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Isn't life strange? To think of our Grandparents, and Great Grandparents as young men and women - fit and healthy, not a grey hair or wrinkle between them working and living life much as we are doing all these decades later. It begs the thought of a Parallel Universe and what the concept of "Time" really means. Happy New Year! 🥰
I'm from Sausalito and we used to have the North Pacific Coast Railroad that went from Marin county all the way to Eureka. I was hoping that someone recorded trips on the NPC railroad in Marin and that there might be existing footage for you to remaster. That would be my dream.
My grandfather worked on that bridge in 1936. When the job was done, he moved over to the Golden Gate Bridge to work on the painting, and that bridge opened in 1937.
Nice to see the city the way I remember it before the skyscrapers started going up. Back then the upper deck of the bridge had two-way traffic. The lower deck had a railway that went to Oakland and back. I had forgotten about that “76 gasoline” sign. You could see it for miles at night in its red neon glory. I think I caught a glimpse of a ferry boat leaving the Ferry Building in the first part of the video. It was quite the adventure, as a kid, to catch the ferry to Richmond on a family outing. Thanks for the video.
@@Porsche996driver Yup I remember the orange ball with the blue 76 on it, and also in the 50's & 60's the big Flying A gasoline signs that sold gasoline when I think it was like 25 cents a gallon for gas
What amazing footage of San Francisco coming off the exit of the Bay Bridge. My grandfather worked at Craftsman's Press on Howard street right down from the Napa Sonoma wine warehouse in the 1940's. I remember seeing the union 76 gas sign on the tall building when entering or exiting off the Bay Bridge. Just truly amazing
One of my New Year's resolutions is to focus on what uplifts me & to tune out anything toxic. Today I am reflecting on what brings me joy, so that l can put it in the forefront of my daily life and your channel, NASS, instantly made the top 10 and upon further reflection, the top 5. I can't thank you enough for your work and how it has transformed my life for the better in these trying times. Happy New year NASS - you'll be a big part of my life this year. 🎆💘🥳
Nice choice on how to face the New Year. Watch no news nor read about politics for the whole year. I did it after the 2020 election. I can truly say I'm a lot happier now. I'm going to continue this forever. NASS brings a little joy for us all to enjoy. I hope the keep it up.
This is fantastic! The SF Chronicle columnist Herb Caen lamented the city's skyscraper boom, which began in the late '60s. He said that SF's skyline and hills were previously balanced with each other, creating a uniquely beautiful urban environment. He felt that the city's beauty and cultural life peaked in the '40s and '50s. He imagined dying, reaching heaven, and thinking, "It's nice up here, but it's not San Francisco."
Been driving over the Bridge since 1952 and I still get a tingle, entering San Francisco. But yeah, my grandfather met my grandmother in an elevator of the St. Francis Hotel in 1919, so I can only imagine what the City's true glory days were like.
haha well more like almost 70. Sometimes it's a curse being older, because you experienced & remember what things used to be like. I mean face it, this country has always been fucked up (see: Vietnam War: nationwide protests) but as time has gone by you sure are aware of how much MORE things have gotten fucked up.
The commercial structure at 6:45 looks surprisingly modern. If I saw it out of context, I would’ve estimated it to be from 1960s and may be even 1970s. Not that either of those eras could be considered modern in 2022 :)
Looks very much like Bauhaus buildings. Modernist architecture started in the late 1920s and since then it's mostly updates in materials and technology that change the look of the buildings (e.g. the glass walls on skyscrapers) but the general ideas stay more or less the same.
@@szymonpifczyk It's just too bad that here in California and in the Southwest so many of the early Modernist architects would doll up their art Deco residential and commercial structures alike with red tile and other Hispanic Revival influences. Wouldn't be surprising if the Union Oil Building was designed by an East Coast or Mid-Western transplant who obviously did not grow up surrounded by Spanish or Pueblo-style buildings but instead grew up knowing only Northern European-influenced architectural trends.
