Los Angeles 1960s

Los Angeles Airport, Supelveda South Bound, I110 North Bound, 7th and the I110, Sunset Blvd. Music by Jimmy has been replace with John Deley and the 41 Players - Hold on a Second

[@yanot80]

1 ticket to 60s pls. One way.

[@gabrielsandoval4994]

Might as well go all the way back to the 50's that way you enjoy both :)

[@robharding1957]

While you are there! order me one.

[@ThePepe969]

Call James Franco (in 11.22.63 show)

[@kerryincolumbus]

Order one for me as well, please.. thanks!!

[@tommytruth7595]

The early 60's were OK. By the late 60's, the liberals/Communists were on their way to destroying the USA.

[@icarustanovic3097]

Los Angeles was way cooler back then, pretty nice city. I wish I lived back then. Who ever filmed this, thank you.

[@rlmye65]

Icarus Tanović I was born in LA in the mid-1960s so I was able to remember a little bit of it

[@glennredwine289]

@@samt.8533 people weren't required back then to wear their seat belts but we always did, my mother made sure of that, she was tossed out of a car in 1953 and slid across an intersection on her backside; couldn't sit on a hard chair for the next 25 years. And back then in the early 60's the cars had steel dashboards which weren't too forehead friendly.

[@glennredwine289]

@@rlmye65 I was born in the late 50's and remember many of the cars on the roads back then. I just wished I could have been a few years older old enough to understand the significance of and remember JFK's assassination, ie age 11.

[@glennredwine289]

Icarus look on KZbin for RALPH STORY L.A. and "Things that aren't there anymore" by Stephanie Edwards. RALPH STORY was an anchor on channel 2 KNXT the CBS affiliate in L.A in the 1960's. Another trip back down memory lane is if you can find the clips of SLIM BARNARD doing the HAPPY WANDERS. FORD gave him as car (as a promotional) and he toured all around California and the west with his wife on weekend outings.

[@rlmye65]

@@glennredwine289 why wasn't born until 65 however my mother basically pioneered the 50s by riding those trains to and from work up until she learned how to drive does back in the day when her office was in Vernon

[@retroolschool]

Back then ALL the cars were cool!

[@MrStuVW]

But STIIL blowing poison out their asses!!! buy electric so earth can heal.

[@After4th]

Back then we could burn all the gas without financial and environmental concerns.

[@MrStuVW]

Are you serious? LOL

[@MrStuVW]

Foreign cars were so much more fun than American cars, heck you could fly thru the canyons and get to the beach Way before the chevy or ford!!! Lol my 12 cylinder jag did 70 in first gear, 125 in second, and I had tons of pedal left when I took it up to 155 on 395 near red rocks one evening going to mammoth lakes.

[@MrStuVW]

Walter, GOD gave you a brain to be able to think for your Self!!! Don't believe everything they tell you or else you'll wind up lost. Before you were born America made electric cars that could go 100 miles on a charge.. but then the oil industry was created to poison the air you breathe until you are too poisoned to think for yourself... America is the problem, but you might think otherwise...!

[@incog99skd11]

I moved to LA in 1960 with my parents. It was actually even cooler than the video shows. It was fabulous.

[@aviox3664]

I want to go back to sixties and i'm french

[@kingjae2187]

I’m 16 wish I could experience the 60s

[@theoldsilvercat7523]

I arrived in SoCal in 1962 at 10 years old. To me it was paradise. Although my mom who grew in Van Nuys told me it was a paradise, until WWII began, people moved to SoCal to work in defense plants, many service men and families moved there after the war. In 1939 population was almost 7 million, in 1946 almost 10 million then climbed steadily through the 70s. In 1962 population was 17,07200. In 2022 was 39,29032. I guess the thoughts of paradise are relative to the individual. My dad was in the building trades in ‘62, my mom stayed home. My siblings and I grew up in a four bedroom house and parents had 2 cars. I don’t know if it’s possible to do that in an L.A. suburb in 2023. My heart goes out to the younger people trying to get a home and start a family. Watching some of these vintage films takes me back. Thanks for uploading!

[@louismorel2001]

@@aviox3664 me too

[@donlaroque8028]

The land of the infamous Tia stick, great times

[@superuseryou]

PEOPLE DRESSED UP TO BOARD A PLANE BACK THEN, it was like dressing up for church - Sunday's Best.

