From Northern Ireland. America seems to have been very prosperous when other countries were not. Looks like a wonderful time and place. Wish i could be dropped into that time and place for just a few days. This is the next best thing.
@@TheDanEdwardsnope, she was right on both counts. America would not be at war for 4 more years and the depression was all but over by that time (1937). We are far closer to complete annihilation now so should we just give up?
I’ve lived in S.F. for 40 years now, and while of course much has changed, much of what is shown here hasn’t, at least physically. Different cars, more buildings, and less pollution ( ferries and trains were crazy toxic), but mostly it was a place where people lived and at least tried to keep it clean and civil. Make no mistake, there was rampant racism towards non-whites; corruption throughout government; and a heavy military presence all over the Bay Area that was just 4 years away from being expanded exponentially. But you could call it innocent times as well, before the City and world grew up hard during WWII. It went back to similar conditions to this through the 50’s (after the war), but went through radical changes in the 60’s and 70’s. Things leveled out a bit in the 80’s and 90’s, but after about 2000 the changes accelerated, with the growth of residential skyscrapers and removal of structures - like some freeways and derelict districts that gentrified heavily thru the 2010’s. But homelessness and drugs began to change the downtown areas from then to today. If you drive maybe 2 miles west of downtown, out through the districts to the ocean, it has really not changed very much at all since these times. It’s safe and clean, and folks have a sense of community still. It’s a shame what’s happened in the City core, and while billions are spent to deal with the problems, it’s just flushed away because our policies don’t hold folks accountable for their actions …drives me nuts. I love the weather here, which is why I stay, but it’s getting harder and harder to deal with human waste on the sidewalks, and people passed out in the tough areas. $12/hour parking meters, $18 cocktails, and $4000 month apartment rents are taking the fun away. Time to leave, and it will hurt a lot…☹️
For me, the 20's thru the 50's seems to hold my interest the most. I was born in the 70's, and listening to my parents and grandparents lives which took place during those decades is what is the most fascinating to watch.
I feel the same!! 💯 Almost like I lived in those times once, in a past life? 🤔🤷♀️ The fashion, the art deco design, the cars, the societal and moral clarity, and the air of general self-respect most seemed to have back then. It speaks to my soul! 🥰
I grew up in the 70's and 80's, and watching the country go completely to hell just in my adult lifetime is agonizing. Everyone in the so-called "ruling class" sold us out.
These restorations are just magnificent. This one is especially fantastic, because both my parents, and grandparents were living in San Francisco during the 1930’s. My dad worked at W&J Sloan Furniture, my mom was the accountant there. Wow!
This video is an absolute gem. I was born (1946) and raised in San Francisco. This video looks to be from 1937/38 because of the cars and both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay bridge are open. Except for the cars, everything in this video is how I remember the city growing up in the’50s. Crowded Market street, the cable car turnarounds, and even the ferry boats. Used to love going across the bay on the ferry boats with my folks. The City was great back then, not so much now.
Oh, thank you...again! As usual, this video makes me happy and sad. If I could only get into a time machine. You would see me walking those streets. I would wave and smile to you all because I would stay and never come back.❤❤
Wow, I was so thrilled to see the San Francisco Airport terminal at 0:12. In the 1990s, I worked at the Airport’s leasing office. We were preparing for the new colossal international terminal that opened in the year 2000. One day, we drove out onto the airfield and I was shown a tiny building that was the original terminal built in 1927, when the airfield was called Mills Field. I was sad when I was told the tiny building would soon be demolished. The style of the interior of the building you see at 0:12 was copied as a tribute for the interior of the new international terminal (Terminal 2) that was opened at the end of 2000.
Lived in SF from 1984 - 1994. Once the Tech Bros moved in during the Dot Con in the late 90's the City went downhill. It was still a great place and clean while I was there. I remember all of these places and loved it
I lived there for most of that time as well. The earthquake in '89 was the turning point for me. Nothing was ever quite the same after that in my eyes. It seemed like everything got worse in a short time period.
