San Francisco was a great place when I was growing up. The ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and the early ‘80s were exciting times in this city. How times have changed! Most of my friends and classmates that I went to school with have moved out or have passed on.

@mirkomeyerhoff2700

2 жыл бұрын

If you're a billionaire or at least working for them it's still fine, I understand. Poor or middle class, not so much, same in LA or NYC.

@theresamay9481

2 жыл бұрын

@@mirkomeyerhoff2700 In the '60's San Francisco, my Mom was working a minimum wage job and going to college, supporting my sister and I. She could afford a flat. No one could do that now. Ten years ago, a relative couldn't even find a room she could afford in SF. It's very sad.

@SpikedCollar666

2 жыл бұрын

At least everything you see here is still here, building wise. In Los Angeles, most of our cities past has been torn down for new apartment buildings

@thecryptofishist9565

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpikedCollar666 The eastern span of the Bay Bridge is gone...

@Rohit-nd6ie

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecryptofishist9565 im pretty sure it was because it partially collapsed during lota prima quake

I want to live in THAT San Francisco

@DiandraStarShine

2 жыл бұрын

really? for me, depends on when Novocain was invented, things like that. and it's why I say, *"HE11, NO!," when people have asked me if I'd ever want to time travel to any particular time in the distant past if it were ever possible: nope!

@ronmartin1375

2 жыл бұрын

Can’t. Clean cities are colonialism.

@annhalton1963

2 жыл бұрын

@N Diesal Hey, now..That's part of 'diversity'🤣 , to be a-pee-ciated🤣

@n3ry404

2 жыл бұрын

Where’s all the homeless piss and men with assless chaps ?!?! This isn’t the San Francisco I know and love

@incomitatus

2 жыл бұрын

All it takes is a politician(s) with an agenda to ruin what was once beautiful.

Great Travelogue. One of the reasons Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen and Marines returned to San Francisco after shipping out during WWII, Korea, and Vietnam were such travelogues shown to them in camp, onboard during their years of service. Fleet week, shore leave, assignments to the Presidio, the Naval Shipyards, all helped spread the siren call of St Francis' namesake, George Sterlings' 'Cool Grey City of Love'. Cities evolve, develop, grow tattered along the edges but barring another catastrophe equal to that of 1906's earthquake/fire, San Francisco will always beckon. Paris in Summer 1976 was hot, crowded, very dirty, smelled of urine and waste. Notre Dame was whole then and then disaster struck just last year - FIRE. But Paris has cleaned up, the streets are much cleaner than ever before - and Notre Dame is being restored. Thus it will be for SF. NYC - the Big Apple in the 1970s was in disarray. Central Park and Times Square were places to be avoided, crime, panhandlers, mismanagement cast a pall over the city. Then local citizens got involved, exciting business interests, and turned up the volume of her own Siren's call (portrayed often by the figurative beauty of Audrey Munson (look her up). Now, not perfect but healing - NYC is for all intents, the World's Capital, or at least one of them. SF may be beset by issues and physical detractors such as large homeless populations, exorbitant housing costs, infrastructure shortcomings... but you can never go home again. "There is no there, there." to quote Gertrude Stein about her lost home in Oakland. But SF will shine again, beckon new lovers, become the haven for future inhabitants. How do I know this? A: San Francisco's history. San Francisco was willed into existence by explorers, gold seekers, families, business interests, young idealists, artists... San Francisco is more an idea than a place. And as long as the idea, the dream of SF is in sight, on the horizon, it can't disappear...it just will keep evolving, regenerating itself, solving its problems, recovering from disasters. It will gather up its energies and spread its wings once again, rising above its current maladies. To think otherwise is to not know San Francisco, her history, her citizens.

@RobS123

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you're right. As a Third Generation San Francisco it's hard to remain hopeful. It seems as if every City department is incapable of doing its job properly and the City is struggling for its identity against a backdrop of human misery with the Homeless population. I like your optimism, and there are people here that WANT to make a difference and turn things around...We shall see...

@jaykay415

2 жыл бұрын

San Francisco ought to hire you as Head Visionary For A New Plan. Not kidding!

@luislaplume8261

Жыл бұрын

Either you are a prophet, psychic, or a person with wishful thinking, I can not agree with you. And I myself am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s.

I agree I want that San Francisco back.. I grew up in the 70’s and had a taste of what a wonderful city it was… now it’s over priced, gentrified and has so much crime and homelessness that the city officials should be ashamed that they have single handedly devastated the beauty and soul of this city!

@markjones3213

2 жыл бұрын

Crime is an individuals choice

@ayahuascayage

2 жыл бұрын

@@markjones3213 Yes, but when there are no consequences, as in incompetent district attorneys, one finds that individuals making bad choices abound. When everything is tolerated, civility goes out the window.

@markjones3213

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayahuascayage of course there are consequences. It’s just that rehabilitation is a better solution and than just locking people away at the taxpayers expense. People commit crime regardless. It’s unfortunate but that’s the way it is. So locking up every person who commits a crime for years and years doesn’t seem to work because other people still commit crime.

