No, because my mom spoke of having to dive underneath her desk to hide as a little girl at grade school because of having to do practice drills due to world war II. The cars were amazing then though!
@@Earthy-Artist Hell, we had to do that in the 80s because of the Cold War “Russkies”. And with the earthquakes, there was always reason to dive under a desk or run for a doorway.
The video is from Burbank CA 0:06 -Victory Blvd & Pepper St - west on Victory 0:24 - Victory & Screenland 0:42 - Victory & Kenwood 0:56 - Right turn on Maple St - north on Maple 2:11- Maple St & Pacific Ave Break 2:15 - Portal of Folded Wings / Pacific Park - Pacific Ave & Maple St -south on Maple 2:36 - Monterey Ave & Maple St 2:56 - Victory Blvd & Maple St 3:23 - Lockheed P-38 taking off from Lockheed Air Terminal 3:35 - Right turn at Jeffries Ave & Maple St - west on Jeffries 4:25 - Park on Jeffries between Rose St & Valley St Break 5:27 - Repeat previous sequence
@@vv-cy5sk my favorite band. i was only born in 1996 but would have loved to have grown up in the 50s and 60s where my grandfather grew up. i would have loved to have seen them live at The Whisky A-Go-Go or London Fog. if only Jim lived longer as they transitioned more into more of a bluesier sound. i'll always have their music and many other bands and artists to listen to whenever i want to get a taste fo the 60s.
Jeanette Griffin. I hear you.! Life is a blink. Being ten in '63 in The Bronx seems so so long ago, like a very long life..but the last few decades have slipped bye and disappeared! The 2,000's and 2010's are gone in a blur. Definitely tears in my eyes.. over the enormity of events of humanity. Ahh, and just when you have a big part of the puzzle figured..the body wears out and dies.!! Keep smiling!
It’s so crazy how there’s people on RUclips these days doing walking/driving videos in diff cities and towns and now we find out there were people in the 40’s and 50’s that were doing the same thing before any of todays technology existed. I find this so cool.
Ahhhh so this is what it looked like when my grandparents got married, bought a house and started a family out in California. This is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing!
@Tweakz and Gem it’s not about him being a loser it’s about the neighborhoods we grew up in being unrecognizable. But I definitely think it’s a bit of an overreach to say that OP’s grandma is to blame. It’s not her fault a bunch of dirty smear merchants weaseled their way into our higher government and defunded our southern border
@@sabrinatscha2554Dear Kraut: Well since most illegal immigrants came into this country in the 80s, 90s, and the millenial decade, I guess we know who the "smear merchants" were.
This video is literally a time machine. Thank you so much. My father was born in LA in 1948. My grandfather owned a locksmith store. I remember my grandparents always saying how life was hard but beautiful at the same time. Rip dad he passed in 2007.
Probably lived longer no GMO foods round up - chem trails - if he was lucky enough not a agent orange war victim - now all these Covid booster shots. To say the least. My grandmother lived out there. In CA both to 90s.
Not sure how I ended up on this video... but it's really cool! At 3:25, you see a P38 Lightning taking off from what was then Lockheed Air Terminal, today called the Burbank Airport. The Lockheed factory was right there in Burbank, and they built a lot of P38s, something like 10,000. It's entirely possible that you are watching a P38 on a maiden voyage (probably not, but nice to think). Sadly, there are only a couple dozen P38s in existence now.
As a car guy this is incredible. Anyone else noticing all the oil stains in the driveways or in front of the houses? That’s how the drivetrain in cars were until the 60’s when they started getting sealed better! And when they came out with the PCV system which did away with the draft tube.
As a plane guy that reminds me of the old radial engines from that time and the 50's. They all leaked oil continuously . We used to say that they were just marking their territory.
The building in the background to the left upper screen is the Portal Of The Folded Wings Shrine To Aviation In Burbank CA. It is in the cemetery South of Burbank Airport and old home of Lockheed Skunkworks (where many historic jets were designed and produced). The film starts at w. Pacific Ave (South of the old Frys Electronics). The camera car travels South on Maple Street towards Victory Blvd. and crosses it. The church on the NW corner of Maple and Victory is smaller. Things to look for and compare is the alley directly North behind the church, The house North of the alley the door way is the same, the second house on the right side of the video (located at Pacific and Maple where this portion of the ride starts) has a unique pointed arch forming a triangle. Google maps street views was used to compare.
Excellent catch! I was thinking Burbank--maybe Covina, leaning Burbank, but couldn't quite place it. At 3:28 seems like a twin tailed P-38 is taking off into the pix. I didn't see a single house with a double garage.
My grandparents lived on this exact block at the 7:54 mark. the black dog you seen on the corner was named rufus and the owner was Shirley (walking across the street) and her son Eugene (on the corner with the dog) . i was 7 at the time. i used to see them every couple of weeks (2-26-22) Alright guys and gals i gotta confess. I made all this up lol. Just a troll comment...had no idea it would get this much attention. thanks to all who commented and liked...i actually had a private message from a local new station asking for an interview bc they saw the comment and wanted to make a story. But anyway, thanks for the publicity and R.I.P. Rufus just for the hell of it
I truly got lost into this video. I feel like I time traveled into it.❤ It seems like it was filmed right after school as I see all the kids carrying what seems to be books/bags and their sweaters back home. Just a lovely everyday scene.
Amazing footage of the San Fernando Valley, all in Burbank. Someone may have already posted this, but the first sequence starts at what is now the Petco on Hollywood Way & Victory Blvd, and ends up on Maple street. The second sequences at 2:25 starts at the top of North Maple at the junction with Pacific (basically the car just turned around before starting to film the second sequence). The car is then heading south, our POV is due north. After a few seconds we see a small intersection on the left, which is Monterey Avenue. Then the major road we cross is Victory Boulevard. There's still a church where the white church stood on the NW corner, but it's since been rebuilt. The building in the background is the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, which still stands today. It's very near the modern Burbank Airport (the old Lockheed works I think). At 7:15 the car turns right onto Jeffries Avenue. The waste ground behind the car is now the Maple Street Playground. OK I'm probably the only one who thinks this is interesting so I'll stop now! Most of the houses in this footage still exist in their original form though I doubt any of them will sell for less than $900k in 2022.
Wow. And absolutely a straight up robbery for a 900k house for one of those old ass original houses. Homes should depreciate like any other asset we own. The land is valuable the building is old and dilapidated. 900k for hookers to be standing on every corner. No thanks. Get real, California
@@PokrPro21 don’t worry bro providence will bring “balance to the force” very soon. We are on the very edge of the apocalypse, there is no turning back now.
This is fantastic, Jack! No, you're certainly not the only one that finds your observations interesting, and thank you for them! (I'm one of those people that likes to A/B between these old videos and the current street view on Google Maps, so I do appreciate your handiwork!)
I am so glad someone thought to do this back then because at the time it would have felt mundane to just film a row of houses. I don't know how many people would even do that today, but this guy was thinking ahead. Thank you sir, whoever you are!
AVERY CHASTAIN: I was just thinking that this almost seems like the Google Maps of its day. I wonder if this is actually how they plotted the cities for the phone book maps. Hmm...
Crazy! My dad was born in 1942 in Glendale. I was also born there. He would tell me stories about the good old days and I always wished I could go back in time to see what it was like then. He passed away, but this is like visiting his childhood. Thank you!
This neighborhood today looks even better than the video. Completely taken care of and preserved by the homeowners over the decades. Extremely rare. Check out N. Maple Street just south of W. Pacific Ave. in Burbank, around where this footage was shot. See that big domed structure at around 5:30? That’s the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, which was built in the 1920s and looks the same today.
I always imagined the 40s would have had a less developed residential area. Everything from the house to the driveway and the landscaping looks modern. Not much of a difference outside of the cars and culture of the neighborhood
@@ThatsTheWayItGoes I guess mercury based batteries in a film camera? Couldve even been manually operated with a crank. Looking into it its actually kinda interesting.
So incredibly fascinating to watch. The typical B/W and sped up footage we see from old days makes it difficult to see that era as "real". Your videos make the past seem that much closer and real🙂👍🏼
Old sped up footage wasn't meant to be sped up. Silent amateur film camera speed was 16 frames per sec to save raw stock. When projected on a home projector motion was normal. But pro equipment was designed at sound speed of 24 fps. Hence motion is sped up unless corrected.
This is extremely well done. It seems that movies often 'dress up' periods and romanticize the atmosphere, so it's cool to see (what I assume is) a more realistic look into what it was like. Doesn't feel quite as far in the past as it is.
Growing up in the Appalachians you see a lot of communities with these same houses and neighborhoods, and feels like that time period besides the newer cars. Mostly where the poor live. There might be a few updates but not much.
I suspect people did appreciate what they had more back then. Nowadays, a walk down the street on a nice day isn't even worth it if you can't catch Pokemon & post selfies on Fakebook, along with a self-absorbed, pointless commentary. And that's before you even leave your driveway.
These restored videos are almost like a dream, there's a strongly surreal quality to seeing such old footage moving so smoothly at high resolution. I've always had a fascination with old shows and films from that time, mainly because TV stations when I was a kid in the 80s filled a lot of their timeslots with old reruns from this era so it was also something to bond over with my parents and grandparents. That we have the technology now to allow us to see real life footage in such clarity from that time of just normal people in normal everyday life is absolutely amazing.
Watching all those lovely classic cars in high resolution is simply stunning. I get the sensation of time travelling watching this fantastic video. Thank you for this great job in restoration. Thank you for the upload.
This is awesome. Watching a neighborhood back in the 40s is so interesting. I loved watching the kids playing outside, how they're dressed, and the neighborhood was so peaceful. Parents didn't have to worry about their kids playing in the front yard. Thank you for posting this. It gave me a glimpse of how life was at the time.
@@rolandos64 1980 was the cut off year , anyone born after 80 never experienced what this country once was. I'm on the fence as I was born in 76 . I grew up In Manchester NH , parents built a house in the country in 85 so we moved when I was 10 . The west side of Manchester was kept up for the most part , most of the neighborhoods consisted of French Canadians . The area started to go down hill by the late 80's and is now a shadow of it's former self . Most of the tenant buildings are being bought up by investment companies that do not care about anything . 35+ years ago most apartment buildings in this area had the landlord living on the first floor and often rented to friends and family members .
