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So funny that at 1:56 the car filming runs a red light and almost hits the other car at 2:00!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESybc3sKi5Y … [Read more...] about Los Angeles Sunset Strip 1964

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This is amateur silent 16mm color film taken in the Hollywood Hills, downtown Los Angeles, and the Pacific Coast Highway in the mid-1950s00:00-00:32 At 34.128808,-118.346868 looking northwest 00:32-00:49 At 34.128808,-118.346868 looking southeast 00:49-00:54 At 34.128808,-118.346868 looking at the southbound lanesvia 1950s - Los Angeles Freeways - YouTube. … [Read more...] about 1950s – Los Angeles Freeways – YouTube

Here is a map of the supposed route in this video. There are at least 2 left turns in the video and I only see 1 left turn in the map below from Second to Grand. Click to open the map in a new window.: … [Read more...] about A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s

The Prelinger Archives has just posted some amazingly sharp movie footage of Bunker Hill and downtown Los Angeles taken in the late 1940s.  The stock footage was intended to be projected behind actors filming a traveling car scene within an indoor studio, but apparently was never used.  The footage not only provides a wonderful glimpse of post-WWII Bunker Hill, now lost to … [Read more...] about Stan, Ollie, and Harold – a Drive Through Bunker Hill | Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations and more