Being an Old Car buff , I’m in Heaven ! Thanks so much.
@AlfredsVisions9 ай бұрын
I know what you mean. All that heavy metal and leather.
@soyyo1437 күн бұрын
Yes, we used to play OUTSIDE all day long in the Bay Area in the 1950s and 1960s! Best times!
@jptaylor Жыл бұрын
Sad to see where we were then versus where we are now. Such a wonderful world back then.
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
I know, I think that is why I wanted to feature the sounds of birds throughout this video to remind us that the natural, more tactile world is still here with us if we can only remove ourselves from screens and screen culture.
@dannyhood74339 ай бұрын
@@AlfredsVisionsGreat video. I thought the sound was from film at first. I figured the sounds had too be added. I've never seen 60 years old home movies with sound. Even the home movies with Natalie Wood in them. Those people had access film equipment. The best available for that era probably
@AlfredsVisions8 ай бұрын
And yet was it? Was everyone satisfied and connected? I will say that it was a world less mediated by social media and media in general. No screen time. Sitting close to the screen, which was television was discouraged and said to be dangerous physically. I think many times people say the past was better because there is that sense that life was more physical and social things happened only in the walking world or the telephone. Teenagers got bored and wanted to get out of the house and do something.@@dannyhood7433
@pi.actual18 күн бұрын
Yea well except for the assassinations, Vietnam war, civil unrest, Charles Manson...
@jptaylor18 күн бұрын
@@pi.actual I’ll take those events over the insanity and lunacy of today, any day!
@freelonmorris365910 ай бұрын
Look at all those kids playing outdoors! Horsing around and having fun!
@acespace725510 ай бұрын
" The following program is dedicated to the people and city of San Francisco. Who may not know it, but they were beautiful and so was their city. "
@AlfredsVisions10 ай бұрын
The Animals!
@dudedude9499 ай бұрын
Was…..
@Ma_Pooh9 күн бұрын
@@dudedude949 San Francisco is still beautiful. Unfortunately, there are areas of the City that are not, but it's not the whole city.
@davidgamble267310 ай бұрын
Kids...outside? What is this madness?
@GeorgeVreelandHill Жыл бұрын
Back when San Francisco was great and THE place to be. Thanks for the memories.
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
...and affordable for young adult who were trying to figure out their worlds.
@pianomoverr11 ай бұрын
Hilarious because my older aunts and uncles did nothing but bellyache about how San Francisco and the Bay Area in the 60’s was ruined forever. It never changes.
@calirose286011 ай бұрын
My uncle moved out there in the late 60s. He loved it so much that he stayed there.
@vernonbrowne-382610 ай бұрын
What happened?
@E.K.20039 ай бұрын
@@vernonbrowne-3826😂
@papaforever3706 Жыл бұрын
I love these old home movies. They are like time travel.
@MustangSally2.07 ай бұрын
San Jose native, born in 1954, this is great, thank you for sharing! Miss the old days!
@bartonpercival3216Ай бұрын
I was born in 1954 too. But in the city of San Francisco. My mother always took us down to the San Jose flea market and then we'd always have dinner at San Jose Joe's
@theopinion945210 ай бұрын
I love the cars and the chill of the era.
@benniebarrow34813 күн бұрын
Isn't that the truth ......fast forward to the craziness and filth of today . Great film.
@davegeisler7802 Жыл бұрын
Hospital Curve near Daly City on I 280 , everything looks the same 55 years later , except San Jose and the Silicone Valley hasn't blown up quite yet with development , very cool !
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure which part is hospital curve but it would be good to identify it for me and others. People ask about places in the footage and I'm not always sure. 17 and the Pruneyard are of course easier.
@bartonpercival3216 Жыл бұрын
At around 2:41 is hospital curve. 👍
@bartonpercival3216 Жыл бұрын
And at 3:38 is the tunnel into Daly City on interstate 280 you can see Seton Medical Center on the hill to the right as you exit the tunnel. 👍
@amatrixa292310 ай бұрын
Great films and I really really love the sounds. It’s almost dreamlike. Very interesting!
@RonOside Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Bay Area. The plane at the start is a Navy Anti=submarine aircraft. They flew overhead every 30 minutes for years to patrol the ocean and keep Russian or Chinese subs from spying on military ports, counting our ships.
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
Yes, some of them had more of a flat gray paint job with the black star I think in a white circle, while this one seems almost chrome.
@kcalb3180 Жыл бұрын
LOL people were starved to death in China back in the 60s and you're saying they had the luxury to invest in a spy submarines?
@RonOside Жыл бұрын
@@kcalb3180 No I didn't say that.
