I would like to see those thugs in San Francisco that walk into stores grab what they want, and walk out try that in 1906. Other than that, 2024. Do you know how boring it was in 1906 compared to 2024. Visit for an hour is ok, but I wouldn't want to stay there.
The kid waving to us at 9:00 had no idea he'd be waving to thousands of people over a hundred years in the future, and many more to come. Fascinating. I wonder where his path in life took him.
What makes this even more fascinating is that this was filmed just two days before the April 18th 1906 San Francisco earthquake. One of the deadliest events in United States history. Over 80% of the city was destroyed, fires raged throughout the city, and more than 3,000 people died as a result of that earthquake. This isn't only the oldest video of this kind, but it captures images of the city and structures than would soon be gone forever.
I was wondering what happened to some of those older buildings. They would be so charming and added character to America like the building in the UK do. Also, what you said sent chills down my spin. Some of the people in this video may have died 2 days later and this was their moment to be immortalized. That guy at the end seemed like a dude from our time just hands in the air at the sight of the camera like, “Look at me!” We’re all a blink in time.
@@114D It's really crazy to think about all of that. Also crazy if you think about how much changes in just a 100 years. What we see in this video looks so old and outdated to us, but they felt they were modern compared to life 100 years before them. Many people in this video were literally seeing a motion picture camera for the first time in their life, in person. That's why you see some people looking at the train car the way they are. At 5:11 for example. It's weird because I look at this video and one of the things I think is, it would be so cool to be there in person and look at all of that history. Then to realize that 100+ years from today, people will watch our videos and think similar things. Like you said, we're all a blink in time. Life is a shooting star.
@@closinginonclosure your comment made me realize we’re also leap frogging through time when it comes to technology. That camera in the train seems like someone went back in time with it Terminator style and people are observing it for the first time. But where we are now as humanity vs 100 years ago technologically is astounding. Crucial discoveries and inventions that literally put us in the future. We have that ebb and flow in our historical timeline but we certainly have not peaked. The next decade will be interesting.
I had google street view up while watching this to see if any buildings still remain. The last building with the clock tower, Ferry Building, you can look at on google street view and see the same "Erected in 1896" sign shown in the video at the 11:15 minute mark.
I was about to say the same, until I saw you, Mr. Lincoln. As you travelled through time, into the year 2022, only to watch a video set back 100 years ago. Truly magnificent. Well played.
I'm fascinated by the eclectic mix of transportation. On one street you've got horse drawn buggies alongside automobiles, and these alongside electric trolleys and bicycles. It captures a very unique moment in time with the 19th century on the way out, but the 20th just being ushered in. It reminds me how in any era you can see those glimpses of "how it's always been" mixed with what is to come.
@@DylanRomanov imo it shouldn’t really matter too much, like Ik why it looks good ofc, but the bare basic security cameras should be better than this by now, but they don’t unfortunately
No rules of the road. Carriages, cars, horses, trolleys and people coming in from everywhere. Fun to watch. A 116 year old footage is the oldest thing I've seen.
This really helps to show what spawned the original "jay" walking ordinances/laws. A "jay" was known as a careless person. So a Jaywalker was someone who was carless as they walked through traffic. Thereby creating a danger to others.
Word is its is a fake scripted video. ' Come down and be in our reset movie. Bring your wagons , vehicles and dress to the nines.' Look closely, no one is going anywhere and everyone wants to be seen by the camera . Many look into the lens. A few days later a 'quake' leveled the city. ua-cam.com/video/G1Grm4d-UII/v-deo.html
My dad was four years old when this film was made. It was the world of his childhood, and he frequently talked of growing up in those days. He was a newsie around 1910, and would ride the streetcars selling his newspapers then help the conductor turn the car around on the turntable at the end of the line. Like so many kids back then, he became fascinated with locomotives and began hanging around the train station doing odd jobs, sweeping up, etc. He went to work for the Pennsylvania RR in 1920 and spent the next 44 years on locomotives during the golden age of steam, working his way up the ladder as a brakeman, fireman, engineer, and conductor. He lived until age 96 in 1998. He missed the turn of a century by two years on both ends of his life.
It makes you realize how short life is. Loved how people just drove any direction they wanted, a few horses running free, boys chasing cars and a girl with a bow in her hair. I was thinking about her fixing up for the day. A moment in time remembered and observed by strangers. This was interesting. Thanks for sharing.
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
@@mal-avcisi9783 probably not. In the description it says the colors were added in but are not necessarily accurate. I bet there was a lot of black though. Very simple. There was probably more white too than what is shown.
Those good people would be happy to know the traditions of not checking blind spots and cutting others off is still alive & well. Really grateful to see this colorized footage.
Pedestrians cut in front of the streetcar with impunity. Cars and horse-drawn carts veer in and out of traffic lanes and nobody seems to get bothered. That city is alive and this version makes you feel like a part of it. This is great time travel.
I was just about to same the same thing. People seem to be so free and chill. No uptight angry drivers shouting at each other or honking or revving their engines aggressively. People are freely crossing the busy road flitering through traffic, and drivers/riders are stopping for them. One guy even ran up to one of the horse wagons and jumped on it to help himself to a lift lol. I love it.
Not one angry person we have gone the wrong direction with our society. It seems the more technologically advanced we get the more we lose our ability to act rational.
WOW! Was that ever one of the most AWESOME videos I've ever seen! THANK YOU SO MUCH for restoring and posting this incredible ancient film record. Beyond the memories of having lived in San Francisco from 1967-75, this was awesome on so many levels. First and foremost, I was amazed by how MELLOW ("bomb-proof") all the horses were to the "motor-cars" that continually weaved in and out of traffic, ignoring what we would today consider common rules of the road, though much the way they do in Boston today. Until 2020 we had two horses, and one of them would have handled this fine, though the second would have been a little spooked by it all. Overall, it really kind of sad to think that all of the people in this lengthy record, and all the horses as well, have long departed this plane of existence.
This footage was taken a few days before the 1906 Earthquake that devastated this area. Filmed by the Miles Brothers. They came back after the earthquake and filmed again. Shocking loss. This footage was found in a flea market in 2017 according to a news story on PBS NewsHour.
@@frankmarsh1159 good observation, not sure. plastic was made (or patented) around 1907 from what I've read a moment ago (checked online for this). maybe a 'different' type of plastic was available in 1906 but maybe of cheaper quality or only usable for specific things like making tarps... dunno, not sure what to think of this.
It's amazing how many early motor cars there were in 1906. San Francisco was wealthy and affluent. The shadows demonstrate that it was filmed around noon, and the precise movement of the camera to the street car tracks indicate it was mounted on a street car. Certainly a slower pace but definitely a bustling city.
My grandpa would have been 10 years old, he was in WW1 and lived to be 97, it was a great honor to have him into my 20’s. Thank you for showing this old clip.
It's crazy to realize that 4 days after this shot was taken, at 5:12 am on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, one of the biggest earthquakes to ever hit Northern California of a magnitude of 7.9 hit and caused the Great San Francisco fire!
And then 4 days later all those homeless some weirdo was praising 1907 for not showing would make today seem rather meager in terms of homelessness. And few were as non-caring as such people now are.
Well the chaos was kinda staged. You can see license plate 4867 appeared multiple times in the film: 0:17, 1:31, 2:33, 3:41, 5:24, 9:28, plus a few occassions that same kind of car(s) drove across the camera. Same case for a few kinds of cars.
My great grandfather, whom I had a relationship with, when I was a kid… Was a child during this era. He was born in the 1890’s. He told me that he saw 3 major milestones. The invention of the car, the plane and men landing on the moon in his life time. Can you imagine? Wow.
Yours is the first comment I read that talks about our ancestors just while I was thinking about my grandmother who lived many years in San Francisco but not quite born yet. I wonder if she ever saw this film, but I'll bet she never saw it in color with sound (passed away in the early 90s, so before UA-cam or the Internet was a thing.) I wish she had, though. It's remarkable. Yet, I've seen at least 3 major milestones like your great grandfather, starting with the moon landing, then personal computers, and now the Internet with sites like this and smart phone connections to everything (I predicted them but so did many others). I guess you could say smart phones are also a major milestone, maybe? Then there's that helicopter on Mars, but don't get me started, lol. That's getting to be old news now too! Edit: Funny, but I couldn't edit this until a day later because I couldn't find the comment and thought it was glitched off the site, which is strange because that never happened to me before. Oh, well. Anyway, I wanted to add some fun facts and another milestone. I'll start with the latter. I think that's the JWST. If you know what that is, then terrific! If not, simply use another milestone I mentioned to find out! lol. Now for a fun fact: If you think the Golden Gate Bridge is a milestone, which I sort of do, then you might know that they had a contest and election to celebrate its grand opening with a "Fiesta" queen. To make a long story short, my grandmother's sister was elected queen. I've seen pictures of her in a book about the bridge showing herself in the queen's attire and crown, but I didn't know until yesterday on the official bridge website that there was some controversy about who actually won the election! Imagine that, in 1937, when President Roosevelt hit the switch to let cars pass over the bridge for the first time, an election controversy was reported in at least one of the newspapers. Fast forward to 2020, anyone? lol.
@@abeautifuldayful , that’s fascinating. You have to keep records of these things, because each person who dies is a book, and each generation is an entire library. We need to know the past in order to progress.
@@truvelocity Yes, you're right. I do have a record of sorts, a photocopy of the chapter in the book showing my relative at that time and picture(s). I'd have to go through some boxes to find it, but I have it! I don't have the book, though, which is all about the Golden Gate Bridge, written decades ago. I read the whole book once many years ago and found it poorly written, lol. I guess that's why I didn't try to get a book copy for something I only wanted the interesting chapter. Btw, the picture I recall best shows her perched on a huge propeller of a plane in her queen attire, very glamorous looking! The website says she was 19 yo, married someone later named Brady, had 8 kids, and died in 1985. I recall my grandma talking about her older sister fondly, but I never met her. I don't think I ever saw them together, and I don't know why. Suddenly, I'm getting more curious all these years later! Thanks for your interest. People are fascinating sometimes, huh?
My grandpa Mike Olah came over from Romania about 1910- - he was born about 1895. He prided himself on buying new cars as often as possible. RIP the progenitor of the family.
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Seeing these videos restored makes it feel so much more real and like it wasn’t really that long ago - which it really wasn’t. 100+ years in history is just a speck of time, it makes you realize how short your life is and how little time you have to do anything special! When I’d see videos like this as a kid, all black and white, like 3fps, it made it feel so ancient to me that I couldn’t even fathom it existing. It’s surreal seeing these videos restored!
