A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s

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Eric M. S.

Eric M. S.

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@Prospero510
@Prospero510 13 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful to see this! Cannot thank you enough for posting this. It is just criminal that the real Bunker Hill is gone -- and our light rail, too! I think so often about this period, here, and it such a joy to see some little bit of it brought to life like this. Wow!
@lincbond442
@lincbond442 9 жыл бұрын
This footage is close to 70 years old and it is the next best thing to stepping into a time machine. It was shot by Columbia Movie Studio in 1948 for the 1949 film "Shockproof" starring Cornell Wilde. Jim Dawson's "Bunker Hill" book goes into some of the specifics of this film clip. The book also discusses all of the films shot on and around Bunker Hill.
@andiroidYT
@andiroidYT 9 жыл бұрын
This is the closest we are ever going to get to time travel (at least, to the past...) so if anyone else has old footage please get it digitized ASAP before it rots away. I'm thanking you on behalf of future humankind. Yes, I have that authority.
@andiroidYT
@andiroidYT 8 жыл бұрын
śmierć matki I sense mental problems.
@goku180000
@goku180000 8 жыл бұрын
I very much agree with you, the closest thing we will have to time travel! I hope we can see more vintage videos soon
@techno4ugeeks14
@techno4ugeeks14 6 жыл бұрын
andiroidYT well said im so thankful
@m.d.grimes1622
@m.d.grimes1622 4 жыл бұрын
I'm responding to a comment that you made 4 years ago...now that's time travel. :)
@edwardjames50
@edwardjames50 12 жыл бұрын
As info, that's because this was filmed to be used as a rear-projected backdrop for car scenes in the 1948 movie, "Shockproof". They needed coverage of the same areas for two different angles, in the rear and the side, depending on where the camera was placed while Cornel Wilde was "driving" a mock-up car in the studio.
@kevinelliostar
@kevinelliostar 5 жыл бұрын
omg its true i found it on youtube
@hebneh
@hebneh 7 жыл бұрын
Obviously the 35mm professional movie camera that was shooting this footage was clearly visible, since the guy at 3:42 waves at it, and other pedestrians can be seen staring at it as well. This undoubtedly was filmed to use for back-projection in Hollywood film scenes with characters in what were supposed to be moving cars. Such backgrounds were particularly useful in this period of the late 1940s as film noir stories were especially popular - murder investigations, double-crossing gangsters, etc. in gritty urban settings.
@RonDylewski
@RonDylewski 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I believe this was shot for rear projection "process" shots, which is why there are two angles; one for a two-shot of people sitting in the front seat and then a side shot for the CUs of the driver. I'm guessing they would have also done an angle for the passenger, but that's not included here. Bunker Hill was essentially the back lot for dozens of classic (and not so classic) noirs.
@joparebr
@joparebr 9 жыл бұрын
Wow the quality is amazing!
@kingz9916
@kingz9916 9 жыл бұрын
My mother moved to Rampart St near Downtown LA and actually worked in Downtown LA in about 1947. She probably road around these same streets during that era. Nice video.
@calady11
@calady11 8 жыл бұрын
Great video! My father lived in a rooming house in an old Bunker Hill home in the mid-1940's. In one part of this video I noticed a place I used to work at in the 1970's, so that was nice to see!
@techno4ugeeks14
@techno4ugeeks14 6 жыл бұрын
calady11 ur lucky u grew up in a good era unlike my era the social network era self entitled idiots
@JIMBOSKI58
@JIMBOSKI58 13 жыл бұрын
Worked at City Hall 1964-1974 and Pacific Telephone/Pac Bell Hi-Rise crew from 1975-1994. Best video on You Tube for my enjoyment. Thanks a whole lot, really appreciated.
@gabrieldusk
@gabrieldusk 10 жыл бұрын
The film starts on Second st. going north makes a left on Grand, going south (MOCA) makes a right on 5th where The Los Angeles Public Library is, and makes another right on Flower going north. Such an amazing piece of Los Angeles Lost.
@Tecun85
@Tecun85 13 жыл бұрын
This is unbelievable, I'm awed by the sights, the architecture, the people, and the ambiance in this video. It's a miracle that the individuals who knowingly (or unknowingly) made this, had the foresight and sense to document what LA was like 70yrs ago for those of us who came after. We owe these and other preservationists a debt a gratitude for giving us a window into what life looked like in the greatest city in the world in the early part of the 20th century.
@davidolenick2280
@davidolenick2280 11 жыл бұрын
I wish some one would go back and make that trip again. I was mesmerized the whole time. I loved it.
@TJamesBell
@TJamesBell 2 жыл бұрын
They did. Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXqrl6CfqLJ_hbs
@MrLalaxtc
@MrLalaxtc 10 жыл бұрын
This is a completely different city and downtown than LA now.. All those Victorians and about 99% of those buildings are gone. Its all high rise office buildings now.. There is nothing recognizable in this video except city hall and the Biltmore... This video looks more like San Francisco..
