Closest thing to time travel.

Back when San Francisco was truly The City by the Bay. Gosh I remember Blums bakery. They made the best cakes and desserts

I LOVE THIS..I WAS 1YR OLD....I'm now 64....I still love SF....

"Cable cars climbing halfway to the stars". Ahh, so lovely!

@spikespa5208

3 жыл бұрын

Before they became a tourist attraction. Back when they were still just a part of the City transit system, at about .25 a ride.

Love this. When I see the cars parked head-on on hilly streets it reminds me how on one side the car door will fly open, while on the other side you have to push really hard to get out of the car.

@ApartmentKing66

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I can see having to hang on to the door to keep the hinges from getting bent when the door fell open.

@one-eyed-jaxbehind-the-duc9720

5 жыл бұрын

A real thrill, open the door on the downhill side and hang on to the steering wheel for dear life, to keep from falling out onto the street.

@spikespa5208

5 жыл бұрын

If you had a big Chrysler 2 door it was downright dangerous.

@genacunningham1731

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. So glad i live in a flat area!

@joemessman1

4 жыл бұрын

@@genacunningham1731 Yeah. I used to live on one of those streets. 1333 Filbert St. What a hoot!

Back when a ordinary middle class person could afford to live there.

@jeffmorse645

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. My dad was a construction worker and mom stayed home, kept the house and took care of four kids. We had a comfy life out in the Sunset. My folks bought their house about the time I was born in 1960 and I think they said it cost $25,000.

@mr.dontcare6934

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeffmorse645 damn I can't imagine how much its worth today! Sheeez!

@jeffmorse645

4 жыл бұрын

@@mr.dontcare6934 About 1.2 million. Mom's 92 now and I told her what it was worth a while back to which she replied "That's crazy - its not even that nice of a house". lol We moved away for dad's work when I was still a kid. Too bad they didn't hang onto it.

@theanswerisinthebackofyourhead

3 жыл бұрын

YEAH MAYBE YOUR PAYING A 100 A MONTH ON YOUR MORTGAGE AND THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED A LITTLE STEEP FOR 1960, TODAY?????? FORGET ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!

@lukehauser1182

3 жыл бұрын

We are coming back...

Music is beautiful.

What a treasure! And much of these beautiful pictures are around my corner!!!! Nice music too!!!

I love how few cars you see. The city was so much more livable then.

@theanswerisinthebackofyourhead

3 жыл бұрын

BEFORE THE NANCY PELOSI WILLIE BROWN MACHINE DESTROYED IT.

San Francisco was a great place to live during the 1960s. The public schools had high standards and the students respected the teachers. Bus fare was .15. I remembered getting “car tickets.” Ten rides for .50.

@rebeccajohnston5411

4 жыл бұрын

Rudolph Parayo My Cousin and my former husband got bussed from the Outer Sunset Lawton Elementary to Sheridan Elementary.

@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239

3 жыл бұрын

@@rebeccajohnston5411 could it possibly be Sherman of which you speak?

Ahhh the good old days when the city was normal I wish I could go back

@carnak6665

4 жыл бұрын

...you are expressing a psychographic urge shared by far too many Americans; we all know it's impossible to go back, yet even now I'm remembering my secret free parking spot behind a Chinese restaurant in North Beach, now a paid lot. Only constant brainwashing over decades by the illusion factories of Madison Avenue, Hollywood, Disney, TV and the White House could create an environment in which such mass delusion is possible.

@lukehauser1182

3 жыл бұрын

Don't return - we're happier the way we are now

@billiozia3447

10 ай бұрын

I Am Sorry But It Is Happening In Many Big Cities Today.❤

Very cool. Loved the music!!

Beautiful shots and images, matched by the coolest instrumental

@crayone

4 жыл бұрын

Clurk Roberts the instrumental sucked. Should of used a jazz track. Any jazz track.

