I grew up in 1970 and 1980s in high school and So much Freedom. Stomping ground was Hollywood, always going to the Troubadour, Whiskey, Florentine Gardens and never had any issues with crime, just enjoyed life. People seemed more chill back then, not agressive or tense, then again, no internet.
It may have been more rough looking in LA, but it was a way better place to live back then. There was a certain energy, people would hang out outside with their friends and go out cruising and dancing, partying, getting to know everyone. Having fun, just living a fun California lifestyle. They had a hope in their soul, music was awesome in the 70s. You could dig rock and roll, country, disco, hard rock, soft rock, all the genres were full of amazing talent and you couldn't wait to get enough money saved up to get that new album you've been lusting for. There was just a never ending flow of great new music coming out. Radio was great to listen to. The DJ's were fun, something new and great would be played each day. Also, there was just a feeling that things would get better, and they did! The 80s in LA were amazing, full of positive energy and fantastic economy. Everyone had a job, it was easy to get work, all different levels, not just the very high paying jobs. It was because the liberals hadn't screwed everything up yet so there was a free flowing economy for everyone to benefit.
I agree with most of what you say. I distinctly remember more people hanging outside, on their porches, etc. I miss those days and I’m glad you validated that. I knew I wasn’t imagining it, things have changed so much. Now the majority of the population are indoors staring at screens. There was also a lot of places to hear live music back then, and the backyard and warehouse parties with several bands were dope. I disagree about the 80’s though. I mat have grown up in a different part of town than you. I remember a lot of people on drugs like crack and PCP, and a lot of alcoholism, and it was the high era of hang violence and drive by shootings. I don’t think there’s a shortage of jobs today. Mexicans be working like crazy, but we’re probably talking about different job markets.
@@JPVillalobos27we just need to start a rebellious counter culture of going OUT again. unfortunately it seems like (maybe it IS true) that the crime is higher than ever, especially random acts of violence for no reason other than that person is just plain evil. but why let them win? we have to make a stand somewhere.... we need to get our human dignity back. i am not a city dweller by any means. in fact i hate cities even though i was born in one. lived in an apartment for the first couple of years of my life, then lived in the burbs for most of my childhood then moved back to the city for about three years when i was in my twenties. Now i am way out in the sticks where there are more coyotes than people. and yet i still understand the excitement of city life. i will occasionally visit for special occasions but the idea of living there again is petrifying lol and yet i can't deny, i like book stores, movie theatres, malls (back when they were still popular, the malls was my favorite place ever) music stores, street dances, parades, driving around on friday and saturday nights, car shows... yeah i did like all that to some degree. even an introverted, reclusive misanthrope like me still appreciates the energy of a city when times are good. but times are definitely not good right now. that's why we have to fight back even more than ever to make it better.
I was born in Santa Monica and grew up in Van Nuys, but that was in the 50-60s, I have the best memories of it then. even though I am older (much) I still have the mindset of a Southern California boy and still see the world through that lens -
I loved LA in the seventies. College, marriage, our first home. I worked in television on Welcome Back Kotter, attended celeb parties, Malibu, Westwood Village for movies. The energy was amazing. That’s why I enjoyed Once Upon A Time In Hollywood so much. It was like going home.
mario zermeno Kotter was the most popular show back then. It was a fun show. I usually played a student but I was also in about a half dozen sit coms at the same time. My family is still in the industry. It’s a fascinating business.
Laura Salveson ---- I have the highlighted comment in here and someone had just replied but it got me reading more comments. I got to your comment and I wanted to say a couple things. I was in elementary school during the '70s and I liked Welcome Back Kotter, the first couple seasons and the funny thing is, I became friends with Bobby Hedges ( Juan Epstein) in the '90s. Unfortunately he passed away a while back. Sadly. The second thing I want to say was that Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was also a great time machine if you grew up in LA in the '60s, '70s. Also, I had the pleasure and honor to be the locations electrician for that film. Every location and two full blocks of Hollywood Blvd was transformed into 1969. It was like recreating my childhood. I've worked on many award winning, nominated, films and tv shows over the last ten years but working on that film and on a Quentin T film was a dream come true and that particular film especially. Glad you enjoyed the movie.
@@13_13k yes I knew Bobby. Didn’t realize he died. I’ll say a prayer for him. Once Upon aTime in Hollywood was so nostalgic to watch. I’ve seen it several times and will undoubtedly see it many more times. Tell me how they transformed the streets to look like 1969. I’m fascinated with movie magic. Our family is in the film finance side of the business so we get to go on set and watch them create stories from a basket of disjointed scenes. Our movie The Tiger Rising was released last Friday and it was such fun to see the final product. I love the movie making craft.
@@NBportofino ---- not to dismiss Bobby's death but, I don't want to take this conversation in a sad direction. About Once Upon a Time... the Hollywood Blvd scenes were a lot of work. We weren't allowed to close down the street completely, foot traffic and vehicles were stopped at times when cameras were rolling, and we had dozens of extras and old cars waiting to move. Construction built all new store fronts for every shop,, art filled the window displays, I added or removed window lighting and signs for stores, we transformed two movie theaters, one was still a theater called the Halogram and art Dept had the old Pussycat signs remade and myself and studio electric , lighting got the marquis back to original and almost three thousand red and white lightbulbs under the marquis and around the edges of the all the signs,, across the street the Old Vogue Theater which is a museum and a restaurant, had to be restored to be the theater again, all the neon on it's marquis and all the giant neon signs above all the buildings, about six, myself and a neon sign guy got them working, we had to remove and replace street signs and street lights and bus benches, billboards, plus all the lighting for the theaters and the neon signs I had to wire from each sign, the movie theater marquis and flashing lights etc.. with power cables that ran behind all the buildings to a lighting control board two blocks away so Quentin could radio the lighting tech and have total control of the whole street's lighting to come on and go off on his mark. We had two weeks to do all that and so much more. All while tourists and homeless and traffic were still walking around. We had to lie (as usual) about what we were filming to keep people uninterested. The joke was it was a mayonnaise commercial. But we did all the restore of the Taco Bell, Der Weinerschnitzel, Westwood Village and the two theaters and the Cinerama Dome and the two main houses which I was working on before shooting and after wrap and during because so much remodeling was done and the swimming pool was my personal Hell. Trying to get those two pool lights to work was crazy. We were two days away from shooting the ending with Leo in the pool at night and the lights kept failing after I basically rewired the whole system. Finally after a big meeting someone suggested lights run from cables in the water out of frame and I told them no way was I risking Leo's life with electricity in the water. Lol so we had to replace the two pool lights completely, pull them out of the pool wall with the housing which was leaking after I fixed everything else. But I got it done and the pool and the view looked amazing. There was no CGI for any of the shots, everything was physically transformed to look as close as possible to 1969. Art Dept and others found hundreds of old photos for reference on how everything looked. They had KHJ radio ads and so many details that get overlooked but subconsciously you are seeing and if you were alive back then, it triggers you. It was absolutley insane what went into that production. I worked six and seven days a week average and 14 - 18 hours most days for four months, but I started with scouting in May, shooting in June and wrap in November and I was still working restoring things to normal into January. Crazy but fantastic job.
