Post war America at it's finest. Bold ideas and futuristic thinking.
@boomerjo45463 ай бұрын
Ah the smell of those 707, 880, DC-8’s exhaust from the jet engines was so sweet and those days. I remember flying in to LAX on TWA 707 as a young kid. Magic days of 1960’s.
@whitecliffs209 жыл бұрын
This documentary brings back many memories. In 1935 my family moved from New York to Los Angeles. We lived in a small home in Lennox, a suburb of Los Angeles. We lived on Ocean Gate Avenue. Just about a quarter mile from Mines Field. I spent many an hour walking across a corn field to the Mines Field border fence to watch the small planes landing and taking off. My father had a temporary part time job as a night watchman at the airport which was just at the beginning of its development. We would visit him at the airport in the evening and he gave us a private tour. We even got into the hangars where I was able to sit in the cockpit of several small planes, including the first "flying wing" model. It was this proximity to Mines Field that got me interested in aviation. Ultimately I went to work for Pan American Airways during WWII. After the war I worked for the CAA. I took my federal civil service test at Mines Field. And it was from that airport in 1948 that I flew on Pan American to Honolulu for my first job as a air traffic communications specialist for the CAA. Thanks for the memories! Ed Dover
@eternity90909 жыл бұрын
Ed Dover Ed, what an amazing story! It is fascinating looking back and seeing how much has truly changed. Very interesting to hear your part of the story, definitely a nostalgic feel to it!
@alexolvera51507 жыл бұрын
Mr. Dover, great comment. I watched this video because i'm fascinated by history. You have added to my knowledge and I thank you. This airport has always been a large part of my life. I've lived most it very near to it. Some of my life right under the flight path of jets in Lennox. I know where you lived very well. The 405 freeway probably is there now. Also I went to a high school that was built after you left...lol
@vandrive56873 жыл бұрын
A poignant great American success story Mr. Dover. Thx for sharing! Spent many times in and out of & a few stints living around LAX.
@stephenwalker73813 жыл бұрын
AWESOME thanks for sharing with us ...cheers Ed
@TheRiceguy783 жыл бұрын
Ayyyye! i lived near lennox blvd near the library and police station!
@marcosflorianodejesus92062 жыл бұрын
My eyes keeps Full of tears when I watch these old commercials. What good times.
@DaMzEeyore4 жыл бұрын
The 30 mins from LAX to Van Nuys on the freeway had me 😂😂😂😂😂.
@silkystick15093 жыл бұрын
Your beautiful self
@gkprivate4333 жыл бұрын
haha yeah. I first moved to LA in 1982. 30 minutes by jet pack maybe now! I used to commute up to Bob Hope Airport in 2007. good luck getting past the 1, the I 5 pinch, etc. Never mind if starting all the way from LAX and climbing up the hill on the 405. I used to drive from El Segundo up to Vandenberg Air Force Base often in the 80s when I was stationed out there in the Air Force. I felt like a husky sled dog unchained once I got over that rise on the 405 and headed up the coast.
@massey4business Жыл бұрын
😂 I know right? That seemed kind of long for back then as well!
@TheUtuber9996 ай бұрын
Even faster if you took one of those shuttle helicopters shown at 15:15.
@charliebrown61618 жыл бұрын
What a great video, as a pilot of 65 years I remember so much of it like it was in 1963. When I lived in Orange County in 1964 - 1966 I used to fly from John Wayne to Santa Barbara and could cross over LAX at 1,500' above the airport and never have to call the tower. Or I would fly at 100' along the beach and have the airliners flying over head. All before the TCA, terminal Control Area. I've made many a landing at LAX at all hours of the day and night as an airline pilot in small twin engine cargo plane to 737s and 707s.
@stephenwalker73813 жыл бұрын
If I am right the VFR corridor still exists last time I checked in 2019 , just like it does in San Diego ...cheers Mr Brown
@MrJenniferwahl8 Жыл бұрын
I was Henrys private nurse in the 80s he was so sweet!
@Dangermouse22563 жыл бұрын
I like watching these films. It’s sort of like a time machine
@trojanjustin99614 жыл бұрын
Most unrealistic part of this is that anybody from LAX would check their dog and not try to say it's a phony service animal. Ah, better times.
