Cruising Hollywood, ca 1930s
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2018
- Street scenes shot by Burton Holmes around Los Angeles in the 1930s, including a policeman directing pedestrians across a busy beach-side crosswalk.
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The absolute halcyon days of Los Angeles. Hollywood was never more beautiful and dream-like than this. The footage of Santa Monica is amazing, it was a quaint but growing innocent all-American beach town like Venice and Long Beach were.
it's funny how the palm trees were all so short back then
Lol yea they tall now
@@stassibonassi7373 lmao they tall tall
@@z777z99 😂😂😂😂😂
Get it lol
yeah now when you see them their like higher then a 6 story building
At around 2:02 we're on Whitley north of Hollywood Blvd. The Ojai Apartments are still there and renting.
Love seeing people being "natural" (i.e. the folks crossing the street) in footage like this. Funny seeing streets I'm familiar with back in those days.
This is so cool! Love the '30's, especially if it is Hollywood-oriented! Thanks for sharing!
I wish I could go back to those days just for a day it'd be an amazing experience.
Any idea what it was like for non whites in California back then ? I was thinking the same thing and going to that burger joint across the street - then I thought ..would they serve me ?
@Puccini Fan really ? No racism during 1930s ? In California...
@@fais6964 The burger joint would have a "whites only" sign at the very entrance. Racism was rampant in those days.
@@mikealvarez8250 stop being a black victim
@@fais6964 it probably sucked ass for colored folks, cmon now you know damn well what it was like for us 😂
Very cool... love seeing the coastline
My favorite era of Los Angeles is the early to mid 20th century. I love the old buildings and the style, nothing new could ever compete with those old hotels and diners. Weirdly it looks like there was light smog on the horizon even in the 30s, but it might just be the marine layer. I wish there was an old video of Los Feliz here.
cars were super dirty back then.
It looks fairly windy that day. You'd think if there was any smog it would have been blown away.
@@Veritas-dq2hs they actually weren't even remotely dirty, and usually never leaked any gasoline oil.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Judging by air quality levels and smog over the decades. Can't dispute.
OJAI Apartments 1929 N Whitley Ave, Los Angeles, CA
How many ppl were there in the 30's ? LA looks so quiet in this era...
The City of Los Angeles had about 1.3 million in the early 1930's,. LA County had about 2.3 million. Roughly 23% of what it has today. Things were much less crowded. And there was one of the best light rail systems in the USA, the Red Line. You did not need a car.
To add on to Eddi Haskell's comment, most of the action would be happening Downtown at this point. LA still had a recognizable urban core back then.
@Forest Leech And you
LA Cops hitting on chicks in the street. Some things never change.
That older lady was so tall
My GUESS is, that was NO "lady"..
so nice to see that people still do the walk walk walk little jog little jog little jog jog jog across the crosswalk when there is traffic lol. a universal that never changes
Police Officer: Dam street lights stole my job!
I like it very much, bur it dosent make scene the minutes filmed shows in the right corner isnt right since it is not sweeping from one scene to another but its cut!
so it couldn´t be authentic!
The adults in this video are all dead, and the children here are all now elderly adults themselves in their 80s.
My God, that is both fascinating and haunting at the same time.
If they were born in 1930 then they’d be 90. If they were teenagers or adults then definitely they are dead now
I know.
@@foreverlovesophie yes, the last era of mature adults was gone by the 2010s. That is when the respectable world of the poised past left us. They were the real models, the real parents, the real models teenagers, the real automobile drivers. The 1930s was an inbetween time of peace, and believe it or not... segregation was accepted as normal by black folks and fellas, and after days it was already used to, my long known friend born in 1927, said "if ever a problem that derives from the comfort of life, ignore it and move on or else only trouble may brew". However Segregation in Hollywood was not segregation in the territory of defunctionate land of which still thinks slaves was a natural idea named the south, no.. in Los Angeles and areas around California, segregation meant that black and white were separated by what they used, but still treated each as equals in its right. You would see them everywhere together, talking, sitting in line, at a restaurant, its just those little things that caused a big difference, and so black folks ignored the unfair treatment. That is the truth of Jim Crow south compared to Los Angeles' infamous "jim crow" variation. It wasn't fair, no, but it was accepted. The kkk group was thrown out of Los Angeles, that was not allowed not for a second, but that was the termoil that had spawned since 1861 when enslaves began to become free. The 1960s brought back that unnecessary racism back into the united states. Entitled time frame I'll tell you.