@@ToyotaGuy1971 Well, maybe because, for those of us over 60 (and even more vividly for those who are 80+), very many of these people were still alive well into the years we were old enough to know them and remember them personally. The kids scattered in this video were only 65 to 75 when I was 10 in the late 1960s. Some of the young adults seen here were still only 80 or so when I was 10. They aren’t just historical ciphers to us; we actually knew people who lived in this time. People 80 years old today could have known people 40 years old in this video, and, of course, everybody younger than that. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to believe... Just sayin’
@@magisterium100 So being old enough to remember these people makes it harder to believe that after that much time has passed; that people that were living back then are dead? That makes no sense.
I love how much of a free for all it was on the roads back then. Horses and buggies, cars, cars weaving in and out, cars cutting off horses, people just walking right across the road. You can tell that cars were absolutely a new novelty at the time (and they look so flimsy too with the way they move!)
As a current resident of San Francisco, but a Los Angeles native, it is insane to me that I am looking at the Ferry building from over a hundred years into the past. As a Millennial, I am so grateful we have these records. They are valuable beyond belief.
@@TenAngryCats just to point out that history is important. Many think the young don't care for the past, and I wanted to come here to say that we do, and we also value the lessons. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, and I wanted to reassure anyone older that we are in fact, paying attention. Relax, no one is coming for your guns.
@@markussabogabriel5846 yes! Did you know that much of the Marina District is built on artificial fill ? Many of the buildings suffered liquefaction, during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, but managed to survive and are maintained and refurbished to this day!
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
@@mal-avcisi9783 you have to take into account it’s 1906. Colored photos let alone videos doesn’t exist in this period. What little color you can see in this is clearly edited into.
The craziest part about this is, they're all gone! Everyone in this video, is gone!!! Only if the camera operator knew how long this footage would last and what it would mean now. Awesome
Does it amaze you that this city is clearly very old , with old buildings and Roman style masonry , yet we are told it was only a small village of 1000 people until 1849 , that's not only amazing, but impossible 😉
My nana says people were generally stinkier back in the day for several reasons (lack of ac, wooly clothing, deodorant technology, etc.) HOWEVER she says she prefers it because the coloreds were polite.
Most of the street scene videos on this channel were used for movies and TV. Film was very expensive back then and it wouldn't have been used for no reason. So a lot of these people if not all of them are probably just extras.
3 days after this most of the people you see where killed in a earthquake there is another film that does this trip a week later and all the buildings are gone except the last one the station
I bike through this area almost every week. To see some of the buildings still with the same characteristics today makes you appreciate this moment in time. Incredible video.
It's really astonishing how remastering this in color, and with a higher framerate, completely changes the perception of the scenes filmed. Restored footage like this brings us much more emotionally closer to the past. While before you had to consciously bridge that gap, now it's utterly effortless. This could have been filmed an hour ago.
As a student of history what always fascinates me about stuff like this is think...every single person alive in that thriving city at the time is no longer with us. We are witness to an echo of the past...people living their lives much as we do and yet now no longer with us. Hauntingly beautiful.
Yes! This is truly beautiful! There is so much more for you to study though. So much "proof" in this clip. if people could just WAKE UP & OPEN THEIR EYES! There is a reason why this "movie" was made originally...skyscrapers & horse buggies lol...a major earthquake four days later (man made)...the "one" was added to the year 896 on the building after the fact....Study "Tartaria". Study "Hidden His-story of Man and the Deep State". We are slowly, but surely, waking up. Welcome to the Show;)
Thank you very much. I am a Hungarian. My grandfather's older brothers went to San Francisco around this time. We still have letters from them. They write about the city exactly the same like goes on this video. Such a nice thing to see that city now. Amazingly incredible for me.
The person making this video did not know this was the exact time in history when horse moving humanity and motor car moving was at the same time and motor car had to win. Also, it all was so slow, no traffic signal was needed. IMO, this video is an awesome time in history, and we all are privilege to see it. Thanks to the man that pushed record then, at that time, that was only just part of his normal day.
Unbelievable, my grandmother was born in San Francisco and was living in the city on the day this was filmed, the earthquake destroyed her family dwelling and her family moved to New Orleans were she met my grandfather and raised my mother. She was 5 years old on this day. Thank you for this window into our past. just spectacular.
Yes, my grandmother was also born in S.F. in 1906. The family moved to Oakland, as my great grandpa was a dentist and needed to support his new family. I am surprised by the number of automobiles.
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
At 4:40, the people to the right are staring into the future and don't even know it. I'm sitting behind this screen staring back into the past. Fascinating!
Feels like a virtual time machine. It’s as close as it gets to actually being there. No matter how well your imagination can fill the void or how well Hollywood sets can recreate 1906; nothing short of a real time machine or actually living through this era in time is going to match or surpass the energy, visuals and vibes you will feel in this well executed and digitally enhanced video.
Strangely compelling isnt it?...to see these people who lived and died decades ago..I wonder who these people were, did any of them have any idea of the upcoming earthquake and subsequent fire, that devastated San Francisco? Just think, the airplane was only 3 years old. Radio was about 14 yrs away, I wonder how many of the young men, would die in World War I? How many of THEIR sons would die in World War 2. How many, of the people seen here, would perish during the 1918 Spanish Flu?, Did any of these people have any idea as to the wonders and the horrors facing Americans, during the next few decades. What would I do, if I suddenly was transported back to San Francisco, in 1906? Conversely, what would happen, if any one of these people suddenly found themselves transported to the year 2022?
@@ojivey8273 …..It seems like that video does oddly stir reflections on life, death, wars, famine, pandemics, marriages, divorces, births, jobs…etc etc etc. That is all I was thinking as well … while those horse and buggies made their way down the street, the sounds of their hooves hitting the pavement was like a rhythmic trigger for deep thought and meditation on life. None of those people could foresee any of it just as we can’t foresee what the next 10, 25, 50 or 100 years holds for us here in 2022. It is nostalgic and poignant. Some day, long after you and I are dead and buried, our descendants will be reviewing videos of 2022 and marveling at how primitive and ancient we were while embarking on some highly technological task way beyond our comprehension or imagination and they will have the same thoughts and reflections on their own lives because despite the technological differences, the one standard we will all share and will always share in common is the human spirit.
Even with all those horses the streets were FAR cleaner than in 2022. Thanks liberals for ruining a once great city with your liberal utopia of diversity homelessness and drugs.
@@ojivey8273 War is a part of human history, theres no avoiding it. Whats more sad is how the city has devolved into a third world dump in 2022. That WAS avoidable but liberals lax crime laws, mass immigration and rampant homelessness have destroyed the once great city.
I really enjoy conversing with older people who had went through events that we read about in history. My Dad, born in 1920, a time when radio was in it's infancy. He passed away in 2009. He survived the great depression, WW2, the Atomic age, Civil Rights, and the Apollo 11 manned moon landing. He witnessed society at it's worst and society at its best, all in one lifetime, remarkable.
@@RaffleE46 it wasnt about speed it was about class. Having a car in that time not only showed off your wallet but they were 9/10 “refined” men or women driving them.
This is just increadible. Absolutely stunning... speechless. Just to think every one in this Video is gone. Including the camera man. This is time travelling right here. It is crazy how far we have come. Not in a billion years would anyone think then I would be watching this through a phone via internet on a app called UA-cam. Absolutely just incredible. This is going in my top 50 best UA-cam videos of all time playlist. Absolutely remarkable mate well done.. Don't take things for granted Have as much time as you can with family Meet friends Be social
In 100 years time everyone pretty much in 2022 will be gone too, everything is relative, I don't think people in 2122 will be taking pity on us though, as God only knows what state the planet will be in by then.
Yes I think of that too...all these people are no longer here. They didn't have much back then but the city looks cleaner than it does now that's for sure.
I’m always in awe when I see the sun shining in old film clips and think “wow, the sunlight that shines down on us today is from the same sun.” I know that sounds silly, but it just amazes me.
It’s not silly…it’s actually quite philosophical and an interesting perspective. I too think stuff like that sometimes and it fascinates me. The past seems quite unreal sometimes and to think someday we are gonna be ancient too and a new generation of people will watch our videos 😬
Exactly. And the fact that every single person in this video has walked through their life and passed makes me kind of sad and starting thinking the scene in a hundred years people watching our nowadays videos.
This is a handful of years before the horse became truly obsolete. It’s a shame, because there really wasn’t smog yet, and I’ve read accounts of people saying how dirty and smelly the streets became once motorized cars were the standard.
The film was sent off on the evening of the day it was filmed, heading by the Trans-Continental railroad to New York, where it was processed. There were no processing labs on the West Coast at this time. That's the reason why the film exists today.
@@cryvsspy Hi, the finding of this "lost in time" film was reported widely at the time. The info was the film survived because it wasn't in SFO when the earthquake struck, because it was shipped off immediately to the East Coast. Judging by photos and early films showing the damage after the EQ, it's likely the unprocessed film would have been lost, possibly in the fires and early film was made of highly inflammable nitrate stock.
I've always been so fascinated with watching old videos from decades ago. This is by far the oldest, and best I've ever seen. What a treat to be able to experience this!
I saw one recently that I never knew Thomas Edison filmed from like 1911 or something and it was on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal going from Georgetown to Cumberland. What amazing footage and to see these people during the early part of the 20th century and how they lived. I lived in Maryland for almost 39 years and just moved to West Virginia so the canal is not that far away from here and I've always been fascinated by it. I love that place. I just love to go back in time. And I love how the movements are not all jerky and stuff like in some old films is the case.
LMFAO what are you talking about, OP? This video is FAKE… you say you like watching this stuff, but are you _actually_ watching??? Are you visually illiterate? Watch car with number 4867 on it; why is it going in the same path/loop over and over and over during this whole video? What is that? And there’s 30+ other things in this video that are completely ridiculous…
My grandfather, Jack Bell, was in visiting in SF from Canon City CO the day this was shot. He was a prospector, newspaper reporter and naturalist who had just made a major strike. After the earthquake, the newspaper reports noted that he hadn't been heard from and grandmother started collecting supplies to send to SF. He did get back safely. I'm overwhelmed at actually seeing the world he wrote about so vividly. Infinite thanks.
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
I spotted cable car numbers: 124, 125, 22, 204, 115, 172, 34, 211, 128, 213, 167 (?), 143, 171, 226, 157, 33, and 205. Undoubtedly, many of these are still in service. It would be cool to find and photograph them as they appear today.
I've seen this clip a number of times in various versions, and this is so far the best restoration. One thing I realized this time I hadn't realized before -- this was shot with a very long lens, practically a telephoto lens. As a result, distances are very compressed from what they really were. All of those near misses between vehicles and pedestrians, in reality had many feet or even half a city block between them. So while it looks somewhat terrifying to us in these images, it probably looked perfectly normal and safe to the people actually there. (Yea, they didn't have painted lines or rules of the road yet, other than "bigger vehicle gets the right of way". But if things are moving slowly enough, you don't really need them. Last I went to the mall there weren't lane markings and traffic cops inside making sure you walked on the right path. Things were moving about the same speed here.)
