San Francisco in the 1950s | 4K and Remastered

[@DIASDEMUSICA]

This is real time traveling, and this is what KZbin should be, quality contents like this. Thanks for sharing!

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you very much :)

[@sky.the.infinite]

@@vividhistory2092 the obnoxious SUBSCRIBE suggestions in the video are a bit much and take away from the viewing experience. Just saying.

[@mickswagger6086]

@@vividhistory2092 I like you

[@peterwhitey4992]

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[@justeatingchipsandwatching]

​@peterwhitey1992 these types of comments are in every documentary and historical video. These self righteous people think they are superior to everyone because they don't watch just anything in KZbin. I like variety. I enjoyed this video too

[@tvgator1]

this is UNBELIEVABLE; the clarity. Makes you feel like you stepped back in time....

[@GA-1st]

Born and raised in the City. Although the standard of dress began to change in the '50s, I still recall in the late '50s and even early '60s having to "dress-up" whenever my mom would take me downtown to go shopping. Memories!

[@laura8324]

Yes, I remember wearing gloves, hat & coat when shopping downtown with my grandmother during the ‘50s

[@POGGIOALSERE]

@@laura8324 Yes! Hat, gloves, purse, pumps, and a nice suit to go shopping in San Francisco with an afternoon treat before going home at Blums ! If we were lucky, my mom would buy a coffee crunch cake to take home! I really miss those times😢

[@DevilDogDen1775]

I'm watching this, and it makes me really sad... My absolute best friend Al Timmons was born in SF in 1929. He served in the Navy during WW2, and when he got out, he began his education to become a professor, obtaining his PHD in educational psychology. He was a professor at Long Beach State University when it first opened. He retired in 1981, and bought a house at 27th and Noe Sts. Anyhow I met him in 1985, as I was a Marine stationed at Naval Weapons Station Concord. By this time he was a widow, and he showed me around the city, and on my liberty weekends, I would stay with him. He had all these really great out of print books on the City, and he used to take me to the little known historic places. It was because of this that he inspired my love for San Francisco. And when I got out, I ended up renting a room from him... Al was like the Grandpa that I never got to know. I could talk to him about anything, and in the late afternoon we'd sit out on the deck overlooking the city, while having a few beers, and having these really great discussions. I ended up meeting a great girl, and we ended up getting married, and we moved up north. I was really excited, but sad because I was leaving my best friend, and my long-term home. Al passed away in 2009, and it was an incredible loss for me... Something that I'm still feeling. And watching this makes me realize that Al was alive and well....

[@sergpie]

What an awesome comment, and I’m sure Al was happy to have known you, as you are he.

[@jefflanham1080]

That generation was amazing….much different attitude than the boomers when I was growing up in the 70s-80s…..they just wanted preach how the ONLY way was the way they saw it! The older generations were much more helpful and insightful to what your ideas were and they were still around in my day although getting on in years.

[@harukrentz435]

Look how civilized the city was.

[@NoName-rl3fh]

Was. Yep

[@Dragon43ish]

....goodbye America....

[@tabletalk33]

Yes, I notice. It's almost like another planet! Something out of science fiction, almost an unattainable ideal. Things have just become UPSIDE DOWN.

[@dickcheesehead9714]

Leftism happened.

[@gello8518]

Notice who’s missing.

[@dougb170]

Do you see the Leeds store at around the 2 minute mark? I worked there as a part-timer during high school and early college. I remember Anne, Duke, Buzz, and Mr. Mac!

[@chopperdeath]

Clean streets, no shit or trash. It's not the era, it's the people who were different. Raised different.

[@cynthiafeagin6956]

Pride lots of self pride in everything

[@incremental_failure]

@@cynthiafeagin6956 It's not about pride, it's simple logic - don't want to live in trash then don't trash it.

[@txJoJo55]

@@incremental_failure Yes it is pride . Pride leads you to care for everything around you and respect your surroundings, Home, people and so on .

[@incremental_failure]

@@txJoJo55 Not at all. That's a very American thing. Elsewhere it's that people like nice surroundings, they don't really care what others think.

[@tonyarioli3979]

I lived in San Francisco between 1953 and '57; there was shit on the streets (Market St. and around Union Square), but it was of the canine variety, not human like nowadays.