I'm from L.A. and I have been all over the country and I don't give a damn what anyone says I will keep being an Angelino till my last breath there's nowhere like it here.
I was born in Downey Dec 28, 1969. Six days later I was adopted and transplanted to Idaho. I've always felt a connection to LA. The music, movies, styles etc. I'll always wonder how it would've been to grow up there.
I'm from la. Born here and still live here. I'd die if I got to experience it in the 70s and 80s. No words could explain. I'd trade everything from today like, stupid social media, and cell phones, to experience the 70s here .
Wow, your description of L.A. in the 70's sure doesn't jibe with mine...well except for the smog. I remember it as high school dances, and football games, Washington High School, and Cal-State Northridge. Cruising up and down Hollywood Blvd on Fridays, picnics and pick b-ball games on the weekend, dinner at my grandmothers on Sundays. My memories also include the beautiful vegetable garden my grandparents had in their South L.A. backyard. Swimming during the summer at Athens Park, riding horses at the El-Fig stable in Gardena. Car loads of friends/family heading to the beach or Angeles Crest Forest. Hiking all day long in Griffith Park. Osko's and Dillion's to dance the night away followed by a 2am pig out at Tommy's burgers, or moon over My Hammy at Denny's. I'll definetly agree with one thing though.... The music was BOSS! I'm a true Native Angeleno.
I grew up in LA, and that video hits it right on the nose! I recall, in the 70s, going to movie theaters on Broadway for a buck and watching Bruce Lee flicks all day. Or the 80s, going to clubs at the Alexandria Hotel, Circus Disco, Hong Kong Cafe, and many more. Those were amazing times.
I grew up in LA. I always thought it was just fine. Even in ,”bad areas,” if you were respectful you were pretty much okay. You had to know how to handle yourself tho. I liked LA in the 70’s!
That’s because the thugs back then were much respectful than today’s teenage society now days they just shoot at whoever even the innocent and also the teenagers were much calmer and wiser too.
I don't understand why anyone would say LA was not a nice place back then. Rents or to buy a home was dirt cheap, we had the music industry, the California fashion industry was booming, the sunshine, beautiful women & men, Hollywood, great architecture of great dreamers and list goes on.....
I was raised in the L.A. suburb of Paramount,CA. 1966-1984 ,and loved it growing up there. This vid brings back good memories for me of places i used to see all the time. Jim's char-burgers was great ,them & Douglas char-burgers had the best pastrami sandwiches ever, the band i was in used to play at the Starwood, and Gazzari's, the Dodgers were badass back then ( Garvey,Smith,Baker,Cey,Lopes,Russell, Yeager,Monday,LaSorta ),so many great things to remember, Winchell's donut house, Farmer John meats, Carnation milk-ice cream, Formost milk, Boy's market, Cal Worthington used cars, 93.KHJ am, KLOS fm, KROQ fm, KMET fm, Mc Coy's market, Bob's big boy, Dipsy Doodle soft-serve ice cream trucks, Red Devil fireworks, Columbian gold weed, the L.A. FORUM, Der Wenerschnitzel, Shakey's pizza, Lucky lager beer, it's endless man, ( just like this rant ) S.California ruled in the 70's ! Cool video, rock on! Bob.G
@Da Nhl1 -yes i do remember the Helms' bakery truck stoppin' in front of our house ( in Paramount off of Compton blvd. on Texaco ave. & Richfield st. ) and get the most delicious fresh donuts in the morning. My mom would give me $ with a note to give the bakery man saying it was ok for me to get a pack if cigarettes for her ,as she waved to him from our porch, ahh,ha', you 'd never get away with that now days, that truck had everything, pastries,candy,baseball cards,smokes,ect... it was great. I had friends living in Bellfower, they lived right on Alondra, w/ constant traffic going by, my brother and i would ride our bikes there on weekends and stay overnight and go to Bellflower music on Bellflower bl. and check the instruments in the window. I remember seeing Jaws at the Rosecrans drive-in ,and i beleive there was a giant Glide-Slide out in front of the theater, and was'nt Tahitian Village across the the street? I think it was?, anyway you are right, good memories, great stuff. Rock On my fellow Angeleno, Bellflower,& Paramount ruled! Bob.G
@Da Nhl1 I used to go to that slide...on gunny sacks... Pastramis at Jim's Char Broiled and the onion rings were the bomb . .Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School
Born and raised in Los Angeles 1965. Moved away in 1975. I never knew what stars looked like because of the smog and lights until we moved to north California. Also, my mother liked playing records, and I liked it. I got my first record player in 1977.
Born in Inglewood 1965, raised in Westchester, pleas than a mile from LAX, and a few blocks from The Big Donut on the Westchester (L.A.) Inglewood city limits. Seeing a lot of the places that are not there anymore brings back memories, The Starwood, Oskos, La Cienega Lanes, just to name a few Thanks for the time travel
@@davidlang1125 --- Osko's... I had some good times at that place for under 21 dancing back in the early '80s. Rodney Binghamheimer (Rodney on the ROQ) DJ'ing. Good Times
Yes this was a great time travel video. I didn't know that nasty naughty Los Angeles and all those "fun" people but then I do now. We had it all in the 50s and the 60s and the 70s and the 80s but it started to get a little more "dicey" in the 90s and the OOs and the 10s and the 20s so far are not that great especially with the pandemic that never ends. But then that pandemic will end some day. But I'll have already lived the best life I ever could anyway. Thanks so much for this video with it's overview of those 70s years. Very special time travel. We still have it all here and we still don't have to shovel snow. Like others do in other parts of this country.
I was with my uncle when we went on a trip to LA in 1976. I really liked it. My uncle didn't. He wanted to go back. He told me if I really like LA, wait till I grow up and just go there as many times I want. Not the same anymore. My uncle is in denial and doesn't process many changes have taken place in LA.
Funny... I'm reading this comment approximately a year after you wrote it, I'm sure you can agree that last year had a higher degree of freedom than we currently enjoy.
Respectfully disagree. Yes, SMOG was bad. Air quality was much worse than today. But the mentally ill were still in hospitals, not living on the streets.
@Brandon Taylor ....hugh..? there's more healthy food options today then there was in the 1970's....that's a fact...and way more diversity in food choices..
@@johnadams5259 What about kids? When I was a boy a fat kid was an anomaly. Lots of chunky kids now. In the 60's and 70's we ate plenty of sugar. BUT, nothing was supersized. A 12oz can of soda was plenty. Our plates weren't piled up like they are now. We didn't eat cereal for snacks or for dinner. We had pizza maybe once a month. We had fast food maybe twice a month. When my mother made fish stick with tater tots, we each had 2 fish sticks and it was enough. We never came inside to play unless it was cold or raining. We drank from the water hose because our parents would fuss telling us to either stay in or stay out. By the time we took our bath at night we were dirty. We didn't put holes in our jeans on purpose, we wore 'em out and our mothers would patch them up. My mother got paid every other Wednesday and she'd go grocery shopping. She didn't shop for snacks. If we ran out of milk or whatever, she didn't go buy more. We had to wait til that next paycheck, so we knew how to ration. We didn't feel hungry. Sunday breakfast and dinner was the best meals of the week. We live in abundance now despite people thinking these are the end times. No Ciggies!! 😀
Lived in California from the mid 70's to the late 80's. Use to go to LA at least a couple of times a year (from Sacramento). I was into three things back then, women, clubbing and cars. LA had plenty of all of these. Fun times.
