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@@1slotmech The good ole days. When parents were able to parent their children. Not any more thanks to your Assemblymember Lori Wilson. The state can take your kids and raise them. What were you thinking voting for her?
I know film is considered a window to the past but these restorations with added sound make that statement almost literal. It's almost like watching the past with my own eyes rather than through a medium. I know it sounds corny but I can't think of a better way to describe what I experience watching this.
I agree, it's not a movie set. I find it interesting to freeze the film from time to time to check out all the detail......stores, cars, people walking down the street. It's a great time machine for those who really want to understand what life was like back then.
@@jessebaldwin2661 I just find it very interesting how someone knew we would be wanting to watch this later in life, even if it looked corny doing it at that time lol
Much has changed over the years. Main Street no longer crosses the track as it did when this film was shot. As the camera vehicle turns southbound onto Main St, the old Solano Court House can be seen in the distance about 1/2 mile away. As the camera travels south on Main St it becomes obvious that many building in this film have been torn down. Here's what I found that remains: 03:00 Proceeding southbound on Main St in Suisun city. Building in background left is located at 411 Main St. Now occupied by "Shear Madness Salon and Barber Shop." 03:12 Continuing southbound. Building is 501 Main St and is now occupied by "World of Hair" and "Scissor Me Pretty Dog Grooming & Boutique." 07:04 This begins a second run southbound on Main St. Building is 411 Main St. 07:20 Building at 427 Main St. (Now the Veteran's Memorial Building) 07:24 Building at 501 Main St 07:48 Building at 601 Main St at the corner of Sacramento St. Occupied by "Knotty Hair Salon." 07:53 The building with the glass block front is present day "Jack's Pub." 08:05 Corner of Solano St and Main St. Building with "Sterling" sign has new front today and is "Main St Bar and Grill." 08:20 Southbound on Main St at intersection of California St. 08:15 House at 815 Main Street 08:43 Southbound on Main St at intersection of Morgan St. (House on corner is gone today.)
I'm getting totally addicted to these videos, especially the Californian ones. Seeing the cars, buildings, and people in their period-correct state is amazing; movies can never recreate the authenticity of film shot in period, especially when it is remastered with such attention to detail. It does make you feel quite nostalgic though, which stems from increasing dissatisfaction with present-day life - the last two years show a particularly worrying trend.
The newest vehicles are 1949s, on the road and at the new car dealership. I like the way you re-condition these films. And the colorization makes them appear dreamlike.
I did not see any 50s cars also. But a lot more cars from the 30’s than I remember being around after the war loved seeing them, brought back memories, cars with four on the floor and a button starter.
@@goneysangullies which button you talking about? the one on the driver's left side upper floor board or the little on on the dash. either way, 90% of the people these days would not know what your talking about. & what about the column H pattern?
I've seen these kind of films from California, before. I believe that these, rear window, street scenes were filmed to use as background video for Hollywood movies. When actors were pictured in automobiles, these scenes are what the viewer would see through the car windows.
Vehicle appears to be going WB on what is now Hwy 12. Then at the tracks, the vehicle turns South onto Main St. You can see when the car turns how close he is to the tracks and as he rounds the turn and continues, the tracks begin to disappear in the back ground. The only building I latched on to is at 2:58 is the 411 Mains st building in Suisun CA as per Google maps. Look at the double towers. I love trying to figure this out on Google maps. And I live in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles Ca. I usually start by looking for Things like RR tracks which are seldom removed in smaller cities. Mountain backgrounds. Shadows tell me which direction the vehicle travels. Also at 3:12 501 main street on the left is still there today. Look at the arched entrance, it matches today. At 3:28 the Bank of America building is located at 601 Main st and is now the Notty Hair salon.
Keep up the great analysis. I do the same thing. Without accurate geographical references these colorized movies are not as interesting as they should be.
Great analysis! I love doing that too, especially dating the films by the cars. I used to live not too far away from here, but only just passed by on the freeway and never stopped in the town.
Yep they all did a number on us, who the bankers and those running them all, too many people were prospering just look at 1930s new york and so on, heck even in Mexico 1930s 90 % of all people were wearing suits classy hats and they even had electric train carts lol. and now what the heck happened, EXACTLY!
I wonder what the guy who walked onto the road and then walked back forgot, Did he go into corner store or go home to get something, These are things I think about when watching these films, Like the lady who looked back at the car/camera what did she get up to after that.. When I watch these films its hard to describe the feeling its almost like another WORLD / PLANET and you're just so interested to observe and see all thats happening. Thanks again NASS for uploading this wonderful video and all the work you do to bring them to us
I lived in Suisun City From January 1971 to August 2018, 47 years. Raised 4 boys there. Lived 2 blocks off Main on California St. Will send this video t my kids and others who loved Suisun City as We did.
This starts out on State Route 12, in Birds Landing, I think. I've driven here many times. There's a mileage sign that lists Rio Vista, Isleton, and Lodi (where Creadence Clearwater Revival sang about getting stuck - also the birthplace of A&W root beer and burger joints). This may have been background footage for All the King's Men, which was shot in Stockton, and also Rio Vista and along Highway 12. It actually starts in Denverton, which is really a place name used by local farms.
*Thanks for that great information! A lot of the comments in these threads are so informative, especially coming from Californians such as yourself. Thanks Max!*
Not to differ here, but I grew up in the area where this was shot, and Hwy 12 doesn't actually go thru Bird's Landing. Apparently, there's a slight jog in the road that wasn't there by the time I was around 25 years later. But it starts out about 1/2 mile east of the Hwy 12 junction with the train tracks and goes west until turning south into the biz district of Suisun City.