I love this trend of adding color (and sound) and adjusting the speed. It really brings it to life opposed to the usual sped up soundless black and white footage we usually see from this era. In my mind when imagine the 40s I immediately think brown. I don’t know why. But this video shows the same blue sky and green grass we see everyday and it feels shockingly familiar. Love this you earned a follower.
I can't wait until it's available to us or something you can have done to home movies, I have some footage of my great grandfather in the 20s, my grandfather, my dad and his siblings as babies in the 40s and on. I've watched them 1000 times but I'd love to see the early ones remastered like this. That would be incredible.
This is remarkable. Most of the houses in this neighborhood haven’t really changed much. Until recently , Burbank has always had a small town vibe. Thanks for posting this video.
Depending on your age...I have always thought it fascinating if one was to spot themself, parent, or grandparent on one of these clips! How cool would that be to catch a glimpse of that moment in time so long ago. Thank you NASS for providing the closest thing we have to a time machine!
This is just mind-blowing!!! I was born in the 80's and I've always been fascinated by those old films. Such a time machine and so good to see this in color. Thanks for sharing this 🙏😊
So here's some food for thought. People seeing footage of the 80s today is the same equivalent of people in the 80s watching this footage of the 40s. Music from the 90s is basically the same distance of time as what we called "Oldies" in the 80s. I guess I'm officially old now. Waaaaaah!
@2:15 to the left of the screen the dome shaped building is the Portal of the Folded Wings, Shrine to Aviation in Burbank. You can also see there was a soldier standing guard to the right of the moving car. And @3:25 you can also see a F-82 Twin Mustang just took off from Burbank airport.
You’re correct. I thought it was a P-38, but close inspection shows it has no central cockpit nacelle. What else could it be but an F-82? Good job. And that soldier seems to be guarding a scruffy vacant lot-maybe it’s the perimeter of some sort of secure installation?
No question it is a P-38 Lighting. Burbank Airport was a major manufacturing plan for Lockheed during the War and the F-82 was a North American product @@drawn2myattention641
At 3:56 on the right is a house at the intersection that has a distinctive bay window and a small tree in front. On Street View. at the corner of Jeffries and Pass in Burbank, you can see this same house and how huge the tree is now.
There are videos then and now of the Hancock Park area in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles. A very affluent area and the now video looks exactly like the then video from the past. Amazing.
It's a fascinating to see life back in the 40s and I'm very grateful to the videographer who recorded this. And I'm grateful for whoever kept this video for future generations to see.
At 2:16, there's the jump cut with the dark sedan turning from westbound Pacific Ave. to southbound N. Maple St. in Burbank, Calif. That's the corner of what's now (8-24-2022) the Pierce Bros Valhalla cemetery. The gold dome is the Shrine to Aviation, which is still there. Not too many years ago, a small plane, taking off from Burbank Airport, crashed into the dome. Following the cars south, as another viewer pointed out, at 2:35, that's a Lockheed P-38 Lightning taking off. The first time I saw this on a tv, it wasn't so easy to keep going back to figure out what that flying box was. There was an airshow at the Camarillo airport last weekend. There was a Lightning there, and I spoke to the pilot. After I told him how much I liked the look of the 38, he told me it wasn't a great plane in the following sense: most fighters had a more-or-less similar profile. The air combatants couldn't necessarily identify a plane as friend or foe until they got close. But the 38 was identifiable from a considerably farther distance, making it more vulnerable to air attacks and AA ground fire. The P-38s were designed and manufactured at Lockheed Vega, then Lockheed, before WWII and retired from the USAF in 1949. P-38s attacked, and killed, Adm. Yamamoto in April 18, 1943, one year to the day after the Doolittle Raid on tokyo. Lt. Rex Barber was finally credited with downing the plane carrying Yamamoto. As for that possibly being a P-82 Twin Mustang, they would have a similar boxy appearance at that distance, but the Mustangs were built by North American. The NAA California plant was in El Segundo/Inglewood, next to Mines Field (now the detested LAX), making the P-82 an unlikely candidate. Kansas City, KS was North American's other plant. The North American plant at El Segundo built the 16 planes in Doolittle's Raid. Who can identify the newest year/model of car in the segment driving south on N. Maple? Cars aren't my metier. Cheers
From watching this video, it was winter in Burbank, so I'd say Jan/Feb '47 or '48. Since cars weren't readily available to the general public, I'd say the latest models would be '41 or '42's.
Did anyone else notice that starting @ about 3:45, there are no stop or yield signs at any of the intersections in the neighborhood. The times WERE a little more laid back then. Great vids, thanks. So nice to go back in time for a few moments during these trying times.
@@craiggillett5985 @7:24 you can see the driver in the car following signal a left turn with the old timey hand signal (arm straight out indicating a left, whereas holding one's hand upright, i.e. in the form of a right angle, signaled a right turn).
When you have the original Film, you can upscale it to up to 8k digital quality. It’s just people have been seeing videos form 70s and 80s with the “VHS” tech and think 1940s FILM should be worse when in reality Film is always super high quality as long as you can reproduce it to a compatible digital format
Hey fun fact: this was the exact area that Tim Burton grew up in. It was the inspiration for how the neighborhood of Edward Scissorhands looked like. I guess living so close to a cemetery had quite the effect on Tim’s gothic feel to his films haha.
True. The "Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation" @ 2:20, next to the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, is in the area where Tim Burton grew up in.
Looks like my grandparents neighborhood that I grew up in outside of Chicago. Seeing the clothes line with the clothes hanging out to dry REALLY brings back memories for me lol. Even after my Grandma got her first washer and dryer she still hung her sheets on the clothes line out back and my sister and I would run through them like a maze. They moved to the suburbs from the southwest side of Chicago after WW2 and they lived in the same house until they both passed away this past decade, 60+ years. You can tell the houses from that post war era because like my grandparents house their whole subdivision were 1 story ranch house with a car port or a bungalow style house with a single car garage in the back. My grandparents got to choose from 3 designs and then the company sent out a semi truck with pre fabricated sections and the house was erected in 12 hours or "by the end of the day when you get home from work" was the company's slogan. I loved growing up in their neighborhood because everyone knew everyone and all their original neighbors were WW2 and Korean war vets and were neighbors for 60+ years... but sadly they've all passed away too and now the houses are being torn down and massive big multi story homes have taken over.
Bet these houses were also affordable for normal people working normal jobs. Thesedays, young people like me - 28yo, looks at 1bds tiny ass garage space like flat and think what a luxury it is. Crazy.
@@p2p104 Oh for sure. That was the whole idea of the post war idiology. Esp during the 1950s is when the suburb boom took off with affordable housing back when the normal household was Dad goes to work and mom stays home and takes care of the kids and the whole family survived and thrived off of dads $10,000 a year job while living in their single story 3 bedroom, 1 bath, single car port $14,000 ranch house. Thats exactly how it was for my grandparents when my mom and uncle were growing up. They were the ideal postwar family lol. Things were cheaper back then too but it amazes me how much things have changed and how inflation dictates how things are.
Great video! I went on Google Earth to compare to present day. You can clearly see how about half of the front yards were taken to widen Victory Blvd. But the homes are, for the most part, unchanged. So cute and neat.
Thank you for the hard work you put in to preserve this!! It’s no wonder why my Grandparents moved to this area around the time this was filmed. He was in the Airframe profession with early turbo props, and lived not too far from here! Such pride people took in their homes and lawn appearance back then.
green laws were only such color because water was abundant then. look at population then and compare to todays. thats a start. you want green grass, move to the east coast! its green for days! The west coast is all desert!!! Its like vegas! Only reason you see all the lights in vegas, is because they have been installed and are powered by the colorado river! grass in the west coast is artificial. we grow it!
A fascinating journey through time! Amazing how timelessly modern seems the suburban architecture of almost 80 years ago ... only the old vehicles point to a bygone era ;-). Thank you, NASS, for this magnificently restored contemporary document!
The absence of STOP signs (which weren't the familiar white lettering on red background until 1960, they were yellow with black lettering before then), and lack of traffic lights are stark absences. The ancient 1000 watt incandescent bulb street lighting is also striking. Simply hanging by wires without poles.
0:25 The house on the corner (and undoubtedly others similarly situated), thanks to having frontage on two streets, is able to vary its base design by placing the garage at the rear. Makes for a "cleaner" look when viewing the front façade.
They really did do well working from hundreds of photos and film clips. When playing it I thought the trees in residential neighborhoods were too small and sparse but it was exactly right. The city was growing fast and almost everything was new.
@@unbanmekoil I think they wasted the fantastic world they created. If I remember correctly, there was very little to do outside of the main quest line. In fact I can't remember a single side quest or activity. Such a shame because it was a great map.
My great grandmother was a teenager in the 40’s . She had my grandmother at 17 in 1947. She was born in Los Angeles. It’s nice to see what it looked like 👍🏽
@@whitneywilliams317 nope. I didn’t have any children at 17. Nice guess though. 👍🏽 Neither did my mom. But ima pray for you, seems like you’re having a bad start to your day.
@@Coach_MarcyBob I'm am only 28 and my Grandmother was a teenager during WW2 in Europe and my Grandfather on the other side fought for the US Army in the Pacific in the same war. It's called when your parents have you later in life for both generations is when you end up with super old grandparents
@@angeloferreira7488 because our society had pushed God out. Now we teach CRT in schools, and install Tampon machines in the boys restrooms in Oregon, and boys are isolating themselves playing World of Warcraft all night. Parents don’t play an active role in the children lives and fathers don’t stick around.
This is amazing! To the best of my knowledge this would be the area of Burbank CA. That huge dome structure is quite beautiful and called Portal of the Folded Wings, Shrine to Aviation. It was completed in 1924 and is the burial site of famous aviators. Planes landing at Burbank Airport in the background, fly over the portal and reverberate in the space. It's magnificent to visit as I have many times. It's located at the Burbank entrance of the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. There's also an entrance to the cemetery on Victory Blvd in North Hollywood, CA. Thank you for this treasure :)
In the clip driving away from the Shrine, they are driving south on Maple St. That church is now the Victory Hispanic Church on Victory Blvd. The car continues south and turns right onto Jeffries Ave. They pass N Pass Ave, Evergreen St, N Rose St, and finally pull over alongside to what would currently be 1900 N Valley St on the Jeffries Ave side. #thanksGoogleEarth
And I give those directions, not so people can go and interrupt these neighborhoods, but to let people know where to look on Google Street view of they wanna see how the trees have grown.