Born and raised there. Born in the late 50, left for the military when I was 17 in 1977. Never returned to live there. Spent my time stationed around the globe. First duty assignment was Germany in North Baveria. Did not know how nice life could be outside of LA. My family stayed there and I returned from time to time. I used to Cruise Whittier Blvd. from 1974-1977. Very cool time. We also went over and cruised Colorado Blvd where the surfers went with their hot rods. My buddies got Tattoos and Good Time Charlies on the strip.
This is such an accurate time capsule! I arrived on Christmas Day 1975. From Sydney Australia. And this is what I found! Really! And I designed a disco club called Osko’s on La Cienaga Blvd as seen at 10:05 around the end of 1976 when disco was already on its last legs!
So sorry I missed your comment...I love what you wrote. How exciting. Disco had a short life within the straight community but disco takes off in 1978 it explodes with Donna Summer’s the Village People and in 1976 70 million babies in America Born in 1955 all turn 21 at once ... refreshing the gay club to massive proportions 5 other major clubs open in LA to accommodate the huge up tick in alcohol and dance club admissions.
@@JamesBlackmanIII the LA gay social scene in the late 70’s was a blast even for a straight guy like me! Met really great people and hadn’t expected to see the rise of anti-gay prejudice lead by an uncaring and ignorant President when they were struck with a mysterious new disease in the eighties. By then the party was over. LA never felt the same after that.
You designed Osko's?? Wow!! Do you have any recollections to share? I've worked at Book Soup for 17 years and am always looking for first-person accounts of LA history.
I was born in Van Nuys, and grew up in both Altadena and South Pasadena during the 60-70's. My dad was a California Highway Patrol Sergeant, while my mom was an RN who worked at Childrens Hospital in DLA. I have many fond memories of Southern California. Indeed, we have had troubled times, but seemed to make it. As I write this, it is 5/9/20, and Newsum is gradually opening places up during this COVID-19 Pandemic. Our history is rich with everything associated with LA, and yet have a difficult and shameful past. Be safe out there, everyone.
@@alexandrscience3473 Hey Alexandr. Sadly, I did not know Dr.Feynman. My step-dad worked at JPL while finishing his Ph.D. This goes back to the early 70's. Take care and be safe, okay?
We had a wonderful time as teens in Los Angeles. I agree with D. Dollar; even the "bad" hoods no one bothered you. We danced to all the great music, respected each other. People were real and love was real. This dude got it all wrong.
Except for the landscaping and ""gentrification" which did come in the 80s, 90s and proceeds but with expensive property and also too much drugs and crime and homelessness abounding. Been through numerous decades in this area and can't believe the continuing build out. So many more people than even in the 1970s.
Yes many would choose it in the 70-90s. I dipped my toe in the water in 85 & just moved out to Santa Monica, it was too expensive then for me so I moved back east. You couldn't just crash wherever you wanted like now. LA is a cesspool now unless you're uber wealthy.
I'm a die-hard New Yorker, but I must say that I feel an energy being in LA like no other place. The dry air, hills, palm trees, history, and eccentricity of it get under your skin. I've been around and it's the only other place I can say I'd like to live. Let me add too that without mucho money, there isn't a place where crime doesn't exist.
I was raised in Los Angeles during the 1970’s. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH IT?!!! How I would to step into A Time Machine and go back to That ERA of Los Angeles!
Me too!!! The girls, morals, the food was better, the music, the vibe was better!!! The girls wasn't all Ratchet and Snobby!!! These times sucks!!! I'm glad to be alive even though....Let me know when a time machine gets built.
I never understood the longing for the good old days until this exact moment. What I wouldnt give to forget what I know and be a part of these pictures!!
I grew up in L..A. during the 70's, that's when I came of age and experienced the rough and tumble life of a misspent youth!!! I wouldn't trade it for anything. I had LOTS of fun getting in trouble and exploring all that the city had to offer. Too bad L.A. has deteriorated into a city that is too expensive to live in and plagued with unnecessary violence. So SAD to see my hometown has become a shell of it's former self.
I grew up here. I don’t remember it being bad at all in the 70s. There were less people. Smog, yes. Crime was more rampant in gang areas south of the 10 during the 1980s. I miss the all the neon. Signage was king. Now all the trees they planted cover the streets signage, what’s left of it. Whole blocks have been torn down and overdeveloped. I’d take that LA over today’s LA. Its like a dystopian twilight zone now. Sanity flight to other states. Only crazies and hyper wealthy now. Her best days are behind her. Great montage. I recognize so much. Wish there was a time machine. Thank you
There is no where else for a Californian to go. I'll be living here for most of my life because I already know that there is no where else in the world for someone like me born and raised in Southern California. And the weather is comparatively "divine" even with all the population and homeless. No where to run and no where to hide. I agree with your description "dystopian twilight zone" though. Strange isn't it. As for her best days behind her---you can't know that. Better days ahead always.
I thought LA was great in the 70's. Especially compared to the way it has become. Yes, they had real music back then too. And I will take the smog over today's chemtrails and deliberate drought any day!
I grew up & lived on Russell Ave off Vermont Ave in the early 70’s. I remember those times fondly. DTLA for a 7 year old was scary with the drunks , but no way as bad as it is today with the drugged up homeless.
I wish you can redo this film and make it a bit slower just to be able to think about all these places in LA I've experienced! The street names, the mom and pop restaurants, all of it! Came to LA in 1975 as an 11 year old kid! I felt I was in heaven! Love the images!
doesn't matter what little town you are from or what big city . We all loved where we grew up . If you grew up in the U.S.A. you are lucky . We are lucky . Even the folks that grew up in the smallest one horse town in West Virginia loves their town . We had 5 foot snow falls all the time here in the Northeast and blizzards all the time but we went out and played in it and built snow forts while the West coast kids were on their beach but it was all good no matter where you were from . Every place has merit and a rich History . Then when you grow up you get to choose where you want to live . The world is your oyster . I choose to build my home 1/2 mile from where I grew up all my life . We have very little here by comparison to larger cities and it still is freezing cold and snows feet but it's where I still choose to call home . Bloom where you are planted !
Classic photo of THE SYLVERS rehearsing around the 10 minute mark. They were from compton and black los angeles embraced them as our version of the Jackson family. They were led by the oldest brother LEON SYLVERS who would go on to produce multiple platinum records for the SOLAR ( SOUND OF LOS ANGELES RECORDS) LABEL. Solar had groups such as SHALAMAR , LAKESIDE & THE WHISPERS.
