Lost Film From 1906

[@panzerken]

All those people were once just as alive and in color as you and I today, full of hope and dreams. Now all long dead and forgotten. Kinda sad, spooky, weird.........but that's how life is. We will share the same fate.

[@panzerken]

I agree Rosi.

[@aperezvoyages]

***** Well said! Amen to that!

[@mattheworth9080]

***** you only had to be 104 when it was put on youtube...........back in 2010...so lots of people live past 104!!

[@panzerken]

but these adults would be like 125 or 130 years old!

[@wildbluefrontier]

***** This is a fascinating window in time for us to look through. Also a bit sad. All these people you see in the video had names, and loved ones, and were going thru life's ups and downs just as we do. Unfortunately I suspect at least some of those we see didn't have many hours left to spend since the massive San Francisco earthquake happened literally days after this film was made.

[@MrBloolips]

This was filmed in San Francisco going east on Market Street just before the quake. Not long after this film was shot in Silent most everything you see burnt to the ground after the quake. The only thing that still stands is the Ferry Tower right in the middle. everything else is long gone. Remember back then SF was the only major cosmopolitan metropolitan city west of the Mississippi. And it all fell down crashed and burned.

[@quentinwolf6765]

massesrasses Ryou If, as they say, God spanked the town For being over-frisky, Why did He burn the churches down And spare Hotaling's Whiskey?

[@GypsyFairy85]

+massesrasses Ryou Not all of it. There are plenty of buildings and structures in S.F. that predate the quake of '06.

[@einsteinjr4590]

+GypsyFairy85 Yes but they are not in the film. the Downtown area along Market in the film was all burnt down if not knocked over in the quake.

[@walterkelly]

Thanks for the info. Grew up just south of SF. It truly is one of the great world-class cities where you'll find every kind of people, including some of the colorful and crass kinds found right here in this comment section.

[@glennso47]

EinsteinJr The big disaster of today is Nancy Pelosi is their Congresswoman!

[@americanarmadillo1370]

I like that all the men are wearing suits and hats, much more classy than today

[@carabela125]

but they only bathed once a week

[@George-ie1si]

carabela125 Whether they needed it or not.

[@carabela125]

Yep, when the Beatles stopped wearing suits, so did everyone else.

[@sixsixxsixxxx]

American Armadillo who gives a shit?

[@sixsixxsixxxx]

Charles Martel oh bullshit

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Roads were just open spaces where people could go whichever direction they bloody wanted to.

[@michaeljackman61]

Milllllll

[@raflamar4146]

Now they are so cluttered that even the places you are MEANT to walk are something to avoid

[@TheRAFfc]

I see only one young person 13 years old commented on the people in the film their age and long gone good for him!. I was born 20 years later and look back with memories and some sadness of a long lost time... Thank you for allowing us to look back :)

[@mario6279]

Im 21 I sometimes wish I was born in that Era people dressed really nice even the poor dressed well the music is nice and calm and people were more social hopefully one day this style comes back

[@imasavage8029]

same here

[@imasavage8029]

***** old america is dead thanks to the europeons who took over the country the native americans once lived in

[@Perktube1]

マリオ 94 no air conditioning.

[@vanillaexplosion99]

Who Am I? Primitives were not doing much with the land anyway. Its called evolution and that is why the primitive natives have vanished. The Europeans and their posterity brought us massive technology and the communication making this conversation possible.

[@beyondspace3736]

vanillaexplosion99 of course but they don't care they want the whites money and women

[@omstrat]

wow I saw about 10 near accidents. People looked pretty careless and daring walking right in front of horses and cars alike. Great film

[@worldwildwest]

Right!! that was back then when you'd settle it out out of Court and out of your pockets because Auto insurance's middle men wasn't a big issue, in present days you'd have to bear potential witness to prove your innocence even after being compliant with the Law.

[@snotknows]

omstrat The cable cars like that your viewing from ride slow and steady bells clanging. Also the lens is deceptive things look closer than they are. City people cut things close but not as close as it seems on tape.

David Frigault: _"People were not that rational back then."_ - What nonsense.

