Hollywood Blvd 1957
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Published 2012-07-28
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All Comments (21)
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Fantastic quality. To think those older ladies crossing the street were likely born in the 1880s or 1890s..and here we are just checking in on YT.
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Was 18 years old in 1957 and really excited by cars back then, but now, just transportation and a necessity. So getting my fill by watching Perry Mason reruns. Thanks for posting this.
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In the mid to late 1950's my dad owned and was sole mechanic of an auto repair shop on Coldwater Canyon in LA. These are the cars he would have been repairing.
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It was so nice back then. I remember visiting Disneyland in 1960 and the wonderful smell of the orange groves.
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Hollywood still looked a lot like this when I lived and worked there in the 70's, but you woudn't recognize it now.
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Love the transitional opening music at the beginning of this video, the music during the radio announcing is so nostalgic.
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Back when every single car and truck looked absolutely beautiful
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Such a magical time this was. Marvelous. The sweet spot among all eras.
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3:38 we almost witnessed a vintage accident
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I’m a lifelong Los Angeles resident born in 1989. My parents weren’t even born when this video was taken, and I long for and feel nostalgic for this 50s Hollywood. I wish we could go back. NO traffic! There is always traffic galore in Hollywood today 😭 it’s very run down too in a lot of areas.
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It's always been a dream for me to have a few classics like those what beautiful time.
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Cars in the 50s all looks so gorgeous. Every car looks different. So many choices. Today's cars...bland as hell. Soulless. Golden era gone.
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My mother's family were the original land developers of Hollywood, CA. I lived in West Hollywood in the mid-1950's and distinctly remember these kinds of street scenes.
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Hollywood Blvd. looks somewhat the same. I truly LOVED living in Hollywood in my early days. Every spring the smell of the Sycamore trees was the sweetest smell in the world. I lived 2 block from Manns theater and the streets were crowded with people out to have a good time. Those were the days...
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When Holly Wood had style and real movie stars.
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I was born in 1951, and I remember these great old cars.
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This is the SoCal I grew up in. In was eleven in '53. It was a wonderful time.
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Big beautiful cars, no traffic. I want to live in 1957. Unfortunately couldn't find time machine on Amazon )))
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Depending on what MONTH this was shot, I was busy being born a few blocks from where some of this footage was made: Ceders of Lebanon hospital (now an HQ for Scientology.) The address on my birth certificate, my first home on planet earth, is now a Korean electronics store. It's amazing someone took the time and, given the film technology of the era, effort to record these small frames of daily life.
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I know the 1950's wasn't perfect, but if I could bring back the cars, clean streets, and architecture from that era and earlier I would. Imagine taking the aesthetics of that time, and just implementing the tech we have now
