A Glimpse of San Francisco 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

[@NASS_0]

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[@sfeddie1]

This video is an absolute gem. I was born (1946) and raised in San Francisco. This video looks to be from 1937/38 because of the cars and both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay bridge are open. Except for the cars, everything in this video is how I remember the city growing up in the’50s. Crowded Market street, the cable car turnarounds, and even the ferry boats. Used to love going across the bay on the ferry boats with my folks. The City was great back then, not so much now.

[@sonnycorleone2602]

Sfeddie, Hi, I was thinking this video was probably late 1930's like you said. The time my father was born (1936)

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!!

[@NASS_0]

1938!

[@sonnycorleone2602]

@@NASS_0 ok, Thanks! 😊👍

[@sfeddie1]

@ Did you grow up in S.F.? I lived on the Sunset.

[@richholoch8230]

Lived in SF from 1984 - 1994. Once the Tech Bros moved in during the Dot Con in the late 90's the City went downhill. It was still a great place and clean while I was there. I remember all of these places and loved it

[@DoDayDem]

From Northern Ireland. America seems to have been very prosperous when other countries were not. Looks like a wonderful time and place. Wish i could be dropped into that time and place for just a few days. This is the next best thing.

[@TheDanEdwards]

" Looks like a wonderful time and place. "

[@ChatGPT1111]

@@TheDanEdwardsnope, she was right on both counts. America would not be at war for 4 more years and the depression was all but over by that time (1937). We are far closer to complete annihilation now so should we just give up?

[@pmafterdark]

@@TheDanEdwards Brain dead Ed strikes again. Like it's so much better now? Get your head out of your ass.

[@Augfordpdoggie]

it was that way up until the 1980's

[@juliasoros2180]

What a monumental buildings, and The Golden Gate bridge, and 100 years ago... Amazing!

[@athos1974]

For me, the 20's thru the 50's seems to hold my interest the most. I was born in the 70's, and listening to my parents and grandparents lives which took place during those decades is what is the most fascinating to watch.

[@chrissytaylor5690]

I feel the same!! 💯 Almost like I lived in those times once, in a past life? 🤔🤷‍♀️ The fashion, the art deco design, the cars, the societal and moral clarity, and the air of general self-respect most seemed to have back then. It speaks to my soul! 🥰

[@sonnycorleone2602]

Athos, I was born in the late 1960's, and I feel the same way as YOU and other commenters here! Everything you said actually!

[@shadykatie100]

Me too even though I was born in the 60s.

[@glennk1931]

These restorations are just magnificent. This one is especially fantastic, because both my parents, and grandparents were living in San Francisco during the 1930’s. My dad worked at W&J Sloan Furniture, my mom was the accountant there. Wow!

[@NASS_0]

Hii!! Thx!!!

[@Paolo-v4j]

Thanks for these restoration works they are very spectacular these images from over 85 years ago seem to have been shot today. thanks Nass

[@NASS_0]

thank you ;)

[@01FozzyS]

Another excelent video of our Bay Area,NASS! That was when SFO was still called Mills Field. Also the train station right after the airport scene looks either like Millbrae or Burlingame station. I live in Millbrae, just a couple of miles from SFO.

[@NASS_0]

Thx!! ^^

[@beatcomber]

Thanks, I was wondering what the station was, it certainly wasn’t 4th & Townsend.

[@sonnycorleone2602]

Nass, always loved San Francisco. Visited there as a kid in the 1970's. One of my favorite cities along with New York City! Loved the peoples dress back then. They always looked nice. Love close-up of people at 3:34! Cool! I love the cars of the period too! Thanks for the upload. 😊👍👍

[@NASS_0]

Hi sonnycorleone!!

[@sonnycorleone2602]

@@NASS_0 😊Hi My friend!

[@tomsisson660]

Thank you so much NASS for an another historical video from the past! Tom Sisson

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@shawnmarengo494]

Wow, I was so thrilled to see the San Francisco Airport terminal at 0:12. In the 1990s, I worked at the Airport’s leasing office. We were preparing for the new colossal international terminal that opened in the year 2000. One day, we drove out onto the airfield and I was shown a tiny building that was the original terminal built in 1927, when the airfield was called Mills Field. I was sad when I was told the tiny building would soon be demolished. The style of the interior of the building you see at 0:12 was copied as a tribute for the interior of the new international terminal (Terminal 2) that was opened at the end of 2000.

