Fantastic quality. To think those older ladies crossing the street were likely born in the 1880s or 1890s..and here we are just checking in on YT.

3:38 we almost witnessed a vintage accident

In the mid to late 1950's my dad owned and was sole mechanic of an auto repair shop on Coldwater Canyon in LA. These are the cars he would have been repairing.

Was 18 years old in 1957 and really excited by cars back then, but now, just transportation and a necessity. So getting my fill by watching Perry Mason reruns. Thanks for posting this.

This is the SoCal I grew up in. In was eleven in '53. It was a wonderful time.

Hollywood still looked a lot like this when I lived and worked there in the 70's, but you woudn't recognize it now.

Cars in the 50s all looks so gorgeous. Every car looks different. So many choices. Today's cars...bland as hell. Soulless. Golden era gone.

When Holly Wood had style and real movie stars.

My mother's family were the original land developers of Hollywood, CA. I lived in West Hollywood in the mid-1950's and distinctly remember these kinds of street scenes.

We are the only people in all the history of mankind that can look back in time through these magic windows. Thanks for sharing.

It was so nice back then. I remember visiting Disneyland in 1960 and the wonderful smell of the orange groves.

Somewhere in that city Ritchie Valens is playing his heart out about to become an immortalized legend forever. 🎤🎸

Big beautiful cars, no traffic. I want to live in 1957. Unfortunately couldn't find time machine on Amazon )))

that beautiful neatness lasted up til 1980's

Back when every single car and truck looked absolutely beautiful

Love the transitional opening music at the beginning of this video, the music during the radio announcing is so nostalgic.

50s cars are hot and modern cars look too boring

Such a magical time this was. Marvelous. The sweet spot among all eras.

I was born in 1951, and I remember these great old cars.

It's always been a dream for me to have a few classics like those what beautiful time.

3:38 - Some things never change, like trying to make a left turn in LA.

Hollywood Blvd. looks somewhat the same. I truly LOVED living in Hollywood in my early days. Every spring the smell of the Sycamore trees was the sweetest smell in the world. I lived 2 block from Manns theater and the streets were crowded with people out to have a good time. Those were the days...

I’m a lifelong Los Angeles resident born in 1989. My parents weren’t even born when this video was taken, and I long for and feel nostalgic for this 50s Hollywood. I wish we could go back. NO traffic! There is always traffic galore in Hollywood today 😭 it’s very run down too in a lot of areas.

I was born in the 1950's, wish I could have been in high school in the 50's. Love those cars and the way people dressed. Really classy. Thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed this video.

Cars were so sexy back then! This is coming from a person who is born in 97'. Amazing footage, amazing cars, amazing lifestyle.

I'm from the 90s, and I miss it already. Already alot has changed, for example ofcourse the mobile phones, everywhere where you look you see them. TV, their were so much better shows on it then todays. I'm not gonna cry that I'm born in the wrong time but I wish I could go to the 40s/50s/60s/70s.

3:38 WHY NOBODY IS IN THE BLUE CAR?

Musso & Frank Grill (green sign on the left) is still there !!! And their food is still amazing in 2020 !!! God bless everyone.

I can instantly recognize and identify the year, make and model of every car seen I watched the entire drive and didn't see myself anywhere. Used to cruise those Blvds, mostly at night, in a new red body white top 57 Chevrolet Belair hardtop. Worked for a while near all these shots as a new car get ready mechanic at Nugent Chevrolet on LaBrea Avenue. Ricky Nelson sometimes joined me at night and we cruised. He was driving a white 57 Plymouth Fury. Underage though so his folks made him come home at nine weeknights. Ricky had an album cover, forget the name, but it showed his face with a shot of a red 57 Plymouth Fury. His personal car was white, and probably used a red one on the cover so less people would recognize him on the street.

I was born in the late 70’s, but I wish I could go back to the late 40’s and escape people, tastes and the societal realities of today.

I get excited seeing all those old cars and trying to identify them. and seeing places i have been before I was born.

I know the 1950's wasn't perfect, but if I could bring back the cars, clean streets, and architecture from that era and earlier I would. Imagine taking the aesthetics of that time, and just implementing the tech we have now

Wow, I love it, it's like an old-timey movie set that keeps going and going! I wish I could jump in and wander around a while

1:02 - He didn't even stop for the ladies crossing the street at the intersection.

3:37 Even back then people still couldn’t drive in LA

Love it if radio stations could have opening music like this again makes your driver soothing ❤😊

Fantastic footage - the cars are just beautiful

...Wow...All Those Classic Cars !!!