@@ApartmentKing66 you're quite right. I realized that later on. The place it starts is now an expressway, just west of Travis AFB. That turn is very different now. I still think it may have been background shots for All The King's Men.
So wonderful that photographers filmed this footage for us to enjoy today, even though they weren't likely doing it for posterity. Thanks, NASS, for posting the videos. Love how the trees in the downtown area have whitewashed trunks. I'd forgotten we used to do that to limit destructive pest infestation or at least to see the pests better so as to get rid of them in a timely manner. I remember the farm across the street from my childhood home in 1946 grew walnuts and every trunk was properly and neatly whitewashed with a lime mixture. Few things were more relaxing during a hot summer than sitting in the coolness of walnut tree groves. The farm neighbors had a huge purple-dapple white horse named Kurt (strange how I recall his name) who would often come stand where we sat dangling our feet in the soft powdery earth. He was a darling boy.
We moved to the Delta area of the East Bay in 1954, when I was only five. We lived in Antioch, which is on the San Joaquin River. Even though I've never been to Suisun City, I know it wasn't far from where we lived. This is a nice little slice of life in what looks like a thriving little town. Very nice, I enjoyed it a lot.
When I was a very young we lived near there in the town of Benicia. The area is so much more built up than back then. Fairfield, Vallejo - they've all grown quite large. Solano County has four or five times larger population than when that was filmed.
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I still live here lol We call this Downtown or Old Suisun. I’m just down Highway 12 two stop lights away. Always loved the local History. Awesome to see what it was. Great video!
It must be amazing to see streets that are so familiar to you, but I imagine, very much changed. I love all of the California videos that he's found. I'm in the next county south of you.
Yeah most of the “city” portion is very different but some of those backroads look exactly the same. In fact I thought the opening scene was footage from the present with an old timey filter on it.
Hello. I lived in Suisun City for a while myself while growing up. When they changed Highway 12 to a freeway they changed Main Street. You can’t drive straight into Old Suisun from Fairfield anymore. They cut it in two, effectively isolating Old Suisun. That part of town went downhill for a while. Also, as a sign of how things change, I recently visited Suisun and found that the school I went to from 4th to 6th grades, Crystal School, was torn down and is now a grassy field. I didn’t expect that. One thing this video does not show is how WINDY the area is.🙂
I love these videos. A kinder and gentler time. The simple life. As much as times have changed, it's amazing how much things haven't changed. Paved roads. Telephone poles. Elaborate construction of wooden homes with intricate trim. Fences leaning...
There is so much that can be said about this film. In model railroading we call it the "steam-to-diesel-era" - a favored time period for layouts. I grew up in California and despite its famous big cities and National Parks, much of the state still has many small towns and farming areas. People forget there were once no freeways and in all these towns you drove down Main Street to get to where you were going. These little towns were people's whole world where they grew up, married someone from high school, went to war and hopefully came back, and settled into their own lives and work. They saved us all from tyrants who would have taken it away and stolen our democracy if they could have. Thanks for another important historical artifact.
@@Porsche996driver Funny, none were charged with your "insurrection" and Trump, cleared by the FBI of all charges. I look at it as Ashli Babbitt day, the young woman unarmed police officer/vet that the Capitol police murdered. The Capitol police unlocked the doors and invited them inside. Why were they there? To protest the Dems illegal tactics of holding the election open two months after the vote should have been closed. Pelosi is sued for withholding evidence of involvement and the Capitol police for hiding video evidence. Don't worry, it's all coming out and you've been hoodwinked.
@@Porsche996driver Some clown in face paint and cow horns was taking over the government? Less of a riot than burning down and looting a whole downtown time after time after time and nobody giving a shit.
@@Porsche996driver The traitors are the uber rich elite who have clearly successfully brainwashed you. Their traitorous actions took this country away from the people LONG ago, if Jan 6 was an insurrection (lol tour guide through the place allowed in by Police) then it certainly wasn't against America, it was against the Great Resetters.
Wonderful trip to yesterday in Suisun City, CA. I grew up in Suisun. ( Sue Soon ) It was child's paradise. Small town friendly. Great to watch the video of my hometown, where many of the buildings in the film are still standing. A kinder, gentle time.
The good ole days. When parents were able to parent their children. Not any more thanks to your Assemblymember Lori Wilson. The state can take your kids and raise them. What were residents thinking voting for her?
Fascinating…. Looks like traveling south (approx) on Main Street in Suisun. You can compare with google maps and a task trying to see where you are in comparison.
Thank you for these wonderful videos of the past, they remind me of when I was a boy riding in our families' All-American land yachts. My father never owned a foreign car, only American; he preferred Lincolns, Fords, and Mercurys. Pop would be shocked at the state of the car industry today.
This looks like the opening scene for a time period movie today except these are what the cars really looked like and not the borrowed museum and car collectors vehicles that all look uniformly brand new. The streets and buildings show reality too. Too bad the camera crew here didn't stop into the Elmo Club or any of the main street bars to see what the people really looked like and not the Hollywood version in movies today.
I finally figured out why I like this channel so much. It's just like when I was a young boy and my Dad would say to me and my brother and sister: "Let's go for a ride" and put us all in the car and we would drive around for an hour or two or three. My Mom would get a little break and we would see things we never saw - like these videos do. And I was raised in California. The Santa Clara Valley. In the 50's. Yes, that's what these videos do. They're all gone now. It's just me left.
