Time Machine Back To The 1970s In San Francisco California

[@Mike-xo8on]

Look at how clean and pristine.

[@solidstatevintage7247]

It’ll never again be that cool or affordable

[@StopFear]

It was never cool. Just affordable. It was always a city half of which was a total shithole.

[@edmondhonduh]

😢

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

only in Heaven they have this

[@frankdenardo8684]

​@@edmondhonduhA ride on the cable car costs $10.00

[@cliffordbrowne9791]

There's no longer that genuine bohemian vibe anymore

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

I first visited SF age 18, 1978....I'd been fascinated since I was 12.....I'd never been away from home before, never been on holiday, never stayed in a hotel, never even been in a lift.....but i was addicted to 'The streets of San Francisco'...I had no clue about holidays/ hotels/ flights or anything...!..I booked 2 weeks at the Bellevue Hotel on Geary street...My parents were so worried about me. 3 weeks before I went my father watched me sitting looking at all the stuff I'd collected and said, 'You know son, you are going to get there and you'll be so disappointed'...I said 'No Dad I wont, it will be exactly what I'm expecting...I was right, it was MORE than I could have hoped for I LOVED IT...!!!!!...I went again the following year and since then I have been 14 times. I'm nearly 64 and still love the city just as much and collect memorabilia...................

[@philbenson6041]

You must be from the UK

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

@@philbenson6041 Why is that then? have I said something wrong?

[@marisol3827]

@@gregwoolliscroft6255 Maybe because you used the words "lift" and "holiday." I grew up in near San Francisco, in Mill Valley, at the foot of Mount Tamalpais, in the 1970s and 1980s. We used the words "elevator" and "vacation." I was very lucky to grow up there. At the same time, I was obsessed with London and all things British. I still am! I was lucky enough to visit twice. I am so happy for both of us that we have been able to explore places we love in person!

[@ClueSign]

First visited as a teen in 71, moved there in 79 and sadly moved away in 98: had some of the best years there -- affordable, safe, accepting, and fun.

[@chelseysalas8112]

SF is definitely not affordable anymore

[@antoniocarlosoliveira9146]

​@@chelseysalas8112and definetly not safe and cool anymore.

[@MrRolandMichel]

Did you go to any of the Dance Clubs (remember when that was a Thing?!) Which neighborhood did you live in? 😃

[@ClueSign]

@@MrRolandMichel Yes -- the Stud of course in SOMA near the original Hamburger Mary's, and lots of places in North Beach. I think one was called The City disco. Then the smaller clubs had live acts: like the I Beam in the Haight, the Mab, the Stone, the BackDor, Old Waldorf, Savoy Tivoli, etc. I lived in the Haight and then on 18th and Noe near Castro, and then Divis near Waller. What about you? Did I see you out and about back then? What do you remember?

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Thank you for showing us the real San Francisco. It will never be like this again. The only way to fix today's mess, is with a time machine and you have it. Thanks.

[@bartonpercival3216]

Coat Plus imports was such a cool store down at the wharf. So many exotic things on their shelf's!!!!!!!

[@asa3988]

Rode those cables cars to school everyday in the 70s. Thats the city i remember and love.

[@HotRodHarrys]

Such a great era ...if we only knew then what it would turn into in our lifetime ...

[@lnnttr]

that must’ve been so much fun omg

[@roby5706]

I stay in those housing projects, yeah at end the cable car turn around that’s Bay St. you see the 76 gas station,Cost Plus I use to ride those cable cars all the time those were fun times...👍🏼😷

[@HotRodHarrys]

@@roby5706 so cool....wish we could go back ...thanks for posting up about this!

[@GA-1st]

Ahhh. Memories. The Fond memories! First thing that struck me were all the defunct businesses! "Zim's" (closed in '95), and "Roos-Atkins" (closed in the '90s). I used to have an occasional "charbroiled" burger at the Zim's on 19th Avenue. And I bought a nifty sport coat and slacks at Roos on Market Street for my high school graduation in '74. It was too "high-end" for me to ever shop there regularly! Memories. Fond memories!.

[@bartonpercival3216]

I agree, Zims on 19th Ave & Taraval street made some of the best char broiled burgers, also had a Zims on Market street and Van Ness avenue. Clown Alley and Joe's of Westlake also made great burgers!!!!!!! I bought my first good suit at Roos Atkins in the 70's!!!! 👍

[@ANOSINCRIVEIS1973]

San Francisco is such an amazing place to visit, to live!!!!.....I love it from deep my heart!!!

[@NovaVortex193]

Supposably, this is the last decade when the cable car was more than just a tourist attraction

[@SniffyPoo]

what do you mean?

[@stjohnbaby]

Lived there 1968 to 2000.Good memories.

