How can this be pre-1920 based on the vehicles in the video? The first truck off an assembly line wasn't until 1926 and there are trucks in the images.
I'm thinking about 1924-25 time period. It's really hard to tell from the cars of this period, as they all tend to look similar and hadn't really started to noticably change from year to year like they did in the '30s and 40's. You see quite a few coupes and sedans which is something that was more common in the early 1920's. The bulk of cars from the teens were usually open touring and roadster models with closed cars being more for the wealthier owners. The radio call sign "KFRC" is also a sign of mid 1920's. The first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh and it started broadcasting in 1920. Thanks for the video! I always have so much fun trying to pin down the dates of these!
I don't know much about architecture, but these old buildings look more noble and more impressive and sophisticated than most of the new soulless ice blocks.
omg i love this old videos, i watch it every day after work. it was a better world back then. nobody missed a tattoo, a mobile phone, a pc......... the people lives together not alone
Nothing like watching the clearest, most sparkling HD videos of 100 years ago and out of nowhere an ad pops up and starts the heavy bass thumping “get out my way, get out my way” and then poof!!! Back to historical treasure 😂😂😂 we live in odd times
Can't tell you how much I enjoy these restorations, fabulous work. It's so interesting to see the public operate about in an organised refined manner, quite eloquently. Marvelous stuff!
Great imagery. At 5:58 the building shown has the "KFRC" sign on the side. These are the call letters of an early AM radio station in San Francisco which began broadcasting in 1924 from the Hotel Whitcomb, at 1231 Market Street, so some of this film must be from around that time. The hotel is still in operation today.
Yeah, I've seen that KFRC sign, and thought something was a bit odd, for a radio station to be working that early in the century. As a boy, I remember listening to KFRC.
it took me a while to realize that the footage around 3:00 - 3:10 is flipped. The big building in construction in the center distance (looking south on Powell street) is the Sir Francis Drake hotel - which opened in 1928. Currently renamed the Beacon something.
At 3:30, it is interesting to see the "to let" sign on the building. I saw tons of these every day in London when I lived there in 05 and 06. Usually in the US you see "available" or "to lease."
Bank of Italy at 0:52 before the name was changed to Bank of America on November 1, 1930. So cool to see this! The bank's history dates to 1904 when Amadeo Peter Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in San Francisco.
Giannini was a friend of Valentino's and loaned him money at one point for a project a few years later (after Valentino was a star and after he filmed Moran of the Lady Letty in SF, Fall 1921. (you can see my videos on that subject on my channel.) I did also notice the Wells Fargo Bank, too!
At 1:03 it’s interesting to see the Owl Drug store at the corner of Powell and Market before it was remodeled (or modernized). Later that building became Woolworth’s. Another great video of “The City.”
Apparently Woolworth's originally wanted to tear down the Flood Building and build a new store there, which thankfully didn't happen. It's an amazing building, I'd love to have an office there.
If this is pre-1920, I’d put it right around 1917-1919. Judging by the cars, most have that “late teens” look. Amazing footage & restoration as always 😁👍
The cars look well-established and solid in design. Not the rickety primitive-looking contraptions of the very early 1900s. Many of the cars look like they are even more advanced than cars you'd have seen during or after World War I. I just visited a vintage auto museum, and many of the cars in the footage look far more like 1920s autos I saw in the museum than the 19aughts or teens. And the fashion, too. Especially the women who already are wearing 1920'ish flapper-style hats and clothes. They're not wearing those giant hats, tops with very padded rounded shoulders, and layered dresses more common during the post-Victorian/Edwardian period going into the early 20th Century. In addition, there are virtually NO horse-drawn wagons or carriages to be seen in the film. This would not be the case if the footage was taken in the aughts which would still have been a period of transition from horse-drawn to motorized vehicles. And considering the whole city was flattened by the Great Earthquake in 1906, but you don't see a single sign of any lingering damage -- rather a city rapidly growing and prospering with many advanced skyscrapers -- if this footage is not from the 1920s, it has to be at least during World War I or after -- maybe getting to within months of 1920. I think most of the footage is from the 1920s if I had to guess.
