Los Angeles Downtown 1946

Drive on Olive, 8th, Broadway
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[@mmag1120]

Wish I could back in time and be there. I love this film! Eating dinner at Clifton's Pacific Sea's cafeteria, watching a premiere of Gilda at the RKO Theater and ending the night with the Nat King Cole Trio. To see Nat King Cole in his early days as a Jazz pianist would have been something. All within a few miles of of Broadway and Olive.

[@finallyfree2BMe]

My grandma worked at cliftons

[@asamcrae8254]

My city, ..love this❤

[@ronaldzent6321]

1946, my mom graduated from Fairfax High School, my dad just got out of the service, he was 23. They met @UCLA, got married in June 1950

[@robertvillarreal4525]

People hanging out at night as if nothing. Seemed quite safe. Definitely before the street sweeping trucks, the streets needed tiding up, by the curbs, to be sure. Just the right balance of Old Spain & Old Mexico; think they were there first. But has gotten out of hand, different customs, no doubt. My family: 2 Prideful American-born generations. L.A.was awesome, even San Luis Obispo. Mountains, streams, country-living just around the corner & clean everything. Those downtown windows as in window-shopping. What a dream.

[@mujerado]

At 11:35 we're suddenly on a street that seems to be more industrial, with weeds along the side. It's identified at 12:02 as "Allen St." Google doesn't find a current Allen street in L.A. Has this street been renamed since the film was made?

[@chrisw1444]

I would also like to know what happened to Allen St in downtown. I cannot find anything either. There's an Allan St in El Sereno (90032) and an Allen St in Paramount but that's it.

[@jonthedon4355]

I feel like playing LA Noire

[@nenaquirarte4826]

No crazy homelessness, very peaceful

[@olderolderman4603]

In the fifty Winenos the food missions and homeless soldiers. Living the he'll they went there WW II. THAT was sad memory for me.

[@waynewright2886]

As My Mothers Friend Once Said, Downtown L.A. was Clean back then! By the 70's the Mexicans & Other Immigrants Took Over Downtown L.A. the Homeless Then & Today are Still Out of Control in Downtown, & I've Seen Change in Downtown L.A. in the Nearly 50 Years I've Lived in L.A.

[@marcoperez2844]

Just so you know you Idiot we mexicans were here before you guys. As you read street names and cities in the State of California are in Spanish. Those names and pronunciations have no meaning to you but us they do. So do yourself a favor and shut the fuck up. I guess in your white world everyone else is wrong and guilty right? I bet you're too scared to walk or even drive in LA.

[@dantanasgirl]

Fantastic!

[@paulinemcconville5741]

Great movie Thankyou.

[@olderolderman4603]

That's Down Town of my youth.

[@mustangtony2933]

Ahhh....the good ol days. Not like the jacked up shit now. Didn't see any homeless and saw the old May Co.

[@ronaldzent6321]

Those cars were built like tanks, just pure steel and chrome, not like the plastic crap now, if you just "Tap" someone's rear bumper, half the front end falls off. And, you also practically need an advanced degree in engineering to work on newer vehicles , I think. Just points, plugs, condensers and carburators ( by the mid 80's, fuel injection came along)

[@billsmith5985]

The town of "Hollywood Confidential"

[@Craiglaca1]

The actual street there driving on is San Fernando Blvd

[@randydelaney7053]

North is not spelled Norht, just so you know. 8:39

[@mikedrown2721]

I was born in 1946😊

[@davidcastaneda2405]

1940s ? wow someone took good care of this footage for a long time. Los Angeles looks like a old movie? but then again it's Hollywood. ..

[@andredupuis5461]

Now some of those streets are One Way streets now.

[@megadopolisthemagnificent.7936]

The zoot-suiters were not out that night. Drat!

[@Baynewsvideo]

From the 11:30 timecode this is shot from a train.

[@ronaldzent6321]

Were ok for decades on cars

[@megadopolisthemagnificent.7936]

Oops-red light! Time to reload the wafflemaker.

[@megadopolisthemagnificent.7936]

Who carries one in their car?

[@westcoastdude4777]

With all the gentrification, DTLA looks better now.

[@s235343]

Looks like you were dead if you couldn't parallel park like a pro! LOL

That's not 1940's music!!! Late 50's early 60's maybe and experimental jazz at that.

[@Craiglaca1]

Maybe your just trying to invoke a response but really?

[@smorgasbordtv4092]

Where are all the Blacks & Mexicans?

[@thedragonslayercat8974]

The music is absolutely contemporary starting with Boyd Raeburn and his Orchestra, who used to play at the Club Morocco on Vine Street in summer 1946. His broadcasts from there were introduced with the words "the most modern band in the land", and his music was characterized as "streamlined and modern". The title is "Dalvatore Sally" by George Handy, recorded in L.A. in February 1946, and is typical for Raeburn's experimental band book. Then you have Lester Young with "She's funny that way", recorderd in L.A. in summer 1946, followed by a title I cannot identify, and a part of Raeburn's arrangement of "Body and soul" with Ginnie Powell taking the vocal part. I guess you can't find music suited more aptly to this 1946 L.A. car ride, at least as far as authenticity is concerned.

[@jameslaumand3686]

Where Marty McFly,hmmm