Yes, got very expensive ... came here in 1988 and by 99 it was changing fast, All the tall buildings ruined the beautiful bay and hill views. About 2017 it started really downhill ..as far as quality of life with all the street people and empty storefronts graffiti crime. So sad,..leaving next year. In 1988 my thoughts were live the rest of my life here
FANTASTIC!!! Thank you, Thank you!!!... Grandpa & Grandma would have been in their late 30's. Dad would have been 8. Of course did not see them anywhere. But great job of showing many faces recognizable...Some folk now alive might recognize their ancestors...💗
Nass, always loved San Francisco. Visited there as a kid in the 1970's. One of my favorite cities along with New York City! Loved the peoples dress back then. They always looked nice. Love close-up of people at 3:34! Cool! I love the cars of the period too! Thanks for the upload. 😊👍👍
Another excelent video of our Bay Area,NASS! That was when SFO was still called Mills Field. Also the train station right after the airport scene looks either like Millbrae or Burlingame station. I live in Millbrae, just a couple of miles from SFO.
Thank you so much for this! Not only do I adore that era, I lived for many years in SF in the 70s/80s and visit often. I was SO fun to see what remains, what has been replaced, and what was there before. LOVE it!
Great compilation of scenes. They're from 1938, when the Call Building was modernized. My father grew up in Detroit and was stationed in California during WWII, before he went to Europe to fight. I can easily see how he fell in love with SF's beauty. He convinced my mom to move out here before I was born.
I was born in 1948 and raised in the City. Glen Park. Nice to see the City back in the day. A lot of those older buildings are no longer there, but a lot still are. This video is from when my folks were growing up there.
100 times more prosperous and civilized than it is now! No rampant shoplifting, no camped out bums and druggies on the street, no smash and grab car break ins, no piles of fresh feces in the streets and on the sidewalks, and most importantly no widespread shuttered businesses because of out of control crime and defunding the police. I worked South of Market in the late 1980’s, and even in that not so great neighborhood crime wasn’t bad. I could leave my car parked for 12 hours under the freeway, in a cheap $4 a day gravel lot with no light or attendant, and come back at 3 am and the car would be fine. Now they break into your car at the stoplight! Incredible quality on this restoration, thank you for making it available! 🙏
Before the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, policies heavily limited immigration from non-European countries, resulting in cities that were predominantly white in earlier decades. These visuals are a stark reminder of how immigration laws have influenced the cultural and ethnic makeup of the United States over time.
This was not a lovely time if you were Chinese-American. The Chinese-American population experienced racial discrimination and they were prohibited from owning any real estate property outside of Chinatown up until 1960.
@@user-pf5xq3lq8i San Francisco's restrictions on property ownership by Chinese Americans were tied to broader discriminatory laws in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which aimed to confine Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans to specific areas like Chinatown. The key legal framework that allowed for such practices was racially restrictive covenants and local policies. These mechanisms were used to exclude Chinese Americans from owning or renting property in many parts of San Francisco. De facto segregation was heavily enforced through: ● Zoning laws and unwritten practices. ● Racial covenants, which were private agreements between property owners. ● Broader racial discrimination that aligned with federal and state laws, like the California Alien Land Law of 1913, which restricted "aliens ineligible for citizenship" (primarily Asian immigrants) from owning property. These discriminatory practices effectively restricted Chinese Americans to areas like Chinatown, often under the guise of public health and safety concerns. They remained enforced informally even after such legal covenants were rendered unenforceable by the courts, notably with the _Shelley v. Kraemer_ decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948, and were formally prohibited with the passage of the *Fair Housing Act of 1968.*
@@RaymondHng That happened in a lot of places in a lot of big cities in the US. And not just to the Chinese but to the Irish, Italians, Germans, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Catholics, etc. It eventually straightens itself out. And SF had a great China town with the best Chinese restaurants anywhere. It's not all bad.
Great job. Alas it kept freezing every few seconds. I suspect that may have been a problem on my end as no one else has commented on a similar issue. Still a great video.
Some great images with a true variety. For me, the sound design was obnoxious as the traffic noise suggested far more cars than we see in the film. Also, the noise is unrelenting and varies little through the time of the video. That said, I am in awe of the effort you must have put into creating this work.
Believe it or not most of these scenes are unchanged...but city has still been ruined by bike lanes and bus lanes and no left hand turn rules and the ugliest parking meters on planet Earth. The condos and skyscrapers are not built on the human scale. They make the city feel smaller not bigger.
I've lived in the Bay Area for 45 years. A lot has changed, and much for the worse. But the list you presented isn't that big of a deal. Ugly parking meters? Ha! No left hand turn rules? You like traffic backups? The city center has tall buildings but that's not unique to San Francisco. What's changed is that social norms went from people acting fairly normal as pictured here to streets cluttered with bums. The city center has been hollowed out by COVID fallout and rich tech workers who bid up housing so high that mere mortals can barely afford to live here. Great companies and small mom & pop businesses have failed. As of this writing (November 2024), the failed mayor was deposed and a new mayor will take over to see if some kind of rescue can be done.
