Woolworth celebrated its centennial. "Wonder Woman," was in its third and final season. "Charlie's Angels," was in its third season. "The Dukes of Hazzard," was in its first season. I was an 8-year-old girl. Wow! What a time!
As a San Francisco native growing up in the 70s, I can attest that this was the last great decade for San Francisco. When the 80s hit, so did homelessness and other urban ills that would also impact other cities too. But in the 70s, life was very affordable and a lot less crowded. Trips to Lake Tahoe were easy ad no reservations required at Muir Woods. Driving across the Golden Gate bridge was pretty much a breeze at any time of day and/or evening. Population of California was a little over 20million at the time and the state still felt like it wasn't overflowing with people. San Francisco was a special place back then. It certainly feels a lot less special now. And I still live here.
Amazing, that I will move to this beautiful city in inner Richmond in 1985 till now ..it’s. 20121 this has become my hometown coming from a south East Asian country..so many change have happened since I’ve arrived here ..just a wonderful city to call home !!!
This is amazing. I own a 1979 Chevy Monte Carlo, all original. At 4:58 there is a brand new one driving down Lombard Street. I guess UA-cam is the closest to a time machine we will ever have. Thanks so much for uploading and greetings from Germany.
I was 19 during 1979 and San Francisco was an entirely different city than it is today. There were apartments that any waiter or sales clerk could afford, not to mention middle class families could still raise their kids there. There was a lively arts and music scene because there were spaces for them to practice and create. The Castro was cheap enough that it could become a safe haven for gays from all over the country. Basically there was room for anyone who wanted to live in The City. Now, thanks to tech money and rich overseas Chinese its become a sterile wasteland of the wealthy. Such a shame.
my pops was a dish washer then became a carpenter for 30 years bought 3 propertys in oakland we have 2 still .. now you have to work for mark suckerberg to share a apt in s.f. and looks like youll never get around to owning a piece of the pie.very sad
For decades, property owners have voted against development. They don’t want an apartment building on their block of single-family homes. They don’t want the noise or extra traffic. They don’t want their property values to go down. They have created a city where a one-bedroom apartment is $3,000/month, a modest home is a couple million dollars, and poor people are living in vehicles or on the streets. Then they complain their kids and grandkids can’t afford to live here and throw a fit about people sleeping in doorways. Not realizing they are partly to blame. Basically the problem is greed and selfishness.
As of February 2024, just 45 years to this day SAN FRANCISCO is never the same again as it was before. Society has changed, police security have changed, housing prices have changed, technology has changed and crime rates have changed for the worst of San Francisco! From 1979 to 2024 it’s a whole new world of serious problems in the 21st century!
Such a great place to live then. I was in the Richmond District. Could walk or ride bike to Golden Gate Park, Baker and China Beaches. 1 Cal X took me to work for I think 15 bucks a monthly Fast Pass. There were some dodgy areas - Tenderloin and Hunter's Point - but for the most part there was no place in the City you were scared to walk around.
We moved to SF in 1968 went to Marina Jr high then Lowell high went on to city college. Grew up in the era of the Disco, American muscle cars, night cruising/racing, beautiful 60 70s music, no traffic congestion, no cell phones only pagers, affordable housing, hate to say it the techies and cash paying Chinese really ruined the housing market. Is this progress or regress? We raised 3 kids and now have 7 grandct my wife and I always talk about those days... truly the Good old Days! We live outside SF we rarely go into the city I don't like to spend my money there for the liberals in the city hall. I truly missed those days!
Housing market was ruined by property owners who have consistently voted against development. No one wants a huge apartment building to go up on their block. They don’t want the property values to go down or the “character” of their neighborhood to change. It is a supply and demand issue. A lot of people want to live here but housing is scarce. Most of the homes and apartments are very old; San Francisco has not built new housing in decades. So now a one-bedroom apartment is $3,000 a month and a very modest home is a couple million dollars. You see people living in vehicles down by Lake Merced and on Fulton. Many of those people, I am told, have jobs, but do not make enough to afford a roof over their heads. It is a sad situation but the voters are to blame. It boils down to greed and selfishness. Everyone expects the government to magically solve this problem but no one is willing to compromise.
For every image, every location in this vid I have a story or 10! Started professional driving in The City in 1966, retired 3 years ago with over 2 million miles in the streets. I left a lot of people with stories about their ride in my taxi Was a great place, now, techies, Uber/Lyft and junkies. Can't afford anything, can't drive because of all the fucking amateurs, can't walk, bums crapping on the streets. Really sad...