[@Matt_Dagostino]

Worlds first insurance fraud incident caught on tape. Lol

[@felitoo1026]

Damm my great grand father was alive when this was recorded he was born in 1905 and still alive nowadays he's about to turn 111 Thanks to god and incredibly he’s still alive and in good health, turning 113 in December he’s been living all is life in Cuba and pretty much had seen what that country had became, I visited him last year and he didn’t recognize me at first but after talking to him a bit he did . His memory is blurry now but he pretty much remembers everything from his past ,from the 20s passing from the big depression and some ww2 stuffs

[@dukeshoots5296]

Thats insane! :o

[@stevechester3504]

holy you know someone 111!!! that's amazing if your telling the truth

[@1cmman]

111 years old? Congratulations. If he had lived in Denmark where I live he would have recieved a personal letter from our queen when he turned a 100 years old. :)

[@danielpascalp]

and how about ur grand father?

[@mpatmack77]

111?! Lord bless him!!!

[@jamesmaseobrown]

This is like watching life on another planet.

[@macmcleod1188]

Lost footage from an early Google Car.

[@doctorprostata5443]

Google Float*

[@dariusanderton3760]

it would be cool to have a time machine and send a google streetview car back in time, and then see the incredible pictures it would bring back. It would work best if the streetview car was also invisible.

[@onehappydogg]

Everyone cuts it so close! It's amazing we're not seeing accidents every 10 seconds!

[@Iykyk95]

2:36 some guy almost gets taken out lol but it is pretty crazy how everyone is just driving and walking about every where and it seems to work.

[@onehappydogg]

Yah, It looks like he purposely jumps out in front of the car, and then starts walking back the way he came!

[@lillianmargaretb9998]

My first thought. I would definitely get run over. Eeeek!

[@onehappydogg]

A mystery we will never know. This guy had no idea he was being filmed, and no idea that his questionable move would be pondered 110 years later! Makes me wonder if we have been filmed not knowing it, and that someone will be pondering over us one day.

[@justinwoolee]

That's what's cool about most people having eyes and reflexes at least on a primitive level. Higher vision is lost on most however.

[@TechnoLights95]

I wonder who each person in the video was, and the horses...their life stories would be so interesting I think.

[@NikoxD93]

Espir9 Yes, I'd really like to know where they are all going, which day was it!

[@FerretKibble]

Oh Asis San Francisco quake was only days after this was shot. They lived in interesting times....

[@itsparasharchoudhury4321]

I agree 100%

[@hautedaug]

"neigh neigh neigh" - typical horse's life story

[@bigvee401]

1906 dash cam lol

[@middler5]

jack masters I wonder if the driver was cursing at everyone.

[@johnmcclintock8004]

I can hear him cursing under his breath..what an absolutely time-warping film to present to us, here in the future..R.I.P. to you...a far-future seeing cameraman that WAS/IS way ahead of your time....and a greatly belated Thankyou, Sir.

[@alanclendenen2467]

This film was found and restored by Ward Kimble, an animator for Walt Disney, in the 1960's. It was originally made by the White Automobile dealer in San Francisco shortly before the earthquake and fire of 1906. Most of the cars circling the cable car are Model "E" and model "F" White steam cars, with one 2 cylinder Autocar runabout. Coming in the opposite direction is a 1906 Pope-Toledo.

[@newstart49]

Is it just me, or does it seem the people walking seem to be taking very long steps and each step is relaxed as to compared to today.?

[@gantmj]

The footage looks squished like when people try to watch 4:3 on their widescreens.

[@CaliBornNraised916]

its an old film man, probably not in perfect, real time speed.

[@macsnafu]

I suspect it's just a timing issue with the filming/playback process. Early film cameras were *hand-cranked* by the camera operator, and thus not too precise about the speed. It wasn't until they had motorized cameras that film speed could be precisely controlled. For proof, check out that banner in the upper part of the screen at about 3:00 - 3:30. If it's being blown by the wind, it should be faster and smoother than it looks. With a little video editing work, the speed and aspect could be "fixed", but the slight jerkiness would still be there. That's dependent upon how many frames per second were used to originally record this. Also, you don't think the world was in black and white back in 1906, do you? ;-) And, as gantmj noted, the video aspect we see here on KZbin isn't the same as the aspect that it was recorded in. If you adjust the video aspect in your modern, flat-screen TV, you can see how much difference it makes between the old standard 4:3 aspect and widescreen.

[@Pitereczek100]

they are afraid of electricity

[@sherry4868]

First dash cam!? Lol.