I love this era so much! And this guy was vlogging for youtube in the 50’s

Such a simpler time without the extreme concerns that all of us face these days. Sometimes I wish I had been born sooner so that I could have experienced what generations before me did.

The title on the screen says "1953," but I agree with Craiglaca1 that this was very late 1956 or early 1957. There are four movie theaters shown: The Iris is showing the Gary Cooper film "Friendly Persuasion" (advertised in big blue letters), which was released around Thanksgiving 1956. Across the street, Warner's is showing "Cinerama Holiday," which was released in 1955, but Cinerama was such a sensation that it's reasonable to think it was still showing nearly a year later. Around the corner on Vine St. was a "second-run" theater, The Admiral, showing a double feature of John Wayne's "The Searchers" (released March 1956) and Donald O'Connor in "Francis in The Navy" (released August 1955). TeeBee Overdahl reported seeing a 1957 Cadillac in this clip-- that makes sense, because the 1957 model year began appearing in showrooms in summer 1956. All of that to say, this clip was likely filmed in November or December 1956, or possibly even January 1957.

I grew up 3 miles from here between 1954-2007. Most of this looked the same up until about 1978.

What a great place and time in history, sunny LA, booming 1950s.

This is great!!!!! I love seeing old films like this. Just seeing the old vehicles is a treat!!

Life was truly beautiful before all this social media crap...

The 1950's were a great time in America

love how he turned right into that intersection full of cross-walkers; ah, the good ol' days!

Thank you so much. Oh, my gosh, that brought back so many memories. I know every inch of Hollywood Boulevard shown in this film.

Some of those old women crossing the street in this film were born in the 1800s. Some of the newborns today will live to see the year 2100. I always find it fascinating how just a few generations can link together several centuries like that.

Wonderful footage! It's sad to see how the same streets have deteriorated today. (Great music for this video, by the way.)

Depending on what MONTH this was shot, I was busy being born a few blocks from where some of this footage was made: Ceders of Lebanon hospital (now an HQ for Scientology.) The address on my birth certificate, my first home on planet earth, is now a Korean electronics store. It's amazing someone took the time and, given the film technology of the era, effort to record these small frames of daily life.

Utterly amazing, this wonderful, pristine quality time-capsule gem!! Thank you for posting this precious, little video!

Really outstanding ! Thanks for posting this invaluable footage!

That’s exactly how I remember Hollywood in the 50’s.

Wow, to have a camera to film the times on that day on Hollywood blvd . Good video quality for that time. Good to remember the good old days with swing music on the car radio. Over 60 years ago.

This is so cool!

Wow, that was awesome! I moved to Hollywood from the midwest over 20 years ago, and it's really cool to see the boulevard way back in the day, and recognize the buildings that are still there.

This is absolutely shocking! That somebody had the wherewithal to film this is AMAZING. It's so fun to immerse yourself in it, especially if you play traffic sounds along with it! SO COOL!!!

Both of my parents lived -- and met eachother -- in LA in the late '50s. Wow, and here I am, watching this film, 60 years later.....

This is classic car heaven. Plus, people seem to have a briskness in their step which is lacking nowadays. I always feel like I’m walking behind zombies.

Great video! Lol some cars were cutting it close when making a turn. I love seeing all the old automobiles. Thank you for sharing.❤️

I grew up in Hollywood and went to Hollywood high school and enjoyed the area great people and nice parties with no violence good oldDays

Amazing!!! What a blessing to see all of this!!!

I sure love the architecture of Los Angeles . My dad was born there 1937 & my uncle attended Hollywood high in the end of the 60's . Grandma had a 2 bedroom craftsman bungalow in Monterey park east L.A. Thanks 4 video .

@ 1:00 Failure to yield to pedestrians.

I don't think many people who watch these know what they are. Most were shot on 35mm film by a '2nd Unit crew" driving up and down the city streets, none were shot on video because in 1957 video equipment was big and not portable and not in color. They are called process shots or process plates. They were made for shots that required outside window views as actors were talking. There was a front, back, passenger side, driver side and sometimes shots looking to a back angle outside the rear window for the actors in the back seat. A lot were made for specific movies or TV shows, some were just meant to be stock footage. Some were made for a specific movie or TV show then sold to a stock footage library later. The shots were either projected on a screen set up near a car on a soundstage or used as a plate, which was added later. The shot of the T-Bird pulling in front of the camera car may well have been a specific shot intended to be inserted into a movie or TV show. We see the T-Bird pull in front, and then we could cut to the interior of the point of view car (camera car) and have the actor slam on his break, stop and get out of the car and go over and talk to the T-Bird owner. That’s why the face of the person in the T-Bird would be hidden because it’s the stunt driver and not the actual actor in the scene. I also wouldn’t be surprised if there was a police escort around the camera car to clear traffic and an assistant director to cue those ladies crossing the road in front of the car. They would have had to sign releases. If these films were just hastily shot, the footage would not be as clear and either be shot on 8mm or 16mm film. They would also tend to be jerky and abrupt. Also there would be pans and tilts. There are none on this film and no attempt to capture signs or specific buildings because very little of the frame we see on this You tube video was actually seen. Remember everyone didn’t have professional movie cameras back then.

