1950s Los Angeles Neighborhoods

1950s Los Angeles Neighborhoods | 4k and Remastered

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Жыл бұрын

Various shots of Los Angeles in the 1950s. We see both more busy streets and more quiet ones in some LA neighborhoods. Further, we see shots of an airport parking lot and a train.
Vivid History is dedicated to restoring old black and white footage and creating high-quality colorized versions to give you an authentic and vivid experience of the past.
The video has been restored and colorized using state-of-the-art machine learning methods.
The restoration steps included:
- motion stabilization
- noise reduction
- colorization
- frame interpolation for increased FPS
- upscaling to 4K
- adding ambient sound
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The source video is from the internet archive under the creative commons license.

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@asd36f Жыл бұрын

0:45 - Nash Airflyte 1:51 - Kaiser/Frazer? 3:45 - Kyffin Pharmacy on the corner of Oxnard St and Woodman Ave 6:49 & 9:22 - Model A Ford parked at the kerb

@melvinjohnson2074 Жыл бұрын

Seen those Nash Airflyte's in many a film noir move but never knew what they were till you posted, thanks.

@bluesash10 Жыл бұрын

The beginning is Santa Monica - some might not know that. Awesome video, thanks!

@allancerf9038 Жыл бұрын

3:26 Van Nuys. I saw a sign that said "Walnut Haven," and cheated on the net. In the valley.

@alisaaustin8431 Жыл бұрын

I noticed a Detroit Furniture too. Someone could probably find the location in a phone book.

@brucewilliams8714 Ай бұрын

I remember seeing a Nash Airflyte in Geelong, Australia, in the early 1950s. Was amazed at the bodywork.

@joeblow7853 6 ай бұрын

Born in Montebello, CA, Parents built a home in 1948, on 840 N. Bradshawe Street that resembled these homes with Bay windows, and circular porthole windows. I was born in 1952 and can watch these for hours. Lowers the blood pressure and cancels all stress we are all surrounded with, until you hit the Fwy in San Clemente which is where I now reside up the hill from the high school off Pico in Hillcrest in a beautiful ocean view and view of Saddleback Mountains single story home built in 1963. Thank you 1000 times for a relaxing break to the past without medication. LOL! Well, it's back to the future now, but will visit your films often as time allows. A hopeful 2024 to all! JT

@colinpurssey9875 Жыл бұрын

As a chronic nostalgiac , I'm finding these historical films of daily urban activity , which are just so visually distinct , utterly diverting . Spending hours absorbed by the imagery . Just about the best thing I've ever seen on youtube ! Thanks heaps .

@dearbrad1996 Жыл бұрын

You need to stay focused Mr Pussey

@noellewestfield6849 Жыл бұрын

I find them extremely interesting, too. Totally absorbing.

@mauricehumphries3143 Жыл бұрын

I love vintage LA; it's a bygone period. Los Angeles was such a gorgeous city, and it held so much potential and possibility.

@leeanucha Жыл бұрын

The quality of this video is just amazing wow!!

@vividhistory2092 Жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@danielmacpherson1630 2 ай бұрын

@@vividhistory2092 except dang all the street signs are hopelessly blurred.

@henrikrolfsen584 Жыл бұрын

This looks like 1951, based on the newest model cars shown. As I watch this video, I can smell the L.A. Smog again.

@pooperdave 8 ай бұрын

It just feels so good inside while watching these. An escape from todays world if even for 10-15 minutes. Thank you I love it.

@TimD.Morand Жыл бұрын

@01:21 - @02:34- Starts on the corner of Montana Ave and 2nd Street in Santa Monica. Many of those beautiful trees are still going strong. Segment fades out during right turn on Wilshire Blvd.

@joekennedythewriter Жыл бұрын

that opening part looks like ocean Ave in Sta Monica, looking southbound, theres a tiny bit thru the palms that looks like a ship

@livingintheforest3963 Жыл бұрын

Yep I was pretty sure this is Santa Monica and it look like it’s going toward the ocean where there’s a park how gorgeous I grew up there

@InspectorCallahan.44 Жыл бұрын

Cool! the light post are still there.