@gkprivate4333 жыл бұрын
"comfort animal" now a days. a farce more often than not
@paulj2948 Жыл бұрын
The luggage automation is impressive for that era. And the skycap wears a hat, tie and jacket.
@incog99skd113 жыл бұрын
In 1961, my parents rented an apartment under the glide path to LAX. The planes were so loud then that a giant mid-century modern glass ash tray, yes we even had ash trays then, on the coffee table split in half one day. Hollywood Park was a vision of lights from Imperial Blvd. too. We moved to Orange County and paid 36 thousand dollars for a very nice home in the hills. Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end... la la la la .
@lemorab110 ай бұрын
I was hoping to see the airport from about 1950 - 1952, when I flew out of there as a small child. I remember the era of the early 1960's very well.
@roachtoasties8 ай бұрын
I don't think the planners and builders in the 1950's and 1960's realized how much more has had to be squeezed into the same footprint over the years. Maybe if they did, they would have figured out a way to acquire more land.
@jonathanjackson92086 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how much history you see from this video, from this video to current time Los Angeles is far over populated and way to expensive. I'd love to go back to these simpler times even if for only a day!
@Gryphonisle3 жыл бұрын
The problems LA, and indeed America, has can be seen germinating around the airport in this video: the boulevards designed for cars, buildings built for cars, parking surrounding everything, and absolutely no reason for anybody to walk, ride a bike, or take public transit. Now LA is trying to claw back its infrastructure from this grave mistake, but it’s proving much harder to reverse than it was to build.
@westhavenor951310 ай бұрын
Thank goodness for Nixon and the EPA he created. Those who grew up in SoCal in the 60's & 70's like me know what I'm talking about!
@incog99skd113 жыл бұрын
The convertible T-Bird is to die for!
@samiam85566 жыл бұрын
Best video ever! LAX is the best airport in the wotld
@redwatch11003 жыл бұрын
Back when people actually cared about other people.
@mysterytour598318 күн бұрын
I wish they will always keep the Theme Building it is so nice! have stop often there to eat or just a drink while waiting for friends coming or leaving!
@saltyroe31793 жыл бұрын
I remember when LAX World Way opened. It was a big upgrade from the facilities east of Sepulveda
@yokosomike3 жыл бұрын
Seems like yesterday, I can remember my parents driving up to the ground level parking in our VW bug and grabbing a ticket to park our car. At night it was nice just to look up in the sky from the parking lot and hear all the airplanes taxi around and taking off.
@NinetyTres2 жыл бұрын
I love that they were thinking about Rockets to Mars in 63'
@laxnative46223 жыл бұрын
There's an excellent book on the history of LAX by William Schoeberger, Ethel Pattison, et al simply entitled Los Angeles International Airport. It's essentially all photos from the 1920's through 2009. Thanks to Ethel for signing my copy in 2014!
@robertcarillio91263 жыл бұрын
Standards and pride used to be top nothc. We go from this...to Spirit!
@t0ny2606 жыл бұрын
This airport is ALWAYS under construction! 😒 I do love the new Tom Bradley terminal and the theme building!
@staubach1979rt4 жыл бұрын
I worked there from 2005 to 2016 and there was ALWAYS major construction going on there! There still is. I'm convinced there always will be.
@jayski94103 жыл бұрын
I loved how they mentioned there are six terminals and room for a seventh in the future if necessary. If need be, they could even add a couple of decks to the 5000 car parking lot. And that probably sounded like pie-in-the-sky growth predictions to them. They'd never recognize the place now. And what we see as interminable construction today, will probably look like it's barely adequate to folks 20 years from now. So I guess these are the good old days now.
@suriyanarayananjanakiraman11277 ай бұрын
Narrative is excellent
@5koverlibor9 жыл бұрын
Some of the aircraft footage is positively unique: Convair 990 on climb out as viewed from a helicopter? Yeah, very decent chance this is the only existing footage of that. Astounding. Top-shelf vintage avgeek stuff.
@stephenwalker73813 жыл бұрын
There are a lot of CV 880 990 videos around and there is a real neat one from about 6 years ago of one getting prepped and coming into & out of Mojave airplane storage yard
@Lucky_50902 жыл бұрын
Great points!
