Everything about this was cool, from the old radio programs, cars and some of the landscape changes in LA. I was expecting there to be night and day difference with traffic conditions in 88′ being an lighter then 22′. But this proved some things like traffic improvements in certain areas help. Although I bet if this were a video from San Bernardino to LA it would be a different story with the mass migration of people moving east of LA.
This is great and brings back a lot of memories, I was looking for my car the whole time on the 405
Liked how the traffic guy called out the freeways by name and not number in 88
I can’t help noticing that the road in 88 isn’t filled up with Blazers, Wagoneers and Cherokees. It’s almost all cars. By 2022 it looks like easily half the cars on the road are SUVs or crossovers.
>Songs:
>1:00 – Elvin Bishop – Fooled Around and Fell in Love
>3:10 – The Animals – It’s My Life
>3:21 – Dan Fogelberg – Face the Fire
>3:38 – Foreigner – Double Vision
>3:48 – Pretty Poison – Catch Me I’m Falling
>3:55 – Gary Newman – Radio Heart
>6:40 – The Woodentops – Maybe It Won’t Last
>7:30 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Rebels
>7:38 – Doobie Brothers – Listen to the Music
>10:40 – Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over the Line
>12:46 – Tom Petty – American Girl
>12:50 – Van Halen – Jump
>12:54 – UB40 – Red, Red, Wine
>12:57 – Big Audio Dynamite – E=mc2
>15:20 – The Doors – Twentieth Century Fox
>25:24 – Frozen Ghost – Round and Round
>25:28 – Blue Oyster Cult – Astronomy
>25:33 – David Bowie – Young Americans
>27:00 – The Who – We’re Not Gonna Take It
>There were a few while he’s at the traffic light scanning channels that were too short to identify, but hopefully this helps a few people.
I was 6 when this was filmed. I grew up around this area, and I loved seeing the difference in development. I kind of wish they’d filmed the comparison at a similar hour, to see how traffic congestion compares. They put years of work into expanding that area of the 405 by adding more lanes. Didn’t work.
I know the camera in the 80s is way bigger… but the fact that the quality is not much better now is really really embarrassing. Why do all dashcams suck ass?
During the beginning of the pandemic it was magical. I got from Culver City to my girlfriends place in Long Beach in 22 minutes. Most of that was just hitting lights off the freeway. It was magical. I’ve lived here my entire life and traffic has always just been like white noise.
So many 80s box style cars and there is the Porsche 928 and the Bug. I really appreciated the radio from the 80s with great music and baseball playoff updates. Also I thought the 405 was a perpetual parking lot based I what Ive heard.
It is kind of amazing how little it “appears” the Sepulveda pass has changed. There are many additional retaining walls on the sides that give away how much wider it has been made.
At 16:20 you might think they drove under identical bridges in both videos, yet those bridges (Skirball and Mullholland) were both demolished and rebuilt to look nearly the same, but wider. A lot of it done while the freeway was open, except for two weekend closures called “Carmageddon I and II”
I’ve driven that exact section of freeway hundreds of times. from 1985 to present day. This was fantastic to watch. Thanks to the dude who created this.
EDIT: Couple more interesting locations:
From 6:00 to 11:10 we are on the final Part of OJ Simpsons Bronco ride. 1994
16:19 where Ennis Cosby was murdered in 1997
20:30 Dodgers v Philly score in the 5th mentioned (7-2 Dodgers). The score would finish that way. 2 days later Dodgers would again beat the Phillies, and Tommy Lasorda would get in a fight with the Philly Fanatic. The Dodgers would win the World Series that same year, partly thanks to Kirk Gibsons home run.
21:50 Sherman Oaks Galleria (in 1988) where Fast Time and Ridgemont High was filmed. That location is still called Sherman Oaks Galleria in 2022, but bears virtually no resemblance to the mall of the 80’s
As cool as this was, the timestamps on the latest video are incorrect. They are altered to match the timestamps in a patterned way, but it clearly didn’t take 3 minutes to turn from 1:06 to 1:09. The video is cool otherwise but I couldn’t watch further after this.
“WRONG WAY!!! ….stupid bitch…”
Hah.
The music so good and the cars you see on the highway so cool too.
Just casually driving up behind a 2nd gen Camaro like it’s nothing, just being passed by a 928 Porsche like it’s nothing, Celica’s everywhere….
Damn what a ride.
Should have driven it at 6am though.
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I expected this to show relatively thin traffic in 1988 and the 2022 side being stuck at a near standstill the entire time. Surprising.
I don’t live in LA but I found this fascinating.
Such great music back then.
I’ve had a dash cam for years now and I never though to archive some of the footage every once in a while….
The trees really grew up and filled out
Everything about this was cool, from the old radio programs, cars and some of the landscape changes in LA. I was expecting there to be night and day difference with traffic conditions in 88′ being an lighter then 22′. But this proved some things like traffic improvements in certain areas help. Although I bet if this were a video from San Bernardino to LA it would be a different story with the mass migration of people moving east of LA.
I grew up in the SF Valley and got my driver’s license in 1987. This brought back memories. Thanks for sharing this.
This is great and brings back a lot of memories, I was looking for my car the whole time on the 405
Liked how the traffic guy called out the freeways by name and not number in 88
I’m picturing a giant camcorder on some kind of tripod mounted between the seats? Dash cams weren’t really a thing back then that I remember.
