Driving in San Francisco 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

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[@bobblowhard8823]

Basically, the same trip across the bridge, but with several different views, as there were probably several cameras pointing in different directions all on the same trip. Still fascinating to see,though, as I'm a Northern California native and recognize most of those locations. Thanks for posting!

[@bobtaylor170]

I'm fascinated by the fact that people had the instincts to make these kinds of films. They probably had the sense that America was going to change so much in the future that those generations would be strongly taken with this kind of documentation, and they were right. Your colors may not be based on historical knowledge, but your choices are good ones, and I'd bet mostly accurate.

[@clintonflynn815]

These types of films, with multiple perspectives of the same scenery, were often made for the film industry.

[@bobtaylor170]

@@clintonflynn815, I've never read that, but it makes sense.

[@chrisdarling3617]

They needed footage to rear project behind the open windows of cars that were filmed in the studio. That's why all the footage is shot looking backward. It was projected on a screen behind the rear windows of the car and made it look as if the car was driving on a road when in fact it was actually attached to a device in the studio that would make it move up and down a bit to look like a car going over bumpy roads.

[@cujoedaman]

@@clintonflynn815 That would explain the sudden lane changes and why the police car is following so closely :D

[@joes.4149]

@@bobtaylor170 lol not to burst your bubble but mostly all the stuff on this page was for the film industry. Just like that person said it’s for the side and rear shots for automobile scenes. Some of the stuff here include actors too so don’t believe all the people in some scenes. Lol.

[@rayjames6096]

I love these old time capsule views of everyday life, I can't get enough of them.

[@Caprisassy]

Me either… absolutely love them 🥰🥰

[@sfeddie1]

Another great San Francisco video. The earliest this video can be is 1947. The Studebaker at 1:30 looks to be a ‘47 Commander, but 48’s and 49’s look the same. It’s interesting that a police car, also at 1:30, is following the camera car. The same thing happened in an earlier S.F. Video a few months ago. Also interesting is that there is no Fremont Street exit sign at the off ramp. If you didn’t know what it was you could drive right by it.

[@skydiverclassc2031]

Maybe it was an escort for the camera car? I noticed the traffic cop was stopping cars at the end of the first sequence. Or maybe he got his ears up when the camera car shifted lanes so many times.

[@mr.bnatural3700]

Everyone is sure into old classic cars back then. I'm guessing they couldn't afford new ones; this must have been the poor side of town. Dang hippies and homeless with all their needles and feces all over the sidewalks. (Joking)

[@kennysherrill6542]

@@mr.bnatural3700 👍👍👍👍👍❤🇺🇸😅

[@mannybravo237]

Police had traffic stopped at the tunnel when tour started. Then police car tailing, then motorcop stops traffic at end of off ramp. There's a sign 'First St Off ramp', is that Fremont?

[@sfeddie1]

@@mannybravo237 In the second part of the video where the camera is facing west, when the vehicle takes the off ramp and stops at a cross street, that cross street is Fremont. I must have missed the 1st street exit sign.

[@dgatan]

I love when you do San Francisco! This one is beautiful quality!

[@timjansen7694]

I like the way that at 1:45, there is the sound of going over the grill in the roadway. Pretty detailed for an added soundtrack.

[@stevemino142]

You have an amazing channel...glad I found it there is a lot of effort to recreate this footage of the past very good work

[@Xx-VSM-xX]

I just love this kind of stuff. Well done

[@AnimeRPGFreakKenny]

Back when driving into San Francisco wasn't a traffic nightmare. Looks amazing

[@edwards8545]

It's the bike lanes and carpool lanes and no left turn and no right turn and bus only etc. The people who control the traffic are all anti-car want it to be a nightmare. They have 30% of major roads set aside for gentrification and for buses that people hate.

[@malcorub]

@@edwards8545 Even without all these things you mentioned, SF is overcrowded and driving would still be a mess and parking will still co$t a ton. Cities like NYC and SF are not meant for driving like say Houston .

[@dominickjvlogs]

To be fair if this was in the 40’s that means ww2 was ongoing or had just ended. So you can’t win em all

[@silvrx-pz3ce]

Everything was more expensive in the 40s due to that damn war!!