Nice to see Union Square and Blum's. The way it used to be before they went and 'made it better'. I was 11 in 1960 and remember it well. That time was when SF was truly a great city. Clean and safe, with everyone respecting each other. No one in a hurry and no congestion. So different from current times. You would have to have been there at that time to truly know the difference. It is an abused city these days.

@spikespa5208

5 жыл бұрын

Blums's for an ice cream sundae!

@joemessman1

4 жыл бұрын

Blum's. Remember those huge ice cream sundaes? I was 12 in 1960 and loved the city.

@robertsmith1860

3 жыл бұрын

I was there at the same age as you. My Folks brought my Sister & myself into Blum’s for lunch, where were both ordered a “Blum Burger On A Blum Bun!!”

@Rikkcas

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertsmith1860 my daughter lives near Melbourne AU. We visited last year January and she took us to this outrageous place called Brunetti. The amount of desserts, coffee drinks and food in general was just like Blum’s was. Amazingly delicious and decadent. But other than that, I havent seen anything close to Blum’s or even Mannings market street cafeteria anywhere. We were lucky, and we are blessed to have those memories. 👍🏼

@bettymiller1929

3 жыл бұрын

It is sad what has happened to San Francisco

Ooh nice!!!, not like now. SF born & raised appreciates these post. Thank you!

Look at all that street parking!

before it became an outhouse

Awesome! This is at least fall 1962 as I spotted a 63 Caddy!

@ClueSign

5 жыл бұрын

I say 64 as I spotted a Corvair Monza from that year.

@one-eyed-jaxbehind-the-duc9720

5 жыл бұрын

First thing I noticed was the 63 Cadillac. At least attempt to get the title correct!

@frankpaya690

4 жыл бұрын

And a 63 Rambler

@anthonyogata3828

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I was not the only one that noticed cars as recent as 62 and 63. I left San Francisco in 1964, I was two years old.

Nice was born there 1953, came to San Diego at 6 months old. Beautiful Tribute xoxo ❤💙

nice! love seeing those old videos! thanks for sharing!

Great short film, I liked everything. Thank you so much.

Yes. Very nicely done, subscribed. I was there. Never lived in the City, but grew up always there, visiting family friends, and later girlfriends. A magical place then.

Excellent document. Many thanks!

GREAT footage of a great city...

This makes me feel old i was born in 1962..

Thats the SF i remember and love. Thank you!

Wow, Great to see old San Francisco - to look at those people a wonder what life has been like for them ? Nice choice of musice too ! - Thanks for sharing ? SB British Isles

Great job it’s great seeing a time when cars were cool and people dressed with a bit of class. Even here in Australia back then if you went to town you dressed up and you didn’t look like you just raided an Op shop.

@georgehenderson7783

10 ай бұрын

Nowadays shop raiding is commonplace with no consequences.

Great video, thanks for posting. So sad to see San Francisco such a shithole now.

@ClueSign

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure where you live it's paradise!

@TheFozzir

Жыл бұрын

@@ClueSign Exactly, no smell of urine or feces.

@georgehenderson7783

10 ай бұрын

It's even worse now. It's a dying city. 😖

The good old days.

Thanks for the memories.

Home sweet home...

Back when Frisco didn't look like a giant outdoor insane asylum.

@ApartmentKing66

6 жыл бұрын

Excellent point...however, don't let a native San Franciscan catch you calling it "Frisco"...you'll be taking your life into your hands.

@randymitchell5432

5 жыл бұрын

wannawatchu66 - The younger natives born in the 70's and after DO call it Frisco, and it still looks like that; just more cars (not that old of course).

@spikespa5208

5 жыл бұрын

When Lombard St. wasn't a clogged up mess.

@dondressel4802

5 жыл бұрын

Druggies needles and shit all on the streets As my uncle from back east said when he saw San Francisco What the hell happened? I said liberalism and democrats

@milagrologistics1721

4 жыл бұрын

No local native ever called the city Frisco. Only military guys and tourist from other parts of U.S Just not acceptable !

A lowrider’s paradise. Look at all those classics.

