The legendary 1970's. Love it, I'm from the 1970's. The beautiful, wonderful atmosphere,the beautiful cars, the stereo 8-track tapes. Man,man I miss those wonderful days back in the 70's.
@b.jlovett7 жыл бұрын
Oh, if the 70's would only come back....Loved the yellow corvette stringray.....so cool.
@327h75 жыл бұрын
I dream of those years . The cars ,buildings the people even the 92 octane union 76 leaded gas . I can go on and on about it ,may be ( in my case) I was young or whatever it was I miss it with passion . Thanks
@countdown2xstacy4 жыл бұрын
Alchemica Blackwood Unfortunately LA has turned into garbage
@davidfrehlini50524 жыл бұрын
@Alchemica Blackwood. That's what you think.
@davidfrehlini50524 жыл бұрын
@Alchemica BlackwoodYeah OK. LOL 1000 Times.
@herbpetrillo1633 жыл бұрын
@Alchemica Blackwood yep.thats what he meant....and what sane person wouldn't?
@nativetexanful5 жыл бұрын
The good old days. When the traffic was still tolerable, and LA was affordable.
@nealsausen46513 жыл бұрын
.... and The music was funkier!
@bravado59552 жыл бұрын
Этиловый бензин
@theodoreritola764129 күн бұрын
WHERER ALL THE HOMELESS ?
@rgarcia24185 жыл бұрын
I worked right behind the Formosa Cafe @1:19 1980-1983. Good times.
@maxemomaxemo62507 жыл бұрын
MY GOD......cars.....voltswagon,lincoln continential,chevy................I am drooling !!
@GeorgeVreelandHill3 жыл бұрын
Back when L.A. was great. If you still live here and are not crying or wanting a time machine, then something is wrong with you.
@MH-zg5yw2 жыл бұрын
LA proper is a dump now
@jordanjohnson98662 жыл бұрын
Nah. If you still live there and are not crying or wanting a time machine does not mean there is something wrong with you. Any person that still lives in LA or used to live in LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine does not mean something is wrong with them. If that person still lives in LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine still means nothing is wrong with them. Any person that lives in LA or outside of LA and is not crying or wanting a time machine still means nothing is wrong with them. Not something is wrong with you in that comment from you. Not something is wrong with you. /
@GiveItUpDot11 ай бұрын
@@jordanjohnson9866 W E I R D O
@garyfrancis61932 ай бұрын
What? Are you still there?
@TheIndependentLens5 жыл бұрын
Formosa Cafe is still there and it is on Santa Monica Blvd. & Formosa Ave. in West Hollywood.
@custodianfile4 жыл бұрын
Micky C had a secret office upstairs.
@mgman60003 жыл бұрын
I worked for the gas company from 70 to 78 the base was just down the street from the Formosa Goldwyn studios was across the street they had a big fire there in 75 this was the Hollywood i knew It was a blast working there
@kaylaleave5 жыл бұрын
Funny how there seems to be hundreds of thousands of cars yet now those cars are hard to find
@rocknroller774 жыл бұрын
Ray Manzarek at The Whisky. Had a ticket to see him and Robby Krieger there, about 2 weeks before Ray passed. Wish he was still arou d to have seen them together.
@mexican-americanpatriot7214 жыл бұрын
Formosa cafe looks amazing inside. As a food delivery driver i was stunned by its beauty and cleanliness.
@haleloi30184 жыл бұрын
Saw that Pinto! brings back mems.
@socialmedia30743 жыл бұрын
We play all of these videos at our swinging parties, thank you!
@ceebreeeze3 жыл бұрын
Incredible video. Thank you. Much Love to all my fellow Angelenos. 👊🏽
@Porsche996driver4 жыл бұрын
1:10 X with Ray Manzarek! Wow landmark concert he founded X and was of course The Doors genius.
@rayallison6814 жыл бұрын
This must be after 1971,,,,I'm guessing
@condor78103 жыл бұрын
Ray Manzarek did NOT found X. He has NOT a member of that band but he did produce their first 4 albums including the first one "Los Angeles" which was released in 1980. That photo of the Whiskey is the late 70's at the earliest as X was not a band until 1977. Their first show at the Whiskey was probably in 1978 or 1979 at the earliest.
