San Francisco, 1962 - 8mm film

Driving around San Francisco in 1962.
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[@claryscat]

4:42 There is our family car!! Tan/Brown Rambler Cross county station wagon. I was ten, went to Glen Park elementary School. We City kids got "bus cards" ... ten rides for fifty cents... we rode the bus, streetcars and cable cars all over by ourselves. What a magic place! Different day, different time. I remember all this stuff... It changed... and it ain't never gonna change back!

[@gryhze]

Re Muni Bus Tickets: White cards for M-F day use, not allowed for Candlestick Park runs; there were also green and red cards - some for night school and weekend use. If you rode the Muni everyday to school, the driver used his thumb and index finger to substitute for a real punch out...and I always said: "Thank you Mr. Murphy." They all wore all wool blue Ike jacket and blue shirts with a tie. The driver even had a coin changer for the .15 cent ride.

[@claryscat]

@@gryhze Coin Changers!! And the old ass fare machines on the gas busses, that ran on the 10 Monterey. The driver had to give them whack to free the jam. I loved all the "59 Impala station wagons in the shots, I counted 4 times. So many great cars, so little traffic! I loved the shots of Market Street, the Paramont theater Marque; Three Stooges. Saw them appear live... about that time the movie was Stooges go to Rome. Can't tell if that was the movie in the shot. The Fox and the Orpheum with Cin-a-rama. So many great movie houses all over the City then... our family was in the Mission, so my best memories are 25 cent Saturday afternoons at the Grand, Strand, New Mission... sheeit, the City, what a great place to come up?

[@gryhze]

@@claryscat So, you’ll remember jitneys than ran South of the Slot.

[@ratfinkie62]

Too many transplants have crapped up the Bay Area.

[@dondressel452]

I remember going with my parents and my sister as a little boy to visit my grandparents in the city This was in 1960-66 They lived in St. Mary’s park on Benton Ave I remember the air being so fresh and clean This footage is a treasure Thank you so much for posting

[@RobertGSwan]

A much better time period. I was 14 in 1962 - visited San Francisco - summer 1962 - many great memories.

[@MrRJDB1969]

When San Francisco still resembled itself. Today it's a complete sh-t hole. I used to drive a delivery truck in San Francisco daily, several years ago, and I could see the city changing even back then. Today, of course, it's 100% worse. What some call "progress" , isn't necessarily good, since even cancer will "progress" until the victim eventually, in many cases, passes away from the disease, so not all "progress" is good. Love this video, but I hate what's happened to San Francisco and so many of our, once beautiful, American cities.

[@davegoldspink5354]

Guessing things went to shit as soon as Harry Callahan retired. Seriously though it really doesn’t matter where you go these days once great cities have sadly turned into shitholes.

[@paolo-n2000]

San Francisco has never had SOOOO much WEALTH! Yet, drug addicts, the mentally disturbed and straight up criminals rule the streets today! SF politicians live in their multi-million dollar homes and line their pockets with CA$H!!!!

[@Dragon43ish]

YES

[@iriedoggy]

no one gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

[@MrRJDB1969]

@@iriedoggy - What's happening in S.F. today, isn't the simple progression or change in fashion or style that comes with time. It's true that we've all experienced some form of "change" in our lifetime, since all things change, but what's happening in S.F. today, isn't the "usual" or the "norm", that's to be expected.

[@Mark.G475]

Just think of the cost of living increase in C.A. what a time to live there! No traffic, low rent...

[@cascade5682]

Market Street looked very basic and in need of a push broom and an overnight rain to wash it down.

[@bartonpercival2147]

Yup rents were cheap in 62. My mother paid $126.00 a month for a flat on Lincoln Way looking across from Golden Gate Park. Went back for a visit to the inner Sunset Dist in 2015, and that same flat rents out at $4000.00 a month 😱

[@Mark.G475]

@@bartonpercival2147 yes! I think my parents paid 28 grand for their first house in 1969. A great 4 bedroom Victorian in La grange IL. The good ol days when one income could support the family and by a house. I was born in 1965.

