I would venture to guess most are gone now. Time rolls on. Life on this earth is short. Here a family enjoys a vacation, their time came and is gone.
Did they stop and see all the plight in St. Louis?
A comment under this video......
“The person who filmed this is a hero. Many thanks for sharing this!”
I get what they are saying. Spiritual people are interested in those that came before us.
VERY cool!
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I notice you don’t see as many overweight people in old films. And you could pretty much tell the boys and girls apart back then.
Nice.
I remember this happening. It used to be people would take slides or videos of scenery on their car vacation and narrate and show it to family and friends when they got back. Some enjoyed the show, others felt trapped. I remember one of my parents friends coming over unannounced with slides and projectors for a show. My parents were not happy.
Now people send a bunch of texts with a lot more selfies.
All home movies since then have been labeled “Road Trip From California.”
Thanks for posting this. I’m glad they fixed the DeSoto.
Great stuff! Thanks for posting. It really brings back memories for me.
I grew up in upstate NY. Mom was from Potlatch, Idaho (Dad married mom in 1947 at the University of Idaho and took mom back to his home in Westchester County, NY). Starting in the late 50s or maybe 1960, every two years Dad would buy a new car and we’d set off on a long road trip around the country.
We visited Mom’s aunt in Valparaiso, IN; my cousin going to college in Chicago; Mom’s folks in Idaho; my uncle (Dad’s brother) in Twin Falls, ID (my uncle settled in Idaho after the war and never went back to NY). Then to Albuquerque to see another of my mom’s aunts and on to Fort Worth to see mom’s brother and family (another uncle). I think we were on the road three weeks and traveled 6,000 to 7,000 miles! Plus, no air conditioning going through the western deserts! Dad always made it a point for us to see all the western sites even though we never stopped anywhere for long — we were on a mission to see all the relatives.
It never occurred to me that nobody else did what Mom & Dad did. None of our relatives traveled to visit us in NYS. It’s amazing that Mom & Dad did those trips faithfully every two years so mom could see her folks and us kids could get to now them and the other relatives. I still have scrapbooks from two or three of those trips!
The video you posted shows a coal-fired train around 1 minute. The smoke from that locomotive is amazing. Diesel engines sure cleaned up that mess.
Did you notice the black stripe down the center to the highway lanes? Oil seals in engines were pretty bad in those days and every car leaked oil from the engine. Today, you’ll only see an oil stain at bumps or dips that shake the few drops of oil off.
Cool, enjoyed the national park photos. Having been to a few out in Utah it’s nice that people are still enjoying these parks.
We made some progress in the suitcase area, no more luggage them around, just put wheels on them:)
I’m addicted to these kinds of videos.
Loved the part about Laguna Beach!
The kids looked so healthy!!!!!
It’s more than a road trip “to” California.
From the Midwest it heads somewhat northwest up through Wyoming into Utah, and then South through canyon country (Utah, Nevada, Arizona - Bryce, Zion and Grand Canyons), enters southern California with its Oranges and Pacific Coast beaches, up the coast to San Francisco, through the redwood forests, and east up and over through Montana (Yellowstone) and the Dakotas (Mt Rushmore), in its round trip back to Nebraska.
What an interesting video. I wasn’t born until December of 1970, but those times really seemed like the good old days. Much better than today.
I was really surprised from 11:07 through 12:22. I believe that bathhouse and lake was the locale heavily featured in the 1962 horror film “Carnival Of Souls”. It looked just like it, except in the film the place was abandoned. As a big fan of that film, I was pleasantly surprised to see the place while it was still in use.
Thanks for the upload!
I notice the film ended with the bear encounter.
The bear was fattening up for the winter....