Early 40s San Fran & LA Color Home Movies

Streetcars, cars, animated billboard, etc.

[@leoinsf]

This was a breath of fresh air! I am 85 years old and was born in 1935. So good to see someone's home movies that seemed to focus on scenery unlike most home family movies! Great film!!!

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Or more importantly automobiles! How rare it is just to find 2 vehicles side by side in any 1930's cinecolor-kodacolor-technicolor-kodachrome showcase. I found a good few, although this specific film is definitely late of 1939.

[@kasdimfer5156]

you should release some of your videos on youtube

[@HappyDaysDellwig]

I think you lived in the best decades of life in america ever. I was born in 1990

[@leoinsf]

@@HappyDaysDellwig How kind of you "HappyDaysDellwig" to say this. People recognize the movement from America of the 30's to now. Today you live on the streets, you die in the streets! In the 30's they had soup kitchens for those in need and I don't think anyone lived on the streets. America needs to go back to the "old days" when people were important. The rise of the upper-middle class is responsible for the lack of awareness of the need of the poor and America will be sorry it took this path!

[@ViralsexY2K98]

I’m 24 but wow you’re so lucky to have lived during these times. I don’t wanna sound like another one of those cliche “I’m born in the wrong generation” people, but these types of videos make me so nostalgic for a time I wasn’t even alive for. Technology has helped us but has also stripped us away from feeling connected with our fellow humans

[@michaeltompkins5955]

As a San Francisco Native, I lived there in it’s prime. Where the streets were more colorfully made with soul. In 2023 I took a short 20 minute Revisit. As the streets were empty, I could help to think of the good old days. Going to the Stinson beach in the family car. Or watching movies with my family in the summer. I hope that Things get better for San Francisco with the Westfield mall closing. Nobody will probably read this, but for the people that do, may god bless you.

[@austinmitchell1586]

Back when people had class and sophistication. What a time to live people dressed well the working man could provide for a family on one income. Today sucks in comparison. Grandma told me great stories and the 40s and 50s.

[@bluemoods6095]

I love the soft pink dress the blonde lady in the middle wears at the end of the video.. fashion truly was much better and the pool looked fun 🥰

[@BetamaxFlippy]

Now THAT'S A BILLBOARD

[@philipe7937]

I love these old reels. I imagine being there, living there and driving and walking those streets. I imagine thinking about where my parents would be at that time. They would be about 15 and 11. I would love to have seen them there at that age.

[@1TStriegel]

Yeah but my mom was born in the 90s

[@lindaeasley4336]

What a beautiful paradise SF was back then

[@IrfanKhanowaisi77]

It's all over! Looking at the various years, you can see how things got dirtier and cheaper. Thanks for sharing!

[@clurkroberts2650]

Incredible film, beautiful condition.

[@kickrocksnomaticadventures3404]

Love That Era. Sweet Vintage RV.

[@clevelandphil]

I love that billboard.

[@iadorenewyork1]

Does anyone remember that moving billboard (zany!)? When did it get taken down?

[@ScottSellsSoCal]

Now a days, some dumbass would sue for emotional distress

[@sopaman1234]

@scottbaino How do you enter a huge butt like that today??

[@edlawn5481]

Sir Mix A Lot would approve.

[@allanbaagefeldt2320]

whats a billboard ?

[@larryboysen5911]

Beautiful! All eras had a dark side...but in our times, it's all over! Looking at the various years, you can see how things got dirtier and cheaper...ahhh, "progress"!

[@JENDALL714]

That washing billboard with the lady washing, we still have that billboard today in my city, it's a landmark, every so often they change her clothes depending on the season.

[@UnknownPerson-ve3uv]

Hold up yo fr?

[@jjarratt]

Can you say which city and the street address? I'd like to see it on Google streetview.

[@thecraplordsell4575]

Do you live in the USA

[@JENDALL714]

@@thecraplordsell4575 Yes

[@thecraplordsell4575]

@@JENDALL714 what state

[@cozycatcorner7724]

I love their style and how they loved simply enjoyed the small things and the people around them.

[@IDiggSocialMedia]

My favorite decade use to be the 1950's! Now the 1940's are!

[@shareefwahab6606]

Yeah same! It’s not like there was global war or that millions were being killed by horrendous regimes

[@universalcerberus5863]

@@shareefwahab6606 It's very possible to like the pop culture and fashion of a decade without liking all the violence.

