LA in the 40's

[Randy Twizzle]

[Jim R]

Thanks. Pretty interesting, even for someone who never spent much time down there. It led me to search for old videos of places that I'm more familiar with, and that was even more interesting.

[BeBop]

I can't watch youtube. Could you describe in a sentence or two what this is? I have a lot of interest in the topic, so I might have to find an alternative way to access the youtube.

[Randy Twizzle]

It's a scene of a car traveling down a LA avenue with views of many stores and people walking on the sidewalk(my description doesn't really do it justice) it should be seen.

[Jim R]

It's also shot at night, and the only audio is an added track of sparse and moody music. It ends with a view from a train that's leaving town.

[Jazzmoose]

You know, cars pretty much looked alike back then; I thought that was something new. I guess growing up during the muscle car boom made me see an oddity as the norm.

Edited March 14, 2013 by Jazzmoose

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I confess I expected to see Big Jay McNeely honking his way down Central Avenue.

MG

[Big Beat Steve]

Interesting!

Recommended reading to accompany this:

http://www.allbookstores.com/Sins-City-Real-Los-Angeles/9780811823197

;)

[BeBop]

Thanks for the descriptions. It sounds interesting, so I'll look for an opportuity to view. Mainly, I wanted to make sure it wasn't some old film clip of Dex and Wardell and Teddy Edwards and Sonny Criss on stage at the Club Alabam...which would have had me scrambling to an internet cafe somewhere.