San Francisco 1955

[@LadyNightthorn]

Almost every scene here makes me smile while tearing up. Time and time again I ask myself how I could have forgotten something so familiar. It's been decades since I've been to certain parts of my City, been to Playland, rode the train around the zoo, seen the lions and the polar bears, walked along the beach (freezing my but off at times but never admitting it) but the memories come back like it was last week. Thank you for putting this on the net. I'm gonna be smiling the rest of the day.

[@jayace92]

While this was a couple of generations before my time, I would have loved to live in San Francisco in the 50's. I was born in this city and wish it was more like this video. Northern California seemed like a true paradise back then.

[@trishcda3029]

Wow, what a gem. I grew up in SF (born in 1949) and every one of those places were our playground. Loads of fond memories restored of my mother and father taking us on outings.

[@jimmyd10100]

me and wife grew up in city also. 1951 and me 1953. family has been here since 1880's. I remember everything in film. the city of then was great. nothing now. dirty downtown and the people?? I went to Lincoln, and wife poly high school.

[@trishcda3029]

jimmyd10100 I went to Lincoln HS also. Class of '68. Small world! :)

[@jimmyd10100]

hi pat. wow. I graduated from Gianini Jr. high in 1968. I was at Lincoln in 1969. I can't believe the changes to the city and how it was in our time?

[@michelehurtado98]

OMG! I was born in 1952 in San Francisco so this brings back real memories of growing up in the City at that time. Golden Gate Park, DeYoung Museum, the Aquarium, Playland, the Marina District, the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina district....all of these areas were regular habitates of my youth.

[@bobsingh5521]

Michele Hurtado What's a habitates?

[@michelehurtado98]

@@bobsingh5521 Perhaps my spelling was incorrect. What I mean to say is that these are places I spent alot of time in when I was growing up in San Francisco.

[@bobsingh5521]

I'm just messing with you because I'm a jerk. So tell me, how does the modern 2018 San Francisco compare? Have you been to the Transbay neighborhood? Have you see the new transit center?

[@michelehurtado98]

@@bobsingh5521 I agree, you're a jerk.

[@bobsingh5521]

Michele Hurtado Ok Mrs Habitates. I hope SF bum steals your lunchbag and shits in your face

[@stevefassio4953]

I was born at Kaiser Hospital on Geary Street in March 1955. This is a wonderful remembrance. I own rental property in the Portola District and still visit about once a year from Oregon. I can't get over how many places that Tullio Pellgrini filmed that I still remember from my youth. Thank you ClearSkys for posting this early cinematic tribute to My City.... for better of for worse today. I agree with many on this page that The City is not the city it once was. Politics and a different culture rules the town that was so dear to so many. While I still enjoy visiting, it's no place I would live again.

[@pericosseboom4319]

I was born there in 1952, so this is the City that I remember. Nice.

[@moderndissident5930]

Hard to beleive this city was ever like this.

[@darlenebyard3821]

Born and raised there in 1952. I remember ALL of this. Went down there in October 1999 for 50th HS reunion. Hadn't been there for 10 years. Hardly recognize the skyline. It's still a beautiful city, but certainly changed. Good old memories. Thank you.

[@paulmiller5228]

My mom lived in the second-story flat on Ashbury at the intersection of Haight back in the early fifties. It was at the south-east corner until a fire forced the family to move. She is still around, and I'm 59. She talks about roaming around town with her friend without a care. She remembers the Sutro Baths and on and on. I wish I had asked her sooner. Dad graduated from UCSF. Grandma lived on Fell on the Panhandle. I worked near Union Square and I would never go back to what it has become. She also never wants to back. The next time she visits I want to show her this video. Thanks.

[@GR-zv7dn]

I remember visiting the Sutro Baths before it burnt down.

[@Mondo762]

I'm old enough to remember The City in the late 50's. Family settled in Marin in '65. Wonderful area to live in until the mid 70's.

[@bobsingh5521]

Planet Nine What happened?

[@MichaelJ44]

Bob Singh Democrats

[@darlenebyard3821]

That's EXACTLY what happened.

[@anthonybrinkley1940]

@@darlenebyard3821 wrong. What happened was the tech boom and the increase in cost of living. SF is a historically working class town with culture, once the city began to lose that it lost its pulse. Gentrification was already beginning in the 70s with the buying up of all the old Victorians in the Fillmore and near Alamo Square.

