@@samt.8533 people weren't required back then to wear their seat belts but we always did, my mother made sure of that, she was tossed out of a car in 1953 and slid across an intersection on her backside; couldn't sit on a hard chair for the next 25 years. And back then in the early 60's the cars had steel dashboards which weren't too forehead friendly.
@@rlmye65 I was born in the late 50's and remember many of the cars on the roads back then. I just wished I could have been a few years older old enough to understand the significance of and remember JFK's assassination, ie age 11.
Icarus look on RUclips for RALPH STORY L.A. and "Things that aren't there anymore" by Stephanie Edwards. RALPH STORY was an anchor on channel 2 KNXT the CBS affiliate in L.A in the 1960's. Another trip back down memory lane is if you can find the clips of SLIM BARNARD doing the HAPPY WANDERS. FORD gave him as car (as a promotional) and he toured all around California and the west with his wife on weekend outings.
@@glennredwine289 why wasn't born until 65 however my mother basically pioneered the 50s by riding those trains to and from work up until she learned how to drive does back in the day when her office was in Vernon
Foreign cars were so much more fun than American cars, heck you could fly thru the canyons and get to the beach Way before the chevy or ford!!! Lol my 12 cylinder jag did 70 in first gear, 125 in second, and I had tons of pedal left when I took it up to 155 on 395 near red rocks one evening going to mammoth lakes.
Walter, GOD gave you a brain to be able to think for your Self!!! Don't believe everything they tell you or else you'll wind up lost. Before you were born America made electric cars that could go 100 miles on a charge.. but then the oil industry was created to poison the air you breathe until you are too poisoned to think for yourself... America is the problem, but you might think otherwise...!
Teresita Ortal Yes people dressed to leave the home and neighborhood. Men wore suits to work unless they were in manual labor, and then they wore uniform work clothes. Ladies dressed to go shopping, visiting and even to the grocery. Only kids would wander the streets scruffy. As our society gets more prosperous childhood extends well into later life, thus middle aged people dress like they did when they were 14. Travel was an event as was going to a movie or concert.
You mean Armenia Airport. They changed the name when they sold your ass down the river. Russians didn't want them now we got them and they are doing the same shit. Running welfare and medical fraud. Thanks US government as if the Mexicans gangs and the joy they brought wasn't enough. All while filling their pockets crime jumps and drugs soar.
R ef. Yes but even poor people dressed for public, unless they were completely destitute. You see train travel films of the same time and people are well dressed. Trains weren't especially expensive and everyone used them. Even buses had a good number of passengers that dressed. Really the pop culture of the late 60s degraded the aesthetic in the western world over the past 50 years. Large scale immigration in the 90s and 00s from third world nations pretty much solidified it. See Japan today. They didn't buy into the counterculture and they are borderline xenophobic barely allowing immigration. They still dress well for public.
I arrived in SoCal in 1962 at 10 years old. To me it was paradise. Although my mom who grew in Van Nuys told me it was a paradise, until WWII began, people moved to SoCal to work in defense plants, many service men and families moved there after the war. In 1939 population was almost 7 million, in 1946 almost 10 million then climbed steadily through the 70s. In 1962 population was 17,07200. In 2022 was 39,29032. I guess the thoughts of paradise are relative to the individual. My dad was in the building trades in ‘62, my mom stayed home. My siblings and I grew up in a four bedroom house and parents had 2 cars. I don’t know if it’s possible to do that in an L.A. suburb in 2023. My heart goes out to the younger people trying to get a home and start a family. Watching some of these vintage films takes me back. Thanks for uploading!
+George Vreeland Hill Yes it was, but wasn't life itself much better ?.the worlds technology may have moved into unbelievable orbits, but our quality of life has gone backwards.just like the moral standards along with it.We had the golden opportunity to make our world a much better place for everyone, but we have failed miserably.
+George Vreeland Hill I was 10 back in 1965 and I have clear memory of the LACK of traffic on the freeway. I guess that marks me. Calling them the 'Free Ways'... as New England gets the high way taxes. Anyway, I remember when back then, when WEEKDAY traffic looked like today's SUNDAY traffic. Fewer people back in 1965 California. Too many people now.
+George Vreeland Hill And I just saw your Tribute to David Bowie. He was a super talent. I have been in-love with D.Bowie since I was in high school, and it was - a sad transition of my life, in letting him go recently. I was in-love with this man (only 8-years older than I was) who created such wondrous effects. Back in H.S. I appreciated his skills, inventiveness, .. talent. Super genius. Anyway, thank you for your input and tribute. A lot of us loved him. Thank you.
+George Vreeland Hill Hay man, I live on the other side on the planet and here we are always watching american films filmed in California and especially L.A. it looks soo nice,so sunny place with a lot of people,the beaches are my favorite LA is a center of many world events I've always dreamed to go there just on an excursion but my country requires a visas for america and not everyone is allowed to go!So can you share your thoughts about the live in LA :) Regards from here!
@@cashouttdan 1954 was when Brown vs Board of Education when into law deeming segregation unconstitutional. That is what eventually led to the end of segregation. In '64 the civil Rights act was a formality introduced by JFK to guarantee that every American has the same rights. Read a fucking book.
The 60s can't help us. They're what got us here. There's no help coming. Just more of the same. Masks and lock downs. Citizens ratting each other out for wrongthink. Brothers, 2020 was not an aberration; it was the harbinger. You're welcome.
The kind of quality that meant short life -- 70k miles life -- and more repairs. Very low reliability compared to todays cars. Also cars were death traps.
@@samt.8533; Remember actual, unsimulated crash sites in the 1980s when real cars were crashing alongside and into modern tin cans? One you walked away from, the modern ones get obliterated with soft pillars and torn sheet metal ripping soft flesh to pieces.
Yes,beautiful cars who made me dream growing up in France and once foreign ones started to take over,that was it for me,America losted his appeal,you're fucked now,in fact w're fucked!!! lol
A great time for me. My parents had just imagrated from England. Landed in. LAX 1967, with 5 little kids. A job and $35 in their pocket book. Lived in South central LA. The community support was like no other. With in a year my Dad was able to buy a new house in s little known community called Fountain Valley. Costing $22,000... No welfare or public assistance! This was definitely the land of milk and honey. What happened?
Jeanette Griffin ~ Cool story, and I won't get into what went wrong since then. It would be a book lol. Oh and if your family came to the US in '67, it was a few years after this film clip, which was 1964.
@@brianchase9251 ~ Doesn't seem likely. Here's the thing. This is extra footage, made during the production of the movie Sex and the Single Girl, released 12/64 (referenced IMDb). I've seen the archives when I worked in the film business. Possibly you saw a '65 Impala that would've been brand new at the time, practically off the showroom floor. As I'm sure you know, new models are released a few months prior to the actual year, and it was a similar body style to the '66, with slight differences. I saw what appears to be a '63 or '64 Buick Riviera on the far left, beginning about the 2:24 mark. Then a '65 Mustang takes front and center between 3:25 and 3:30... or could it be a '64 and 1/2? In closing, it's tricky to discern details in this film.