[@legendofzoloxolo1425]

Better cars, better architecture, cleaner streets, people dressed better. No one living on the streets. What happen to our dignity?????

[@standupstraight9691]

You're right except about better cars. They have cool styling, but new cars are better in every way.

[@joedimaggio3687]

@@standupstraight9691 cars are made much better today but he's right about everything else.

[@doscaminos204]

Umm it turned into Democrat run hell hole, with the promise utopia by paying people to be homeless and paying government employees to clean up after them… why miss those evil patriarchal racists? For clean streets and decency nah.

[@ChristianSoldier71]

Jesus loves you and He died for our sins. Jesus has a plan and a purpose for your life. Once we die, it will be too late to repent. Put your faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior today, we are not guaranteed tomorrow. Mark 1:15 The kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel.

[@Venim85]

They've become woke zombies.

[@Jonnyced1127]

Every time I watch these types of videos I’m just glad that someone had the foresight to just film something,no matter how mundane or “boring”

[@adrukova1407]

That's the importance of art & creativity ❤

[@mikeanderson9278]

Best resolution and high definition ive seen yet! Excellent job "Vivid History"!!!

[@dogfriendly1623]

Yes it's remarkable

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

I agree...

[@robbiecastillion8940]

People dressed so nicely back then. So much class.

[@quick-and-easy]

Look how clean the streets are and well dressed the population is!

[@DaytonaRoadster]

and how there isnt a single brown person to ruin it

[@daylightdaylight6612]

Yes the streets are clean and people are well dressed. I was born in 1960 but I love the 50's, life looks there so simple and uncomplicated.

[@fraser_mr2009]

You didn't have a wide range of fashion in those days... for men the stores only sold suits.

[@daylightdaylight6612]

@@fraser_mr2009 there was already jeans, was invented by a certain person Levis for gold diggers and was used also by farmers. But yes there was no wide range of fashion for men.

[@contour157]

And how white and polite.

[@donwenger2616]

This is great. My dad grew up in San Francisco in the 40s and 50s. I'm sure he'll like this. My mom grew up in Denver. It would be nice to find something like this for that city.

[@ukilic86]

I’m jealous of your dad. He experienced the best version of the US. America is still great but post WWII era was something else.

[@Coluche3012]

I like how people used to jump on and off the cable car while it’s moving!!😎

[@m-jay356]

Crazy! Dr. Doane retired from Dentistry at age 87 and passed in 2004. Hope a family member sees this video and his business sign.

[@sfeddie1]

Judging by the cars at 2:19, this is an older shot mixed in with the rest of the 50's shots. I was born In S.F. in '46 and I remember riding in the old style streetcars as a youngster. I also remember that the Owl Drugstore at Powell and Market, where the Cable car turnaround is, became a Woolworths store. Used to go in and eat at the lunch counter inside. My friends and I used to catch the L streetcar out in the Sunset and go downtown just to walk around and look at stuff, or go to the movies. There were a bunch of movie houses down on Market St.

[@madmanmechanic8847]

The good ole days didnt get run over by queers and didnt step in shit from the bums camping on the side walks .

[@marjoryrainey73]

Owl was a block or two down. On California st. I think. Woolworth was on Powell.

[@cynthiacarter532]

We settled there in 1954 when I was 3 1/2. I too remember those old noisy streetcars and riding across the Bay Bridge when the trucks and streetcars were on the lower level. Husband was born there in 1946 also.

[@sfeddie1]

@@marjoryrainey73 Right at the beginning the street sign right in front of the Owl Drug store says Eddy and Powell. That’s why I think the Owl became Woolworth’s. Was there also a cable car turnaround for the California line at Market? I can’t remember.

[@marjoryrainey73]

​@@sfeddie1 Hi think I'm remembering another drug store on a corner of Market maybe it was Rexall.

[@LuisEspinoza-vn3ph]

This looks like an alternate universe. I can't believe it used to be like this and we changed it... changed everything.

