Driving Los Angeles In The 1960's

Driving Los Angeles Early 60's
Music:
Ritchie Valens - Ritchie's Blues

[@throwball2248]

This is when L.A was L.A. use to visit in the summer as a kid it was magical and exciting to me as a young boy it was like a giant amusement park such great memories.

[@lonnieosbourne818]

not now.

[@tonycollazorappo]

Life during the 60s and 70s was magical to kids, unlike today's world anywhere USA, sadly. I was born in 1961 and enjoyed those times, though I was born in NYC but it was the same thing, what I'd do to go back to those times.

[@michaelwindsor6536]

You were so lucky, friend, to have lived through the greatest era of Los Angeles. I can only imagine what it was like when life seemed so much more innocent.

[@Woodstockneverhappened]

As a kid, I can remember being on Hollywood and Vine, where a hippie was brushing his hair. And my mom made the comment look at that man using a woman’s hairbrush. RIP Mom 😇

[@OH.A.M.]

Beautiful! Wish I could go back at least for a day.

[@matrox]

At least 1961. Saw a 61' chevy. I start school a year later. A great era for kids growing up.

[@tomfields3682]

Coulda been late 1960. Remember how next year's cars came out in the Fall of this year? My dad bought a 60 Ford in December of 59.

[@matrox]

@Lahil Yes...Yes!!!...I see it ...at 2:00!!🫵😁

[@johnny_6T8]

WOW, saw the 1st '57 Country Squire wagon and i thought of my dad's '57 he bought new. His had the black & white paint scheme, then the 2nd one popped into view! Very nice! Unfortunately the engine seized and he called "Charlie the Junkman" to pick it up(circa '83)😒

[@abohosamabohosam4178]

As if you were watching the video, living in a reality that was filmed a day ago, really, as if it was today, or as if you were there at that moment while it was nearly sixty years old.. Really, I feel that I entered a parallel world in a time capsule for minutes and went to the sixties and returned again to the end of the year 2022 AD. Indeed, this is what happened. This video was made by me accurately when I watched it in short. amazing video.

[@AaaaandAction]

Wow, it’s looks so clean and tidy! So few people on the sidewalks too.

[@1990758]

That's only what you can see

[@tonycollazorappo]

The world and people at those times were clean and tidy. I know because I was born in 1961, so many things have changed in these days and time and not for the better, sadly.

[@bear1more287]

No homeless..

[@javierjm1600]

There have never been more beautiful cars.

[@donarthiazi2443]

Your opinion. And it counts... but so do everyone else's

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Hey! Note at 0:25 on top of the building on the left corner a billboard advertising a $70.00 airfare to Houston via Continental Airlines. The image of the aircraft is a then new Boeing 707 jetliner.

[@henrystowe6217]

That was a beautiful aircraft. 4 engines. I todays money that's about 400

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@henrystowe6217 That was in the days when airlines were regulated by the Federal Government. Back then there were the expensive seats (coach) and then the REALLY expensive seats (first class).

[@michaelzuccaro1798]

Gone forever, but embedded in our minds.thankyou for that.🙏😁😁😁

[@will7its]

I love the street lights....

[@jean-pierrethibaudeau7201]

Excellent music by Ritchie Valens! ❤️

[@campbellpaul]

He was my dad's favorite even though my dad didn't like any rock and roll after Valens passed... it must have been the times

[@jean-pierrethibaudeau7201]

@@campbellpaul That’s how good Ritchie Valens was. Played only for 8 months before he died! Legend! 👌

[@michaelwindsor6536]

This L.A. was an absolute paradise. Before everyone was out of their mind on drugs and poverty and blight were everywhere and life still had a bit of innocence to it. This is the L.A. all the tourists and transplants think they're coming to witness but is so long gone.

[@_BhagavadGita]

Oh those cars, so so fabulous.

[@juansarabia7530]

I remember the eye burning, throat singing smog of 1964 or 5. Emmision control has cleaned the air while increasing performance, with less fuel use. My '69 C-10 was yet to br born!