@gkprivate4333 жыл бұрын
OVer the years I have flown in and out of there easily a hundred times, lately a lot of international flights. Back around 1985 my sister came out from Rhode Island for a brief stopover as she did Hawaiian tours. We met at the restaurant in that signature space age building. That was cool
@MissShell19753 жыл бұрын
2021. Would be great to have an update video on the airport now.
@Longbeachliner6 жыл бұрын
Loved watching this! Thanks for posting!
@staubach1979rt4 жыл бұрын
A gem.
@talp281310 жыл бұрын
Love it lax should invest in making a new video showing da new upgrades of how the airport has become. Showing how Bradley looks now and da new improvements .
@eutimiochavez4153 жыл бұрын
Pierre Talavera why
@marklucca30443 жыл бұрын
Boy, they sure had good restaurant service at LAX back then. Today you pay $25 for a hamburger & fries that's bland, unless you put tons of ketchup on it. Even the Airlines served decent hot meals back then. We loved flying into LAX back in the late 60's & 70's. Today when I go through LAX I can't wait to get the hell out of there.
@waynehentley43322 жыл бұрын
$25? Really?🤔🤔
@TheUtuber9996 ай бұрын
@@waynehentley4332 Last week I bought a cheeseburger, regular fries and a shake from Five Guys and the total was $25.72. So yeah, he's not exaggerating.
@waynehentley43326 ай бұрын
@@TheUtuber999 Outrageous!! I guess those are LA prices! I live in Florida!😂😂
@TheUtuber9996 ай бұрын
@@waynehentley4332 I don't live in LA any more. That was in San Jose. I'm guessing their prices are the same nationwide, though. Btw, I like Michael Bordenaro's channel - he's based out of Miami Beach. Cheers!
@gkprivate4333 жыл бұрын
Jesus what a treasure of a video
@jnuval10 жыл бұрын
Bring back the comfortable seats from the 60s!
@Skier103 жыл бұрын
Then bring back the ticket prices required to have those type of seats. Can’t have your cake and eat it too...
@jnuval3 жыл бұрын
@@Skier10 Actually, you can. It's called the 90s. ;)
@Skier103 жыл бұрын
@@jnuval So the 90s was actually the golden era of airline seat comfort? Thought it was the 60s according to you. Either way, you get what you pay for.
@eutimiochavez4153 жыл бұрын
Yes instead of the sardine seat they have today
@jnuval3 жыл бұрын
@@Skier10You're misunderstanding. I'm not talking about airplanes. I'm talking about the chairs in the airport.
@elfulano58842 жыл бұрын
It wouldn't be until 1984 that most of the international carriers would be moved to the then new TBIT. Hard to believe they were once crammed inside that small terminal.
@staubach1979rt Жыл бұрын
There weren't nearly as many. Plus, most only flew out one to two times a day.
@MissShell197510 жыл бұрын
WOW fascinating stuff. Would love to see an updated doco of what the airport is like now in 2014.
@MissShell19753 жыл бұрын
@Ramen Lover yeah I do actually lol
@MissShell19753 жыл бұрын
@Ramen Lover alrighty then
@gridley10 ай бұрын
LAX was both more oddly charming decades ago, yet also quaintly unsophisticated. Today it's both sleeker & slicker yet also meaner, more dehumanizing. The 1950's-era modest-income neighborhoods around LAX, some of them bulldozed into oblivion, have made a major entry to LA not the most ideal. Yet SoCa decades ago nonetheless seemed more endearing or welcoming, with less crime, dirt, homelessness. But it was also kind of frumpy. A mixed bag, then & now.
@1zcrew3 жыл бұрын
Few terminals still look the same from the outside & if you work inside some machines are still that vintage green color just with rust
@jovanholland363 жыл бұрын
Iys crazy how lax went from a military base to a giant airport
@valvlog46653 жыл бұрын
9:43 That little girl is about 61 yrs old now. Wonder if she's ever seen the footage.
@Gryphonisle3 жыл бұрын
Who was the intended audience for this film? Where would it have been seen? TV? Conventions? In LA or for an out of state audience?