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
@@kcalb3180 A lot of money and resource does go to military whether or not people are living well. I'm not saying the Chinese were sending submarines necessarily.
@AlfredsVisions10 ай бұрын
I remember the big gray submarine locating airplanes would go around Sunnyvale once every 10 minutes or so as a kid
@ArcadianWizard10 ай бұрын
the audio is hella eerie but I love the footage, this is the closest we can get to time traveling
@sherry5667Ай бұрын
The audio is really weird! I had to turn it all the way down. It sounded scary.
@jamesgizasson25 күн бұрын
It's just a random mix of sound effects. I think this was filmed without sound on an early film camera. :)
@melvin151515 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for my memories. I still drive these same roads.
@jebidiahnewkedkracker1801 Жыл бұрын
Not sure what I found more fascinating---the actual video, or the weird "soundtrack". But, yeah, hailing from the Bay Area myself, I recognized a few spots. The shot of Candlestick Park sure brought back memories.
@r.hill.2369 Жыл бұрын
that soundtrack had me checking in as well :)
@james39610 ай бұрын
Track list plox
@benniebarrow34813 күн бұрын
Wonderful film......Thanks!
@dougsilva8603 Жыл бұрын
I really like seeing the old gas stations and cars really good times
@WAL_DC-6B10 ай бұрын
Yeah, especially that Hancock gas station at :39.
@bartonpercival321610 ай бұрын
I remember all those old gas stations. Atlantic Richfield and Flying A gas stations were my favorites! 👍
@MDOurMD24 күн бұрын
I lived in San Francisco in the early 80s. It really is a wonderful, beautiful city.
@benniebarrow34813 күн бұрын
Maybe in some places it still resembles this beauty. But mostly it has become a victim of the "woke" mindset.
@RebekahCurielAlessi2 күн бұрын
Alfred that was great. Thanks. 🌁
@JackWMatrix10 ай бұрын
The Pruneyard tower was built in 1970. So that's when that part was filmed.
@AlfredsVisions9 ай бұрын
That's good to know.
@jamesgizasson25 күн бұрын
I thought I saw an early Volvo 140, so that makes sense! :3
@mattgiguere563810 күн бұрын
Speed limit signs with reflecting dots with the black background....and construction zone signs with yellow background...Damm I'm old..Go East Bay. 1967❤
@kookienutquacker8692 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in the Bay Area. A lot of it looked familiar and definitely recognized Candlestick Park and the Golden Gate Bridge. The old cars brought a smile to my face. I miss the old VW Bugs and the large tail fins on the Chevys. The soundtrack didn’t match unless you had birds chirping on your car radio! Thanks for the memories!
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the soundtrack was just a sound collage that I threw on instead of playing it silent or with the sound of a projector. It’s footage.
@kookienutquacker8692 Жыл бұрын
@@AlfredsVisions Maybe music from the 60’s would have worked too since it was all taken from a vehicle. Either way, I enjoyed watching it. Those were definitely the ‘good old days’ to me. Thanks!
@Lightw8111 ай бұрын
@@AlfredsVisions I liked the sound collage. Very imaginative.
@dougsilva860310 ай бұрын
@@AlfredsVisionsmusic sound not that great but really nice video
@chaliwen7217 Жыл бұрын
I was in grade school in 1965 my family living in Hunter Point Naval Shipyards SF. I was bused from base to Danial Webster School, a tall brick building and we had to pass a massive 100 yr old stockyard that really stunk. Heard ugly rumors about animal experiments on base. it was a very rough part of town. One morning, along the shipyard waterfront, there was a massive tide line of used syringes and medical waste. You could hear the crowd across the Bay singing the Star Spangled Banner at Candlestick Park on game nights.
@platec4798 Жыл бұрын
There are no tent cities or homeless people in these old movies like there is today, littering our sidewalk. How far have we really come as a society? Plate C
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
Back in the day my dad could raise a family on a high school teaching salary and live in Sunnyvale. A house could be bought for 20k.
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
@Generic_Name_33 I understand that. I think the main thing is our social connection and back in the day there wasn't social media and one could feel very alone but the only solution was to get out and make a friend. The trouble now is the illusion of friends that we never even hang out with in person. Many things happen through video screens. In ways this means connection in other ways it means tuning out of the actual world around us. But every generation tends to think the last generation was better or that their own generation was better than the current. Things will change so much that when you are old you might be telling the young ones in your life that life was better when you were young. However, they didn't say Apocalypse Now for nothing about the 1960s.