I always enjoy the cars from the '70s. I look for American Motors products in particular, especially AMX's. Nothing, except one Hornet station wagon. Even that would be a rare bird today.
At 5:54 is a photo of Bond's Appliance store which was until fairly recently located on 4th Street in Long Beach, Ca. The building remains but Bond's is history. I purchased an old restored stove there back in the70s. Today;s date: 7-6-2019. Long Beach is changing. Thanks for posting this vid. H.B.L
I grew kup in The Valley which was basically a small town. We'd go Over the Hill for fun and adventure. Back in the 60s we'd go all over LA and never had any hassles with anyone. KERB blasting out the windows on a hot summer night. Art Laboe and Wolfman Jack.
A very good visual compilation of the 70's in LA, I really enjoyed it! This video reminded me that this era is when Gay's started to come out and Disco was a vein for them to express themselves, which was and is a good thing. I am not gay and grew up in the bay area, but the images you have displayed I can relate to. Thank You.
Steven Flores I was a waiter at the French market from 1975 to 1980 and then also was a go go dancer for a minute at studio one but did most of my time at Circus just go and probe and it was a very exciting time I remember waiting on share and bet Midler and Liza Minnelli in the village people and Donna Summers it was a absolute ball so you caught my narrative that I did that with a point of view of which I only knew of which the fact that I grew up as a Gay kid in LA too. Thank you for your kind comments
If you were born into the 70s era of Los Angeles than that's the only life you knew of. Of course it was good. You had nothing else to compare it to. Now that 5 decades have passed you can compare each decade. To me the 80s was the best decade. Not just for Los Angeles, but for everywhere.
Raised in South Central Los Angeles. Best pastrami's Johnny's on Adams and Crenshaw! Quick and split best burgers! Fat Burgers also Howard's bacon and avocado Venice and Sepulveda. 70s and 80s was great with the skating rinks like flips in Hollywood Skate Depot at World on wheels. And Venice Beach was the spot. Along with Westwood Mardi Gras. Cruising Crenshaw Boulevard was necessary every weekend. When you go to the Century Drive In to make out because you couldn't hear the movie for the airplanes landing at LAX. Long live LA
The SyLvers at 5: 03 ! WonderfuL FamiLy that Lived up in BeverLy GLen canyon up near MuLhoLLand Drive ! ALLof us kids used to pLay outside of their home on AngeLo drive !
This is the best place to live even with the smog. And we did not have global warming or climate change. But we had the starwood, the whisky, Roxy, gazzaris and all of the other 18 and under rock clubs. We had sunset strip, Van nuys blvd, Westwood village, Century city and Tommy burger. The beaches azusa canyon. Growing up in L.A. Couldn't ask for anything better.
Minute 7:22 is Figueroa St..This area is very nice The Pantry still here plus L.A Live, Staples, the new intercontinental hotel & all the new high rise condominiums.
I turned 7 years old August of 1970 and during the 70s growing up in LA, I thought it was a terrible time and a terrible place. I hated those years. I was always being bullied, chased and beat up by gang members.. Funny thing is now I look back on it and think it wasn't so bad. I actually love seeing photos and videos of that time now. Would I like to go back in time.....? No, I'm good where I am
I grew up in 1970 and 1980s in high school and So much Freedom. Stomping ground was Hollywood, always going to the Troubadour, Whiskey, Florentine Gardens and never had any issues with crime, just enjoyed life. People seemed more chill back then, not agressive or tense, then again, no internet.
I saw Elton John at the troubadour for $3.50 it was an amazing time
It may have been more rough looking in LA, but it was a way better place to live back then. There was a certain energy, people would hang out outside with their friends and go out cruising and dancing, partying, getting to know everyone. Having fun, just living a fun California lifestyle. They had a hope in their soul, music was awesome in the 70s. You could dig rock and roll, country, disco, hard rock, soft rock, all the genres were full of amazing talent and you couldn't wait to get enough money saved up to get that new album you've been lusting for. There was just a never ending flow of great new music coming out. Radio was great to listen to. The DJ's were fun, something new and great would be played each day. Also, there was just a feeling that things would get better, and they did! The 80s in LA were amazing, full of positive energy and fantastic economy. Everyone had a job, it was easy to get work, all different levels, not just the very high paying jobs. It was because the liberals hadn't screwed everything up yet so there was a free flowing economy for everyone to benefit.
I agree with most of what you say. I distinctly remember more people hanging outside, on their porches, etc. I miss those days and I’m glad you validated that. I knew I wasn’t imagining it, things have changed so much. Now the majority of the population are indoors staring at screens. There was also a lot of places to hear live music back then, and the backyard and warehouse parties with several bands were dope. I disagree about the 80’s though. I mat have grown up in a different part of town than you. I remember a lot of people on drugs like crack and PCP, and a lot of alcoholism, and it was the high era of hang violence and drive by shootings. I don’t think there’s a shortage of jobs today. Mexicans be working like crazy, but we’re probably talking about different job markets.
@@JPVillalobos27we just need to start a rebellious counter culture of going OUT again. unfortunately it seems like (maybe it IS true) that the crime is higher than ever, especially random acts of violence for no reason other than that person is just plain evil.
but why let them win? we have to make a stand somewhere.... we need to get our human dignity back.
i am not a city dweller by any means. in fact i hate cities even though i was born in one. lived in an apartment for the first couple of years of my life, then lived in the burbs for most of my childhood then moved back to the city for about three years when i was in my twenties. Now i am way out in the sticks where there are more coyotes than people. and yet i still understand the excitement of city life.
i will occasionally visit for special occasions but the idea of living there again is petrifying lol
and yet i can't deny, i like book stores, movie theatres, malls (back when they were still popular, the malls was my favorite place ever) music stores, street dances, parades, driving around on friday and saturday nights, car shows... yeah i did like all that to some degree. even an introverted, reclusive misanthrope like me still appreciates the energy of a city when times are good.
but times are definitely not good right now. that's why we have to fight back even more than ever to make it better.
I was born in Santa Monica and grew up in Van Nuys, but that was in the 50-60s, I have the best memories of it then. even though I am older (much) I still have the mindset of a Southern California boy and still see the world through that lens -
You're lucky. I asked my elderly neighbor if the world actually turned to shit around 1965. He said yes.
I loved LA in the seventies. College, marriage, our first home. I worked in television on Welcome Back Kotter, attended celeb parties, Malibu, Westwood Village for movies. The energy was amazing. That’s why I enjoyed Once Upon A Time In Hollywood so much. It was like going home.
Wow I loved welcome back kotter!🤗 did you have a part In it ? And yes once upon a time in Hollywood is great movie .
mario zermeno Kotter was the most popular show back then. It was a fun show. I usually played a student but I was also in about a half dozen sit coms at the same time. My family is still in the industry. It’s a fascinating business.
Laura Salveson ---- I have the highlighted comment in here and someone had just replied but it got me reading more comments.
I got to your comment and I wanted to say a couple things. I was in elementary school during the '70s and I liked Welcome Back Kotter, the first couple seasons and the funny thing is, I became friends with Bobby Hedges ( Juan Epstein) in the '90s. Unfortunately he passed away a while back. Sadly.