I often think I was born in the wrong era. I am still old fashioned and I still appreciate the attitudes and ways of the past. To think of what's happened to SF is truly heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing these lovely videos. Happy New Year all.
@@jamesparson I'm thinking of the people and how they handled it all. They were the Greatest generation. From what they were subjected to, they deserved that title. I pray that history doesn't repeat itself. Why? Because today's (not all, but far too many) people wouldn't handle bad times the way they did. Stay well and safe. Happy New Year.
o my gosh --- you can see my family's candy factory building! at 2:49 - Gimbal's Fine Candy - they moved from that intersection of 1st and Folsom down to South San Francisco in 1950! That's probably my grandfather's car out front! Wow! thx for this!
After seeing your comment I did a quick research of "Gimbal's" candy. I found out they're still in San Francisco. I was surprised to find they only sell jelly beans and licorice though. Seemingly none of which can be bought directly from Gimbal's. So I looked on Amazon and was glad to see they're for sale there. However, I was surprised by the negative reviews and they were all similar. I'm really hesitant to give them a try and "Live a little" based on these reviews. Anyhow, I'm going to try a small sized bag and hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.
@@rustyshackelford1483 Interesting... So, Gimbal's was family owned until just a couple years ago, having been in existence since 1898. The original building was on Market St. in SF and survived the 06 earthquake.... at some point they moved into the building at 1st and Folsom pictured in the video. My grandfather and his brother moved the operation to its current location in South San Francisco in 1950. My brother took over when my dad retired in the 80's. He sold out a couple years ago. We were always proud of the high quality of the products produced at Gimbal's. Can't really comment on the negative reviews on Amazon except to say some changes may have occurred in the production process since the sale. Anyway, thanks for your interest!
Hello! I am from Russia, I am only 14 years old, but it’s such a pleasant feeling, great job, fantastic, thank you very much! These are very impressive and invaluable videos for future generations.
Notice at about 7:25 the overhead wire supports for the electric Key System and Sacramento Northern trains that ran between San Franciso and Oakland (Key System) and Sacramento (SN) via the Oakland Bay Bridge. This commuter/intercity electric train line was discontinued on April 20, 1958.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was painted grey and opened on November 12, 1936. On the other hand, the Golden Gate Bridge was painted red orange and opened on May 27, 1937. These two famous bridges in San Francisco Bay are eight miles apart.
Crossing the Bay Bridge in the 80s and 90s I remember the 76 sign well. I don't remember the "gasoline" sign underneath it. I used to hike up San Bruno Mountain and you could see the 76 sign clearly from the top. I can't believe the sign is that old, I always thought it was something out of the 1960s. Also, I have to comment on how clean and shiny the windows are on the 76 building. Back when corporations had pride in their surroundings.
I crossed that bridge with my family in the 70’s as a kid. Later in the 80’s as a teenager, it was on route to get to Benicia, Ca, after my plane landed to get picked up. Benicia used to be the Capital of California back in 1853, a year before legislature moved it to Sacramento. I go to Northern California from Southern quite a bit to see old family friends and seeing it before the taller buildings went up shows just how fast people build. Its as if we are the termite people.
I remember as a kid you could smell the coffee roasting at the Hills Bros. factory on the Embarcadero just where the bridge ended as you drove into San Francisco. For years afterward I'd associate that smell with San Francisco.
@@jeffmorse645 yes I have bro North Bay!! I do graffiti around the city and I probably step in human shit at least twice a night I don't make this shit up man!! You know what neighborhoods In the rain doesn't make it any better lol
Fantastic footage, thank you for sharing. The bridge makes an impression even today - how mind-blowing must have been to people 80 years ago! Also interesting to see how (for the better if you ask me) the manhattanization changed San Francisco. In 1:54 the building with the flag is Shell Building (100 Bush St) I believe - which today is a dwarf compared to towers nearby. Back then it was one of the most prominent towers in the city. Coming from Poland originally, I also have to say how bizarre is it to see a video of people driving around like on any normal date shot in 1940. At the same time in Europe, Jews in Poland were being moved to the ghettos, Auschwitz was being set up, Poles were being killed or forcible expelled East, Germans conquered the Benelux and France, and started to bomb England. It all feels so very distant in San Francisco.
