Los Angeles early 40s,50s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

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I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this incredible video of a journey through Los Angeles in the early 40s and 50s, you can see downtown and people's daily lives, and various interesting scenes.
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source: Rick Prelinger, Internet Archive
Thanks to Mr. Rick Prelinger for share the amazing B&W Video Source,
Rick Prelinger is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz,writer and filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation
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@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

Which city in the world would you like to visit in the 40s or 50s??

@lennyanders1639 11 ай бұрын

San Francisco...

@HxTurtle 11 ай бұрын

certainly not a European one. Sydney, maybe?

@alhambra1 11 ай бұрын

Do you have the city of Alhambra Main Street?

@biggusbestus551 11 ай бұрын

Santa Clara California

@jaminova_1969 11 ай бұрын

Tokyo!

@AllanGonnella 5 ай бұрын

I can remember going to downtown Los Angeles on the bus with my mom and sister in the mid-50's. We would take the bus west on Whittier Blvd. to the 6h street bridge and then take the streetcar (the yellow Pacific Electric car) across the 6th street bridge, then north on Central Ave., then west on 5th St. and finally hop on another street car on Broadway where my mom shopped at all the department stores. For our big treat my mom would take us to lunch at the famous Clifton's Cafeteria. Back then each family only had one car and my dad took that to work. If my mom needed to go shopping we had to take the bus and streetcar to get around. I can still remember all the fancy movie theaters up and down Broadway.

@JamesWoodring-mu2iz 11 ай бұрын

nass im not sure if an award can be given to a film restoration artist? but if one exists, you should be awarded. thank you my talented friend for another glimpse into our past.

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you so much

@seandelap8587 11 ай бұрын

Incredible just how clean and amazing a lot of the biggest cities in the USA looked back then a very far cry from today

@FallenStarFeatures 11 ай бұрын

They were just getting started on the post-war highway boom. The aerial footage near the end shows the broad sweep of suburbanization we continue to live with today, but with nowhere near as much traffic.

@HansKlopek 11 ай бұрын

Compare the demographic change between then and now.

@TheDanEdwards 11 ай бұрын

Oh please, this video does not show a "clean" city any more than what you can find today.

@TheDanEdwards 11 ай бұрын

@@HansKlopek Want to add any details to your claim?

@nwicconsultants6640 11 ай бұрын

@@TheDanEdwards In regards to Chinanubawon statement: who said anything about clean? You need to look up the definition of demographic. And yes the statistical characteristics of the population in regards to income has changed dramatically from the 1950's. Speaking of clean...because of the change in demographics a simple comparison of google maps at street level in comparison to that shown on this video shows a once thriving downtown area that has since deteriorated to tents and filth in the streets. Oh please, this video *does* show a difference.

@brocanova 11 ай бұрын

Pure nostalgia, and some of the youngest kids might still be among us. A masterpiece, thank you loads!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you

@HxTurtle 11 ай бұрын

exactly my thought as well

@Lpreilly72 2 күн бұрын

“Might still be among us?” Hey!

@Lpreilly72 2 күн бұрын

Notice the dark stripes in the middle of each lane? That’s oil. Every car on the road leaked oil in the 50s-60s. For this reason, my dad bought our first VW bug in 1962.

@Herbie11 11 ай бұрын

My mom always talked about a crazy guy with a camera taking "movies" on San Fernando across from the gas station. (At 04:03). Little did we know it was just NASS timetraveling again to get these wonderful videos for us. Thank you!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

welcome ;)

@BrendenGilbert 11 ай бұрын

Where was this? I try to look up 10600 San Fernando road n but it can't find it

@melissaochoa8054 5 ай бұрын

@@BrendenGilbertif you notice.. on the building the address is 10631. I looked it up on maps but only 10641 shows up

@billymac72 11 ай бұрын

I always think of my grandparents when I see old footage from this era, particularly in the standards of dress. They took a lot of pride in appearance and it remained that way into their twilight years.

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

Like And Share Please

@CommanderLongJohn 11 ай бұрын

Pittsburgh please 🫠

@monaural2.988 8 ай бұрын

The thing that immediately stands out from watching the blocks go by is the complete lack of big-name corporate monsters. It was all “mom and pop” run businesses, block after block after block.

