San Francisco - Story of a City (1963)

A historic view of the progress of San Francisco from the early days of gold mining, to its progress as a modern fashionable (in 1963) city.
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  • @justinjayankura8676
    @justinjayankura86762 жыл бұрын

    It's so relaxing to watch these old documentaries.

  • @georgfriedrichhandel4390
    @georgfriedrichhandel43902 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CesarGonzalez-kt7vp
    @CesarGonzalez-kt7vp3 күн бұрын

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

  • @lindatremonti432
    @lindatremonti4322 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bunnystuff2005
    @bunnystuff20052 ай бұрын

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

  • @douglassauvageau7262
    @douglassauvageau72622 жыл бұрын

    SF exemplified the 'American Century' with cultured muscularity.

  • @JazMatazFry
    @JazMatazFry2 жыл бұрын

    I love vintage documentaries 💕

  • @01DOGG01

    @01DOGG01

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Gothisown

    @Gothisown

    2 жыл бұрын

    Didn’t know that what’s there excuse

  • @andybaldman

    @andybaldman

    Жыл бұрын

    Check out the Periscope Film channel.

  • @fogtown3027
    @fogtown3027 Жыл бұрын

    41yrs and still the best place on earth👌

  • @characterunderconstruction5891

    @characterunderconstruction5891

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @terrysullivan1992
    @terrysullivan19922 жыл бұрын

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

  • @paulsanderson4139
    @paulsanderson41392 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Mark-yy2py
    @Mark-yy2py2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @luislaplume8261

    @luislaplume8261

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @characterunderconstruction5891

    @characterunderconstruction5891

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Mark-yy2py

    @Mark-yy2py

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @characterunderconstruction5891

    @characterunderconstruction5891

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Mark-yy2py

    @Mark-yy2py

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Gothisown
    @Gothisown2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @vanessadillon3421
    @vanessadillon34212 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hwtours
    @hwtours Жыл бұрын

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

  • @blanket1309
    @blanket13092 жыл бұрын

    Timeless

  • @Westcoastguy
    @Westcoastguy2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @anthonyc6360

    @anthonyc6360

    2 жыл бұрын

    San Francisco had republican mayors back then.

  • @susangrande8142

    @susangrande8142

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @loginnoggin

    @loginnoggin

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Westcoastguy

    @Westcoastguy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@loginnoggin Keep lying to yourself.

  • @loginnoggin

    @loginnoggin

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Boinkster
    @Boinkster2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @01DOGG01

    @01DOGG01

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was auto-generated at the time of upload

  • @craykanne
    @craykanne Жыл бұрын

    The foghorns make me cry, wanting to go home.

  • @Gothisown
    @Gothisown2 жыл бұрын

    It was a beautiful machine

  • @chassidylewis3473
    @chassidylewis34733 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Thank you

  • @Terranova0
    @Terranova02 жыл бұрын

    The Closed Captioning on this video is gawdawful.

  • @01DOGG01

    @01DOGG01

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mr.michaelshaughnessy7497
    @mr.michaelshaughnessy74972 жыл бұрын

    Watch with captions! They are hilarious!!

  • @01DOGG01

    @01DOGG01

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @thetakongpancake1003
    @thetakongpancake10033 жыл бұрын

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

  • @spactick
    @spactick2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @01DOGG01

    @01DOGG01

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @spactick

    @spactick

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @elderantonveyzaluna9814
    @elderantonveyzaluna9814 Жыл бұрын

    Por Alguna razón ke esta a oxos vistos las oficinas de las naciones unidas están estavlecidas en Nueva York pues aiy tantos chinos en la unión americana como a ver arena en las oriyas de las playas recreativas con vista panorámica azia el profundo precioso mar azul Donde vemos ke San Francisco no solo es un lugar recreativo de xardines i flores pues tambien es un estado industrial San Francisco es una linda i preciosa leyenda istorica

  • @ingridalfred9214
    @ingridalfred9214 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lorettanorton
    @lorettanorton9 жыл бұрын

    Captions are awful....but funny!

  • @janetmarletto6667

    @janetmarletto6667

    2 жыл бұрын

    Totally annoying!

  • @robertlannon
    @robertlannon2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sailingbikingandmore2765
    @sailingbikingandmore27652 жыл бұрын

    No homeless people back then! Hi from SF

  • @antoniahamilton3201

    @antoniahamilton3201

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JG-mp5nb

    @JG-mp5nb

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @antoniahamilton3201

    @antoniahamilton3201

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JG-mp5nb Right on!

  • @davidshamiri1448
    @davidshamiri1448 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @liannebedard5521

    @liannebedard5521

    Жыл бұрын

    The good ran out…

  • @gregwilliams386

    @gregwilliams386

    Ай бұрын

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

  • @rogerk2049
    @rogerk20492 ай бұрын

    What happened to the soundtrack?

  • @01DOGG01

    @01DOGG01

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @trainrover
    @trainrover Жыл бұрын

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

  • @trainrover
    @trainrover Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lucianomezzetta4332
    @lucianomezzetta43322 жыл бұрын

    Before hight tech raped the City.

  • @dflf
    @dflf2 жыл бұрын

    2nd generation San Franciscan here

  • @freejohnkenney1640
    @freejohnkenney1640 Жыл бұрын

    *FREE JOHN KENNEY* 🇺🇸 CARMEL INJUSTICE