Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) 1960s/1970s
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2016
- These videos were taken by my father in the 1960s and early 1970s at Los Angeles (LAX) on Kodachrome film. He recently had them converted to a digital format and I am happy to share them now. I have not edited them at all, other than to splice three separate clips together.
I didn’t want to clutter the screen with some descriptions, but here are some interesting facts about a few of the planes that you can clearly see the registrations on:
N93105, the Trans World (TWA) Boeing 747-131 was the 21st 747 built. It was delivered new to TWA on March 7, 1970.
D-ABUE is a Lufthansa Boeing 707-330. Today that registration belongs to a Condor 767.
SE-DBE is the SAS DC-8-60. It was delivered new to SAS on May 3, 1967 and written off in Rome just three years later (April 19, 1970) after a rejected take-off and resulting fire.
N741PA is a Pan Am 747-121 and the 17th 747 produced. It was delivered to Pan Am on February 28, 1970 and served 20 years with the company before being retired and converted to a freighter. It ended up with Polar Air Cargo.
N4719U is a United Airlines 747-122, delivered on June 26, 1971. This was the 145th 747 to be built.
There is also a quick cameo by a Santa Fe train led by four engines as well as a U.S. Air Force C-47 (DC-3).
Our family also went to that exact same observation location to watch the early 747's taxi for take off West bound from the north runways. Yes, that fence was very low. Outstanding viewing location. In 2019, the best place to view the North runways is from In-N -Out Hamburger at Sepulveda Blvd. and West 92nd Street, and the South runways are viewable from Clutter Park on East Imperial Avenue at Sheldon Street, just above Imperial Highway.
Thanks for the great Memories of when I was a kid going to the airport to watch all these planes...Today marks my 7 years of being Retired from American Airlines...
I could have watched an hour of this video! Golden!
This is like GOLD, man! Thanks for sharing. So cool!
That Pan AM 747 is still with us. Stored, but still here though.
What do you know about it?
The real golden era! My oldest brother would take me & my nephew to some side street on the beach, just to watch those Convair 990's & 880's, & DC -10's take off, & fly right above us in the early '70's, at the end of the LAX runways.This video tops everything I've yet to You Tube!!
I had to add, I loved those TWA 'Globe Liveries'!
Thanks for sharing. The golden years of aviation! Back in the days where you could get closer to them. Loved the Eastern 72, SAS 8 and Lufty 707!
Excellent. Hard to imagine the world without Pan Am and TWA. Lovely to see a PSA DC8 inbound. Flew them alot in the 80's from SFO to LAX
Amazing footage. Planes, trains AND automobiles
Incredible footage!
Stunning quality, thanks for sharing!
I watched this video and think back to that time and say everything was so much simpler and less complicated than today.👍👍👍
My favorite aircraft still to this day will always be the 707. ❤️. Thank you for the memories sand making me tear up ... tears o.f wonderful memories 😉
I was fortunate to have flown the 707 back in the mid 80s for a charter airline. Was there only for about a year, but did get some serious flying on it. Really enjoyed flying her. Glad you like it.
@@bullwinklejmoos ... World Airways?
@@robyoungquist5803 Skystar. Not much about them on the internet but if you get on airliners.net you can search and there should be a couple of our airplanes on there. We had 3 707s when I was there, 728, 732, 895. Those were the tail numbers. I’ve got 728 on my work iPad. A reminder of how far I’ve come as I fly the 787 now.
Amazing discovery. Even if RUclips now first, 4 years later want me to see it
What a treasure trove. The old livery's are such a treat to see, especially the TWA globe.
Amazingly, all of the pilots who were flying these planes are ow retired. Assuming this was shot in 1972 and a pilot was hired on at 22, that would make them beyond the mandatory retirement age now.
What really shocked me was the spot where the film was shot, which appeared to be an observation area off of 96th Street in Westchester (the location of LAX). The fence couldn't have been more than four feet high. Now it would be a fifteen foot, solid metal fence with razor wire - if it existed.
AFLAAV8R Some of them were in their Middle Ages and near the age of retirement!
Yeah. In the 1970s was before TWA had their familair 1980s red striped livery and all red tails with TWA in big white letters. It was before United had their familiar late 70s and 1980s yellow and orange color with the big UU on their tails. American though had the same livery here as they did throughout the 80s. They were the 3 big ones, TWA, United, and American, the 3 most popular airlines of the 70s and 80s.
Then there's the old airlines that are no longer around, with TWA, one of the big 3 from the 80s, unfortunately being one of them. Pan Am, Eastern, and Braniff are 3 more long dismissed airlines
@@alvexok5523 ALAS! Eastern has returned though!