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

@@shareefwahab6606 and slavery

[@allanbaagefeldt2320]

Mine is late 1100s.

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Well preserved.Kodachrome is a very tough color film.

[@lescobrandon3047]

Michael Mcgee - Very true. My K64 slides from the sixties look brand new. Slides from other brands seemed to fade.

[@BetamaxFlippy]

Kodachrome was the first and the toughest single-strip color film. I am so frustrated by the fact that I never had a chance to use it! I too want to be sure my pictures turn out beautyful and with centennial lasting color.

[@hankaustin7091]

LOVE the music!! perfect for this video and time period!!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

1:36 that billboard would get pulled today.

[@HawkinaBox]

And all the feminists would be screaming. LMAO

[@rusty111fire]

LMFAO

[@Mf7d89]

I feel like it's raunchy for the 40s

[@k.t.1641]

@@Mf7d89 Of course you do

[@rxonmymind8362]

We have a liberal within our thread.

[@darrellross1]

1941 Buick in Hawaiian Orchid. (Pink) I wonder who bought that!

[@Seekyourtruth777]

David Rossco that’s was so birchen to see all shiny and new on the showroom 😍 wow

[@kidzbopkaren8342]

them rich ladies who married doctors/businessmen who gave them an army of maids at home...

[@sharksport01]

Liberace

[@hyzercreek]

That's a 1940 not a '41. A Special had a running board, so maybe it's a super, century, or roady

[@enthalpiaentropia7804]

​@@kidzbopkaren8342 And their gigolos...

[@kpl4174]

those were times, unlike todays madness, and Im 30 years old man from Europe

[@ldchappell1]

Where that cable car turned around at the beginning, I used to get off the bus there everyday when I attended Galileo High School in 1973-1974.

[@MrDonkov]

Notice how well people dressed.

[@RapidCycling07]

Whenever that type of comment is made, a leftist bonehead goes crazy and starts shouting racism and oppression! Totally ageee with you. Society was more conservative and less God-less. Much better times!

[@betsyduane3461]

@@RapidCycling07 More right wing gibberish, god is 100% fake, liberals created this country, conservatism has never done anything for it.

[@dr.finnegan3949]

@@betsyduane3461 If liberals created the country, they're gonna destroy it also.

[@betsyduane3461]

@@dr.finnegan3949 Nope, Bush tried too, Obama saved it and now Trump is the worst POTUS ever. Record debt, borrowing and deficit up 55% (Obama reduced it 53%) plus Trump has 1.9% GDP and 1.5 million less jobs than Obama's 36 months. The poorest moocher states are all red. None of this is rhetoric, just facts. Conservatives have never done anything for the US.

[@markhenley3097]

Even at the swimming pool they have good clothes and neat hair.

[@RaulNatera]

The people more elegant

[@pleasedontfeedthe6235]

I love seeing these colorized videos! Makes it seem so much more real! If anyone knows what I mean... ya know looking at b&w videos and pics seems like some surreal world that isnt our own. This helps me picture this truly being reality at some point in the past.

[@devroshart]

AudLiv It was shot in color, not colorized. It was expensive to shoot in color, but wealthier folks used it.

[@pleasedontfeedthe6235]

@@devroshart oh wow had no idea it was possible in the 40s. Very cool.

[@hummingbird4335]

@@pleasedontfeedthe6235 It was also possible in the 20s. Although colour films had a biased tint till technicolor was perfected.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@hummingbird4335 but honestly what devil would complain over that when the literal world knows more about the ocean than color in the 1920s, or the 1920's-1930's-1940's-1950's-and even 1960's and 1970's combined.

[@1TStriegel]

Yes same!❤😊🎉

[@Berniebud]

The quality of this is amazing. I love it. It really takes you back unlike any black and white film.

[@dondressel452]

Anyone have a time machine? I’ll get in line

[@TM-hl7ir]

Agree! I’ve always said, if a time machine is invented, I’ll never be home!!!

[@nealsausen4651]

Yeah reall! A time machine iWould be nice Nowadays!

[@mgtowp.l.7756]

A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing....

[@gonzoexpress9885]

Just wonderful.

[@dondressel4802]

Excellent I wish I could go back

[@talosheeg]

I'm from Los Angeles, this is so cool to see!!

