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Hi Nass.... awesome upload I subbed your channel... Just wondering; can I use some of this footage in a non monetized music video? I would leave a link to your channel in description box.. Cheers
This is rear projection footage used in a driving scene in the 1949 movie *Shockproof*. Compare: 0:32 of this video, and this scene from *Shockproof*... ruclips.net/video/22WsOVu8bd8/видео.html Your video from six months ago is also footage used in *Shockproof*. ruclips.net/video/jkgF4UTLbs0/видео.html
I never tire of watching these vids. The clearness is amazing and seeing all those cars captured in time is always a treat.The old 47 or 48 Fords look so odd compared to the streamlined GM cars.😀
I agree with a lot of comments here that this was probably filmed in 1947. There are at least two 1947 Studebakers seen at 1:06 on the right side parked and at 3:34 parked on the left side. Thanks for sharing and nice dubbing of sound effects especially when the L.A. electric streetcar passed by!
It had to be very late 1940's if not just into1950 before downtown LA was flattened because at 2:52 in the film for one brief moment you could see a billboard advertising RCA televisions for sale. Televisions didn't start becoming a mainstream consumer item until after 1950.
@@jody6851 I saw that billboard too. Perhaps 1948, but the lack of any of the very popular 1949 Ford seen anywhere on the streets of these apparently L.A. street scenes leads me to believe it's no later than '48. By the way, in 1948 there were over one million televisions in American homes and 108 licensed TV stations in the country.
Yes, 1947 for sure! There is a billboard add for an RCA 721TS television set on screen at 2:55, I have one in my collection. Thank you so much for making these videos!!
It's just fascinating to be able to look back and contemplate the past, through random trips on the streets of California. There weren't many people nor traffic back then as opposed to now that there's traffic crazy everywhere.
Jorge - what jumped out at me most: Everyone looks healthy and well dressed. I'd love to go back in a time machine and ask these people some questions that, if you asked people on the streets today they'd be "triggered" and have a complete emotional breakdown.
So much of that era was saved. The movies, sports, political speeches, books, music, news reports and films such as this. This one was especially great. It captured a lot. 😊😊
I wonder when they look back in 60 years at all the tent cities now will they think 'look how shite it was?' Or will they think 'ah, the good old days, when only a few blocks were occupied by the homeless'' 🤔
First segment is Bunker hill area heading N on Olive in Downtown LA. 0:50 is 2nd street looking at Hill St basically on top of the 2nd street tunnel. Not sure if this has been posted yet.
Very enjoyable to watch. Downtown LA used to be hilly, looking rather like San Francisco, but it was leveled around 1950. In the late 19th century, some of the wealthier people built homes on top, but most moved to other areas when cars became common, choosing not to live right in the center of town. Over the years, the area became low-income. Thus so many of the buildings in this video look run-down. Although leveling the hill took away some of the area's beauty, it needed to be modernized as the center of what would soon be a world-class city. I love the glimpses this video gives of a past era. Thanks for posting.
As someone who has lived in and around the LA area for all of my life, I can say that this once great city is in horrible despair. The homelessness and open drug use is unreal to see. Crime has gone up and the entire atmosphere of LA and its surrounding cities is that of an area in decline. There was always a "skid row" that was confined to a very small area, but now the entire city is like skid row. Tents are everywhere, it's sad what has happened.
@@westy40 This is rear projection footage used in a driving scene in the 1949 movie *Shockproof*. Compare: 0:32 of this video, and this scene from *Shockproof*... ruclips.net/video/22WsOVu8bd8/видео.html The video from six months ago is also footage used in *Shockproof*. ruclips.net/video/jkgF4UTLbs0/видео.html
@@petebeatminister 1947 sounds about right, as that was the year that TV sales substantially increased nationwide. Even though TV broadcasting and TV set sales began in several cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Schenectady, and Philadelphia in the Spring of 1939 and sales started to pick up in those cities in 1940 and 1941, the war brought TV development and programming to a halt until 1945/46.