[@malcorub]

@@silvrx-pz3ce and not everyone owned a vehicle like today, most families own two.

[@f82man]

Another fantastic Video, Thanks Nass.

[@osmobileusa5958]

nass thank you very much for these spectacular videos of the 1940s

[@NASS_0]

Thx!

[@gamerproyoutuberbestdayeve3855]

Omg I love 1940s San Francisco!

[@seandelap6268]

Amazing footage from an amazing channel.

[@NASS_0]

thank you

[@billcocadiz6142]

I'm from San Francisco, I remember those days when the bay bridge was two way traffic on the top, my dad had to pay toll both ways back then. In 1963 the lower part was open for east bound traffic. I also remember crossing the bridge once with my parents on a rail car on the lower part of the bridge in the 1950s I was 7 or 8 at the time. Thank you Nass I hope you would show more of old San Francisco.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;)

[@antuliort]

Este canal nos trae archivos espectaculares. Gracias por descubrir el maravilloso pasado de estos lugares emblemáticos!

[@sonnycorleone2602]

Nass, Like many I very much enjoy your vintage uploads ! At 1:21 with the cop car chasing the cameraman in the truck. It feels like the Humphrey Bogart Movie "Dark Passage" in 1947. When he breaks out of San Quintin prison and he is Hiding in back of lauren Bacall's station wagon, who is trying to help him clear his innocent name and find his wife's killer.. Haha. Thank's for the upload. 😀

[@mr.bnatural3700]

Man, that was the coolest movie. You could really see what S.F. was like back in 1947. And is was a good movie too!

[@sonnycorleone2602]

@@mr.bnatural3700 Hi Yes, I liked it too. I am a Humphrey Bogart fan and I like his wife Lauren Bacall too. Agnes Moorehead was good as the bad lady. I always thought if Margret Hamilton was not the wicked witch in the movie "The wizard of Oz" Agnes Moorehead would of been good as the wicked witch. LOL. Thanks for your reply. All the best.😁

[@johnshaft5613]

Fascinating video. Interesting reminder that the lower deck of the Bay Bridge used to be for railroad.

[@samsungfan9664]

I wonder if this footage was shot for a studio that needed front, side, and rear views to be used for rear projection on a sound stage.

[@Marckymarc71]

Most footage on this channel is that exactly.

[@ApartmentKing66]

That would be my guess.

[@JohnShinn6078]

Yes it is.

[@f.w.2054]

Another job well done nass! You're becoming my favorite site

[@IronheadGarage]

Great video brings back a lot of great memories. I was Born in 75 and grow up in the bay area Hayward to be exact. In the late 80s my dad was a truck driver I would go with him a lot in the big truck. We would haul containers back and forth from Oakland to Sanfransico docks a few times a day. It was so much fun for me going with him and getting to go across the bay bridge and being able to get so close to the big giant container ships at the docks. I think I can still smell the salt water lol. But in 89 the ground started to shake it was a earth quack and that old bay bridge broke that day. So glad we where not on that bridge that day a few unlucky people where. After that year me and my family moved to Washington State. I never got to go on the ole bridge again miss that place.. Thanks for sharing I really enjoyed it.....

[@visionseeker68]

And more great time travel video from NASS! Love it.

[@deadwood1574]

Very cool stock footage, awesome restoration job!

[@pauld724]

This isn't the Golden Gate Bridge. it's the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Bridge. the tunnel you see in the back is Yurba Buena Island and the flat island to it is a man made island built for the 1928 World Fair Expo called Treasure Island. It became a Navy Base and now it's Apart of the City of San Francisco annex. The Golden Gate Bridge is not seen in any of this video, also It's a trip to see the old Bayshore Highway that the cop car followed behind this lead car off of the bridge. You can see the old 76 Unocal building and sign. it was a headquarters for a while, in the 60s they changed it out with a 76 Uncial Ball (like the old antenna balls you put on your car of 76) but it was a huge Clock tower with 76 on it. If you watch the movie Whats Up Doc, near the end in the Piano Scene you can see it out the window of the building. but i vaguely recall those old green water towers (as a kid) of Oakland and San Francisco used to have. they were ugly but showed the time period pre- 1980s. The bayshore was a double decker that was damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. but unlike the Oakland Cypress, It didn't collapse. it just sagged.

