Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Interesting videos of vintage street scenes. Should see some wagons in most of them.

Sunset Blvd about 1949

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4XenSbhjmE&feature=related

Sunset Strip 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT2tU_zAxuc&NR=1

Late 50's California Freeway traffic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCXcoiF09sE&feature=related

Hollywood Blvd 1967 at night PT 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBmaX64TWSw&feature=related

and PT 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOHAmSe3094&feature=related

Sunset Strip 1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJK9kHvnMgY&feature=related

Driving through LA 1940's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-I2kLNwBak&feature=related

1940's San Francisco street scenes with cable cars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOjyFp2Y9k

 

Dearborn Inn, Kearsarge, New Hampshire

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Lost Washington: the Trans-Lux Theater


The Trans-Lux was once located on the west side of 14th Street, NW, between New York Avenue and H Street. The Trans-Lux was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb in 1936. The theater opened on March 13, 1937.
One of Washington’s most elegant art deco buildings, the streamlined theater was designed to show exclusively the latest newsreels from all corners of the globe together with an assortment of shorts, comedies, and travelogs.
The theater had many features unique for its day in Washington — well-spaced seats, indirect lighting, rear screen projection, wall-to-wall carpeting, sound-absorbent walls, and one of the first air-conditioning systems in a public building in the city.
Efforts were made to save the Trans-Lux but they proved futile. In the end, Washington preservationists lost as the parking-lot firm PMI razed it in 1975.

 

Anybody recognize this shopping center? Looks like a lot tha were done in the 50's, very similar to Culver Center in Culver City, CA where I was born. Don't think it's Culver Center, though because of the foothills in the background. I'm thinking it's in the San Fernando Valley somewhere.....

 

WOW....this was fun. I didn't go out to Hollywood until late 72. I was able to recognize a lot of these places because I drove those routes often. Lots of fun seeing them in earlier years. Even back in the 70's there was a LOT more traffic than in some of the earlier years shown. Very cool, cuda.

 

Heres another one from LA in the 60's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC9mf94BWpM

Heres one just standing on a street corner in LA in the early 50's and watching the cars go by (love the 48 Plymouth woody wagon with the fender skirts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLVqt080Y4g&feature=related

Heres a busy intersection in Northport, New York in about 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6-lD1nRYs&feature=related

and a second one from about the same place and time (I like the 70 Cuda in this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfftPJwVMfY&feature=related

VJ Day in Honolulu, Hawaii celebration in the streets and riding in/on cars
(an amazing and emotional record of an important day in history)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgxhAap7RAY

Driving Marine Hwy in Nova Scotia in 1966 ( look for the rare 64 Comet Villager wagon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEGLNo5P8hE

Driving through London England 1950s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhuBZEZESU

Driving the Great North Road in England in 1939 (amazingly clear color video for its age)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm_Q7X_-2Ck&feature=related

Driving from London to Bath 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=JE82FZpq0qM

Busy intersection in Norwich 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5KhXKGD88&feature=related

1961 Auto show footage shows a few wagons
http://www.youtube.com/user/footagefile13#p/u/764/7j75P2PYL_M

1962 Driving safty film with lots of early 60's GM cars in color (not much in wagons though)
http://www.youtube.com/user/footagefile13#p/u/903/QAzpQmYkzMU

Parade in Dolton, IL 1966 (with a couple Caddy ambulances)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkn3CuFlRU&feature=related

 

MissSunnysideFloat in the BenSnipesDaysParade.