Sunset Strip in the 1940s. VINATGE LOS ANGELES on Facebook

[mondenschimmer]

The building from 0:56 to 1:08 was used as a filming location in "Scarface" (1983). It was the Montana travel company located at 8619 Sunset Blvd.

[PerfessorBillEdwards]

I'm sure you intended VINTAGE, not VINATGE. Also, the clothing styles and certain cars inform me that this is more likely 1951-1953 than the late 1940s. Several Chryslers and Fords with less pronounced hoods than the late 1940s vintages. Having grown up in LA I know the area well.

[BrianHamiltonTV]

@PerfessorBillEdwards I agree. A few early 50s cars went by.

[byscaine79]

That looks like sunset plaza

[LumpPlump]

its creepy how most of these ppl are dead now o_O

[greywolf83]

@2:15 is the intersection of Sunset Blvd and Hilldale Ave. The building is still there and recognizable.

[IgniteWaldo]

Alison. From 1:10 - to 1:54 the camera features a building called Paul Small Artists Ltd. which was a talent agency. Do you happen to know where on Sunset it was located? It was my grandfather's agency which was later located on Canon Drive. ps

[TheSeanm102]

thanks for the upload it's amazing and such good quality los angeles looks beautiful back then

[cvjucla3]

Always intriguing, Alison. For a second, I got the feeling that I was looking at something from what could have been like 500 years ago. But the footage is just about a few decades before you and I were born. I have walked and drove on Sunset hundreds of times being from Los Angeles. I just love reviewing what it looked like before I came into existence, and seeing what these L.A. people were doing on the Strip before I put my own mark on Sunset. These are our fellow Angelenos.

[thurdi]

Great quality! Seems almost contemporary until you see the cars and the people. Thanks for sharing another amazing gem.

[dukeofkbs]

This is awesome...I like how everyone dressed up back then and the overall look of "quality" for everything. The architecture, the design of the cars ...everything looks artistic and thought out with great imagination. That is lacking today today as "technology" is a big part of design and creation. Technology has "proved a point' ...but at what cost ?/