I was born in the 60's and remember when orange county was orange groves. You could smell the orange blossoms, and smell cookies from the Nabisco plant. California was magical in the 60's and 70's.
I live in LA in the mid Fifties left and return to Orange County in the Sixties. It was paradise on earth back then. The LA area was booming with aircraft companies. I was there for satellite communication. The Sunday Times was full of want ads begging for all kinds of engineers and technicians. Orange County was not named after oranges for nothing. I think that Disneyland was built over orange groves. A beautiful house in Irvine cost $74,000.
Everyone who was an full adult in the 40's or 50's and into mid 60's always the thereafter described California in either very positive or oitright glowing terms. The the "civil rights" nonsense and Viet Nam and the mounting debt and taxes and the once Golden State has turned into _____________ (you fill in the germs folks) Ugh!
The Flash My grandma live in Southern California at this time. She was in Santa Barbara (a beautiful city about an hour North of Los Angeles itself). They went to LA often. She's still alive. It's pretty amazing the changes she has witnessed in her life. She was born in 1934 I believe. btw, this video is in the mid 1940s, the title is wrong.
My grandfather was born in 1929 and is still alive, my grandmother in 1934 and still alive. There are probably plenty of people in this video who could potentially still be alive today
@@CartersvilleFan The lector pronounces "Los Angeles" just as speech synthesizer pronounces "Lauce Sangless" in US English on the texttospeechrobot.com . Google Translator in Spanish pronounces "Los Ángeles" just as texttospeechrobot.com pronounces "Lauce Sun Helaise" in US English.
@@foxbodyblues6709 yea your comment is irrelevant because whites are the one who really take all the welfare do some research your people are the true downfall of this country always blaming others like always
I remember as a little kid in the 80s groves were a lot more prevalent in San Diego county, now a days I see less and less of them. I wish I could travel back in time and experience California when it really was the "Golden State"
I'm from Green Bay WI and in the 80's when the Packers were losing my family and I cheered for the 49ers because they beat teams we hated - The Bears, Cowboys and Raiders. Now we cheer against the 49ers if we even watch at all.
My dad moved from Kansas to the San Fernando Valley in 1957. When I would ask him what it was like when he moved there, he said, "paradise." This video gives a taste of what he probably experienced when he came here. It's not like this anymore, sadly. Still an amazing place but crushed by terrible politics and policy.
There's no way it's worse than Kansas. The Sunflower State has been wrecked by terrible policy. Politicians tore apart our education system over the last decade, and our infrastructure is at a breaking point. Wichita's main water facility is 80 years old and about to give out. Public transit is all but non-existent. If only California wasn't so expensive, I'd move in a heartbeat.
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley in the 50's and 60's. Your dad is right. It was paradise! Not too many tract homes had started, so you still had orange groves all over. The fragrance of orange blossoms permeated the valley. There were no Fwys. If you wanted to get out of the Valley, it was either Ventura Blvd or San Fernando Road to the North, Sepulveda Blvd to the South and Route 66 to the East. There was even a popular song that came out during WW II about the San Fernando Valley. It was sung by Bing Crosby. It truly was a great place to live and grow up as a kid. During the hot summer nights, we'd play baseball in the street, then go over to a neighbor's house and swim in their pool. Then (get this) walk back to your home at midnight by yourself! Man. Today you as child would be put in Foster care and your parents would be arrested for such negligence. It was so beautiful and a wonderful time to be a kid growing up in "The Valley".
We have no memories of that. Y’all slaughtered them! Slaughtered the orange and lemon groves. The air, nothing but traffic, homelessness and $3000/ mo. Apt’s. From sea to shining sea. Thanks for the memories! HaHa! Now that’s FUNNY. I’ll have to show this to my grandkids someday.
I remember this film, Wayy back in '66 we watched it in the 3rd grade on AV (Audio-Visual) day, which was Thursday. The next day we had a test in Califonia History and some of the questions came directly from the film. I feel blessed to have recieved my education in California from the mid 60's through late 70's. We were second to none then.
My family grew kiwis and lemons in orange county (when oranges were grown there). . . boy those days are gone! Ca (and the west coast) is like a third world country.
I was born here in CA 43 years ago, and have never lived elsewhere. It was lovely then and is still lovely! Different? Yes. But it's hard to find any location on Earth that hasn't changed in the last 75 years.
Republicanos ou Democratas, não importa, são todos políticos da extrema-direita que só pensam em guerras para ganhar mais dinheiro. É o fim do Império Americano chegando.
I'm only 21 years old & man do I wish I could experience 1940s to 1990s America. But since I only have memories from 2000s & on, I'm a part of a degenerative time in America. As a young man oh I do wish I could switch eras.
Same here, I’m 26 years old, and I wished I could have experienced this era, it looks so pleasant. Where is all the graffiti they call “art”, that’s a bunch of rubbish.
I don't think you would have liked CA in the 90s, at least not SoCal. I experienced the tail end of the era that made CA livable and a joy to visit and live in the early 70s to early 80s (but L.A. was not safe or desirable anymore by then). NorCal was still livable in the 90s but SoCal took a quick dive in the mid 80s and it got worse in the 90s. That's about the time grunge and cRap became popular and music and the arts declined enormously. The homeless look also became popular in the 90s. Matter of fact, after I rented a car and drove throughout Western Europe in 1990 for a month, I immediately experienced culture shock when I returned to *lovely* SoCal. SoCal began its downfall after the early 60s but it wasn't readily apparent. My paternal grandparents arrived in the L.A. area during the mid 1900s or early 1920s, and my dad grew up there from 1935 to the early 60s. You can imagine the heartbreaking stories I heard from them. The neighborhoods my dad was raised in are slums😢
Been to California 3 times and LOVE the state. It has everything and we will be returning again one day. Last time we were there, in 2017, we were very surprised by the attention we got with regard to Trump - what did we think of him (as Brits)? We said he was your president, not ours, so it didn't matter what we thought and had no opinion either way. So many times the conversation quickly turned to rabid anti-Trump vitriol and because we didn't join in with the Trump-bashing (again, not our president so we had no axe to grind), we often got a very cold, angry reaction - I remember one really sweet elderly lady at a hotel in Ventura. We had been speaking to her for about half an hour and she was so friendly and warm, then she asked what we thought of Trump, you know, being Brits? Again, we were non-committal either way (we had got used to this line of questioning by then!). As we didn't join in and agree with her view, we couldn't believe how she turned from being a sweet old lady into a rabid, foaming at the mouth, heart-rupturing, vein-throbbing, eye-bulging, blood-spitting, aneurysm encouraging LUNATIC!! It was astonishing! We had many events like this - similar thing happened in a hotel when the receptionist asked us the same thing. Again, we made little comment and before we knew it, she launched into a tirade of abuse towards Trump. She even ended by basically throwing the room keys across the counter and reminding us to CHECK OUT AT 10am!! Jesus, we hadn't said a word! But we got our own back - we decided later to tell her that Trump was looked upon very favourably back in England and that, on reflection, he was clearly a better choice than THAT woman. She was essentially speechless. So we'd go back, but would do our best to avoid talking to the people as much as possible as overall, we found them very uptight, quite rude and OBSESSED with money - and I mean TOTALLY OBSESSED!! They wanted a tip to allow us to breathe!!!