[@baguette1356]

Yeah, that's when all the Mexicans moved in.

[@DutchMaster802]

If time travel was available I'd just go back and live in the 50s ✌🏼️

[@Ebathora]

I totally would too, if the time machine would also change my appearance to look Caucasian. I'm being serious. Being white in the 50s sounds like the shit.

[@thelionsshare6668]

Race was never an issue in the City.

[@marticus1642]

Johnny B. Bad That is amazing

[@simonfea2]

If race was never an issue then why were the worst areas of The City predomenantly black and or poor: Bayview Hunters Point and the Excelcior. Duh. (please excuse spelling errors)

[@thelionsshare6668]

Those aren't the worst areas because of racism, in the normal sense of the word. Perhaps on a larger sociological scale, it's racist in the sense that Reagan called "the soft bigotry of low expectations." There are a number of cultural factors as well--not "black culture," but "ghetto culture," which isn't bound to any one particular ethnic group.

[@deliapacheco4429]

Well I just went down memory lane...lived there during this time, for 15 years. It was so much better then than now.

[@denisemason3335]

EXCELLENT! I can take this tour over and over again.

[@roywrogers2900]

These images are just outstanding. It's as though the author knew just exactly what was important to capture for future generations to enjoy.. The architecture, the signage, the clothes styles, and of course, the autos. Thanks so much for sharing! like

[@christalyons4028]

This is absolutely an amazing video of what San Francisco was like in 1955!!! I can't stop watching it!!!

[@friendlysky7674]

My cousin Anne Macfarlane actually graduated school in 1953, and entered college in 1955, the year this was taken, sad to know San Francisco will never look like this ever again. I want to show her this and how beautiful of a time she got to experience, sad and great to know she got cancer 5 years ago and is finally recovering, she is now 86 years old and single, due to her husband Bobs death in February 1992 only 15 years before I was born. Also sad to know that most of the people seen in this video are non-existent with many of the children In their late 60s and maybe into their 70s, early 80s by now. Thank you for this video, scary to know these people in the film adults don’t exist anymore since they died long ago😿

[@keaneli]

I don't understand how people can dislike this video... It's so amazing and beautiful.

[@paulb9769]

They do not like Western culture.

[@AMM0beatz]

I lived in sf as a little kid in the 80s it was one of the most memorable, and beautiful.

[@mr.lambfriesesq.8540]

+Paul Miller. I grew up in San Francisco back in the 50's. it USED to be a beautiful city. fell st. and Masonic. on the corner there was a standard oil service station. height st. was a 5 minute walk up the hill. Playland at the beach, the park, ice skating at the s.f. ice arena on 48th. Ave. between kirkham and Lawton st. great memories of the BEST city around. now? thanks... but I'll pass.

[@wjb4341]

A clean city populated by proud Americans driving American cars .... what a novel concept!

[@drhyshek]

Only a jealous person would be so narrow minded.

[@Choclatcotton]

Wow! back when people wore clothes!

[@woytas12]

you wanna say today they don't wear any clothes? :D

[@BubbaOnGod]

@@woytas12 just noticed how old this comment is

[@VedantMishra55]

@@BubbaOnGod 😂😂

[@fob1xxl]

Always loved going to San Francisco. My folks would take us there at least once a month. We went to the PLAYLAND, ZOO, JAPANESE TEA GARDENS, MUSEUM and the AQUARIUM. Loved shopping downtown during the Holidays. Always loved going to Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf. So many Anniversaries and birthdays at ALIOTO'S and The FRANCISCAN. We always went home with fresh crab and sourdough bread.. Studied acting and voice there when I was a teen. Miss all those days.

[@swabby429]

This is an absolute gem of a travelogue. I love it.

[@Patsworldbaby]

It’s hard to think this city used to be conservative. Well it was always liberal but this city in the 50s would definitely be the most conservative town in today’s America. Pretty crazy what this city used to be and what it is today.

[@Swampertchamp]

City started it's downhill in the 60s with liberal hippies.

[@allisonmcdonough1]

Back when San Francisco was plentiful

[@Disneyfan1955]

Wow! Wow! Wow! Thanks! for posting!, It was a BIG deal to go there from Menlo Park,Ca as a boy in the 1960's. It was so great to see Playland at the beach!, David

[@GR-zv7dn]

Playland at the Beach became a condominium housing.

