Moved there in 78....moved out in 89. Spent most of my 20's and early 30's there. What a glorious time to be living in that magnificent city. Without a doubt the best time of my whole life.
Moved there from NYC in 79, stayed until 98. Absolutely glorious during my time there. I watch these SF vids and feel it with every cell of my body. So blessed to be there, then.
I was there in March of 78 with a friend of mine. We would hit the taverns and ride the cable cars into the wee hrs. I’ll never forget this beautiful angel like young woman who got on one of the cars on a very rainy evening ; she sat across from us trying to keep warm and then got off at her stop. My friend I looked at each other and commented on how beautiful she was.
I was a 20 year old bus boy in 1978. I worked at Breen's on 4th St and earned $4.20 an hour. The job was hard and didn't pay a lot but the fringe benefits were great! Everyday when my shift ended I could sit down and eat as much food as I wanted free of charge. I would have roast beef and mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans and salad. The food there was sooo good. I would eat my fill and be right back the next morning at 5 am cutting up onions and peeling potatoes. It sure beat working at the Embarcadero McDonald's which was were my brother worked. The only fringe benefit there was free soda.
1978 -- The year I moved to San Francisco. I was supposed to visit for only a week to be best man in a friend's wedding, but decided to stay. That was way back when you could come to SF on a whim, find a job and an apartment. Now all these years later the friends I had then have moved or died. I, however, remained. Sometimes the city seems full of ghosts to me. I'm 65 now and was 22 then.
@@chriskelly5763 We certainly did do well to have come this far! I suspect you are correct: no matter where we might have ended up, we would be looking back with a certain degree of nostalgia. No need to apologize for your words. I enjoy connecting with someone who remembers SF as it used to be.
The late '70s you could still find a job, get a car, find an apartment of share a house. Shit was still simple and doable. More people were moving out of the City than in it seemed. It was magic to grow up in the '50s and '60s, now the City is tragic to see for those of us who knew what it was like. You can't go home again... Tom Wolfe
Yea Blame it on the Mayor, and the Supervisors - Next February since the city is on Rent Control, for one whole year 2022 - 2023 instead of 1% increase we will be PAYING 2.34% Increase for a whole one year like is that going to bring back Business, and Tourists. Way a Go MAYOR, and the Supervisors as we did not get any saying to this, Now we will be seeing MORE People moving out... Is that Progress??
Mind boggling to see the city I grew up in 3 years before I was born in such living color. It feels like I am somewhere out there only to remind myself I don't exist yet.
Wow it looked high tech for the era...My friend went out and toured the west cost of USA in the same era from AUSTRALIA. He always had fond memories of that trip and still talks about how he loved San Diego
Great video! Love old street scenes like this. Me being somewhat of a gearhead, I love looking at brand new old cars driving the streets. Thank you for taking the time and effort to upload this great video.
I was there 7 yrs before as a young lad and 4 years later as a young man, it was great, really liked the city and region..... not sure if I'll ever go outta my way nowadays with what has become of it.
Year before I moved there at 24. How I loved it. Unfortunately Gertrude Stein famous line about going back to her childhood home in Oakland "There's no there there" is now true of San Francisco. I worked for a while in Embarcadero Center and you could just go straight to the elevator just nodding to the guard. There were a few homeless people but they were sad not life threatening and we tried to help, not enable them. On a middle class salary you could find an apartment and when looking to buy in the Richmond District bungalows were expensive compared to back east but not out of price range for middle income types.
In '78 I was working as a parking valet at Doro's restaurant on Montgomery…the customers were GREAT tippers, with the notable exception of the Warriors' Rick Barry - a true stiff! Ernie's was the next block up, and their valet was an old guy named Bobby Kennedy. Bobby was all hustle, and a Bobby Riggs lookalike! He was a cool dude who drove a souped-up baby blue Corvair with moon hubcaps.
