I moved to SF in 1964, and am grateful and thankful for this video. Those were the days when the cable cars clattered up and down the hills and the stringent scent of the cables was in the air. Years later, the cable cars were made safer (heavier on the tracks) and the stringent smell of the cables was gone forever. Seeing the cable cars move along their tracks in the Nob Hill neighborhood it's amazing how much of the area with its apartment buildings looks the same today.. I do miss the old green and cream colored streetcars and remember riding them on Market Street and into the Twin Peaks tunnel. Even an old 22 Fillmore bus makes an appearance in the video. The video makes me both said and happy - sad that those days are gone forever but happy that I was here to experience them.
Yes, and riding the cable cars was functional for us. We would just jump on and jump off. Now they are for tourists who have to get in line and wait to board. All the charm and fun are gone. Funny that you mentioned the old green and cream colored streetcars. I loved them as a child because there was always a single seat that I would sit in.
Two things. One, I found some slides of photos my dad took in 1959 as an 18 year old visiting SF on a road trip with his friends...and one of the same dudes turning the cable car around in your video is also in one of his photos! Second, I lived for a year in SF in '92, right where the California cable car began near Van Ness so I actually would take it to China town on my days off (it was covered by my monthly Muni pass) and I remember a distinct smell that I likened to tomato paste being scorched in a pan.
Hi, I lived in San Francisco when this was filmed, as a kid. All the scenes are from at least 60 years ago, some look more like the 1950s than the 1960s. One mistake: though the cable cars were red and yellow, the buses and streetcars back then were not. They were yellow and green! Later, in the 70s, was when they started the red and yellow buses. My mother didn't have a car, so I rode busses/streetcars almost every day to school, etc (Lowell HS)
If I could just go back in time to experience that decade of San Francisco, to shop, to listen to the music, to walk and see 1960s movies. Just to experience and nothing more.
It was a wonderful tine to be young there. I was in Jr. High in SF from 62-65 abd high school from 65-68. It was a great time there! You would have loved it. 🌺
We got a span from the mid 60's to very early 50's and yet those cable cars remain timeless. I always have to remind myself that NASS has added the well matched audio!
My Dad worked in the shipyards in the early 50's right out the navy with a young child at home - me. Lived in Hunter's Point and then Candlestick Cove - before the stadium was built. Thanks for this.
@@mikeyh0 I graduated from Lincoln High in 1964 and went to work straightaway at the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard. The “real world” learning experience was a real eye opener for this 17 year old. Served my four year shipwright apprenticeship then got drafted into the Army. Never returned to the shipyard when I got out. It closed a few years later.
@@mikeyh0 Well, until you graduate from high school, your whole life is basically family and school. You’re still a kid. Then, when you start in a place like the shipyard with around 5000 other people that are older than you, from all walks of life, you start learning what it’s like out there. I grew up fast.
I remember The City when it was a 'World Class City'. Not even a million people living there and yet it was known across the globe as a most beautiful, and classy city. It was safe and fun, and you could do a million things that were free or almost free. You could walk from one neighborhood to another, and you could smell different pleasant smells. There would be coffee roasting companies. Sour dough bread would be baked. They would be making chocolate. China Town with their cooking. It was just a fantastic city. If you're young, you missed it. Sorry, it isn't ever coming back. IT WAS SUCH A GRAND CITY.
Yes, I was born and raised in San Francisco in the mid 50's and the city back then was absolutely amazing. Playland at the beach, the Fox theatre on Market street, dinners at fisherman's wharf. What a glorious time to be living in San Francisco. My grandparents took my brother and me to fisherman's wharf every Friday night for dinner. Fabulous places like A.Sabella's, Tarantino's, Pompei's grotto, Castanolia's. So many places to fine dine at. Including the incredible Blum's bakery for their famous Sundae's and cakes!!!! Oh what memories!!!!! 🌉♥️
Longtime SUB, this Model Railroad Hobbyist is grateful for inspiring ideas for my train layout. Views into the past, such as Billboards, Storefront labeling, Auto and Truck years makes and models, plus those wonderful Sunday Morning relaxing raids though the business districts. My layout theme covers the point 1940-60s with background music of that time. You're a Treasure, continued success and GOD BLESS.
Lived in SF 26 years and love this 1960s/1950s restoration. Great job! Wonderful to see the Coffee Gallery and cable cars. I do lament how so many SF nostalgia videos become repositories of overly politicized negative comments about modern SF.