@@rickmcnulty3757 Definitely not 1964, theres a 65/66 mustang at 3:30. Also, sad to see the racists come out luckily they all left the region, good riddance. What happened? Capitalism and its worse variety of fictitious finance capitalism happened. Its not 'blacks' fault the city is unaffordable, polluted, and some areas deeply poverty stricken.
@@thurayya8905 You only see that in modified sports cars, hypercars, supercars, and what-a-not. You're obviously not lookin' at the damn road. Cars right now I always see as White, Black, and Silver as the majority. Back then, it was those colors plus Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and even Blue/Purple.
It's answered several times in other comments on this thread. It's staged, extra footage from a 1964 movie starring Natalie wood. Not only are the cars all going the same direction, but they and the motorcycle officer are not driving normally. Apparently it was footage for a chase scene in the movie. In the real world, who or what would be following a motor officer that closely?
It's a dual style of freeway, there used to be a few out in Balboa in San Diego. Basically they look like separate roads but the upper/lower halves merge together at some point (and have entrances). They follow the california valleys so it looks narrow but there's actually several other oncoming lanes out of view to the far left.
The road you see on the other side is actually the 405 freeway. If Sepulveda was part of the freeway, then why is there a double yellow line down the middle? I'm guessing they must have used it a a reversible lane during rush hour? Anyone remember?
Not everybody is driving in the same direction. At 00:53 on the left side of the screen is somebody going in the wrong direction. Yes, this road is definitely confusing.
I'm not sure why people don't read the other comments in a thread before asking or responding to questions, but this clip has been explained several times in this thread. It's footage from a 1964 Warner Brothers movie called "Sex and The Single Girl" starring Natalie Wood. The road was closed to all other traffic so the scene could be filmed and all of those cars in this clip and everyone driving them are part of the movie. If you look up the movie and watch it you will see this scene.
One thing that really strikes me about these old clips from the 60s is just how goddamn stylish everything was back then compared to today. The cars, the people's clothes, just the general aesthetic.
The best part of being 64 years old, is actually having been able to experience THAT Los Angeles you see in the video. It's my hometown and I love it, but I'd be lying if I said today's L.A. compares.
Dude, I was born ( '47) and raised in L.A. it was a great place to live during the 50s and 60s. I lived near Western and Vernon, walked to Rams and Dodgers games at the Coliseum. Once my buddies and i rode our bikes thru the Crenshaw Shopping Center b and up the hills to that big Water Reservoir.....a few years before it collapsed. You think a group of 6 or so 13 yr old boys could do that now-a-days? Great times but I left in '70 to join the Army and never returned...except to visit family. I retired to Florida 10 years ago and love it. I visit SoCal yearly.....it's like being in enemy territory.
A time when people had more common sense... not every goddamn thing was political. No political correctness and cancel culture... What has happened to this country?
I get physically and emotionally affected watching videos of this era. My stomach begins to churn and I have this aching feeling in my heart. The mental connection is so strong my mind starts digging up memories and takes me back. Life was good for me back then. I suppose the heart yearns for those years again.
The issue isn’t bipartisan. It’s symptomatic of intense demand and a capitalist system that is run on a speculative real estate market where values of property *magically* go up every year.
Me, too. It's amazing that that look (traditional Ivy League) is truly today's alternative (a 'punk-rock', of sorts), as 'alternative' has become safe, run-of-the-mill mainstream (e.g. blue hair, tattoos, piercings, etc.) Whoever would have thought?
That's why they built the San Diego Freeway. The traffic would crawl over Sepulveda. There were lights at Ventura Blvd. And the big cars belched out the smoke. The smog could be terrible - could hardly breath.
clarkewi Since you were I believe young enough to remember segregation, I wonder what you think of it now that is has been long gone, and what you think about how America has changed until today. Do you wish somethings would change and if so what?
@@BillLaBrieHow is it hidden exactly ? Pretty much every documentaries, tv shows and movies nowadays heavily focus on these negative sides. Your opinion is by no means subversive, it actually has become mainstream thinking
The traffic was redirected in one direction for the Natalie Wood movie "Sex and The Single Girl" if you watch the movie they had a car chase with the motorcycle cop. This is stock footage for the movie.
Born in the San Fernando valley in 1960 and it was so fun back then and safe for us kids..Mom and Dad got us out of there in the early 70's before things got real bad.
AGREED, the cars all just look like blobs now, too much emphasis on streamlining. Chrysler was a pretty innovative carmaker but they managed to put out some pretty ugly cars. Slant six was a great motor.
My family moved to North Hollywood from Des Moines Iowa in 1960, and I swear, I saw my dad’s ‘59 Plymouth in one of those scenes. I loved growing up during that era. But the JFK assassination has never left me. On the bright side, Beatlemania hit our neighborhood just the same as the British scenes in Hard Days Night. And yes, the smog was unbearable! I’ve had asthma my entire life and spent so much time in the hospital there. I always considered Southern California/ Los Angeles as my home town and always desired to move back, until I did in 2015. You can’t find a road with traffic that light unless you drive at 4am on a Sunday morning now. The graffiti and trash are similar to a post nuclear war now. Driving from Pasadena to Long Beach is a 2 hour trip to go 30 miles, on a 6 lane freeway. The popular line to tell newcomers is the 405 freeway was named because it takes 4 or 5 hours to reach your destination. The smog is barely noticeable, but you lose half of your life sitting in a car. If you are determined to be on time for anything, anywhere, you need to get up early enough to leave by 4am if you have to travel 30 miles or more. It’s sad for me, because it feels like my childhood was a dream. It still is a great place to live, if you are wealthy and have time to waste sitting in traffic
I feel the same way Jim. The only thing that has improved is the air quality. No more third-stage smog alerts but unfortunately, everything else has gone to crap. I've lived in LA all my life since 1969 so I've seen the changes first hand.
Amazing footage and good music. A lot of the videos have horrible music that doesn't match what's shown. This one is perfect. I also like how there was dead silence in the end. What a fitting way to end a video like this. Even though I was born in 1966, I have quite a few clear memories from the very late 60s, especially 1969. I do remember the layout of small stores and boulevards and their architecture. The street light color, especially the beige lighting, and tear drop lamp posts always intrigued me. Something about the 60s that was so special.
In the mid sixties, they limited Sepulveda Blvd. over Sepulveda Pass to one way traffic during the rush hours. one way southbound in the AM and the same northbound in the PM.
Back when California was still the "Golden State" I lived there for over 30 years I loved it the land of getting ahead and opportunity also beautiful landscape anywhere. Those were the days but no more. California has gone down the drain with all there leftism and not being much more conservative back in those days. It has been almost ruined into shambles so so sad sad!!!
Hahaha. Are you serious? LA has changed alot however they are making it better little by little.. some areas have done a 180' pivot. Example hollywood.. it has become somewhat respectable again.. areas that were dumps are now great neighborhoods. The transit system has really improved by leaps and bounds. There is the homeless problem and there is no simple solution to this difficult problem..
