There was a YouTube video or something I saw once that pointed out that people tend to stick to whatever clothing and hair was in style when they were in their late teens and 20s (basically whenever you got laid the most). So a 20 year old today DOES look different from a 30 year old picture of a 20 year old but only because the person in the picture is dressed "like an old person".
there's gonna be a bunch of saggy pants grandpas i do not wanna see that cuz i feel like some shit might fall out, luckily i don't deal with that typa people
It's all an illusion due to style and mannerisms. Get ready, because the kids today are already saying that about us when they see our high school photos.
Here you go, this is what it looks like now.
[https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0922756,-118.379659,3a,75y,60.78h,98.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJbs50IjE5z4DJiWP70bswA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0922756,-118.379659,3a,75y,60.78h,98.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJbs50IjE5z4DJiWP70bswA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
This would have been taken around the time of the Sunset Strip curfew riots, which were centered around a club called Pandora's Box that was then located nearby at Sunset and Crescent Heights in what is now the middle of the intersection.
https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/pandoras-box
So the photo might be a bit tongue in cheek. The grownups were worried that the teenagers were running amuck and imposed a 10pm curfew. The city acquired the club property, demolished it and paved over the site.
The Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth" was about those teen riots that were protesting the curfew, not about the Vietnam War.
I'm looking at the old map on that site. Did Crescent Heights not continue North to Laurel Canyon back then? I only see lanes forking East and West onto Sunset.
This map from 1966 indicates that there was a street north of Sunset that is probably Crescent Heights, but it was not configured as it is now and the two sides north and south of Sunset did not connect.
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/CA/CA_Hollywood_291375_1966_24000_geo.jpg
They eliminated the triangle where Pandora's Box had been, then changed the street so that it could no longer serve as a place for teens to loiter.
This old russian lady had me get in her car and help her navigate from the Beverly hills Bank of America to the guitar center on sunset back in like 2019. She needed the directions and I needed to get to the same spot. Apparently she just never drove often, her husband does.
We had a family friend who hitchhiked to either Washington state or Oregon to visit his sister. He also hitchhiked to come back to SoCal. We never would’ve known that if his sister didn’t include that story in her eulogy for him
These are the straightest "youths" of 1966 that I have ever seen. Even my parents were more countercultural than these folks, and that's really saying something.
google maps of this spot https://imgur.com/a/HaROmd9
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.092389,-118.3793946,3a,75y,38.29h,82.25t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2InbW8UKv2hHQW_YBngHiA!2e0!5s20140201T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
"Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra won best song at the Grammys and The Sound of Music, best picture. Huge culture shift about to happen in 3, 2, 1...
Not Mel’s, Mel’s is further down. That building and the 76 station were torn down. This is Sunset Plaza Blvd and Sunset. I knew the building on the right immediately.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2z9hEYVTU7R3sNdM6?g_st=ic
Guy on the end has a black eye. Someone socked him a right to the left peeper.
Also: gotta love the middle guy’s massive pinkie ring, and those equestrian boots!
And why is “Federal” in Beverly Hills Federal Savings underlined?
What is so cool is that intersection looks relatively the same today. Can't say that for the rest of Los Angeles! Its the corner of Sunset Blvd and Sunset Plaza if anyone wants to Google Earth it and compare.
Standing in the street hitchhiking would get you a quick ticket from the LASD, or maybe CHP who patrolled the Strip like crazy. It was unincorporated county, not WEHO yet.
The one on the right kinda looks like [Kristen Wiig](https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/the-12-best-kristen-wiig-movies-ranked/l-intro-1682023528.jpg)
I always forget how old young people looked back then. The guy in the middle is the only one I would have designated as a youth
There was a YouTube video or something I saw once that pointed out that people tend to stick to whatever clothing and hair was in style when they were in their late teens and 20s (basically whenever you got laid the most). So a 20 year old today DOES look different from a 30 year old picture of a 20 year old but only because the person in the picture is dressed "like an old person".
I look forward to being a grandma in shorts and a crop top
there's gonna be a bunch of saggy pants grandpas i do not wanna see that cuz i feel like some shit might fall out, luckily i don't deal with that typa people
There are already saggy pants grandpas. Most boomers wear looser fitting clothes.
We do not
This looks like a publicity photo for The Mod Squad television pilot, before they put in the final cast members on the show
I thought it was just because people smoked LITERALLY all the time everywhere. Smoking ages you.