@dougm6146 Жыл бұрын
So far this is very interesting. Modern foe it's time but yet simple times vs now days with high tech stuff. I still check my bags in when ever I fly, I don't like to hold onto anything and a slow process on planes with those who carry on as I had noticed when flying Monday from Lubbock, Texas to Roanoke, Virginia.
@KOCH44449 жыл бұрын
Nice....
@svenlundergard1 Жыл бұрын
Looking at all the people, it was before high fructose corn syrup and fat inducing hormones in beef, poultry and pork. Hardly any obesity. People actually wore decent clothes and not pajamas to travel. Conducted themselves with respect and courtesy. Ahh I do wish I could go back in time sometimes.
@TheUtuber9996 ай бұрын
20:13 $4M per week / 33,000 people / 40 hours per week = $3 per hour on average. 😲
@efk04907 жыл бұрын
Super content. It would be very nice to color correct the presentation.
@Lee247Jamaica2 жыл бұрын
Sad how one of those satellites (terminal 3) has been demolished and is being build over, that oval Desing is so iconic just to be replace with a bland box shaped terminal
@ssmt22 жыл бұрын
Speaking as a facilities maintenance mechanic that used to work on the LAX terminal buildings I will tell you that the plumbing and electrical systems in those old terminal buildings are way beyond their useful life expectancy, as is everything else in the building. It's far cheaper to just tear them down and build new than it is to keep the old building and replace all of the systems inside of it. Those buildings are in really poor condition and should have been torn down years ago.
@Lee247Jamaica2 жыл бұрын
@@ssmt2 I agree with you but at least they could have kept a design the resemble the old terminal
@staubach1979rt Жыл бұрын
@@ramenlover1727 Size was never a problem.
@staubach1979rt Жыл бұрын
@@ramenlover1727 The USO islocated on the ground floor of he Theme Building. The restaurant is still closed, but all the kitchen area remains. I suppose they're just waiting for a tenant. too bad. Encounter was a cool restaurant.
@VincentConard4 жыл бұрын
That Airport Director of Operations guy should’ve been a stand up COMEDIAN! That was an absolutely HILARIOUS joke at 2:02 ! Look at those Girl Scouts falling all over themselves with laughter! 😐
@Carl-LaFong16183 жыл бұрын
yeah, instead of Henry Bakes it should be Henny Bakes.
@AnthonyReichardt11 ай бұрын
Didn't see any obese, tattooed or pierced travelers or employees. Quite refreshing.
@westhavenor951310 ай бұрын
No sweatpants & flip flops either!
@gridley10 ай бұрын
The masses are generally less civilized in the 2020s. Or they at least look it. Back in the early 1900s (even before the 1960s of early LAX), when AC & other modern conveniences (washers, driers, etc) didn't exist or barely existed, people strolled around in full-fabric finery, including men in hats, women wearing gloves.
@stuartlee66225 ай бұрын
RACIST!!!!
@nativoplantas20032 жыл бұрын
Love
@user-df7qd6vl6v2 жыл бұрын
Смотришь на это чудо техники и организации процесса и понимаешь - не просто так Американцы первыми побывали на Луне. И в 30 - 40 г. ХХ1 в. будут на Марсе (если захотят). УСПЕХОВ ВАМ.
@massey4business5 жыл бұрын
16:54 Pimp my ride!
@alexkano27ify2 жыл бұрын
Somehow I landed to this documentary of LAX I paid so much attention that at 19:50…Can you explain why the old man Kisses and Old Man in the Mouth???
@johno75644 ай бұрын
Since 1928? I wonder if there might be a 100 year celebration?
@arnaldosandoval4533 жыл бұрын
21:05 They don't do this anymore
@Idelia4123 ай бұрын
My parents moved to southern California in the summer of 1965 from Washington. How L.A. has. changed since then. I left in 1969 and now live in Arizona. Hordes of people from California have moved recently to the Phoenix area to get away from sothern California. 😂
@dwaynecoy18713 жыл бұрын
Notice all the people with full suits on and some with overcoats and suits. Was this filmed in Dec or Jan? Can't imagine there being airconditioning in all those buildings.
@stuartlee66224 жыл бұрын
Idlewild is much more EXCITING.
