Fairfield & Suisun, California, 1946 (HD)

Shot is 1946, this historical footage of the sister-cities of Fairfield and Suisun City captures the people and places of those northern California cities. Included is footage of city officials, movie theater audiences, the local USO club, and a Keystone-Kops-like segment involving a fire engine. Other sequences show the printing of the local newspaper, people involved in a church service, and other local scenes. The 6-minute and 46-second silent clip was scanned from 16mm color print film, shot at 24 fps.

[@kallykommiefornika6838]

0:37 is my mother Virginia, & her sisters Frances & Enola. 4:45 is my Aunt Catherine. All but Enola are now gone. It was a great look back to Suisun & Fairfield. A time when it was Kind & Gentle.

[@Grace-nq4bh]

Look!! No homeless encampments!! No fentanyl and heroin addicts!!

[@mm7886]

Now Fairfield and Suisun is a shit hole community. The Solano County Local Government, the police is amoral malicious and evil corruption. If you currently reside in Solano County and have been wronged by any local government department, a family service organization, non profit, a group home or a law enforcement department file a complaint with the Solano County Civil Grand Jury. The civil grand jury can investigate it. Solano County Civil Grand Jury is looking for citizens to serve on the Civil Grand Jury to investigate misconduct and malfeasance going in the local government department, a family service organizations, non profit, a group home or a law enforcement department to write public damning reports against them.

[@miami8089]

I remember as a kid spending my summers and winters with my grandparents in Suisun City during the 80's. Still remember the street they lived on, Terry Lane. I wish I could go back.

[@40nine99]

Been here 42 yrs never left.. Since 1977

[@benmanuel3502]

The teenagers in this film are now in their 90s, crazy to think about!

[@Midik5925]

I was just thinking that also. if you were 16 in 1946, you would be either 91 or 92. The young soldiers, would be even older than that. Pushing 100

[@robt5818]

Thanks for sharing this footage!

[@SuisunSymKat]

Love seeing my mother, Virginia Downer and aunts Frances & Enola in this film. At the USO is my aunt Catherine Downer.

[@DavesArchives]

this scan is absolutely amazing...not sure if I've seen 16mm scans this good from the 40s.

[@LiLgPnoy15]

I work in Fairfield, seeing this is crazy!

[@tre2cold398]

This area is still nice to live in

[@daviannelanders3209]

I grew up there. My dad was stationed at Travis AFB. Lived there from 1962 until 1984

[@daveshively3295]

Same story here. Moved here when I was 1 in 1969 and am still here. Think I'll stay...lol.

[@Chris_Wolfgram]

Me too :) Father was also stationed at Travis.

[@josephlara5729]

Been here since 84. Yeah our town is getting ghetto , but I love Fairfield and the memories I have.

[@OnePalestine1948]

Wonderful! I grew up in Fairfield. Hung out in Suisun which was the cool spot of the time. Anyone remember “The Other Place bar where Sterlings use to be? Amazing watching these videos.amazing in the Suisun video the old bars were still there in the 79s from the 40’s!

[@frankbuckner1349]

I grew up there as well it a nice place to be at that time

[@ValuableExposure]

Amazing video! The audio gets so dramatic at minute 4 😂

[@visionseeker68]

Nice, sixy-four years before I lived there in Fairfield.

[@danielroque8504]

Such a beautiful time! I know most would say (like myself) take me back to that time period, but it wasn't all peaches and cream! Fantastic vid

[@silvrx-pz3ce]

It's amazing when I see old people in these videos because they were alive in the 1800s yet they act like people do today as well as the rest of the people in this old video, the 1800s always fascinated me. Yet these 1940 people are very similar to today's society.

[@mariovillella5315]

People in the future are going to say you lived in 1900s its just a life cycle.

[@silvrx-pz3ce]

@@mariovillella5315 or the 2000s lol

[@None-zc5vg]

I've interacted with people from the 19th Century (including family members). I don't think they would have been unable to cope with today's version of the world, having transited from the 'horse-and-buggy' era through two major wars, to t.v. and 'The Bomb'. What is sobering (to me, anyway) is that the overlapping end-to-end lives of some 40 people each living to about (say) 70 would cover 2000 years, a period that would see massive change in all areas, particularly in language.We can look back a century and have little or no trouble 'handling' the language of back then, yet its all changed so drastically in 500 years.