[@bartonpercival3216]

Me too, born there in the mid 50's and left in 2001. It was at one time the greatest city in the world. When SF was the envy of the world!!!! 👍🦀🥖🍺

[@MrRolandMichel]

We Miss you guys! It's not the same without you... but I'm glad we had all the Good Times and Fun while it lasted, right?! 😄

[@bartonpercival3216]

​@@MrRolandMichelYup, lots of good times there during that time period. I miss the sourdough french bread and all the many great restaurants that are still there from the mid 50's. Sad that the beautiful Fox theatre on Market street and Playland at the Beach couldn't survive the wrecking ball. I left my ❤️ in San Francisco!!!!

[@chryslerelectronicleanburn1676]

0:22 1946-1948 Ford. Still on the road in 1973.

[@Robert-kj2jq]

Saw a new 1973 Ford LTD Country Squire @ 1 :07, that's when I knew it was 1973.

[@mikegalvin9801]

Moved there out of college in 1977. Worked at Crocker Bank on Montgomery and Sutter. My first apartment was a one bedroom on Pine St for something like $200 a month, got a discount on a nearby garage space for another $50. A Fast Pass would take you everywhere in the City for almost nothing. Except for the Tenderloin you could walk anywhere late at night and not be at all nervous. Saved my money and in a few years bought a house in the Avenues. Anyone with any halfway decent job could do that then.

[@dooglebee]

That old jingle for Rice-a-Roni was going through my head the entire time I was watching this. 😁

[@HotRodHarrys]

Rice ..aroni …the San Francisco treat! 😂

[@roadtrip2943]

I visited yearly during the seventies , a week in la see relatives, psa to san fran $39 ,a week in san fran see old friends. Columbus ave, north beach, GG park, Richmond , clement, union st, marina, chestnut st, international food festival all in a great town still the best 50 years later

[@annakelman6627]

I used to dream about thise hilly streets as a British kid. I was obsessed with all things Frisco. Even the Banana 🍌 Splits came from close by i believe. They were like rock stars to me.

[@njgal0217]

This brings back great memories. I was stationed at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco in 1975 and 1976. One thing I do recall is that I never took a cable car unless absolutely necessary if I actually wanted to get somewhere. So slow, and always packed with tourists. I always took a bus or streetcar. People who only visited as tourists think this is how people got around in SF, but it was mostly only the tourists who got around that way.

[@pwp8737]

also for those of us living on Nob Hill

[@dogsense3773]

Letterman, 1977- 1994 logistics

[@luistapia1942]

They would be horrified to see what the city has become.

[@smhs1262]

why aren't they?

[@RileyTheWolfYt]

@@smhs1262their dead

[@smhs1262]

@@RileyTheWolfYt their dead...what?

[@mrdpdjr]

Maaaan ….

[@elmhurst86]

Although it was too short, this video was awesome!! Thanks for posting it. I'd go back to the 70's in a heartbeat!

[@HotRodHarrys]

You’re welcome and same here!

[@mikerilling6515]

People were well dressed, no garbage on the sidewalks no graffiti on the buildings no syringes or piles of human excrement on the sidewalks that was kind of a really nice city I wonder what happened

[@darbylarsen9547]

Progress from progressives. Sponsored by the taxpayers.

[@normagrimstad8869]

Look at those cars! Would love to ride in one again.

[@pwp8737]

I miss the Cost Plus Imports

[@Ken-jw4xk]

The good old days that I missed.

[@nosey32]

Lived in Daly City in the 70s as a kid… send like 100 years ago and another planet beautiful simple times

[@shaylawatson1244]

The 1970s was a very interesting time

[@stevenplayzzz172]

When California politicians cared enough to keep the City livable

[@adammarkowitz7944]

Thank you. I used to visit. Never again.

[@MrWolfTickets]

A Quinn Martin Production!

[@Nikmg0]

0:09 240Z!!!!! Wow people had a good taste back in the day

[@salim8321]

Thank you for posting Amazing stuff

[@joycedalton6572]

Lived in San Francisco for 6mos when 6yrs old in 1950. The only thing I really remember is the fog and dampness.

[@eastbayhounds7604]

Nice vid, makes me want to get over there and ride the cable cars.

[@StopFear]

That’s just entertainment for tourists which had nothing to do with reality.

[@gertagi110]

​@@StopFear You are so very wrong.

[@6stringthing665]

look at that! looks like paradise!!! no zombie camps, sidewalk poop & dirty needles, & tent dwelling lepers.

[@hwtours]

Awesome. Look at how full of life it was. 👏

[@MyNameIsChristBringsASword]

I remember it just like this what a great city it used to be

[@alangee79010]

I wad stationed in Alameda in the late 1980's. SF was a beautiful city and it had all of that weird crap going on. But overall a great place to see and experience. Never again in our lives will it be a safe place to visit.

[@dogsense3773]

I'm here right now, it's safer now that the 1980s, 1980s 120- 130 killing a year, last 3 years 45- 56!

[@antoniahamilton3201]

Drama queen.

[@dogsense3773]

I'm in san francisco right now, things are better now than in the 1980s

[@malootua2739]

The energy of our nation has changed

[@frankdenardo8684]

Holy Toledo. Check out those cars, the stores that are not in business anymore.