This footage is in and around Burbank, CA. At roughly 2:18 you see an ornate, domed structure to the left rear, that is “The Hall of the Folded Wings” at Valhalla Cementary, at the end of the runway from Lockheed/Burbank. If you look in the deep center background you’ll see the camouflage netting that covered Lockheed during WWII. At around 8:48 the camera starts at the same location again. If you look in the center background you see an armed army guard, I assume he is guarding the employee parking at Lockheed. Sometime later you’ll see, what looks like, a P-38. These were produced at Lockheed during the war. This is Burbank, CA.
James Schmitt 8 months ago The video is from Burbank CA 0:06 -Victory Blvd & Pepper St - west on Victory 0:24 - Victory & Screenland 0:42 - Victory & Kenwood 0:56 - Right turn on Maple St - north on Maple 2:11- Maple St & Pacific Ave Break 2:15 - Portal of Folded Wings / Pacific Park - Pacific Ave & Maple St -south on Maple 2:36 - Monterey Ave & Maple St 2:56 - Victory Blvd & Maple St 3:23 - Lockheed P-38 taking off from Lockheed Air Terminal 3:35 - Right turn at Jeffries Ave & Maple St - west on Jeffries 4:25 - Park on Jeffries between Rose St & Valley St Break 5:27 - Repeat previous sequence
Opening scene I deliverd to all those homes as a UPS driver. City of Burbank. I deliverd to the entire city back in the 1990's. The quality is fantastic.
@@kfl611 All the homes sure did. Seeing this and knowing that from the 1940's to the 1990's that 50's years had passed, that some of the kids walking in these scenes would've been in their 60's/70/s in the the 90's, and I could've delivered to them and their kids is really kind of cool to ponder. There was much less greenery, tree's and bushes. The Portal Shrine looks the same in this footage. It would be really cool to take the same route in 2021 with the camera rolling.
Real interesting looking at this film because I used to work in Burbank in the 80's and still occasionally walk through these neighborhoods (Clark ave., Mariposa st.) to get to Pinocchio's Restaurant. Burbank has maintained these neighborhoods better than a lot parts of L.A..So with this very good film and color it feels like today, but with 1940's cars. Great clarity and great job.
Wow, this is great This is a residential area of Burbank California built during W.W.II. I was raised in this area on Rose St between Victory and Pacific between 1955 and 1978 and know the area very well. See breakdown of this film below... The first scene 00:06 starts at Victory BLVD and Pepper with camera looking towards Hollywood Way. Same shot today would be looking a the Petco building which was built in 1951 and was originally built as the first Gelsons Grocery store. The business you see way in the background are located on Hollywood Way. A City above ground water Reservoir is in that location today. The Camera car is driving West on Victory looking at homes on the North side of the street. These homes were built between 1940 and 1941. The Camera continues to Maple St and turns right going North on Maple looking at homes on the East side of street. All these homes were built in 1941. This scene ends at Maple St and Pacific Ave.. It is obvious this footage was for use in a movie as background for a car interior shot. The next cop is shot twice. There are two takes driving down Maple St from Pacific Ave in Burbank with the same cars following in both takes and making the same moves. Scene 2 Starts at 2:16. Camera car driving South on Maple St from Pacific ave. Camera looking North toward Valhalla Cemetery Dome and Lockheed aircraft Company. Note the homes to the right of the dome building monument. The homes appear to be in the hills. They are fake. They are actually part of the camouflage covering the Lockheed factory buildings along Empire Ave.. See more about Lockheed Camouflage during the war here.... www.amusingplanet.com/2010/12/how-military-hid-lockheed-burbank.html As camera car continues South on Maple note the freshly planted trees with support poles along the street parkway. These homes were built between 1939 and 1940. As we cross Victory Blvd we enter another track of homes on Maple St . Most of these homes on the right were built in 1940. Homes on the left were built in 1942. Note a few empty lots on the left where homes will eventually be built as late as 1946. See P-38 aircraft take off on the left side of screen at 3:25. Camera car turns right on Jeffries Ave. Note that the last house on Maple located on the North West corner was built in 1944. Also note the old house on the South East Corner of Maple and Jeffries as the turn is made. The home is a City of Burbank water pump house for a city water well.. See the tall beams in the back of the house for pulling up water pipe. The house structure is gone and the lot is now a small park but still a well site for the city. The camera continues West on Jeffries and pulls over between Rose St and Valley St. Scene 3 starts at 5:27 again starting from Pacific Ave and Maple St the camera heads south on Maple st, turns right on Jeffries and once again parks between Rose St and Valley St. Note all the over head streetlights hanging by wire over every intersection were Radial Wave fixtures. Those overhanging lights were in place into the late 60's early 70's when they were replaced by pole lights that you now see along Victory Blvd, Jeffries, and Pacific. Judging by the dates these homes were built I would say this film was made in 1945 due to the fact that the newest homes were built in 1944, and the empty lots on Maple st had homes not being built until 1946. Historic Notes.... The lot that Frys building is on was once a membership department store called Unimart built in 1963. Sadly this beautiful unique historic building will be demolished to make way for more unneeded high density housing in Burbank. The location is industrial and with water in short supply, how stupid could the city of Burbank be to allow this development. Before this building was built, the entire lot from Hollywood Way all the way West to the Cemetery bordered by Valhalla to the South and Vanowen on the North was a Dairy farm. The Army National Guard building was built in 1951 The Railroad Underpass for Hollywood way was built in 1968 The city park that is now at Maple and Pacific Ave was originally called Pacific Park and built in the 1950's No TV antennas on the roof of homes. That would not happen until 1948 at the start of commercial Television Broadcasts.
I agree with you on the time this looks to me like it was 1945 or 46 I was about four years old then and lived at 6312 Denny Avenue and the area behind our home was empty. The homes on Denny Ave. had just been built in 1941.
Great detective work. It probably is 1945. I don't see gas rationing stickers on the cars, so this was probably after gas rationing ended in mid-August, 1945. No one is wearing warm weather clothing. Everyone seems to be in long sleeves and some are wearing sweaters, so this must be what passes for "cold" weather in southern California. That would make it very late 1945 or early 1946.
I so love this! It is so nostalgic. It is like a time machine! I actually took a few minutes and screen shot some of the scenes and compared them side-by-side to Google Maps today as close as I possibly could...It was really neat to see the 4 trees on Maple street on the west just after the film starts off of W Pacific Ave are still there!! There is also a tree 6 houses to the south of W Pacific on the east that is still there too! In the film it is just a small tree and the latest from Google Maps it is quite butchered up but...wow! Neat, neat video (film)!
2:16 This is Burbank - circa 1940. That dome building in the background is the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine, which was built in 1924. They are driving South on N. Maple Street between W. Pacific Ave and Monterey Ave. Director Tim Burton grew up two blocks West on Evergreen Street.
It's probably an atlantean building built before the population reset... Like the Palace of fine arts building & all of the world's Fair complexes, & giant castle looking: "colleges" "prisons" "government buildings" & "insane asylums", were probably all here before America was "settled". Like New Earth, Jon Levi & other people talk about.
My grandparents lived in Lompoc, Ca. in the 1960's. The street they lived on was long and each intersection had these "dips" in the road that these streets have. The mountains were close like these are. Brings back good memories. Thank you so much!!!
I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB in the mid '90s & used to go down to Lompoc all the time. My wife worked at a nursing home there. I do remember the dips in the streets. It's a nice town.
At first it looked like a film from the late 50's until I saw the cars. I grew up in the San Diego area. These home are typical California homes. They had a certain charm to them. Wonderful to see this in color. Thank you
Were these tract homes built during ww2, or before? My parents bought their first home in the bay area in 46 or so, in N Ca bay area the style was a little different, they were really building lots of tract homes right after the war.
Thanks to one of the other viewers who identified the streets of this residential neighborhood just west of Burbank. I just did a Google street view. Interesting to see how the area still looks the same, yet different today. The houses still look the same. A lot more cars on the street, the trees are all big and mature now. If anything, it looks a lot more clean now with nicely landscaped lawns. Back then, it was probably an affordable area to live. Now, anything in LA is so ridiculously expensive, so that might encourage homeowners to do more for curb appeal.
Tbh I hate the look of old growth trees in a subdivision. I love the clear cut look with the dinky trees and the look of freshly unrolled sod grass. The new construction aesthetic is so pleasing for some reason. Everything is sparkling and everything has an aura of freshness
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Yes, new subdivisions have a certain appeal too. As different as they are, I also enjoy a mature, mid-century subdivision. I would have loved to combine those two things and be a homeowner of a brand new mid-century modern home in southern or central California in the 1950s or 1960s. Get the best of both worlds.
It’s nice 👍 seeing the older vintage 🚙 and the other things that are just seem so quiet and calm without all the clamor and clutter. Thank you 🙏 for sharing this beautiful video.
Fascinating . It seemed there were many intersections with no stop signs. Things looked so clean and you could see the sky. Those were the good old days.
We have the sky today in the 21 century and our sky is less dusty and smoggy looking. I love the footage and aesthetic but we didn’t loose the sky in the 80 years since this was taken
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se You are right about that, but we lost freedom, commonsense, morals, and the destruction of the nuclear family and gained a totalitarian statehood in that time-man, what an excellent 80 years it has been.
@@kolack1985 ah yah the good old days when we segregated the ice cream shops, could get methenamine from the doctors as a diet aid and hung out with pointy white hoddies.
@@Chris-ot9bk I'm perfectly adept at staying in the closet because I fear to be associated with the tumblr crowd. Wouldn't be too much different, only the comics and cars were much cooler.
@@mikehaynes1769 the state of california today is representative of the entire community. also, these things are generational. the 1940s crowd raised up kids who made LA what it is today.
This is just before my time having been born in '49. Certainly the colorization but also the realistic speed of the playback helps to better connect with that era. Black and while and quick jerky motion makes it seem like a big disconnection ... like they weren't people like we are. Yet, they were people ... just like we are people going through our lives. Thanks so much for this video.
Probably because houses last very long compared to other things my house is almost 100 years old most houses in my area are that old or older the other things all look very dated like the cars.
Its amazing how you can tell this was still very much a pioneer descendant's state with sparse woods mixed in with the clearings and fields where hundreds of houses would eventually be built, and the various buildings looking like they were completed all within a few years of each other. This was an era of thousands looking for new starts in the west, a priceless insight to the past and beautifully remastered.