Frankly, the most egregious difference I saw was that a regular sized man simply wearing a police uniform could stand in the middle of the road and conduct traffic. Like…who would even try to do that these days?
My Dad was 15, mom was 9 going on 10. When they married in June 1950, they spent a honeymoon staying at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. People looked very classy then, dressing nice. No yelling, cussing or probably, little Stress, yes there was still terrible racial divides then. 1938, about half way into FDR's 2nd term. Think America started pulling out of the depression more somewhat, WW2, that really changed our economic trajectory, one could say.
Looked a great place to be then, proud people, proud of their city, proud of their own appearance, proud of their streets, the squalid scenes there now and documented elsewhere on this platform take a strong stomach to watch, America has lost its way, needs to regain its dignity and strength, amen.
NASS thank you for another great restoration. 2:36 is the 12th District Naval Headquarters during WWII and my Mom was stationed there. I walked by this building from BART every day. The escalator would be in the bottom left. The road is closed off and it is United Nations Plaza now. Used to be a great Farmers Market there. It is now a Federal Building. The next building is the SF Public Library. Later it would become the Asian Museum. I walked by it during remodeling. The library would be built right across the street. The next building is City Hall. 4:34 I believe is the former Furniture Mart building and Twitter/X building. 5:28 to right is Hyde. Beyond statue is a statue of Ashurbanipal holding a book and a lion. Building on far right is Orpheum Theatre. Bldg beyond that is 12th District Naval HQ during WWII. To left of fountain is Asian Art Museum formerly SF Public Library. To left would be new SF Public Library. 6:46 is the SF Opera House. Walked by it one day with a co worker and they said “watch out” as a lady was walking a donkey on the sidewalk, perhaps for Don Quixote. This is Van Ness. 6:48 is the Herbst Theatre.
Absolutely wonderful! I notice that the background traffic sound is pretty uniform, so I assume the originals were shot MOS. Also, I couldn't find a single adult -- man or woman -- who wasn't wearing a hat!!
Fantastic video. I noticed water passing under the golden gate bridge is moving very fast out to sea. I don't know if it's the tide or if the current is always that strong, it certainly explains why you never see people swimming in the bay.
I’m wondering what the west coast was like during the depression? San Francisco looks like a wonderful place to be then. I visited last year and I’m ok if I never go back. It’s sad because I’ve visited many times in the 80’s and 90’s and envied the people who lived there. Now I just feel sorry for them.
Those are obviously professional models, who then, as now, were thin and beautiful. Models worked in department stores back then, as my mother did for a short while.
Every country and city goes through tough times just like all I said to go through tough times like Detroit San Francisco because of the financial crisis or the covid but just like America those cities always come back stronger
I worked in SF for 22 years from 1993-2015. I work adn the Pacific Coast Stock exchange (2:05) for 3 years, Have been inside the Law Office building at 2:14. I think this was a bank at the time? I did the structural upgrade cost estimate for 50 U.N. plaza (2:25, not sure what it was called then). I want to say 3:15 is looking down Mongomery or Kearny toward Market, but I can't find any markers. Could be further up Market toward the Embaradero. 3:27 might be Ellis looking at Cyril Magnin where that long sushi place is, but not certain. And 4:43 is on Sutter over the Stockton tunnel, right above where the Green Door Massage is now. There is a huge city garage there now in place of that building. 4:54 is the Market street entrance to the Palace Hotel (not the main entrance). I wish it was the main entrance as the Palace's main entrance used to be a carriage court. Wonder if it was already filled in with the Garden Court Restaurant and lobby by '38? 14:04 never knew the Fairmont had a Porte-cochere at one time! 8:55, That is that place out by Japantown, right? 9:20 OH MY how the embaradero has CHANGED! 11:40 I believe the 57 sign was still up in the 70's but not certain. That's all I've got folks! Chime in with your own replies. And someone get the footage and do a side by side Then vs. today? Would be awesome!
Native San Franciscan here. This video reminds me of how much I miss the old skyline. Now it looks horrible with ugly, square, modern towers. I greive for my city. The charm and fun are gone.
I liked how people use to dress back then. It's like everyone gave a damn about looking stylish. I was there for the first time a few years ago. A lot of it has changed. Oh and fun fact; 40 to 60 years from the time this video was originally recorded, in pop culture, this city was the settings for Charmed 1990s TV series, Full House/Fuller House and The Star Trek franchise as the home of the Halliwell family, the Tanner and Gibler families, and Starfleet Headquarters respectively. Anyway, great restoration.