So the tax cuts of the uber rich had nothing to do with it? White people deciding to ditch and abandon public schools and neighborhoods? Prop 13 passed to directly defund public schools from local property taxes? The auto-industry buying the red car and dismantling it? Oh demonizing policies like higher wages, unions, state run healthcare, (You know public healthcare for all would mean the severe mentally ill are in a facility instead of on the streets?) Lets not also forget your conservative buddy Regan giving his homies in South America freedom to sell large amounts of drugs in the United States unmolested. Lets not forget the fact that it is by and large free enterprise and subcontractors paying people under the table that resulted in the illegal immigration problem. I could spend hours listing how it is by and large white people who made LA what it was. Oh and for 20+ years ignoring the homeless problem.
Blame Jerry brown, Gavin newsom, Maxine water, Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein For destroy the state of California and they voted democratic every Another year election that’s a fraud and cheating I voted republican party
Abinadab Orozco wym la is the best it’s ever been for everyone except the kkk...look at all these neighborhoods from sunset to Hollywood even Compton is better...
Mr. Craig! I was 'gone' on this one at :46! Living in L.A. as a teen in the 60's has just gotten even better. No wonder Ohio has bored me to tears ever since.
After growing up in Ohio, I lived in LA for several years and still get back there to visit as often as possible. I like SoCal and consider it my second home, but there were things I also missed about Ohio while living there such as four distinct seasons, perfect Midwestern falls, etc. Some Midwestern transplants I knew out there missed snow especially around Christmas, but I never did. I much prefer winters in SoCal. Both places their pros and cons.
It depends on the girls you are talking about today. There are still many without tattoos and obesity. And they are no were near as trashy as women were in the 1980s. That was a damn skanky decade. Big ugly hair and heavy makeup. Yuck!
Clearly, you were not around in the 1980s to remember what a trashy decade it was. I will grant you that you did not see the widespread tattoos on people that you do today or the obesity. But, my god were those fashion trends terrible.
Proto J ~ Huh? Obviously the cars had good control back then. It wasn't the 1920s ding dong. The car with the camera is weaving all over, and going faster than the others. It has nothing to do with why drivers were more civil and polite.
This was a movie shoot (with the motocop) It is not normal traffic. Note the reversed lanes. The later freeway segment was real. The freeways worked to ease the already problematic LA sprawl traffic in the early 60s. The Red Car and the Yellow Car (Southern Pacific streetcar lines) created the sprawl because the owners were selling land developments at the streetcar stops in 1900, far from Central City. By the 70s everyone was on the freeways and they were being upgraded to connect them with the full interstates. Construction caused gridlock. It gets a bit better for a few years, and then bottlenecks again causing more construction. Cars are a result of the sprawl, not the original cause in LA.
I visited LA a dozen times in the '60's. It was pretty cool back then. As a Bay Area resident most of my life, visiting LA has been an increasingly dismal event ever since. We Bay Area folks now often say "LA Sucks!"
I love the music. My son and his family live in Orange. We usually fly into LAX. I do not think the drive up area at the airport has changed. I love all of the vehicles. I am 64 and grew up in the 60s. My first trip to LA was in 2010.
@@randymoran67 HEY ASSHOLE KNOCK OFF THE HOMOPHOBIC BULLSHIT YOU FUCKING PRICK.. JESUS CHRIST IT SOUNDS LIKE U KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE HOW IT FEELS.. GOT ANY SMARTASS COMEBACKS I WILL GLADY BE HERE WAITING FOR YA....!!
Look at how much nicer it was back then - it was nothing like the dirty, angry, hate-filled cesspool that it is today. The air is cleaner today - but nothing else is. Everything else in SoCal has deteriorated terribly in just a few decades. and that is tragic.
Wow. Great video. Someone from the 1960's would be shocked how clean L.A.'s air is today (those classic cars were actually rolling chimneys) ... and how crappy pretty much everything else is.
It's crazy how the roads look exactly like modern roads but the cars are all different. Just goes to show that most of the major changes that happened to our society -- actual changes to infrastructure and the physical makeup of society itself -- happened in the first half of the 20th century, and we're now stagnating in every dimension of our culture you can think of.
I was a little kid in LA in the 60's. A big thing that stands out is how clean and well-maintained everything is. But I'm really confused about why Sepulveda Bl seems to be set up as four lanes of one way traffic, rather than two and two. They show it like this going in both directions. You can see sparse traffic on the 405, so it wouldn't have been some kind of rush-hour thing. Also, back in the 60's, the Harbor Fwy was not I110, but rather was California 11.
Oh, L.A. had its problems like any other era; but I had the good fortune of growing up in Long Beach in an upper-middle class lifestyle thanks to my father. It offered me a different vantage point from which to look at the progress all around us in L.A., the money flying around, the endless diversions and leisure and recreation opportunities in SoCal, and frankly an entirely different set of social values from what we've come to lament presently. If I had to live in Watts or East L.A. at that time I'm sure I would've had an entirely different view of what it was like to grow up there in the 60s. So I obviously wouldn't trade in what was my experience for anything. My only regret? That I didn't appreciate it then as much as I do now. I look upon my memories of L.A. in the 60s fondly and with some sadness for not realizing how good I had it then.
So what's crazy is that is Sepulveda Blvd. during rush hour next to the 405. Those 4 lanes mostly still exist and that freeway is much larger. But, honestly changing all those lanes in both directions at rush hour would probably really help alleviate the traffic. It is not half a bad idea.
@@StephanieLærkeAndersen a 19 years age gap between siblings is not what I'm used to, though it is no wrong. Instead, it gives me hopes. I'm an only child and most of my friends(like 75%) have 1 sibling, which really makes me wish I had one... Sorry for my English, I'm a non native speaker.
@@lordAritraMaiti My brother is a bit like a father-figure to me because my mum died 10 years ago when I was still a teenager, and Stephen has looked out for me more since then. There’s nothing wrong with being an only child. Lots of parents do have kids many years apart.
+James McLoad It's kind of like the express lanes in Seattle. Also, they would temporarily turn 2-way systems into one way systems to divert traffic while they were building or upgrading nearby freeways.
Don't take any notice of people who say these things they are only fishing for abuse and seeing who will take the bait but it does seem a funny way to organize a road I mean look at the car at 4:20 parked and facing the wrong way I would like to see him turn round and join the traffic flow :-) I went to America and it was great but I was always worried I would forget and drive on the left so did not do it. I work for a local authority in eastern England and I have been out to 2 or 3 crashes (none fatal) where people get off the car ferry from Europe and forget to drive on the left. What a mess.
It's answered several times in other comments on this thread. It's staged, extra footage from a 1964 movie starring Natalie wood. Not only are the cars all going the same direction, but they and the motorcycle officer are not driving normally. Apparently it was footage for a chase scene in the movie. In the real world, who or what would be following a motor officer that closely?
+Sharon Newman Evidently the traffic was redirected in one direction for a movie, as noted below. This is stock footage for the movie. Clearly people don't drive in opposite landes in the US for no reason, you know-nothing little muppet.
Grew up there; and it was indeed a beautiful place, a beautiful lifestyle, looking back I was blessed. And all of the the things that make SoCal and the entire state beautiful are still there and will be long after we're gone; it's what Californians have allowed their government to do to it that has made it unpalatable and unaffordable to live there -- unless you're a Hollywood movie star who is insulated from the underbelly of the city surrounding your lavish compound in Malibu.