@@kolack1985 You can do the same with most of the towns in red states which are mostly run down and deserted 100 year old brick buildings and trailer parks. Pretty much all 3rd world hellholes except for the larger cities that are more blue.
We'll have to get someone to repeat this path. Many of these houses look the same. You'd see some larger apartment complexes, especially on Victory, and some small businesses, more cars, and front lawns in much worse condition. That's what jumped out at me. You can't grow lawns like that now in this climate. You'd have to water everyday and put sun-shade over them. :-)
Wonderful! I always think of my parents, born in 1929 & 1933, now in Heaven comforting yet missing them. Would love to see the exact same drive paralleled today to see all those trees now grown and more. ☺️
This is the coolest video I’ve ever seen. I always wished I could have experienced that life. now I feel like I did a little. Thank you to whoever was awesome enough to film this! 😎 I love hearing the birds too!
I absolutely love seeing videos & pictures from the 50’s & 60’s when my parents were young and just starting their lives I’ve always loved watching movies in the era with my grandma 💕 everything was so nice and kept up love it
Awesome! The image quality is outstanding. I wonder what the camera was. The most compact one back in the day was the Bell&Howell Eyemo (35mm film), but one 100ft load lasted only for a bit over a minute. As much as I appreciate colorization and smoothed frame rate, I would love to see the footage cleaned up, not too much sharpening applied, but in its original back and white and with the original frame rate. Anyway: thanks for sharing this.
I think very few automobiles were built in the early 1940’s because of WWII, so just some old 1930’s models were still around until the newer ones were built after the war.
@@ELCEV no we won’t. Cars from 2004/2005 still look very modern and new. A good paint job and a headlight defogging and those cars look brand new design wise. Cars from the 90s look crazy dated next to 2000s cars but since 2000 car design has aged very well rather than aging like milk
There are still neighborhoods in Los Angeles that look like this. I had a home that was built in 42 and it had the three bay window and a pink bathroom made of asbestos tiles
Hi I've only recently discovered your channel and I have to say I'm loving it. I am from Iran and a new subscriber of your channel. I'm very happy to watch this video 🙌, thanks very much for sharing this beautiful video.
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Do You wante to live in 40s era?
No, because my mom spoke of having to dive underneath her desk to hide as a little girl at grade school because of having to do practice drills due to world war II. The cars were amazing then though!
@@Earthy-Artist Far better than what we've been doing lately.
@@Earthy-Artist Our kids will speak about the years they had to hide at home and wear face masks for no reason.
@@edwardr5084 Very sad but true indeed.
@@Earthy-Artist Hell, we had to do that in the 80s because of the Cold War “Russkies”. And with the earthquakes, there was always reason to dive under a desk or run for a doorway.
It looks like it did when I visited my great grandmother there in the 50s. You have made this 73 year old feel like 7 again! Thank you so much!
That's very cool to hear
good old days LIZ ....
How you doing today Lizbeth
A noticed it to, at 3:24.
That's very good to hear, Lizabeth
The video is from Burbank CA
0:06 -Victory Blvd & Pepper St - west on Victory
0:24 - Victory & Screenland
0:42 - Victory & Kenwood
0:56 - Right turn on Maple St - north on Maple
2:11- Maple St & Pacific Ave
Break
2:15 - Portal of Folded Wings / Pacific Park - Pacific Ave & Maple St -south on Maple
2:36 - Monterey Ave & Maple St
2:56 - Victory Blvd & Maple St
3:23 - Lockheed P-38 taking off from Lockheed Air Terminal
3:35 - Right turn at Jeffries Ave & Maple St - west on Jeffries
4:25 - Park on Jeffries between Rose St & Valley St
Break
5:27 - Repeat previous sequence
Right on the money. Thanks for that!!
thank you, I wanted to see what these places look like now. I'm from the East Coast so I'm not familiar with the area.
@@PF_Health Thanks for saving me the work. It nice and pink today or is that the sun shining on it.
I watched this video on my big 85" TV, and the P-38 Lightning suddenly appearing nearly brought tears to my eyes! What a historic capture!
Good work.
I grew up in California in late 60s and 70s. My parents have since passed. Life is a blink. Goes so fast. Puts tears on my eyes.
do you know the Doors? )
@@vv-cy5sk If you mean the music group, yes. Bunt not personally.
@@vv-cy5sk my favorite band. i was only born in 1996 but would have loved to have grown up in the 50s and 60s where my grandfather grew up. i would have loved to have seen them live at The Whisky A-Go-Go or London Fog. if only Jim lived longer as they transitioned more into more of a bluesier sound. i'll always have their music and many other bands and artists to listen to whenever i want to get a taste fo the 60s.
Jeanette Griffin. I hear you.! Life is a blink. Being ten in '63 in The Bronx seems so so long ago, like a very long life..but the last few decades have slipped bye and disappeared! The 2,000's and 2010's are gone in a blur. Definitely tears in my eyes.. over the enormity of events of humanity. Ahh, and just when you have a big part of the puzzle figured..the body wears out and dies.!! Keep smiling!
yeah too fast. most of the people will be dead now from this time only the really young ones left oO
It’s so crazy how there’s people on RUclips these days doing walking/driving videos in diff cities and towns and now we find out there were people in the 40’s and 50’s that were doing the same thing before any of todays technology existed. I find this so cool.
Ahhhh so this is what it looked like when my grandparents got married, bought a house and started a family out in California. This is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing!
... and fuked everyone down the line ....aaaahhhhh.
@Tweakz and Gem
it’s not about him being a loser it’s about the neighborhoods we grew up in being unrecognizable. But I definitely think it’s a bit of an overreach to say that OP’s grandma is to blame. It’s not her fault a bunch of dirty smear merchants weaseled their way into our higher government and defunded our southern border
@@tweakzandgem4785
I see you don’t take any accountability for your generation. Nice
@@sabrinatscha2554Dear Kraut: Well since most illegal immigrants came into this country in the 80s, 90s, and the millenial decade, I guess we know who the "smear merchants" were.
Before massive diversity...yes.
This video is literally a time machine. Thank you so much. My father was born in LA in 1948. My grandfather owned a locksmith store. I remember my grandparents always saying how life was hard but beautiful at the same time. Rip dad he passed in 2007.
Mine did too 2007
Probably lived longer no GMO foods round up - chem trails - if he was lucky enough not a agent orange war victim - now all these Covid booster shots. To say the least. My grandmother lived out there. In CA both to 90s.
Sorry to hear, my grandmother was born in 1950 in the Hollywood area, I can only imagine what life was like there so long ago.
I was born there in 1949.
L.A. was a beautiful place to live.
I finally left at the age of 65.
@@laurieclark2456 gmo is good and chem trails aren't real
The cars, the fashion, the general aesthetic. It’s so clean and nice.
Not any more....it's the hood now.
@@KB-ke3fi Same story throughout the country...
@@doritos6548 no the people....you could trust lol!!!
alot more class right ?
@@RockinProfessor Another racist conservative, no surprise.
Not sure how I ended up on this video... but it's really cool! At 3:25, you see a P38 Lightning taking off from what was then Lockheed Air Terminal, today called the Burbank Airport. The Lockheed factory was right there in Burbank, and they built a lot of P38s, something like 10,000. It's entirely possible that you are watching a P38 on a maiden voyage (probably not, but nice to think). Sadly, there are only a couple dozen P38s in existence now.
Lol and initially i thought it looked like a drone!
@@Raxian I thought it was a drone. It just came out of nowhere.
Thanks for the clarity. It takes off so fast and straight up, it does look like a drone. But I see the tail now.
That gold dome looking buildings
I was wondering if anyone else noticed. What an awesome sight.
As a car guy this is incredible. Anyone else noticing all the oil stains in the driveways or in front of the houses? That’s how the drivetrain in cars were until the 60’s when they started getting sealed better! And when they came out with the PCV system which did away with the draft tube.
Imagine how slippery the roads were after rain?
As a plane guy that reminds me of the old radial engines from that time and the 50's. They all leaked oil continuously . We used to say that they were just marking their territory.
Stayed lubricated
Yes! I was going to make a similar comment. The automobile has definitely advanced greatly from those days!
And let’s not forget the dozens of grease fittings.
The building in the background to the left upper screen is the Portal Of The Folded Wings Shrine To Aviation In Burbank CA. It is in the cemetery South of Burbank Airport and old home of Lockheed Skunkworks (where many historic jets were designed and produced). The film starts at w. Pacific Ave (South of the old Frys Electronics). The camera car travels South on Maple Street towards Victory Blvd. and crosses it. The church on the NW corner of Maple and Victory is smaller. Things to look for and compare is the alley directly North behind the church, The house North of the alley the door way is the same, the second house on the right side of the video (located at Pacific and Maple where this portion of the ride starts) has a unique pointed arch forming a triangle. Google maps street views was used to compare.
thank you so much for this information🙏
Good catch! If you look at google maps, it looks like the majority of those houses are still there, amazingly enough.
Can you add time stamps for the building references you mentioned? This discovery is pretty amazing since I live fairly closeby
Are you talking about the dome like building that stands out?
Excellent catch! I was thinking Burbank--maybe Covina, leaning Burbank, but couldn't quite place it. At 3:28 seems like a twin tailed P-38 is taking off into the pix. I didn't see a single house with a double garage.
My grandparents lived on this exact block at the 7:54 mark. the black dog you seen on the corner was named rufus and the owner was Shirley (walking across the street) and her son Eugene (on the corner with the dog) . i was 7 at the time. i used to see them every couple of weeks
(2-26-22) Alright guys and gals i gotta confess. I made all this up lol. Just a troll comment...had no idea it would get this much attention. thanks to all who commented and liked...i actually had a private message from a local new station asking for an interview bc they saw the comment and wanted to make a story. But anyway, thanks for the publicity and R.I.P. Rufus just for the hell of it
wow...you remember this? what a coincidence? this is incredible.
Wow
oh wow..... that is amazing!
Out of the 10's of 1000's of videos on YT, you just happened to come across this one. Well done.
That is insane that you could look back at this....wow. I can't imagine how it makes you feel.
I truly got lost into this video. I feel like I time traveled into it.❤ It seems like it was filmed right after school as I see all the kids carrying what seems to be books/bags and their sweaters back home. Just a lovely everyday scene.