@gabrieldusk
@gabrieldusk 10 жыл бұрын
Los Angeles Public Library . It does look like San Francisco almost a twin city.
@rhiannonrhiannon6285
@rhiannonrhiannon6285 3 жыл бұрын
It's too bad...these buildings are so beautiful.
@artdecotimes2942
@artdecotimes2942 3 жыл бұрын
@@rhiannonrhiannon6285 so was the time, beyond words
@robertchilders8698
@robertchilders8698 8 ай бұрын
I got to live in one of those old " Victorian houses"?! They had cheap rooms to rent! some were into board and room houses in their last years! most all gone now!
@DeltaSniperZRR
@DeltaSniperZRR 11 жыл бұрын
Where are all those wonderful classic cars now?... :(
@AssassiNinja
@AssassiNinja 10 жыл бұрын
Yes! Cars from the 1910s and 1940s Needs to come back cause cars these days are ugly
10 жыл бұрын
Most likely in junk yards or crushed or in collectors hands.
@rudolfschenker
@rudolfschenker 7 жыл бұрын
Right, they're ugly....not to mention 1,000 times more safe, reliable, comfortable, and efficient....
@thomasmcginley7944
@thomasmcginley7944 7 жыл бұрын
Reliable my left nut! If a 2017 car blew a head gasket, it would be to expensive to fix because of all of the pointless computers & sensors would have to be reset. If a 1940s car blew a gasket, it would be an easy fix. And there was no charging ports, built in touch screen or any modern-day bullshit distracting the driver, not to mention no smart phones for texting & driving.
@imloved53
@imloved53 7 жыл бұрын
Mojo Risin in japan!!!
@EdwinG310
@EdwinG310 7 жыл бұрын
i just love this video y'all. I've lived in L.A for 22 years, came here for college but this city's grown on me. Love everything bout it. This old footage proves to me, that just as them folk we see goin' about their business right here 70 years ago...we too, we just passing thru. Just passing thru son
@dadduorp
@dadduorp 13 жыл бұрын
My gawd! For all us LA history buffs this is like stepping into a time machine! It's incomprehensible to see that all of those beautiful Victorian and Craftsman buildings were reduced to dust. As if a nuke bomb obliterated EVERYTHING that's seen in this footage! Many MANY thanks to the person who uploaded this!
@scott-mercer
@scott-mercer 8 жыл бұрын
Prior to 3:30, every single thing visible was torn down except for the Second Street tunnel portal, seen directly ahead at the very beginning, and the Kawada Hotel at Hill and Second. I would say 95% of the visible buildings in this video were torn down.
@DonDraperism
@DonDraperism 6 жыл бұрын
This is the closest we're going to get to time travel, at least for now. Saw the area my grandparents lived when we were kids in the late 60's. Nice to see again.
@Grancino1697
@Grancino1697 9 жыл бұрын
Closest thing to time travel. You can almost feel the suns warmth from nearly 70 years ago. All those people, never knew they were captured for posterity.
@MichaMontreal
@MichaMontreal 13 жыл бұрын
FABULOUS! I watched this with another KZbin window open, playing "Hit Parade USA 1942 - Top 10 - DanntaS". Perfect. Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this treasure.
@AJ74ever
@AJ74ever 11 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. Amazing. Wonderful. My parents were young adults at this time and it's moving to see what the world looked like for them. Thank you!
@jourwalis-8875
@jourwalis-8875 7 жыл бұрын
Thank´s for uploading! This turning of the camera from going uphill to going downhill is quite amazing!
@MySpace662
@MySpace662 8 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage of the past, thank you for sharing it.
@oldi184
@oldi184 8 жыл бұрын
Indeed and Europe was torn by war at that time but here so calm.
@MySpace662
@MySpace662 8 жыл бұрын
It's calm because the United states had entered the war in 1941
@Vwjl1207
@Vwjl1207 10 жыл бұрын
I drove the exact route while this video was playing. Grand Ave from 2nd to 5th seemed much longer back then. I drove pretty slow but I always reached 5th much sooner than the video. I wonder why? Great video. Kind of haunting too since most of the buildings are gone.
@JuanCarlos-vf5xg
@JuanCarlos-vf5xg 3 жыл бұрын
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA . GREAT PLACE TO LIVE SINCE THE 1920 'S TO 1960 "S. 40 YEARS AND AFTER THAT DOWN THE HILL .
@JuanCarlos-vf5xg
@JuanCarlos-vf5xg 3 жыл бұрын
DOWN THE TUBE.
