Take a relaxing drive down the Sunset Strip in 1952 – IOTW Report

Take a relaxing drive down the Sunset Strip in 1952

Saturday, 12 March 2022, 23:00 BFH Uncategorized 74

I love how people just made lefts in front of oncoming traffic, lol.

74 Comments on Take a relaxing drive down the Sunset Strip in 1952

  4. I was there recently: what’s weird about this footage is that it starts way, way East of the “Sunset Strip”, in a shitty part of LA. Only at the very end, does it even enter the “Sunset Strip”. Amazing, but some of the taller residential buildings are still there.

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  5. That was fascinating, love all the vintage cars. I was born in 1953 a year later and it was a different and far better time back then. It looked like LA had some smog even back then but this must have happened on a very nice day with everyone out and about and driving on Sunset Blvd.

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  6. Loco, have you ever considered that you are the conformist for complying with the requirement for having an individual avatar? It’s like everyone with a tattoo saying I’m declaring my individuality by doing what everyone else is doing.

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  8. I watched the whole eleven minute video waiting for a wreck or a pile up at the end, but nooooo, no wreck, no road rage no asshole drivers, no nothing of the sort – just calm, respectful drivers obeying the rules of the road. God, how I long for those days again.

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  16. In the early 1950’s where my dad worked at the Chevron Station on Monroe and Riverside across the street from the Spokesman Review Bldg., the local newspaper there was an automated parking garage next door to the Chevron station where you drove your car onto an elevator and the attendants would take your car and park it for you inside on the different levels of the garage. My dad has quite a few pictures of that parking garage and I always found it fascinating. It was definitely a different time back then.

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  30. @LBS – “…Stirrin, turn it up louder please, can’t hear it from here…..”

    LOLOLOL!! I fucked up – didn’t add the link. And then when I made a new comment with the link, my comment was put under moderation. Anyway, it’s “Desert Skies” by MTB. It’s a great song.

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  31. Interesting amount of Studebakers on the road.

    I really didn’t know that they were that prevalent.

    Any sounds are added in and not a real part of the film. So **** *** on the comments about them.

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  32. @Burr — It was late ’52 and early ’53 when we mere mortals were blessed with Patti Page’s “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window” and Dean Martin’s “That’s Amore!”

    ♫♪ When the moon hits your eye
    ♫♪ like a big pizza pie
    ♫♪ That’s amore

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  34. Burr, a thousand apologies for advancing ahead two decades of soothiness. I like them all – Singin’ in the Rain, Auf Wiederseh’n…and Desert Skies 😉

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  36. Burr, don’t get me wrong. I actually look at the avatars as well. I just haven’t come up with one I like. Now talking about Ukraine reporting, you might have me interested there.

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  37. Was anybody here actually alive in 52′? Not a baby but someone who saw America like this?

    I come in much later. In my opinion, you all took Kennedy’s headache a lil’ too seriously and decided to take a dump on the US.

    Look at this vid. Then look at today. Hmmmm.

    Sumpin’ happened. I refuse to blame the Beatles for everything.

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  38. That led me to Favorite hits by month of the 50’s then the 60’s. My earliest fav was by Perry Cuomo Round and Round when I was like 3 or something and I remember it! crazy! Beatles way overrated

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  40. @Burr – “…Sumpin’ happened. I refuse to blame the Beatles for everything…”

    Check out the decline in Christian faith from the ’50’s to now. I think you’ll find your answer.

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  41. Hmmm. So you guys felt guilty for bombing civilian targets in WW2….lost religion….and then gave up entirely when Kennedy had his hair parted?

    I dunno, maybe America was just as kooky back then. I just wonder what it would have been like to grow up with a mom waiting at home and 1/3 of my generation not aborted.

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  44. …….the people alive in 52′ until present?

    And I’m blaming guys,obviously. Skirts were more innocent back then and incapable of destroying America without some manly help.

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  51. I’m beating both of you with pre Miranda rights police batons.

    1952.

    How hard is it to find something hip from 1952?