[@bartonpercival2147]

@@Mark.G475 Yes truly amazing. I think my mother probably made $1.10 an hour at her job, and only got $120.00 a month of child support from my father in the late 50’s or early 60’s. And that was for 2 children!!!!!!! Don’t know how she made it supporting us back then, but we never went without anything, and my grandparents helped out also. A different time in America back then for sure

[@fivizzano]

What California and SF needs is an IRON FISTED governor...stomping out crime, "ENTITLED" PARASITISM and plain and simple people BEHAVING LIKE PIGS IN PUBLIC...

[@thommych1256]

Nice old film!! Best regards from Switzerland, Thommy

[@mr.goodpliers6988]

Great footage, it's just like walking back in time!!

[@bartonpercival2147]

At 6:10 Happy Boy diner on upper Market Street. Best filet of fish sandwich I’ve ever had in my life!!!!!! Too bad it’s no longer there

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

Thankn you. This is beautiful. I grew up here and am very proud of my town.

[@gerardkoskovich412]

With a brief glance at 6:12 at the corner of the intersection of Market, 15th and Sanchez streets in the Castro District - including Beck's Motor Lodge.

[@bartonpercival2147]

And Happy Boy Diner. The best filet of fish sandwiches and burgers made in the City!!!!!!!!

[@juancarlosrodriguez7623]

The streets were very clean

[@ApartmentKing66]

The leftist nutjobs weren't in charge yet.

[@raybin6873]

All those cars.....and not a single one of them had a "check engine" light on the dash! 😉

[@melaniebrantner6844]

Love your 8mm 😊 San Francisco, enjoyed your video . I should have said, SAN FRANCISCO!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@dilippatel3268]

good old days I was born in the city in 1959

[@bartonpercival2147]

Yes the good old days. I was born in the City in 1954. Great memories of Playland at the Beach, and the historic Fox Theatre on Market Street. Also at the 6:11 mark in this video, Happy Boy Diner on upper Market Street made the best burgers and filet of fish sandwiches I’ve ever eaten. A different time and generation back then

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@bartonpercival2147 born 1937, however just young enough to not be a father in time for the early 50's in my opinionative response, being the most beautiful time period for automobiles, architecture (mid century 1930s-1950) nature of foliage, boy you name it!. As for the automobiles in question, the early (1) or late (2) (1) 1960's/ (2) 1950's presented the blandest years for American color, truly a wash of whites, unsure blues, and very basic iridescent silvers/red compounds. Not to mention the vast-vast-vast array of court gray 1950's automobile colors from anything of a 1952 Cadillac to a Chevrolet 1950. All in the color court gray, that or the second most popular color Alpine Blue.

[@stevelangstroth5833]

This is the same year and same city where the 'Escape from Alcatraz" occurred. The movie, "Siege of Syracuse" is playing (5:18 min). It was released in the US on 31 Jan 1962. The escape from Alcatraz was in June 1962, so while this drive was taking place. the escapees were about 5 miles away, planning the escape.

[@Mark.G475]

I believe they got away.

[@gkprivate433]

I was bron in 57. My parents bought our house in Rumford Rhode Island in 1959, The price was 17,500. The mortgage was $126 a month. Just writing that to compare with the rental prices in SF at that time that others posted below.

[@Yahootie]

$125. per month rent for our 3 bedroom flat on Church Street in 1962.

[@bartonpercival2147]

My mother paid $126 per month for a 3 bedroom flat on Lincoln Way in the inner Sunset District right across from Golden Gate Park

[@raudiaz6245]

About 900 bucks in today's value where it's about 4200 in the mission now.

[@RobertGSwan]

1962 - JFK was president - economy was booming. The average family could live nicely on one income. Much better time period.

[@petemancillas9929]

Thanks for uploading this. 4th generation native, no plans on leaving town. It never gets dull here, there's always something new to like.

[@MotorCityMultimedia]

Great footage. Still an amazing place to this day.

[@fjp912]

Cool footage. That road into SFO at 1:58 isn't too different today. It's the exit off the 101 you use to return your rental car (turn right at the T for the rental car garage).

[@norwegianblue2017]

Back when San Francisco was still a great city.

[@cjones3710]

Now it stinks, sadly.