@ayahuascayage

2 жыл бұрын

@@markjones3213 Of course there are consequences? You have to be kidding! How many consequences have been dealt out to the smash-and-grab brotherhood? What percentage of street robberies and property crimes results in consequences? People commit crime regardless? Brilliant! Never would I have dreamed that were the truth! Absolutely genius observation! Locking up every person who commits a crime? I said nothing of the sort. And then your lame logic that if you incarcerate people, there are still others who commit crime. You should just listen to how utterly lame you sound. Your reasoning says, "Why lock up anyone, because there will still be criminals on the street." Are you kidding? And, yeah, I'm for incarcerating bad guys, but they need to be put to work and earn their keep. Imprisonment should mean work and constructive work. And that drtball by the name of Boudin should be run out of town on a rail.

"But the pride of San Francisco is the Civic Center" one of many things in this video you would never hear today. Very entertaining video though, thanks. This video is the epitome of "We used to be a country. A proper country." incarnate.

@ericnichols9223

2 жыл бұрын

Well said. That was the most shocking line in the film. Civic Center should be the pride of SF, but now it's a dangerous, filthy nest of the worst the city has to offer. It's bizarre how the city has become so much worse over the past decades. A wonderful example of failed city government.

@AlexCab_49

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericnichols9223 Tenderloin is pretty bad too. When I visit the city, I avoid that place.

@mousepotatop9767

2 жыл бұрын

Civic Center now is a homeless cesspool.

A proud native who was fortunate to have lived over 4 decades in the City starting in ‘62. Footage from this video made me nostalgic for the San Francisco I knew. I remember the homey communal feeling throughout, as the City was largely populated with locals during my years there. Sadly, I don’t feel the same when visiting today.

@youngdee6421

2 жыл бұрын

" I remember the homey communal feeling throughout, as the City was largely populated with locals during my years there. Sadly, I don’t feel the same when visiting today." Hypocrisy at its finest. It's ok for you to move away to live somewhere else but you complain about people moving to SF.

@ayahuascayage

2 жыл бұрын

@@youngdee6421 I think you've twisted and distorted Hoeman Lew's comment. Not a smidgen of hypocrisy in his statement, but good try. He obviously knows something you don't. And you have no idea why he moved away: Maybe he had to.

@GildaLee27

2 жыл бұрын

@@youngdee6421 Having moved away despite all the homey communal feeling in San Francisco, he is now a tourist when he visits, one of those non-locals he disapproved of when he was a resident. He can't accept that in fact, his old city remains today "largely populated with locals" as always. Surely he had nothing whatsoever to do with the decades of chronic neglect of the City's infrastructure and people. Surely he did not profit from the real estate/ecommerce/tech booms that have made it virtually impossible to buy a home in the City without a 6-figure downpayment and two 6-figure incomes. Surely none of his decisions or actions or behavior over decades of residency in the city contributed to the city's current conditions. He's just sad.

@RobS123

2 жыл бұрын

@@GildaLee27 Gee, no wild assumptions in THAT reply ;-).

I was born in San Francisco. Darn how I love this City. How this city has changed.

@papagen00

2 жыл бұрын

you can thank your woke SF politicians for the change.

@wjcj1234

2 жыл бұрын

It's going to take hitting rock bottom before the city has any chance of being great again. I feel that way about most of the rest of our formerly great state. The crazies are too entrenched to be changed without much (needed) suffering. Sorry for all of us.

@martymcfly8733

2 жыл бұрын

The city turned to crap thanks to your mayor and Pelosi.

@LineageSys

2 жыл бұрын

Mark Mark the communists are taking over the whole country, haven’t you noticed. I didn’t vote for Palosi. I am sure they control all the voting machines in Cali wake up.

@ronmartin1375

2 жыл бұрын

Bridges, trains, cable cars and buildings are colonialism. Illegal now.

Fascinating to see how much San Francisco has changed, and yet how much of the city remains the same.

There was a time when bubonic plague broke out in San Francisco. At one time, there were rampant kidnappings in San Francisco, where if you stopped at a local bar for a beer after work or even while just walking along the street, you might wake up sometime later at sea, having been "shanghai'd" to work against your will aboard ship for the thugs who just kidnapped you. Want to not get thrown overboard? Get to work. For decades, vigilante gangs controlled the city of San Francisco. Officials elected by the people to keep order either worked for the gangs or were outright members themselves. Historic labor actions took place in San Francisco where dock workers fought and died for employment rights everyone now takes for granted. Not picketing and namecalling. Actual hand to hand combat with police in the streets of San Francisco. At the time when this film was being made, tens of thousands of Black Americans were moving to San Francisco and the Bay Area to work in the Kaiser shipyards building ships and tons of other war materiel for the US government. Their labor was needed & welcomed by Bay Area industry when elsewhere, they were not allowed good factory jobs, were redlined out of buying homes, and were also being subject to widespread violence against themselves and their families, churches, businesses, & entire communities by criminal white supremacist gangs. San Francisco, a port city, has always been an entrepot, gritty as well as cosmopolitan.

@Dayvit78

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for providing a dose of realism! Also note that at 3:30 they say that the Chinese are permanent residents "many of whom were born here." This was before being born on US soil gave you citizenship!

@GildaLee27

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dayvit78 Being born in the United States has always conferred US citizenship.