The second thing I want to say was that Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was also a great time machine if you grew up in LA in the '60s, '70s. Also, I had the pleasure and honor to be the locations electrician for that film. Every location and two full blocks of Hollywood Blvd was transformed into 1969. It was like recreating my childhood. I've worked on many award winning, nominated, films and tv shows over the last ten years but working on that film and on a Quentin T film was a dream come true and that particular film especially.
Glad you enjoyed the movie.
@@13_13k yes I knew Bobby. Didn’t realize he died. I’ll say a prayer for him. Once Upon aTime in Hollywood was so nostalgic to watch. I’ve seen it several times and will undoubtedly see it many more times. Tell me how they transformed the streets to look like 1969. I’m fascinated with movie magic. Our family is in the film finance side of the business so we get to go on set and watch them create stories from a basket of disjointed scenes. Our movie The Tiger Rising was released last Friday and it was such fun to see the final product. I love the movie making craft.
@@NBportofino ---- not to dismiss Bobby's death but, I don't want to take this conversation in a sad direction.
About Once Upon a Time... the Hollywood Blvd scenes were a lot of work. We weren't allowed to close down the street completely, foot traffic and vehicles were stopped at times when cameras were rolling, and we had dozens of extras and old cars waiting to move. Construction built all new store fronts for every shop,, art filled the window displays, I added or removed window lighting and signs for stores, we transformed two movie theaters, one was still a theater called the Halogram and art Dept had the old Pussycat signs remade and myself and studio electric , lighting got the marquis back to original and almost three thousand red and white lightbulbs under the marquis and around the edges of the all the signs,, across the street the Old Vogue Theater which is a museum and a restaurant, had to be restored to be the theater again, all the neon on it's marquis and all the giant neon signs above all the buildings, about six, myself and a neon sign guy got them working, we had to remove and replace street signs and street lights and bus benches, billboards, plus all the lighting for the theaters and the neon signs I had to wire from each sign, the movie theater marquis and flashing lights etc.. with power cables that ran behind all the buildings to a lighting control board two blocks away so Quentin could radio the lighting tech and have total control of the whole street's lighting to come on and go off on his mark. We had two weeks to do all that and so much more. All while tourists and homeless and traffic were still walking around. We had to lie (as usual) about what we were filming to keep people uninterested. The joke was it was a mayonnaise commercial. But we did all the restore of the Taco Bell, Der Weinerschnitzel, Westwood Village and the two theaters and the Cinerama Dome and the two main houses which I was working on before shooting and after wrap and during because so much remodeling was done and the swimming pool was my personal Hell. Trying to get those two pool lights to work was crazy. We were two days away from shooting the ending with Leo in the pool at night and the lights kept failing after I basically rewired the whole system. Finally after a big meeting someone suggested lights run from cables in the water out of frame and I told them no way was I risking Leo's life with electricity in the water. Lol so we had to replace the two pool lights completely, pull them out of the pool wall with the housing which was leaking after I fixed everything else. But I got it done and the pool and the view looked amazing. There was no CGI for any of the shots, everything was physically transformed to look as close as possible to 1969. Art Dept and others found hundreds of old photos for reference on how everything looked. They had KHJ radio ads and so many details that get overlooked but subconsciously you are seeing and if you were alive back then, it triggers you. It was absolutley insane what went into that production. I worked six and seven days a week average and 14 - 18 hours most days for four months, but I started with scouting in May, shooting in June and wrap in November and I was still working restoring things to normal into January. Crazy but fantastic job.
1970’s L.A. was badass...#blessed generation 🌼🌸✌️
I'm from L.A. and I have been all over the country and I don't give a damn what anyone says I will keep being an Angelino till my last breath there's nowhere like it here.
Love LA
In 1977 it Rained in L.A. the Day Elvis Died ….I was 9 yrs
Go Get Your New Car a Smogged ….
You must be very proud,❤️beautiful part of the world 👍
Hush Money Yes it was a rainy hot and humid day I remember very good
I was born in Downey Dec 28, 1969. Six days later I was adopted and transplanted to Idaho. I've always felt a connection to LA. The music, movies, styles etc. I'll always wonder how it would've been to grow up there.
I'm from la. Born here and still live here. I'd die if I got to experience it in the 70s and 80s. No words could explain. I'd trade everything from today like, stupid social media, and cell phones, to experience the 70s here .
Los Angeles was a very nice place in the 70's. My family has been in Los Angeles since at least the early 1920's 🏫
It's all relative
You are a pioneer👍🏻
Wow, your description of L.A. in the 70's sure doesn't jibe with mine...well except for the smog. I remember it as high school dances, and football games, Washington High School, and Cal-State Northridge. Cruising up and down Hollywood Blvd on Fridays, picnics and pick b-ball games on the weekend, dinner at my grandmothers on Sundays. My memories also include the beautiful vegetable garden my grandparents had in their South L.A. backyard. Swimming during the summer at Athens Park, riding horses at the El-Fig stable in Gardena. Car loads of friends/family heading to the beach or Angeles Crest Forest. Hiking all day long in Griffith Park. Osko's and Dillion's to dance the night away followed by a 2am pig out at Tommy's burgers, or moon over My Hammy at Denny's. I'll definetly agree with one thing though.... The music was BOSS! I'm a true Native Angeleno.
I grew up in LA, and that video hits it right on the nose! I recall, in the 70s, going to movie theaters on Broadway for a buck and watching Bruce Lee flicks all day. Or the 80s, going to clubs at the Alexandria Hotel, Circus Disco, Hong Kong Cafe, and many more. Those were amazing times.
By the way thank for the kind comment I’m a huge circus disco fan ❤️
I grew up in LA. I always thought it was just fine.
Even in ,”bad areas,” if you were respectful you were pretty much okay.
You had to know how to handle yourself tho.
I liked LA in the 70’s!
I agree with you a hole lot better back then..
I love L.A. in the 70s even the early 80s
That’s because the thugs back then were much respectful than today’s teenage society now days they just shoot at whoever even the innocent and also the teenagers were much calmer and wiser too.
1958
San Fernando Valley
Van Nuys
Cruising
1976/1979
The Best
@@john-paulnagel2732 I was born in1958
I moved to L.A in 1970 and from day one I felt in love with this place..
I don't understand why anyone would say LA was not a nice place back then. Rents or to buy a home was dirt cheap, we had the music industry, the California fashion industry was booming, the sunshine, beautiful women & men, Hollywood, great architecture of great dreamers and list goes on.....
lorraine hall I feel sorry for people born after 1980, they never truly saw how beautiful Los Angeles was..
lorraine hall and dont forget we were the center of world technology. BOEING / MdDonalds Douglas / hughes/ Rockwell..you name it..
@@hubertmatos5920 I wanna be there!!
Are you the son of Huber Matos?
A Comander of Castro's army?
Born and raised in the SGV. My dad was born in Montecito Heights in 1941. Love the weather and history.