[@GeeBee909]

I enjoyed my days in San Francisco, starting in the 1960's through the 70's. I would walk the downtown area, fisherman's wharf, Coit tower, and many other areas, sometimes with my camera. Great fun, and totally different than what it is today. I hope one day to walk safe streets again their one day (although I'm not sure when)

[@roby5706]

Same here,Market Street was nicer than…👍🏼😷

[@davidayala5127]

I don't think ever again😮

[@jeanbeck3962]

I lived at the Navy Base at Hunters Point. Loved to hop on the Bus and go into the city. A wonderful department store was the Emporium. Great sboppin. Going to Golden Gate Park was always a day well spent. This was in 1952.

[@markrichmond2168]

I am younger than you obviously, but I was stationed at Hunters Point in 1977. Pretty ratty place. I am sure it was much nicer back then.

[@jeanbeck3962]

@@markrichmond2168 Yes, it was a nice base. I was there twice. Lived in a quanset and later in Navy housing outside the gate. Great . My son was born in Oakland Navy Hospital. Great Doctors. Loved our time in the Navy.

[@intrepidone2796]

Amazing high quality of films and coloring makes time traveling even better - THANKS

[@leandabee]

Fascinating watching the guys turn the tram around. I love all things 50s, so these vids just bring me joy. Great work 👌🤗

[@Rubycon99]

They still do that :)

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

It is a cable car. It runs on gravity. It has no motor. A tram has a motor.

[@RaymondHng]

@@lucianomezzetta4332 That's incorrect. The cable car runs by gripping a running cable under the center slot between the two rails. The cable runs at a constant speed of 9.5 miles per hour and is driven by an electric motor located in the central power house.

[@americanstyle6280]

California was a beautiful state....long time ago.

[@YakosIoakim]

Unbelievable

[@bouzoukiman5000]

Back when it had very liberal/progressive policy. Scumservatives have tried to destroy it

[@FeelMyBirdie]

You must not get out of your house very often. Touch grass

[@A_r78]

@@FeelMyBirdie I’m from there It’s a shithole now It wasn’t that bad growing up but now it’s terrible

[@kyoakland]

still is

[@molder2233]

Better dressed, better educated, cleaner streets. It was not just a different time, it was a better time. In every way. Yes, medical care has advanced but if you can’t afford it, what difference does it make? This is what drugs does to society. We have failed as Americans, there is simple no candy coating it. Our country has turned into a cesspool.

[@mitchconner403]

“A better time” for white people you mean 😂” in every way”.

[@molder2233]

@@mitchconner403 I mean, just from a visual standpoint. Just not as much traffic, no graffiti, no trash, no homeless tent cities filled with filthy meth heads, etc. Just well-dressed people, clean streets, and palm trees. I’ll bet LA was truly a great place to live back in the day. Look at it.

[@tabletalk33]

My language is not quite so gentile as yours, so forgive me: Our country has turned into a shit hole.

[@veloc123]

It was turned into it by the Globalists....not the people's fault they were brainwashed....the system is not designed by the people it is designed by the maniacs who run the world...

[@madmanmechanic8847]

Yeah and you didnt have to worry about being butt slammed from some queer when you bent over and there were no shit all over the side walks to step in from all the bums world def gone to shit

[@Gabialoha1]

I remember getting a kick out of watching the cable car turnaround! Makes me very nostalgic.

[@bigjoe330]

Clean streets, well dressed people. When we were civilized.

[@budmangt2]

Notice everyone is well dressed, no one is obese, everyone is respectful of each other, no shouting, clean sidewalks, no destruction of anything, amazing how lean people looked and how well they moved. Even middle-aged people moved so well and had great postures, Note the lack of diversity, Makes me sad about what we've become

[@SadisticStang]

there was plenty of diversity, just not skin deep diversity.

[@gordonspicer]

You will find very similar watching videos from London, Paris, Berlin in thd 30's .I agree wih your sentiment

[@lstump4482]

amazing what good progressive tax brackets and high government investment can do. Around this time any money a person made above 500,000$ was taxed at 90% federally which decentivized greed and made rich folks more likely to spread the wealth

[@madmanmechanic8847]

And the reason is people where raised to respect you f d up you got your ass smoked with a paddle or a belt you were accountable for your actions. No days oh no the little darlin didnt shoot somebody my little darling wouldnt do that

[@gooddayhuman]

Weirdest thing about this film? 1:00 UPS trucks have not changed in 70 years.