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
@Generic_Name_33 I understand the worry. I usually feel hope that the young human being comes into the world fresh from nature or God and there is always something possible that might enter the world and mix things up for the good. My fear is "screen culture" and whether that might actually change the human brain genetically and create a future of sociopathic humans who have no way of knowing how to connect - connection not being built into society. I've only recently figured out ways to remove myself from too much screen time and I was born in a time we were told not to sit so close to the television.
@benniebarrow34813 күн бұрын
Sadly we have fallen as a society ........it's what we tolerate now. The lunatics are truly in charge of the asylum as the saying goes.
@bloqk1610 ай бұрын
The sound effects was cleverly used in this video montage. I've seen it where other YT posters would dub-in music that seemed ill-fitting for the visuals, which detracted from the visual. But in this case, the dubbed-in audio worked very well.
@Noah1997callahan10 ай бұрын
Take me back
@FrankRizzo804 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this video. I remember watching the Pruneyard building go up as a kid from frequent family travels along Highway 17.
@Personoidal Жыл бұрын
Love the soundtrack, it roll with the imagery
@melvin1515153 ай бұрын
This might as well be my home movies. Page Mill Road really got me. My dad would drop us at Foothills Park and let us ride down to the horse rental place before 280. Watching that guy on the ten speed really took me back.
@AlfredsVisions3 ай бұрын
I love that. That's why I wanted to post these clips. And of course you mean before 280 was built. The drive from Sunnyvale to the Santa Cruz Mountains would have taken us via 101 to 17 or Highway 9 to 17 and now there is the straight shot via 85 which wouldn't have been until what, the 90s?
@StanTheObserver-lo8rx9 ай бұрын
The old Schwinn bicycles screamed 1968 era. Banana seats and sissy bars too.
@jimmyskyblue6057 Жыл бұрын
It’s like the start of an old cult movie. Brilliant 👍
@onazram111 ай бұрын
Love the busy sound track... Spotted some nice cars along the way!
@pyrotechnick42022 күн бұрын
wonderful footage but that ambient track you used is the stuff of nightmares....
@AlfredsVisions22 күн бұрын
I chuckle at your comment. Maybe you are right. It's a separate piece of media. I figured I'd just put it up silent then decided to through it on. Didn't feel like doing some "When you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear flowers in your hair" kind of thing or "I left my heart..." etc. Thanks.
@jamesborden480513 күн бұрын
You were an adult at 21 and your license was in B&W. TRUE. Also, BankAmericaCard had just premiered.
@celesteflores3296 Жыл бұрын
I loved it! Just like I remembered!
@TonyJumpkins8 күн бұрын
Great footage, and also I'm curious about the audio in this video. Very interesting stuff
@AlfredsVisions7 күн бұрын
Thanks, yeah, most comments people don't know what exactly to make of the audio. It's just a collage of sounds in the end, like a wash of sounds from various many sources at once including maybe radio signals from space, birds and the white noise of car radio static or distant traffic.
@TonyJumpkins7 күн бұрын
@AlfredsVisions I was mainly curious if you produced it yourself for the video or not? Either way great video
@chrisb.1214 Жыл бұрын
Looking to see if I would spot the Zodiac Killer.
@johnhawks503511 ай бұрын
Brilliant soundtrack!
@ccc4eva62 Жыл бұрын
Interesting, all the birds chirping in the background didn't make a lot of sense, especially when filming going down the highway.
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
eah, the soundtrack was just a sound collage that I threw on instead of playing it silent or with the sound of a projector. It’s footage. At the same time if you listen for them, you’ll usually hear a bird somewhere.
@ccc4eva62 Жыл бұрын
@@AlfredsVisions No biggie, appreciate the video:)
@scottbarrett4753 Жыл бұрын
Sub hunters, Air show out of Moffit Field. kids out in the yard the good old days. Thanks.
@RN_BSN_PHN5 ай бұрын
That's me on my bike. In front of store 1968.
@AlfredsVisions5 ай бұрын
That's pretty cool. I know that someone recognized their car on Mary Ave.
@AlfredsVisions25 күн бұрын
It's funny, people do seem to get baffled by the music and sound. I wanted it to almost be sort of like an unfiltered mental space. A wash of sounds from nature, the city, space perhaps, old car radios, passing dialogue, muffled sounds coming from beyond the walls mixing into dreams and memories. Didn't really matter to me whether it went with the images. The images speak for themselves.
@pyrotechnick42022 күн бұрын
You call it an "unfiltered mental space," while I prefer to call it, "schizophrenia inducing." I guess tomato tomahto 😆
@AlfredsVisions22 күн бұрын
@@pyrotechnick420 I thought the same thing. Schizophrenia is often described, at least for some and unfiltered mind.
