100+ Year Old Film 13 Minutes

[hoarder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k

[Cebu_4_2]

Note the cop at :35

Some things never changed.

[Sparky]

Who's got comments/questions? Mine:

1) What chaotic travel! How were there not more accidents? Check out the car that crosses in front just after 6:00!
2) Did men own a closet full of suits, or did they wear the same one every day? Always amazed at how men wore suits and hats routinely all the time, even during the Depression.
3) Anyone know what city/street this is?

[chad]

awesome. thank you.

[platinumdude]

I like the comment, This is San Francisco where is the gay parade?

[Tom Roscal]

I'm going to start wearing suits when i ride my bike, awesome vid.

[sirgonzo420]

Who's got comments/questions? Mine:

1) What chaotic travel! How were there not more accidents? Check out the car that crosses in front just after 6:00!
2) Did men own a closet full of suits, or did they wear the same one every day? Always amazed at how men wore suits and hats routinely all the time, even during the Depression.
3) Anyone know what city/street this is?


Freedom is chaotic.

:)

[MNeagle]

Who's got comments/questions? Mine:

1) What chaotic travel! How were there not more accidents? Check out the car that crosses in front just after 6:00!
2) Did men own a closet full of suits, or did they wear the same one every day? Always amazed at how men wore suits and hats routinely all the time, even during the Depression.
3) Anyone know what city/street this is?


I believe it was common to have a set of clothes for the week, and another for Sunday. So, two suits of clothes basically (unless wealthy). Just look at closet sizes of older homes!

And yes, I thought it was San Fran too.

[platinumdude]

I was trying to find a gas station there, then looked up this:

The increase in automobile ownership after Henry Ford started to sell automobiles that the middle class could afford resulted in a greater demand for filling stations. The world's first purpose built gas station was constructed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1905 at 412 S. Theresa Avenue.[1] The second gas station was constructed in 1907 by Standard Oil of California (now Chevron) in Seattle, Washington at what is now Pier 32. Reighard's gas station in Altoona, Pennsylvania claims that it dates from 1909 and is the oldest existing gas station in the United States. Early on, they were known to motorists as "filling stations". The first "drive-in" filling station, Gulf Refining Co. opened to the motoring public in Pittsburgh in 1913 [2]. Prior to this, automobile drivers pulled into almost any general or hardware store, or even blacksmith shops in order to fill up their tanks. On its first day, the station sold 30 gallons of gasoline at 27 cents per gallon. This was also the first architect-designed station and the first to distribute free road maps

[Glass]

Our end of town had a general store with 2 bowsers installed out front. 1 was for kerosene and the other was for gasoline. The attendant would pump fuel into the reservoir at the top of the bowser where it flowed by gravity into the car or drum. While that was happening you sometimes got a quick look over, oil, water, clean windscreen....because they offered "service".... yes that's right. Service.

Of course this only happened in my memory.

[hoarder]

Who's got comments/questions? Mine:

1) What chaotic travel! How were there not more accidents? Check out the car that crosses in front just after 6:00!
2) Did men own a closet full of suits, or did they wear the same one every day? Always amazed at how men wore suits and hats routinely all the time, even during the Depression.
3) Anyone know what city/street this is?
Market St 'Frisco
None of those cars would top 20 MPH.
There were few fat people, back then they had to stay busy to get fed. There was no mass production, mechanized farms or mass distribution.

[Book]

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sf06city.gif

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hb6jWA1D5A4/TChjjqtI_rI/AAAAAAAAAGg/6UsjgkhbDiE/s1600/sf-1906-earthquake.jpg


One year later after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

[YukonCornelius]

The wide streets, bikes, cars, horses and trolley things going every which way and the complete openness was amazing. Being 23 and raised in the 90s it is so crazy to think of the lifestyle differences. Awesome video to see, breathtaking for me.

[willie pete]

Who's got comments/questions? Mine:

1) What chaotic travel! How were there not more accidents? Check out the car that crosses in front just after 6:00!
2) Did men own a closet full of suits, or did they wear the same one every day? Always amazed at how men wore suits and hats routinely all the time, even during the Depression.
3) Anyone know what city/street this is?




yep,...it's Market Street

[Book]

yep,...it's Market Street



http://sfcitizen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/IMG_6385-copy.jpg

Same direction as in the video. In both this photo and in the video the pointy building at the end of Market Street is the historic Ferry Building.

[hoarder]

Same direction as in the video. In both this photo and in the video the pointy building at the end of Market Street is the historic Ferry Building.
It's now called the Fairy building. Someone had to say it! ;D

[Book]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4252152255_b24448d840.jpg

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7956

[Bullion_Bob]

I remember checking this out several months ago, pretty fascinating to watch. There's a better version of it floating around.

[hoarder]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_Down_Market_Street

Back then everyone wore leather soled shoes which are quite slippery. Either the lens are distorted or everyone is taking long strides.

[Ponce]

A view of our future?..........that would be nice.........

[Sparky]

yep,...it's Market Street


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Same direction as in the video. In both this photo and in the video the pointy building at the end of Market Street is the historic Ferry Building.


Nice photos, Book. Thanks. Been to SF many times, but have never visited this building.

[Book]

yep,...it's Market Street


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Same direction as in the video. In both this photo and in the video the pointy building at the end of Market Street is the historic Ferry Building.


Nice photos, Book. Thanks. Been to SF many times, but have never visited this building.



http://foundsf.org/images/0/0e/Ferry-bldg-with-departing-ferries-1912.jpg

Thanks. Back in 1906 there was no Golden Gate Bridge or Bay Bridge. Everybody had to ride the ferry to get to Oakland and Sacramento. That ferry building was a very busy place. Without the ferry people had to ride horseback south around San Jose then go east or north.

http://ca.water.usgs.gov/toxics/images/SFBayMapFeaturedResearch_250w.jpg

[vacuum]

Watching that was kind of surreal. You could feel the difference in the air, a non-physical difference.

[Twisted Titan]

Every Dime a Person had was Silver And ever Peice of Paper Money could be be Redeemed for Hard Currency on the spot.

Dam.......what a time to be alive.


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[freespirit]

we have truely lost something between then and now....i often feel i was born several generations too late.

[nunaem]

we have truely lost something between then and now....i often feel i was born several generations too late.


Do not forget that they were in decline as well. If you lived in 1906 it would seem degenerate compared to 1806. Such is the Kali Yuga.

[DMac]

Fascinating. Thanks hoarder

[Sparky]

Every Dime a Person had was Silver And ever Peice of Paper Money could be be Redeemed for Hard Currency on the spot.
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LOL, that thought crossed my mind too as I was watching!

[StreetsOfGold]

Not one person in this video is alive today.

Job 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?