[@cashstore1]

Back in the days when California was actually a nice place to live.

[@hisroyalfreshness4938]

it still is you just gotta see the light in the darkness

[@lakyraturner6047]

When segregation was still legal? Your "smart"

[@cashstore1]

@@lakyraturner6047 I was just in San Diego. I had a person come up to my wife on the sidewalk and call her a Fucking Bitch. Then there was the time in San Francisco when a person on the street exposed himself in front of my wife. Never in my life have I ever encountered such a thing anywhere in world, but California. Then you have literacy rate of California. The LOWEST of any state in the country. One in 4 people cannot read or write.

[@marcobechere4452]

There was not segregation in California

[@VajjEater707]

@@lakyraturner6047you sound ignorant and part of the problem of what today is a disrespectful times back then there was so much respect

[@None-zc5vg]

Looks like the volunteer fire brigade turning out. A lot of the men back then (see 1.50) seemed heavy featured: to me, they look older (to me) in this clip than I am now (at 75).

[@tuyetvo4353]

Beautiful.

[@spacecitysprockets]

The beauty of film, a physical medium. Will those iphones movies you shot still be around 75 years from now? I wouldn't bet on it!

[@None-zc5vg]

The way things are going, the U.S. and Europe may be glass deserts in a lot less time than 75 years: any survivors may have more to concern themselves with in their "Year Zero" world.

[@3men1pencil60]

@@None-zc5vg how its gonna be like that can you elaborate ? Like glass of desert thing

[@mr72sweaty35]

Holy Fairfield has changed a lot over the years

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Take me back I`m begging please , take me back I`m on my knees . I want a good ten cent hamburger

[@theomartin7508]

War noch nicht geboren bin 49er jahrgang würde mich so gerne zurück versetzen.

[@TheLuna6973]

That is where I live

[@jimjackson4256]

My mother would have been 19 then just like one of the young women there.

[@ummglick]

Music does not fit … try swing

[@AutoWorldzz]

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[@whatsgoingon07]

President Roosevelt @3:47

[@VUTUV1900]

A dalia negra ta ai no meio dessas mulheres....................💥💀💥 o tempo e cruel demais.......💀

[@osaida8039]

Essas imagens só me remete a ela

[@nicholaslove6204]

ive livd heer my whole life

[@fraybenitez5280]

Hace 77 años , todas las personas que salen en el vídeo ya están muertas , hasta los más jóvenes .

[@rene29200]

❤️😻😎👍

[@Trey.5]

This my place

[@aninternetuser4475]

The guy at 1:16 looks scarily similar to John Deacon from Queen

[@johna2193]

Cool old video of the 1940s in California, but odd choice of music.

[@exohauler]

I grew up there. a much more civilized time. I think the camera ma had a fetish for legs. lol

[@jomshobbies]

at 1:29 Tom Hanks!

[@whatsgoingon07]

He looks nothing like Tom Hanks

[@marcobechere4452]

Ah, the good old patriarchal society

[@shedontanks]

Back when things were proper and done right

[@mm7886]

But Now Fairfield and Suisun is a shit hole community. The Solano County Local Government, the police are amoral malicious evil corruption. If you currently reside in Solano County and have been wronged by any local government department, a family service organization, non profit, a group home or a law enforcement department file a complaint with the Solano County Civil Grand Jury. The civil grand jury can investigate misconduct and malfeasance taking place behind closed doors. Solano County Civil Grand Jury is looking for citizens to serve on the Civil Grand Jury to investigate misconduct and malfeasance going in the local government department, a family service organizations, non profit, a group home or a law enforcement department to write public damning reports against them.

[@tuyetvo4353]

The old time man can smoke in a theater ?

[@beastx5323]

7o7

[@jamielunes1841]

Falcon!

[@daveshively3295]

Indian!...lol.

[@blountout6285]

turn into gangland now

[@BarryBrookens]

Nice film. Horrible soundtrack.

[@FastJumpinJackFlash]