Good guess... I'm going with either Charlie Shoemake or Buddy Montgomery. [Self Edit] I checked... It's Joe Locke performing "All Of You" I've heard of him, but not familiar with his sound.
WAS 27 then".. Grew up in DALY City.. Now I'm 67. In july... My passion was music... Our band played on the Red and White fleet ... Still jamming "..now I play For the LORD!... IN ATWATER .ca. Fun fun fun"! My life has purpose" Please read JOHN 3:16 1COR15V1-4.. I LOVE THE LORD".. GOD! LOVES YOU!!🤗
...I used to work for Dirk Dirksen as a stage bouncer at the "Rock on Broadway", upstairs above "The Fab Mab" (the Mabuhay Gardens)... ...I saw the Dead Kennedys many a time, along with other popular local bands (Flipper, the Lewd, Fifth Column, the Black Dolls, Rank and File, to name a few)... ...I remember going down to Pacific and Battery street after working the shows to a late night club in the basement of Madame Bali's restaurant called Earl's (I would flirt with a bartender there who was from England, her name was Kay, -and then chill out in thier upstairs video lounge)... ... anybody else out there remember when the SF punk rock scene was featured and lampooned in a story in the underground comic "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers", or when Jello Biafra ran for Mayor of San Francisco?... ... also... -Alex Bennett and Joe Regelski on the radio in the mornings? (KMEL and then "the Quake")... ... remember a juggler on Pier 39 named "the Butterfly Man" with that butterfly tattoo on the top of his head?... ...how about a Hungarian restaurant in Ghirardelli Square called the Paprikash Fono?... TV
San Francisco at the time was so great, very creative, super cheap, basicially a non-stop party at the time. That all came to a crashing halt after Raygunomics and trickle down economics kicked in, real estate speculation etc.
5:22 Invasion of the Body Snatchers of all movies, on the marquee... set in SF, where the emotionless alien replicants suck all the life and character out of the city.
Still a few places in SF kept at least some magic, to my opinion. But of course you are right saying the good old times are definitely gone. Somehow every generation seems to think that way, so I am wondering when the real magic did happen...
@@dday9257 Uh...dont think u were there then and probably never. Seems like the people who complain the most abt anyplace in california are people who have never been there
I recently visited San Francisco a second time since 1985. I was saddened but the drastic changes that has happened to this once beautiful city. It is no where near what fun you use to have...it can change at the voter box though..
Ths seventies were the last decade in which San Francisco could remotely be called "normal." Once the eighties hit it went down down down until it has become a cesspool. The middle class is gone. Just the billionaires and multi billionaires living in their mansions in Pacific and Presidio Heights and the rest of the city, where to begin? An overpriced drug infested hell hole with an empty downtown, all the upscale stores have abandoned the Union Square where shootings and muggings are now a regular occurrence. The Dot Com boom came and went and the tech boom came and went and now the AI boom will come and go. Just to take one example. Musk destroyed Twitter, bailed on San Francisco (good riddance) and is now the honorary co-President of the United States.
We're content to leave you to your cesspool opinion in the dregs of the UA-cam comment section. This Super8 footage is pretty murky and discolored in a palette that brings back memories of the polluted air over the SF Bay back in the 70's. It was hell driving in SF during the 70's gas crisis when cars were backed up a dozen blocks waiting to squeeze into one of the few miserable gas stations. BART was still very limited, and we had to wait for the 21st Century for it to reach all the way to the airport. You're right about the empty downtown - Market St is shuttered with abandoned storefronts, but it's not because of drugs, muggings, or the homeless, it was a couple of juggernauts called Amazon and the global pandemic.
Bates Bates uh, you were there during the summer of love and through the times of sex, drugs, rock and roll, violence, kidnappings, assassinations of the Mayor, Jim Jones massacres, Zodiac Killer, the Night Straggler, Patty Hearst, SLA terrorists, and you say it’s sinful now? You must have been high through the ‘70s! 😂😂😂
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Woolworth celebrated its centennial. "Wonder Woman," was in its third and final season. "Charlie's Angels," was in its third season. "The Dukes of Hazzard," was in its first season. I was an 8-year-old girl. Wow! What a time!