Good video. Notice that all the women wore dresses, not one pants suit to be seen, and all the men wore hats. Interesting to see Alcatraz and realizing that it was a functioning prison at the time of this footage. There was a Norman Rockwell moment @08:30 of an entrepreneurial young boy shining a man’s shoes.
I am a native San Franciscan. Generations from now people will view this video, and will wonder how we got so far down the drain. San Francisco at one time was a world-class city ranking with London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. No, due to failed policies. It has the generated to a third world dystopia.
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From Northern Ireland. America seems to have been very prosperous when other countries were not. Looks like a wonderful time and place. Wish i could be dropped into that time and place for just a few days. This is the next best thing.
" Looks like a wonderful time and place. "
@@TheDanEdwardsnope, she was right on both counts. America would not be at war for 4 more years and the depression was all but over by that time (1937). We are far closer to complete annihilation now so should we just give up?
@@TheDanEdwards Brain dead Ed strikes again. Like it's so much better now? Get your head out of your ass.
it was that way up until the 1980's
I’ve lived in S.F. for 40 years now, and while of course much has changed, much of what is shown here hasn’t, at least physically. Different cars, more buildings, and less pollution ( ferries and trains were crazy toxic), but mostly it was a place where people lived and at least tried to keep it clean and civil.
Make no mistake, there was rampant racism towards non-whites; corruption throughout government; and a heavy military presence all over the Bay Area that was just 4 years away from being expanded exponentially. But you could call it innocent times as well, before the City and world grew up hard during WWII.
It went back to similar conditions to this through the 50’s (after the war), but went through radical changes in the 60’s and 70’s. Things leveled out a bit in the 80’s and 90’s, but after about 2000 the changes accelerated, with the growth of residential skyscrapers and removal of structures - like some freeways and derelict districts that gentrified heavily thru the 2010’s. But homelessness and drugs began to change the downtown areas from then to today.
If you drive maybe 2 miles west of downtown, out through the districts to the ocean, it has really not changed very much at all since these times. It’s safe and clean, and folks have a sense of community still. It’s a shame what’s happened in the City core, and while billions are spent to deal with the problems, it’s just flushed away because our policies don’t hold folks accountable for their actions …drives me nuts.
I love the weather here, which is why I stay, but it’s getting harder and harder to deal with human waste on the sidewalks, and people passed out in the tough areas. $12/hour parking meters, $18 cocktails, and $4000 month apartment rents are taking the fun away.
Time to leave, and it will hurt a lot…☹️
So many buildings, cable cars, the Victorian homes, the Golden Gate Bridge is all still there beautiful as always!
For me, the 20's thru the 50's seems to hold my interest the most.
I was born in the 70's, and listening to my parents and grandparents lives which took place during those decades is what is the most fascinating to watch.
I feel the same!! 💯 Almost like I lived in those times once, in a past life? 🤔🤷♀️ The fashion, the art deco design, the cars, the societal and moral clarity, and the air of general self-respect most seemed to have back then. It speaks to my soul! 🥰
Athos, I was born in the late 1960's, and I feel the same way as YOU and other commenters here! Everything you said actually!
Me too even though I was born in the 60s.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's, and watching the country go completely to hell just in my adult lifetime is agonizing. Everyone in the so-called "ruling class" sold us out.
These restorations are just magnificent. This one is especially fantastic, because both my parents, and grandparents were living in San Francisco during the 1930’s. My dad worked at W&J Sloan Furniture, my mom was the accountant there. Wow!
Hii!! Thx!!!
Hello fellow third (or fourth) generation!! It is special to see this video. I can’t wait to share it with my family!
This video is an absolute gem. I was born (1946) and raised in San Francisco. This video looks to be from 1937/38 because of the cars and both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay bridge are open. Except for the cars, everything in this video is how I remember the city growing up in the’50s. Crowded Market street, the cable car turnarounds, and even the ferry boats. Used to love going across the bay on the ferry boats with my folks. The City was great back then, not so much now.
Sfeddie, Hi, I was thinking this video was probably late 1930's like you said. The time my father was born (1936)
Thx!!!
1938!
@@NASS_0 ok, Thanks! 😊👍
@ Did you grow up in S.F.? I lived on the Sunset.