I spent 3 weeks in SF back in June/July 1978 and went again for 2 weeks in October 1982. My first visit was for 3 days in May 1965. It is a magical city and would love to go back.
Evan, I live in Alaska now. I went back 5 years ago for a cousins wedding in Sonoma. I thought I would get off the bus in the city before I flew home. The SECOND I got off the bus, I wanted to get right back on.
@@gregh7457 yea thats why i think they should make a grand theft auto game set in san francisco in 70s like how they made one set in miami in the 80's lol.
I was raised near Modesto and Merced. Believe it or not the first time I went to San Francisco I was 17 in 1978 (my dad hated the Bay Area - we never went there). I fell in love with the place. Went there about four times a year through my 20s and early 30s. In the 2000s I lived in Monterey and it had some of the same feel, only on a smaller, friendlier scale. I lived near Sacramento now and almost never go to San Francisco anymore. Its surprising to me given how much I loved it in my younger years. Now it just seems like more of a hassle instead of fun.
I was there that year. 1978 was the last time I have been to San Francisco. I was 17 years old and a merchant naval cadet. I must go back and see how it has changed.
save yourself the trouble. Being a native of the Bay Area, it's now a Liberal shit-hole. This might save you money and time: ua-cam.com/video/ld6qYJe4pRs/v-deo.html
I've lived here for over four years. It's worth a visit. The nostalgia addicts who comment on all of the old San Francisco videos about how bad they believe the city has gotten are just making veiled political statements based on their own politics. San Francisco is like just about every major city: there are many amazing things as well as many flaws. Yes, I know-the internet is not usually a place for nuance.
@@Xrayballer88 Some of us actually know what we're talking about and are old enough to have seen the changes over the years. Its not gotten better, its gotten worse. much worse
This was my second year in the San Francisco bay area after being adopted and coming from the east coast two years before. I turned 11 in October of 1978. I remember my adopted father would take me and my brother up to the city for a day just driving around and going up to the museums and Fisherman's Wharf to enjoy the bay and buy those giant crabs that don't seem to exist anymore. It was a time when I can remember SF being a great city to visit but now I would not visit it now.
For me it was a out the neighborhoods and their iconic streets. 24th noe valley, irving 7th to 15th, clement in the richmond, marina green, geary in the aves, lombard by cow hollow, van ness.
My mom and dad were separated. He stayed in the Gold Country. I was a 7-year-old girl. My 6-year-old brother and I moved with our mom back home to San Francisco from there in the summer of that year.
Those were good years. I was 16. I was born at children’s hospital on California St but grew up in Daly City. The sunset,richmond and golden gate heights districts as well as the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge were visible from my parents front window. Compared to today the city was still relatively clean and people were still decent. Now? Forget it. I reluctantly left last year and I will miss it but I’m only 4-1/2 hours away so when COVID gets under control I’ll make day trips👍👍
The BART (rapid transit train) had just opened in 1972--so fresh & new, If that BART station is in the city it is Daily City; or it could be West Oakland.
On weekends my friends and I would get lost there coming in from the east bay. I was 13 that year. just seemed like a weird place with cool sites. even for locals as kids. I drive a taxi. Hate the place now. I don't hate the things I did in my youth but I hate driving around there. even when I had a job in sales, I enjoyed it a bit but driving is challenging. the two places I try to avoid is Fishermans Wharf-Embarcadero as well as Tenderloins. not worth getting my car messed up or ticketed for stopping
Fuck you kid im a native cable car never cost a quarter busses and street cars all fares were 25 cents before 72+ then whem bart and muni came in together fares for busses went up to50 cents while bartmuni increased fares in tunnel use higher than muni surface thats reality youre a dummb fuck kid im a senior native sf i forgot more than you know so STFU!!
Dead wrong idiot poser. More like $1.00, later more. The good deal......, transfers were omnidirectional and could sometimes, depending upon Muni's operator be good for four to five hours.........