@lablaine1981 28 күн бұрын

Every city is same layout nowadays,not so in 1950s, corporate merica' was decent tenant 1950-1990, 2024 corporate pirates,and swag galore

@FinalFantasy1980 10 ай бұрын

Love these old cars. Could watch this for hours ☺

@Jaffar540 11 ай бұрын

I get 9 minutes of pure ejoyment watching this video of Los Angeles during the 1950s. That was a time when people in most countries realized the meaning of family life, happiness and peace without the need to be too materialistic. Look at the way people go about seeking their daily livelihood. I was born in the year 1950, far from the US. My prayers for the souls of those who have gone before us. They deserve our prayers. They are those who help to shape the history of this great country.

@TheDanEdwards 11 ай бұрын

Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

@relcnt 11 ай бұрын

@@TheDanEdwards he's not wrong, life was more simple, easy, and just relaxing

@garlicgorilla6540 11 ай бұрын

Corporate Glo. Balism has destroyed the West.

@liddlekiddle1962 11 ай бұрын

In the beginning, I saw See's Candy which was / is a wonderful candy shop in California! And I saw Orange Julius! GREAT video.

@Lpreilly72 2 күн бұрын

Sees candy is everywhere. I bought candy from one of their stores in Dubai.

@WAL_DC-6B 11 ай бұрын

Hey, look at that traffic light with the "STOP" semaphore at :52. Those types of traffic lights were pretty much unique to the L.A. area and were last used in 1956. Nice 1946 or '47 Hudson at :54 with a period Texaco gas station in the background. Thanks for sharing!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

welcome

@mrsandmom5947 11 ай бұрын

I immediately smiled when I saw the See’s candy storefront ❤️

@allegrajane7205 10 ай бұрын

Me too! Ah, memories of growing up in Southern California!

@SonnyCorleone-tg1ik 11 ай бұрын

Nass, Love your channel. Love the old scenes. This is priceless at 0:22 you can see what movies were playing back then! Thanks very much for a fascinating blast to the past upload!

@AchtungEnglander 11 ай бұрын

The number of pawn brokers is quite eye opening

@rbj1jcp 11 ай бұрын

I absolutely love this video. One of the best colorized videos I've ever seen. Thank you so much for these memories. JoAnn

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much

@andrewwilliams6936 11 ай бұрын

Having a whiskey and lemonade, watching the latest masterpiece from Nass. Living the dream.....

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much ;)

@sammybeck7794 11 ай бұрын

The color is so good you tend to forget it was colorized. I was born in 1952 so they vehicles in1950 were the same ones driving around town when I was just a baby. I was born in Flagstaff Arizona but my family moved us out to Los Angeles in 1957

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much

@richmeyer2064 11 ай бұрын

Always a learning experience. This was the first time I have ever seen an indoor rifle range on a commercial street. Today most of the shooting in cities is done outside. Great audio again NASS.

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much

@l... 11 ай бұрын

We need playlist for each decade

@gplunk 11 ай бұрын

Great original footage; and excellent job on the re-processing. This was the LA my father knew; in his teens and twenties....

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you so much

@HeatherB81 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for listing the locations!

@CD318 11 ай бұрын

Love your work--please don't ever stop posting these treasures!

@MarianneCothern 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. What a treat. (Also love that you credit original photographer. ❤️)

@js6029 11 ай бұрын

Definitely one of the best video restorations I have seen of this period!! Excellent work!! Thank you for your work!!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

Thank you

@VanMichael21 11 ай бұрын

Wow i didn't know orange julias has been around that long! Love these videos! And I'm still on a mission to catch a time traveller in one of these videos caught watching KZfaq on an iPhone!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you

@VanMichael21 11 ай бұрын

@@NASS_0no, thank YOU my friend. I've recommended this channel to a couple of my friends and boy they all are loving it. Keep up the good work.

@michaelmartin4552 11 ай бұрын

Founded in 1926 in LA.

@DustinB95 11 ай бұрын

It’s crazy how fast things Change… life just seemed so much simpler

@vladsnape6408 11 ай бұрын

I didn't realise until now how popular purple and pink were as car colours in the 50s.

@psychedelicsanctuary. 11 ай бұрын

This footage is absolutely amazing.

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

Thx ;)

@donnytucker 11 ай бұрын

3:23 that's the firehouse from ghostbusters. The interiors were filmed inside this for the movie and the exterior shots was the firehouse in NYC.