Oh, thank you...again! As usual, this video makes me happy and sad. If I could only get into a time machine. You would see me walking those streets. I would wave and smile to you all because I would stay and never come back.❤❤
What a monumental buildings, and The Golden Gate bridge, and 100 years ago... Amazing!
Wow, I was so thrilled to see the San Francisco Airport terminal at 0:12. In the 1990s, I worked at the Airport’s leasing office. We were preparing for the new colossal international terminal that opened in the year 2000. One day, we drove out onto the airfield and I was shown a tiny building that was the original terminal built in 1927, when the airfield was called Mills Field. I was sad when I was told the tiny building would soon be demolished. The style of the interior of the building you see at 0:12 was copied as a tribute for the interior of the new international terminal (Terminal 2) that was opened at the end of 2000.
I LOVE THAT ALL THE PEOPLE WERE NICELY DRESSED. FOR CRY FROM WHAT YOU SEE NOW WHEN YOU SEE PEOPLE OUT AND ABOUT!
We always wore hats, gloves and our best dresses to go downtown SF as a child.
Thanks for these restoration works they are very spectacular these images from over 85 years ago seem to have been shot today. thanks Nass
thank you ;)
Lived in SF from 1984 - 1994. Once the Tech Bros moved in during the Dot Con in the late 90's the City went downhill. It was still a great place and clean while I was there. I remember all of these places and loved it
I lived there for most of that time as well. The earthquake in '89 was the turning point for me. Nothing was ever quite the same after that in my eyes. It seemed like everything got worse in a short time period.
Yes, got very expensive ... came here in 1988 and by 99 it was changing fast, All the tall buildings ruined the beautiful bay and hill views. About 2017 it started really downhill ..as far as quality of life with all the street people and empty storefronts graffiti crime. So sad,..leaving next year. In 1988 my thoughts were live the rest of my life here
2024 looks more like the great depression than the great depression. Unrecognizable today.
Никаких телефонов, нервов, панических атак, мошенников, и такая архитектура, какой нет сейчас, даже не верится, и это в 30 е годы ❤красота❤
Thank you so much NASS for an another historical video from the past!
Tom Sisson
Thank you
Wow! A beautiful place then. Thank you for posting this.
Thank you ;)
FANTASTIC!!! Thank you, Thank you!!!... Grandpa & Grandma would have been in their late 30's. Dad would
have been 8. Of course did not see them anywhere. But great job of showing many faces recognizable...Some folk
now alive might recognize their ancestors...💗
My grandpa was 21 and in San Francisco then as well ❤❤❤Gosh I miss him soooooo much
Nass, always loved San Francisco. Visited there as a kid in the 1970's. One of my favorite cities along with New York City! Loved the peoples dress back then. They always looked nice. Love close-up of people at 3:34! Cool! I love the cars of the period too! Thanks for the upload. 😊👍👍
Hi sonnycorleone!!
@@NASS_0 😊Hi My friend!
Incredibly beautiful....thanks from 🇩🇪
Thx!!
Thank you for preserving our past it is really interesting and fascinating to see these videos ❤
Thank you
Another excelent video of our Bay Area,NASS! That was when SFO was still called Mills Field. Also the train station right after the airport scene looks either like Millbrae or Burlingame station. I live in Millbrae, just a couple of miles from SFO.
Thx!! ^^
Thanks, I was wondering what the station was, it certainly wasn’t 4th & Townsend.
I love watching people busy with their daily routine.
Just wonderful. Brings you back to times long gone.
I remember when I was a kid riding the ferries from Oakland to SF in the 1950s. lots of fun.
This is so magical watching from Australia, thank you!
Thank you ;)
Спасибо!!!! Очень люблю рассматривать в кинохронике прошлых десятилетий сами улицы, людей, обычаи и многое другое!!!!!...
Thank you so much for this! Not only do I adore that era, I lived for many years in SF in the 70s/80s and visit often. I was SO fun to see what remains, what has been replaced, and what was there before. LOVE it!
Thank you for making these video's.
Hi Thx!!
Great compilation of scenes. They're from 1938, when the Call Building was modernized. My father grew up in Detroit and was stationed in California during WWII, before he went to Europe to fight. I can easily see how he fell in love with SF's beauty. He convinced my mom to move out here before I was born.
I was born in 1948 and raised in the City. Glen Park. Nice to see the City back in the day. A lot of those older buildings are no longer there, but a lot still are. This video is from when my folks were growing up there.