    You…..you….lollygagging layabouts with your hippie foofaraws and “groovy” gadgets…to smoke opium with no doubt…

    America haters all!

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  52. I’m working on my CSI:iotw screenplay.
    So far Burr is found strung out in the Nevada desert, nude from the waist down covered in scorpions while holding a TV Guide with the Fall Preview from 1971 in one hand and keys to a 1963 AMC Rambler in the other…

    It’s a work in progress

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  54. Nevada?

    Are you mad at me or something?

    Also, if the TV guide in question doesn’t have Blair and or Tootie on the cover….it just wouldn’t be believable.

    Did people have TV’s in 52′?

    That would have been cool to live without any TV. Instead of people talking about stupid TV shows they’d have intelligent conversations.

    “Say Mike, what’d you do last night?”

    “Well Tom, I smoked my new pipe, read a little Chaucer and then called it an early night with a Martini.”

    Cool.

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  55. “…That would have been cool to live without any TV. Instead of people talking about stupid TV shows they’d have intelligent conversations.

    “Say Mike, what’d you do last night?”

    “Well Tom, I smoked my new pipe, read a little Chaucer and then called it an early night with a Martini.”…”

    With the exception of Chaucer, you could have written the script for Father Knows Best, Leave it To Beaver or The Dean Martin Show.

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  58. Oh Hitler televised the Olympics in 36′ for Germermans back home who got lucky tickets to go to a big room with tiny screen.

    Also, haven’t seen any of those shows. My world begins with depressing ABC after schoo specials and picked up when the “Decline of Western Civilization” movie and soundtrack came out in 80.

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  59. Loco…the only place I’d get caught pantsless and whacked out my noodle would be the Sonora desert in northern Mehico.

    Possibly Spanish Fork Utah.

    I already have diary entries for those places.

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  64. Jump in the lead gas fueled, 12 Mpg buggy and drive 20 miles to Caesars for a 3 inch thick steak and a few martinis, take in the Burlesque show and have a couple cigars. Good times.

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  66. I think the horn sounds were added. Notice you didn’t hear the engine revving each time it took off. If you have ever been in a car that old it had a manual transmission and the exhaust was not as effective as current cars.
    I noticed two Safeway grocery stores and a “Abbey Rents” store.
    Mobile and Standard gas stations.
    I saw a “chiropractor” sign. I didn’t know they even existed back then.
    Only one motorcycle. I thought california would have been loaded with motorcycles, even back then.

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  69. And not one single foreign car in sight. Lots of Fords, Chevy’s, Chryslers, Dodges, Plymouth’s, Pontiac’s, Oldsmobile’s, Buicks, Cadillacs, Nash’s, Hudson Hornets, Packard’s, Studebakers, one Kaiser Frazer, all American vehicles. Numerous car dealers including Packard, Chevy, Buick, Ford etc. Numerous gas stations of all kinds. Didn’t notice any Police cars or other emergency vehicles. Thanks for this video. I remember all or most of those cars (I probably serviced a lot of these cars pumping gas for my dad as a teenager in the mid to late 60’s) since I grew up in that era and my dad had a maroon 53 Packard Clipper which he drove into the mid to late 60’s when it finally broke down and couldn’t be fixed any longer. And who wouldn’t want a vintage real Woody station wagon from that era.

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  71. GEOF
    The “bssin” has had “mog” for thousands of years. Kndians called it “land of many smokes:.

    I argued with my “WOKE” teachers 67 years ago about cars and smog. I had a pic taken by great grandad Will from his farm in Altadena. looking down on LA you can see the smog trapped by THE INVERSION LAYER. Pic was taken in 1898. Not only were there no cars in SoCl then; there was not a car in the entire Cal! But SoCal had very bad smog.

    Yea, I was always “teacher’s pet”. Not.

    No longer opinionated. Right!

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  74. You’ll be pleased to note that by the 1970’s we were indeed taught that the L.A. basin was always smokey due to the marine inversion layer.

    The name for L.A. in Injun talk was “smokey valley”.

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