Interesting youtube video. Enjoy

[tcom2027]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpE_hyUtbA8&ab_channel=NASS




Chicago in the thirties in color with the film remastered. Probably from the late thirties judging from the cars and fashiona

[Jay Friedman]

Very interesting. Did I see a 1940 Cadillac?  Or was it a '38 or '39?  Also, I would say most people were dressed more formally than today. 

[59-in-pieces]

The condition of the buildings, living conditions, and whole neighborhoods with the hopeless human condition and despair.

HORRIFIC.

A cautionary tail.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls - if we aren't careful, and mindful of the past.

Have fun - seems out of place after watching this film.
Steve B.

[harry s]

I saw four cars with whitewalls. May have missed some at the beginning.    Harry

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

I see at the start, there are two teenagers rushing to the side of the road, picking up stones from the gutter and getting ready to throw them at the passing camera vehicle.

Bruce.

[tcom2027]

I saw four cars with whitewalls. May have missed some at the beginning.    Harry


Hi Harry,

Whitewalls of that era weren't popular. THey were expensive and hard to maintain. Flats were common and the whitewalls got dirty from being handled both on the side of the road and when repaired in gass stations. THere was also a lot of oil in the center of the driving lanes from open breathers and road tubes. Crud really accrued duing light rains.

Luxury cars, Packards, Lincolns and Cadillacs, especially the big ones belonged to people who had staffs to maintain them.  In spite of that whitewalls weren't common.

If you watch movies from that era, especially noir films you won't see many cars equipped with white walls.

It's easy to recognise modern movies set in the thirties and forties by the number of whitewall tires present. "The Sting" for example. "The Road to Perdition" is more period correct than many modern era representations.

Most of the cars in movies came from  studio pools.. THose vehicles are gone and modern companies have to depend on private owners for for period cars. There are modern water based paints that can cover the whitewalls but most owners don't want them used on their cars.  What they get are cars with whitewalls. Whitewalls didn't get popular until the sixties.

Here is another video from the forties shot in Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda that has a lot of cars in it. I didn't see one with white walls. The six minute mark to the end has the most cars although there are quite a few from the beginning.

https://youtu.be/9GOIWgoRUXQ?t=426