@Traildraft 11 ай бұрын

Haha, I just commented on that. I looked it up on Google Maps. It's still there. wish there was someone who could save the building. It's in such bad shape. 😢

@donnytucker 11 ай бұрын

@@Traildraft They're currently remodeling it into a firehouse museum. Here's a little bit of interior footage from last September. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9Kgna9-0a7adnk.html

@davidduxbury7530 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful to see images from over 70yrs ago,thank you for sharing this!!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you

@sinister1937 11 ай бұрын

My grandmother lived just west of downtown and my brother and I would run around the city. However we were forbidden to go near 5th street; now I can see why with all the pawn shops and dives but truth to tell we went anyway. I guess we were too naive.

@herberthartwig8544 11 ай бұрын

Nass as always a great video, 1,000 thanks 🙏 for the pure enjoyment and nostalgic pleasure in watching.

@larryfalcon4003 11 ай бұрын

at 3:20 the firehouse 23 engine 5 is still there... boarded up with graffiti and fenced up all that's remains is e in engine and 23 ... felt nostalgic so I drove by to look.. really enjoy your videos from a pass beyond 👍

@ellenalves7749 11 ай бұрын

I love the old videos so much, the older the better. Thanks Nass, you do an amazing job!!! 💙👏🏻🥂

@MegaUtube99 11 ай бұрын

Lmao that young guy shadow boxing for the camera @2:18 always nice seeing some personality in these older people who may or may not still be with us today

@Red-zo5fv 11 ай бұрын

Peep the guy on the right shadowboxing lmao 2:20

@thomasmurphy1765 11 ай бұрын

The Firehouse @3.25 'Engine 23' is the firehouse used for the interior shots in Ghostbusters 1&2.

@saul890 11 ай бұрын

Great clip Nass , very clear , Thanks for sharing and keep them coming 👍🏾

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much

@iadorenewyork1 11 ай бұрын

Even Skid Row, downtown L.A., is beautiful!

@ericlindenmuth7517 Ай бұрын

Love the Redondo Beach footage!!! I live close to there! The people must have been looking for Moonstones. It was a popular activity! Redondo's nickname was Moonstone Beach.

@MajorSeventh 11 ай бұрын

At 4:09 that's San Fernando Rd near the Pierce St intersection in Pacoima. Across the street is Whiteman airport, which was established in 1946.

@karenstanislaw8912 11 ай бұрын

So fascinating. As camera focused on the urban street scene, and we really get to catch a glimpse of shop * names, shop *'themes, the expression on peoples face's as they were walking - I thought - 1. *each "shop," each person is a movie onto themselves, and - 2. - would be very interesting to juxtapose a shot of the same street today, to see how its all morphed, and 3. wondering if *any of those businesses still around today, or are they all gone? As usual - marvelous footage, and I'm sure many of us thank you. Interesting project you've taken on.

@shawneyatrics 11 ай бұрын

4:43 - Reminds me of the Kaiser Steel Mill in Fontana, California; one of 5 locations where Robocop was filmed.

@debbief8086 11 ай бұрын

Best yet! Great remastering footage 👏👏👏

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much

@blayneaugust Ай бұрын

Remarkable and thoroughly captivating, thanks for this!

@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 Ай бұрын

It's always delightful and fun to travel back in time while watching one of your videos

@zurcherzurich213 11 ай бұрын

Those were the days 🎉 Thank you very much from Switzerland

@johncook1076 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your great work!

@SteveCameronProductions 11 ай бұрын

The guy looking back at the camera at 2:20 cracks me up. Watch what he does...

@petestaint8312 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Thanks for posting. 👍

@shaunwest3612 11 ай бұрын

Great video nass amazing footage, nice work 😀👍👌

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

THank you very much

@chrisstephens5310 9 ай бұрын

I will always love you Los Angeles greatest city in the world

@paolazuffinetti 7 ай бұрын

No words are enough to thank You for this video. It's so wonderful! It seems to me like a parallel universe in which to enjoy my favourite USA city, going back many years ago! To be kept and rewatched many times! 👍👍👍👍

@pmafterdark 11 ай бұрын

Incredible footage. Looks like it could have just been taken. What a window to a better time.

@johnathandaviddunster38 9 ай бұрын

The KKK would agree...

@oldedinburgh6014 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic job, thanks for your effort.