I live in Riverside. Not all of LA is bad but Everytime I turn on the news or I have to drive out there I remember why I don't like it. I think it is ashame that OC the IE and SD are overshadowed by that place when someone thinks of So. Cal.
I agree. The only way I would ever go back to L.A. (or Calif. for that matter) would be to borrow Doc Brown's DeLorean time machine & set the dial for either 1957 or 1966.
Amazing times. Nice cars, happy people, clean streets without tents, and mess. No internet, social media, liberalistic propaganda... the golden time of US and Europe as well... and now we´re standing in front of the collapse of everything
D Vortex the world (b4 corona) was actually the best it ever was. Not necessarily in America but overall the best... hopefully we can make it through climate change and it will be even better
![California 1950s, Driving Wilshire Blvd in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/1.gif)
1 ticket to 60s pls. One way.
Might as well go all the way back to the 50's that way you enjoy both :)
While you are there! order me one.
Call James Franco (in 11.22.63 show)
Order one for me as well, please.. thanks!!
The early 60's were OK. By the late 60's, the liberals/Communists were on their way to destroying the USA.
Los Angeles was way cooler back then, pretty nice city.
I wish I lived back then. Who ever filmed this, thank you.
Icarus Tanović I was born in LA in the mid-1960s so I was able to remember a little bit of it
@@samt.8533 people weren't required back then to wear their seat belts but we always did, my mother made sure of that, she was tossed out of a car in 1953 and slid across an intersection on her backside; couldn't sit on a hard chair for the next 25 years. And back then in the early 60's the cars had steel dashboards which weren't too forehead friendly.
@@rlmye65 I was born in the late 50's and remember many of the cars on the roads back then. I just wished I could have been a few years older old enough to understand the significance of and remember JFK's assassination, ie age 11.
Icarus look on RUclips for RALPH STORY L.A. and "Things that aren't there anymore" by Stephanie Edwards. RALPH STORY was an anchor on channel 2 KNXT the CBS affiliate in L.A in the 1960's. Another trip back down memory lane is if you can find the clips of SLIM BARNARD doing the HAPPY WANDERS. FORD gave him as car (as a promotional) and he toured all around California and the west with his wife on weekend outings.
@@glennredwine289 why wasn't born until 65 however my mother basically pioneered the 50s by riding those trains to and from work up until she learned how to drive does back in the day when her office was in Vernon
Back then ALL the cars were cool!
But STIIL blowing poison out their asses!!! buy electric so earth can heal.
Back then we could burn all the gas without financial and environmental concerns.
Are you serious? LOL
Foreign cars were so much more fun than American cars, heck you could fly thru the canyons and get to the beach Way before the chevy or ford!!! Lol
my 12 cylinder jag did 70 in first gear, 125 in second, and I had tons of pedal left when I took it up to 155 on 395 near red rocks one evening going to mammoth lakes.
Walter, GOD gave you a brain to be able to think for your Self!!! Don't believe everything they tell you or else you'll wind up lost. Before you were born America made electric cars that could go 100 miles on a charge.. but then the oil industry was created to poison the air you breathe until you are too poisoned to think for yourself... America is the problem, but you might think otherwise...!
PEOPLE DRESSED UP TO BOARD A PLANE BACK THEN, it was like dressing up for church - Sunday's Best.
Teresita Ortal Yes people dressed to leave the home and neighborhood. Men wore suits to work unless they were in manual labor, and then they wore uniform work clothes. Ladies dressed to go shopping, visiting and even to the grocery. Only kids would wander the streets scruffy. As our society gets more prosperous childhood extends well into later life, thus middle aged people dress like they did when they were 14.
Travel was an event as was going to a movie or concert.
This is Burbank Airport, and it still has that same drive in/out loop that you see from the 60's.
You mean Armenia Airport. They changed the name when they sold your ass down the river. Russians didn't want them now we got them and they are doing the same shit. Running welfare and medical fraud. Thanks US government as if the Mexicans gangs and the joy they brought wasn't enough. All while filling their pockets crime jumps and drugs soar.
R ef. Yes but even poor people dressed for public, unless they were completely destitute. You see train travel films of the same time and people are well dressed. Trains weren't especially expensive and everyone used them. Even buses had a good number of passengers that dressed.
Really the pop culture of the late 60s degraded the aesthetic in the western world over the past 50 years. Large scale immigration in the 90s and 00s from third world nations pretty much solidified it. See Japan today. They didn't buy into the counterculture and they are borderline xenophobic barely allowing immigration. They still dress well for public.
Sunday best
I moved to LA in 1960 with my parents. It was actually even cooler than the video shows. It was fabulous.
I want to go back to sixties and i'm french
I’m 16 wish I could experience the 60s
I arrived in SoCal in 1962 at 10 years old. To me it was paradise. Although my mom who grew in Van Nuys told me it was a paradise, until WWII began, people moved to SoCal to work in defense plants, many service men and families moved there after the war. In 1939 population was almost 7 million, in 1946 almost 10 million then climbed steadily through the 70s. In 1962 population was 17,07200. In 2022 was 39,29032. I guess the thoughts of paradise are relative to the individual. My dad was in the building trades in ‘62, my mom stayed home. My siblings and I grew up in a four bedroom house and parents had 2 cars. I don’t know if it’s possible to do that in an L.A. suburb in 2023. My heart goes out to the younger people trying to get a home and start a family.
Watching some of these vintage films takes me back. Thanks for uploading!
@@aviox3664 me too
The land of the infamous Tia stick, great times
L.A. was better back then.
A LOT better.
+George Vreeland Hill lol how so?
+George Vreeland Hill Yes it was, but wasn't life itself much better ?.the worlds technology may have moved into unbelievable orbits, but our quality of life has gone backwards.just like the moral standards along with it.We had the golden opportunity to make our world a much better place for everyone, but we have failed miserably.
+George Vreeland Hill
I was 10 back in 1965 and I have clear memory of the LACK of traffic on the freeway. I guess that marks me. Calling them the 'Free Ways'... as New England gets the high way taxes.
Anyway, I remember when back then, when WEEKDAY traffic looked like today's SUNDAY traffic. Fewer people back in 1965 California.
Too many people now.
+George Vreeland Hill
And I just saw your Tribute to David Bowie. He was a super talent. I have been in-love with D.Bowie since I was in high school, and it was - a sad transition of my life, in letting him go recently.
I was in-love with this man (only 8-years older than I was) who created such wondrous effects. Back in H.S. I appreciated his skills, inventiveness, .. talent. Super genius.
Anyway, thank you for your input and tribute. A lot of us loved him. Thank you.
+George Vreeland Hill Hay man, I live on the other side on the planet and here we are always watching american films filmed in California and especially L.A. it looks soo nice,so sunny place with a lot of people,the beaches are my favorite LA is a center of many world events I've always dreamed to go there just on an excursion but my country requires a visas for america and not everyone is allowed to go!So can you share your thoughts about the live in LA :) Regards from here!
I'd give up all the technology we have today, to live in this era.
Me too.