Judging from the hootenany sign in North Beach, the first part was early to mid-60s, the rest is 1950s. Love seeing the old cars. My family briefly had a Studebaker. It was always breaking down.
Great Awesome Post! How normal and cool it looks, and this is in the 1960's. SF was a "work in progress" then, and still is, this very day. Just amazing.
Beautifully done! I moved there in 1977, so most everything brings up a memory for me. The streets sights and sound that you added. I remember the cable car conductors would let you help turn the cable car around down at Fishermans Wharf. And the greatest street artists up and down the street. From Ghirardelli to the cable car line. thanks for sharing.
Nass, Great channel. I always loved San Francisco. My two favorite cities are New York City and San Francisco. Been to San Francisco as a young boy. This scene looks maybe early 1960's? Because At 4:56 you still had some 1940's cars still driving around. Thanks for the upload.
I heard Steve McQueen was very unhappy around that time though. Maybe it was his health or something. It surprised me to hear that about the King of Cool.
I am excited to research another NASS video and find the locations where the originals were shot. Any errors are my own, please correct any that you find. The first location I could match is at 0:55 the Figoni Hardware storefront is at 1351 Grant Ave in the Telegraph Hill area of SF, near Columbus Ave and not far from downtown. Next at 1:27 is a cable car coming down Powell Street, turning onto Jackson. The grand old buildings have not changed much over the years! Skip ahead to 2:03 for the cable car passing left to right...this is Powell at Pine street and my favorite locater in this research. Pause at 2:13 as the car crosses Pine Stree. In the distance there is a slender red roofed building with a small structure on top. That same structure is barely visible in the modern buildup...and it now is part of the Citi Bank building on Market street quite a distance away! At 2:25 when the cable car comes into view this is Powell Street at Market and is one of the famous 'turnarounds'. In the background is Woolworth's the same location shown vacant as of April 2022 on Google street view. Directly behind the photographer today stands the Axiom Hotel. Jump ahead to 3:22, appears to be near the same location from a different angle. The 'Hale Bros.' building has changed quite a bit...it is now Nordstroms...and the distinctive columns on the building behind it are 901 Market Street. The classic 3-bulb streetlights are still there! At 3:50 you would be standing on Powell Street near Ellis...much has changed but the Herbert Hotel on the left is still there! At 4:10 I believe this is the intersection of Jones and Washington. At 4:19 the arch that appears briefly in the background could be 1400 Jones Street. My next find is at 5:26, cable car entering Twin Peaks tunnel. If I am correct this is from near West Portal and Ulloa looking up toward Twin Peaks. Skip to 6:32 looks like an aerial view but could be from the top of Twin Peaks. I believe that is Market Street running straight toward the top of the frame with downtown San Francisco and the Bay Bridge in the distance. At 6:43 the view shifts left and shows two distintive hills, the Randall Museum now sits on the right and Buena Vista on the left. The shot pans left back to the previous view. At 6:59 a view of the Bay Bridge I believe shot from Telegraph Hill and the Coit Tower. At 7:24 the shot shifts back toward the city, the tall building on the right looks to be what is now La Mirada apartments and the one on the far left with and object on the peack looks like the complex on Green Street. And finally, just to the right of the previous shot, at 7:43 notice the windy street at the top of the hill on the left...the famous curvy part of Lombard...and in the background on the right the famous Golden Gate bridge. Hope you enjoyed the journey! Thanks to NASS for these spectacular videos!
If I had to wager a guess on the year, I would say '64 - '65. There are plenty of older-model cars, but if you look carefully you'll see a few from the mid-1960's. Regardless, it's a beautiful piece of film.
One of the greatest films of its type. I am a photographer and can tell that whoever made this film was a great. Look at the final scene of a city building framed by trees.
Yet another one of NASS's awesome time travel adventures. I only wish I could step through the screen and stay there. On a side note, the latter part of the footage is definitely earlier than the first. Probably not later than 1951-52.
This video brings back memories, I remember when we were kids, we’d help push the cable cars in the opposite direction, and hop back on to our destination!
I’m from the area and I was born way after the 60s. Not only does this make me look in awe of what my hometown used to look like, I’m also writing a 60s animated series in a city very similar to SF. It’s giving me lots of design ideas for my world building.
Thought I might see Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak walking around or a cameo of Alfred Hitchcock filming The Birds. A nice bit of nostalgia from the past. Thanks! 😊
Studied music and voice in San Francisco 1960-1963. Loved the city. Spent so many years growing up at "The Playland", the "Museum" and the "Zoo". Anniversaries and birthdays at "Fisherman's Wharf". Great memories !
