CALIFORNIA WAS MAGICAL IN THE 50'S.

Beautiful. When California wasn't overpopulated.

Don't ya just love the music and the sound of the narration? 🥰

In the 1960s, for our annual vacations my family used to rent a little bungalow house right down the street from the house seen in the movie "Top Gun". It was really small but it put all of us kids close to the beach and it was awesome. We were close to the pier, the arcades, the blue Pacific, everything a 10 year old kid would want. Homeless, drugs, or not I would be happy to live out my days there if I could afford to, but then community and people mean more to me than mere possessions and amassing wealth, so I would likely try to help those who are down and out. But maybe that's just me. Peace y'all.

Grew up in Oceanside and had to leave many good friends behind in 1982! I recognized so many of the people involved in making this video (my parents neighbors) and locations (the Dave Rorick house)...first date was the Sklar theatre, went to the South Oceanside Elementary school, and the Oceanside-Carlsbad High School, which separated from Carlsbad my sophomore year. Love this video and would love to share with so many people!

I was waiting for a Greyhound bus in Oceanside in 1976, so it was 3 years after most of the fighting of the Vietnam war was over. What was already kind of a Marine hangout part of town was NOW really rundown-- tattoo parlors, dingy bars, laundromats, etc. It was like a ghost town. I had a beer in a practically empty bar and it was like you could feel the ghosts of the thousands of G.I.'s who'd been there before. I wish I could go back in time and experience it again because it was sad, eerie and hauntingly poignant all at the same time.

My first husband was a marine camp pendleton and I worked on the base loved it there I left 1996 but my 4th daughter and grandkids live there miss San Diego but now it's going down hill. I still have some family there and friends. I wished I lived back then much simpler and people dressed nice and respectful and no drug's no homeless ect clean.

Great Video! It looked so much better then. Space, parks, less congested. Hopefully we can preserve what's left.

My grandfather William Nietfeld, first President of the local Kiwanis club, was one of the city leaders who got the pier built in the mid 1920s. The town used to be so peaceful and charming. That all changed of course with the coming of WW II and Camp Pendleton.

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Enjoy viewing the automobiles/entrance to Camp Pendleton/city center buildings of that era-!!!😉. Spent quality time in different areas of California early 90's. Amazing all the fruits/nuts/veggies grown there.-!!!😳. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous(2024)🌈🎉💵😉.

From Boston. Lived in Oside from 1997 to 2000. I loved it and miss it greatly !! I miss the beach the pier, the movie theater and my favorite watering hole Rookies on el camino real. I miss Yum Yum donuts the drive in and The Mane Attraction :) So it has some sketchy areas and Im sure I could find some meth within 5 minutes. But I loved my time in Oside and it will always be my home away from home !

My Father was a career Marine and we spent many years in and around Oceanside from the late '40s to 1962 when I graduated from OHS. We lived in Sterling Housing in the '50s and on the East end of Oceanside (East of the Freeway) later. St. Malo used to be a hot spot for a little winter car "necking' in the late 50s and early 60s. the shots from the Pier brought back many memories .You used to be able to get 1/4 lb. of smoked Albacore for 25 cents at the smoke house about half way out on the North side. Gas was 19cents a gallon, smokes were 30 cents a pack and Ripple was 59cents a Gallon. The thing that nearly brought tears to my eyes though was the look at the Southside from the pier. You can see "Betty's" dinner between the Lifeguard tower and the Amphitheater. Good Memories.(and a few not so good).

This is the Oceanside I remember. Born and raised there 1950. Haven't been there in 45 years.

Look at this and then the chaos we have today in cities.

South Oceanside elementary school. My mom and her family grew up down the street in the 50’s and we used to hang out at this school play there when we visit our grandmother in the 70’s. Skateboarding, football, tennis. Good times.

I graduated HS at San Dieguito in Encinitas, we used to go to the beach in Oceanside after school then head home in Cardiff, sure miss those days !!!

What I miss the very very most is the swings right on the beach!

I grew up in the midwest near the Mississippi and Missouri river. In the early 80s I visited this area staying in Carlsbad on a couple of occasions. It was really nice, had a wonderful time.

This footage came out 13 years before we arrived to Camp Pendleton/Oceanside (1964). Dad was in the Marines (3/7) and was stationed there directly from Roosevelt Roads, PR. Spent 1st year on base at Wire Mountain 1. Older sister attended Santa Margarita ES as North Oceanside ES had been closed down due to I-5 extension (I believe?). Grew up in Oceanside and went to school there from K to 12. As kids in the early 70s, we'd go to the Little Commissary, an old quanset building, on Sterling Homes and get our candy bars from the 5 cent vending machine they had there (Clark bars, Look bars, Big Hunks, Abba Zabbas). We. Delivered the Blade Tribune newspaper in O'side and Sterling Homes. Walked to the beach, harbor and pier daily during the summer's along the San Luis Rey river bank (long before Hwy 76 was built). A lot more friendlier people around back then, even downtown at the skating rink, except for those gross hookers and horny newby loud mouthed Jarheads. There was only one bum/derelict we knew of back then. And there was Merle, the downtown TV hooker who used to live in our neighborhood. No homelessness or illegals just working folks and families.

