ANATOMY OF A ROAD 1960s ROAD AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION FILM 78004

[@65gtotrips]

These sort of films always remind me of those substitute teacher days in junior and senior high school, (70’s + 80’s) where there’d invariably be some sort of film to babysit us. 😊

[@1VaDude]

I love the 1969 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate wagon in the beginning. Our family had a 1970 Kingswood --- loved that car.

[@hankaustin7091]

those were fabulous automobiles! We were always stuck with Fords, but, most of my friends had Chevy wagons and they were nice!!

[@telcobilly]

I'm here to see the cool cars!

[@maritimeseven]

This music in this film is beautiful.

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

It is.... But I was expecting the Ray Conniff Singers to break out in a Chorus by the 17:36 mark!!!! 😮😆😂🇺🇸

[@wilbertrobles1123]

Keep crankin these out !!

[@justindampier9017]

Amazing the pride the country had in the roads. Now they're all crowded and crumbling apart.

[@telcobilly]

Road deterioration tracks right around with the deterioration of society and "leadership"..

[@martyjones5358]

That's some mighty fine woodgrain!

[@mattfarahsmillionmilelexus]

22:09 - What's so unusual about a 1965 Nova woody wagon? They never made one. Then GM took this concept car and used it to test the Jersey barrier. Wow.

[@MerleOberon]

I'll take a Falcon Squire.

[@pacbeltrr38]

That's ONE way of disposing of dead concept cars.... That Nova had a better fate than the Chrysler Turbines.

[@olddisneylandtickets]

@@MerleOberon Nope, that's Chevy unless Ford put blue bow ties on their hubcaps!

[@yuvegotmale]

Hmmm no wonder I could never recall seeing one....

[@dadsc10]

the Chevrolet station wagon with family in it is a 1969 kingswood estate, :)

[@gojoe2833]

You could order a 425-horsepower 427 V8 (L72) in that wagon!

[@tarheelking2515]

It almost looks like the wagon queen family truckster

[@almostfm]

@@tarheelking2515 If you think you hate it now, just wait until you drive it!

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

I-95 was finally connected in 2018, and there are several ramps yet to be completed to connect I-95 to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

[@steveeisenhowereisenhower7130]

The cars were great back then

[@ammagee]

Steve Eisenhower Eisenhower Honestly, they weren't. They were more dangerous, less reliable, and didn't last as long before rusting out.

[@Alaprine]

In appearance, though, they are beautiful! The aesthetic of cars produced today will never compared to the beauty of the 1950s up to 1980s.

[@bigblockjalopy]

​@@ammageeyou know nothing about Cars it seems. Unsafe, yes, unreliable a big NO

[@mikewatt8706]

In ireland you can go fishing in the holes in our roads

[@RADIUMGLASS]

24:07 is downtown Detroit. Many of these road innovations and inventions came out of Detroit.

[@johnnyhawkins43]

I miss the good old days!!!!!!!!!

[@Merseysiderful]

14:40 The people about to be chucked out of their house for it to be demolished didn’t appear to be upset. Or perhaps they were actors ?

[@unconventionalideas5683]

I think it depends on the person involved. If they were really about to be thrown out, they did not particularly pick the most upset people to show on camera.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

US 13 is on the East Coast, running from Morrisville, PA to Cape Charles, VA. I live a mile from it near its northern terminus.

[@mosesberkowitz3298]

I love the intro 1:14 to 1:44

[@Jesuis-qe8ql]

que bonito documental :)

[@AWSmith1955]

@2:21 is that a steam shovel?

[@JesusisJesus]

19:08 “Ruggedness” is a requirement for employment in the ’60s. No Man-Buns, vapes or vegans allowed!

[@johnp139]

A road bed is where roads sleep.

[@willdrucker4291]

Boy...why am I thinking of THE GRISWOLDS every time I look at that Station Wagon...