@@jody6851 you said there were no horse-drawn Vehicles you're messing up and paying attention because I seen a few not disagreeing with you about the film time but yes there were some horse-drawn vehicles in this film
As others have noted, this is the closest thing to time travel that is possible. A mind-bender. I grew up in San Francisco in the 60s and 70s, and so many echoes of these views are my memories and mental map.
Engineering marvels- electrical and structural. This is amazing. The buildings look European architecture. I'm sure they were designed by many of those precious immigrants that arrived here at that time. Absolutely incredible .
Most of these buildings were designed by Americans. Until about 1930, architecture that we associate with Europe was the standard in design. Modern architecture emerged around 1930. That's why you can go to any city in the world and find classical style architecture.
@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 hmmm...to paraphrase, at the turn of the last Century ( and prior too) immigrants arrived to the USA in major cities and after checking in with customs pretty much were cosidered American citizens. Many of those architects either were educated in Architecture in their previous homeland or here , but the designs came from what they had already been accustomed to seeing. Is that more accurate? I could be wrong but I think I'm on point here.🙂
@@davidcarrol1882 that's correct but America created their own architecture on the tenants of classical architecture. A lot of the great American architects of that time were born in the US. The Chicago School of Architecture took the principles of palazzo architecture, and adapated it to larger commercial buildings in the 1880s. A lot of those architects were American born but did study in Europe. Until 1930 all architecture in the Western World were just adoptions of Ancient Greek and Roman architecture.
This is mid ‘20’s at least judging my the cars. My late father in law was an antique car collector. He had a ‘23 Dodge that I drove frequently in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s in local parades. My ex drove the ‘25 Ford. Father in law drove the ‘15 Model T.
Well done another excellent work with these old movies. By the way I think this movie was originally filmed on a Monday back in 1920 as the street are so busy. Even now on Mondays San Francisco is this busy. Once again thank you
The building are thing off beauty, And the people so well dressed and just taking there time and the car's on the street also was a pleasure to see. Thanks. Notice there's no street lights are stop signs, and the people where great responsible driver's.
"Notice there's no street lights are stop signs, and the people where great responsible driver's." Not quite :P Pedestrian fatalities and traffic accidents were really common in the early days of the automobile, to the point one city (I want to say Cincinnati) wanted to declare them a public nuisance and ban them from city limits.
This is so incredible! I find it especially interesting because I can visualize Rudolph Valentino on those streets. Before going to Hollywood he worked selling bonds in SF, but then we got into the WWI and the bottom dropped out. Then, he returned during the Fall of 1921 to film Moran of the Lady Letty. At the end of this video you see the water of the bay. For some reason I was fascinated by this film and wound up writing/doing videos ...a 4 part series...here on my channel. One talks a lot about how they filmed it and how the locals reacted! I have a lot of original news articles from the time. The lead actress was seasick non-stop! To film they had to get the big schooners out every day and then bring them back in, so they had only a few hours a day on the ships. And at the start of the film they are on a dock and you can see the area around that, too. Hope you check the series out!
GREAT VIDEO!! IT DOES'NT MATTER ,, IT WAS GREAT WATCHING .. IF YOUR LIVING IN THE 70S YOUR STILL GOING TO SEE SOME CARS ON THE ROAD SINCE THE 50--60S STILL ,, MOST CARS DONT DIE OUT THAT FAST PEOPLE KEEP THEM,,...
When you treat the era as a real time with real people, you see more than you bargained for and it completely changes everything. I just saw two home movies from 1939 in Miami in color. Half the vehicles were various shades of forest green, a few golden metallics, iridescent gray, maroon, and blues. It is completely different than how people imagine it before hand.
It's marvelous to see the people and spectacles of San Francisco around 1920s. It's also hard to believe the people hundred years ago were same as us now...just walking the city(there is one difference with modern which is the traffic line never came out at that time), have a chat with their friends...I thought the world in 1920s would be black alike the black screen we had always watched on TV where the time is before the colour screen was invented...
So "INCREDIBLE" that a city, just some 14 or so years earlier, was total DEVISATION from the 1906 Earthquake and then fire that ensued, could be built back so quickly!