Electric forklifts that weigh tons on storage move without any rules with lots of people around as usual on warehouses... they move in few centimeters from your feet, and you have to pass them like every minute being on large storage... > looks somewhat terrifying Modern life 100x times more dangerous and terrifying.
It's fascinating to me seeing at that brief moment in time, when it all was crossing over, people walking, riding bicycles, horse drawn apparatus, cable cars and automobiles all in the same place at the same time.
and a 116 years from now the people of the time will look back at us just as we look at them. We think we are technically advanced - but so did they in 1906 SAN FRAN
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
My great grandparents lived in Palo Alto with their seven children. My grandfather was six at the time. The next day, the chimney in their house for fall on his bed during the earthquake, burying him in bricks. His brother and sisters to take him out. They put a big tent in the front yard and lived there, just in case their house caught fire. My great grandfather was interviewing for a job In Massachusetts; my great grandmother wrote and told him about the earthquake. Somehow that letter ended up in the Library of Congress, and I was able to read it a few years ago! This video means so much to me…
These candid images of life so long ago simply mesmerize me. The architecture, vehicles, horse drawn carts, the fashions, just absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for preserving and sharing these films!
I am curious if anyone else has noticed the few boys who keep photo bombing the film. Including the one boy who is seen early in a couple of different locations... who catching a ride on the back of a car, then returns at the very end and walks in front of the camera for the final frame. Children on this day were obviously in school as only a handful are seen...but not these boys, who seem to be working for the newspaper or some other ad handouts. Note also the small horse buggy towards the end with one of the earlier boys back in action...getting on film again...peeping out the back window as his black who is steering the buggy, turns his head to get on film...pacing just ahead of the camera, until they turn off on the last street.
As an SF local, it's crazy to see how much has changed and how much has remained the same. I can immediately recognize Market St, and the Ferry Building in the background. Not sure if it's the way it's shot, or maybe because of the earthquake, but it seems the street had a slight slope before (it's completely flat today - again, may just be the camera angle). Some interesting things I observed: @1:29 - That angelic statue to the left is Admission Day Monument, still there on Montgomery. Apparently erected in 1897... less than a decade old in the video! @3:18 - The cable car (now buses) took the same exact route, towards Haight & Stanyan! This is where Amoeba Music is today. I notice it says "Park" after "Stanyan" ... that's where Golden Gate Park intercepts the bus route. I wonder if the park was once named Stanyan Park? Because there is a Stanyan Park Hotel just a block away from the stop (apparently built in 1904!). @3:39 - Couldn't help but notice the 767 Market St sign to the right. That's now a boutique clothing store (St. John's). @5:34 - building to the left with the pediment, I think is where the Hyatt Hotel is now, based off the angled direction it is facing the street. Fun to compare on Google Maps (one of the light posts, though different now, matches up where it stands!). @8:20 - Castro & 26th St ... don't recall if this same direct bus route still exists. Think you might have to make a transfer today to get to that same cross street (I don't use the buses much anymore, so I could be wrong) @8:50 - Couldn't help but notice some cable cars with "Chutes" written on them. After some research, seems it was a huge amusement park in the Haight, apparently demolished around the 50s... just a neighborhood area now.
Thank you for taking the time to list your observations. I've only been blessed to visit SF twice, on week-long business trips, but I very much enjoyed the culture and "feel" while visiting. It seems unlikely I'll ever be able to visit again, so it ia especially nice to read your notes and revisit through your observations on this video.
C'mon, based on the architecture these great buildings are much older than that. SF was a cow town in 1848 Gold Rush days with barely 15,000 people living there, and you believe that in 50 years not just these sublime buildings sprung up, but think about the sewer systems, utilities and water it would take to make this happen. If you start working out the logistics, you'll find that it's an impossibility. Then there's the date on the building at the end of this vid. "Erected AD 896". Our history is a lie!
@@weffyj6427 SF was built very fast, faster than you understand. People had better work ethic them and they git jobs done quick. The buildings are old but not older than you thought. Alot came up in the 1870s and 1880s. However the main town came up in the late 1850s, most of it burned 🔥 down and was rebuilt.
This video was fascinating. One particular thing I noticed is that the drivers didn't seem to slow down or stop for pedestrians. They just expected them to get out of the way. There seemed to be no order or driving rules to follow, other than just try to avoid hitting something or someone. The drivers just drove wherever they wanted to, constantly swerving around vehicles and people. Sort of like controlled chaos. lol
Less than a month after this was taken on May 22, 1906 the US Patent office granted the Wright Brothers patent No.821,393 for a flying machine. I can't get enough of stuff like this. Its so immersive!
This really is fantastic footage. You have horse drawn carriages of various types along side new cars. All this with no lines in the road or crosswalks. Wow.
There is one cop crossing the street observing the camera like he’s thinking about a shakedown. Cops didn’t get paid for about a year onetime and nobody quit they got pay of a private type. I was a SF police officer and we had a bagman for the station . Traffic signs and crosswalks didn’t come into use until the late 1920’s but market street even now is a hazardous place for pedestrians.
All the kids at the very end of the video getting all excited just absolutely warms my heart. Little did they know we would be seeing their face again 116 years later.
If YOU had been one of those kids you'd probably be a bit excited too!!! After all, some strange looking person is driving down the main road in his shiny new Tesla Roadster while he live streams a video on his Samsung Note 14
My grandfather was nine years old when this was filmed and I was 25 years old when he died. He used to tell us stories when I was growing up about his childhood, but could never pictured it in my mind. This helps to bring perspective, especially now that I am also getting old.
@@TheAcenightcreeper It's very plausible that this man is telling the truth. If his grandfather sired his father at the age of 47 then his Dad would have been born in 1944, the same year as my Dad. I'm 44 years old now. The math is definitely not as far fetched as you think it is.
My grandmother was in SF on this day. She and her sister were travelling the west coast together after high school. They were on their way to LA when the quake hit. She told stories about the trip and I found her souvenirs from SF when I went through her things years later. So cool to link real images with stories! Decades later I grew up in SF riding the street cars up and down Market street before they went underground.
My great grandfather was a Captain in the fire department 🚒 during the eathquake and fire. I am a 4th generation native born San Franciscan. I used to ride the streetcar downtown and have pizza at the Woolworth counter in the 1960's.
I keep thinking about the cameraman who made this remarkable film. The motion picture camera of his time did not have motors, so that meant he had to operate the camera manually, turning a crank continuously the entire length of Market Street.
@@janecameron2668 -I was getting ready to comment on that detail about no electric motors. I took all this for granted & did not give hand cranks a second thought.
This is Market Street ending at the old Ferry Building that somehow survived the 1906 quake. Thanks for these fantastic videos that make the past so authentic.
This is fantastic! As someone pointed out, this footage was taken four days before the earthquake that devastated San Francisco. Every person we see on this video was profoundly effected and innocently going about their lives on the day someone stood on the end of a trolley and recorded life that 116 years later in 2022 I would watch on my iPad. Thanks for posting and the work that you did, changing black and white to color!! 🌹
In the same way many similar commercial buildings to these were destroyed in a similar earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand. 2010-2011 400 quakes. It looks like Christchurch in many ways and we did not expect those quakes either.
This is amazing. I only spotted about 25 potential triggers for road rage in this clip, cars cutting in front of horses etc. Everyone appears so chilled about it all.😀
Simply fascinating. My grandmother was 12 when this recording was made and died in 1982 when I was 14. incredible what technological development these people have seen in just one lifetime. from the horse-drawn carriage to the moon landing to the first simple home computer.
This restoration is amazing! It almost makes you think you're actually there, really really close! And it's dated to 1906, right before the Earthquake! This is a motion picture that must be preserved forever and ever. 🥰
You can tell just how astounding a video camera was back then just by the looks on the citizens faces as they see this giant piece of new technology. Truly amazing.
but the fact is ppl do exact the same reaction now when they see someone shooting outside. in this video not everyone overreacted n some waved or stared, that's same as us too lol
Amazing quality of film. I love the way some of the horse carriages seem to have a wheel width of 4 foot 8.1/2 inches to match the track width of the cable cars to get a smoother ride along the cobbled street! Cable cars on the inner tracks, horse cars on the outer tracks and one electric car crossing over the street at 4min 51sec. The erratic behaviour of the automobile drivers was a portent of things to come!
YES! The idea of matching wheel widths dates back at least as far as mining carts in the 17th/18th centuries. But of course there the tracks were laid to match wheel widths instead of the other way around. (*) Also this film's been digitized and cleaned up using AI which makes it a lot clearer than the original which was pretty rough-looking. (*) Being a railfan I've done some research on the claim that track widths date back to Roman times, but there doesn't appear to be a lot of primary-source info. Most of the documents quote other documents that point around in a big circle of citations.
I watched Biden shake hands with the air and it was good quality. That's pretty paranormal, unless he has dementia, in which case it makes total sense.
@Shawn Tipton The mantle of proof falls upon the person who claims something outside of what is normal. Nobody can say for sure that unicorns don't exist, that santa claus isn't real, that we don't live in a simulation, that your mother isn't a secret reptilian agent, or any other absurd statement. I do NOT have to prove to you that we DON'T live in a simulation, just like I do NOT have to prove time travel will not be invented. It is YOU who must prove it; otherwise, it remains reasonably false. Just like how in a court of law, we are innocent UNTIL proven guilty, not the other way around.
The mingling of people and horses and vehicles crisscrossing each other is a beautiful chaos that works but would break so many traffic violations today.
Marvelous footage. Thank you. This film had special interest to me in that 1906 was my father’s birth year. Our family was noted for having each generation rather “spread out”. My Dad’s mother, “Mother Nina”, was born in 1867. He didn’t have me, his son, until the age of 40. I am 75 years of age. So I was fortunate as a child to know “Mother Nina” since she didn’t die until 1962. She still had her father’s surgical kit that he used to perform amputations during the Civil War with the Confederate Army of Arkansas. So our country’s relatively short history has been driven home to me in a very personal way. Thank you again for this enhanced film footage.
I've always been fascinated with history. Sometimes it's hard to imagine what life was like back then. These videos are truly remarkable. Thank you for the good work you do.
I imagine it was quite amazing in many respects. Namely, the face to face interactions with humans you had to have. I really miss the world before handhelds sometimes. It also had it's major drawbacks. But that can be said for literally any place in time.
I think this was within a week before the earthquake. And the filmmakers came back after the earthquake, and re-shot the trip down market street, this time with the ruins of the city all around.
I am fascinated with this time period. I love to see their expressions when they see sometime with a camera. Life was more simple back then. This is truly a treasure.
Watching this kind of films makes me want to cry, I would like to travel back in time at least for one day to see it with my own eyes. I always wonder how the lives of all these people turned out, who they were, what they saw that we could not. Fascinating.
