1922(?) San Francisco: Advertisement for New Homes in Westwood Park
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2014
- This film depicts a variety of footage from the San Francisco, CA region from some time in the 1920s or 1930s. This film seems to demonstrate new home construction techniques Scenes include: new tract housing, home construction in Westwood Park, main street traffic in the city (with a 1905 "vintage" vehicle featured, buying tickets at a Balboa movie theater, tract homes and luxury homes with cable cars passing in front of the camera, a large church or school, residents using bus transportation, Ingleside Community Church (now Presbyterian), West Portal School, Laguna Honda Elevator station of Municipal Carline thru Twin Peaks, Laguna Honda, and homes in Westwood highlands.
From the Perlinger Archive, labeled as follows: 6416 HM Croft Collection Can 56 Flying in Small Plane 01 44 53 06
The original: : archive.org/details/6416HMCro... - Фільми й анімація
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Back when folks dressed well and had class. You never left the house looking disheveled. Amazing document of life from the era.
Yeah? Well, those ripped up jeans people buy nowadays cost more than those suits did.
jk. I agree with you. People wear pajamas to go shopping in today.
Fantastic job
Just looked up homes in Westwood highlands in the city
1.5 million and up
Boy times have changed!
NO ONE has commented not ONCE on this great video from the past? These house, dresses, cars, etc are fantastic from 1917!! and some of those house.. WOW NICE!
A little music would have helped. The slipping attention span. Including mine.
my house was permited 1919 . 1917? to early
@@danconlan64 - Not when the whole area was being developed from a forest to a complete neighborhood. The original process from the time spent in court - like 12 years in probate - to settle the value and establish the terms of distribution/sale of the property, before they could pull up the first tree. Being 1919 made it into the beginning of the land being cleared by steam powered tractors, hand labor, steam powered street machinery, divided into streets and neighborhoods, then the building of all those great bungalows, without benefit of on-site power tools - everything was done with hand tools, which took much longer. The really old vehicle being driven down the road towards the camera was described as a 1905 model, being piloted by an elderly man - likely the original owner - 12 years later, making that view of 1917.
@@2mandolin- This video is just a portion of the whole story. The entire video, with one exception, is shown here - ua-cam.com/video/KLIqbPMHoYk/v-deo.html
with the exception being the portion showing the building of what's called the "Phantom Bungalow." The entire construction process is captured from the foundation to the complete home, including the home 🏠 with its first new owners, sitting on the porch, enjoying the husband's👩❤️💋👨 return home from work, then visiting outside with friends/neighbors, where you can see the completely landscaped front, including vines 🌿🌱and flowers,🌸🌼🌺🌹 which have obviously been growing up for a little while. The video also has a soundtrack, covering the history and time frame of the development of the area, who's responsible, descriptions of activity on the property, but the Phantom Bungalow segment has been cut down to about half of what's shown here. That's OK - we can watch the rest of it all right here!😊
I live in a 1920s house in Oakland and seeing this film makes me think I still would have chosen this side of the bay if I'd been around back then.
Wow, been to St. Francis Woods but never heard of Westwood. Born in the city with all family living there but grew up across in Oakland in a house built in 1912, so those old homes don't seem that unusual to me. Love these old time films.😊
Nice ending with the four girls synchronized walking!
💥💥👏👏💯
Wow what a trippy video! Enjoyed seeing the bungalow get constructed!
I can relate to those bungalows...as I live in a 1919 "California Bungalow, in the inner Sunset District. Would not trade it for the newest 2020 house. That phantom bungalow resembles my home...and are these places built! The Balboa Theatre is still there. I LOVE the "traffic" and choice of parking spaces!!
This video is a treasure.
At 4:27 the theater marquee advertises the movie "Kindred of the Dust." The Wikipedia article on that says it came out in 1922, not 1917.
Good catch! I was just using the title supplied by the archive. I'll change it now. Thanks!!
Wikipedia sais that the Balboa Theater was built in 1924.
Yes and the part where the card says "A motor of the vintage 1905 passing through Westwood 12 years later."
@@chrisballengee And it still hasn't been changed.
@@promontorium - meaning that this particular view of this automobile was done in 1917. Not outside the realm of possibility.
