A Day in Los Angeles 1950's in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of California, a time travel in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Fernando Valley, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight,
05:10 - 08:01 San Fernando Valley ca. late 1940s
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Thanks to Jeff Kaplan for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: Jeff Kaplan on archive.org
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Music RADIO background source: Philco Radio Time, January 29, 1947
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Rights to Music RADIO background: Public Domain
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[@AsapForget]

admit NASS... you're a time machine, and you're going back to the past to record

[@murphyxxxx869]

I wish i have a time machine to travel back to these days and just take a cab and drive around and watch the people

[@mikedudu2966]

Wished I go back then and live in those days, were the best

[@Powertuber1000]

I would pick up a nice unindoctrinated 1950s wife too.

[@SamSveistrup]

a cap of MDMA?

[@SamSveistrup]

oh a cab probably hey

[@sdcoinshooter]

@@mikedudu2966 Take me with you

[@marcosantucci3869]

There were beautiful woman's, beautiful movie's, beautiful cars, beautiful people, beautiful music and beautiful values.... Now gone time's... Kindly someone invents a time machine, i would stay there again 😢😍❤️

[@Catherine-wn8dh]

I love the way the music was added softly muffled behind the sounds of the world around it as if it was really playing from the radio

[@dave1956]

What a time this must have been to be living in LA. Vacant land, lots of it. What will they think of next? My wife’s grandfather and uncle moved out there in 1939, opening a gas station.

[@TheTferrer]

This used to be LA? Wow - this was a very nice place! Thank you for sharing..

[@NASS_0]

Thx!

[@andrewehunt68]

What magnificent footage! You've restored it beautifully. And I love the background sounds. I'll be revisiting this often. Thank you!

[@alanmurr6562]

Just looking at those beautiful cars you can tell 1959 was a long way into the future. This film looks to be from the early 1950's. Many cars from the 40's even 30's.

[@msmaj4895]

Back when 10 years on a car was equivalent to just broken in!

[@ericklorenzo8620]

My grandparents was in their 20s, in 1950, my grandpa was 22, and my grandma 17, sometimes I imagined them, how they looked in that moment....🇩🇴

[@jackgoldstein7203]

The newest car that I could easily tell the year of is a '51 Nash. They were introduced on Sept. 22, 1950, so this video would have to be after that. I really enjoyed watching this video.

[@NASS_0]

Hi Jack Goldstein you can help me find the years of this footage : archive.org/details/pet986r4phl thank you so much

[@massivebeatzz]

yeah this doesnt look liek classic 5ies cars - mor elike early early 50ies - those cars look liek 40ies lol....

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

@@massivebeatzz Well if you paid attention, he did say that the newest one he saw was a 51 Nash, meaning that the others are older. So yeah thanks for that, Captain Obvious.

[@pierrevoyemant7137]

1:01 Woodman / Oxnard shows Hillview market which by 1970 was pretty run down but still had the tastiest hamburger meat I ever had. Kiffin pharmacy building still there. I never saw the 76 station and the bar because Nieman-Reed lumber moved in with their unbelievably marked up prices 7:42 Chandler / Ethel little store where my mom bought cigarettes. It's where Pacific Electric line joined the railroad right of way

[@-oiiio-3993]

I worked at Neiman Reed's in the 1970s.

[@rbrown7985]

Back when the average person could afford a single family home in LA.

[@bambusario]

Hats off to Nass! Check out his other offerings. Amazing pre war big cars in the NYC films--among others a honest-to-goodness Duisenberg pulling into Manhattan traffic. (Hello, Nass, you are a hot topic in old car world. Many are using pause for stop action detail. Can you run film slower on side shots when camera car is accelerating? Sometimes background becomes blurred. Hard on the eyes. Many thanks for great work.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 😍

[@superian3484]

Beautiful project as usual, NASS. The unbounded optimism of American life in the 50’s telegraphs right through the screen. Thanks again.

[@RSTI191]

I spent 20 years in North Hollywood, San Fernando Valley. Move out 2018 as the place is 3 steps away from being a 3rd world hell hole. I can tell you street lined palm trees are non existent. Damn shame.. If I said it once I said it a thousand times, I wish I could have seen this place in the 50's.. THANK YOU..

[@burtpanzer]

You're seeing it now... but what happened, why are there no palm trees?

[@RSTI191]

@@burtpanzer You would have to ask the city if Los Angeles that question...

[@RSTI191]

@Jason Lol Okay I'll bite- That's pretty funny. Considering a sold my house, a 1030 sq ft house, for $680. per sq ft, I'd say you're talking out of your @ss. Is everyone in your lineage as ignorant as you?

[@notshylo]

@@RSTI191 yes a “third world hell hole” with $680/sq.ft home sales 🥴 Clearly.

[@IngefromGraz]

America was such a better place to live in than today with all the chaos happening! We are living in a real life Twilight Zone!

[@death2pc]

Not any "Twilight Zone"......... In a beyond Draconian Leftist NWO Totalitarian prison (nation), one paralleling a combination of the former Soviet Union, NAZI Germany, Cuba, South Africa.