Wonderful production. I think the most moving aspect of this video is the fact that all of these people, including the little boy crossing the road, have all passed on. Videos capture time unlike anything else.
No matter how much has changed, the one constant is the Ferry Building at the end of the road, keeping this street recognizable to some degree. Market Street has changed a lot in nearly 120 years.
Hasn’t changed a bit? Cmon now, let’s get with it; SF was actually a great place in 1906….now it’s a liberal hell hole. The kid touching, child trafficking, the drugs, the corruption from your personal heroes like drunk nancy piglosi and her nephew gavin nuisance. San Francisco USED to be a premier destination…now it’s a place to specifically say no to. Hasn’t changed a bit 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@Deadbeatcow That's great. We aren't talking about Rome. Nor, do I care about your whataboutism. Ancient Rome isn't my yardstick for morality. Perhaps, that's why they are no longer around?! Lmao
Повозки, авто, лошади, трамваи, люди, все на одной дороге, без правил движения и без аварий. 😊 Как приятно видеть улыбающихся людей. Большой респект операторам ценных видео того времени. Была приятно удивлена, что их так чётко снимали или, возможно, восстановили. 😍👍👍
Strangely compelling isnt it?...to see these people who lived and died decades ago..I wonder who these people were, did any of them have any idea of the upcoming earthquake and subsequent fire, that devastated San Francisco? Just think, the airplane was only 3 years old. Radio was about 14 yrs away, I wonder how many of the young men, would die in World War I? How many of THEIR sons would die in World War 2. How many, of the people seen here, would perish during the 1918 Spanish Flu?, Did any of these people have any idea as to the wonders and the horrors facing Americans, during the next few decades. What would I do, if I suddenly was transported back to San Francisco, in 1906? Conversely, what would happen, if any one of these people suddenly found themselves transported to the year 2022?
![A Glimpse of San Francisco 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-AZvlypStEw/mqdefault.jpg)
Which is better: Life in 1900s or Life in 2024?? Which city would you like to live in in the 1900s??
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2024, exactly where I live right now. San Francisco.
I would like to see those thugs in San Francisco that walk into stores grab what they want, and walk out try that in 1906. Other than that, 2024. Do you know how boring it was in 1906 compared to 2024. Visit for an hour is ok, but I wouldn't want to stay there.
Хочу туда в 1900❤️
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The kid waving to us at 9:00 had no idea he'd be waving to thousands of people over a hundred years in the future, and many more to come. Fascinating. I wonder where his path in life took him.
@sebaswildboy 😳
Well his path in life ultimately led him to his demise.
He is watching himself from the past in another incarnation.
Will that kid still be alive in 2022?
Probably died in the earthquake that was about to hit.
What makes this even more fascinating is that this was filmed just two days before the April 18th 1906 San Francisco earthquake. One of the deadliest events in United States history. Over 80% of the city was destroyed, fires raged throughout the city, and more than 3,000 people died as a result of that earthquake.
This isn't only the oldest video of this kind, but it captures images of the city and structures than would soon be gone forever.
I was wondering what happened to some of those older buildings. They would be so charming and added character to America like the building in the UK do.
Also, what you said sent chills down my spin. Some of the people in this video may have died 2 days later and this was their moment to be immortalized.
That guy at the end seemed like a dude from our time just hands in the air at the sight of the camera like, “Look at me!”
We’re all a blink in time.
@@114D It's really crazy to think about all of that. Also crazy if you think about how much changes in just a 100 years. What we see in this video looks so old and outdated to us, but they felt they were modern compared to life 100 years before them. Many people in this video were literally seeing a motion picture camera for the first time in their life, in person. That's why you see some people looking at the train car the way they are. At 5:11 for example. It's weird because I look at this video and one of the things I think is, it would be so cool to be there in person and look at all of that history. Then to realize that 100+ years from today, people will watch our videos and think similar things. Like you said, we're all a blink in time. Life is a shooting star.
@@closinginonclosure your comment made me realize we’re also leap frogging through time when it comes to technology.
That camera in the train seems like someone went back in time with it Terminator style and people are observing it for the first time.
But where we are now as humanity vs 100 years ago technologically is astounding. Crucial discoveries and inventions that literally put us in the future.
We have that ebb and flow in our historical timeline but we certainly have not peaked.
The next decade will be interesting.
God knows how many people in this clip died or get severely injured. Just wish I could shout out to warn them through the screens lol
I had google street view up while watching this to see if any buildings still remain. The last building with the clock tower, Ferry Building, you can look at on google street view and see the same "Erected in 1896" sign shown in the video at the 11:15 minute mark.
This is, for me, the closest thing to time travel that we can get so far. Absolutely incredible
I was about to say the same, until I saw you, Mr. Lincoln. As you travelled through time, into the year 2022, only to watch a video set back 100 years ago. Truly magnificent. Well played.
Watch out for a guy named John Booth....
@@SpecialPenguinnn whos that
@@joebond545 John Wilkes Booth was the man who assassinated Lincoln.
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I'm fascinated by the eclectic mix of transportation. On one street you've got horse drawn buggies alongside automobiles, and these alongside electric trolleys and bicycles. It captures a very unique moment in time with the 19th century on the way out, but the 20th just being ushered in. It reminds me how in any era you can see those glimpses of "how it's always been" mixed with what is to come.
me to!!!
and at the same time what will soon be again
Elec vehicles late 1800s to early 1900s. Look it up.
We are kinda seeing this again. Between ICEs and EVs. I see EVs every day now.
Tbh, I see more E scooters and Ebikes than I do manual bicycles.
Notice that some of the trolleys run without wires or horses, so the rails are electrified or there is a conduit
Still better than most of the security cameras 116 years later.
It’s cause it’s originally shot on a film camera
@@DylanRomanov imo it shouldn’t really matter too much, like Ik why it looks good ofc, but the bare basic security cameras should be better than this by now, but they don’t unfortunately
Of course. Security cameras are cheap. This would've been a huge expenditure.
CCTVs shouldnt produce a 500 GB video feed in one night though thats why the quality is so meh.
analog does not have pixel ;)
Big respect to the people of that era who shot that footage for future generations.
They also built these cities for future generations that have since been destroyed, how does that make you feel?
@@Sky-qd2mf not very bright are you.....
Look at the person at 1:35 he gets hitted by the car, cameraman don’t care
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@@anubis4496i mean he’s right, urban renewal in the 50s was a disaster for cities and the communities within them
No rules of the road. Carriages, cars, horses, trolleys and people coming in from everywhere. Fun to watch. A 116 year old footage is the oldest thing I've seen.
Like a india or africa today...
"Hey, no jaywalking!"
You can find footage from 1890s on here. Pretty cool.
This really helps to show what spawned the original "jay" walking ordinances/laws. A "jay" was known as a careless person. So a Jaywalker was someone who was carless as they walked through traffic. Thereby creating a danger to others.
Word is its is a fake scripted video. ' Come down and be in our reset movie. Bring your wagons , vehicles and dress to the nines.'
Look closely, no one is going anywhere and everyone wants to be seen by the camera . Many look into the lens. A few days later a 'quake' leveled the city. ua-cam.com/video/G1Grm4d-UII/v-deo.html
My dad was four years old when this film was made. It was the world of his childhood, and he frequently talked of growing up in those days. He was a newsie around 1910, and would ride the streetcars selling his newspapers then help the conductor turn the car around on the turntable at the end of the line. Like so many kids back then, he became fascinated with locomotives and began hanging around the train station doing odd jobs, sweeping up, etc. He went to work for the Pennsylvania RR in 1920 and spent the next 44 years on locomotives during the golden age of steam, working his way up the ladder as a brakeman, fireman, engineer, and conductor.
He lived until age 96 in 1998. He missed the turn of a century by two years on both ends of his life.
It makes you realize how short life is. Loved how people just drove any direction they wanted, a few horses running free, boys chasing cars and a girl with a bow in her hair. I was thinking about her fixing up for the day. A moment in time remembered and observed by strangers. This was interesting. Thanks for sharing.
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
@@mal-avcisi9783 probably not. In the description it says the colors were added in but are not necessarily accurate. I bet there was a lot of black though. Very simple. There was probably more white too than what is shown.
And ZERO income tax!!!
yep, the things lost in history
@@mal-avcisi9783 the fake coloring AI chooses dull colors to minimize errors
Those good people would be happy to know the traditions of not checking blind spots and cutting others off is still alive & well.
Really grateful to see this colorized footage.
AHAHAHAHA! Great remark. Yep, no one looks especially in Berekeley - they just go for it, cutting people off.
At least back then people weren't dropping their drawers and crapping on the sidewalk.
I'm in agreement with that happens every day on the US highways
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Pedestrians cut in front of the streetcar with impunity. Cars and horse-drawn carts veer in and out of traffic lanes and nobody seems to get bothered. That city is alive and this version makes you feel like a part of it. This is great time travel.
I was just about to same the same thing. People seem to be so free and chill. No uptight angry drivers shouting at each other or honking or revving their engines aggressively. People are freely crossing the busy road flitering through traffic, and drivers/riders are stopping for them. One guy even ran up to one of the horse wagons and jumped on it to help himself to a lift lol. I love it.
Indeed it is, also interesting to see all the cars making U-turns randomly in front of trams and horses.
A simpler time
Not one angry person we have gone the wrong direction with our society.
It seems the more technologically advanced we get the more we lose our ability to act rational.
and I thought todays standars of driving were bad!!!
WOW! Was that ever one of the most AWESOME videos I've ever seen! THANK YOU SO MUCH for restoring and posting this incredible ancient film record. Beyond the memories of having lived in San Francisco from 1967-75, this was awesome on so many levels. First and foremost, I was amazed by how MELLOW ("bomb-proof") all the horses were to the "motor-cars" that continually weaved in and out of traffic, ignoring what we would today consider common rules of the road, though much the way they do in Boston today. Until 2020 we had two horses, and one of them would have handled this fine, though the second would have been a little spooked by it all. Overall, it really kind of sad to think that all of the people in this lengthy record, and all the horses as well, have long departed this plane of existence.
This footage was taken a few days before the 1906 Earthquake that devastated this area. Filmed by the Miles Brothers. They came back after the earthquake and filmed again. Shocking loss. This footage was found in a flea market in 2017 according to a news story on PBS NewsHour.
That's funny . Did the film makers know the earthquake was coming ? I bet the timing was impeccable .
@@naomilee77yes they did. Tartaria
So what's with the black plastic tarp at 8:27? There was no plastic in 1906.
@@frankmarsh1159 good observation, not sure. plastic was made (or patented) around 1907 from what I've read a moment ago (checked online for this). maybe a 'different' type of plastic was available in 1906 but maybe of cheaper quality or only usable for specific things like making tarps... dunno, not sure what to think of this.
That may not be plastic at all, but just some really shiny fabric.
