A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s
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Uploaded by emspooky on Sep 7, 2011
Unfortunately, there is no audio. Original source: http://www.archive.org/details/ADriveThroughBunkerHillAndDowntownLosAngelesCa...
Thought I'd put it on YouTube...
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@WhiteWeasel420 Yes, we had morals then, and "they" still have morals today; they're just different. I was there then and I'm here now and I changed with the times. It wasn't all so good back then and it isn't all bad now. It just is what it is.
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This movie is just awesome, a real gem... It almost has a dream quality to it. The lack of sound actually adds to the movie for me.
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@sudaev Agreed! Those magnificent old Victorians! I realize the district was a complete slum by the 1960s when it was cleared, but wouldn't it be great if some of those places were still standing and had been rehabilitated.
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a poem is this city now,
50 miles from nowhere,
9:09 in the morning,
the taste of liquor and cigarettes,
no police, no lovers, walking the streets, - Bukowski
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This is amazing footage, I just love the 40's and i'm only 13 going onto 14, we need to bring these times back. Its only a matter of time before these days do come back, what with the new popular "Artist" film inspiring 30's lifestyle, and the new stylish retro cars, and the new musical genre called Electro swing, these times need to come back. The golden days. Ahhh
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I love the guy on the sidewalk, waving to the camera.
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Wow, what a fantastic video clip! I could easily have watched half an hour of just driving around Los Angeles in the late 1940's. The year must have been 1947, as the only post World War 11 car that I saw was that of a Studebaker, which arrived on the market in late 1946. "First By Far with a Post War Car" was their slogan, and this video proves that. Quiet an experience just to observe old Bunker Hill. Too bad they had to tear it down, as it looked like quite a neat looking neighboorhood.
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@hellomikie92 Yup, and back then they had morals and codes of Integrity.
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@WhiteWeasel420 Gang's has always been around pal.
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That's is one of the greatest things I have ever seen on YouTube.
sudaev 5 months ago 22
I'm always In downtown LA and I always wonder what it might have looked back then !!! Wow how times change. That was a great little film !! Thank you
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