Lombard street was open to through traffic in 1978? I'm disappointed! It was closed except for residents when we wanted to take our antique fire engine down it in April 1976.
I like how everyone is helping to turn the street car around and not a lot of shooting and robbing people and people not living on the streets in tents while walking and dodging human sh!t. Calif. was still considered the Golden State in 78',
San Francisco was a nice place to visit back in the day. However, this was already an expensive place to live in. Even worse, the city had already moved from right to left, politically.
Hi Wolfgang! I'm currently working on a documentary that takes place in San Francisco in the 1970s and I love this footage, do you have any interest in licensing some of it? And do you have it in higher quality? Let me know!
Yes I am interested to licensing this or other footages to You. The higher quality is a problem. The original is a 8 mm film and this has a bad quality (looking from nowadays). I can only provide You the original scan from the film. Wolfgang
@@creantos I see, that's too bad about the film quality. How does the original scan look though? Noticeably higher quality than this UA-cam video I am guessing?
SF was on a slippery slope by 1978. Not terrible but by the mid late 70s things were changing for the worse. By the early 80s in was like Cancer was growing to the current sh!thle we have today. I didn't have a clue then what the cause was, but as I look back it was do to liberal policies, politicians on the take lining their pockets and saying screw the city. Sad. Look back at the cities mayors, not a republican mayor since the 60s.
Moved there in 78....moved out in 89. Spent most of my 20's and early 30's there. What a glorious time to be living in that magnificent city. Without a doubt the best time of my whole life.
I also moved there in 78, I moved out in 82 for job in KC
Moved there from NYC in 79, stayed until 98. Absolutely glorious during my time there. I watch these SF vids and feel it with every cell of my body. So blessed to be there, then.
Was born there. It was truly magic. Kills my heart to see what politics have let it become.
I was there in March of 78 with a friend of mine. We would hit the taverns and ride the cable cars into the wee hrs. I’ll never forget this beautiful angel like young woman who got on one of the cars on a very rainy evening ; she sat across from us trying to keep warm and then got off at her stop. My friend I looked at each other and commented on how beautiful she was.
Hey Michael... I too was there doing the same thing!!! It was such a Wonderful Day and time..
You should have taken a pic of her with your cell phone.🤔
I was a 20 year old bus boy in 1978. I worked at Breen's on 4th St and earned $4.20 an hour. The job was hard and didn't pay a lot but the fringe benefits were great! Everyday when my shift ended I could sit down and eat as much food as I wanted free of charge. I would have roast beef and mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans and salad. The food there was sooo good. I would eat my fill and be right back the next morning at 5 am cutting up onions and peeling potatoes. It sure beat working at the Embarcadero McDonald's which was were my brother worked. The only fringe benefit there was free soda.
I used to love San Francisco so much.
@Angel Jose Mendoza Nancy Pelosi
@@patr70 Great reason to dislike an entire city.
The year I visited, July 31st for 14 nights, 1978 age 18.......I LOVED IT....been there 14 times since and I still love the city...
1978 -- The year I moved to San Francisco. I was supposed to visit for only a week to be best man in a friend's wedding, but decided to stay. That was way back when you could come to SF on a whim, find a job and an apartment. Now all these years later the friends I had then have moved or died. I, however, remained. Sometimes the city seems full of ghosts to me. I'm 65 now and was 22 then.
@@chriskelly5763 You take care, too! Thanks for the lovely response.
@@chriskelly5763 We certainly did do well to have come this far! I suspect you are correct: no matter where we might have ended up, we would be looking back with a certain degree of nostalgia. No need to apologize for your words. I enjoy connecting with someone who remembers SF as it used to be.
Thank you for sharing that. I'm coming to visit for the fist time ever in June. :)
@@RT-vw6yw You'll have a grand time. The weather in June varies, so bring some sweaters for the evening.