@LAWoman3232136 жыл бұрын
I love the choice of music in these videos. One correction: that building is not in Mid-Wilshire, it’s Century City on Olympic.
@LAWoman3232133 жыл бұрын
I love this song. Love the Ohio Players. ❤️😻😍❤️
@libertyann4394 жыл бұрын
I lived on Argyle Street right near the Capitol Records building in the 70s.
@fatfreddyscat57673 жыл бұрын
We must've been neighbors then. I lived on Primrose and Vine. Just north of Castle Argyle.
@deirdre1084 ай бұрын
I lived on Vine, across from the Hollywood Ranch Market in the Villa Elaine apts mid 1970's. So cheap to live there then.
@bryanburnap45374 жыл бұрын
I love this stuff !!
@freespirit85704 жыл бұрын
Love the music and LA 💖💖💖
@jimevans45824 жыл бұрын
In in my youth I went to whiskey a-go-go to dance and occasionally eat at the Formosa Cafe.
@renay19584 жыл бұрын
In the late 70's, My friends and I went to The Whiskey A-Go-Go and listened to Rock bands. Those were the days.
@kolbpilot5 жыл бұрын
Always enjoy the cars from the 1970's. A dented Challenger at 0:58, quite a few Pinto's, Porsche, Chevette, a nice 260Z (with maybe a early Celica as well) and on and on. I grew up with these cars but on the east coast.
@hedkace2 жыл бұрын
You can see that same dented Challenger at 1:28 in the parking lot.
@theodoreritola764129 күн бұрын
77 TRANS MS KINGS OF THE ROAD SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT PROVES THAT TRUTH,
@maxemomaxemo62507 жыл бұрын
This films makes you want to go out and buy a pair of bell bottoms [ pants ].
@tiktokisanappforth0ttiesan9953 жыл бұрын
Gei pants, hiptard.
@larrywong63312 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes Ray Manzarek of the Doors organist, Light My Fire 1.08 at the Whisky a Go GO. Thanks for the nostalgia. RIP Ray, he attended UCLA.
@bif7888 Жыл бұрын
OMG-my best buddy and I at age 16, cruised to Hollywood one night from Ventura County-we wandered accidentally into The Whiskey for X with Ray Manzarek( $4😅)! Among some great X songs, they mixed in a couple Doors tunes & they closed with Roadhouse Blues-one of the best nights ever-thanks for the reminder, absolutely a wow evening!!
@BartmanLA3236 жыл бұрын
Interesting, notice the 2nd floor of the Taft building at Hollywood & Vine has fire damage from an apparent fire recently. Nice details. Also the labeling for Sunset & La Brea is incorrect, the Formosa is on Santa Monica Blvd @ La Brea that corner was a car wash until the 2000's then it became the Hollywood Gateway Shopping complex.
@jonathanluna5541 Жыл бұрын
Yeah that’s now the target with Formosa still there
@carlosvillegas61134 жыл бұрын
All I see is American cars, love those days.
@jayp11663 жыл бұрын
If only I could be there in a time machine I'd be buying up properties like crazy.
@97warlock3 жыл бұрын
Id be buyig up Muscle cars & KISS memorabilia ha
@ruraladventurer18844 жыл бұрын
I did some extensive research (i.e. a twenty second Google search) and discovered that the Formosa is still in business
@MrCoconutcat4 жыл бұрын
Feels good and happy clean and as fresh as can be lovely video
@stoneroses19894 жыл бұрын
Dirk Diggler on his way to a production meeting 2:20-2:28
@cynthiapickett74034 жыл бұрын
A downtown L.A. where City Hall is actually visible? Say it ain't so!
@David-ty1xz7 жыл бұрын
How come such high quality video of traffic way back when? Thanks for posting.
@andyedge2634 жыл бұрын
it's shot on film.
@franciscourrutia3442 Жыл бұрын
The 70s look so cool even the old cars 😎👍
@robervalmachado57093 жыл бұрын
Fantástic city, from Brazil.