@mistervacation23 11 ай бұрын

Its good to see there's some of the old town left

@rumdo5617 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant 🤩 Thank you 🙏

@olrikm 11 ай бұрын

Wow! Wow! The street scenes at the beginning should be in the Library of Congress "National Film Preservation Board". Really. The rest was just pure joy. Bravo!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much ;)

@Gunner40Five 11 ай бұрын

Wow, there videos are so cool. Thanks for sharing with us. Keep up the good work.

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you

@linedanzer4302 6 күн бұрын

I remember as a child in the 1960s going downtown all dressed up. Clifton's Cafeteria was always a special treat for us.

@kenster865 11 ай бұрын

Great job as usual! I got a real kick out of seeing all of those ppl at Redondo Beach and maybe 2 or 3 had bathing suits on. Everyone dressed as though going to a dinner party.... maybe they were?? They all acted as if they'd never seen the beach before. Bet there's an interesting story to that beachside group. 😉

@alanpecherer5705 11 ай бұрын

What do you imagine all those non-beach-dressed people were doing there? Maybe there was a ship that sunk and they were looking for souvenirs. They didn't look like they were purposefully there to hunt clams, and there was probably reasonable blobs of oil in the debris line.

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you so much

@abashardoust 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic! I just subscribed. I've been on many of these streets and they have all changed for the worse.

@carlcotton1753 8 ай бұрын

You do good works, thank you

@PacificOutdoor 6 ай бұрын

This is pretty great. Well done!

@May_Day45 11 ай бұрын

WoW, that was awesome, thank you :)

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you

@ellylovely205 11 ай бұрын

What's more amazing, not everything is just classic. But, its the classy car colors, are just ever EPIC. Aw. Just look at that pale pink color car. Just marvelous. We got pale blue color car, why not pale pink color car too. Great footage. Thanks for sharing! 🥰

@johnvrabec9747 11 ай бұрын

Wasn't that one road with all the oil derricks in "White Heat"? I love these videos, this is the world my parents were young adults in before I came along in 1958.

@colette6984 11 ай бұрын

Successfully mesmerizing!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you

@colette6984 11 ай бұрын

@@NASS_0 super neat seeing highly clear video of another era.

@Happyland_Motel_Gamer_Cat 3 ай бұрын

It is fantastic looking at the shops and the people.

@HansDunkelberg1 11 ай бұрын

I wonder if the child appearing in the foreground at 8:35 still is alive. She may not yet have become ninety, while the gentleman with the hat behind her may have been born in the 1800s.

@westy40 10 ай бұрын

My mom was born in 1936 and she's still going strong. Good chance that the child in this film is still alive.

@HansDunkelberg1 10 ай бұрын

@@westy40 The older I get _myself,_ the more clearly I experience how short "historic" times are ago. It's not only that man stays the same, with his good and his bad sides. No, it's that I begin to extend what I perceive as having experienced it myself into the time before my birth. KZfaq helps me incredibly, with this effort. I have now arrived at perceiving the Roman empire as a part of the present - which here, close to the Austrian capital, is especially easy because you here are surrounded by a colorful mixture of descendants of ancient Romans, of colonizers from the Germany of the Middle Ages, and of Slavs. Now I'm beginning to tackle ancient Egypt. Rather than traveling there - which I'm afraid of because of the heat, of worms in the water, and of terrorists -, I'm resorting, in particular, to Google Earth. You do obtain some street-view panoramas from regions like Egypt or Iraq there, which in an instant can let you traverse millennia.

@Hey_its_Koda 11 ай бұрын

I love that look with the dress pants. Fedora. Dress shirt. Leather jacket.

@Traildraft 11 ай бұрын

The fire building at 3:23 is still there. The interior was used in the movie Ghostbusters.

@vpking77 10 ай бұрын

Young Man With A Horn was released in 1950 so there is no doubt the year is correct.

@Ofinfinitejest Ай бұрын

Yes, March of 1950, and the theater is at 655 Hill St, in Los Angeles. Now some sort of "gold / diamonds exchange" place.

@DavidBrown-dj7tw 2 ай бұрын

Reality Check: The newest vehicle I spotted was a 1949 Ford Convertible which is in the gas station @ 4:08. I am going to say that this wonderful film was made in either 1949 or possibly 1950 or '51. The little girl sitting on the bench in front of the car is maybe 4 or 5 years old. Today in 2024, this would make her approximately 78 years old. If that bench is still there, she may be sitting on it again, next to her GREAT grand daughter. Such a great experience going back in time for a few moments, thankyou.