This is the effect of the media. In this California Trump would be classified as a left wing lunatic and Hillary or Biden would be considered a communist.
Ahh it’s movie day in 7th grade civics class. It was always a relief to see that tube tv with a vcr on Cart rolled in at the begging of class. Or if you’re a bit older, the projector at the back of the room. :)
Mmm... I went to Ramona High School in Riverside, CA in the 60s with a girl named Kaye Dudley. I wonder if she might be related to Carl? By The Way... Love seeing vintage film of California. Brings back so many great memories. (...and, It really has to be post WW II).
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley starting in 1996 at the age of four when we moved there. Although it was far gone already from what is shown in this video, I did get to witness the further degradation of LA County over the course of my residence there. When I was a boy there were still various orange groves and open spaces to explore in the neighborhood in Woodland Hills where we lived, and the stretch of Ventura Blvd between Topanga Canyon and Tampa was home to small businesses and various undeveloped plots. What was shown in the video looks like paradise, but I still look fondly on Woodland Hills in the 90s. In the 20 years that I lived there, the $125k home my parents bought is now going for $750k, all the schools have a majority of their students bussed in from downtown, and there isn’t a shred of natural land left on Ventura blvd. The overpopulation is overwhelming. At 23 I moved out to Valencia to experience a better quality of life. I’m now married with two kids and can’t imagine having them grow up in the valley. But even now I can see Valencia and Santa Clarita getting consumed by overpopulation and poverty. When you have a place as geographically diverse and majestic as Southern California eventually it will get overrun and run dry of its resources. Since I refuse to assimilate into the society LA has constructed, it wouldn’t surprise me if I moved out of state altogether within the next 10 years. I’m really glad to see people in these videos enjoying the land and the society built around it in its prime.
This travelogue is listed in Dudley's filmography as being made and released n 1945. This date is confirmed in several sources. it wasn't made in 1935 or even the mid-30's. You've been advised the date is in error now for almost three years.
I lived in Santa Ana In 1956 and 1959 my dad helped build Disney Land I worked at Irvine Park riding stable I was a trail guide I still remember those Orange groves and the wonderful smell it was the best time of my life and my health was much better I still miss it ❤
@@MichaelGrey11 The word racist doesn't work anymore. You must be a noseberg who benefits from whites struggling in nations their own ancestors built FOR THEM, not worthless leeches who want to purge white men.
@Tangerine Sky333 It was unbelievable! But now I believe you! I first heard it with a "j" sound about 1962 by Bob Barker when he hosted Truth or Consequences.
It was the frankfurt school communist jews who congregated in Santa Monica when they left Russia and Germany. We took them in and saved them, and they repaid us by totally subverting all of our traditional values that built healthy families.
@@overwatchphilosophy8686 This is why it's important to remember history. At what point is it no longer a coincidence or mere hatred / 'antisemitism'? www.docdroid.net/BZHplSm/the-complete-list-of-the-1030-jewish-expulsions-in-human-history.pdf
At 2:23 "California was the 35th state to be admitted to the union." It was not, I'm in California and I know my California history LOL, California was the 31st state.
As a native born in 1960 watching this just breaks my heart. This state was an absolute paradise. It was a place that epitomized the American dream where anyone could move here from other parts of the country and get a good job right away, buy a home and raise a family in clean, safe towns and cities. It was not only the best state in the country but the best place in the entire world. Nothing could compare to it. Now its ruined all in a space of fifty years by out of control third world immigration. The porous border with Mexico has swamped us with uneducated, unskilled peasants, gangs and illegal drugs. Plus the politics have swung from conservative and often Republican (think Ronald Reagan) to left wing Democrat who have such a majority in Sacramento they can do any stupid thing they want unchallenged. Yeah, watching this makes me very sad for what's happened to my home.
I was born in Santa Monica before 1950- I have seen the long slide. It took decades to learn who is TRULY pulling the strings. . .The IRS is not part of the government- it is a Puerto Rican corporation, to finance God's Chosen. jewish saying "we succeed by not naming ourselves"
@@hughaxton Puerto Rican?🤣🤣🤣 were you dropping acid when you typed this? The FR is a Rothschild invention. They control every central bank in the world and anyone who doesn't want to join their gang is destroyed. RIP Gadhafi.
I’ll bet anything that in the late 40s and 1950s, a person could buy a brand new small tract home in a subdivision in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, or Orange County for $10-$15,000! Have a steady job, be in your 20’s, own a home, and raise a family with few worries. Imagine that today! California was paradise back then! You could also live comfortably without air conditioning or heating most of the year.
I lived in LA for 26 years and after 9/11 it was continually all downhill from that point. I think I saw California on its last legs throughout the 90's. I dream of going back but all I have to do is read these comments, and then I remember why I left.😢👎
California started to go downhill in the mid sixty's! I'm a native Californiañ and have been severely hurt by the on going greed and corruption! Illegals coming in! Most people I know have left! It was paradise in the 40s and 50s! People are still coming in thinking that it is still paradise - especially forigners. Only the rich still like it!