Here are my observations; The beginning of the film shows what looks to be MGMs New York Street on Lot 2. Notice how the traffic cop gives the que for the extras to start walking. The remaining footage seems to be what could be described as 35mm backdrop for shooting footage with actors in a movie studio later. Similar to a green screen shot today. I'm sure there is a movie that was made with this footage worked in. Great stuff!
I can’t get over how clean California pretty much was back then. And the guy’s frustration in the pick-up, waiting to pull out at 4:40 is so relatable to today. However, today he would’ve just gone for it, wouldn’t have waited that long. He was there nearly a whole minute when the camera guy was pulling away. 😄
I was just talking about this topic yesterday how so many places like Huntington Park, La Puente, Baldwin Park, among other cities and towns that were just beautiful, and now, they are all destroyed. So sad.
The gentleman waiting to pull in to traffic looks like he’s in an older model compared to most of the vehicles on the road. I don’t know for sure, but I’d guess he knew he didn’t have the horse power to compete with the speed of the oncoming traffic, and needed plenty of room to jump in?
@@LoveLightVibration Yes, I thought that too as it looks like a model ‘A’ pickup, but by today’s standards I think they’d still pull out and expect you to stop because you have a newer car and therefore better brakes 😄.
@@youtubesucks8995 I’d like to say I can’t argue with that, except not sure about the part where they’re even giving anyone in oncoming traffic any thought at all. Sadly lol
Oh those glorious vehicles! Bless the person who decided to film these movies so that we, 7 decades later, could drool over them and feel nostalgic for a time we weren't even born in yet!
At 5:30, we have a shot of one of the Paul G. Hoffman auto dealerships in LA -- he was not only an auto dealer, he was responsible for administering the Marshall Plan after WWII. Great guy! Thanks for posting this video.
This appears to be the Bunker Hill/Grand Avenue section of downtown LA. The entire area was cleared and excavated to a more level space on which to build in the 50's-60's. Multi-story apartment buildings and the famous Los Angeles Music Center are there now.
The first half of the film starts at Olive Street / 2nd Street and drives around the residential area that was Bunker Hill near City Hall. Everything has long been replaced by office buildings. The back half of the video starts at the Studebaker dealership which was located at the block of Wilshire / 7th / South Figueroa and is now the Wilshire Grand Center / Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The video drives West up the hill on Wilshire Blvd and ends at Lucas Street. The camera is facing South side of Wilshire. None of the buildings shown exist anymore.
@NASS I really love your work. Thank you for all the effort you put into these videos, and opening up my mind to the past. You have really made these videos come to life. When I want to time travel, I come to your channel! 👍 I was also just thinking how amazing this technology is. The only criticism I have is the colorization algorithms needs some improvement. I bet in 5 years, it will be completely accurate, or look as close to what we think it would look like.
Take note at 4:48 of the exasperated gesture and miffed expression of the motorist when not offered the opportunity to pull out from the curb by the driver of an oncoming vehicle . Priceless !
This is great but would be better if you had a VO or subtitles with street names and stuff. So we can check out what the locations look like now! I love doing that! More important than sound effects I think!
Excellent sharpness, reasonable (mostly) ambient sound. Seems to be end of the 40s L.A. - there is advertising for TV sets at 2:55 and lane markings on the main roads.
0:00 - 1:28 Driving North East on S. Olive St. Los Angeles, CA 00:13 Casa Alta Hotel and Apts on the right - 317 S. Olive St. 00:28 Blackstone Apts on the left - 244 S. Olive St. 00:51 U turn on 2nd St. and S. Olive St., looking towards Hill St., you can see the Hotel Astor on the right hand side, which is now Kawada Hotel (200 S. Hill St, in LA). 1:28-2:50 ? 2:50 - 4:13 S. Flower St. Los Angeles, CA 3:21 Hotel Westmund - 322 S. Flower St. Los Angeles, CA 3:19 Keswick Hotel - 312 S. Flower St. Los Angeles, CA 4:13 - 4:38 ? 4:39 - 8:32 Unsure, but I think Wilshire Blvd? Los Angeles, CA 4:39-5:35 Paul G. Hoffman Co. - couldn’t find a Wilshire Blvd address. 5:40 Fullerton Oil Company - 944 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 6:03 Ingraham Hotel - 1046 Wishire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
The 2 women standing in the MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AT THE BUS STOP @ 2:10 blows my mind! Can you imagine standing in the middle of the road with only two lousy parking stones to block you from oncoming vehicles as you wait for the bus? I wonder how long it was like that before safety protocols were implemented?