[@pbasswil]

It's a good thing those cable cars go at around 10 mph - horse carts and pedestrians amble between them as casually as people get on & off an escalator today! Fascinating; thanks for this!

[@icyminecraftpc5431]

I will bring Bugatti Veyron

[@julikzhulik]

Yes it is crazy how they just cross and drive where ever they want!

[@rexll5]

The thought of the cloths they area wearing and what they were doing and where they where going back then .. I enjoy seeing stuff like this and im 13 - About 110 or so years ago .. and the thought of thinking they are all dead

[@MrCelroy]

Yes. But, did you know an earthquake struck this place slightly after this film was shot?

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

@Death Otaku search up the San Francisco quake of 1906.

[@christinaburke2461]

Love those hats and dresses those ladies were wearing. Love the old tune. Wonderful glimpse into a lost world.

[@imranbaig9515]

I have always dreamt to live in this kind of city. loved the past. the present generation tall buildings clubs parties won't fascinate much.

[@runeknytling]

Actually, this was filmed shortly before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Many of these buildings were pretty 'new' by then and most didn't survive the fire. Basically, these people from the past got to live 'in this kind of city' for a few months at best. Also, modern day San Francisco is better than this but that's just my opinion :p

[@MrProguitarist123]

Ikr.. The past is so fascinating

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

Imran Baig If you think about it, it was just normal. If you were born during that time, there would have been things you hated and liked, and you just wore things you were told to and did things like everyone else did, it was only normal.

[@sixsixxsixxxx]

Imran Baig nah the past mostly sucked compared to now - all myth and false nostalgia and fear of aging

[@sixsixxsixxxx]

EASportssucksdick yeah because u didnt actually live in it

[@gmaneis]

That's the most amazing video I've seen in years. Thanks for posting it. Can't believe the way they dressed, dodged the streetcars, etc. And the enormity of some of those cars and streetcars. This is just fantastic, along with your account of its history.

[@countalucard4226]

Someone tell the Titanic to add more lifeboats

[@kimberley5592]

lol good one

[@esspee3733]

JP Morgan scuttled the keelbent 4 collision OLYMPIC twin sister ship for insurance fraud.

[@Jman926]

And obey ice warnings

[@94pruiz]

They don't need lifeboats the Titanic is unsinkable!

[@MalliTrAxxZz]

Or so they thought.

[@bchapman1234]

My great grandfather was a house painter and his shop was south of Market. He lost it in 06. My grandmother is gone, but she took me down Market and showed me these sights. I am glad to see what she saw as child. It lives on.

[@adrianlarkins7259]

Wonderful. Life was simpler and yet sophisticated enough to be able to enjoy the good things like restaurants, theater, telephone, cars, etc. If I could I would gladly jump back to those days but for one thing - the lack of medical knowledge and capability we have today. The traffic seems like a "free for all"

[@boojoogoo]

Yes life was beautiful back then, for fucking white people. Have fun living in int he 1900's being black, hispanic or asian

[@adrianlarkins7259]

You have the usual racial chip on your shoulder.

[@boojoogoo]

Adrian Larkins It's called being realistic

[@farleyboy6445]

***** You can't tell me that Black people had no happiness in their lives in 1906, they still had more strife than a white person then, but they still had their culture and cabarets and theatre. Go back 100 years and we will talk about Real suffering.

[@boojoogoo]

Farley Boy uh 1906 is more than 100 years ago, you do realize that right?

[@garymorris1856]

An amazing film. Thanks for posting. Hard to believe that it is just over 100 years ago.

[@MIREYENO]

Amazing video..my respects to the camera man and everyone who was able to preserve this footage... My heart belongs to SF....I love this City so much....I know SF like the palm of my hand...and it was so easy for me to recognize THE FERRY BUILDING at the end of Market Street and Embarcadero...Greetings from the Bay Area. :)

[@americanarmadillo1370]

Thank you for the coordinates i just went into this street on google streetview and compared it with this video! The tram lines haven't changed!

[@davidbenjamin2069]

Makes me very thankful for traffic lights, stop signs, lane markings and jay walking laws! hahaha. Great video. Thank you for posting.