@JohnShinn1960 Жыл бұрын
Trippy. 🤤
@bobkitchin8346 Жыл бұрын
I love the dinosaurs in Scott's Valley. To bad you didn't have any movies of Santa's Village.
@churchofpos227910 ай бұрын
I always wanted to go to both the dinosaur park and Santa's Village, we would beg our parents to stop, but we were too poor to afford to go there.. Those were magic times to grow up in the Bay Area in the 60's. Moved out of the Bay Area 20 years ago and finally left California last year.
@rick37479 ай бұрын
I am almost 60. In the early 80s, my neighbor and I discovered hundrends of super 8 with great stuff on them including lots of 60s and 70s porn and homemade porn. Great times.
@AlfredsVisions8 ай бұрын
Exactly. Before video came out in the late 70s super 8 was it. In 1977 I had bought a b&w, silent three minute reel of a scene from Star Wars from Kmart of all places.
@AlfredsVisions9 ай бұрын
That is Highway 17 looking north.
@debranchelowtone5 ай бұрын
Super 8 was invented after 1965. If you apply stabilisation use the white hole on the left side as a target.
@dougsilva860310 ай бұрын
Really Nice old standard oil company of California San Francisco Gas Station
@daryllect665910 ай бұрын
Remember the brown and cream Chevron stations? And Beacon? And Simas Brothers, with gas @.24.9?
@bartonpercival3216Ай бұрын
Don't forget Atlantic Richfield gas stations and also Flying A gas stations!!!!! 👍🌉
@mikesullivan542 Жыл бұрын
Well I didn't see me in any of that!!!
@joelfrombethlehem10 ай бұрын
This home movie really needs to be cleaned up, picture stabilized, and perhaps bring it up to the 64K standard. A good rock music soundtrack would make this film shine, and sell it to Grateful Dead Productions with some Grateful Dead from 1968.
@AlfredsVisions9 ай бұрын
Good ideas but I kind of like the texture in the sound. I made the transfers myself with a machine I bought. It is limited. I leave the better transfers for when someone asks to license the footage.
@fmphotooffice55135 ай бұрын
Nice video transfer. You can almost see the film grain and I couldn't detect video dropped frames. So many film transfers are blurry and compressed to death. Likely those master films are then thrown out.
@AlfredsVisions23 күн бұрын
I used a machine called a Wolverine to do the transfers myself.
@gregh745716 күн бұрын
All the ole victorians were painted white including ours
@Gromitdog1 Жыл бұрын
Recognized a lot of half moon bay. Must have been fleet week with the blue angels.
@danielvazquez885610 ай бұрын
Great footage. I do agree with the commenter how generations complain about the present and fondly recall their past as the best of times. No doubt this present will be remembered as wonderful by seniors in the 2050’s and 60’s.
@rickytrux9 ай бұрын
Yeah…..right! You must be joking….
@HayagitaranHayastan14 күн бұрын
❤️✨
@jamesborden480513 күн бұрын
At 7:20 you're looking at some $45,000 houses!!!😢😮
@AlfredsVisions13 күн бұрын
At a little further, at 8:10, the ranch-style one-story houses, my dad bought one for about $19,000 around 1960. It's all about the silicon industry.
@paolo-n2000 Жыл бұрын
Candlestick Park! Never should have torn that down! 49ers playing in that sh#thole Levi's Stadium is an abomination!
@markrichmond2168 Жыл бұрын
The Stick was as cold as it gets. I was stationed for awhile at Hunters Point. Crap hole of the Bay Area.
@comfeefort Жыл бұрын
@@markrichmond2168 😂😆🤣
@bingdong857110 ай бұрын
Dude, is that a basketball gym mixed with a bird chirping for background noise? WTH? Anyway, i drive a lot of those roads everyday day and im kinda amazed how simalar everything looks.
@AlfredsVisions9 ай бұрын
You got it right. Basketball and skidding sounds with birds. Happens all the time.
@someguy49115 ай бұрын
The only thing missing were shots of Frontier Village. 😉
@AlfredsVisions5 ай бұрын
For that, you can check this video out - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oofXomdrd5l-hJo
@someguy49115 ай бұрын
@@AlfredsVisions Awesome! I spent many of a childhood birthday there. Thank you for sharing.
@herr_von_mann Жыл бұрын
hey, I love your film, would you allow me to record some of my ambient compositions to it?
@AlfredsVisions11 ай бұрын
You'd like to use the image and put it to sound?
