San Francisco early 40's,50's in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of the San Francisco early 40's and early 50's you can clearly see what is going on during the day, we start with a tower in the downtown area, Passing by the Market Street, After a drive in the early 50's in the residential area, At the end a panoramic view of the city of San Francisco,
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔sound design added only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Rick Prelinger, Internet Archive
Rights to the black and white Video Source are held by Internet Archive. under the Creative Commons Attribution License

[@NASS_0]

Like and Share Please!

[@ethanbowie3050]

IMPRESSIVE TIME TRAVEL VIDEO////////////////HUGE THANKS FOR THIS STUNNING EFFORT 👍

[@ethanbowie3050]

IS IT DUST COVERING THE CARS OR SOME //COLOR EFFECT// ??

[@michaelhilber8284]

@@ethanbowie3050 1:44 It looks like rust. Lousy color effects. Would have been better to be black and white. This way the cars look rusted.

[@ethanbowie3050]

@@michaelhilber8284 YES.....I AGREE.

[@ClueSign]

Loved it -- especially since it focuses on less-well-known areas of the city. The outer Richmond near Geary off Sutro Cliffs looks so much the same; loved how it turned into Lincoln Park onto the golf course, heading toward the ocean past the Legion of Honor. Miss my home town of 28 years...

[@marketstreetrailway]

The first past of this film is between mid-March and early June 1948 on Market and Sixth Street. We know that from the streetcar marked for the temporary 32-line, which ran for only those three months. The scenes at the Ferry Building appear to be the late 1930s, after the bridge opened but before most streetcars moved to the Bridge terminal in 1939. The last long scene leaving Sutro Baths and ending on the unopened Embarcadero Freeway is from the 1957 film "The Lineup".

[@alexmichael8615]

Bros Rain man

[@michaelhilber8284]

Yes thank you for that information. Vastly different dates spliced together. Even the 1930's. " The scenes at the Ferry Building appear to be the late 1930s,..."

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

Thank you for sharing that beautifully arcane fact. I am a native and still live here and didn't know that!! 🌷

[@pyrotechnick420]

This is the kind of info I wish I had while watching these videos

[@pyrotechnick420]

In the last clip, the most prominent building in the shot was 630 Sansone.

[@oldguy2082]

Wonderful! Enjoyed the view of Sixth Street from Market; clean and full of life, not run down and full of dirt and grime as it now. The Market Street view with four trolley tracks would place the sometime before 1945. Muni took over the Market Street Railway after an election and began removing the outer rails late in 1944. A consolidation of trolley lines began shortly after the takeover and most trolley lines were gone by late 1948.

[@alta9dena]

I think the Market Street scenes were filmed in early 1948 because a cinema appears to be showing a Bette Davis film Winter Meeting , which was released April 7, 1948. There seem to be far too many cars about for this to be a wartime scene. Later scenes showing cars climbing a steep hill, appear to be much earlier, like late 20's/ early 30's, since none of the parked cars are streamlined.

[@gryhze]

7:00 - the segment under the Embarcadero Freeway with the police roadblock is a scene from “The Lineup” (1958) the movie version of the TV series “San Francisco Beat.” Another great restoration NASS.

[@matrox]

✊😁

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@michaelkonopka]

I think might have been a test run for the chase scene, that movie is a Don Siegel classic , you have great taste in movies.

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

My friend's grandfather is Tom Tully from San Francisco Beat!!

[@gryhze]

Wow, that’s incredible! Wonder about the whereabouts of those episodes. KRON4 ran that program. A couple of episodes showed Montgomery and Union Streets; copied by Streets of SF and Bullet.

[@jeanhansel5805]

Thank you so much for this video! I've always wondered what the City looked like in the early 40's and 50's, and this video allowed me to time travel back to those times. I'll need to watch this several times to be sure I don't miss any of the treasures shown here. It's wonderful to have a glimpse of the Tenderloin as it once was with all those fabulous clubs. And a glimpse of the Fox Theater on Market Street was a wonderful surprise! The footage of the old produce market and the Ferry Building and how the surrounding areas once looked was wonderful too. Arriving here in 1964, I was fortunate enough to be able to partake in some of the old (relatively speaking) San Francisco. I love the videos you post. Keep us the good work!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@ClueSign]

I wasn't sure if the clubs were in the Tenderloin or on Pacific in the old Barbary Coast nightclub row, but in any case, I can certainly see how the oldtimers who were still around when I moved to SF 40 years ago, were so deeply nostalgic. SF at its peak for sure.