@Dayvit78

2 жыл бұрын

Ok I was a little off with my dates, but until 1898, they were NOT until the Supreme Court decided in 1898. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), was a landmark decision[4] of the U.S. Supreme Court which held that "a child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, ...] automatically became a U.S. citizen at birth." But immigrants were NOT allowed to naturalize unless they were white - until the 1940s when this video was made.

@Urinbigtroublemister

2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy what you stated about the history of San Francisco. People tend to forget that San Francisco has always had a history with “gold being struck” there - whether it be literal gold or figurative, monetary gold. Yes gentrification is a huge problem but people flocking to the bay with the hopes of making it rich is a old tale and one that is not specific to the tech boom.

@osilvers

2 жыл бұрын

I've never heard of this. How interesting!

This "used" to be my city..... Fourth generation Both my grandpa and dad were Cable Car Gripmen........I Sold my house and moved away in 2002 because I saw the writing on the wall.... So glad that I did, but my heart truly aches for what it has become..... 💔

@vicmerle57

2 жыл бұрын

I was born and raised there also. Lived all over the city growing up. Bernal Heights, North Beach, lived on Ashbury and Grove, and also the Outer Sunset on 48th Ave. I was a teen in the early Seventies, so things were still very good. I loved growing up in North Beach when I was a kid. Wonderful memories. San Francisco is now worse than my worse nightmare of what would happen to that beautiful city. Just disgusting. And you can blame all of these far left woke bullshit politicians for destroying San Francisco and California and many other great cities across the United States of America!

@wjcj1234

2 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain. I'm in Southern California and it's similar for similar reasons. I can't wait to get out.

@death2pc

2 жыл бұрын

You are, alas, one of thousands who heart and soul........, whose birthright was destroyed by liberals............

“The gaudiness of the earlier homes of the city”?? Those Victorians are the coolest places in SF!!

@GildaLee27

2 жыл бұрын

Right!? When he said that, I thought, I'll take one of those "gaudy" Victorians any day. They're quite beautiful and worth a fortune now!

Washington High ‘69. Lived on 29th and Fulton. Great location and a great time to be a kid. Those days are long gone. Don’t even go back for a visit anymore. It’s now a cesspool.

@vicmerle57

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I graduated in 1976! It was a wonderful time. Quick story you might enjoy. I was living on Ashbury and Grove in 1970. I went to Roosevelt Jr. High, and then of course continued to Washington in 1973. In 1974 we moved to 48th Ave and Ortega. I guess technically I was suppose to transfer to Lincoln since I now lived in the Sunset. But I never told Washington H.S. that I moved. I used to take the 18 Sloat and the 38 Geary to go to School. I am very proud to have graduated from Washington. What a view we had of the Golden Gate Bridge. Just fantastic! How lucky we were!

@surferdude44444

2 жыл бұрын

@vic merle .........you made the right decision. Washington vs Lincoln......no brainer. I’d ride my bike to school. Up up up 29th, flat at Geary and down to the school. I was an animal then (not so much anymore😂.) My favorite bus was 5 McAllister. Right to Market and then I’d catch the Candlestick Express to watch the games. Middle of July.......two sweatshirts and a wool hat. Remember? The wind off the bay was bone chilling at night.

@ronmartin1375

2 жыл бұрын

Bridges, trains, cable cars and buildings are colonialism. Illegal now.

@Spaceshewarrior

2 жыл бұрын

And still the cost of living and taxes are ridiculously high! Forget it!

@jamesrecknor6752

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but a glorious, revolutionary, humanist / atheist socialist people's cesspool.

S.F. in 1941 must have been truly AWESOME

@DiandraStarShine

2 жыл бұрын

says the guy using the internet and many other conveniences & technology, hahaha!!😃

@nathantw

2 жыл бұрын

Too racist and segregated. Maybe the 70s and 80s.

@pacz8114

2 жыл бұрын

@@nathantw says the guy who opted for a trite and cliched remark.

@nathantw

2 жыл бұрын

@@pacz8114 the truth hurts.

@pacz8114

2 жыл бұрын

@@nathantw OK. Fine. First, define the word, "racism"; then tell us what it means to be "racist". I'll be eagerly awaiting your reply.

Someone should do a frame-by-frame recreation of this today. It would show that we are indeed living in a dystopian future.

@dmk941

2 жыл бұрын

Outside of the massive build up of the Financial District and the changes to the waterfront it would look 80-90% the same. Almost all the buildings pictured would still be there and have been maintained. Not that there aren’t problems in SF, but thinking it would look radically different or “dystopian” is incorrect.

@jaminova_1969

2 жыл бұрын

21 years ago, I visited SF for the 1st time. I saw a homeless male yelling at a woman on the trolley bus on Market for at least 20 minutes. I have no desire to revisit that crappy city!

@rgraham9792

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaminova_1969 You saw one yelling homeless guy over 20 years ago and that was enough to sour you on an entire city forever?

@MrMarckeedee

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaminova_1969 Homeless people are everywhere especially warm whether or mild climate cities. Yeah yeah California in general has an issue with homelessness. But so does my city New Orleans. I suppose you don’t want to visit here either. Have you been to Houston? Dallas? Anywhere in Florida? I’m sure you’re going to say all those cities don’t interest you because you can a find a homeless guy yelling on public transportation. Just stay Home then and watch KZread

@d.Arbelles

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaminova_1969... even crappier today.