[@AnnaLVajda]

It's worse all over worldwide.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

@@death2pc Go back, Nazi. We defeated you in the 40s and we'll do it over and over again.

[@ghislainemaxwell8269]

@@ColtraneTaylor He is not wrong. Cali is a dump

[@remoir6273]

@@ghislainemaxwell8269 lol. California economy grown even during the pandemic. Nice for you to say that it is a dump when 9/10 poorest states are republican states.

[@freedomforever6718]

Incredible footage. Now 70+ years later all that area is covered with subdivisions, strip malls and government buildings.

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

The music on the radio reminds me of listening to 40’s junction in my car

[@MoeGreensRightEye]

Yes, I listen too sometimes

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

@@MoeGreensRightEye wow really you have 40’s junction in your car!?

[@rob919ful]

Most houses back then weren't bigger than 700-800 sq. ft. with some a lot smaller. Some areas of LA were rural and not over developed. So pristine looking...

[@136760mas1]

Just beautiful... WOW!!!

[@briangalien8187]

that's great. the radio playing in the background.

[@NASS_0]

^^

[@1ambrose100]

What's happened to LA is tragic.

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

I found out that this was actually filmed in 1952

[@peetie25]

Driving around the valley. Listening to The Road to Morocco Parody with Bing, Bob and Dorothy. What a treat.

[@wallabing]

The music really sets the mood

[@ticketfortwo92]

Mesmerizing!

[@davidwhitney1171]

Check out the close up of the '49-'51 "Bathtub Nash" about one third into the video- talk about a classic car!

[@winterfell5523]

I have a feeling that America appeared together with good roads. Even in 1940 they had better roads than some of the countries nowadays

[@opponoastos]

I often watch videos about "the advanced civilization that stretched across the north American continent that mysteriously disappeared." Have a look for yourself. It might as well be Atlantis.

[@hertzair1186]

Amazing trip back in time…

[@AlexOros]

Bro look at all those classic cars !!!

[@danfazylov5952]

Unsafe, inefficient, heavy, slow, uncomfortable and a terrible steering? Oh yeah, this is a classic car.

[@Tibchy91]

Mexicans know they worth until this day.

[@Navpaper]

@@danfazylov5952 true only 1981 - 2022 cars are better

[@Synchromesh123]

@@danfazylov5952 It all depends on your point of view. I strongly dislike modern cars because they're filled with tons of absolutely useless electronics. They're very fat, most of them look exactly the same as the next and the manufacturers hate it when you fix your own car. But yes, they're safer and faster. If that's the most important thing to you.

[@randomgamesenjoyer1127]

@abcde but u gotta trust the fact that they were unsafe...no airbags, pretty much nothing considered as much of safety

[@brianherwood7020]

I was born in Hollywood in 1950. This brings back my early childhood more clearly than my memory. The sound and the light are perfectly recaptured.

[@marklisiecki5790]

How clean and beautiful Los Angeles was !!!

[@terriaaseth3019]

not any more, now it's a cess pool

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

What do u mean? Half of it is filthy and dirt. Half the cars are shitty. Idk if it’s cause people were poorer then or because in LA 1/2 the cars today are 15-30 years old and crappy as hell too. It’s cool to see but LA wasn’t exactly clean then, the 1970s maybe but then nah

[@animallovefest143]

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se I think it felt more clean by watching, cuz there is so much more space.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

@@terriaaseth3019 It’s true. I was born there in ‘52. Unbelievable dregs now.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Hey Lucas, what you are seeing is perhaps the Valley! Don’t know if it was incorporated yet back in the early Fifties. You also don’t know that Los Angeles was just recovering (still) from WWll. It wasn’t really populated until the late Fifties. Why? You ask? Something else you apparently were not around for, Television! That’s what helped with the post war housing boom. Once people were getting more post war jobs, they bought TV’s. Advertising started up on people’s favorite programs. Interestingly, TV had most of their programs on after 6pm, so the families were all together to watch. Only 2 or 3 local stations were available then. Feeds from the East Coast happened years ( a few) later. So now you understand better?

[@DOGE-eb9xh]

1950s L.A is a paradise. 2021 L.A is a piece of hell. That's the difference 😅

[@samsen3965]

That might describe us (Changemakers) in the first place🤓

[@rockybalboa8781]

@@samsen3965 open borders for Israel.

[@samsen3965]

@@rockybalboa8781 ??!?

[@remoir6273]

Lol. LA economy is bigger than your trash republican states

[@PhoenixHistory78]

@@remoir6273 it's bigger than almost every red states economy combined.

[@theprattman9157]

Sooo clean. No trash, no graffiti. Less signs. Beautiful.