@matrox Жыл бұрын
1:08 Ray Manzarek was the Keyboard player for the Doors. RIP.
@GeorgeVreelandHill5 жыл бұрын
You got the streets wrong. The Formosa is on Santa Monica Boulevard. The Whisky is on the Strip. Cool video though.
@angeldanielgaritachea21923 жыл бұрын
70's 🌐🕺
@Jgeneraledger235 жыл бұрын
0:59! I knew that guy was going to spot the lady with the camera...and he did : )
@N2LADIES554 жыл бұрын
I think he was a pimp.
@fatfreddyscat57673 жыл бұрын
@@N2LADIES55 love broker
@vegasjay23264 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Rockford’s Los Angeles.
@marioandrikopoulos21584 жыл бұрын
Oh boy I think in this time was a good time to live in California
@ray20224 жыл бұрын
Smog, before emission controls were implemented was truly awful, some days were official bad air days where old folks were encouraged not to go outside..everything has its challenges, eh? Sure there was excitement in the music and movie business still, it was still hanging in..
@juliejensen73703 жыл бұрын
It was!
@vipinc.g.35804 жыл бұрын
Mast
@FuckSlowShit5 жыл бұрын
Brings me flashbacks
@GUITARTIME20243 жыл бұрын
The year is likely around 77 or 78, based on the bands on that sign.
@josecrissanchez14102 жыл бұрын
...WOW..! ! ! THOSE AMAZING DAY ' s AND AT MINUTE 1 : 05 AND. 1 : 09 THOSE FANCY TWO DOOR WHITE CADILLAC AND THE COZY TWO DOOR BLACK LINCOLN GREAT AND AMAZI G CAR ' s . . .
@DiverseLA7 жыл бұрын
1:49 -- so that's what used to be at the Chick-fil-A... a Union 76 gas station. I remember it was a Rally burger in the 90s, then turned in to Carl's Jr...
@LAWoman3232136 жыл бұрын
DiverseLA I remember that too. Highland & Sunset Blvd
@fatfreddyscat57673 жыл бұрын
Right across from my Old High school. The In n out on Sunset and Orange was a no tell Hooker motel in 70s.
@Josegrande6668 жыл бұрын
0:44 Behind the wagon a russian made Lada :)
@kenworthmk65354 жыл бұрын
FIAT 124..automatic special 1973..👍
@samanthahamilton70785 жыл бұрын
Nice
@1p41421365 жыл бұрын
Still looks very much recognizable
@Underthevolcanobooks5 жыл бұрын
X at the Whisky in 77 (!!!) history being made
@boxingnick6033 Жыл бұрын
1:26 to 1:36 Vine from santa monica blvd. the mobil pump station is still there while the car dealership is now Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club and Hampton Inn.
@nanny2872 ай бұрын
This shot if The Formosa Cafe looks exactly like the one used in the film “L.A. Confidential” when the two detectives walk in looking for a fake “Lana Turner,” and find the real thing.Great film, great scene.🎬❤️🎬
@Pureimagination2004 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in the 60-96
@Raaawb3 жыл бұрын
At about 1:46 I wonder what is meant by "disc" in FILM DISC TAPE? Don't know what type of disc format might have been a generic consumable item in this time frame. Anyone know what that business is, or what intersection that is there with the 76 station?
@skydiverclassc20313 жыл бұрын
It's a sound recording and duplication place, from the billboard (which is barely legible). I would assume that disc referred to direct to disc (lp or 45) if one wanted to record that way.
@Poop_Scoop714 жыл бұрын
1:17 thats crazy how thats the target plaza plaza now
@MarioMario-rh3rkКүн бұрын
The only thing I miss is how fun was driving a car back then today cams watching u everywhere and u must drive like a fking robot
@albertoc30913 жыл бұрын
That 0:10 bus is from the FLEXIBLE brand, here in Mexico a similar one was manufactured but from the DINA brand
@walterweddle76442 жыл бұрын
I liked Jack Webb's version of LA.
@73923185 жыл бұрын
Mint green Pinto at .52. Parked green Pinto hatchback at 1.26. Brown Pinto squire in traffic at 1.47.
