I rode all over L.A. on the excellent bus system. I often visited stores along Sunset Boulevard. One summer I rode a bus for about an hour and a half from downtown to Santa Monica every weekend to go to the beach. It was a wonderful time to be alive.
I went to CA (1961) as a 13 yr old from Montana--it was my first big trip and when we got to LA it was like being in heaven. MT was cold but LA was like a perfect summer--life was so different and comfortable. We visited friends and they had four Honda 50s--I had never seen one but the kids were allowed to drive em whenever they wanted--so we went to the beach every day for hours. When we were hungry we got hot dogs at the beach. In those days you could build a bonfire in the sand and make food--everyone was generous to teens at the beach--there was music everywhere, folk music and surf guitar, it was so damned cool! Everyone wore cutoffs, the girls wore bikini tops, we had sandals made from car tire treads. There was only one rule--get back to the house when the street lights came on. I had my first love then--it was the perfect existence in my memory.
Mr. Shoe. Thanks for that. A well written memory, of LA times past, from a 13 yr old kid who landed there. I did too; a bit later than you, but LA hit all the right notes for me in 1980. Ended up working there for 25 years. I'm an Angeleno forever. Still have my 2 1 3 ph number. I can relate to the Honda 50s. I used to ride around on a Honda 90
It was, and I don't want a single self witty thinking condescending response to mention race or sexism because one of those didn't even exist, and racism was no wide spread by any means. Did exist in Los Angeles at the time though but more in the form of segregating.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Yes by that time California had left eugenics and sterilization behind after WW2. Just goes to show that even then, Californians were on the cutting edge of stupidity.
Even the palm trees looked better in the old days. Thicker, Fuller, better in the old days. Now even palm trees look like they’ve been smoking crack…..aah the old days
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If the difference from 1950 to 2020 boggles your mind, you could profit from going back another seventy years. That will bring you into a world without _any cars_ at all...
I mean, it really was a different time and children were less likely to be jumped by sex predators, sex traffics and gang violence that would increased through the late-ish 70s and 1980s getting worse while illegals are allow to do whatever they want now.@@HansDunkelberg1 It might not have been a utopia in america, but at least people had faith in the future as time progressed into the late 20th of what life would be like with machines unfolding a new era that could of existed.
Because in the 50s, there had not yet been that stupid "sexual revolution", there was no Drug Culture, criminals were not considered to be "heroes", PARENTS, NOT THE KIDS, were the boss, most mature adult American-born males were union members, and Japanese cars were subject to tariffs. Only bad thing is that you had to be White in order to really enjoy the 50s.
It wasn't that civil. Conformity was the rule of the day. Homosexuality was a crime. Redlined districts openly discriminated against Black, Latino and the working class. Civility. Where? I was there when teachers punished kids who had learning disabilities, ADHD, and mild autism. Better not be diagnosed or they would institutionalize you, and subject you to ECT(it was not mild) , Thorazine and lobotomy
Even to someone watching from over 5000 miles away in the UK, there are so many historical landmarks contained in this video that are just so wonderful to see such as Ciros Nightclub and Schwabbs Drugstore. Absolutely fabulous video😀
Wow I drive thru there almost everyday how so much has changed! I like looking at the palm trees from the 50s to see them so tall now so fascinating! I really love the old light lamp/posts wish they never changed them!
That reminds me of the baby palm tree I planted in our yard in SoCal in about 1982. It was in a gallon bucket and was only about a foot tall with one frond on top about the size of my hand. When we moved away in 1988 it was about four feet tall and doing well. I didn't return to that neighborhood again until 2006, when I went back specifically to see how my tree was doing. We came around the corner and I couldn't believe it. The pitiful little tree I had planted out of a bucket in 1982 was about 40 feet tall. Unfortunately that area was being redeveloped and by the time I came back in 2010 the tree was gone. Mature, healthy palms are valuable to developers and landscapers though, and easy to more if you have the right equipment, so I'm hoping it got moved rather than cut down.
I have driven up and down that stretch of Sunset probably a thousand times over the 20 years I worked in that area. So cool to see what was there before at so many different locations. Well done, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It shows how much things changed over time. Even the Rockford Files TV Show intro is now considered "Vintage" even though it happened a quarter of the century later. There were not tents in that intro, but there was trash strewn near the parked Police Car. The steady quality of life decline has made many to desire to reverse time to the 1950s.
The Rockford Files is such a great SoCal time capsule because they shot most of the outdoor scenes in and around L.A. instead of on a fakey studio backlot. I sometimes watch it just because it reminds me of when I first moved to SoCal 42 years ago. The downside was, all of that "on location" shooting made it a far more expensive show to produce than those that never left studio property, but that's the way the show's producers wanted it done for added realism. Adam 12 also did some on-location filming, but also quite a bit of backlot shooting with the same fake houses and streets you see in many other movies and TV shows from that period.