[@STho205]

Teresita Ortal Yes people dressed to leave the home and neighborhood. Men wore suits to work unless they were in manual labor, and then they wore uniform work clothes. Ladies dressed to go shopping, visiting and even to the grocery. Only kids would wander the streets scruffy. As our society gets more prosperous childhood extends well into later life, thus middle aged people dress like they did when they were 14. Travel was an event as was going to a movie or concert.

[@seanf5634]

This is Burbank Airport, and it still has that same drive in/out loop that you see from the 60's.

[@nicparker3809]

You mean Armenia Airport. They changed the name when they sold your ass down the river. Russians didn't want them now we got them and they are doing the same shit. Running welfare and medical fraud. Thanks US government as if the Mexicans gangs and the joy they brought wasn't enough. All while filling their pockets crime jumps and drugs soar.

[@STho205]

R ef. Yes but even poor people dressed for public, unless they were completely destitute. You see train travel films of the same time and people are well dressed. Trains weren't especially expensive and everyone used them. Even buses had a good number of passengers that dressed. Really the pop culture of the late 60s degraded the aesthetic in the western world over the past 50 years. Large scale immigration in the 90s and 00s from third world nations pretty much solidified it. See Japan today. They didn't buy into the counterculture and they are borderline xenophobic barely allowing immigration. They still dress well for public.

[@markgorney3325]

Sunday best

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

L.A. was better back then. A LOT better.

[@solidmind8696]

+George Vreeland Hill lol how so?

[@robharding1957]

+George Vreeland Hill Yes it was, but wasn't life itself much better ?.the worlds technology may have moved into unbelievable orbits, but our quality of life has gone backwards.just like the moral standards along with it.We had the golden opportunity to make our world a much better place for everyone, but we have failed miserably.

[@PigeonsPie1]

+George Vreeland Hill I was 10 back in 1965 and I have clear memory of the LACK of traffic on the freeway. I guess that marks me. Calling them the 'Free Ways'... as New England gets the high way taxes. Anyway, I remember when back then, when WEEKDAY traffic looked like today's SUNDAY traffic. Fewer people back in 1965 California. Too many people now.

[@PigeonsPie1]

+George Vreeland Hill And I just saw your Tribute to David Bowie. He was a super talent. I have been in-love with D.Bowie since I was in high school, and it was - a sad transition of my life, in letting him go recently. I was in-love with this man (only 8-years older than I was) who created such wondrous effects. Back in H.S. I appreciated his skills, inventiveness, .. talent. Super genius. Anyway, thank you for your input and tribute. A lot of us loved him. Thank you.

[@Frenzinh0]

+George Vreeland Hill Hay man, I live on the other side on the planet and here we are always watching american films filmed in California and especially L.A. it looks soo nice,so sunny place with a lot of people,the beaches are my favorite LA is a center of many world events I've always dreamed to go there just on an excursion but my country requires a visas for america and not everyone is allowed to go!So can you share your thoughts about the live in LA :) Regards from here!

[@NothingToPointOut24]

I'd give up all the technology we have today, to live in this era.

[@TheAlexLamberty]

Me too.

[@thesauerkrautp2269]

NothingToPointOut24 Not if you are black 🤷‍♂️

[@mr.b9613]

@@thesauerkrautp2269 this is the 60s jackass, segregation ended in 1954 you fanook

[@cashouttdan]

Mr. B it did🤦🏾‍♂️ I’m so dumb I thought it ended in 1964 or 1968... wait no it didn’t it did not end in 1954 ur the one that’s dumb 😂

[@mr.b9613]

@@cashouttdan 1954 was when Brown vs Board of Education when into law deeming segregation unconstitutional. That is what eventually led to the end of segregation. In '64 the civil Rights act was a formality introduced by JFK to guarantee that every American has the same rights. Read a fucking book.

[@MicBergsma]

Spotted a vw bus! It’s crazy to think that I am restoring my 67 bus that was running out there in 60s

[@carloscarpinteyro332]

I have a very early (Aug.1969) 1970 that I need to do work on, wish you well with your project!

[@Alaska-mk4ok]

That is pretty crazy

[@Alaska-mk4ok]

It’s crazy that people were using that same bus 60 years ago

[@onlythewise1]

no way i bought a 67 new paid cash with help of my parents

[@MicBergsma]

@@carloscarpinteyro332 that’s awesome, thanks

[@jeanettegriffin772]

A great time for me. My parents had just imagrated from England. Landed in. LAX 1967, with 5 little kids. A job and $35 in their pocket book. Lived in South central LA. The community support was like no other. With in a year my Dad was able to buy a new house in s little known community called Fountain Valley. Costing $22,000... No welfare or public assistance! This was definitely the land of milk and honey. What happened?

