Early 1950's Los Angeles were you there ?

[IrishEyes]

Another nice video. The first part shows traveling east on Wilshire Blvd. heading towards downtown L.A. I think that Carnation Bldg. is still in use by the company. Then it goes west, passing Fairfax and the iconic May Co. Bldg. on the corner (now the Saban Bldg.). Then there's one stretch I'm not too sure of, before it transitions to the Valley, traveling the spars (at that time) Ventura Blvd.-- first east, then west.

I didn't get to L.A. until the late '60s, but much of the city area looks the same, although with different businesses occupying the buildings now. It was a great town to live in at one time, but it started going to hell in the '80s.

It was a great town to live in at one time, but it started going to hell in the '80s. That's why I moved out in 79, saw it coming.

 

[JustDave]

I may have liked it better then. It's still an interesting place. I lived there for 6 months 20 years ago, but I wouldn't make it my home. I liked the people I met there, well most of them. But I always prefer to have a wilderness area out my back door.

 

[911]

I never saw La La Land in the 60’s, but I remember dad driving us across country in the late 60’s as a little brat. That trip was brutal for a tyke like me at the time. I was one of those kids that pestered my parents by asking, “Are we there yet?” Best part of the trip was staying at the motels and using the pool. Dad always made sure the motel or hotel had a pool.

 

[ChiroDoc]

IrishEyes: "It was a great town to live in at one time, but it started going to hell in the '80s. That's why I moved out in 79, saw it coming."

Yes, you're right. I left L.A. for the final time in 1984 and moved way up to the far north Calif. at Trinidad. I finally left Calif. for good in 2000. I tell people I didn't leave Calif. I escaped Calif. ..

 

[jujube]

I was there in 1958 when my grandparents took me out there to Disneyland and to visit my uncle who was stationed near LA.

As a Midwesterner, I was awed by all the traffic and the towering highway overpasses and the  sophistication, as I saw it.

We drove around sightseeing one day and I was glued to the window. All those stores selling foreign stuff and restaurants serving foreign food and ...well...foreigners. A millions years away from Indiana...