@ 0:37, 2nd and Olive? The building with the arched doorway on the left going uphill, in Kubrick's 'The Killing', 1956... Elisha Cook stumbling through the door past Sterling Hayden after the bloodbath.....
The added sound is amazing. That must have taken a long time. Ooops, fail on the colorizing; some of the people and objects are still in black & white. Still, very interesting. Thanks!
This is like looking 80 years back in time with a live broadcasting camera, amazing, awesome, mindblowing, a little bit creepy becuse my brain have some problems to handle this, with but i loving it! MORE of this please !
Man, California was the place to be back then. Beautiful roads, excellent infrastructure, vacation getaways at a half-hour drive, and almost everyone could afford their own houses. It's bewildering that modern day CA is so far from the dreamland it used to be. Decades of neglect and corruption have turned it into a hell hole for the working man.
Some good and some bad. Air quality was horrific back in the "good old days," and if you weren't white, your experience in that time might have been slightly different.
Wow, 1947, just think of all the music that was happening then. All the blues & jazz clubs on Central Avenue we’re really jumpin then . All the great R&B & blues bands & singers like T- Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Roy Milton & His Solid Senders, Johnny Otis & so many others were jamming on Central Avenue around the time this was filmed!🎷🎺🎹🥁😎
And all of that economic wealth of the white lower and middle class in the US started disappearing in the 1980s with Reaganomics and all the shit that came with it, for decades afterwards.
@@thechad4485 It was a better time even for black people. They were caring fathers and mothers, they didn't see themselves as victims though they could have, especially compared to today. It was a better time for anybody.
HEY @ 4:41 It's my Uncle Jed in the pick up trying to pull out into traffic ! ! ! (Mom says 80 years later he's still waiting for someone to let him go.)
Thousands of really cool cars, and I noticed a few great looking dames, too. I remember the expression when you had been traveling fast..."we were going like 60..."
I would place the date of the footage at probably spring/summer of 1950, based on the shiny,1949 Studebaker Commander 4 door parked on the street at the 3:34 mark.
@@hsun7997 everyone was happy because the government back then, despite the parasitic federal reserve already existing by the 1940s, FDR’s social welfare programs, and the unconstitutional income tax, government was still smaller than it is now which gave people the freedom and incentive to innovate, produce, take risks, and pursue happiness. Cost of living relative to the buying power of our dollar which was still backed by gold was fantastic, and the culture was mostly conservative versus super left leaning like it is now. Of course people would be happy. Lol
@@nsnz33 Wholehearted agreement. But also - population was far lower, and the cities were far more compact with more interspersed countryside remaining. Less people means much more orderly and far easier to govern. Plus outsourcing had not yet invoked total war on US wage earners. You were expected to work and self supporting jobs were around at all cognitive levels. You didn't have to earn a degree in diversity or IT in order to be able to feed yourself.
@@nsnz33 Sorry but income tax has existed since 1909. Didn’t you learn about the 16th amendment? Where did you go to school. I was simply talking about economics. I never mentioned government. You started your whole rant out of nowhere. Would you dare to talk to me like this in real life? Jesus dude.
Somewhere along in there was a drastic change in the concepts of what a car should look like. Could the War have had to do with that? The boxy Model A's... and the streamlined Fords and Chevys...
Já pensou? Se eu pudesse viajar no tempo pra essa época 1940? Passando pelo o menos um mês lá, ficaria maravilhado com tanta mudança e tanta relíquia viva
Super-Awesome 1940's scenes ! Nobody is as good as you NASS in uploading vintage real life scenes like this. Thank you ! 😊. I know this is 1940's but what actual year is this? I do see sailors walking the sidewalk at 2:34. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you ahead of time !