Not sure what politics has to do with architecture. People that hate is what has more and more recently changed. What are you gonna have , a bunch of rural right wingers in charge of urban planning. If you live in a shack on farm you ain't gonna get very far.
@@BabyBugBug This is true. The leftists instituted the building of what's called brutalist architecture, the architecture of the communists, meant to rob society of it's culture. It's a shame.
Living in the Greater Berkeley area from 2009-2016, confirming it doesn't look that much different. Of course now there is a new Bay Bridge quite close to the remains of the old one. Nice job as always, NASS.
I took a video a few years back crossing the Bay bridge. Time after my phone started having some trouble which I could not turn on. Unfortunately I was not able to recover that video. It was a really nice day too.
This one made me a bit sad. Not sure why. Grew up in Hunter's Point and Candlestick Cove in the early 50's. A very long time ago. Dad worked in the ship yards while he finished school and then went to work for IBM - down in San Jose. Well, you all have the best year you can. It's going to get bumpy so buckle up.
Truly Amazing. I remember working in some of those old buildings in SF with my Dad running industrial CCTV and Commercial Grade Fire Alarm Systems back in the 60s and 70s.
Nice work as always. I wonder if that exit was called Fremont St back then. It’s strange to see the Transamerica Pyramid no in the skyline. I see Koit and the clock tower. It’s just so odd. Keep up the good work
Wow, this is certainly better than seen on films...... You are so lucky to have cherished these memories for others to experience, especially me before I was born, in 1965. I even have weird dreams about the bay bridge and the thing on the road that reminded me of a moving metallic belt or something that reminded me of tenements of train tracks.
I'm not so sure this is the 1940s. From the lack of naval and merchant shipping in the bay, I'd say before World War II and maybe late 1930s. Of course, if there was documentation on the film canister, that would be helpful to know. Thanks for the wonderful images.
A bit of irony, I grew up in San Francisco in the 60's and 70's. And did not live anywhere else but the Bay Area until 1999. Been across all Bay Area's bridges many times. But I personally drove over the George Washington bridge in New York before I personally drove over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
I've viewed a few of your uploads, really really cool and interesting to say the least!! Where did they come from? Were they shot by random people with a camera, or pre-planned footage?
Just wonderful, question? When you say " with added sound" the sound we hear is not the actual sound from the footage and just a sound you created from what appears to be similar to what is going on? Regardless amazing and happy new year.
yea, if you ever watch the Hitchcock movie Vertigo you get a good look at what the city was like before the leftists ruined it. There's always hope good people will take it back.
I’m surprised there used to be a sidewalk on the side of the Bay Bridge. I wished they kept it because I would’ve loved to bike through it like the Golden Gate Bridge.
My great uncle moved to Palo alto in the 1930s to play football for Stanford.he moved from the Dallas tx area.he met his first wife at angel island.she was from Enid oklahoma.
Who would think to waste film filming out a car window that day? Were they thinking about us in 2022? If so, thank you very much, very old or dead person! 👍👍 Thank you NASS! 👍👍 Sorry I can't afford a cup of coffee 😟. SUBSCRIBED!
Great Stuff. To my mind the sound is not quite original because we dont hear the growl of the running gear in the cars of that period.Even when fairly new they had a distinct running gear sound but still a good watch!!!
Best time to cross the Bay Bridge in 2022? Between 2:30 - 3:30 am, that is if a tanker truck driver doesn't fall asleep , get sideways and spill his load
Every video of old San Francisco has this comment: 1. Attempt to convince people that San Francisco was better in the past. 2. Blame the change on all the groups I just happen to hate. 3. Without providing any real policy solutions that would demonstrate actual knowledge of the root problems, insinuate that the groups I associate with would somehow fix the problems if they took over. 4. Conspicuously omit any causation between the groups I hate and the supposed problems of today. Just assume the loose correlation is enough to get others to hate the same people I hate. 5. Find the next video of old San Francisco and repeat.