Romanticising the past huh? As if it was a peaceful time? World is more ordered & at peace now than ever in the history. Be grateful that you are enjoying this peace. People were ridiculed, society was ripe with r@cists & anyone would be killed for mere reasons. No freedom of speech, full of Discrimination & superiority complex. No broadmindedness. Women were abducted as comfort women for soldiers, men were killed of not ready to fight for country. No food & safety. Those times were a living hell. I would be more than happy if i could relieve the 90s or earlier 2000s again. That was the time when humanity reached it's highest peak with enough tech & human interaction & peace & entertainment.
@@Gigie2Z While I agree with you to a very large extent, the Republicans also made sure that there was unfettered 3rd world immigration because they want cheap labor
I always wonder if the photographers knew that they were documenting this for us to see 100 years later. Or if it’s just in the moment. I don’t film things for people to see in 100 years. But maybe someone will. And that’s just wild to think about
The park at 6:30 is Portsmouth Square. It looked a lot nicer at that time including Chinatown. Rapidly deteriorated after the 50s. Many of those buildings are still there along Market Street but further out many have been torn down. The old buildings looked so much nicer back then.
Dorothy Dalton, while filming Moran of the Lady Letty with Valentino, went one night to explore Chinatown with some of the Chinese extras that were in the film...I have a newspaper clipping in one of my YT videos describing her adventure...
The Hall of Justice shown across from Portsmouth Square was used in the Lady from Shanghai and in the tv series Ironside. It was torn down in the late 60s, early 70s and replaced with an extremely ugly Holiday Inn. The little corner buildings are still there. I agree, Portsmouth Square was more attractive then. They are about to renovate it.
people work fast. twenty years had past. ww1 had past. an entire new generation grew up. technology expands by leaps and bounds. the city wasn't leveled by the quake and fire, a 20% core remained .
This is awesome! I think the very first scene is from 7th and Mission Streets, looking at the northeast corner. Look at all those people working! The area feels almost vibrant and productive. It's crazy to think how stark the difference is to present day conditions at 7th and Mission streets.
Although time travel will probably never be a thing, I can’t wait til I can pop on a VR headset and enter decades from the past such as this and have an immersive 360° experience. That’s one of the positive things about virtual reality im looking forward to.
That's not a trolley, it's a cable car...being turned around on a turntable. It's still being done in San Francisco today. Besides the conductors, the gripmen help to turn the cars. Years ago they allowed passengers to help. I enjoyed helping to turn a cable car on the turntable.
Хочется посмотреть по несколько раз такое памятное историческое поражающее видео т.к. США - как цивилизованное высокоразвитое общество всегда стремилась жить и развиваться стремительно, создавать лучшие условия для проживания своих граждан. Спасибо всем операторам тех времён, благодаря их трудам мы узнаем реальную жизнь в прошлом столетии. Thank you NASS! 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇸
Much appreciate the time and effort energy that is put into these digital time capsules. Can you find film on the 1900's in Monterey Salinas valley area here in California please ...
These images (in their original, black-and-white form and without sound) have been made under ninety years after the death of the German poet Goethe (1749-1832), who could not yet be photographed.
Bank of Italy, which became Bank of America. Curious how there are no bells from the cable cars. Because they ring bells with every intersection (grew up in SF). Throw in foghorns with the foggy scenes, less horns. I'm not sure cars HAD horns in the 1920s, but they likely weren't blowing them this often. Please reduce the amount of horn honking and constant noise. It was much quieter back in the day.
Beautiful film. Notice that many older buildings apparently survived the earthquake of two decades earlier. Especially the entrance of the Bank of Italy was impressive. I hope it was not replaced by a modern structure. Many of us associate black and white with age, and colorized film often seems more recent than black and white. However, here the autos and women's fashion are probably mid-1920s. Thanks for posting!
Most of those buildings are from after the earthquake. Downtown was severely gutted by the fires. The building across from the Bank of Italy (which became Bank of America, if you weren't aware) was built in 1904 though and was a prominent survivor. That Bank of Italy building would have been relatively new when this film was made, it was built in the early 20's. You'll be happy to know it's still there and AT&T did some amazing restoration work on it.
Thanks for the info. Around 1960 when I was 8, the Grandfather of one of my friends recounted how he and his family were rudely awakened and lucky to escape the famous April 1906 Quake.