Nicely done.
I took our 2 sons to see the first Star Wars movie at the Balboa Theater.
I would absolutely LOVE to go back in time to the neighborhood at the beginning of video to see these houses and the streets when they were brand new! wow! If I knew what neighborhood this was I'd visit it now to see what it looks like. I would look at the surrounding terrain and the trees and then see what remained after 106 years or so (Dec. 23rd, 2020 now). That house at 3:00 was beautiful! I wonder if it's still there and what shape it's in.Ingalwood candies. I would definitely stop there, you bet! Oh, about halfway through the video I see it's Westwood park, maybe in a town called Balboa? I would go into every shop and especially the real estate co. to check out house and land prices. I wish, I wish, I wish I could go there for a visit.
I posted a reply detailing the video. The house is still there, but renovated and changed quite a bit
Just use Google Maps Streetview, or Google Earth, and check out Miramar Avenue, then go out from there. That's the main thoroughfare through the middle of the original neighborhood. Shouldn't be difficult to find.
There's another video with soundtrack, descriptions, music, and more historical information regarding the development of the property from the original Spanish land grants, to the planting of the Sutro Forrest - all fast growing eucalyptus trees - and the dozen or so years the property was in probate through the courts, after Mr. Sutro's passing. Then the gathering of the investors who bought the land, and how it became this development, and more! The video is here: ua-cam.com/video/KLIqbPMHoYk/v-deo.html
Wow great video thank you so much
0:34 Mr & Mrs. Clarence Way house is at 29 Eastwood Dr San Francisco 84112. It has been heavily renovated, but the chimney, window layout and roofline (sans the second floor addition) are identical.
3:44 I think the vintage car is somewhere on Miramar Ave possibly near Southwood Dr
3:53 The tea room is at the corner of Ocean Ave and Faxon Ave
4:05 Balboa Theater
3630 Balboa St(this doesn't fit the narrative. The Balboa Theater is a few miles from the area the rest of the film was shot in)
5:29 Miramar Ave and Ocean Ave looking north (if you look at the neighborhood from Monterey Blvd and Miramar Ave you can see the same type of neighborhood entry way still exists).
6:01 Commodore Sloat Elementary school (as seen from Junipero Serra Blvd) I think the big white house in the scene just before the elementary school is/was at Junipero Serra and Darien. It's either been torn down and replaced or heavily modified (or I am incorrect on the location).
6:35 St. Francis Blvd and Portola Dr
6:42 235 St Francis Blvd looking from the other side of the traffic circle. The fountain is in the traffic circle not the front of the house.
7:28 I THINK the panorama was in the area of Hazelwood and Los Palmos Dr. The cameraman looks to be standing in an area of recently cleared trees. Houses block the exact view.
8:26 Miramar Ave and Northwood Dr. looking towards Monterey Ave
10:45 Now the Ingleside Community Center at 1345 Ocean Ave
11:00 West Portal Elementary School (5 LenoxWay) seen from Claremont Blvd & Allston Way
11:18 380 Laguna Honda Blvd (now called Forest Hill Station)
11:46 Laguna Honda Home is now the Laguna Honda Hospital. (The building in the scene is in front of the Florence Nightingale statue. The view was looking up the hill from a perimeter road.)
12:15 the two ladies are coming down the stairs of 250 Hazelwood Ave (the four young women are on the corner of Hazelwood and Joost Ave)
Clarence B and Etta Mae Way
www.findagrave.com/memorial/97490259/clarence-b-way
Thank you for this guide
Wow, SF had a lot of trees back then!
This video is just a portion of the whole story. The entire video, with one exception, is shown here - ua-cam.com/video/KLIqbPMHoYk/v-deo.html
with the exception being the portion showing the building of what's called the "Phantom Bungalow," which is a "slow motion" type segment showing the building of one of the homes from cleared building lot to finished home, complete with the planted yard, bushes, flowers and obviously established vines growing over portions of the home. This segment is shown in over two and a half minutes, where in the video mentioned showing a more complete history, the "Phantom Bungalow" segment has been cut to about one minute. This one is much more substantial, and in my opinion, more enjoyable.