😃i live in Oceanside!!

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Amazing footage!!!

My parents had it so good back then. I was to be born at Sharp Hospital in 1969. Wish it would have been sooner but glad it wasnt later. Oceanside was the best

No homeless people? Weird!

Wow, it used to be so nice! As others have said, Oceanside is another CA city in decline! I worked in Oceanside for 4 years on base and even went to truck driving school last year. Now it's overrun with homeless, vagrants, and druggies! RIP USA.

Nice footage. They left out the biggest and best attraction Oceanside had to offer. The airport. We lived in SoCal for 10 years (1975-1985) in various places (Mission Viejo, Fallbrook, and San Juan Capistrano), but had a hangar at the Oceanside Airport the whole time. We even ran the flight school there in 1983. Sure doesn't look like that now. Thanks for posting.

All 4 Harris’ got in the front seat of that Rocket 88!

Awesome video! Great footage of the mission and the City Hall!

Too bad I can't get back there, then, now. Looks like thew America I grew up in.

A FOUR MILLION DOLLAR FREEWAY !

Last time I saw this town was 1998 when it still had some of its old time charm. Meanwhile, Carlsbad and all areas north and south was getting over populated and over developed looking like Irvine suburbs. These are " the end times" don't you see it? All the insanity we see and chaos is demon inspired. But their end very near. 😊

got discharged out of pendleton in '68. i've eaten in the restaurant at the end of the peer. thanks for the upload.

Beautiful!!!❤

Love watching society before slob culture and drug culture took over.

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Now you can’t afford to live there anymore!!!!!

Outside of a few old photos from a website about North Oceanside ES and some vague memories of that school from my childhood, I never got to see what North Oceanside ES looked like until watching this video! I think some of thise old North O buildings were used for Social Services in the 70s and early 80s? I wonder if North Terrace ES and San Rafael ES were its replacements? Thanks for posting!

Family this is so good

If Oceanside and California were still like this, I'd have been packing even before I reached the end of the video. Sadly, it is not.

Imagine their surprise now. The whole world is an Insane asylum.

Was the Pacific ocean really blue off the coast of Oceanside back in the 1950's? I was in Oceanside back in 1975 a very long time ago, but very enjoyable. I coulda sworn the water was greenish?

I used to live there 3 of my daughter s were born in California

I was stationed at Camp Pendleton (never referred as Joseph H) 58-61.

California at this time was literally paradise. I wish I could have live there then. I lived in San Diego/Long Beach from 1975-1979, and it was pretty good, but nothing like this. Then I lived in Hollywood and Burbank '89 to 2015 and had to leave: cost-of-living, taxes, impossible traffic, crowded conditions... but mostly the illegal aliens, 3rd-worlders, druggies, bums, gang members, fruits-nuts-flakes-crazies-creeps, etc. Democrats destroyed California. RIP.

Nothing quite like a vacation at the beach. The gentle sound of the waves, the warm rays, the amazing (censored). Oceanside has a great boat harbor too, maybe that was done later. Interesting movie, half Marine recruiting video and half real estate sales pitch ha.

Yep

Let's bring back the actual way of saying los anglelous

Where are the tents and passed out dope addicts?

Surfer Joe was stationed at Pendleton

And today Oceanside has become a drug infested, homeless, crowded slum.

Jack Harris, USMC's oldest private.

Where is the pozole madre?

This is 72 years ago? 🙄

Thanks be to God not colorized lol

did the guys have to wear hats and ties every day?

Back then, Oceanside was nothing but a two bit GI town. I have seen so much Upgrading in the years. today's Oceanside is nice. Too expensive for me.

What they do with all the blacks & Mexican people in 51

Where are the gang members at, Oh ya that isn't till the 60s and where are the middle class worker bee,s , oh ya that was in the 70's

Sooooooooooooo awesome ! 👌🏼

This film is so terrible to look at and the quality is less admirable! 😕

Outside of a few old photos from a website about North Oceanside ES and some vague memories of that school from my childhood, I never got to see what North Oceanside ES looked like until watching this video! I think some of thise old North O buildings were used for Social Services in the 70s and early 80s? I wonder if North Terrace ES and San Rafael ES were its replacements? Thanks for posting!