[@VSX1000]

Incredibly beautiful....thanks from 🇩🇪

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@1aikane]

Wow! A beautiful place then. Thank you for posting this.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;)

[@sammytheface8821]

FANTASTIC!!! Thank you, Thank you!!!... Grandpa & Grandma would have been in their late 30's. Dad would have been 8. Of course did not see them anywhere. But great job of showing many faces recognizable...Some folk now alive might recognize their ancestors...💗

[@UtopiaBlue68]

This is so magical watching from Australia, thank you!

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;)

[@gabrielleelisa5736]

there are much more people on these streets, than when I was there in the 1990s ... 🙆‍♀️🙄

[@MarinCipollina]

HIV/AIDS was a big problem in the 1990s

[@billimplom6610]

I remember when I was a kid riding the ferries from Oakland to SF in the 1950s. lots of fun.

[@althepenguin]

*sigh* If only we could go back.. 😪

[@Fevebblefester]

We are in the way…

[@mister.rico.101]

Thank you for making these video's.

[@NASS_0]

Hi Thx!!

[@MrZedelijk]

I love watching people busy with their daily routine.

[@mauiskater]

My grandpa was 21 and in San Francisco then as well ❤❤❤Gosh I miss him soooooo much

[@TheRealClevelandBrownJr]

Thank you for preserving our past it is really interesting and fascinating to see these videos ❤

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@US_Joe]

Great job Thanks - I always love your posts. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@NASS_0]

Hi Thx!!

[@brianholihan5497]

Great compilation of scenes. They're from 1938, when the Call Building was modernized. My father grew up in Detroit and was stationed in California during WWII, before he went to Europe to fight. I can easily see how he fell in love with SF's beauty. He convinced my mom to move out here before I was born.

[@UnusSedLeo-w5l]

Just wonderful. Brings you back to times long gone.

[@7SideWays]

This video quality is outstanding. Thank you!

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@exploreSwedenswestcoast]

👏🌟. Hey there, Awesome work, you really nailed it! What a fantastic film! Wishing you a wonderful day 💚🌟

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@ptyptypty3]

thank YOU!! for all these videos you fix and present!! they are amazing!!

[@NASS_0]

hii thank you!

[@mikeyh0]

Thrilling. Glad to see you're doing so well.

[@herberthartwig8544]

Charming as always 👍👍👍

[@gryhze]

Nass, thanks for another great restoration!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@ronaldweed6103]

SF is an awesome place to visit. I was there 2016. I truly enjoyed it there. I went with SF with a cuz who really knows that place.

[@josefradisz2133]

Absolument magnifique ! Les styles se télescopent joyeusement. L'activité économique n'est pas débordante en cette époque post 1929. Quel marasme !

[@NASS_0]

Un grand merci !

[@Hermes-ii6gs]

Спасибо!!!! Очень люблю рассматривать в кинохронике прошлых десятилетий сами улицы, людей, обычаи и многое другое!!!!!...

[@jec1ny]

Great job. Alas it kept freezing every few seconds. I suspect that may have been a problem on my end as no one else has commented on a similar issue. Still a great video.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;))

[@anteuzel5324]

Great video super NASS big support from Croatia

[@NASS_0]

Thx bro

[@clintonflynn815]

NASS, great work!

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ^^

[@6326893]

Wonderful footage ❤

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@diandian9827]

Imagine seeing Alcatraz island while it was still open!

[@MrLukealbanese]

A masterpiece 😊

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@anteuzel5324]

Cool video super NASS bIg support from Croatia

[@briansandvig9858]

Thank You!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@asan1050]

NASS! Thank you!

[@NASS_0]

thx bro

[@nastya7493]

Никаких телефонов, нервов, панических атак, мошенников, и такая архитектура, какой нет сейчас, даже не верится, и это в 30 е годы ❤красота❤

[@sharoncarthy3764]

I was born in 1948 and raised in the City. Glen Park. Nice to see the City back in the day. A lot of those older buildings are no longer there, but a lot still are. This video is from when my folks were growing up there.