Well done time lapse here
This pretty much every neighborhood in the area. From West Portal in the north to Ingleside in the south and everything in between.
So wonderful that this film from almost 100 years ago has been preserved and now we can see this window to the past!
Well, more like about 80 years ago, but who's counting. My family all grew up in those neighborhoods. In fact, one group lived in Forest Heights until about 1985 ... Marvelous memories here :)
@@janielaurel what? It says its 1922. That isn't 80 years.
@@randybobandy9828- Well, it's now 2024, so it's OVER 100 years now!🙋♀️👍💁♀️
@@sharidavenport5283 ya no shit... Did you read my comment?
@@randybobandy9828 🙄
Beautiful !
That was soooo cool! I went on Google maps and looked up those locations.
Cool video. So interesting to look back in history like this. I looked up the Balboa Theatre on Google Maps and that building is still standing almost exactly 100 years later. Google Maps has it playing "Captain Marvel" although its currently closed because of Coronavirus.
The Balboa Theater in the film changed its name to the El Rey and was showing films into the late 1970s. It then became a church and is now vacant. The Balboa theater still standing opened in 1926.
@@clintonflynn815 Isn’t the Balboa Theatre the one in the outer Richmond Dist that has the big mural of Playland on the side of the building?
And not a Starbucks in sight!!!
BEAUTIFUL, Keep this step back into TIME going.;-)
about 15 years after the earthquake and fire...... interesting!
Is this neighborhood still here?
Anna-Lisa Girling yes it is still here.
Yes and very very pricey.
yes i actually live in one of the homes seen in the video.
No, it took LSD in the 60's, went on a time warp, and burned down in the great fire of 1906.
Yes, million and up ! Even during a depression or recession
I look at those young girls at the end of the video and see wholesome young ladies, no tats, no nose piercings, no heavy makeup on. And I bet they can tell you what a WOMAN is.
Datewise this footage is a hodgepodge. The first part apparently 1917, the "Kindred of the Dust" at the Balboa theater 1922 (or later re-release?), Laguna Honda in its Spanish incarnation dates no further back than 1924, and the girls at the end in their short skirts (which wouldn't have that short before probably, 1926) later still.
John, yes it IS a hodgepodge. In fact, they show a car from (1905?). I love seeing how areas developed. Where is your film? Is yours a hodgepodge? Lets' see it.
I read that this neighborhood used to be segregated. Non white were not allowed to purchase there until 1959.
Cool story?
As for this particular video, it is actually about the last half of a longer video, also on You tube, at this link - ua-cam.com/video/KLIqbPMHoYk/v-deo.html
It's called "Building of San Francisco's Westwood Park." It has contemporary narration, music, and some more historically accurate sounds added, narrating the history of the area, beginning with it being part of a locally owned portion of an old Mexican Land Grant, the Rancho San Miguel, by a gentleman by the name of Adolph Sutro. Mr. Sutro had thousands of fast growing Eucalyptus trees planted early on in his ownership. These are some of the thick growth of forests seen at the beginning of this video.
The group of investors who put together the necessary financing to purchase part of the land are shown and identified, and much of the clearing work that was done to build Westwood Park is shown. If you pay attention, you will see tree stumps being pulled using steam powered equipment! And powered and manual methods used to construct the streets, plus more home construction, and the establishment of public transportation such as the electrically powered streetcars, and regular buses later, (which oddly enough, resemble the shape and style of standard style and construction of 1950s school buses!) even a tunnel which was constructed to bring traffic into San Francisco proper by automobile, which was taking the country by storm at the time. It was mentioned that the use of said tunnel shaved some 15-20 minutes off the usual commuting time!
If you watch it, it may make some of the information provided by this one make a little more sense. Or at least more complete! Enjoy!
Regarding the racism inherent in the housing rules of the 20s, that was the circumstance in neighborhoods all over the country. It goes back to a very racist policy established by a combination of the government, the banking industry, and anyone else associated with the issuance or denial of mortgage loans. It was quantified, by establishing policy and legally beginning after the War, even though the whole idea had already been in operation in the 1920s, which as shown in the video referred to above, showing that the new housing development was subject to specific development covenants, including "No businesses, no stables, and no minorities."