[@lloydclement2152]

This is a fake video

[@jogmas12]

Cars look like upside down bath tubs

[@hud86]

Somehow we're "more advanced" today than then? I call bullshit. We need people to care again, apathy kills entire civilizations

[@hud86]

@@michaelstaengl1349 thoughtful response. I look at the physical world. The last time any major infrastructure and home building occured was in the 1970's. We're on outdated and crumbling infrastructure and people are concerned about whether it's socially acceptable to cut your dick off and be considered a female. From a freedoms and material wealth standpoint, we've regressed. There were gays, bi's and cross dressers back then, it just wasn't a source of pride or how one defined themselves. People used to define themselves by their job, which helped maintain the society. Now people have flame wars online while levees break, roads crumble and the power shuts off. We built products to last instead of the modern throw away economy and most people's carbon footprint was less. People weren't just sheep and had useful skills

[@michaelstaengl1349]

@@hud86 Your comment on the infrastructure thing Mr. Hudson just so reminds me in the current situation of Munich. In my home world city of Munich (for instance) I live in a really large quarter for newly built homes created in the early 2000s for several thousands of residents and I see many more of these projects around. Our public transportation network currently has one central main line connecting all the lines available in the public transportationo network which runns from east to wes through (beneath) the downtown. Now, Munich is building the "Zweite Stammstrecke" (The second root line) which is a gigantic modernization and infrastructure project. Many of the older subway and fast line stations had been refurbished on the outside and beneath that too. Regarding the gay rights thing, it's good that they finally get the same rights as the normals but there's a lot of feces bovine going on on the politically hypercorrect part of the western population (see the male sportsmen going as women to win contests and such nonintelligent things). Regarding this practical education thing and parts of the ecco friendliness due to the quality of products I'm fully with you. I have to add that back then the words of scientists doing their jobs for decades, publishing papers in peer reviewed magazins and other ways how science works was more accepted due to the lack of an antiauthoritarian way of thinking on the rightwinger as well as the leftwinger side. Back in the 50s the people would have stood together to fight that chinese virus to not let China win. New Zealand did it recently with the "Team New Zealand" approach and this country was one of the first to reopen stadiums and doing what people love, namely parties without to have to worry too much.

[@geoffjoffy]

I love the 1950s. Especially the way the ladies dressed. So smart and respectable.

[@tobygoodguy4032]

For those who relocated to LA after the war from the cities back east, this really must of been paradise.

[@paulpeterson4320]

My family moved from crowded Chicago row houses to a neighborhood like these in 1954. They did indeed think it was paradise.

[@1994CPK]

Now it's a ghetto shithole

[@waynewright2886]

People Like me Moved Out here by the Droves! Today L.A. Stands Out at Nearly 4 Million, but The Problems Began... & Look at L.A. Today!

[@1994CPK]

@@waynewright2886 the problems started in the 60s during the watts riots and the city becoming increasingly less white. Racial divisions destroy once great cities. Look at detroit as exhibit number 1.

[@elainelane1119]

@@1994CPK Look at White suppression and taxing people without giving them adequate schools.jobs.redlining from the banks.poor Healthcare..etc. Why do and how do you think it got like this ??

[@dondressel452]

I wish I could jump into the screen and live then

[@ChristmasEve777]

ME TOO!!! I wouldn't think twice! I'd give up everything.

[@MothGirl007]

Same.

[@sdcoinshooter]

Take me with you

[@noahpiril9560]

Licky to be white back then

[@pauls0416]

When white people weren't oppressed..... sigh.

[@nealsausen4651]

First part of this video He’s driving north on Woodman Avenue and turns left on Oxnard Street, Heading west, that building on the right is a pharmacy and it’s still there I lived right up the street from that intersection from 1969 to 2016 that’s Van Nuys! Oxnard and Woodman Buildings are still there in 2021 A lot of the empty lots on that first few minutes when he’s driving north on Woodman Avenue it’s a bunch of ugly apartments now some of those homes are still there in 2021 I lived right up the street from that for like 47 years when I saw that pharmacy I almost took a shit! It’s not a pharmacy now that used to be a pharmacy there used to be a clock on the roof You can see it in the video on the roof that pointy thing was a clock I don’t think it was working when I first moved to that area in 1969 and I believe it was removed a few years ago altogether when they remodeled the building! that’s the north east corner of Oxnard and Woodman The building on the right which is the south east corner of Woodman Avenue and Oxnard the one with that rounded wall that round glass wall that’s a martial arts studio now and a bike shop at least it was still there in December of 2019 the last time I was in that intersection that exact intersection Woodman Avenue and Oxnard Street in Van Nuys California Are used to go down that exact street almost every day for like 47 years! And now I’m stuck here in Akron Ohio where I am writing this comment! What the fuck happened The “OXWOOD”!

[@Allan-et5ig]

Unbelievable reminisce! Thanks. What makes you particularly unhappy about Akron just out of curiosity?

[@ilikequiet6474]

Thanks for the locations. I thought it was the San Fernando Valley because of the spaciousness. In the late 50's I lived on Riverside Dr one block west of Coldwater Cyn the 101 freeway was being built right behind our house. Sugar cookies were 2 cents and a can of soda 8 cents at the nearby bakery

[@Allan-et5ig]

@@ilikequiet6474 Pretty good pricing. I remember until the late 80s or 90s that restaurants use to charge for refills...then I think everyone realized that soda is cheap to manufacture. There's a grocery store by my house that sells soda for $0.35 a can. In 2021...not too bad. I must say those sugar cookie prices you mentioned can't be beat!