[@zackwheat5770]

“Painless Parker” at 1:26 has a interesting story. A rogue dentist, shunned by his contemporaries, built an empire, and legally changed is name to “Painless” in order to avoid false advertising charges.

[@BrassLock]

🤣🤣🤣

[@danosf]

Painless Parker was in Downtown Oakland as well. Broadway and 12th I think...

[@ClueSign]

Wow -- that's crazy -- and sooo SF.

[@yetta1944]

To the time traveller who filmed this - thank you so so much from 2022.

[@asteverino8569]

Although I was born in SF in 1954, so many businesses, signs and roads I remember well. That ride up the steep hill, (maybe California St.) may have been in the thirty's. I liked the silhouette of the two people in the car ahead of the camera car. Thanks.

[@matrox]

Yeh...same thing I noticed. The 2 people looked ghostly because they are dead and had no clue they would be shown on film 85 years later.

[@amiraseri]

Impressive, kudos to the team. Great work. Video quality even seems a much better picture resolution compared to some current video taken from smartphones.

[@thomashill2965]

Great, priceless footage. Particularly loved that 1933 Buick starting at 1:30, that passed the 1940 Dodge, especially when it "took its bow" with the front-end closeup at 2:00. The 1933 Buicks were not big sellers when new, with only 46,924 total built. Compare that with 374,196 Buicks built in 1941. That '33 must have been a rare sight by the time that '40s footage was made. All of your work is terrific--thanks so much!

[@じゅん-k5d]

凄い…日本の発展はアメリカの支援のおかげであることを日本人は忘れてはいけない。

[@massey4business]

Wow! Your videos are amazing! Doesn't matter to me if the colors ain't historically accurate, they look awesome! Almost dizzying they're so smooth! Love that 60 FPS!

[@dr.skipkazarian5556]

Opening frames Mission and South Van Ness......as if it were yesterday....thank you for the great memories of "my City by the Bay"!

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

Thank you!!!! A beautiful portrait of my beautiful town, much of it exactly the same and a panorama of all my favorite places!!! 😊

[@spankyharland9845]

the Cliff house and Embarcadero footage is from the 1958 film "The Lineup"- and is most likely the film they used for the back drop motion on the chase scene that took place at the end of the film, this is why the film car is going so fast.

[@alanolson6913]

At 5:14 theres a’56 Ford Thunderbird pulling out into traffic. For those of us who own a Thunderbird, it makes it fun for us to see it just “ driving around “ when it was fairly new.

[@TheTassMen]

I was born in 1980 and i always think i was born in the wrong time when i see this videos. when i walk in the streets and see al the people only interested in her own mobilephones then i wished i was born in this time. it captivates me and i wished i had a time mashine

[@Michaela1942]

I was a child in the 40s-early 50s in San Francisco so I appreciate these videos. One thing, the street cars were green, white and pale yellow and they were clean and shiny. They were never dirty purplish grey.

[@Anne-qj6xo]

These are very interesting videos. What strikes me the most about the older videos is the lack of overweight people. Americans were much thinner before the advent of processed foods full of sugar and soybean oils, as well as super sized fast food. Anyhow, love those old cars. :)

[@Wopayne]

All so primitive. But they were none the wiser. Just as we cannot know 2100 AD. Thanks to the people who took this footage! And thanks to whoever saved it! And thanks for the restoration!

[@willp.8120]

Primitive?