Looks like the film at 2:33 is backwards. Writing on cable car is backwards and in the following scene, cars are driving on the left side of the street.
Nass, did anybody but me notice that the film is in backwards from 2:19 to 3:12. Note, even the destination board lettering on the roof of cable car being turned on the turntable is backwards. And traffic is flowing in the wrong direction.. Also, the hand coloring process accidently obliterated the trolley poles on the electric streetcars at 0:19, 0:35 and 3:46. Those were not cable cars. Trust me, I know the difference.
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How can this be pre-1920 based on the vehicles in the video? The first truck off an assembly line wasn't until 1926 and there are trucks in the images.
@@mutantryeff no idea, I'm following the information I found in the source video
@@NASS_0 They may have been photographing pre-1920 architecture as the description says. But the film had to be taken in the 30s.
@@mutantryeff I see some "turret tops" vehicles from the 30's.
@@crimestoppers1877 well why dont you use deep exampler based video colorzation anymore and why ur videos just hd an not 4k it makes more realism
These buildings were characterized by good taste in every detail.
And here we are 100 years later seeing homeless drug addicts sell stolen shampoo in front of those same buildings.
It's one of the most beautiful cities in the country. Too bad about the tech yuppies and the crackheads. Same kind of people.
Допотопные мастера знали толк в строительстве.
I'm thinking about 1924-25 time period. It's really hard to tell from the cars of this period, as they all tend to look similar and hadn't really started to noticably change from year to year like they did in the '30s and 40's. You see quite a few coupes and sedans which is something that was more common in the early 1920's. The bulk of cars from the teens were usually open touring and roadster models with closed cars being more for the wealthier owners. The radio call sign "KFRC" is also a sign of mid 1920's. The first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh and it started broadcasting in 1920. Thanks for the video! I always have so much fun trying to pin down the dates of these!
I don't know much about architecture, but these old buildings look more noble and more impressive and sophisticated than most of the new soulless ice blocks.
Do research on the Tartarian Empire.
omg i love this old videos, i watch it every day after work. it was a better world back then. nobody missed a tattoo, a mobile phone, a pc......... the people lives together not alone
Nothing like watching the clearest, most sparkling HD videos of 100 years ago and out of nowhere an ad pops up and starts the heavy bass thumping “get out my way, get out my way” and then poof!!! Back to historical treasure 😂😂😂 we live in odd times
Can't tell you how much I enjoy these restorations, fabulous work. It's so interesting to see the public operate about in an organised refined manner, quite eloquently. Marvelous stuff!
Thanks
Such beautiful buildings and pride in everything
Great imagery. At 5:58 the building shown has the "KFRC" sign on the side. These are the call letters of an early AM radio station in San Francisco which began broadcasting in 1924 from the Hotel Whitcomb, at 1231 Market Street, so some of this film must be from around that time. The hotel is still in operation today.
Yeah, I've seen that KFRC sign, and thought something was a bit odd, for a radio station to be working that early in the century. As a boy, I remember listening to KFRC.
@@29madmangaud29 1924 is not early.
I listened to KFRC as a kid living in Sunnyvale in the 70's. Dr. Donald D. Rose was my favorite DJ!
As a native San Franciscan, I really appreciate this video. Thanks!
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city looked amazing when it was white before immigrants took over
Would love to go back in time to walk through the city, but since I can't, these videos are the next best thing! Thanks for sharing!!
thank you very much
not to worry..it looks almost exactly the same now
Excellent restoration video of a beautiful city. The architecture is stunning. Can't believe how expansive and vibrant it was at that time.
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it was a real CITY.
The loss of these buildings brings tears to my eyes . . . I LOVE OLD ARCHITECTURE! They ruin EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING they touch!
it took me a while to realize that the footage around 3:00 - 3:10 is flipped. The big building in construction in the center distance (looking south on Powell street) is the Sir Francis Drake hotel - which opened in 1928. Currently renamed the Beacon something.
At 3:30, it is interesting to see the "to let" sign on the building. I saw tons of these every day in London when I lived there in 05 and 06. Usually in the US you see "available" or "to lease."
It’s amazing how after only about 13 years after the 1906 earthquake, San Francisco was able to rebuild to the extent that it did.
makes no sense. all these buildings are far older.