I was born in 1949 in San Francisco and we have both seen the changes and it is not our city anymore blessings to you and yours
there are much more people on these streets, than when
I was there in the 1990s ... 🙆♀️🙄
HIV/AIDS was a big problem in the 1990s
Thrilling. Glad to see you're doing so well.
100 times more prosperous and civilized than it is now! No rampant shoplifting, no camped out bums and druggies on the street, no smash and grab car break ins, no piles of fresh feces in the streets and on the sidewalks, and most importantly no widespread shuttered businesses because of out of control crime and defunding the police.
I worked South of Market in the late 1980’s, and even in that not so great neighborhood crime wasn’t bad. I could leave my car parked for 12 hours under the freeway, in a cheap $4 a day gravel lot with no light or attendant, and come back at 3 am and the car would be fine. Now they break into your car at the stoplight!
Incredible quality on this restoration, thank you for making it available! 🙏
NO TECH BROS
@@KnoxBronson OR ANY HIGH LIBS THAT VOTE FOR CRIMINAL CODDLING POLITICIANS
Stats don't say that's Gramps but sure old timer,sure
This video quality is outstanding. Thank you!
Thank you
Before the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, policies heavily limited immigration from non-European countries, resulting in cities that were predominantly white in earlier decades. These visuals are a stark reminder of how immigration laws have influenced the cultural and ethnic makeup of the United States over time.
I remember SF from the late 50s, early 60s as a kid from SJ. Mom used to take me there at Christmastime. It was beautiful.
Great job Thanks - I always love your posts. 👍👍👍👍👍
Hi Thx!!
Nass, thanks for another great restoration!
Thx!!
thank YOU!! for all these videos you fix and present!! they are amazing!!
hii thank you!
Charming as always 👍👍👍
👏🌟. Hey there,
Awesome work, you really nailed it!
What a fantastic film!
Wishing you a wonderful day 💚🌟
Thx!!
This is probably the best city scenes from the 1930's of SF, very good colors on this one.
Absolument magnifique ! Les styles se télescopent joyeusement.
L'activité économique n'est pas débordante en cette époque post 1929. Quel marasme !
Un grand merci !
What a lovely time to live in SF. Things were clean, civilized, life was moving upward for folks.
This was not a lovely time if you were Chinese-American. The Chinese-American population experienced racial discrimination and they were prohibited from owning any real estate property outside of Chinatown up until 1960.
**Professional victim detected**
@@user-pf5xq3lq8i **History denialist detected**
@@user-pf5xq3lq8i San Francisco's restrictions on property ownership by Chinese Americans were tied to broader discriminatory laws in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which aimed to confine Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans to specific areas like Chinatown. The key legal framework that allowed for such practices was racially restrictive covenants and local policies. These mechanisms were used to exclude Chinese Americans from owning or renting property in many parts of San Francisco. De facto segregation was heavily enforced through:
● Zoning laws and unwritten practices.
● Racial covenants, which were private agreements between property owners.
● Broader racial discrimination that aligned with federal and state laws, like the California Alien Land Law of 1913, which restricted "aliens ineligible for citizenship" (primarily Asian immigrants) from owning property.
These discriminatory practices effectively restricted Chinese Americans to areas like Chinatown, often under the guise of public health and safety concerns. They remained enforced informally even after such legal covenants were rendered unenforceable by the courts, notably with the _Shelley v. Kraemer_ decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948, and were formally prohibited with the passage of the *Fair Housing Act of 1968.*
@@RaymondHng That happened in a lot of places in a lot of big cities in the US. And not just to the Chinese but to the Irish, Italians, Germans, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Catholics, etc. It eventually straightens itself out. And SF had a great China town with the best Chinese restaurants anywhere. It's not all bad.
SF is an awesome place to visit. I was there 2016. I truly enjoyed it there. I went with SF with a cuz who really knows that place.
Wonderful footage ❤
Thank you
NASS, great work!
Thank you ^^
Thank You!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you
Imagine seeing Alcatraz island while it was still open!
I noticed how nobody is looking down on smartphones like people do nowadays.
No fat people in electric carts, no mcdonalds and kfc and starbucks, no tents full of human feaces.
Before the highways and redlining, this actually looked like a human city
NASS! Thank you!
thx bro
It used to be a beautiful city, even 25-30 years ago. Not anymore :-(
Thank you! This brought tears to my eyes.
*sigh* If only we could go back.. 😪
We are in the way…
to what? 1936 with depression? no thanks
Great job. Alas it kept freezing every few seconds. I suspect that may have been a problem on my end as no one else has commented on a similar issue. Still a great video.