[@goombabear]

Yes. I remember this bridge back in the eighties when I was a kid. It was beautiful then. It was fun to visit my brother who was in the Navy back in 87-88. I would have been around eight. Funnily enough we packed shorts because it was summer, but I had to wear a coat the entire time.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Who said it was the Golden Gate Bridge? It's spelled "Yerba Buena" (San Francisco's original name) and Treasure Island was built for the 1939 World's Fair. I have a 1937 Richfield map and it shows the brand new Bay Bridge with the PROPOSED site of the 1939 World's Fair that later came to be called "Treasure Island."

[@mannybravo237]

When did bottom deck open? Or is it used at this time period 🤔edit: n/m, read your other commet

[@michaelhilber8284]

That's very funny, this video was titled as Golden Gate until the error was noted.

[@michaelhilber8284]

@@ApartmentKing66 The Title of the video was "Driving in San Francisco 1940s, Golden Gate Bridge in color [60fps, Remastered] w/added sound" until the error was pointed out and the maker of this video fixed the title. Who said it was the Golden Gate? The maker of this video said it was.

[@JoshuaMuse]

What a trip! When I was a little kid I thought people way back then saw in black and white haha.

[@lorenzogaloppini6140]

Me too!

[@nobobyelse1789]

😂😅 same here. Its amazing to see the past in color. Doesnt seem so long ago now that Im older

[@mr.bnatural3700]

I was told that there wasn't any color before 1939. Science discovered color spectrum and set off a color bomb so the whole world would have color. Best example of pre-color to post-color is the filming of Wizard of Oz. Starts out in Black and white then suddenly COLOR! Nobody talks about it anymore because it is old news.

[@JoshuaMuse]

I am glad to know I wasn't the only delusional kid.

[@pauld724]

The Top of the bay bridge was traffic going both directions in it's early years while rail lines and buses ran on the bottom section (you don't see). Today the Westbound Traffic is on Top, and the East Bound traffic is on a level under this. it's a double decker bridge. The Golden Gate is a single decker bridge. this is why it's confusing that it was the Golden Gate bridge at first.

[@29madmangaud29]

Okay, I'm from the Bay Area, and I was looking at this, and thinking,,, Golden Gate......."NO",,,,,, / BAY BRIDGE.......... No,,, because the Bay Bridge had one upper level, going to SF and the Lower Level going back to Oakland, ? I was confused... Thanks for KNOWING this, as I've never traveled on any of these bridges until 1969

[@humelakecabin]

Thank you for explaining that .,I couldn't figure it out at first either , having 2 way traffic on one level. Not like today .

[@Jeff-uj8xi]

Besides rail on the lower level, there was a roadway for East Bound traffic and buses towards Oakland. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpmxdY2MZtp3i8k

[@joanneb3524]

My mother used to ride the train from SF to Oakland when she was a kid in the 1940's. She said it was called the Key Train or Key System. I can't quir remember.

[@RaymondHng]

@@joanneb3524 Key System. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sInFmpaJraljlck

[@jadenephrite]

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was painted grey and opened on November 12, 1936. On the other hand, the Golden Gate Bridge was painted International Orange and opened on May 27, 1937. These two famous bridges in San Francisco Bay are located eight miles from each other..

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

And Mayor Angelo Rossi was most responsible for having them constructed.

[@gryhze]

I remember the light fixtures on the SFOBB span. The lamp head had an Art Deco design, dual overhead shade with an amber bulb - a very warm color. The red aerial beacons atop each tower had rotating heads. The upper deck has probably gone through 4 technical changes through the years - the incandescent, mercury vapor, sodium vapor and now LED. The lower deck had for the majority of time, crude 8 foot fluorescent tube lighting fixtures, likely added when the Key System was removed.