[@nealsausen4651]

@@Allan-et5ig :Oh.... it’s not that I am unhappy here in Akron I love Akron did you know that Akron is the home of the GoodyearBlimp?! when you see those Goodyear Blimps flying around SoCal they come from! here! when I see them flying around here in the skies of Akron it’s like a bit of memories of LA it’s just that I grew up spent most of my life in Los Angeles. (West side Pico Fairfax area) And then from the time I was 18 until 65 the San Fernando Valley the area shown In that video, I lived in the same house in Van Nuys for 46 years or so and then all of a sudden Bam! I find myself 3500 miles away in the Midwest it’s a bit of a culture shock and I get nostalgic for that part of LA since I spent a big chunk of my life there if not most of it and as I am a musician there is much work here in Akron as you can imagine for a practicing musician Especially now since the pandemic! But I like Akron the crime rates a little higher lately and that’s a shame! I like the place I just miss my home in LA I get nostalgic for it you know melancholy sometimes that’s about it

[@liasetdecorator4760]

Thank you so much for the location. I was trying to figure it out as I was watching and I guesses correctly Sherman Oaks area. I’ve never lived there but drive through occasionally so it’s amazing to me that it has such a distinctive and recognizable feel to it even after decades and changes.

[@JV-yo1ob]

Ah, L.A. without traffic and overcrowding... we can only dream...

[@mattmcbrayer6753]

LA isn't overcrowded. It's over-sprawled and under-developed.

[@andrewstinson3284]

You mean, "Ah, the San Fernando Valley without traffic and overcrowding." Try going to Downtown Los Angeles during this same era and you'd have bumper to bumper traffic.

[@tumadre5000]

@@andrewstinson3284 minus the gang, trash, homeless, drugs, etc

[@andrewstinson3284]

@@IIII...... So, what's your point? Did you miss the part where I wrote, '...Downtown Los Angeles..." in my comment? The San Fernando Valley is not part of Downtown Los Angeles.

[@gregpettis1113]

Thank you democrats

[@bellelaverne7887]

My relatives moved in the 50’s from Europe to LA to start a new life. Now I can see what they must have seen arriving there freshly. They stayed there the rest of their lives until they passed away. I’ve visited them several times, also from Europe. I miss my aunties and uncles dearly, till this day. Thank you so much for sharing these vivid impressions.

[@billybugh4774]

I was born in the wrong era. Wish I could wake up tommorow there at that time.

[@girle5584]

The trees are the star of this show.

[@snowwhite7677]

In 2021, the Feces are the Star of the Show!

[@tj8771]

I'm impressed by the openness, the houses are not crammed together like sardines as they are out there now and there's actually open lots and big yards for the homes that are there. And the traffic is quite light.

[@danoc51]

@@tj8771 Yes, the trees are surprisingly mature even though some of them must have been planted when the structures were built.

[@1994CPK]

What street is that at 2 min in

[@danoc51]

@@1994CPK This is Wilshire Boulevard, just west of Alverado Street, about a half-mile west of downtown Los Angeles. The trees on each side are part of MacArthur Park, which is still there today.

[@jimtonimarin]

1:33 North on Ocean Ave Santa Monica 2:00 N on Ocean at Wilshire Blvd 2:40 South on 4th St at San Vicente 3:21 S 4th St at Montana Ave

[@massivebeatzz]

wow you are an expert! agreed. ...Montana & 4th building still kinda there.... and north on Ocean Ave in Santa Monica lol... parked just as densely as today...same walk by the incline!

[@jimcarlile7238]

Think it's the Valley.

[@samsen3965]

Bravo. Anywhere else that you know, even if not sure but only a guess? I'm really curious to see how much can be recognized when looking at the old scenes, by the locals. Anyways, thanks for your input.

[@samsen3965]

@@jimcarlile7238 Some good ref with timestamp is made by James Sirkit in his comment above. Have a look.

[@thevolsteadvolstead5942]

@ James Sirikit: Thanks for posting the locations! I knew that was Santa Monica.

[@Phil-RS]

Totally stunning and wonderful, we've come too far from so long away in all the wrong directions :-/

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

All Wrong directions= left wing directions.

[@7775Kevin]

Most things are a hell of a lot better now than they were then.

[@faddy24]

@@7775Kevin rubbish.

[@hillyweitzel4897]

@@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 Cop out reply!

[@hellobruh4209]

@Robert Slack Yeah let's ignore the fact that Cali has high rates of homelessness , very high rates of crime and so many of these homeless people are shooting up drugs or fucking each in the streets. San Francisco also has people shitting in the street , and so much trash everywhere. Atleast us hillbilly state residents don't have to explain to our 3 year olds what those homeless people screwing in the street are doing. Also , too many people don't want to live in California......more people leave California in a year than settle there and it's been this way for around 10 years now.......