Thank you ;))
A masterpiece 😊
Thank you
Beautifully done, thank you!
Some great images with a true variety. For me, the sound design was obnoxious as the traffic noise suggested far more cars than we see in the film. Also, the noise is unrelenting and varies little through the time of the video. That said, I am in awe of the effort you must have put into creating this work.
When streets are clean, people are civilized and dressed with sense of pride.
NY 15hrs!😮On a dual propeller plane! ✈️
Believe it or not most of these scenes are unchanged...but city has still been ruined by bike lanes and bus lanes and no left hand turn rules and the ugliest parking meters on planet Earth. The condos and skyscrapers are not built on the human scale. They make the city feel smaller not bigger.
Herb Caen would agree. So do I.
I've lived in the Bay Area for 45 years. A lot has changed, and much for the worse. But the list you presented isn't that big of a deal. Ugly parking meters? Ha! No left hand turn rules? You like traffic backups? The city center has tall buildings but that's not unique to San Francisco.
What's changed is that social norms went from people acting fairly normal as pictured here to streets cluttered with bums. The city center has been hollowed out by COVID fallout and rich tech workers who bid up housing so high that mere mortals can barely afford to live here. Great companies and small mom & pop businesses have failed. As of this writing (November 2024), the failed mayor was deposed and a new mayor will take over to see if some kind of rescue can be done.
Frankly, the most egregious difference I saw was that a regular sized man simply wearing a police uniform could stand in the middle of the road and conduct traffic. Like…who would even try to do that these days?
Great video super NASS big support from Croatia
Thx bro
Fascinating video... Great America... Thank you🎉🎉😊
Beautiful old movie nice
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Beautiful!
No graffiti, no homeless, etc.
When America had religion in public schools the cities were much nicer than they are today.
Coincidence? I think not.
My Dad was 15, mom was 9 going on 10. When they married in June 1950, they spent a honeymoon staying at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. People looked very classy then, dressing nice. No yelling, cussing or probably, little Stress, yes there was still terrible racial divides then. 1938, about half way into FDR's 2nd term. Think America started pulling out of the depression more somewhat, WW2, that really changed our economic trajectory, one could say.
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What?!
I like how I see no tents, nobody getting robbed or carjacked.
I miss this. Grew up during this time and loved it.
Hence why 1992 is in your username 🙄
" Grew up during this time and loved it."
@@TheDanEdwards Did you look into your crystal ball?
Looked a great place to be then, proud people, proud of their city, proud of their own appearance, proud of their streets, the squalid scenes there now and documented elsewhere on this platform take a strong stomach to watch, America has lost its way, needs to regain its dignity and strength, amen.
Maybe you've been deceived.
@@TheDanEdwards Maybe you've been lobotomized?
My own eyes don't deceive. Muppet.
It sure looks a lot better than today .. how people are dressed .. my gosh .. how nice ...
A tear comes to my eyes to see it they have painted the streets Red!!!!
NASS thank you for another great restoration. 2:36 is the 12th District Naval Headquarters during WWII and my Mom was stationed there. I walked by this building from BART every day. The escalator would be in the bottom left. The road is closed off and it is United Nations Plaza now. Used to be a great Farmers Market there. It is now a Federal Building. The next building is the SF Public Library. Later it would become the Asian Museum. I walked by it during remodeling. The library would be built right across the street. The next building is City Hall. 4:34 I believe is the former Furniture Mart building and Twitter/X building. 5:28 to right is Hyde. Beyond statue is a statue of Ashurbanipal holding a book and a lion. Building on far right is Orpheum Theatre. Bldg beyond that is 12th District Naval HQ during WWII. To left of fountain is Asian Art Museum formerly SF Public Library. To left would be new SF Public Library. 6:46 is the SF Opera House. Walked by it one day with a co worker and they said “watch out” as a lady was walking a donkey on the sidewalk, perhaps for Don Quixote. This is Van Ness. 6:48 is the Herbst Theatre.
thank you
Cool video super NASS bIg support from Croatia
Back when the US had infrastructure that was maintained and something to be proud over
Back when they had law and order you could walk the streets with no worry!
Well, the mob had quite a presence back then.
Absolutely wonderful! I notice that the background traffic sound is pretty uniform, so I assume the originals were shot MOS. Also, I couldn't find a single adult -- man or woman -- who wasn't wearing a hat!!