[@tonyarioli3979]

This video appears to have been taken at several different times during the first half of the 1950s; the vehicles on much of it looks to have been around 1950 or '51 (possibly 1952); and at 3:24, there is a large black and white "SP" sign (Southern Pacific) - that sign was constructed in March,1954 and stood until Sept.1961; the sign in this video indicates that this part of the film was most likely taken in 1954 - by 1956, the background of it had faded to a gray color.

[@sapho71]

I'm not American and I've never been to San Francisco but I agree with you. The fashions, the cars and the architecture all say it's early 1950s.

[@jackallen6562]

I've always wondered when that big "S P" sign was there - great info, thanks!

[@tonyarioli3979]

That sign stood atop the (then) Southern Pacific Building - I can remember people complaining about what an eyesore it was (and it was!).@@jackallen6562

[@fraser_mr2009]

No computers, no internet, no cellphones, etc. Men wore suits and women wore skirts.

[@tonyarioli3979]

Not just skirts; hats, gloves and heels (I lived in S.F. from 1953 through 1957)

[@Pyro-Moloch]

@@tonyarioli3979 and also socks! Don't forget about socks!

[@dans9463]

And not the other way around.

[@mark3464]

@@dans9463oh no. The horror

[@updatedjustnow271]

I’m 71. I miss the San Francisco of my youth. My great aunt lived near 19th and Judah. Just up from Golden Gate Park. I loved visiting her.

[@agonzalez1465]

No homeless no drugs no trash clean streets and well dressed people

[@robert3302]

I remember the 50s. Mama would put on her best day suit, and we would take the Key train across the bridge. Go shopping at the White House and City of Paris. It was all so grand and beautiful.

[@ilimes]

you're incredibly fortunate to have witnessed it.

[@willythebluebear]

The streets were so clean!

[@JackieontheTrunk]

Love the "air conditioned" 1952 Ford at 3:25. Wow!

[@AJLopez44]

The UPS truck at the 1:00 minute mark…those things haven’t changed in 70 years…lol

[@bocagoodtimes1460]

So sad to see what a wonderful city San Francisco used to be.

[@dudebro3250]

Div-ersity isn't a strength. Who knew?

[@ta724]

@@dudebro3250 it's still one of the most desirable cities in the world

[@octobersun221]

Desirable for connoisseurs of human feces

[@ta724]

@@octobersun221 desirable for people all over the world

[@saramaria-]

I live here and used to work a block from union square. I saw a dead person on the street just last year on 6th street. They pick up the bodies of homeless people who overdose downtown daily.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

The shot at 00:31 and the stuff with the trolley after 4:00 hurt because that architecture was still around in my city when I was a young kid, but by the time I was old enough to appreciate it everything had been torn down and replaced with modern buildings.

[@madmanmechanic8847]

How sad

[@susanpeterson8774]

This is fabulous!! It really is like time travel. Thank you!

[@MisOjosSePasearon]

SF was my home for 20 years, it was beautiful, vibrant, and bohemian. I left in 2017, just before it began its true decay. Sad state of affairs in SF right now 😞

[@tabletalk33]

SF is a dying city, and it's a crying shame.

[@jaysaeger2057]

Thanks so much for posting the video of my favorite city. Its like going back in time.

[@970331875]

It is so amazing how people were so elegant clothed...especially, women...I am really sorry that nowadays almost all women lost their elegance and wear only pants...

[@tonyarioli3979]

Most of the reason for people not dressing up in the city is because nowadays, it would be akin to raising both your arms up and shouting: "Rob Me!"

[@SilverWave64]

It's just so sad seeing what has happened to this once so beautiful city 😭

[@myavo]

It's 1952. "Bend of the River" with James Stewart appears on a marquis early into this clip.

[@tonyarioli3979]

However, at 3:24, there's a large black and white "SP" sign - that was constructed in March,1954.

[@myavo]

@@tonyarioli3979 got any evidence for that?