[@QuangTran27]

Wow for some reason SF in the 50's look way better than it does now in 2016. The area around city hall had flowers and a water fountain so fancy. Compared to today where around the cit hall area the only thing you'll notice more are the drug addicts and homeless.

[@lauriebarnaby7132]

Amazing memories. I spent my childhood from 1950 to the early 60s in the Bay Area ( San Anselmo )as my dad worked for Bechtel in San Francisco. Weekly trips to the city in our Nash Rambler were always a great adventure. To this day the smell of popcorn takes me back to the huge Woolworths at Powell and Market St. I wouldn't want to return, I'll keep my wonderful memories intact, California was a magical place back then.

[@kngkrl22]

The good old days of SF. That is when it was the most beautiful city in the world.

[@paulc1014]

Bring back the 50s!

[@FreewayBrent]

Spectacular footage! I come into the city about 2-4 times a week, and it's just fascinating to see what these places looked like, some 60 years ago. Some major changes, some minor, but the city was beautiful then, and just as beautiful today. Thanks for bringing this video to all of us on KZbin!

[@tomjones7089]

Great video, before becoming a Sanctuary city and the land of diversity. Ten years before the hippies too. Still a nice city, but would have loved to been there in 55.

[@SevenFootPelican]

Tom Jones USA we need to come up with a name for the zombies who nostalgically whine about times before diversity and attribute it to their own personal failures and misfortunes. It's almost a parody now.

[@jesusosornio5838]

SevenFoot Pelican You know, this guy has a point. Politics aside, look at how traditional and clean this city used to be. Sure, there were some pretty rough times for colored folks back in the days, but all of them got through it and didn't bitch and cry about it. Personally, I'd prefer simpler times like these. As a society, we've progressed a lot with the abolishment of Jim Crow and so be it, but we should really follow up this portayal as an example. Politics have made this city into a degeneracy. Hopefully, one day people can wake up and start following traditional times such as these shown.

[@mattguz55]

@@jesusosornio5838 fuck that. This San Francisco looks boring. The counterculture of San Francisco is what makes it the beautiful city it is today.

[@honoraryanglo2929]

@@SevenFootPelican you're litterally part of the problem

[@saganrox6163]

@@mattguz55 yeah bro, all the human feces and syringes on streets is so counter culture and such an enriching experience.

[@Rinifi]

Nostalgia overload. I wish people would dress a little more formally, like in the '50s. We all look like a bunch of slobs now.

[@davidmustoe4935]

Pants hanging down with underwear showing..geez..wasn't that how the clowns looked in yesteryear? I can't help but seeing clowns every time I see that.

[@LaurenAnyone]

Well... at least we look better than we did in the early 90s haha.

[@QED_]

+LaurenAnyone: Oh, is this a contest (?) Well then: "At least we look better than the 1970s (synthetic bell bottoms and sideburns, anyone??") . . .

[@Xrayballer88]

I like a world where not everyone is dressed they're going to church. For those of use who wish to dress more formally, we look that much better now.

[@kK-ox7rk]

Not all of us ;)

[@lindafukuyu5767]

From seeing this film, San Francisco back in 50s was much cleaner and beautiful compare to today's San Francisco that full of homeless people, dirty, and old (unfortunately).

[@airmax1690]

Linda Fukuyu of course a bias tourist documentary isnt going to show you the bad side of the city if the purpose of the whole video was to get people to visit san fran

[@coolkids64]

gentrification is continuing don't worry

[@GR-zv7dn]

@@airmax1690 I remember the street beggars back in the 1950s and 1960s and newspapers blowing down market street.

[@newstart49]

I do miss those days and the freedoms we used to have. We used to even have a Constitution and Bill of Rights then. No need to lock your doors, children were safe playing outside in the neighborhood- even with toy guns- we even carried a pocket knife everywhere, even to school. People worked hard and were much cleaner. Proper manners were taught and you learned to speak proper English. It wasn't perfect, but you had choices instead of laws.

[@ursulasmith6402]

newstart49 true

[@joseacosta6819]

And the milk left in front of the door. The great-good old beautiful days.

[@armybeef68]

@@joseacosta6819 Nowadays a package left at the door will disappear within seconds of it being dropped off.

