@@HburgMMAInstitute I think you can draw a line during the first Dot Com boom. That really brought in the tech companies that were paying sky high salaries and threw money around the city like it was confetti. That really accelerated gentrification of neighborhoods and started the exodus of the people who made the city quirky and unique because it became unaffordable. There are a lot of people who came to work in the tech industry who do not have deep long ties to the city, and go where the jobs are. Those who stay and eventually absorb the vibe of the city can call themselves natives. I do not consider anyone who names the fog Karl a true native :)
Hi Raymond. I'm French and fell in love with the City back in 2010, when I visited it for the first time. Since then, I came on vacation multiple times and can't seem to get enough. Today, I didn't take the plane but just hit the play button from my place to visit San Francisco again thanks to your fantastic documentary. This is a great tour I highly recommend to anyone who wants to get an idea of what the City is like. And to those who want to dream too. Merci beaucoup !
Thoroughly enjoyed this video - a real antidote to the SF-hate that seems to be infiltrating comments threads on social media lately. I’m from Sydney; and I’ve visited SF almost twenty times since 1990. I feel like our cities share a spirit. Thanks for making this video and reminding me of the magic of SF.❤
Thank you for showing off my town the way it actually is, and repudiating the haters who sorrowfully use their eyes to find the worst of everything, but do nothing to help improve.
Hi Raymond. I’m another SF local ( I still live in town ) who really appreciates your videos and obvious love of my hometown. As a kid, every Sunday my family would head over to Broadway St via the central freeway to have dinner in Chinatown, we lived in Bernal Heights. You mentioned the central freeway in this video and I can contest, it was an eye sore. But the views of downtown and the Bay from the central freeway were spectacular.
BRAVO this is such an excellent video, great shots/drone footage/script!! Very easy to follow....it is clear there was a lot of hard effort and work put into this. Blows away other travel guides...really makes me want to make a return visit to SF!!
Beatuifully filmed and your soft and easy going narration make this the best San Francisco docu i have ever seen. i will always hold San Fran close to my heart....always my go-to city in California....yes it has some "big city" problems that are far out weighted by the all the great positive attributes, the wonderful and varied districts, the multitude of cultural, artistic and natural attractions. i actually think that i have been to all of the districts! i am so happy to have found your channel....wishing you continued growth of your channel Raymond.
Thanks for showing how beautiful and special San Francisco is. With all the videos showing SF as overrun with homeless and drug ridden vagrants (and yes that is a major problem), it is not the best of or end all of this amazing city. Honest portrayals like yours shows a truer image of the reality.
I'm surprised at how well you captured so many of the City's facets...and I'm surprised to discover that I just watched the whole thing in one sitting. Well done! This makes a great overview for visitors who can wander into other areas of history and charm besides these better-known destinations. My current favorites include of the pre-Gold Rush alleyways of Jackson Square, the lush "fog forest" of the Sutro Open space, the genteel Forest Hill and St. Francis Woods neighborhoods, and the historic oasis of South Park between the ballpark and the Bay Bridge.
Thanks for the compliments and for sitting through the whole thing! I appreciate your list of places to explore, and I'll keep those in mind for potential future projects that could focus on lesser known areas of the city.
@@RaymondStone I'm sure you'd do a great job! Two other favorites of mine are Duboce Park/the Duboce Triangle, and the little "French Quarter" on Belden Place, Claude Lane and Bush Street anchored by the old French Church Notre-Dame-des-Victoires.
Hi Raymond, That was the best movie iv watched in a long long time with epic photography, great video along with super cool drone content....WOW what a place to visit, One day ill get to see the golden gate bridge....Totally Epic Dude and really enjoyed the full vid....Take care Raymond and best wishes from the u.k and look forward to all what you do....
What did you think? Ask me Subjects have IT Much Better Than Citizens at least your King takes care of HIS OWN First, you have healthcare and your Borders are NOT Open for Just Anyone from Anywhere to Run through, infiltrate, manipulate and take buy up!!! You my British Friend will have a Much Longer Life than I expect. Lucky You!!! Cheers!!! God Bless the King!!! #NeverFearTruth
Beautifully done and so nice to see some positive sides of San Francisco amid all the negative national attention (some warranted and some not). You are talented so keep making these videos. I am retired far from S.F. and miss my hometown quite often so this video brings a big smile. Thanks again and best to you in all your future endeavors.
What a delightful movie Raymond!! Perfect length for my short hop from Charlotte, NC, to home (Richmond, VA). I’ve only been to San Francisco one time back (probably when you were a toddler) when I opened a ComputerLand franchise and had two weeks of training in Oakland and San Mateo. So actual sight seeing was limited. But you inspire me to come back.