This video is almost 80 years old! It's interesting how some things have changed (oil and mining are not as prominent in the state's economy anymore), while others remain the same (California continues to be the agricultural leader of the nation). And it's interesting that we still understand the language of 80 years ago so clearly, given how these things change over time. But what's most interesting of all is just how different the West Coast is from the rest of the country. A dynamic and prosperous region, simpler and less pretentious than the wealthy East, wiser and more egalitarian than the backward South, and more economically resilient than the struggling Midwest. The video mentioned that California could exist as a self-sufficient "empire" if need be, and that's still true today. All the nation and indeed all the world benefits from California's bounty and productivity.
we understand the language just as easy because of the film industry.since the talkies the rate of change will be alot slower over time than if there wasnt mass production and distribution of films.
Actually it was produced after the war if you listen closely. So it would probably have been made between 1946 and 1948. And new cars weren't produced until after the war was over so the earliest this could have been would be 1946.
Wow, never knew that state produced over 1/4th of the US oil supply, over 4 bil barrels I'm guessing in a year. Wonder what that percentage is now? Been replaced by silicon valley corps.
At the very end of the video I believe it shows the year followed by Beverly Hills (bottom of the screen.) If it wasn't so blurry perhaps it could be read.
When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Disney was legendary from those days, born and raised I in LA remember walking on Mothers Beach when I was 7 years old in the hot sand bare feet. This place California sad to say will never have the glory and splendor that it once had my birth place. Its glory and opportunity use to attract people all over the world, even like arnold shwartanigga in the 70s. The most beautiful beaches, weather and Palm trees and legendary sunshine, the finest burger and shake spots and all american blonde gals in daisy three's company daisy dukes roller skating on beaches, truly legendary. Long live California😔.
My dad used to pick crops when he was 10 years old with my grandmother and a few of his brothers, they would get one penny a pound for picking green beans in Culver City/Marina del rey area. Early 1940's
Most of heavy industry has been driven out of California along with the manufacturing jobs that are so important to establishing the first rungs of the social ladder. Today, the first steps on the ladder have been replaced with the welfare society.
@P J And how did your first job make you feel? I am betting it gave you a "can do" attitude. Contrast with today's youth who are buried in student loans and have come to think socialism is the answer.
@@christianarchambault6111 ... Who do you think Free trade has benefited more , the USA or China ? It has ruined the USA , by gutting it's manufacturing Industrial base . Take a look at what the trade deficits have been with China over the past 25 years . China has brought in several Trillion of US consumer Dollars , and built China from a Third world Nation into the second largest Economy on the Planet . If this continues , China will FAR surpass the USA as an economic and military Power . The democrat party are brainwashing the low info Millions into believing Free Trade is good for America. It would be good if it wasn't a one way street . The Chinese factory worker makes less than 10 US Dollars a day. Explain how you can have fair trade with a Nation like that ? It is turning the USA into a Nation of Burger Joints and Coffee houses, and China is laughing at the Stupidity .
Harvey Parhar oh I agree completely! They have by far benefited more. I'm pretty nationalistic for someone who leans left. We have paid for their new middle class. And in the process suffocated ours and crushed our workers. The top 1-2 percenters here in the U.S. have benefited the most, so Most of my anger goes toward them.
I live in southern California, and I have cheap electricity, thanks to innovation. With wind farms and solar, I only pay for electricity six months out of the year, the other six months my bills are paid by 2 credits from southern California, Edison.
These videos are best seen without reading ignorant comments of people longing for a time long gone and blaming scapegoats for its disappearance. I visited San Francisco recently and admired the city and very much. And Los Angeles. It was a phenomenal city and to me it was “paradise”. Do not like the politics, but I loved the city when I was there.
There seems to be an ongoing debate about how things were better. We often reminisce about times that were endearing. It’s usually a time when we were a child (without major responsibilities) or a special milestone. Many of the people filmed would likely think the 1890s -1940s were “simplistic times”. Life is more fulfilling if we fondly remember the past, embrace the present, and look forward to the future. Thanks for sharing this video, it’s fascinating to see how thing change over time.
I wish it was like this now but California is so crazy how tax’s and fees for anything has most highest price no one takes pride in anything anymore I was born and raised in California San Diego
The California palm trees are being ruined by disgusting beetles with snouts along with their larvae ever since 2011. In '47, none of that was in existence in CA.
This is going to piss off a lot of people, but look at what the white American of European descent built in such a short time. There are cultures that lived on the same land for thousands of years and they only went as far as tents, mud and straw huts.
Communist China has the fasted trains in the world and the melenated Moors brought science, food, math and hygiene to backwards Europe. The Aztec , Maya etc did some remarkable things too.
Paradise lost. I miss her so much. Got out in '99. '75 was the peak and all downhill from there. So much corruption and wasted tax dollars especially on floods and fires.
The areas around the city of L.A. got pretty bad after the early 60s and worse after the Watts Riots. But further out was still pretty nice. I think you're right about the mid 70s, especially after Tom Bradley became mayor.
If you watched the movie, La-La Land, made in 2016, they made LA look beautiful. That's what this film is. It isn't the reality of California in 1947. It's how the filmmaker wanted to present California in 1947. Was California in 1947 a nicer place than California in 2021? Undoubtedly. But you aren't seeing the warts of California in this film, only the highlights.
My heart breaks for the formerly most beautiful state of my birth. A time when it was clean and taken care of. Predominately Republican and that included Hollywood. When Marxism and liberalism poured forth out of the Universities in the ‘60’s the Rep and Hollywood did not have the backbone to fight against the onslaught except for an actor whom switched to the Rep Party. Even when Reagan became Gov in the radical upheaval of the Universities he told off the Chancellors for their laxness in not standing up to the students as he did. In the earlier days shown also the Mexican workers came into California to work in agriculture and would then return to their homes in Mexico. That program was destroyed also in the 70’s and the huge influx of drugs poured across the boarder along with the illegals whom now did not go home. I truly miss the beauty and comfortable life of the early days and mourn the death of an amazing state of America that will never return to its glory as long as the Dems lead.