Ahh... back in the day. Back when San Francisco was a vibrant, beautiful, exciting, affordable city. Sadly, it is now a sad, pale shadow of its former self.

Fantastic video. The vast majority of everything shown still exists today, and SF is still beautiful. We are just suffering now.

@wjcj1234

2 жыл бұрын

Understatement of the century. I wouldn't go within fifty miles of the entire bay area. No offense. I live down south and it's not much better. But my neighbors voted for it. I can't wait to get out and return to the USA, land of the free!

@death2pc

2 жыл бұрын

Pox upon ANYTHING/ANYONE conservative !!! Be sure to keep ALL your DEMOCRAT "leaders" in power, in EVERY seat, in EVERY department. Continue in the righteous and hate filled manner that you liberals inherently do to "progressively" move "forward" toward a "better" society, one filled with anything goes crime, drugs, taxes, filth..... After all, it IS the DEMOCRAT way !!!

@dmk941

2 жыл бұрын

@@death2pc LOL. Damn you’re angry.

@DiandraStarShine

2 жыл бұрын

​@@dmk941 yes, *Death2PC* is so crazy he's not even making any sense with his: "Pox upon ANYTHING/ANYONE conservative !!! Be sure to keep ALL your DEMOCRAT "leaders" in power, in EVERY seat, in EVERY department. Continue in the righteous and hate filled manner that you liberals inherently do to "progressively" move "forward" toward a "better" society, one filled with anything goes crime, drugs, taxes, filth..... After all, it IS the DEMOCRAT way !!!" always fearful & looking for a reason to go to war with 'the scary other.'🙄 and crazy just like *wjcj1234,* whose comment was: "Understatement of the century. I wouldn't go within fifty miles of the entire bay area. No offense. I live down south and it's not much better. But my neighbors voted for it. I can't wait to get out and return to the USA, land of the free!" whose 'reply' showed up before *Death2PC's* and which *also* makes no sense re: what the OP commented. but then they're probably the same cuckoo for cocoa puffs nut job.

@dmk941

2 жыл бұрын

@California Dreamer They’ll never believe you. They say they’ll never come to San Francisco but will explain to you everything about it like they’ve lived here for longer than you.

San Francisco is such an amazing city with fascinating history, unique landscape, interesting architecture and landmarks.

@nonenoneonenonenone

Жыл бұрын

It demonstrates the grandeur of the Beaux Arts school of architecture and landscape design, so sadly abandoned by the 1950s.

"...a gentle veil of moisture." @ 07:19 that is, by far, the first time I've ever heard fog described in that way, hahaha!!😄 and yes, we *do* get a lot of it here! I was born decades after this film was made, it was amazing to see 1941's San Francisco.😮

@ThomasPerezGhost

2 жыл бұрын

Do you feel that it's less foggy than it used to be? I sometimes get that sense but I honestly don't venture into the city a much as I used to. And maybe the really foggy days just stick out in my memory.

@odietamo9376

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThomasPerezGhost - I have lived in SF for many years. It does not seem any more or less foggy today than in the past. There is more fog during some parts of the year than at others. Same as ever.

My grandmother was born in Oakland. It's interesting seeing what she lived through.

Is this posted just to sadden native SF'ers and longer time residents? A real bummer to see what has happened to SF. The reverence held in this film for the city is GONE. SF is so very unique, and must be preserved. Been a lot of places in the world, and I still feel SF is such a gem. Apparently so did others, and real estate has gone ballistic, but all for no improvement to city life in the last decade +. I hope things change for the better...

@nullvoid564

2 жыл бұрын

Aztlan was California Now it's Aztlan, not California Been a long time gone, Oh California Now it's tent city delight on a moonlit night Every gal in California Lives in Aztlan,Not California So if you've a date in California She'll be waiting in Aztlan Even old New York was once American Why they It changed I can't say. . . "They" just liked it better that way

@rastaplank17

2 жыл бұрын

“Preserving” San Francisco is the exact mentality that ruined the city. Blocking any and all progress of building, construction & change. Look at NY. Constantly out with the old in with the new which creates an exciting city that overtime, has still retained its identity.

@nullvoid564

2 жыл бұрын

@@rastaplank17 San Fransisco literally has a human feces with in the street problem, Architecture is the least of their worries

@rastaplank17

2 жыл бұрын

@null void why do you think that is 😂? There’s no where for them to live because they haven’t built large scale housing in the city since the 1800’s.

@nullvoid564

2 жыл бұрын

@@rastaplank17 Tonnes of people moving out of California as it becomes worse their buildings are still there

It was cool seeing the statues looking over the ocean.

You'll spend the coldest summer in San Francisco. People from in land come from 100° heat to San Francisco to 65°-70° weather in July August

@cherkas009

2 жыл бұрын

But now is global warming there's more and more hot days in San Francisco

@snoopu2601

2 жыл бұрын

@@cherkas009 today I don't feel the warning it's COLD here in the bay area of California 41° this morning at 9am

@rossr6616

2 жыл бұрын

“the coldest winter I ever experienced was one summer I lived in Milwaukee.” - Mark Twain Applies to San Francisco as well.