@louiswatson6227 Жыл бұрын

WoW, I love this sorta time capsule view, the homes & landscaping were kept better than most I see today and I live in LA close USC born in 1956

@FlyingAceAV8B Жыл бұрын

That’s because your city and state are ruled by criminals.

@flyshacker Жыл бұрын

Amazing clarity as if it had been shot just yesterday in 4K. Really takes me back to my childhood. Thank you!

@monaural2.988 8 ай бұрын

What I wouldn’t give to have footage of the inside of stores during that time…..

@judya8392 Ай бұрын

I LOVE this!! THANK YOU!! OHHHH, if only true time travel was possible somehow. This is one era I would want to visit. So much more peaceful and clean back then. And this video is BEAUTIFULLY remastered.

@tomcox22 2 ай бұрын

So pristine it looks like a movie set- and those folks actually got to live in that place- at that time. They certainly couldn’t have known they were living in America’s finest hour-never to be repeated. I am so jealous.

@Dre_Key Жыл бұрын

wow, place looks unrecognizable to what it used to be. Apartments galore, trees removed, homes turned into apartments...wow

@1000xtati Жыл бұрын

how sad! It looked beautiful with more greenery

@Losttouchjs 7 ай бұрын

What makes it so interesting is that all these people that we see in there every day lives are now gone. Except for maybe the kids and now they’re in their golden golden years. Watching this video, we take a peek into their lives. Like that one guy 5:40 looking for something in the back of his truck. Whatever he was looking for and how important it might have been doesn’t matter anymore. It’s all forgotten. It’s mine blowing just to think about it. This video has a funny way of humbling a person! You can’t stick around forever.

@MyCharlestonLife 6 ай бұрын

My thoughts as well!

@annlyon.2040 4 ай бұрын

I am one of those children. I grew up in Beverly Hills and I remember this time. But at that time I thought everything was old in the 50’s. 😊 Even my father had one of those cars and I told him at 4 to get a new one. Isn’t that crazy !

@madmanmechanic8847 9 ай бұрын

It just amazes me how clean the streets and side walks are and the lawns manicured people got dressed up in suits and nice dresses and high heels people had class. The 40s 50s women are so freaking hot they had class !You go to most of the place now and get shot from some banger because you looked at him wrong. So sad this will never be back

@Tsumami__ 2 ай бұрын

The majority of the upper class neighborhoods in and around LA still look nearly identical to the way they did 50 years ago. Lawns are still manicured, many of the homes are the same and with little updating, and even some of the same trees are there.

@madmanmechanic8847 2 ай бұрын

@@Tsumami__ Wow hard to believe I figured it would be Uzi alley with crack heads gang bangers and meth labs drive bys every two hours

@Queenmebonnie Ай бұрын

@@Tsumami__nonsense

@thefool2007 Жыл бұрын

Your videos are top shelf! Thanks for making them. Highly enjoyable.

@southerncross3638 Жыл бұрын

Amazing how clean everything looks, pre plastic?

@MarcosVinicius-tr9sg Жыл бұрын

Beautiful!!!! Great work

@vividhistory2092 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much :)

@odettehokemeir4425 8 ай бұрын

Everything was so clean!

@anonymoususer5324 8 ай бұрын

Yessss not a single piece of trash!! And everyone dressed so nice!

@ElLuis1122 27 күн бұрын

This is amazing. Thank you for posting such wonderful images. If it wasn’t for the cars I would think I’m actually watching a today’s video of a LA neighborhood.

@voodoochild6741 Жыл бұрын

Incredible. Well done!

@btw500 Жыл бұрын

Incredible. Like going back in time with a 4K camera. Very strange.

@user-ze7xy6hp6e 4 ай бұрын

Amazing videos....looks almost as if they were shot yesterday...awesome restoration!

@rayss3323 Жыл бұрын

Thx so much! Born there in 49'. Really takes me back!

@martyreking5487 11 ай бұрын

That Honk @ 0:53 was officially the first road rage ever recorded in LA, and 6:41 was the second.