[@henrystowe6217]

Well, I'd take the eye burning smog, the leaded gas and all the rest compared with the high prices, the corrupt government, the stupid laws, the ugly cars, and the bad music of today. The air was a little brown, but we had money and wanted for little. Beam me up

[@GratefulFed]

A lost and gone paradise!

[@lonnieosbourne818]

gone for good.

[@tonycollazorappo]

So true =(

[@emp.1984]

Yeah not paradise 💀 women beat their wives. Black and Hispanics were seen as dirt. Maybe for white men like you it was paradise. The privilege was insane

[@GratefulFed]

@@emp.1984 the landscape and material infrastructure you mindless fool. Do you approach everything assuming nobody understands human history?

[@whatadumbass]

Great video

[@bartonlee3594]

Nice soundtrack, too!

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

The Los Angeles that we all knew and loved. Those were the best of times. If you argue with me, well, maybe you better watch this again and step outside in L.A. today.

[@manuelarmas4877]

Nice the opening shot is Santa Monica Blvd and Wilton Pl. the camera facing East on Santa Monica and vehicle is traveling west.

[@caliemm4558]

Ever cool....seriously....really cool

[@pogo1140]

Major nostalgia.

[@lavenberry]

Hard to believe anything of value ever cost 25 cents. So unbelievably clean.

[@marcoshernandez6588]

Bonito video Cuanta nostalgia Como pasa el tiempo. No la vivi esa epoca En los angeles . Pero si cambio todo en los 80. Es mi epoca hasta la fecha sigo viviendo por la pico bulevar

[@calartian85]

The Sears building at the start is at Soto and Olympic in Boyle Heights. This is east bound Olympic for a while and then some in DTLA.

[@authenticalaskan76]

this film portrays the theme, "make America great again".

[@stephenvolt1730]

Judging by the cars this is right about the year 1962. Really more like a 1950s feel to me. Very cool!

[@joyceleadbetter2600]

60 61 62 were more like the 50s. Music, movies, tv shows, cars. By 63 things started to gradually change. After the assination everything changed drastically.

[@johna.4334]

@@joyceleadbetter2600 Followed by the Vietnam conflict, war on poverty etc. from which we have never recovered.

[@sopaman1234]

@@joyceleadbetter2600 And the so called British invasion killed off all the doo Wop sound that was still being heard and played..

[@joyceleadbetter2600]

@@sopaman1234 If Kennedy had not been shot, the British bands would've been "one hit wonders" and American youth would have taken a different path into the future.

[@sopaman1234]

@@joyceleadbetter2600 Exactly.. Bob Ubanks mortgaged his house to fund The Beatles arrival in this country..

[@antonchigurh3794]

I must have lived in this time and place in a prior life. Every time I see film like this , especially in Los Angeles , I feel homesick.

[@1990758]

Things were good and things were bad back then.

[@leehenderson8132]

My God memories.

[@JosephStJames2000]

We start off on Santa Monica Boulevard with its forest of telephone poles, now gone. We then pop over to Wilshire Boulevard and see the endless construction that continues today. And hanging over it all is the deadly layer of smog. There were days in the 1960s and 1970s when we could barely breathe. During Stage 3 Smog Alerts we didn't have to go to school --- the Los Angeles equivalent to snow days. It's much better now.

[@rockyracoon3233]

Unleaded gasoline and better emissions controls made the difference!

[@neilpuckett359]

Unleaded gas and catalytic converters did the trick.

[@rockyracoon3233]

@@neilpuckett359 . Catalytic converter is considered a emissions control.🙂

[@mrblackitalian3715]

I had to subscribe. Born and raised up to my teens 7611 S Main St. 1974. My dad worked for Bekins In the 60s. That Bekins truck. Awesome footage. Keep it up

[@selfiekroos1777]

Many of those old school cars are low lows today. Still on the streets.

[@abasabas7200]

C'est cette Amérique la que j'adore des années 50 60 70 avec des belles caisses

[@ES4406]

Great footage, Thankyou for sharing! Really like the Ritchie Valens Demo Overlay. Good stuff.

[@s.d.3492]

Yeah, even the street lights are beautiful.