[@silva7403]

Congratulations! Amazing video. ...so nice! (Robson/ Brazil)

[@jaysaeger2057]

Great footage, thanks for sharing

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

It continues to go downhill but a few of us still have these memories. Kids today have nothing

[@TECHLOVER_91]

Not too much has changed we just have more technology now so you sound very ignorant

[@CamConscious]

@@TECHLOVER_91 judging by your love of wearing masks, it makes sense you dont understand

[@TECHLOVER_91]

@@CamConscious I wear a mask because there is a killer virus going around and i don't wanna get infected idiot

[@CamConscious]

@@TECHLOVER_91 lol... right

[@chop3625]

@@TECHLOVER_91 Crime, Drug abuse, Homelessness, Immigration, 911.Shall I continue? Open your eyes you brainwashed dolt.

[@fivizzano]

WHAT is a FIAT 600 small car ( actually MICRO compared to the others ) doing on Market Street ?

[@paulantonio740]

My grandfather drove a red Fiat in SF back in the late 1950s. My mom was so embarrassed when he picked her up from school. All the other dads arrived in huge Buicks and Oldsmobiles.

[@waterheaterservices]

Thousands of those Fiasco 500/600s were sold in the USA, I saw a couple of them in the early 80s.

[@princessmeme5727]

Amazing how things look back then. I was born there in 84. But don't remember much of it since I left when I was around 5.

[@sbmang4927]

When San Francisco was a descent place to live. My father relocated here from New York in 1958 and fell in love with the city at first site. Thank God! he's no longer alive to see the shit hole that it's become.

[@nemamodgeddi5338]

You mean decent and sight. I agree with your comment.

[@raudiaz6245]

New York cleaned up in the 90s, San Francisco just got worse. Like they switched problems

[@raygordon3728]

A working class beautiful city. Now a third world toilet.

[@lizzapaolia959]

Absolutely correct.

[@billthehat6973]

if it's such toilet, why does a 2 BR house that's 80 years old with bad plumbing/wiring and mold sell for $1.5 million in cash?

[@stewartteaze9328]

​@@billthehat6973Chiner.

[@BillLaBrie]

Maybe someone needs to learn the concept of decadence?

[@legionevictrix]

The car parked at 5:18 minutes is a Fiat 600

[@antiteroristickejedinicepo4830]

That's not even a fiat 500/600 because it has different back. This is Yugoslavian Zastava 600/750 but how the hell it got there?

[@legionevictrix]

@@antiteroristickejedinicepo4830 They are images from 1962, so in San Francisco there could only be the Fiat 600 and not the Yugoslav Zastava.

[@benkleschinsky]

You mean to tell me you could actually once afford to live in San Francisco?

[@bartonpercival2147]

My mother paid $136.00 a month for a lower big flat on Lincoln Way right across from Golden Gate Park in the late 50’s. Saw the very same flat in 2015 and the renters were paying $4500.00 a month 😱

[@cascade5682]

5:20 Three Stooges in Orbit - July 1962

[@waynewright2886]

Way Different in 62...Today 59 Years Later, Frisco has Changed a Helluva Lot.

[@keithdukes5990]

Yes and definitely not for the better!!! It's now a craphole!

[@Vl7248]

You could say the same of 1900 vs 1962. Change is constant

[@keithdukes5990]

@@Vl7248 yes, but not always for the better! I962 was without a doubt a much better period in time for the vast percentage of people

[@bartonpercival2147]

Thank you to the highest paid Mayor in the USA for the current state of SF has become. Thank you BREED, for doing absolutely NOTHING for the City

[@billthehat6973]

the same could be said for 59 before 1962 as well. I'm sure San Francisco was a way different place in 1903 than it was in 1962. The key to understanding San Francisco is that it is a city that is continuously undergoing change- sometimes good sometimes bad. It's been that way since 1849. in 1845 the population of "Yerba Buena" - as it was then called--was about 500 people--it was a village. When the gold rush started in 1849, humans flooded the little town from all points of the compass - by 1850 the population had boomed to 50,000 That's a 1,000 fold increase in just 5 years. You can track the tumultuous ups and downs of the city since then. I lived there for over three decades, and can tell you that to be San Franciscan, you have to be willing to ride the ups and downs - it's just that kind of place.

[@FortunaZKat]

I was just sitting around wondering what a place I've never been to looked like 59 years a go. Now I know. 👍

[@wtaylor5027]

Just look at, or lack of, the traffic. The cleanliness of the city... will it ever return?

