Beany’s Drive-In Restaurant, Long Beach, California, ca. 1952-53
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Activities at the newly opened Beany's drive-through fast food restaurant, Long Beach, California, 1952 or 1953.
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A simple time when families we’re together to eat, have fun and just plain live life. Thank you for the peek into yesteryear !!
@Martin Munoz yeah so lets just discount the entire decade. Smart
But if you notice no black people it wasn’t so good for some
I will take a one way ticket back there any time.
One thing that stands out in this video, no one is walking around like a mindless zombie in their pajama pants and sandals and there aren’t any extremely fat people , they probably didn’t waste as much time binge watching Netflix or playing video games.
the emerge of fast food was the dawn of junk food, which brought on the fat people as you see now
The best time in America ever if i had a time machine i would go back to that time over and over and over
J better if you were white!
Joe Guzman back to Jim Crow, segregation, racism, less women’s rights, no equal pay, less health care, pollution, you have it much better now trust me
I was born that year, so I could witness myself being born. Oh, that’s right. They didn’t allow men into the delivery rooms. So I would have to wait with the other men, in a cigar smoke-filled waiting room.
What a wonderful video. Thank you very much. Oh for a time machine.
Its betta now…tons of cambodians, latinos and blacks make log beach vibrant and exciting instead of dull and safe…..it was borrrrrrrring when it was lilly white…..
I”m so glad someone thought to capture this on film. Here today, gone tomorrow.
every single car is like a piece of art to me back then
Well, being born in early 63, Life wasn’t too much different than this video conveys, things didn’t really change a lot until the 70’s, So…. I can appreciate this video more than younger folks! 🙂
This is a fantastic video! What a time to be alive!
@Jim Rockford–Remember, we were in the early stages of the Cold War. Khrushchev was telling us _”we will bury you,”_ not to mention Sputnik! A gallon of gas, adjusted for inflation, costs about the same today as it did back then.
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Wow, populux style, neon and chrome horizons, faith and optimism, elegant families, space fantasies, drive inns, cinerama, theme parks, outdoor pick nicks, glamour and innocence, what an age! How much have we lost, what happened to the West?
@Don Dressel Yes, it is so sad!
Zardoz4441 what happened? DemoRats came along and have been doing their best to ruin this country since.
Back then the powerful business-bank-media owners of America believed in God and thus virtue and honor.Today they don’t. And back then, Hell and shame was taught and today it is not. That’s it.
Amazing how , , dressed and , other than slobs! , the people are. Actually caring about how they look.
When people are discussing “diversity,” they *DO NOT* mean diversity of conflicting viewpoints. If you disagree with them, you are _persona non grata._
Watch the video that is what it is for.
@Horace…you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. You’re hopelessly brainwashed. A person’s upbringing and caring about others has a lot to do with that. Diversity has no intrinsic value in itself. You could well be harboring plenty of hate in your supposed more diverse and wacky world.
You presume much…. and you are wrong!
Horace – how the fucking hell do YOU know that? If you want someone who spreads hate among this society – it’s people like YOU. To make a biased statement like that is typical of liberals. Look at today’s crap – “male bashing”, “white male hatred”, the Democrat Party and the harm they’ve done to this country with their “liberal, apology to the world” stance of obama and the absolute stupidity of the Secretaries of State Clinton and Kerry. If you like diversity so much YOU live with it because I DON’T.
Look how clean everything was. People were happy. People had extra cash in their pockets. No one staring at their phones.
And those cars…..
@YPO6 I don’t think those came around til lthe 60s
People don’t have extra cash now?? Lol dumb comment
More white people see.
Horace Ball you obviously went to a public school as you don’t know how to spell “would”.
@Horace Ball that’s the reason WHY it was so nice!!
I wish American life was like this now.. ??????????
Stop voting Democrat and rinos in
Trust me.. we ALL Do Crystal.. we all do.
What an awesome video. Greetings from UK. Wow !! Look at those cars. Every one a classic . Wish I could of been there. Thanx for posting. Bet the USA was so cool then. Like a film set. Amazing. When this was taken, The Mustang was still 11 years away !!!!!!
Always get a kick out of how new everything looked in these old films, the roads were new, the houses were new, the curbs and sidewalks, the street signs, etc. Also reminded me of the haze we used to have up until the late seventies or so, that’s what a sunny day with air pollution used to look like, things would disappear in the distance. The people who aren’t old enough to remember it wouldn’t think of it. Leaded gas, baybee – used to smell the exhaust at every stoplight. Part of life back then. At least the cars were hot! And you could take a girl out for a dollar and she wouldn’t think you were cheap! ? And you didn’t have to talk about your latest tattoo, either! Could do fun stuff, things that didn’t hurt you or get you in trouble or warp your perspective. People were confident in who they were naturally.
I know what You want to say.I’m from Germany,but same here,too. 60’s we had same like You these days.Missing it.
That last statement, “People were confident in who they were naturally.”
Undoubtedly, Said it All. Surely a time of unparalleled and unquestionable balance in how one
ought to live. Somehow hyper-technology changed everything, by taking away the most simple and reliable sense of true values. Morals may not have been perfect, but respect seemed to be more easily found and fostered in that long ago society.
Those dress codes were quite amazing. Today’s are blatant and twisted, Prices of a meal, by today’s standard, spoke to me of a more simple way of life, with greed not getting in the way.
Seems when that shiny and pristine atmosphere disappeared overnight, its mentality also went with it.
Today’s pluralistic world would be greatly challenged by that period in time.
Signing off.
Wow can you imagine how stale those burgers would be by now?
BOBMILIN, no moron. Why would you think that? Besides without preservatives, they would rot as old meat should…
Beany’s lasted till around 1962. It’s name sake was a popular LA produced puppet TV show. When TV show faded so did the restaurant. Its now a Burger King. The Circle Drive-in Theater was replaced by office buildings in 1980. And the Clock restaurant across the street is now a Carl’s Jr.
@Dave auf dem BMW it’s PCH and Ximeno
@David Gill It’s at PCH and Ximeno.
Beany & Cecil, the Seasick Sea Serpent! “I’m coming, Beany Boy!”
@JohnbThat just breaks my heart
Definitely the intersection of Ximeno and PCH where the Circle Drive-in was located.
The fifties, those happy and funny years…
wow what a time to be alive..how I wish I saw those years.
A by far better time….respect, courteous, family roles were defined. I don’t think that we can go back to these innocent times.
@Maks imilijan I recall that the food stamp program was started for farming families after the 2nd world war. I believe it was part of Roosevelt’s Big or Great Deal (don’t quote me, I’m no historian and studied enough to pass). And most of those families were NOT African Americans, yet the stigma has been attached to them/us for some reason. ??
@Maks imilijan You’re an angry Elf, aren’t you? 😉
You forgot to add “and the blacks were segregated”, though I’m sure you meant that too. PS, there was plenty of welfare going on back then, but since it was only given to white women at the time, it did not carry with it the stigma that it does today.
the US was built on slavery and blood of the natives. how is that innocent? america came out as the economic superpower after the second world war, because they barely fought in it….
Douglas Thompson I agree – the counter culture that started in the “60’s waged war on that traditional America AND has been attacking everything good and just in America ever since ” they shattered America’s innocence” and your right Doug that America we can not replicate OR bring back BECAUSE Liberalism is a mental disorder with evil intent – I like how liberals nowadays call themselves ” progressives” YEAH RIGHT progress in dragging America to Hell.”