[@mckweber]

The music is a nice touch. Great job. 👍

[@NASS_0]

thank you 👍

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

My favorite song is the first one called my heart goes crazy (1947)

[@Ryan-qr8yl]

Anyone know what the last song is? So beautiful

[@ChrisSealy1997]

@@NASS_0 mafia 2 live action edition

[@cookingartguy2170]

We moved from New York state to Southern California for a couple of years around 1959 and I remember it very well even though I was just a kid. We met Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz at their Ranch, went to the Hollywood Boulevard Christmas parade where I remember seeing Dennis the Menace in a red convertible LOL, I auditioned for Art Linkletter's show "kids say the darndest things" and I still have the photo that his son Jack took that day , and I clearly remember looking up into the Hollywood Hills and in my little child mind thinking "that's where the gods live." Unfortunately we had a lot of bad luck when we were there, including a murder in the home directly next to ours while we were there, and I contracted polio and was in the hospital for a month, but I've always had a love affair with LA. I went back 2 years ago and though I am well aware of its present-day problems, I absolutely loved it and if I had the money and wasn't so damn old I would move there because it's just my kind of place, even as it stands today. Had dinner at Musso & Franks, The Chateau Marmont, the Hollywood Roosevelt, and visited many iconic places. I still love LA and I have hopes that it will return to its former glory.

[@selah7779]

Wow... thank you for sharing ( I'm sorry you got sick & all the bad luck endured as a youngster in L A). Love how you tell your story. It was as if I was there seeing your life through me eyes by your description ( eerie - even got goosebumps)👍( You must be a writer). Irony, never been to LA. But I remember my mom ( RIP) use to tell us of all her travels there and everywhere. It would probably be shocking to see it now. Hmmm, I think I will keep the video image of this Los Angeles ( & mom's- rip memories)and pretend it still looks somewhat like video - minus the 🔥 classic rides.

[@cookingartguy2170]

@@selah7779 hey thanks a lot. Well I'm not exactly a writer but I am a person who writes. I was a terrible student but I've read a lot in my life and that is a better education than any school sometimes. I have had five songs published, none of which you've heard of LOL, I've written a lot of reviews Etc and I enjoy it and I also enjoy seeing Improvement in my style, if not my grammar. Really appreciate your comments.

[@jenniferwhitewolf3784]

Many of us hope so too. I spent a few years working there in the late 80s... There was still a lot to like even then... Today? .. well we can hope it turns around. Its a quagmire of taxes, regulations, and filth, and tolerance of crime. Sad, ... especially if you knew it when it had hope and good energy.

[@cookingartguy2170]

@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 I hear you. It probably sounded like I was blind to the problems in California today and I'm not, and I certainly couldn't afford to live there. But having lived there when I was young I have a glowing Nostalgia for it that perhaps fogs the present-day, though as I said I really really love my trip out there three years ago. It's still a magic place for me. I know there's much nicer and much more affordable places to live, it's certainly more affordable here in South Florida where I live. But the world in general is in transition and I have no idea where it's going to end up and since I had such a great time in the 60s 70s and 80s, and even some kicks since then LOL, I'm glad I'm old and experienced what I experienced.

[@lmoore5264]

I am astounded at the quality of what I am watching. I always have thought of old films being really low resolution and in black and white. This looks as though it was recorded yesterday. You add a whole new dimension to old films and I am a huge fan now. The sound adds so much to the experience as well. Your care and attention to detail is amazing. Please keep doing this and thank you for the huge effort NASS.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@raymondkunkel9615]

Yes just amazing

[@bighands69]

16mm film has a resolution of 4k, 35mm is 8k and 65mm is 18K.

[@samsen3965]

It has never been about the camera. It's always about the Camera-Person!

[@artistnyc123]

@@samsen3965 in this case it's about the guy doing the restoration.

[@benjaminharrisongray9079]

I'll be in the Hollywood Roosevelt at the cocktail lounge.

[@raros5475]

And I'd be singing at the piano

[@Nebulasecura]

And I’ll be at the cinema watching the latest film starring Marilyn Monroe

[@willyboy6126]

@@Nebulasecura ...and that cinema would be the Grauman's Chinese Theater, which is across the street from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel...Marilyn & Jane Russell with their names up in lights on the marquee for the new sensational comedy/musical, *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* 😊🎥🎞🍿💋

[@gulmerton2758]

Back In the day, when you could hear real singers singing beautiful songs with beautiful voices and enchanting music on the radio. Those days are definitely gone.

[@adrianothegoat]

These days we get Ariana grande talking into a microphone about how god is a woman and putting autotune over it :( she didn’t even read the Bible :( back then people had knowledge

[@UnicornPizza]

@@adrianothegoat you said it all !

[@nobodyelse7911]

@@adrianothegoat god is a woman in other religions so what about it?

[@rexlawrence4367]

I truly appreciate what you do. You have brought extra life to this piece of film. Well done...

[@NASS_0]

Thx ;) 👍

[@mrpouchy]

These are pretty amazing. It's really like time travel. You pick up so much about how life was lived back then.