@OSTARAEB4
@OSTARAEB4 10 жыл бұрын
Most likely, this is 1947 to 1949. I don't see any 1949 Fords which are distinctive. The license plates are light in this B/W film. California's License plates were black background in 1945, and went to school bus yellow in 1947 were yellow background with black print. The 1940/41 Ford we see directly in back after the turn at 0:55 has this plate and the top right corner has what looks to be the silver and black year validation tab on the license plate. California switched to the black background with yellow letters in 1950. Like NY State and their plates from 1927 or so through to the mid-1980's with the red, white and blue "Liberty Plate", California, New York, and Pennsylvania basically had this color pattern on their plates back when states made and changed them every year. My guess is this footage is 1947, and definitely Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles. Tragic so many of those Victorians were gone by the early 1960's for the ugly corporate towers and building the Harbor Freeway which was probably sometime in the late 1940's, early 1950's.
@ostaraeb4293
@ostaraeb4293 9 жыл бұрын
MrSting17 Appreciate your reply MrSting. Boston is an amazing city. It's probably the most European of American cities and small enough to not be too big. The Universities and various colleges are quite amazing offering a vast array of studies. It certainly isn't the Red Light district by that forty-five year old Boston City Hall. I remember that ugly Central Artery.
@kikiholland3695
@kikiholland3695 7 жыл бұрын
The funicular car is "Angel's Flight".
@kikiholland3695
@kikiholland3695 7 жыл бұрын
Olvera St. isn't hard to find, it's walking distance from Union Station.
@mime1926
@mime1926 10 жыл бұрын
Theres a 1947 Mercury car in it travelling behind the POV...and a ad for "Symphony Under the Stars" at the Hollywood Bowl (5.43).
@mime1926
@mime1926 10 жыл бұрын
Starts on second...turns left onto Grand.
@quicksilver3x3
@quicksilver3x3 7 жыл бұрын
Love this; the ladies at 2:18 remind me of my mom as a young adult making her way in the world away from Minnesota for the first time. Those 2 look like her and her friend and they were that age and in LA/Hollywood right at that moment. Amazing footage all, thanks for posting.
@joelombrdo
@joelombrdo 5 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Los Angeles from the time I was born til I was 38 and I don't recognize any of those streets. Man, I wish I could go back in time and check it out. thanks for posting.
@lesterfrothinger3451
@lesterfrothinger3451 10 жыл бұрын
Makes me wish time travel were possible.
@AssassiNinja
@AssassiNinja 10 жыл бұрын
Yes I would like to go back in the 1910s and 1940s
@jimdayton8837
@jimdayton8837 9 жыл бұрын
AssassiNinjaPlays I would like to go back to the 60's or 70's.
@feelthespheal4480
@feelthespheal4480 8 жыл бұрын
I would like to go back into the 1500
@jimdayton8837
@jimdayton8837 8 жыл бұрын
Feel the Spheal Goodbye.
@kaylaleave
@kaylaleave 6 жыл бұрын
Lester Frothinger let’s make time travel possible
@brucegibbins3792
@brucegibbins3792 9 жыл бұрын
This is so darn fascinating, like I've just gone through the looking glass and found this wonderful place I had never seen before - just snips of background in period movies about private eyes and bad guys and hot dames, but who notices that at the time of viewing. Its the action out front that holds our focus and attention. Bunker Hill - once the choice location for the well-to-do, but by the time this film was shot, long inhabited by folks who had no choice at all. And then they tore it down. Fortunately for posterity we have access to wonderful film clips such as this one to look at and allow us to think of a time of long ago - I time we sometimes wish we could go back to or re-create for ourselves, but we can't.
@benthemiester
@benthemiester 11 жыл бұрын
I saw a sign that said, "paint any car for $32.50" Wow. You cant even fill up your tank with that anymore.
@aaronmarks4327
@aaronmarks4327 11 жыл бұрын
No you didn't you saw rent a car $2.50 a day and a few blocks down you saw paint a car 32 paints
@CaliBornNraised916
@CaliBornNraised916 11 жыл бұрын
true but 32 bucks back then could buy you a lot. Tricky thing we call inflation
@edoardoruggeri1
@edoardoruggeri1 10 жыл бұрын
Things get more expensive with time but you also earn more. It's called inflation. Not even a company's CEO could reach a $100,000/year salary
@edoardoruggeri1
@edoardoruggeri1 10 жыл бұрын
***** Yes indeed. Now if you make $135 per week you are among the poorest in the US
@Veaseify
@Veaseify 10 жыл бұрын
***** He must have had a great job! If this is 1948 a dollar was worth about $12.50 today so it was $30 to rent a car in today's money, don't know if they had the Under 25 surcharge back then, probably not. There is another longer film where you can see gas for .25 a gallon and people were writing about how cheap things were but that was 1946 and the dollar was $12.80 in today's money so it works out at $3.20 a gallon..