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Hi Nass.... awesome upload
I subbed your channel...
Just wondering; can I use some of this footage in a non monetized music video?
I would leave a link to your channel in description box..
Cheers
This is rear projection footage used in a driving scene in the 1949 movie *Shockproof*.
Compare:
0:32 of this video, and this scene from *Shockproof*...
ruclips.net/video/22WsOVu8bd8/видео.html
Your video from six months ago is also footage used in *Shockproof*.
ruclips.net/video/jkgF4UTLbs0/видео.html
You bet, the best thing I could've ran across, I just love the sounds and watching how life was back then. Thank you for sharing your gift! 🙏♥️🙏
Anyone know what year this is? If it’s 1945 or later, the war is over. Hitler killed himself in April 1945. I was born the end of March.
amazing work as always. I really feel like we travel back in time with your videos
I never tire of watching these vids. The clearness is amazing and seeing all those cars captured in time is always a treat.The old 47 or 48 Fords look so odd compared to the streamlined GM cars.😀
You do such an excellent job at this thank you for giving us all a chance to step into such a time
New York City is a cluster of urban canyons. 1947(8?) Los Angeles's sprawl allowed sunshine and palm trees! Thanks for another great vid Nass!
thank you so much
I'm restoring a 1947 Lincoln Convertible, and your videos are Fantastic to watch. I'm Longing for the Good Times...Thank You Very Much.......
thank you so much
Would love to see someone film the same route today and do a side-by-side.
Movie ET someone did it before and after
Here's the Bunker Hill driving footage 1940s/2016: ruclips.net/video/WIHfmisMLOY/видео.html
that's a great idea!
Wow that is some pristine video…great job👍👍
Thank you for sharing this great job! I already shared this video on Facebook groups.
thank you so much 🙏
I agree with a lot of comments here that this was probably filmed in 1947. There are at least two 1947 Studebakers seen at 1:06 on the right side parked and at 3:34 parked on the left side. Thanks for sharing and nice dubbing of sound effects especially when the L.A. electric streetcar passed by!
thank you so much!
It had to be very late 1940's if not just into1950 before downtown LA was flattened because at 2:52 in the film for one brief moment you could see a billboard advertising RCA televisions for sale. Televisions didn't start becoming a mainstream consumer item until after 1950.
@@jody6851 I saw that billboard too. Perhaps 1948, but the lack of any of the very popular 1949 Ford seen anywhere on the streets of these apparently L.A. street scenes leads me to believe it's no later than '48. By the way, in 1948 there were over one million televisions in American homes and 108 licensed TV stations in the country.
Yes, 1947 for sure! There is a billboard add for an RCA 721TS television set on screen at 2:55, I have one in my collection. Thank you so much for making these videos!!
These are getting better & better--keep up the good work!
It's just fascinating to be able to look back and contemplate the past, through random trips on the streets of California. There weren't many people nor traffic back then as opposed to now that there's traffic crazy everywhere.
I agree Jorge, and times was much more simpler and quieter without the much crime like today.
Jorge - what jumped out at me most: Everyone looks healthy and well dressed. I'd love to go back in a time machine and ask these people some questions that, if you asked people on the streets today they'd be "triggered" and have a complete emotional breakdown.
No homeless tents ⛺️
These 1940s California ones give me the feels! I could watch them over and over! I so connect with them.
So much of that era was saved. The movies, sports, political speeches, books, music, news reports and films such as this. This one was especially great. It captured a lot. 😊😊
funny
It is a time capsule, such a great view of our past
This is why we can't allow the so-called progressives to eradicate these records
@@timothysdog6130 amen
I wonder when they look back in 60 years at all the tent cities now will they think 'look how shite it was?' Or will they think 'ah, the good old days, when only a few blocks were occupied by the homeless'' 🤔
First segment is Bunker hill area heading N on Olive in Downtown LA.
0:50 is 2nd street looking at Hill St basically on top of the 2nd street tunnel.
Not sure if this has been posted yet.