Although an LA guy San Francisco has so much to offer in many ways not least its Musical History.Traveled there a couple of times and breathtaking is the only way to describe the city!!. Rog.Pacific Sunset( LA).
gorgeous video raymond! at (00:59) the bay bridge is actually older, by a few months, than the golden gate bridge due to a ship crashing into the south tower construction pier causing the delay.
Ray, great vid! as you know both bridges funded by public bonds during Great Depression...im writing film (fiction) set in San Fran 1930's...ive been to The City many times loved walks to Fort Mason/Aquatic Park...big fan of Bullitt...Vertigo...Mrs Doubtfire!
Nice video, we where there in June 2022. It was my second time there (with 10 years in between). Sadly the amount of drug addicts and tents on the street was what we remembered the most of SF. Something that is really a big problem in SF. A thing this video lacks to mention. It really gives an unsafe feeling throughout the city. As I’m from the Netherlands, it is something we are not used to (thankfully)
Hey Raymond, As a Well To Do Honeless Man Lol Whis Considering Relivating Too SF i really aporeciate your Thiurogh and Concise Report of beautiful but Geographically Very Intimidating, San Francisco, CA!!!!
Thank you for showing the City as it is experienced by most visitors. A vibrant and unique place with a long history. It seems all cable news does nowadays is run straight from the airport to the absolute worst neighborhoods they can find to do their crime and poverty porn.
As a native San Franciscan, I was interested on what you had to say. I liked it. Just the facts, but I noticed the Bayview was pretty much left out. The Bayview gets what it deserves. It's the black eye of SF. Of course the TL is the real black eye, but it will always get mention because it's wedged between Union Square, Civic Center, SOMA and Van Ness. Plus the zombie factor is a tourist attraction or warning.
Ray, had friend retired designer also amatuer composer of opera! he had condo in Diamond Heights...every other car is Ford Mustang! Frank Bullitt abides
'SAN FRANCISCO, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California. With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, and the 17th most populous in the US. It covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers) at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated major U.S. city behind New York City and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind four of New York City's boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the 13th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth-largest urban region in the U.S., had a 2023 estimated population of over 9 million.' W
So much potential, while reality are so many street tents, crime, mad rents, closed stores and needles in the street... Love the city from 8 visits over 10 years, but so sad about what is happening to it...
Lol, sure, because the four blocks in the Tenderloin that they show on repeat on Fox News is the actual reality. Nooooo, it's not made up because they hate SF's liberal politics. It's all completely real! The video that we just watched of beautiful San Francisco must all be AI/CGI/staged, right? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 You guys are soooooooo gullible. No wonder most of your red states live on government welfare provided by the economically prosperous blue states.
I dont understand why people hate on this beautiful city .. people used to never talk about politics .. I wish we went back to those days .. LETS KEEP THE TALK SHOW ON MUTE
lived there for 18 years until i was forced to be homeless by my landlord, homeless for about 4 months in SF and then i moved to vegas to be a Roulette dealer at Wynn casino
Nice shots, but a self-aggrandizing title. What do you mean by "full movie"? Was a shorter version available earlier, and finally admirers of your talent can watch the whole thing? When I see "full movie" I expect a complete pirated copy of a feature film made by a Hollywood studio or at the very least by the BBC, but in this case this seems to be your own work. Why don't you just call it something like "My ode to San Francisco" or "A bunch of shots I collected over the years, compiled into a 40-minute video"?
While your title ideas admittedly sound more accurate than mine, they probably wouldn’t play as well with the algorithmic overlords or home page attention grabbing. 😄
@@RaymondStoneIndeed. This is mostly my envy speaking. I've been to SF many times, shot some videos, but not as good as yours. Want to visit the city again. You did not show blight, closed or fenced stores on Market Street, homeless, druggies, or RVs around the SFSU, where students live because it is cheaper than paying $2K/mo for a bed in a dorm. Subscribed. Thanks for your positive attitude!
You need to do the western addition over you showed a piece of the Fillmore Districts as one of the smaller neighborhoods districts but didn’t mention the Fillmore district which plays a major part in San Francisco history and you skipped over the jazz thriving African American neighborhood that saved San Francisco’s commercial area after the 1906 earthquake do your reseaearch don’t show us without mentioning us
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Spent quality time there last century-!!!🤗. I've no plans of ever returning-!!!😭. As I desire to keep my good health & body intact-!!!🤗. At least they'll be plenty of space for the millions of border crosers (Illegals) to squat around on-!!!😳.
