1970s Los Angeles, Driving POVs, Street Scenes, Olvera Street, Home Movies, HD

Driving Through 1970s Los Angeles from the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref RD2.
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00:00:00 USA, California. EXT DAY POV from front of car driving on motorway, road signs overhead to ‘Firestone Blvd’ and ‘Los Angeles’. Freeway. Signs saying ‘Freeway’ and ‘Florence Ave Downey’. POV from car, market by the roadside, Olvera Street market. Kids in market looking at ornaments, creepy Santa ornament. Restaurants, toy stores. Sign - ’San Antonio Winery and Tasting Cellar’. Market with flower wreaths hanging above.
00:01:51 Zoom in on old house, The Avila Adobe. Oldest building, residence in Los Angeles. Zoom in on plaque outside. Flower garlands all over the house. Sign - Casa California. Shop selling pinatas. Bohemian, hippy market.
00:02:30 POV from car, traffic intersection. Driving down LA streets. Nice shot, black man in uniform, white gloves and hat, police officer? Signs behind him including ‘central city’. People waiting to cross as traffic passes in front of them. People waiting for traffic lights, ‘Don’t Walk’ red sign, red light. POV through car window, shops on street, shop signs - ‘White Cross’ family discount centre, ‘Le Roy’s Jewelers’, ‘Modern Shoes’, shoe shop, ‘Fabric King’, ‘Central Pants Co.’, trouser store, ‘Wise shops’. Good shot from behind, policeman, traffic police, traffic cop directing traffic in the middle of the road. People crossing the road - ‘Los Angeles Diamond Co.’ Lots of big hair, 70s, woman in trouser suit with flares, bellbottoms.
00:03:41 POV driving through residential area, Californian homes with palm trees outside. Sign - ‘Lodge Memorials’, star of David. Jewish uneral home, undertakers. Road sign by traffic lights, ‘Wilshire Bl’. Palm trees. POV passing through traffic intersection, 70s LA people crossing road, great shot. Signs - Blackburn Av’, ‘Brentwood Savings’, billboards by the road side. Old man with shopping walks past bench with sign saying ‘Play it Safe - Lock your car doors while driving - Los Angeles County Sheriff’. Crime in Los Angeles, carjacking. Bench with sign on it,, ‘Glasband Willen Mortuaries’, star of David. Jewish funerals. Man stood in the middle of traffic talking through truck, bus window.
00:04:56 Car park. Tower with clock and sign - Farmer’s Market. POV driving into market. Sign - House of Chestnuts’, Chinese, Asian food shop. Busy square by market stalls, people say outside eating, al fresco. ‘Magee’s Corned Beef & Cabbage’ shop. ‘Mort’s Kitchen’. Christmas decorations, reindeer above stall. Christmas market in California. Fruit & vegetables store, market, grocery store. Some tinsel, Christmas decorations. ‘Roger’s Poultry’, butchers. Florists, flower shop. Nice shots of ‘Mort’s Restaurant’, deli. Chefs behind counter. Sign - Chinese Kitchen.

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