SD have you ever stopped to think that maybe not everything is about ‘evil’ democrats vs ‘saintly’ republicans? that maybe... lots of people on both ends are bad, and therefore blaming all your issues on one sole group that you want to see as horrible is a stupid thing to do?
petrikovler No, because your erroneous comment is just that, full of errors. First, you completely misrepresent my comment. Second, you cannot comment on my thoughts or feelings since you have no idea of what they could be since you do not know me and already have incorrectly expressed the meaning of my original thought. In other words, sorry for seemingly not making myself clear originally, since you clearly did not understand.
@@fusetunes This documentary(most likely made by an old time Democrat btw)would not even be allowed to be shown in a blue state today and in red states it would be considered too far right. If you cannot see how much damage the left has caused to this country then you are blind.
The whole Country has change since then. California has went to the 6th then 5th to 4th largest economy in the world since you typed what you typed 4 or 5 years ago..
@@fusetunes When you live for years under both Political Parties with clear demarcations and completely different platforms and see the results under each one, also clearly, it is apparent. The Republican years were as I stated and the Dem years of a long slope down into decay and radical destruction. The stark difference between the two Parties was unbelieveably clear. From childhood into adulthood and on into my children's marriages and becoming grandparents and great cc fgrandparents ages. Yes, I have seen California destroyed by the evil philosophy and political policies of the leftist Dems and finally had to leave with a broken heart.
![California 1950s, Driving Wilshire Blvd in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/1.gif)
I was born in the 60's and remember when orange county was orange groves. You could smell the orange blossoms, and smell cookies from the Nabisco plant. California was magical in the 60's and 70's.
I live in LA in the mid Fifties left and return to Orange County in the Sixties. It was paradise on earth back then. The LA area was booming with aircraft companies. I was there for satellite communication. The Sunday Times was full of want ads begging for all kinds of engineers and technicians. Orange County was not named after oranges for nothing. I think that Disneyland was built over orange groves. A beautiful house in Irvine cost $74,000.
Wow, paradise on earth by the sounds of it. So depressing to see it now.
Everyone who was an full adult in the 40's or 50's and into mid 60's always the thereafter described California in either very positive or oitright glowing terms. The the "civil rights" nonsense and Viet Nam and the mounting debt and taxes and the once Golden State has turned into _____________ (you fill in the germs folks) Ugh!
Sounds fantastic..interesting place.
The Nabisco plant in Buena Park was torn down a few about five years ago.
This was a good look at the past. RIP to everyone in this video, you guys did your time in this earth.
The Flash
My grandma live in Southern California at this time. She was in Santa Barbara (a beautiful city about an hour North of Los Angeles itself). They went to LA often. She's still alive. It's pretty amazing the changes she has witnessed in her life. She was born in 1934 I believe. btw, this video is in the mid 1940s, the title is wrong.
Isaac Detherage would love to meet her. I wanna know about the 50's man.
ProseColored Glasses -
AhHaHaHaHaHa! WTF!!!!
My grandfather was born in 1929 and is still alive, my grandmother in 1934 and still alive. There are probably plenty of people in this video who could potentially still be alive today
Do your math, there are lots of people still alive from this time period. And this is even 5 years after you posted your comment.
2:52 The California/Mexico border “one of the worlds FRIENDLIEST frontiers” 😂
I jizzed in my pants when I heard that phrase
mecq5978 “Ca la for nea”
@@CartersvilleFan
The lector pronounces "Los Angeles" just as speech synthesizer pronounces "Lauce Sangless" in US English on the texttospeechrobot.com . Google Translator in Spanish pronounces "Los Ángeles" just as texttospeechrobot.com pronounces "Lauce Sun Helaise" in US English.
Lmao never was
@Joseph Gutierrez back when California was majority european
The California-Mexican Border, one of the world's friendliest frontiers!
chi rho iota it was, before the welfare state existed.
HAHAHAHAHA OH MY HAHAHAHAHA STOP STOP HAHAHAHAHA STOP I CAN'T BREATHE HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA STOP I CAN'T BREATHE HAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!
chi rho iota but but but cnn and Democrats say white Americans back then we’re all racist
Ray Cortez that’s not an argument.
What’s the matter, can’t you make a rational argument?
@@foxbodyblues6709 yea your comment is irrelevant because whites are the one who really take all the welfare do some research your people are the true downfall of this country always blaming others like always
I remember as a little kid in the 80s groves were a lot more prevalent in San Diego county, now a days I see less and less of them. I wish I could travel back in time and experience California when it really was the "Golden State"
I'm from Green Bay WI and in the 80's when the Packers were losing my family and I cheered for the 49ers because they beat teams we hated - The Bears, Cowboys and Raiders. Now we cheer against the 49ers if we even watch at all.
My dad moved from Kansas to the San Fernando Valley in 1957. When I would ask him what it was like when he moved there, he said, "paradise." This video gives a taste of what he probably experienced when he came here. It's not like this anymore, sadly. Still an amazing place but crushed by terrible politics and policy.
True but still better then Kansas lol
There's no way it's worse than Kansas. The Sunflower State has been wrecked by terrible policy. Politicians tore apart our education system over the last decade, and our infrastructure is at a breaking point. Wichita's main water facility is 80 years old and about to give out. Public transit is all but non-existent. If only California wasn't so expensive, I'd move in a heartbeat.
The Mighty Cass yes liberal policy
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley in the 50's and 60's.
Your dad is right. It was paradise!
Not too many tract homes had started, so you still had orange groves all over. The fragrance of orange blossoms permeated the valley.
There were no Fwys. If you wanted to get out of the Valley, it was either Ventura Blvd or San Fernando Road to the North, Sepulveda Blvd to the South and Route 66 to the East.
There was even a popular song that came out during WW II about the San Fernando Valley.
It was sung by Bing Crosby.
It truly was a great place to live and grow up as a kid.
During the hot summer nights, we'd play baseball in the street, then go over to a neighbor's house and swim in their pool.
Then (get this) walk back to your home at midnight by yourself!
Man. Today you as child would be put in Foster care and your parents would be arrested for such negligence.
It was so beautiful and a wonderful time to be a kid growing up in "The Valley".