![Rare unseen downtown San Francisco 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bZub2tAk69s/mqdefault.jpg)
From a native, I appreciate pieces like this that show the nature of SF for what it truly is.
What do you mean by "true native"?
Oh you mean the used needles puddles of urine human feces homeless tents drug addicts.
@@HburgMMAInstitute I think you can draw a line during the first Dot Com boom. That really brought in the tech companies that were paying sky high salaries and threw money around the city like it was confetti. That really accelerated gentrification of neighborhoods and started the exodus of the people who made the city quirky and unique because it became unaffordable. There are a lot of people who came to work in the tech industry who do not have deep long ties to the city, and go where the jobs are. Those who stay and eventually absorb the vibe of the city can call themselves natives. I do not consider anyone who names the fog Karl a true native :)
I love this. I am a born and raised native, but I saw some places that I didn't even know existed until now. Thank you.
Wow, this was incredibly done. It makes me want to go to visit SF even though I am already here!
Thank you for the compliments!
Ahh SF's famous ocean chicken, usually known as the marine layer.
Hi Raymond. I'm French and fell in love with the City back in 2010, when I visited it for the first time. Since then, I came on vacation multiple times and can't seem to get enough. Today, I didn't take the plane but just hit the play button from my place to visit San Francisco again thanks to your fantastic documentary. This is a great tour I highly recommend to anyone who wants to get an idea of what the City is like. And to those who want to dream too. Merci beaucoup !
Just stay away from downtown but to be honest your not safe anymore anywhere just ask Donald Trump 😢
If you're not safe with cia FBI and all the other law informed watching you like trump.nobody is safe
I'm a Native San Franciscan, I don't listen to anything Trump has to say!! He's an obnoxious New Yorker, even other New Yorkers don't like him!!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video - a real antidote to the SF-hate that seems to be infiltrating comments threads on social media lately. I’m from Sydney; and I’ve visited SF almost twenty times since 1990. I feel like our cities share a spirit. Thanks for making this video and reminding me of the magic of SF.❤
Obviously you've never stepped on a disease infested syringe. Left on a side walk by a degenerate drug addict. 😈.
This was very well done. Just enough narration without annoying or putting me to sleep. It really makes me want to live in SF.
Thank you for showing the true beauty of our city
Won't stay that way for much longer democrat😈
Thank you for showing off my town the way it actually is, and repudiating the haters who sorrowfully use their eyes to find the worst of everything, but do nothing to help improve.
My favorite city!
Thank you, Raymond Stone, for the beautiful tour through" My City by The Bay" at least since 1965. The beauty never stops inspiring me.
Hi Raymond. I’m another SF local ( I still live in town ) who really appreciates your videos and obvious love of my hometown. As a kid, every Sunday my family would head over to Broadway St via the central freeway to have dinner in Chinatown, we lived in Bernal Heights. You mentioned the central freeway in this video and I can contest, it was an eye sore. But the views of downtown and the Bay from the central freeway were spectacular.
Great documentary, thanks from a potential SF tourist!
I Miss the Old San Francisco...'80s & '90s.... Good Memories... GREAT Times!!!
Appreciate the showcase in my hometown. As a fellow videographer, I appreciate your work!
Beautiful San Francisco 😊
BRAVO this is such an excellent video, great shots/drone footage/script!! Very easy to follow....it is clear there was a lot of hard effort and work put into this. Blows away other travel guides...really makes me want to make a return visit to SF!!
This was a comprehensive, well written & shot video. Excellent!
Beatuifully filmed and your soft and easy going narration make this the best San Francisco docu i have ever seen. i will always hold San Fran close to my heart....always my go-to city in California....yes it has some "big city" problems that are far out weighted by the all the great positive attributes, the wonderful and varied districts, the multitude of cultural, artistic and natural attractions. i actually think that i have been to all of the districts! i am so happy to have found your channel....wishing you continued growth of your channel Raymond.
Loved it. Some of your drone footage is breathtaking and the script is engaging, humorous and paces the video well.
Thanks for showing how beautiful and special San Francisco is. With all the videos showing SF as overrun with homeless and drug ridden vagrants (and yes that is a major problem), it is not the best of or end all of this amazing city. Honest portrayals like yours shows a truer image of the reality.
Thank you so much for this very nice virtual tour!
This was amazing!
I'm surprised at how well you captured so many of the City's facets...and I'm surprised to discover that I just watched the whole thing in one sitting. Well done! This makes a great overview for visitors who can wander into other areas of history and charm besides these better-known destinations. My current favorites include of the pre-Gold Rush alleyways of Jackson Square, the lush "fog forest" of the Sutro Open space, the genteel Forest Hill and St. Francis Woods neighborhoods, and the historic oasis of South Park between the ballpark and the Bay Bridge.
