San Francisco - Story of a City (1963)

[@justinjayankura8676]

It's so relaxing to watch these old documentaries.

[@bunnystuff2005]

The San Francisco I was born into and grew up in. I was 11 when this film was made. Such a joy to watch.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

San Francisco is built on more than 40 hills. When Oscar Wilde visited the city, he remarked, "when you get tired to walking along the streets of San Francisco, just lean against them!"

[@lindatremonti432]

OMG........I worked at Walston & Co at 235 Montgomery St. It was my first job after graduating from GWHS. Wow, what a flash-back this is!🥰

[@terrysullivan1992]

Lived there from '64 to '66. It was a beautiful and wonderful city. Quite a cultural awakening after being raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles (Arcadia).

[@Gothisown]

Love being from the city and Oakland too.Hearing of and seeing places that no longer exists is both magical and sad.

[@JazMatazFry]

I love vintage documentaries 💕

[@01DOGG01]

Had to stop uploading them even though they are public domain, YT doesn't like it.

[@Gothisown]

Didn’t know that what’s there excuse

[@andybaldman]

Check out the Periscope Film channel.

[@TimothyZakaria]

​@@01DOGG01a lot I didn't know about San Francisco and people migrated there. I think I could of came out of Hong Kong. I don't know how far the distance from San Francisco by water

[@paulsanderson4139]

great video my dad worked at the beth. ship yard brother fred worked at the can company my first job at hunters point on a sub , i was born there in 52, we moved to pacifica in 56 it where i grew up, peace you all.

[@CesarGonzalez-kt7vp]

Remember 63 like it was yesterday, I was eleven and riding up and down hills in the Noe Valley on my single speed bike with balloons rubbing the spokes of my wheels. ❤Love My City ❤Still live only 15 minutes south along the coast, watching sunsets.🧡

[@bobv8219]

In Pacifica perhaps. I grew up in mill valley.

[@Mark-yy2py]

The year I was born in San Francisco...Used to hear those fog horns in the morning by the Presidio!

[@luislaplume8261]

Barbara Eden said the same when she was a child there in the 1930s.

[@characterunderconstruction5891]

If you was living by the Presidio you was living good. I did my living in the Haight Ashbury.

[@Mark-yy2py]

@@characterunderconstruction5891 lived in the Richmond district- 22nd Ave and Clement, middle class till you got to Lake Street…but that was long ago before high tech jacked up everything!

[@characterunderconstruction5891]

@@Mark-yy2py Still living better than me. GodBlessU, if you're into that sort of thing.

[@Mark-yy2py]

@@characterunderconstruction5891 I left SF in 1973; California in 1999.

[@douglassauvageau7262]

SF exemplified the 'American Century' with cultured muscularity.

[@vanessadillon3421]

I remember SF from 1958 and to present. The cream and green Coaches. And Coit Tower and the ferry Building tower were The ;high rises of the Day! Seamed stockings fox collers And metal wheeled Skates......

[@Boinkster]

What was the closed caption typist smoking? Can I have some??

[@01DOGG01]

It was auto-generated at the time of upload

[@hwtours]

Really enjoyed this doco. Big fan of San Francisco. I always feel at home when I’m there. It’s so similar to my home city Sydney in Australia. They are sister cities after all. Long live San Francisco.

[@Westcoastguy]

Great vintage footage. SF was so nice and clean before unlike now with all the crime, homeless, and filth. The mayor, DA, and board of supervisors need to watch this to show what a great SF used to look like.

[@anthonyc6360]

San Francisco had republican mayors back then.

[@susangrande8142]

I guess you didn’t notice the exhaust pouring from the jet engines and the ship smokestacks. I was a little girl when this film was made (I probably saw it in school a couple years later), and I remember the smog that would hang in the air sometimes over the city. (I’m a native San Franciscan.) I’m sure the bay was plenty polluted then with all of the heavy industry and the ships emptying their bilge tanks.

[@loginnoggin]

SF is still beautiful, you must be blind. Homelessness is a wide spread side effect of a late stage capitalist society

[@Westcoastguy]

@@loginnoggin Keep lying to yourself.