This is some great footage.. I used to sell Chevrolets at Schonlaw Chevrolet in the early and mid 1980s, 7575 Sunset Blvd, 8:40 time stamp.. which was closer to the the original video time wise than it is to now.. Schonlaw Chevrolet is now long gone. How time flies.
Woodie at 0:46, convertible Sportsman woodie at 0:59, tin woodie at 3:09, tin woodie at 4:05, Ford/Mercury woodie at 4:38, tin woodie at 6:37, Ford woodie at 7:41, black painted woodie at 12:06, tin woodie at 13:14 & 13:26. Most woodies I've seen on any vintage drive. Love the old signs, so much more character.
I remember standing up in the back seat of my dad's Chrysler staring out the back window. There were no seat belts then. Whenever people visited, my dad would drive them down Sunset & Hollywood Blvds. I remember Curry's Ice Cream Shops, Thrifimart & Safeway Stores. Traffic lights had Stop & Go Flags until the mid '50's. Traffic wasn't so bad then & there was no ac in cars. John Belushi died of an accidental OD at the Chateau Marmont in '82. Time brings about change. Thanks for sharing.
I'm 65 years old, and just old enough to remember an uncluttered, and clean Los Angeles. We'll never be able to recapture that time, Los Angeles is a bonafide world city now and that status comes with as much bad as it does good. But sometimes, SOMETIMES on a slow weekend afternoon, I can still feel that L.A. vibe of being a laid back, quirky but tranquil town it once was.
My grandmother said the same thing during the start of the pandemic when LA was shutdown. She even went for a drive on her own, something she stopped doing long ago because of how busy it is now.
Its fascinating to see some buildings that look old-fashioned in 2020s weren't even built yet in 1952. You see architectural styles of the late 50s and 60s and 70s, and think they are so long ago...
Love back in the days even though I wasn't born in that time but looking at this back in time videos life such a peaceful and beautiful at the same time.
I live in Los Angeles and I have to say I love these type of videos. LA at it's glory days, the streets are clean, not much traffic and best of all NO TENTS!!! on the sidewalk or mentally ill cracked out people wondering in the middle of the street arguing with themselves.
Singin' in the Rain & The Pride of St. Louis are playing at The Oriental Theatre at 7:54 ~ would make this after ealy May of 1952 if the pictures were on their first run.
I was watching it VERY carefully for '53 Fords and Chevs - easy to identify. Saw 1 53 Ford. So apparently this was shot at the beginning of the 52 - 53 model year changover. Which occurred in early Oct back then.
Well, at least the Packard auto dealership building survived on the left corner at 1:25 but not the car manufacturer. Hey, note that some of the traffic lights with the "STOP-GO" semaphores such as at 3:03. These were last used in the L.A. area in 1956. Thanks for sharing!
The De Soto dealership in Whittier, Calif. stood for years after the car ceased production in 1961. Although the showroom was empty, on the wall was a bust of Hernando de Soto, that was kept illuminated for all those years.
I've always wondered why they couldn't have introduced an 'amber' phase into those basic "stop/go" traffic signals, British-style. Drivers would then have had more time to prepare to stop at road junctions.
Im a nostalgic person, and love the days of old. I hate seeing buildings of grander no longer there, especially in LA LA LAND, but everything serves its purpose. Lets dont fool ourselves though, as innocent as this video appears, the woes of today, were there too back then.
Wow! This should be compulsory viewing for every city planner. How civilised it looked in the 1950s and how tawdry so much of it looks today. It's not completely beyond repair. If only the horrible billboards could be torn down, the signage improved, the street furniture made elegant and legislation brought in to control some of the hideously presented commercial buildings. LA needs someone with vision who understands the importance of aesthetics, sight lines, elegance and style.
@@gaminghedgehog6384The U.S. has been plundered since the capitalists/corporate oligarchs began running amok in the '90s. Their 'asset-stripping' ethos has left the country a debt-burdened train wreck: someone summed it up as "Brazil with nukes"
They were the same trees- but they didn't use to cut off the dead lower branches so they look much more lush as I thought as well. They say it's to prevent rats and stuff, but it's too bad. They still occasionally leave the dead leaves in palms in California, but it's rare in the cities.
@@EJofLA Although it doesn't carry the virus, the California tree rat is the same species that brought the bubonic plague to Europe beginning in the fourteenth century. The masses of dead fronds remind them of the thatched roofs of medieval Europe.