[@reason5591]

Loved every bit of this 😍

[@pumpupjam9648]

Yep, no hobo's in this video? The homeless back then were living near the railroad tracks. Today, they live anywhere they want, even some in your own back yard!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

at hotels in Detroit, they now linger in the hallways looking for handouts or leftovers. If you put a tray of food scraps at your room door, they will go through it.

[@pauleypavillion6088]

and poop on the streets and making San Francisco into San Franshitco thanks to the communist city government thugs.

[@TahtahmesDiary]

The old homeless were GUESTS, the new homeless are people who have lived here GENERATIONS and feel entitled to the land....not to mention there's WAY MORE of them now and its 300x more expensive than it was then! Theres a lot of nuance missed when complaining bout the modern homeless situation in CA.

[@satellite851]

@@TahtahmesDiary #PREACH #WORD #TRUTH #AMEN Thank you, now please scream and shout that intelligence louder to the Dumbass way to overly Political Whiney Crybabies in the back who quickly forget both PAST and recently CURRENT U.S. Economic History!!!

[@johntilt7144]

But this nice old 1940's clip is not actually about hobos, poverty or social deprivation is it? It's just a video showing some chosen street scenes. Why must it descend into negative commentary?

[@zachwatson319]

Fantastic video. Thanks....... 👏🏻

[@davidbrown8303]

The Brown Derby that's where Lucy spilled the plate of spaghetti on that actor. Hope he forgive her by now.

[@kenc9265]

I grew up in the bay area in the '70s and 80's, those were a good time....now is just too sad to talk about, I since relocated to Washington State in 2016.

[@rogermaes6001]

Beautiful ! Thank you. I love the car at 1:42 (a Buick, isn't it ?) The billboard is incredible, never saw such thing before ! It would make a scandal today.

[@mohinagata642]

Nop, its actually a Chevrolet

[@mohinagata642]

No, you are right Its a Buick qwq

[@hyzercreek]

@@mohinagata642 It's a 1940 Buick Super or Roadmaster or Century, not sure, but NOT a Special because the 1940 Special had running boards

[@lincolnkarim1]

I wish just one thing from those days would make a comeback--the decency of people to make the effort and take the time to dress properly when in public.

[@1TStriegel]

Who cares wearing the right cloths at the right time is overrated

[@katiehesse6578]

idk about that but I do think municipal workers and such should all have fancy uniforms like the nyc sanitation workers do

[@maggieleroy3184]

Lovend it! Thank you!

[@murphthesurf3409]

I remember one of those washer woman billboards in Inglewood CA 1960s.

[@Rayo_Rob_No.17]

I can't believe that pink two tone '40 Buick, that thing is insane! Nice choice of music, too! Artie Shaw?

[@HouseWinchester1874]

The good days.

[@fotohombre]

I LIKE IT! Now I know what the original "turntable" looked like.

[@joericci4094]

Back when The Tenderloin was Tender, Today that sh*t is Rough, The opposite of Tender

[@ItsIdaho]

Oh wow, love this!!!

[@8176morgan]

I never knew that pink cars were around as early as 1940, I thought that they first appeared with the big Cadillacs of the mid 1950’s, but that Buick is pink and is gorgeous looking and so is the music that goes with the video. Anyone know what it is? Sounds like it may be Benny Goodman, but I’m not sure. Everyone it seems had a little bit more class back then!

[@UnknownPerson-ve3uv]

Morgan Paris damn fr the 40s-50s-60s-70s look very similar

[@random-jj7ix]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3SxnYKceZppoZo In this video, the first song where you can see parts of the band appearing out of thin air, is the song in this video. I'll come back to you with the title if I find it

[@random-jj7ix]

Okay, found it, it's either Hold Your Hat or Table d'Hote. Both versions exist with Artie Shaw and sound pretty much the same. Here's a link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZy6kGd8frpkfbs

[@8176morgan]

Thank you for finding out what song it was - Artie Shaw was a great musician who recorded many little known songs that are still quite appealing to listen to nowadays.

[@1432CW]

New 1940 Buick in the showroom at 1:46, so that shot was taken between October of 1939 and November of 1940. Ditto with the 1940 Chrysler at 2:22. The modern captions say late 1930s, but that footage cannot have been taken before October of 1939. More likely some time in '40.