@MyCharlestonLife 6 ай бұрын

😅😅

@MarinCipollina 3 ай бұрын

Sound effects were added.. There likely was not any horn blowing..

@Queenmebonnie Ай бұрын

@@MarinCipollinanonsense

@markjenner7199 10 ай бұрын

Though a brit borne in 1962 i find these films fasanating 😊🇬🇧

@Galarid87 Жыл бұрын

Some of the neighborhoods still look the same. Parts of Pasadena, Alhambra, San Marino and San Gabriel. They still even have the same small street name signs and street lights. I love driving through these neighborhoods because you get a sense of nostalgia the only things missing are the beautiful cars.

@MyCharlestonLife 6 ай бұрын

That is so cool! I love they've kept the street signs. I can't believe how wide the streets are. Sidewalks on both sides. Tree lined. So beautiful.

@deepsevenstudios8418 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating to compare Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue to today's congested street. These long following shots were made to use in movie studio process shots. Actors sat in car mock ups on a set while the footage was projected behind them giving the illusion the car was moving. Quality had to be good making these digital transfers fantastic to watch.

@roedalacket 9 ай бұрын

Wow, is that why they were shot? That never occurred to me; filmed as background shots. I thought maybe it was shot for historical purposes.

@deepsevenstudios8418 9 ай бұрын

Not sure where they are finding these old background shots, but there have to be hundreds and hundreds of them archived. Just a question of somebody getting them digitized.

@kolbpilot 5 ай бұрын

Check that square house out. 8:32 Flat roofs. Look at those garage windows. Pretty cool. I wonder who those people were ? Just a few out of hundreds of thousands at the time.

@patriciahayes2664 11 ай бұрын

0:52 - Oh, jaywalking in the 1950s. Naughty, naughty, whoever you were!

@MK-ft3qt 2 ай бұрын

True

@user-yq5kd6kf2l 10 ай бұрын

Красота во всём. И музыка и авто и люди были вероятно другими в те добрые времена. Спасибо Вам большое мне понравилось 😊

@haineshisway Жыл бұрын

First part is Santa Monica. At 3:49 it looks like we're at Oxnard and Woodman to me. At five minutes, I think we're in Burbank. Yes, Detroit Furniture was in Burbank. 9:20 turning onto Lima Street. At 9:35 - that's Mike Lyman's Flight Deck restaurant - first restaurant in LAX - not sure if they had one at the Burbank Airport, which is what this looks like.

@MyCharlestonLife 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!! I was trying to figure out that street!

@rodfranklin3559 2 ай бұрын

That’s amazing!

@OhItsThat Жыл бұрын

This is so cool. I’d love to see this done to old motorsports films.

@mubarakramadan2326 Жыл бұрын

Cherish the ones you love and never let them go because life is too short & one day we will be seen like this by another futute generation! i came here in peace. Love you all with all my heart!

@jonathansparks3386 Жыл бұрын

Watching this video makes me wonder how many of those trees lining Hollywood Boulevard are still alive since this was filmed

@sandrocavalcante9876 11 ай бұрын

Nostálgico! Parabéns ao idealizador do canal.

@mikeagresta Жыл бұрын

Excellent 👍

@johngraves6878 2 ай бұрын

The cars always come out so purple on these colorized footages.

@christopherwelch5568 Жыл бұрын

I watched these for an hour one morning. I thought the first one was computer generated. Why is this so interesting?

@MyCharlestonLife 6 ай бұрын

Lol, why!? I get mesmerized myself. 😅

@thunderousapplause Жыл бұрын

beautiful color.

@vividhistory2092 Жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@jenniferdjaslowskj993 Жыл бұрын

the homes very beautiful... neat, clean, orderly streets, sidewalks...little or no traffic ..WONDERFUL

@asullivan4047 Ай бұрын

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Enjoy viewing the automobiles/gas stations/telephone lines of that era. 🤗. Nicely manicured lawns/bushes/trees-!!!😉..

@catlark8940 Жыл бұрын

Lovely. Early 50-s.

@davidharris7235 Жыл бұрын

When I watch this video I think life can't get any better than this in So. Cal.