My Dad owned Sterlings Tavern, corner of Main & Solano, I think! Across the street was Bill Clouds huge hotel, movie theater and Taxi cab Co. One night that huge hotel burnt down to the ground and I remember we stood across the street from it and while it burned, it lit up the whole night sky like it was daytime ! It burned for hours, maybe days ! That was the most caring community I have had the privilege to live in ! So family oriented. Sheldon Oil, my 1st boyfriends family business was there. JOHNNy Hopkins, Sheldon, was my K thru 6th grade pal. We bought what was the Judges house, K I Jones house at 308 Calif. Street ! The house was massive! I laugh now because we had a cloak room. One whole room bigger than most bedrooms now and it was to hang up your mittens, coat and boots ! It was a spectacular home and my parents had many a party out on the patio, under the stars, juke box playing the most popular 50's music ! What a childhood, thanks to Suisun City, CA !
That was proper America, clean tidy beautiful, definitely getting better with the ai software, quite incredible how so much can be synthesised from monochrome information.
Fairfield/Suisun my hometown!! I’m so sad that 80% of all these buildings are gone. Literally, everything on the right side is gone and about 12-14 buildings to the left are gone. I’ve done some diving into both town’s history and it was such a great and thriving place. But because of dumb city management in the 70s our beautiful towns never recovered but only up until now they are coming back.
The good ole days. When parents were able to parent their children. Not any more thanks to your Assemblymember Lori Wilson. The state can take your kids and raise them. What were you thinking voting for her?
1:37 Unusual use of a single railroad crossbuck for warning both directions of automobile highway travel, even if the tracks are sidings. 2:02 Looks like an old-fashion, cast iron advance-warning grade-crossing sign right out of the 1920s on the right-hand side of the road. 6:08 Trackside water column for replenishing steam locomotive tanks.
*You definitely know your 'railroad stuff', sir! You must be a railroad history enthusiast?* *At any rate, thanks for the timestamps & for sharing your knowledge, Michael.👍*
Back in the early 20th century, there was an electric railway connecting the towns within Solano County. These trains helped connect to main line steam trains to the “Train Ferry” that would then be moved through the Suisun marsh and then to The SF Bay. These operated until the many bridges connecting the Bays where built in the 1930s-1940s.
Colorizations seem to be improving nicely and the sounds are not noticeably overly exaggerated, well done. I don't know how it works exactly, but with today's technology or the right software, one should be able to assign a color scheme to various objects such as a car, individually. At least that's what I feel compelled to do when watching these... like the thumbnail was done in Photoshop.
I think you can only do something like: change all the pixels that are this color (some shade of gray) to this new color. For example, you assume the sky is blue, but after changing the sky pixels to shades of blue, the people's faces turn blue. You then change the people's faces to a flesh color causing the sky to look like it is at sunset. I would imagine it takes a lot of trial and error to get the colors to look just right.
@@JustFunandGames Actually, software can tell what is what and doesn't mistake sky for flesh, but I'm assuming many parts of a new scene have to be assigned specifically to the new shapes, as it doesn't know a 7up logo has green behind a white 7 until you tell it, and unless it's a big production they don't spend the time to do that.
A few others as well. Just before the Masonic lodge the Bank of America building is still there (now the Knotty Hair Salon). The Mint Cafe is now the Waterfront Comic book shop. A bit past the Masonic lodge the White Elephant Store is now the Port Of Call Grocery. Even a portion of the IOOF building remains too. Got to love Google street view.
The sharp 'S' curve at 0:06 and other things inspired me to do some research on this highway even though I live in another state. This apparently was/is Highway 12 per some 1950s road maps. However, most of them did not show the aforementioned 'S' curve (which no longer exists) so I dug deeper. There is a 1955 Metsker map of Solano County which does in fact show the original alignment and the newer Highway 12. It looks like the original alignment followed Peterson Road, Creed Road and Denverton Road where the two alignments eventually become coincident. I'm a land surveyor by profession (retired from a State DOT) and I find such research to be a real adventure! I wonder if it was CALTRANS who originally filmed this and used it for engineering purposes for the new alignment...??
Fascinating research from out of state! You know that old "S" curve you pointed out sent a lot of speeders skidding off the road. Regarding the roads in California, there are some pretty good driver's education films from 50-60 years ago. Red Asphalt was shown when I was in high school and to quote No Country For Old Men - "it certainly made an impression on me" - a good one about driver safety. Regarding this film and others on this channel, since NASS hasn't said, there seems to be a growing consensus they were used for background material in movies. At the time aerial photos were being used widely for purposes of planning and of course still are. The studios didn't necessarily use them for strictly California-based films. The towns and roads could stand in for anywhere.
What is the context of why these were filmed? Were they testing out a new camera? Or filming for B roll for something? I love your films.. they bring me a nostalgia for a time I never lived in - but I always wondered what made the original person film at all.
A lot of this footage is in fact stock film footage. Companies back in the 30s and 40s filmed exterior streets and then rented the footage or sold the footage to motion picture studios that use them in rear projections behind car interiors. They also shot front-facing footage but for some reason or other that hasn't shown up much here.
Привет из России, из далёкого города Хабаровск! С удовольствием смотрим ваши исторические видео! Greetings from Russia, from the distant city of Khabarovsk! We are happy to watch your historical videos!
I watched this and looked on google map at the same time to find where it was and got excited when I found it and saw many buildings that didn’t change very much. Amazing how things change but also stay the same.
Como você deve saber, muitos Portugueses se estabeleceram no norte da Califórnia em meados do século XIX. Muitos Portugueses continuam a viver na cidade de Suisun.
6:52 Очень интересный школьный автобус. Похож на наш ЗИС-16. 6:52 A very interesting school bus. Similar to our ZIS-16. Заметил несколько грузовиков Форд-АА. Их в СССР выпускали по лицензии завода "Форд". Выпускали и легковые ГАЗ-А. I noticed several Ford-AA trucks. They were produced in the USSR under the license of the Ford plant. GAZ-A passenger cars were also produced. Был ещё у нас такой автомобиль ГАЗ-М1. Это модернизированная версия автомобиля Форд-V8. We also had such a GAZ-M1 car. This is an upgraded version of the Ford V-8 car.