[@TheReck12]

Your views are tainted by nostalgia, shit was terrible back then for literally everyone who wasn't a white man.

[@Da_Shifter]

"Proper English" Lmao ok, put your dog whistle away.

[@sandrabonner8208]

A San Francisco of the past, never to return, unlikely to be mourned beyond the few remaining of us who remember her. A brief moment in time, 1910 through about 1963 or so. Perfect? Only in memory but, oh how I miss her. The architecture, the culture, the scenery. A clean Golden Gate Park without the stale urine, the human feces. A golden moment in time that can never, ever return. I don't know which is worse, that I'll never see her again or that the young of today never will, either (nor care to).

[@OfficeSpace2909]

Sandra Bonner I do share your sentiments despite my young age, born in ‘99. My grandparents from my mom’s side used to babysit me whenever my parents were too busy and we would always watch movies from the 1940’s and 50’s. I always enjoyed watching movies that depicted San Francisco. For me growing up as a child, it appealed to my sense of romanticism and wonder. Well, growing up in Southern California, I never had the opportunity to visit that is until last year for a family gathering. Not only was my ideal impression of San Francisco shattered, but I was appalled and disgusted with how far the city had fallen from the images of the past. Filthy, dirty with human feces and urine on the sidewalks. Not to mention injection needles and homeless drug addicts on almost every corner. Sad part about the entire situation is that you are correct about the sheer apathy that is displayed by the younger generations, mine included, sadly enough. The only consolation prize might be that at least we still have some footage from that time and age to appreciate what we have lost to the vagaries of time.

[@darlenebyard3821]

Not a mention in the news outside of the Bay Area, but BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) just had to replace all of the gears on the escalators due to human feces gumming up all the gears.

[@electrasong]

Incredible wonderful footage. Either you left your heart in San Francisco (like I did) or you never left. Great. Thanks for putting this up for us to see.

[@camman6912]

My mom grew up in the city during the 1930's 40's and 50's now she wont even go over there. To many people standing at every corner holding cardboard signs begging and freaks walking around naked or towing people in chains!

[@OfficeSpace2909]

Don Dressel That is absolutely correct. I was there for a visit last year and what I had witnessed was just incredible. Homeless drug addicts relieving themselves on the street, injection needles lying on the ground near elementary schools and literally insane people verbally assaulting unsuspecting pedestrians. Simply unacceptable. What do you suppose happened to that formerly beautiful city?

[@Thomas-Bradley]

@@OfficeSpace2909 lack of competent politicians who are supposed to serve the interest of the people.

[@vicg1979]

@@OfficeSpace2909 then never come back trust me locals don’t want you here

[@OfficeSpace2909]

@@vicg1979 Ooo...someone’s got triggered. Lol! Trust me, I wouldn’t want to go back to that nightmare of urban decay. The insane locals who inhabit that open sewer can keep it for all I care.

[@vicg1979]

@@OfficeSpace2909 if you ever do come back though i wholeheartedly hope somebody shits on you

[@rmesteban]

What a treasure! I was born and raised in S.F., and both my parents moved here in the late 1950s. I'm so proud to be a "native". I love "my" city. And love going back in time - this is such a wonderful film!!!

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Man don't you just love the "progress" we have made in the past ~65 years?

[@fltmike]

Thank for posting this, love the OLD city by the Bay 😎

[@gregwddriver]

California used to be a true paradise. Then, of course, we ruined it.

[@TheSocalkid92]

Actually, the 86' Amnesty ruined it and gave the state entirely to the Democrats...If you look at registration numbers and election results before 1986, Los Angeles was as Republican stronghold and was culturally, politically and socially similar to neighboring Orange County...

[@sawaugust]

Tats true. However if you ask me the howl world used to be a paradise but then of course we had to ruin it. It's hard to find a clean unpopulated place anymore. It's only going to get worse also. However I would say San Francisco is my favorite city in the u.s. I live in the Seattle area at the moment but I would love to live down there.

[@teller121]

Jerry Brown and the flower children of the '60s will get it right yet. You just watch. Just a few more taxes and fat restrictions and a second Pride Day... and they'll be all set. They'll need to start a Sanctuary City Day and offer courses to the rest of the nation.

[@Hurricane800]

gregwddriver it's not always going to be 1955. things have to change

[@Xrayballer88]

Sorry California is ruined for you. There's always Kansas.

