Residential area of Los Angeles 1940s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2023
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Residential area of Los Angeles 1940s, we can see the neighborhoods, the cars parked on the sidewalks with a passage in a neighborhood stadium, many people living their daily life
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔sound design added only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Internet Archive
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/pet1068r2
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in which city in the world do you want to live in 1940s???
San Francisco
Montego Bay
Newport Beach
Warwick, RI.
New York
That is Greenleaf Street and that school ground is Sherman Oaks Elementary School which I attended and graduated, from the 1960s to 1971. I am in tears. Sherman Oaks is my home town. I love Sherman Oaks.
Look radically different today?
May Sherman Oaks Rest in Peace.
Wow !that's Amazing!!
Ya..I'M in tears, and I'm from 'old' Long Beach, Alhambra, and Torrance. Robert at 68.
With all the 40s ranch style houses, my guess was going to be somewhere in the San Fernando Valley! Sherman Oaks it is!
If anybody wonders why so many of these are filmed in Southern California, there is a good reason why. There was a union rule that movies had to be shot within 30 miles of Hollywood to avoid paying extra. And within that distance you had almost any kind of setting at the time, from rural and farms, to small towns and mountains, beaches, and desert.
This is called the "Thirty Mile Zone", and where the gossip source "TMZ" got their name.
Why would this be a union film? It's clearly not for commercial use. It looks like someone just testing a rig.
@@guizot2010 NASS has lots of films just like this. I'm guessing the original intent behind them was to have B-Roll on hand for movies and television. Maybe also for location scouting.
@@guizot2010 Actually, this was for commercial use. This is the kind of footage they would film for use in creating the rear projection effect for filming inside of a car in a sound studio. Hollywood filmed thousands of hours of this kind of footage, in all kinds of conditions and locations.
Thanks
Didn’t know that.. thanks for sharing.
Can’t help but think where people are going in their vehicles as they drive past, and that they don’t know we’d be seeing them in the year 2023. These videos are beautiful.
Makes me want to jump into this scene and start wandering around..unbelievable...
It's crazy to think that those kids playing in the school yard have since gone on to live full lives and many could be now passed away. It's scary how short our stay here is
In order to obey God
@@gader2023 Yeah 👏
@@kirk638
Thanks
@@gader2023god worship me
And many deployed to vietnam
For at least the first half of the video, I believe this is being filmed on Greenleaf Street in Sherman Oaks as it passes by Sherman Oaks Elementary School (now SO Charter School), turns around at Sepulveda Boulevard, and then heads back east on Greenleaf again. Not sure if it continues on Greenleaf after passing the school again. Using Google and maps, I confirmed where Valley Oaks Cleaners was once located (shown in the distance on Sepulveda as the camera car/truck turned around) and then was able to match up a unique house on Greenleaf shown in the film that is still there. Thanks for sharing this and bringing some life to it with the remastering!
Thank you
Thank you!
Impressive!
You nailed the cleaners part. I was thinking it was Burbank/Toluca. At one point I could swear I saw the AP control tower.
COOL !! 😎Now we need a side by side comparison trip. 😉
The newest automobile I saw in this film was a 1949 4-door Cadillac Series 61 at the 2:36 mark. Therefore, this film is showing a neighborhood of Los Angeles in approximately 1948 or 1949. I love these films and I greatly enjoy taking trips back in time and seeing places and things as they once were. Thanks so much, Nass!!
I noticed the Cadillac too.
Or maybe early 1950?
There was a 1949 Ford on the street earlier.
That's the exact post I wanted to find, thank you
Awesome time stamping! Thanks. I watch these and wonder, are we at war, getting ready for war, or recovering from war? People were probably so happy when this was shot. Some people and dogs in the film, would be so cool if somebody knew one of them as their grandparent. Heck my parents would be alive and running around in the yard when this was made.
Personally, I feel so lucky to have grown up as a kid during the late 40's and 1950's! When the population in SoCal was 40% of what it is today and car traffic was minimal! Even visited Disneyland the first year it opened!
Cool! I have an old buddy who went to opening day at Disneyland. Was it like 1956 or something ??
You must have been a white man then lol
Damn how old are you if you don’t mind me asking ?