[@raymillar1499]

What amazing quality video. Great to see people moving about in days gone by. Great job 👍

[@justoestaba2986]

It is incredible how the physical aspect of the human being has deteriorated in the last 80 years. In the video you see thin, well-dressed, elegant and well-mannered people. If we go to the same places today we will see obese people, badly dressed, bad manners and the last with indeterminate sexes. what a disgrace

[@madmanmechanic8847]

Amen ! And you didnt get run over by queers

[@Owlzindabarn]

It looks like it might have been stock footage for a movie or something. Notice the couple at 3:09 they are both just standing there facing each other, then seem to start walking on cue.

[@gff__]

yes

[@pandorin2348]

Wtf how did i not notice that

[@thomascox4014]

I was born in San Francisco in 1944 and spent most of my childhood there. It was frankly paradise. My Dad worked in the financial district and always dressed in a suit and fedora as he went to work. My mother loved to go "downtown" for shopping and other activities. She always got dressed up as well and wore white gloves. The city was beautiful, clean and safe and I might add with very cheap cost of living compared, say, to New York. I left for good after graduating from Stanford in 1966. Best decision I ever made. All I want to do now is remember it the way it was and not the dump it has become. I will never visit it again.

[@michaelbenardo5695]

With all those 50s cars, I don't see how anybody could think this is the 40s.

[@jamesfarley8356]

You're right its early 50s as @ the start of the video there is a shot of a theater showing the movie "Bend Of The River" that came out in 1952 & no big deal as I love watching these videos its like looking out a window back thru time

[@michaelbenardo5695]

@@jamesfarley8356 It IS a big deal, because many people under a certain age don't know what cars of a certain era looked like, but take everything they see on the internet as gospel. Therefore, it should be ACCURATE.

[@EV-wp1fj]

Definitely early 1950's. The low and wide fin stuff wouldn't begin until around 55-57 I think.

[@ChristianSoldier71]

Jesus loves you and He died for our sins. Jesus has a plan and a purpose for your life. Once we die, it will be too late to repent. Put your faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior today, we are not guaranteed tomorrow. Mark 1:15 The kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel.

[@kenhoyer8601]

Yeah but look the vintage of the streetcars

[@SpettroFamily]

The quality of image is amzing

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you :)

[@tnelly6588]

Where all all the homeless and obese people. Someone should do a side by side comparison of then and now, filming from identical vantage points.

[@jamesmack3314]

Yea… 60 years I mean 70 years on it’s a whole different scene and not nearly as idyllic

[@cynthiafeagin6956]

Read the book wheat belly and that will partially explain the obese people

[@jackallen6562]

Fantastic work! At least part of this gem can be dated to about the first week of 1953: Note the Streetcar ad (e.g. at 2:16 ) promoting a story on the Hotel St. Francis, to appear in the Saturday Evening Post "on sale Jan 7." Almost surely that's the Jan. 10, 1953 edition, which included the article, "Dan London and his St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco - the Magnificent Innkeeper".

[@dans9463]

I arrived in California in 1952, when I was born.

[@kirahastings9900]

I was a young child and remember being on Market St. on New Year's Eve, welcoming in 1953. Lots of funny hats, streamers and horns.

[@wxman2003]

I don't see anyone pooping on the sidewalk.

[@PokrPro21]

I'm 36 years old. I was born at the end of 1986. What I miss the most from this era is how everyone dressed with class and self respect. Imagine that being the norm today instead of the garbage you typically see in metro areas. Modern day society has really taken a massive dump in a disgusting toilet in a public restroom. Shameful.

[@harukrentz435]

"Miss" You talked like youve experienced it.

[@vooveks]

@@harukrentz435 Yeah. Idiotic thing to say. Nostalgia is silly enough, without not even being from the era you’re nostalgic for. The person is obviously glossing over the fact that in those days, black people were treated horrifically, men could beat their wives with impunity and did, anti-communist propaganda and spying on your neighbour were acceptable, the USA had not long since dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan just to test it out - I could go on. Nah, but the ‘good old days’. 🙄

[@HelloooThere]

Ok

[@Bubbaburp]

Chill out grandad

[@PokrPro21]

@@Bubbaburp quiet hillbilly. How many tattoos do you have and how many Bud Lights do you drink? Are you a Dylan fan when you're sipping that drink?

[@karaokeduncan]

At 3:09, two extras are awaiting their cue for "Action", and once received, they begin walking. I wonder what movie they appeared in.

