This is a really good well-put together documentary. Perhaps maybe should've added Eisenhower's Interstate program and how the federal government was subsidizing a ton of freeway construction. Good job!
@kasufert4 жыл бұрын
takes me 2+ hours to take public transit to USC... meanwhile its a 35 minute drive from south OC
@jessicat99997 жыл бұрын
this is really good for a school project
@oldkidsjonge7 жыл бұрын
Beautiful trolley-cars they had back then.
@hgr42555 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Video, my friend. As a Freeway buff for years, I thing you're doc is the best. Thanks for that.
@markskidd50938 жыл бұрын
That was a great clip! I hope it was well received.
@steveartviewer5 жыл бұрын
EXCELLENT presentation. Nostalgia for me, as well. Thanks
@bobanderson28958 жыл бұрын
The back round music is too loud.
@vegas1a5 жыл бұрын
WAY TOO LOUD, at points I could not hear the narration at all!!
@phillipford81498 жыл бұрын
Nice doc. The Long Island Motor Parkway from 1908 was the first controlled access road, though. Earl Swift's book The Big Roads is a great read about the building of the interstates and road history in general.
@aleighlewis7 жыл бұрын
Excellent job!! You should make more! Great use of music and archival footage.
@ilyaforeal3 жыл бұрын
Extraordinary video and I love the ending! 👏
@thaintriguing14 жыл бұрын
Who else heard someone talking while the music was playing?
@stardustdreamfactory19477 жыл бұрын
Interesting - have been looking for a history timeline for the LA freeway system for quite some time - thanks.
@tombrady70397 жыл бұрын
You're gonna need to update this video. "From red cars, to freeways, to tunnels".
@101Volts7 жыл бұрын
Loud music aside (an easy fix,) this was nice to hear. Do you have one on the Pennsylvania Turnpike too? I mention it seeing as it was more or less the first "Interstate" in America, interestingly enough people went over 90 MPH on it frequently way back then with virtually no safety equipment.
@rmarkwallace7 жыл бұрын
The Pacific Electric System was falling apart after almost two decades of deferred maintenance and the state feared for the safety of operation.
@beckweth8 жыл бұрын
The biggest problem with Los Angeles county is that it is ginormous. 15 million people in one county - insanely big. Should be broken up into 15 or more counties. But it won't.
@matt-joye4 жыл бұрын
The ending monologue is 100
@broxboy867 жыл бұрын
its interesting how the terminology used was very cross antlantic in those days. in the uk sidewalk had been said and motorway was being used in california
@gabrielalopetegui4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting theme. If you have the chance, lower the music track. Especially when there is dialogue.
@MikeJDavis7475 жыл бұрын
This would have been a great video if it weren't for the loud music that drowned out the narrative.
@oliviermarti86566 жыл бұрын
Good documentary, my friend
@metrolibrarian9 жыл бұрын
Great work!
@760jjsole85 жыл бұрын
2:59 Christopher said the same line twice like in Back to the Future ......"as far as the eye can see"...
@Royalroadtotheunc4 жыл бұрын
But that's a common saying!
@johntracy727 жыл бұрын
Just watch "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
@thiery5727 жыл бұрын
Interesting.
@cbee55683 жыл бұрын
I can see the 10 frwy was still under construction then as it is today.
@tips4truckers2525 жыл бұрын
Awesome. I like how you added the thing about beauty pageants.
@LilDP9 жыл бұрын
4:46 "A whopping $500 each..." is he being sarcastic here? Is this a lot? How much is that in today's terms?
@RomanRuinFilms9 жыл бұрын
LilDP I was indeed being sarcastic. Adjusting for inflation, $5,000 in 1949 would be worth about $48,716.18 today. While this may sound a lot, it is a drop in the bucket for a company like General Motors who's net earnings in 1949 exceeded 656 million dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that's over 6 billion dollars.
@LilDP9 жыл бұрын
Well that's disconcerting.
@kdm71291 Жыл бұрын
Wait....where did it reach Vta. Cnty.?
