AARoads Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Opening the Forum temporarily while we still work out issues with the code structure for recent posts and other functions. Please let us know what errors you encounter at https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=33904.0

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: 1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways  (Read 7152 times)

Biff858

  • *
  • Offline Offline

  • Posts: 7
  • Age: 53
  • Location: San Diego, CA
  • Last Login: July 06, 2012, 07:00:04 PM
1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways
« on: August 05, 2009, 01:38:19 PM »
Some of those freeway signs are still in use today.  Very cool to see all those old cars on the freeways as well. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7FtlrQr7nk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9wpmYam56Q&feature=related
Logged

City

  • *
  • Offline Offline

  • Posts: 175
  • Last Login: February 15, 2010, 10:22:49 PM
Re: 1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 07:09:37 PM »
It looks pretty much like it is today. Signage was the same back then I guess.

And a sign with the exit tab obeying federal guidelines in California? And in the 1970s!?

Wow.
« Last Edit: August 05, 2009, 07:12:03 PM by City »
Logged

agentsteel53

  • invisible hand
  • *
  • Offline Offline

  • Posts: 15374
  • long live button copy!

  • Age: 42
  • Location: San Diego, CA
  • Last Login: November 21, 2016, 09:58:39 AM
    • AARoads Shield Gallery
Re: 1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 08:09:54 PM »
a lot of those signs are still alive.

the exit tabs are from a short-lived experiment in 1971.  I have no idea why they stopped.  Some of those still survive.

on the LA film, at 1:04 there is an "11 San Pedro/Pasadena" sign that is very cool to see.  That's been 110 since 1980. 

remember, spacebar pauses and resumes on Youtube.
Logged
live from sunny San Diego.

http://shields.aaroads.com

jake@aaroads.com

agentsteel53

  • invisible hand
  • *
  • Offline Offline

  • Posts: 15374
  • long live button copy!

  • Age: 42
  • Location: San Diego, CA
  • Last Login: November 21, 2016, 09:58:39 AM
    • AARoads Shield Gallery
Re: 1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 08:23:46 PM »
I wish he didn't do the speed-racer thing with his videos.  I just dislocated my keyboard tray attempting to hit the spacebar at the exact right moment to freeze onto a particular shield!
Logged
live from sunny San Diego.

http://shields.aaroads.com

jake@aaroads.com

Alex

  • Webmaster
  • *
  • *
  • Online Online

  • Posts: 5152
  • Location: Tampa, FL
  • Last Login: Today at 07:07:04 PM
    • AARoads
Re: 1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2009, 11:02:01 AM »
One great thing about those videos and that time, almost every vehicle was a car (with a handful of vans). I'd love to drive in that time without large pick-ups and suv's blocking my view...
Logged

Bryant5493

  • *
  • Offline Offline

  • Posts: 1164
  • Southern Roadgeek

  • Age: 38
  • Location: College Park, GA, USA
  • Last Login: April 03, 2020, 11:52:52 PM
    • Southern Roadgeek
Re: 1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2009, 05:50:57 PM »
Nice. The footage has held up well.


Be well,

Bryant
Logged
Check out my YouTube page (http://youtube.com/Bryant5493). I have numerous road videos of Metro Atlanta and other areas in the Southeast.

I just signed up on photobucket -- here's my page (http://s594.photobucket.com/albums/tt24/Bryant5493).

njroadhorse

  • *
  • Offline Offline

  • Posts: 958
  • Going wherever the roads take me

  • Location: North Jersey/Blacksburg, VA
  • Last Login: February 03, 2016, 07:05:44 PM
Re: 1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2009, 07:35:30 PM »
This is great stuff.  It all looks so open compared to nowadays in LA.  :-D
Logged
NJ Roads FTW!
Quote from: agentsteel53 on September 30, 2009, 04:04:11 PM
I-99... the Glen Quagmire of interstate routes??

hm insulators

  • *
  • Offline Offline

  • Posts: 1140
  • Location: Phoenix, AZ
  • Last Login: October 19, 2017, 04:01:16 PM
Re: 1970's 8mm film of San Diego & L.A. freeways
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2009, 06:40:53 PM »
That's for sure!
Logged
Remember: If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

I'd rather be a child of the road than a son of a ditch.


At what age do you tell a highway that it's been adopted?
Pages: [1]   Go Up
 


Opinions expressed here on belong solely to the poster and do not represent or reflect the opinions or beliefs of AARoads, its creators and/or associates.