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Not if you are black 🤷♂️
@@thesauerkrautp2269 this is the 60s jackass, segregation ended in 1954 you fanook
Mr. B it did🤦🏾♂️ I’m so dumb I thought it ended in 1964 or 1968... wait no it didn’t it did not end in 1954 ur the one that’s dumb 😂
@@cashouttdan 1954 was when Brown vs Board of Education when into law deeming segregation unconstitutional. That is what eventually led to the end of segregation. In '64 the civil Rights act was a formality introduced by JFK to guarantee that every American has the same rights. Read a fucking book.
Help!! I'm stuck in the year 2020 ! It's a horrible nightmare !
Help 3 weeks until 2021
Goddamn this year already sucks balls
Capture every moment like watching this video.
@@andym28 capture every moment of being in hell. I don't think Satan likes that, he says no cameras.
The 60s can't help us. They're what got us here. There's no help coming. Just more of the same. Masks and lock downs. Citizens ratting each other out for wrongthink. Brothers, 2020 was not an aberration; it was the harbinger.
You're welcome.
When American cars were built with quality.
The kind of quality that meant short life -- 70k miles life -- and more repairs. Very low reliability compared to todays cars. Also cars were death traps.
Andrew, good one. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ROTFL.
@@samt.8533; Remember actual, unsimulated crash sites in the 1980s when real cars were crashing alongside and into modern tin cans? One you walked away from, the modern ones get obliterated with soft pillars and torn sheet metal ripping soft flesh to pieces.
Yes,beautiful cars who made me dream growing up in France and once foreign ones started to take over,that was it for me,America losted his appeal,you're fucked now,in fact w're fucked!!! lol
And clothes. High quality expensive clothes nowadays were the norm for everyone back then. No cheap synthetic fabric.
A great time for me. My parents had just imagrated from England. Landed in. LAX 1967, with 5 little kids. A job and $35 in their pocket book.
Lived in South central LA. The community support was like no other. With in a year my Dad was able to buy a new house in s little known community called Fountain Valley. Costing $22,000... No welfare or public assistance!
This was definitely the land of milk and honey. What happened?
Jeanette Griffin ~ Cool story, and I won't get into what went wrong since then. It would be a book lol. Oh and if your family came to the US in '67, it was a few years after this film clip, which was 1964.
In case anyone is wondering, $22,000 is roughly $187,000 today if you account for inflation. Still, 187k wont get you anything in L.A in 2020.
@@slimshine953 Spotted 1966 Impala.
@@brianchase9251 ~ Doesn't seem likely. Here's the thing. This is extra footage, made during the production of the movie Sex and the Single Girl, released 12/64 (referenced IMDb). I've seen the archives when I worked in the film business. Possibly you saw a '65 Impala that would've been brand new at the time, practically off the showroom floor. As I'm sure you know, new models are released a few months prior to the actual year, and it was a similar body style to the '66, with slight differences. I saw what appears to be a '63 or '64 Buick Riviera on the far left, beginning about the 2:24 mark. Then a '65 Mustang takes front and center between 3:25 and 3:30... or could it be a '64 and 1/2? In closing, it's tricky to discern details in this film.
@@rickmcnulty3757 Definitely not 1964, theres a 65/66 mustang at 3:30. Also, sad to see the racists come out luckily they all left the region, good riddance. What happened? Capitalism and its worse variety of fictitious finance capitalism happened. Its not 'blacks' fault the city is unaffordable, polluted, and some areas deeply poverty stricken.
The colours of the cars were soooo amazing! blues,greens,pink,yellows,reds and everything in between! I wish I lived back then!
White is the defaut for cars
Trust me, the cars today are much more colorful. We have lovely shades that weren't available then.
@@thurayya8905 You only see that in modified sports cars, hypercars, supercars, and what-a-not.
You're obviously not lookin' at the damn road. Cars right now I always see as White, Black, and Silver as the majority.
Back then, it was those colors plus Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and even Blue/Purple.
This is the Los Angeles I never got to see, and I never will. 😞
0:32 WTH...why is everyone driving in the same direction on both sides of the road?
It's answered several times in other comments on this thread. It's staged, extra footage from a 1964 movie starring Natalie wood. Not only are the cars all going the same direction, but they and the motorcycle officer are not driving normally. Apparently it was footage for a chase scene in the movie. In the real world, who or what would be following a motor officer that closely?
It's a dual style of freeway, there used to be a few out in Balboa in San Diego. Basically they look like separate roads but the upper/lower halves merge together at some point (and have entrances). They follow the california valleys so it looks narrow but there's actually several other oncoming lanes out of view to the far left.
The road you see on the other side is actually the 405 freeway. If Sepulveda was part of the freeway, then why is there a double yellow line down the middle? I'm guessing they must have used it a a reversible lane during rush hour? Anyone remember?
Not everybody is driving in the same direction. At 00:53 on the left side of the screen is somebody going in the wrong direction. Yes, this road is definitely confusing.
I'm not sure why people don't read the other comments in a thread before asking or responding to questions, but this clip has been explained several times in this thread. It's footage from a 1964 Warner Brothers movie called "Sex and The Single Girl" starring Natalie Wood. The road was closed to all other traffic so the scene could be filmed and all of those cars in this clip and everyone driving them are part of the movie. If you look up the movie and watch it you will see this scene.
One thing that really strikes me about these old clips from the 60s is just how goddamn stylish everything was back then compared to today. The cars, the people's clothes, just the general aesthetic.
oh yes. We took pride in our looks and appearances. Maybe we did not have the latest and greatest, but we tried.
People are too boring and depressed to care about stuff like that nowadays.
@@cazsnap occupied with 3 jobs and drugs.
Is this about the video above with no "stylish people" and the oversized dull looking cars? The aesthetic of the 405 is ... " Function".
You can thank cultural socialism for that the idea that everybody is equal and should dress the same is the ideology behind tidays sloppy dress code.
Noticed the traffic jam on the 110 frwy from the 8th/9th street overcrossing. I think some of those cars are still there.
The best part of being 64 years old, is actually having been able to experience THAT Los Angeles you see in the video. It's my hometown and I love it, but I'd be lying if I said today's L.A. compares.
Dude, I was born ( '47) and raised in L.A. it was a great place to live during the 50s and 60s. I lived near Western and Vernon, walked to Rams and Dodgers games at the Coliseum. Once my buddies and i rode our bikes thru the Crenshaw Shopping Center b and up the hills to that big Water Reservoir.....a few years before it collapsed. You think a group of 6 or so 13 yr old boys could do that now-a-days? Great times but I left in '70 to join the Army and never returned...except to visit family. I retired to Florida 10 years ago and love it. I visit SoCal yearly.....it's like being in enemy territory.
You old people are very fucking lucky, but atleast I get to grow up in this postmodern shithole
Aww, life without Coronavirus
And 9-11!
And without China!
A time when people had more common sense... not every goddamn thing was political. No political correctness and cancel culture... What has happened to this country?
@@CIA-fx8mb And With Soviet Union :D
Comrade Xi says "Please don't make fun of my Bio-weapon Wuhan Virus. It's hurts my feelings".
I get physically and emotionally affected watching videos of this era. My stomach begins to churn and I have this aching feeling in my heart. The mental connection is so strong my mind starts digging up memories and takes me back. Life was good for me back then. I suppose the heart yearns for those years again.