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Very cool. My time on Sunset was in the sixties. We spent the night hitchhiking up and down the Blvd or standing on the island at Crescent Heights selling the LA Free Press to passerbys. I got a nickel for every copy that I sold. I'd take my earrings around the corner to Harry's Open Pit Bbq for fries and a Coke. Life was good!
GREAT VIDEO !!! IN MY LA. CA. WHERE I LIVE .. THE TRAFFIC THEN WAS'NT CRAZY NOW IT IS.... MY SON MAX 7YR.S OLD LOVES THIS VIDEO AND WHERE WE LIVE AND THE MUSIC!!!!>>>>>..I LOVE THE CARS ,, I ONLY DRIVE OLD CARS ,, 1958 DODGE CUSTOM ROYALE SWEEP WINGS,,,.. AND A 1978 BUICK SKYLARK,,.. WE ARE LOOKING FOR THEM,,.......WHAT A CHANGE OLD BUILDINGS GONE NEW CRAPPY ONE ARE HERE,,...THIS LOOKS SO REAL 3-D.. MY SON SAYS WHERE ARE THESE CARS NOW I SAID MOST ARE ALL GONE CRUSHED ..ALOT OF THESE HOUSES ON THE SIDES ARE GONE AND PEOPLE DO PASS EACH OTHER AND DONT USE SIGNIALS L OR R .. GREAT VIDEO WE ENJOYED IT MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ........ NO 1958 DODGE..
So cool. The then-and-now makes it that much more fun to watch. My mom used to have a coffee shop on Sunset next to The Old Spaghetti Factory so Hollywood was my old stomping grounds.
Intriguing video, and I enjoy the before/after shots. So many interesting points of interest, including a car dealership and gas station seemingly on every block 😄
Very well done, it was a nicer city with lower buildings and at that time the US car manufacturers dare to use design and colour for a more beautiful auto world🤩
You should notice, though, that cars and hoods with high, vertical windshields and frontal ends pose a particular danger to children. Chances shrink that a (small) person hit by such a vehicle profits from being catapulted onto the hood and against a but slightly rising windshield.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Indeed! And another progress of our time likely to reduce damage from such an accident is that you overcome the moment of shock which robs you of precious time when a human being steers the car.
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This is so cool. I live on Laurel Just a half a block from Sunset. It's a trip to see the corners of my street used to look like. I get my hair cut in the complex that replaced the one where Schwab's used to be. The liquor store on the left is now The Laugh Factory. Very cool. Thanks for posting!
I like to eat an In n out double double and walk off Sunset Blvd once a month. I saw the original footage few years ago I used to compare in my mind what you have done. Thanks..
Great video...and thx for sharing. I like how you nailed the focal length in the before/after freeze frames...and came back with just enough time for us to take in the new scene before taking us back to the nostalgic cruise scene. Nicely done. The colorization was spot on, too...enough to feel nostalgic without being a distraction...prefect. Home run!
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this is Awesome looks like things were a lot calmer and nicer years ago it went from nice cars to cheap overpriced so-called cars the trees even look healthier and nicer back then people I'm sure were nicer
Excellent video...thanks for posting. I grew up in LA during the 60's, so this comparison video is so cool. Something I miss in the current day film, are those old street lights. Replaced by better, more illuminating lights for good reasons...I get it, but I still miss those old art deco styled street lamps.
When I was little ,my parents drove down. Sunset in the 50's. It was very fancy than.More laid back, because it didn't have a population explosion til the 60's . You could see big changes in the 60's ,where it was getting more trashy,and more people,and problems. So whoever did this video, you ,did a great job, comparing,the 50's to now. You made it look so real. Excellent Job!!!!!!
You are correct about the Washingtonia Palms. They were much nicer back in the 1950`s. I have noticed that some of those Washingtonia palms are still in place but are much taller. However, they are not looking very healthy at all. Instead of full lush fronds, they are pale and thin. I believe it`s all due to lack of water and minerals in the soil. From what I have been told, over 50 years ago, Southern California actually received much more rain during the rainy season than it does now.
They are- you can tell. They grow very slowly. It takes decades for them to get that tall. They just cut off the lower branches now so they look different.
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![California 1952, Hollywood to Sunset Strip in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YM5A4TamTzo/mqdefault.jpg)
I have always missed the world before I existed
The average advertising sign back then was more aesthetically pleasing than all of LA today.
Me also. 😉😅😂🤣
So am I too
It must have been wonderful to live in sunny california in the fifties if you had a job and were young and healthy...and not here in the freezy Sweden 🥶
This comment gives one pause. For me it paused my breath, my heart skipping a beat. Poetry! plain and simple.