[@jonathanjames471]

Too many people today …..and too many cars .

[@veronajurgen3173]

Wow I was in SF this year. But at night it is full of homeless and drug adicts. I was very dirty and so overloadet by tourists. I wish i would live there in 1955. So clean and safe

[@yourmumsy1081]

Do they shoot you❓

[@lvsluggo007]

I was 5 years old and living in San Francisco when this was filmed. Coleridge Street, just off where Valencia runs into Mission Street.. Fantastic film/video!!

[@elinhansen7216]

Notice how the top deck of the bridge has two way traffic. I remember this well.

[@Rich1417]

+Elin Hansen The lower deck was originally only for a train.

[@darlenebyard3821]

Lower deck eastbound had train and 2 lanes for traffic... eastbound only. Used to get the engineer to pull the horn for us kids.

[@yoncalla44]

Yes, I remember that, too. The old Key System tracks were removed from the lower deck for eastbound vehicular traffic in 1961. - Tony Arioli

[@readyred415]

Thanks for sharing. I would have loved to lived in SF in those days.

[@deemondh7326]

San Francisco has changed, in some ways for the better, while in others, not so much.

[@jmedia1102]

Walking the Golden Gate Bridge from one end to the other and back was a great experience.

[@EverythingSouthCity]

Wonderful video, so much has changed yet so much remains the same.

[@bobsingh5521]

This was the Golden Age of San Francisco and its peak population for many years. Shortly after this people started shifting to the suburbs and San Francisco's population dropped. It was not until around 2000 that the population started growing again due to the Mission Bay and SOMA build up. Now the Transbay neighborhood of condo tower and they changing of the Tenderloin, I wouldn't be surprised if the city itself will exceed 1 million people.

[@yoncalla44]

Actually, it was 1950 when the city hit it's population peak, and the middle class then started moving to the suburbs. The city lost population every decade until the 1980's when it started to reverse. I can recall reading somewhere that as late as 1953, San Francisco was still a "family city." - Tony Arioli

[@bobsingh5521]

yoncalla44 Yes you are correct. Around 1955 was the peak. Thanks too? The building of Interstate System, buses and the removal of electrified trains

[@RevJohn]

This is far from an "amateur home video." What an insult! These were referred to as travelogue movies that were shown as shorts in theaters and professionally produced. With the camera, film and post production equipment that was available in 1955, I would state as a producer that this FILM (not video) is VERY well done!

[@trentp8035]

REJECT DEGENERACY, EMBRACE TRADITION.

[@rudylopez415]

Lots of history right here

[@VT610pendolino]

wow.... THAT is really awesome! Thanks!

[@peterashlock7955]

I grew up here. I went to art school here (the only art school that counts) and began to drive a cab in 1973. I did that until 1987 and decades later I drivie again for a living. The city is barely recognizable beneath massive change. Fisherman's Wharf is a whorehouse for the tourists. The skyline long ago obliterated any familiar buildings. The new young tech population has only been in town a few years and treats it like a rich tourists destination with bars. I rarely run into natives.

[@GR-zv7dn]

When San Mateo County built Pillar Point Harbor in Princton the bulk of the fishing fleet moved there. The move was due to the fact that it was more cost effective to be in a harbor right on the Pacific than having to sail out the Golden Gate and back. After that Fisherman Wharf went from mild tourist attraction to full steam tourist attraction.

[@realtv4474]

San Francisco before the Hart-Celler Act.....

[@AdellAstare]

Fun to watch, wish they'd included footage of the Italian neighborhood in North Beach.

[@yoncalla44]

I can smell the garlic and oregano and hear the cappuchino machines hissing on upper Grant Ave. now. - Tony Arioli

[@AdellAstare]

@@yoncalla44 I lived in SF in the 70's. Husband and I loved having lunch in Italian restaurants there. The world's best bakery was on Grant Ave and right across the street a coffee roaster, where we bought fresh-roasted coffee to take home. I liked SF Italian food better than the food in Italy, where I had a month-long vacation years later.

[@GR-zv7dn]

@@yoncalla44 You still can.

[@4uappliancerepairllc980]

Greed has ruined and still ruining a beautiful place.

[@rgrndu]

This was very interesting. Glad you posted it.