@13ivanogre13

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Twain has been reported to have said that Summer in San Francisco was the coldest, although he said it better.

@wjcj1234

2 жыл бұрын

@@snoopu2601 I think he was being sarcastic. I'm positive that it could snow up there and some leftwing nut will insist that it's hot outside. Your city is lost.

What a beautiful city this was.

Awesome video!

It was still about this beautiful in 1975, and almost as much in 1987.

Thanks for sharing this slice of history.

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

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Beautiful .

San Francisco definitely change over the years. I grew up in Daly City but love San Francisco.

There are two things in this video I find intriguing; the first striking point is how Market Street has changed over the decades. It used to be a place for people to go shopping and had lots of movie theaters and entertainment. Now, even before the pandemic, it's mostly a ghost town with homeless people and drug users shooting up in doorways. It was also amusing to see the Ferry Building before the Embarcadero Freeway was built. The other thing was what was not shown in the video. The Sunset District really didn't exist in those days. It would have been cool to see a camera car drive south on Sunset Boulevard from Lincoln to Lake Merced. There were only a few custom built houses on either side of Sunset Boulevard at that time as mass produced subdivisions weren't built until after World War II. Also, the area around Hunter's Point on the bay side was mostly vacant land. The family of a future mayor, George Chistopher, owned the land that the Candlestick Park baseball stadium was built on and it had been a dairy farm.

@DiBaozi

2 жыл бұрын

The Embaradero freeway must have been gone since the earthquake and not rebuilt. I didn’t get to see it.

@dbsf2429

2 жыл бұрын

@@DiBaozi It came down in 1991. The Board of Supervisors proposed to tear it down four years before the 1989 earthquake, but their plan was rejected by the voters. After it was closed for safety reasons following the earthquake it became obvious that it wasn't really needed.

@mousepotatop9767

2 жыл бұрын

And the Cow Palace had a lot of horse stables. Don't forget about Playland at Ocean Beach and the Sutro Baths. Torn down for housing. The Safeway is the only thing that remains.

A stark contrast to San Francisco of today. The people back then would be horrified.

@death2pc

2 жыл бұрын

The people back then were utterly "lacking"........... They were NOT "progressive".

Amazing !

A verygood episodeabout the life in San Francisco 1941 footage of the buildings the way they parked there cars on a angle on steep hills the cable cars and the way they dress and socialize with each other

@Kylehudgins

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you're taking care Kenneth

@janvisser2223

2 жыл бұрын

They still park their cars that way.

@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239

2 жыл бұрын

@@janvisser2223 yes, we do...

@13ivanogre13

2 жыл бұрын

@@janvisser2223 They turn the wheels in though.

@janvisser2223

2 жыл бұрын

@@13ivanogre13 Yes, that’s what I meant, before I looked at the movie and saw the cars parked at 90 degrees 😅

As a resident of San Francisco, this is fascinating.

Born and raised San Franciscan but as a rather young person, I can't even imagine how beautiful the city was to actually live in back in these days. It's not ugly now. It's still physically beautiful with interesting attractions, a beautiful skyline, great areas like the Presidio, Crissy Field, Marina Greens. However it definitely has a feel to it that I imagine was not there in the 40s. I'll be honest, SF is a lot more dirty and crime-ridden than you'd expect for such a previously amazing place. The homelessness is atrocious as well. Everyone suffers except the non-profits who make a huge profit (unfortunately) off the suffering of the homeless. All urban places have got their problems but SF, I believe, to be below average compared to other US metropolitan areas as of right now. However, Mayor Breed seems to be starting to take charge a bit more lately so that's hopeful! And maybe one day (ideally in the near future - say 5-7 years) the city will return to its previous standard of beauty! Good day everyone!

1950: the metropolis of the west! 2020: a fecalpheliacs haven!

@Spaceshewarrior

2 жыл бұрын

😆😆😆😆

No tents...No cell phones...Bliss!

@guardianoftheduat

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with cell phones they have made life easier

@andrewornelas3033

2 жыл бұрын

When I want info on a plethora of things I no longer need to go to the library.

8:02 just a reminder of how fashion and tastes change!

Wow, what happened to this city?! SF now seems ragged compared to what it looks like in this footage

@jamesrecknor6752

Жыл бұрын

The Party

whoa!

A beautiful city. I’m from Oakland. I have no idea what happened to these two cities. They used to be absolutely pristine.

@johnkoval1898

2 жыл бұрын

Liberalism ruined those cities, like it ruins everything.

@elliottschertzer876

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnkoval1898 stop the bullshit the same can be said of red states and cities, which btw are on more welfare than the blue. What happened is gentrification and opioid addiction., and your patron saint Ronald Reagan when he was Governor of California closed the State Mental Hospitals without an alternative plan, you know just like Trumps better plan than Obamacare and building a wall making Mexico pay for it. All hot air.

@luislaplume8261

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnkoval1898 Liberalism is for losers. And they are the most intolerant people I know. Check out who is moving to the red states and what industries and businesses are going there. Can you imagine Chicago having that coming to it? I can't! I rest my case.