[@slimshine953]

Jeanette Griffin ~ Cool story, and I won't get into what went wrong since then. It would be a book lol. Oh and if your family came to the US in '67, it was a few years after this film clip, which was 1964.

[@EmeraldBayMovies]

In case anyone is wondering, $22,000 is roughly $187,000 today if you account for inflation. Still, 187k wont get you anything in L.A in 2020.

[@brianchase9251]

@@slimshine953 Spotted 1966 Impala.

[@slimshine953]

@@brianchase9251 ~ Doesn't seem likely. Here's the thing. This is extra footage, made during the production of the movie Sex and the Single Girl, released 12/64 (referenced IMDb). I've seen the archives when I worked in the film business. Possibly you saw a '65 Impala that would've been brand new at the time, practically off the showroom floor. As I'm sure you know, new models are released a few months prior to the actual year, and it was a similar body style to the '66, with slight differences. I saw what appears to be a '63 or '64 Buick Riviera on the far left, beginning about the 2:24 mark. Then a '65 Mustang takes front and center between 3:25 and 3:30... or could it be a '64 and 1/2? In closing, it's tricky to discern details in this film.

[@mannyortiz3656]

@@rickmcnulty3757 Definitely not 1964, theres a 65/66 mustang at 3:30. Also, sad to see the racists come out luckily they all left the region, good riddance. What happened? Capitalism and its worse variety of fictitious finance capitalism happened. Its not 'blacks' fault the city is unaffordable, polluted, and some areas deeply poverty stricken.

[@SaraM-wb4lk]

Aww, life without Coronavirus

[@libertyann439]

And 9-11!

[@CIA-fx8mb]

And without China!

[@stevegallant3395]

A time when people had more common sense... not every goddamn thing was political. No political correctness and cancel culture... What has happened to this country?

[@santamaria_1987]

@@CIA-fx8mb And With Soviet Union :D

[@graemewatson2296]

Comrade Xi says "Please don't make fun of my Bio-weapon Wuhan Virus. It's hurts my feelings".

[@adamelgharbaoui9291]

The vibes,the aesthetic WOW I really wish i had a time machine

[@maxwild1212]

One thing that really strikes me about these old clips from the 60s is just how goddamn stylish everything was back then compared to today. The cars, the people's clothes, just the general aesthetic.

[@gkprivate433]

oh yes. We took pride in our looks and appearances. Maybe we did not have the latest and greatest, but we tried.

[@cazsnap]

People are too boring and depressed to care about stuff like that nowadays.

[@berrafatale25yearsago87]

@@cazsnap occupied with 3 jobs and drugs.

[@donofon1014]

Is this about the video above with no "stylish people" and the oversized dull looking cars? The aesthetic of the 405 is ... " Function".

[@simonpedersen9940]

You can thank cultural socialism for that the idea that everybody is equal and should dress the same is the ideology behind tidays sloppy dress code.

[@lordbyron3603]

I get physically and emotionally affected watching videos of this era. My stomach begins to churn and I have this aching feeling in my heart. The mental connection is so strong my mind starts digging up memories and takes me back. Life was good for me back then. I suppose the heart yearns for those years again.

[@bt4350]

Back then, double yellow lines were just for decoration.

[@sudipta_archive]

Lol

[@TheAlexLamberty]

For real haha what's going on there

[@avdgaming3550]

It was a filmings scence for a movie

[@JosephusXIX]

0:32 WTH...why is everyone driving in the same direction on both sides of the road?

[@Orion-jb5sw]

It's answered several times in other comments on this thread. It's staged, extra footage from a 1964 movie starring Natalie wood. Not only are the cars all going the same direction, but they and the motorcycle officer are not driving normally. Apparently it was footage for a chase scene in the movie. In the real world, who or what would be following a motor officer that closely?

[@ScaryGhost1]

It's a dual style of freeway, there used to be a few out in Balboa in San Diego. Basically they look like separate roads but the upper/lower halves merge together at some point (and have entrances). They follow the california valleys so it looks narrow but there's actually several other oncoming lanes out of view to the far left.