[@gregcapp1635]

just think if someone would have stood on the corner in 1906 and started to rap they would have been transported straight to the mental institution ah the good ol Days

[@dorothyparker100]

Amazing film. I was so surprised to see so many cars in 1906. I am just as surprised that this bit of history has survived. Thankyou for uploading.

[@TheArmchairist]

This is just to cool. It just looks so cosy! The music, and the buildings, the people. This is just more then 100 years ago recorded. This is just history! But I have to agree, it seemed to be a chaos, no people like being a guard for people to come over and stuff. But this is just insane! I can't believe I'm looking 100 years back in time. All the people seemed to be amazed by what the camera looked like. The street is just grandiose, and then all the nice and cool cafés and stuff. Thanks so much for uploading this!

[@FireCracker3240]

What strikes me most about this video is the various modes of transportation all interacting in the same place at the same time: early cars, bicyclists, trollies, horse drawn carriages, walking pedestrians. It was a free-for-all, yet everyone seemed to know how to stay safe.

[@GeorgeStar]

Wow, what chaos in the streets! No stop signs, traffic lights.

[@brucepowell9252]

Rules of the road? There aren't any.

[@JordanRants]

the max speed is like 20 mph tho tbf :P

[@k0smon]

JR..... If I remember correctly, the speed of a cable car is about 7 mph.

[@Spaseebo]

Thank you !! Absolutely marvellous.

[@MasterMario548]

It's amazing how different the world was back then. I think it would be interesting to go in a time machine and visit that time for one day. My great grandfather would have been 10.

[@wearealloneexceptforthatgu7848]

"A Trip Down Market Street." Thank you for posting this. My grandfather was 10 in 1906; it's good to see a portrait of life in his times.

[@FloofyMinari]

I love mens fashion during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Too bad we don't dress like this nowadays.

[@bannol1]

Materials are much more comfortable and hygienic now. People used to wear woolen underwear and fabrics were coarse and stiff. Only rich people could afford real silk and and other soft, high quality materials. Women had to dress full length and there were no easy to manage, hygienic sanitary products available for that time of the month either. For style I much prefer the 1930s and 40s.

[@rlwieneke-cf3xq]

now they wear shorts and un-tucked shirts to the office.

[@44kryth]

Blame rap culture

[@jorgeandrade20]

Com'on, you oghta love when you walk into a store and see someone wearing their pants on their knees, now, that's fashion! ;)

[@shannonlouise7476]

Luis R. Some people still do in the uk

[@bobrich590]

Having vintage Billy Murray songs as your background music is a great touch!

[@japanfanatic1415]

What is the name of the second song?

[@AzakielRuns]

I wonder if people on that time were thinking: "Wow, kids these days..." "Todays music is shit. I prefer the music from the 1880's" "I wonder why pictures doesn't show real colours" "Nice driving a******!"

[@jimday]

Jump Blues is my bag.. What? "James Day & the fish fry", check it out !

[@BlueRidgeParkway]

The utter chaos & mixture of old horse-and-buggy, cars, trolleys, pedestrians..how did they not have accidents all the time? Amazing footage, thanks for posting!

[@rascal211]

Looks like there were no road laws. Go anywhere you want, cars and horse and buggys going anywhere and people walking in front of cars, horses and the trolley.

[@paulmassey133]

Yea and i bet there were little to no fatal accidents..with our solid road rules we know best lol

[@rascal211]

Paul Massey Little to no fatal accidents mainly because the speeds were so much slower.

[@paulmassey133]

L Lance everything looks much slower..and the people look happier for it. If i have a choice ill pick about a fifty years before this era :) in my next life :)

[@rascal211]

Paul Massey Times were not really all that good back then. You would miss many of the comforts that we have today. You would not be happy living back then because you are now comfortable in what we have today. Life spans were short and anyone could catch a fatal illness like consumption (TB) and other things. bathing or even taking a shower was a luxury that did not happen every day. Out houses instead of indoor bathrooms.

[@paulmassey133]

L Lance they were tough times no doubt and work was hard, yet somehow i know id get on well there. I get what you mean all the same. There's a very high price we pay today for those things we dont even appreciate anyway..esp the current state of our species "mind" is quite insane really...the world is much too fast for me no one in touch with themselves and thus cut off from everyone else.