Amazing footage of the San Fernando Valley, all in Burbank. Someone may have already posted this, but the first sequence starts at what is now the Petco on Hollywood Way & Victory Blvd, and ends up on Maple street. The second sequences at 2:25 starts at the top of North Maple at the junction with Pacific (basically the car just turned around before starting to film the second sequence).
The car is then heading south, our POV is due north. After a few seconds we see a small intersection on the left, which is Monterey Avenue. Then the major road we cross is Victory Boulevard. There's still a church where the white church stood on the NW corner, but it's since been rebuilt. The building in the background is the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, which still stands today. It's very near the modern Burbank Airport (the old Lockheed works I think).
At 7:15 the car turns right onto Jeffries Avenue. The waste ground behind the car is now the Maple Street Playground.
OK I'm probably the only one who thinks this is interesting so I'll stop now! Most of the houses in this footage still exist in their original form though I doubt any of them will sell for less than $900k in 2022.
Wow. And absolutely a straight up robbery for a 900k house for one of those old ass original houses. Homes should depreciate like any other asset we own. The land is valuable the building is old and dilapidated. 900k for hookers to be standing on every corner. No thanks. Get real, California
Thanks for the information.
@@PokrPro21 don’t worry bro providence will bring “balance to the force” very soon. We are on the very edge of the apocalypse, there is no turning back now.
This is fantastic, Jack! No, you're certainly not the only one that finds your observations interesting, and thank you for them! (I'm one of those people that likes to A/B between these old videos and the current street view on Google Maps, so I do appreciate your handiwork!)
Thanks. Good insights...
I am so glad someone thought to do this back then because at the time it would have felt mundane to just film a row of houses. I don't know how many people would even do that today, but this guy was thinking ahead. Thank you sir, whoever you are!
AVERY CHASTAIN: I was just thinking that this almost seems like the Google Maps of its day. I wonder if this is actually how they plotted the cities for the phone book maps. Hmm...
Most likely movie studio B-roll to be used as background in scenes with actors driving around
@@kkfoto Ohhh. Good idea. That seems very plausible
@@kkfoto Or for montage sequences which were popular in the day. Lots of directors,ike Don Siegel, got their start with these.
People actually do it a lot
Crazy! My dad was born in 1942 in Glendale. I was also born there. He would tell me stories about the good old days and I always wished I could go back in time to see what it was like then. He passed away, but this is like visiting his childhood. Thank you!
These are my favourite types of videos it's the closest thing we have to a time machine and it's beyond fascinating to see life before we existed
This neighborhood today looks even better than the video. Completely taken care of and preserved by the homeowners over the decades. Extremely rare. Check out N. Maple Street just south of W. Pacific Ave. in Burbank, around where this footage was shot. See that big domed structure at around 5:30? That’s the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, which was built in the 1920s and looks the same today.
Definitely, the domed structure gave it away. That's right next to where Lockheed was. You can see a P38 taking off in the background.
This is shot is taken likely from 34.188304532746265, -118.35349164345807 looking north to the building. The car is going down southbound N Maple St
Im glad to hear that. Any neighborhood can be beautiful but only if people care and have good taste.
I looked on Google maps and it does look. The houses are still the same, just different facades and a good many expanded! Beautiful neighborhood.
It’s not a diverse neighborhood
I always imagined the 40s would have had a less developed residential area. Everything from the house to the driveway and the landscaping looks modern. Not much of a difference outside of the cars and culture of the neighborhood
Did they even have video recorders that were battery operated back then?
It's modern because those houses are still standing and are valued at a million dollars
@@ThatsTheWayItGoes Lithium ion batteries were developed in the 80's and mass produced in the late 90s.
@@Brikid My question was meant to be rhetorical. But, your response then begs the question of how was this footage captured?
@@ThatsTheWayItGoes I guess mercury based batteries in a film camera? Couldve even been manually operated with a crank. Looking into it its actually kinda interesting.
So incredibly fascinating to watch. The typical B/W and sped up footage we see from old days makes it difficult to see that era as "real". Your videos make the past seem that much closer and real🙂👍🏼
thank you so much
@@NASS_0 Anytime! 🤗
Old sped up footage wasn't meant to be sped up. Silent amateur film camera speed was 16 frames per sec to save raw stock. When projected on a home projector motion was normal. But pro equipment was designed at sound speed of 24 fps. Hence motion is sped up unless corrected.
@@2mikelim I know 😉 And thanks a lot for the detailed explanation 👍🏼😊
Yes like if tomé never really passed. I dure it would happen with any time in history.
This is extremely well done. It seems that movies often 'dress up' periods and romanticize the atmosphere, so it's cool to see (what I assume is) a more realistic look into what it was like. Doesn't feel quite as far in the past as it is.
Growing up in the Appalachians you see a lot of communities with these same houses and neighborhoods, and feels like that time period besides the newer cars. Mostly where the poor live. There might be a few updates but not much.
because it's in color. i detach from black and white
probably a gang infested toilet now!
I suspect people did appreciate what they had more back then. Nowadays, a walk down the street on a nice day isn't even worth it if you can't catch Pokemon & post selfies on Fakebook, along with a self-absorbed, pointless commentary. And that's before you even leave your driveway.
Its crazy what colour does. In black and white it feels old and nostalgic but in colour it almost resembles today.
To Think the kids outside the houses are now like 80 years old is like mind-blowing
As we will be.
Some of those kids were bell bottom hippies in the 1960s. :)
I just wrote a similar comment. I wonder if they’re still alive and if so have they seen the video
probably all dead now
This is pretty incredible. The colorization and the smoothing of the frames makes it almost look like video tape and so much more true to reality.
frames are added not smoothed
Colour video existed since the dawn of the 20th century.
@@TheSuperBoyProjectErr, nope.
These restored videos are almost like a dream, there's a strongly surreal quality to seeing such old footage moving so smoothly at high resolution. I've always had a fascination with old shows and films from that time, mainly because TV stations when I was a kid in the 80s filled a lot of their timeslots with old reruns from this era so it was also something to bond over with my parents and grandparents. That we have the technology now to allow us to see real life footage in such clarity from that time of just normal people in normal everyday life is absolutely amazing.
So Nostalgia
Hello how are you doing.
3:25 Drone in 1940? :D:D
that would be a plane
@@SituationNormalAintIts actually the Lockheed P-38 lightning
@@P51foxpilot ik
Watching all those lovely classic cars in high resolution is simply stunning. I get the sensation of time travelling watching this fantastic video. Thank you for this great job in restoration. Thank you for the upload.
This is awesome. Watching a neighborhood back in the 40s is so interesting. I loved watching the kids playing outside, how they're dressed, and the neighborhood was so peaceful. Parents didn't have to worry about their kids playing in the front yard. Thank you for posting this. It gave me a glimpse of how life was at the time.
1990s generation were the last generation to know what playing outside was!
Don't have to worry about kids playing in the yard any more now than in the past. It's perception that we need to worry more, so we do.
I noticed that too. I saw at least five children in the first minute or so. Also saw at least one person walking briskly.
@@rolandos64 1980 was the cut off year , anyone born after 80 never experienced what this country once was. I'm on the fence as I was born in 76 . I grew up In Manchester NH , parents built a house in the country in 85 so we moved when I was 10 .
The west side of Manchester was kept up for the most part , most of the neighborhoods consisted of French Canadians . The area started to go down hill by the late 80's and is now a shadow of it's former self . Most of the tenant buildings are being bought up by investment companies that do not care about anything . 35+ years ago most apartment buildings in this area had the landlord living on the first floor and often rented to friends and family members .
@@manchesterexplorer8519 I was thinking the same thing not too long ago... I was born in 76, May.
I love this trend of adding color (and sound) and adjusting the speed. It really brings it to life opposed to the usual sped up soundless black and white footage we usually see from this era.
In my mind when imagine the 40s I immediately think brown. I don’t know why. But this video shows the same blue sky and green grass we see everyday and it feels shockingly familiar. Love this you earned a follower.
I can't wait until it's available to us or something you can have done to home movies, I have some footage of my great grandfather in the 20s, my grandfather, my dad and his siblings as babies in the 40s and on. I've watched them 1000 times but I'd love to see the early ones remastered like this. That would be incredible.
It looks & sounds completely fake.
@@NoTaboos the sound is fake, as noted in the title.
This looks absolutely amazing! Even while I watch it, I totally take it for granted. It looks new while being very old. Amazing job!
No burning crosses with black people on them?! shocking!!!
P38 Lightning taking off@3:27. Early 40's probably. Seeing the past in HD is awesome. Feels like you are being transported back in time.
Well spotted! Taking off from what is now Bob Hope Airport.
I saw that too. Pretty cool!
excellent eye!
Yep, I saw it too. Wondered if anyone else saw it! Awesome aircraft!
Top right corner at around 1:33-1:40...possible DC-3 ??
I had to constantly remind myself this was filmed in the 40s. Incredible video.
This is remarkable. Most of the houses in this neighborhood haven’t really changed much. Until recently , Burbank has always had a small town vibe. Thanks for posting this video.
gentrification is hell :(
Yea but Burbank is super weird lol
Indeed the houses haven't changed
Depending on your age...I have always thought it fascinating if one was to spot themself, parent, or grandparent on one of these clips! How cool would that be to catch a glimpse of that moment in time so long ago. Thank you NASS for providing the closest thing we have to a time machine!
"Our life on earth passes like a shadow ..."; so poignant to watch. Thanks for your great work.
thank you so much🙏
The 40's? Looks like it was filmed just yesterday. Great job!
That’s right, when it seems that it looks so crisp and clear especially with the sound. It’s just so good to be true.
Because he's a time traveller.
I think it was illegal to park on the sstreet
Yes , i think so ...classic timeless
Yes 💯%
This is just mind-blowing!!! I was born in the 80's and I've always been fascinated by those old films. Such a time machine and so good to see this in color. Thanks for sharing this 🙏😊
Same here
So here's some food for thought. People seeing footage of the 80s today is the same equivalent of people in the 80s watching this footage of the 40s. Music from the 90s is basically the same distance of time as what we called "Oldies" in the 80s. I guess I'm officially old now. Waaaaaah!
@@2WhiteAndNerdy same it's scary how fast time goes by, our lifespans are way too short.