[@bardo0007]

This is probably the best city scenes from the 1930's of SF, very good colors on this one.

[@emilepierre1663]

Before the highways and redlining, this actually looked like a human city

[@paulstevens6043]

Believe it or not most of these scenes are unchanged...but city has still been ruined by bike lanes and bus lanes and no left hand turn rules and the ugliest parking meters on planet Earth. The condos and skyscrapers are not built on the human scale. They make the city feel smaller not bigger.

[@MarinCipollina]

Herb Caen would agree. So do I.

[@emmgeevideo]

I've lived in the Bay Area for 45 years. A lot has changed, and much for the worse. But the list you presented isn't that big of a deal. Ugly parking meters? Ha! No left hand turn rules? You like traffic backups? The city center has tall buildings but that's not unique to San Francisco. What's changed is that social norms went from people acting fairly normal as pictured here to streets cluttered with bums. The city center has been hollowed out by COVID fallout and rich tech workers who bid up housing so high that mere mortals can barely afford to live here. Great companies and small mom & pop businesses have failed. As of this writing (November 2024), the failed mayor was deposed and a new mayor will take over to see if some kind of rescue can be done.

[@imransharif443]

Beautiful old movie nice

[@NASS_0]

;))

[@vpking77]

What happened to this once proud and beautiful city. A civilization that has gone in reverse.

[@MrsQ22]

BLM and Kamala Harris really made it take a nose dive

[@Augfordpdoggie]

@@MrsQ22 it started way before that

[@sdcoinshooter]

I wish I knew the answer, and it is sad, but what you say is 100% true

[@bardo0007]

@@MrsQ22 Take your agenda elsewhere

[@RN_BSN_PHN]

Not so. London Breed is fired!

[@salvadorperez9147]

A tear comes to my eyes to see it they have painted the streets Red!!!!

[@ronaldzent6321]

My Dad was 15, mom was 9 going on 10. When they married in June 1950, they spent a honeymoon staying at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. People looked very classy then, dressing nice. No yelling, cussing or probably, little Stress, yes there was still terrible racial divides then. 1938, about half way into FDR's 2nd term. Think America started pulling out of the depression more somewhat, WW2, that really changed our economic trajectory, one could say.

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

🤮🤮🤮

[@cynthiamincher5154]

Like go back time lovely

[@HungryH1951]

What a lovely time to live in SF. Things were clean, civilized, life was moving upward for folks.

[@RaymondHng]

This was not a lovely time if you were Chinese-American. The Chinese-American population experienced racial discrimination and they were prohibited from owning any real estate property outside of Chinatown up until 1960.

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

**Professional victim detected**

[@RaymondHng]

@@user-pf5xq3lq8i **History denialist detected**

[@RaymondHng]

@@user-pf5xq3lq8i San Francisco's restrictions on property ownership by Chinese Americans were tied to broader discriminatory laws in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which aimed to confine Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans to specific areas like Chinatown. The key legal framework that allowed for such practices was racially restrictive covenants and local policies. These mechanisms were used to exclude Chinese Americans from owning or renting property in many parts of San Francisco. De facto segregation was heavily enforced through: ● Zoning laws and unwritten practices. ● Racial covenants, which were private agreements between property owners. ● Broader racial discrimination that aligned with federal and state laws, like the California Alien Land Law of 1913, which restricted "aliens ineligible for citizenship" (primarily Asian immigrants) from owning property. These discriminatory practices effectively restricted Chinese Americans to areas like Chinatown, often under the guise of public health and safety concerns. They remained enforced informally even after such legal covenants were rendered unenforceable by the courts, notably with the _Shelley v. Kraemer_ decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948, and were formally prohibited with the passage of the *Fair Housing Act of 1968.*

[@coenfilm]