[@aoibheannnibhroin9951]

White, straight and beautiful Los Angeles

[@joyceleadbetter2600]

77 Sunset Strip...where the men look sharp, the women look hot, and the cars look cool.

[@eutimiochavez415]

The traffic is not bad there yet ,not like to day in any city.

[@bobmalack481]

Love that 59 ford and tail finned 61 Chevy, remember them well, Robert at 67. Does anyone remember 'Angel flight' in downtown?

[@peterroeters4371]

It's like a beginning of a Tarentino movie

[@stevemcdonald1033]

I came through Los Angeles when I was in the military, once in 1960 and then in 1961. The roads and freeways as well as most of the cars were very different. Most of the ugly heaps they drove from the 1930s were gone and a major transformation had taken place in the previous 10 years. And everyone was driving a lot faster. On the Hollywood Freeway in 1960, the typical speed was 85 mph and that app[lied to anyone's grandmother, if she was driving there.

[@LeHosko]

Today people drive even faster. I live on a suburban road in the UK and cars bomb down our road as fast as a light aircraft on some Saturday nights, it's insane. Police enforcement has declined and the horsepower of cars on easy finance available to young people has drastically increased.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

"anyone's grandmother"...... just like "The little old lady from Pasadena!"

[@henrystowe6217]

Yeah for sure. The major slowdown, other than traffic took place after 1974 when the 55 mph speed limit was in place. The low point was the late 70s. By the 80s people were moving a little faster. I would have loved to see LA in the 60s to early 70s.

[@jimrolph1594]

Amazining very little litter no graffiti. Last time I stayed in LA. Was 1978 yes there were some seedy areas of downtown but nothing on the scale of the present. When did it all go wrong

[@errorsofmodernism7331]

So clean back then

[@johnbockelie3899]

Get me a time machine so I can leave 2022 and go back to those times. I was around back then but only as a wee child. I was born in 1960. I like how clean the streets are in this video.

[@Mrbfgray]

Air was stinky brown and toxic. 1st visited Disneyland, LA in 1968, little kid, it fascinating and obnoxious. :D Brown dome over LA basin all the time, every car spewed nasty lead filled noxious fumes. Just ONE was bad but there were more than that, HA!

[@Mrbfgray]

LOVE the throw back tho!

[@Funkytrip73]

@@Mrbfgray People underestimate that. Sure, the mood looks so relaxed, but under the hood, there was the total lack of safety measures in work places, air pollution everywhere, heavy sigarette smoke in every public building and of course the depressing racism and misogyny smothering blacks and women.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@Funkytrip73 Something of max pollution era just before creation of EPA, Clean Air and Water Act, Earth Day..... Our rivers were so laden with industrial waste they sometimes caught on fire. Driving thru a tunnel in SF your eyes watered and throat burned.

[@petermickus8688]

I want a time machine!!! Thanks so much!! 😉

[@davidlafferty1308]

What iam curious about here is how did they keep the cameras going back in the 1960s because I don't think they came out with battery powered cameras back in the 1960s did they thanks for sharing my friend 😁👍

[@chargermopar]

Movie cameras were wind up.

[@davidlafferty1308]

@@chargermopar that explains it My friend thank you for the information 😁👍

[@dang3r_2jz]

Reminds me of San Andreas

[@pettermillar4158]

Beautiful sunny day.

[@james5460]

A better world - and absolutely the best decade for cars, no question about that.

[@1990758]

A better world that's open to interpretation

[@tonycollazorappo]

A better world were kids flourished and had fun outside all the time.

[@henrystowe6217]

I had to scroll quite a bit for the reply that the world sucked back then. I guess some like trash, idiotic laws, high prices, and a falling standard of living. Beam me up.

[@TimothyForbesXXI]

Late 1961 at the earliest, and definitely before April 1963, when the trolley ended its run for 27 years.

[@pogo1140]

Anyone notice how clean it is? I've lived in LA on and off for 30 years, it's never been that clean

[@JuanPerez-gv6qb]

That's because this isn't a real Los Angeles movie... it's a movie made with some kind of graphics software. In addition, all the cars are very clean, as if they had just left the factory. Everything is too perfect. It's a fake movie.