The vibes,the aesthetic WOW I really wish i had a time machine
Spotted a vw bus! It’s crazy to think that I am restoring my 67 bus that was running out there in 60s
I have a very early (Aug.1969) 1970 that I need to do work on, wish you well with your project!
That is pretty crazy
It’s crazy that people were using that same bus 60 years ago
no way i bought a 67 new paid cash with help of my parents
@@carloscarpinteyro332 that’s awesome, thanks
Hey Craig, thanks for sharing that fantastic piece of history with us !!
Thumbs up !!
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Vc fala inglês tbm hahaha
It wasn’t so fantastic
Kkkkkkk
I love this video❤.
Where’s the graffiti and trash? :D
LOTS more trash and graffiti on that section of road today
Where are the homeless ?
There was tons back then
People did not destroy other peoples property like that back then
Oh yes they did. It's just not on the film clip.
Amazing. Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing this, it's wonderful.
Cost of living has drained out joy from our lives today...
BV P You mean the cost of Democrats
The issue isn’t bipartisan. It’s symptomatic of intense demand and a capitalist system that is run on a speculative real estate market where values of property *magically* go up every year.
Sammy N no moron u fuck of the democrats have destroyed this country abd sold us out to China
Brandon Mucklow wrong
Of shitty state government with their tax scams
I love the way they dress, when I see pictures of my grandparents and parents living in the 50's and 60's, I love how they were dressed.
Me, too. It's amazing that that look (traditional Ivy League) is truly today's alternative (a 'punk-rock', of sorts), as 'alternative' has become safe, run-of-the-mill mainstream (e.g. blue hair, tattoos, piercings, etc.) Whoever would have thought?
If I had a time machine to LA in the 60's, the first thing I'd visit is definitely the Getty Images watermark!
I was there when the new airport was built. I landed in LA as a kid of 7 in 1958 at the old airport in a DC 8.
And before the San Diego Freeway was built. Only "Old" Sepulveda thru the mountains to the Valley.
I can't even imagine what traffic would be like without the freeway, with only Sepulveda as the only road.. it boggles the mind
That's why they built the San Diego Freeway. The traffic would crawl over Sepulveda. There were lights at Ventura Blvd. And the big cars belched out the smoke. The smog could be terrible - could hardly breath.
clarkewi Since you were I believe young enough to remember segregation, I wonder what you think of it now that is has been long gone, and what you think about how America has changed until today. Do you wish somethings would change and if so what?
I love the '60s---everything seemed so glamorous back then!
Ignorance you speak it wasn't glamorous at all.
You need to look for the tacky, ugly stuff that people would rather forget. It tends to get hidden.
@@BillLaBrieHow is it hidden exactly ? Pretty much every documentaries, tv shows and movies nowadays heavily focus on these negative sides. Your opinion is by no means subversive, it actually has become mainstream thinking
@@hothemeep1219 I was addressing the non-nerd population….
Back then, double yellow lines were just for decoration.
Lol
For real haha what's going on there
It was a filmings scence for a movie
The traffic was redirected in one direction for the Natalie Wood movie "Sex and The Single Girl" if you watch the movie they had a car chase with the motorcycle cop. This is stock footage for the movie.
+Twaddles McGee yup, all the signs on the left side of the road are facing away from the drivers.
Ah..
Very cool! I was wondering why the traffic was going in one direction. Thanks for sharing.
I was wondering> I knew if I scrolled down I'd find the answer!
@@Zombywoof92553 it may have also been redirected during the construction of the 405 which was almost finished in 1963
feels like i'm watching a classic car show with a tour of the city thrown in.
Everyone's dressed well, it's clean, gee I wonder why.
RACIST.@Peter Johnson
Because it's outtakes from a Natalie Wood movie.
@@samt.8533 And once they provide welfare for everyone on the planet, you can kiss our culture goodbye.
Segregation, LBJ and Ted Kennedy didn’t yet forever ruin the country
Born in the San Fernando valley in 1960 and it was so fun back then and safe for us kids..Mom and Dad got us out of there in the early 70's before things got real bad.
yeah charles manson might agree
Thanks love this time capsule seeing the classic old cars from then.
love the cars!
The paint on the cars is so cheerful.
Sad to think half of these cars are crushed.
AGREED, the cars all just look like blobs now, too much emphasis on streamlining. Chrysler was a pretty innovative carmaker but they managed to put out some pretty ugly cars. Slant six was a great motor.
My family moved to North Hollywood from Des Moines Iowa in 1960, and I swear, I saw my dad’s ‘59 Plymouth in one of those scenes. I loved growing up during that era. But the JFK assassination has never left me. On the bright side, Beatlemania hit our neighborhood just the same as the British scenes in Hard Days Night. And yes, the smog was unbearable! I’ve had asthma my entire life and spent so much time in the hospital there. I always considered Southern California/ Los Angeles as my home town and always desired to move back, until I did in 2015.
You can’t find a road with traffic that light unless you drive at 4am on a Sunday morning now. The graffiti and trash are similar to a post nuclear war now. Driving from Pasadena to Long Beach is a 2 hour trip to go 30 miles, on a 6 lane freeway. The popular line to tell newcomers is the 405 freeway was named because it takes 4 or 5 hours to reach your destination. The smog is barely noticeable, but you lose half of your life sitting in a car. If you are determined to be on time for anything, anywhere, you need to get up early enough to leave by 4am if you have to travel 30 miles or more. It’s sad for me, because it feels like my childhood was a dream. It still is a great place to live, if you are wealthy and have time to waste sitting in traffic
I feel the same way Jim. The only thing that has improved is the air quality. No more third-stage smog alerts but unfortunately, everything else has gone to crap. I've lived in LA all my life since 1969 so I've seen the changes first hand.
@@lincbond442 And we moved from California altogether in 1969
Just imagining Cliff Booth driving on these roads.
haha. yes I can as I lived in California for over 20 years. Some of the freeways we know today were not built yet when I was there
I remember when we could go outside ☹️
I have a few vague recollections of that. As I remember, if you stayed out long enough, your skin would darken into something called a "Tan".
The difference is the people. People were friendlier back then.
K onliner the people were white back then
@@Nikita-dt7ll Found the racist lol
Nikita yea whats the problem
Love seeing all the old cars!
Amazing footage and good music. A lot of the videos have horrible music that doesn't match what's shown. This one is perfect. I also like how there was dead silence in the end. What a fitting way to end a video like this. Even though I was born in 1966, I have quite a few clear memories from the very late 60s, especially 1969. I do remember the layout of small stores and boulevards and their architecture. The street light color, especially the beige lighting, and tear drop lamp posts always intrigued me. Something about the 60s that was so special.
This is the first time I have ever seen a four lane road divided with double solid lines and all cars going the same direction
Lol They decided to make a film in 1964 Natalie wood sex and the single girl there is the police chase at the end so they are drivig wrong way
In the mid sixties, they limited Sepulveda Blvd. over Sepulveda Pass to one way traffic during the rush hours. one way southbound in the AM and the same northbound in the PM.