[@drscopeify]

It was pretty modern considering the time, you had normal indoor plumbing and electrical lighting and at least an electric fridge and range or cook top by the end of the 40s. All kinds of gadgets, mixers, toasters, shavers were already very common. Most had a Radio but no TVs for a while to come. The only major appliances missing were clothes washers in the 50s-70s and clothes dryers and Dish washers which were more of a 80s-90s thing

[@edwardr5084]

Looks like people dressed well. Streets looks clean. No drug addicts and tents. I think they would say that TODAY looks primitive.

[@Wopayne]

@@edwardr5084 It is always a mix of old and new. It moves through time. I am sure today's wonders, if any survive will appear quaint and primitive a thousand years from now. Of course there is the possiblity that our junk could impress those people! It's hard to predict the future accurately. For sure, there will be scant records about us. Paper is perishable but digital is definitely doomed.

[@edwardr5084]

@@Wopayne Hummm....I'm sorry but I laughed after reading your comment. It appears that you're attempting to be profound but you're missing the mark. I don't think the drug and waste filled streets of today will impress anyone, ever. It shows a very selfish and juvenile people. You can point out all the flaws of "yesterday" but I feel that respect was a common trait that has been lost.

[@horizontalblanking]

Taking the turn by Sutro Baths @5:15, you can see an empty lot that would become the Seal Rock Inn. Then a sharp turn on to Seal Rock Dr, which becomes Clement St by the VA Hospital where my Father worked!

[@dogsense3773]

My wife worked there from 1992-2017 and I go to that hospital a few times a year.thanks!

[@Nualchemist]

This is my neighborhood. Seeing all those familiar streets in old time is really fascinating! Market Street back then feels much wider and more relaxing.

[@gretetimm]

5:00 BEST COLORED - Am besten gefärbt! Congratulation - Glückwunsch NASS! Thanks for the insight into side streets.

[@DotDotKai]

wow i cant believe how many of the buildings i used to work in are in this video. that's amazing.

[@ClueSign]

Same here.

[@bobbysands6923]

Wow, this is just stunning. As usual, the work of professionals. And what a beautiful city it once was.

[@emylrmm]

@1:32 the RKO Golden Gate marquee reads " Fort Apache - John Wayne ". The release date of that motion picture pegs the first few minutes of this footage to about April 1948.

[@nachtjager77]

I love these videos because they prove how widely unpopular wide whitewall tires were - always! From the 1920s through the 1950s, they were never "mainstream" and every idiot who restores an old car today thinks they were the norm. I've argued this down with plenty of antique car owners, and I own a '29 Packard myself, and most of them look at me like I'm crazy. These videos offer concrete proof. Keep up the good work!

[@geneval3151]

Great video/film of my hometown. Looked like 2 decades of film..... 40's, 50's. Loved every second of it. So nicely done (as always) Nass. Thank you.

[@matrox]

1930s included.

[@BrassLock]

​@@matrox I agree Nicky, the hilly segment is definitely 1930's with all those older cars.

[@geneval3151]

@@matrox you are correct!!!!

[@SiennaWeekend]

Almost had a heart attack at 7:20

[@gabedl2834]

🤯 How!?!? 💀

[@bluemango7112]

Memories of Blues Bros being chased by the Nazi's scene , scary , not much to stop you from flying .

[@Mr.Rico.101]

Thank you for making these video's.

[@GeeBoggs]

This footage is absolutely incomparable. I ived in S.F. for about 15 years and to see the same locations as they were some 40 years prior was quite a treat. I particularly enjoyed the drive over the now absent Embarcadero Freeway. - Gee Boggs, Sonoma, CA

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

Obviously. You dont see any mentally ill or homeless.

[@MrNajibrazak]

the streets looked immaculately clean and everybody are so well dressed its amazing even by Japanese standard. its the total opposite if what i experienced during my visits there.

[@mikeifyouplease]

Thanks so much!! I have travelled down many of those streets!!! Amazing how many of those homes are still there!

