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Originally Posted by Godzilla
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Thanks for these links, very clear footage. You can read many of the signs on the streets; ones we know like the Rosslyn Hotel, Hotel Cecil with neon lines, Gayety Theatre, Maxwell's and Waldorf Cellar, and others I don't recall like Miyako Hotel, Sukiyaki, the Turquoise Room (advertising television in 1949), Club 153 (sounds familiar), Rhapsody, The Harbor and the 3 Star Cafe (that makes me laugh). I like that in some of the footage along the dark streets, the streetcar tracks are lit up by reflected light. Wonder what film these background shots were filmed for?
I notice that those who comment on historic youtube videos of Los Angeles continually remark in the comments how clean it looks/used to be, on film noir footage, no less. Someone even does it on this one, filmed in the dark, although another comment says "you can even see the smog lit up at night." I'd like them to watch the Oil Wells video and wonder if they think the same things? There are a lot of people who record trips along the streets of L.A., Hollywood and such
now that one can watch on youtube and those streets look clean, too, so I don't understand that obsession with people making constant comments like that.