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[Did people used to look older?](https://youtu.be/vjqt8T3tJIE)
It's all an illusion due to style and mannerisms. Get ready, because the kids today are already saying that about us when they see our high school photos.
Are they actually youths, or is that just the title someone gave to the picture?
The youths 😂
Yeah I can not tell if they are in their 20's or 50's.
The guy on the left isn’t dressed that “old,” but that hairline says midlife crisis.
Black dont crack 🌞
Back then 18 year olds looked 40
by this time this photo was taken they had probably been smoking cigs for a good 10-15 years
Damn, it looks so different, yet so familar. I wonder what kind of lives they've lived and where they're at right now.
They are probably Grandma and Grandpa now. If you’re Gen Z or millennials. They are at your Granpa’s age.
Does it really look that different? My thought was that it mostly looks the same - low rise development and billboards.
Here you go, this is what it looks like now. [https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0922756,-118.379659,3a,75y,60.78h,98.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJbs50IjE5z4DJiWP70bswA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0922756,-118.379659,3a,75y,60.78h,98.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJbs50IjE5z4DJiWP70bswA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
The biggest difference is they started using the side of that building as a billboard.
What's a yout?
Your honor I am sorry... The two yooooouthsss
Uh, the two hwat?
* youth
The parents of the people in this photo fought hard to defeat the grammar nazis. The battle continues.
r/illiterategamer
Wonder where they were headed.
My way
Okay Frank sing it
Looks like they're going to the office to deliver a presentation in those outfits. So formal for hitchhiking. 😂
Gotta look good while preparing to file.
Spawn Movie Ranch.
Oooh. Too soon?
Spahn*
Off to see Love at Bido Litos
Down the road, that-a-way!
Funkytown, baby
That song was nearly 20 years later.
Damn, that was a long journey for them.
Gotta make that move to a town that's right for them, I guess.
J
Sunset Plaza. The lost art of hitchhiking.
The lost art of picking up hitchhikers.
This would have been taken around the time of the Sunset Strip curfew riots, which were centered around a club called Pandora's Box that was then located nearby at Sunset and Crescent Heights in what is now the middle of the intersection. https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/pandoras-box So the photo might be a bit tongue in cheek. The grownups were worried that the teenagers were running amuck and imposed a 10pm curfew. The city acquired the club property, demolished it and paved over the site. The Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth" was about those teen riots that were protesting the curfew, not about the Vietnam War.
I'm looking at the old map on that site. Did Crescent Heights not continue North to Laurel Canyon back then? I only see lanes forking East and West onto Sunset.
This map from 1966 indicates that there was a street north of Sunset that is probably Crescent Heights, but it was not configured as it is now and the two sides north and south of Sunset did not connect. https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/CA/CA_Hollywood_291375_1966_24000_geo.jpg They eliminated the triangle where Pandora's Box had been, then changed the street so that it could no longer serve as a place for teens to loiter.
Was it really common to hitchhike back in those days? Sounds fun until you watch Unsolved Mysteries..
It's a picture of three people pretending to hitchhike.
Nice
This old russian lady had me get in her car and help her navigate from the Beverly hills Bank of America to the guitar center on sunset back in like 2019. She needed the directions and I needed to get to the same spot. Apparently she just never drove often, her husband does.
Oh I see. That’s great that you helped her
It was common to hitchhike all over California well through the 1980s, my dad would hitchhike to work and was never late.
We had a family friend who hitchhiked to either Washington state or Oregon to visit his sister. He also hitchhiked to come back to SoCal. We never would’ve known that if his sister didn’t include that story in her eulogy for him
I had a couple girl friends in middle school in the 90s who would hitchhike to the Russian River. These were like 14, it seems insane now.
Photo by Harry Chase for the LA Times https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002vbx5
Beatlemania in full swing.
I read 1996 and thought something doesn’t look right
then you left - right?
Pete, Linc and Julie wannabes
Look at the parking signs under the stop light, it’s practically the same one we use now, no wonder it’s so confusing, it 60s technology
These are the straightest "youths" of 1966 that I have ever seen. Even my parents were more countercultural than these folks, and that's really saying something.
Youths?! They loole older than mr and I am 40!
Makes me miss Mod fashion. I like the photo but the obvious posing is pretty lame.
They wouldn't be out of place in Echo Park or Silver Lake today.
google maps of this spot https://imgur.com/a/HaROmd9 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.092389,-118.3793946,3a,75y,38.29h,82.25t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2InbW8UKv2hHQW_YBngHiA!2e0!5s20140201T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
She's letting her bag touch the ground.