@2:15 to the left of the screen the dome shaped building is the Portal of the Folded Wings, Shrine to Aviation in Burbank. You can also see there was a soldier standing guard to the right of the moving car. And @3:25 you can also see a F-82 Twin Mustang just took off from Burbank airport.
You’re correct. I thought it was a P-38, but close inspection shows it has no central cockpit nacelle. What else could it be but an F-82? Good job. And that soldier seems to be guarding a scruffy vacant lot-maybe it’s the perimeter of some sort of secure installation?
No question it is a P-38 Lighting. Burbank Airport was a major manufacturing plan for Lockheed during the War and the F-82 was a North American product @@drawn2myattention641
I love watching these. It’s taking a peek into how my grandparents lived.
I see young trees and wonder about how they look today.
I love the cars!
Been torn out for strip malls.
@@itsjohndell most not
At 3:56 on the right is a house at the intersection that has a distinctive bay window and a small tree in front. On Street View. at the corner of Jeffries and Pass in Burbank, you can see this same house and how huge the tree is now.
@@cozmorio Nice to know the house and tree are still around.
If possible, it would be amazing if somebody could redo the same route in present day LA. I'm sure the contrast would be startling !!!
I agree, it would be very interesting to see the same drive 80 yrs later!
I don't know if you could make that drive today without running into thugs, bodies in the gutter, prostitutes roaming, etc.
That's probably Compton today lmao
LA looks harmonious
There are videos then and now of the Hancock Park area in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles. A very affluent area and the now video looks exactly like the then video from the past. Amazing.
It's a fascinating to see life back in the 40s and I'm very grateful to the videographer who recorded this. And I'm grateful for whoever kept this video for future generations to see.
@James Hama Ella is fine
@James Hama yea I’m Ella who are you?
@James Hama how would you know James? I just want to be friends
it's film, not video. This is in the 40s, there IS no video yet.
At 2:16, there's the jump cut with the dark sedan turning from westbound Pacific Ave. to southbound N. Maple St. in Burbank, Calif. That's the corner of what's now (8-24-2022) the Pierce Bros Valhalla cemetery. The gold dome is the Shrine to Aviation, which is still there. Not too many years ago, a small plane, taking off from Burbank Airport, crashed into the dome.
Following the cars south, as another viewer pointed out, at 2:35, that's a Lockheed P-38 Lightning taking off. The first time I saw this on a tv, it wasn't so easy to keep going back to figure out what that flying box was.
There was an airshow at the Camarillo airport last weekend. There was a Lightning there, and I spoke to the pilot. After I told him how much I liked the look of the 38, he told me it wasn't a great plane in the following sense: most fighters had a more-or-less similar profile. The air combatants couldn't necessarily identify a plane as friend or foe until they got close. But the 38 was identifiable from a considerably farther distance, making it more vulnerable to air attacks and AA ground fire.
The P-38s were designed and manufactured at Lockheed Vega, then Lockheed, before WWII and retired from the USAF in 1949.
P-38s attacked, and killed, Adm. Yamamoto in April 18, 1943, one year to the day after the Doolittle Raid on tokyo. Lt. Rex Barber was finally credited with downing the plane carrying Yamamoto.
As for that possibly being a P-82 Twin Mustang, they would have a similar boxy appearance at that distance, but the Mustangs were built by North American. The NAA California plant was in El Segundo/Inglewood, next to Mines Field (now the detested LAX), making the P-82 an unlikely candidate. Kansas City, KS was North American's other plant.
The North American plant at El Segundo built the 16 planes in Doolittle's Raid.
Who can identify the newest year/model of car in the segment driving south on N. Maple? Cars aren't my metier.
Cheers
From watching this video, it was winter in Burbank, so I'd say Jan/Feb '47 or '48.
Since cars weren't readily available to the general public, I'd say the latest models would be '41 or '42's.
Did anyone else notice that starting @ about 3:45, there are no stop or yield signs at any of the intersections in the neighborhood. The times WERE a little more laid back then. Great vids, thanks. So nice to go back in time for a few moments during these trying times.
And the cars didn’t have indicator lights. Everyone just seemed to turn randomly
@@craiggillett5985 Yep I noticed one car crossing behind the camera car nearly got hit by another car, nobody was stopping!
I was wondering about that. Were all those intersections treated like a 4-way stop back then or was it more random?
@@craiggillett5985 @7:24 you can see the driver in the car following signal a left turn with the old timey hand signal (arm straight out indicating a left, whereas holding one's hand upright, i.e. in the form of a right angle, signaled a right turn).
People died All the time took years for even seat belts to become standard
Someone must have traveled back in time to shoot this, the image quality is just out of this world even with the restoration. Amazing video though!
When you have the original Film, you can upscale it to up to 8k digital quality. It’s just people have been seeing videos form 70s and 80s with the “VHS” tech and think 1940s FILM should be worse when in reality Film is always super high quality as long as you can reproduce it to a compatible digital format
Literally like being in a time machine and visiting the past. Amazing.
The usa now look amazing ahead of time
But I want to step out of this time machine and experience this glorious time for myself
@@LukeLovesRose Yes, but keep in mind that if you were a man of "fighting age" you'd be drafted into the war, not experiencing Los Angeles...
@@BoatMurderedDF And I'd be fighting for the Axis if I could... so we could keep California the paradise it was
@@LukeLovesRosebro what
The best restoration I’ve ever seen. It makes the 40s look so good… and real!
it was....not anymore!
I didn't realize that houses were built that close together as far back as the 1940s. Thank you so much for posting this!
They go way back even in the 20s
@@dattepo7534 Wow. I had no idea. Thank you.
Hey fun fact: this was the exact area that Tim Burton grew up in. It was the inspiration for how the neighborhood of Edward Scissorhands looked like. I guess living so close to a cemetery had quite the effect on Tim’s gothic feel to his films haha.
No.
True. The "Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation" @ 2:20, next to the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, is in the area where Tim Burton grew up in.
Looks like my grandparents neighborhood that I grew up in outside of Chicago. Seeing the clothes line with the clothes hanging out to dry REALLY brings back memories for me lol. Even after my Grandma got her first washer and dryer she still hung her sheets on the clothes line out back and my sister and I would run through them like a maze. They moved to the suburbs from the southwest side of Chicago after WW2 and they lived in the same house until they both passed away this past decade, 60+ years. You can tell the houses from that post war era because like my grandparents house their whole subdivision were 1 story ranch house with a car port or a bungalow style house with a single car garage in the back. My grandparents got to choose from 3 designs and then the company sent out a semi truck with pre fabricated sections and the house was erected in 12 hours or "by the end of the day when you get home from work" was the company's slogan. I loved growing up in their neighborhood because everyone knew everyone and all their original neighbors were WW2 and Korean war vets and were neighbors for 60+ years... but sadly they've all passed away too and now the houses are being torn down and massive big multi story homes have taken over.
Bet these houses were also affordable for normal people working normal jobs. Thesedays, young people like me - 28yo, looks at 1bds tiny ass garage space like flat and think what a luxury it is. Crazy.
@@p2p104 Oh for sure. That was the whole idea of the post war idiology. Esp during the 1950s is when the suburb boom took off with affordable housing back when the normal household was Dad goes to work and mom stays home and takes care of the kids and the whole family survived and thrived off of dads $10,000 a year job while living in their single story 3 bedroom, 1 bath, single car port $14,000 ranch house. Thats exactly how it was for my grandparents when my mom and uncle were growing up. They were the ideal postwar family lol. Things were cheaper back then too but it amazes me how much things have changed and how inflation dictates how things are.
Yeh...I was a kid in the very early 60s and every back yard had clothelines. Many had home washers, but dryers were rare at that time.
@@matrox and air conditioning units were rare too or a luxury item. My folks didn't get their 1st unit installed until the early eighties lol.
@@eldiablo3794 In the earl mid 60s we had a window A/C in my parents bedroom. On real hot days thats were we would be watching TV.
Great video! I went on Google Earth to compare to present day. You can clearly see how about half of the front yards were taken to widen Victory Blvd. But the homes are, for the most part, unchanged. So cute and neat.
Thank you for the hard work you put in to preserve this!! It’s no wonder why my Grandparents moved to this area around the time this was filmed. He was in the Airframe profession with early turbo props, and lived not too far from here! Such pride people took in their homes and lawn appearance back then.
WHAT? It looks like SHI T! It does not look great. NO trees, it looks FUG
@@Retroearthling You do realize that the neighborhoods are new? No trees yet....go troll somewhere else.
green laws were only such color because water was abundant then. look at population then and compare to todays. thats a start. you want green grass, move to the east coast! its green for days! The west coast is all desert!!! Its like vegas! Only reason you see all the lights in vegas, is because they have been installed and are powered by the colorado river! grass in the west coast is artificial. we grow it!
A fascinating journey through time! Amazing how timelessly modern seems the suburban architecture of almost 80 years ago ... only the old vehicles point to a bygone era ;-). Thank you, NASS, for this magnificently restored contemporary document!
While those vehicles may be from the 1930s they give a far more modern vibe than todays vehicles which look extremely boring.
And least simple?
The absence of STOP signs (which weren't the familiar white lettering on red background until 1960, they were yellow with black lettering before then), and lack of traffic lights are stark absences. The ancient 1000 watt incandescent bulb street lighting is also striking. Simply hanging by wires without poles.
0:25 The house on the corner (and undoubtedly others similarly situated), thanks to having frontage on two streets, is able to vary its base design by placing the garage at the rear. Makes for a "cleaner" look when viewing the front façade.
2022 and not much has changed... we're not flying around in cars, aliens or robots haven't taken over... the quality of this is amazing! Nice work👍
LA Noire really did a good job of making you feel like you were in the 40s. It looks exactly like this!
They really did do well working from hundreds of photos and film clips. When playing it I thought the trees in residential neighborhoods were too small and sparse but it was exactly right. The city was growing fast and almost everything was new.
Was just coming to comment how this makes me want to play LA Noire...
@@unbanmekoil I think they wasted the fantastic world they created. If I remember correctly, there was very little to do outside of the main quest line. In fact I can't remember a single side quest or activity. Such a shame because it was a great map.
I thought exactly the same thing 😁
Yes they did a beautiful job it’s one of my favorite games to play just to drive around and imagine if I lived in those days
Props to the person who filmed this. All those houses, if they haven't been torn down yet are worth minimally $750,000 or more today.
