I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of busy street of Los Angeles 1940s we can 9th Street & Hill Street with buses, streetcars, and Walkers

00:51 Looks like Pershing Square in background.
2:41 Eastern Columbia building at Broadway and 9th
1:03 Hill street between 4th and 5th streets looking north. Hollywood Subway Terminal Building subway building is on left.
1:09 Closer view of Pacific Electric's Hollywood Subway Terminal. This building is still standing today.
5:27 The intersection of 7th and Grand. The J. W. Robinson's department store building on the southwest corner is still there today. I worked there in the mid 1980's
5:42 Looking north from 7th and Grand

Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)

Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.

B&W Video Source from: Internet Archive (LACityClerk)

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