Back when California was still the "Golden State" I lived there for over 30 years I loved it the land of getting ahead and opportunity also beautiful landscape anywhere. Those were the days but no more. California has gone down the drain with all there leftism and not being much more conservative back in those days. It has been almost ruined into shambles so so sad sad!!!
Hahaha. Are you serious? LA has changed alot however they are making it better little by little.. some areas have done a 180' pivot. Example hollywood.. it has become somewhat respectable again.. areas that were dumps are now great neighborhoods. The transit system has really improved by leaps and bounds. There is the homeless problem and there is no simple solution to this difficult problem..
So the tax cuts of the uber rich had nothing to do with it? White people deciding to ditch and abandon public schools and neighborhoods? Prop 13 passed to directly defund public schools from local property taxes? The auto-industry buying the red car and dismantling it? Oh demonizing policies like higher wages, unions, state run healthcare, (You know public healthcare for all would mean the severe mentally ill are in a facility instead of on the streets?) Lets not also forget your conservative buddy Regan giving his homies in South America freedom to sell large amounts of drugs in the United States unmolested. Lets not forget the fact that it is by and large free enterprise and subcontractors paying people under the table that resulted in the illegal immigration problem. I could spend hours listing how it is by and large white people who made LA what it was. Oh and for 20+ years ignoring the homeless problem.
Blame Jerry brown, Gavin newsom, Maxine water, Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein For destroy the state of California and they voted democratic every Another year election that’s a fraud and cheating I voted republican party
Abinadab Orozco wym la is the best it’s ever been for everyone except the kkk...look at all these neighborhoods from sunset to Hollywood even Compton is better...
Why do you people always have to bring politics into it?
I would have loved to visit Los Angeles then. The roads weren't crappy and there was very little traffic.
Mr. Craig! I was 'gone' on this one at :46! Living in L.A. as a teen in the 60's has just gotten even better. No wonder Ohio has bored me to tears ever since.
Ohio exists as a place to escape.
After growing up in Ohio, I lived in LA for several years and still get back there to visit as often as possible. I like SoCal and consider it my second home, but there were things I also missed about Ohio while living there such as four distinct seasons, perfect Midwestern falls, etc. Some Midwestern transplants I knew out there missed snow especially around Christmas, but I never did. I much prefer winters in SoCal. Both places their pros and cons.
Great music and video a lot of nice cars.
The image quality is so good that looks like 2000s or even the 2010s
Or the 2030's.
It's high quality film. This is 4k resolution
Notice how modest the women were. Not all skanked out, full of tattoos and body parts hanging out everywhere...
of course, you have to remember the hippie chicks of that era were kinda skanky lol...
Loveto Cook maybe so but in a good way lol.
It depends on the girls you are talking about today. There are still many without tattoos and obesity. And they are no were near as trashy as women were in the 1980s. That was a damn skanky decade. Big ugly hair and heavy makeup. Yuck!
@@coloneljackmustard .... Lol way worse than now??? You're insane
Clearly, you were not around in the 1980s to remember what a trashy decade it was. I will grant you that you did not see the widespread tattoos on people that you do today or the obesity. But, my god were those fashion trends terrible.
Notice how everyone is driving civil and not cutting each other off.
Funny you say that because the person driving filming with the camera is changing lanes like a mad man even going thru solid yellow lines.
Because cars did not control as well as they do today.
Proto J ~ Huh? Obviously the cars had good control back then. It wasn't the 1920s ding dong. The car with the camera is weaving all over, and going faster than the others. It has nothing to do with why drivers were more civil and polite.
there not cutting of, there driving the opposite direction at 0:53 haha
This was a movie shoot (with the motocop) It is not normal traffic. Note the reversed lanes. The later freeway segment was real. The freeways worked to ease the already problematic LA sprawl traffic in the early 60s. The Red Car and the Yellow Car (Southern Pacific streetcar lines) created the sprawl because the owners were selling land developments at the streetcar stops in 1900, far from Central City.
By the 70s everyone was on the freeways and they were being upgraded to connect them with the full interstates. Construction caused gridlock. It gets a bit better for a few years, and then bottlenecks again causing more construction.
Cars are a result of the sprawl, not the original cause in LA.
I visited LA a dozen times in the '60's. It was pretty cool back then. As a Bay Area resident most of my life, visiting LA has been an increasingly dismal event ever since. We Bay Area folks now often say "LA Sucks!"
I mean the Bay Area is arguably worse than LA
California’s big cities have definitely gotten suckier
@@johnk6598 Especially such as cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento.
When Southern California was paradise and the freeways were in perfect repair and smooth as butter.
They were in good repair because they were all brand new. The oldest freeways in 1964 were less than 20 years old, and most were less than 10.
@@markfrommaryland3825 There's this thing called repaving. Doesn't get done often enough on any of California's highways.
I love the music. My son and his family live in Orange. We usually fly into LAX. I do not think the drive up area at the airport has changed. I love all of the vehicles. I am 64 and grew up in the 60s. My first trip to LA was in 2010.
OMG those cars!!!!! ❤❤❤
The music was credited to Jimmy Hendrix. It was Jimmy Smith, not Jimmy Hendrix.
Thanks. I was wondering. Didn't sound like Jimmy Hendrix to me.
Hendrix sucked ass.
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Why did we quit making cars that looked cool? Every car sucks now.
Hi Don. One million thumbs up in agreement!
Thank the libtards and the EPA and FMVSS.
Why did we quit making cars that lasted?
Unions, EPA , Safety Regs / Ralph Nader types and Democrats....that's why.
Nope. Economics including oil prices and (superior) competition from Japan. There is nothing wrong with any of the things you mention.
All those automobiles used daily that are now classics and highly sought after.
Spotted an Oldsmobile Tornado in one segment to this video.
cheers.
Did you see the '64 Buick Riviera?
Professor Pat Pending Toronado
Bring back a lot of 60s memories!
When la was still affordable to live in.
Hell no it never was
RUclips is the closest we will ever get to a time machine...
The time when cars are real state-of-art.
Cali was once truly the Golden State. Now it's the golden shower state..
Thank libtards for that!
Thats trumps russian peepee tape title!
WRONG!
@@michaelt3308 Nope. Thank all the POLITICIANS
@@randymoran67 HEY ASSHOLE KNOCK OFF THE HOMOPHOBIC BULLSHIT YOU FUCKING PRICK.. JESUS CHRIST IT SOUNDS LIKE U KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE HOW IT FEELS.. GOT ANY SMARTASS COMEBACKS I WILL GLADY BE HERE WAITING FOR YA....!!
Wish I'd been there in 1965 that would have been cool. Had to wait until later to get there. Rog. Pacific sunset records.
i was THERE,... i was like 1 year old ,..can only remember back to maybe parts of 69' ,..70' at best
Everything was much more stylish in the Sixties; well-cut slim fitting clothes, house and interior design, elegant car styling to name just a few...
Look at how much nicer it was back then - it was nothing like the dirty, angry, hate-filled cesspool that it is today. The air is cleaner today - but nothing else is. Everything else in SoCal has deteriorated terribly in just a few decades. and that is tragic.
Wow. Great video. Someone from the 1960's would be shocked how clean L.A.'s air is today (those classic cars were actually rolling chimneys) ... and how crappy pretty much everything else is.