The late '70s you could still find a job, get a car, find an apartment of share a house. Shit was still simple and doable. More people were moving out of the City than in it seemed. It was magic to grow up in the '50s and '60s, now the City is tragic to see for those of us who knew what it was like. You can't go home again... Tom Wolfe
I remember the late 60's it was starting to decay with the hippies. The 50's or ealy 60's would have been fantastic. Lucky you!
Yea Blame it on the Mayor, and the Supervisors - Next February since the city is on Rent Control, for one whole year 2022 - 2023 instead of 1% increase we will be PAYING 2.34% Increase for a whole one year like is that going to bring back Business, and Tourists. Way a Go MAYOR, and the Supervisors as we did not get any saying to this, Now we will be seeing MORE People moving out... Is that Progress??
Mind boggling to see the city I grew up in 3 years before I was born in such living color. It feels like I am somewhere out there only to remind myself I don't exist yet.
Are you still there? I can't believe how expensive everything has gotten since the technology companies moved in.
Wow it looked high tech for the era...My friend went out and toured the west cost of USA in the same era from AUSTRALIA. He always had fond memories of that trip and still talks about how he loved San Diego
It's sanfransico but I felt connected sandiego San Francisco
Thank you. I would have been ten years old. I lived in the Mission District. 21st and Folsom St. 2485 'A' Folsom St.
Great video! Love old street scenes like this. Me being somewhat of a gearhead, I love looking at brand new old cars driving the streets.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to upload this great video.
I love how this begins with driving down I-80 over the Carquinez Bridge heading towards the bay and the city.
I remember the C&H sugar plant at the end of that bridge
I was there 7 yrs before as a young lad and 4 years later as a young man, it was great, really liked the city and region..... not sure if I'll ever go outta my way nowadays with what has become of it.
Year before I moved there at 24. How I loved it. Unfortunately Gertrude Stein famous line about going back to her childhood home in Oakland "There's no there there" is now true of San Francisco. I worked for a while in Embarcadero Center and you could just go straight to the elevator just nodding to the guard. There were a few homeless people but they were sad not life threatening and we tried to help, not enable them. On a middle class salary you could find an apartment and when looking to buy in the Richmond District bungalows were expensive compared to back east but not out of price range for middle income types.
I was San Francisco the summer of 1978. This video reminds me my childhood.
damn BART with the same cars!
I lived in the Bay Area from ‘73 - ‘80. To me the best part of Frisco was going to Winterland to see great concerts.
Grateful Dead did a New Years concert in Oakland every year and it was safe to go there as was Winterland.
In '78 I was working as a parking valet at Doro's restaurant on Montgomery…the customers were GREAT tippers, with the notable exception of the Warriors' Rick Barry - a true stiff!
Ernie's was the next block up, and their valet was an old guy named Bobby Kennedy. Bobby was all hustle, and a Bobby Riggs lookalike! He was a cool dude who drove a souped-up baby blue Corvair with moon hubcaps.
If San Francisco was this beautiful again…
I spent 3 weeks in SF back in June/July 1978 and went again for 2 weeks in October 1982. My first visit was for 3 days in May 1965. It is a magical city and would love to go back.
You don't want to go back now. Its a sh!thole now.
I was also living in SF that year. It was paradise then.....it has not gotten better, sadly.
Wasnt San Francisco dangerous as fuck in the 70's?? Or was that just early 70's?
@@dcta51 i called the 70's the sleazy 70's and yea it was bad. thats one of the reasons the dirty harry movies were so popular
Evan, I live in Alaska now. I went back 5 years ago for a cousins wedding in Sonoma. I thought I would get off the bus in the city before I flew home. The SECOND I got off the bus, I wanted to get right back on.
@Larry David how was Fillmore and hunters point? They must've been worse.
@@gregh7457 yea thats why i think they should make a grand theft auto game set in san francisco in 70s like how they made one set in miami in the 80's lol.