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Hi NASS, happy new year 2022!
@@davianjanvierto4679 happy new year Davian
Isn't life strange? To think of our Grandparents, and Great Grandparents as young men and women - fit and healthy, not a grey hair or wrinkle between them working and living life much as we are doing all these decades later. It begs the thought of a Parallel Universe and what the concept of "Time" really means. Happy New Year! 🥰
I'm from Sausalito and we used to have the North Pacific Coast Railroad that went from Marin county all the way to Eureka. I was hoping that someone recorded trips on the NPC railroad in Marin and that there might be existing footage for you to remaster. That would be my dream.
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My grandfather worked on that bridge in 1936. When the job was done, he moved over to the Golden Gate Bridge to work on the painting, and that bridge opened in 1937.
Good work in the depression!
Wow! What a great man!
Amazon vídeo!!! Thanks!
How old are you
@love money : Hate much?
Nice to see the city the way I remember it before the skyscrapers started going up. Back then the upper deck of the bridge had two-way traffic. The lower deck had a railway that went to Oakland and back.
I had forgotten about that “76 gasoline” sign. You could see it for miles at night in its red neon glory.
I think I caught a glimpse of a ferry boat leaving the Ferry Building in the first part of the video. It was quite the adventure, as a kid, to catch the ferry to Richmond on a family outing.
Thanks for the video.
Took another look. It wasn’t a ferry that I thought I saw.
We still love Unocal 76 in CA right ha. I miss their orange color ball!
Comments like this make me happy. To have lived to see these things. So cool.
@@Porsche996driver Yup I remember the orange ball with the blue 76 on it, and also in the 50's & 60's the big Flying A gasoline signs that sold gasoline when I think it was like 25 cents a gallon for gas
@@bartonpercival3216 Yep, the big flying A and the big red flying horse (Pegasus) for Mobile gas.
What amazing footage of San Francisco coming off the exit of the Bay Bridge. My grandfather worked at Craftsman's Press on Howard street right down from the Napa Sonoma wine warehouse in the 1940's. I remember seeing the union 76 gas sign on the tall building when entering or exiting off the Bay Bridge. Just truly amazing
One of my New Year's resolutions is to focus on what uplifts me & to tune out anything toxic. Today I am reflecting on what brings me joy, so that l can put it in the forefront of my daily life and your channel, NASS, instantly made the top 10 and upon further reflection, the top 5. I can't thank you enough for your work and how it has transformed my life for the better in these trying times. Happy New year NASS - you'll be a big part of my life this year. 🎆💘🥳
Nice choice on how to face the New Year. Watch no news nor read about politics for the whole year. I did it after the 2020 election. I can truly say I'm a lot happier now. I'm going to continue this forever. NASS brings a little joy for us all to enjoy. I hope the keep it up.
This is fantastic! The SF Chronicle columnist Herb Caen lamented the city's skyscraper boom, which began in the late '60s. He said that SF's skyline and hills were previously balanced with each other, creating a uniquely beautiful urban environment. He felt that the city's beauty and cultural life peaked in the '40s and '50s. He imagined dying, reaching heaven, and thinking, "It's nice up here, but it's not San Francisco."
If you watch the Hitchcock movie Vertigo you can see how beautiful and clean and civilized San Francisco once was. It's a great movie, too!
If he were alive today, he would be ashamed to say he lives in San francisco
San Fran-shits-co is a literal shithole today...
...we all know who's to blame!
Im.sure Herb Caen is weeping over what the city has become, especially that working class people can't afford to live there anymore
@@rustyshackelford1483 dem Libby’s for sure..
Been driving over the Bridge since 1952 and I still get a tingle, entering San Francisco. But yeah, my grandfather met my grandmother in an elevator of the St. Francis Hotel in 1919, so I can only imagine what the City's true glory days were like.
So you must be almost 90
haha well more like almost 70. Sometimes it's a curse being older, because you experienced & remember what things used to be like. I mean face it, this country has always been fucked up (see: Vietnam War: nationwide protests) but as time has gone by you sure are aware of how much MORE things have gotten fucked up.