[@sk8yr]

So many open parking spots 😍

[@katyu16]

I lived there for 11 years and this really brings back memories!! I learned a lot too! i didn't know there was a water fall in Stowe Lake. They didn't show the windmills in G.G. Park. Thanks for posting this!!

[@oliviagomez815]

So few cars on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amazing

[@davidkaye8069]

NOT much different from today. The only things I find that are different is that Playland was torn down in the early 70s and there is about triple the traffic compared to 1955. Other than that, SF is still SF; the sights are still there and so is the magic!

[@benitosotelo444]

Less homelessness and needles.

[@Fabester71]

I love my city, born and raised I've seen a lot of changes some good and some bad unfortunately these days. The skytram looked awesome, people now don't seem to appreciate family entertainment and outings together as much anymore. The zoo and the aquarium in GG park were my favorite places as a kid in the 70's, also pastrami sandwiches from the Doggy Diner. Good times

[@SFCityKids]

Its a shame what SF has become. Those tech boys from Silicon Valley ruined this beautiful city.

[@californiamade5608]

CityKids the city is fine shut up. It’s going to be 2019 in 3 months you dip shit

[@thecraplordsell4575]

EpiDemic117 and so you’re ok with these tech boys and their high prices.

[@yoncalla44]

Not just the "tech boys," it began after the Milk-Moscone assassinations and the onset of the Yuppies, followed by the Dot.Comers.

[@cathrynm]

This is nice, really, gives a good feel for San Francisco in the old days.

[@NobHillBorn]

Nice video. It was different to see PCCs and Iron Monster streetcars sharing Market Street. (That was very rare between 1958 and 1983.) It is more common now but the variety of old cars are pretty much fixed.

[@Fernandolunatoro1]

The fist mistake we made was to believe altruism is the good. And the second was to send our kids to be taught by the state. Remember that we are the children of the 50s parents.

[@sarahsebers3794]

I almost cried I wish this was my era 😩 not this stinkn’ era we are in now

[@PromethusandBob]

thanks for this! great footage

[@conductroboy]

Correct. My Grandfather used to produce this type of travelogue film, and presented them in movie theaters followed by a lecture and questions from the audience.

[@grandoldsoul4691]

i've always wanted to go back in time to this day an age. looked fun.

[@silverdew2618]

It was a great city then. It's a great city now. People get older... and times change. History both "then" and "now" make a place great. Don't look back. You aren't going that way...

[@armybeef68]

20:18 That's EXACTLY how I drive on that street, for some reason it makes everyone in the car start screaming....LOL

[@TomateFarcie]

Thank you so much for posting this gem. San Francisco still has all its natural beauty but this video makes me wonder if the glory day aren't all behind us? Hope I'm wrong! What made me really sad was looking at Market Street, now mostly abandoned for several blocks. The art deco buildings still stand, proof of their former glory days. Of course, it is easy for us to look back on this nostalgic piece and completely disregard everything else that was wrong with the 50's ...

[@swoosh50]

Apparently now you can just take a dump on the sidewalk in San Francisco

[@hinanochick]

thank the super liberals

[@juanaceves6363]

SF looks like it had more life and soul into the city back in the 50s. today it just looks like a gentrified bland city with bigger skyscrapers

[@sandrabonner8208]

I remember it as a city of hope and pride, a crown jewel. "Diversity" was just that, enjoyed by most, not "sides" and races. Homosexuals were prevalent, but not in your face and were tolerated, most were culturally more educated and refined. In fact, my uncle was homosexual and my parents' friends were, though they were so down to earth and discrete, my parents didn't even know they were; my mother had no idea her brother was and it didn't seem odd that many of their friends of the same sex were "room mates." I remember everything being clean and pristine, especially Golden Gate Park (sans stale human urine and feces with homeless skulkers roaming looking for prey).

[@OfficeSpace2909]

Sandra Bonner You are one very fortunate person to have witnessed San Francisco in those more splendid times. I was in SF a year ago and it was very filthy and full of drug addicts attempting to harass me for some currency to perpetuate their addiction to narcotics. Very sad and disappointing.

[@YoshiRider9000]

cool thing is, almost all these landmarks are still there

[@1huntswithnature10]

My City, My year.

[@rsls101]

Omg no traffic!