Clean, nice cars everywhere, everyone dressed well, all the storefronts had businesses in them, and hardly any overweight people. Just awesome. Edit: thanks for turning this comment into a thread full of political bilge, guys.

Buicks ready to eat you under their grills, Cadillacs showing off their fins, Oldsmobile lights looking like a shooting stars, Chevys throwing a friendly smile and Fords standing out with multicolored cuts..... The 1950s!!!! Golden era of the automobile ❤️❤️❤️

Wow. What could have captured a video so clear as such. Very nice and to see nothing has changed much in over 50 years. WOW

A wonderful look back in time.

Those were some good old days, in my early 20s

We grew up in the last of Hollywood's golden age. It breaks my heart to see what happened to the once-idyllic place.

It's amazing that someone actually filmed this back in those good ol' days, and in color too. Kind of like "Google Street View in the 1950s and Early 1960s". Great!

That's as close as we currently get to time traveling, great footage - some things indeed never change

Beautiful film! I wished it was longer. Thanks for posting.

Hey thanks for the ride Craiglaca1, that was something I really enjoyed. I really get a kick out of seeing old films about the way major cities used to look even if it was before my time in some cases I think it's a real blast, please give us more.

Eu queria ter vivido nessa época!!!, OH!!, COISA LINDA!!!

Definitely 1957!! I counted about nine 1957 cars and nothing newer than that. There were two 1957 Cadillacs!

At 0:32 on the right hand side, a white building on the corner is Mandel's ladies shoes. My wife's family (Grandfather and father). My mom who went to HHS, said she bought her prom shoes there in '41, when I told her I was dating the granddaughter. This is the first time I've been able to spot the store in a old motion picture clip! Thanks for the memories!

Wish it still looked this way.....

Watch the blue T-Bird at 3:39, The driver mysteriously disappears as it moves off! Pouff he disappears into thin air!! Watched the film over and over but cant figure it out!

Traffic was very agressive in those days. Drivers didn't give pedestrians right away on crosswalks; oncoming traffic made unsafe turns and crosses when oppossing traffic had the right away. People were well dressed when they went out in public. The streets were much cleaner. RTD bus was slow and non aggressive. No bums on the sidewalks, pan handling or prostituting.

Wow absolutely amazing... just wow. What good footage for the time!

All before I was born but I believe I must have lived as someone els back then I just love it and I dream most of stuff like this

Ох и тачки, потрясно! Ах, и этот джаз! I love it!

Back when Los Angeles was apart of America...

My God please bring this era back! The 40's and 50's were just the greatest. Back when America was great!

Thank you for posting this trip down memory lane...sans traffic too!

My mother worked with her mother at Schwab"s Pharmacy at Hollywood and Vine where the movie stars would drop in. My mother's mother married the Pharmacist and won the West Coast Ballroom Dancing Championship at the Aragon Ballroom. I inherited his diamond and platinum wristwatch which I still have.

Just brilliant, Lovely. Kudos to you for sharing these beautiful videos. Best part no tents and crazy homeless people cluttering the sidewalks. I bet the people from these days whom are still with us today are shaking their heads in dis belief of what dump Los Angeles have become.

Born there 1 year later Awesome! Thank you

I LOVE these, MORE PLEASE!!!!

Glad the person had the foresight to do this film to show future generations like myself of what exactly it was like back then. The details like how the people dressed, the names of the shops, the cars. What a wonderful time capsule and yes if only we had a time machine , I think a lot of us would go back and relive those times. Thank you for uploading ......

Great choice of song to go with the video

The year my dad was born, wow it's interesting to see how things have changed and here older folks' stories of these times

Strange to think Elvis Presley was all the talk during this time, especially in Hollywood. What a legendary man.

If I were to choose as to what decade I would wish to go back to, the 50's are on top of the list!

good old times. so peaceful and clean.

Omg this is interesting to watch my dad was born this year ... i like seeing the world he grew into

Great video, perfect music!