[@bettyrussell4573]

my grandmother was 6 years old........... this was very touching tear jerking even.... the world, the air, the. water were so fresh and clean back then ..... people dreaming of the future, basically, everyone had respect for everyone else..... children honored their mother and father, and. respected their elders..... neighbors helped neighbors, food and shelter were affordable, and everyone pulled their weight..... thank you to the person of long ago lost era for making this film.... and thank you , for sharing this beautiful film with all of the rest of us....

[@francinewilson3798]

Boy is this old!! even older than me!!1906!!

[@francinewilson3798]

Love this!! Look how old things are in this!!

[@shanesands1980]

No fucking shit it's old you fucking dumbass

[@Zerpis]

@@shanesands1980 Por qué insultas a Francine Wilson, está claro que no eres una buena persona, tú eres parte de la destrucción de este mundo. Cambia la actitud y serás feliz.

[@ephiesters]

It's a pleasure to see my great-great grandfther runs in this video! I love him forever!

[@gregcapp1635]

You may had to walk through horse crap almost get run over by trolley cars and horses and they all are dead by now but how lucky they were to live their life without having to ever hear a minute of rap music

[@RodrigoCayo]

you made my day

[@frankanon4450]

" how lucky they were to live their life without having to ever hear a minute of rap music" Amen, Brother!!

[@sircartier861]

+Frank Anon yall sound dumb af

[@frankanon4450]

LOL Sir Cartier :) As a middle aged white man, all rap music does is make my ears hurt. My one daughter listens to some of it and all i hear is lyrics with the N word every other word, drugs, guns, killing and can't forget the bitches and ho's. So, not dumb af, just would prefer almost anything but rap just like you probably don't prefer country music. Peace

[@sircartier861]

+Frank Anon lol agree to disagree Peace

[@heidigraney4075]

I would love to go back in time to this era for like a month. Everything seemed so much more simple, so fresh and there's this innocence that is in the air.

[@niccoarcadia4179]

Probably the best representation of early San fran that we have. Since the fire destroyed it all, this should be considered historical.

[@all4musica]

Wonderful peeks into the past and those are truly " Reality shows " Treasures of how life was back then. My late Father was born in 1916 Watching these films brings back Memories of stories they talked about visions of bygone days. All through the ages, there are good times and tough times. Wars and Strife, yet those things are nostalgic and remembering the Good things makes it worthwhile.

[@leanichols630]

horses should have a national holiday for their labor and haul of us jerks

[@MrMethadrine]

lea nichols Amen

[@michaelbarone8152]

My friend is deathly scared of horses 😂😂😂

[@michaelbarone8152]

My friend is deathly scared of horses and would probably kill them if he had the chance no joke 😂😂😂😆

[@mijumaru97]

Michael Barone Being scared is okay, but killing is not normal. o_o

[@monoceros1222]

+lea nichols Watch the 2013 "Big History" documentary of human history. Horses have played an absolutely vital role in human history from the beginning. They're more important than dogs, cattle, or anything else!

[@LoweringMyProfile]

Ah, the good old days. Thank you for posting this.

[@senatorclaghorn]

World's first dash cam?

[@bobbyroy84]

Beautiful Video! GREAT Recording`s! LOVE The Footage before that DREADED Earthquake! Very Well done Sir!!

[@Hendo56]

Before the Model T in 1909, most cars had right hand drive. But due to the sheer number of Model Ts built with left hand drive, other manufacturers soon followed suit. Also notice that there really aren't that many cars- there's about 4 of them, and they turn around and drive back to pass the tram again and again. You can see them turning around in the middle of the street. One car has a license plate, and you'll see it over and over again. Also check the passengers and you'll see they are the same ones over and over. Probably just wanted to get in the movie!

[@grantfishing237]

Nice catch! But I think it may have been an ad for the car company.

[@MrCelroy]

And if ford made the model T right hand drive, Americans would be driving the "normal" side. Right hand drive is the norm for us.

[@Hendo56]

What is right, and what is wrong, is all dependent on where you are standing.

[@gloriapierce994]

I enjoy watching this old movies . I can just imagine how life was back then . It looked so peaceful no hustle and bustle. Life is simpler and people are friendly. Thank you for posting. Appreciate it.

[@seannaniganss]

What songs are these? They're catchy.

[@deltacomander13]

I'm assuming its billy murray.