Notice how nice folks dressed when they went to the "city". Quite different from today's sloppy dressers with their noses stuck in their cell phones. I lived there for about 2 years, then eventually moved out because it felt too crowded for me. It's a great city for visiting. Lots of different interesting things to see and do. Good luck on finding a parking space.

@jeffmorse645

7 жыл бұрын

We lived there when I was a kid in the 60s. I remember my grandma always dressed up even to go to the Safeway. Different mindset back then.

@tweedy151

5 жыл бұрын

same in my town in Scotland. My gran still dressed to go to town. Now everyone is a slob almost.

@mjt2231

5 жыл бұрын

tweedy151 nice know it's not just the U.S.

Thank you for this priceless piece of history. So sad to see that the city is a veritable cess pool compared to this era. Where did it all go wrong?

@carnak6665

5 жыл бұрын

Capitalism

@erniebuchinski3614

4 жыл бұрын

@@carnak6665 We have a robust capitalist system here in Helsinki and throughout the Nordic countries, despite the fact that individuals such as Bernie Sanders, among many others, call our system "socialist", which shows a level of ignorance that is both amusing and frightening, at least to those of us with triple-digit IQs and the capacity for critical thinking (a shrinking minority in today's world, certainly). And Helsinki is nothing at all like the cesspools that cities such as San Francisco, Portland (where I'm originally from, so it's especially sad for me to see what's happening there) and Seattle are becoming, despite Finland also having a capitalist economy. (A system such as what we have in the Nordic countries is accurately referred to as either a welfare state or welfare capitalism, not socialism. Please look it up if you don't believe me.) In fact, things generally work just fine here in Helsinki, and homelessness is nearly unknown. It's easy to blame any system you don't like for any and all problems in society; that's what the more simple minds (on both sides of the political spectrum) continuosly do. However, the politicians who convince the people who elect them that simple answers, along with grandstanding and virtue signaling on their part, are substitutes for hard work and the pursuit of realistic solutions to complex issues seem to be much of the problem here. Some of the blame should also be apportioned to those who crave such simple answers and who are persuaded by the mindless theatrics that so many politicians give them, preferring that approach rather than to actually think for themselves. None of this glaring ignorance in political discourse is new, but it seems to be getting worse over time.

@carnak6665

4 жыл бұрын

@@erniebuchinski3614 ...yes, well, Ernie, the www moves slightly too fast for critical thinking; therefore it's expedient to use one-word explanations even though they will be taken as stereotypical generalizations. The Nordic countries, with their various fuzzy labels of socialism and welfare, obviously have sane, balanced societies relative to here in the uncivilized wasteland of America. It's all about balance, isn't it? Theoretically money is an absolutely perfect tool until you put in into the hands of humans. The lack of homelessness in your countries is directly equal to the amount of human sympathy extant in your countries, not because of variations in economic systems.

@frankpaya690

4 жыл бұрын

It got under left-wing control by well-meaning, but ignorant liberal voters- so "open-minded" that their brains fell out!

@frankpaya690

4 жыл бұрын

@@erniebuchinski3614 for the last 50 or so years increasingly people are taught from the time they're very young to follow, and not question what the majority around them is saying. We're to the point now where we have masked puppets in the streets running up behind people and sucker punching them- in the name of anti-fascism, oblivious that they themselves are the poster children for fascism.

I was in grade school in 1965 my family living in Hunter Point Naval Shipyards SF. I was bused from base to Danial Webster School, a tall brick building and we had to pass a massive 100 yr old stockyard that really stunk. Heard ugly rumors about animal experiments on base. it was a very rough part of town. One morning, along the shipyard waterfront, there was a massive tide line of used syringes and medical waste. You could hear the crowd across the Bay singing the Star Spangled Banner at Candlestick Park on game nights.

1:17 I was hoping to see Tippy Hedren or Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds) there at Union Square.

That was beautiful.

Yeah those hills are so extreme. Walk a couple blocks uphill and you’re done lol.