I was raised in the L.A. suburb of Paramount,CA. 1966-1984 ,and loved it growing up there. This vid brings back good memories for me of places i used to see all the time. Jim's char-burgers was great ,them & Douglas char-burgers had the best pastrami sandwiches ever, the band i was in used to play at the Starwood, and Gazzari's, the Dodgers were badass back then ( Garvey,Smith,Baker,Cey,Lopes,Russell, Yeager,Monday,LaSorta ),so many great things to remember, Winchell's donut house, Farmer John meats, Carnation milk-ice cream, Formost milk, Boy's market, Cal Worthington used cars, 93.KHJ am, KLOS fm, KROQ fm, KMET fm, Mc Coy's market, Bob's big boy, Dipsy Doodle soft-serve ice cream trucks, Red Devil fireworks, Columbian gold weed, the L.A. FORUM, Der Wenerschnitzel, Shakey's pizza, Lucky lager beer, it's endless man, ( just like this rant ) S.California ruled in the 70's ! Cool video, rock on! Bob.G
Remember The Mighty 690
Absolutely, great channel, groovin tunes, love it! Bob.G
Who is Bod G. ?
@Da Nhl1 -yes i do remember the Helms' bakery truck stoppin' in front of our house ( in Paramount off of Compton blvd. on Texaco ave. & Richfield st. ) and get the most delicious fresh donuts in the morning. My mom would give me $ with a note to give the bakery man saying it was ok for me to get a pack if cigarettes for her ,as she waved to him from our porch, ahh,ha', you 'd never get away with that now days, that truck had everything, pastries,candy,baseball cards,smokes,ect... it was great. I had friends living in Bellfower, they lived right on Alondra, w/ constant traffic going by, my brother and i would ride our bikes there on weekends and stay overnight and go to Bellflower music on Bellflower bl. and check the instruments in the window. I remember seeing Jaws at the Rosecrans drive-in ,and i beleive there was a giant Glide-Slide out in front of the theater, and was'nt Tahitian Village across the the street? I think it was?, anyway you are right, good memories, great stuff. Rock On my fellow Angeleno, Bellflower,& Paramount ruled! Bob.G
@Da Nhl1 I used to go to that slide...on gunny sacks... Pastramis at Jim's Char Broiled and the onion rings were the bomb . .Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School
I love your video, i didn't want it to stop..Thanks for sharing.
Born and raised in Los Angeles 1965. Moved away in 1975. I never knew what stars looked like because of the smog and lights until we moved to north California. Also, my mother liked playing records, and I liked it. I got my first record player in 1977.
Born in Inglewood 1965, raised in Westchester, pleas than a mile from LAX, and a few blocks from The Big Donut on the Westchester (L.A.) Inglewood city limits. Seeing a lot of the places that are not there anymore brings back memories, The Starwood, Oskos, La Cienega Lanes, just to name a few
Thanks for the time travel
Hey, I use to manage Manny's Cyclery on Sepulveda next to the Loyola in 1974.
I was the architect who worked on Osko’s! It was a cheap and quick remodel project. Wasn’t paid much but got to be on the VIP list a few times.
@@davidlang1125 --- Osko's... I had some good times at that place for under 21 dancing back in the early '80s. Rodney Binghamheimer (Rodney on the ROQ) DJ'ing. Good Times
Yes this was a great time travel video. I didn't know that nasty naughty Los Angeles and all those "fun" people but then I do now. We had it all in the 50s and the 60s and the 70s and the 80s but it started to get a little more "dicey" in the 90s and the OOs and the 10s and the 20s so far are not that great especially with the pandemic that never ends. But then that pandemic will end some day. But I'll have already lived the best life I ever could anyway. Thanks so much for this video with it's overview of those 70s years. Very special time travel. We still have it all here and we still don't have to shovel snow. Like others do in other parts of this country.
I was with my uncle when we went on a trip to LA in 1976. I really liked it. My uncle didn't. He wanted to go back. He told me if I really like LA, wait till I grow up and just go there as many times I want. Not the same anymore. My uncle is in denial and doesn't process many changes have taken place in LA.
Los Angeles was beautiful in the 70s
Yep, lots of things to enjoy then, not so much now, sadly! Miss Venice Beach and Santa Monica Beach area!
Great compilation! You must have liked Osco's disco since you showed the building 3 times! I loved that place!!!
yes I did!
Smog, crime. Okay, but I'll bet we had much more freedom back then.
Funny... I'm reading this comment approximately a year after you wrote it, I'm sure you can agree that last year had a higher degree of freedom than we currently enjoy.
No surveillance cameras on every corner and store, less ways to b found if done correctly
@@octavius8562 exactly what I thought lol
@@skinnyclemenza I remember Hippies walking down the streets of L.A. openly smoking pot. Nobody knew what it was or what it smelled like.
I grew up in the 70s I did fine,music was the best,gas was cheap,25 cents to go see 2 movies
I paid 50 cents and can back watch all night after eating.
I loved it! Still do!
I’m here for the architecture, vehicles, and the clothes! Love it and such a shame it still hasn’t made a comeback!
It Never will. The people of today will never allow it because of the way they are and who they are.
Respectfully disagree. Yes, SMOG was bad. Air quality was much worse than today. But the mentally ill were still in hospitals, not living on the streets.
all true....but the food is way better in L.A nowadays....
Yeah, we need more mental hospitals so we have a place to lay down lol then LA would be much better lol
@Brandon Taylor ....hugh..? there's more healthy food options today then there was in the 1970's....that's a fact...and way more diversity in food choices..
@@bconni2 Yet there were hardly any obese people in Los Angeles in the 70's.
@@johnadams5259 What about kids? When I was a boy a fat kid was an anomaly. Lots of chunky kids now. In the 60's and 70's we ate plenty of sugar. BUT, nothing was supersized. A 12oz can of soda was plenty. Our plates weren't piled up like they are now. We didn't eat cereal for snacks or for dinner. We had pizza maybe once a month. We had fast food maybe twice a month. When my mother made fish stick with tater tots, we each had 2 fish sticks and it was enough. We never came inside to play unless it was cold or raining. We drank from the water hose because our parents would fuss telling us to either stay in or stay out. By the time we took our bath at night we were dirty. We didn't put holes in our jeans on purpose, we wore 'em out and our mothers would patch them up. My mother got paid every other Wednesday and she'd go grocery shopping. She didn't shop for snacks. If we ran out of milk or whatever, she didn't go buy more. We had to wait til that next paycheck, so we knew how to ration. We didn't feel hungry. Sunday breakfast and dinner was the best meals of the week. We live in abundance now despite people thinking these are the end times. No Ciggies!! 😀
Amazing !! ❤️ LA
Lived in California from the mid 70's to the late 80's. Use to go to LA at least a couple of times a year (from Sacramento). I was into three things back then, women, clubbing and cars. LA had plenty of all of these. Fun times.
Born and raised there. Born in the late 50, left for the military when I was 17 in 1977. Never returned to live there. Spent my time stationed around the globe. First duty assignment was Germany in North Baveria. Did not know how nice life could be outside of LA. My family stayed there and I returned from time to time. I used to Cruise Whittier Blvd. from 1974-1977. Very cool time. We also went over and cruised Colorado Blvd where the surfers went with their hot rods. My buddies got Tattoos and Good Time Charlies on the strip.