[@johnhopkins6260]

Experienced the process of I-35W, Minneapolis, southern leg... where a 6 residential city block wide swath was cut, south to north; imagine... a path, 6 residential city blocks wide... 5 miles long... gone; Many solid, beautiful homes, often built in the 1930's, 40's - 50's... Minneapolis... from 62nd street (fka co. rd. 62, nka "crosstown highway") to downtown 5 miles of residential homes... gone.

[@Wildstar40]

5:58 Just look at the price of fuel back then ! $23.73 for 68 gallons !

[@buddyclem7328]

@ Still do. He's talking about the semi truck buying fuel at $0.34 if I'm reading the pump correctly.

[@OsbornTramain]

I think that's the voice of Hal Lindin doing the narration here.

[@luvr381]

I thought the same thing.

[@jeffking4176]

OsbornTramain It does sound like him.

[@jonmacdonald5345]

That is that nigga Hal!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

That station wagon needs a Lou Glutz Motors plate on it

[@dementedweasel1]

The newest cars I seen are no newer than 69. Did anyone catch that 69 Camaro RS? cool! Ps, That Kingswood wagon could have been ordered with a 427 and hidden headlights for a more sportier wagon.

[@dyerstreets]

The Griswolds!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

LoL That looks like the car that was crushed at Lou Glutz Motors

[@hankaustin7091]

@@RADIUMGLASS Nope.. not even close.. the one crushed in the movie was a high-end 1969 Olds Vista Cruiser. The one in the video is a '69 Chevy Kingswood - low end model of the entire station wagon series.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

@@hankaustin7091 Clark drove a 69 Olds in 1983? I thought he could afford something way better than that!

[@hankaustin7091]

@@RADIUMGLASS Hi Radium. Maybe you're thinking of the 1983 Ford LTD that was the Quaint Family Truckster, not sure.. but, the car that was crushed at the dealership was a 69 Olds Vista Cruiser, and the only reason I know that for sure is because the parents of my best friend in middle school drove an exact duplicate of it for years.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

@@hankaustin7091 I believe it. I thought the crushed car was a 69-70 but didn't know what make/model it was.

[@almostfm]

At about 7 minutes in, is it just me or does it sound like Professor Frink is narrating?

[@avioncamper]

Only thing missing is an Airstream in tow behind the wagon.

[@kerryincolumbus]

LMAO!!! you are exactly right!!! we used to tow one of those damn things behind our '72 Chrysler Town and Country - big mirrors and all!

[@avioncamper]

My parents had a green '69 Chrysler Town and Country, 383 v8 with the big mirrors on the fenders. Vinyl seats got hot in the summer.

[@hankaustin7091]

@@kerryincolumbus LOL! we had a '73 Town and Country. that damn thing was a TANK!! We also pulled a big camper behind ours, also with the big mirrors on the side. The biggest thing I remember about it, though, was the mph with that damn camper attached.. EIGHT! yes, you read correctly, that '73 T & C would get EIGHT MILES to the gallon when driving with the camper on the back! LOL those were the days!

[@antdogg422]

6:10-6:15 GMC CRACKERBOX

[@lextacy2008]

10:29 This is considered the holy nightmare project in Cities Skylines

[@timklein3962]

1970 at the latest; not one 71 car spotted throughout the film !

[@myphonyaccount]

trains unload clogged roads and airports for a fraction of the subsidies.

[@davestewart2067]

Nope rail is fixed rubber tired vehicles can go anywhere. Bus transit is far cheaper than rail which is heavily touted by the left wing.

[@hewhohasnoidentity4377]

@@davestewart2067 other than all the free land, tax exempt fuel, the National Guard used to restore order during union troubles, access to cheap tax exempt financing, monopoly protection, a separate retirement system and I could go on..... Trains don't need any subsidy at all. Primarily because the political leadership during the buildup of the railroad industry did a better job setting the railroads up than they did the US government. They thought of everything. Even when the public realized the free land offer led to meandering routes the politicians let it continue. Then they got Congress to keep trucks from hauling freight both ways causing huge inefficiencies. The freight railroads also used removed several thousand miles of track to maintain prices. The history behind our freight railroads is the reason we don't have high speed or really any passenger rail service. I'm not sure where you get the idea that the railroad isn't subsidized, but that is just false.