The early part of the video is either late 1962 or early 1963. There is a 1963 Chevrolet Impala in it. Could've been purchased new in late 1962. Also a 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air. The second part of the video is the 1950's. Probably mostly 1957.
at 1.15 theres a 1964 Chevrolet bel Air wagon , Also at 1.40 I think its a 64 Pontiac Tempest parked and at 2.05 a 64 Chevelle HT. so the first part has to be atleast very late 1963, but more likely 1964.
I lived in Vallejo and came to the city often. If the young people of today could only have experienced it, I don’t think they’d want to come back to today’s world.
Nass, Great upload. Love your channel. I like the scene with the 3 male friends going to the trolley at 5:14. Has to be around 1954 to 1961 I would think? Thanks for the upload. 😊❤❤
For anybody interested in seeing a great film shot entirely around San Francisco during the early 70's... FREEBIE AND THE BEAN. James Caan and Alan Arkin. One of the first comedic buddy cop films with great chase sequences and over-the-top humor. A real must-see.❤
A majority of the footage is from 1956 or 57, when Hilo Hattie, a Hawaiian singer was touring the western United States. Her poster is on the back end of all the cable and streetcars.
I was born at Children's Hospital in S.F. in 1950. Hard to imagine the changes the City has gone through since then. Simpler times from a bygone era. My dad was a merchant marine during WW11, and traveled the world. He said S.F. was the most beautiful of them all. It's a shame that San Francisco lost it's innocence, and became what it is today.
1959, Mary’s Help Hospital on Guerrero (before it moved to Daly City and becameSeton Medical Center). Lived in the Dubose Triangle on Scott, and walked to school at Mission Dolores.
I’m a third generation native San Franciscan, born in 1963. WHAT MEMORIES I HAVE! San Francisco will go down as one of the most beautiful cities to fall. I thank God my parents and grandparents aren’t alive to see this travesty!
There's a lot of positives as well... The Warriors and Giants stadiums - are downtown and beautiful. The end of retail shopping and work from home - end up as stuff brought right to your door (Amazon/Door Dash) and work at home in your Pajamas (Technology). Time changes everything, but the city is still gorgeous - it's just facing many challenges.
Judging from the many 1940s model cars this was shot in the 1950s, not the ‘60s. What do others think? I didn’t visit SF until 1969, and lived there in the 1970s, but by then the cars were different. It was the last time housing was affordable.
Wow - I’ve seen NASS videos of San Fran since the late 1890s, with trolleys, with people manually turning the trolley around at the end of the line, late 1800s all the way to the 1960s!
Streets were clean and the people so neatly dressed. No tattoos or cutoff shorts! Even the young people were in slacks and nice shirts. A time that is gone forever I suppose!!? Pity!
Never been there, but after watching this video it has left me wondering how many accidents from brake failures there were due to the steep grades of the streets.
I was born in 59… I remember being at many of these places… My Father took me everywhere he went. Best time to live in the once great city of San Francisco. My uncle was a cable car operator. I remember the trolleys being green , buses too. Some of these shots were a little before me.
So cool to see this. So shocking to see how few cars and pedestrians compared to 1970, to present. We are so overwhelmed with thousands, millions of people who came from all over the world to live and work in the Bay Area. I find it very sad and I often wish everyone would just go home. Imagine how the indigenous people must have felt, particularly when strangers were slaughtering their food and them.
Yup, and in the 60's there use to be a place on green street just above grant street called The spaghetti factory. Use to be a fun place to eat at. But I think it closed in the mid 70's
Wow, great footage. Imagine, empty seats on cable cars, available street parking all over the place, heavenly. Although as others have noted I think a lot of hte footage predates teh 60's. It was great ot see the Embarcadero before the the Embarcadero Freeway, looking almost as good as it does now, after the Embarcadero Freeway. Full circle on that monstrosity. Can anyone tell me what the freeway looking artery road cutting across the city at 6:31 is? I'm thinking Geary, but I can't get my bearings.
@@bartonpercival3216 Of course! Now that you point it out. The mint is clearly visible right in the middle of the frame, on market. Don't know why I didn't key in on that. I was thiniing it was too far north to be Market. Thanks!