@@philipemma2359 For real? With the same blue striped on silver livery? I'm assuming it'll be a different livery now, all later returned airlines came back with new livery, such as when Braniff returned in the late 80s for that brief period.
@@alvexok5523 The big three didn't include Pan Am? I assumed it would be the most popular along with TWA.
Thanks for the memories, could watch those planes for hours when I was a kid!
Thank you! Awesome film! The SAS DC-8 was dbr due to a fire caused by, compressor snag in apr.1970. The aircraft was del.05/1967.
Excellent airliner footage from the DC-7 to the 747 at LAX! Thanks for sharing and many thanks to you Dad for filming this.
Beautiful video just awakening my nostalgia where once upon a time beautiful American built aircrafts dominated the world's skies. Love all old aircrafts. Thank you for sharing I simply loved this video.
Good job !!!!
...love the old AA 707 in "Astrojet" livery as well as the Western L-188.
What a great time for plane spotting. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing this footage. It really makes so many of us happy to go back to a time when the fuselages of commercial airliners didn't look like tubes of toothpaste. lol
Ok, wow...that’s all I can say. And for it to be your dads footage, makes it even that much more special. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Is he your dad?
Amazing! Thank you for making it available.
Mexicana de Aviación, simply beautiful
What a great high quality video. I especially liked the Western Electra which was the first plane I landed at LAX in.
Looks like Aviation Blvd towards the end with the United 727's. My dad used to park in those old turnouts to watch the planes land overhead onto the 25's. I also remember 747's only using the North Complex in those days. We also spotted from Imperial Hill, the abandoned subdivision between the airport and the beach off of Pershing, and also a parking lot off of World Way West with a great view of the 24's...
Surfridge: the abandoned subdivision on the hill between LAX and Dockweiler State Beach.
I never knew that AA used to have 747s. I love how AA used to look like.
Stingy aviation American Airlines also became one of the first carriers to retire their 747s, because it's true that it costs a lot of money to maintain a 747 in tip top shape not to mention fueling those four engines due to the fact that they were guzzlers.
The 747 in the movie Airport 75 is an American bird painted up for the movie. That 747 went on to fly for UPS as N675UP.
These videos bring back a memory. I recall I was on an American 747 from LAX to JFK either in 1970 or 1971. I think it was their inaugural flight. I was young and recall a small ribbon cutting ceremony at the gate as we boarded. I was aghast at the size of the aircraft and recall people waving at us at the end of the runway as we lined up on the the north runway, I think. These vidoes brought all that back. Thank you.
Simply amazing!!! Thank you for sharing this video!
The 747 in TWA and Pan Am liveries looks majestic. The 707 also looks beautiful, and so does the 727. The diesel locomotives seem smaller than today's General Electric and GM affairs.
Just incredible footage. Huge thanks for sharing!
Love it!! You can really feel the time period! Thank you!!
Thank you soooooo much for sharing! Really interesting !
Thanks for posting!
Beautiful video. Nice to see these planes and liveries from before I was alive. Especially the Pan Am 747. What an iconic livery!!!
Nice shots! KodaChrome is the best film ever made. It's hard to get the exposure right but your dad did very well on that. Nice to see such old material online. Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely awesome. Thx for sharing!
American Airlines DC-7
American Airlines 707's
TWA 747-131 N93109 (I think that is the last digit)
AA 747-123 (their registry numbers always were and still are the hardest to read!)
Lufthansa 707 D-ABUE
Scandinavian Air Service (SAS) DC-8 SE-DBE (I think!)
Back to the AA 747-123 and 707-123's
Pan Am 747-121 N741PA "Clipper Kit Carson"
United 747-122 N4719U
The longest-serving livery of American Airlines 707
Eastern 727-125
United 727-122 (was that the same plane each time?)
Mexicana 727-200
PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) 727-200
National DC-8 (a very early short-body model - maybe a -21?)
Western Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra
Armed Forces DC-3 (an oldie even in that era!)
And finally, a United Boeing 720
N93109 or 93015? Hard to tell. Both flew only for TWA until scrapped in the 1990s. Love the double globe.
Excellent listing! One clarification, SAS stands for Scandinavian Airlines System. It is the union of the national airlines of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. You are correct in the registration of the DC-8-62, SE-DBE. It was owned by the Swedish portion of the airline. It was written off in April 1970 after an uncontained engine failure on the ground in Rome.
