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This was my world as a kid. I was born in 1945 and raised in Southern California. It was a wonderful time to be a kid. I had freedom to play outside and go to friend’s houses. I got a bike at 8 and rode it all over and just had to be sure to be home by dinner. It was so safe and we felt safe. Most people never locked their doors or their cars. It was the best time to be alive.

Love the young lady at 6:50 watching the camera and tripping ! If she knew 21,000 people would be seeing that trip 70+ years later !

Another excellent video! You posted an earlier video in January that drove this same first neighborhood but at a different time. I spent sooo much time trying to figure it out, but no dice. This time, however, the camera angle gave me one clue that was missing from the first video - a golf course on the right starting at 1:25. The film starts near the south-eastern end of Valley Spring Lane in Toluca Lake, at the end of which is a house previously owned by Amelia Earhart. As the car makes a right/north turn (all descriptions are from the driver's point of view) onto Navajo Street at 0:12, you are looking directly at the house at 10092 Valley Spring Road - it hasn't changed and you can see it clearly on Google Street View. Navajo Street then curves to the left/northwest and though it's kind of hard to see, there is a low brick wall on the sidewalk and one higher in the yard at 0:40 in, which is 4276 Navajo Lane. At 0:46 the car turns left/south onto Forman Avenue - the house seen on the corner appears to have been demolished and replaced. At 1:00 the car turns right/west back onto Valley Spring Road - the house at 1:02 through 1:04 appears to have also been demolished/remodeled. At 1:05 the house just slightly left of center, with the green roof, appears to me, based on the chimney, roof line and gable windows, to be 10135 Valley Spring Lane, which has been remodeled. Starting at 1:25, the golf course begins to come into view on the right, and you can see golfers at 1:31 - the golf course is the Lakeside Golf Club. The car passes Ledge Avenue and Strohm Avenue on the left, then at 2:07 comes to the intersection with Cahuenga Blvd. and turns right/north. The building seen from 2:07 to 2:11 which I can see on the 1952 Historic Aerials map, has been demolished/replaced as have most of the buildings on the west side of Cahuenga we see as the car continues on. I just saw that starting at 2:27 is your earlier video from January that I just referenced, so it is basically the same drive, with more houses seen as the angle is much better. So glad this one is solved for me! Edited because I messed up my times.

These videos fill me with such a strong sense of nostalgia. They make me mourn for a time I never knew. Such innocence and hope that lay before people in this time. Thank you for your work

Poor woman at 6:50 was watching the car go by and not where she was walking and almost fell over.

Makes you wonder what happened to everything and how inexpensive these places were compared to today. Doesn't look like old footage at all! Love the cars!

Judging by the cars this was filmed 1949-'50. It looked so quiet and peaceful.

My mind is blown. Again. Thank you for not adding any loud, sudden or annoying noises. It is very relaxing to watch and your mind can just wander into this past reality.

Pretty cool to compare the video to actual Google street view. (4:43- 7:30 - South Side of Greenleaf St, starting from Hazeltine Ave heading west to Cedros Ave. Sherman Oaks, CA). Correction…. NORTH SIDE OF GREENLEAF STREET

Fascinating. I have things to do, but.... in Sherman Oaks: 04:47 Greenleaf at Hazeltine Sherman Oaks 05:03 14115 Greenleaf 05:12 Greenleaf at Stansbury 05:32 torn down/changed then very clearly 14223 Greenleaf 06:16 Greenleaf at Beverly Glen Road, house even appears to have original shutters 06:50 14479 Greenleaf, strange vent/chimney (lead?), homeowner (?) looking straight into camera (and she trips) 07:06 exposed rafters visible still today at 14529 Greenleaf 07:28 cut away just past Cedros Avenue

I love these NASS. Your colorized 40s and 50z always make me smile! 😊

It would be interesting to go back today and follow the routes taken when this was first filmed, and see how the neighborhoods have changed.

Am I nuts?? It's just that I found the tweeting birds in the background so delightful! Another great video. Thank you.

Absolutely outstanding. It’s like being in a Time Machine. I can’t begin to imagine the time and effort which must have been put into this project. Well done.

Very cool! Thanks for the hard work putting this together!👍🏽

Thank you for making these video's.