@@geezyla1151 Probably late 70s
that place at that time looks more modern and beautiful than my horrible country of central america
0:13 video starts at 14600 Greenleaf going westbound, Sherman Oaks.
3:06 Sepulveda BLVD in the distance, vehicle goes left on Saugus Avenue
3:14 turned around, now going eastbound on Greenleaf. Valley Oaks Cleaners is now the 405 Freeway.
3:30 15237 Greenleaf
3:42 15207 Greenleaf
4:57 14915 Greenleaf
5:15 14839 Greenleaf
5:17 14837 Greenleaf
6:03 14623 Greenleaf
6:08 14615 Greenleaf ✅
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Thank you for the addresses, I literally Google mapped these addresses and this is great footage, thank you for uploading, the Lampposts are still there today:-)
3/8/23
Wow some streetlights still there.
@@michaelwhite2823 yes I noticed thats as well :-) that pretty amazing
3/29/23
Wow, seeing the kids play like that was truly like a time traveling experience.
When i watch these videos i love seeing ordinary people going about their lives. I always wonder what lives they went on to live. The quality of these videos makes it feel like it was only yesterday, not 80 years ago
The color really makes the difference.
Indeed. It’s also amazing to think about how they could never have imagined they’d be viewed by many thousands of people around the world on something like RUclips one day. Makes me wonder what the people filming intended for the footage as well.
I wonder what gender identity these kids have, and did they get to at least experience drag queen story hour at the library? Where's their introduction to racial theory and white fragility? These kids are passing classes without acknowledging their privilege and scaling the curriculum for equity. Can we send Greta Thunberg back in time to reach them? Too many kids playing outside without a face mask.
Yeah its very surreal to watch these kind of videos
@Al gee I think it's more the higher framerate. It makes it look like a modern broadcast. When you watch movies with motion interpolation (soap opera effect) you get a similar effect, even if they are old black and white movies.
Wouldn’t it be incredible if there were different neighborhoods that you could go back in time w/ all of the cars, decor, clothing etc.? I love the 40’s. Thank you for uploading this!
Cuba?
I’ve thought about this too, and for people who love different kinds of architecture. Art Deco City, Victorian Era-Ville, etc.
Watching this film is like going back in time. I was born in Long Beach, CA in 1962. Seeing these neighborhoods some 20 years before I even existed is just amazing!
Cool my grandfather was a longshoremen in Long Beach back then. In the 50s and 60s after the war
Your videos are the closest thing to time travel and in my eyes, some of the most valuable content on RUclips. Thank you so much for your work on these and sharing it with us.
I agree
I agree too. It's like watching a nickelodeon.
Magnificent...a lot has been lost in modern urban living.
@@enigmasvids9615 such as?
@@kbanghart Lawn darts, fire crackers, asbestos, second-hand smoke, lead paint, suntan lotion, PCB in the air, lobotomies, segregation, no persecution for domestic violence, & legal narcotics, for starters.
Middle class suburbia circa 1948 or 49. Incredible restoration almost makes it look like yesterday! Thanks again NASS.
Thanks
The car parked on the left side of the street at 00:53 is a 1949 Ford Tudor.
@@alexandermoon8883 Correct, but keep in mind the 49 Ford's were first exhibited in June of 1948 and went on sale in the fall. Good eye Alex!
Based on a couple newer cars and their styling I was thinking 1948 or 49.
Not Middle Class, it's has always been the Working Class...
Back when it was safe to walk most streets in la. Great job! Thanks for including the originals.
Yes, you dmb americans threw your country away 🤣
Walk? Where? So few sidewalks!
@Life with Rob mexicans
@Life with Rob whites handed over their country to the blatts, now it's destroyed
Feel free to give some actual credible stats backing up the contention that it was safer.
Honestly love this kind of restoration, because it makes the past feel more real. It shows that the world has really been the same for all of history, only we have changed.
I like how you worded that
Это шутка наверное, не думаю что вы бот человек😄
A human being from a thousand years ago would be the same as a human being currently. How have we changed? or are you referring to things like technology and social conditioning?