This gave me LA Noire vibes more than any of the other 40s LA videos
It's amazing how the way people used to wait for a streetcar or a bus right in the middle of the street .
Very enjoyable to watch. Downtown LA used to be hilly, looking rather like San Francisco, but it was leveled around 1950. In the late 19th century, some of the wealthier people built homes on top, but most moved to other areas when cars became common, choosing not to live right in the center of town. Over the years, the area became low-income. Thus so many of the buildings in this video look run-down. Although leveling the hill took away some of the area's beauty, it needed to be modernized as the center of what would soon be a world-class city. I love the glimpses this video gives of a past era. Thanks for posting.
thank you so much🙏
Yes bunker hill.
@@ProfessorTime LOL
As someone who has lived in and around the LA area for all of my life, I can say that this once great city is in horrible despair. The homelessness and open drug use is unreal to see. Crime has gone up and the entire atmosphere of LA and its surrounding cities is that of an area in decline. There was always a "skid row" that was confined to a very small area, but now the entire city is like skid row. Tents are everywhere, it's sad what has happened.
@@westy40 This is rear projection footage used in a driving scene in the 1949 movie *Shockproof*.
Compare:
0:32 of this video, and this scene from *Shockproof*...
ruclips.net/video/22WsOVu8bd8/видео.html
The video from six months ago is also footage used in *Shockproof*.
ruclips.net/video/jkgF4UTLbs0/видео.html
Love the bill board for the RCA television ad...thanks for upload.. closest thing to time travel
So glad back in the day there was people who recorded time its a form of time travel 🙌
Agreed! I always feel like I’ve traveled back to that time for a few minutes.
I just love seeing all the old cars and trucks, the 1940's is my favorite era.
Most definitely post war. There are many 1946-47-48 Plymouths to be seen as well as other post war cars.
thank you so much
Agree. My older brother had a '48 Plymouth that he customized in 1964. It was mean!
I agree. There are are a lot of ‘46 to ‘48 style Fords also.
Yes, there is also a billboard advertizing RCA TV sets at 2:55 so probably late 40s L.A.
@@petebeatminister 1947 sounds about right, as that was the year that TV sales substantially increased nationwide. Even though TV broadcasting and TV set sales began in several cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Schenectady, and Philadelphia in the Spring of 1939 and sales started to pick up in those cities in 1940 and 1941, the war brought TV development and programming to a halt until 1945/46.
This is great. Saw an interesting RCA television advertisement in there - maybe help data one of the films...
Here are my observations; The beginning of the film shows what looks to be MGMs New York Street on Lot 2. Notice how the traffic cop gives the que for the extras to start walking. The remaining footage seems to be what could be described as 35mm backdrop for shooting footage with actors in a movie studio later. Similar to a green screen shot today. I'm sure there is a movie that was made with this footage worked in. Great stuff!
I gave a like and suscribed!
The very first car in the video is a 1941 Chevrolet Special Deluxe, one of which I owned from 2010 to 2017 (in the exact color!)
I can’t get over how clean California pretty much was back then. And the guy’s frustration in the pick-up, waiting to pull out at 4:40 is so relatable to today. However, today he would’ve just gone for it, wouldn’t have waited that long. He was there nearly a whole minute when the camera guy was pulling away. 😄
I was just talking about this topic yesterday how so many places like Huntington Park, La Puente, Baldwin Park, among other cities and towns that were just beautiful, and now, they are all destroyed. So sad.
The gentleman waiting to pull in to traffic looks like he’s in an older model compared to most of the vehicles on the road. I don’t know for sure, but I’d guess he knew he didn’t have the horse power to compete with the speed of the oncoming traffic, and needed plenty of room to jump in?
@@LoveLightVibration Yes, I thought that too as it looks like a model ‘A’ pickup, but by today’s standards I think they’d still pull out and expect you to stop because you have a newer car and therefore better brakes 😄.
You can apply that to any city now in the U.S. not just in California.