[@avatarlilacwolf]

Hopefully 🙏

[@fboness368]

The shark warning sign at Baker Beach must have been put up after the fatal great white shark attack there in 1959. An 18yr old college student was attacked and died from his injuries. RIP

[@shawnmalone9711]

Great video of early 1960s San Francisco. The streets were clean and you didn't have homeless camps in the city . Tony Bennett sang a classic song about this city, " I Left My ❤ in San Francisco",and it fits this era perfectly. Flash forward to 2023, now the homeless have taken over the streets. The homeless will sing, " I left my 💩 in San Francisco ", as decent people leave the city. Lets hope San Francisco becomes gentrified, and businesses and decent people will make it a great city once again.

[@danmseattle975]

I was born in SF in 1962. My family left for Sacramento about 6 months later and I primarily grew up in San Diego. I visited San Francisco several times between 1975 and 1990. August of 1990 was the last time I was there. I hear it is a terrible place now

[@stephendacey8761]

I was born in 1962, but over 3,000 miles away in New England. We used to call the west coast "the left coast".

[@billthehat6973]

oh, parts of it, like any city , are bad. South of Market, the Tenderloin, Hunter's Point - not places I'd go after dark. On the other hand Seattle, there are still lots of hard working, fine people here. The Richmond District, The Sunset, Eureka Valley, Cole Valley are fabulous places. Don't believe everything you hear the media saying about SF.

[@larsenburger]

"Where were you in 62?" ;-)

[@chefo.g7191]

2 years from being born

[@justjoe942]

A twinkle in Dad's eye; I came in to the world in '63.

[@56cadd]

No school for another 3 years.

[@bartonpercival2147]

1129 Lincoln Way SF, Ca 94122

[@Mark.G475]

Born in 1965 in Chicago.

[@kpl4174]

this was when America was not lunatic yet, nor West

[@selfienaplacawilson2441]

Devia ser maravilhoso viver nesta época onde tinha carro e boa música de verdade

[@gplunk]

Fab footage!!

[@MrLemonbaby]

Why do my msg sometimes post with 4-5 extra lines between paragraphs and sometimes post perfectly.

[@56cadd]

Not a prius or Tesla needed.

[@Mod-rw9cw]

The cars are great

[@Vl7248]

90% made in America by Americans. Standard of living was much higher for working class people. Today we outsource everything to developing nations.

[@waterheaterservices]

My 1966 Cadillac was so poorly made it may not last another 55 years.

[@wbcook1000]

5:21 Film "Zotz" released in October '62

[@tomservo56954]

Check out the episode of TO TELL THE TRUTH (it has its own YT page) where the panel had to identify the assistant to ZOTZ's producer, William, Castle...and after the show would take its star Tom Poston (who was one of the show's regulars) to California to start filming.

[@ratfinkie62]

I was born across the bay that year.

[@playstationjams6948]

Fića stigla u San Francisco 😂👌 Kragujevac Srbija 💪

[@Dragon43ish]

God i wish i was back in 1962 when people were sane....

[@Paramount531]

It was being filmed from a 1960 Ford.

[@pauld724]

apartments were dirt cheap when I was a kid. even to then's income. the dollar of 1970 was about 7-8 dollars todays money. but an apartment back then was maybe 80-120 for a studio which is like less than 1000 in todays money. and I mean a studio with a kitchenette and bathroom/shower. not a room you share a bathroom down the hall. that same studio apartment is 3200 or more . no one can live anymore in this former "Paradise" which it never really was. it was dirty back then but not as violent. it had its problems in the 70s. Z-Channel, Zodiac, Cults left and right, Robberies but not smash and grabs and robberies where people get shot anyways even if they give up their belongings. people were more sociable back then too.

[@mediocre-wettowel2007]

Seriously what happened

[@jonathancummings6400]

The truth? Politics. The same thing that devastated the "Rustbelt" cities of similar size like St.Louis, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, changed the "Sunbelt" cities, who nevertheless grew in population, and gained in wealth, but also, experienced decline in less obvious ways. The population changed, the people who made up the bulk of the city's population changed, and the culture changed along with it. "Americana culture is what you see in such old films, well, the people who live in Metro America now, largely have a contemptuous attitude for the wholesome, quaint "Americana" culture, they, very much prefer the "values" of the decadent, vulgar, disrespect filled "New America" culture, which embraces excess, hedonistic behavior, and decadence that the people in this film couldn't have tolerated for 5 seconds. So, long and short answer, the population changed, the modern population of San Francisco are different people, with a different culture. To those who are more comfortable with "Americana" culture, it's a horror movie what's going on now, but, it's their culture, so they are fine with it.