[@lellius]

The road you see on the other side is actually the 405 freeway. If Sepulveda was part of the freeway, then why is there a double yellow line down the middle? I'm guessing they must have used it a a reversible lane during rush hour? Anyone remember?

[@45vinyljunkie]

Not everybody is driving in the same direction. At 00:53 on the left side of the screen is somebody going in the wrong direction. Yes, this road is definitely confusing.

[@RMB42]

I'm not sure why people don't read the other comments in a thread before asking or responding to questions, but this clip has been explained several times in this thread. It's footage from a 1964 Warner Brothers movie called "Sex and The Single Girl" starring Natalie Wood. The road was closed to all other traffic so the scene could be filmed and all of those cars in this clip and everyone driving them are part of the movie. If you look up the movie and watch it you will see this scene.

[@DA90027]

The traffic was redirected in one direction for the Natalie Wood movie "Sex and The Single Girl" if you watch the movie they had a car chase with the motorcycle cop. This is stock footage for the movie.

[@TheRealFrankSerpico]

+Twaddles McGee yup, all the signs on the left side of the road are facing away from the drivers.

[@wileecoyote5749]

Ah..

[@lincbond442]

Very cool! I was wondering why the traffic was going in one direction. Thanks for sharing.

[@Zombywoof92553]

I was wondering> I knew if I scrolled down I'd find the answer!

[@DA90027]

@@Zombywoof92553 it may have also been redirected during the construction of the 405 which was almost finished in 1963

[@kavitaakundi6602]

Cost of living has drained out joy from our lives today...

[@dday9257]

BV P You mean the cost of Democrats

[@BrandonMucklow]

The issue isn’t bipartisan. It’s symptomatic of intense demand and a capitalist system that is run on a speculative real estate market where values of property *magically* go up every year.

[@scottlabossiere1866]

Sammy N no moron u fuck of the democrats have destroyed this country abd sold us out to China

[@scottlabossiere1866]

Brandon Mucklow wrong

[@tran7621]

Of shitty state government with their tax scams

[@jheckerman]

If I had a time machine to LA in the 60's, the first thing I'd visit is definitely the Getty Images watermark!

[@pacskye]

Amazing. Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing this, it's wonderful.

[@kimopuppy]

Where’s the graffiti and trash? :D

[@kimopuppy]

LOTS more trash and graffiti on that section of road today

[@jonathanjames471]

Where are the homeless ?

[@headly66]

There was tons back then

[@kimopuppy]

People did not destroy other peoples property like that back then

[@swabby429]

Oh yes they did. It's just not on the film clip.

[@Jefferges100]

feels like i'm watching a classic car show with a tour of the city thrown in.

[@ksmcouncilspear4757]

Born in the San Fernando valley in 1960 and it was so fun back then and safe for us kids..Mom and Dad got us out of there in the early 70's before things got real bad.

[@clarkthesharkshow9944]

yeah charles manson might agree

[@mark_wangerin]

The music was credited to Jimmy Hendrix. It was Jimmy Smith, not Jimmy Hendrix.

[@drServitis]

Thanks. I was wondering. Didn't sound like Jimmy Hendrix to me.

[@metalmopars]

Hendrix sucked ass.

[@KNakanishi]

I remember when we could go outside ☹️

[@StinkFingerr]

I have a few vague recollections of that. As I remember, if you stayed out long enough, your skin would darken into something called a "Tan".

[@Flammable281]

This is the first time I have ever seen a four lane road divided with double solid lines and all cars going the same direction

[@sudipta_archive]

Lol They decided to make a film in 1964 Natalie wood sex and the single girl there is the police chase at the end so they are drivig wrong way

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

In the mid sixties, they limited Sepulveda Blvd. over Sepulveda Pass to one way traffic during the rush hours. one way southbound in the AM and the same northbound in the PM.

[@SpeegBJ]

Mr. Craig! I was 'gone' on this one at :46! Living in L.A. as a teen in the 60's has just gotten even better. No wonder Ohio has bored me to tears ever since.

[@GUITARTIME2024]

Ohio exists as a place to escape.

[@Orion-jb5sw]

After growing up in Ohio, I lived in LA for several years and still get back there to visit as often as possible. I like SoCal and consider it my second home, but there were things I also missed about Ohio while living there such as four distinct seasons, perfect Midwestern falls, etc. Some Midwestern transplants I knew out there missed snow especially around Christmas, but I never did. I much prefer winters in SoCal. Both places their pros and cons.