[@NASS_0]

👍 👍

[@Boldorion1958]

The radio show in the background features Bing Crosby. It closes with his theme song, his 1931 hit "When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day."

[@allearth2760]

Man that 60fps really makes it feels like you’re driving along there TODAY

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

It looks like if the camera man was someone of today that traveled back to record the 50's with current cameras, or something like that. Maybe the guy who rules this channel is hidding us some secret.

[@charlessmith3847]

It does, in a sense, but I have to question the benefit of doing this. The frame rate modification makes it very jerky and distracting, and possibly even adds to the blur. I'm no expert on this stuff, but I have seen other examples that did not result in the jerkiness, etc.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@charlessmith3847 like the original camera. Not to mention Kodachromes clearly show Los Angeles 50,000,000 times better than this dismal showcase they call color. Real early 50's automobile colors were undescribable. Ruby maroons, mints, light yellow, tan blues, dusty rose, iridescent gold, really it's nothing like people make the time out to be...it's so much better. Why just look at Florida's showcase, and you'll finally see what it really looked like. No smudgy dirty effect over the film..true natural authentic common sensical beauty and by certain why so many Americans fell in love with the time and places.

[@jec1ny]

This looks post-war based on the cars and lack of ration stickers in any of the windshields. The background old time radio track was awesome.

[@emjayay]

@brzzzz Two 1950 Studebakers. The front end was changed in 1950 and is easy to recognize.

[@djjoe2506]

Later in the 50s, when I was old enough to pay attention, new cars were introduced in August of the year previous to their designated 'model year'. If that was so in the post-war years 1950 cars would be sold beginning in August 1949. My guess is that this film was shot in the late summer of 1950.

[@boggy7665]

2:14 - 1951 Nash

[@ronaldhadley7129]

Good observation

[@somerandomvertebrate9262]

Think I saw at least two early 50's "pregnant elephant" Packards.

[@RobSwan1948]

Lots of 1950-1951 cars - early 1950s.

[@NASS_0]

Hi Rob Swan you can help me find the years of this footage : archive.org/details/pet986r4phl thank you so much

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@chadhaire1711 You are wrong. As early as 00:13 on the video a 1951 Nash comes into view in a driveway on the left. The 1950 m0del has a very different rear end and tail lights than do the 1949 - 50 models, the '52 was an entirely different design. There are many 1946 through 1951 autos evident in the film. Your assertion that pre WW2 cars were "all scrapped for the war effort...[sic]" is ludicrous.

[@chadhaire1711]

@@-oiiio-3993 ypu are correct..I was replying to 6 videos and got this mixed up with the railroad video he did.....however I never said pre WWII cars were scrapped..I said that all pre WWII car parts were scrapped....and they were...

[@minkeuk549]

Just think for a second that you are in this clip and you visit The Hollywood Palladium that opens with a dance featuring Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra and band vocalist Frank Sinatra. Then you see new movies with Clark Gable and Kirk Douglas. Then you heard that Bing Crosby’s recording of “San Fernando Valley” reaches No. 1 on the charts. Now do you still need alcahol?? No, you can forget many problems by just imaginations. Thx NASS!

[@NASS_0]

Thx 👍

[@ronaldhadley7129]

Think if you had today’s mindset visiting back then

[@Imachowderhead]

My old man used to listen to big band music. He was from this time.

[@KB-ke3fi]

my grandfather played Texas swing with Bob Wills in the big dance halls back then...they played to tens of thousands of people at once. It kinda died out in the early 50's...WW2 put a big dent in the dance hall bands.

[@Imachowderhead]

@@KB-ke3fi king of western swing.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

Big Band music had a lot of class and style.

[@-oiiio-3993]

I still do.

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

@@KB-ke3fi He was lucky to not live in this present era. He only met the good old days when God ruled the nation.

[@ericesterby2895]

Not the ‘40s. Just saw a ‘51 Nash stopped at an intersection.

[@NASS_0]

Hi Erice Esteby you can help me find the years of this footage : archive.org/details/pet986r4phl thank you so much

[@ryanfleming1172]

@@NASS_0 With the vehicles and architecture im going to guess 1952-1955

[@jservice6594]

I definitely doubt '55. The newest car i spotted was a '53 Chevy.

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Eric, you're absolutely correct, that's a 1951 Nash Ambassador at 2:11, and it looks new. This film is circa 1951 to 1953 at latest.

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

@Jan Brady -- I could be wrong but I thought there was a 1953 Chevy Bel-Air in the video. The grill was different on the '53 versus the '51 and '52. I would have to watch the video again to see. It could have been a different car altogether, LOL.....

[@eutimiochavez415]

It was beautiful back then the city looks so clean.

[@NASS_0]

Share Please 🙏

[@burtpanzer]

Always a pleasure, but a bit more saturation may be in order on this one.

[@S1D3W1ND3R015]

1950s video and still is more clear than a 2020s security camera.