As a San Francisco native growing up in the 70s, I can attest that this was the last great decade for San Francisco. When the 80s hit, so did homelessness and other urban ills that would also impact other cities too. But in the 70s, life was very affordable and a lot less crowded. Trips to Lake Tahoe were easy ad no reservations required at Muir Woods. Driving across the Golden Gate bridge was pretty much a breeze at any time of day and/or evening. Population of California was a little over 20million at the time and the state still felt like it wasn't overflowing with people. San Francisco was a special place back then. It certainly feels a lot less special now. And I still live here.
Same here, Lord Greystoke, SF native, still here. I was born in the early 60s.
Amazing, that I will move to this beautiful city in inner Richmond in 1985 till now ..it’s. 20121 this has become my hometown coming from a south East Asian country..so many change have happened since I’ve arrived here ..just a wonderful city to call home !!!
super 8 potato vision quality.... still brings back fond memories- I sure wish I could go back and hug my lost loved ones.
This is amazing. I own a 1979 Chevy Monte Carlo, all original. At 4:58 there is a brand new one driving down Lombard Street. I guess UA-cam is the closest to a time machine we will ever have. Thanks so much for uploading and greetings from Germany.
That car might have been a 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo- It looked almost identical to the 1979 Monte Carlo.
I was 19 during 1979 and San Francisco was an entirely different city than it is today. There were apartments that any waiter or sales clerk could afford, not to mention middle class families could still raise their kids there. There was a lively arts and music scene because there were spaces for them to practice and create. The Castro was cheap enough that it could become a safe haven for gays from all over the country. Basically there was room for anyone who wanted to live in The City. Now, thanks to tech money and rich overseas Chinese its become a sterile wasteland of the wealthy. Such a shame.
...I wouldn't say sterile...
...there are to many used needles and homeless drug addicts littering the streets nowadays...
That’s was because 1979 was before Silicon Valley.
my pops was a dish washer then became a carpenter for 30 years bought 3 propertys in oakland we have 2 still .. now you have to work for mark suckerberg to share a apt in s.f. and looks like youll never get around to owning a piece of the pie.very sad
For decades, property owners have voted against development. They don’t want an apartment building on their block of single-family homes. They don’t want the noise or extra traffic. They don’t want their property values to go down.
They have created a city where a one-bedroom apartment is $3,000/month, a modest home is a couple million dollars, and poor people are living in vehicles or on the streets.
Then they complain their kids and grandkids can’t afford to live here and throw a fit about people sleeping in doorways. Not realizing they are partly to blame.
Basically the problem is greed and selfishness.
It’s still a great city kids!
I can't remember a better time and place. Perfect musical accompaniment to video!
I really enjoy these vintage videos because it lets my mind escape from todays terrible times.
Thanks for posting. I was there back then. It is great to see how we lived. Thank You
What were the median rents on a 1 bedroom apartment in in San Francisco in 1979?
I remember 1979 in San Francisco and it was a way better city then today in 2018
Yes it was!!! Not anymore though, so sad.
As of February 2024, just 45 years to this day SAN FRANCISCO is never the same again as it was before. Society has changed, police security have changed, housing prices have changed, technology has changed and crime rates have changed for the worst of San Francisco! From 1979 to 2024 it’s a whole new world of serious problems in the 21st century!
Everything that you've stated is total facts and it's really sad. I was born in 1969 and I've never seen sader times before.
Such a great place to live then. I was in the Richmond District. Could walk or ride bike to Golden Gate Park, Baker and China Beaches. 1 Cal X took me to work for I think 15 bucks a monthly Fast Pass. There were some dodgy areas - Tenderloin and Hunter's Point - but for the most part there was no place in the City you were scared to walk around.
This is heartwarming! Especially when if you have lived here for all of these decades.
I'll be in the city this week. I always look forward to it. It's my favorite city in the world.
Brings back memories of SF in 1979. thxs. ☺
Such awesome footage ! Thanks 🙏🏽 it brought me baaaaack ! Also lovely jazzz
We moved to SF in 1968 went to Marina Jr high then Lowell high went on to city college. Grew up in the era of the Disco, American muscle cars, night cruising/racing, beautiful 60 70s music, no traffic congestion, no cell phones only pagers, affordable housing, hate to say it the techies and cash paying Chinese really ruined the housing market. Is this progress or regress? We raised 3 kids and now have 7 grandct my wife and I always talk about those days... truly the Good old Days! We live outside SF we rarely go into the city I don't like to spend my money there for the liberals in the city hall. I truly missed those days!
