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BURTON HOLMES PRESENTS: HOLLYWOOD IN THE 30s!

Below is a marvelous short series of clips of Hollywood in the early 1930s as photographed by the then famous (and now forgotten) Burton Holmes, inventor of the ‘travelogue’. Holmes was a moderately successful ‘travel lecturer’ beginning in the late 19th century when this was a particularly exotic profession. He

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THE PACIFIC OCEAN PARK OF IT ALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVy-7IVPFSYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyndUDxjqLY Yesterday’s post contained some poignant footage of the long-gone Santa Monica Amusement Park ‘Pacific Ocean Park’. The footage appeared to have been shot at the end of the parks short life–it opened in 1959 and closed a scant nine years later–with views of shuttered and abandoned concessions, rides and

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NORTH AND SOUTH IN MID-CENTURY CALIFORNIA

The YouTube artist (and I mean artist) known as NASS has posted another of their awesome videos showing old footage of a city cleaned up, remastered, with frame rate adjusted and a creative soundbed added. The result is a virtual time machine, a mesmerizing look into the past using footage

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