[@deltacomander13]

Delta 13 or the peerless quartet

[@seannaniganss]

A bit late to the party, but I found out the first song was "My Croony Melody" - Billy Murray!

[@OZRIC1985]

Wow...this is really awesome and clear footage of SF in 1906! I had some relatives living there at that time. Some complete phone books from around that time are available online and I found several of my relatives in there. The phone books even showed the business each person was in listed after their name. It's amazing see footage from 107 years ago showing the differences yet some of the similarities to they way things are today.

[@derrickhowlettDQ]

Blows my mind! Hope my kids and grandkids will take a look and listen to this amazing time machine. This was just four or five years before my parents were born [dating myself!:)]; but more than twenty years AFTER my dear grandparents were born!! Oh, and about FORTY YEARS AFTER my German tutor was born. ("When driving your gal home, you used both hands ... 'cause your horse knew the way all by hisself! :)" ) Great video, thank you! PS - How reckless they were!!!

[@MichaelHarrisIreland]

If you turn off the sound and double the speed it looks more natural, if a little hectic. Brilliant video, thank for posting.

[@alanthomas8836]

Love the traffic regulations...or lack of them. It`s a free for all.

[@mcvooty]

Beautiful. Cars, pedestrians, horses, horse drawn vehicles, kids playing, no lane markings, no lights. and they all dance by or around or across, all with no one getting hurt. A marvel to watch. A wonderful example of how complex systems (street traffic) self-organize.

[@jaimemartin3891]

Thats Market St. in San Francisco, the film taken from a cable car, you can see the cable rail in the middle.

[@ryanrouse4928]

I remember 1906 like it was yesterday. Crazy to think I have been around this long.

[@SHONNER]

Deathrace 1900.

[@JeyPW]

Shawn Driscoll xD

[@henrycottrell2107]

Wonderful Jonah .... love this ... my father was born in 1907

[@shaeshaebritt1996]

EBO how old are you tho?

[@DownHavenEnt]

Woe, Back in my day!!! Nostalgia!

[@ABritInThePhilippines]

Love watching old movies, what a great piece of footage... Carl

[@guatenewstoday]

God I really wish that time machines are a possibility. It would be so cool to go back in time and see what it was like in those days.

[@aMarinedaughter]

Very nice! It's interesting that there were so many kinds of vehicles in the street, and there didn't seem to be much, if any, in the way of laws about who should drive where!

[@slicedpage]

The huge cars, the wide streets, the rickety horse drawn wagons, the people curious at the camera which must have looked odd sticking out from a tram car, wonderful. And the sounds would have be fascinating to hear too. The car horns the engines rattling the horses hooves and there naying. And probably kids shouting,"Camera...look camera !" and someone may have said,"Whats a camera ?" Not forgetting the smells ! okay maybe best forget them.

[@slicedpage]

***** no wonder people in still images then looked so grim..lol. But then again maybe it was the norm ! I suppose you got used to the manure,sewage,rotting fish etc etc. And as life expectancy was quite low,what the heck ! As for dropping some teenagers into the early 20th century (nice thought) sadly health and safety regulations would be prohibitive. But I am sure we can imagine with delight what sounds they'd make on arrival and not have any need to record that !

[@slicedpage]

***** Of course it goes without saying the had our forefathers enjoyed the benefits this time period they would be in much better shape. Sadly that was not the case. Yes we are in the grip of an obesity epidemic but if we did send back people of comparable age to meet their ancestors (ignoring the Grandfather paradox) they would still live longer due to the vaccinations they received as a child. Not to mention the distinct advantage they'd have in their educational abilities .

[@shannonwittman950]

This is most fun to watch in full-screen mode. It gives more a sense of depth, as if you're really peering forward through the front window of the trolley. Too bad there's not a soundtrack of cars and trolleys and horses' hoofs blended with a wash of crowd-talk. And I don't know for sure -- but I have a feeling the resulting imagery is stretched wider than it actually is (was). For example, there were plenty of limos back then. But some of them appear wide as tanks! Could be the result of the early movie lenses recording with a very mild fish-eye effect onto the film. Just a thought.

[@slicedpage]

That was one of the first things that amazed me with this video the size of the cars. I am not sure but I think the limos were that big ! It would explain the wide roads

[@TicTec]

slicedpage Iam 19, And i love 20s

[@hectormorales3109]

Wow back in the days I was born in 1978 I would love to travel to that time there is something about that time the feels good

[@olancreel1491]

What a priceless treasure for humanity. Like viewing another world. And right before the big quake !!

