THIS was filmed 4 days before the Earthquake of 1906. It was filmed by 4 brothers, Joseph, Earle, Harry, and Herbert Miles. It was kept in the family, and released to public just a few years ago. The family relative that released it was interviewed, and the interviews pointed out that in all likelihood, some of the people in the film died just 4 days later in the quake.
I always thought it would be great if they had a time machine where you could go back to that time for a couple of hours and just walk around. Be interesting to hear what people talk about
+Donald Sexton It would be interesting to go back to 1900 and wear 2015 cloth with obey cap and jordans and a grey hoodie and hear what people from the 1900s would say about u and i think many people would just look at u o fuck in the future i hope we can go back in time THAT WOULD BE GREAT now bye.
I love that someone decided to film what life was like then. It’s better than photos. You see people walking around, living their lives, driving like jackasses because apparently there were no traffic laws... But the perspective is wonderful. It gives you the feeling that you’re there, in that time and place.
Id say the motion camera was a big deal back then.. You always see people look at camera like its a alien... This may sound stupid, but i always think about how all these people are dead, and wonder if they ever thought what it would be like in the future even up to today 2020. Its like us wondering 2140. Just neat to watch them going about their daily lives, working going home to the family.
@@beamer6136 Well said! I'm with you, especially thinking that those are dead and someday it's our turn ... often thinking in that way when watching old films/pics ...
all those people would never imagine that someone for more than 100 years, after they be dead was watching them...this type of videos is like time travel
There is a haunting quality about this, and a melancholy sadness. The people, cars, buildings, that were once as real as you and I, that seemed so solid and lasting, but in reality as ephemeral as a dream. Becoming, (like us) fiction and memory by degree.
Those were my exact thoughts as I watched this.... each person in this video had a life, dreams, families, goals.... went through each day as we do, not really realizing what a small grain of sand we truly are and how quickly our lives pass by. All of them are now gone, yet once they were as 'here' as you and I are today.
No cuts, no elaborate camera shots, just a simple record, in another day in 1900´s, another normal day for all that people. And to think that all this really happened, at some point in time just like exactly are you seeing in this video. This is gold.
Makes me sad. Every generation thinks they are the most important one. But no....those youngsters are all gone. And the ones that missed them also gone. So goes life on....short like the blink of an eye
However, each generation brings something new to the table. Like the Boomers for example. They invented very modern electronics. Even older ones. There isn’t a generation that will fail at least for now...
Lot of people always say how it would be great to have a time machine and go back in time to see those days long gone. In my opinion the best would be to get someone on that street and bring him to our time just to see his expression when he sees how the city (and the world) has changed in over a hundred years. I'm sure it would be priceless. And for whoever filmed this, even tho its obvious hes dead, thank you for this wonderful piece of history. Here's hoping people can see this in another 100 years from now. :)
Not everybody. My great, great uncle was murdered in the Barbary Coast about 1898-99, and buried in a pauper's grave in a cemetery where Lone Mountain/USF now stands. My family, at the time, was dead broke. He was a drunk who made survived being a thug. It was much tougher back then...
It's not all bad nowadays. They may have been healthier, but diseases which modern medicine can easily treat were lethal back then. And our life expectancy is much longer, despite our unhealthy lifestyles.
Robert Dantry: No. They'd also wish they didn't have to work 60-hour week jobs (6 days a week), had life-saving medical procedures, timely communications, mandatory schooling, credit, and some time/money for leisure such as movies, sports, and art.
Im really struct for words , what really blows my mind is what the person shooting this film was thinking why did he do it did he ever think in his mind that this would ever be seen this far in the future the year 2012 would have been just not even somthing of a talkn point back then,wow he is so awesome to give us a chance to see life as it was.
According my great-grandfather Louis Theodore Karvystone (1889 - 1971) this movie was produced in 1904 in San Francisco city by Elliot Erwing Dowley…He appearances at running in front of the “train” on the video at 15 year old (6:53 - 6:58). My great grandfather to final filming at the video and talking with the producer, Mister Elliot at 31 years old… In this time, my great grand father sold newspaper on the street… He comes to Brazil in 1919, running out the First World War in the Olben International Ship
Awesome...I love this video...I seen it like 40 times...I did notice the kid following the train all the way till the end...thats awesome..he really wanted to be in the video...really bad 👍👍😀😀😂😂😀😀
Looking at this video the people were walking in front of cars, horse buggies ect. No traffic signs crazy how time has change over the last 100 years. I wish that I could go back and live in that moment just for a year. Love this ty for sharing.
Wow having been born amd raised in San Francisco, this footage put a huge smile on my face. Just to think how many times I've walked up and down Market Street and to see these men, women, and children who had lived there well before my time is absolutely amazing. Also, the cable cars today look exactly like the ones in the footage- simply amazing...