@emperorpenguin46633 жыл бұрын
This same year into its winter I am about to develop into a human via my mom's portal
@WestShoreMan3 жыл бұрын
Might be me in the green fiat 4 door waiting for the left at Hollywood and Vine. @:49!
@samiam90593 жыл бұрын
Another world :) great times but was a kid
@kinghinckson6 жыл бұрын
I think you meant "Hoover" 2:45
@kman243 жыл бұрын
Before we needed a wall🇺🇸👍✌
@73923185 жыл бұрын
Blue Pinto parked at 1:56. Pinto drive by at 2:45.
@getit51962 жыл бұрын
Wow drug king is now a Starbucks, and the wood yard on La Brea is now a Target/Best Buy with several restaurants double level mall...I have vid of the construction in 2002, I should post it.
@getit51962 жыл бұрын
When he made that left turn on to highland, that gas station spot now stands a chick f lay restaurant...so different back then
@YPO66 жыл бұрын
0:41 White car standing still Fiat 124?
@rollsroyce69204 жыл бұрын
FIAT-124 Automatic Special (1973).
@RobertGlenFogartyLikesWombats2 жыл бұрын
Mangled but still recognizable Black Flag flyer at 0:31!
@dondajulah41686 жыл бұрын
Formosa Cafe was not on Sunset. None of that stuff was on Sunset.
@dondajulah41683 жыл бұрын
@Periwinkle Mermaid Hollywood High here too. Lived four blocks west on Formosa off Sunset
@fatfreddyscat57673 жыл бұрын
Whiskey was/is on Sunset
@dondajulah41683 жыл бұрын
@@fatfreddyscat5767 Yeah, and they put in the "Hollywood Blvd" section in the video.
@mykolaprokopenko3182 жыл бұрын
0:49 жигуль)
@MrStarofTruth5 жыл бұрын
im just shocked where Target is there was once a lumber yard then car wash..
@MrStarofTruth3 жыл бұрын
@Luke Williams yes it was and carls jr accross the street and the male hookers would sit in there and look out the window. i thought that they put that Target Shopping Center there to run them away it seems to have attracted more..
@MrStarofTruth3 жыл бұрын
@Luke Williams yeah that whole foods i used to live on a street called Romain 2 blocks from that Ralphs back in the 90s moved a little after the northridge quake . im sure you enjoyed the neighborhood.
@MrStarofTruth3 жыл бұрын
@Luke Williams Right i was just paying $485 now it seems like a nightmare and im now in a place that i can't bring myself to call home due to a money greedy landlord and bad neighbors... by the way Happy St Patricks Day...
@MrStarofTruth3 жыл бұрын
@Luke Williams I think it is open i had a Irish beer today the first time i had a beer since 2017 .. i just glad someone have that old video tape. brings back memories..
@ickysan4 жыл бұрын
What Ohio Players song is that?!? It's fucking INSANE and funky AF!
@MrNahatej5 жыл бұрын
0:50 there was a fire in one unit. Look at the windows on the bottom left of the building
@dawnburdette30012 жыл бұрын
Yes yes the good times The seventies ❤️❤️✌🏼
@damianr112015 жыл бұрын
omg we used to eat at formosa restaurant had a b'day there once ... ;p
@khunopie91598 жыл бұрын
Groovalicious baybay
@GothosRedux2 жыл бұрын
I miss LA.
@Crunkboy4153 жыл бұрын
Muscle car heaven!🤣
@NoirL.A.4 жыл бұрын
great vid but without going into detail about how i know most of that footage is early 80's not the 70's.
@NoirL.A.4 жыл бұрын
@James Williams that and the way people are dressed i'm L.A. born and raised and to me the timeline looks more like the 80's than the 70's.
@ricardokim6004 жыл бұрын
WONDER CITY 1972
@erhamdwi10014 жыл бұрын
I'm here for new Tarantino's movie
@NoirL.A.4 жыл бұрын
i think the dates on this are wrong. i don't believe any of this goes as far back as 1970 and judging by the 'BLACK FLAG' flyer and the 'X' show at the whisky at least some of this is from the early 80's.
