According to an e-mail I received, this nearly-nine-minutes-long film was made in San Francisco, California, just four days before the great 1906 earthquake and devastating fire that destroyed most of the city. Apparently someone attached a camera to the front of a cable car. The sound was added much later, obviously, but if the film is genuine it is truly an amazing “slice of life” from more than one hundred years ago.
Click here to see San Francisco in 1906 (8:49).
Wow, what amazing footage.
ReplyDeletegosh this was interesting Seems people cars and horses could go wherever they wanted on the streets.
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MY COMMENT, IS WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO GO ANY WHERE ON SAN FRANCISCO'S STREETS??????shop till you drop????
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this interesting video
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Thanks for watching, Elizabeth, A Lady's Life, Putz, and richies.
ReplyDeleteOh, and welcome back to blogland, richies.
What a wonderful find Robert. Thanks for sharing it! A treasure.
ReplyDeleteWonderfully hypnotic. There seem to be no highway rules - either for vehicles or pedestrians. A beautiful chaos.
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