The commercial structure at 6:45 looks surprisingly modern. If I saw it out of context, I would’ve estimated it to be from 1960s and may be even 1970s. Not that either of those eras could be considered modern in 2022 :)
I noticed that one specifically as well; very cool structure.
Looks very much like Bauhaus buildings. Modernist architecture started in the late 1920s and since then it's mostly updates in materials and technology that change the look of the buildings (e.g. the glass walls on skyscrapers) but the general ideas stay more or less the same.
That is the Union Oil Company Building, built in 1940. It was demolished in 2005.
@@szymonpifczyk It's just too bad that here in California and in the Southwest so many of the early Modernist architects would doll up their art Deco residential and commercial structures alike with red tile and other Hispanic Revival influences. Wouldn't be surprising if the Union Oil Building was designed by an East Coast or Mid-Western transplant who obviously did not grow up surrounded by Spanish or Pueblo-style buildings but instead grew up knowing only Northern European-influenced architectural trends.
I often think I was born in the wrong era. I am still old fashioned and I still appreciate the attitudes and ways of the past.
To think of what's happened to SF is truly heartbreaking.
Thanks for sharing these lovely videos.
Happy New Year all.
same for me !
@@joeldaniels-akacringeevery7650 great minds think alike.
I am not so sure. Life was tough from 1929 to 1945. Even after the war was over people worried that the Great Depression was going to start again.
@@jamesparson I'm thinking of the people and how they handled it all. They were the Greatest generation. From what they were subjected to, they deserved that title.
I pray that history doesn't repeat itself. Why? Because today's (not all, but far too many) people wouldn't handle bad times the way they did.
Stay well and safe. Happy New Year.
@@luckytahlula6515 Happy New Year
o my gosh --- you can see my family's candy factory building! at 2:49 - Gimbal's Fine Candy - they moved from that intersection of 1st and Folsom down to South San Francisco in 1950! That's probably my grandfather's car out front! Wow! thx for this!
After seeing your comment I did a quick research of "Gimbal's" candy. I found out they're still in San Francisco. I was surprised to find they only sell jelly beans and licorice though.
Seemingly none of which can be bought directly from Gimbal's. So I looked on Amazon and was glad to see they're for sale there.
However, I was surprised by the negative reviews and they were all similar.
I'm really hesitant to give them a try and "Live a little" based on these reviews.
Anyhow, I'm going to try a small sized bag and hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.
@@rustyshackelford1483 Interesting... So, Gimbal's was family owned until just a couple years ago, having been in existence since 1898. The original building was on Market St. in SF and survived the 06 earthquake.... at some point they moved into the building at 1st and Folsom pictured in the video. My grandfather and his brother moved the operation to its current location in South San Francisco in 1950. My brother took over when my dad retired in the 80's. He sold out a couple years ago. We were always proud of the high quality of the products produced at Gimbal's. Can't really comment on the negative reviews on Amazon except to say some changes may have occurred in the production process since the sale. Anyway, thanks for your interest!
Hello! I am from Russia, I am only 14 years old, but it’s such a pleasant feeling, great job, fantastic, thank you very much! These are very impressive and invaluable videos for future generations.
Hello ....my friend..
Notice at about 7:25 the overhead wire supports for the electric Key System and Sacramento Northern trains that ran between San Franciso and Oakland (Key System) and Sacramento (SN) via the Oakland Bay Bridge. This commuter/intercity electric train line was discontinued on April 20, 1958.
thank you so much🙏
It looks as if the wires were removed. I think the Key System used 3rd rail over the bridge.
This video and your others are a real life time machine! Thanks for doing this work.
thank you so much🙏
I wanna go back in time and live that era 😭😭😭😭😭
Well it looks great, but you have to remember world war 2 was no picnic..
@@manbtm1 that's true and actually my family would've had it the worst. But at the same time.....I find it much more interesting than modern day
@@HouseOfNishizumi no anime in that time
Those were extremely modern looking lampposts on the off ramp for the 1940s. Very interesting video. Thank you!