Where are all the homeless?
Meanwhile: Taking over 60 years to rebuild NY Penn Station…
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Exactly ...buildings are all from the pervious reset. We too are currently going through a "reset," many are unaware.
@@crimestoppers1877 the concept did not exist then. homeless were called bums and lived down by the tracks, near junkyards, and in dumps.
Beautiful ! Magnificent architecture !
It seems in early 20's (seen 23-24 Chevys).
Some scenes are reverted left to right: 2:19 to 3:12
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Great for me to recognize many things from my many years in San Francisco.
Thank you for this recreation.
thank you very much
The aerial shots were very impressive. Good work as always.
Bank of Italy at 0:52 before the name was changed to Bank of America on November 1, 1930. So cool to see this! The bank's history dates to 1904 when Amadeo Peter Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in San Francisco.
Giannini was a friend of Valentino's and loaned him money at one point for a project a few years later (after Valentino was a star and after he filmed Moran of the Lady Letty in SF, Fall 1921. (you can see my videos on that subject on my channel.) I did also notice the Wells Fargo Bank, too!
Closest thing we have to a time machine. Thank you for this.
At 1:03 it’s interesting to see the Owl Drug store at the corner of Powell and Market before it was remodeled (or modernized). Later that building became Woolworth’s.
Another great video of “The City.”
Apparently Woolworth's originally wanted to tear down the Flood Building and build a new store there, which thankfully didn't happen. It's an amazing building, I'd love to have an office there.
As a born and raised San franciscan and still living in the city I appreciate this video. Keep up the great work !
Nass, Thanks for the upload another masterpiece my friend! ;)
Thx bro!!
old architecture is so much more detailed and interesting than modern architecture, it’s a little sad honestly
And our famous and historical Flood Building still stands to this day on Market and Powell.
I wrote a poem or ode to the Flood Building. I went there a lot. I live in SF.
I wonder if Woolworths was there in the 20's Flood building?
If this is pre-1920, I’d put it right around 1917-1919. Judging by the cars, most have that “late teens” look. Amazing footage & restoration as always 😁👍
thank you very much
The cars look well-established and solid in design. Not the rickety primitive-looking contraptions of the very early 1900s. Many of the cars look like they are even more advanced than cars you'd have seen during or after World War I. I just visited a vintage auto museum, and many of the cars in the footage look far more like 1920s autos I saw in the museum than the 19aughts or teens. And the fashion, too. Especially the women who already are wearing 1920'ish flapper-style hats and clothes. They're not wearing those giant hats, tops with very padded rounded shoulders, and layered dresses more common during the post-Victorian/Edwardian period going into the early 20th Century. In addition, there are virtually NO horse-drawn wagons or carriages to be seen in the film. This would not be the case if the footage was taken in the aughts which would still have been a period of transition from horse-drawn to motorized vehicles. And considering the whole city was flattened by the Great Earthquake in 1906, but you don't see a single sign of any lingering damage -- rather a city rapidly growing and prospering with many advanced skyscrapers -- if this footage is not from the 1920s, it has to be at least during World War I or after -- maybe getting to within months of 1920. I think most of the footage is from the 1920s if I had to guess.
My guess would be late 1920's from the clothing styles and vehicles, also radio station KFRC didn't begin broadcasting until 1924.
@@jody6851 you said there were no horse-drawn Vehicles you're messing up and paying attention because I seen a few not disagreeing with you about the film time but yes there were some horse-drawn vehicles in this film
As others have noted, this is the closest thing to time travel that is possible. A mind-bender.
I grew up in San Francisco in the 60s and 70s, and so many echoes of these views are my memories and mental map.
Engineering marvels- electrical and structural. This is amazing. The buildings look European architecture. I'm sure they were designed by many of those precious immigrants that arrived here at that time. Absolutely incredible .
Most of these buildings were designed by Americans. Until about 1930, architecture that we associate with Europe was the standard in design. Modern architecture emerged around 1930. That's why you can go to any city in the world and find classical style architecture.