@MR-sq8ez

2 жыл бұрын

Liberals and their sanctuary bs.

@elliottschertzer876

2 жыл бұрын

@Frigidlava Let’s look at the social issues and from the 1960’s since you mentioned that decade. Until JFK became president only Caucasians were able to get FHA loans. By 1964 we got the Civil Rights Act, 1965 the Voting Rights Act . In 1968 the Fair Housing Act which btw was used to successfully sue Trump and his father with their exclusions of blacks even though they met the criterias. Let’s talk about women, All woman! Once again it was President Kennedy that established the Commission on the Status of Women in 1961 and he appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to head it. This lead women to make strides in society. Did you know a woman couldn’t get a credit card from a bank in the 60’s unless her husband allowed it and co signed? A woman couldn’t serve on a jury in most states it varied by state Utah allowed it in 1879. However it took a Supreme Court decision in 1961 to allow women to get into a jury pool. Then reproductive rights . The birth control pill came out in 1957 but through part of the 1960’s women could only use it if they were married and in between men steal cycles. The pill allowed here to plan her own life. Did you know a women couldn’t get an Ivy League education? Yale and Princton didn’t acc women until 1969. Harvard not until 1977 Brown , Darmounth and Columbia no t until 1971, 1972, 1981.. Finally workplace experience where there was no equality. Pre Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Woman found in 1963 that women made 59 cents on the dollar compared to men. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 included an amendment that you couldn’t discriminate on gender but it wasn’t taken seriously. That’s why NOW was formed ( National Organization of Women) to ensure full equality with men.. One example where they challenge and won . They sued Pan Am airlines that made their female flight attendants keep a certain weight and not be married otherwise lose their jobs. Sorry that I felt the need to lay out examples to some on this thread. However if you want to know how we got where we are you should know the history of it before judging.

Come back Harry Callahan!

@keithmoore5306

2 жыл бұрын

and bring friends!!!

@curtcollett2893

2 жыл бұрын

And Frank Bullitt and Freebie and the Bean!

@13ivanogre13

2 жыл бұрын

@@curtcollett2893 And the Rooftop Koreans.

@wjcj1234

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that! I don't even know the place....saw it coming years ago, though. My long gone old aunt Mary (rip) had already been knocked over and had her purse snatched three times by 1982. San Francisco is the center of a fifty years plus decline in American society. So very sad.

Nice

This had to he right before WW2

This must be SF before they decided to legalize crime!

⚓️ Thanks Periscope 😎 Too bad it didn’t show the real engine of the city at the time - The Port - all that cargo passing thru really left a $mark$ & the Longshoreman the only equal opportunity Union on the coast.

@oldsaerotech1167

2 жыл бұрын

The Longshoremen,1947. The correlation between their hard work and the absence of heart disease among this particular group of people was the foundation for determining that vigorous regular exercise prevented heart disease.

@pierheadjump

2 жыл бұрын

@Artie B. Rockin' California Stevedore & Ballast was the big outfit operating the docks… I still live in town, retiring off the tugs next year ⚓️

@13ivanogre13

2 жыл бұрын

@@pierheadjump Running a tug sounds like a difficult job but what a cool one to be able to lay claim to!

@pierheadjump

2 жыл бұрын

@@13ivanogre13 Marine Engineer ⚓️

Born and raised in San Francisco, will not be going back to todays crime ridden streets of SF.

This needs a before and after. Especially for Market Street

@PeriscopeFilm Any films of the dairy farms of Excelsior or Crocker Amazon Districts? Farming in the Portola District?

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

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Originally released in April 1941.

@cherkas009

2 жыл бұрын

Little did they know on December 7th all that generosity from Japan was overshadowed by Pearl Harbor

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They talk about traffic and congestion like it’s a *good* thing. Amazing.

How did the algorithm know i wanted to see this at 5am? 🤔

tbh a lot of stuff looks the same, really nice to see

just Imagine how much were the Properties around Pacific Heights and Sea Cliff Area back then

@Unknown-uk7nk

2 жыл бұрын

$5,000

Pier 43 is still a popular spot i think

I lived there 18 years and I left 20 years ago. Like many places in the western world, degrade took over…🙁

Just perfect... I live here and approve heartily! Bona fide!!🏆

To go from one of the cleanest cities in the country to a literal open sewer replete with bipedal leeches (managers for other cities used to visit SF to learn how to run a clean city). This all started going downhill when the city received a never ending STD in the form of the Summer of Love and the ensuing political rocket surgeons.

@smokingjoe9864

2 жыл бұрын

Barbary Coast, San Francisco & Sydney Town. That is the San Francisco I want back.

@smokingjoe9864

2 жыл бұрын

Ya you do-gooders ruined the town.

@ronmartin1375

2 жыл бұрын

Bridges, trains, cable cars and buildings are colonialism. Illegal now.

Can’t be a video with classic footage without people bashing a city today and lamenting the lost good old days. Seriously, the murder rate in SF peaked in the 70s. 2019 (last full year) was the least violent year there since the 60s. Shoplifting rate is 1/4 what it was in 1990. This is a video designed to make a city look great, so it looks great. You can cherry pick any story you want. That’s what the news today is doing to you when it says how bad cities are today.