[@armybeef68]

6:55 Ah yes, the good ol' Cliff House, my Great Grandparents had their family picture taken there back in 1912, my Grandfather was just a baby, and they'd been in the states for only a few years after coming here from the old country.

[@fingerleaf977]

Its amazing that the population then was only 50,000 less than it is today. Just goes to show how hard it is to develop skyscrapers (or any taller bldgs in general) because of the City's overly strict zoning. Thats why theres such a big housing shortage now.

[@coolkids64]

That is good too for many reasons to be honest get rid of the homeless people then we are in the ball park

[@bobsingh5521]

finger leaf They had a zoning restriction for decades not to allow skyscrapers South of Market. Obviously that's all changed and the Transbay and Rincon Hill district are putting in massive residential towers. SF will be over 1 million in a year or two

[@GR-zv7dn]

The reason for a housing shortage is that cities such as Redwood City and Mountain View is that they permit building of offices without requiring that housing for the workers be built as well. Then you have private company run buses that remove some of the resistance to commuting to drive employees from San Francisco to those offices. A lot of the employees at those businesses contribute little to the San Francisco economy because they eat lunch and dinner at their work places in Mountain View and Redwood City. In addition many do not purchase anything from local San Francisco businesses but order everything online. All they do is jack up the cost of housing.

[@electrasong]

And I LOVE the cars.

[@hanschenk2708]

GREAT MOVIE

[@rodhughes297]

A far cry from today,particularly the Zoo. Bring back those wonderful autos! At least one can tell one Brand over the other

[@namcat53]

Those were the days!

[@Shakester71]

My grandfather worked for Alioto's and Grotto 9. Not sure if they were mafia owned, but he told me lots of mafioso's ate and hung out there. When he retired, they really took care of him.

[@DeltaSniperZRR]

Took care of him like.. getting him killed? Or the other took care of him?

[@Shakester71]

***** LOL. I walked right into that one. Watching tons of mob movies, I've should of saw that. They took care of him in terms of his retirement...financially. He gave them 40 years of service and they treated him like family.

[@DeltaSniperZRR]

Shakester71 Haha ok, the good "took care of him".

[@jamesbayne1582]

+Shakester71 Killed?

[@Shakester71]

James Bayne No. They gave him a great retirement and severance plan. He was taken care for the rest of his life.

[@lettermines]

kind of surprised at how it is not so much different from what it looks like todays.

[@Novatech1011]

This is so interesting! I work in SF and look at this video make me think the changes the city used to have

[@Handiman544]

It's finally happened. We now have a San Francisco too expensive to live in. Congratulations gentrification enthusiasts.

[@sh6795]

Ya I know wtf happened next is Oakland

[@bengeorge3980]

More than "gentrification" causes expensive housing. Rental control laws and extensive government regulations for building properties contribute more than revitalizing a rundown building

[@frankzane3760]

It’s not gentrification, it’s because SF doesn’t have enough housing, if only they started building upwards maybe house would be cheaper

[@bengeorge3980]

@@frankzane3760 Building upwards would not decrease building costs as extensive regulations, building laws and the "open-space movement" have all led to the supply being controlled which in turn leads cost to go through the roof.

[@sh6795]

Lol ya it's expensive there ,if you didn't buy property long ago almost impossible to get a deal now

[@aaardvarkkk]

He completely neglected to mention the enormous amounts of fudge packing that goes on in SF. I'm talking about Ghirardelli square, of course.

[@TomateFarcie]

They did. You can see one of them at least when they show Great Highway.

[@goshlikkrudbahr5109]

Aside from the first two valliant attempts at ennunciation, he keeps saying "Sampensiscoe". My 100-year old neighbor used to say that too…I also remember all the old cabbies and Munis drivers saying that. I like it, it sounds like the way the guys in the Coit Tower murals probably sounded.

[@MikeAngelCortez8845]

Greetings from san jose

[@lettermines]

I left my heart in Sanfrancisco

[@bobsingh5521]

Conquistador I left my wallet there. Can you help me find it??

[@jasontheworldisyours]

Wow people in the year 2077 will be looking at us like this @ColoredSpaces

[@exil3dlivecom]

yep... we will look strange.

[@kflow4786]

we're a history

[@kflow4786]

we're a history

[@bobsingh5521]

Wow the Skytram and Playland should have been kept near Cliff House

[@kenkelly8370]

Is there any way to purchase a copy of this?