After moving to Los Angeles in February 1963, I took a job at an oil company in downtown Los Angeles. The city looked pretty much the same in 1963 as it does in this video. It was a very exciting place for a girl from San Bernardino County, which is east of L.A. Couldn't afford a car, so I rode all over L.A. on the excellent bus system. I often visited stores along Sunset Boulevard. One summer I rode a bus for about an hour and a half from downtown to Santa Monica every weekend to go to the beach. It was a wonderful time to be alive.
I was a teen in the 70’s , it was a wonderful time to be in Southern California
I went to CA (1961) as a 13 yr old from Montana--it was my first big trip and when we got to LA it was like being in heaven. MT was cold but LA was like a perfect summer--life was so different and comfortable. We visited friends and they had four Honda 50s--I had never seen one but the kids were allowed to drive em whenever they wanted--so we went to the beach every day for hours. When we were hungry we got hot dogs at the beach. In those days you could build a bonfire in the sand and make food--everyone was generous to teens at the beach--there was music everywhere, folk music and surf guitar, it was so damned cool! Everyone wore cutoffs, the girls wore bikini tops, we had sandals made from car tire treads. There was only one rule--get back to the house when the street lights came on. I had my first love then--it was the perfect existence in my memory.
Mr. Shoe. Thanks for that. A well written memory, of LA times past, from a 13 yr old kid who landed there. I did too; a bit later than you, but LA hit all the right notes for me in 1980. Ended up working there for 25 years. I'm an Angeleno forever. Still have my 2 1 3 ph number. I can relate to the Honda 50s. I used to ride around on a Honda 90
I was station at the Long Beach Naval station from 1986 to 88 California was great. I can believe how much its changed .
Wow this is an awesome read. I’m 31 currently and can confirm none of what you just said can ever happen today lol
Unfortunately, L.A. is a cesspool now.
well written
Take me back to the 1950s for the better people.
when we were taxed over 50%?
Take me back to the 1950s for the better people. > Let me guess youre black ?!
50s California must have been glorious.
It was.
It was, and I don't want a single self witty thinking condescending response to mention race or sexism because one of those didn't even exist, and racism was no wide spread by any means. Did exist in Los Angeles at the time though but more in the form of segregating.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Yes by that time California had left eugenics and sterilization behind after WW2. Just goes to show that even then, Californians were on the cutting edge of stupidity.
@@esteban1487 cutting block of stupidity, probably the fumes from smog driving the city mad.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar I won't let myself prescribe what I have to think.
As a person that lives in LA, this was a joy to watch. Such a different time.
Thanks, Max. Me too. A great retrospective of our (still wonderful) City.
It looks absolutely stunning. I can almost visualise Humphrey Bogart driving around. Greetings from the Emerald Isl
@@anthonymullen6300 *Bogart
I live here as well & agree 💯% !!
This was soo cool to watch!! 😎
Indeed!!!
Even the palm trees looked better in the old days. Thicker, Fuller, better in the old days. Now even palm trees look like they’ve been smoking crack…..aah the old days
See comment above
wonder when they replaced those beautiful palms in front of Hollywood High!? they were so thick and tall back then, now they look thin and scruffy 🌴🌴🌴
@@charlespatrick8650 The old thick ones are still there. They just look skinny comparatively without the old fronds.
Amen
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Looks so much cleaner in the 1950s, better then I reckon, less fear, crime and more fun back then
The image quality of the 1952 footage is excellent.
feel more peace watching the 50s.
It's mind boggling how it's still the same planet but completely different worlds.
If the difference from 1950 to 2020 boggles your mind, you could profit from going back another seventy years. That will bring you into a world without _any cars_ at all...
I mean, it really was a different time and children were less likely to be jumped by sex predators, sex traffics and gang violence that would increased through the late-ish 70s and 1980s getting worse while illegals are allow to do whatever they want now.@@HansDunkelberg1 It might not have been a utopia in america, but at least people had faith in the future as time progressed into the late 20th of what life would be like with machines unfolding a new era that could of existed.
Because in the 50s, there had not yet been that stupid "sexual revolution", there was no Drug Culture, criminals were not considered to be "heroes", PARENTS, NOT THE KIDS, were the boss, most mature adult American-born males were union members, and Japanese cars were subject to tariffs. Only bad thing is that you had to be White in order to really enjoy the 50s.
My grandparents, two of whom I knew in the 1950s, started life in the 1870s/1880s, long before cars.
Beauty & civility gone. What a shame.