Hi Simone, what's the name of that catedral with the Tower at the back of the vídeo? Does this avenue still exist? how it's called? I saw some photos after the earthquake and the cathedral seems to have survived, is it still standing?
IMPRESSING this vídeo, I saw that the Street market exists and it's super modern, imagine if they made a new video of it these days to compare, it would be fantastic, I'm in Belo Horizonte Brazil, it's a long way from here I would do this video. maybe one day ?? Thank you.
This is a famous bit of film ("A Trip Down Market Street", filmed by the Miles Brothers), taken about a week before the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.
I still feel like San Francisco gives off that early 1900's vibe to this day... at least in some places; there was one really nice area that was just filled with white Victorian style buildings, trees and vines hanging everywhere, had Victorian lamps, benches and even guard-rails for the trees. Pair that with a busy crowd of people and a 100 year old railcar passing by and I felt like I went back in time :)
I remember going there for the first time in 1987 with my girlfriend at the time and it was still very hippyish in the Haight. I was 18 and my girl 19 and it was one of my favorite trips. It was this time of year and very cold and rainy.
They were built in the 800s your history has been hidden. Those structures were here long before America was and looking back into time we see them in the 1600s as well. We could barely feed ourselves then. Also those tartiarian type building are all over the country and the world. They have been dismantling them for 100 years now, hiding your history. I have them here in Philadelphia too.
And I thought walking/riding the streets of major cities today was challenging....MY GRACIOUS!! No road rules whatsoever - just get in where you fit in!
Trina Parker I said the same thing...I wonder how many people got ran over by a car...or a horse... I mean it was chaos in the streets...lol... Amazing tho..
My God! What a wonder of images! It's exciting to know that these people lived in such a distant time, and the proof is there! San Francisco, so beautiful!
Very surreal to watch this video while doing a google maps "street view" of Market Street going down the exact same trolley line. If you want to try it yourself, I gained my exact bearings at 1:14 If you do a google maps Street View of 944 Market St. and face Northeast you will be at the same point approximately 114 years later and you can trace the same route. Extremely cool!
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
This is on Market Street going eastward towards the Ferry Building. The Miles Brothers filmed this. Several articles in the April 1906 San Francisco Call and Post mentioned the filming in the paper.
I love the people that are redoing these films and slowing down and fixing them. You see wind blowing in real time and other things. We only had keystone cops type movements. I sew and have vintage machines including a 1919 treadle. I look up what fashions were made on my machines. When I see these old films in real human motion I can see the dresses they made with these machines and how they looked wearing them. I know, not many dresses in this one to see up close but have been watching a lot of them. It’s really interesting how jay walking was thing though, huh? In front of street cars, horses, cars, people al going any which way!
Yes. This is a famous bit of film ("A Trip Down Market Street", filmed by the Miles Brothers), because it was taken about a week before the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.
Man i like watching the trams, i remember my mum telling me how she liked riding on the trams in the 1940s she was as large as life, god bless her spirit Anne Giraud.🥰🥰
The trams in this film are actually San Francisco's famous cable cars. The cable runs in the slot between the rails. Three lines are still in operation!
I’m only 32 and I remember meeting my Great Great Grandparents youngest daughter whenever I was a kid she was born in 1909 and I remember her talking about what life was like back then.
I would love to spend one day of my life living in the a past like this. It would be awesome to have to adapt myself to live without any sort of technological gadget and internet. Life seemed to have a different rhythm...
This is a drive up Market Street, from about Mid-Market all the way to the Ferry Building. If you want to compare then and now, use Google Earth and search for "1 Ferry Building Marketplace, San Francisco, CA". It's the building with the clock tower in the center of the shot, at the end of the street. Most of the old buildings are gone, but the Ferry Building is still there.
You can see the Ferry Building today in this video. th-cam.com/video/tYHGj19RrF0/w-d-xo.html The Flood Building on Powell/Market and the Call Building on 3rd/Market also stand today.
Yes, I think it was 1906 just 6 days before the Earthquake. I saw it on another version of this film. It's great to watch and I wish I could be there. No traffic rules or lights. Beautiful!
The pace of life looks slower, but even with less traffic the erratic driving, and fearless pedestrians look at odds with today's more ordered street-scene. Nice to see a moving record from the past
Yep the pace of life was slower back then. Rules and restrictions weren't really needed on streets until cars started to hit the roads. Then because there were so many traffic related deaths strict rules had to be introduced and its stayed that way ever since.
Fabulous , ordinary people on an ordinary day going about their business over a hundred years ago. I wonder if the building at the end of the run still stands? Very enjoyable !
The Ferry Building still stands to this day. th-cam.com/video/tYHGj19RrF0/w-d-xo.html I've worked in that building back in the 1980s. The Flood Building (been inside many countless times) and the Call Building exist today as well.
@The MGTOW Monk Lol! I was gonna say Beemers, but yes... I feel like they're somehow _less_ douchey in 2019... So weird there was cable car track down Market too, and strange to see the Ferry Building exactly the same.