I was raised near Modesto and Merced. Believe it or not the first time I went to San Francisco I was 17 in 1978 (my dad hated the Bay Area - we never went there). I fell in love with the place. Went there about four times a year through my 20s and early 30s. In the 2000s I lived in Monterey and it had some of the same feel, only on a smaller, friendlier scale. I lived near Sacramento now and almost never go to San Francisco anymore. Its surprising to me given how much I loved it in my younger years. Now it just seems like more of a hassle instead of fun.
I was there that year. 1978 was the last time I have been to San Francisco. I was 17 years old and a merchant naval cadet. I must go back and see how it has changed.
save yourself the trouble. Being a native of the Bay Area, it's now a Liberal shit-hole. This might save you money and time: ua-cam.com/video/ld6qYJe4pRs/v-deo.html
You are not missing much!!
@T TY well yes except for the human poo and needles. (native)
I've lived here for over four years. It's worth a visit. The nostalgia addicts who comment on all of the old San Francisco videos about how bad they believe the city has gotten are just making veiled political statements based on their own politics. San Francisco is like just about every major city: there are many amazing things as well as many flaws. Yes, I know-the internet is not usually a place for nuance.
@@Xrayballer88 Some of us actually know what we're talking about and are old enough to have seen the changes over the years. Its not gotten better, its gotten worse. much worse
This was my second year in the San Francisco bay area after being
adopted and coming from the east coast two years before. I turned 11 in
October of 1978. I remember my adopted father would take me and my
brother up to the city for a day just driving around and going up to the
museums and Fisherman's Wharf to enjoy the bay and buy those giant
crabs that don't seem to exist anymore. It was a time when I can
remember SF being a great city to visit but now I would not visit it
now.
Those giant Dungeness crabs are still there. The best & sweetest crabs in the world!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately Dems turned it into a real sh!thole now.
'78 was the first time I visited...I'm now 55 and just re-visited for my 10th trip....just as great as it was back then....
Take off those rose colored glasses .
+Jake Smith
Maybe you should take your troll mask off.
Maybe you should get lost....
maybe not.....
I remember quite well because I was there...
For me it was a out the neighborhoods and their iconic streets. 24th noe valley, irving 7th to 15th, clement in the richmond, marina green, geary in the aves, lombard by cow hollow, van ness.
My mom and dad were separated. He stayed in the Gold Country. I was a 7-year-old girl. My 6-year-old brother and I moved with our mom back home to San Francisco from there in the summer of that year.
You mean like Nevada city, and other areas around there? I miss that term "gold country"
I was living there,then.Haight-Ashbury.
You have documented in video here...... a world....so much greater than we have now.
I was there...well 1977 but close enough
Riordan High School Class of ‘78!
Thank you Sir. Amazing video
I visited Sfo in the middle of May 2000..stayed there almost 3 months..now I miss thisi place so much will be visit again in future ..😄😃
Those were good years. I was 16. I was born at children’s hospital on California St but grew up in Daly City. The sunset,richmond and golden gate heights districts as well as the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge were visible from my parents front window. Compared to today the city was still relatively clean and people were still decent. Now? Forget it. I reluctantly left last year and I will miss it but I’m only 4-1/2 hours away so when COVID gets under control I’ll make day trips👍👍
Imagine listen to America, or the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne?. Those were the days
we should have built the wall then🇺🇸
Show more respect for humanity ! Immigrants built San Francisco !
@@brucenicholls213 that one burned down, white America built this one 🇺🇸😁
@@kman24Are you really that stupid?
The BART (rapid transit train) had just opened in 1972--so fresh & new, If that BART station is in the city it is Daily City; or it could be West Oakland.
It's the coliseum station in Oakland.
@@seanbowman8500 Thanks....
BART = Bay Area Rapid Transit
* not* [ rapid transit train...?]
Youre welcome!😊
@@gertagi110 "rapid transit train" was simply intended as an explanation of what it was, not what the initials stood for..
@@StevenTorrey lovely!!! Have a great day!
I miss you
The opening scene you can almost hear the TAXI theme!