We can only imagine 💔
4th generation Californian here. Sad to see where it's gone...
Nobby Barnes silly goose
Same. It has been ruined by diversity
But you can say that about every state
@@AAAA-zj9yldiversity is bad? You guys are insane 😂
Beautiful video. Takes me back to simple times. Thanks for the memories.
Pepper
We have no memories of that. Y’all slaughtered them! Slaughtered the orange and lemon groves. The air, nothing but traffic, homelessness and $3000/ mo. Apt’s. From sea to shining sea. Thanks for the memories! HaHa! Now that’s FUNNY. I’ll have to show this to my grandkids someday.
I remember this film, Wayy back in '66 we watched it in the 3rd grade on AV (Audio-Visual) day, which was Thursday. The next day we had a test in Califonia History and some of the questions came directly from the film. I feel blessed to have recieved my education in California from the mid 60's through late 70's. We were second to none then.
What I would give to go back and see my home state like this.
My family grew kiwis and lemons in orange county (when oranges were grown there). . . boy those days are gone! Ca (and the west coast) is like a third world country.
For real, what really happened?
@@grantrocco wow, liberal projection much?
@@grantrocco California was better being white than now.
@@grantrocco you would know. you are a Nazi.
I was born here in CA 43 years ago, and have never lived elsewhere. It was lovely then and is still lovely! Different? Yes. But it's hard to find any location on Earth that hasn't changed in the last 75 years.
I wish I could 've lived in California in the 50's and 60's
- back when California was normal.
rickster348
Ya now government runs it in the ground
Lol sure normal...
How true, change is unavoidable
define normal.
Now California is full of Dip Shit plastic people and reptiles
I was born the year this was made. It is unbelievable what the crooks in power have done to this beautiful place!
Go to florida and tell your messiah to take care of ya.
Republicanos ou Democratas, não importa, são todos políticos da extrema-direita que só pensam em guerras para ganhar mais dinheiro. É o fim do Império Americano chegando.
It hurts my heart that neither I nor any of you will ever get to see how beautiful California used to be unless you were alive then:(💔I’m to young😭💔
Things are not meant to stay the same
At 8:25 one can see an automobile drive through the famous redwood tree north of San Francisco that recently collapsed due to heavy rains.
No, it probably collapsed due to Maxine Waters and breath!!!!
These videos will soon be banned by the same people that tear down monuments. They will want to completely erase it from history.
I've noticed all white people in these older Videos. I'm sure they complain about that as well.
never going to happen..We the people will TEAR them DOWN 1st
"Any society that will not pay attention to it's
own history, Is D O O M E D to repeat it ......"
@socal rocks Strange but true. watch the Vid. again once..
Igaluit all the liberals
One of the worlds friendliest frontiers huh!
LMAO!!
*YEET* 😂
I'm only 21 years old & man do I wish I could experience 1940s to 1990s America. But since I only have memories from 2000s & on, I'm a part of a degenerative time in America. As a young man oh I do wish I could switch eras.
Same here, I’m 26 years old, and I wished I could have experienced this era, it looks so pleasant. Where is all the graffiti they call “art”, that’s a bunch of rubbish.
I remember the 90s it was the last good decade in the US in my opinion.
I don't think you would have liked CA in the 90s, at least not SoCal. I experienced the tail end of the era that made CA livable and a joy to visit and live in the early 70s to early 80s (but L.A. was not safe or desirable anymore by then). NorCal was still livable in the 90s but SoCal took a quick dive in the mid 80s and it got worse in the 90s. That's about the time grunge and cRap became popular and music and the arts declined enormously. The homeless look also became popular in the 90s. Matter of fact, after I rented a car and drove throughout Western Europe in 1990 for a month, I immediately experienced culture shock when I returned to *lovely* SoCal. SoCal began its downfall after the early 60s but it wasn't readily apparent. My paternal grandparents arrived in the L.A. area during the mid 1900s or early 1920s, and my dad grew up there from 1935 to the early 60s. You can imagine the heartbreaking stories I heard from them. The neighborhoods my dad was raised in are slums😢
@@egmjag what neighborhoods was he from? I’d love to hear stories. What do you think doomed SoCal and when in the ‘80s exactly?
1990s California was very degenerate. It was really only until the early 1980s that California wasn’t shameful.
Oh boy this Wonderful in this time is good to live in California
87% of Californians were American-born in 1940.
- 1940 California Census: White (95.5%), black (1.8%), Other (2.7%)
You need to get your head checked if you think most of the people in Hollywood were born in America.
@Screaming Mimi's btw Latinos and Mexicans are considered white too
@Screaming Mimi's Yes they are, they have spanish blood and Spaniards are white people.
@Screaming Mimi's Who cares what they consider themselves or not, bioloigically he is half white and half black.
Firefly don’t come round here. Won’t like yo kind.
Been to California 3 times and LOVE the state. It has everything and we will be returning again one day. Last time we were there, in 2017, we were very surprised by the attention we got with regard to Trump - what did we think of him (as Brits)? We said he was your president, not ours, so it didn't matter what we thought and had no opinion either way. So many times the conversation quickly turned to rabid anti-Trump vitriol and because we didn't join in with the Trump-bashing (again, not our president so we had no axe to grind), we often got a very cold, angry reaction - I remember one really sweet elderly lady at a hotel in Ventura. We had been speaking to her for about half an hour and she was so friendly and warm, then she asked what we thought of Trump, you know, being Brits? Again, we were non-committal either way (we had got used to this line of questioning by then!). As we didn't join in and agree with her view, we couldn't believe how she turned from being a sweet old lady into a rabid, foaming at the mouth, heart-rupturing, vein-throbbing, eye-bulging, blood-spitting, aneurysm encouraging LUNATIC!! It was astonishing! We had many events like this - similar thing happened in a hotel when the receptionist asked us the same thing. Again, we made little comment and before we knew it, she launched into a tirade of abuse towards Trump. She even ended by basically throwing the room keys across the counter and reminding us to CHECK OUT AT 10am!! Jesus, we hadn't said a word! But we got our own back - we decided later to tell her that Trump was looked upon very favourably back in England and that, on reflection, he was clearly a better choice than THAT woman. She was essentially speechless. So we'd go back, but would do our best to avoid talking to the people as much as possible as overall, we found them very uptight, quite rude and OBSESSED with money - and I mean TOTALLY OBSESSED!! They wanted a tip to allow us to breathe!!!