Chester Au Yea but just think now you get to step in feces on the sidewalks.Aint that neat?
Housing market was ruined by property owners who have consistently voted against development. No one wants a huge apartment building to go up on their block. They don’t want the property values to go down or the “character” of their neighborhood to change.
It is a supply and demand issue. A lot of people want to live here but housing is scarce. Most of the homes and apartments are very old; San Francisco has not built new housing in decades.
So now a one-bedroom apartment is $3,000 a month and a very modest home is a couple million dollars. You see people living in vehicles down by Lake Merced and on Fulton. Many of those people, I am told, have jobs, but do not make enough to afford a roof over their heads.
It is a sad situation but the voters are to blame. It boils down to greed and selfishness. Everyone expects the government to magically solve this problem but no one is willing to compromise.
Gosh I remember that Greyline bus was always parked on Powell st in Union Square
Gosh I remember the Greyhound bus station on Mission and 7th !
Filled with prostitutes and drug dealers
@@PingPong-bv8ye Yeah I remember that too. 6th & 7th Street were always a seedy part of SF and also the civic center area
For every image, every location in this vid I have a story or 10! Started professional driving in The City in 1966, retired 3 years ago with over 2 million miles in the streets. I left a lot of people with stories about their ride in my taxi Was a great place, now, techies, Uber/Lyft and junkies. Can't afford anything, can't drive because of all the fucking amateurs, can't walk, bums crapping on the streets. Really sad...
Move if u dont like it
My first Communion was at Mission Dolores Church in 1969!!
My First Communion waa at Sts. Peter and Paul in 1969.
Even where we lived- near Mission Delores- where so many everyday people used to live...now all out of reach for 90 percent of the population 😔
brings back memories. I moved to the city in 1979.
Mee too,1985.
Great times in SF back then. Now it’s a joke!
My youth...how I wish I was back.
The year I moved from NYC to SF -- thanks for this.
Me, too.
My Hometown! Cool Video...also the year I graduated High School
Me too!!
Amazing footage,what a great time..
Extraño tanto San Francisco.
I was 8 back then. Remember riding bikes all over the city.
Wow Jerry Salazar the Magician!!!!
I expect Harry Callaghan to pop out at any moment.
Hilarious 😂
0:40 is this westbound, interstate 80, off Columbus parkway exit, Vallejo border?
Frisco; Born and Raised. Living in the 60s and 70s in The City was in HD. When I look at this video I feel old.
Born and raised here... and you call it "Frisco"... Jeez...
Calling San Francisco the F word is like calling a black person the N word.😊
Oh I remember..yes I do. Many thanks!
Very cool. Where is the Embarcadero freeway?
2:00 robin williams' house in sea cliff
Listed forsale 25 million!
The music was perfect. Cal Tjader perhaps?
Good guess...
I'm going with either Charlie Shoemake or Buddy Montgomery.
[Self Edit]
I checked...
It's Joe Locke performing "All Of You"
I've heard of him, but not familiar with his sound.
Where's the gridlock at?
Anybody have the Mission District?
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Very little did people know there was a local band calling themselves Dead Kennedys hanging out too lol
Used to see dead kennedys in concert in the 80's. w Jello Biafra, east bay ray...really good punk band. Fun to slam dance to their music
WAS 27 then"..
Grew up in DALY City..
Now I'm 67. In july...
My passion was music...
Our band played on the Red and White fleet ...
Still jamming "..now I play
For the LORD!...
IN ATWATER .ca.
Fun fun fun"!
My life has purpose"
Please read JOHN 3:16
1COR15V1-4..
I LOVE THE LORD"..
GOD! LOVES YOU!!🤗
...I used to work for Dirk Dirksen as a stage bouncer at the "Rock on Broadway", upstairs above
"The Fab Mab"
(the Mabuhay Gardens)...
...I saw the Dead Kennedys many a time, along with other popular local bands (Flipper, the Lewd, Fifth Column, the Black Dolls, Rank and File, to name a few)...
...I remember going down to Pacific and Battery street after working the shows to a late night club in the basement of Madame Bali's restaurant called Earl's
(I would flirt with a bartender there who was from England, her name was Kay, -and then chill out in thier upstairs video lounge)...
... anybody else out there remember when the SF punk rock scene was featured and lampooned in a story
in the underground comic
"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers", or when Jello Biafra ran for Mayor of San Francisco?...