@@michaeld9261 Yup, I noticed that too. But I was born and raised in San Francisco in the mid 50's and left after living there for almost 45 years, so I knew where that was immediately!!!! Miss my birth city!! 👍🌉
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I moved to SF in 1964, and am grateful and thankful for this video. Those were the days when the cable cars clattered up and down the hills and the stringent scent of the cables was in the air. Years later, the cable cars were made safer (heavier on the tracks) and the stringent smell of the cables was gone forever. Seeing the cable cars move along their tracks in the Nob Hill neighborhood it's amazing how much of the area with its apartment buildings looks the same today.. I do miss the old green and cream colored streetcars and remember riding them on Market Street and into the Twin Peaks tunnel. Even an old 22 Fillmore bus makes an appearance in the video. The video makes me both said and happy - sad that those days are gone forever but happy that I was here to experience them.
Me too we share the same memories I miss my city and all the memories ❤❤❤
Yes, and riding the cable cars was functional for us. We would just jump on and jump off. Now they are for tourists who have to get in line and wait to board. All the charm and fun are gone. Funny that you mentioned the old green and cream colored streetcars. I loved them as a child because there was always a single seat that I would sit in.
Two things. One, I found some slides of photos my dad took in 1959 as an 18 year old visiting SF on a road trip with his friends...and one of the same dudes turning the cable car around in your video is also in one of his photos! Second, I lived for a year in SF in '92, right where the California cable car began near Van Ness so I actually would take it to China town on my days off (it was covered by my monthly Muni pass) and I remember a distinct smell that I likened to tomato paste being scorched in a pan.
Hi, I lived in San Francisco when this was filmed, as a kid. All the scenes are from at least 60 years ago, some look more like the 1950s than the 1960s. One mistake: though the cable cars were red and yellow, the buses and streetcars back then were not. They were yellow and green! Later, in the 70s, was when they started the red and yellow buses. My mother didn't have a car, so I rode busses/streetcars almost every day to school, etc (Lowell HS)
Megan, the 3 male friends going to the trolley at 5:14 must be around 1954-1961. Just my guess.
I know for sure there were some red buses at towards the end of the sixties.
@@Chrissy-j6v Looks about right I'd say.
@@johnsilva9139 Thanks John! 😊
Some cars are early 60’s. Corvair and Pontiac Tempest for one.
If I could just go back in time to experience that decade of San Francisco, to shop, to listen to the music, to walk and see 1960s movies.
Just to experience and nothing more.
pretty sure you'd be disappointed by lots of things.
@@SniffyPoo like what?
They would probably draft you and send you to fight in Vietnam
The Fox Theater toredown ended the era.
It was a wonderful tine to be young there. I was in Jr. High in SF from 62-65 abd high school from 65-68. It was a great time there! You would have loved it. 🌺
We got a span from the mid 60's to very early 50's and yet those cable cars remain timeless. I always have to remind myself that NASS has added the well matched audio!
Thx!!
@@NASS_0 Wow! I had no idea you did that. Bravo!!
@@websurfer5772 Thx!!
My Dad worked in the shipyards in the early 50's right out the navy with a young child at home - me. Lived in Hunter's Point and then Candlestick Cove - before the stadium was built. Thanks for this.
@@mikeyh0
I graduated from Lincoln High in 1964 and went to work straightaway at the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard. The “real world” learning experience was a real eye opener for this 17 year old. Served my four year shipwright apprenticeship then got drafted into the Army. Never returned to the shipyard when I got out. It closed a few years later.
@@sfeddie1 The real world - now there's a concept!
@@mikeyh0
Well, until you graduate from high school, your whole life is basically family and school. You’re still a kid. Then, when you start in a place like the shipyard with around 5000 other people that are older than you, from all walks of life, you start learning what it’s like out there. I grew up fast.
@@sfeddie1 yes! Shipyards! Blue collar! Family members were shipfitters,My best friends mother was even a welder in the yards during WWll!
To be 20-30 years old in the 60's and live in this area, wow!
I did I was stationed at Alameda when I was in the navy from 64 to 67 this is the San Francisco I knew though you have some of the colors wrong.
I helped close Alameda in 1993,after 16 years in the presidio army base
and know you will be the generation that totally destroys it all.
I did... and most of this is 1950's or way early 60's.
This is more 50's. By the 60's cars were more streamlined and men didn't wear hats.
I'd love to live then. When life was slower and not forced to be so damn quick.
And we took just one day at a time.
Technology made the rats run faster on the wheel. Now they cannot get off it
@@KittyKat-vb1nd That's actually spot on..
Technology forces time faster
I remember The City when it was a 'World Class City'. Not even a million people living there and yet it was known across the globe as a most beautiful, and classy city. It was safe and fun, and you could do a million things that were free or almost free. You could walk from one neighborhood to another, and you could smell different pleasant smells. There would be coffee roasting companies. Sour dough bread would be baked. They would be making chocolate. China Town with their cooking. It was just a fantastic city. If you're young, you missed it. Sorry, it isn't ever coming back. IT WAS SUCH A GRAND CITY.