[@bayareakid4775]

I like the last two shots of the Bay Bridge at night (well dusk here). It was much more simple. Now it's all lit up with "necklace lighting" along the cables and this kaleidoscope of light shimmering on the suspension strands. I think it's overdone. Back in the day, at night, the bridge was somewhat dark but still noticeable and imposing in the natural light. And I liked the way the red lights on top of the towers used to light up in "formation" from west to east. One after the other. After the last red light lit and went out on the eastern most tower, a short pause, and then the sequence started again, as you can see in the video. It was simple, but still striking. Now, it seems more of a spectacle . It's just another example of how much the city has changed. The old charm is gone. Thank goodness they didn't turn the Golden Gate Bridge into a Christmas tree at night!

[@rayjaypaulsen]

Enjoy watching going back in time! Priceless!

[@mayramurillo4932]

San francisco nights Eric burdon and the animals Greetings from buenos aires 😉

[@MorrisseyMuse]

Phenomenal work! thank you!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@jaysaeger2057]

Thanks so much for these videos. Iy is like traveling back in time,

[@koreysmith2838]

These Classic Cars Are Real Awesome

[@billimplom6610]

I was a kid in the bay area in the 1950s. I just saw the Hills Bros. coffee plant which we went on a field trip to in the 5th grade. very cool.

[@billimplom6610]

all good

[@olrikm]

That's one of your very best! Elegiac, nostalgic, modern, and spectacular. Merci!

[@spaceexplorer6636]

Nice and clean streets, well dressed people, houses taken care of. Quiet and peaceful neighborhoods. The good old days. Unlike today people thumping music begging for attention look at me I’m annoying. Crime, you know what I’m saying, it’s in every city that gets destroyed, they come and ruin someone else’s hard work.

[@alielsayed4285]

What’s amazing video it’s wonderful 🎉. Thank you so much. And I hope to download more videos like that. Please

[@nomadlife682]

Very cool! Love the advertising and the daily work and delivery vehicles. Real culture.

[@johnpetrovitz935]

Thanks once again, NASS! These are true gems!!!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@Vl7248]

A other Awsome installment! Most of the major infrastructure already existed in the 40s! Insane..

[@alanpecherer5705]

Look at the traffic over the Bay Bridge in the last 20 seconds of this video. That's how I recall it from the early 70's. The area(s) west of Golden Gate park, way out in the avenues, are otherworldly, reminiscent of the Monterey area and I am sure induced hundreds of thousands of folks to move to SF over the years.....5:00 to 6:30. Wow! Some of those areas made the city look like a giant botanical gardens. A fair amount of that cityscape remains today.

[@Baynewsvideo]

@07:01 you can see that during the car turn, the San Francisco Police have 4 patrol cars blocking the opposing traffic, so the camera car can make a smooth turn. Great Film!

[@eaglebauersrecordcollection]

0:27 --on the left…”War Surplus.” Imagine what kind of stuff is in that shop. Collectors today would go nuts.

[@sonnycorleone3251]

Nass, Thanks for another wonderful upload. San Francisco one of my favorite all time cities, just behind New York City. Been there as a child. At 4:06 to 5:03. I think that's San Francisco in the 1930's actually. Maybe 1935 to 1939. In my opinion.

[@marketstreetrailway]

1948

[@eascec8374]

The Market Street clip at the beginning is from 1948. The second part afterwards were somewhere around 1934-ish.

[@sonnycorleone3251]

@@eascec8374 Yes, I feel that 4:06 to 5:03 was early 1930's. Almost late 1920's with the lady in back car view wearing 1920's style hat.

[@thelegendgamer2238]

What a beautiful world back than

[@tonichappell7596]

Zooming through the streets of San Francisco this is like the pre Bullitt version!!

[@elinavtithanos6270]

I love very much your videos by the past,the colours give life to the white black videos! Thank you so much!

[@shaunwest3612]

Great video nass, incredible footage, beautiful work,I take it the road way was unfinished at the end of the drive ?, beautiful old trams and cars😀👌👍

[@shellsbignumber2]

Looks beautiful, I wish I had a time machine.

[@markoman5267]

This is the closest we'll get to it.

