40's Los Angeles

[James Gray]

I've done a little movie work back in the day. I would fly camera crew around in a UH1 or UH60. They would film from the birds for action shot to be used on Blue or Green screens and such. Got pretty harry a couple times cutting the river bed up a Ft Hunter Liggett.

Who knows, maybe some kid will post that video of my work when I am 80. To bad we could get a Caddy to fly alongside. Then it may have made onto this website around 2042.     

[Jim Salmi #21340]

It is definitely post-WWII.  There is a '48-50 vintage Ford truck parked under in a rental lot, so the clip is at least 1948.

The Mercury following along looks '46-'48. What is the taxi cab near the beginning?  Almost looks like a '40 LaSalle.  I spotted the '46-'47 Caddy, too.

This same clip can also be viewed on YouTube.  Use something like "Bunker Hill 1940s" in the search field and you should be able to find it.  You will also find many, many clips from the '30s through the '60s just by fooling around with the search field terms.  It is highly addictive.

[Glen]

What is the taxi cab near the beginning?  Almost looks like a '40 LaSalle.  I spotted the '46-'47 Caddy, too.

When I first saw that car I thought “Packard”.  But then I did not see the signature shoulders on the grill.  But my Google search for 1942 and 1946 Packard came up with pictures that are very close to this car. 

[Alan Harris CLC#1513]

Packard built a 6 cylinder taxi right after the war. A lot of major cities had fleets of them. That was definitely a Packard taxi.