My dad bought one of these homes in 1956 for $11,000.00 and is now worth over $800K according to zillow
😳😳😳
A run down shack in Watts goes for 350 to 500k, these Burbank homes are in the 850 to 1,000,000+ range.
@@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428 your name is perfect!
Robbie, you were never the sharpest tool in the shed, but the houses are not worth more, the dollar is worth less so it takes more of them.
My great grandmother was a teenager in the 40’s . She had my grandmother at 17 in 1947. She was born in Los Angeles. It’s nice to see what it looked like 👍🏽
Let me guess your grandma had your mom at 17 and you had your kid at 17
@@whitneywilliams317 nope. I didn’t have any children at 17. Nice guess though. 👍🏽 Neither did my mom. But ima pray for you, seems like you’re having a bad start to your day.
@@Coach_MarcyBob it's not an insult
My Grandmother was a teenager too back then. I would love to go back in time and experience what life was like back then.
@@Coach_MarcyBob I'm am only 28 and my Grandmother was a teenager during WW2 in Europe and my Grandfather on the other side fought for the US Army in the Pacific in the same war. It's called when your parents have you later in life for both generations is when you end up with super old grandparents
Looks like a P-38 lightning climbing out at 3:29!!!! how awesome is that!
Good eye. I had to re-watch a few times to find it lol. Very cool.
Twin fusealage !!
I noticed that too!
This makes me feel like I had just stepped out of a time machine. I could be seeing this with my own eyes!
How could a Christian country go wrong....
@@angeloferreira7488 Because it's not Catolic
Come to think in it, this is as close as it can get to a Time Machine. Especially with the clarity of the footage and Sound too.
@@angeloferreira7488 because our society had pushed God out. Now we teach CRT in schools, and install Tampon machines in the boys restrooms in Oregon, and boys are isolating themselves playing World of Warcraft all night. Parents don’t play an active role in the children lives and fathers don’t stick around.
Well, aren't you seeing it with your own eyes?
This is amazing! To the best of my knowledge this would be the area of Burbank CA. That huge dome structure is quite beautiful and called Portal of the Folded Wings, Shrine to Aviation. It was completed in 1924 and is the burial site of famous aviators. Planes landing at Burbank Airport in the background, fly over the portal and reverberate in the space. It's magnificent to visit as I have many times. It's located at the Burbank entrance of the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. There's also an entrance to the cemetery on Victory Blvd in North Hollywood, CA. Thank you for this treasure :)
thank you so much🙏
In the clip driving away from the Shrine, they are driving south on Maple St. That church is now the Victory Hispanic Church on Victory Blvd. The car continues south and turns right onto Jeffries Ave. They pass N Pass Ave, Evergreen St, N Rose St, and finally pull over alongside to what would currently be 1900 N Valley St on the Jeffries Ave side. #thanksGoogleEarth
And I give those directions, not so people can go and interrupt these neighborhoods, but to let people know where to look on Google Street view of they wanna see how the trees have grown.
@@thechad4485 Can confirm
@@thechad4485
How are people going to go and "interrupt" those neighborhoods exactly?
This footage is in and around Burbank, CA. At roughly 2:18 you see an ornate, domed structure to the left rear, that is “The Hall of the Folded Wings” at Valhalla Cementary, at the end of the runway from Lockheed/Burbank. If you look in the deep center background you’ll see the camouflage netting that covered Lockheed during WWII. At around 8:48 the camera starts at the same location again. If you look in the center background you see an armed army guard, I assume he is guarding the employee parking at Lockheed. Sometime later you’ll see, what looks like, a P-38. These were produced at Lockheed during the war.
This is Burbank, CA.
Oliver Hardy's grave is in the cemetary.
I wondered if this was Pasadena or Burbank. Thank you for posting this comment!!
James Schmitt
8 months ago
The video is from Burbank CA
0:06 -Victory Blvd & Pepper St - west on Victory
0:24 - Victory & Screenland
0:42 - Victory & Kenwood
0:56 - Right turn on Maple St - north on Maple
2:11- Maple St & Pacific Ave
Break
2:15 - Portal of Folded Wings / Pacific Park - Pacific Ave & Maple St -south on Maple
2:36 - Monterey Ave & Maple St
2:56 - Victory Blvd & Maple St
3:23 - Lockheed P-38 taking off from Lockheed Air Terminal
3:35 - Right turn at Jeffries Ave & Maple St - west on Jeffries
4:25 - Park on Jeffries between Rose St & Valley St
Break
5:27 - Repeat previous sequence
Opening scene I deliverd to all those homes as a UPS driver. City of Burbank. I deliverd to the entire city back in the 1990's. The quality is fantastic.
That’s amazing thanks 😃
Did it look the same in the 1990's as it did in the 1940's?
@@kfl611 All the homes sure did. Seeing this and knowing that from the 1940's to the 1990's that 50's years had passed, that some of the kids walking in these scenes would've been in their 60's/70/s in the the 90's, and I could've delivered to them and their kids is really kind of cool to ponder. There was much less greenery, tree's and bushes. The Portal Shrine looks the same in this footage. It would be really cool to take the same route in 2021 with the camera rolling.
Real interesting looking at this film because I used to work in Burbank in the 80's and still occasionally walk through these neighborhoods (Clark ave., Mariposa st.) to get to Pinocchio's Restaurant. Burbank has maintained these neighborhoods better than a lot parts of L.A..So with this very good film and color it feels like today, but with 1940's cars. Great clarity and great job.
Wow, this is great This is a residential area of Burbank California built during W.W.II.
I was raised in this area on Rose St between Victory and Pacific between 1955 and 1978 and know the area very well. See breakdown of this film below...
The first scene 00:06 starts at Victory BLVD and Pepper with camera looking towards Hollywood Way. Same shot today would be looking a the Petco building which was built in 1951 and was originally built as the first Gelsons Grocery store. The business you see way in the background are located on Hollywood Way. A City above ground water Reservoir is in that location today.
The Camera car is driving West on Victory looking at homes on the North side of the street. These homes were built between 1940 and 1941.
The Camera continues to Maple St and turns right going North on Maple looking at homes on the East side of street. All these homes were built in 1941.
This scene ends at Maple St and Pacific Ave..
It is obvious this footage was for use in a movie as background for a car interior shot. The next cop is shot twice. There are two takes driving down Maple St from Pacific Ave in Burbank with the same cars following in both takes and making the same moves.
Scene 2 Starts at 2:16. Camera car driving South on Maple St from Pacific ave. Camera looking North toward Valhalla Cemetery Dome and Lockheed aircraft Company. Note the homes to the right of the dome building monument. The homes appear to be in the hills. They are fake. They are actually part of the camouflage covering the Lockheed factory buildings along Empire Ave..
See more about Lockheed Camouflage during the war here.... www.amusingplanet.com/2010/12/how-military-hid-lockheed-burbank.html
As camera car continues South on Maple note the freshly planted trees with support poles along the street parkway. These homes were built between 1939 and 1940.
As we cross Victory Blvd we enter another track of homes on Maple St . Most of these homes on the right were built in 1940. Homes on the left were built in 1942.
Note a few empty lots on the left where homes will eventually be built as late as 1946.
See P-38 aircraft take off on the left side of screen at 3:25.
Camera car turns right on Jeffries Ave. Note that the last house on Maple located on the North West corner was built in 1944.
Also note the old house on the South East Corner of Maple and Jeffries as the turn is made. The home is a City of Burbank water pump house for a city water well.. See the tall beams in the back of the house for pulling up water pipe. The house structure is gone and the lot is now a small park but still a well site for the city.
The camera continues West on Jeffries and pulls over between Rose St and Valley St.
Scene 3 starts at 5:27 again starting from Pacific Ave and Maple St the camera heads south on Maple st, turns right on Jeffries and once again parks between Rose St and Valley St.
Note all the over head streetlights hanging by wire over every intersection were Radial Wave fixtures. Those overhanging lights were in place into the late 60's early 70's
when they were replaced by pole lights that you now see along Victory Blvd, Jeffries, and Pacific.
Judging by the dates these homes were built I would say this film was made in 1945 due to the fact that the newest homes were built in 1944, and the empty lots on Maple st had homes not being built until 1946.
Historic Notes.... The lot that Frys building is on was once a membership department store called Unimart built in 1963. Sadly this beautiful unique historic building will be demolished to make way for more unneeded high density housing in Burbank. The location is industrial and with water in short supply, how stupid could the city of Burbank be to allow this development.
Before this building was built, the entire lot from Hollywood Way all the way West to the Cemetery bordered by Valhalla to the South and Vanowen on the North was a Dairy farm.
The Army National Guard building was built in 1951
The Railroad Underpass for Hollywood way was built in 1968
The city park that is now at Maple and Pacific Ave was originally called Pacific Park and built in the 1950's
No TV antennas on the roof of homes. That would not happen until 1948 at the start of commercial Television Broadcasts.
I agree with you on the time this looks to me like it was 1945 or 46 I was about four years old then and lived at 6312 Denny Avenue and the area behind our home was empty. The homes on Denny Ave. had just been built in 1941.
Great detective work. It probably is 1945. I don't see gas rationing stickers on the cars, so this was probably after gas rationing ended in mid-August, 1945. No one is wearing warm weather clothing. Everyone seems to be in long sleeves and some are wearing sweaters, so this must be what passes for "cold" weather in southern California. That would make it very late 1945 or early 1946.
Incredible description thank you
This is so cool that someone had the foresight to film this stuff for the archives, I love this channel!
I read that studios made these films for movie backgrounds.
The quality of this video is amazing! Thank you for bringing this era to life! ♥️
Another great video!
You’ve been pumping them out lately.
I so love this! It is so nostalgic. It is like a time machine! I actually took a few minutes and screen shot some of the scenes and compared them side-by-side to Google Maps today as close as I possibly could...It was really neat to see the 4 trees on Maple street on the west just after the film starts off of W Pacific Ave are still there!! There is also a tree 6 houses to the south of W Pacific on the east that is still there too! In the film it is just a small tree and the latest from Google Maps it is quite butchered up but...wow! Neat, neat video (film)!
2:16 This is Burbank - circa 1940. That dome building in the background is the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine, which was built in 1924. They are driving South on N. Maple Street between W. Pacific Ave and Monterey Ave. Director Tim Burton grew up two blocks West on Evergreen Street.