It wasn't that civil. Conformity was the rule of the day. Homosexuality was a crime. Redlined districts openly discriminated against Black, Latino and the working class. Civility. Where? I was there when teachers punished kids who had learning disabilities, ADHD, and mild autism. Better not be diagnosed or they would institutionalize you, and subject you to ECT(it was not mild) , Thorazine and lobotomy
Lived in LA all my life, and it looks 100% better then 1960.
1950s were a beautiful time
not for black folks.
The best time the U.S. ever!
Yeah best time in the US👴🏻
People used to put their passion into everything until when 60s 70s 80s 90s people changed deside to destroy the passion that people worked so hard on
agree. then slowly the darkness started pouring in to where now its a flood of barbarians pouring in from the invasion from the southern 'border'
Wow ..old look 1000 times more classy. New look like some getho
Even to someone watching from over 5000 miles away in the UK, there are so many historical landmarks contained in this video that are just so wonderful to see such as Ciros Nightclub and Schwabbs Drugstore. Absolutely fabulous video😀
I used to live a block from Ciro's, only at the time, it was Art Laboe's nightclub. I went to Schwab's Drugstore for my pharmaceuticals.
Wow I drive thru there almost everyday how so much has changed! I like looking at the palm trees from the 50s to see them so tall now so fascinating! I really love the old light lamp/posts wish they never changed them!
@@ErikThomasMusic oh no I would of took that lamp home lol
That reminds me of the baby palm tree I planted in our yard in SoCal in about 1982. It was in a gallon bucket and was only about a foot tall with one frond on top about the size of my hand. When we moved away in 1988 it was about four feet tall and doing well. I didn't return to that neighborhood again until 2006, when I went back specifically to see how my tree was doing. We came around the corner and I couldn't believe it. The pitiful little tree I had planted out of a bucket in 1982 was about 40 feet tall. Unfortunately that area was being redeveloped and by the time I came back in 2010 the tree was gone. Mature, healthy palms are valuable to developers and landscapers though, and easy to more if you have the right equipment, so I'm hoping it got moved rather than cut down.
@@662wc5 aww poor tree I love Palm Trees!
my grandpa built 2 of the buildings in this video. so proud.
Which two ?
I have driven up and down that stretch of Sunset probably a thousand times over the 20 years I worked in that area. So cool to see what was there before at so many different locations. Well done, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It shows how much things changed over time. Even the Rockford Files TV Show intro
is now considered "Vintage" even though it happened a quarter of the century later.
There were not tents in that intro, but there was trash strewn near the parked Police Car.
The steady quality of life decline has made many to desire to reverse time to the 1950s.
Also the show Adam 12 had good shots of 60's LA. Someone did a video which is on RUclips showing scenes from the show and comparing it to today.
The Rockford Files is such a great SoCal time capsule because they shot most of the outdoor scenes in and around L.A. instead of on a fakey studio backlot. I sometimes watch it just because it reminds me of when I first moved to SoCal 42 years ago. The downside was, all of that "on location" shooting made it a far more expensive show to produce than those that never left studio property, but that's the way the show's producers wanted it done for added realism. Adam 12 also did some on-location filming, but also quite a bit of backlot shooting with the same fake houses and streets you see in many other movies and TV shows from that period.
This is some great footage.. I used to sell Chevrolets at Schonlaw Chevrolet in the early and mid 1980s, 7575 Sunset Blvd, 8:40 time stamp.. which was closer to the the original video time wise than it is to now.. Schonlaw Chevrolet is now long gone. How time flies.
Woodie at 0:46, convertible Sportsman woodie at 0:59, tin woodie at 3:09, tin woodie at 4:05, Ford/Mercury woodie at 4:38, tin woodie at 6:37, Ford woodie at 7:41, black painted woodie at 12:06, tin woodie at 13:14 & 13:26. Most woodies I've seen on any vintage drive. Love the old signs, so much more character.
Compare to today, Honda Civics ruling the road.
Sounds like this video gives you many woodies! 😁😁
Studebaker at 4:50 haha
Did you miss the Nash Suburban around 6:40? That is one rare car
I talked to an old man And he told me that he remembered picking up Woody's for $300 I told him that I wish that I had that opportunity
It looked much better in the 1950s, of course, better cars, better signage, less visual clutter, more dignified pedestrians. We haven't improved.
better cars? Are you nuts?
@@travis8665 likely cheaper to run and work on.
@@travis8665 More enjoyable, better looking,
Better cars? OK boomer....