Great video nass, amazing footage, great work,some beautiful properties 👌👍😀

Great job!… That was an exceptional video..Thank you.

If it wasn't for the cars would never guessed it was the 40s

Such clean neighborhoods, small houses and detached garages were the norm it appears.

Closest thing we have to time travel. Excellent video

Amazing. Thank you for making these.

I have always lived in Vienna/Austria, so I have no reminiscences to vintage California. What I can say is that these images make an incredibly peaceful impression. I believe this must have been a very good neighborhood.

Beautiful. Nostalgic. I was born in 1937, and was raised in L.A. Our next door neighbor, Mr Allen, had a Jade green 1936 Oldsmobile 4dr. Every Saturday he was in his driveway, washing and polishing his car. He gave it a wax job after polishing the chrome. My music teacher had a 1934 Ford 5 window coupe, black, also all shiny with a nice wax job and shiny chrome. The point is, most folks kept their cars clean, and polished the chrome. You show most cars, including the brand new models, looking as if they are all rusty and the chrome all dull and rusty. No, no. They were almost all at least clean and polished. A few people had old junkers that looked a little like what you show, mostly model A Fords or old work trucks. Is this "artistic license", or do you think everyone drove dirty, rusty cars? Otherwise, this is great and I love your work.

It blows my mind that life in the 1940s is literally how it is now. The grainy old videos of wars and factory workers gives us this impression that it was another timeline, when it reality that was all just background noise

I wish I could step through time and land on that time and place.

Awesome channel, keep these vids coming!!!

I love the smaller sized houses with the detached garages and the driveways with grass in the middle.

I was going to say this is all in the San Fernando Valley given the topography, the mountains in the background, and the age/size of the treeline. (1940 -50yr old trees = 1910 or so settlement) By the late 1950's and 1960's smog obscured any views of the San Gabriel mountains. Great work as always on these!

Very, Very, cool! I could watch these films all day! The old street lights, & oil derricks are stunning!!!

AMAZING WORK!!

I saw a 1950 Studebaker, 41 Packard, 49 Buick , 48 Chrysler T&C, 48 Kaiser also, love the old cars here. Drooled all the way thru it.

Between you your artistic gift for color hue depth and contrast and those who had the insight to film this for all of us today I am gleefully suspended in time

Wow ty for these Clips Love Them

Wow, this is like a time machine. Thanks for sharing!

I have said it before and will again…. I was born about 60 years too late

This was back when resources were plentiful, jobs were plentiful, and everything was cheap for everyone. Now everything is expensive, well-paying jobs are scarce, and resources are running out.

This looks so cool!

4:46 They turn left off of Hazeltine St. onto Greenleaf St. in Sherman Oaks, CA. Google street view shows some of the old buildings like the garage seen at 4:54, and the high peaked house at 6:32. 6:47 The house where the lady is walking is on the corner of Greenleaf St. and Van Nuys Blvd. For the record, I live in Connecticut. Never been to California, so it's not like I recognized the area.

Casas lindas, sem muros e muito verde Precisa pouco para morar bem. Parabéns pelo vídeo.

The car on the left about 9:03 or so is a Kaiser Manhattan. Not cheap (about $2800 in 1947 dollars) but worth the money. Kaiser had built battleships during the war so imagine how well the car was built. They also built a car named Frazier. Frazier lasted until about’52 and Kaiser until ‘55. Too bad, really.

Omg... this is STUNNING!!!

That lady at 6:50 tripped. I laughed 80 years later.

Man that's a neighborhood I'd love to live in, if California wasn't expensive back then

From the automobiles shown, I would date this somewhere around either 1949 or possibly 1950.

Came here from Joey B Toonz. Absolutely amazing work 🙂

Definitely worth subscribing and a thumbs up !

What beautiful houses, competed for the grass and the neatest fence.

Your videos or should I say film is amazing! It must of taken a lot of time and you did a amazing job! Any idea of how it was originally filmed? Was it from the back of a truck?

Brilliant...thank YOU!

GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS YOU ARE THE BEST

They had some sweet houses,. even back then

THE NEWEST CARS SEEN, THIS FILM, 1949 FORD, 1949 MERCURY ! SUCH A LOVELY PEACEFUL SCENE, WAR OVER AND THINGS GETTING BACK TO NORMAL ! A MUCH SIMPLER TIME, I WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD !

There is a wonderful ASMR effect I feel watching these videos. Very relaxing. NASS rules.

adoro seus vídeos... parabéns pelo trabalho, Adriano from brazil.

Really nice work....

Very calming to watch. I find it oddly addictive, but at least it's a wholesome, harmless addiction.

Wow, look at all the trees!! So many of them!

No trash or homeless littering the streets.👀 classic California in it's heyday.

These neighborhoods relax me so much; yet, I also feel sad that those days are gone , pretty much for ever. I miss the early 60’s when all of my friends on the block would play outside till the sun went down. I was 11. Nowadays, 11 and older are already into drugs, and violence. I really don’t have much faith in today’s population.

Lovely times.. lovely places💛

Brilliant, so interesting using google maps street view to compare , what a beautiful place it must have been to live back in the day.

Wow what a fantastic restoration and uh quick question what happened to your videos of new york during the 70s and 90s did you delete them because I was guttered when I saw that you deleted some videos I enjoyed but other than that you are a legend😎

Great stuff, thank you! How are these films found?

Beautiful video this is a time capsule history

Thanks Much !

I love these vids! Wish I lived back in the 1920’s - 1950’s

Almost hurts to watch this.. so rare to find towns like this anymore. Clean, safe, sigh

It's kinda crazy that people drove around filming the neighborhood for posterity. It's like Google.0

amazing vids

5:07 even the dog is stress free 😢

Very nice, i love your Vids. I don't know of any other videos that make the old times seem so alive. One question, somehow I always see a purple sheen on the cars, where I expect it to be black. Was it the case back then that a purple shimmer was considered chic or is it because of the subsequent colouring?

Beautiful.

Nice and clean .

Thnx for the ride.

Excellent video documentary of how the neighborhoods of the past were beautiful.

The wealth of America in the 40s compared to the rest of the world

Beautiful, America was a great place back then.

The homes are so pretty. Everything looks clean and tidy.

When it wasn't a chore to walk anywhere! And clothes looked so smart ❤

For anyone wondering, the street at 4:46 is Greenleaf Street in Sherman Oaks LA

To live in such a time when you felt safe from the world unlike today. Well done!

Geez, it would be so interesting if someone living around that area today would make the same drive with the same camera angles now. Surely the roads are still there, but the buildings might have completely changed. Definitely the difference in numbers of cars around would be stunning to see.....

This is well before I was born, but it's interesting to see!

I grew up in a city like this film. San Gabriel, upper middle class. In 1950 there were a lot juvenile delinquent boys around. Girls were not safe on the street and many boys misbehaved. I saw it all.

Nice

Love these videos from the late 40s and early 50s. Interesting time period. Fan of L.A. Noire and L.A. Confidential.

If this was filmed ten years later, every house would have a TV antenna on the roof.

I wasn't around then, just watching makes me feel relaxed and happy ❤️

This is one of the more interesting neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley and still retains some of this rural charm even though today it's literally in the middle of the City of Los Angeles. If you went too far off these streets you would be in open land.

Aaahh...when lawns were _Green_ in California.

Couldn't make out the street signs to figure out what neighborhood this was but sure was a lot nicer back then. Probably my favorite era in L.A. They had a better public transportation system then with the Street Car line (Red Cars) and less need for everyone in one house to each have their own car.

This is unimaginable. As if I can touch this story. I'm from Russia. At that time, in my country, the Reds staged famine, torture, cape executions. I keep thinking how the fate of my country would have developed if we were friends with the best country in the world - the USA!

I saw three '49 Fords and a '49 Kaiser.

It's weird to think that people at that time thought they were living in the modern world. Same as we are now.

Remarkable film, thankyou. The amazing thing I noticed was that I only saw ONE stop sign for the duration. As a matter of fact, I also did not see ANY other type of traffic sign whatsoever.I guess speed limit, yield, one way, no left turn, hadn't been invented yet. One last thing, Did anybody see a stop light? Ahhh, California, how laid back and unrestricted can ya get?

Damm very good

Great start with the 1942 Pontiac .

Are you able to show original footage, even if just a tiny clip at the end or beginning?