It's amazing how many early motor cars there were in 1906. San Francisco was wealthy and affluent. The shadows demonstrate that it was filmed around noon, and the precise movement of the camera to the street car tracks indicate it was mounted on a street car.
Certainly a slower pace but definitely a bustling city.
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You need to see London in the same period, Busy early days of traffic
Traffic 🚦⛔⛔
Mounted on a tram?
Cars 1907
My grandpa would have been 10 years old, he was in WW1 and lived to be 97, it was a great honor to have him into my 20’s. Thank you for showing this old clip.
That’s really neat, thanks for sharing. My grandparents weren’t even born for another 20 years from this.
I believe that was Nancy Pelosi at 5:12 mark
Yeah they are all our grandpas and grandmas quit energetic which we lack nowdays .
Your Grandfather was a living history book.
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The video quality is superb. Now, the sound is a work of art. Extremely well done!
You do know that's not the original product it has been remastered by today's technology the original footage probably couldn't even understand it
It's crazy to realize that 4 days after this shot was taken, at 5:12 am on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, one of the biggest earthquakes to ever hit Northern California of a magnitude of 7.9 hit and caused the Great San Francisco fire!
And then 4 days later all those homeless some weirdo was praising 1907 for not showing would make today seem rather meager in terms of homelessness. And few were as non-caring as such people now are.
@@paulluchter137 This is most certainly after the earthquake. Lots of masonry and model T's everywhere. But, I do get your sentiment.
@@2bueller Shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Impeccable timing. I prefer this to footage of all that wreckage, but it would be fascinating to see.
My mom's mother turned 21 years old that very same day. Got married later that year.
As a tram driver, i give my respect to those colleagues who managed it to get through this "Traffic chaos" back in that day.
Well the chaos was kinda staged. You can see license plate 4867 appeared multiple times in the film: 0:17, 1:31, 2:33, 3:41, 5:24, 9:28, plus a few occassions that same kind of car(s) drove across the camera. Same case for a few kinds of cars.
@@McHaro0079 I know, even if the cars only driving around in circles, it's still causing a chaos.
@@jerrysshowroom681 True. I would say they were among the first automotive stunt drivers 😅.
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@@McHaro0079 🤣🤣🤣
My great grandfather, whom I had a relationship with, when I was a kid… Was a child during this era. He was born in the 1890’s. He told me that he saw 3 major milestones. The invention of the car, the plane and men landing on the moon in his life time. Can you imagine? Wow.
Yours is the first comment I read that talks about our ancestors just while I was thinking about my grandmother who lived many years in San Francisco but not quite born yet. I wonder if she ever saw this film, but I'll bet she never saw it in color with sound (passed away in the early 90s, so before UA-cam or the Internet was a thing.) I wish she had, though. It's remarkable. Yet, I've seen at least 3 major milestones like your great grandfather, starting with the moon landing, then personal computers, and now the Internet with sites like this and smart phone connections to everything (I predicted them but so did many others). I guess you could say smart phones are also a major milestone, maybe? Then there's that helicopter on Mars, but don't get me started, lol. That's getting to be old news now too!
Edit: Funny, but I couldn't edit this until a day later because I couldn't find the comment and thought it was glitched off the site, which is strange because that never happened to me before. Oh, well. Anyway, I wanted to add some fun facts and another milestone. I'll start with the latter. I think that's the JWST. If you know what that is, then terrific! If not, simply use another milestone I mentioned to find out! lol. Now for a fun fact: If you think the Golden Gate Bridge is a milestone, which I sort of do, then you might know that they had a contest and election to celebrate its grand opening with a "Fiesta" queen. To make a long story short, my grandmother's sister was elected queen. I've seen pictures of her in a book about the bridge showing herself in the queen's attire and crown, but I didn't know until yesterday on the official bridge website that there was some controversy about who actually won the election! Imagine that, in 1937, when President Roosevelt hit the switch to let cars pass over the bridge for the first time, an election controversy was reported in at least one of the newspapers. Fast forward to 2020, anyone? lol.
@@abeautifuldayful , that’s fascinating. You have to keep records of these things, because each person who dies is a book, and each generation is an entire library. We need to know the past in order to progress.
@@truvelocity Yes, you're right. I do have a record of sorts, a photocopy of the chapter in the book showing my relative at that time and picture(s). I'd have to go through some boxes to find it, but I have it! I don't have the book, though, which is all about the Golden Gate Bridge, written decades ago. I read the whole book once many years ago and found it poorly written, lol. I guess that's why I didn't try to get a book copy for something I only wanted the interesting chapter. Btw, the picture I recall best shows her perched on a huge propeller of a plane in her queen attire, very glamorous looking! The website says she was 19 yo, married someone later named Brady, had 8 kids, and died in 1985. I recall my grandma talking about her older sister fondly, but I never met her. I don't think I ever saw them together, and I don't know why. Suddenly, I'm getting more curious all these years later! Thanks for your interest. People are fascinating sometimes, huh?
My grandpa Mike Olah came over from Romania about 1910- - he was born about 1895. He prided himself on buying new cars as often as possible. RIP the progenitor of the family.
about that moon landing...
My mom was born in 1906 I was born in 1929 my dad died around 1940 I served in the army Korea for over two years I'm now age 95 hope to see 2026 .
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Seeing these videos restored makes it feel so much more real and like it wasn’t really that long ago - which it really wasn’t. 100+ years in history is just a speck of time, it makes you realize how short your life is and how little time you have to do anything special! When I’d see videos like this as a kid, all black and white, like 3fps, it made it feel so ancient to me that I couldn’t even fathom it existing. It’s surreal seeing these videos restored!
I wish it still looked like this.
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Yup, my dad is 80, and I'm 50, it's long ago but not. I think because a lot of stuff changed. Look at 2020 to 2023, and how everything went to pot lol
I would have loved to been alive in that era. Nothing, but Greed today. They were more civil back then too.
It's so hard to believe that everyone in this film is gone now.its like having a time machine, looking back at this beautiful era.
It's 2022. Its not THAT hard to believe these people are all dead. People dont live that long. ............
Why is that so hard to believe?
@@ToyotaGuy1971 Well, maybe because, for those of us over 60 (and even more vividly for those who are 80+), very many of these people were still alive well into the years we were old enough to know them and remember them personally. The kids scattered in this video were only 65 to 75 when I was 10 in the late 1960s. Some of the young adults seen here were still only 80 or so when I was 10. They aren’t just historical ciphers to us; we actually knew people who lived in this time. People 80 years old today could have known people 40 years old in this video, and, of course, everybody younger than that. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to believe... Just sayin’
We’ll all be gone too in 100 years from now
@@magisterium100 So being old enough to remember these people makes it harder to believe that after that much time has passed; that people that were living back then are dead? That makes no sense.
I love how much of a free for all it was on the roads back then. Horses and buggies, cars, cars weaving in and out, cars cutting off horses, people just walking right across the road. You can tell that cars were absolutely a new novelty at the time (and they look so flimsy too with the way they move!)
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
You had to be very brave to cross those streets 🤣
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Like a third world country today
@@scholaroftheworldalternatehist nothing like one, these are white people, they are still civilized and much more organized
As a current resident of San Francisco, but a Los Angeles native, it is insane to me that I am looking at the Ferry building from over a hundred years into the past. As a Millennial, I am so grateful we have these records. They are valuable beyond belief.
The building changed a lot though
Why does you being a millennial need to be pointed out?
@@TenAngryCats Whats that comment good for?
@@TenAngryCats just to point out that history is important. Many think the young don't care for the past, and I wanted to come here to say that we do, and we also value the lessons. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, and I wanted to reassure anyone older that we are in fact, paying attention. Relax, no one is coming for your guns.
@@markussabogabriel5846 yes! Did you know that much of the Marina District is built on artificial fill ? Many of the buildings suffered liquefaction, during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, but managed to survive and are maintained and refurbished to this day!
It's somehow utterly chaotic and peacefully languid at the same time. A joy to witness, thank you!
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
exactly the pace is slow but its still bustling somehow.
If you were black back then you were fuc**d
Like a dream
@@mal-avcisi9783 you have to take into account it’s 1906. Colored photos let alone videos doesn’t exist in this period. What little color you can see in this is clearly edited into.
To think that nobody in this footage is alive today makes you appreciate life more.
Not only that imagine the kids walking around in this video were about to go through Spanish flu, WW1, great depression and WW2.
Surprised you don’t see a lot of horse feces on the street everywhere. Street cleaners did a great job. Lol
@Maynards so blue how?
@@Spawn117 they’re trolling
@Maynards so blue It's hard to say what will be in our future in the next few decades. It may be worse than those folks in the video.
The craziest part about this is, they're all gone! Everyone in this video, is gone!!! Only if the camera operator knew how long this footage would last and what it would mean now. Awesome
Fun fact: there is 1 person left alive in the world that was alive when this video was made, a french lady who is 118 years old.
No shit Einstein basic math will tell you that
And here's the comment I see on every video like this
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The camera operator was long gone. Didn't even know his footage or video would mean something today.
This is a reminder we all need: that nobody lives forever.
😮 engano teu amigo
Facts be kind to one another at the end of the day we’re all human
Pretty sure no one anywhere thinks anyone lives forever
@@lollipop84858 You’d be surprised.
Amazes me how the street looks chaotic, yet everyone is calm and cool and just going where they need to go.
Does it amaze you that this city is clearly very old , with old buildings and Roman style masonry , yet we are told it was only a small village of 1000 people until 1849 , that's not only amazing, but impossible 😉
@@sosintheselastdayz7448 gold rush made it happen.
No fatty buggy.
That's what is more important
@@sosintheselastdayz7448 Das ist normales Stil-Altbau. Völlig normal um 1900 gebaut. Auch in Deutschland.
@@sosintheselastdayz7448 Why are you putting spaces before your commas? You aren't using a typewriter, this is a computer.
The clarity, color and sounds makes these scenes more real. You wonder who these people were, where they were going, what they were doing. Well done.
My nana says people were generally stinkier back in the day for several reasons (lack of ac, wooly clothing, deodorant technology, etc.) HOWEVER she says she prefers it because the coloreds were polite.
Most of the street scene videos on this channel were used for movies and TV. Film was very expensive back then and it wouldn't have been used for no reason. So a lot of these people if not all of them are probably just extras.
3 days after this most of the people you see where killed in a earthquake there is another film that does this trip a week later and all the buildings are gone except the last one the station
ua-cam.com/video/6TaxcXfSwdE/v-deo.html
San Francisco is a shithole these days
I bike through this area almost every week. To see some of the buildings still with the same characteristics today makes you appreciate this moment in time. Incredible video.
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Круто! Спасибо за комментарий!
Where is it? to make a comparison "before and after".
@@drcanoro Market Street. Its Ferry Building in the ending of the street.
@@sashacoxonsound thanks for your information ,it’s incredible for me to view the place at google earth right now.what a wonderful experience .