@johnrobertfox77752 жыл бұрын
PACIFIC ELECTRIC WAS KILLED BY CORPERATE GREED !
@fiatemWswiat7 жыл бұрын
Lloyd! d BEST!
@RyanFidrick7 жыл бұрын
Great video! What is the name of the black and white comedy in the beginning ?
@michaelbogomolny64756 жыл бұрын
who framed roger rabbit
@TalesfromtheRails4 жыл бұрын
Good job (Unwanted criticism) The Roger rabbit clip was a little too long
@secrets.2954 жыл бұрын
LA need a big huge subway
@henryfernando72896 жыл бұрын
Movie roger rabbit 1988
@Jesuis-qe8ql4 жыл бұрын
2:09 comos e llama la pelicula How is the movie called
@henryfernando72894 жыл бұрын
Quien engaño Roger Rabbit (1988)
@Jesuis-qe8ql4 жыл бұрын
@@henryfernando7289 gracias amix
@markquinly36056 жыл бұрын
Background music ruins this
@abdul86855 жыл бұрын
Background music doesn't fit. It's too loud and too fast. It's not appropriate
@kurtkitchel37165 жыл бұрын
Music?
@kenfranklin56062 жыл бұрын
Then It's True
@skipsassy17 жыл бұрын
nver blame the cusomers of the Model T and others. The public did this.
@LucasFernandez-fk8se7 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding me??? How does LA have no "nucleus" what about the skyscrapers
@AlonsoRules6 жыл бұрын
compared to the size of the city, downtown LA is tiny
@jflow083 жыл бұрын
@@AlonsoRules very small. You drive in and out of it after a few blocks.
@ElSmusso7 жыл бұрын
Tragic place.0
@TheChickensoap7 жыл бұрын
turn down the fucking music
@oldkidsjonge7 жыл бұрын
Turn down your fucking ego
@Test-vl1ib Жыл бұрын
Was with you until the pat-answer Leftist crap about “systematic oppression of women” at 7:25. Give me a break.
@handsfortoothpicks9 ай бұрын
How is it "leftist" to want women to be equal to men? That is literally a basic human right for all people to be equal. Women couldn't even vote till like 1920, which is when the red car was declining. How do you say that "a large company was fundamentally destroying a public transportation system" but you draw the line at womens sufferage. It wasn't even the main point of the video. This video is literally about freeways and the red car. BTW because I know you're a liberal, capitalism destroyed the red car.
@ayutchapraya92405 жыл бұрын
If California still Mexico teritory
@ayutchapraya92405 жыл бұрын
Thats right man.. be California poverty like chiapaz
@ayutchapraya92405 жыл бұрын
No guns n roses, no LAPD
@blizzy63926 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the SJW Virtue Signaling at 7:19. Irrelevant to the subject at hand much? Good subject but your project loses its seriousness with all the comedy film/pop culture references.
@rtd14094 жыл бұрын
National City Lines had nothing to do with the Pacific Electric and had no ownership of them, they owned the Los Angeles Transit Lines "Yellow Cars" a competitor to the PE "Red Car" system. The simple reason the railways ended operation was lack of public ownership and no government subsidy. Oscar Smith the president of the Pacific Electric begged for right of ways to be embedded in freeways when they were beginning to be built in the late 1940's and he was laughed out of business and the company sold out equipment and passenger lines to Metro Coach Lines in 1953 however the parent to the PE was the Southern Pacific and they still owned the fireight operation of the PE and as SP wanted the whole transit operation gone and by 1958 LAMTA was formed as the first public transit agency in LA and Sp would revoke the right to use the rails of the last remaining line to Long Beach in 1961. The overly sensationalized and romanticized "Big Conspiracy" nonsense holds no water.
@darkhorsejim5 жыл бұрын
Unwatchable with ridiculous background music.
@MissterX3 жыл бұрын
I stopped your video after your lame Social Justice Warrior subliminal flash about beauty pageants.
@gutesteven6 жыл бұрын
7:13 Pasadena's tradition of Men ranking the physical beauty of High School Girls? I thought this was a decent film until you made that stupid remark about the Tournament of Roses.