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This silent 8mm black & white and color home movie footage shows Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and New Jersey in the 1940s. This was all filmed by San Francisco resident Ed Burns and his wife Mary Burns.
Opening: cars pass by apartments and homes (:00). Lobero Theatre, it’s a historic building in Santa Barbara, California. The theater was originally built as an opera house, in a refurbished adobe school building, by Italian immigrant José Lobero in 1873 (:18). El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, is a former military installation in Santa Barbara, California, USA. The presidio was built by Spain in 1782, with the mission of defending the Second Military District in California (:35). A woman smiles (:55). A woman sits down on an old cart and smiles (1:25). A man stands and smiles at the camera (1:39). Santa Barbara courthouse and clock tower (2:17). Neal Hotel in Santa Barbara (2:56). Hotel Mar Monte (3:19). A woman removes sunglasses and smiles (3:57). Cars and palm trees (4:06). Santa Barbara Yacht Club (4:16). Motel (4:35). Rancho El Mar Motel; Ocean Palms Motor Lodge (4:54). Outside of a shopping area (5:26). A Southern Pacific Railroad train goes by the Southern Hotel; worker looks at the train before it departs (5:47). El Mirasol Hotel (6:34). Store windows of a trendy boutique (6:40). Downtown Santa Barbara neon lights (6:47). Daytime, parked across from the Woolworth’s; Santa Barbara mountains (6:51). Sign for Olvera St in Los Angeles, CA; Avila Adobe, the oldest building in Los Angeles (7:52). A woman poses and smiles (8:17). Union Station in downtown Los Angeles (8:39). San Carlos Hotel; people on the move in downtown Los Angeles (9:30). Two old women hang laundry (10:16). A bridge over a Rarity River (10:26). Buccleuch Mansion, located in New Brunswick, NJ (10:51). A man with a lawnmower (11:32). A nun smiles who stands next to a man (11:50). A plane’s propellers spin at dusk (12:09). Outside of a suburban home with a big yard (12:18). 3205 McDonnell in a New Jersey neighborhood, the house and the yard (12:35). A woman in the yard (13:25). Inside the house (13:35). A large fountain (14:03). Cemetery (14:28). People walk around (15:16). A woman looks at plants (15:41). Driving down a highway; two San Clemente, CA signs (15:53). San Clemente, CA (16:17). Border crossing warning sign for getting into Mexico (16:39). Alto Boulevard Stop sign by Auto Club Of Southern CA (17:20). Tijuana, a Mexican border town (17:25). A woman stands near a cabin (18:06). Murphy’s Motel (18:20). Peter L. Traver Building in Murphys, CA (18:50). Thorpe’s Bakery Building in Murphy’s, CA (19:08). A quaint downtown (19:27). A woman relaxes in a chair (19:52). Mountains, old home (19:57). In Memory of Mark Twain in Angel’s Camp, CA (20:34). Mark Twain statue (20:42). Sign pointing to Double Springs (20:58). Motel sign (21:18). Ranch O Tel (21:38).
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