[@davestewart2067]

Look up Jerry Brown and his multi billion boondoggle. Snaking and zig zagging in the Central Valley. Will never be useful. A tremendous waste.

[@DustinBKerensky97]

24:51 HAHAHA! Yeah, that turned out to be completely wrong.

[@speedy621972]

Actually, that IS Exit 39 along EB I-94 back then. They experimented with the blue arrow-shaped tab with the "EXIT" then the number below it. I saw this elsewhere. Also, go to the www.michiganhighways.org, they'll also tell you too.

[@Holmzinator]

Who would had thought that bypassing small towns would hurt them economically?

[@yuvegotmale]

First Lumber wagon Nova that I Have seen....funny that most of the cars shown are GM cars...but, the film was promoted by GM Detroit Diesels. I liked the truck hauling GM cars from the Fisher plant that did not have front ends ....that was interesting.

[@luvr381]

You don't own your property in the US, you just rent it from the government.

[@mdlclassworker3384]

Better move to Russia or Somalia then I hear it's just wonderful in those places

[@telcobilly]

​@@mdlclassworker3384 cherry picked examples to defend the exorbitant taxes Americans pay in every facet of their lives. You ok with that?

[@mab7511]

Wow, such a great time and theory, if it was only true, like it should be, but we all know it always goes way over the lowest bidders price, and like in California more taxes have to be raised to pay for a project said to be 100 million turns out to be 500 million plus, ( not using actual real deals fact that are not disclosed to us) but in reality we all know

[@eurosonly]

What futuristic highway is that? I've yet to see hadlight glare dividers and phone booths on a freeway

[@JeffDeWitt]

I have vague memories of seeing the glare screens but don't recall seeing one in a very long time. I DO remember seeing the phone booths, but they are pretty much gone due to cell phones.

[@pacbeltrr38]

Ditto. I got my license in 79, and remember seeing the emergency phones and glare dividers. FEW of those dividers still exist today. Oh, and people USED to pull over when you had trouble and offer assistance - and NOT SHOOT you! ..... The Boomers and early Gen X'ers might be the LAST to be able to look back, with FOND memories.

[@almostfm]

I'm old enough that I can remember seeing both. The glare screens were used mostly where the median had to be less than the recommended width-normally because the highway was going through areas that were extensively built up and it wouldn't have been cost effective to purchase the additional land. I remember seeing them a lot in the LA area in the early 70s.

[@henrygelzer]

Is this narrated by Hal Linden?

[@specialopsdave]

25:04 😥

[@maplemanz]

Red Tape 101.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

This narrator is on a few Chrysler films.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Barney Miller Hal linden narrated

[@thatamerican550]

Noone realized how stupid of an idea it would be to develop such massive highways, and little maintenance on them.

[@michaelwills1926]

thatamerican550 you’ve benefited from this “stupid idea” in every way possible.

[@drunkmike6364]

The interstate highway system was a stupid idea? Wow. Not even perfect hindsight would suggest that. Unless your goal is to arrest our nation’s progress at 1940

[@fabien2430]

@@drunkmike6364 maybe the second part of the sentence is more important ?

[@milesblue638]

Pro highway building propaganda from car companies and construction firms.

[@michaelwills1926]

Milesblue of which you utilize and benefit from.

[@drunkmike6364]

Michael Wills No sir! I only use dirt roads to get around. No govment pavement for me!

[@schutzdan23]

Mark Gedney bullshit

[@jonmacdonald5345]

@@drunkmike6364 LMFAO hahaha

[@maplemanz]

And not one black person shown.

[@jimciancio9005]

Come to New York Bankrupt State and learn about bad roads and crumbling infrastructures! This is a beautiful place to live! I Hate NY is the new slogan anymore!