It was spectacular in the 60s !! Bestcif memories!
I went as a young teenager in the late 70’s from England. I thought it was beautiful. It’s a shame how it’s deteriorated
...because it was a creation of the European-American
@@readwriter Amen W.P.
Exactly right!!! I literally watched Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsome and Kamala Harris turn that beautiful city into a sh!thole.😓😩😫🤧
My favorite scene is the Studebaker with all the travel stickers from places the owner has been to. Another great slice of time. Thanks, NASS.
Thx ;)
Speaking of travel, one of the cable cars had a Hilo Hattie advertisement on one of the ends.
Your videos are so mesmerizing and relaxing. Thank you.
Beautiful. Another great one. Thank you for your work. It was nice to take a trip back in time if only for a moment and only in my mind.
Thx!! ^^
This is a mixture of the 50s and 60s. This is the San Francisco I remember!
Yes, I was born and raised in San Francisco in the mid 50's and the city back then was absolutely amazing. Playland at the beach, the Fox theatre on Market street, dinners at fisherman's wharf. What a glorious time to be living in San Francisco. My grandparents took my brother and me to fisherman's wharf every Friday night for dinner. Fabulous places like A.Sabella's, Tarantino's, Pompei's grotto, Castanolia's. So many places to fine dine at. Including the incredible Blum's bakery for their famous Sundae's and cakes!!!! Oh what memories!!!!! 🌉♥️
Most of those automobiles had stick shifts! Driving up and down those hills took real skill!
I drive a stick shift, always have. I don’t have any problems driving here . 😊✌️
The streetcar line through the Stockton Tunnel ceased operation in 1951 and was replaced by the 30 Stockton Trolly Bus.
When SF was a Beautiful Place, Those Days Are Over and Missed Very Much✨
SF Doesn't miss you very much
@@manjitsadosingh4848maybe not but they will miss the millions that won’t travel there in the future any longer.
@@xltek1 why? Less traffic for us locals.
@@cheponis if that makes you happy, go with it.
@@manjitsadosingh4848 a fools answer! S.T.F.U. Boy!
urbanplanadvisor AI fixes this. San Francisco 1960s, vibrant color.
Longtime SUB, this Model Railroad Hobbyist is grateful for inspiring ideas for my train layout. Views into the past, such as Billboards, Storefront labeling, Auto and Truck years makes and models, plus those wonderful Sunday Morning relaxing raids though the business districts. My layout theme covers the point 1940-60s with background music of that time. You're a Treasure, continued success and GOD BLESS.
Lived in SF 26 years and love this 1960s/1950s restoration. Great job! Wonderful to see the Coffee Gallery and cable cars. I do lament how so many SF nostalgia videos become repositories of overly politicized negative comments about modern SF.
Thx!!
Judging from the hootenany sign in North Beach, the first part was early to mid-60s, the rest is 1950s. Love seeing the old cars. My family briefly had a Studebaker. It was always breaking down.
Yes, the first part of the video was early 1960's, but the rest, judging the age of the vehicles was very early 1950's.
@@jppurves7837 You can tell by the police cars - police cars are always late model cars.
Must have been a lemon. Studes were generally good cars.
The cars, make it look like, around 1964
@@jppurves7837ive seen some early 60s cars
Super Quality! Thanks for the work you do!
Thx!
I like it!!! The trolleys colorized; I have not seen that before. Very well done NASS! 👊😊
Thx!
Great Awesome Post!
How normal and cool it looks, and this is in the 1960's. SF was a "work in progress" then, and still is, this very day. Just amazing.
It is a sewer nowadays.
@@jamesbosworth4191 ...I forgot to mention... still a work in progress, because their situation has changed into nothing but... 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩❗
@@makesense7970 You mean a work in regression, not progress.
Excellent restoration, man! 👍👍👍💯
Beautifully done! I moved there in 1977, so most everything brings up a memory for me. The streets sights and sound that you added. I remember the cable car conductors would let you help turn the cable car around down at Fishermans Wharf. And the greatest street artists up and down the street. From Ghirardelli to the cable car line. thanks for sharing.
I have to agree this is the late 40s or 50s based on the automobiles and women’s clothing. I grew up in San Francisco in the late 50s through 70s.
Yes. Men wore hats until JFK's time. He made bare heads fashionable.