Great days in San Fran. I remember Moars Cafeteria on Powell with all the great Buffano mosaics inside, Zim's coffee shops for great pie and coffee, and that great ice cream shop in Noe Valley I believe it was called Bud's. Before BART, boarding buses at the transbay bus station to go to Oakland and Berkeley. The Spaghetti Factory on North Grant. Mingling with bohemians at City Lights bookstore nearby. Finally Joe's Italian restaurant near the Tenderloin...excuse me if I have the city districts a little off..:) SF was truly a cultural haven.

Great footage, great music

A lovely tourist's eye view of 1960 SF. I was a college student then and we from SF State and Cal while resisting the House Unamerican Activities Committee meeting in our city, got washed down the stairs of the City Hall with firehoses. Didn't show that did you? Loved seeing Blum's. I remember their hot fudge sundaes. Also, Townsends white cake with fudge frosting. Yum

All those well dressed san fran folks😆

1:43 - 1963 AMC Rambler Classic, 1:50 - 1963 Cadillac, 1:50 - 1963 Ford Galaxie Cabriolet

@muziklvr7776

2 жыл бұрын

@Brian Salomon That's a '63 Caddy, not '64.

@muziklvr7776

2 жыл бұрын

@Brian Salomon The difference between body styles on the '63 and '64 are pretty subtle. '61 and '62 have the side fin on the quarter panel. Hard to tell the difference without looking at the taillights (round taillights on the '61, square on the '62).

Love it. Born in the City in 1960, but feels like I was right there in the clips. Your music? Thank you.

@devroshart

8 жыл бұрын

I used Apple program GarageBand to mix music loops together to avoid copyright problems.

Decent people and outfit. I didn't see anyone wearing shorts and sandos

Some of the physical landscape/homes are the same as today. But no one dresses up like these lovely women, and of course most of these people would be unable to buy a cardboard box on Market Street today. A beautiful memory of city ruined by the wealthy.

Idk about you guys but I seen not 1 homeless person.. which ultimately says the drug addiction/abuse wasn’t big whatsoever back then. Kinda crazy 🥶

@oldtwinsna8347

4 жыл бұрын

It existed back then to a large extent. The only difference is that SF was not the magnet of homeless/drug addiction as it is today. There wasn't the large pool of tax money garnished from wage earners to support their lifestyle. Police also did their jobs to crack down on things like these, rather than today by focusing on parking enforcement and other infractions where they exist solely as tax collectors to continue bringing that money in.

@fernandoruelas3050

4 жыл бұрын

back then we called them hoboes and there weren't that many like today

@Peace2all4vr

3 жыл бұрын

I was 15 yo back then and in my mind the only people who did drugs were "beatnicks." I thought that they were mostly artists and lived in their own neighborhoods, like Greenich Village. They weren't revolutionaries trying to destroy society.

People dressed nice and the streets were kept clean

I was 3 going on 4 I can still remember going to visit my grandparents in the the city

Great Video. I did spot a 1963 Rambler. this must be late fall or even winter 62-63

My home town.

2 or three years off..but still fun to watch

I wanna go back there.

At .20 sec. to .32 sec. the KZread movie is traveling up Jones Street just past Pine Street toward California Street in November 1963. The 1961 “Corvair Monza” car parked on the left on Jones Street was my car. At the time (right after the “Kennedy Assassination” 11-22-63), I lived in a rooming house at 1111 Jones and was able to park my Corvair Monza across the street. I was totally shocked to see my car in the video. I headed back to Texas in July 1964 because beautiful San Francisco was just too expensive for me.

Regarding driving through San Francisco during the 1960s, be sure to watch the exciting car chase scene from the 1968 movie Bullitt starring Steve McQueen @ kzread.info/dash/bejne/eH6Oj6SBcq7fn9Y.html

Awesome footage. The car they ride around in is a 62 Chev

Awesome!!!!!