@larrymalato3639 Жыл бұрын
Think I saw Charlie Manson's van
@dougsilva8603 Жыл бұрын
Times were a whole lot better the San Francisco Bay area has gone to hell
@ACDZ1234 ай бұрын
Sodom and Gomorrah...
@hom2965 ай бұрын
Pruneyard Towers being built at 8:39
@advjoe210 ай бұрын
Has to be at least mid 70s. Watched a few minutes and seen a 70 Cadillac and about a 76 Olds wagon
@JackWMatrix10 ай бұрын
1970.
@AlfredsVisions9 ай бұрын
Could be but I doubt it. I don't think these super 8 films were shot any later than 1972. But cars are a good way to date films. I will have to check out that '76,
@richardmorris70634 ай бұрын
I think the Caddy was a 69 could have been a 70. I didn't see any cars newer than that.
@ladyrose328510 ай бұрын
Ahh, when San Francisco suburbs was being build up and spread out.
@AlfredsVisions9 ай бұрын
That's right.
@beachdog6710 ай бұрын
Well, dang. You guys didn't stay in Santa Cruz long, did you?
@AlfredsVisions10 ай бұрын
I know just the quickest shots, but I like the old shot of the dinosaurs. Other than that most of the footage I have is from Santa Cruz mountains, Summit Road and the white deer up there by Madonna Park.
@daryllect665910 ай бұрын
@@AlfredsVisions I thought that looked like highway 17! Boy, was Santa Cruz fun or what? The Big Dipper and the bumper cars, and the air guns and the electric trains in the glass enclosure, and The Plunge.
@dougsilva860310 ай бұрын
What kind of music is this supposed to be?
@dflf9 ай бұрын
A very strange soundtrack
@edwards854510 ай бұрын
At 0:45...What road is that?
@bloqk1610 ай бұрын
That's California Highway 17, somewhere between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz
@dannyhood74338 ай бұрын
Jimi shows up in her dreams, Sounds like it really happend?. I remember women always find jimi atractive. I had huge posters of jimi back early eighties. The worst, but girls my age didnt say anyhing bad upon seeing jim hendrix. I had the good ones, We used to listen to B side in Nine to the universe after hours. But they were open minded. Although kids my age were starting to takk shit on jimi hendrix, anything sixties.
@dougsilva8603 Жыл бұрын
This is when kids could ride their bike at day and night and not have problems and cops didn't have to deal with shit
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
I would do just that - ride my bike till the sun went down.
@billzigrang70059 ай бұрын
Really don't think that downdrafting a car on your bike (4:11) was such a good idea.
@charlesrobert6211 Жыл бұрын
What's with all the bird chirping?
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
Here in Sunnyvale there have been a lot of birds chirping, especially this one mockingbird, but I also wanted to just create a soundscape and contrast the valley which was developing big time in the last fifty years with the birds which have been here since they were dinosaurs.
@panatypical10 ай бұрын
Did you mix the bird chirping into the footage, or is that live sound?
@pauldavidson127625 күн бұрын
cool, but are you brainwashing people with that soundtrack?
@walthampton670022 күн бұрын
Duuuuuuudddeeeeee! Subliminal Pro-Custer forces at play here. Must be his proponents for the upcoming presidential nomination. Wait, what century is it?
@7flag10 ай бұрын
Before libbys ruined it
@dannyhood74335 ай бұрын
Libby's Libby's Libby's with their labels labels labels.
@kcalb3180 Жыл бұрын
weird ass creepy audio.....
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I suppose it is something that stands on its own.
@7flag10 ай бұрын
Low traffic and population
@davestewart206710 ай бұрын
Clean new smooth freeways. Although they canceled a good portion of their programmed routes. There should have been a N-S 101 freeway, and the 480 should have been completed. An E-W 80 to the ocean would have been icing on the cake.
@jrriels963 Жыл бұрын
Great footage, but WHAT is that creepy soundtrack overlapping everything? It sounds like radio interference, the inside of a schizophrenic's brain, and maybe the Devil all on top of each other. Where did the sounds come from? I'm not talking s#!t, I'm genuinely curious to the creator of the vid.
@AlfredsVisions Жыл бұрын
The footage stands on its own silent. I just thought I’d throw on a sound collage rather than a nostalgic song or music. I think there is still a nostalgia but in a different way - bits of unclear voices and birds and ambiance.
@Crackerseed70 Жыл бұрын
@@AlfredsVisionsyes, I enjoyed the background sounds. Gave it a haunting tho comforting feeling, like being a kid in the backseat with your parents up front.
@ACDZ1234 ай бұрын
Sounds like something the Beatles had lying around from number 9 number 9 number 9