It looks like it could be the countryside of California, or a city that might be otherwise rural this days. Amazing to see that, it also reminds me of Cuba.
I live in Fairfield. I’ve been to the museum at Birds Landing. Did you know Collinsville was a major port on the Delta? Had the only bar and dance hall between Sacramento and San Francisco at the time.
Wow, traveling back in time ... I remember the old Sheldon Oil Building and the Veterans Memorial Building where my parents were married in 1955! Then in the distance, you see the Courthouse. You don't see it but the old library was the corner of West Texas and Main. I remember those old store fronts back in the early 60's. I'm getting old LOL
I know the film title indicates the location is Suisant California but the viewer is treated to a drive by of The California Packing Corporation, AKA Delmonte, Plant 60. Looking up that location online shows the building is in Yuba City, California. Does anyone know about this location?
That building is gone now but that side of the railroad tracks is Fairfield, Ca. They probably moved to Yuba City (which isn't all that far away) after closing down this plant.
I wasn’t born yet but my family lived in the Sacramento area not too far away, lots of towns in California looked like this and some still do if you venture out. I love the colorization, really brings out the details…….Thanks for the upload! Do you have any film like this one near Sacramento, such as Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Roseville, Auburn, CA even Sacramento in the 1940s ? Thanks for the upload!
Many of the old building are STILL there along Main Street south of Sacramento St. (the building with the three tall windows topped with half-circle windows. You can follow the film to see what they are today.
Wow, this was shot when Hwy 12 ran in a straight line past what's now Travis AFB before the highway was rerouted to make room for the runway extension. Today's Petersen Road (formerly Scandia Rd.), Creed Road, and Denverton Road are where the old alignment was.
If it's okay with everyone else I'd like to stop the car at 3:50 and 8:17 and take a look inside that White Elephant store. I can only imagine the stuff they have in there.
I think that belonged to Warren Neece. He was a local business man who owned the White Elephant and the 5 and Dime ! I think there was just a lot of furniture like stuff in there. Will have to ask my older siblings!
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@@1slotmech Where is saisun city ?
@@1slotmech The good ole days. When parents were able to parent their children. Not any more thanks to your Assemblymember Lori Wilson. The state can take your kids and raise them. What were you thinking voting for her?
I know film is considered a window to the past but these restorations with added sound make that statement almost literal. It's almost like watching the past with my own eyes rather than through a medium. I know it sounds corny but I can't think of a better way to describe what I experience watching this.
I agree, it's not a movie set. I find it interesting to freeze the film from time to time to check out all the detail......stores, cars, people walking down the street. It's a great time machine for those who really want to understand what life was like back then.
Vous dites exactement se que je ressents !
@@jessebaldwin2661
I just find it very interesting how someone knew we would be wanting to watch this later in life, even if it looked corny doing it at that time lol
Much has changed over the years. Main Street no longer crosses the track as it did when this film was shot. As the camera vehicle turns southbound onto Main St, the old Solano Court House can be seen in the distance about 1/2 mile away. As the camera travels south on Main St it becomes obvious that many building in this film have been torn down. Here's what I found that remains:
03:00 Proceeding southbound on Main St in Suisun city. Building in background left is located at 411 Main St. Now occupied by "Shear Madness Salon and Barber Shop."
03:12 Continuing southbound. Building is 501 Main St and is now occupied by "World of Hair" and "Scissor Me Pretty Dog Grooming & Boutique."
07:04 This begins a second run southbound on Main St. Building is 411 Main St.
07:20 Building at 427 Main St. (Now the Veteran's Memorial Building)
07:24 Building at 501 Main St
07:48 Building at 601 Main St at the corner of Sacramento St. Occupied by "Knotty Hair Salon."
07:53 The building with the glass block front is present day "Jack's Pub."
08:05 Corner of Solano St and Main St. Building with "Sterling" sign has new front today and is "Main St Bar and Grill."
08:20 Southbound on Main St at intersection of California St.
08:15 House at 815 Main Street
08:43 Southbound on Main St at intersection of Morgan St. (House on corner is gone today.)
Very nice crossreference! Interesting comment.
Thank you, that´s what I was waiting for in order to compare changes in time.
You can see the back of the current courthouse before being bloxked by the California packing # 60 structure. Then known as Armijo Union High School.
In the second run, you can just make out the top of the train depot over the buildings along Main St.
Nice work
I'm getting totally addicted to these videos, especially the Californian ones. Seeing the cars, buildings, and people in their period-correct state is amazing; movies can never recreate the authenticity of film shot in period, especially when it is remastered with such attention to detail. It does make you feel quite nostalgic though, which stems from increasing dissatisfaction with present-day life - the last two years show a particularly worrying trend.
Best comment ever regarding these videos. I innerstand you.
Just keep voting for the democrats, they're going to fix everything 😂
Another great insight into years gone by. Feels like you could almost step through the screen onto the street.
Yeah, and it looks like finding parking is still a challenge downtown.
The newest vehicles are 1949s, on the road and at the new car dealership. I like the way you re-condition these films. And the colorization makes them appear dreamlike.
I did not see any 50s cars also. But a lot more cars from the 30’s than I remember being around after the war loved seeing them, brought back memories, cars with four on the floor and a button starter.
I agree. I thought I saw 1949 Fords...or even 1950.
@@goneysangullies which button you talking about? the one on the driver's left side upper floor board or the little on on the dash. either way, 90% of the people these days would not know what your talking about. & what about the column H pattern?
Yea, but are we really seeing it the same way it looked in person....