[@ahknabi]

Wow! San Francisco used to be beautiful!

[@heinzbreuer2674]

I left my heart in San Francisco ❤❤❤ i was 5 times in San Francisco. Good Collage Film..Greetings from Germany Cologne......

[@QuicksilverSG]

Nice restoration work, but it really needs the purple toned down, especially in the shadows.

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you for the feedback :)

[@international360]

san francisco, before it became a trash can...

[@needler117]

Or a toilet.

[@standupstraight9691]

Gay bath house.

[@alanhaywood2971]

I agree totally. The rubbish purveyed is annoying.

[@alanhaywood2971]

@@needler117 as an Australian, I find this very depressing, as it is such a beautiful city. It'd be like saying Sydney was a toilet or trashcan.

[@p.b.i.1342]

It was a good old days, clean & safe. Now it’s a nightmare, so sad. Thx 4 d lovely videos.

[@stevelinwood8362]

No gun violence or drug violence on the streets! Enjoyed this video.

[@bagpuss998]

Lady getting on tram at 4:49. Looking at us. What a great place , would of been nice to see a bit of Alcatraz , what a great place to live in the 50s. USA at its best

[@pltgolsilbro]

This is a new hobby for me to watch.

[@ronsmith4325]

Look at that, no tent cities

[@davehue9517]

Wow... I've never seen SF so clean

[@gaae2000]

I lived the best of San Francisco from 1986 to 2012.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

'95 - '07...GOOD TIMES!!!

[@alroberts193]

wow, I see the Tonga Room at the Fairmont Hotel. Did not know it's been in existence for that long but I think they closed now. I also saw Woolworth Dept. Store next to the Cable Car Turn Table. Used to go there for breakfast at their Resto downstairs with my Uncle in the early 80's.

[@rockdirty2228]

No, Tonga still open.

[@foreignparticle1320]

It's frustrating to see what downtown SF used to be, when I've only been able to experience today's comparatively anemic version (though, the same could be said of any modern city...) Superb video though!

[@spankyharland9845]

hey Doc Brown, I am back in the 50's

[@jamesmack3314]

How People were able to parallel park those huge cars is beyond me!

[@Nicefoolkilla]

If they were building buildings like the Chrysler Tower. Then yes. They could easily parallel park!

[@tonyarioli3979]

Imagine the cars manufactured with the huge tail fins in 1959 and 1960! My mother used to say "I don't understand how people can walk behind one of those things when the driver backs up - they'd get skewered!"

[@keithdukes5990]

Because people were far more skilled & able to undertake tasks in everyday life!!! Now they can't even define what a woman is FFS!!! 🤔🤨🧐🙄🤡

[@jamesmack3314]

@@keithdukes5990 yep world gone mad😩🤮

[@marccurzon]

@@tonyarioli3979 the purpose of the tailfin was to help the driver park. They are essentially chrome markers for the position of the bumpers in the rear corner and are easily visible in the mirror.

[@michaelandrew4488]

My parents lived in SF in the 50s and my mother has memories of that time - Dad was stationed at the Presidio Amy Base. Mum has images from their apartment window, which looked over the bay to Alcatraz

[@somerandomvertebrate9262]

I'm European, and hey, look, it's the real America!

[@kirahastings9900]

Remember all those shops on Market at Powell that were replaced by Nordstrom and the Mall that are now closed. In my youth, I lived on the cable car line and used to commute on it. Would run onto the turntable when it was moving so I could get the seat I wanted. The fare was 15 cents and I could sometimes get a free ride by smiling at the conductor. Most of the views towards The bridge and the bay have now been obscured by highrises. Love these old films.

[@АлександрЗыков-х3у]

Город какой чистый.красивый

[@justandfair9298]

Very heart-warming, thank you for sharing.

[@janismerkuri5252]

A would love to live back in that time ❤

[@cinemask8]

Excelent! Greetings from MX 🇲🇽

[@pgancedo9299]

That world is gone forever…so sad 😞

[@Test-vl1ib]

The rise of the suburbs, cars and malls diminished many downtowns.