@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 hmmm...to paraphrase, at the turn of the last Century ( and prior too) immigrants arrived to the USA in major cities and after checking in with customs pretty much were cosidered American citizens. Many of those architects either were educated in Architecture in their previous homeland or here , but the designs came from what they had already been accustomed to seeing. Is that more accurate? I could be wrong but I think I'm on point here.🙂
@@davidcarrol1882 that's correct but America created their own architecture on the tenants of classical architecture. A lot of the great American architects of that time were born in the US. The Chicago School of Architecture took the principles of palazzo architecture, and adapated it to larger commercial buildings in the 1880s. A lot of those architects were American born but did study in Europe. Until 1930 all architecture in the Western World were just adoptions of Ancient Greek and Roman architecture.
This is mid ‘20’s at least judging my the cars. My late father in law was an antique car collector. He had a ‘23 Dodge that I drove frequently in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s in local parades. My ex drove the ‘25 Ford. Father in law drove the ‘15 Model T.
Well done another excellent work with these old movies. By the way I think this movie was originally filmed on a Monday back in 1920 as the street are so busy. Even now on Mondays San Francisco is this busy. Once again thank you
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THANKS FOR POSTING, GREAT JOB WITH THIS ACHIVE.
Fantastic, interesting buildings and facades. Trams run side by side in the same direction. 👍
Excellent work, thank you! 😍
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The building are thing off beauty, And the people so well dressed and just taking there time and the car's on the street also was a pleasure to see. Thanks. Notice there's no street lights are stop signs, and the people where great responsible driver's.
"Notice there's no street lights are stop signs, and the people where great responsible driver's." Not quite :P Pedestrian fatalities and traffic accidents were really common in the early days of the automobile, to the point one city (I want to say Cincinnati) wanted to declare them a public nuisance and ban them from city limits.
Just found this channel and find it fascinating, and important to see how we change...even in small degrees...
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astonishing mind blowing
Beautiful and all your video very nice
Every shot....a landmark....Powell and Market....Montgomery Street (the FiDi----financial district)...Union Square....what's not to like! Thank you.
Oh quelle merveille !!.. merci beaucoup 👍🙏
Avec plaisir 😊
Frage mich *oft* wie man vor 1900 solche Häuser bauen konnte. Teilweise stehen die ja heute noch = ERSTAUNLICH ♥
Du bist Deutsch. Die Deutschen haben solche für Jahrhunderte schon so gebaut.
This is so incredible! I find it especially interesting because I can visualize Rudolph Valentino on those streets. Before going to Hollywood he worked selling bonds in SF, but then we got into the WWI and the bottom dropped out. Then, he returned during the Fall of 1921 to film Moran of the Lady Letty. At the end of this video you see the water of the bay. For some reason I was fascinated by this film and wound up writing/doing videos ...a 4 part series...here on my channel. One talks a lot about how they filmed it and how the locals reacted! I have a lot of original news articles from the time. The lead actress was seasick non-stop! To film they had to get the big schooners out every day and then bring them back in, so they had only a few hours a day on the ships. And at the start of the film they are on a dock and you can see the area around that, too. Hope you check the series out!
GREAT VIDEO!! IT DOES'NT MATTER ,, IT WAS GREAT WATCHING .. IF YOUR LIVING IN THE 70S YOUR STILL GOING TO SEE SOME CARS ON THE ROAD SINCE THE 50--60S STILL ,, MOST CARS DONT DIE OUT THAT FAST PEOPLE KEEP THEM,,...
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until the woke mandate them out of existence.
revisionist historians will doctor all these images in the future.
Where do you even get such panoramic shots to work with from 100 years ago? Incredible work.
When you treat the era as a real time with real people, you see more than you bargained for and it completely changes everything. I just saw two home movies from 1939 in Miami in color. Half the vehicles were various shades of forest green, a few golden metallics, iridescent gray, maroon, and blues. It is completely different than how people imagine it before hand.
It's marvelous to see the people and spectacles of San Francisco around 1920s. It's also hard to believe the people hundred years ago were same as us now...just walking the city(there is one difference with modern which is the traffic line never came out at that time), have a chat with their friends...I thought the world in 1920s would be black alike the black screen we had always watched on TV where the time is before the colour screen was invented...
Crazy to think that 100 years ago Downtown SF had way more people walking around it. Goes to show how much it has declined in the past few decades.