@@robertwyman Looked like N93105 to me.
Even the cars on the highway look radically different than they do now, I love AA's 747-100. Same with Pan Am!
What a treasure!!!😍😍😍 Thank you for sharing.
Simply superb...!!! Thanks so much for sharing... !
Beautiful. Just plain beautiful! Thanks for sharing.. What a priceless gem! :-)
Great video and a lot of classic airliners, including the first one in the video, which I believe was an American Airlines DC-7. It's also interesting to see how AA kept the same "bare metal" livery for a long time up until recent years after they bought out US Airways.
Great or excellent quality of this film being shot in the 60's & 70's, also loved the 727's which still like to this day. Thank you for sharing.
Great video and footage . Really enjoyed it.
SUPER! Thanks for posting!
Awesome video your Father made, thanks for sharing
Glad you shared these. What a wonderful age of air travel.
Excellent material. Thanks forma share it
I've been an aviation buff since I was four years old and flew on an SAS DC-7 from LAX to Copenhagen, 1960. Still have vivid memories of the flight, except I don't remember the meals or the hostesses, which bothers me.
Dad: why are you crying so damn loud
Nice classic locomotives on that train too. Definitely a GP30 leading, looked like all the others were GP35s.
I thought it was urban legend that EA flew a 727 into LAX, but there it was 5:27 - word was it started at MIA with a couple of intermediate stops. Anyway, great film and glad you shared it.
Wow this is so nice!! Thanks for sharing..🤗
Awesome footage!
At 4:50 I wish that United Airlines could bring back that classic 1970s livery and that Friend Ship title for their planes.
Great footage!
Wow - this is incredible footage. Thanks for sharing!
Here he is, the mad lad himself, 3 years ago.
Wow!!!
1:52 Holy. All this time, I thought that photo from online was photoshopped. American Airlines actually did have a 747 at one point. Amazing.
Exelente documento histórico!
The Halcyon days of Air Travel. Please note about 4:00 all the people watching the planes. Most airports, major airports had an Observation Deck looking over the tarmac where anyone could go and watch planes landing and taking off along with waving to friends or family after they boarded their flight. You could even accompany someone on board to say last goodbye and then exit the plane.
There was ZERO security.
The train is one that went through Beverly Hills, West Hollywood all the way to downtown. They had a 99 year lease and to keep their route had to travel twice a day. Morning and Night. I often encountered it during its night run.
I believe the Prop planes at the end of the video were DC 4 and a DC 3 which was my first flights from NY/ Florida/ NY. The DC 4 flights NY to LA were about 10 1/2 hours non stop. The first transcontinental Jet Boeing 707 NY/ LA was 1960 about 5.5 to 6 hours. A big difference. But we were treated royally back then. People dressed up for the flight. My mother had special outfits just for air travel as did I. There was also plenty of room. No broken knees or suffocating lack of space as now other than First Class. But even that is not a patch on the service of yesteryear.
Amazing stuff by ur dad!!!
Excellent! Prior to the 747, wasn’t the 707 the world’s biggest airliner or was it the DC8? I subbed!!
Both where.
Am I the only one who didn’t know American had 747s
I thought the same but they do look good in AA colours.
Yes, you are the only one. The rest of all the world population knows that, including people live in undiscovered Indian tribes.
Having a 747 in the early '70's seemed to be "in fashion", whether the airline needed them or not! Continental put a piano bar in theirs, knowing they couldn't fill them with people.. Braniff bought 2 that they couldn't even afford to finish painting! If you didn't get on the 747 band wagon; your airline didn't "look good" . Kind of like the 'Polo' & 'Izod' shirts for social climbing mentality of the '80's. But, I still love the pre regulation days, where the mentality wasn't on profit, profit, to hell with the consumer....PROFIT!
@@tedpittsinger9688 I remember Western Airlines trying to make up for not having any 747s by TV commercials about how much leg room their planes had anyway.
@@austindarrenor , I remember a Western local add in Denver that talked about their legroom, during the holidays of '68 & after New Year of 1969. They were also introducing service from Denver to Minneapolis. I don't remember whether those were 2 different ads. It was a long time ago. But, I know as an adult; legroom would mean a lot more to me than flying on a jumbo jet! I think they ran a smart airline! Their move out of Denver to Salt Lake really paid off for them! Did you ever fly them ?