Nass, Great channel. I always loved San Francisco. My two favorite cities are New York City and San Francisco. Been to San Francisco as a young boy. This scene looks maybe early 1960's? Because At 4:56 you still had some 1940's cars still driving around. Thanks for the upload.
Thx!!!! bro^^ yes! early 1960's
I spotted a '64 Chevelle and a '63 Impala.
You can just make out Steve McQueen zooming around the corner in his Mustang.
…and Clint Eastwood stopping a robbery with “Go ahead. Make my. Day”.
I heard Steve McQueen was very unhappy around that time though. Maybe it was his health or something. It surprised me to hear that about the King of Cool.
I am excited to research another NASS video and find the locations where the originals were shot. Any errors are my own, please correct any that you find. The first location I could match is at 0:55 the Figoni Hardware storefront is at 1351 Grant Ave in the Telegraph Hill area of SF, near Columbus Ave and not far from downtown. Next at 1:27 is a cable car coming down Powell Street, turning onto Jackson. The grand old buildings have not changed much over the years! Skip ahead to 2:03 for the cable car passing left to right...this is Powell at Pine street and my favorite locater in this research. Pause at 2:13 as the car crosses Pine Stree. In the distance there is a slender red roofed building with a small structure on top. That same structure is barely visible in the modern buildup...and it now is part of the Citi Bank building on Market street quite a distance away! At 2:25 when the cable car comes into view this is Powell Street at Market and is one of the famous 'turnarounds'. In the background is Woolworth's the same location shown vacant as of April 2022 on Google street view. Directly behind the photographer today stands the Axiom Hotel. Jump ahead to 3:22, appears to be near the same location from a different angle. The 'Hale Bros.' building has changed quite a bit...it is now Nordstroms...and the distinctive columns on the building behind it are 901 Market Street. The classic 3-bulb streetlights are still there! At 3:50 you would be standing on Powell Street near Ellis...much has changed but the Herbert Hotel on the left is still there! At 4:10 I believe this is the intersection of Jones and Washington. At 4:19 the arch that appears briefly in the background could be 1400 Jones Street. My next find is at 5:26, cable car entering Twin Peaks tunnel. If I am correct this is from near West Portal and Ulloa looking up toward Twin Peaks. Skip to 6:32 looks like an aerial view but could be from the top of Twin Peaks. I believe that is Market Street running straight toward the top of the frame with downtown San Francisco and the Bay Bridge in the distance. At 6:43 the view shifts left and shows two distintive hills, the Randall Museum now sits on the right and Buena Vista on the left. The shot pans left back to the previous view. At 6:59 a view of the Bay Bridge I believe shot from Telegraph Hill and the Coit Tower. At 7:24 the shot shifts back toward the city, the tall building on the right looks to be what is now La Mirada apartments and the one on the far left with and object on the peack looks like the complex on Green Street. And finally, just to the right of the previous shot, at 7:43 notice the windy street at the top of the hill on the left...the famous curvy part of Lombard...and in the background on the right the famous Golden Gate bridge. Hope you enjoyed the journey! Thanks to NASS for these spectacular videos!
Thanks!!! ;)
Thank you, @dwhitty25!
Ooo! It's you and I'm so happy! 😊
Wow this actually makes me feel like I went back in time and I can actually see what life was like then.
Great shots , Thank You !!
Thx!!
Hey NASS, do you have any old footage of Oakland specifically? Trying to find some stuff
Beautiful, but some scenes the 50s. Very nice though.😊
Finally a video where most of the kids seen are still alive. (at least in 2024)
If I had to wager a guess on the year, I would say '64 - '65. There are plenty of older-model cars, but if you look carefully you'll see a few from the mid-1960's. Regardless, it's a beautiful piece of film.
One of the greatest films of its type. I am a photographer and can tell that whoever made this film was a great. Look at the final scene of a city building framed by trees.
Greetings from Redondo Beach 🇺🇸🇺🇸Wonderful collector’s item of video from the 60’s. 👌👌
Very nice work on this resto....
SF; I will always love thee....
Video went back to the 50s at about 3 minutes in
Yet another one of NASS's awesome time travel adventures. I only wish I could step through the screen and stay there. On a side note, the latter part of the footage is definitely earlier than the first. Probably not later than 1951-52.
Thx!!!
DITTOs!
Wow! Amazing restoration as always NASS!!!
I miss the SF of the 50's....
Life was so good then. 😊😊
This video brings back memories, I remember when we were kids, we’d help push the cable cars in the opposite direction, and hop back on to our destination!