Its scary to see this and knowing that L.A air pollution was even worst than today
I loved that! Thank you so much! I actually felt like I was in the 60s omg!
Wonderful trip back in time! All those beautiful cars!
Thank you - the last image was down the street from my grade school !!!
God bless.
It's crazy how the roads look exactly like modern roads but the cars are all different. Just goes to show that most of the major changes that happened to our society -- actual changes to infrastructure and the physical makeup of society itself -- happened in the first half of the 20th century, and we're now stagnating in every dimension of our culture you can think of.
Yeah thats the fault of the people of that culture. Make people more positive.
That Mustang was a Classic there, and I didn't know ...
I was a little kid in LA in the 60's. A big thing that stands out is how clean and well-maintained everything is. But I'm really confused about why Sepulveda Bl seems to be set up as four lanes of one way traffic, rather than two and two. They show it like this going in both directions. You can see sparse traffic on the 405, so it wouldn't have been some kind of rush-hour thing. Also, back in the 60's, the Harbor Fwy was not I110, but rather was California 11.
Same here.
Look at all the exotic vehicles! What seemed so normal back then now seems so rare!
i love the cars from 1986 and before, i own a 1960s bicycle and a cool scooter form 1982
I want to live in this video
Wow it was a civilized place back then!
Oh, L.A. had its problems like any other era; but I had the good fortune of growing up in Long Beach in an upper-middle class lifestyle thanks to my father. It offered me a different vantage point from which to look at the progress all around us in L.A., the money flying around, the endless diversions and leisure and recreation opportunities in SoCal, and frankly an entirely different set of social values from what we've come to lament presently. If I had to live in Watts or East L.A. at that time I'm sure I would've had an entirely different view of what it was like to grow up there in the 60s. So I obviously wouldn't trade in what was my experience for anything. My only regret? That I didn't appreciate it then as much as I do now. I look upon my memories of L.A. in the 60s fondly and with some sadness for not realizing how good I had it then.
When you recognize every location from GTA. We need one in 1960
it was a great time to grow up 60s- 70s
The quality of the picture is astonishingly beautiful.
I really wish there were high resolution footage of The Beatles like this.
So what's crazy is that is Sepulveda Blvd. during rush hour next to the 405. Those 4 lanes mostly still exist and that freeway is much larger. But, honestly changing all those lanes in both directions at rush hour would probably really help alleviate the traffic. It is not half a bad idea.
I was wondering why they were driving on the wrong side of Sepulveda in that one clip. Definitely a good idea.
The 60s...a time when you had to remember at least 20 phone numbers.
True mate, that continued up until the 90s
It was easier then. Only seven digits.
Just write it down.
As a person from the United Kingdom born in the 1970s, looking across the pond to 1960s California looks incredible. I’d love to have been there.
How can you be 40?
I'm just 16 and I believe living until 40 isn't possible, though my dad is 49 🥶
@@lordAritraMaiti oh, my brother left that comment! He’s 47 and I’m 28!
@@StephanieLærkeAndersen a 19 years age gap between siblings is not what I'm used to, though it is no wrong. Instead, it gives me hopes. I'm an only child and most of my friends(like 75%) have 1 sibling, which really makes me wish I had one...
Sorry for my English, I'm a non native speaker.
@@lordAritraMaiti Your English is very very good! I wouldn’t have known it wasn’t your native language!
@@lordAritraMaiti My brother is a bit like a father-figure to me because my mum died 10 years ago when I was still a teenager, and Stephen has looked out for me more since then.
There’s nothing wrong with being an only child. Lots of parents do have kids many years apart.
All those beautiful cars 🚗 😍
Why are people driving on the wrong side of the road?
+James McLoad It's kind of like the express lanes in Seattle. Also, they would temporarily turn 2-way systems into one way systems to divert traffic while they were building or upgrading nearby freeways.
+Sharon Newman shut it brit go back to bed while your economy goes blank
Don't take any notice of people who say these things they are only fishing for abuse and seeing who will take the bait but it does seem a funny way to organize a road I mean look at the car at 4:20 parked and facing the wrong way I would like to see him turn round and join the traffic flow :-) I went to America and it was great but I was always worried I would forget and drive on the left so did not do it. I work for a local authority in eastern England and I have been out to 2 or 3 crashes (none fatal) where people get off the car ferry from Europe and forget to drive on the left. What a mess.
It's answered several times in other comments on this thread. It's staged, extra footage from a 1964 movie starring Natalie wood. Not only are the cars all going the same direction, but they and the motorcycle officer are not driving normally. Apparently it was footage for a chase scene in the movie. In the real world, who or what would be following a motor officer that closely?
+Sharon Newman Evidently the traffic was redirected in one direction for a movie, as noted below. This is stock footage for the movie. Clearly people don't drive in opposite landes in the US for no reason, you know-nothing little muppet.
Love the back ground music
Greatest decade ever
Amazing, almost all American cars too.
I really enjoyed watching this video. Thank you for posting
Every car back then had a unique feature,1970 ford mustang:hood turning signals etc.
Wow! What a time it must have been! Overpopulation is LAs biggest problem. Otherwise, it is a beautiful place.
Grew up there; and it was indeed a beautiful place, a beautiful lifestyle, looking back I was blessed. And all of the the things that make SoCal and the entire state beautiful are still there and will be long after we're gone; it's what Californians have allowed their government to do to it that has made it unpalatable and unaffordable to live there -- unless you're a Hollywood movie star who is insulated from the underbelly of the city surrounding your lavish compound in Malibu.
Now add some graffiti, more extreme gridlock and a ton of foreign made economy cars and you have about 55 years later.
I HATE LA!
Me being from OC can always appreciate a drive through L.A. but living there? No fucking thanks bud
I live in Riverside. Not all of LA is bad but Everytime I turn on the news or I have to drive out there I remember why I don't like it.
I think it is ashame that OC the IE and SD are overshadowed by that place when someone thinks of So. Cal.
And look at how few big trucks are on the road.
There are a lot of Jewish people but it's not their fault.
I agree. The only way I would ever go back to L.A. (or Calif. for that matter) would be to borrow Doc Brown's DeLorean time machine & set the dial for either 1957 or 1966.
I'd sure love to fly out of that airport today.
Love the cars!
Oh what I would give to live in this era 😤😤
4:13 - Music by Jimmy Hendrix?
You sure you didn’t mean Jimmy Smith?
Wow! Time capsule
2019
Superb video
How lovely this video is. Beautiful footage. Thank you for posting.
I seen the sign for 110 southbound for San pedro….I'm still here folks!!
Amazing times. Nice cars, happy people, clean streets without tents, and mess. No internet, social media, liberalistic propaganda... the golden time of US and Europe as well... and now we´re standing in front of the collapse of everything
D Vortex the world (b4 corona) was actually the best it ever was. Not necessarily in America but overall the best... hopefully we can make it through climate change and it will be even better
Shrayes Raman Before Corona was December 2019. This was filmed in the 60’s! Since the 2000’s this has been in decline.
@@slapmyfunkybass ? What is this?
Every civilisation fall. Now western civilisation will fall
Sounds a little delusional.