@@rowds civilization in general mostly. It's incredible how much we are adapted to the artificiality of our man made environment
Honestly it’s like only technology changed I don’t think people changed a bit
Filming starts on Greenleaf Street, Sherman Oaks looking towards San Diego Freeway. The houses seen at 5.17 can be seen righthand side of Greenleaf St and Kester Ave, the two house do not appear to have changed since the film was taken. The car continues to the top of Greenleaf St and then turns into Saugus Ave and then drives back down Greenleaf St. In the last part of the film they are driving down North Maple Street crossing West Victory Blvd.
Correct
Thank you for all this information
Thank you for that info!
thanks, you saved me so much time to look this all up....totally amazing!
It would be fun to film the same location today and put them side by side!
Thanks, NASS, for the sentimental journey. In the late 1940s I lived in San Bernardino County about an hour's drive from Sherman Oaks. In the 60s I worked in North Hollywood about 15 minutes away from that area. It's fun to go "home" again. I really appreciate your work. So, thanks once more.
Thanks
Must be interesting for someone to look back like this and be reminded of how things were. It must be a sharp contrast to how things are today.
Wait. So you were born before 1940? Whoa. You have lived a very long life until now....
Dude, you must be in your late 80s now!!
@@phucfakku5667 I went to hollywood in 1937, on a long trip with my father. I'm very aware for my age, unlike the rest of the drooling unawares that were once people.
This is awesome! It’s crazy to see those kids playing outside at school. They looked to be around 10 years old or so, which means they were born around 1938 or 1939. The most fascinating part is they were living that brief moment in their life having NO IDEA they were being recorded and people would be watching that exact moment of their lives 72 years later. I have home movies of me playing on a tee ball team in Prescott, AZ when I was in second grade back in 1978. Every few years I’ll pull that tape out and watch it. I’m always amazed when I see the other kids in that video, both teammates and opponents, and know that they have absolutely no idea I have them on video from 45 years ago and I’m watching them. It’s just too bad I have absolutely no idea who they are today.
Cool, you must be about my age, 50? An aunt of mine has a wedding video from about 1977 and myself and my sister (aged 5 and and 7) are in it. It really did feel like something from “Back to the Future” when I saw it. Good to know I’m not the only one intrigued by the past.
@@johnflavin1602 Yup…. I’m 52. I am definitely intrigued by the past. It seems that every song that comes on instantly takes me back to some point in my life. I do a lot of reminiscing, lol
@@lishsc3 Have you watched the episode of the original Twilight Zone called “Walking Distance”? It’s all about a guy revisiting his past, literally. Great episode.
@@johnflavin1602 Actually, no. I might have to look that one up.
This is so much more fascinating than just watching old movies because it truly is like a time portal back to real life. Love the guy in his tan trousers doing lawn work and the lady in a skirt even though she's at home :) That era was pretty classy! Thanks for adding the sound of an old 40s pick-up truck too; that was a great touch!
The children playing in the first minute is just astounding. Slice of life from the 40's. Some of them likely still alive
They would all be in their mid to late 80s by now. Raquel Welch who just passed away at 82 would have been 7 years old at the time.
Could've been my mom or dad on that playground. Wow.
@@timothyo718 your math is off on Raquel.
@@uncletony6210 oops yeah she would have been 9. Thought DOB was 1942 at first.
@@timothyo718 she wouldn't have been born yet.
You can tell it's the old days, the way the oncoming motorist politely pulled over instead of insisting the right of way and making a scene. Love the trailer at 3:22. The old school at 5:30 like I went to as a kid. It was great someone thought to do this, and a great restoration.
As a European i experienced this polite traffic behavior in CA still in the early 80's.
People still do that in the Midwest and the south . And north. U know, I keep hearing how this world today is so awful. But it just doesn’t jive with what I see. I travel a lot. I have never seen racism , but once, and that was a comment in college. We are living in the safest times that parallel the 1950s. Where we are screwing up is the political correctness and the con job of the war on drugs. And our judicial systems and government need overhauled. Other than that we r great😂😂😂
Mannn!! I’d give anything to be able to walk in one of those homes and just explore the house decor, their furniture, and the objects they used during that time. Lovely neighborhood. Seems like ever yard was well kept. Loved seeing the different type of light posts and traffic signs. Also the laundry services vehicle and the Van Nuys transfer storage truck.