@1972vulture 2 ай бұрын

Amazing what it looked like with roughly half the population!

@23MikeJ22 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@mistervacation23 9 ай бұрын

5:34 Corner of Vine Street and some other Street

@MyCharlestonLife 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@creolelady182 Жыл бұрын

Those Pam trees are beautiful

@Victoron475 11 ай бұрын

This footage of the 50s depicts shows how L.A has been magnificent for decades.

@ronaldmiller2740 Жыл бұрын

GREAT VIDEO!!! THESE CARS SAD I DONT KNOW THE MODEL ,,BUT I STILL LIKE LOOKING AT THEM .. BUT YOU GIVE ME A 50--80S I KNOW MY CARS ,, I AM 61 YR.S OLD..THE HOUSES ARE GREAT... NOW THERE GONE.. MY SON LOVES THE TRAIN.. THANK'S..

@johngreen6783 Жыл бұрын

First part is northbound on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica caught a glimpse of the pier at :21

@JohnSmith-cf4gn Жыл бұрын

I want to go back to the 50s when I was a kid. The smells were even different back then. America was blessed by God because most of us acknowledged Him. We even prayed in school in Jesus name. Life was good and as it should be.

@MarinCipollina 6 ай бұрын

US is a secular state.. No religion should be state supported or even acknowledged.

@mikedavis-ip5cx Жыл бұрын

No potholes. The essence of tranquility.

@luckehandyman Жыл бұрын

wow this is so cool.

@vividhistory2092 Жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@indianaslim4971 Жыл бұрын

What strikes me about this film is the near total absence of cars from the teens, twenties and thirties, it shows how many cars were scrapped for the war effort.

@GUITARTIME2024 10 ай бұрын

Well, also rust issues, and America was prosperous in the 50s.

@indianaslim4971 10 ай бұрын

@@GUITARTIME2024 California doesn't have much of a rust problem, and for that matter I don't think the rest of the country did either in the 50's as salt wasn't used as much as sand and gravel in the snow belt, they definitely didn't use salt during the WW2 years for roads.

@GUITARTIME2024 10 ай бұрын

@indianaslim4971 ocean air. Well known issue in old cars. Plus, more important, plenty of jobs around, middle class growing fast, etc. What would neighbors think.

@indianaslim4971 10 ай бұрын

@@GUITARTIME2024 ocean air is only a problem if you live on the shoreline, it doesn't do anything inland, the country needed steel for the war effort, more steel than the mills could provide so there was a concerted effort on recycled steel that resulted in cars being scrapped.

@jaysverrisson1536 3 ай бұрын

I think it's more of a reflection of the fact that no new cars to speak of were being made between 1942 & 1945. So by 1950, with new, more lively drive trains and driver conveniences coming online, pre-war cars were becoming obsolete both stylistically and mechanically--and were simply wearing out by then. After years of making-do with what they had during the war, people were thirsty for NEW in the '50s and were much less interested in nursing along a stodgy pre-war car with valve and ring jobs, etc.

@carltonmcroy3222 Ай бұрын

Hard to believe that LA was a clean, beautiful city.

@troysmith6568 Жыл бұрын

If you took all the cars out the picture, we would think it is 2023.....well done!

@yuppiehi Жыл бұрын

Those cars could still exist today. LA is a great place for automobile collectables. Jay Leno says all the time that LA and Burbank are great places to collect cars because nothing rusts there.

@troysmith6568 Жыл бұрын

@@yuppiehi That is true...will love to drive them.

@bobpierce115 Жыл бұрын

If only that were true, Troy. I was born in L.A. (mid-'57) and have watched it become largely unrecognizable even from the '80s, much less the early '50s here. It's very sad. Very expensive, and very dangerous. Also non-distinctive from many other cities overall, too.

@bobpierce115 Жыл бұрын

@@yuppiehi Many probably do 'exist', but you'll never see them in their natural habitat (so to speak) like this. Jay has quite a few cars like this. I hope his bad luck streak is over, so he can enjoy them. These shots have to be from the VERY early section of the decade, when most cars on the road were still from the '30s and 40s. There were several years during World War II, when autos were out of production.