@garyrichmond7404

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent point; I felt the same reading these comments. I've lived here 3.5 years & find it marvelous. I do wish real estate reform could house the unhoused, but I'm not going to pretend that issue is unique to SF...

@williamsnyder5616

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more. I moved here 42 years ago and haven't regretted it for one day. One thing the bashers fail to realize is that in the "good old days" they miss so much, San Francisco welcomed a "Live and let live" life, that is in the form of the Barbary Coast. Today's bashers are sending out veiled complaint about the LGBTQ community. Well, we saved Polk St. and helped lift a dying Castro Street with a little paint on the Victorians. And, hell, the 49ers started winning once we moved in, lol.

@steverogers8163

2 жыл бұрын

It's cause the "good ole" days they're talking about is when the city literally tried to evict all the Chinese to Oakland.

@nataliep.9047

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamsnyder5616 ; At least you have the San FranFreako Fruity-niners.

@dennisp.2147

2 жыл бұрын

REPORTED shoplifting rate. Crime statistics only mean something if they are the same across the board. Most police in California don't report petty theft anymore and stores don't bother. They just shut down and move. If you want to pretend the city is a clean safe place I'm sure you can somehow figure out that cognitive dissonance. There's such a thing as being so open-minded that your brain falls out.

Anyone know where the opening views are taken from? Not twin peaks. Maybe Tank Hill?

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I left my poop in San Francisco

@annhalton1963

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

There was an underground tunnel on the embarcadero, 5:17 mark. Where did it go?

1:34 The elegance of the past

Don’t listen to the trolls bashing San Francisco. If San Francisco wasn’t a great place to live, houses wouldn’t START at $1 million. When I see an ad for a house in San Francisco for less than $300K, THEN I’ll be concerned.

@greenman8

2 жыл бұрын

So long as the blue collar worker is able to afford a home.

@andrewornelas3033

2 жыл бұрын

Too goddamn cold.

@death2pc

2 жыл бұрын

You have no idea whatsoever of the city which you praise that has been destroyed. Crawl back into your hole........

@thetooginator153

2 жыл бұрын

@@greenman8 - Yep! That’s a serious problem! The whole city is basically a bastion for the rich.

@thetooginator153

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewornelas3033 - True, but I kinda liked it (in moderation).

Reminds me of one of the other videos showing life in pre-war Berlin. People seemed to dress up more then,and society was more advanced & civilized. These days, globalism and liberalism have taken things back, unfortunately.

@markjones3213

2 жыл бұрын

I think conservatism means to resist progression. Who wants to be stuck in the past. Oh wait conservatives. They want to live like it’s 1876 for some reason. Guns and Jesus!

San Francisco is still the most beautiful city on the world. The people of the old days is what made it legendary. We had a classic, fun character on every corner! Unfortunately, word got out and the unregulated real estate industry did a real number on all the non wealthy locals. Such a shame most of the young people here now are uptight rich kids from anywhere but here.

You should see the streets of SF now

In the eighty years since, San Francisco has made a lot of progress?

@dondressel452

2 жыл бұрын

Yea right! More like regressed

@ZenZaBill

2 жыл бұрын

Parts of SF look like a third-world shithole, and the Tenderloin area resembes Mogadishu!

@OOICU812

2 жыл бұрын

Typical 'progressive' city.

@devinspencer6175

2 жыл бұрын

Ya.... progress right into the toilet.

@keithmoore5306

2 жыл бұрын

in the wrong direction though!!!

That City Hall looks pretty weathered for a building that's only 35 years old.

@js5deucedeuce

2 жыл бұрын

Went to San Francisco two years ago, saw city hall and a guy smoking crack in broad daylight there what a time to be alive ….

Somehow I feel when this was filmed people weren't using the streets as toilets, discarding needles, deciding to curb their dog on any sidewalk, going into department stores wearing masks to hide their identity and stealing everything they could, and you could walk safely around anywhere you pleased without being attacked and mugged. How as a society we have regressed.

@nativetexanful

2 жыл бұрын

We have the liberals to thank for that.

@jamesrecknor6752

Жыл бұрын

The Party

I wish SF would be revitalized kind of like how Detroit was and still is being turned around.

Woah. The only statues in the Sutro park NOW are two lions and a buck. No human statues anymore. That's very odd.

@julianhermanubis6800

2 жыл бұрын

Marxists don't like statues that celebrate Western culture.

@noname-by3qz

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianhermanubis6800 what Marxists??

@danielcarroll3358

2 жыл бұрын

@@noname-by3qz I always find it funny when the parts of the country that provide 70% of the GNP are called Marxist. That is what we call *Capitalism!*

@odietamo9376

2 жыл бұрын

@@noname-by3qz - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the current DA, the people that run many city departments, countless activists that have huge influence in SF, some of the media, and many of the voters who demonstrate it by whom and what they vote for.

@noname-by3qz

2 жыл бұрын

@@odietamo9376 you're saying that the current DA had something to do with removing the statues? Probably not at all.

San Francisco died in the 90’s. Sad. xoxo The Clarences

San Francisco is one of the few American cities that went from booming to gloom. The tech boom was the last hurrah, now it feels like it's over and it will never be a great city again.