[@Nomadcreations]

A Whole different Breed of people Then, caring, Respectfull, Clean Morals

[@pogo1140]

@@Nomadcreations Don't know about "clean morals" as the crime rate was higher then than it is now.

[@Nomadcreations]

@@pogo1140 No Offense meant But How Did You Get that assessment , is there statistics some where indicating that? Merely Curious To Learn Better, Thanx

[@pogo1140]

@@Nomadcreations FBI crime stats go back a couple of decades, they break it down by state, city and type of crime, and they have the city/state population. Starting in the 40's the crime had been inching up and continued through the 70's then spiked and peaked in the 90's before falling to 1960's levels by 2020.

[@iangillon6981]

Love it!!!

[@joe-hp4nk]

Beautifull, the world hasn't polluted the streets yet.

[@Philflash]

The spinning skater is in Culver City and doesn't spin anymore!

[@krlm2280]

I'm glad some of those vintage street signs are still up and looking good

[@garhumpston5495]

Cool vehicles, glory days of the car designer

[@flyhappy9712]

You should see that area today! Lol

[@kolbpilot]

Our vision (if a certain age) of what good ol' 'Merica should have been. A modern, relaxed society.

[@campbellpaul]

If you could only breathe the air without choking back then 😅

[@lonnieosbourne818]

it WAS then

[@donneary7104]

@@campbellpaul Right you are Paul..I moved to L.A. as a young boy in 1954 and left as a 30 year old in 1975. On the day I drove out of L,A. they were announcing on the radio a smog alert that required elderly and breathing disabled to remain inside and school kids to refrain from physical activities. I was glad to leave!

[@pettermillar4158]

A few cars on the street.

[@erosh747]

Our state is presently almost this stage.

[@Mrbfgray]

If a mayor candidate, LA or SF today...I'd have plan to clean up the streets so we could be proud of our cities again.

[@Fallout3ProHunter]

They wouldn’t let you man, even if you as a right wing/Conservative/Libertarian whatever managed to secure the spot as Mayor or Governor of this left wing shit hole, they wouldn’t let you fix certain things because it’s all part of their plan. They have ALLOWED homelessness to get to how it is here because it plays in part with the rise in crime they’ve been trying to achieve. They WANT the state to collapse and they want your tax dollar to help it collapse

[@gonzoexpress9885]

And bravely work towards reducing excessive immigration levels that unequivocally exacerbates these problems.

[@robertfischer5893]

Racist

[@gonzoexpress9885]

Sensible well balanced and diverse migrant intake can be a real blessing. However, it should not be used as a crude, blunt instrument of growth and moral crusade when countries (and cities like LA) are already straining to manage with low wages, high unemployment, appaling levels of homelessness, profound ecological challenges and social disaffection.

[@itsmovinfast]

The average person won’t take 3 seconds to bend over to pick a piece of trash from their own front lawn. Exactly who is going to clean up our cities and streets?

[@gonzoexpress9885]

About 1962 in this footage. When Jackson Browne, the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt were all aged between 14 and 16 years old. They were very fortunate. Though, yes, the Eagles mostly came later from other states.

[@duffbaker9554]

All liberals though...

[@gonzoexpress9885]

@@duffbaker9554 True, no doubt about it. Great music and some naive idealism.

[@duffbaker9554]

@@gonzoexpress9885 Yet they still subscribe to that 'naive' idealism to this day (while in their safe, walled compounds, to boot)-we can see how that has worked out. But yes-talented musicians, singers and songwriters for sure.

[@henrystowe6217]

Yeah, and all of them thumbed their nose at this great country that gave them so much. Spit on all of them.

[@DavidWilliams-ol3vp]

Newest car I saw in this clip was a 62 Chevy like mine passing in the opposite direction.

[@stevemcgarrett303]

I saw a '61 Chevy impala going the opposite direction. Newest one I saw.

[@sfeddie1]

I agree. That ‘62 Chevy was the newest car I saw.

[@eharminc]

Just want to go back on time!

[@stevesorensen1063]

Great footage. The streets were clean, the people were civilized although the 60s had its problems, but nothing like today! The cars are a work of art. When true Americans took pride of their city. I long for those days😢

[@johna.4334]

As do I. Back then we didn't allow zombie like crazies to roam the streets. Notice the clean streets and graffiti free buildings. Oh lordy, take me back!