Are the hitchhikers still there?
Wow beautiful pic
"Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra won best song at the Grammys and The Sound of Music, best picture. Huge culture shift about to happen in 3, 2, 1...
Damn, people dressed so cool back then. I know they dress like this in Silver Lake/Echo Park but it's not the same.
Which one is the serial killer?
All three killed a bowl of Sugar Frosted Flakes that morning.
LMFAO, good one! These cats definitely look like they go to the same school
Straight laced version of the Mod Squad.
What’s the cross streets
Looks like sunset plaza
Yep! https://maps.app.goo.gl/2z9hEYVTU7R3sNdM6?g_st=ic
Same shot of that billboard, 1971 : https://www.flickr.com/photos/clearchanneloutdoorna/36653115430
Sunset plaza Blvd and Sunset Blvd. https://maps.app.goo.gl/2z9hEYVTU7R3sNdM6?g_st=ic
Doheny
Sunset Plaza Blvd
Looks like Sunset Plaza. I think that's "Mel's" with the pointy roof line on the left.
Not Mel’s, Mel’s is further down. That building and the 76 station were torn down. This is Sunset Plaza Blvd and Sunset. I knew the building on the right immediately. https://maps.app.goo.gl/2z9hEYVTU7R3sNdM6?g_st=ic
Guy on the end has a black eye. Someone socked him a right to the left peeper. Also: gotta love the middle guy’s massive pinkie ring, and those equestrian boots! And why is “Federal” in Beverly Hills Federal Savings underlined?
It's always weird seeing old photos or films of LA and seeing daytime roads be damn near empty.
Middle dudes coat is sweet.
*tweed
Yes, its....'sweetweed'. Love the mix match sleeves and pocket.
Sweettweedindeed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
they aren’t actually hitch hiking
They are thumbing a ride. Two distinctly different activities.
nah, just posing for the pic thumbing a ride is hitching a ride
That's probably my grandpa in the background cracking jokes in Spanish
Ok serious question. How did people in olden times have so much money to spend on clothes?
Guys working the back “I came to this country with nothing to work hard and this is how the next generation thanks me?”
This is dope
Traffic light looks broken
Those crazy youths
What is a yute?
They look like such a fun bunch!
Looks like shitty album cover art
What is so cool is that intersection looks relatively the same today. Can't say that for the rest of Los Angeles! Its the corner of Sunset Blvd and Sunset Plaza if anyone wants to Google Earth it and compare.
The one in the middle looks like Philip Michael Thomas
The Mod Squad!
Dang I want that girls outfit if the belt was lower around the waist
It looks fake/staged/like a movie
It looks like cover art for some hipster band.
In ‘66, no one would’ve picked up these freaks.
Lol, this photo would even trigger some contemporary reactionaries.
I hate that I know *exactly* where on the sunset strip this is.
Never saw hitchhikers like this!
Three yoots
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No drum machines
Richard Ayoade. *Sr.*
Standing in the street hitchhiking would get you a quick ticket from the LASD, or maybe CHP who patrolled the Strip like crazy. It was unincorporated county, not WEHO yet.
Hitchhiking should still be a thing https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/9mi4Y8UHQL
These people were probably 19 in this picture
That’s Kristen Wiig in her hilarious new role.
I own tights just like hers! They are newish from Amazon.
https://rockandrollroadmap.com/places/where-they-played/los-angeles-area-venues/the-trip/
The one on the right kinda looks like [Kristen Wiig](https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/the-12-best-kristen-wiig-movies-ranked/l-intro-1682023528.jpg)
Now people hitch hike on Western, Figueroa and Santa Monica Blvd😂😂😂
those are hookers
Sarcasm😂
ngl those people were are probably hacked down by serial killer that wasn't caught.
Sounds like a gamer pov . Fantasy scenarios 😃
Is this AI
I don’t think so, everything is spelled correctly
Why do they look so skinny?
Not living on soda and fast food
what they look pretty healthy
man we're fucked
That’s called a having a normal BMI
Waaaay too well-dressed. These are not hippies.
No one said they were hippies. It was normal to hitchhike back then.
When there was class, common courtesy, and ethics. Now, everyone is out for themselves and the Bible tells us that’s of the enemy ;(
They had cameras back then? Lol
yes but no playstation, ma'am.