[@ssan3257]

Love seeing all the old cars!

[@fernandokaiser3053]

The image quality is so good that looks like 2000s or even the 2010s

[@metalmopars]

Or the 2030's.

[@juniorsilvabroadcast]

It's high quality film. This is 4k resolution

[@donnabrown4349]

I love the music. My son and his family live in Orange. We usually fly into LAX. I do not think the drive up area at the airport has changed. I love all of the vehicles. I am 64 and grew up in the 60s. My first trip to LA was in 2010.

[@m.thomas8819]

Notice how modest the women were. Not all skanked out, full of tattoos and body parts hanging out everywhere...

[@lovetocook3809]

of course, you have to remember the hippie chicks of that era were kinda skanky lol...

[@optionant5963]

Loveto Cook maybe so but in a good way lol.

[@coloneljackmustard]

It depends on the girls you are talking about today. There are still many without tattoos and obesity. And they are no were near as trashy as women were in the 1980s. That was a damn skanky decade. Big ugly hair and heavy makeup. Yuck!

[@susanneconway]

@@coloneljackmustard .... Lol way worse than now??? You're insane

[@coloneljackmustard]

Clearly, you were not around in the 1980s to remember what a trashy decade it was. I will grant you that you did not see the widespread tattoos on people that you do today or the obesity. But, my god were those fashion trends terrible.

[@tammarasimmons8120]

Back when California was still the "Golden State" I lived there for over 30 years I loved it the land of getting ahead and opportunity also beautiful landscape anywhere. Those were the days but no more. California has gone down the drain with all there leftism and not being much more conservative back in those days. It has been almost ruined into shambles so so sad sad!!!

[@ccarta192]

Hahaha. Are you serious? LA has changed alot however they are making it better little by little.. some areas have done a 180' pivot. Example hollywood.. it has become somewhat respectable again.. areas that were dumps are now great neighborhoods. The transit system has really improved by leaps and bounds. There is the homeless problem and there is no simple solution to this difficult problem..

[@andrebryant9847]

So the tax cuts of the uber rich had nothing to do with it? White people deciding to ditch and abandon public schools and neighborhoods? Prop 13 passed to directly defund public schools from local property taxes? The auto-industry buying the red car and dismantling it? Oh demonizing policies like higher wages, unions, state run healthcare, (You know public healthcare for all would mean the severe mentally ill are in a facility instead of on the streets?) Lets not also forget your conservative buddy Regan giving his homies in South America freedom to sell large amounts of drugs in the United States unmolested. Lets not forget the fact that it is by and large free enterprise and subcontractors paying people under the table that resulted in the illegal immigration problem. I could spend hours listing how it is by and large white people who made LA what it was. Oh and for 20+ years ignoring the homeless problem.

[@captainabefox]

Blame Jerry brown, Gavin newsom, Maxine water, Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein For destroy the state of California and they voted democratic every Another year election that’s a fraud and cheating I voted republican party

[@shrayesraman5192]

Abinadab Orozco wym la is the best it’s ever been for everyone except the kkk...look at all these neighborhoods from sunset to Hollywood even Compton is better...

[@brendan5235]

Why do you people always have to bring politics into it?

[@thashoeboy]

Wonderful trip back in time! All those beautiful cars!

[@SIMKINETICS]

I visited LA a dozen times in the '60's. It was pretty cool back then. As a Bay Area resident most of my life, visiting LA has been an increasingly dismal event ever since. We Bay Area folks now often say "LA Sucks!"

[@adamgriffith-smith9106]

I mean the Bay Area is arguably worse than LA

[@johnk6598]

California’s big cities have definitely gotten suckier

[@matthewpaanotorres7309]

@@johnk6598 Especially such as cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento.

[@professorpatpending8731]

All those automobiles used daily that are now classics and highly sought after. Spotted an Oldsmobile Tornado in one segment to this video. cheers.

[@dj33036]

Did you see the '64 Buick Riviera?

[@bigdenver7325]

Professor Pat Pending Toronado

[@jeffmorse645]

When Southern California was paradise and the freeways were in perfect repair and smooth as butter.

[@markfrommaryland3825]

They were in good repair because they were all brand new. The oldest freeways in 1964 were less than 20 years old, and most were less than 10.

[@jeffmorse645]

@@markfrommaryland3825 There's this thing called repaving. Doesn't get done often enough on any of California's highways.