As much credit as the footage improvement deserves let’s not forget the audio! It’s fantastic and adds so much to the experience. Thank you.
As someone who drives around LA quite a bit, I keep my eyes open for areas that remind me of these old videos. Many old neighborhoods in LA still look this way, and the yet undeveloped urban and retail streets of 1940's LA look roughly similar some outlying, "underdeveloped" or unincorporated areas like in Riverside or Ventura counties. What I wouldn't give to drive around in LA 70+ years ago, just once!
We with sentimental nostalgic hearts suffer the most 😂
How times have changed 😢
@@e.g.truthseeker4673 Meh, i am in my 30s and i watch only vintage movies and tv...i never knew what it was like but i dream all the time that i am there and not being a child living through the 2000s...which sucked heavily.
@@sew_gal7340 I am sorry. I really am. I experienced Cali in the 80s and 90s and it kills me to see what it and so many places I liked became. We are past the demoralization phase that Yuri Bezmonoff talked about. Personally I moved to Japan.
@@zonzillamagnus5902 Japan is nothing like California. What a weird reaction. Didn't like how much California is changing, so moved to Japan which is completely alien and even more different. Hmmm... the human capacity for cognitive dissonance...
I'll come with you on that ride !
This is 1949. At the beginning there is a 1949 Ford custom and then a 1949 Cadillac. I believe there is also a 1949 Chevy at one point. Everything else is older. Great video.
I saw those, too, but caught a fleeting glimpse of a 51 Ford.
The clip that starts at 6:08 seems to be older than the rest, though, during the war years perhaps?
1951 Ford at 2:34
Love your channel, NASS. You are a visual time machine outlet. It's as close as we'll ever get to an actual time travel experience !!
its crazy to see how drastically some stuff has changed while others (like fence designs, sidewalks, etc) have all stayed incredibly similar over time
i would love to see one old video like this where they stopped and walked inside a house seeing what it was like inside a house in the 40's and the families
There would probably be some greaser like Fonzie posing about how cool he is with the fridge door open.
@@GrumpSkulllol ayyyy
Love these videos
It's like I can see the world my parents lived in but I haven't spotted them yet
this comment. wow.
I'd say this is my absolute favourite video of yours 😊 Reminds me of the South Africa I used to live in. Very comforting to watch it. You do a great job! The colours are amazing ❤
Your channel is definitely, the most useful and most accurate thing that we have today to a time-travel machine.
1940s Los Angeles has this bustling yet peaceful vibe to it. Its warm and things are happening, people seem happy and its not over crowded yet. Looks really clean too.
Here in South Africa up to the 80's our neighborhoods looked like that, NOW!!!!
ONLY THE SUPER WEALTHY HAVE THAT
My town in pennsylvania literally looks like this still , just with sidewalks. LA doesnt look like this now...druggies and thugs everywhere.
@Hard in the paint even the older black people agree apartheid were better, way-y-y-y less crime and so much more opportunity, our money had plenty value, NOW ONE OF THE WEAKEST IN THE WORLD. Our whole infrastructure had come to a standstill since the 90's. There is not a day that goes by you don't hear about corruption in the government or municipality....
All our small towns are full of illegal foreigners doing drugs, crime and murder are almost normal....let alone the big cities, can't walk alone anymore, not even the blacks....
Potholes everywhere and the police are incapable of doing their job affectively....
They lied to the world in the news all over the world about apartheid...
I have faith we will have our neighborhoods back in shape ONE DAY 😢
Why do these videos become havens for racists?
@Hard in the paint thank you, yes I believe once America is free again under Trump, the rest of us would follow. I HAVE FAITH !!!!
I think this may have to be one of your best videos! The colors look amazing. ❤️
Thx!!!
@@NASS_0 Yup!
I thought the same thing....one of the best of NASS's uploads....just fantastic quality and so much detail!
@@OsbornTramain And for YOU to say that, Mr Tramain, is amazing, because you usually b*tch about EVERYTHING!!
Amazing video! A virtual trip in time to take a glimpse what back in the day! Thanks for this wonderful work of art!