NASS thank you for another great restoration. 2:36 is the 12th District Naval Headquarters during WWII and my Mom was stationed there. I walked by this building from BART every day. The escalator would be in the bottom left. The road is closed off and it is United Nations Plaza now. Used to be a great Farmers Market there. It is now a Federal Building. The next building is the SF Public Library. Later it would become the Asian Museum. I walked by it during remodeling. The library would be built right across the street. The next building is City Hall. 4:34 I believe is the former Furniture Mart building and Twitter/X building. 5:28 to right is Hyde. Beyond statue is a statue of Ashurbanipal holding a book and a lion. Building on far right is Orpheum Theatre. Bldg beyond that is 12th District Naval HQ during WWII. To left of fountain is Asian Art Museum formerly SF Public Library. To left would be new SF Public Library. 6:46 is the SF Opera House. Walked by it one day with a co worker and they said “watch out” as a lady was walking a donkey on the sidewalk, perhaps for Don Quixote. This is Van Ness. 6:48 is the Herbst Theatre.

[@NASS_0]

thank you

[@itzikchen4885]

It used to be a beautiful city, even 25-30 years ago. Not anymore :-(

[@matrox]

I like how I see no tents, nobody getting robbed or carjacked.

[@Mr.Pink1992]

I miss this. Grew up during this time and loved it.

[@wiijiifit3286]

Hence why 1992 is in your username 🙄

[@TheDanEdwards]

" Grew up during this time and loved it."

[@pmafterdark]

@@TheDanEdwards Did you look into your crystal ball?

[@januszkszczotek8587]

4:54 in the the same Palace Hotel that still exists today? I think it is in New Montgomery Street.

[@badabing6474]

Honestly I know I would be behind the times and the technology and advancement wasn’t there,but I wish I lived back in those times.❤

[@Gregoryking-e9q]

Every country and city goes through tough times just like all I said to go through tough times like Detroit San Francisco because of the financial crisis or the covid but just like America those cities always come back stronger

[@crabwalk7773]

👏👏👏

[@raulvrilvalenzuela924]

I noticed how nobody is looking down on smartphones like people do nowadays.

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

No fat people in electric carts, no mcdonalds and kfc and starbucks, no tents full of human feaces.

[@tea98988]

When streets are clean, people are civilized and dressed with sense of pride.

[@lazedimovski5884]

❤

[@greg434]

Back when the US had infrastructure that was maintained and something to be proud over

[@shootfirst2097]

3:20 Thin, classy elegant women shoppers. Compare and contrast to the filth on the streets today

[@2MuchPurple]

Those are obviously professional models, who then, as now, were thin and beautiful. Models worked in department stores back then, as my mother did for a short while.

[@shootfirst2097]

@@2MuchPurple "as now"? You haven't seen some of the recent Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues or some of the runway models these days

[@beatcomber]

Why are you singling out just the women?

[@shootfirst2097]

@@beatcomber I was just commenting on that one scene. Plenty of well-dressed, thin men walking about, too.

[@beatcomber]

@@shootfirst2097 Cool, thank you.

[@The1313jeff]

Back when they had law and order you could walk the streets with no worry!

[@TopHotDog]

Well, the mob had quite a presence back then.

[@sdcoinshooter]

If someone can find a way to go back please… Take me with you

[@Curly34584]

👍

[@candy9986]

Once Diane Feunstein became mayor, things got dirty

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

Louzy comms this x. The last min : the PanAm China clipper hangars on TRI from afar.

[@monteceitomoocher]

Looked a great place to be then, proud people, proud of their city, proud of their own appearance, proud of their streets, the squalid scenes there now and documented elsewhere on this platform take a strong stomach to watch, America has lost its way, needs to regain its dignity and strength, amen.

[@TheDanEdwards]

Maybe you've been deceived.

[@pmafterdark]

@@TheDanEdwards Maybe you've been lobotomized?

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

My own eyes don't deceive. Muppet.

[@jude999]

Man, how far it has fallen.

[@TheDanEdwards]

"how far it has fallen."

[@pmafterdark]

@@TheDanEdwards Blind stupidity strikes again!

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

Cope harder mate. There are no tents full of human faeces back then.

[@Абрек-г9у]

❤❤❤

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Twitter aka X HQ 4:32....FRISCO FROM FLOWERS TO FECES

[@dario1837]

👍👍

[@thatampguy]

Imagine the smoking in the airplanes 😂

[@bkenglandUTube]

I can't locate the source on Prelinger Archives. What should I look for?