It's probably an atlantean building built before the population reset... Like the Palace of fine arts building & all of the world's Fair complexes, & giant castle looking: "colleges" "prisons" "government buildings" & "insane asylums", were probably all here before America was "settled". Like New Earth, Jon Levi & other people talk about.
My grandparents lived in Lompoc, Ca. in the 1960's. The street they lived on was long and each intersection had these "dips" in the road that these streets have. The mountains were close like these are. Brings back good memories. Thank you so much!!!
I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB in the mid '90s & used to go down to Lompoc all the time. My wife worked at a nursing home there. I do remember the dips in the streets. It's a nice town.
At first it looked like a film from the late 50's until I saw the cars. I grew up in the San Diego area. These home are typical California homes. They had a certain charm to them. Wonderful to see this in color. Thank you
Hello 👋 dear , how are you doing?
Were these tract homes built during ww2, or before? My parents bought their first home in the bay area in 46 or so, in N Ca bay area the style was a little different, they were really building lots of tract homes right after the war.
Thanks to one of the other viewers who identified the streets of this residential neighborhood just west of Burbank. I just did a Google street view. Interesting to see how the area still looks the same, yet different today. The houses still look the same. A lot more cars on the street, the trees are all big and mature now. If anything, it looks a lot more clean now with nicely landscaped lawns. Back then, it was probably an affordable area to live. Now, anything in LA is so ridiculously expensive, so that might encourage homeowners to do more for curb appeal.
True, the neighborhood looks a lot nicer now, but it hasn't changed a lot -- except for real estate prices...
Tbh I hate the look of old growth trees in a subdivision. I love the clear cut look with the dinky trees and the look of freshly unrolled sod grass. The new construction aesthetic is so pleasing for some reason. Everything is sparkling and everything has an aura of freshness
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Yes, new subdivisions have a certain appeal too. As different as they are, I also enjoy a mature, mid-century subdivision. I would have loved to combine those two things and be a homeowner of a brand new mid-century modern home in southern or central California in the 1950s or 1960s. Get the best of both worlds.
It’s nice 👍 seeing the older vintage 🚙 and the other things that are just seem so quiet and calm without all the clamor and clutter. Thank you 🙏 for sharing this beautiful video.
I’m amazed at how clear it is. You do an outstanding job. 👍
thank you so much🙏
@@NASS_0Why only a maximum of 720p?
This video is fantastic. It shows exactly how a neighborhood would look during the 40's. A very calm and peaceful view during our past.
I'm agree with you, David. It looks so calm.
Not for everyone it wasn’t
@@christopherblackwell2024
For the majority it was
@@cornstar1253 not for black people
@@christopherblackwell2024 Things were actually looking good for women & minorities due to ww2. The 50’s however 😬😬.
This is so great! I can’t keep my eyes off the old cars, so cool 😎 and the kids outside playing, looks like it was a good time
Amazing. I was watching the untouchables the other night and amazed at the attention to detail with all the shots of old cars from this era
@@Makya-13 YEAH LATIN AMERICANS GANGS EVERYWHERE TODAY THERE ARE SO MANY IN THIS CITY
@@xirioslandon8040 May God save every one of them.
This is the most amazing video I have seen yet like this. It felt like riding around "now"! Unbelievably well done !
Fascinating . It seemed there were many intersections with no stop signs. Things looked so clean and you could see the sky. Those were the good old days.
We have the sky today in the 21 century and our sky is less dusty and smoggy looking. I love the footage and aesthetic but we didn’t loose the sky in the 80 years since this was taken
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se You are right about that, but we lost freedom, commonsense, morals, and the destruction of the nuclear family and gained a totalitarian statehood in that time-man, what an excellent 80 years it has been.
@@kolack1985 ah yah the good old days when we segregated the ice cream shops, could get methenamine from the doctors as a diet aid and hung out with pointy white hoddies.
@@kolack1985 Nobody's preventing people from having a family you goon
@@kolack1985 yea man segregation was the shit, and black men dying in ww2 for a country that treated them like nothing.
Yes I would have loved to live during the 40s and 50s, and the nicest part of this video was seeing all the children outside playing!!! 🥰
During the 40s wouldn’t have been very nice, either in war or rebuilding what was lost from it
@@calebdaviesgray plus if you're a minority, literally would be hell
Fast forward to the 80's and 90's, see what it looked like then.
You do realize that it is because of selfish, narcissistic parents and media-induced paranoia that kids don't play outside much anymore, right?
@@Chris-ot9bk I'm perfectly adept at staying in the closet because I fear to be associated with the tumblr crowd. Wouldn't be too much different, only the comics and cars were much cooler.
I can't believe the quality! It makes me feel like back to past. Thank you for sharing. :)
Wow the footage is so clear, it's like filmed yesterday.
Fascinating! You can see a P-38 fighter flying above at 3:26. Thanks for sharing!
Good eyes! Probably just took off from an airbase...
Just saw that too, nice catch
@@hotjazzbaby This is Burbank and more than 10,000 P-38s were built by Lockheed Corp. in Burbank from 1941-45.
@@dverespey This is Burbank and more than 10,000 P-38s were built by Lockheed Corp. in Burbank from 1941-45.
i thought it was a piece of lint on my screen....& you identified it too ?....i am impressed ...
Very cool, there was a time when LA was a beautiful, safe, clean city. These old videos are proof. At least the traffic has gotten better
Cool but not safe do remember the black dahlia case where they discover the cut in half body of Elizabeth Short.🦄
@@marvinmartian7281 that was one case, not representative of the entire community.
@@mikehaynes1769 the state of california today is representative of the entire community. also, these things are generational. the 1940s crowd raised up kids who made LA what it is today.
@@youBrakeIHonk No, Mexico raised up kids that made LA what it is today.
“I’d be safe and warm if I was in LA”
I love your clips. I'm from LA and it's cool to see what that looked like when it was new. Many of those homes are still there.
This is just before my time having been born in '49. Certainly the colorization but also the realistic speed of the playback helps to better connect with that era. Black and while and quick jerky motion makes it seem like a big disconnection ... like they weren't people like we are. Yet, they were people ... just like we are people going through our lives. Thanks so much for this video.
It may have been the 1940's, but I'm impressed at how modern those houses look in the first two and a bit minutes of the video.
Many of the homes still look like this. Example many of the homes in Los Angeles were built in the 1920s.
Today America look alot better
@@simp2234 Haha!
One car garages.
Probably because houses last very long compared to other things my house is almost 100 years old most houses in my area are that old or older the other things all look very dated like the cars.
Nice homes, clean neighborhood and what looks like polite children. Wow, love the video and the great job you did remastering it.
A time when people didn’t worship the “street gangsta” mentality. That’s what kept communities clean.
@@metalrockstarizer89 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The kind of neighborhood I dream of. Well kept, no graffiti, no gangs, just polite, well-dressed, God-fearing, patriots.
Because back then it was civilized now it’s a 💩 hole “diverse”
@@2004cyrus sorry to burst your bubble, but LA gangs have been around since the 20's.
Its amazing how you can tell this was still very much a pioneer descendant's state with sparse woods mixed in with the clearings and fields where hundreds of houses would eventually be built, and the various buildings looking like they were completed all within a few years of each other. This was an era of thousands looking for new starts in the west, a priceless insight to the past and beautifully remastered.
...and the shiathole those voracious locusts turned it into now...priceless
Fascinating to see just how far ahead the US was compare to other countries in early 20th century.
Would love to see a side by side on what it looks like today.
Take this video and then hold it next to a video of the slums of Orangi. The only difference between the two is that LA has paved roads.
@@kolack1985 You can do the same with most of the towns in red states which are mostly run down and deserted 100 year old brick buildings and trailer parks. Pretty much all 3rd world hellholes except for the larger cities that are more blue.
We'll have to get someone to repeat this path. Many of these houses look the same. You'd see some larger apartment complexes, especially on Victory, and some small businesses, more cars, and front lawns in much worse condition. That's what jumped out at me. You can't grow lawns like that now in this climate. You'd have to water everyday and put sun-shade over them. :-)
@@dougs7367 Like San Francisco, the bluest of them all, covered with humann feces, just the way you love it.
@@dougs7367 you’re wrong
Watching this feels like I time traveled back to the 40's. Must have been crazy to drive back then because I didn't see any stop signs.
In a quiet development like that a crossroads was treated like a 4-way stop.
Wonderful! I always think of my parents, born in 1929 & 1933, now in Heaven comforting yet missing them. Would love to see the exact same drive paralleled today to see all those trees now grown and more. ☺️
Loved watching this! What a gem! My parents were born in 1925 & 1933. Miss them terribly.
Этого уже нет наверно, сейчас там небоскребы стоят и все по другому
See BixbyConsequence comment above.
I feel like I went back in time with a time machine amazing pictures!😆♥💯
Wonderful job!
This is the coolest video I’ve ever seen. I always wished I could have experienced that life. now I feel like I did a little. Thank you to whoever was awesome enough to film this! 😎 I love hearing the birds too!
I absolutely love seeing videos & pictures from the 50’s & 60’s when my parents were young and just starting their lives I’ve always loved watching movies in the era with my grandma 💕 everything was so nice and kept up love it
yip....drive thru there now you'll get shot.
Awesome! The image quality is outstanding. I wonder what the camera was. The most compact one back in the day was the Bell&Howell Eyemo (35mm film), but one 100ft load lasted only for a bit over a minute. As much as I appreciate colorization and smoothed frame rate, I would love to see the footage cleaned up, not too much sharpening applied, but in its original back and white and with the original frame rate. Anyway: thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for the awesome video. Two things: I didnt see a single TV antenna, so this was shot during WW2? The P-38 takeoff was amazing!
Amazing how the 1930's cars look so ancient when compared to those in the film from the 1940's !
That is what they will say about the 2030 cars compared to today's ice cars.
And the 1930's cars look so much more modern than the ones from the 1920's!
I think very few automobiles were built in the early 1940’s because of WWII, so just some old 1930’s models were still around until the newer ones were built after the war.
@@ELCEV no we won’t. Cars from 2004/2005 still look very modern and new. A good paint job and a headlight defogging and those cars look brand new design wise. Cars from the 90s look crazy dated next to 2000s cars but since 2000 car design has aged very well rather than aging like milk
There are still neighborhoods in Los Angeles that look like this. I had a home that was built in 42 and it had the three bay window and a pink bathroom made of asbestos tiles
What a fascinating walk back in time...thank you for all your work on this video and thank you for posting it!
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