I can’t help noticing that the road in 88 isn’t filled up with Blazers, Wagoneers and Cherokees. It’s almost all cars. By 2022 it looks like easily half the cars on the road are SUVs or crossovers.
This was so much fun to watch.
[The top comment on the OG Video has most of the music called out and linked. I will copy here as well as link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUh0PsW7XyI)
>Songs:
>1:00 – Elvin Bishop – Fooled Around and Fell in Love
>3:10 – The Animals – It’s My Life
>3:21 – Dan Fogelberg – Face the Fire
>3:38 – Foreigner – Double Vision
>3:48 – Pretty Poison – Catch Me I’m Falling
>3:55 – Gary Newman – Radio Heart
>6:40 – The Woodentops – Maybe It Won’t Last
>7:30 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Rebels
>7:38 – Doobie Brothers – Listen to the Music
>10:40 – Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over the Line
>12:46 – Tom Petty – American Girl
>12:50 – Van Halen – Jump
>12:54 – UB40 – Red, Red, Wine
>12:57 – Big Audio Dynamite – E=mc2
>15:20 – The Doors – Twentieth Century Fox
>25:24 – Frozen Ghost – Round and Round
>25:28 – Blue Oyster Cult – Astronomy
>25:33 – David Bowie – Young Americans
>27:00 – The Who – We’re Not Gonna Take It
>There were a few while he’s at the traffic light scanning channels that were too short to identify, but hopefully this helps a few people.
God this is making me homesick. I live in Virginia now after moving from LA for work.
Is that a dash notepad?
Does anyone recognize the interior of the ’88 car?
I was 6 when this was filmed. I grew up around this area, and I loved seeing the difference in development. I kind of wish they’d filmed the comparison at a similar hour, to see how traffic congestion compares. They put years of work into expanding that area of the 405 by adding more lanes. Didn’t work.
Whoa! I drive this route almost every day taking my wife to work at Mount Saint Mary’s. We exit on Sunset though.
I think of dashcams as being fairly new, so I’m surprised that someone found 1988 dashcam footage. I wonder if it used a film camera.
I wonder what things would be like if they started doing roundabouts instead of those long crazy traffic lights at every grid
It’s pronounced, “The 405”.
I know the camera in the 80s is way bigger… but the fact that the quality is not much better now is really really embarrassing. Why do all dashcams suck ass?
Stagnation
During the beginning of the pandemic it was magical. I got from Culver City to my girlfriends place in Long Beach in 22 minutes. Most of that was just hitting lights off the freeway. It was magical. I’ve lived here my entire life and traffic has always just been like white noise.
OmG thanks for the flashback! Used to drive that ( Garden Grove to Culver City) for years! Moved away in 1990 and never looked back!
Fuck the 405 haha
All I was doing is checking what trees are still there…
Looks like only the palm trees 🌴. Awesome Video 👍🏾
So many 80s box style cars and there is the Porsche 928 and the Bug. I really appreciated the radio from the 80s with great music and baseball playoff updates. Also I thought the 405 was a perpetual parking lot based I what Ive heard.
Edit: words
Bring back the unprotected left!
Great side by side. That couldn’t have been easy to do at the same angle. Thanks for sharing.
This reminds me of Austin Powers where the 1960s video call tech was so much better than the jerky choppy modern digital video.
It is kind of amazing how little it “appears” the Sepulveda pass has changed. There are many additional retaining walls on the sides that give away how much wider it has been made.
At 16:20 you might think they drove under identical bridges in both videos, yet those bridges (Skirball and Mullholland) were both demolished and rebuilt to look nearly the same, but wider. A lot of it done while the freeway was open, except for two weekend closures called “Carmageddon I and II”
I’ve driven that exact section of freeway hundreds of times. from 1985 to present day. This was fantastic to watch. Thanks to the dude who created this.
EDIT: Couple more interesting locations:
From 6:00 to 11:10 we are on the final Part of OJ Simpsons Bronco ride. 1994
16:19 where Ennis Cosby was murdered in 1997
20:30 Dodgers v Philly score in the 5th mentioned (7-2 Dodgers). The score would finish that way. 2 days later Dodgers would again beat the Phillies, and Tommy Lasorda would get in a fight with the Philly Fanatic. The Dodgers would win the World Series that same year, partly thanks to Kirk Gibsons home run.
21:50 Sherman Oaks Galleria (in 1988) where Fast Time and Ridgemont High was filmed. That location is still called Sherman Oaks Galleria in 2022, but bears virtually no resemblance to the mall of the 80’s
Where did all the trees go??
Watch Bullitt (1968) and see what traffic was like.
Nice! Palms to Sherman Oaks drive.
As someone who grew up in the Valley in the 80s, I found this extraordinarily nostalgic. Off the charts. Thanks.
As cool as this was, the timestamps on the latest video are incorrect. They are altered to match the timestamps in a patterned way, but it clearly didn’t take 3 minutes to turn from 1:06 to 1:09. The video is cool otherwise but I couldn’t watch further after this.
Ah, Culver City…
I grew up around here. I had totally forgotten what the traffic report on the radio used to sound like. That takes me back haha.