So "INCREDIBLE" that a city, just some 14 or so years earlier, was total DEVISATION from the 1906 Earthquake and then fire that ensued, could be built back so quickly!
Amen.
I look at these videos of the US pre 1950s on this channel and I see a country 100× more beautiful than the shithole I grew up in today.
It is extremely sad what has been deliberately done to this country
Romanticising the past huh? As if it was a peaceful time?
World is more ordered & at peace now than ever in the history.
Be grateful that you are enjoying this peace. People were ridiculed, society was ripe with r@cists & anyone would be killed for mere reasons. No freedom of speech, full of Discrimination & superiority complex. No broadmindedness.
Women were abducted as comfort women for soldiers, men were killed of not ready to fight for country. No food & safety.
Those times were a living hell.
I would be more than happy if i could relieve the 90s or earlier 2000s again.
That was the time when humanity reached it's highest peak with enough tech & human interaction & peace & entertainment.
Thank the Democrats.
@@Gigie2Z While I agree with you to a very large extent, the Republicans also made sure that there was unfettered 3rd world immigration because they want cheap labor
it was beautiful for some people.
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At 0:50 is the predecessor to Bank of America: Bank of Italy. Thanks to good ol' A. P. Gianinni 🙂
I always wonder if the photographers knew that they were documenting this for us to see 100 years later. Or if it’s just in the moment. I don’t film things for people to see in 100 years. But maybe someone will. And that’s just wild to think about
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I like the architecture much better back then.
This video needs to be more street level. Who wants to see the upper floors of buildings ?
You'll have to take it up with the filmmaker 100 years ago :P
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What I noticed right away is that there are no stop lights!
that was the job of traffic cops at busy intersections.
Remarkable…these videos are amazing, to see life as it was…
The park at 6:30 is Portsmouth Square. It looked a lot nicer at that time including Chinatown. Rapidly deteriorated after the 50s. Many of those buildings are still there along Market Street but further out many have been torn down. The old buildings looked so much nicer back then.
Dorothy Dalton, while filming Moran of the Lady Letty with Valentino, went one night to explore Chinatown with some of the Chinese extras that were in the film...I have a newspaper clipping in one of my YT videos describing her adventure...
The Hall of Justice shown across from Portsmouth Square was used in the Lady from Shanghai and in the tv series Ironside. It was torn down in the late 60s, early 70s and replaced with an extremely ugly Holiday Inn. The little corner buildings are still there. I agree, Portsmouth Square was more attractive then. They are about to renovate it.
*Oblivion awaits all of us ... like these people in the newsreel, about whom we know absolutely nothing*
Наслаждение! Сочетание классики и модерна в архитектуре удивительное.
It's amazing how fast San Francisco was rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire. Thanks for the fun video!!
Thanks
people work fast. twenty years had past. ww1 had past. an entire new generation grew up. technology expands by leaps and bounds. the city wasn't leveled by the quake and fire, a 20% core remained .
This is awesome! I think the very first scene is from 7th and Mission Streets, looking at the northeast corner. Look at all those people working! The area feels almost vibrant and productive. It's crazy to think how stark the difference is to present day conditions at 7th and Mission streets.
You are so right. Today it smells like human waste.
@@marstondavis smells that way, because it is! the dregs have won the streets.
Glorious streetcars
San Francisco 193rd decade (1920's) in color
Fantastic architecture!
Wow! Amazing!
Good old days there. 👌
And now it is one of the most dystopian s-holes in the whole of the world.
Literally.
wonderful !
man. almost would give up all the tech we have today to exist in there instead?
today is an evolution of then!
@@suppylarue220 devolution
Although time travel will probably never be a thing, I can’t wait til I can pop on a VR headset and enter decades from the past such as this and have an immersive 360° experience. That’s one of the positive things about virtual reality im looking forward to.
at 0:51 you see 'The Bank of Italy' building. The Bank of Italy changed its name to Bank of America.
Wow that's crazy conductors had to manually turn the trolley around
That's not a trolley, it's a cable car...being turned around on a turntable. It's still being done in San Francisco today. Besides the conductors, the gripmen help to turn the cars. Years ago they allowed passengers to help. I enjoyed helping to turn a cable car on the turntable.