[@johna.4334]

@@ScienceSpams You sound like one of those agitator Malcolm X, Black Panther types that deserved to be beaten with a police batan.

[@1990758]

The streets were not clean that particular area was clean.. Let's see how clean South central Los Angeles was back then.

[@henrystowe6217]

So do I.. I also love arguing with boomers and others who bleat about how dirty and unsafe cars were then. Their mothers should have washed their mouths out with soap and pounded sand in their pieholes

[@stephenoshaughnessy2279]

That's before all the craziness rose up.

[@johna.4334]

This is before we, as a civilized society, allowed the craziness to rise up and take control of our urban areas.

[@duffbaker9554]

@@johna.4334 Shortly before the maelstrom hit, ending an age of innocence.

[@antoniomari2730]

Exactly!... Such wonderful times. I never saw these, in real life, but my father yes,, it dosnt seem real for me, ahaha

[@Holly_2011]

Loads of cars and no people walking. America’s contribution to the world!

[@danielgayoso7772]

Los autos clásicos son sensacionales

[@jesus24091969]

The streets were already very wide, they were very advanced for that time.

[@wearandtear6692]

Those very wide street are more or less an error of urban planning. The city layout in the US is pretty much hostile to humans and part of the problem are very wide roads where they do not belong at all. That being said I love the west coast vibe and at times it can still be felt today in a superficial way as i.e. LA has become dirty and dangerous in large parts.

[@johna.4334]

Cars rule!

[@kristjanvendelin3566]

@@wearandtear6692Humans like to drive around in cars. Either a personal one or a cab.

[@wearandtear6692]

@@kristjanvendelin3566 you are right. I love my car. I also have basic infrastructure and good public transportation in walking distance. I have the best of both worlds here in Europe in a city with decent layout avoiding crazy urban sprawl

[@johnking6252]

Is it me or are the streets WIDER ? LANES? CARS? IDK but I like it!!!✌️

[@tomfields3682]

Cars.

[@d.808lf5]

1961 Falcon at 1:40.

[@gonzoexpress9885]

I noticed that as well. They were also popular in Australia at the time.

[@raypeters4525]

NEWEST CAR SEEN THIS FILM, 1962 CHEVROLET !

[@jackib.6223]

Love American cars but not all the troubles boiling away in the 60s and hidden from all of the kids. Too many retro-living thinkers in the comments. It ain't so cool mixing your politics everywhere you go in this life. Let us just love the great American-made cars even if they did handle like jelly on the road sometimes and got you really banged up in a crash. Today's cars will keep you living longer even if they look like plastic boxes. Cruising down the street with the windows down smoking a cigarette.

[@henrystowe6217]

Well, I would take the 60s over today. Back then you didn't have the stifling traffic you have today, nor the inflation. If you liked driving you learned to control those cars. The only thing I'm pretty uncomfortable about was the racism and discrimination that was more visible, if not prevalent then. That and the Vietnam War. Otherwise the 60s was marked by fun, speed, Performance. I will admit, though, I do like my fuel injected engines and the better handling of vehicles built since the mid 90s.

[@robbyscollectibles]

Hi , I just subbed to your channel.

[@clinthill4098]

Would love to see this colourised and giving the computerised 3d affect

[@carstenhohmann2955]

《BABY you can drive my Car》

[@Nomadcreations]

WOW Other Than B&W, Just Like we Are there!!!

[@Nomadcreations]

And the Drivers driving so straight In their Lanes & Cornering Properly , wow

[@randyrush9856]

Definitely a '62 Chevy headed in the opposite direction at 2:00 minute mark.

[@Pushyhog]

didn't make it there till 1972. california most beautiful state imo.

[@rafaeltorres2886]

The smog, I remember those days playing at recess my lungs would burn.

[@mikeyincalif]

Yes yes ! I almost forgot about that. I remember at recess, a kid could not breath all the way. Wow ! You reminded me of one bad memory 😮 but it still was a fun time for kids.