[@ronpowers7087]

Thanks love this time capsule seeing the classic old cars from then.

[@donwilson8053]

Why did we quit making cars that looked cool? Every car sucks now.

[@kerryincolumbus]

Hi Don. One million thumbs up in agreement!

[@KiloByte69]

Thank the libtards and the EPA and FMVSS.

[@sneadh1]

Why did we quit making cars that lasted?

[@harrykuheim6107]

Unions, EPA , Safety Regs / Ralph Nader types and Democrats....that's why.

[@markgorney3325]

Nope. Economics including oil prices and (superior) competition from Japan. There is nothing wrong with any of the things you mention.

[@CharlesConstantine]

So what's crazy is that is Sepulveda Blvd. during rush hour next to the 405. Those 4 lanes mostly still exist and that freeway is much larger. But, honestly changing all those lanes in both directions at rush hour would probably really help alleviate the traffic. It is not half a bad idea.

[@svenskfox]

I was wondering why they were driving on the wrong side of Sepulveda in that one clip. Definitely a good idea.

[@michaelangileo2760]

Thank you - the last image was down the street from my grade school !!! God bless.

[@Greeneyedhaze]

How lovely this video is. Beautiful footage. Thank you for posting.

[@mickbox]

Traffic without japanese or korean veicles.

[@jaylenadegoke]

mickbox sauerland lmao. Yall are too much

[@premierultima8698]

I'd like to see Trump trying to fix that "problem"

[@wmarkdyer]

You were lucky to get 100.000 miles out of a car back in the day.

[@Nightynight43]

mickbox sauerland ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@TheRichLA]

Yep. Reason we don't drive American anymore bc they are junk.

[@dalenewby1366]

Wow it was a civilized place back then!

[@briane173]

Oh, L.A. had its problems like any other era; but I had the good fortune of growing up in Long Beach in an upper-middle class lifestyle thanks to my father. It offered me a different vantage point from which to look at the progress all around us in L.A., the money flying around, the endless diversions and leisure and recreation opportunities in SoCal, and frankly an entirely different set of social values from what we've come to lament presently. If I had to live in Watts or East L.A. at that time I'm sure I would've had an entirely different view of what it was like to grow up there in the 60s. So I obviously wouldn't trade in what was my experience for anything. My only regret? That I didn't appreciate it then as much as I do now. I look upon my memories of L.A. in the 60s fondly and with some sadness for not realizing how good I had it then.

[@albondigas9549]

it was a great time to grow up 60s- 70s

[@paulwilliams9278]

Greatest decade ever

[@GamePlayWithNolan]

For the people that think cars are better now than they were then, just know my dad had a 2000 suburban for around 15 years, no problems at all and when he sold it and got a newer Yukon, the Yukon started having problems and the transmission was messed up, then he got a 2016 Traverse, that thing had all sorts of problems so he got a 2017 Suburban and the brakes went out on the highway..... Why so many problems if newer cars are better? My 1948 Pontiac drives great and seems indestructible!

[@melloangelwolf8611]

When you recognize every location from GTA. We need one in 1960

[@libertyann439]

I'd sure love to fly out of that airport today. Love the cars!

[@definitelyjustcj4148]

Oh what I would give to live in this era 😤😤

[@SuperLeica1]

But good music, great groove! Who´s playing?

[@Craiglaca1]

Let me back to you. It was pulled out of public domain and I forgot myself

[@mark_wangerin]

Music was Jimmy Smith, a jazz organist.

[@valeriac04]

I was looking for a video like this my hometown in the 1960

[@massivebeatzz]

as a European, I can tell you that these cars looked so futuristic, crazy, with fins and all... all about that California vibe - nothing like it..

[@AtomicReverend]

Now add some graffiti, more extreme gridlock and a ton of foreign made economy cars and you have about 55 years later. I HATE LA!

[@ggoat5883]

Me being from OC can always appreciate a drive through L.A. but living there? No fucking thanks bud

[@AtomicReverend]

I live in Riverside. Not all of LA is bad but Everytime I turn on the news or I have to drive out there I remember why I don't like it. I think it is ashame that OC the IE and SD are overshadowed by that place when someone thinks of So. Cal.

[@JohnSmith-kz8yo]

And look at how few big trucks are on the road.

[@ReubenWalton]

There are a lot of Jewish people but it's not their fault.

[@RoutierNordAmericain]

I agree. The only way I would ever go back to L.A. (or Calif. for that matter) would be to borrow Doc Brown's DeLorean time machine & set the dial for either 1957 or 1966.