@brennc9594
@brennc9594 11 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! This is awesome and amazing. I remember all of this before most of it was demolished for buildings that sit empty. I used to go downtown with my mother every Saturday and shop at Grand Central Market, Ted's and Giant Penny Store. It seems as if nostalgia has gotten the best of everyone on this site and sounds as it everybody prefers it the way it was. Just give me back Bullock's, May Co. and the Broadway and i'll be happy.
@genebigs1749
@genebigs1749 7 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage! Thanks so much for providing it .
@PhillipPacheco
@PhillipPacheco 9 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. Being an L.A. native, these have great meaning to me. Thank you.
@chewybunz
@chewybunz 11 жыл бұрын
Lots of Bunker Hill footage in the extras in the DVD of the 1950s film THE EXILES, which was shot in the neighborhood.
@annettezilinskas2384
@annettezilinskas2384 2 жыл бұрын
Yes. A lot on Main Street were the bars they visited. Some still standing!! I think the couple lived in the Sunshine Apartments on Bunker Hill. She went to the Roxie movie theatre on Broaday, also still standing.
@chewybunz
@chewybunz 2 жыл бұрын
@@annettezilinskas2384 What's inside the Roxy now? Can't recall what its marquee looks like.
@neildickson5394
@neildickson5394 7 жыл бұрын
There's a great old Dick Powell movie 'Cry Danger' from 1951. A lot of it was filmed on Bunker Hill. He actually lives in a trailer with sweeping views of LA. Unusual combination, today it would be a zillion dollar house. Lost LA?
@jans2887
@jans2887 6 жыл бұрын
Love that movie
@ralphjason6720
@ralphjason6720 3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this video. Way way before my time, but I like looking at what was going on before I was born. I am fascinated by it all. Thank you for sharing this.
@BiggestUnicorn
@BiggestUnicorn 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this ... Wow! ... Great old cars and scenery, indeed.
@kingz9916
@kingz9916 13 жыл бұрын
So great to see this video. My mother moved to LA after WWII. She worked in downtown LA and lived on Third and Rampart during this time period.
@patrickneylan
@patrickneylan 8 жыл бұрын
Raymond Chandler's The High Window (1943): "Bunker Hill is old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town. Once, very long ago, it was the choice residential district of the city, and there are still standing a few of the jigsaw Gothic mansions with wide porches and walls covered with round-end shingles and full corner bay windows with spindle turrets … On the wide cool front porches, reaching their cracked shoes into the sun and staring at nothing, sit the old men with faces like lost battles."
@bowlyyougottobelieve
@bowlyyougottobelieve 9 жыл бұрын
2:05 - Schloesser Apartments at 2nd & Olive featured in the Kubrick film "The Killing"
@mikerossscuba
@mikerossscuba 9 жыл бұрын
I remember a lot of L.A. as a little kid, like the paddle traffic signals (3:39). This was a comparatively "clear" smog day in ' 40s L.A. For decades after, the smog got so bad on a "Stage one smog alert" that you couldn't see a half-mile. Back then, folks were allowed to burn their trash in back yard incinerators, and the leaded gasoline filled the air of L.A. with noxious vapors. Called the "Valley of the Smokes" by the indigenous peoples who lived in the L.A. "basin" centuries before the Spanish, the whole place is surrounded by what is known as a "temperature inversion layer," which trapped the smoke from early campfires to "modern" day pollution from factories and cars made prior to unleaded gas and catalytic converters. Just looking at this film, I can feel the intense, mind-numbing L.A. heat and the lung-searing smog.
@Joskemom
@Joskemom 9 жыл бұрын
+mikerossscuba Anyone watching this film the day after this was taken would think "so what, what is the big deal". To see this film today, I was just fascinated and thanks for the history narrative. It is so cool to look back in history. On another youtube video it is showing the last few low rider cruises at the 6th street bridge. That is going to look wild 70 years from now.
@TheLadyjazzy1
@TheLadyjazzy1 9 жыл бұрын
+mikerossscuba now it's just CHEMTRAILING 24/7.
@ultrakool
@ultrakool 8 жыл бұрын
mind-numbing and lung-searing. lol Yeah, but L.A. was no bigger than modern day Tucson, in the 40s. Late 70s L.A. was truly pre-EPA, lung-searing. lol
@scott-mercer
@scott-mercer 8 жыл бұрын
Go away useless brain.
@chichi41
@chichi41 8 жыл бұрын
Actually, those traffic signals were called Acme's.