@@phazerbrains hahahaha another softy newborn xD
I remember standing up in the back seat of my dad's Chrysler staring out the back window. There were no seat belts then. Whenever people visited, my dad would drive them down Sunset & Hollywood Blvds. I remember Curry's Ice Cream Shops, Thrifimart & Safeway Stores. Traffic lights had Stop & Go Flags until the mid '50's. Traffic wasn't so bad then & there was no ac in cars. John Belushi died of an accidental OD at the Chateau Marmont in '82. Time brings about change. Thanks for sharing.
I ate plenty of Curry's ice cream.
John Bleushis death was over 40 yrs ago....The 50's were a decade closer to Belushis time, than we are now.
Outstanding, looking at the past and future at the same time! Keep showing more of this!!
That's the plan. Unfortunately, not many of quality old videos out there on which you can identify places and tie them together with today's views.
I like that much has been preserved.
Where do you see the future, in this video?
I'm 65 years old, and just old enough to remember an uncluttered, and clean Los Angeles. We'll never be able to recapture that time, Los Angeles is a bonafide world city now and that status comes with as much bad as it does good. But sometimes, SOMETIMES on a slow weekend afternoon, I can still feel that L.A. vibe of being a laid back, quirky but tranquil town it once was.
Back when Joe Friday was keeping LA safe.
My grandmother said the same thing during the start of the pandemic when LA was shutdown. She even went for a drive on her own, something she stopped doing long ago because of how busy it is now.
LA was uncluttered??? 😲
Had alot more big Beautiful tree's back in the 50's too bad they aren't still around.
The cars were real beauties back then!!
I love these before and after videos. And I'm loving this music!
Who went back in time to get this video? Awesome
Its fascinating to see some buildings that look old-fashioned in 2020s weren't even built yet in 1952. You see architectural styles of the late 50s and 60s and 70s, and think they are so long ago...
One of the best restorations I have seen on RUclips. Love the timeslips also very well done and easy to compare.
can't believe Ralph's is still going unbelievable and in the same place stunning footage 😃👍👍👍
That Ralphs is closed now. I think it's a Sprouts. Too bad. No more excellent rugalach
I said the same
The cars back then were more stylish.
Love back in the days even though I wasn't born in that time but looking at this back in time videos life such a peaceful and beautiful at the same time.
I live in Los Angeles and I have to say I love these type of videos. LA at it's glory days, the streets are clean, not much traffic and best of all NO TENTS!!! on the sidewalk or mentally ill cracked out people wondering in the middle of the street arguing with themselves.
Drugs have made so many homeless, and it's just so sad!
California Democrat leaders wont be satisfied until they've turned LA into a Brazilian Favela.
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I saw about 30 cars i'd like to own with the "vintage" seciion - That beautiful Buick convertible for one - lol - great job - thank you!
nicely done montage, I appreciate the past much better and great music, please continue!
Thanks, will do!
Singin' in the Rain & The Pride of St. Louis are playing at The Oriental Theatre at 7:54 ~ would make this after ealy May of 1952 if the pictures were on their first run.
I watch a lot of these for car spotting this is the best I've seen. Appears to be from 1952. Thanks.
I was watching it VERY carefully for '53 Fords and Chevs - easy to identify.
Saw 1 53 Ford.
So apparently this was shot at the beginning of the 52 - 53 model year changover.
Which occurred in early Oct back then.
What I love about the before is the openess and it was less claustrophobic
Amazing beauty of Sunset Blvd Hollywood. Great street view. Tnx4sharing. Fully watched.
Well, at least the Packard auto dealership building survived on the left corner at 1:25 but not the car manufacturer. Hey, note that some of the traffic lights with the "STOP-GO" semaphores such as at 3:03. These were last used in the L.A. area in 1956. Thanks for sharing!
The De Soto dealership in Whittier, Calif. stood for years after the car ceased production in 1961. Although the showroom was empty, on the wall was a bust of Hernando de Soto, that was kept illuminated for all those years.
I've always wondered why they couldn't have introduced an 'amber' phase into those basic "stop/go" traffic signals, British-style. Drivers would then have had more time to prepare to stop at road junctions.
Excellent let's go back,, was born in 50,, father bought a new 54 Ford,, green... His brother had a 54 Chevy.,
Im a nostalgic person, and love the days of old. I hate seeing buildings of grander no longer there, especially in LA LA LAND, but everything serves its purpose. Lets dont fool ourselves though, as innocent as this video appears, the woes of today, were there too back then.
Awe thanks for this awesome blast from the kick ass past. I WAS definitely born to late. Those awe my days!!!
Amazing what 50 years of diversity will get ya. Enjoy.
At least Hollywood back then looked more authentic!😮
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Nostalgia makes everything seem better in the past.
A better time a better place.
not for black folk
All the businesses were family owned. Just a nicer slower paced place.
I always find Australia is a bit like what the US was back then. Everything family owned.