@@topgeardel 1949 Ford Custom and Chevrolet pick-up trucks
I've seen these kind of films from California, before. I believe that these, rear window, street scenes were filmed to use as background video for Hollywood movies. When actors were pictured in automobiles, these scenes are what the viewer would see through the car windows.
Thanks! Your videos are truly a form of time travel. Please keep up the good work!
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Vehicle appears to be going WB on what is now Hwy 12. Then at the tracks, the vehicle turns South onto Main St. You can see when the car turns how close he is to the tracks and as he rounds the turn and continues, the tracks begin to disappear in the back ground. The only building I latched on to is at 2:58 is the 411 Mains st building in Suisun CA as per Google maps. Look at the double towers. I love trying to figure this out on Google maps. And I live in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles Ca. I usually start by looking for Things like RR tracks which are seldom removed in smaller cities. Mountain backgrounds. Shadows tell me which direction the vehicle travels. Also at 3:12 501 main street on the left is still there today. Look at the arched entrance, it matches today. At 3:28 the Bank of America building is located at 601 Main st and is now the Notty Hair salon.
Keep up the great analysis. I do the same thing. Without accurate geographical references these colorized movies are not as interesting as they should be.
@@phaecops And it's fun.
Great analysis! I love doing that too, especially dating the films by the cars. I used to live not too far away from here, but only just passed by on the freeway and never stopped in the town.
Call me old fashioned, call me old, but everything from the cars to the buildings to the people just look more…. Classy.
Yep they all did a number on us, who the bankers and those running them all, too many people were prospering just look at 1930s new york and so on, heck even in Mexico 1930s 90 % of all people were wearing suits classy hats and they even had electric train carts lol. and now what the heck happened, EXACTLY!
And decent.
At 2:02 is a railroad crossing warning sign that was pretty old even in the 1950s! What a cool look back in time.
The closest thing to time travel.
This is one of the cleanest Remasters I've seen. If it wasn't for the classic vehicles I would have thought this was recent.
*Ditto. My mind is almost blown as I watch these in almost disbelief at their clarity!*
@@andyroid5028 Yeah, it's like watching videotape before it was invented.
I wonder what the guy who walked onto the road and then walked back forgot, Did he go into corner store or go home to get something, These are things I think about when watching these films, Like the lady who looked back at the car/camera what did she get up to after that.. When I watch these films its hard to describe the feeling its almost like another WORLD / PLANET and you're just so interested to observe and see all thats happening.
Thanks again NASS for uploading this wonderful video and all the work you do to bring them to us
The mileage sign on the right at 1:05 lists the towns of Rio Vista, Isleton, and Lodi, in that order. This would be Highway 12, looking east.
@Herny TudorFord 👍 All of that happened to Creedence Clearwater Revival too! 😛
@Herny TudorFord I agree ! ⬅️
I lived in Suisun City From January 1971 to August 2018, 47 years. Raised 4 boys there. Lived 2 blocks off Main on California St. Will send this video t my kids and others who loved Suisun City as We did.
I love your video restorations. The quality on this one was excellent! Thank you!
This starts out on State Route 12, in Birds Landing, I think. I've driven here many times. There's a mileage sign that lists Rio Vista, Isleton, and Lodi (where Creadence Clearwater Revival sang about getting stuck - also the birthplace of A&W root beer and burger joints). This may have been background footage for All the King's Men, which was shot in Stockton, and also Rio Vista and along Highway 12. It actually starts in Denverton, which is really a place name used by local farms.
*Thanks for that great information! A lot of the comments in these threads are so informative, especially coming from Californians such as yourself. Thanks Max!*
Awesome thanks for the history lesson. Never knew those things.
Not to differ here, but I grew up in the area where this was shot, and Hwy 12 doesn't actually go thru Bird's Landing. Apparently, there's a slight jog in the road that wasn't there by the time I was around 25 years later. But it starts out about 1/2 mile east of the Hwy 12 junction with the train tracks and goes west until turning south into the biz district of Suisun City.
@@ApartmentKing66 you're quite right. I realized that later on. The place it starts is now an expressway, just west of Travis AFB. That turn is very different now. I still think it may have been background shots for All The King's Men.
So wonderful that photographers filmed this footage for us to enjoy today, even though they weren't likely doing it for posterity. Thanks, NASS, for posting the videos.
Love how the trees in the downtown area have whitewashed trunks. I'd forgotten we used to do that to limit destructive pest infestation or at least to see the pests better so as to get rid of them in a timely manner. I remember the farm across the street from my childhood home in 1946 grew walnuts and every trunk was properly and neatly whitewashed with a lime mixture.
Few things were more relaxing during a hot summer than sitting in the coolness of walnut tree groves. The farm neighbors had a huge purple-dapple white horse named Kurt (strange how I recall his name) who would often come stand where we sat dangling our feet in the soft powdery earth. He was a darling boy.
At 8:20 - An ancient wall advertisement for Carnation Mush, also known as oatmeal, probably from the 1910’s. My father still calls it mush.
The color turned out really good on this one. Helps that the Delta countryside is mostly dirt colored anyway.
In 1940 Suisun City had a population of 706, in 1950 the population was 946. The 2010 population was 28,111.
Formidable ,c est toujours un plaisir de visionner vos vidéos ,on n a vraiment l impression de remonter le temps ,merci beaucoup
We moved to the Delta area of the East Bay in 1954, when I was only five. We lived in Antioch, which is on the San Joaquin River. Even though I've never been to Suisun City, I know it wasn't far from where we lived. This is a nice little slice of life in what looks like a thriving little town. Very nice, I enjoyed it a lot.
When I was a very young we lived near there in the town of Benicia. The area is so much more built up than back then. Fairfield, Vallejo - they've all grown quite large. Solano County has four or five times larger population than when that was filmed.