[@DeeDee21479]

This is an amazing video👍🏼😊

[@tallspaniard1]

This was filmed with the assistance of the Police Department … They were stopping traffic to assist the Film Crew …. Thank you for the Time Travel .

[@timothysdog6130]

This is like actually driving through 1940s San Francisco. Thank you so much

[@Rosenbar731]

The guy crossing the bridge had both a front and rear camera. You can tell by the sequence of cars he passed.

[@asteverino8569]

Thanks for the new views of crossing the old Bay Bridge. Great!

[@thierrymassicot3667]

Ces vidéos sont incroyables! hallucinant..Mille bravo et mercis à l'équipe.

[@sfbluedevil8588]

Thank you for this video. I had been driving on this bridge over 57 years

[@ivanecho]

At 10 minutes mark, can't be certain, however it appears police in a patrol vehicle became interested in the vehicle capturing the footage.

[@Kunsoo1024]

It does - kind of creeped me out actually

[@davidwolf226]

I got a real kick out of watching that police car following the camera car!

[@NELSONSANDY2003]

I was born in San francisco, but, raised across the bay in Berkeley. I remember when the bay bridge had an upper and lower deck as a kid. My parents met and married in San Francisco in the early fifty's. My parents would have loved to see this footage in color .

[@nimam1171]

Unbelievable ! 1940s ? Wow how avant-garde and technically perfect 💞

[@osmobileusa5958]

nass muchas gracias por estos videos tan espectaculares de los años 1940

[@RudeCustoms]

It is so interesting to see no skyscrapers right before the Fremont Street exit. Also, I wonder what that Guard Shack was for that was at the Fremont Street Exit.

[@michaelstern4674]

I enjoy these vidios of the good ole days when I grew up TY

[@avengersprime5431]

Back when you could walk around the city without the fear of being attacked by a crazy ass meth addict on every street corner.

[@Darkk6969]

With so many cameras mounted on the same car would be like Google's mapping car of our time. lol

[@ronaldzent6321]

Neat looking Black car @6:29. Nice grill.

[@liddlekiddle1962]

Great video! Been going across the Bay Bridge since 1970! Who's in the car that comes into view at 1:35? I don't see a driver!

[@Rescue162]

Interesting indeed. Believe it or not, the San Francisco 49'ers were around in the late 1940s, as a member of the AAFC (All-American Football Conference). They even had winning seasons in those years (12-2 in 1948). They just couldn't get past the Cleveland Browns.

[@clintonflynn815]

Speaking of browns, you wouldn't believe all the feces in SF these days.

[@susanhumphrey6427]

Everything looked so new & uncrowded. And the cars were huge!

[@DbeeM]

Now those were the days ! When you could drive both directions on the upper deck of the bay bridge without traffic congestion . While the trolly cars worked the lower deck. Unthinkable now.

[@claudebourbigot4042]

Thank you! Already excellent. If i may, i think that that time, the roaring of engines were much more noisy. It was difficult to have a conversation. I recall when i was in a citroen 2cv and believe it was even higher. i am wondering if possible to get car actual soundtrack from car collection clubs.

[@keminoff]

DVR in the back of the car! Amazing!

[@dondressel452]

Incredible footage Thank you so much Do you have any footage of Marin county in the 40’s as well

[@thehapagirl92]

Btw that is the Bay Bridge in Oakland and NOT the Golden Gate Bridge. As someone who is a California native I know the difference and I’ve been there

[@NASS_0]

thank you

[@gaborgredely1848]

No Golden gate.

[@thehapagirl92]

@@gaborgredely1848 No it isn’t the Golden Gate. Do your research. Have you been? I have.

[@BixbyConsequence]

@@gaborgredely1848 There are many differences, maybe the easiest to spot is the towers shown don't have rectangular sections like the Golden Gate, but rather the X-shaped trusses.

[@michaelmartin4552]

Easiest way to tell for somebody not used to the area. If there is a tunnel right near one end, it is the Bay Bridge. The Robin Williams Tunnel is about a mile north of the Golden Gate and up a hill. Also, the GG only has 2 towers, one at each end. The OBB has 4 towers, with two in the middle. Finally, there has always been a pedestrian walkway on both sides of the GG. But there were never pedestrian walkways on the upper deck of the OBB (I heave heard conflicting reports there were on the lower deck early on).