[@loginnoggin]

@@Westcoastguy I aint. I take it you're lying about being from the west coast and only vacationed to the City then proceed to walk down Market St. like all the other tourists lol. Next time you visit the bay make you venture out to the other neighborhoods because there is some real beauty there.

[@fogtown3027]

41yrs and still the best place on earth👌

[@characterunderconstruction5891]

You are kind of young, are maybe I'm just old.

[@craykanne]

The foghorns make me cry, wanting to go home.

[@blanket1309]

Timeless

[@mr.michaelshaughnessy7497]

Watch with captions! They are hilarious!!

[@01DOGG01]

I enabled auto-subs back in the day. Then they took them away and it's obvious why. I think they're back now and much more accurate.

[@thetakongpancake1003]

6:18 - It has grown from a handful of one-story wooden buildings....except for the buildings like 7:01 O:)

[@adameckard4591]

I grew up in the bay area from 1958 to 1969. I remember all this well. It was pleasant then, unlike now. What a shame, the present leadership is to blame for the current disaster.

[@rogerk2049]

What happened to the soundtrack?

[@01DOGG01]

What do you mean? I just clicked the video and the sound is still there.

[@spactick]

I've lived in San Francisco my whole life and it looks better today than it has ever looked. Maybe not as good as the San Francisco that existed prior to the 1906 earthquake and fire which had gas lights on the streets and horses and buggies cruising down the streets etc; but much better than it looked in the 1970's when huge sections of the city were ghettos ( The Tenderloin, Hunters Point Fillmore District, South of Market st.) and dangerous to go thru at night

[@01DOGG01]

The slung-over junkies add that extra touch to the decor. Reminiscent of the 70s?

[@spactick]

@@01DOGG01 we've always had characters here in San Fran. When I was a kid the whole South of Market area (now and uppity residential high rise area) was populated by bums and drunks, and yes probably some of those decorem (your word) junkies. Hey they need to live somewhere to

[@Terranova0]

The Closed Captioning on this video is gawdawful.

[@01DOGG01]

It was the auto-subs at the time that I uploaded this.

[@jamesharris40001]

how did san francisco people go from gold rush people to social justice warriors

[@liannebedard5521]

The good ran out…

[@gregwilliams386]

My family came in 1852 and worked as hydraulic miners in Placer County, I left in 2019.

[@sheLovesG]

They didn't. Those SJW's are mostly east coast imports.

[@elderantonveyzaluna9814]

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[@Jellykelly1222]

Thank you Thank you

[@bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish]

Great history!

[@Gothisown]

It was a beautiful machine

[@lorettanorton]

Captions are awful....but funny!

[@janetmarletto6667]

Totally annoying!

[@SFsailingbiking]

No homeless people back then! Hi from SF

[@antoniahamilton3201]

This was right before Governor Ronald Reagan defunded all of California's extensive mental health facilities in order to save a buck.

[@Jmp5nb]

@@antoniahamilton3201 Exactly. Threw thousands out from the only places that would care for them-a money saving action. Jeesh.

[@antoniahamilton3201]

@@Jmp5nb Right on!

[@ingridalfred9214]

All jobs and manufacturing businesses are gone now. Jobs are not done in the US now. It's still nice to see back then.😊

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

Before hight tech raped the City.

[@trainrover]

fucking 12-mile-long bridge must be a hassle, that's ⅓ diameter of (compact!) London..!

[@robertlannon]

Oh what dicey 'caption dialogue'...get used to change folks...all shall yet come to pass...the city shall rise...

[@waynesims2254]

My name is Wayne M Sims I was the first Sims from Robert and Ruth Sims born in San Francisco ca in 1953 we stayed at 927 Fillmore the corner of Fulton I'm a original Fillmoian love the City had good times sad times and crying times I've seen the rape of our neighbor hoods stripped of our culture and dignity what s crime that went unpunished one day judgment is near!

[@freejohnkenney1640]

*FREE JOHN KENNEY* 🇺🇸 CARMEL INJUSTICE

[@dflf]

2nd generation San Franciscan here

[@trainrover]

except for possibly its churches, I've never fallen for pegging yankee Montreal as being Europeanish, but visiting Frisco reminded me how stoic Europe's share of the Mediterranean: Europe's south -- not its north -- is what's facsimiled in the Americas ;)