@konsejitos Жыл бұрын

To think those homes sold from between 8K to 30K back then.

@chrishultgren777 Жыл бұрын

Still would be, but for millions of foreigners driving up the prices. 1965 immigration act changed America.

@krlm2280 Жыл бұрын

Probably 1.2 million and more now

@michaelwood875 Жыл бұрын

@@krlm2280 depends how much these hoods deteriorated...

@kingz9916 Жыл бұрын

My parents purchased their home on 24th and Shenandoah in West LA in 1955. About 14K for a three bedroom home.

@tonybino01 Жыл бұрын

My father bought his first house in 1976 near Van Ness and Beverly Blvd. and it was an older house for $76,000. It was sold in 2001 for $500K and doubled that now in 2023.

@jrwilliams7154 Ай бұрын

Well done. I'm in Australia. I love your video & love the old American cars. It appears the people had a high standard of living post-war in that city, I'm sure there were many poorer areas.

@cocopuff6810 Жыл бұрын

I'm in awww watching these videos.

@vividhistory2092 Жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@stejer211 10 ай бұрын

Pink and purple cars were very fashionable by then, while the majority were still black with a brown topside.

@eutimiochavez415 10 ай бұрын

Love the trains thank you❤

@carinarosales6899 7 ай бұрын

Me too

@OZZYHVM420 18 күн бұрын

Those trees saw it all!

@chrisbrimhall1613 9 ай бұрын

Nice clean neighborhoods, nice clean streets, no homeless anywhere…..those were the days

@alice_evermore Жыл бұрын

Magnificent!

@vividhistory2092 Жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@brycekibbey8640 Жыл бұрын

For reasons I can't explain I'm mesmerized by these videos. But one question I have is why were these films ever made in the first place? Was it taken as stock footage to be used in establishing shots in movies and television shows?

@HeatherB81 Жыл бұрын

I have always wondered this, and asked!, but no one ever replies.

@ronm3245 Жыл бұрын

@@HeatherB81 No replies, ever!

@Phil_Trujeque Жыл бұрын

I read on another channel that these *rear-view* videos were created by the studios as projection footage - you know, when a film shows someone inside a car, this type of footage is projected behind the vehicle to make it seem like the person was actually driving.

@signjoey Жыл бұрын

This type of film was used by movie studios for back and side projection

@carinarosales6899 7 ай бұрын

This is so beautiful is it both 1940 and 1950's

@victolee5043 Жыл бұрын

Watching in Korea. Los Angeles, the best city in the world

@ritasanchez651 Жыл бұрын

Wow California was spectacular in those days 😍

@Charles_Stanley13 10 ай бұрын

It still is in many places.

@carinarosales6899 7 ай бұрын

@@Charles_Stanley13yes so true

@gelmann2 Жыл бұрын

Hollywood used these films to project behind a car interior scene to make it look like they were driving down the street

@MyCharlestonLife 6 ай бұрын

Wish the car wasn't going so fast lol. Wish the video was little slower!😊 want to absorb the homes, folks walking, the cars, all of it.

@gregoriopalofuego9808 3 ай бұрын

Hey Cozy! It's 2024. That means anything you can think of most likely can be done- except for time travel and galaxy hopping. As for your request to watch this video at a slower speed- that's a piece of cake. Go to the KZfaq settings on the video and you'll see next to the "comments" icon, just to the right, the "settings" icon- which looks like a *gear* . Click on that. You'll then see you can change the speed to 1/2 or even slower, .25 (one quarter speed). Presto! Whammo! Spiffy, swell! There. Your wish has been granted! 🌌🧞‍♂️🌌

@mrsandmom5947 7 ай бұрын

My dad and grand parents lived in a Los Angeles suburb.

@SeventyGTX Жыл бұрын

Judging by the cars, this was very early 50's.

@MarinCipollina 6 ай бұрын

Newest car I spotted was a 1952 or so blue Cadillac, and about the same vintage Pontiac, black with the silver streak on the deck lid.