@@youtubesucks8995 I’d like to say I can’t argue with that, except not sure about the part where they’re even giving anyone in oncoming traffic any thought at all. Sadly lol
Oh those glorious vehicles! Bless the person who decided to film these movies so that we, 7 decades later, could drool over them and feel nostalgic for a time we weren't even born in yet!
At 5:30, we have a shot of one of the Paul G. Hoffman auto dealerships in LA -- he was not only an auto dealer, he was responsible for administering the Marshall Plan after WWII. Great guy! Thanks for posting this video.
Yes -- at 5:37 we see it was the Hoffman Studebaker dealership at 903 W. 7th.
It is too bad Bunker Hill was destroyed.
Great video 👌
This appears to be the Bunker Hill/Grand Avenue section of downtown LA. The entire area was cleared and excavated to a more level space on which to build in the 50's-60's. Multi-story apartment buildings and the famous Los Angeles Music Center are there now.
The first half of the film starts at Olive Street / 2nd Street and drives around the residential area that was Bunker Hill near City Hall. Everything has long been replaced by office buildings. The back half of the video starts at the Studebaker dealership which was located at the block of Wilshire / 7th / South Figueroa and is now the Wilshire Grand Center / Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The video drives West up the hill on Wilshire Blvd and ends at Lucas Street. The camera is facing South side of Wilshire. None of the buildings shown exist anymore.
@1:41 the bus stop is in the middle of the street
0:38 the building was in Stanley's Kubrick's quintessential noir film The Killing.
Would love to see some family life from 40s/ 50s !
the streets are so clean, all the road signs look hand painted. love the slow steady pace
@NASS I really love your work. Thank you for all the effort you put into these videos, and opening up my mind to the past. You have really made these videos come to life. When I want to time travel, I come to your channel! 👍 I was also just thinking how amazing this technology is. The only criticism I have is the colorization algorithms needs some improvement. I bet in 5 years, it will be completely accurate, or look as close to what we think it would look like.
thank you so much
1946-1947 - saw quite a few postwar Fords - 1946/1947 models.
thank you so much
05:18 to this day that guy in the truck is still waiting to get out.
Take note at 4:48 of the exasperated gesture and miffed expression of the motorist when not offered the opportunity to pull out from the curb by the driver of an oncoming vehicle . Priceless !
😂😂😂
Thanks for video👍
Okay the beauty at the :47 with long sun dress, high shoes and curly hair has me wishing for a time machine.
Beautiful!
Wonderful....as usual. Keep em coming
I was thinking that the guy in the Model A pickup at 4:52 would never be able to pull out into the lane. Great video.
He is probably still trying to get away, now being in his 90s... :)
Hi Pete. Yep, you’re probably right. Or that or maybe that Pickup is still sitting there with a skeleton at the wheel.
Happy to see old cars
Look that cars everywhere!! Just class
so simple and clean
This is great but would be better if you had a VO or subtitles with street names and stuff. So we can check out what the locations look like now! I love doing that! More important than sound effects I think!
Excellent sharpness, reasonable (mostly) ambient sound. Seems to be end of the 40s L.A. - there is advertising for TV sets at 2:55 and lane markings on the main roads.
there's a bus i noticed says 2022 (our actual year) :-) keep the excelent work!!
Yea I noticed that too at 1:40
I could feel the warm humid air watching this
Actually quite chilly.
We'll never know if the guy in the classic pickup ever managed to merge into traffic.
Anyway, I am surprised by the pretty heavy traffic of that time.
He needs a driving lesson from Otto the bus driver
We wont, but they did...
It'll be interesting to see how these streets and roads look now.
0:00 - 1:28 Driving North East on S. Olive St. Los Angeles, CA
00:13 Casa Alta Hotel and Apts on the right - 317 S. Olive St.
00:28 Blackstone Apts on the left - 244 S. Olive St.
00:51 U turn on 2nd St. and S. Olive St., looking towards Hill St., you can see the Hotel Astor on the right hand side, which is now Kawada Hotel (200 S. Hill St, in LA).
1:28-2:50 ?