[@jazjaz2364]

wonderful footage

[@ESPEEandERIE]

When you share this the heading identifies it as the Golden Gate Bridge but it is indeed the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

[@AdnanAdnan-gg7hg]

Beautiful thanks Nass

[@sergeyy-ber]

1:30 what are these pipes on the sides that stretch upwards?

[@marstondavis]

Sign for Par-T-Pak Cola. My mom used to do ironing with a Par-T-Pak cola bottle with a sprinkler head stopper in it. Also a sign for KSFO Radio. KSFO is still going strong as of today. Also a sign for Shasta soft drinks. They now make Shasta about 1/2 mile from my house in Hayward, Ca.

[@Felchenstien]

It would be interesting to know what movies these background plates were used in.

[@spankyharland9845]

it is like sending your smart phone back in time to the 40's to capture an event....so cool, so clear and crisp....

[@HerecomestheNixs]

I like how the speed limit is also painted on the road, I wonder when they quit doing that?

[@pyrotechnick420]

The guy driving was definitely speeding on the bridge with a cop behind him lol

[@michaelmartin4552]

hHat may well have been a studio cop car, and that was what he was trying to film.

[@ricj7517]

I was fascinated with all the billboards

[@michalbock7648]

It is really incredible to see real traffic in 1940s. All these people are dead, their children are now retired. It is just another proof that time flies. We should be grateful for our time here on the earth. We never know when we die, but we will die. It is just matter of time. Come home safely, kiss your parents, kiss your partner, play with your children, feed your pets and act like a real man or woman.

[@Waya420]

woooooow this straight up looks like now but everyone has old cars! what a trip. you can see how much they changed the roads in like just a decade too. like now there are lines and the driving seems to be more regulated. thats wild.

[@oswaldmosley6179]

For the people who live there today, is it similar at all? Somewhat? half way? Close? Not at all? Great video as always.

[@SidewinderFang]

Similar yes, but with a lot of empty lots/spaces then that are now all buildings…and of course, the lack of bumper to bumper traffic back then was heavenly…AND you actually knew your neighbors!

[@RaymondHng]

It is similar except the top deck is westbound traffic while the lower deck is eastbound traffic.

[@Non-Artificial-Intelligence]

I really enjoy these remastered old films! Will you be doing more of New York City and the five boroughs?

[@dgatan]

Btw it is so strange to see the Fremont st exit look like this in this much clarity. Makes it feel like a completely different place but today lol

[@epicvission]

I hate living in 2023, this video is awesome. From the billboards to the workers walking the bridge. Traffic enforcement directing cars, but I don't know whats real and whats fake. I can deduce the audio was added after, obv so was the color. but the details in the image seem waaay too cripsy for the 40s. Also there might have been two maybe three cameras used during this period - way too heavy and way too big to just sit in the back seat of a ford. Plus the work and money it took to develop the film, this person seems to have recorded their trip into the city multiple times. Very interesting.. Thanks for sharing!

[@srercrcr]

I can't help but recall when a section of the Bay Bridge collapsed and a driver plunged to his death. 1980's?

[@kennysherrill6542]

Haven't been down those roads in years, just the cars and trucks are different. 👍👍👍👍👍❤🇺🇸

[@petermaxwell2965]

Love all these old 'time-travel' video's .. Lol .. the streets and towns from then look like where i live now (Australia) just kidding .. but it's interesting seeing people walking along and standing around talking and wondering if it was much different to now? And the answer is YES!! Lol .. thanks for these again 👍

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@Dancecube_]

Wow. I love the Cars. Beautiful 😃👍🙏

[@theswordsmith]

Does anyone know what the tall and rectangular concrete bunkers were designed for at the Western end of the Bay Bridge just before the exit ramp? There is a small shoulder parking spot and call box right in front of them and they seem to extend down to the lower deck. Future elevator? Stairs? Safety Area for pedestrians of a broken down car to wait? Nuclear bomb shelter area?