Go to the fireworks in Benicia every July!
Of course the population has jumped to the Moon after the Damage the seditious and sneaky "Hart - Celler Immigration (Invasion) Act of (Treason) 1965" did to the U.S. which has Destroyed this Country especially California/West Coast because it Created the mechanism for Illegal 👽Immigration which has turned into a All-Out Invasion from the 1980"s and now there isn't even a Border which means the End of America being a First World Country and will be a Turd World 💩hole by 2025 just as "'They"'👿👃 intended for it in 1965 which signaled the Death Knell of the U.S.A. 😦 😫😡The result will be 💣💥
My family lived in Benicia during WW II. Dad worked at the Arsenal. This scenery looks very familiar to: me. I love all the “time capsule” films.
@@princessposy2629 My grandpa worked at the Benicia Arsenal for years. He retired from there.
@@constitution_8939 Thank you, Chicken Little, for that sunny, optimistic post. My day is so much brighter now.
I still live here lol We call this Downtown or Old Suisun. I’m just down Highway 12 two stop lights away. Always loved the local History. Awesome to see what it was. Great video!
It must be amazing to see streets that are so familiar to you, but I imagine, very much changed. I love all of the California videos that he's found. I'm in the next county south of you.
@@LaurenMirandaG My sentiments exactly!
Yeah most of the “city” portion is very different but some of those backroads look exactly the same. In fact I thought the opening scene was footage from the present with an old timey filter on it.
Hello. I lived in Suisun City for a while myself while growing up. When they changed Highway 12 to a freeway they changed Main Street. You can’t drive straight into Old Suisun from Fairfield anymore. They cut it in two, effectively isolating Old Suisun. That part of town went downhill for a while. Also, as a sign of how things change, I recently visited Suisun and found that the school I went to from 4th to 6th grades, Crystal School, was torn down and is now a grassy field. I didn’t expect that.
One thing this video does not show is how WINDY the area is.🙂
Splendid journey into the past. Things I remember quite well. Thanks for posting. Look forward to more of these!
I love these videos. A kinder and gentler time. The simple life. As much as times have changed, it's amazing how much things haven't changed. Paved roads. Telephone poles. Elaborate construction of wooden homes with intricate trim. Fences leaning...
There is so much that can be said about this film. In model railroading we call it the "steam-to-diesel-era" - a favored time period for layouts. I grew up in California and despite its famous big cities and National Parks, much of the state still has many small towns and farming areas. People forget there were once no freeways and in all these towns you drove down Main Street to get to where you were going. These little towns were people's whole world where they grew up, married someone from high school, went to war and hopefully came back, and settled into their own lives and work. They saved us all from tyrants who would have taken it away and stolen our democracy if they could have. Thanks for another important historical artifact.
Are you referring to Newsome? He's still working on it.
@@bobwallace9814 He’s clearly referring to Traitor Trump. Are you an Insurrectionist Bob?
@@Porsche996driver Funny, none were charged with your "insurrection" and Trump, cleared by the FBI of all charges. I look at it as Ashli Babbitt day, the young woman unarmed police officer/vet that the Capitol police murdered. The Capitol police unlocked the doors and invited them inside. Why were they there? To protest the Dems illegal tactics of holding the election open two months after the vote should have been closed. Pelosi is sued for withholding evidence of involvement and the Capitol police for hiding video evidence. Don't worry, it's all coming out and you've been hoodwinked.
@@Porsche996driver Some clown in face paint and cow horns was taking over the government? Less of a riot than burning down and looting a whole downtown time after time after time and nobody giving a shit.
@@Porsche996driver The traitors are the uber rich elite who have clearly successfully brainwashed you. Their traitorous actions took this country away from the people LONG ago, if Jan 6 was an insurrection (lol tour guide through the place allowed in by Police) then it certainly wasn't against America, it was against the Great Resetters.
I love these videos. Thanks for sharing them 😊
Wonderful trip to yesterday in Suisun City, CA. I grew up in Suisun. ( Sue Soon ) It was child's paradise. Small town friendly. Great to watch the video of my hometown, where many of the buildings in the film are still standing. A kinder, gentle time.
The good ole days. When parents were able to parent their children. Not any more thanks to your Assemblymember Lori Wilson. The state can take your kids and raise them. What were residents thinking voting for her?
Fascinating…. Looks like traveling south (approx) on Main Street in Suisun. You can compare with google maps and a task trying to see where you are in comparison.
wonderfull!!! thanks very much, best regards from Santiago, Chile
Best video yet! Well done, my friend.
Thank you for these wonderful videos of the past, they remind me of when I was a boy riding in our families' All-American land yachts. My father never owned a foreign car, only American; he preferred Lincolns, Fords, and Mercurys. Pop would be shocked at the state of the car industry today.
This looks like the opening scene for a time period movie today except these are what the cars really looked like and not the borrowed museum and car collectors vehicles that all look uniformly brand new. The streets and buildings show reality too. Too bad the camera crew here didn't stop into the Elmo Club or any of the main street bars to see what the people really looked like and not the Hollywood version in movies today.
I finally figured out why I like this channel so much. It's just like when I was a young boy and my Dad would say to me and my brother and sister: "Let's go for a ride" and put us all in the car and we would drive around for an hour or two or three. My Mom would get a little break and we would see things we never saw - like these videos do. And I was raised in California. The Santa Clara Valley. In the 50's. Yes, that's what these videos do. They're all gone now. It's just me left.
Gracias NASS. Thanks for yours movies.
From Spain 👏👏👏Bravo!!!
your vids are absolutely the best!