This is the effect of the media. In this California Trump would be classified as a left wing lunatic and Hillary or Biden would be considered a communist.
Libtards tend to be that way. Hateful and intolerant.
I was kid in the 80's and everything was different then it is today
Ahh it’s movie day in 7th grade civics class. It was always a relief to see that tube tv with a vcr on Cart rolled in at the begging of class. Or if you’re a bit older, the projector at the back of the room. :)
Mmm... I went to Ramona High School in Riverside, CA in the 60s with a girl named Kaye Dudley. I wonder if she might be related to Carl?
By The Way... Love seeing vintage film of California. Brings back so many great memories. (...and, It really has to be post WW II).
My buddy lives right behind Ramona high school across from the ymca
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley starting in 1996 at the age of four when we moved there. Although it was far gone already from what is shown in this video, I did get to witness the further degradation of LA County over the course of my residence there.
When I was a boy there were still various orange groves and open spaces to explore in the neighborhood in Woodland Hills where we lived, and the stretch of Ventura Blvd between Topanga Canyon and Tampa was home to small businesses and various undeveloped plots. What was shown in the video looks like paradise, but I still look fondly on Woodland Hills in the 90s.
In the 20 years that I lived there, the $125k home my parents bought is now going for $750k, all the schools have a majority of their students bussed in from downtown, and there isn’t a shred of natural land left on Ventura blvd. The overpopulation is overwhelming. At 23 I moved out to Valencia to experience a better quality of life. I’m now married with two kids and can’t imagine having them grow up in the valley. But even now I can see Valencia and Santa Clarita getting consumed by overpopulation and poverty.
When you have a place as geographically diverse and majestic as Southern California eventually it will get overrun and run dry of its resources. Since I refuse to assimilate into the society LA has constructed, it wouldn’t surprise me if I moved out of state altogether within the next 10 years.
I’m really glad to see people in these videos enjoying the land and the society built around it in its prime.
The good old days 😍
This travelogue is listed in Dudley's filmography as being made and released n 1945. This date is confirmed in several sources. it wasn't made in 1935 or even the mid-30's. You've been advised the date is in error now for almost three years.
I lived in Santa Ana In 1956 and 1959 my dad helped build Disney Land I worked at Irvine Park riding stable I was a trail guide I still remember those Orange groves and the wonderful smell it was the best time of my life and my health was much better I still miss it ❤
They took this from you.
pukalo [CDN] your mother
Ok racist
@@MichaelGrey11 The word racist doesn't work anymore. You must be a noseberg who benefits from whites struggling in nations their own ancestors built FOR THEM, not worthless leeches who want to purge white men.
Frens
Sin526 I’m glad that subreddit was shut down 👍
No one corrected the narrator when he said California is the 35th state in the Union. It's the 31xt.
I was going to until I saw your comment.
How about Los Angeles pronounced like "angle".
@Tangerine Sky333 Really? You remember from 75 years ago? When did it change?
@Tangerine Sky333 It was unbelievable! But now I believe you! I first heard it with a "j" sound about 1962 by Bob Barker when he hosted Truth or Consequences.
aaahhh the good ol days and i was born in the mid 90s
made just after war (WWII), and says so.
I guess RUclips recommendations have brought us all back together again
At 80, a native of CA, I mourned its rubbishing by fools, incompetents and criminals---and, that's just describing our politicians.
This was filmed shortly after WW2
used to be next thing to paradise until the commies wrecked it.
It was the frankfurt school communist jews who congregated in Santa Monica when they left Russia and Germany. We took them in and saved them, and they repaid us by totally subverting all of our traditional values that built healthy families.
@@overwatchphilosophy8686 This is why it's important to remember history. At what point is it no longer a coincidence or mere hatred / 'antisemitism'?
www.docdroid.net/BZHplSm/the-complete-list-of-the-1030-jewish-expulsions-in-human-history.pdf
@@@rubenwelten7300 Why so many?
@Marv N still not as bad shitfornia
JEWS!
At 2:23 "California was the 35th state to be admitted to the union." It was not, I'm in California and I know my California history LOL, California was the 31st state.
Rip california
California is still exist duh
As a native born in 1960 watching this just breaks my heart. This state was an absolute paradise. It was a place that epitomized the American dream where anyone could move here from other parts of the country and get a good job right away, buy a home and raise a family in clean, safe towns and cities. It was not only the best state in the country but the best place in the entire world. Nothing could compare to it. Now its ruined all in a space of fifty years by out of control third world immigration. The porous border with Mexico has swamped us with uneducated, unskilled peasants, gangs and illegal drugs. Plus the politics have swung from conservative and often Republican (think Ronald Reagan) to left wing Democrat who have such a majority in Sacramento they can do any stupid thing they want unchallenged. Yeah, watching this makes me very sad for what's happened to my home.
I was born in Santa Monica before 1950- I have seen the long slide. It took decades to learn who is TRULY pulling the strings. . .The IRS is not part of the government- it is a Puerto Rican corporation, to finance God's Chosen. jewish saying "we succeed by not naming ourselves"
@@hughaxton Puerto Rican?🤣🤣🤣 were you dropping acid when you typed this? The FR is a Rothschild invention. They control every central bank in the world and anyone who doesn't want to join their gang is destroyed. RIP Gadhafi.
@@sunnyedaize1262 - I said IRS. It is both jewish and registered in Puerto Rico- it is not part of the Federal Government.
Good. It's what Your ancestors did to the indigenous folk of the land. What goes around came back. Ha!
Dumbass we were here before you, name is California.
I’ll bet anything that in the late 40s and 1950s, a person could buy a brand new small tract home in a subdivision in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, or Orange County for $10-$15,000! Have a steady job, be in your 20’s, own a home, and raise a family with few worries. Imagine that today! California was paradise back then! You could also live comfortably without air conditioning or heating most of the year.
Yeah with about 3 years work you could get an average pretty new home.
