Residential area of Los Angeles 1940s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound

Thanks @hollydolly for all those links. Very interesting noticing how people dressed, what vehicles looked like, advertising signs, and what road surfaces looked like.

Although I was born in downtown Los Angeles, I only lived in the San Fernando (City) area as a toddler. However, my paternal grandmother and 2 of her sons lived in North Hollywood that we often visited during my younger childhood. So am familiar with how that all looks, especially the whitish concrete streets that often had the black asphalt poured into pavement cracks. On a few film sections noticed both nearby Santa Monica Mountains to the immediate south and distant tall San Gabriel Mountains north across the broad San Fernando Valley. Also it was an upscale street with fancy lamp posts and expensive vehicles Thus maybe the Burbank to Studio City zone.

Would like to watch an airplane color aerial view of Los Angeles during that 1950s era as residential areas had vast numbers of blue swimming pools, a huge status symbol that ended later by 1970.
 

David777 said:
Thanks @hollydolly for all those links. Very interesting noticing how people dressed, what vehicles looked like, advertising signs, and what road surfaces looked like.

Although I was born in downtown Los Angeles, I only lived in the San Fernando (City) area as a toddler. However, my paternal grandmother and 2 of her sons lived in North Hollywood that we often visited during my younger childhood. So am familiar with how that all looks, especially the whitish concrete streets that often had the black asphalt poured into pavement cracks. On a few film sections noticed both nearby Santa Monica Mountains to the immediate south and distant tall San Gabriel Mountains north across the broad San Fernando Valley. Also it was an upscale street with fancy lamp posts and expensive vehicles Thus maybe the Burbank to Studio City zone.

Would like to watch an airplane color aerial view of Los Angeles during that 1950s era as residential areas had vast numbers of blue swimming pools, a huge status symbol that ended later by 1970.
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Yeah, I too thought it was probably in the Valley. Maybe too close to the mountains to be Burbank, but maybe north of there. Before then Bob Hope and Bing Crosby bought up huge swaths of land in the Valley. I don't know if they built Toluca Lake golf club, or just took it over.

When those old videos are shown in color, that really makes it seem real-- not long, long ago. If it weren't for the vintage cars it would look like a contemporary neighborhood.
 
ChiroDoc said:
Yeah, I too thought it was probably in the Valley. Maybe too close to the mountains to be Burbank, but maybe north of there. Before then Bob Hope and Bing Crosby bought up huge swaths of land in the Valley. I don't know if they built Toluca Lake golf club, or just took it over.

When those old videos are shown in color, that really makes it seem real-- not long, long ago. If it weren't for the vintage cars it would look like a contemporary neighborhood.
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I lived in a neighborhood in L.A. in the 50s that looked very similar. Despite the growth and modernization in SoCal there are neighborhoods here and there that still look like those shown in the video.
 
ChiroDoc said:
Yeah, I too thought it was probably in the Valley. Maybe too close to the mountains to be Burbank, but maybe north of there. Before then Bob Hope and Bing Crosby bought up huge swaths of land in the Valley. I don't know if they built Toluca Lake golf club, or just took it over.

When those old videos are shown in color, that really makes it seem real-- not long, long ago. If it weren't for the vintage cars it would look like a contemporary neighborhood.
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yes I always think that too. For all of us, the days before we were born or when we were tiny seem almost black and white in our heads in their old fashioned way, but these colourized pictures show what it was like in reality
 
My sister and brother-in-law lives in Orange County near Anaheim. I can walk to the stadium from their home. It’s a beautiful area.
 
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Typical Google Earth current aerial view of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. Lots of blue swimming pools despite the fact many pools have been removed over the last couple decades due to drought restrictions. Ironically, LA is way down the list of per capita public swimming pools and has the least numbers of public parks of US large cities.

Mid-Century Summers: Hot Days Meet Cool Pools in Southern California

“May 21, 1964: “There are more swimming pools in the San Fernando Valley than in all of Europe and Asia combined. With some 30,000 pools and the title of swimming pool capital of the world, one would think building a pool would be simple...'”(Los Angeles Public Library/TESSA)

https://laist.com/news/facts-about-pools

  • There are 43,123 pools in the L.A. Basin (unfortunately, that doesn't count the San Fernando Valley)
  • Swimming pools are a pretty good proxy for wealth: Beverly Hills has the most pools per capita and 2,481 altogether. Long Beach has 2,859 pools, while Rancho Palos Verdes has 2,592. But there are no backyard pools whatsoever in Watts or Florence
  • The typical Los Angeles pool is shaped like an oval, and it measures 16 feet, 4 inches by 33 feet
 
I like watching these old films. Mostly one with streets scenes with people. This one I just saw a few dogs outside. I love the ones with people because you are seeing people that have been gone for 50, 60, 70, and sometimes over a hundred years. But they are alive again and reliving one of their days, and you are watching them.:)
 
Paladin1950 said:
I like watching these old films. Mostly one with streets scenes with people. This one I just saw a few dogs outside. I love the ones with people because you are seeing people that have been gone for 50, 60, 70, and sometimes over a hundred years. But they are alive again and reliving one of their days, and you are watching them.:)
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I absolutely agree. I'm currently watching similar shows but with interviews with people in Britain during the 50' 60's through to the 80's..I can't tell you how different the 2 worlds are.

of course the Uk had just come through a horrible war and were rebuilding witht no money in the coffers .. and eveything was grim, grey and depressing, not sunny and beautiful like the USA.. but the british people , even those who tody would be described as low class.. were educated and well spoken.. unlike today for many..


it's absolutely charming and fascinating..
 

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