We had a cabin in Rio Nido at the Russian River where we would spend our summers every year in the 60s The people across from us had a beautiful cabin if you could call it that and would buy a new Cadillac every year Their names were the Pinellis

@gregnewsom447

5 жыл бұрын

I used to go to Rio Nido in the late 60s with my family...They would rent a cabin....Do you remember the PeeWee golf there?? It was a good place to met girls at night...Great times...

Ahhhhhh the good old days

A place I'm looking forward to calling home for the next few years 🐊

@dday9257

4 жыл бұрын

Ryan Brown Don’t forget in order to be called a real citizen of SF you have to shit on the sidewalk at least once

@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!!!!🚡

@spikespa5208

3 жыл бұрын

And don't call it Frisco.

@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239

3 жыл бұрын

@@spikespa5208 ha!

It seems as if SF is mostly hillls -a person sure would get a workout walking the streets of the CIty.

beautiful city

Very, very cool.

And almost all cars had 7 inch or 5 and a quarter inch headlight. Cost next to nothing to replace them.

Before the hippies arrived a few years later and turned it into a drug dump.

1963 was the newest car I saw. The lady at 1:38 strongly resembles Queen Elizabeth.

The gopro must've been huge back then🤣

I was 11 that year. People may have seen me near Fisherman's Wharf with my kit shining shoes. A fun way to make a few dollars.

Nice old video....once again, spot the fat person, cant! Also, this video couldn't be any earlier than '62 as there's a 62-3 Cadillac at 1:50

All i can think of is that car chase from bullitt

ahh, the good old days

don't know why but this song isn't on this album, its a totally different mix, kinda house-y thing. bummer. What great song.

@devroshart

3 жыл бұрын

I mixed the song on Apple’s Garage Band. I picked the drum loop and alternate keyboard. I didn’t realize the piano music was a real song until sometime later.

What music is this? Really enjoying the Fender Rhodes vamp + these clips

@devroshart

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Luciano I used Apple's Garage Band to mix the song, to avoid a copyright strike.

@kitabal-azif3169

6 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to know the name of the original one? I love it.

@Stender_

5 жыл бұрын

Cruise Control.

@dday9257

4 жыл бұрын

I think it’s called I left my feces in San Francisco

Hello, is it possible I can use portion of this reel in my video.

@devroshart

8 жыл бұрын

Sure, Thanks for asking.

@abelbecerra5920

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much..

@lisarovner5349

4 жыл бұрын

@@devroshart Hello! I'd also like to ask about licensing a few seconds of this for my film, please let me know how I can reach you?

@devroshart

4 жыл бұрын

Lisa R The original is in the public domain, you are free to use my edited version.

30 year before GTA San Andreas

Is this from the Prelinger Archives?

@davidhildreth

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. archive.org/details/6360MoodOfSanFrancisco01133811

My birth place,1964 university hospital

Would love to go to frisco

A vibrant cultural oasis. A city with class and know how. A city of ideas that moved the entire nation forward. A city now long gone and dead, murdered by tech, greedy landlords and developers. Now, a city of the cold, gray, mono-culture of tech....tech....tech....tech...tech. The San Francisco of ours dreams, is now just that, a dream lost to all of us!

OMG it was yesterday 😢

Memory of old SF.

Memories

Must have been nice to live in SF before the hippies arrived in the mid 60’s.

Wow

Wow still looks the same

Hippies were a few years out.

Nice. Simpler times.

Blimey, hope my brakes are Ok.

Care were so huge back then

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

❤️👍❤️🥂❤️

those fkn streets. i've walked up them. ouch.

Back when people dressed up when they went downtown and there was still street parking.

groovy music liberal hippie feel (opinion)

Before the INVASION!!!...San Francisco was GREAT!!!

More like 1962, not 1960. 62 Chevy impala front fender at 1:33.

@spikespa5208

3 жыл бұрын

*"1960s"* .

People dressed up then

When the city was world class now its a dump lets get better.

@ClueSign

3 жыл бұрын

It's gonna have to be a do-over for SF, I fear with the tech sector leaving town it's going downhill even further for the next 5-10 years. But I'm betting on it to rise from the ashes.