Хочется посмотреть по несколько раз такое памятное историческое поражающее видео т.к. США - как цивилизованное высокоразвитое общество всегда стремилась жить и развиваться стремительно, создавать лучшие условия для проживания своих граждан. Спасибо всем операторам тех времён, благодаря их трудам мы узнаем реальную жизнь в прошлом столетии. Thank you NASS! 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇸
Fajnie ogląda się miasto, począwszy od 1909, 1920, 1930 niesamowite zmiany. Jestem pełen podziwu dla architektów, budowniczych. Piękne miasto.
Much appreciate the time and effort energy that is put into these digital time capsules.
Can you find film on the 1900's in Monterey Salinas valley area here in California please ...
thank you very much
COOL VIDEO KING NASS BIG SUPORT FROM CROATIA
Thanks bro
Nice Video 👍
Thx bro!
Look how clean it is
Tnx nass.
Back in the times when San Francisco was alive...
Thank you.
What was it like living in San Francisco during two world wars.were there blackout curtains on the windows and military presence along the shoreline
Look how well dressed people were.we need to go back to that since that might help with people self image and mental health
Yeah, and self-respect.
These images (in their original, black-and-white form and without sound) have been made under ninety years after the death of the German poet Goethe (1749-1832), who could not yet be photographed.
Viewed at 1.75 the speed seems a tad more accurate.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 Everybody hurrying so much, suddenly... I'm not sure!
@@HansDunkelberg1 It's not really hurrying all that much, it's just looks too slow at so-called 'normal' speed.
Bank of Italy, which became Bank of America. Curious how there are no bells from the cable cars. Because they ring bells with every intersection (grew up in SF). Throw in foghorns with the foggy scenes, less horns. I'm not sure cars HAD horns in the 1920s, but they likely weren't blowing them this often. Please reduce the amount of horn honking and constant noise. It was much quieter back in the day.
Cars definitely had horns and motorists were maniacs for the most part back then, so I'm sure they were honking them often
Хочу добавить, что на 7:40 и далее прямо КАК центр Владивостока😮😊😮
Les bulding sont Majestueux
Wow, great pics of the buildings we inherited from the people of the last reset!
think about what you said. ww3 is in its opening chapter.
@@suppylarue220 So according to you every World war theirs a reset? I'm trying to understand what all this reset stuff is a bout?
これはまた貴重なフィルムですね❗️
Beautiful film. Notice that many older buildings apparently survived the earthquake of two decades earlier. Especially the entrance of the Bank of Italy was impressive. I hope it was not replaced by a modern structure. Many of us associate black and white with age, and colorized film often seems more recent than black and white. However, here the autos and women's fashion are probably mid-1920s. Thanks for posting!
Most of those buildings are from after the earthquake. Downtown was severely gutted by the fires. The building across from the Bank of Italy (which became Bank of America, if you weren't aware) was built in 1904 though and was a prominent survivor. That Bank of Italy building would have been relatively new when this film was made, it was built in the early 20's. You'll be happy to know it's still there and AT&T did some amazing restoration work on it.
Thanks for the info. Around 1960 when I was 8, the Grandfather of one of my friends recounted how he and his family were rudely awakened and lucky to escape the famous April 1906 Quake.
Looks like the film at 2:33 is backwards. Writing on cable car is backwards and in the following scene, cars are driving on the left side of the street.
Amazing video
amazing, I am Romanian, there were no such constructions, in our country being a former communist country, it developed very late
On a Saturday , how kind of you
Could you do us one favor and crossfade the audio portions? The abrupt volume changes between scenes takes away from the immersive experience.
good job .Turns the clock back.
You got any videos of Milwaukee from the old days?
Nass, did anybody but me notice that the film is in backwards from 2:19 to 3:12. Note, even the destination board lettering on the roof of cable car being turned on the turntable is backwards. And traffic is flowing in the wrong direction.. Also, the hand coloring process accidently obliterated the trolley poles on the electric streetcars at 0:19, 0:35 and 3:46. Those were not cable cars. Trust me, I know the difference.
NASS Thanks Much!
Thanks bro
Before california was unspoiled and overcrowded. The native Americans also still lived their traditional lifestyles in the 20s!!