I lived in LA for 26 years and after 9/11 it was continually all downhill from that point. I think I saw California on its last legs throughout the 90's.
I dream of going back but all I have to do is read these comments, and then I remember why I left.😢👎
What would you say happened. When did the change come and in what form did you notice it most?
California started to go downhill in the mid sixty's! I'm a native Californiañ and have been severely hurt by the on going greed and corruption! Illegals coming in! Most people I know have left! It was paradise in the 40s and 50s! People are still coming in thinking that it is still paradise - especially forigners. Only the rich still like it!
This video is almost 80 years old! It's interesting how some things have changed (oil and mining are not as prominent in the state's economy anymore), while others remain the same (California continues to be the agricultural leader of the nation). And it's interesting that we still understand the language of 80 years ago so clearly, given how these things change over time. But what's most interesting of all is just how different the West Coast is from the rest of the country. A dynamic and prosperous region, simpler and less pretentious than the wealthy East, wiser and more egalitarian than the backward South, and more economically resilient than the struggling Midwest. The video mentioned that California could exist as a self-sufficient "empire" if need be, and that's still true today. All the nation and indeed all the world benefits from California's bounty and productivity.
we understand the language just as easy because of the film industry.since the talkies the rate of change will be alot slower over time than if there wasnt mass production and distribution of films.
Not anymore California is a failed state now
So sad.....paradise lost
Based on the car models and the theme of some of the tournament of roses
floats, this was made 1942-43, not 1935
+donwert Yeah Golden Gate wasn't open in 1935 either.
You are correct.
Plus it being in color. Though possible, unlikely as this was the year color technology was developed oz.wikia.com/wiki/Technicolor
what do you expect from hollyweird? It's all smoke and mirrors, always has been
Actually it was produced after the war if you listen closely. So it would probably have been made between 1946 and 1948. And new cars weren't produced until after the war was over so the earliest this could have been would be 1946.
I was born in 1947...I remember orange groves surrounding Disneyland..
Wow, never knew that state produced over 1/4th of the US oil supply, over 4 bil barrels I'm guessing in a year. Wonder what that percentage is now? Been replaced by silicon valley corps.
7:20 "before the war" ... not 1935. During, most likely right after, WW2.
Thanks for posting.
At the very end of the video I believe it shows the year followed by Beverly Hills (bottom of the screen.) If it wasn't so blurry perhaps it could be read.
From after WWII to the 1992 Rodney King riots, California was the best place on earth to live.
When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Disney was legendary from those days, born and raised I in LA remember walking on Mothers Beach when I was 7 years old in the hot sand bare feet. This place California sad to say will never have the glory and splendor that it once had my birth place. Its glory and opportunity use to attract people all over the world, even like arnold shwartanigga in the 70s. The most beautiful beaches, weather and Palm trees and legendary sunshine, the finest burger and shake spots and all american blonde gals in daisy three's company daisy dukes roller skating on beaches, truly legendary. Long live California😔.
My dad used to pick crops when he was 10 years old with my grandmother and a few of his brothers, they would get one penny a pound for picking green beans in Culver City/Marina del rey area. Early 1940's
Most of heavy industry has been driven out of California along with the manufacturing jobs that are so important to establishing the first rungs of the social ladder. Today, the first steps on the ladder have been replaced with the welfare society.
encinobalboa you don't blame the factory owners and corporations, leaving to pay southeast Asians dirt to make our shit
@P J And how did your first job make you feel? I am betting it gave you a "can do" attitude. Contrast with today's youth who are buried in student loans and have come to think socialism is the answer.
@@christianarchambault6111 ... Who do you think Free trade has benefited more , the USA or China ? It has ruined the USA , by gutting it's manufacturing Industrial base . Take a look at what the trade deficits have been with China over the past 25 years . China has brought in several Trillion of US consumer Dollars , and built China from a Third world Nation into the second largest Economy on the Planet .
If this continues , China will FAR surpass the USA as an economic and military Power . The democrat party are brainwashing the low info Millions into believing Free Trade is good for America. It would be good if it wasn't a one way street . The Chinese factory worker makes less than 10 US Dollars a day. Explain how you can have fair trade with a Nation like that ? It is turning the USA into a Nation of Burger Joints and Coffee houses, and China is laughing at the Stupidity .
Harvey Parhar oh I agree completely! They have by far benefited more. I'm pretty nationalistic for someone who leans left. We have paid for their new middle class. And in the process suffocated ours and crushed our workers. The top 1-2 percenters here in the U.S. have benefited the most, so Most of my anger goes toward them.
Once upon a time there was a golden state, called California...
It breaks my heart.
I wanta go back there right now.
2:52 “The California Mexico border is one of the world’s friendliest frontiers” - now I know this video is out of date.
Mahadragon knowing how this video was made in the 1940s scares me now, it’s 2019 and imagine in 2050 how fast life could change
Why? Now it's too friendly I'd say.
So many orange groves have been replaced by houses, malls...And that Disney guy put up some sort of amusement park.
Oranges are cool, But How about us Lemons?
2:51 It's not very friendly there anymore :(
Interesting to hear how Los Angeles was pronounced. 👍🏼
Original Spanish pronunciation. Spanish doesn't have a soft G.
how about oree gone pronounciation
It was prosperous, beautiful everywhere in Ca. Was!
When I saw your add I bought 4 bags of Fritos!
I like the part where he says cheap electricity, Ha!
I live in southern California, and I have cheap electricity, thanks to innovation. With wind farms and solar, I only pay for electricity six months out of the year, the other six months my bills are paid by 2 credits from southern California, Edison.
BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA!! LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!!!!
4:50 Interesting how that mockup plane on the float is identical to a Japanese AM62 Zero fighter.
Doesn't look remotely close to any Allied fighter.
I don’t know how you could tell which model of zero that is from the float, but you are right, that’s a Type 0!
Dang!
Ventura! My home town @9:03.
Great time to live there back then
I'm a Californian, I don't know what California has become.
1:18 Riverside Ca, probably Victoria Ave
These videos are best seen without reading ignorant comments of people longing for a time long gone and blaming scapegoats for its disappearance.