[@ngprentee]

Bay Bridge :D, but now they put the road going to Oakland on the bottom of the bridge, and the road going to SF on the top

[@noellawrence9092]

As a lifelong San Francisco/Oakland resident, I would not have described this video as one depicting driving in San Francisco. It is 95% driving back and forth on the Bay Bridge. Sigh. I was hoping for more.

[@nobobyelse1789]

Well appreciate what you did get to see. Not too many of these films. I think it was cool to see 40s era bay area in color

[@williamdutton1993]

The Keys Train operated on the lower deck.

[@salvador1800]

Amazing !

[@zoltangal6818]

The original film, the film factory raw footage shot with several cameras at the same time, editing stills?

[@bartonlee3594]

Two-way traffic on the Bay Bridge then. Trains occupied the lower deck.

[@spiff8862]

....and to think that approx 37 years later, I would be driving that same bridge with 4 lanes heading into the city on the upper deck (coming in from Walnut Creek) in my 1983 Mitsubishi Cordia on my way to work at AT&T located at 430 Bush St.

[@1994CPK]

I wonder if they have a full video of one end of the bridge to the other and not the turn off directly into downtown SF

[@deanronson6331]

Some of the footage seems to be repeating at the end.

[@signjoey]

Just a guess but I think this film was shot by a movie studio for use in back and side projection

[@steves7896]

5:26 Model A era truck, just out and about doing it's thing, like nuthin doin.

[@SidewinderFang]

WoooHooo! My ❤️San Francisco! Thank you! Two way traffic on the upper deck and folks cruising around a breakdown like it was nuthin with no back up. Wow. Who’s working on that time machine I requested? I’m gettin antsy.

[@thestevedoughtyshow27]

Driving on the bridge back then was a blood bath, head on and side swipes were common. Where they got off the bridge put you onto I480 after 1957. I wish they had gone to the end of the bridge on 5th street and then we could have seen the round about.

[@MikeySmith-d9z]

amazing!

[@carjen121]

Oh my goodness couldn’t believe when I saw the San Francisco Golden Bridge. No traffic wow💕👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@michaelmartin4552]

This is the Oakland Bay Bridge. The coloring is incorrect, it should be silver and not red as it is at times.

[@josephhewes3923]

This is the same car, going across the bridge, with multiple cameras shooting at the same time.

[@teeguy100]

weird to see 2-way traffic on the Bay Bridge upper deck ( brand ne BB at that time)

[@723lion]

this is amazing...

[@LondonUnderground186]

2:29 The KSFO sign 😍

[@Fro_ozo]

I saw these old picture of San Francisco in the official subreddit for I think San Francisco or California but they were in color and the minimal amount of cars and people shocked me. I’ve had to travel threw San Francisco Numerous times to get over the bay bridge and Golden Gate Bridge , seeing the minimal amount of people and cars on the streets in this video just feels unnerving cause I’m so used to seeing atleast 100+ cars one way and 100+ cars in the opposite direction.

[@JustFunandGames]

It's interesting that everyone drove old cars back then...

[@d.Arbelles]

From Caldecott Tunnel east to west (Oakland/ SF) no more open space on that ridge. Should have kept the electric train system we had on the lower deck.

[@XXtheJUMPoffXX]

Back then no one doing donuts or setting off fireworks on the bridge

[@BixbyConsequence]

Been here 26 years and I've never seen either one of those things on the bridge. Great story though.

[@kosmostrator1]

The 4th crossing segment at 08:00, from Yerba Buena to San Francisco, shows the best vista view of Treasure Island from the Bay Bridge. If this film had been taken just about 8 years earlier, there would have been a fantastic view of the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition, the great world's fair! And if seen at night, the views would have been incredible!!

[@windsorkid7069]

This the Qakland bay bridge not the beautiful Golden Gate bridge. I live near San Francisco and I've crossed over both bridges hundreds of times.

[@danakoester5476]

Great job, do you have any footage of the lower deck action?

[@ONSTAGEMUSICPODCAST]

Do you have anything from my city here in Toronto?