"Ma-and-pa" stores.
In my city theres very few family shops. Never been to one. All chains unfortunately
It is fantastic. Amazing. It is very interesting to see it is STILL Ralph's at 7min 19 after 72 years...
Wow! This should be compulsory viewing for every city planner. How civilised it looked in the 1950s and how tawdry so much of it looks today. It's not completely beyond repair. If only the horrible billboards could be torn down, the signage improved, the street furniture made elegant and legislation brought in to control some of the hideously presented commercial buildings. LA needs someone with vision who understands the importance of aesthetics, sight lines, elegance and style.
LA seems like a third world country these days
That "someone with vision" wouldn't get very far with his visionary outlook: he'd be lucky not to end up living in his car (or in just 'a' car).
@@gaminghedgehog6384The U.S. has been plundered since the capitalists/corporate oligarchs began running amok in the '90s. Their 'asset-stripping' ethos has left the country a debt-burdened train wreck: someone summed it up as "Brazil with nukes"
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The best before and after video ever watched. Thanks for posting. Liked and subscribed.
The drivers were crazy back then too!
The palm trees sure were beautiful and lush back in the 50s
They were the same trees- but they didn't use to cut off the dead lower branches so they look much more lush as I thought as well. They say it's to prevent rats and stuff, but it's too bad. They still occasionally leave the dead leaves in palms in California, but it's rare in the cities.
wonder when they replaced those beautiful palms in front of Hollywood High!? they were so thick and tall back then, now they look thin and scruffy 🌴🌴🌴
@@charlespatrick8650 The palms at Santa Monica beach are beautiful.
@@EJofLA Although it doesn't carry the virus, the California tree rat is the same species that brought the bubonic plague to Europe beginning in the fourteenth century. The masses of dead fronds remind them of the thatched roofs of medieval Europe.
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Very cool. My time on Sunset was in the sixties. We spent the night hitchhiking up and down the Blvd or standing on the island at Crescent Heights selling the LA Free Press to passerbys. I got a nickel for every copy that I sold. I'd take my earrings around the corner to Harry's Open Pit Bbq for fries and a Coke. Life was good!
Yea Harry's open pit BBQ. I remember it well. We are probably about the same age.Went to Fairfax High graduated '67
I wonder how many of these cars are left? The city of 70 years ago is beautiful. I want to go to this era. american dream
Everything is so clean and people are so dignified
GREAT VIDEO !!! IN MY LA. CA. WHERE I LIVE .. THE TRAFFIC THEN WAS'NT CRAZY NOW IT IS.... MY SON MAX 7YR.S OLD LOVES THIS VIDEO AND WHERE WE LIVE AND THE MUSIC!!!!>>>>>..I LOVE THE CARS ,, I ONLY DRIVE OLD CARS ,, 1958 DODGE CUSTOM ROYALE SWEEP WINGS,,,.. AND A 1978 BUICK SKYLARK,,.. WE ARE LOOKING FOR THEM,,.......WHAT A CHANGE OLD BUILDINGS GONE NEW CRAPPY ONE ARE HERE,,...THIS LOOKS SO REAL 3-D.. MY SON SAYS WHERE ARE THESE CARS NOW I SAID MOST ARE ALL GONE CRUSHED ..ALOT OF THESE HOUSES ON THE SIDES ARE GONE AND PEOPLE DO PASS EACH OTHER AND DONT USE SIGNIALS L OR R .. GREAT VIDEO WE ENJOYED IT MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ........ NO 1958 DODGE..
I imagine how beautiful it was around the time of sunset...
Good soundtrack. Really appreciate the fact that you used actual music. Not that usual computer generated royalty free playlist.
So cool. The then-and-now makes it that much more fun to watch. My mom used to have a coffee shop on Sunset next to The Old Spaghetti Factory so Hollywood was my old stomping grounds.
Intriguing video, and I enjoy the before/after shots. So many interesting points of interest, including a car dealership and gas station seemingly on every block 😄
Yeah. That looked really ugly. I saw that all over the place in Long Beach and Los Angeles. I found it depressing when I was a kid
Love the soundtrack 2:50. Boogie down Sunset Blvd 2022!
Very well done, it was a nicer city with lower buildings and at that time the US car manufacturers dare to use design and colour for a more beautiful auto world🤩
You should notice, though, that cars and hoods with high, vertical windshields and frontal ends pose a particular danger to children. Chances shrink that a (small) person hit by such a vehicle profits from being catapulted onto the hood and against a but slightly rising windshield.