@canuckjoe227
@canuckjoe227 3 жыл бұрын
Many of you have wondered exactly when this film was made. I wondered too so I studied it carefully and decided it was made in December 1947. Below are my reasons for reaching this conclusion. It was only two years after World War II. Watching the video, I spotted five 1947 Studebakers, two 1948 Chevrolet trucks and three new 1948 Ford F-Series trucks in the whole video. I found a single Kaiser-Frazer product, a 1946 or 1947 Frazer. The other brand-new models from GM, Ford, Chrysler, Packard, Nash and Hudson are not seen at all in the video and the reason is that their new models had not come out yet (Except for Packard; their new cars began arriving in the summer of 1947. Unfortunately, no ’48 Packard is visible in the film). Likewise, I could not find any new-model Hudson or Nash. The Big Three’s new designs were not yet in showrooms, most arrived as ’49 models. The brand-new 1948 Cadillac and Oldsmobile 98 were the first two all-new designs that General Motors manufactured after the war’s end yet none are visible. These models sold well the instant they started arriving in dealerships in January 1948, one month after this video was shot. The brand-new, first-ever sedans Kaiser-Frazer manufactured were put together throughout 1946 - 1 of these cars is seen in the video (a Frazer) Studebaker began making new post-war bodies in summer 1946 - 5 are in video Packard had new bodies starting in summer 1947 - But none are visible in video Chevrolet Trucks had new bodies in summer 1947 - 2 are seen in video Ford F-Series trucks came out in November 1947 - 3 are in video (at U-Drive lot) Dodge B Series light trucks arrived sometime in 1947. 1 is seen near end of video New Hudson models came out in December 1947 - This was about the time video was made. None are seen in video, however The first GM newly designed models, the Cadillac and Oldsmobile 98, came out in January 1948 - They’re not seen in video Nash did not come out with new bodies until the 1949 model year - Of course, none are in the video Most vehicles seen in video were designed in 1938 or 1939 but, when the war started, manufacturers turned to the War Effort and car manufacturing stopped circa 1941 or 1942. After the war, the 1938-1940 designs were manufactured until a year or two after the war (Independants) or the 1949 model-year (GM, Ford and Chrysler). For those who like old cars, here are the exact times when every post-war model I found appears in the video: 0:53 - A 1941 Lincoln Zephyr begins following camera car. The taxi is a Packard Clipper, probably 1946 1:07 - 1947 Studebaker 1:17 - 1947 Studebaker (parked) 2:01 - 1947 Studebaker (parked) 2:16 - 1948 Chevrolet truck (black & white, in raised parking area) 3:20 - 1947 Studebaker - black car in building’s parking area 3:25 - 1948 Chevrolet pickup - black 4:04 - 1947 Studebaker (light color, hard to see behind a black Dodge) 4:06 - 3 brand-new 1948 F-Series Ford Trucks, a white panel next to wall, a dark stake body and a dark cube-style 4:10 - 1946/47 Frazer sedan, at right, seen from the rear. A 1947 Mercury sedan starts following camera car 4:30 - 1947 Studebaker - rear view, light color 4:48 - 1947 Chevrolet pickup at left 5:09 - Beneath Winton Building, car at extreme right could be a new model but I can’t see it well enough to decide. 5:15 - The strange-looking truck parked at left is a 1940 Dodge of the ‘cab over’ engine body style 5:58 - 1948-model year Dodge or Fargo panel truck - New post-war design just out at mid-1947 As this film was made 74 years ago, a baby born in 1947 would be 73 years-old in 2021, 10 year-olds would be 83, 20 year-olds would be 93 and so on. It’s probably a safe bet that all people aged 25 and over in the film have passed away, unfortunately, as they would all be about 100 years old at present. Downtown L.A. sure did not look very hilly to me when I drove in the city in 2002. I remember leaving Rodeo Drive and driving straight to the Downtown area. Mostly flat terrain from Beverly Hills to the skyscraper cluster, if I remember correctly and, if there were hills in the downtown section, I simply cannot remember them. Readers who want to identify a particular vehicle can tell me the exact time and I’ll do my best to help.
@zombywoof1072
@zombywoof1072 3 жыл бұрын
This is rear projection footage used in a driving scene in the 1949 movie *Shockproof*. Compare: 0:45 of this video, and... kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGO6pIKMqp2Vmpo ..
@MensAsses33
@MensAsses33 2 жыл бұрын
The top forty feet or so of Bunker Hill was bulldozed away in the late 1950s or early 60s. Streets used to be steeper.
@kap3bake
@kap3bake 13 жыл бұрын
interesting thing is downtown in the 80s was alot closer to this than it is today. It didnt change much until the 90s when it just boomed
@amateurphilosopher
@amateurphilosopher 13 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to re-shoot this film today, using the exact same route and camera angles, then run them side-by-side.
@Tampanda
@Tampanda 11 жыл бұрын
amazing the clarity of the footage
@davedesmond7288
@davedesmond7288 8 жыл бұрын
As a car buff for nearly 60 years (with particular interest in North American autos of the 1940 thru 1960s), I can state that this drive was clearly filmed in the latter half of 1947. 3 or 4 of the new 'coming or going' Studebakers, introduced in May '47; plus an all-new Kaiser, released a few weeks later. Hudson, the next all-new post-war car, was only intro'd in December '47. Not one of THOSE big babies visible on the LA streets in this fascinating vintage drive…Anyone who DOES see one in this clip, I'll happily admit I was wrong!