[@maagu4779]

Roads so smooth and clean

[@jasonfrew2394]

I'm glad that there were those who, at the time had the insight to want to preserve those times in a time capsule of film. Or it could have been just someone wanting to let their aunt Gladys in New Jersey know what San Francisco is like. 🤔

[@philippe732]

What a beautiful work, greetings from France 👍

[@jamesdouglas5450]

Another good video and colour footage i think some early 30s too great view of golden gate bridge

[@sonnycorleone3251]

James, Hi I agree. I think 4:06 to 5:03 is surely the 1930's.

[@gwtwvivien]

The quality of your films are superb!!!. I see them all. San Francisco is my fav City in USA. I'm from France but I've been there 3 times. Beautiful!!!!

[@NASS_0]

Thx ;))

[@keepson9853]

Those cars, wow.

[@TheMorganMonroeShow]

Good stuff. I just shared this on #TruthSocial. I think it’s awesome we could share San Francisco to the next generation explain to them that there wasn’t always human 💩 poop on the streets. 🤙🏼🍻🎯 I actually enjoy all of your posts. At least once a week I go for a ride. Much appreciated and thank you.

[@joeguzman3558]

0:26 war surplus store ,can you imagine how cheap in those days anything from WW1 and WW2 ??

[@bartonlee3594]

Cliff House still going strong at 8:50.

[@BrassLock]

I think you'd better have another try at determining the *_"Time Stamp"_*

[@AhmedAli-zc3mk]

Such a wonderful and rare video!! It gives us a real view of what San Francisco and other major cities looked like during the 90 Day Trip around the world movie!!

[@willp.8120]

The more nonwhite things become, the worse the politicians get, and the worse the policies will be that finish off the destruction of the area.

[@horrorman9]

The police cars in the video are at the intersection of Folsom and Fremont streets. Which is weird because that scene is from the 1958 movie the Up Line. It looks like a dry run from the movie. Great video thanks!!.

[@randalltanascu5821]

On a show billboard across from the sterling @ 1:18/8:51 has Bette Davis acting in "Winter Meeting" so 1948 is around the time this was filmed .

[@ethanbowie3050]

WOW............IN 2;03 THE PICTURE IS STUNNING..........I LOVE THIS KIND OF //NARROW OLD STREETS WITH ALL THOSE CLASSIC MACHINES//...................PURE ART REALLY//////////////

[@virginiatyree6705]

Another fun & beautiful look back at San Francisco! Thanks for posting NASS, always appreciate your efforts. v

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much ;)

[@virginiatyree6705]

@@NASS_0 You're welcome very much & thanks for ❤️ me! v

[@clintonflynn815]

Check out the shot @4:29 - the two silhouettes framed by the car's back window with sun's glow. Who are they? Where are they going?

[@stevehein7884]

great video from the past thank you

[@ronniebishop2496]

Thank you that was incredible

[@_mirabu_]

спасибо!

[@james5460]

First part is April/May 1948, Bette Davis starring in "Winter Meeting" (released 7 April). It was a flop, so likely didn't play there into May. Humphrey Bogart in "Sahara" (1943) across the street, not sure why they'd be running an old film but there were a lot of revival houses back then. "Fort Apache" released at the end of March '48 is also playing down the street, so I'll place this first section in mid-April '48, especially considering how warmly everyone is dressed.

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

ME 2. Did the same sleuthing, child s play, POC

[@leonelgaldiano326]

Parabéns. Que cidade linda.

[@alfredocorreia9385]

MUITO INTERESSANTE! O VÍDEO COMEÇA PROVÁVELMENTE EM 1947 DEPOIS RETROCEDE PARA OS ANOS 30 E DEPOIS SALTA PARA MEADOS DA DÉCADA DE 50!

[@zachfarr6457]

I like watching these it's like having a time machine and going back in time

[@sfeddie1]

At 3:33, at the middle of the screen, you can see a truck and some cars dropping down into the tunnel that used to run under the streetcar turn around in front of the Ferry Building. Not to many folks remember that tunnel.

[@evanswinford7165]

I noticed that tunnel. When was that? It must have been torn out for the freeway to come later.

[@sfeddie1]

@@evanswinford7165 Not sure when the tunnel went away. I think the streetcar turn around was moved back up Market street a bit so traffic could go straight on through. I know there was a terminal there. Maybe that all happened when they put that ugly-ass Embarcadero Freeway up.