@caseyjones745 Жыл бұрын

Was this shot by the "Google Maps" car? Seriously, why and who shot this film? It is so entertaining to watch it today!

@hudentdw2 Ай бұрын

this is so sick knowing I'm 70 years old I love this because this is real Americana!

@kolbpilot 5 ай бұрын

Grizzly's Tap Beer 3:51 And a wide open field next to it as the film car continues. I wonder what that site looks like today ?

@DarientLambert Жыл бұрын

Let's escape 2023 and pretend to be in 50s era for awhile 🤗

@cup-a-joe8042 Ай бұрын

No litter. No graffiti. No tire marks from sideshows. No tent cities. Beautiful. Would love to go back in time for just a day and experience that era.

@allancerf9038 Жыл бұрын

Great. I only wish that amateur camera people of that and many eras realized we want to see out the side windows to see street detail; not long shots of the cars following behind your own car! In all, a great video.

@TeddyNovak1 Жыл бұрын

These were the opposite of ameteurs - they were professional cameramen from movie studios. They were filming scenes that would be projected behind actors in cars so that the filmed scenes would appear through the rear and side windows giving the viewer the appearance that the car was driving.

@allancerf9038 Жыл бұрын

@@TeddyNovak1 Fascinating... I'll buy it... Thanks for the information. except in those instances when the camera work is so shaky- it was probably some rich dude with a novelty of a 8 or 16 mm camera.

@robertmalicki2656 Жыл бұрын

How and by whom filmed this 70 years ago

@dominicjames8559 Жыл бұрын

The colours are a bit off maybe. But other than that it's the next best thing to time travel! I'm amazed that you can do this! 🤔

@vividhistory2092 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I do my best :)

@Lpreilly72 6 ай бұрын

This is stock footage mainly used by travel films to give you a “feel” for what it’d be like to be in LA. (A good example of this is A Trip Down Market Street.)And it ain’t no 8mm film. This cost money to make, believe it or not. So, no trash. No graffiti. No poor parts of town. No slums. But I was there during the 50s, and yes, there was. Lots.

@MartyNino 2 күн бұрын

Wow I need to be resurrected to the old days

@steveconn1375 7 ай бұрын

All those classics cars wow 😮 and the people who be alive then Elvis Bill haley buddy holly All the Rock n Roll pioneers greats

@44032 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful work. But why all the pink and purple cars?

@creolelady182 Жыл бұрын

No trash- tree lined streets

@luisortizgervasi3820 8 ай бұрын

How magnificent everything looked…!! Miles away from the rubble that still covered some European towns by then.

@DJStatexFreudIanSlip Жыл бұрын

Does some of these video footage have the original sound?

@yuppiehi Жыл бұрын

Probably not because most of these were filmed by movie studios for the purpose of background scenes.

@DJStatexFreudIanSlip Жыл бұрын

@@yuppiehi Thanks. Didn't know that these were stock footage filmed by movie studios. That totally explains the angles.

@vividhistory2092 Жыл бұрын

No, the sound is added later on by me

@bunkosquad2000 Жыл бұрын

What’s with the purple and lavender cars?

@d.808lf5 Жыл бұрын

Woodies 0:38, 1:44, 2:03.

@mikedavis-ip5cx Жыл бұрын

No graffiti, gangs or rap music. Thanks for the memories.

@Im.Smaher 6 ай бұрын

Yeah the memories of a time where racism was the norm. Takes you back, don’t it, pops.

@digitalsage5636 4 ай бұрын

@@Im.Smaher Racism prevented hoods and gangs. Now look at them.

@Im.Smaher 4 ай бұрын

@@digitalsage5636 It literally didn’t goofball. Cause they still exist. You’re so far gone you invented your own degenerate reality where whatever you say actually makes any sense.

@K.R_Official. 3 ай бұрын

Wtf

@noreenahmed527 3 ай бұрын

Yeah not a lot of videos of the neighborhoods that people were redlined into near industrial compounds and pollution. You can love this video for the incredible archive it is without diminishing entire communities that have been through far too much, yeah?