The clarity is amazing.
Great job NASS ! ! !
thank you so much🙏
Now go watch gymkana does SF.. Same route almost but in 2015 and it is drifting
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was painted grey and opened on November 12, 1936. On the other hand, the Golden Gate Bridge was painted red orange and opened on May 27, 1937. These two famous bridges in San Francisco Bay are eight miles apart.
Used to travel that bridge and see those sites as a kid on my Dads truck and later as a Marine stationed at Alameda. 👍👍👍👍👍❤🇺🇸
God bless you! Semper Fidelis!
Very cool! Ty! Would you happen to have any historical footage of Noe Valley?
Crossing the Bay Bridge in the 80s and 90s I remember the 76 sign well. I don't remember the "gasoline" sign underneath it. I used to hike up San Bruno Mountain and you could see the 76 sign clearly from the top. I can't believe the sign is that old, I always thought it was something out of the 1960s. Also, I have to comment on how clean and shiny the windows are on the 76 building. Back when corporations had pride in their surroundings.
A film that should be preserved & remastered in the best fashion possible - and, again, you did it!
thank you so much🙏
I crossed that bridge with my family in the 70’s as a kid. Later in the 80’s as a teenager, it was on route to get to Benicia, Ca, after my plane landed to get picked up. Benicia used to be the Capital of California back in 1853, a year before legislature moved it to Sacramento. I go to Northern California from Southern quite a bit to see old family friends and seeing it before the taller buildings went up shows just how fast people build. Its as if we are the termite people.
I remember as a kid you could smell the coffee roasting at the Hills Bros. factory on the Embarcadero just where the bridge ended as you drove into San Francisco. For years afterward I'd associate that smell with San Francisco.
Now you just smell the doo doo you stepped on in the morning
@@rust-0hspray156 Like you totally know. Probably never been there.
@@jeffmorse645 yes I have bro North Bay!! I do graffiti around the city and I probably step in human shit at least twice a night I don't make this shit up man!! You know what neighborhoods
In the rain doesn't make it any better lol
Fantastic footage, thank you for sharing. The bridge makes an impression even today - how mind-blowing must have been to people 80 years ago! Also interesting to see how (for the better if you ask me) the manhattanization changed San Francisco. In 1:54 the building with the flag is Shell Building (100 Bush St) I believe - which today is a dwarf compared to towers nearby. Back then it was one of the most prominent towers in the city.
Coming from Poland originally, I also have to say how bizarre is it to see a video of people driving around like on any normal date shot in 1940. At the same time in Europe, Jews in Poland were being moved to the ghettos, Auschwitz was being set up, Poles were being killed or forcible expelled East, Germans conquered the Benelux and France, and started to bomb England. It all feels so very distant in San Francisco.
Every building was a masterpiece. What has happened to us?
Leftism.
Democrats is what happened. Sad.
Baby boom. More and more people moved to the automobile suburbs
Not sure what politics has to do with architecture. People that hate is what has more and more recently changed. What are you gonna have , a bunch of rural right wingers in charge of urban planning. If you live in a shack on farm you ain't gonna get very far.
@@BabyBugBug This is true. The leftists instituted the building of what's called brutalist architecture, the architecture of the communists, meant to rob society of it's culture. It's a shame.
Ahh I’ve been waiting for this! This is so cool to see! I grew up around here
The more you can find with PEOPLE WALKING allows us to see how people dressed, etc which is fascinating. Thanks for what you do.
Living in the Greater Berkeley area from 2009-2016, confirming it doesn't look that much different.
Of course now there is a new Bay Bridge quite close to the remains of the old one.
Nice job as always, NASS.
thank you so much🙏
I took a video a few years back crossing the Bay bridge. Time after my phone started having some trouble which I could not turn on. Unfortunately I was not able to recover that video. It was a really nice day too.