Today, the cops would have a field day and not have enough tickets to write up all the traffic infractions. Great video. Thank you.
It's really astonishing how remastering this in color, and with a higher framerate, completely changes the perception of the scenes filmed. Restored footage like this brings us much more emotionally closer to the past. While before you had to consciously bridge that gap, now it's utterly effortless. This could have been filmed an hour ago.
As a student of history what always fascinates me about stuff like this is think...every single person alive in that thriving city at the time is no longer with us. We are witness to an echo of the past...people living their lives much as we do and yet now no longer with us. Hauntingly beautiful.
Yes! This is truly beautiful! There is so much more for you to study though. So much "proof" in this clip. if people could just WAKE UP & OPEN THEIR EYES! There is a reason why this "movie" was made originally...skyscrapers & horse buggies lol...a major earthquake four days later (man made)...the "one" was added to the year 896 on the building after the fact....Study "Tartaria". Study "Hidden His-story of Man and the Deep State". We are slowly, but surely, waking up. Welcome to the Show;)
I get it , its like watching into the nightsky discovering the light of the past.
@@rileyxxxx Well said RileyX :)
Observamos a impermanência da matéria,o agora é o melhor momento, é a única coisa que temos de verdade é o tempo presente.
I was thinking the same the moment the video started , Moment Capture in Time 💜
Thank you very much. I am a Hungarian. My grandfather's older brothers went to San Francisco around this time. We still have letters from them. They write about the city exactly the same like goes on this video.
Such a nice thing to see that city now. Amazingly incredible for me.
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The person making this video did not know this was the exact time in history when horse moving humanity and motor car moving was at the same time and motor car had to win. Also, it all was so slow, no traffic signal was needed. IMO, this video is an awesome time in history, and we all are privilege to see it. Thanks to the man that pushed record then, at that time, that was only just part of his normal day.
Unbelievable, my grandmother was born in San Francisco and was living in the city on the day this was filmed, the earthquake destroyed her family dwelling and her family moved to New Orleans were she met my grandfather and raised my mother. She was 5 years old on this day. Thank you for this window into our past. just spectacular.
is she still alive
Looks like Automobile is still primitive & not ubiquitous in cities in 1900s, but most people are still walking or cycling!!
@@sjnmhn i highly doubt majority of them.peoples or horse's are alive today tho 🤔
Yes, my grandmother was also born in S.F. in 1906. The family moved to Oakland, as my great grandpa was a dentist and needed to support his new family. I am surprised by the number of automobiles.
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
Really makes you feel like a time traveler as everyone stops and stares at you.
At 4:40, the people to the right are staring into the future and don't even know it. I'm sitting behind this screen staring back into the past. Fascinating!
Feels like a virtual time machine. It’s as close as it gets to actually being there.
No matter how well your imagination can fill the void or how well Hollywood sets can recreate 1906; nothing short of a real time machine or actually living through this era in time is going to match or surpass the energy, visuals and vibes you will feel in this well executed and digitally enhanced video.
Strangely compelling isnt it?...to see these people who lived and died decades ago..I wonder who these people were, did any of them have any idea of the upcoming earthquake and subsequent fire, that devastated San Francisco? Just think, the airplane was only 3 years old. Radio was about 14 yrs away, I wonder how many of the young men, would die in World War I? How many of THEIR sons would die in World War 2. How many, of the people seen here, would perish during the 1918 Spanish Flu?, Did any of these people have any idea as to the wonders and the horrors facing Americans, during the next few decades. What would I do, if I suddenly was transported back to San Francisco, in 1906? Conversely, what would happen, if any one of these people suddenly found themselves transported to the year 2022?
@@ojivey8273 …..It seems like that video does oddly stir reflections on life, death, wars, famine, pandemics, marriages, divorces, births, jobs…etc etc etc. That is all I was thinking as well … while those horse and buggies made their way down the street, the sounds of their hooves hitting the pavement was like a rhythmic trigger for deep thought and meditation on life. None of those people could foresee any of it just as we can’t foresee what the next 10, 25, 50 or 100 years holds for us here in 2022.
It is nostalgic and poignant. Some day, long after you and I are dead and buried, our descendants will be reviewing videos of 2022 and marveling at how primitive and ancient we were while embarking on some highly technological task way beyond our comprehension or imagination and they will have the same thoughts and reflections on their own lives because despite the technological differences, the one standard we will all share and will always share in common is the human spirit.
We had less in relation to resources and technologies, but we were happier and healthier.
Even with all those horses the streets were FAR cleaner than in 2022. Thanks liberals for ruining a once great city with your liberal utopia of diversity homelessness and drugs.
@@ojivey8273 War is a part of human history, theres no avoiding it. Whats more sad is how the city has devolved into a third world dump in 2022. That WAS avoidable but liberals lax crime laws, mass immigration and rampant homelessness have destroyed the once great city.
С удовольствием посмотрел данное кино аж в цвете!!! Получилось поправить очень качественно!!! Спасибо за его показ!!! Буду ждать ещё нечто похожее!!!
I still can’t get over how amazing these videos are. Really transports you.
I have always imagined if someone from the future could go back in Time, what would these people think about it.
@@giovannyandrescortesrodrig2846 I think at first there would be small problems, but then we would get used to each other.
Transport was a to b...
Today everybody will die on street like this. ;)
I really enjoy conversing with older people who had went through events that we read about in history. My Dad, born in 1920, a time when radio was in it's infancy. He passed away in 2009. He survived the great depression, WW2, the Atomic age, Civil Rights, and the Apollo 11 manned moon landing. He witnessed society at it's worst and society at its best, all in one lifetime, remarkable.
Imagine getting a 1905 Ford Horse and then they come out with a 1906 Ford Car?
If you only waited one year. Ooof.
imagine the person who bought 1905 then HHAHAHAHA
1905 horse is faster than 1906 ford car though
@@RaffleE46 it wasnt about speed it was about class. Having a car in that time not only showed off your wallet but they were 9/10 “refined” men or women driving them.
@@okxack3199 price not the same....
Yeah but horses still dominated streets in 1906, 1907 , 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911..
This is just increadible. Absolutely stunning... speechless. Just to think every one in this Video is gone. Including the camera man. This is time travelling right here. It is crazy how far we have come. Not in a billion years would anyone think then I would be watching this through a phone via internet on a app called UA-cam. Absolutely just incredible. This is going in my top 50 best UA-cam videos of all time playlist. Absolutely remarkable mate well done..
Don't take things for granted
Have as much time as you can with family
Meet friends
Be social
In 100 years time everyone pretty much in 2022 will be gone too, everything is relative, I don't think people in 2122 will be taking pity on us though, as God only knows what state the planet will be in by then.
Most of them have been gone for 60 or 70 years or more. Many of them died four days after this was filmed....
@@jaydickey1049 craaazy
@@jaydickey1049 what happened 4 days after?
Im so curious to know about your best 50 videos ever
Великая сила кино! Этих людей уже много лет нет в живых, а они на экране живы!!!
Ну ты наглец, я там на велосипеде пацаненком катаюсь, а ты каркаешь, постыдился бы.
Exactamente !!
Yes I think of that too...all these people are no longer here. They didn't have much back then but the city looks cleaner than it does now that's for sure.
I’m always in awe when I see the sun shining in old film clips and think “wow, the sunlight that shines down on us today is from the same sun.” I know that sounds silly, but it just amazes me.
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Pretty amazing to be alive :)
It’s not silly…it’s actually quite philosophical and an interesting perspective. I too think stuff like that sometimes and it fascinates me. The past seems quite unreal sometimes and to think someday we are gonna be ancient too and a new generation of people will watch our videos 😬
Exactly. And the fact that every single person in this video has walked through their life and passed makes me kind of sad and starting thinking the scene in a hundred years people watching our nowadays videos.
Are you black?
I think it's cool to see us transitioning from horse and buggy to early motorized vehicles. love this!
And since cars weren't exactly quick it was easy as a pedestrian to simply walk the streets. Fascinating.
This is a handful of years before the horse became truly obsolete.
It’s a shame, because there really wasn’t smog yet, and I’ve read accounts of people saying how dirty and smelly the streets became once motorized cars were the standard.
And from motorized vehicles to never leaving the home because of hostile humans and an increasingly hostile climate.
the drivers in cali still drive the same way thats the only thing that hasn't changed lol
People drove like maniacs back then.
The film was sent off on the evening of the day it was filmed, heading by the Trans-Continental railroad to New York, where it was processed. There were no processing labs on the West Coast at this time. That's the reason why the film exists today.
Good info , thanks !
What a journey
how do you know?
@@cryvsspy There were newspapers.
@@cryvsspy Hi, the finding of this "lost in time" film was reported widely at the time. The info was the film survived because it wasn't in SFO when the earthquake struck, because it was shipped off immediately to the East Coast.
Judging by photos and early films showing the damage after the EQ, it's likely the unprocessed film would have been lost, possibly in the fires and early film was made of highly inflammable nitrate stock.
Big thanks to whoever did the remarkable job on the remaster but to look this good the original film had to be very good also-incredible!
Just occurred to me: this is exactly what you'd see if you landed in a time machine and looked out through the window. Incredible footage.
No it wouldn't, it would be clearer and colors would look like you see now
I've always been so fascinated with watching old videos from decades ago. This is by far the oldest, and best I've ever seen. What a treat to be able to experience this!
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I saw one recently that I never knew Thomas Edison filmed from like 1911 or something and it was on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal going from Georgetown to Cumberland. What amazing footage and to see these people during the early part of the 20th century and how they lived. I lived in Maryland for almost 39 years and just moved to West Virginia so the canal is not that far away from here and I've always been fascinated by it. I love that place. I just love to go back in time. And I love how the movements are not all jerky and stuff like in some old films is the case.
Вы родственники или нет?
LMFAO what are you talking about, OP?
This video is FAKE… you say you like watching this stuff, but are you _actually_ watching??? Are you visually illiterate?
Watch car with number 4867 on it; why is it going in the same path/loop over and over and over during this whole video? What is that?
And there’s 30+ other things in this video that are completely ridiculous…
My grandfather, Jack Bell, was in visiting in SF from Canon City CO the day this was shot. He was a prospector, newspaper reporter and naturalist who had just made a major strike. After the earthquake, the newspaper reports noted that he hadn't been heard from and grandmother started collecting supplies to send to SF. He did get back safely. I'm overwhelmed at actually seeing the world he wrote about so vividly. Infinite thanks.
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
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I spotted cable car numbers: 124, 125, 22, 204, 115, 172, 34, 211, 128, 213, 167 (?), 143, 171, 226, 157, 33, and 205. Undoubtedly, many of these are still in service. It would be cool to find and photograph them as they appear today.
I've seen this clip a number of times in various versions, and this is so far the best restoration.