... also...
-Alex Bennett and Joe Regelski on the radio in the mornings? (KMEL and then "the Quake")...
... remember a juggler on Pier 39 named "the Butterfly Man" with that butterfly tattoo on the top of his head?...
...how about a Hungarian restaurant in Ghirardelli Square called the Paprikash Fono?... TV
So well done, thanksgiving!
Good vibes.
good ole days
San Francisco at the time was so great, very creative, super cheap, basicially a non-stop party at the time. That all came to a crashing halt after Raygunomics and trickle down economics kicked in, real estate speculation etc.
...you can also blame Diane Feinstein for the "Manhattanization" of downtown San Francisco...
Uhh you need to look at your local elected politicians, Regan had nothing to do with San Fran, duh
5:22 Invasion of the Body Snatchers of all movies, on the marquee... set in SF, where the emotionless alien replicants suck all the life and character out of the city.
@@miklosernoehazy8678= CORPORATE STONEHENGE !!!
Voters like this guy are why this once beautiful city has become a s-hole.
Thanks a lot for your videos but the sea kinda looks the same today.
It WAS a magical place .
Still a few places in SF kept at least some magic, to my opinion. But of course you are right saying the good old times are definitely gone. Somehow every generation seems to think that way, so I am wondering when the real magic did happen...
Looks like 1959!
Ahhh muscle cars a cold Budweiser and cruising with Steve Perry and Journey on the radio
Don Dressel Yea but you missed stepping in feces on the sidewalks back then.
@@dday9257 Uh...dont think u were there then and probably never. Seems like the people who complain the most abt anyplace in california are people who have never been there
This eas not that long ago 😮🛑
c est amusant de voire que les images de 1930 ou 40 sont de meilleur qualité que celles de 1970 ou 80
😁🤙
can you remove the vintage filter ;) just kidding, thanks
I recently visited San Francisco a second time since 1985. I was saddened but the drastic changes that has happened to this once beautiful city. It is no where near what fun you use to have...it can change at the voter box though..
That got rid of that communist D.A. recently . That's a start
@@josephshulman4330 yeah ............and chase a boudinee
Funny how SF went bad after Reagan, the same president that ruined everything else in the country
^ we’ll at least now you can take comfort in trump…
I wuz there
Ths seventies were the last decade in which San Francisco could remotely be called "normal." Once the eighties hit it went down down down until it has become a cesspool. The middle class is gone. Just the billionaires and multi billionaires living in their mansions in Pacific and Presidio Heights and the rest of the city, where to begin? An overpriced drug infested hell hole with an empty downtown, all the upscale stores have abandoned the Union Square where shootings and muggings are now a regular occurrence. The Dot Com boom came and went and the tech boom came and went and now the AI boom will come and go. Just to take one example. Musk destroyed Twitter, bailed on San Francisco (good riddance) and is now the honorary co-President of the United States.
We're content to leave you to your cesspool opinion in the dregs of the UA-cam comment section. This Super8 footage is pretty murky and discolored in a palette that brings back memories of the polluted air over the SF Bay back in the 70's. It was hell driving in SF during the 70's gas crisis when cars were backed up a dozen blocks waiting to squeeze into one of the few miserable gas stations. BART was still very limited, and we had to wait for the 21st Century for it to reach all the way to the airport. You're right about the empty downtown - Market St is shuttered with abandoned storefronts, but it's not because of drugs, muggings, or the homeless, it was a couple of juggernauts called Amazon and the global pandemic.
LOL, this video looks like made in 1920's
I lived in marin county near SF between 1967-1979 but i will never live their anymore its to sinful and liberal now
Bates Bates uh, you were there during the summer of love and through the times of sex, drugs, rock and roll, violence, kidnappings, assassinations of the Mayor, Jim Jones massacres, Zodiac Killer, the Night Straggler, Patty Hearst, SLA terrorists, and you say it’s sinful now? You must have been high through the ‘70s! 😂😂😂
@@traveldoc1234 either high or full of bs
Oh yeah, Im sure. Marin is $$$ and REpublican country. 70s it was affordable. Now its right wing, not like people seem to think of the bay area
*too *there *it’s
Back went straight white men ran San Francisco
stfu Nazi. SF has always been a progressive city.
So you're only here to be a troll. Got it. Move along.
Diane Feinstein was serving as the interim mayor in 1979.
Not sure how many times she was reelected.