2:50 - 4:13 S. Flower St. Los Angeles, CA
3:21 Hotel Westmund - 322 S. Flower St. Los Angeles, CA
3:19 Keswick Hotel - 312 S. Flower St. Los Angeles, CA
4:13 - 4:38 ?
4:39 - 8:32 Unsure, but I think Wilshire Blvd? Los Angeles, CA
4:39-5:35 Paul G. Hoffman Co. - couldn’t find a Wilshire Blvd address.
5:40 Fullerton Oil Company - 944 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA
6:03 Ingraham Hotel - 1046 Wishire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Legend has it the guy in the car at 4:50 is still to this very day waiting to pull out
Enchanting and... metaphysical. I think of Edward Hopper... of him walking the streets and imagining his paintings.
This drone footage is superb
This is one of the best videos you've posted, thanks very much! Just bought you three coffees.
Dear, thank you very much, you made me very happy, god bless you 🥰🙏
The 2 women standing in the MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AT THE BUS STOP @ 2:10 blows my mind! Can you imagine standing in the middle of the road with only two lousy parking stones to block you from oncoming vehicles as you wait for the bus? I wonder how long it was like that before safety protocols were implemented?
I'd love to travel back to there and try to explain to them whats happening in 2021 !
They would throw you in an insane asylum unless you could transport yourself back before the cops grabbed you,ha ha!
@@paul7TM Great point.
@Proper Never tamper with the Past. It could cause catostrophic results.
@Proper Rent free
@@BobJones-qj7vd ya we had wars because of Hitler, now we are going to have a civil war because of people like you.
4:40 Legend has it the poor dude in the model A is still trying to merge into traffic to this very day.
So cool 🕶 personal favorite .... Thank you!
2:33 Military Jeep, Model T panel truck, and a Jeep w a ragtop! 2:55 An ad for RCA Victor television.
That is a 1928 Erskine wood Panel truck.
The streets so clean, thanks.
@ 0:37, 2nd and Olive? The building with the arched doorway on the left going uphill, in Kubrick's 'The Killing', 1956... Elisha Cook stumbling through the door past Sterling Hayden after the bloodbath.....
Excellent! You notice the smog in almost all of these California videos. Glad they have tamped that down.
Wonder if the dude in the jalopy at 5:21 was EVER allowed to cut into traffic... could still be waiting!
The added sound is amazing. That must have taken a long time. Ooops, fail on the colorizing; some of the people and objects are still in black & white. Still, very interesting. Thanks!
Incroyable, fascinant, magnifique. An incredible time travel !!! Greetings from France. ;)
1:55 No one's gonna talk how this bus is literally predicting the year 2022 when all of us stumble upon this video?? No one? Just me.. OK....
4:38 Legend has it that even today, 81 years later, he still waits for an opportunity to hit the track
Saw a Billboard ad for RCA Victor Television! Wow!
This is like looking 80 years back in time with a live broadcasting camera, amazing, awesome, mindblowing, a little bit creepy becuse my brain have some problems to handle this, with but i loving it! MORE of this please !
Man, California was the place to be back then. Beautiful roads, excellent infrastructure, vacation getaways at a half-hour drive, and almost everyone could afford their own houses. It's bewildering that modern day CA is so far from the dreamland it used to be. Decades of neglect and corruption have turned it into a hell hole for the working man.
Но Калифорния по прежнему остаётся самым богатым штатом в США.Несмотря ни на что.
Some good and some bad. Air quality was horrific back in the "good old days," and if you weren't white, your experience in that time might have been slightly different.
@@solarveterok it’s bankrupt
Now it’s commiefornia run by left socialist
@@Shadowcu123
Eh 🙁
Wow, 1947, just think of all the music that was happening then. All the blues & jazz clubs on Central Avenue we’re really jumpin then . All the great R&B & blues bands & singers like T- Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Roy Milton & His Solid Senders, Johnny Otis & so many others were jamming on Central Avenue around the time this was filmed!🎷🎺🎹🥁😎
Utterly fascinating! Please note that they *already* had too many cars at that time! Mind boggling!
Too many? How many is "too many?"