[@steelrolex]

Nice cars and bus, love the music! Please do anyone know the name of the music band?

[@krlm2280]

Richie's blues by Richie valens

[@steelrolex]

@@krlm2280 thank you

[@christinemathews2416]

Look at all of the old telephone poles

[@lovetitleist69]

Clean, no homeless or drunks

[@abeneufeld9690]

Dry clean streets and sidewalks

[@Mrbfgray]

Yes but cars spewed noxious fumes, air heavy, thick stinky laden with toxins and lead.

[@johna.4334]

Shocking!

[@Cab4740]

Need to build these cars again .. when they perfect new forms of clean energy .. 👀 why not 😠

[@ohkeydokey]

62 about right

[@anthonygiardina322]

Wow remembering my aunt 62? Falcon white red interior lol

[@anthonygiardina322]

My dad had 57 Chevy 62 Chevy II Nova

[@johna.4334]

So many telephone poles. I believe most are gone now.

[@calartian85]

Nope. Still plenty of power poles. Fast and dirty LA. Always has been.

[@Jestr86]

back then, those cars where nothing special like todays cars, but as time goes on the ones that are still around are highly appreciated.. Time changed so much since then.. to think cars now in 30 years would be appreciated highly like those.. 26 years before my time.. i can and truly appreciate the time before me...

[@teerollings6919]

Nah most cars built today won't last 30 years, and they don't have the same classic style that makes them timeless. Think about cars that were built in the 1990's, that's thirty years ago - none of them are anything special today. Car designs in the 1990's was so bland and boring - the Ford Taurus was considered a bold new design that other car companies copied lol the Taurus was so boring.

[@sopaman1234]

@@teerollings6919 True.. That's why in Cuba they still running like new.. They maintain them.. The newest car in Cuba is from around 1959..

[@sopaman1234]

They were built out of heavy steel and chrome.. Not like today's cars..

[@btinsley1]

Au contraire mon ami...cars of the 50s & 60 were stylish and very special. you could tell them apart...unlike today's car that are truly nothing special. take one badge off a hyundai and switch with a Ford. No one would blink an eye.

[@sopaman1234]

@@btinsley1 You hit the nail right on the head. Growing up in the 1960's i still remember seeing cars from the 1950's and late 40's still around..

[@BeverleyWarren]

I would like to see the same street compared to today. Would it be as clean and orderly.

[@KnockOffBeingFat]

You DONT want to see it. Just remember the good days.

[@Funkytrip73]

The air nowadays is cleaner though. Just drive behind an old timer, see the black smoke, inhale it and realize every single car did that in the 60s. But you were used to it ;-)

[@henrystowe6217]

@@Funkytrip73 I'll take the nasty air to have all of that back.

[@christinemathews2416]

All of the cars look like limousines

[@armandogonzales1365]

Note the clean streets no homeless to be seen or disgusting trash or filth

[@mindyrichmond1699]

Is this Santa Monica from near Western?

[@genedryer-bivins8314]

Starts at SM and Wilton, the old Sears store on the left as we pull out.

[@mindyrichmond1699]

@@genedryer-bivins8314 I drive that way a few times a week and it looked so familiar. Some buildings are still there. I ❤️LA.

[@RomaHaivan]

Обожаю Америку 60 годов !!! Люди, машины это душа !!! ( Из России)

[@johna.4334]

???

[@RomaHaivan]

@@johna.4334 !!!

[@bryanpalmer9660]

A time when people took pride in their cities and suburbs-unlike now

[@1990758]

Did they did they really Think about it

[@danieljohnson9351]

Loved the cars from this era. Now our streets and highways are infested with gag-inducing Toyotas.

[@paultrumbull984]

58 VET @113 ?

[@elderantonveyzaluna9814]

Tan Claro es el vídeo clips ke ganan dan de transportarce a e sa época i década de años

[@malthechal]

what street was this filmed on??

[@alanriley9754]

1963 ?

[@randymoyan7871]

That's my guess as well.

[@Bruce12867]

My guess is 1961 or 1962. All the cars had yellow license plates; the black plates came out in 1963.

[@leonelgaldiano326]

Será que, éramos felizes, e não sabíamos ?.