[@tonyn3227]

good times in the states in this day of age. no computers, no mobile phones, simpler nicer life. everything nice and clean

[@Jorge0012]

Aah 1950s cars were so nice and elegant.. much of that area in LA looked not urbanized. Most have been hard to colorize this film.

[@reverseuniverse2559]

A time when peace and harmony with nice weather with four seasons, people stop for a chat and the food was healthy, cars were like tanks! Thanks for sharing whoever filmed this is a legend

[@MichaelJ44]

Isn’t it crazy as you look at each house, there’s probably a family inside. A father who fought in WWII or a grandfather who fought in WWI

[@lukedstaten]

I’ve lived all over the US, but LA has always been home.

[@generalyellor8188]

Same. But look at all the pathetic, envious sad-sacks denigrating the greatest state in the union.

[@starcorpvncj]

Ah, a cockroach returning to the drain....

[@danoc51]

I love these films by Nass. You can see why everyone moved here in the 1930's thru 1960's.

[@tomrhodes3456]

Today ..they move away, again ..

[@KB-ke3fi]

yeah....mostly early 40's during the war effort. Before then it was really an unpopulated, laid back, low crime paradise with perfect weather, beauty and great schools. Now, fill in the blanks.

[@hzlrobin3656]

Oh once upon a time!

[@SA-hz1rs]

@@tomrhodes3456 Texas sucks

[@goransavkovic2746]

According to time, we are all already dead! We should live our time to the fullest and not worrie about anything. Problems comes only if we don't live lin the moment. This is great video, thank you very much!

[@WootTootZoot]

Southern California was the perfect size until around 1975. Then all of the urban sprawl began. Towns that use to be several miles apart were now all one long corridor of strip malls, tract houses and huge, two story apartment complexes.

[@chongy9895]

Two story apartment complexes and u complain? In the UK we have 20 plus floor ones you can see for miles and they're full of addicts, dealers and stink of piss

[@manbtm1]

I wonder what this exact area looks like today, it will be so interesting to have a split screen video showing then and now. Great video!

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

Looks like crap.

[@andyelliott8027]

Try google maps. You can get the street view.

[@samsen3965]

@@andyelliott8027 If you have the google map of then, please share a link.🥴

[@andyelliott8027]

@@samsen3965 I'm just going by the street names somebody else mentioned in these comments. Woodman Avenue, Oxnard Street etc.

[@samsen3965]

@@andyelliott8027 🙏

[@temich1985]

Not a single homeless bum or tweaker in sight, wow!

[@Powertuber1000]

"We have chosen the wrong future" ---Peter Hitchens

[@JErnst-pl5xk]

Wrong future? Nah, just you MAGAchimps 😆

[@robfolks]

@@JErnst-pl5xk of course you wouldn't comprehend it, you are used to living in trash.

[@white3768]

@@robfolks trump 2020 was an expiration date loser 😂

[@robfolks]

@@white3768 the election was rigged, Einstein. You are too dense to have noticed that.

[@bm.3759]

@@robfolks sure was

[@politicallyincorrect869]

This is amazing. Looks like it was filmed yesterday. I want a time machine and live there instead of 2021

[@TECHLOVER_91]

Then get off KZbin cause you won't have it if you do 🤣

[@oriontheraptor8119]

None of the people in this film ever thought almost 100 years later people would be watching them go about their daily lives

[@elainelane1119]

It's not almost 100 years later😖😖

[@oriontheraptor8119]

@@elainelane1119 well ok then....... a long long long time later ... better ?

[@tula1433]

Orion. Great comment.

[@oriontheraptor8119]

@@tula1433 thanks

[@8176morgan]

@@elainelane1119 Hows about seventy years ago? 🙂

[@terriaaseth3019]

Ahhh, the Los Angeles of my early childhood, it was amazing!

[@NASS_0]

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[@fromthethrone]

Great work!

[@rogermaes6001]

I didn't imagine that during the 40's and 50's so much guys put a camera in the back of their cars to film their neigbourhood, the streets, and the cars, those wonderful, gorgeous, captivating cars. I'm grateful they did. Look at that Nash at 2:11 ! She is such "a queen of the road" (as they said in this time). Thanks for sharing this. You take us for a ride, in the right sense of the expression.

[@NASS_0]

👍 👍

[@Page-Hendryx]

I believe this is footage for movies, to simulate someone driving a car (i.e., projected in the background).

[@rogermaes6001]

@@Page-Hendryx You must be right. I'm a child...But it's still lovely.

[@walterweddle7644]

Charles Williams Nash would be proud. Those aerodynamic automobiles were attractive to some. I love the upside down bathtub look. I love all old cars, because they had character.

[@bighands69]

American was extremely wealthy during that period and there would have been a lot of cameras. And those cameras would have been used by different people with different interests.

[@fecardona]

This video makes me confirm that Back To The Future was very accurately made

[@spacemanjupiter]

How come every time I see vids from the 40s and 50s the roads look perfect and smooth yet in 2021 It seems like I replace 2 tires and sometimes a rim every year on average from pot holes?

[@returnofthegorgon8687]

Lol....cause you lost WWII... things were in decline even then.....the money goes the Rothchilds bankers now.