@billyodamit870911 ай бұрын
I was there then it was tooo coool!
@Naruto_black03 Жыл бұрын
2:24 chevrolet corvette 1970
@dburch78945 жыл бұрын
Oh Yeha!!! Party!
@robbiehulsie448Ай бұрын
Hi
@carlosvillegas61134 жыл бұрын
1 bedroom apt $100 dlls.
@fatfreddyscat57673 жыл бұрын
I had a 2 bdr just north of Franklin for $225 in 1975 . Now that same dump is an overpriced Condo.
@easymoney5564 жыл бұрын
Well I was born in 81
@felixmorales65274 жыл бұрын
Now it’s just homeless encampments
@rong76763 жыл бұрын
@1:25 SW corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Highland Ave, that Mobil gas station is still there. @1:38 Going west on Sunset Blvd and turning south on Highland Ave. Where the Union 76 is was occupied by Carl Jr at some point and now is occupied by Chick Fil A.
@barryjohnson4093 жыл бұрын
Ohio Players on the scene- theme music...🎤🎶🎵
@dburch78944 жыл бұрын
Remember the,”Souled Out?”
@paulszyszkowski72455 жыл бұрын
Porsche 356B @1:20
@BlueStreaxxx3 жыл бұрын
Its an 356A.
@gfunkehauser5023 жыл бұрын
spotted a torn Black Flag bill on a lamppost and ray manzarek with X says this is more like 1980
@platec47983 жыл бұрын
Many of these old film strips show virtually no homeless people in the back ground. How did it become such a mess? Plate C[C]
@easymoney5564 жыл бұрын
2:26 child support building I was there in 2010 look the same hate that place lol
@treetoppa83882 жыл бұрын
When I think of LA, I’m thinking of a hot toddy while sitting by a crackling fire in the fireplace on those cold SoCal evenings (1:14) WTF?
@glendaharris72192 жыл бұрын
Dont forget Santa Claus Lane Parade..
@user-lv4wj8cb2d3 жыл бұрын
Я один на 0:40 ваз 2106 увидел?
@sr22913 жыл бұрын
Freeway traffic was not tolerable during rush hours.
@carlosteran81144 жыл бұрын
OHHHhhh, when life was sooo muchh better ...can you imagine in Spain...life WAS HEAVEN......Music was Art, young people were YOUNG, drugs were great quality....people were too much interenting at time to talk, to listen, to Live with.......MUSIC IS DEAD( commercial music I mean..) in 2o19, it's just an exmple... 60s were exciting, 70s GREAT, 80ś GOOD FILMS but the Human Crap started there...90s shit....now is shabby, rought,free nonsense violence, crap TV, CRAP movies, lady GAGA( and the rest), Ganta rap....I think sometimes if German might won the WAR..............Who knows....NOW the wrong is right and the shabby is on fashion.....
@kenworthmk65354 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍
@dondajulah41683 жыл бұрын
Something I notice about people romanticizing the past is that what they are really doing is longing for their own innocence, to go back to a time when they were unburdened by the problems of the world. They mistake their personal innocence for an innocent world when actually nothing could be further from the truth. The world was actually objectively worse in that time even though we felt more comfortable in it then we do today as older people with less hope for the future than we had as children and unaware of the cold hard world that exists out there.
@lbputzer3 жыл бұрын
@@dondajulah4168 Sound observation. I miss the LA of the 70s & 80s, but am able to parse out nostalgia for my youth from reality. Back then, the smog was horrendous, we had to plan our lives around buying gas because of periodic shortages, and many of the LA landmarks & daily conveniences we take for granted didn't exist. I can hardly imagine how inconvenient it would be to have to visit a local library to consult an encyclopedia, when that same information is literally at our fingertips today. Truth is, there is good and bad in just about every period of modern history.
@kennethj19562 жыл бұрын
@@dondajulah4168 I remember the 1960s and 1970s all the way through today. I have no nostalgia for those time periods; I remember how inconvenient life was and the grittiness & crime of the time. Today is the best of times. We can only live today; we can't live the past or the future. Just today.