I found some information about that beauty Pan Am 747 at 04:00;
Pan Am N741PA, a B747-121, "Clipper Kit Carson", later renamed to "Clipper Sparking Wave". It's first flight was February 13, 1970. Delivered to Pan Am on February 28, 1970. Built as 747-121, cvt'd to 747-121(F) freighter in 1990. Ownership and registration number changed over the years:
N741SJ with SAT (Southern Air Transport)
N831FT with Polar Air Cargo
N494GX with Burnstein
N749PA with GE Capital Aviation Service and PALC (Polaris Aircraft Leasing Corp.)
Last seen as FN 741 with Pan Am, stored without engines at MOB (Mobile, AL) awaiting recycling.
Nonov Yerbusiness thx for the info
Beautiful SAS plane.
Great memories, long gone.
Awesome.
Who did the conversion to digital?
nice memories preserved.
You notice how the 707s from the 1970s had that thin little horizontal spike sticking out of the top front of their tails? What was that, some kind of antenna?
Especially seeing an American 747 is awesome!
very nice
I LOVE SEVEN O SEVEN
7O7 WAS IS AND WILL BE IN MY HEART
Those were the days!
Sometimes I think the 727 is my favourite aircraft of all time.
Memories ...
Back then, you got full meals, snacks and more on the flights. No extra charges for baggage and the ticket prices were great. You could bring drinks on the plane too. When your plane landed, well, you went on with your life in an era of innocence and FAR better times. If you have a ticket to the past, I will buy it.
WOW!I MISSED THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS ,AND THANK GOD THERE WERE NO SCARE BUSES
Airbuses are fine.
0:14: American Airlines Convair CV-240
0:26: Another American CV-240
0:31: American Boeing 707
0:37: Another American 707
0:59: Another American 707
1:07: TWA Boeing 747
1:33: Another TWA 747
1:51: American 747
2:20: Lufthansa 707
2:39: Another Lufthansa 707
2:56: Another Lufthansa 707 (with a TWA 707 and 747 in the background)
3:03: Another Lufthansa 707
3:11: Scandinavian Airlines Douglas DC-8
3:26: Another Lufthansa 707
3:32: Another American 747
3:45: Another American 707
3:50: Pan Am 747
4:47: United 747
5:11: Another American 707
5:23: Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727
5:38: United 727
6:30: PSA Airlines 727
7:13: United DC-8
like this video reason complete report and development of technology.
Mexicana 727!! 😍😍😍
I like the original metal color on jets
I recall from childhood the American Airlines 747 Astroliner.
1st time on a 747 was UA from ORD-DEN F class seat 3A
Hard to imagine a domestic 747 flight today.
Love the american 747💖💖
In the early 1970s Lufthansa flew Frankfurt-Amsterdam-Los Angeles with B707s...
am1966ath I remember that as a kid too. Watching Lufthansa 707 loading passengers to. Frankfurt via Amsterdam.
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American Airlines 747 service was completed in 1984. And the DC-10 still in service on American Airlines until 2000. The 747 is better than the DC-10.
4:28 that plane was built in 1970 for PAA ans still flies today with Polar cargo
Plane is scrapped
One locomotive is a GP30.
just think the AA 747 was either going to DFW ORD JFK or IAD
I flew on an American Airlines B747 between Los Angeles and JFK in 1978...those were the days..today AA has no B747s
No 747's in American Airlines, What a shame, the biggest plane American Airlines currently has in their fleet is the Boeing 777-300ER
supercharged V8 Yes but when you fly to Hawaii from mainland US or Coast to Coast in teh US its mostly narrow bodies today like B737-800s or B757...that was a magic feeling to fly a B 747 or DC 10 coast to coast or United s royal Hawaiian service with air hostesses in Hawaiian dress on a 1973 vintage B 747 back in 1982...I don t feel any magic on the B777 or the Airbus A 330..I don t feel that comfortable crossing the Pacific on a two engine airplane..
Your right, flying back then was an experience, now flying is like taking the city bus. I also don't feel comfortable crossing the ocean on a two engine airplane as well, to bad trijets are long gone like the B-727, DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011, at least three engines is safer then two, right?
supercharged V8 Absolutely especially with 5 hrs of water from California to Hawaii or 11 hrs from Frisco to Tokyo..I have flown a couple of times on the B 777 whose two engines are extremely powerful ..but to fly on a B 737-800 to Hawaii from say Seattle, no thanks..I hate long hauls on narrow body aircafts
The dc8was smaller than 707
American actually did have the 74
3:19 DC 8 crashed at take off in Italy
Did all the bags fall out of that SAS???😂
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Hi, I'm looking for a small extract (airplane landing, Pan Am, 60's) to use in a brazilian film. Would you be interested in negociate these rights?