[@zurdoremi]

the funny thing is that some of the cars are from 1966.

[@VictorLugosi]

Before liberal democrats lol

[@henrysimpson6964]

Go West young man.

[@stephendacey8761]

I did in 1987, and got homesick and moved back East. A few years ago I regretted it, but now I'm not sure. It sucks everywhere today.

[@grxracer-1606]

Seems more like late 50,s. I have seen no 60-61-62 Impalas. The Happy Boy Diner. Best burgers I ever had. It,s gone like all the Mom and Pop stores. I,'ve lived in Tacoma, Washington for over 3 decades. Seems every major American city has turned into a 3rd world country since the Reagan-Bush era.

[@bartonpercival2147]

Yup best burgers and best filet of fish sandwich EVER!!!!!!!!!! My family use to come from the inner Sunset to eat there at least once a week in the late 50’s

[@donjohnson1120]

I saw a '62 Ford Galaxie identical to one I used to own.

[@jonathancummings6400]

No. The process began during the Johnson/Nixon era. Ford/Carter/Reagan/Bush simply couldn't do anything about it, they momentum was too strong. Globalism, and the "culture" war that is still ongoing, between "Red and Blue America" began in that time, the late 1960's. Trump tried to reverse the trend, but the people profiting from this deteriorating state helped get him out of office, and Biden is theirs, so that's that.

[@ConfectionaryArts]

no parking meters... I thought I remembered the time when there were no parking meters and yes.. this shows no parking meters..

[@quattromori5496]

A Fiat 600 at 5:17 😮

[@gkprivate433]

People taking pride in their appearance. I don't expect suits and ties. But muscle shirts, and fat assess and white socks and slippers which seem to be the rage among many blacks these days, do not look good to me

[@idolhanz9842]

If you're going to...Sin Freak Sicko....

[@theanswerisinthebackofyourhead]

The days of going to s.f. with a flower in your hair are gone, make sure you don't step in any poop or hypodermic needles in golden gate park

[@subhashpni907]

Same time Alcatraz victim escape in sanfranciscoooo

[@PaulNareff65]

Franck Bullitt was not yet in the police

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

Ah yes the film starring Steve McQueen.

[@maxmulsanne7054]

Before the damn hippies came along and started the slow, death-spiral of what Sad Francisco has become.

[@giuliom8520]

I always wondered what San Francisco was like back then, before the Democrats screwed it all up. I used to love that city. Half my family that immigrated here legally used to live in North Beach. The other half couldn't come to America because the immigration laws got tougher, so they had to immigrate to 🇨🇦.

[@raudiaz6245]

North Beach is about the same though.. minus beat gen. City Lights nearly closed, The Purple Onion closed as did many comedy clubs but Kennedy's is still there and Cobbs I think.

[@billthehat6973]

well, why is it that the republicans can't come up with a candidate to unseat Nancy Pelosi? She is not all that popular here, but every two years the GOP puts forth a candidate who is rejected by the majority of people , mostly because all the GOPers can do is field some far right-wing nut job.

[@guomondur9248]

When JFK was President, then we got Sleepy Reagan and failing Trump and the rest is history…

[@waterheaterservices]

Glorious revolutionary humanist socialist people's paradise now.

[@theanswerisinthebackofyourhead]

I suppose you voted for Biden and the DEMOCRATS who want war with Russia?? And hyper inflation at an all time high?? At least trumps presidency had no war, a good strong dollar. Your an idiot who does not know what your talking about

[@MrRacket991]

Reagan and Trump ruined San Francisco? I don't think so.

[@michaeladams9641]

Now homeless clog the streets and every one has a poop app on their phones- ah progress

[@stephendacey8761]

What the hell is a poop app?

[@MrAsianPie]

What a nice town, hopefully nothing terrible happens to it causing it to become the laughing stock of the world....

[@davidpomeroy7594]

I think the world looks at San Francisco with both disgust and pity rather than laughter

[@spikespa5208]

Too late..... .

[@jeffevans3193]

Whats missin, homeless.