@wweandorigamifan316310 жыл бұрын
👍✈️
@ConfusedGears-yh4sl7 ай бұрын
When they built la international airport they worry a head of theiyy time 😊
@TheUtuber9996 ай бұрын
19:51 Wait, what?
@danielmarsala8492 жыл бұрын
minefield?!
@charleel18004 жыл бұрын
Wow, the people working at the airport earn 4 million a week? Sign me up! Lol.
@TheUtuber9996 ай бұрын
$4M ÷ 33,000 people ÷ 40 hours = $3 per hour. 😄
@joez89142 жыл бұрын
So much customer service. Now your expected to just hand over your money and figure it out yourself.
@johnp139Ай бұрын
No, YOU’RE expected to know how to write.
@joez8914Ай бұрын
@@johnp139 I am? Who says, you? Bet you felt real special when you wrote YOUR comment, didn’t ya?
@zeek10zlivees6 жыл бұрын
😃
@ConfusedGears-yh4sl7 ай бұрын
Hertz E car rented chev impaly I would like to havy the Chevrolet
@danielmarsala8492 жыл бұрын
no stairs?
@jamyla22 күн бұрын
The Stairs were there, next to the escalators.
@bairong93 жыл бұрын
Late 50s....really wasn't that long ago compared to other cities like NYC, it started to get crowded id say early to mid my parents eighties, when everyone from central America started to come my parents included
@stephenwalker73813 жыл бұрын
Bake when Men were Men and the chrome was thick....
@TheUtuber9996 ай бұрын
19:51
@stardustdreamfactory19477 жыл бұрын
The few times I flew out of LAX I wasn't impressed. My memories: malfunctioning a/c, being groped by TSA clowns and few shops-restaurants. Memories of John Wayne Airport are much better. During my final employment before retiring, I flew at least twice a month and often once per week all over the USA and most of Canada for nearly two decades.
@davidparry85144 жыл бұрын
agreed, SFO mo bettah
@Bartonfink34343 жыл бұрын
I always fly into John Wayne, it’s a great airport.
@waynehentley43322 жыл бұрын
Groped?🤔🤔😅😅
@johnkoch73864 жыл бұрын
it's so little
@brucescott76002 жыл бұрын
So I guess it is true. Sooner or later everyone winds up in Los Angeles. Even my brother, lol. And he was the last person on Earth who got a cell phone. 😄
@ronniedelahoussayechauvin67173 жыл бұрын
I’ve never been to the Los Angeles Airport. I never owned a service dog nor been in the MILITARY.
@JimAllen-Persona3 жыл бұрын
You’re not missing anything. I’m interested in the operations of airports but last time I was there the American terminal was a nightmare. TSA has made flying a nightmare. I wanted to see that restaurant in the center but it’s kind of underwhelming in person. At least LAX doesn’t look like a 60’s bus station. Personally, I’d skip LAX for Burbank or John Wayne.
@nealsausen46513 жыл бұрын
So nice back then but like the dump it is now
@evermar13 жыл бұрын
Aw the good old days, when the only people of color were gardeners and Janitors while all the white men wearing ties and women in stoles and gloves when flying.
@waynehentley43322 жыл бұрын
😅😅😅😅😅
@TheUtuber9996 ай бұрын
17:06 The gardener looks Latino to me. Some things never change! 😆
@dezmarinvestmentsllc99642 ай бұрын
LAX is a shit hole now
@gkprivate4333 жыл бұрын
Love the dress up as people took some pride in themselves and how other people viewed them. I don't expect suits and ties and dresses, but I sure am disgusted by the tank tops, bare feet, and the way people dress and travel today. I drive across the USA and only take planes when heading over seas.
@abdullutfi77482 жыл бұрын
23:22 12 million dollars?
@MorganBennett7 жыл бұрын
That was old
@hankaustin70914 жыл бұрын
duuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh............ really?????????
@MorganBennett10 ай бұрын
@@hankaustin7091 yeah
@RuggedBrotha11 ай бұрын
ITS A BIG HOMELESS GHETTO NOW!!!!
@charleel18004 жыл бұрын
Wow, the people working at the airport earn 4 million a week? Sign me up! Lol.
@dwaynecoy18713 жыл бұрын
You sure you want that? They're making about $3 an hour, giving them an average of about $121 per week. ($4 million divided by 33K workers).