@kevinelliostar
@kevinelliostar 5 жыл бұрын
You are correct. Rear-projected backdrop for car scenes in the 1948 movie, "Shockproof"
@ackamack101
@ackamack101 7 жыл бұрын
I swear the building at 2:05 was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 film, The Killing. Same entrance, same slanted street. I probably wouldn't have recognized it if it wasn't in black and white. It looks just like the film.
@johnnyb4187
@johnnyb4187 Жыл бұрын
You are correct. You can see the 2nd st. tunnel crossing and city hall here and in the movie also. It's 2nd Street and Olive intersection not 504 Olive as in the movie.
@drgwdrgw
@drgwdrgw 13 жыл бұрын
As we're going north, but looking south, on Flower Street, that's the Richfield Building (with the tower on top) on the right (west) side of Flower.
@OSTARAEB4
@OSTARAEB4 13 жыл бұрын
LOVE Los Angeles City Hall. Cannot get enough of seeing that building. It's simple in many ways, yet so majestic. Is the Lindbergh Beacon still operable? I think it's the most beautiful building in the entire city.
@elissaschornstein5903
@elissaschornstein5903 8 жыл бұрын
Fascinating time. So nice to see old videos like this. It is hard to believe things were so slow paced compares to today.
@Piwork69
@Piwork69 10 жыл бұрын
I recognized Grand as it passes the AT&T building and makes a right on 5th Street.
@morin_photos
@morin_photos 3 жыл бұрын
I remember riding through this area, going up by using Angel's Flight which was on 3rd Street back then. At the top there was a boxing gym. My Mom told me that at one time her parents lived on Bunker Hill, but I'm not sure exactly where that was. This video brings back many memories of when I was young.
@RobertoLopezstudyis
@RobertoLopezstudyis 11 жыл бұрын
Those buildings and streetscapes were beautiful back then in Los Angeles! Those were the best times to visit and to live and that wonderful city in California!
@packardcaribien
@packardcaribien 13 жыл бұрын
4:05 - 5:36 that building in the background on the right, that's the Richfield Oil office building. It was one of the most unique art deco skyscrapers in history - and it was even painted black and gold, as a symbol for the oil industry. Now it's replaced with corporate boxes and the company is long absorbed.
@drgwdrgw
@drgwdrgw 13 жыл бұрын
@packjim56 ....We're looking east towards 2nd & Olive. This part of 2nd is directly over the 2nd Street Tunnel. If you are standing where the autos are parked you can look down over the tunnel portal and see the intersection of 2nd & Hill. Just as our auto starts moving a northbound streetcar is seen on Broadway. Our vehicle turns south on Grand then west on 5th. While making the right turn onto 5th we see Pacific Telephone Bldg, the Biltmore Hotel, and a bit later, the library.
@carolehayden8566
@carolehayden8566 11 жыл бұрын
So many memories. Love the cars. i saw a rumble seat. Those foggy days spooked me as a child and this was fun. thanks.
@rudolfschenker
@rudolfschenker 13 жыл бұрын
hard to believe that virtually everything you see in this film is gone, an entire massive section of downtown wiped off the face of the Earth in the name of redevelopment. A truly gone-forever era of DTLA.
@paulwilliams4743
@paulwilliams4743 10 жыл бұрын
Clear film shows clean streets, but smog already there. Thanks for putting it up!
@d23g32
@d23g32 10 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the old Warner Bros. cartoons made LA smog jokes in the '40s, so it was definitely an issue by then. I read somewhere the first smog alert in LA was issued in 1943. It seems better now, though. I moved to LA in the late '70s and it wasn't uncommon for the smog on the worst inversion days to literally make your eyes burn and water.
@toningtony8411
@toningtony8411 5 жыл бұрын
Wow 5th and Flower, across from the library, looks unrecognizable. The city national plaza is there now. Unreal how beautiful this city was. No wonder this place got overcrowded.
@muiscnight
@muiscnight 10 жыл бұрын
what car is that at 4:35 I wish classy cars were still popular now. Everyone wants angry looking cars with black wheels lol
@jimdayton8837
@jimdayton8837 10 жыл бұрын
It's a '47 Mercury. I agree with you, cars used to be classy. My favorite cars are from the 60's-70's. Nowadays cars are overpriced plastic junkers.
@jimdayton8837
@jimdayton8837 9 жыл бұрын
***** Looks like a '39 or '40 Lincoln.
@ostaraeb4293
@ostaraeb4293 9 жыл бұрын
+Mr Eighty, It is not a Lincoln but a regular Ford which looks like a 1946 or perhaps a 1947.