When the 1950s housing boom was running rampant, it was called "Red Lining." It was exactly what it sounds like. Districts of residences had single lines drawn around them on the maps used by mortgage companies, banks, building and loans, insurance companies, and any other issuers of mortgages, in three colors. All the totally white areas had green lines around them, indicating that mortgages would be freely issued to their white residents as long as they personally qualified for the loans, especially military veterans of WWII and Korea. They also had access to their VA loans through the GI Bill benefits. So, they had government backing on their loans to start with. As long as they were white, of course.😒 African American veterans were not able to easily access this particular section of the Bill, until segregation in mortgaging was ruled illegal in the courts. Social pressures were still an issue, and still are in 2021, regarding approval of mortgage loans to POC.
The next "lined" group were the residences in somewhat less than desirable areas, with some mixed race residential areas, covering Asians, Hispanics, and African Americans in particular, or in more financially restricted areas, aka "poor whites." They had yellow lines around those areas. The possibility of getting mortgages issued in those areas was much less than equal to the green lined areas, and their homes were of lower quality.
The last group of course were in the African American, Asian, Hispanic neighborhoods, *in inner city areas,* and declining older ex-white areas that had been abandoned by "White Flight" during the build up of White Suburbia, and these homes were in much less desirable condition, lacking severely in municipal services. These were of course the areas with the red lines around them, where there would be NO money spent to buy or even upgrade homes by the use of first (or second) mortgages. No mortgage lenders could or would write mortgages in those areas, or even to African American vets with the GI Bill benefits supposedly coming their way.
Or to African American veterans and their families to buy and live in any area which had "covenants" written into the sales agreements forbidding the sale of those residences to non-white buyers. All the famed Levittown suburban areas were among these groups. Their sales (or rental, in the early years of development) agreements had distinct covenants in them forbidding the sale, rental, or subleasing any of the homes to non-white buyers. In redlined districts, and districts with covenants forbidding sales to non-white buyers, even if a mortgage underwriter personally knew the laws were wrong, and wanted to write mortgage loans to them anyway, they couldn't if it involved any money from government sources or agencies, or even life insurance companies, who invested much of their capital in issuing or buying up blocks of mortgages as investments to buyers in "approved" areas; or those such as the FHA or VA - for GI loans - because those agencies refused to back the mortgages written under those conditions. So, unless the mortgage loans were privately backed by private funds, and there were practically none of those, no mortgages were forthcoming to non-white buyers. Until the lawyers and the lawsuits inevitably began being filed, and the courts ruled such covenants were unconstitutional and illegal, and could not be enforced. Of course, this did not change the "hearts and minds" of confirmed racists, it only made them more determined to continue doing it, just under different circumstances, with other "reasons," excuses, or rules they made up themselves for not providing housing to those who did not look like them.
(See "Trump and family" and how they continued those policies even [before and] after Trump, Sr passed away. He was one of the worst offenders.)
There is a very socially explicit movie made in the 1950's, with a very good - almost All Star - cast, called "No Down Payment." It's available here on UA-cam, and is quite an eye opener for the times. Movies of the times were beginning to give platforms to those producers, writers, and even directors, who had something important to say to the rapidly changing society of the post war 1950s. Especially to those who had taken up residence in the new cradle of the Baby Boomers, the new Suburbia. This movie lands right smack into the soft underbelly of racism, discrimination in housing and how it directly affects everyone; in education, in financial circumstances, in where people come from. And it directly exposes the world of misogyny, rape, alcoholism, marriage instability, religion in the changing world, and so on. It's a really good way to crack open the myth of the "Father8 Knows Best" and "Leave It to Beaver" type of society that too many people still think existed at that time, and insist it's the kind of world we "should go back to" today! It never existed. Except on TV and in contemporary mythology. Check the movie out. It's much more accurate at portraying real life than most people would think. I know - I lived in it.
SF before it became a glorious revolutionary humanist socialist people's paradise.
The last thing they are is socialists
Park anywhere and no meters. I'll bet people then were layback, less stressed and nicer too. Part of San Francisco now looked like a third world country.
That's what i call a socialist paradise
Bring it on!
@Sully Sullivan It's still a great city in spite of what the news says.
That's what you got out of this film?