I visited San Francisco recently and admired the city and very much. And Los Angeles. It was a phenomenal city and to me it was “paradise”. Do not like the politics, but I loved the city when I was there.
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If you have never smelled orange blossoms or jasmine I feel bad for you.
Everyone must ask....and then take heed to the answer...what happened to California?
Liberalism happened..just look at CA now..barely recognizable
Immigration destroyed it
@@robertrodriquez4047 Old people in 1947 would have said the same thing,
Tom Dalton Nope.
@@whiteclifffl A four fold population increase in 20 years and mostly assholes moving in, you know they were griping
Mount Withney are very nice this nature landscape place.
There seems to be an ongoing debate about how things were better. We often reminisce about times that were endearing. It’s usually a time when we were a child (without major responsibilities) or a special milestone. Many of the people filmed would likely think the 1890s -1940s were “simplistic times”. Life is more fulfilling if we fondly remember the past, embrace the present, and look forward to the future. Thanks for sharing this video, it’s fascinating to see how thing change over time.
California is still a beautiful place except in the cities
Wrong
"The California Mexican border, one of the world's friendliest frontiers" lol that didn't age too well.
What happens when 15 million decide to move north to California. You're living it.
I wish it was like this now but California is so crazy how tax’s and fees for anything has most highest price no one takes pride in anything anymore I was born and raised in California San Diego
That row of palm trees look more maintanence neglected in 1947 than they do now in 2018.
That's because back then they didn't have to worry about some asshole setting the palm trees on fire.
The California palm trees are being ruined by disgusting beetles with snouts along with their larvae ever since 2011. In '47, none of that was in existence in CA.
excellent
Was it just the narrator or did they pronounce Los Angeles that way back then?
My grandmother was born this year in San Diego county wow. We love this state have been here for generations. God bless CA.
i think this is the closest we get to the retro futurism
California... knows how to party 🎉
"California/Mexican border...One of the world's friendliest frontiers." 🤣🤣🤣
Beautiful and white....
This is random but I swear Atlanta was so dope like 5-6 years ago. So sad when a city dies / ppl realize it's a good place to live
The "Constellation plane" was made for commercial aviation from 1945. In this film you saw Constellation. date 1935 it is wrong.
This is going to piss off a lot of people, but look at what the white American of European descent built in such a short time. There are cultures that lived on the same land for thousands of years and they only went as far as tents, mud and straw huts.
Communist China has the fasted trains in the world and the melenated Moors brought science, food, math and hygiene to backwards Europe. The Aztec , Maya etc did some remarkable things too.
Paradise lost. I miss her so much. Got out in '99. '75 was the peak and all downhill from there. So much corruption and wasted tax dollars especially on floods and fires.
The areas around the city of L.A. got pretty bad after the early 60s and worse after the Watts Riots. But further out was still pretty nice. I think you're right about the mid 70s, especially after Tom Bradley became mayor.
Serene and white
If you watched the movie, La-La Land, made in 2016, they made LA look beautiful. That's what this film is. It isn't the reality of California in 1947. It's how the filmmaker wanted to present California in 1947. Was California in 1947 a nicer place than California in 2021? Undoubtedly. But you aren't seeing the warts of California in this film, only the highlights.
Stop trying to sound profound or “intelligent” with your nihilism.
@@GasPipeJimmy Well, not all of us can be GasPipeJimmy. You be you, GasPipe!
Hi fellow Americans. I see a lot of sad comments talking about the "degradation" of California, can you explain me what happened exactly?
None of what you saw here exists in any fashion anymore and the idiots in the state today think they live in a superior California today.
This is the America Liberals want us to forget about.
Amen, amen, amen. They are envious destroyers WE MUST NOT FORGET, SAVE THESE VIDEOS SO THE YOUNG CAN SEE WHAT WAS POSSIBLE!
Camino real are very nice for this Cathedral from Spanish Colony. Wonderfull.
And now look at us……… The place is destroyed.
My heart breaks for the formerly most beautiful state of my birth. A time when it was clean and taken care of. Predominately Republican and that included Hollywood. When Marxism and liberalism poured forth out of the Universities in the ‘60’s the Rep and Hollywood did not have the backbone to fight against the onslaught except for an actor whom switched to the Rep Party. Even when Reagan became Gov in the radical upheaval of the Universities he told off the Chancellors for their laxness in not standing up to the students as he did. In the earlier days shown also the Mexican workers came into California to work in agriculture and would then return to their homes in Mexico. That program was destroyed also in the 70’s and the huge influx of drugs poured across the boarder along with the illegals whom now did not go home. I truly miss the beauty and comfortable life of the early days and mourn the death of an amazing state of America that will never return to its glory as long as the Dems lead.
SD have you ever stopped to think that maybe not everything is about ‘evil’ democrats vs ‘saintly’ republicans? that maybe... lots of people on both ends are bad, and therefore blaming all your issues on one sole group that you want to see as horrible is a stupid thing to do?
petrikovler No, because your erroneous comment is just that, full of errors. First, you completely misrepresent my comment. Second, you cannot comment on my thoughts or feelings since you have no idea of what they could be since you do not know me and already have incorrectly expressed the meaning of my original thought. In other words, sorry for seemingly not making myself clear originally, since you clearly did not understand.
@@fusetunes
This documentary(most likely made by an old time Democrat btw)would not even be allowed to be shown in a blue state today and in red states it would be considered too far right.
If you cannot see how much damage the left has caused to this country then you are blind.
The whole Country has change since then. California has went to the 6th then 5th to 4th largest economy in the world since you typed what you typed 4 or 5 years ago..
@@fusetunes When you live for years under both Political Parties with clear demarcations and completely different platforms and see the results under each one, also clearly, it is apparent. The Republican years were as I stated and the Dem years of a long slope down into decay and radical destruction. The stark difference between the two Parties was unbelieveably clear. From childhood into adulthood and on into my children's marriages and becoming grandparents and great cc fgrandparents ages. Yes, I have seen California destroyed by the evil philosophy and political policies of the leftist Dems and finally had to leave with a broken heart.
Is this guy from NYC
Los Angeles was Los AngHeles back then?
The American Dream. Land of opportunity and knocks. God blessed America.