Thanks for the compliments and for sitting through the whole thing! I appreciate your list of places to explore, and I'll keep those in mind for potential future projects that could focus on lesser known areas of the city.
@@RaymondStone I'm sure you'd do a great job! Two other favorites of mine are Duboce Park/the Duboce Triangle, and the little "French Quarter" on Belden Place, Claude Lane and Bush Street anchored by the old French Church Notre-Dame-des-Victoires.
Great video! Keep promoting this. Deserving of a ton more views and very high quality! It’s just a matter of the algorithm catching it.
love it
Hi Raymond, That was the best movie iv watched in a long long time with epic photography, great video along with super cool drone content....WOW what a place to visit, One day ill get to see the golden gate bridge....Totally Epic Dude and really enjoyed the full vid....Take care Raymond and best wishes from the u.k and look forward to all what you do....
I appreciate you watching, Keith. And I especially appreciate the kind words! I hope you get to see the Golden Gate Bridge in person one day.
Such an enjoyable vid to watch. Thanks for uploading.
Good video. I'm off to San Francisco this weekend from England
What did you think? Ask me Subjects have IT Much Better Than Citizens at least your King takes care of HIS OWN First, you have healthcare and your Borders are NOT Open for Just Anyone from Anywhere to Run through, infiltrate, manipulate and take buy up!!! You my British Friend will have a Much Longer Life than I expect. Lucky You!!! Cheers!!! God Bless the King!!! #NeverFearTruth
Excellent quality! Subscribed 🎉
Great film Raymond!..we live in a pretty great place!..
Beautifully done and so nice to see some positive sides of San Francisco amid all the negative national attention (some warranted and some not). You are talented so keep making these videos. I am retired far from S.F. and miss my hometown quite often so this video brings a big smile. Thanks again and best to you in all your future endeavors.
Excellent! Thank you 🙏🏻
This is exceptionally high quality content. I am really surprised you only have 6,500 views.
What a delightful movie Raymond!! Perfect length for my short hop from Charlotte, NC, to home (Richmond, VA). I’ve only been to San Francisco one time back (probably when you were a toddler) when I opened a ComputerLand franchise and had two weeks of training in Oakland and San Mateo. So actual sight seeing was limited. But you inspire me to come back.
I appreciate you sitting through it, Jim! Hopefully you'll be able to return to San Francisco one day to explore the city more.
Fantastic work of art! You are a natural filmmaker! Thank you for the joyride to the city of my dreams!
Awesome video! Well done
Well done! I loved the film.
What a great movie....:) def gonna recommend this
It is a documentary not a Hollywood movie.
Excellent video! You’re a true professional and your channel will grow fast. You are a great orator and filmed. Keep up the great work Raymond...
BRILLIANT!!
love the flight attendant voice.
This is a fantastic look at San Francisco. Thank you for making this.
Thinking of a move to SF soon thanks for this video!
Right on bro thank you !
Outstanding. This comprehensive introduction to America's most beautiful city cannot be improved upon.
Fantastic - thank you - the real S.F.
Fantastic
Jesus. Epic project man.
Beautiful documentary 👍, well done.
Stunning video! Beautiful city! Fantastic job!
I feel like our cities share a spirit.
Great video thank you!
Good information 👍
Although an LA guy San Francisco has so much to offer in many ways not least its Musical History.Traveled there a couple of times and breathtaking is the only way to describe the city!!. Rog.Pacific Sunset( LA).
Really well done. Do you film everything yourself?
Thanks. And yes, I filmed everything myself.
Your video makes me want to move to San Francisco.
gorgeous video raymond!
at (00:59) the bay bridge is actually older, by a few months, than the golden gate bridge due to a ship crashing into the south tower construction pier causing the delay.
Ray, great vid! as you know both bridges funded by public bonds during Great Depression...im writing film (fiction) set in San Fran 1930's...ive been to The City many times loved walks to Fort Mason/Aquatic Park...big fan of Bullitt...Vertigo...Mrs Doubtfire!
What? No mention of the Cable Car Cafe? C'MON MAN! 😊
Nice video, we where there in June 2022. It was my second time there (with 10 years in between). Sadly the amount of drug addicts and tents on the street was what we remembered the most of SF. Something that is really a big problem in SF. A thing this video lacks to mention. It really gives an unsafe feeling throughout the city. As I’m from the Netherlands, it is something we are not used to (thankfully)
Hey Raymond,
As a Well To Do Honeless Man Lol Whis Considering Relivating Too SF i really aporeciate your Thiurogh and Concise Report of beautiful but Geographically Very Intimidating, San Francisco, CA!!!!