[@billramsey2337]

If only you could go back in time and keep it there. It's inevitable, time stands still for no one, no thing, no way!

[@grayokieh5297]

Wow. The old Planters Peanuts building. I work for Planters.

[@danielthoman7324]

I like the automobiles and all the street cars.

[@raypeters4525]

VERY NICE ! ONE PORTION OF FILM IS STRICKLY 1930s, ONE PORTION 1940s, ONE PORTION 1950s, NEWEST CARS SEEN, 1955 OLDS, FORD, MERCURY !

[@sonnycorleone3251]

Ray, Hi I think 4:06 to 5:03 is surely the 1930's.

[@sfeddie1]

I saw a ‘57 Ford and a ‘57 Buick on Clement St on the way to Lincoln Park.

[@brenttravis4665]

@@sonnycorleone3251 Yes, caught a glimpse of a man wearing a straw hat fashionable in the 20s and early 30s. The woman in the car in front of camera car is wearing a cloche hat that went out of style by the mid 30s.

[@raypeters4525]

@@sfeddie1 YOU ARE RIGHT ! LOOKED AGAIN AND SAW THEM !

[@sonnycorleone3251]

@@brenttravis4665 Yes, My friend. I think that's an awesome shot . The camera in back of the old 1930's car like that. You're right that shot in back of car has got to be early 1930's. Almost late 1920's!

[@howellwong11]

My favorite city and most beautiful, but that was in 1953.

[@benjaminsman5954]

Very good job !!!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@georgepepper9130]

Starting at 2:01 and ending at 2:53, the ride is through the old produce district. It begins on Washington St with Pier 1 in the backround, heading west until it turns north on Davis Street. It crosses Jackson St, then Pacific, and finally Broadway, which is paved with bricks. Notice all the rail cars parked on Davis Street, ready to carry produce out of the city.

[@ClueSign]

Thank you!!

[@hubertcumberdale2651]

I'm sure stealing from pharmacies wasn't tolerated and people were punished accordingly.

[@Qureshi00_]

Admin, thanks. you must have put time money & lots of hard work to make it wonderful.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@richmeyer2064]

What a wild ride! We start out in 1948, drop to the 30's and then jump to the mid 50's. And was that not a police roadblock nearer the end? Great work NASS!

[@londonwestman1]

Has to be the backing footage for a movie doesn't it?

[@richmeyer2064]

@@londonwestman1 interesting speculation!

[@8avexp]

IINM there were two competing transit companies; hence the four streetcar tracks on Market St.

[@AppleMenace]

Looking at your videos makes me wonder will the next generations look at our tiktok videos with the same kind of wonder and awe..?

[@robfut9954]

I get the feeling that nothing about Tik Tok will be of much value, now or in the future.

[@NomiSyed1]

What a treat this was.... Enjoying 1940s San Francisco from Toronto in 2022 :) My 3rd favorite American city. First is ALWAYS San Diego, 2nd is Boston.

[@steveowen7475]

All things must pass......like us all we will be viewed in 100 years time.....sobering thoughts....enjoy every moment...

[@jimmerhardy]

What a fun trip through time.

[@W7DSY]

I would suggest there are a few segments of film from the mid '30's and others as late as 1957. Latest model cars I saw were 1957.

[@BrassLock]

Your observations are accurate in my humble opinion. The uploaded may have put lots of effort into restoration and colourisation, which is highly commendable, but ought to acknowledge their sources I would think.

[@Novasam-1182]

Stunning Thank you for the shearing

[@leaturk11]

great stuff

[@dizziest3063]

Could you do anything from Buffalo New York, I would love to see how the first city with light was back in the early 1900's

[@brittanycunningham787]

I truly wish I was there.

[@taco2k3]

Great job, Thanks for this. One think Starting at 5:05 your film speed seems a bit too fast for driving in that part of the city. Can’t imagine ever driving that fast past the Cliff House uphill

[@neilthomas9244]

superlative quality.

[@true4795]

The driving speed was way faster than 2022's 20MPH now