Unfortunately for San Francisco when you try to be everything to everyone you become nothing to anyone
Fantastic video. I noticed water passing under the golden gate bridge is moving very fast out to sea. I don't know if it's the tide or if the current is always that strong, it certainly explains why you never see people swimming in the bay.
I’m wondering what the west coast was like during the depression? San Francisco looks like a wonderful place to be then. I visited last year and I’m ok if I never go back. It’s sad because I’ve visited many times in the 80’s and 90’s and envied the people who lived there. Now I just feel sorry for them.
3:20 Thin, classy elegant women shoppers. Compare and contrast to the filth on the streets today
Those are obviously professional models, who then, as now, were thin and beautiful. Models worked in department stores back then, as my mother did for a short while.
@@2MuchPurple "as now"? You haven't seen some of the recent Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues or some of the runway models these days
Why are you singling out just the women?
@@beatcomber I was just commenting on that one scene. Plenty of well-dressed, thin men walking about, too.
@@shootfirst2097 Cool, thank you.
Thanks!
Man, how far it has fallen.
"how far it has fallen."
@@TheDanEdwards Blind stupidity strikes again!
Cope harder mate. There are no tents full of human faeces back then.
Every country and city goes through tough times just like all I said to go through tough times like Detroit San Francisco because of the financial crisis or the covid but just like America those cities always come back stronger
I worked in SF for 22 years from 1993-2015. I work adn the Pacific Coast Stock exchange (2:05) for 3 years, Have been inside the Law Office building at 2:14. I think this was a bank at the time? I did the structural upgrade cost estimate for 50 U.N. plaza (2:25, not sure what it was called then). I want to say 3:15 is looking down Mongomery or Kearny toward Market, but I can't find any markers. Could be further up Market toward the Embaradero. 3:27 might be Ellis looking at Cyril Magnin where that long sushi place is, but not certain. And 4:43 is on Sutter over the Stockton tunnel, right above where the Green Door Massage is now. There is a huge city garage there now in place of that building. 4:54 is the Market street entrance to the Palace Hotel (not the main entrance). I wish it was the main entrance as the Palace's main entrance used to be a carriage court. Wonder if it was already filled in with the Garden Court Restaurant and lobby by '38? 14:04 never knew the Fairmont had a Porte-cochere at one time! 8:55, That is that place out by Japantown, right? 9:20 OH MY how the embaradero has CHANGED! 11:40 I believe the 57 sign was still up in the 70's but not certain. That's all I've got folks! Chime in with your own replies. And someone get the footage and do a side by side Then vs. today? Would be awesome!
Honestly I know I would be behind the times and the technology and advancement wasn’t there,but I wish I lived back in those times.❤
4:54 in the the same Palace Hotel that still exists today? I think it is in New Montgomery Street.
Look at all that crazy traffic.
Like go back time lovely
Native San Franciscan here. This video reminds me of how much I miss the old skyline. Now it looks horrible with ugly, square, modern towers. I greive for my city. The charm and fun are gone.
I liked how people use to dress back then. It's like everyone gave a damn about looking stylish. I was there for the first time a few years ago. A lot of it has changed. Oh and fun fact; 40 to 60 years from the time this video was originally recorded, in pop culture, this city was the settings for Charmed 1990s TV series, Full House/Fuller House and The Star Trek franchise as the home of the Halliwell family, the Tanner and Gibler families, and Starfleet Headquarters respectively.
Anyway, great restoration.
Good video. Notice that all the women wore dresses, not one pants suit to be seen, and all the men wore hats. Interesting to see Alcatraz and realizing that it was a functioning prison at the time of this footage. There was a Norman Rockwell moment @08:30 of an entrepreneurial young boy shining a man’s shoes.
I am a native San Franciscan. Generations from now people will view this video, and will wonder how we got so far down the drain. San Francisco at one time was a world-class city ranking with London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. No, due to failed policies. It has the generated to a third world dystopia.
I love the hats!!
What happened to this once proud and beautiful city. A civilization that has gone in reverse.
BLM and Kamala Harris really made it take a nose dive
@@MrsQ22 it started way before that
I wish I knew the answer, and it is sad, but what you say is 100% true
@@MrsQ22 Take your agenda elsewhere
Not so. London Breed is fired!
I sat and thought, Imagine if they had computers back then like we do today, they would be more than equal to us, in everyway.
If someone can find a way to go back please… Take me with you
What a beautiful place back then now look at it disgraceful🇺🇸🏴☠️😎
It looks so much cleaner.