4:49 The guy in the pickup stood there until the late '70-s.
That's amazing!
I would pop into a music store and buy a few Martin guitars!
Everything looks so beautiful 😍
Wonderful vignette; I wonder if that man is still trying to find a gap in the traffic? 4:40
Great to see the colorized version with sound added of life back in time
A better time (even with a war going on) than the one we're in now.
If you were white, maybe.
@@thechad4485 and male heterosexual
And all of that economic wealth of the white lower and middle class in the US started disappearing in the 1980s with Reaganomics and all the shit that came with it, for decades afterwards.
@@whatthesnell and protestant
@@thechad4485 It was a better time even for black people. They were caring fathers and mothers, they didn't see themselves as victims though they could have, especially compared to today. It was a better time for anybody.
I noticed a sign for television. The first station to broadcast in LA was in november of 1946.
1:47 the bus pools up as I’m watching this for the first time in 2022.
One of the best: bravissimo!
HEY @ 4:41 It's my Uncle Jed in the pick up trying to pull out into traffic ! ! !
(Mom says 80 years later he's still waiting for someone to let him go.)
The chance to view these films is an honor and a privilege. Wow. How often can you go back in time?
That is downtown Los Angeles. My grandmother took a bus from Glendale to downtown LA to work at the Federal Building.
Thousands of really cool cars, and I noticed a few great looking dames, too. I remember the expression when you had been traveling fast..."we were going like 60..."
I would place the date of the footage at probably spring/summer of 1950, based on the shiny,1949 Studebaker Commander 4 door parked on the street at the 3:34 mark.
What stands out is how clean everything seems. The streets, buildings and people. Obviously a time when there was pride in America.
Everyone was happier because there was a strong middle class and low income inequality
@@hsun7997 everyone was happy because the government back then, despite the parasitic federal reserve already existing by the 1940s, FDR’s social welfare programs, and the unconstitutional income tax, government was still smaller than it is now which gave people the freedom and incentive to innovate, produce, take risks, and pursue happiness. Cost of living relative to the buying power of our dollar which was still backed by gold was fantastic, and the culture was mostly conservative versus super left leaning like it is now. Of course people would be happy. Lol
@@nsnz33 Apparently you know little about the government of the city of L.A. at the time.
@@nsnz33 Wholehearted agreement. But also - population was far lower, and the cities were far more compact with more interspersed countryside remaining. Less people means much more orderly and far easier to govern. Plus outsourcing had not yet invoked total war on US wage earners. You were expected to work and self supporting jobs were around at all cognitive levels. You didn't have to earn a degree in diversity or IT in order to be able to feed yourself.
@@nsnz33 Sorry but income tax has existed since 1909. Didn’t you learn about the 16th amendment? Where did you go to school. I was simply talking about economics. I never mentioned government. You started your whole rant out of nowhere. Would you dare to talk to me like this in real life? Jesus dude.
Somewhere along in there was a drastic change in the concepts of what a car should look like. Could the War have had to do with that? The boxy Model A's... and the streamlined Fords and Chevys...
Some beautiful cars there and the people are dressed smartly. No tent cities on the streets either.
05:17 - It's Christmas 2021, but that poor man in the black car is still trying to get out of that space.
Já pensou? Se eu pudesse viajar no tempo pra essa época 1940? Passando pelo o menos um mês lá, ficaria maravilhado com tanta mudança e tanta relíquia viva
wow.. just.. wow 1:24 - 1:28 .. the woman looking at the camera.. who knows what her life was like.. all of these people are gone now.
Guy at 4:39 can still be seen to this day trying merge into traffic, now a grumpy, bitter old man!
This brings me so much peace and contentment. I love it! 🙏♥️🙏
Super-Awesome 1940's scenes ! Nobody is as good as you NASS in uploading vintage real life scenes like this. Thank you ! 😊. I know this is 1940's but what actual year is this? I do see sailors walking the sidewalk at 2:34. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you ahead of time !
Thank you
Notice the haze in all the distance shots? That was still common until about the 1990s when everything started to get built up and overcrowded.