This is such an accurate time capsule!
I arrived on Christmas Day 1975. From Sydney Australia.
And this is what I found! Really!
And I designed a disco club called Osko’s on La Cienaga Blvd as seen at 10:05 around the end of 1976 when disco was already on its last legs!
So sorry I missed your comment...I love what you wrote. How exciting. Disco had a short life within the straight community but disco takes off in 1978 it explodes with Donna Summer’s the Village People and in 1976 70 million babies in America Born in 1955 all turn 21 at once ... refreshing the gay club to massive proportions 5 other major clubs open in LA to accommodate the huge up tick in alcohol and dance club admissions.
@@JamesBlackmanIII the LA gay social scene in the late 70’s was a blast even for a straight guy like me! Met really great people and hadn’t expected to see the rise of anti-gay prejudice lead by an uncaring and ignorant President when they were struck with a mysterious new disease in the eighties. By then the party was over. LA never felt the same after that.
You designed Osko's?? Wow!! Do you have any recollections to share? I've worked at Book Soup for 17 years and am always looking for first-person accounts of LA history.
I had a blast
I was born in Van Nuys, and grew up in both Altadena and South Pasadena during the 60-70's. My dad was a California Highway Patrol Sergeant, while my mom was an RN who worked at Childrens Hospital in DLA. I have many fond memories of Southern California. Indeed, we have had troubled times, but seemed to make it. As I write this, it is 5/9/20, and Newsum is gradually opening places up during this COVID-19 Pandemic. Our history is rich with everything associated with LA, and yet have a difficult and shameful past. Be safe out there, everyone.
you ever been to northern cali ?
@@Lupo32 Yes. Many years ago.
Have you ever met legendary theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (he also lived in Altadena) ? Have you been in Caltech or JPl ?
@@alexandrscience3473 Hey Alexandr. Sadly, I did not know Dr.Feynman. My step-dad worked at JPL while finishing his Ph.D. This goes back to the early 70's. Take care and be safe, okay?
@@danielpenkoff688Very interesting, thank you for answer!
Michael Jackson and Freddy Mercury!!!! KINGS
Born and grew up in Van Nuys, never had problems. It was a awesome place and time to grow up. Sucks now!
I was born in Sac but I love LA. I’m missing the city nowadays.i was 9 in 1979.
James, Neat video. Groovy! Thanks, Keith
Music was great, but your artistic eye in the general montage was brilliant. Loved it. My city. My era. Thanks
Thank you so much sorry for the late response!
great times and memories from my good old days! great video post!
Glad you enjoyed it
We had a wonderful time as teens in Los Angeles. I agree with D. Dollar; even the "bad" hoods no one bothered you. We danced to all the great music, respected each other. People were real and love was real. This dude got it all wrong.
Except for the landscaping and ""gentrification" which did come in the 80s, 90s and proceeds but with expensive property and also too much drugs and crime and homelessness abounding. Been through numerous decades in this area and can't believe the continuing build out. So many more people than even in the 1970s.
It had lots of good traits too. If I were to time-travel back to the '70s, I'd choose it as my home over any city in the Midwest or Southeast.
Yes many would choose it in the 70-90s. I dipped my toe in the water in 85 & just moved out to Santa Monica, it was too expensive then for me so I moved back east. You couldn't just crash wherever you wanted like now. LA is a cesspool now unless you're uber wealthy.
I'm a die-hard New Yorker, but I must say that I feel an energy being in LA like no other place. The dry air, hills, palm trees, history, and eccentricity of it get under your skin. I've been around and it's the only other place I can say I'd like to live. Let me add too that without mucho money, there isn't a place where crime doesn't exist.
NY'ers killed Ca!!!
Nice, Memories of 75', Mid Wilshire,Hollywood ,Downtown.
L.A. in the 70's was a great place to be!!
I was a little kid in the early 80's I still remember those photomat's they were in the parking lots of many super markets .
I was raised in Los Angeles during the 1970’s. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH IT?!!! How I would to step into A Time Machine and go back to That ERA of Los Angeles!
I’d go back in a heartbeat if I could. Cars and music were way better. Girls didn’t have bad attitudes like they do today. People were friendlier.
Me too!!! The girls, morals, the food was better, the music, the vibe was better!!! The girls wasn't all Ratchet and Snobby!!! These times sucks!!! I'm glad to be alive even though....Let me know when a time machine gets built.
I never understood the longing for the good old days until this exact moment. What I wouldnt give to forget what I know and be a part of these pictures!!
I grew up in L..A. during the 70's, that's when I came of age and experienced the rough and tumble life of a misspent youth!!! I wouldn't trade it for anything. I had LOTS of fun getting in trouble and exploring all that the city had to offer. Too bad L.A. has deteriorated into a city that is too expensive to live in and plagued with unnecessary violence. So SAD to see my hometown has become a shell of it's former self.
I know for a FACT I'm not the only child here who's watching the entire video and enjoying.
As a kid the feeling I got from the Hollywood parade!! Seeing Santa lol
I grew up here. I don’t remember it being bad at all in the 70s. There were less people. Smog, yes. Crime was more rampant in gang areas south of the 10 during the 1980s. I miss the all the neon. Signage was king. Now all the trees they planted cover the streets signage, what’s left of it. Whole blocks have been torn down and overdeveloped. I’d take that LA over today’s LA. Its like a dystopian twilight zone now. Sanity flight to other states. Only crazies and hyper wealthy now. Her best days are behind her. Great montage. I recognize so much. Wish there was a time machine. Thank you
There is no where else for a Californian to go. I'll be living here for most of my life because I already know that there is no where else in the world for someone like me born and raised in Southern California. And the weather is comparatively "divine" even with all the population and homeless. No where to run and no where to hide. I agree with your description "dystopian twilight zone" though. Strange isn't it. As for her best days behind her---you can't know that. Better days ahead always.
I thought LA was great in the 70's. Especially compared to the way it has become. Yes, they had real music back then too. And I will take the smog over today's chemtrails and deliberate drought any day!
Beautiful calli girls..awesome..FLAWLESS WEATHER......GORGEOUS landscapes. ...best in the world.....
@@randomdude9269 Yeah, we've always had these fake clouds...
L.A is still a great music town....one of the best music towns on planet earth...
@@bconni2 name one
@@EastLosAngeles1964classic ...the best song writers and musicians on planet earth are in Los Angeles, NYC & London...
Los Angels is such a beautiful place when the city really shines a lot at night! The 1970s Los Angels was really hot back then! Great video!
I totally agree!
This my mom era of time i think the 70s where cool even though i was born in 1981 and we are in 2020 what a time machine this video is nice cars too
The 70s were great, much better than now.
Awesome video
It was awesome back then .....
It was one hell of a good time !
Lovethe LA area....GORGEOUS FLAWLESS WEATHER BEAUTIFUL GODDESSES GORGEOUS SCENERY. ....LORD I LOVE CALLI....FOREVERMORE
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Glad you enjoyed it
It was only us kids that made life fulfilling ❤we made it through the storm, with some beautiful memories, and some not so beautiful
1970's?