My Dad owned Sterlings Tavern, corner of Main & Solano, I think! Across the street was Bill Clouds huge hotel, movie theater and Taxi cab Co. One night that huge hotel burnt down to the ground and I remember we stood across the street from it and while it burned, it lit up the whole night sky like it was daytime ! It burned for hours, maybe days ! That was the most caring community I have had the privilege to live in ! So family oriented. Sheldon Oil, my 1st boyfriends family business was there. JOHNNy Hopkins, Sheldon, was my K thru 6th grade pal. We bought what was the Judges house, K I Jones house at 308 Calif. Street ! The house was massive! I laugh now because we had a cloak room. One whole room bigger than most bedrooms now and it was to hang up your mittens, coat and boots ! It was a spectacular home and my parents had many a party out on the patio, under the stars, juke box playing the most popular 50's music ! What a childhood, thanks to Suisun City, CA !
Great video. I remember almost all of the buildings and landmarks in Suisun having grown up on Ohio Street in Fairfield just across the tracks.
1949, to be more accurate. Several 1949 Fords in the picture. Love watching these films from simpler times. Thanks for posting!
That was proper America, clean tidy beautiful, definitely getting better with the ai software, quite incredible how so much can be synthesised from monochrome information.
Love those old cars from the 30s and 40s. They style and class. Not like dull square ones we drive today.
They look better, but they last less than 50k miles before they're ready for scrap
Fairfield/Suisun my hometown!! I’m so sad that 80% of all these buildings are gone. Literally, everything on the right side is gone and about 12-14 buildings to the left are gone. I’ve done some diving into both town’s history and it was such a great and thriving place. But because of dumb city management in the 70s our beautiful towns never recovered but only up until now they are coming back.
The good ole days. When parents were able to parent their children. Not any more thanks to your Assemblymember Lori Wilson. The state can take your kids and raise them. What were you thinking voting for her?
I used to go to the old Crystal middle school
Its looks so stressless. Without any hassle. Enviable...
1:37 Unusual use of a single railroad crossbuck for warning both directions of automobile highway travel, even if the tracks are sidings.
2:02 Looks like an old-fashion, cast iron advance-warning grade-crossing sign right out of the 1920s on the right-hand side of the road.
6:08 Trackside water column for replenishing steam locomotive tanks.
I see 2 water columns.
*You definitely know your 'railroad stuff', sir! You must be a railroad history enthusiast?*
*At any rate, thanks for the timestamps & for sharing your knowledge, Michael.👍*
Back in the early 20th century, there was an electric railway connecting the towns within Solano County. These trains helped connect to main line steam trains to the “Train Ferry” that would then be moved through the Suisun marsh and then to The SF Bay. These operated until the many bridges connecting the Bays where built in the 1930s-1940s.
Colorizations seem to be improving nicely and the sounds are not noticeably overly exaggerated, well done. I don't know how it works exactly, but with today's technology or the right software, one should be able to assign a color scheme to various objects such as a car, individually. At least that's what I feel compelled to do when watching these... like the thumbnail was done in Photoshop.
I think you can only do something like: change all the pixels that are this color (some shade of gray) to this new color. For example, you assume the sky is blue, but after changing the sky pixels to shades of blue, the people's faces turn blue. You then change the people's faces to a flesh color causing the sky to look like it is at sunset. I would imagine it takes a lot of trial and error to get the colors to look just right.
@@JustFunandGames Actually, software can tell what is what and doesn't mistake sky for flesh, but I'm assuming many parts of a new scene have to be assigned specifically to the new shapes, as it doesn't know a 7up logo has green behind a white 7 until you tell it, and unless it's a big production they don't spend the time to do that.
as close as you can get to a time machine--- just wonderful.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS MAN.......THEY REPRESENT THE BEST AND UNIQUE WAY TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE HUMAN EVOLUTION ///////THANKS FOR THAT/////
Most of those buildings are long gone. The Masonic Lodge (@3:42 at left) is still there.
A few others as well. Just before the Masonic lodge the Bank of America building is still there (now the Knotty Hair Salon). The Mint Cafe is now the Waterfront Comic book shop. A bit past the Masonic lodge the White Elephant Store is now the Port Of Call Grocery. Even a portion of the IOOF building remains too. Got to love Google street view.
Happiness is seeing a notification of a Nass upload. 😃
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Good comments by the viewers. I agree, this looks like about 1949 judging from the Fords in the video.
At 3:31 is that an old Target store on the right - - - - - > ?
The sharp 'S' curve at 0:06 and other things inspired me to do some research on this highway even though I live in another state. This apparently was/is Highway 12 per some 1950s road maps. However, most of them did not show the aforementioned 'S' curve (which no longer exists) so I dug deeper. There is a 1955 Metsker map of Solano County which does in fact show the original alignment and the newer Highway 12. It looks like the original alignment followed Peterson Road, Creed Road and Denverton Road where the two alignments eventually become coincident. I'm a land surveyor by profession (retired from a State DOT) and I find such research to be a real adventure!
I wonder if it was CALTRANS who originally filmed this and used it for engineering purposes for the new alignment...??
Fascinating research from out of state! You know that old "S" curve you pointed out sent a lot of speeders skidding off the road. Regarding the roads in California, there are some pretty good driver's education films from 50-60 years ago. Red Asphalt was shown when I was in high school and to quote No Country For Old Men - "it certainly made an impression on me" - a good one about driver safety. Regarding this film and others on this channel, since NASS hasn't said, there seems to be a growing consensus they were used for background material in movies. At the time aerial photos were being used widely for purposes of planning and of course still are. The studios didn't necessarily use them for strictly California-based films. The towns and roads could stand in for anywhere.
Its like people are going back in time and filming this . Its very good quality
God bless the person who had the foresight to just point the camera out the back and drive through the country.Hopefully someone is doing that today.