[@michaelsinclair3321]

3:51 i wasn't able to make out the make of that baby but i sure loved her color that was one nice looking car from what i could see, i feel that way perhaps because of that beautiful blue

[@wolfy1987]

Man, I love the cars from that era.

[@takeadrive]

Superb video

[@carloscasamayor7861]

freeways looks better than today... I would like to live in that years...Everything was better and the people was happier than today even with no internet nor cellular phones...

[@rogbrown1458]

Wish I'd been there in 1965 that would have been cool. Had to wait until later to get there. Rog. Pacific sunset records.

[@clarkthesharkshow9944]

i was THERE,... i was like 1 year old ,..can only remember back to maybe parts of 69' ,..70' at best

[@patuskert9554]

Wow! What a time it must have been! Overpopulation is LAs biggest problem. Otherwise, it is a beautiful place.

[@briane173]

Grew up there; and it was indeed a beautiful place, a beautiful lifestyle, looking back I was blessed. And all of the the things that make SoCal and the entire state beautiful are still there and will be long after we're gone; it's what Californians have allowed their government to do to it that has made it unpalatable and unaffordable to live there -- unless you're a Hollywood movie star who is insulated from the underbelly of the city surrounding your lavish compound in Malibu.

[@meritakissinger7704]

What is the point of the double yellow line? The cars are all going the same direction...?

[@lordlycius]

Merita Kissinger I asked my uncles on it since some of them used to live down there in the 50s & 60s, before they moved back up to the San Francisco & the bay area "and they said that the 405 wasn't opened until about 1962-63' so Sepulveda Boulevard was the only road through there, up unto the freeway opening..." so I guess that when this recording was done, it was just right after the 405 opened up and the California road painter crews hadn't had the chance head up and repaint the old, opposing 2x2 traffic & divider lines paint configuration yet...

[@GUITARTIME2024]

movie filming

[@elizabethcozma9594]

Beautiful video,I love the cars and the fashions from then,gorgeous

[@NinetayFour]

Cool to imagine just transporting back to this moment, back around the golden age of Hollywood

[@99CentRapper]

Every car back then had a unique feature,1970 ford mustang:hood turning signals etc.

[@skychuter]

woulda been cool to have some of that great sounding LA radio as the background audio!

[@blu7855]

what the hell, the video quality is amazing!

[@dvortex668]

Amazing times. Nice cars, happy people, clean streets without tents, and mess. No internet, social media, liberalistic propaganda... the golden time of US and Europe as well... and now we´re standing in front of the collapse of everything

[@shrayesraman5192]

D Vortex the world (b4 corona) was actually the best it ever was. Not necessarily in America but overall the best... hopefully we can make it through climate change and it will be even better

[@slapmyfunkybass]

Shrayes Raman Before Corona was December 2019. This was filmed in the 60’s! Since the 2000’s this has been in decline.

[@shrayesraman5192]

@@slapmyfunkybass ? What is this?

[@noname4806]

Every civilisation fall. Now western civilisation will fall

[@Kryptospotted]

Sounds a little delusional.

[@sarjim4381]

The first tipoff that the Sepulveda filming was not done on a normal day is the motor "officer" with the big white scarf. I can guarantee you Chief Parker would never have allowed it.

[@Luca.121]

OMG those cars!!!!! ❤❤❤

[@cameronmurray1354]

The cars back then were a lot sexier and colorful then today's cars.

[@AngryHybridApe]

Ok. Now, rewind and play again. This time, count the potholes. Tell me anywhere in Ca. where there is a road that smooth.

[@LuckD7cky]

Hmmmm.....my drive lot is ve....oh nope...nvm

[@1949LA-ARCH]

Thanks for sharing, awesome home movies !

[@ricardoalegria4064]

Que video es como ver el tiempo congelado y vuelto a descongelar muy buenas vías en esos años en la ciudad angelina Ricardo alegría Zambrano popayan colombia.

[@robertvillarreal4525]

Nothing never, anywhere in life is perfect, but That L.A. was near as perfect [could] be. Tough.

[@rockymntskier]

Judging by the age of the cars, the first part looked to be filmed in the early sixties and the second part looked to filmed in the mid-sixties. Vey cool!

[@incog99skd11]

Ah, the old black and gold license plates. I had them on my 1966 Jaguar XKE in baby blue in high school in the OC.