Deffinately the 50's. Great video though. Liked & subbed.
Thx!! ^^
I’m from the area and I was born way after the 60s. Not only does this make me look in awe of what my hometown used to look like, I’m also writing a 60s animated series in a city very similar to SF. It’s giving me lots of design ideas for my world building.
Stationed at the Presidio 71/72. This is making me homesick or something of that sort. LOVED San Francisco.
Thought I might see Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak walking around or a cameo of Alfred Hitchcock filming The Birds. A nice bit of nostalgia from the past. Thanks! 😊
Studied music and voice in San Francisco 1960-1963. Loved the city. Spent so many years growing up at "The Playland", the "Museum" and the "Zoo". Anniversaries and birthdays at "Fisherman's Wharf". Great memories !
Wow! Vivid footage from another era, feeling like the people at the time. Thanks!
Awesome 🎉 Thank you for the awesome scenes
The early part of the video is either late 1962 or early 1963. There is a 1963 Chevrolet Impala in it. Could've been purchased new in late 1962. Also a 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air. The second part of the video is the 1950's. Probably mostly 1957.
at 1.15 theres a 1964 Chevrolet bel Air wagon , Also at 1.40 I think its a 64 Pontiac Tempest parked and at 2.05 a 64 Chevelle HT. so the first part has to be atleast very late 1963, but more likely 1964.
I saw a ’65 Impala. The second half looks to me like c.1952-53.
These films are a mixture of 50s and early sixties footage, based on the autos and dress styles.
I lived in Vallejo and came to the city often. If the young people of today could only have experienced it, I don’t think they’d want to come back to today’s world.
Nass, Great upload. Love your channel. I like the scene with the 3 male friends going to the trolley at 5:14. Has to be around 1954 to 1961 I would think? Thanks for the upload. 😊❤❤
Thx!!
I love seeing the steep hills and cable cars, just mesmerizing!!!!❤❤❤❤
For anybody interested in seeing a great film shot entirely around San Francisco during the early 70's...
FREEBIE AND THE BEAN.
James Caan and Alan Arkin.
One of the first comedic buddy cop films with great chase sequences and over-the-top humor. A real must-see.❤
Last comment I was reading 6 months ago instantly bought the DVD . Thank you for the reminder need another few copies to give as gifts .
Ahhhhhh.... warms my heart. So many memories of my home. Thank you.
Did you like it?
Look at all that parking...and cleanliness.
Cool, my parent's first date was at Haight & Ashbury in 1961 ❤
Man! Those were the days! I ❤ San Francisco!
Great work on the footage . A very useful tool for time travelers! 😌
A majority of the footage is from 1956 or 57, when Hilo Hattie, a Hawaiian singer was touring the western United States. Her poster is on the back end of all the cable and streetcars.
I was born at Children's Hospital in S.F. in 1950. Hard to imagine the changes the City has gone through since then. Simpler times from a bygone era. My dad was a merchant marine during WW11, and traveled the world. He said S.F. was the most beautiful of them all. It's a shame that San Francisco lost it's innocence, and became what it is today.
I was born in Mt. Zion hospital in 1950. 🙂
St Francis Hospital, 1951
I was born at St. Joseph’s in the late 1950s. My father was also a Merchant Marine during WWII.
1959, Mary’s Help Hospital on Guerrero (before it moved to Daly City and becameSeton Medical Center). Lived in the Dubose Triangle on Scott, and walked to school at Mission Dolores.
I’m a third generation native San Franciscan, born in 1963. WHAT MEMORIES I HAVE! San Francisco will go down as one of the most beautiful cities to fall. I thank God my parents and grandparents aren’t alive to see this travesty!
Same
3rd gen native also. Born one year before you. And daily I say thank god my past relatives will not see what has become of this city. Sigh
There's a lot of positives as well... The Warriors and Giants stadiums - are downtown and beautiful. The end of retail shopping and work from home - end up as stuff brought right to your door (Amazon/Door Dash) and work at home in your Pajamas (Technology). Time changes everything, but the city is still gorgeous - it's just facing many challenges.
@@peteybrianwhat 'they' have planned isn't gorgeous. Are you familiar with the boiled frog theory. Wake up!⏰
Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end... lovely to see it again.
Most of these scenes are from the 50s. Still great to watch.
7:00 No sign of the Embarcadero Freeway viaduct in this shot, which possibly places it before 1960?
Embarcadero freeway was removed in the mid 70s!!!!
@@user-cl7dj8iz6mNope. The embarcadero freeway was taken down after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989
I am from South City, Westboro. My dad drove for MUNI in the 60s and 70's.
