Early 1950's Los Angeles were you there ?

LOVE ALL THOSE OLD CARS/TRUCKS~~~ACTUALLY IN '57
I WAS JUST SOUTH OF THERE, A PLACE NAMED IMPERIAL BEACH NAV COMM STATION FOR THE NAVY...LOVED THE BEACHES....OOOOPPPS JUST RECALLED THAT I WAS
SOUTH OF SAN DIEGO INSTEAD OF L.A......SO SORRY...
 
hawkdon said:
LOVE ALL THOSE OLD CARS/TRUCKS~~~ACTUALLY IN '57
I WAS JUST SOUTH OF THERE, A PLACE NAMED IMPERIAL BEACH NAV COMM STATION FOR THE NAVY...LOVED THE BEACHES....OOOOPPPS JUST RECALLED THAT I WAS
SOUTH OF SAN DIEGO INSTEAD OF L.A......SO SORRY...
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I have to agree, I loved those beaches much better and back then they were less crowded than those by L.A. The drive itself was worth it.
 

I enjoyed the video, and seeing the old cars and how people dresssed - - - but no, I wasn't there except once, in 2012, and will never return. Nothing against Los Angeles or the people - I just feel too much at home; won't be going that way again.
 
Before my time, but I used to enjoy the beaches in that part of California, especially Venice, Manhattan and Santa Monica. The women on these beaches are or were beautiful. I haven’t been back since 2009.

Really enjoy the cars in the video. Some go back into the 40’s. My Grandpa had a pickup like one of the trucks shown. Don’t see those anymore.
 
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Enjoyed the video. I was born in L.A. and raised in one of the suburbs. Judging by some of the signs I saw and the hills I suspect this is the San Fernando valley, just north of downtown L.A.

I didn't go downtown much in those days, but in 57' when I was a senior in high school, I and a couple buddies took a streetcar in to the main library to do some research for term papers. We walked around bit and had lunch at Clifton's Cafeteria and got approached by a bum who wanted us to buy him a drink. It was a fun day, but I never did turn in that paper.
 
Nathan said:
Moved to LA from Monterey, Mexico in 1955. Lived in Westchester where LAX is now located. Used to see the red electric trolley cars moving down the tracks. Clean public transportation, eventually torn out and replaced with petroleum guzzling busses.
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Maybe I flew over your house. I flew into LAX several times. I liked it best when the traffic controller would send me out over the Pacific and come in over part of the city. Just looking at that blue water gave me a happy feeling.

I think my best runway was 6Right or 24Left, depending on which way the wind was blowing.
 
Was just a tyke when that was filmed. Loved looking at all the old vehicle models, the way people dressed, the billboards and signs, and all those valley orchards that were soon all gone. The colorization tends to make red elements pinks and purples.

Although I was born in downtown LA, we only lived in the San Fernando Valley a couple years before my dad moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. But our family did occasionally visit later LA due to relatives and parent friends. Always loved being taken down to Santa Monica Beach. What I especially recall in that era was the distinctive smell of LA smog that at times one's eyes felt too. Almost all new homes had swimming pools. Well, our cheap cheap home had a small red brick ten foot diameter pool maybe 8 inches deep.

The later parts after 4:40 was all in San Fernando Valley where vast numbers of new homes, boulevards, and infrastructure was built during the 1950s through 1960s.
 

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