[@ericahulstrom7354]

My great-grandfather lived in San Francisco at the time this film was made. I don't think he's in it, but this was what the city of his birth looked like just before the earthquake of 1906.

[@nyfox1267]

4:57 Savage

[@19553129]

Looks like Los Angeles. Amazing footage , thank -you for sharing.

[@Kingbooger94]

Speed 1.25 is real-time speed.

[@bryan3550]

Fabulous (and scary) footage! My father was 4YO then. Thanks for publishing it. B-)

[@cynthialmccollum384]

I agree with the fella who said " There should be a national Horse Day honoring the time they put forth to build America before the engines took their place....where would we have been without all the animals that helped us? Let's give credit to the right energies that gave for us humans to be where we are at now.

[@jissethilario2815]

Right as always.

[@worldwildwest]

absolutely right, i even heard of issues with uneven city streets like San Francisco and many others where horses will drop dead of exhaustion while going up a road before the trolleys and diesel powered vehicles were introduced .

[@cynthialmccollum384]

worldwildwest

[@QED_]

When I was growing up, this was only 50 years ago. For someone growing up today, it's 100 years ago. A 100 year old movie when I was growing up, could have been of Abraham Lincoln.

[@foleyartist62]

Wonderful. It's surreal seeing such chaos on the street, direct in the line of a trolley and what appears to be some young men playing chicken!

[@jwalkin5123]

Probably in another world or dimension these people and horses in this film are still living and moving and walking about just like what we see here, everyday and minute. It just needs another vision-vehicle to travel with and visit them again. Maybe this music is also always plays in their background, nonstop. Oh how different we are today.

[@VauxhallVictorMan]

Horrible to think that EVERYONE you have just seen is now long gone. If the mad drivers didn't get them, time did!.

[@NikoxD93]

VauxhallVictorMan I don't think it's horrible, it's part of the nature, we can't break the rules of time. Just my opinion, death is not horrible when it's natural that's how I see it.

[@donna74ph]

Wow, my grandfather was a young man being 23 years old in 1906. I could only imagine how his life was

[@j.d.waterhouse4197]

Terrible to think about how many horses must have been struck and horribly killed back then. With this chaotic mixture of cars, trolleys and horses, it must have been a regular blood bath.

[@colemanadamson5943]

+J.D. Waterhouse.....yeah, forget the people....horses are the important thing. You moron.

[@johnnykaldani633]

J.D. Waterhouse : The cars traveled at low speeds and were more like carriages than modern cars. Also, there weren't any Orientals or women driving on the streets.

[@drunkenfish6274]

Johnny Kaldani i resent your last sentence! 😕

[@drunkenfish6274]

Jim Spencer stop putting words in my mouth you fucking troll

[@ThePianoMan1953]

+Jim Spencer No worries Jim. The low class ignorance of people like Rahmstation is unfortunately the "new normal." They are so uneducated and ignorant today, they are unable to write one sentence without dropping the f-bomb. Sign of the times brother.

[@jeffking4176]

Interesting "dash-cam". Decent restoration of the film---for a 110+year old "movie ". Thanks for sharing this.🙂

[@e.dejesus8264]

Ah, the sweet scent of fresh horse manure wafting down the boulevard...

[@jhendricks203]

Today it is replaced by tons of human manure, an improvement ?

[@studywar7075]

This was shot on April 14, 1906 which makes it exactly 6 years before the Titanic disaster (April 14, 1912).

[@GhostMachine09]

2:34 and 4:20 dudes almost get run over. I'd be pretty scared to be a pedestrian in those days.

[@Thomas05091942]

The first members of my family arrived from Ireland to San Francisco, in 1849. My grandfather was 16 when this film was made. There was one strict rule concerning horses and city streets. Manure had to be piled at street corners and not more than six feet high. It was fun to watch this. Glad to see the Ferry Building. People, bicycles, cars, and the street cars behave about the same today as in this movie. That is, no one seems to care! :)

[@beth9603]

Wonder how many people got killed in those days trying to cross the road D:

[@bigmikeobama523]

probably less than today I don't think they let women or asians drive back then

[@beth9603]

Oo burn, it's a good job I'm not a feminist and that I have a sense of humour. :P lol

[@drunkenfish6274]

Ron Burgandy 😝

[@joannekaiser1380]

Fantastic! While I was watching I was trying to decide which city this was. Searching for any building that was recognizable. I’m pretty sure it’s San Francisco, traveling toward the Ferry Building. I’m so glad someone took the time to shoot this film and you found it and posted it. A snap shot in time. Let me know if I guessed the correct city.