[@jackjohnson7396]

Amazing, before and after. Look at it now, sad too!

[@jeffreyverspaget4353]

Beautiful video I love California gr Jeffrey 🍀🌞☕😘🌴.

[@hankaustin7091]

fabulous!!

[@brianholihan5497]

Great choice of music for the era.

[@MrRJDB1969]

Excellent video !

[@megawhitemaster7740]

love it ,thx!!

[@Someonesaidthis]

This makes me wish California were this nice again..

[@rry66tffer6tfdfu2]

👍

[@michwashington]

I subscribed because of this video 👍🏼

[@michaeldougherty8344]

This film was amazing

[@polycarpflavius6945]

Thank you

[@joaquinlopez6575]

The Cars There Are Amazing In That Day

[@SouthwesternEagle]

I've never seen a car like that when it was new! Wow!!

[@carltondobbs5774]

I think 🤔 this might have been better times , even how people dressed and cared about how they looked, and seemed happier than this crazy world we live in now

[@cantalope67]

Carlton Dobbs you couldn't be more correct.

[@UnknownPerson-ve3uv]

Carlton Dobbs nah the Great Depression affected a lot of people in the 30s also you would get drafted into WW2. You would have to deal with racism

[@HeadPack]

Absolutely. One can only wonder what those people would have thought about today’s poorly dressed and increasingly obese population.

[@minouchejean7906]

Love ur channel

[@joshbates4407]

I WANNA LIVE IN THESE DAYS!!!!

[@aphex14]

Color so true and vivid...I felt as if I were there! Black and white just makes it look dark and sad.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Well it is true color.

[@AliciaVintage]

I want that pink car!!

[@raulduke6105]

Ah, to own a break repair shop in Frisco! Must have been paradise back then.

[@389383]

brake

[@cjb8010]

raul duke I used to hate the word “Frisco” but now I think it deserves it.

[@mikeserrano734]

Nice Billboard! Now we have SteveO taped on the Billboard.

[@TM-hl7ir]

Priceless

[@mayhemjr.803]

I got a kick out of the moving sign Lady washing her clothes. You can see up her dress😂

[@CoolDudeClem]

Didn't know colour 8mm film (assuming that's what it was shot on) existed back then.

[@montanacrone8984]

I wanna go home!

[@sofiabravo1994]

Unrecognizable....today you'll step on poop 💩

[@daybreak1239]

Propaganda!Ain't no"poop" on the ground,other than dogshit.

[@tonyfrenolaski7731]

Sophie you were fool

[@hulkhatepunybanner]

Back then you'd step IN poop, too. Also, no A/C in those streetcars so you'd be smelling armpits and crotch. Not everyone bathed everyday so you'd get a whiff of arse. But you'd be used to all that because it was the late 1930s. At least it was better than the 1920s - horse crap everywhere.

[@everettduncan7543]

And too many cars

[@EMBEEAY]

Not really. Nothing much has actually changed that drastically. In fact, you’d probably be more likely to step in crap back then than you would now.

[@guardian08527]

2:22 The bumper is a little different but that sure looks like my 40 Chrysler Windsor!. Mines a burgundy color and is in no where near that nice condition though. The bumper on my 40 chrysler has a third bumperette in the middle that you have to unlock and turn down to open the trunk. Gotta show this video to my old man because if he saw that pink Buick at a car show today, he would insist that it is a custom job. Video proof that if you had the money back in the day you could get a car in exotic colors.

[@ronkuzyk3836]

I believe the colour is Hawaiian Orchid. OK I cheated it says so at 1:42. 🙂

[@robb7398]

I think that might be Spencer Tracy sitting on the bench by the pool in the gray suit.

[@Jocelyn197878]

We are living in some perilous times now! Sad but true.

[@lesmesboyenger4003]

Thaks !!!

[@richardmurphy9006]

Yeah back in the day San Francisco gals had great gams all that hill walking sometimes a glimpse of stocking

[@ss_whole]

1:46 Guy sneezed while filming the car.

[@hyzercreek]

That was an earthquake.

[@jackspratt2001]

They had it so good. Imagine how awesome it was.If you had money, of course.

[@RohanGNair]

And only if you were white

[@Dontworryaboutanything]

Rohan G. Nair choke on that white guilt

[@RohanGNair]

@@Dontworryaboutanything white guilt? Bruh I hate sjws as much as you prolly do but what i said was a fact.