What a gem! I love this glimpse into the past when things weren't right on top of one another. I would say post a today of the same neighborhood, but I think we would all just get depressed. I like to watch all the old shows on t.v to get the perspective, so this is even better! Thank you!
It's really like time traveling when watching your videos. I couldn't help to think as that car passed those kids in the park playing, that could be my dad there. He was born in the early 40s, so it's like a glimpse of what it was like when he was a young kid. Thank you for your videos!
thank you
I get shocked everytime I go into an antigue store, and find I'm older than the merchandise!
Would be really cool to see a side by side comparison today.
Very cool footage.
This film was actually from probably mid fifties. Indeed, most cars are late thirties or mid forties. However, there at least 2 1950 Chevrolets and 1 '53 or '54 Ford. The dressing of the houses also strongly suggests latter '50s.
Took me a while to figure out the 1949 Cadi at 2:37.
I can't figure out why there's so few new cars with 1937 stuff. LOL.
Thank you for doing this awesome job. It's a remarkable (until not long ago, even unthinkable) thing to be able to go back in time and see footage like this in such high quality. An experience like this is quite a treasure.
This video was especially beautiful. Well done.
thank you
There were no TVs back then, no computers, no laptops, no iPhones, no CD players, no DVD players. Heck, there were no cassette and Betamax tapes either. Just a newspaper and a radio. Life was much simpler and people were more civil back then. Great video.
sounds lame
Civil? This is like 5-10 years before mass genocide. Lol. People have never been civil.
Civil... Not to blacks. (Civil rights movement)
@@goldinthefurnace Not all whytes treated blcks bad, its greatly exaggerated by politicians agenda.
@@goldinthefurnace He knows... just doesn't care.
OMG I wish I had a time machine 😞I loved how that young woman was dressed AWESOME. Takes me back to the times when me and my siblings would play outside till dusk with our friends with no worries, never a dull moment. this was in the late 50's and early 60's. Oh my gosh I miss those days so much and the MUSIC. We would walk to the neighborhood store with no problems , we would run up and down our neighborhood streets to each others houses with no worries about crime. Man It was so awesome. I hate these times.
The cleanliness, order, landscaping, tidy yards and well-kept if modest homes all part of the culture. Beautiful. You CA folks who grew up around there back then were blessed.
When it was still white .
Yeah, when neighborhoods had restriction codes that kept neighborhoods lily white
@@cd3694 baloney, mostly black neighborhoods back then had the same attributes I described. Their family lives revolved around the church and good morals prevailed. Stop attributing everything to skin color.
Race and skin color aren't the same thing.
Keep denying race. Let's see how well that's working.
Beautiful landscaped homes!! No mega mansions with large fences. It would be fun to time travel back to then and see a much different LA. An LA my Mom grew up with.
No black thugs hanging on the street ....
What I wouldn't give for a time machine ...
There's still a handful of them around the Valley. I live not far from Sherman Oaks, in a house built in 1950. Huge yard. While there's some big mansions, there's a scattering of homes very like mine in the area, and they look much like this. Thanks for the video, it was fascinating!
back when woman werent slutty
They weren't beautiful at all. Quite run down. Not even middle class.
I bought a house in 2002 that was built in 1948. This video reminds me of that neighborhood. I sold the house in 2020. It is very interesting to see that not a lot has changed much between now and then.
I had noticed that the houses didn't have any gutters or down spouts in the film.
Did they have them when you bought your home?
What’s funny is your house was probably $7000 back then when built and now worth like 900k if in that area of LA.
The 4K effect is incredible! I have no idea how you did that with old video but it's really amazing...
Super duper thanks for yet another amazing work of art
These clips are tiny little time machines. The design aesthetics at that time on these homes were fantastic.
All the houses and yards look so neat and clean.
White's owned them
This is just so amazing this exists. Thank you so much, @NASS 🥰
Such a lovely street. Manicured lawns and gardens. That White House next door to the caravan was in the 1967 film A Guide to the married man.