[@NASS_0]

you can find it on the internet archive

[@bkenglandUTube]

@@NASS_0 I looked but didn't find, filter for the 1930s and "San Francisco". Is there a title they used different from "A Glimpse of San Francisco"?

[@Mark-yy2py]

I am a native San Franciscan. Generations from now people will view this video, and will wonder how we got so far down the drain. San Francisco at one time was a world-class city ranking with London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. No, due to failed policies. It has the generated to a third world dystopia.

[@beatcomber]

Except for the skyline, it’s surprising how much of the city more or less looks the same today.

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

The people are much much worse though.

[@owais1665]

Believe me or not ! We are century behind than the contents of this video ... USA that's why USA 😢

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

Flight times were actually faster due to efficient loading!

[@somejackball]

what's the deal in alot of these videos, where you see this huge flow of people through the streets wearing suits? and how come you don't see that anymore? who were all these people wearing the suits, and where were they going?

[@jec1ny]

People dressed better back then. They understood that how you dress shows respect both for yourself and those who have to be around you. It's only in the last few decades that the human race seems to have devolved into our current state of laziness and slovenly appearance.

[@TheDanEdwards]

​@@jec1ny "People dressed better back then. "

[@jec1ny]

@@TheDanEdwards Fair enough. I concede exceptions for the destitute and homeless. So what's the excuse for 95% of the people you are likely to see walking around any shopping mall in the US today?

[@pmafterdark]

@@TheDanEdwards Yeah. And now you don't need to go to the encampments. Just stroll anywhere downtown to see the refuse.

[@beatcomber]

My dad, born in 1920, once told me that it was unheard of for men back then in most situations to not wear a hat, suit and tie, even during the peak of summer heat. This seems to have been the custom at least until the late ‘60s. Heck, there are photos of the Beatles hard at work in the studio, and they are still wearing suits and ties.

[@lou1119]

WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST B&W?

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

Do your eyes see in b&w? No. Well there's your answer. snob.

[@bkenglandUTube]

I wonder which train station that is?

[@faycs5360]

The US before the Hart-Celler Act was something else.

[@ShyGuy83]

Twas a far more respectable city back then, free of rampant crime, graffiti, needle drugs and human feces on the streets, and pretentious jerks.

[@TheDanEdwards]

"Twas a far more respectable city back then, free of rampant crime, graffiti, needle drugs and human feces on the streets,"

[@Fevebblefester]

Don’t worry, soon all the troubles will be over.

[@TonyGalano-t5o]

That is just in "The Tenderloin" not the whole city.

[@asteverino8569]

I will always love the city. Things are never as rosy as one remembers.

[@MrLukealbanese]

Rubbish SF always had a very rough side, particularly downtown.

[@JSFGuy]

🙋🏼

[@NASS_0]

hi!!

[@Southkoreamappingofficial]

Can you make Rio de Janeiro from the 1930's so i'm back

[@rolandas77]

when USA was first..., and greatest in the World...

[@TheDanEdwards]

You sound insecure.

[@rolandas77]

@@TheDanEdwards You sound leftists ideology brainwashed...

[@pmafterdark]

@@TheDanEdwards You sound like a dipshit.

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

You're triggered and projecting.

[@lilya7110]

Hmm I wonder what changed

[@jukkavirtanen1918]

Bad old days.

[@Gregoryking-e9q]

And right now for the next 4 years of America going to be going to some tough times but we will make it through we will get him out of office and we will come back even stronger

[@Augfordpdoggie]

look at the lack of ratchet behavior

[@Censored.225]

Isn’t multiculturalism wonderful?

[@mikewa2]

An indictment on both central government and local government in their inability to maintain public standards despite US being wealthiest country. Can you trust your elected leaders?

[@MarioMario-rh3rk]

acceptable racism era

[@roncaruso931]

Now it has become SanFransicko. Thanks to the Democrats.

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

Now it has become SanFransicko. *Thanks to the Governments of the past 100 years.* There fixed that for you.

[@roncaruso931]

@user-pf5xq3lq8i What? Face reality. The Democrats ruined SanFran. Newsom ruined CA.