[@xfhghe]

Actually, you were able to have a good time without a lot of money then. $25 for a nice 2 bedroom apartment, $1.25 to see Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra and a buffet dinner at the Paladium, used cars for $50 (cars we would dream of having today), toolmakers wage $0.65/hr in 1939 doubling to $1.25 in 1940.

[@liamadaley]

K Lee context? What was the average monthly wage?

[@fortehoje5951]

Gold.

[@96serpendityyouarelostnotm87]

Man what a time to be alive as a young white man, hell maybe even Mexican, after all it is California. Either or what have loved to be alive during those times.

[@ghsgtnayhmd4792]

It was great for all races except for the deep south. Racism will always exist as ignorance does

[@RADIUMGLASS]

White guys engineered it all

[@personalfunfest]

Lol white utopia fantasy. It never existed. White utopia was Europe and whites were booted from there...

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Seeing the hole that both cities are today, they had it better back then.

[@the308capital]

@Aaron Antone Yep, much better today. Dodging used needles and feces piles..... oh, and that sweet aroma of homeless piss filling the air. Marvelous.

[@onlythewise1]

pretty good filming

[@starguard4122]

Despite the depression having a grip on the majority of the country, Times seemed so peaceful and organized back then. I wonder what happened?

[@yeboscrebo4451]

Starguard ! People forget god. That’s what always happens

[@yeboscrebo4451]

DejaVoodooDoll how was it far more violent? Substantiate that odd claim with something.

[@gonzoexpress9885]

Drugs, mass immigration, globalisation - especially the offshoring of manufacturing, technology and intellectual property to China.

[@1TStriegel]

Im 14 1940 looks soo good ❤😊 I would have liked to live back then I also love the old movies from 1940s and 30s I am gonna watch fantasia tonight never have scene it but it looks soo magical and good 👍 what would you rate the movie if you have ever scene it from the trailer I would rate it a 10 ❤but of course trailers can sometimes look better than the actual movie😢but I will give my real rating after I watch it!

[@huntrrams]

If LA Noire had a sequel I would love to see a Hitchcock-like SF setting

[@wakeup7874]

that Man pose at the end wth

[@dennisthehirev580]

Sorry but it's early 1940's not late '30's. Excellent video though. thanks.

[@DC-hi1nt]

Agreed...40s not the 30s

[@1432CW]

As noted above, that's a 1940 Buick at 1:46. Those hit the showroom in October 1940 and were gone by November 1941. So that particular shot, anyway, could be 1939 or 1940.

[@betsyduane3461]

It says early 40's

[@janetjamerson]

Wow, I want that pink car too

[@hyzercreek]

It's a '40 Buick

[@bighands69]

America was great.

[@maciekjoker9095]

when USA in 40s has good music, cars and money, we in Europe have World War 2 so i cant watch this movie because my country has trouble in this time

[@maciekjoker9095]

@Will Mason with america my country have big trouble after ww2. America had another countries in the ass. Of course, today he have see changes because NATO is.

[@lindajesse8250]

Well said last post!

[@ItsIdaho]

1:34 i wonder how many people would complain about this today.

[@joshbates9934]

Lmao ,SJW AND FEMINIST WOULD GO CRAZY!!!

[@jcb5782]

0:57 “Why Bill. Why do you always have to run?”

[@SamSpade2010]

I think he's green.

[@rohanbansal2324]

Surreal.

[@jntj3007]

At 1:31-HAHAHAHA! ("Baby Got Back!")

[@cmr58]

San Fran....San Franciscan's ears just exploded hearing it called as "San Fran" LMAO

[@bubhub64]

....or just Frisco.

[@hyzercreek]

What do you call it?

[@johnnyzero7155]

Who’s the band and what is the song being played?

[@bobmilin]

Had to turn the sound off, at 1:50 what would that mint car be worth today?

[@Rilumai]

The music makes it so much better, though.

[@720069mf]

At 2:22 check out the classic Woody......

[@death2pc]

The trim was so fine back then.................

[@AstraWerke]

Say, what was the tune you put over the video?

[@mrdesignit145]

A different adaptation of Artie Shaw’s “Hold Your Hat.” Can’t seem to find the original artist of this one in the video.