@jimdayton8837
@jimdayton8837 9 жыл бұрын
OSTARAEB4 No, no, no. It's definitely not a 46 or 47 Ford! If it's not a Lincoln it might be a '40 Ford.
@ostaraeb4293
@ostaraeb4293 9 жыл бұрын
+Jim Dayton , Sorry Jim. Are we talking about the follow car as I assume? It is not a 1940 Ford as they were more noticeable. It is a basic nondescript 1946 or 1947 Mercury. At about 4:13 along the curb is a Buick. Lincolns of the time had a much more solid and masculine looking grille.
@gcrav
@gcrav 11 жыл бұрын
Four 1947+ Studebakers, two 1947+ Chevy trucks, and one rumble seat hot rod. Charming old LA on the cusp of some really bad decisions about transportation systems. Coulda been a contender if they upgraded the municipal railway system instead of trashing it.
@neildickson5394
@neildickson5394 7 жыл бұрын
The first two cars are the dark Lincoln on the right, and the yellow Packard Clipper Taxi on the left. Imagine, a Packard as a cab?
@LandondeeL
@LandondeeL 12 жыл бұрын
It was from 1947 or after. At 4:25 there is a billboard advertisement for RCA Televisions. And L.A.'s first TV station, KTLA, didn't sign on until January 22, 1947.
@litlgrey
@litlgrey 12 жыл бұрын
I'm glad there's no audio. It would have been quite a bit distracting.
@TomYpsilanti
@TomYpsilanti 11 жыл бұрын
That's right, I was guessing the newest cars were about '48. The newest one of which I'm sure is at least one Kaiser or Frazer that's going in the opposite direction. How cool to "be followed" by the sleek Lincoln and the Packard cab.
@456isuperduper456
@456isuperduper456 7 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage and quality. Thanks for the upload
@JohnKelm
@JohnKelm 13 жыл бұрын
This appears to be stock footage intended to provide background for film production of scenes involving characters driving and riding in cars.
@Cordelia4219
@Cordelia4219 12 жыл бұрын
Wow! This is a fantastic archive. It also makes me think I'm in a fabulous film noir and at any moment Robert Mitchum or Humphrey Bogart is gonna make an appearance. Thank you so much for posting this.
@scottroberts5803
@scottroberts5803 6 жыл бұрын
I used to park in the garage at 3:33. It’s now the So Cal Gas building. Northeast corner of Fifth and Grand.
@AdhamOhm
@AdhamOhm 13 жыл бұрын
@hondo190 1080p transfers are indeed possible from 35mm film, if the print is in good condition.
@TomYpsilanti
@TomYpsilanti 11 жыл бұрын
What a treat to see the great cars running around when they were late models. I liked catching a glimpse of the two nicely dressed young women briskly crossing the street at about 2:20. The apartment buildings are straight out of _The Maltese Falcon_ or _Double Indemnity_! Not to be a buzzkill but is that smog you can see off towards the horizon? Thanks for posting!
@stationofdreams8242
@stationofdreams8242 10 жыл бұрын
Utterly mesmerizing
@kazfleszar5899
@kazfleszar5899 8 жыл бұрын
its great how people filmed this how else could we go back in time its like im there big thanks.
@RoyAH.
@RoyAH. 10 жыл бұрын
I always wave back to the guy at 3:42...
@terminatorkid1997
@terminatorkid1997 10 жыл бұрын
Same
@gabrieldusk
@gabrieldusk 10 жыл бұрын
Amazing piece.
@techno4ugeeks14
@techno4ugeeks14 6 жыл бұрын
RAH ! Lol
@MrRezillo
@MrRezillo 10 жыл бұрын
Wonderful footage; what a different world! I wish the vehicle had been going slower when the camera was aiming out the side window; it started to make me slightly dizzy.
@Intel-i7-9700k
@Intel-i7-9700k 10 жыл бұрын
Holy fcking shit, never knew it was possible that a 1940s video looked so good. Wish they used these kind of camera's on the front line.
@vengermusic
@vengermusic 11 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Love how the stop sign pops out of the street signals
@strangersound
@strangersound 11 жыл бұрын
This is incredible! It's like a Shorpy photo come to life. :)
@marcosvasquez3837
@marcosvasquez3837 11 жыл бұрын
Wow that's really cool you were around back then. I work at the California One Plaza 300 s. Grand Ave. for a law firm. I can't get over how it looks so different then. I guess the footage begins on 2nd and Olive. I am not quite sure what street it ends on, is it 1st street ? You must have a lot of cool stories to tell.
@sonnyblack0870
@sonnyblack0870 5 жыл бұрын
4:47 I know that’s the Ace Hotel (used to be Texaco building) but aside from this video I can’t find any photos of it with that tower on top...