One thing I realized this time I hadn't realized before -- this was shot with a very long lens, practically a telephoto lens. As a result, distances are very compressed from what they really were. All of those near misses between vehicles and pedestrians, in reality had many feet or even half a city block between them. So while it looks somewhat terrifying to us in these images, it probably looked perfectly normal and safe to the people actually there. (Yea, they didn't have painted lines or rules of the road yet, other than "bigger vehicle gets the right of way". But if things are moving slowly enough, you don't really need them. Last I went to the mall there weren't lane markings and traffic cops inside making sure you walked on the right path. Things were moving about the same speed here.)
thank you so much
Electric forklifts that weigh tons on storage move without any rules with lots of people around as usual on warehouses... they move in few centimeters from your feet, and you have to pass them like every minute being on large storage...
> looks somewhat terrifying
Modern life 100x times more dangerous and terrifying.
None of this footage is in any way even the slightest bit terrifying.
It's fascinating to me seeing at that brief moment in time, when it all was crossing over, people walking, riding bicycles, horse drawn apparatus, cable cars and automobiles all in the same place at the same time.
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Electric Tram trains were so slow that cars and people are crossing it just before it comes!!!
and a 116 years from now the people of the time will look back at us just as we look at them. We think we are technically advanced - but so did they in 1906 SAN FRAN
was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.
@@mal-avcisi9783 its no real colors, its just someones coloring so we cant possibly know the real colors
My great grandparents lived in Palo Alto with their seven children. My grandfather was six at the time. The next day, the chimney in their house for fall on his bed during the earthquake, burying him in bricks. His brother and sisters to take him out. They put a big tent in the front yard and lived there, just in case their house caught fire. My great grandfather was interviewing for a job In Massachusetts; my great grandmother wrote and told him about the earthquake. Somehow that letter ended up in the Library of Congress, and I was able to read it a few years ago! This video means so much to me…
This looks so much cleaner and safer than it does now
It was less "diverse" - so not surprising.
@@JustMe99999yo what?
@@JustMe99999 jokes on u, this video is more diverse than cars and trucks that we have right now
@@steelsunwhat?
Yes
These candid images of life so long ago simply mesmerize me. The architecture, vehicles, horse drawn carts, the fashions, just absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for preserving and sharing these films!
I am curious if anyone else has noticed the few boys who keep photo bombing the film. Including the one boy who is seen early in a couple of different locations... who catching a ride on the back of a car, then returns at the very end and walks in front of the camera for the final frame. Children on this day were obviously in school as only a handful are seen...but not these boys, who seem to be working for the newspaper or some other ad handouts. Note also the small horse buggy towards the end with one of the earlier boys back in action...getting on film again...peeping out the back window as his black who is steering the buggy, turns his head to get on film...pacing just ahead of the camera, until they turn off on the last street.
As an SF local, it's crazy to see how much has changed and how much has remained the same. I can immediately recognize Market St, and the Ferry Building in the background. Not sure if it's the way it's shot, or maybe because of the earthquake, but it seems the street had a slight slope before (it's completely flat today - again, may just be the camera angle). Some interesting things I observed:
@1:29 - That angelic statue to the left is Admission Day Monument, still there on Montgomery. Apparently erected in 1897... less than a decade old in the video!
@3:18 - The cable car (now buses) took the same exact route, towards Haight & Stanyan! This is where Amoeba Music is today. I notice it says "Park" after "Stanyan" ... that's where Golden Gate Park intercepts the bus route. I wonder if the park was once named Stanyan Park? Because there is a Stanyan Park Hotel just a block away from the stop (apparently built in 1904!).
@3:39 - Couldn't help but notice the 767 Market St sign to the right. That's now a boutique clothing store (St. John's).
@5:34 - building to the left with the pediment, I think is where the Hyatt Hotel is now, based off the angled direction it is facing the street. Fun to compare on Google Maps (one of the light posts, though different now, matches up where it stands!).
@8:20 - Castro & 26th St ... don't recall if this same direct bus route still exists. Think you might have to make a transfer today to get to that same cross street (I don't use the buses much anymore, so I could be wrong)
@8:50 - Couldn't help but notice some cable cars with "Chutes" written on them. After some research, seems it was a huge amusement park in the Haight, apparently demolished around the 50s... just a neighborhood area now.
Thank you for taking the time to list your observations. I've only been blessed to visit SF twice, on week-long business trips, but I very much enjoyed the culture and "feel" while visiting. It seems unlikely I'll ever be able to visit again, so it ia especially nice to read your notes and revisit through your observations on this video.
They should make a video and follow this exact same route for comparison of the new and the old.
SF would've been great to li e in back then. It's not so nice to live in now. Cirtain groups have ruined the city.
C'mon, based on the architecture these great buildings are much older than that. SF was a cow town in 1848 Gold Rush days with barely 15,000 people living there, and you believe that in 50 years not just these sublime buildings sprung up, but think about the sewer systems, utilities and water it would take to make this happen. If you start working out the logistics, you'll find that it's an impossibility. Then there's the date on the building at the end of this vid. "Erected AD 896". Our history is a lie!
@@weffyj6427 SF was built very fast, faster than you understand. People had better work ethic them and they git jobs done quick. The buildings are old but not older than you thought. Alot came up in the 1870s and 1880s. However the main town came up in the late 1850s, most of it burned 🔥 down and was rebuilt.
This video was fascinating. One particular thing I noticed is that the drivers didn't seem to slow down or stop for pedestrians. They just expected them to get out of the way. There seemed to be no order or driving rules to follow, other than just try to avoid hitting something or someone. The drivers just drove wherever they wanted to, constantly swerving around vehicles and people. Sort of like controlled chaos. lol
Yea they are all just using Italian rules. I don't think there were any driving tests or licences back then.
Kind of what you see in countries like India.
No street signs or lights
You'll still see that today in a lot of third world countries
I think traffic laws just began to appear around this time, which explains the somewhat chaotic driving
That was interesting! No lights or stop signs. Everybody fends for themselves. Beautiful Video
never late for work because of hitting all the lights
Less than a month after this was taken on May 22, 1906 the US Patent office granted the Wright Brothers patent No.821,393 for a flying machine. I can't get enough of stuff like this. Its so immersive!
Ha! I bet that patent didn’t go anywhere
Closest we will ever get to traveling back in time.
It's almost like you wish you could wave to the people!
Santos Dumont conseguiu antes
@@jefferson081 Their patent was 1906, they first flew it in 1903 :)
This really is fantastic footage. You have horse drawn carriages of various types along side new cars. All this with no lines in the road or crosswalks. Wow.
there were even a few Horse Drawn street car still. poor Horses.
This footage explains why traffic rules were invented. LOL.
No lights no traffic cops
There is one cop crossing the street observing the camera like he’s thinking about a shakedown. Cops didn’t get paid for about a year onetime and nobody quit they got pay of a private type. I was a SF police officer and we had a bagman for the station . Traffic signs and crosswalks didn’t come into use until the late 1920’s but market street even now is a hazardous place for pedestrians.
What best is there than to time travel and see our past.
All the kids at the very end of the video getting all excited just absolutely warms my heart.
Little did they know we would be seeing their face again 116 years later.
Or that everyone would have a camera.
That's my fave part. Kids with jobs! Paper Boys!!! But still being kids 💙
If YOU had been one of those kids you'd probably be a bit excited too!!!
After all, some strange looking person is driving down the main road in his shiny new Tesla Roadster while he live streams a video on his Samsung Note 14
or that someone (me) would be watching him 116 years later on my phone.
No different from us waving when the Google street view car drives by.
This is amazing. I wish I could go back in time to witness life in early 1900s...
My grandfather was nine years old when this was filmed and I was 25 years old when he died. He used to tell us stories when I was growing up about his childhood, but could never pictured it in my mind. This helps to bring perspective, especially now that I am also getting old.
Your grandpa was born in 1897…are you 80 years old?
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Getting old, dude you’re 25: chill bro
@@TheAcenightcreeper It's very plausible that this man is telling the truth. If his grandfather sired his father at the age of 47 then his Dad would have been born in 1944, the same year as my Dad. I'm 44 years old now. The math is definitely not as far fetched as you think it is.
@@SonOfZeuz you misread their comment, they said they were 25 years old when their grandfather passed.
My grandmother was in SF on this day. She and her sister were travelling the west coast together after high school. They were on their way to LA when the quake hit. She told stories about the trip and I found her souvenirs from SF when I went through her things years later. So cool to link real images with stories! Decades later I grew up in SF riding the street cars up and down Market street before they went underground.
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My Father was there too, he was ten.
My great grandfather was a Captain in the fire department 🚒 during the eathquake and fire. I am a 4th generation native born San Franciscan. I used to ride the streetcar downtown and have pizza at the Woolworth counter in the 1960's.
Like seeing a social media post, but over 100 years later.
@@cclars6411 So your father was born in 1895 or 1896? May I ask how old you are?
I keep thinking about the cameraman who made this remarkable film. The motion picture camera of his time did not have motors, so that meant he had to operate the camera manually, turning a crank continuously the entire length of Market Street.
Really, I had forgotten about this detail. Thanks for reminding us. Amazing, just amazing!
@@janecameron2668 -I was getting ready to comment on that detail about no electric motors. I took all this for granted & did not give hand cranks a second thought.
Do you find it odd that the very next day after he made this film the earthquake happened
@@frankvitucci5677 The controllers knew of the event ( or caused it ). Anyways at least they sent this guy (or woman) to record the pre event scenery.
@@Black8White I totally agree with you,
Wow I love this footage! Those were the days to be alive! Completely different way of living! Thanks for the wonderful video
This is Market Street ending at the old Ferry Building that somehow survived the 1906 quake. Thanks for these fantastic videos that make the past so authentic.
It didn't indeed survive as you say I've been there. Looks identical to me.
I thought the tram had arrived at the station.
This is fantastic! As someone pointed out, this footage was taken four days before the earthquake that devastated San Francisco. Every person we see on this video was profoundly effected and innocently going about their lives on the day someone stood on the end of a trolley and recorded life that 116 years later in 2022 I would watch on my iPad. Thanks for posting and the work that you did, changing black and white to color!! 🌹
In the same way many similar commercial buildings to these were destroyed in a similar earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand. 2010-2011 400 quakes. It looks like Christchurch in many ways and we did not expect those quakes either.
Electric Tram trains were so slow that cars and people are crossing it just before it comes!!!
This is amazing. I only spotted about 25 potential triggers for road rage in this clip, cars cutting in front of horses etc. Everyone appears so chilled about it all.😀
Probably not a big deal since they're all doing 7mph.
Only 25?
I could watch this all day , wow amazing its like a time machine , thank you ☺️
Simply fascinating. My grandmother was 12 when this recording was made and died in 1982 when I was 14. incredible what technological development these people have seen in just one lifetime. from the horse-drawn carriage to the moon landing to the first simple home computer.
@@VolkerThimm right, but their technological leap was far more radical.
