L.A. and Sou. Cal. 1950s/60s, take a trip down memory lane

[Desert Man]

Los Angeles in the 1950s! Go back in time to see what L.A. was like. and another film from the 1960s follows. Imagine living in L.A. at the time (I know my Mom grew up in the vicinity of L.A. area) but I wonder are things getting worse (or better) in L.A. and California (or America FTM) in 2012? Sure we use to have oil wells dot across the L.A. basin and millions moved to California at the time, but we have cleaned up the air & eased the racial tension. Times change, places change, and can people change. +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77NxU0CHPw

Southern California in the 1960s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2eicjr2wBY&feature=fvwrel

[nexus73]

Love that color film!  Several other videos of SoCal show up too.  Thanks for sharing!

Rick

[Truvelo]

What is the blue car doing at 0:09 in the first video?

[Desert Man]

Another film of mid-century L.A./Sou. Cal. (the 1950s/60s) shown how much has changed, of course, and I bet there's an old film of your community somewhere on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k2rk-YqN5w&feature=g-vrec

[BamaZeus]

at :48 of the first film, people are lined up to see The Robe (1953), which was the first feature film released in wide-screen CinemaScope, something we take for granted now.

At 1:02 there appears to be a 50's version of the Standard Oil/Chevron logo

1:14 "the market of tomorrow", very fitting for the era.  All I think of is all those cartoons talking about the (xyz) of tomorrow, or Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress.

In the 2nd film, at 1:52, a theatre is going to show the upcoming Floyd Patterson/Cassius Clay fight.  It's made interesting because Clay had already changed his name to Muhammad Ali by then.  And, it is thought that Ali was especially rough on Patterson during the fight because Patterson refused to acknowledge the champion's new Muslim name, calling him Clay during the lead-up to the fight.

I love seeing all the old logos for items in the grocery store and all the old storefronts/restaurants like Denny's and Jack in the Box.  JITB had "insured quality" hamburgers, which I guess was important back then

[Desert Man]

Everyone Fled From This Community

Only the wealthy and famous lived in this exclusive community. But something drove them out and destroyed their homes.

The story of two abandoned neighborhoods in what is now land belonged to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

http://www.aol.com/video/what-remains-04-surfridge-and-palisades-del-rey/517545332/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl43%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D241339

[The High Plains Traveler]

Everyone Fled From This Community

Only the wealthy and famous lived in this exclusive community. But something drove them out and destroyed their homes.

The story of two abandoned neighborhoods in what is now land belonged to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

http://www.aol.com/video/what-remains-04-surfridge-and-palisades-del-rey/517545332/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl43%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D241339

I was attending Loyola (now Loyola Marymount) University at the time the condemnation and demolition of this development was occurring. By that time, LAX traffic (usually taking off) would have made this area unbearable anyway.