[@stevesibaja3123]

L.A. in the 60's Wow

[@jonilynnmichalski4249]

My late mother and Aunt lived there from 1964 to 1965 740 th south Hobart street. Los Angeles it was even used for a filming locations for the original t.v. show Adam12 in the 70s. It was a apartment building for Single s

[@darrinstephens7824]

Eye love the music

[@akzebraminer]

I only clicked because I saw cars driving the left side of the road.....

[@richardmann5049]

I see cars on the highway .... where is LA ???

[@klaasj7808]

its in the US

[@LiquorMaster]

Didn't start to take shape until the 70s

[@displayfireworks1]

Atari Pole Position. LOL

[@Underhills]

I know. Made me even more drunk.

[@shellsbignumber2]

Looks a great time to be alive. I love the old American cars with their crazy lines.

[@karlhenry9031]

Wonderful,just wonderful! Felt as if I was actually driving behind that police officer...

[@ltyr-mr2if]

It was already smoggy.

[@zxz1]

it would have been far worse back then even though there were fewer cars

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Particulate matter of those cars at the time were about 1000x what they are for a modern car today. So each one on the road is equal to about 1000 today. It's why emissions controls came down so hard.

[@redtra236]

I kind of doubt its 1000x worse maybe 2x

[@fullthrottlealways]

LA, pre-third world invasion.

[@slimshine953]

Omniscient 1 ~ You're right about that! Clips such as this really put the difference in perspective between the LA of then, and today. Such a shame.

[@ccarta192]

IGNORANT XENOPHOBIC FOOL

[@malcorub]

Where are the flip flops and hoodies?

[@pedrolistacarey4880]

...and tattooes...!

[@martinedwards4522]

newest car here is apprx 64-65 so this must be mid sixties pictures perfectly clear 👍🏻

[@theonemodifier]

you say Jimmy Hendrix music? Jimmy? or Jimi. never heard Jimi sound so jazz like. who is it really? is it Jimmy Smith? thanks for posting

[@WHOMEWHOYOU]

Blue XKE at 3:50

[@briane173]

It may have been mentioned elsewhere in this string, but the 110 Freeway wasn't always the "110" Freeway. It was designated State Hwy 11 back then -- the Harbor Freeway, as it was affectionately known. Having grown up in Long Beach during this period I'm old enough to remember when the Harbor Fwy wasn't an Interstate and the 405 was relatively new.

[@RedBud315]

Yep, the 11(Pasadena/Harbor fwy) became the 110 and the 7(Long Beach fwy) became the 710.

[@briane173]

@@RedBud315 The designation change had everything to do with who was putting up the lion's share of the $ to expand, upgrade and maintain those freeways. In this case the State handed it over to the Federal DOT so that the Federal Govt would put up 90% of the cost to upgrade the freeways to Interstate standards.

[@billzigrang7005]

Not "the 405" - the San Diego Freeway.

[@briane173]

@@billzigrang7005 That's so 60s. I always thought "San Diego Fwy" was the wrong name, because I-405 doesn't _go_ to San Diego! It runs into I-5 south of Newport Beach, so I really think that's a misnomer. Could easily have been called "South Bay Fwy' or something like that; but calling it the San Diego Fwy when it doesn't extend to San Diego is kinda silly. I stopped calling it that decades ago, coz even though I-605 does have a name the radio traffic reporters never said it, they just called it "the 605." If it's good enough for the 605, it's good enough for the 405.

[@MegaVin88]

Nothing but like , beautiful

[@onemoregod]

Where's the graffiti?

[@nickc3856]

the non whites hadn't invaded yet, so there was no graffiti

[@janetjamerson]

I love those old American cars too

[@scottcroce5277]

People problems have changed everything,we the people did this to ourselves in so many ways.

[@flipindisticalproductions4736]

Wow! Absolutely amazing, wasn't alive, but it seemed way better back then.

[@jessicawalker8564]

Oh my love the cars...wonderful content.

[@pdizbon]

Great to see real cars again, thanks for posting this

[@nowitsabadtime]

General Motors OWNED back then...

[@alibertylover]

Once upon a time, I attended a funeral & someone showed up in sweatpants , chucktaylors , & a tee-shirt. Wow.....

[@jeffyjohn5673]

What year in the 60s. People still driving 50 model cars. .Sweet.

[@RoadCone411]

Not a Hyundai or KIA in sight!