I had a great time 😎
I grew up & lived on Russell Ave off Vermont Ave in the early 70’s. I remember those times fondly. DTLA for a 7 year old was scary with the drunks , but no way as bad as it is today with the drugged up homeless.
I was 19 yo in LA.went tô Hollywood. HS. After that was Nam.and now living in Brasil
I wish you can redo this film and make it a bit slower just to be able to think about all these places in LA I've experienced! The street names, the mom and pop restaurants, all of it! Came to LA in 1975 as an 11 year old kid! I felt I was in heaven! Love the images!
Loved Going Downtown LA as a kid, Orange🍊 julius, thriftys, Clifton's Cafeteria 😁
@Mike Key zodys & Sears yea I sure do 👍😁🤣🤣🤣
You should see it now. Homeless everywhere. Crime out of control. It's worse. Back then it had a great vibe.
These look awesome
The 70's in LA was fun!!!
doesn't matter what little town you are from or what big city . We all loved where we grew up . If you grew up in the U.S.A. you are lucky . We are lucky . Even the folks that grew up in the smallest one horse town in West Virginia loves their town . We had 5 foot snow falls all the time here in the Northeast and blizzards all the time but we went out and played in it and built snow forts while the West coast kids were on their beach but it was all good no matter where you were from . Every place has merit and a rich History . Then when you grow up you get to choose where you want to live . The world is your oyster . I choose to build my home 1/2 mile from where I grew up all my life . We have very little here by comparison to larger cities and it still is freezing cold and snows feet but it's where I still choose to call home . Bloom where you are planted !
My uncle went to the Gold Cup Cafe on Hollywood & Las Palmas after getting off a greyhound. He learned to hustle by 14 there. 😢
Classic photo of THE SYLVERS rehearsing around the 10 minute mark. They were from compton and black los angeles embraced them as our version of the Jackson family. They were led by the oldest brother LEON SYLVERS who would go on to produce multiple platinum records for the SOLAR ( SOUND OF LOS ANGELES RECORDS) LABEL. Solar had groups such as SHALAMAR , LAKESIDE & THE WHISPERS.
I always enjoy the cars from the '70s. I look for American Motors products in particular, especially AMX's. Nothing, except one Hornet station wagon. Even that would be a rare bird today.
At 5:54 is a photo of Bond's Appliance store which was until fairly recently located on 4th Street in Long Beach, Ca. The building remains but Bond's is history. I purchased an old restored stove there back in the70s. Today;s date: 7-6-2019. Long Beach is changing. Thanks for posting this vid. H.B.L
Well that was fun!
Nice music 🎶 good video 👍
Gawd. Too many disparate comments!! Can we at least agree that this was a wonderful video, well conceived and assembled...and painfully nostalgic?
I grew kup in The Valley which was basically a small town. We'd go Over the Hill for fun and adventure. Back in the 60s we'd go all over LA and never had any hassles with anyone. KERB blasting out the windows on a hot summer night. Art Laboe and Wolfman Jack.
Nice
I lived there from 77 until 85. Always liked it, just became too expensive to live there. Go back every other year usually!
A very good visual compilation of the 70's in LA, I really enjoyed it! This video reminded me that this era is when Gay's started to come out and Disco was a vein for them to express themselves, which was and is a good thing. I am not gay and grew up in the bay area, but the images you have displayed I can relate to. Thank You.
Steven Flores I was a waiter at the French market from 1975 to 1980 and then also was a go go dancer for a minute at studio one but did most of my time at Circus just go and probe and it was a very exciting time I remember waiting on share and bet Midler and Liza Minnelli in the village people and Donna Summers it was a absolute ball so you caught my narrative that I did that with a point of view of which I only knew of which the fact that I grew up as a Gay kid in LA too. Thank you for your kind comments
I used to get breakfast at the French Market on Sunday mornings! Miss LA so much!
Remember the gas lines? Even and odd days? My dad used to go on even days. 8 tracks !
And now everybody in LA is driving frigging TANKS, not kidding. Me and my 1979 Superbeetle are VERY careful while motoring :((
Way better than today
If you were born into the 70s era of Los Angeles than that's the only life you knew of. Of course it was good. You had nothing else to compare it to. Now that 5 decades have passed you can compare each decade. To me the 80s was the best decade. Not just for Los Angeles, but for everywhere.
Mid 80s brought crack, before that I would say was the best up until 85. I was there a couple yrs till 86.
Raised in South Central Los Angeles. Best pastrami's Johnny's on Adams and Crenshaw! Quick and split best burgers! Fat Burgers also Howard's bacon and avocado Venice and Sepulveda. 70s and 80s was great with the skating rinks like flips in Hollywood Skate Depot at World on wheels. And Venice Beach was the spot. Along with Westwood Mardi Gras. Cruising Crenshaw Boulevard was necessary every weekend. When you go to the Century Drive In to make out because you couldn't hear the movie for the airplanes landing at LAX. Long live LA
QUick and Split! right behind randys donuts!!! damn those burgers were the best!!! and their homemade ice cream and their 7 up cake!
The SyLvers at 5: 03 ! WonderfuL FamiLy that Lived up in BeverLy GLen canyon up near MuLhoLLand Drive ! ALLof us kids used to pLay outside of their home on AngeLo drive !
This is the best place to live even with the smog.
And we did not have global warming or climate change.
But we had the starwood,
the whisky,
Roxy, gazzaris and all of the other 18 and under rock clubs.
We had sunset strip,
Van nuys blvd, Westwood village,
Century city and Tommy burger.
The beaches
azusa canyon.
Growing up in L.A.
Couldn't ask for anything better.
From sure is worst in nowdays. California has been a paradise.
LA was and is a great place. I’ve been to many states and countries, LA is what you make it.
God's mercy on us who lived through the 70s.
Aww I remember our fire trucks ❤
At 10:04 can someone identify this building and was it on Hollywood blvd ? Thanks
Compared to today....It was a veritable paradise!!!!!
Tommys burgers on Beverly Blvd and jims burgers on 1th street in ELA still there.
Minute 7:22 is Figueroa St..This area is very nice The Pantry still here plus L.A Live, Staples, the new intercontinental hotel & all the new high rise condominiums.
Looks brilliant to me
I LOVE L.A.❤❤❤❤❤
Like you said music was great in the 70's
1:28- GREASE!! The spot where Danny Zucco won the pink!!
Overall in the 70's between 1973 and 1977 LA was cool and great city
I turned 7 years old August of 1970 and during the 70s growing up in LA, I thought it was a terrible time and a terrible place. I hated those years. I was always being bullied, chased and beat up by gang members.. Funny thing is now I look back on it and think it wasn't so bad. I actually love seeing photos and videos of that time now. Would I like to go back in time.....?
No, I'm good where I am
The music does this justice. Like my Dad used to say "the world is in one big damn hurry"
I guess OJ was part of the 70's but OJ carried the olympic torch in 1984.