The bay bridge was so badass. I can't stand what they did on the rebuild.
Right before the plague.
What plague?
Jenny Mosley-Wu The Tech industry.
@@jennywu73 AIDS
2:05 Two skyscrapers were not there when Alfred Hitchcock filmed The Birds 16 years before.
Yes, my city!
Hilarious, the Cable Cars used the left lane, how dangerous. When they revamped the system in 82 they made them on the right.
where are they on the left?
Those hills are terrifying. I'd be too scared to drive on them.
Bob Welch Sentimental Lady would have been nice. Ahh! The late 70,s just before Joe Montana.
On weekends my friends and I would get lost there coming in from the east bay. I was 13 that year. just seemed like a weird place with cool sites. even for locals as kids. I drive a taxi. Hate the place now. I don't hate the things I did in my youth but I hate driving around there. even when I had a job in sales, I enjoyed it a bit but driving is challenging. the two places I try to avoid is Fishermans Wharf-Embarcadero as well as Tenderloins. not worth getting my car messed up or ticketed for stopping
I rolled into SF one year later in ‘79
you've been some traveler, man
I was working at Cala Foods at California and Hyde back then. Tempus fugit! I believe it's a Trader Joes' now (2021). I miss the City.
Moved there in 79. Loved it! It no longer exists. Big tech ruined it.
So sad to see what the left has done to the city.
They were doing that shit right as this video was being filmed
Ryan, Jones, Milk, Moscone and 913 others all dead before the year was out
That Cable Car cost a .25 cents then
Fuck you kid im a native cable car never cost a quarter busses and street cars all fares were 25 cents before 72+ then whem bart and muni came in together fares for busses went up to50 cents while bartmuni increased fares in tunnel use higher than muni surface thats reality youre a dummb fuck kid im a senior native sf i forgot more than you know so STFU!!
Dead wrong idiot poser. More like $1.00, later more. The good deal......, transfers were omnidirectional and could sometimes, depending upon Muni's operator be good for four to five hours.........
Lombard street was open to through traffic in 1978? I'm disappointed! It was closed except for residents when we wanted to take our antique fire engine down it in April 1976.
I like how everyone is helping to turn the street car around and not a lot of shooting and robbing people and people not living on the streets in tents while walking and dodging human sh!t. Calif. was still considered the Golden State in 78',
San Francisco was a nice place to visit back in the day. However, this was already an expensive place to live in. Even worse, the city had already moved from right to left, politically.
Much better you left town.
Hi Wolfgang! I'm currently working on a documentary that takes place in San Francisco in the 1970s and I love this footage, do you have any interest in licensing some of it? And do you have it in higher quality? Let me know!
Yes I am interested to licensing this or other footages to You. The higher quality is a problem. The original is a 8 mm film and this has a bad quality (looking from nowadays). I can only provide You the original scan from the film.
Wolfgang
@@creantos I see, that's too bad about the film quality. How does the original scan look though? Noticeably higher quality than this UA-cam video I am guessing?
Please send me an email or your contact info so we can figure out licensing! Thank you, Carter
@@CarterFeuerhelm my e-mail is w.gegusch@arcor.de
I hope to visit
Could use a soundtrack
need to hear sound
Dirty Harry's old stomping grounds.
What goes good with cold Milk?
cliff burton's walkin' tha beet some wheres...
SF was on a slippery slope by 1978. Not terrible but by the mid late 70s things were changing for the worse. By the early 80s in was like Cancer was growing to the current sh!thle we have today. I didn't have a clue then what the cause was, but as I look back it was do to liberal policies, politicians on the take lining their pockets and saying screw the city. Sad. Look back at the cities mayors, not a republican mayor since the 60s.
The 1970's Were a Trip
Mejor se ven los vídeos de 100 años de antigüedad.
1978 was a bad year for the City
Where the Pod People??
No way that is San Francisco! No shit, needles, drug addicts, pelosi, newsome…
centre lane hogger