The moon really? Did anyone ever go back?
This restoration is amazing! It almost makes you think you're actually there, really really close! And it's dated to 1906, right before the Earthquake! This is a motion picture that must be preserved forever and ever. 🥰
Screen record it, save it to a flash drive, put the flash drive in a bomb proof time capsule and bury it 50 feet in the earth’s mantle.
80% of San Francisco was destroyed in the 1906 quake. Much of what you see in this video was reduced to rubble.
In 50 years, we’re going to be able to live in this video with VR- not live but you know I mean,
@@molder2233 😮😮😮
@@molder2233 The Ferry Building, the where the cable car finally stopped, was one of a few buildings to survive the earthquake.
You can tell just how astounding a video camera was back then just by the looks on the citizens faces as they see this giant piece of new technology. Truly amazing.
They didn't have "video cameras" - this was film.
but the fact is ppl do exact the same reaction now when they see someone shooting outside. in this video not everyone overreacted n some waved or stared, that's same as us too lol
No video, no electricity. Film camera with hand crank.
@@colinstevenson6984 any camera which captures 'video'
@@andrewm9162 'video' is _visual._ whether digital or analog. if you *see* it, its video.
Amazing quality of film. I love the way some of the horse carriages seem to have a wheel width of 4 foot 8.1/2 inches to match the track width of the cable cars to get a smoother ride along the cobbled street! Cable cars on the inner tracks, horse cars on the outer tracks and one electric car crossing over the street at 4min 51sec. The erratic behaviour of the automobile drivers was a portent of things to come!
YES! The idea of matching wheel widths dates back at least as far as mining carts in the 17th/18th centuries. But of course there the tracks were laid to match wheel widths instead of the other way around. (*)
Also this film's been digitized and cleaned up using AI which makes it a lot clearer than the original which was pretty rough-looking.
(*) Being a railfan I've done some research on the claim that track widths date back to Roman times, but there doesn't appear to be a lot of primary-source info. Most of the documents quote other documents that point around in a big circle of citations.
Incredible how a restored 1906 film has better quality than every modern "paranormal footage".
AI is what made it look the way it does now. before it would be black and white and grainy and just bad. thank the AI software they used.
@@CIBERXGAMING It would still look better than those paranormal footages, even in black and white XD.
I watched Biden shake hands with the air and it was good quality. That's pretty paranormal, unless he has dementia, in which case it makes total sense.
That is because it's been restored lol
LOL, try looking at the original, dude: ua-cam.com/video/aG9XXbKuYfA/v-deo.html
When cable car, car, horse wagon, bicycle, even people are all using the same streets in almost the same speed with respect with each other. I love it
Same Speed !
Thats why the flow is working.
This is as close to time travel as you can get right now! What an amazing experience! Thanks for sharing!
This people still Alive un 2022??
yeah, if only they had more of those, like from medieval era and prehistoric times. can't understand why they didn't film anything smh
assassin's creed series is the closest thing to time travel as of now
@Shawn Tipton What are you even blabbering lol
@Shawn Tipton The mantle of proof falls upon the person who claims something outside of what is normal. Nobody can say for sure that unicorns don't exist, that santa claus isn't real, that we don't live in a simulation, that your mother isn't a secret reptilian agent, or any other absurd statement. I do NOT have to prove to you that we DON'T live in a simulation, just like I do NOT have to prove time travel will not be invented. It is YOU who must prove it; otherwise, it remains reasonably false. Just like how in a court of law, we are innocent UNTIL proven guilty, not the other way around.
It’s amazing how still the video was captured.
And we thought people today drove bad...this is crazy. Awesome work on the remaster. Thank you.
The problem is that today people drive bad and fast. Back then people just drove bad.
People had brains back then
yeah but remember, the traffic rules for cars had not been invented yet!
The mingling of people and horses and vehicles crisscrossing each other is a beautiful chaos that works but would break so many traffic violations today.
Marvelous footage. Thank you.
This film had special interest to me in that 1906 was my father’s birth year. Our family was noted for having each generation rather “spread out”. My Dad’s mother, “Mother Nina”, was born in 1867. He didn’t have me, his son, until the age of 40. I am 75 years of age. So I was fortunate as a child to know “Mother Nina” since she didn’t die until 1962. She still had her father’s surgical kit that he used to perform amputations during the Civil War with the Confederate Army of Arkansas. So our country’s relatively short history has been driven home to me in a very personal way.
Thank you again for this enhanced film footage.
Madam, I wish you a long and blessed life, try converting to Islam, you will find inner peace
@@ابوعبدالله-س5خ5ت Try not converting people to your religion; they will have some peace.
Это постановка
@@richardtibbitts3841 hhhhh he is not the only one preaching his religion, have you seen christians preach, yeah that is a sight to behold 😆
Is it crazy to have known someone that lived in 1867
I could sit and watch these all day. beats watching the world in it's current era go by.
Amazing video. My heart breaks for those poor horses and the hard life they had to endure.
I've always been fascinated with history. Sometimes it's hard to imagine what life was like back then. These videos are truly remarkable. Thank you for the good work you do.
I imagine it was quite amazing in many respects. Namely, the face to face interactions with humans you had to have. I really miss the world before handhelds sometimes. It also had it's major drawbacks. But that can be said for literally any place in time.
@@melsop54 pretty damn well said, couldn't agree more wit ya
@@melsop54 it’s had many many drawbacks a big list of them really that I won’t waste my time listing but that should be obvious
every kind has its own history. For africans it's pretty much the same as it was 40 000 years ago. - no inventions and no culture whatsoever😂
It would have been rough for you with black skin, that's fort sure in the U.S, not in the UK though
Would you like to visit the 1910's? Which city would you like to visit?
Istanbul
Moscow
philadelphia!!!!
Delhi
Miami
I am a fourth generation San Franciscan born in 1955. Amazing that this is what my great grandparents saw every day. God bless my beautiful city.
Now it's a horrible city. Sad
Same video
Shit city, go and clean up some homeless peoples shit
I wouldn’t say it’s beautiful
God bless your wonderful city.
The World in Transition! ( Great Restored Video! Thanks!)
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Amazing stuff. What was updated in this version?
My grandfather was 13 when this was filmed. He died in 1982 and saw us go from horse and buggy to space shuttle.
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@@johnphantom
My Grandpa was 8, and I miss hearing his many memories & stories too...
I think this was within a week before the earthquake. And the filmmakers came back after the earthquake, and re-shot the trip down market street, this time with the ruins of the city all around.
Thankful to people who record daily life for future generations. My paternal grandparents were born in 1906. Incredible footage.
I am fascinated with this time period. I love to see their expressions when they see sometime with a camera. Life was more simple back then. This is truly a treasure.
Вы правы, это потрясающе
This is how our world ends ! 118 yrs later not one single person is alive from this video…. truly amazing footage
Watching this kind of films makes me want to cry, I would like to travel back in time at least for one day to see it with my own eyes.
I always wonder how the lives of all these people turned out, who they were, what they saw that we could not. Fascinating.
Just think there will be someone in the year 2138 thinking the same as you about us.
@@Louis275 "they used to have wheels on hover crafts?!"
They all died. :D
no need.. ask Queen Elizabeth... she's an eye witness .
Some of them would not live out the week, with the quake and the fire : 3,000 Dead and 200,000 Homeless.
Poor folks oblivious to what would happen in four short days! Amazing footage just puts you right there. Stellar work!
What happened?
@@elijaholing 1906 earthquake and fire, details in video description above.
Little did they know we’d be watching this in color 116 years later.
@@elijaholing really??
Wonderful production. I think the most moving aspect of this video is the fact that all of these people, including the little boy crossing the road, have all passed on. Videos capture time unlike anything else.
Как знать, как знать, может быть есть люди вне времени, ”сопровождающие”, живущие сотни лет)
All the young people probably past away 20 years ago. 😢
Imagine people experiencing mind uploaded virtual reality in 2123 made from 2007 based on flip phone videos.
@KeithS The most moving aspect of the video is how people dressed appropriately before leaving the house.
oh god fashion changes over time lol they looked good for the time but let shit change
No matter how much has changed, the one constant is the Ferry Building at the end of the road, keeping this street recognizable to some degree. Market Street has changed a lot in nearly 120 years.
SF hasn't changed a bit. Lots of people just walking into the middle of the street. ;-) Amazing to see the cable cars running.
Hasn't changed? Yea, except for the homeless, drug addicts, and gay fetish parties. Not change at all
Hasn’t changed a bit? Cmon now, let’s get with it; SF was actually a great place in 1906….now it’s a liberal hell hole. The kid touching, child trafficking, the drugs, the corruption from your personal heroes like drunk nancy piglosi and her nephew gavin nuisance. San Francisco USED to be a premier destination…now it’s a place to specifically say no to. Hasn’t changed a bit 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🤡🤡🤡🤡
HAHA I seriously hope you're not serious.
@@abumansaray7 yeah I much prefer the ancient roman gay fetish parties over the new american ones
@@Deadbeatcow That's great. We aren't talking about Rome. Nor, do I care about your whataboutism. Ancient Rome isn't my yardstick for morality. Perhaps, that's why they are no longer around?! Lmao
Повозки, авто, лошади, трамваи, люди, все на одной дороге, без правил движения и без аварий. 😊 Как приятно видеть улыбающихся людей. Большой респект операторам ценных видео того времени. Была приятно удивлена, что их так чётко снимали или, возможно, восстановили. 😍👍👍
Еще люди все стройные,солидно одеты,очень мало женщин.Не похоже что они возвели этот город,больше похоже на приезжих )))
Это путешественник во времени снимает, просто обрабатывает потом все видео специальным фильтром, чтобы не палиться.
Оригинал - ua-cam.com/video/8Q5Nur642BU/v-deo.html
@@strufian спасибо 🕊
Отлично работающая массовка!!! Так создавалась история из натянутых как резиновые шары фактов потом лопались заметив несостыковки уничтожались!!!!!!
I'm surprised at how clear it is. Early film's were often blurry. Great restoration job. Amazing.
still better quality than most videos on youtube with 360p
@yep oh my God get out
Strangely compelling isnt it?...to see these people who lived and died decades ago..I wonder who these people were, did any of them have any idea of the upcoming earthquake and subsequent fire, that devastated San Francisco? Just think, the airplane was only 3 years old. Radio was about 14 yrs away, I wonder how many of the young men, would die in World War I? How many of THEIR sons would die in World War 2. How many, of the people seen here, would perish during the 1918 Spanish Flu?, Did any of these people have any idea as to the wonders and the horrors facing Americans, during the next few decades. What would I do, if I suddenly was transported back to San Francisco, in 1906? Conversely, what would happen, if any one of these people suddenly found themselves transported to the year 2022?
@yep still better than bank camera footage
@yep "Trying to proof". Of course you're illiterate, what a surprise.