[@RavignonCh]

Could I use this footage for a video I'm making? :)

[@bartonpercival3216]

Wow at 00:02 in this video, there's a Zim's on Powell street. I forgot there was a Zim's burger on Powell street. I remember the other 2 locations on Market st & Van Ness ave and the other location on 19th avenue and Taraval street.

[@hivicar]

I thought that some of the corner markets were ridiculously expensive even in 1974! This has to be around '72.

[@oldguy2082]

I agree. Saw the Ford Torino cab make the right turn, looked like a 72 model.

[@Robert-kj2jq]

No, there's a 1973 Ford Country Squire @ 1:07 which looks new, so it has to 1973.

[@jamesdewer]

A place where people once came to change the world, fell in love and stayed. This town, as well as, this state in general no longer attrach the hard working, or best and brightest. Most come, vote up prices then leave when it gets too expensive. Or you have hard core renegade opportunists and not at all idealist except on how to work the system. The city closes half the streets and you'd have to be insane or insanely wealthy to open a business here. Wealthy or work for the City. Sheesh. The outter areas are time capsules. Unchanged, there are homes in the richmond district with wall calanders from 1967 still on the wall and homes are fire traps.

[@DarkReapersGrim1]

I expected the city to be less packed. There were a lot of people there.

[@LaurenMiddleton28]

My Grandmother who grew up in San Fransico said that during the 70's it was absolutely paradise. The weather is perfect. At that time it Was safe. It's too bad it's become a 3rd world dump.

[@dogsense3773]

Every time there's a house for sale in san francisco, it's sold in three weeks!

[@user-dg7gn4qk1y]

Mayer Diane Frankenstein was SFs death knell

[@eduardodelgadoalfonsolopez9129]

2023 nothing really changed in the view and buildings

[@gmusic240]

16mm film? Color looks great.

[@charlesyateschalfant]

My home town was once a great city. Today it's been ruined by radical politics.

[@roadtrip2943]

After 15 years visiting thru 70s early 80s, relocating there mid 80s live and work another 15 years, the best years of our lives. The current unpleasantness only casts a shadow over a san fran state of mind from decades ago that I still feel and remember

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

That's ridiculous. San Francisco politics gained a rep from the Sixties as "permissive" but was actually as stodgy as any other big California city. They disapproved of, but couldn't handle; and couldn't control the culture or the politics of the hippy generation. Or what followed. Fact.

[@6stringthing665]

surprised the rice A roni is not blurred out on the trolly. Also.

[@HotRodHarrys]

It’s the San Francisco treat 😁

[@dante.mp4]

Hello HotRodHarrys, If you see this comment I was wondering about any licensing for this footage and if it can be used for a non commercial non profit independent short film?

[@multitaskwithlizzoc]

How did San Francisco get so expensive ?

[@ronmartin1375]

A better time.

[@dflf]

My cool grey city

[@geralderdek282]

While the majority of the cars seen were American,the imports were becoming more and more popular.Today its the opposite. Imports outnumber the American cars.

[@StabbinJoeScarborough]

What happened ?

[@themetalhead1463]

Now you can enjoy poop and needles on the ground. The city has “progressed.” Vote blue!!

[@cnandylonj9598]

،،GOD GOP

[@U2BER2012]

Now, Pelosi has let it run down.

[@pwp8737]

she's a Rep not the mayor. If you must vent, at least know who does what!

[@U2BER2012]

A good majority of democrats are all on the same page, no matter which position they hold. Their goals are mutual. Soros pays millions towards these goals and Pelosi has had a major influence on her democratic party. Ask yourself: why are democratic run cities, the most run down and with the highest crime activity?

[@sunkintree]

@@pwp8737 I think they're more concerned with being angry than right.

[@davidcoleman8062]

This was what like before the Democrats. 🤯

[@frommybluewardrobe]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/joaxYo2YarCem9k same place in 1971

[@hopemanley4358]

It wasn't all that great. The underworld, dirty bribe taking city officials and such dominated the city back then.

[@allaboutloveatyutoob2507]

Where's detective Mike Stone? :P

[@vmobile890]

Mike and Inspector Steve Keller at lunch with visiting Lt. Theo Kojak .

[@jamesdewer]

SF was never "affordable" compared to the rest of the country it's always been expensive. For certain I was probably the last Generation USF 1997 that was local, graduated school and could afford a home. After 1997 .com explosion and just briefly between 2009-2012 I was able to sell a week or two before the housing market tanked, ride out the crash in an inlaw and finally afford something away from town before it took off again in 2013. I timed it just right. Anyone else and most my friends are now long gone, Texas, Nevada, but not here where we grew up. Noone can afford it and for the most part most don't want to live in the pit it's become.

[@sunkintree]

Texas is next. This is how the cycle goes

[@DingoAteMeBaby]

i really have no comprehension how they parked cars that large back then.

[@RG-uz6wx]

Skill

[@skk3940]

Zodiac killer....