Nass, your image processing is getting more and more advanced -- wonderful footage. Thanks for posting this video!
thank you
This looks a lot like the San Gabriel Val looked. I grew up nearby in the San Fernando Valley of LA. It’s amazing to see so few vehicles there were, parked on the streets at the time. Today it would be challenging just to find a spot to park. These are the style of houses and streets I recall growing up. Just wow!!! Thanks so much for posting. It’s hard to explain the sense of nostalgia these scenes can trigger. Amazing!
Its Sherman Oaks just south of Ventura Bl. Some of those homes are still there on Greenleaf.St.
I grew up in West Covina!
@@peetie25 Good call!
@@peetie25 I grew up in Sherman Oaks!
I grew up around the SGV, lived in Temple City in the mid 80s. Currently living in Arcadia. Talk about change. Those cute little family homes are knocked down to build oversized McMansions. If I didn't have a tiny studio in an old back duplex unit and a great landlord, I would be priced out of the area.
Amazing video, someone must preserved that film in a controlled environment for the quality to be so good. Great video!
Thanks for giving new life to this footage NASS!
Great job! So neat to see history preserved. I was amazed at how quiet it was back then. Today, there would have been hordes of cars and people everywhere.
Well for one this is CGI this is not real as cameras were far too large to be put inside of a vehicle and filmed mobile. Besides the amount of power and batteries that it would take to run a camera absolutely be too much of an undertaking. You would basically have to have a truck and a trailer on the back of the trailer be the camera and all of the power equipment and such and there's no way it would be this stable this is 40s supposedly and it looks like it was shot with a GoPro
Not to mention homes did not look like that back in the 40s.
Its not the original audio. The original clip likely had no sound, they added all the audio.
@@TombstoneChris Youre talking out of your ass, my man. Handheld 8mm film cameras existed in 1952. And this video looks to be from at least 1951 at the oldest, going off of the cars on the street.
@@TombstoneChris bruh. They had small handheld video cameras back then.
This is so very cool! I hope you have more of these historical footages. How you remastered them to 60fps and colorizing them really transport the viewers to that era. The sound design also helps tremendously. Thank you!
Wow! Amazing work! Love it!
this video is absolutly gorgeous I love the brightness and the color, car color is off but what the heck. I just love this. From 1 to 10, this is way beyond 10 thanks for this.
Beautifully restored,thank you for sharing your treasures and hard work with us,amazing film and a glimpse into time which may have been forever lost. Best wishes to yourself,family,friends and fellow viewers.
All that sunshine and all those beautiful 40s cars. As a fan of Raymond Chandler I can't help but imagine Philip Marlowe driving about those streets chasing down clues.
I once lived in Los Feliz, around the corner from a house where Raymond Chandler once lived.
Big Sleep was Hollywood Hills!
This is JUST AMAZING! I was so fascinated by this video. The neighborhood could be one today with only different cars, etc. I thought “suburbs” weren’t really a “thing” until the 50’s.
Back in time... what a treat. Thank you
One thing thats very noticeable in this one as well as the city ones, how clean everything is. Gee i wonder why its not like that now.
As culture and morals dipped into the gutter, the environment began to reflect it. Not just CA, of course.
@@MTknitter22 yep, completely agree
I absolutely love these old residential videos, feels like I'm back in time cruising around in my car.
You sure would with the lack of sidewalks
I love it! If you take out the cars, I don't think you could tell how old this footage is! Amazing.
Which is showing the stagnation occured not many has changed since 70 years ago. 😧
@@harukrentz435 Not mechanically anyways.
with everything going on in the 40s, the 1930s-1970s must have been some pretty nice and peaceful times to live in. I really wish I could experience them
They were awesome!!!! Sorry you missed them. At least you’re aware they existed. You can imagine.
Best time to grow up! Peaceful, able to play and explore (be home when the streetlights start coming on!!), everyone had a well kept yard....miss those days.
Not in Europe. Cold war really did affected us especially my parents
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not 😂
I am Brazilian and I subscribed to the channel , I really like these old videos . Everything is beautiful , as it always was in the United States .
Thx!! ;)
I think the same can be said for everywhere. Everything is going down hill.
As a young electrician, it amazes me looking at them street lights could just imagine how dark it was
As somebody from Canada, currently for few weeks near LA, it was quite remarkable for me and my wife how dark LA streets are after sunset
Current trend is to keep neighborhoods dark to minimize light pollution.