My godparents lived in sf during this time.. It was a difrent time.😁

The film's title begins with "San Francisco" and that triggered every dexterously oriented soul to the horizon. I guessed it would, and a quick perusal of the effusions confirms.

Ironic to hear about a beautiful gift to the city from the Emperor of Japan ... in a travelogue made just a few months before Pearl Harbor. And those sparkling neon signs in Chinatown must have been blacked out for all four years of the war....

@joeees7790

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair the Emperor that was connected to the tea garden was Meiji who died in 1912 - not Hirohito.

Thanks gold miners

Do you guys know the date the Film was Film 1941, ?month, ?day

@keithmoore5306

2 жыл бұрын

obviously before pearl harbor!!

@urbanurchin5930

2 жыл бұрын

someone mentioned that this was released in April 1941 - would have been about nine months before the attack on Pearl Harbor

Quality of life crimes have ruined the city. Don't keep anything in your car you don't want stolen. Smash and Grab car burglaries are rampant.

@ronmartin1375

2 жыл бұрын

Cars are colonialism

8:23 Oof; filmed just a few months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. I bet that part of the newsreel didn't age well. But cool it's all still there now that everything is in the past.

All those sailors on leave heading to the Ramrod for a little action..It was a simpler time back then.

“San Francisco's changed. The things that spell San Francisco to me are disappearing fast. […] I’d like to have lived here then. The color and excitement... the power... the freedom.” (Vertigo, 1957) Some things change, but the one thing that stays the same is every generation of San Franciscans thinking they’re the last ones to see the city be great. The beauty of SF is the next generation takes it over to forge the future. It’s like America as a whole: constantly evolving, changing, with all its faults and flaws, but a welcome home to everyone who thinks differently and wants to start life new. Still in love with this city.

@tubester4567

2 жыл бұрын

San Fransisco never had bums and homeless sleeping on the streets and shitting on footpaths and shooting up.

@ThomasPerezGhost

2 жыл бұрын

I wish more people understood this. People love to rip on SF for not being what it used to be. The fact is, it's never what it used to be. Somethings have gotten much better, some things much worse.

@tubester4567

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThomasPerezGhost Not really. They never had homeless sleeping everywhere on the streets, they never had people pooping on the streets and shooting up drugs in the open.

@ThomasPerezGhost

2 жыл бұрын

​@@tubester4567 When? the 1830s?

Cable cars, bridges, the port, the wharf, Palace of Fine Arts, Nob Hill, parks, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Twin Peaks, Coit Tower, a veritable "Baghdad by the Bay", yet filled with homeless living on the sidewalks, brazen criminals, social inequality, and portrayed in the national media as an unfixable mess.

The storm cleaned the streets. Nancy says send oatmeal, watermelon and cabbage.

Now that’s diversity

8:05: Full House?

Every time I watch one of these old films I am reminded of how much I hate the 21st century.

We’ve advanced so much that SF residents can now take what they want from stores with out paying.

@jaxcell

2 жыл бұрын

The Future is awesome! Well maybe not so much.

@Max63385

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget a totally approved urinating and defecating on any street of SF. Ahh... That smell of liberalism...

Hi, the creator here🧝🏼‍♀️

Most unique and eclectic city in the world. Greatest place that I've ever visited and nearly boundless supply of sights to see and learn about, even after having visited annually. Have not been to New York yet, but being from the West Coast, something tells me I would still prefer the vibes of SF over NYC.

@d.Arbelles

2 жыл бұрын

Market Street street cars, wish they were still around. The Sutro gardens , across from the Cliff House, long gone. Cliff House closed down during covid. Civic Center.. stay away when darkness falls. Chinatown looked awesome...not so anymore. Japanese Tea gardens.. the family who operated it were sent to internment camp as all American Japenese were. SF now overbuilt with these ugly overpriced skycrappers

@RJS1974

2 жыл бұрын

NYC and SF are apples and oranges. NYC proper has population of 8 million. SF population proper is just under 1 million. Nevertheless, SF has a big city vibe thanks to its density. It has that same hemmed in feeling as Manhattan. Manhattan and SF are more likely comparisons. I prefer the Wild West and bohemian feel of SF over the polished and buttoned up feeling of Manhattan.

Pretty on the outside, dirty on the inside. Sadly,that’s how it is right now in The City.

No homeless& drugs back then, how nice!

Was such a beautiful city. “Oh, how the mighty have fallen…” Perhaps she will someday shine again. Namaste 🙏🏻

@sneadh1

2 жыл бұрын

They've been saying that since since it's earliest days!

That's a far cry from the shit and needle filled streets of today. Sad!

@CarsandCats

2 жыл бұрын

Well, you saved me a post at least.

@dondressel452

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@onazram1

2 жыл бұрын

It is really a shame what has happened to that beautiful city, I've always wanted to visit but not now....

@OOICU812

2 жыл бұрын

It's called 'progress'. Thank a 'progressive'.

@keithmoore5306

2 жыл бұрын

just posted basically the same thing!!!

Ummm... 3:25 mark, is that Hitler walking down the street with his hands in his pockets? :D

"Trams" Narrated by someone from far away.

Sleepy town of San Francisco

Vinage