Pre cultural enrichment
Looks more like Santa Monica than Hollywood.
The incline was maybe Mt Lowe Railway above Pasadena? What was that building with the OJAI sign on it?
@@bennri There is a Ojai, California but it's nowhere near the beach. This film was seemingly taken at more than one location. The beginning looks a lot like Santa Monica of the past, and present for that matter. On the beach, cliffs, beach goers crossing Ocean Ave, a pier in the right location in relation to the cliffs. Hollywood is far from the beach so the title is confusing.
Damn where they flying drone at the end there 😂
Same thought I had. Impressive what they did back then with very little technology.
Weren’t the famous palm trees imported?
They arrived from Florida.
0:50 is so weird to see a woman with long, straight hair in the 30’s. Everyone seemed to favor shorter, curled styles.
You're thinking of the 50s. There was some short hair in the 30s too but women had long straight hair in the 30s and 40s.
Keep in mind this was at the beach- their hair was down because they were just getting back from swimming & what not. Unlikely they would wear their hair straight, flowing as in these beach scenes
You are right. She does look like a time traveler from 1970's.
I was thinking the same thing!
A lot of them would wear it in an upward style. Remember people dressed up back then whenever they went out much more than they do now. Almost every man is in a suit.
Je trouve que c'était moderne en ce temps la !!
Looks like women still dressed the same to me
This is a holiday resort 🤷♂️
Echo Park,.. water again.
Was the blonde lady getting in the car a movie star?
genial
That first girl had some legs 🤩
You're a house #####
Mmm dem wrinkled sweaty wide meaty feet solesss
Um.....no.
Yeah, fat ones.
Some gams you mean 👴
To think....everyone you see has passed away
Maybe the boy of 0:37 not
Mostly all these people you see today are 100 years old...
nothing's chance..except for the cars
and less white people
and nobody is constantly looking at a cellphone
Except for 👑
And traffic, graffiti, homelessness , the smell of urine , the gangs ! That’s it . Lol
@@foreverlovesophie1930s Los Angeles did have crime and gangs. There was definitely a stronger organized crime presence.
2:46 Goodyear blimp
US NAVY blimp more likely.
0:56 That cop has got his runway model walk down.
And the baby are 90 years old.
Omg there were obese people in the 30s 😳that makes it more real because , today we see all body shapes not just skinny on the streets . Time travel for sure 👍🏼
Yes there were fat ppl then too. They just didn’t glamorize it. Remember fatty arbuckle
Also bodybuilding wasn’t really mainstream, most people got their muscle naturally from everyday life activities.
Thinking about it where are all these people at today in 2020?
If they were born in 1930, they’d be 90 years old right now and if they teenagers or adults in then they are all dead .
The nearby cemetery
The cemetery
@@foreverlovesophie If they were born in 1930 they wouldn't be in this film.
@@majorneptunejrit not necessarily true , but for the majority of, yes. They would be 94 in 2024z. My great grandmother lived to be 103, so it’s possible. When I commented it was 3 years ago, which would have made anyone still alive “1
Wow, the American people have been OVERWEIGHT longer than I thought, even through the Depression,,,Fooditis really IS a thing!!!
Yes I have noticed that in America so many overweight people. The southern states seem to have so many.
Are they still alive?
Probably not.
No minorities? Why?
There’s always been Mexicans in LA Since the day we named it.
@@alvaroobregon4596 yes, I am aware, California used to belong to Mexico afterall, but I meant that there is no minorities in this film.
@@alvaroobregon4596 Mexicans didn't name LA, bud. It was the Spaniards.
I’m Mexican American my dna shows me to be 90% Iberian 10% native yes we named it the state , many many many city’s too. Mexican is not a race it’s a couture and a nation. Get off already….
@@alvaroobregon4596 Yea, obviously you're going to have some Iberian... A solid 80% of Mexicans are Iberian/Native mix. Technically, "Mexican" is just a nation, but due to the simple fact that most Mexicans are mestizo, it pretty much means you're mestizo. But also maybe fully Amerindian or even European, but vast majority are mestizo... and its culture also "surprisingly" happens to be a mestizo (Iberian/Native) culture.
Don't complicate things. It's ok.