[@jackschannel8770]

I am reminded of a line in that Eagles song. "Call someplace paradise, you can kiss it goodbye." Thanks for the little escape NASS.

[@NinjiaJoeLife]

Where did all these beautiful cars go? I want one of them for my collection

[@verily360]

So beautiful and the cars! Let's go back!

[@TECHLOVER_91]

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF NO THANKS

[@williansccpotimedopovo743]

The Golden ages of America! What a beautiful and wonderful time!!!

[@NowOffYouGo]

Unless you got sick. Then it was the dark ages.

[@blackfoot8975]

@@NowOffYouGo or if you were black.....

[@HugoBrown]

I really enjoy these films that are being restored and shared on KZbin, its great way to see a slice of life back in those days for most us generations before we was born, I am always fascinated by people in the films like the man on side of road , what was he doing that day , who was he waiting for, What did the lady talk to her neighbour about and wonder what kind of life these people had. I'm from New Zealand and trust me 1940's NZ wasnt like this by a mile, be lucky have sealed roads, but love seing the difference also, and the way people in this case Los Angeles lived in time of great change for world. Totally understand people wanting to go back in time and explore, Like who wouldn't want to see, Life may not have been perfect in terms of society, but thats what makes the world change, change comes eventually and will always. I wonder what these areas look like now, Would be cool to see side by side comparison, Thanks again for uploading you've made my saturday afternoon brighter

[@NASS_0]

thank you 👍

[@jonnynguyen6246]

The 60fps really does it for this footage. It now feels like it was recorded sometime in the 2000s.

[@D95-d7y]

Amazing restoration. I put this on my oculus VR headset and felt like it was a time machine.

[@jackhana7374]

Grew up in LA in the 50s & 60s. So nice. The city and state well governed by both parties. A great place to live. Left in the 80s. Been back several times. An overpopulated cesspool now. So poorly governed….so sad to see what’s happened to my state.

[@DouglasUrantia]

It was an underpopulated cesspool in the 1940s . I know, I was there.

[@Kampy_]

I sure like living here in this cesspool! Thanks for letting me live in your state!

[@aaronlopez3585]

I've lived in LA since 74, and a simple way to see how old the picture is, notice how short the Palm trees were. Those 15 to 20 footers pictured are now fifty to a hundred feet or more.

[@samsen3965]

Do you mind giving some timestamp & location references, if you recognize the place. Thx.

[@stefcat5331]

Man, oh man. This could've been me with my parents going to Pasadena to visit the grandparents in 1954!

[@ronaldzent4845]

I just watched a video of New York City from 1945, right before WW2 totally ended, how clean the streets were, no graffiti, trash, people looked nice, my dad was 22 then, my mom was still in High School, about 16-17. I came along in '53, my brother in '56. Grew up in LA, very smoggy then. But, still safe to ride bikes and skateboard everywhere we went

[@gregpettis1113]

While culture

[@boblafountaine9560]

What a treat! Riding along in the 50’s listening to the radio in your car. Truly a time machine. I cant get enough of this especially given how clear everything looks.

[@anthonychew9691]

Looks like paradise, I feel like I'm watching Sunset Boulevard.

[@zeekwolfe6251]

Los Angeles from the 20s to the 60s was a great place to live and grow up. The old Red Cars could take you anywhere, even for a day at the beach. San Fernando valley grew like crazy with it's own culture, the "valley girl" for example. For those who don't know LA, it is a city divided by a mountain range some of which is Griffith Park. Sorry to say, but the urban sprawl means that it is mostly concrete from the Griffith Observatory to San Diego south about a hundred miles. One day a friend challenged me to drive from the old Marine Land in the Palisades area to Altadena near Pasadena...on surface streets without a map. That was memorable, to say the least, but I did it. Smog is gone most days and if you stay out of certain areas, perfectly safe. Museums are world class.

[@NDNelson]

0:09 Oxnard St. in North Hollywood westbound, turning left at 1:07 onto Woodman Ave. in Van Nuys southbound.

[@-oiiio-3993]

I have walked / bicycled / driven these same streets so many times, though mostly in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

[@OrionTallica]

Video starts northbound on woodman. Turns west onto oxnard. You can see the pharmacy

[@NDNelson]

@OrionTallica78 Are you sure you're not thinking of the drugstore/pharmacy shown at 1:03? When we first see video at 0:09, yes, there is a drug store with a curved architectural wall like the other one we see at 1:03. There's also a diagonal building right across from it as the corner is turned that appears to be a garage/gas station.

[@ralphrodgers353]

what a time to be alive.. would love to raise my kids during this time period..

[@yodhin79]

Fantastic remastering - thanks to those who worked hard on this ! 🙏🏽

[@paulcaskey]

What a country we had. Sad to think it was intentionally destroyed and we watched it happen.

[@DavidABerthier]

Your videos are extraordinary time travels. Thank you.

[@johnq.random1496]

For those of you who are wondering what went wrong, research the 'Hart-Cellar Act' of 1965.