This one made me a bit sad. Not sure why. Grew up in Hunter's Point and Candlestick Cove in the early 50's. A very long time ago. Dad worked in the ship yards while he finished school and then went to work for IBM - down in San Jose. Well, you all have the best year you can. It's going to get bumpy so buckle up.
God bless you and yours in 2022!
Truly Amazing. I remember working in some of those old buildings in SF with my Dad running industrial CCTV and Commercial Grade Fire Alarm Systems back in the 60s and 70s.
Wow, SF was so beautiful before the Embarcado Center was built. Still we can recognize the old tall buildings still standing to this day.
Love your videos! Great sound editing too! Thanks for sharing with us. :)
Nice work as always. I wonder if that exit was called Fremont St back then. It’s strange to see the Transamerica Pyramid no in the skyline. I see Koit and the clock tower. It’s just so odd. Keep up the good work
For me, actually stranger to see the old B of A building(555 California St.). Still my favorite building in the City
Wow, seeing the skyline back then is a trip . Not seeing the iconic transamerica building and a lot of other skyscrapers. Super cool footage.
The Golden Gate Bridge gets all the hype, but the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is the back bone of Bay Area traffic.
SENSACIONAL !!! Excelente trabalho, maravilhoso, gostei muito ! PARABÉNS !!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
thank you so much🙏
Whoever shot this video was lucky enough to get a clear SF day with no fog.
You do superior work. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
thank you so much🙏
The thing is this really wasn't that long ago when you think about it.
Wild to see a commute I’ve done for over a decade.....it sure has changed
My grandfather had a business on Folsom street, few blocks north the Union 76 tower. You could see it from his office.
Wow, this is certainly better than seen on films...... You are so lucky to have cherished these memories for others to experience, especially me before I was born, in 1965. I even have weird dreams about the bay bridge and the thing on the road that reminded me of a moving metallic belt or something that reminded me of tenements of train tracks.
So amazing
Where did this guy find this footage, unbelievable !
I'm not so sure this is the 1940s. From the lack of naval and merchant shipping in the bay, I'd say before World War II and maybe late 1930s. Of course, if there was documentation on the film canister, that would be helpful to know. Thanks for the wonderful images.
Someone said around
1935-36 this was filmed.
A bit of irony, I grew up in San Francisco in the 60's and 70's. And did not live anywhere else but the Bay Area until 1999. Been across all Bay Area's bridges many times. But I personally drove over the George Washington bridge in New York before I personally drove over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
0:07 The Rock off in the distance.
Thanks! i was going to ask if that was alcatraz
I've viewed a few of your uploads, really really cool and interesting to say the least!! Where did they come from? Were they shot by random people with a camera, or pre-planned footage?
This is really cool. It's like traveling in a time machine.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Just wonderful, question? When you say " with added sound" the sound we hear is not the actual sound from the footage and just a sound you created from what appears to be similar to what is going on? Regardless amazing and happy new year.
The video seems a little more high-res and clear?
Love to read the old signs and ads.
No rose colored glasses, those were truly hard-scrabble times.
You can't get off the bridge that quickly anymore. It's takes like...oh...15 minutes?.....on a good day.
Great vid, really enjoyed!!
thank you so much🙏
OMG.... WOW
I have the same one I took in 2017, and Im speechless to see this.
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My family moved here in the 1940s from Oklahoma. So cool to see what it looked like then 😍
1:58 Sounds like someone's playing an old Stone Temple Pilots song through bass speakers.
Great to see all those American flags on top of buildings, we need to see more of that.
That's when amer
That's when america was america the beautiful
San Francisco before the homeless, drug addicts, tech bros, and hippies.
yea, if you ever watch the Hitchcock movie Vertigo you get a good look at what the city was like before the leftists ruined it. There's always hope good people will take it back.
Dad worked for AAA an put the signs on Golden Gate Bridge, memory, so great
very nice 👌
I’m surprised there used to be a sidewalk on the side of the Bay Bridge. I wished they kept it because I would’ve loved to bike through it like the Golden Gate Bridge.
My Family has footage of before this bridge was even completed.