@user-sm8zw4bj8q
@user-sm8zw4bj8q 6 жыл бұрын
I wish I can go back in this time to visit this old part of LA, but then again, a person from the year 2018 will be huge in 1900.
@nobody9126
@nobody9126 6 жыл бұрын
[ Kɪʀɪᴛᴏ ] I wish that too I can only pray to god to make it happen
@NYC1927
@NYC1927 13 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for posting this video! Amazing! Also, I saw a movie (but unfortunately I cannot remember it's title) from the 1950's where they filmed it in the doorway at 2:05 and the two adjacent buildings. Cool!
@cjb1951
@cjb1951 11 жыл бұрын
Who might still be alive in this footage? Maybe the young girl walking with her mum @ 2.32 mins or the young boy walking up to Angels Flight Pharmacy @ 2.48 mins, I guess they would be both in their early 70's if still alive.
@ASSAULTREBEL1
@ASSAULTREBEL1 7 жыл бұрын
Christopher Brown my grandma would have been about 28 years old. She just died last March and was 99.
@barebarekun161
@barebarekun161 6 жыл бұрын
My grandmother would be in her late teens during this time but then again she's not living in LA. She's alive at 93. '
@Sweets629
@Sweets629 13 жыл бұрын
I'm always In downtown LA and I always wonder what it might have looked back then !!! Wow how times change. That was a great little film !! Thank you
@GocoProductions
@GocoProductions 13 жыл бұрын
Flawless. Absolutely Flawless. This proves it, film is indeed a time machine. What it must have been like to stroll down the streets of LA in the 1940s. Incredibly crisp and well preserved!
@stevengallanter665
@stevengallanter665 4 жыл бұрын
The classic film noir KISS ME DEADLY is set in Bunker Hill.
@Nidwayy
@Nidwayy 10 жыл бұрын
Awesome quality
@purplezoid1
@purplezoid1 2 жыл бұрын
This footage is insane. Thank you.
@Vettejocke
@Vettejocke 11 жыл бұрын
This is awesome footage. What I'd like to know is who made these videos? Was it a city organization? Because I have seen videos like these documenting L.A. from the 50s, 60s, 70s and even 80s and they all follow the same format.
@neildickson5394
@neildickson5394 7 жыл бұрын
I wondered what that was as I thought aside from city hall, LA had no tall buildings to speak of back then. But, that looked like a pretty imposing building.
@93Vet
@93Vet 12 жыл бұрын
I love it! thanks again for sharing this vintage piece of film ! I like the guy waving at you 3:42. lol
@Spudforth
@Spudforth 13 жыл бұрын
I noticed a sign referencing the Angel Flight, I guess in its second location. Covered over streetcar rails at the end of the film. I guess Ford, GM, and Chrysler had started dismantling the Red Car system by now.
@sudaev
@sudaev 13 жыл бұрын
That's is one of the greatest things I have ever seen on KZbin.
@Cordelia4219
@Cordelia4219 9 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. A great piece of archive. Notice the camera is at the back of the car and not the front. No sound, no color. Just visual. So interesting to see our cities and society way back then (before some of us were born). War was waging in Europe at that time. But things look pretty peaceful here.
@TheNickman217
@TheNickman217 8 жыл бұрын
LA Noire
@stephenheater462
@stephenheater462 12 жыл бұрын
Absolutely the coolest video. I Love the 40's look and style. This is so cool.
@davehowarth5710
@davehowarth5710 9 жыл бұрын
love the old gas stations
@marcosvasquez3837
@marcosvasquez3837 11 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. What was it like to grow up there. All those lives and stories I will never know. Wondering is good.
@naughtmoses
@naughtmoses 3 жыл бұрын
Mom and I used to take the (Pacific Electric) red car into this area in the late '40s. I went to work there in 1963, just after so much of it had been bulldozed, and the then new Music Center was opened directly north of what is now the Disney Theater at First & Grand. Things had gotten =very= seedy from Hill west and south from Temple Street. The Pasadena-Harbor (710) Freeway was built just to the west. The old neighborhood had character, though. The "new" stuff (since the late '60s) seems so sterile, cookie cutter and artificial.
@ChrisGirard
@ChrisGirard 6 жыл бұрын
Grand Ave. used to look a bit like Van Ness Street in San Francisco had it not been razed. The only thing I recognize about this Bunker Hill is how wide the road is. I wonder if anyone could have imagined that building rows of lifeless and insular office cubes would have obliterated a neighborhood and the sense that it is on top of a hill. Such a botched plastic surgery! At least this is one of the few places in LA that has no traffic now thanks to that wide road.
@bacuss2112
@bacuss2112 10 жыл бұрын
Wow, this is sooo cool!!! ... that guy that waves looks like he was a cool dude..
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