North Beach was also known as a Beatnik neighborhood from 1956 til 1964.
Thank you for showing the City as it is experienced by most visitors. A vibrant and unique place with a long history. It seems all cable news does nowadays is run straight from the airport to the absolute worst neighborhoods they can find to do their crime and poverty porn.
As a native San Franciscan, I was interested on what you had to say. I liked it. Just the facts, but I noticed the Bayview was pretty much left out. The Bayview gets what it deserves. It's the black eye of SF. Of course the TL is the real black eye, but it will always get mention because it's wedged between Union Square, Civic Center, SOMA and Van Ness. Plus the zombie factor is a tourist attraction or warning.
Yes Lombard Street is a block long with eight turns going down
My grandma was in the movie Pacific Heights.
I live around the corner from the house they used in the movie. It's actually on Potrero Hill.
Do you have San Diego ?
Where’s Bayview/Hunter’s Point?
Ray, had friend retired designer also amatuer composer of opera! he had condo in Diamond Heights...every other car is Ford Mustang! Frank Bullitt abides
Hi, is any top tower în SF which can be visited?
It could be a decent city if they got rid of all the riffraff.
'SAN FRANCISCO, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California. With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, and the 17th most populous in the US. It covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers) at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated major U.S. city behind New York City and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind four of New York City's boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the 13th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth-largest urban region in the U.S., had a 2023 estimated population of over 9 million.' W
Hey stone.. u forgot to mention the thousands of businesses getting out of dodge.
ok
So much potential, while reality are so many street tents, crime, mad rents, closed stores and needles in the street... Love the city from 8 visits over 10 years, but so sad about what is happening to it...
Lol, sure, because the four blocks in the Tenderloin that they show on repeat on Fox News is the actual reality. Nooooo, it's not made up because they hate SF's liberal politics. It's all completely real! The video that we just watched of beautiful San Francisco must all be AI/CGI/staged, right? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
You guys are soooooooo gullible. No wonder most of your red states live on government welfare provided by the economically prosperous blue states.
I dont understand why people hate on this beautiful city .. people used to never talk about politics .. I wish we went back to those days .. LETS KEEP THE TALK SHOW ON MUTE
lived there for 18 years until i was forced to be homeless by my landlord, homeless for about 4 months in SF and then i moved to vegas to be a Roulette dealer at Wynn casino
I'm curious to where you lived in the city and who would do that?
Nice shots, but a self-aggrandizing title. What do you mean by "full movie"? Was a shorter version available earlier, and finally admirers of your talent can watch the whole thing? When I see "full movie" I expect a complete pirated copy of a feature film made by a Hollywood studio or at the very least by the BBC, but in this case this seems to be your own work. Why don't you just call it something like "My ode to San Francisco" or "A bunch of shots I collected over the years, compiled into a 40-minute video"?
While your title ideas admittedly sound more accurate than mine, they probably wouldn’t play as well with the algorithmic overlords or home page attention grabbing. 😄
@@RaymondStoneIndeed. This is mostly my envy speaking. I've been to SF many times, shot some videos, but not as good as yours. Want to visit the city again. You did not show blight, closed or fenced stores on Market Street, homeless, druggies, or RVs around the SFSU, where students live because it is cheaper than paying $2K/mo for a bed in a dorm. Subscribed. Thanks for your positive attitude!
You need to do the western addition over you showed a piece of the Fillmore Districts as one of the smaller neighborhoods districts but didn’t mention the Fillmore district which plays a major part in San Francisco history and you skipped over the jazz thriving African American neighborhood that saved San Francisco’s commercial area after the 1906 earthquake do your reseaearch don’t show us without mentioning us
SF the Bay Area’s Toilet 😂🤣😂
sf was cool in the 80 s and 90s. now it's a joke
you can tell when a salty mf lives in Montana 😭😭
What? No bums? No poop?
Visiting San Francisco is dangerous.
Ghost town with criminals and poop
Lol, then what was this video? CGI? 😁😁😁😁
@@TohaBgood2 it was a ghost town with criminals and poop
@@choonblaze So you didn't watch the video 😁😁😁😁
@@TohaBgood2 I did. It's empty af. Population density is extremely low
@@choonblaze Lol, I love seeing you grasping for straws 😁😁😁
Just take the L, bud. You've earned it.
too many gays and Asians for me
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Spent quality time there last century-!!!🤗. I've no plans of ever returning-!!!😭. As I desire to keep my good health & body intact-!!!🤗. At least they'll be plenty of space for the millions of border crosers (Illegals) to squat around on-!!!😳.