@varrick1226 11 ай бұрын

Great great work NASS I love your videos so much. You look at all those businesses back then and the vast majority of them don't exist today thanks to sprawl. I didn't see any tents on the streets either like today.

@signjoey 11 ай бұрын

This type of film was shot by a movie studio for use in back and side projection(car scenes)

@yvette28 11 ай бұрын

Thanks ☺️ more Los Ángeles pls 👏

@shawnmarengo494 11 ай бұрын

1:44 - I want a cocktail at Al’s.

@azmike1 11 ай бұрын

Yeah. I bet it was 75 cents for a glass of Jack Daniels.

@Lizerator 10 ай бұрын

These videos are such treasures. The people at Redondo Beach all dressed up ... wouldn't see that today.

@Underhills 10 ай бұрын

Why is it so easy to pretend that the far past never happened? If something is filmed in a low frame rate and is of low quality it becomes fiction, almost cartoon'ish. Thanks for restoring these old film clips and bringing it back to life. It's real history. They didn't have computer science and today's medical technology but I'm starting to belive that they were better off back then. More in touch with each other and authentic in a way. I've spendt the last days watching Hollywood drama movies from the 40's. I really enjoy it. No CGI, no 4K, no fancy editing. Just people interacting.

@leonardopinto1917 11 ай бұрын

Sempre admirei os Estados Unidos, principalmente por seu urbanismo, sempre com paisagem limpa, com as coisas nos seus lugares. Até na "desordem" há beleza.

@Dolphin_Terrace 11 ай бұрын

Perdeu m@né 😂😂😂😂😂

@EYE_GOTCHA 11 ай бұрын

It’s unfortunate and heartbreaking that it’s no longer that way.

@mystikrebel1089 11 ай бұрын

amazing and it looks like it could be today. Lets see when I get to LA from here in London if its the same lol

@crazystemlady 11 ай бұрын

you whoever you are, decided to use your time on this planet to create a gift to the silent and nostalgic humans who just want to see the world in its most mundane and natural of states. thank you so much

@alanpecherer5705 11 ай бұрын

The Hotel Panama @ 1:30 apparently still exists "More than a century old, the Panama Hotel has for years offered temporary shelter to residents of Skid Row. Now, owner SRO Housing Trust is coordinating a Carrier Johnson + CULTURE-designed redevelopment of the building into permanent supportive housing." [Oct 30, 2016] My Gawd, it was a skid row hotel in the early 50's, it must be pure funkadelic now! Incredible footage!

@GeorgeVreelandHill 11 ай бұрын

This is the Los Angeles that people dream about. Sadly, it's in the past now. When tourists come here, they come to see our great past. They don't come to see the Hollywood of today. They come to put their hands in the handprints of Marilyn Monroe and Jean Harlow. They come to Culver City to see the movie studios. They don't come to see the homeless tents and smell the feces stink of 2023. They come to Venice Beach to see where Jim Morrison wrote songs. Los Angeles has a GREAT past. That's what people want to see. Not this insane madness of today. By the way - GREAT video. It will be in my dreams tonight.

@user-xi5rn8gi5h 11 ай бұрын

Thank you Nass!👍

@f.w.2054 11 ай бұрын

One of the best yet,NASS!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much ;)

@DogmenHardcastle 11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised to see an Australian Eucalyptus tree in LA way back then, for some reason I assumed they were more recently introduced. 04:25

@Nscalemike56 Ай бұрын

They were imported in the 1890's? For local farm wind breaks

@anteuzel5324 11 ай бұрын

GREAT VIDEO SUPPER NASS BIG SUPPORT FROM CROATIA

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you bro

@BigBishop1 11 ай бұрын

Spectacular!

@NASS_0 11 ай бұрын

thank you very much

@JSFGuy 11 ай бұрын

Wow, let's check it out. I'm not far from here right now.

@noelroberts8199 8 ай бұрын

This footage is fascinating, it's 70 to 80 years ago and it's amazing the variety of shops and food places at the time, Men's suits $6.45, I know wages have changed since then but wow, love it.......

@bobbysands6923 15 күн бұрын

If you go google maps, the building with the theater is still there, but it is not a theater. However, the WB sign is still there, just painted over. The vertical signage is also there--it say diamonds now. I am sure it is lovely now...