Then again, I guess this is antique as well.
Cheers.
Why don't they design cars like that anymore? Beautiful.
Its called innovation and progress. Quit living in the past.
@@geftiler2112 Relax. With comments like that you come across poorly.
@@croagh202 in San Francisco there are many cars from the 30s 40s in garages I know because I worked on them, I'm 66, thanks!
That is amazing.Hard work appreciated.Thanks
thank you so much🙏
Kinda cool how it's both recognizable and not recognizable.
nass thank you very much for these spectacular videos of the 1940s
My great uncle moved to Palo alto in the 1930s to play football for Stanford.he moved from the Dallas tx area.he met his first wife at angel island.she was from Enid oklahoma.
I also had an uncle that worked on the Bay bridge.
Can *this* footage be then run again through the software and even more color achieved
So industrious in those days. Now, it's a tourist attraction which survives by taxing the last few workers.
One of my fav videos of sf
Magical to be able to look back like this. Also realizing that when you see alcatraz it has actual prisoners in it !
Who would think to waste film filming out a car window that day? Were they thinking about us in 2022? If so, thank you very much, very old or dead person! 👍👍
Thank you NASS! 👍👍
Sorry I can't afford a cup of coffee 😟.
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thank you so much🙏
Great Stuff. To my mind the sound is not quite original because we dont hear the growl of the running gear in the cars of that period.Even when fairly new they had a distinct running gear sound but still a good watch!!!
thank you so much🙏
Love this Stuff , especially the Cars
Is that island Alcatraz?
Great video !
thank you so much🙏
Are those supposed to be synched? It looks like two elements of some fancy panoramic cinema setup.
What year is this? Late '40s could mean Kerouac and the beats were hanging around. If only we could step into the frame.
Sounds fantastic ！！
Nice view ！！
Best time to cross the Bay Bridge in 2022? Between 2:30 - 3:30 am, that is if a tanker truck driver doesn't fall asleep , get sideways and spill his load
wonderful...
2:34 sup with that stair set on the hill lol
The colorization is simply amazing.
thank you so much🙏
Americans were ahead of it's time and now they are behind. What a beauty back in the 1940s.
One empire is created...
Another is destroyed
From within....meanwhile,
Time travels on for
all of us....
Every video of old San Francisco has this comment:
1. Attempt to convince people that San Francisco was better in the past.
2. Blame the change on all the groups I just happen to hate.
3. Without providing any real policy solutions that would demonstrate actual knowledge of the root problems, insinuate that the groups I associate with would somehow fix the problems if they took over.
4. Conspicuously omit any causation between the groups I hate and the supposed problems of today. Just assume the loose correlation is enough to get others to hate the same people I hate.
5. Find the next video of old San Francisco and repeat.
Exactly
Very beautiful
Sehr imposante Aufnahme 👍💯🌹
Reminds me of the opening to Sopranos
Is that alcatras off in the distance seen from the bridge ? Is this pre. or post war ?
Were any of the buildings in this video damaged in the 1989 earthquake
😮very nice wìtĥout the freeway
my grandma used to own a Delie here but that was way after this sometime in the 80s i think
but in like 1998 my grandma sold it and they moved to Piru after that in 2005 we moved to Bakersfield and we have been there ever since.
San Francisco is undoubtedly the most beautiful city in the United States of America.
Was
It's a shit hole now my friend.
Then the United States of America must surely be one ugly bloody country 🤦♂️
its the lack of trash for me....plastic ruined the earth in a way
My pa was in Alcatraz when this was taken he was serving 99years for armed robbery.
amazing!
This is amazing....the financial district dodn't even exist and you can see so many more landmarks from the bridge bc of no skyscrapers.
There is something flying
Around the 1:48 mark...
What the neck is that????
Heck is that???
It looks like a cloud of smoke but it's coming up the side of the building and it disappears kind of weird I think that shit was a ancient ghost 👻
Oh I see now there's like two pipes down there pushing smoke out
Nah, it's at the 1:50 mark...looks like a triangle UFO.