@@HansDunkelberg1 their issues are already created when they are hit by the vehicle to begin with.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Indeed! And another progress of our time likely to reduce damage from such an accident is that you overcome the moment of shock which robs you of precious time when a human being steers the car.
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The taller buildings, that's why it didn't look as good as in the 50s.
This is so cool. I live on Laurel Just a half a block from Sunset. It's a trip to see the corners of my street used to look like. I get my hair cut in the complex that replaced the one where Schwab's used to be. The liquor store on the left is now The Laugh Factory. Very cool. Thanks for posting!
I love this. Those palm trees are the same. I wish we could go back in time and re-live these moments.
I trip out how big the trees have gotten.
What a gorgeous metallic pink color car! Outstanding!! Great videos! Thanks for sharing! 🥰💗
I like to eat an In n out double double and walk off Sunset Blvd once a month. I saw the original footage few years ago I used to compare in my mind what you have done. Thanks..
Oh the fun we had cruising Sunset Blvd and Hollywood Blvd on Saturday night.
Just imagine how people would view this video after 70 years from now under a different kind of youtube!
Maybe by then they will have fixed the problems of today and WILL have largely brought back the good parts of the 50s.
LOVE how slow everyone is driving as opposed to people nowadays going 70mph down sunset and screaming at people to move over LOL
Me guilty right here
THANK YOU FOR SHARING,
50s la is so much better than today
Absolutely amazing! thank you for making this video available
Like the music from the Good Old Days!
Great video...and thx for sharing. I like how you nailed the focal length in the before/after freeze frames...and came back with just enough time for us to take in the new scene before taking us back to the nostalgic cruise scene. Nicely done. The colorization was spot on, too...enough to feel nostalgic without being a distraction...prefect. Home run!
So cool to see the difference.
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Marvelous work
Wow, fantastic
Glad you like it!
That's _Ralph's_ is still there!!!
so is Hollywood High
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Amazing work you've done with this footage.
The trees 😭😭 the palm trees have shrunken to skinny twigs! Oh no!! Are we shrinking too?
The palm trees and billboards sure got taller. They should have preserved those cute little stop and go signs that popped up.
Nicely done. One suggestion is you replace the music with something more ethereal to evoke a sense of dreamy nostalgia.
this is Awesome looks like things were a lot calmer and nicer years ago it went from nice cars to cheap overpriced so-called cars the trees even look healthier and nicer back then people I'm sure were nicer
Definitely true that back in those days, trees were naturally heathier.
Looks like the newest cars there are 52 models.
Wilshire Blvd. would be another amazing trip back in time. Great job. 👍
1950's when cars have style
Perhaps, but they weren't half as reliable, safer or comfortable as the cars of today.
They were certainly memorable.. quite a few from the '40s and '30s still.
Wow that raplhs is still around 🥰
Excellent video...thanks for posting. I grew up in LA during the 60's, so this comparison video is so cool. Something I miss in the current day film, are those old street lights. Replaced by better, more illuminating lights for good reasons...I get it, but I still miss those old art deco styled street lamps.
My pleasure!
The first thing I noticed were the street lights.
Just discovered your channel.
Like your style.
I like the old and new music with the old and new pieces of LA.
Thanks and welcome
Almost every intersection has a traffic light in the 2020s version. The 1950s version had a traffic light at just one intersection.
For pedestrians. Too many people got killed jaywalking because of the fewer stop lights and crossings. Nothing to get nostalgic about
There were quite a few more than 'just one'.
When I was little ,my parents drove down. Sunset in the 50's. It was very fancy than.More laid back, because it didn't have a population explosion til the 60's . You could see big changes in the 60's ,where it was getting more trashy,and more people,and problems. So whoever did this video, you ,did a great job, comparing,the 50's to now. You made it look so real. Excellent Job!!!!!!
The Washingtonia Palms of the 1950s look so much nicer than the skinny palms that are there now. Why did they switch? Does anyone know?
You are correct about the Washingtonia Palms. They were much nicer back in the 1950`s. I have noticed that some of those Washingtonia palms are still in place but are much taller. However, they are not looking very healthy at all. Instead of full lush fronds, they are pale and thin. I believe it`s all due to lack of water and minerals in the soil. From what I have been told, over 50 years ago, Southern California actually received much more rain during the rainy season than it does now.
Just what I was wishing to see, and the algorithm came through for me. (time travel match-ups) 😉Great job !👍👍
I wonder if some of the original palm trees are still there today
They are- you can tell. They grow very slowly. It takes decades for them to get that tall. They just cut off the lower branches now so they look different.
It seems greener today, more brush and trees.
@@westerlywinds5684 Have to watch again. I think the 50's reel is a colorized black and white film.
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Fascinating and fantastic!!