San Francisco 1957

Rare footage captured om 8mm film around 1957 filmed in San Francisco and some footage of Sacramento. The Golden Gate Bridge, Trollies, Fort Sutter, Chinatown, San Francisco Bay and so much more. Take a trip back in time.

[@chuckf6163]

Absolutely beautiful, I love it!!!

[@jeanhansel5805]

Thank you for uploading this video! I was 15 years old in 1957 living in Wisconsin. After a family trip to San Francisco in 1958, I knew I wanted to come back and live here one day. I chose my 21st birthday in 1964 to move to San Francisco. It was great seeing in this video the Hills Bros coffee signage on top of a building which was then in an undeveloped South of Market area. Also, seeing the old Cliff House was a real treat, I have a terrible sense of directions, but I found San Francisco one of the easiest cities to find one's way around. Now in my senior years, I can sit back and remember all of the wonderful memories I have of earlier an earlier San Francisco. Politics and developers have ruined much of what was a wonderful and magical city, When Tony Bennett would sing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco", the song captured the romance and uniqueness of a city that ,sadly, is no more.

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

SO, U saw the whole hippy era. Lucky u. The city s not 100% ruined today, just the Shitterloin. Keep the faith, Lady.

[@bartonpercival3216]

Yup I remember San Francisco like this. I was born and raised in the city in the mid 50's. I still can remember as a small child living in the inner sunset district. My mother rented a lower flat on Lincoln Way and Funston right across from Golden Gate Park. I still remember her being so nervous when the Daly City quake struck in March of 1957. It was 5.7 and because it was close by, it knocked down the wires on our front telephone pole.

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

@@bartonpercival3216 HI WE MET on McCondray Ln, Poccia Hill, a diff ch, a year and a ...so ago. Bout 15 replies, so could be considered a conversation = rare on Yt standards. How ya been ? Suggest check out the TONY HALL critical interviews on Calif sth ch, last summer. There s your next Mayor, no matter he is aroun 80 ... The fellow is the old SF in flesh & in blood. Says a.o. it was a GLORIOUS city, his choice of adjective. (Not sure if the Calif sth ch still exists, a foreign-accented interviewer, prob ya know, can t recall the rest Calif ...Special, nah. O er

[@JAZZ4643indy]

I remember that beautiful city back in 1960 while serving in the US Navy..disgusting what’s going on there now…but just Maybe people will come to their senses and make the right decisions.

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

​@@JAZZ4643indyDOESN T LOOK that way. The HIC (=The homeless industrial complex) is the new mob of the neo-Barbary Coast; been ingrained into the power str thru hypocrite quasi-"solution" policies based on ridiculous amounts of grafted, ultra-left lenient EMPTY AIR that costs a half a billion per year 4 the "non-profits" thru salaries etc.
TONY HALL to the new mayor position, dig up - old school, senior senor, not SCENILE ..good interviews on forum !

[@asteverino8569]

I was born in San Francisco in 1954. I recognized some things down the peninsula also. Thanks.

[@marisgarcia6314]

Que feliz fui en San Francisco.!!

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

1:55 "South San Francisco, The Industrial City".... Boy, did my mom hate that sign but as a little girl I loved it. From our house in San Bruno, in the brand new suburban neighborhood of Crestmoor Heights, we had a HUGE picture window from which we could see the big sign on the hillside. Being a little girl I loved anything I could read. She also complaned (rightfully) about the big dark brown streaks the airliners of the time left across our view. PLUS when I was 2 or so, the Navy was still flying supersonic planes off the coast and we'd get a sonic boom every few times a month. I loved those too, but the suburbanites back then, like my parents, moved from San Francisco to live way up in the hills simply to get away from the noises of the City...
2:48 The Balclutha!!! A Cape Horner! My mom never got a chance to go on the tour but she always wanted to because our Irish great-great grandma went around the Horn on a ship like that in 1867 to work in San Francisco. I, however, have been on the ship 5 times or so.
4:23 The Jesus on the dashboard really REALLY takes me back. Wow. Nearly every Christian family in my neighborhood in San Bruno who drove a station wagon had a plastic Jesus on the dashboard... ua-cam.com/video/dG9tuuznL1Y/v-deo.htmlsi=tIq1GQBnGuZoq2UW&t=19
8:21 I always remember that Hills Brothers coffee sign. Too bad 8mm movie cameras couldn't film at night. I always remember the Panter's Peanuts neon sign with a big Mr Peanut and 6 (?) little Mr Peanuts alongside as you entered SF on 101. Also the Hamm's Beer sign with the big glass filling up with golden lights and then flipping to white at the top to show the head of foam....for a little kid those were so awesome!!!
Union Square. Now is just full of empty buildings and police presence. Don't you love a one party liberal state, whose Chairman proudly states
ua-cam.com/video/55cG7EytB7M/v-deo.htmlsi=mUfE7Vz8G-RGqPLz as well as "As California goes, so goes the nation". I have twiXed him so frequently as to why he simply hates the USA and, just like his misanthropic Auntie Nancy, just want to stomp Calunicornia into the ground, for some bizarre reason, as to who exactly made him feel like that!!??

[@jacktietjen5107]

I was with you until you started the politics. Oh, my God. Do you folks ever stop? I was born in Oakland in 1953. I loved the city then and today, it's just a system of adjustments. What a wonderful film. Thanks for sharing.

[@jec1ny]

☝☝☝ Subscribed.

[@suppylarue220]

however your description is WRONG.
there was NO trolley depicted.
It is a CABLE CAR.

[@bumperu]

Toll 75 cents. LOL.