This is Awesome! Very good Work!
NEWEST CAR SEEN ON THIS FILM, 1949 FORD !
Yep.2 of them.
Very nice. Only note I'd have is that all those two stroke engines would be a lot louder in those days. 🙂
I think the clouds looked softer 70 years ago. :)
*There were definitely no contrails then!*
This guy's driving is all over the place! Great footage though, thanks.
Nice foresight filming the street life, they would have had no idea that in 2022 people would be watching their films by wifi on their mobile phones.
The newest cars I saw in this were 2 1949 Fords. All those 40's cars look so stodgy compared to them. 😁
1:55 Old Solano County Courthouse visible in far background.
What is the context of why these were filmed? Were they testing out a new camera? Or filming for B roll for something? I love your films.. they bring me a nostalgia for a time I never lived in - but I always wondered what made the original person film at all.
I've wondered the same thing. My guess is that they were made to be used as rear projection in Hollywood films, for scenes that involve driving.
A lot of this footage is in fact stock film footage. Companies back in the 30s and 40s filmed exterior streets and then rented the footage or sold the footage to motion picture studios that use them in rear projections behind car interiors. They also shot front-facing footage but for some reason or other that hasn't shown up much here.
An interesting footage from the past: thanks!
The AI upscale on this one is pretty amazing
Wow…so cool. I love all Nass videos.
I saw two 1949 Fords. This could be late 1948 or 1949. Keep these old movies coming!
Thanks! Man, that area is unrecognizable as such today.
I recognized it fine.
Привет из России, из далёкого города Хабаровск! С удовольствием смотрим ваши исторические видео!
Greetings from Russia, from the distant city of Khabarovsk! We are happy to watch your historical videos!
This is too cool. It the closest thing to time travel there is.
I watched this and looked on google map at the same time to find where it was and got excited when I found it and saw many buildings that didn’t change very much. Amazing how things change but also stay the same.
Essa gravação tá perfeito, que relíquia.
Muito obrigado.
Como você deve saber, muitos Portugueses se estabeleceram no norte da Califórnia em meados do século XIX. Muitos Portugueses continuam a viver na cidade de Suisun.
Gracias dios por darnos la inteligencia para hacer camaras de video
6:52 Очень интересный школьный автобус. Похож на наш ЗИС-16.
6:52 A very interesting school bus. Similar to our ZIS-16.
Заметил несколько грузовиков Форд-АА. Их в СССР выпускали по лицензии завода "Форд". Выпускали и легковые ГАЗ-А.
I noticed several Ford-AA trucks. They were produced in the USSR under the license of the Ford plant. GAZ-A passenger cars were also produced.
Был ещё у нас такой автомобиль ГАЗ-М1. Это модернизированная версия автомобиля Форд-V8.
We also had such a GAZ-M1 car. This is an upgraded version of the Ford V-8 car.
Time Travelling is a wonderful Thing!
wow. This is truly insane. Thank you.
Love these videos, thankyou
It looks like it could be the countryside of California, or a city that might be otherwise rural this days. Amazing to see that, it also reminds me of Cuba.
I'm still wondering about that big ad painted on the side of the building... what was "Carnation Mush"??
i was born in 1968 but i sure would like to go back to this time era
Neat video. NASS is the closest thing there is to a time machine!
I live in Fairfield. I’ve been to the museum at Birds Landing. Did you know Collinsville was a major port on the Delta? Had the only bar and dance hall between Sacramento and San Francisco at the time.
I live in Vacaville. Just 15 minutes from Suisun city, and it’s crazy to see most of the stuff looks the same out in the areas.
So trippy. I grew up in this little town 😍
Not so little now! It and Fairfield has pretty much grown together.
Do you still live there?
Natural Lense makes great perspective
Great video, very nice 👍👌😀
Maybe my favorite one yet. Well done.
I lived in Fairfield CA from 1989 to 1997 and then next door to Suisun City 1997 to 2004. back in Fairfield since 2004.
Ein brillante Film Qualität 👍
Wow, traveling back in time ... I remember the old Sheldon Oil Building and the Veterans Memorial Building where my parents were married in 1955! Then in the distance, you see the Courthouse. You don't see it but the old library was the corner of West Texas and Main. I remember those old store fronts back in the early 60's. I'm getting old LOL
I know the film title indicates the location is Suisant California but the viewer is treated to a drive by of The California Packing Corporation, AKA Delmonte, Plant 60. Looking up that location online shows the building is in Yuba City, California. Does anyone know about this location?
That building is gone now but that side of the railroad tracks is Fairfield, Ca. They probably moved to Yuba City (which isn't all that far away) after closing down this plant.
I wasn’t born yet but my family lived in the Sacramento area not too far away, lots of towns in California looked like this and some still do if you venture out. I love the colorization, really brings out the details…….Thanks for the upload! Do you have any film like this one near Sacramento, such as Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Roseville, Auburn, CA even Sacramento in the 1940s ? Thanks for the upload!
Many of the old building are STILL there along Main Street south of Sacramento St. (the building with the three tall windows topped with half-circle windows. You can follow the film to see what they are today.
so cool!
Wish I could find old film like this in Savannah Georgia
Wow, this was shot when Hwy 12 ran in a straight line past what's now Travis AFB before the highway was rerouted to make room for the runway extension. Today's Petersen Road (formerly Scandia Rd.), Creed Road, and Denverton Road are where the old alignment was.
If it's okay with everyone else I'd like to stop the car at 3:50 and 8:17 and take a look inside that White Elephant store. I can only imagine the stuff they have in there.
I think that belonged to Warren Neece. He was a local business man who owned the White Elephant and the 5 and Dime ! I think there was just a lot of furniture like stuff in there. Will have to ask my older siblings!