Yeh and imagine ..no homies trying to crawl through your windows !!
@@space_114v2 yeah or people sagging. Disrespecting their elders.
It must have been so much more attractive at night. Better than the ridiculous bright led street light. Or disgusting sodium light. I imagine it must be so much better mow with tons of wall mounted flood lights on every house and 100s of overly bright street lights. I am sure you suggest lots of 20k lumen wallpacks so you can flood the side of building or a house with daylight. So much more enjoyable to enjoy the evening with spotlights flooding the neighborhood.
It’s like looking through a time machine window thank you so much for this with Video
I noticed they havent got any better at making roads in 80 years lol
Great video, I love seeing the old cars
You do some absolute amazing work. It shows that you love what you do to restore history (that's what these time pieces are) Thank you for sharing your art with all of us as it's much appreciated
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@NASS Do you offer video editing classes?
Anyone from L.A. know what neighborhood and streets these are?
@@Lomogrammaton It is Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley.
40`s ? 41 or 49? Diring the War or after the War. The approximate year date is very important. Thank you.
@@lauramartin-bk9nr Most place this as 1951 or 1952 based on the cars.
Thanks for this video
Great work, master piece
I love the car getting an engine job done in the drive at 8:03. Thanks for this Nass, there is so much to pause and ponder!
Thx ;)
I noticed that, too. Lovely!
Looks like a 1932 Plymouth.
that caught my eye too..back when we didn't have to be a computer tech to repair a car
My Mom always said those old cars (which she loved) were harder to drive and were never comfortable or reliable compared to newer cars (which she hated) which were less sturdy, more reliable and refined in design.
I lived in that area from 1943. People were just a mean and cruel then as they are now. Little has changed. People were not nicer then.
Cars were definitely less safe in highspeed collisions back then, but there was less traffic, and everyone was in less of a hurry. The most dangerous part of any car? A loose nut behind the wheel. Despite all the modern safety features people still die in car wrecks. Although modern cars are made more idiot-proof - they've just made bigger idiots since then, too.
@@DouglasUrantia Hi Douglas. It’s easy to romanticize the past. While I’m sure food was relatively cheap, flavorful and plentiful,there would still have a lot of lawlessness back then. Case in point: the driver drove straight through at least three stop signs. Lol.
Cars in the 40's were a lot different back then. Power steering was rare. Automatic transmissions didn't exist for most-- manual transmissions had a layshaft that had to be "spun up"-- otherwise you'd be grinding gears all day. And if you sat in traffic for too long the car would stall from "vapor lock" -- engine heat would cause gasoline to vaporize in the carburetor before reaching the cylinder. There's old pictures of Cahuanga Pass showing of dozens of cars stalled due to vapor lock.
@@mchaggis622 It's easy to romanticize the present and the future too but whoever you are it is important to be romantic at heart no matter what. it isn't harmful to day dream and fantasize, i'm an immigrant who just discovered vintage american and vintage clothing, i am full of delight...i also watch old vintage films that most americans have already watched...it is a world of surprises and beauty and oddly even though i am from another culture i can fully understand the people, visions, and art of those times ....it translates beyond age and cultures..it is magnificent. Americans truly do not understand what a gem their history is, i hope it stays alive forever (the beautiful parts and the ugly too which are equally beautiful in its own way)
If anyone lived around this area back then and got to see it before it changed....I know they are so excited. I thought we'd see more people outside though. I only seen one woman and a little boy on a bicycle. It's still cool to see what it looked like in color back then. It made me think about my grandparent's and probably around the time my parent's were born or fixing to be born. Thank you for sharing this, it was awesome!! 👍💞
Kids are all in School.
Didn't you see them playing in that soccer game at the beginning of the video?
I saw a young man going in a door and I believe another one working on or near a car.
@@davecrupel2817 no, but I'll go back and watch. I assumed that's probably why we didn't see children out playing was because they were in school. Thanks.
I'm fascinated by watching these videos. I wish I could go back in time to experience the world back then.
This is AWESOME to see in color! It makes it seem so much more real and not that long ago.