The streets are more clean than they are today!
Judging from the many 1940s model cars this was shot in the 1950s, not the ‘60s. What do others think? I didn’t visit SF until 1969, and lived there in the 1970s, but by then the cars were different. It was the last time housing was affordable.
6:32 view from twin peaks.😮
Wow - I’ve seen NASS videos of San Fran since the late 1890s, with trolleys, with people manually turning the trolley around at the end of the line, late 1800s all the way to the 1960s!
What a beautiful, clean city it USED to be.
Breaks my heart to see how it just let itself go.
What I like seeing in this video are the older cars--RUST FREE! There was a `54 Coupe DeVille in one scene that looked brand new!!
This takes me back to the days when there still was a San Francisco. The cars look like early 50s.
Some scenes had 60s cars in them.
Streets were clean and the people so neatly dressed. No tattoos or cutoff shorts! Even the young people were in slacks and nice shirts. A time that is gone forever I suppose!!? Pity!
Changed in 1968
At least, in schools,
Girls had to wear dresses
Boys in slacks
No one in jeans
Great video.
No bums. No junkies. No poop on the sidewalk.
Nobody staring at their damn phone.
Just spellbinding to watch. One of my favorite parts is trying to place where some of these sites are today.
For color correct scenes of that era few movies can compare to Jimmy Stewart following Kim Novak in 1958's Vertigo.
I love those old Technicolor films. Video just doesn't compare, right?
Always nice to see old Bay Area! The Twin Peaks tunnel is also @5:13.
Wear some flowers 💐 in your hair if you’re going
Never been there, but after watching this video it has left me wondering how many accidents from brake failures there were due to the steep grades of the streets.
… and not the beauty and interest of the city … 🙄
Nice video. It gave me an yen for Rice-A-Roni 😄
David, Yes, I remember those commercials from the 1970's and 80's.. "Rice a Roni-The San Francisco treat!"
Great. 1960s then early 50s footage. Maybe late 40s.
I was born in 59… I remember being at many of these places…
My Father took me everywhere he went. Best time to live in the once great city of San Francisco. My uncle was a cable car operator. I remember the trolleys being green , buses too. Some of these shots were a little before me.
Groovy place, man. Meet a lot of gentle people there….yeah….
So cool to see this. So shocking to see how few cars and pedestrians compared to 1970, to present. We are so overwhelmed with thousands, millions of people who came from all over the world to live and work in the Bay Area. I find it very sad and I often wish everyone would just go home. Imagine how the indigenous people must have felt, particularly when strangers were slaughtering their food and them.
❤🎉❤❤❤❤THANK YOU, NASS!!!!❤
;))
Notice how clean it is
It looks so much better than it does today
Amazing panarama of the city from Twin Peaks(?) without the monstrous skyscrapers.
People are not allowed to be on the Cable Car when it's on the turntable anymore. That was always fun to do while turning around,
Coffee and Confusion and The Coffee Gallery near Figoni Hardware. Grant between Green and Vallejo.
Yup, and in the 60's there use to be a place on green street just above grant street called The spaghetti factory. Use to be a fun place to eat at. But I think it closed in the mid 70's
I didn't see a "Rice-a-Roni" ad on any of the cable cars.
When streetcars were used for transportation.
And cable cars were an integral part of the City's transit system, not an overpriced tourist attraction.
Nice work!!! Good ole days
Having been there a good number of times in my life, as well as living near there, San Francisco was the type of city that ran like clockwork.
Born and raised in San Francisco. What have these transplant natives done to my beautiful city?
Wow, great footage. Imagine, empty seats on cable cars, available street parking all over the place, heavenly. Although as others have noted I think a lot of hte footage predates teh 60's. It was great ot see the Embarcadero before the the Embarcadero Freeway, looking almost as good as it does now, after the Embarcadero Freeway. Full circle on that monstrosity. Can anyone tell me what the freeway looking artery road cutting across the city at 6:31 is? I'm thinking Geary, but I can't get my bearings.
That's Market street as seen from Twin Peaks!!!! 👍🌉
@@bartonpercival3216 Of course! Now that you point it out. The mint is clearly visible right in the middle of the frame, on market. Don't know why I didn't key in on that. I was thiniing it was too far north to be Market. Thanks!
@@michaeld9261 Yup, I noticed that too. But I was born and raised in San Francisco in the mid 50's and left after living there for almost 45 years, so I knew where that was immediately!!!! Miss my birth city!! 👍🌉