[@Trumpmakeamericagreatagainmaga]

U guessed right actually this is actually a footage film in San Francisco in 1906 a few days before the earthquake.

[@TedWms521]

It looks chaotic but it isn't, actually. People know when to get out of the way and the cars are careful to avoid hitting one another or pedestrians. T he trolley with the camera moves steadily ahead toward the Ferry Building, then only eight years old, and discovers a self-regulating system, though one which would soon give way to formal rules when traffic became much heavier. Note that the trolleys move slowly but there are many of them, operating just a few hundred feet apart.

[@alfonsogarcia1612]

whats the the song that starts at 4:37 or sum?

[@DireHammer]

Weird to realize when this footage was shot they were about as close to the time of the American Revolution as they are to today. Some of the older people might have even been alive when there were still founders alive.

[@LouisianaCreole]

Not likely. We developed modern medicine only in the past century, and most people at best lived between 60-80 years.

[@DireHammer]

Uh, ok. 80 years before 1905 was what? 1825. The last signer of the Constitution died in 1832 at the age of 95. People lived longer than you think they did and there were a lot of people in 1905 who were alive when the founders were still around. The Revolution wasn't as long ago as people think it was.

[@lawrencebrennan7436]

There is more to this film, taken by a camera mounted on the front of a Market Street cable car- not a trolley. It ends when the car rolls onto a double-track turntable at the Ferry Building (which survived the Quake and Fire) and turns 180 degrees to go back up Market. Supposedly a film was shot on the return, but that has not been found. Several trolleys (electric cars) cross in front as well as a horse car near the the terminal. Cable, electric, animal: All types of streetcar represented.

[@briteness]

Feels like a better time, but there are certainly many advantages to being alive today. For instance, we have good painkillers. And internet porn. Gotta stay focused on the positive.

[@patrickfoster4586]

Yeah, but they had Laudnum (a very potent liquid opiate), and you could get it by the jug over the counter!

[@swebb5142]

and a coke at the 5 and dime had cocaine in it!!!

[@carabela125]

they did not need porn. They all got married when they were 18 and had 10 kids.

[@alvaroakatico9188]

carabela125, but still you have to admit a variety was a thirst quencher.

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

They may not have had Internet porn but they had porn even in Victorian times, they had porn.

[@Delphinia310]

Honestly you took your life in your hands, no driving rules, lights, signs ..nothing but people running around in horse shit pure chaos...great video

[@tatmanco]

I would say its a found film If its lost you cant watch it !

[@MrCelroy]

It was lost.

[@edwardnobles6418]

MrCelroy was anyone looking for it?

[@jeremycubs8331]

How amazing would it be if you could only go back in time and just have a wander around the city, you would for sure be filled with amazement and overwhelming joy.

[@pascute118]

We've progressed so much! Humans are smarter than we look

[@justinbatters3509]

pascute118 No we're not...

[@greglarry11]

Incredible. You can literally see the automobile taking over but horses are still being used. Change in motion.

[@Xwaterwicca]

4:16 what the hell he could of got hit.

[@wyattgray3575]

+La La He'd have a hell of a bruise... errr broken leg!

[@Xwaterwicca]

+Baldy Nohairs a broken leg for sure

[@mpatmack77]

these people had no clue that 109 years later people were going to be able watch them on a computer,tablet or on a cell phone.

[@mpatmack77]

these people had no clue that 109 years later people were going to be able watch them on a computer,tablet or on a cell phone.

[@wyattgray3575]

Michael Mack on top of that statement "what the hell is a computer, tabled or cell phone?" :)

[@robfiedler2139]

This is actually a famous film made by the Miles Brothers just days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire in late April 1906. We saw it in video class. The film only survived the fire because it was sent out to be developed at the time of the fire. There is a version on here that has full sound, as well. The film title is A Trip Down Market Street.