The thing that struck me in this video is the similarities in the housing styles compared to Christchurch, New Zealand. There is a bit less of a Spanish influence in Christchurch, but we even have some Spanish-style housing. The other difference is the fencing; in Christchurch, boundary fencing between properties is standard as is street-side fencing or hedging. Christchurch is a flat, spread-out city too. Over time, much of the housing stock has been replaced, but enough remains to be seen. Great video; very nostalgic.
Thanks
I assure that has nothing to do with Spanish style. They never would use that roof tiling or style. Wood is never used in constructions except for interior beams and even that is not used since long ago. That structure of windows is purely English, and never seem etc. I guess by Spanish style is the style created by California and they call it Spanish eve its not.
Having said that California has some houses that copy Mexican style, a lot less often Spanish. But its not the case here. Mexican style derivates from spanish but from very specific areas of spain as the south and canarias. .
I would’ve thought this was a Hollywood movie… Wow! What an incredible piece of video! Thank you for sharing this!
I love how all the trees are natural and not professionally trimmed by giant new age machinery. It’s relaxing
Relaxing? I suppose so. Never even thought about it. But when a branch hits your window it's probably not very relaxing.
Whatever machinery was used back then would be called "new age."
the bushes are trimmed tho
@@Nuriil yes because you can trim the bushes with a manual hand hedger . People could only do what they were able
Yes, "relaxing" as opposed to the noise and pollution of leaf blowers and other unnecessary lawn equipment.
Please do a side by side driving through the same streets to compare what it is like there now. Would love to see that!
That would be considered racist portraying one side a peaceful friendly area thats prospering from the other thats like a trip through a Zoo safari baboon enclosure .
@@5664788 Says something is racist, proceeds to make a racist statement. You sure are a special kind of lowlife.
@@5664788 How is that racist? he just wanted to see what it looks like today lol
@@Insomniac_tv Its a joke,....but ill spell it out to you since you didnt get it,.. it would look like a fuckin dump full of black people now vs 1940
@@5664788 This is Greenleaf Street a vary wealthy neighbourhood north of the city lol
7:42 boy on a bicycle looks at the camera. Fantastic video.
This is nice! I grew up in Los Angeles in the 1960's, thank you for sharing
Thank you! I love old photos.
Shocking how clean and beautiful it was back then.
The low resolution of the original helps in that.
Just imagine a country where you didn't have to worry about your car being stolen, your house being invaded, your store being robbed, your life being threatened & your city being looted & burned down to the ground. Imagine
Yeah, but it was not woke, gay men couldn't prey on children via drag queen story time, families were intact and children had two parents. I could go on and on, but it was a really horrible time. Thank heavens all of it is gone and LA is now the shining star that every city wants to be and every person wants to live in.
Ah yes….before hippies and wokeism ruined it. That’s “progressivism” for you. Enjoy it.
You’re kidding yourself. I don’t know if you live in SoCal or not but our residential areas still look practically the same as this video aside from modern street lamps and no more obviously fake bright green turf.
Would be much cooler if you can caption the name of the street so we can compare what it's like now. Thank you for sharing
compare what its like now? are you sure you want that level of depression?
Neat! Brings back feelings early '60s as a sm child - visiting grandmothers. What my parents grew up in. Homes were kept well, clean, nice yards, gardens, streets.
This is a really great video.
Wow this is amazing. Seeing the old houses and stuff when they were new is a weird experience.
The remastering is incredible.
As always, most enjoyable!
Would be interesting to see a side by side comparison
Another beautiful piece. I love 1945 to 1950. A short period, I know. Because it was at the end of the war, and before the giant marketing machine took over our lives. The 50s is where all of the cookie-cutter suburbs, home and auto loans, canned food and TV dinners kicked off. I just feel like it was one of the few, modern quiet periods...that we will no longer see again. I guess, until the dust settles. 😢
We will see it again, resources are dwindling, environment is dying, the age of wealth and excessive abuse of mother nature will eventually come to an end. Then we will see an age of austerity where everything is self grown and self made...the party has to end eventually.
Just rewatch the video and look for the houses with bad roofs. There’s your older neighborhood.
You got that exactly right!
@@indowneastmaine and Jon
So amazing, it's like being there. Thanks!
Very nice! Thank you.