[@ElwoodBlues830]

This should not be possible. There's no way a person could watch life in the streets that occured seventy years ago. It's inhuman, and illogical. These moments were totally dull, insignificant at this time. It's the fact that we should never see this that makes these images precious and fascinating. Thanks, George Eastman.

[@Dragon43ish]

.....you and your feet...stink.

[@frankthetank9346]

AMAZING !!! Thank You for posting this 👍👍👍

[@markm9710]

2:33 I was expecting a crash and whew it did not. I used to drive streetcars.

[@johnrawlins6147]

Absolutely Fantastic

[@joeguzman3558]

When normal people were in office

[@blackcatjim]

Beautiful

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you :)

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Take me back I`m begging please, take me back I'm on my Knees.

[@ni6htowl148]

Nice to see it so clean compared to s hole it is now

[@bartonpercival3216]

At the 2:34 mark the sign on the back of the municipal railway streetcar on Market street says Chutes at the Beach. If this video is from the 40's or 50's muni never updated their signs on their streetcars. Chutes at the Beach became Whitney's Playland at the Beach in 1923, when George & brother Leo Whitney bought the land and the amusement park. They also bought the Cliff House in the 40's. What a fantastic city San Francisco was in the 40's & 50's!!!!!!!! ❤️

[@Pauldjreadman]

If the colour was bang on this would be incredible.

[@walburgavondrachenberg2496]

🌎🌎🌎perfectly remastered ! 🌎🌎🌎

[@stephaniechevalier8440]

Decency, law & order, beauty Please Come Back!

[@ernesto003plus]

I appreciate watching these enhanced old videos, as they make these historic scenes feel so much more current. It's a bit sad, though, that the atmosphere is still somewhat muted, as the colours seem as if some ash or soot lie on the landscape. I hope for some progress concerning this. Nevertheless, thanks for this!

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you, I do the best I can :)

[@markatr6]

i could sit here watching all day...maybe i will...i dont want to be in our present day mess...

[@kyoakland]

I work in san fran and damn is it dirty I'm here as I speak!!!

[@scarletmacaw]

I was born in 1958. I want to teleport myself into that environment right now and leave this hellish modern day society behind. But only if I could bring my beloved parrots.

[@tonyarioli3979]

Hi: there's a video of the city taken in 1958 on KZbin titled "Downtown San Francisco 1950s in color" that runs for eight minutes and nine seconds if you're interested.

[@rogermaes6001]

Great work, wonderful images, thanks a lot.

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you :)

[@alejandrodanielmoreno6247]

Wonderful ❤.

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you :)

[@heru-deshet359]

If I had a time machine I would repeatedly go back to 1950 spend time until 1960 and start again.

[@REBL0X3RSCREW]

0:22 the coca cola shop is very nostalgic

[@NarutoUzumakiofficial]

Why can't this exist today ? I'm a zoomer, but this looks so much better than a lot of modern American cities I've been to. It's clean, people seem civil, and respectful, well dressed, cost of living isn't impossible to afford, the design is nice, people are progressive (for their time), and idk just seems so much better in a lot of ways.

[@NarutoUzumakiofficial]

@Spiritual Seeker unsure. I think China is still a paper dragon but BRICS that's something to watch out for. America, i'm not an expert but from my research yeah things seem bleak. Increase of disunity, hate, cost of living. people in my generation can't afford to live as i said above. Even cities like Paris are cheaper than many med-size cities here. There is a lot more but i'm sure you aware

[@madmanmechanic8847]

And gas was 25 cents a gallon and they filled your car aired up your tires and checked the oil and cleaned your wind shield and if you needed your car fixed there was two bays tune ups tires shocks and what ever else you needed . And people had pride in their work no shoddy half assed shit it was done right the first time . Now gas is $5.00 a gallon and its all you can do to put food on the table Seems like another planet its all gone to hell

[@ogbrmusic]

When Frisco was a real town with real Joe's... The City by the Bay.

[@jamesmack3314]

Yes, time has not been good to San Francisco

[@kyoakland]

@@jamesmack3314 or America

[@barryobrien7935]

Uuuhh, we don’t call it Frisco.

[@xpointer483]

I never thought I will ever be able to see such old videos in colour as well as in such high frame rate. All thanks to AI for this!