25 Rare Photos Showing How LA Life Used to Be in the 60’s
Gas prices at $0.68 and 9/10s a gallon. For those thinking that’s awesome, adjusted for inflation, that’s around $5 today.
Los Angeles was still using electric public transportation – and let’s be honest, those old style trolleys look pretty cool.
This photo of Dino’s Lodge on Sunset Strip looks awesome.Â
!!Beautiful pictures!! I arrive at L.A in August 1961,it was just ! Gorgeous !!the tallest building in town was the ” city hall”,the best place to go dancing and having a good time was ” The Hollywood palladium”In the mornings they brought the milk and bread ! to your door! no need to go to the market,and you live your payment for it in the door for the Milkman to pick it up !!..I was 21 and just married.!! Frank Sinatra was my favorite singer,and the best song ” When I was 17″ by Sinatra.
Thank’s to God I was able to experience those days,nothing of that kind of life remains!!!but ..! I can go now in peace!
Every car with one exception was 1950s and a few were 1940s. Good pictures though.
The 60’s could not compare with the 40’s! LA then was a beautiful city…alive…the movie and theater capital of the USA! A very safe and clean city…a city to be proud of instead of what it is today…filth and
Typhus rampant in the streets…rats and feces….a slum hole…a city of pity and lacking in leadership to even come close to solving any social problems and deeply in debt! The 60’s was the beginning of the end!
It was a far better time in many ways tho not for all.
The car photos are repeatedly 1950s….
Picture #4 is Ocean Front Walk along Santa Monica Beach.
I moved to LA when I was 12 in 1962, never did like it, but great place to be a teenager in the sixties. Been to every pic you showed. It has changed so much.