My great grand uncles emmigrated to the US around 1900. So that's what they saw when they arrived (although they settled down in St. Paul, MN and not in San Fransisco). It is fascinating. I didn't even know I had relatives in the US until I found a family tree online, of a person who had the same great-great grandparents than me and of course, the same family name :-)
Same great great grandparents as you… so that would make them your third cousins. Not too distant. I know some of my third cousins..(my grandparents first cousins’ grandkids)
Lindas imagens, confesso que estou adimirada ... cada imagem , uma volta ao tempo! Sei que eram tempos difíceis, mas sobretudo o respeito, o cavalheirismo, a educação, eram evidentes !!!!! Saudades de um tempo em que não vivi .
This video is just... haunting in a sense. I can't describe the feeling. I can't stop looking at it. It gives me both a sense of fascination and sadness.
I think of the sectarian disputes between the Motor advocates versus the Horse advocates to define the future of their town. And the boys counting their money made from delivering packages and what intricately planned futures they could build off that small allowance, perhaps to study basic electricity and steam powering and the camera machines to make movies like this, not knowing that six days later their city would crumble and burn to the ground, and that some day their children might die in unimaginable European wars fought with airplanes.
The film was shot in April 1906, just a few days before the great earthquake and fire destroyed many of those buildings and killed many of those people. th-cam.com/video/tYHGj19RrF0/w-d-xo.html
The Edwardian era, when horse drawn vehicles and motorised vehicles mixed freely on city streets. The amount of manure on the streets has not changed, but its source has...
Hoje, eu aqui sentado enfrente ao computador e vendo essas imagens de 118 anos atrás. A maioria do que vemos ai não existe mais, as pessoas todas já morreram e ainda podemos vê-las no seu dia a dia. Impressionante esses registros e a boa qualidade das imagens. Muito legal. Obrigado - BRASIL.
That is basically happening now, let me explain. We live in “now” not “then” so to them, in that time it was now to them. It’s a hard concept to explain so if you don’t understand it’s ok😊
Sharing the road with the Trolley, horse and buggy, automobiles, and pedestrians. No stop lights, no cross walks, jay walking is the norm, what Mayhem. Nothing can move very fast or you would kill all of the pedestrians.
Global Awareness I did notice they still drove on the right side of the road, and the slower horse and buggies moved out of the way for the cars to pass. They created somewhat of their own order.
Don Comer I think the stop light is pretty brilliant and works really well. Their one stop light was a tourist destination in Abaco Bahamas. You’re welcome to develop a better system.
Rules and regulations weren't really needed back then and there was a messy kind of freedom. It was though generally considered polite to allow a lady to pass on the sidewalk so she didn't have to walk in the mud or muck. Once cars started hitting the roads there were thousands of fatalities. After some successful lobbying new laws were drawn up basically giving private cars priority. The street cars began to vanish and by the 1950s huge highways were constructed through American cities.
Driving skills and courtesy for other drivers and pedestrians have only slightly declines since then. Check out that tailgating and cutting others off. "Hey, I'm walkin' here!" ("Midnight Cowboy"/"Forrest Gump")😂
What is the rent like there? I plan on moving back to California once I get my life on track but with my current age I am doing nothing. I used to live in Sacramento and that is why I don't know the rent and was just curious...
My dad use to tell me stories of the Model T (Tin Lizzy). The way it could take your arm off when turning the crank to start the engine if it backfired- they later fixed that. Having to go up steep hills backwards because the gas tanks feeder hose was on the front of the tank. You might have to stop where you were and take the drain pan off and replace the rod bearings right there. He would explain his trips hitching a ride on a train and trying not to get caught. The railroad guys would beat you with bats if they caught you. I wish I had written all that stuff down. And THAT is the real Santa Clause at 11:24!
Yeah,dad said the ball bearings wore out constantly and he melted lead shot and casted them out in the field.He combined two transmissions to have more gears and after cutting the frame he bolted it back together.
Those people staring into the camera could never have predicted that I’d be laying down here on my bed over 100 years later and staring right back at them. It’s just wild.
Tom Cherry Yes. Most people see these videos and think, “Oh, what a simpler time.” When really, I think that there are good and bad things about any era of time.
@The Radio Vault-The World War II Years 1938-45 Most people def lived well over 30. The average life span is short because a lot of babies died in childbirth or a few years after birth, which brought the average lifespan down. Once you survived childhood though, I would save the average would be late 50's or 60's.
![San Francisco 1960s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0PumJ9YgMC8/mqdefault.jpg)
THIS was filmed 4 days before the Earthquake of 1906. It was filmed by 4 brothers, Joseph, Earle, Harry, and Herbert Miles. It was kept in the family, and released to public just a few years ago. The family relative that released it was interviewed, and the interviews pointed out that in all likelihood, some of the people in the film died just 4 days later in the quake.
Thanks. I thought both the number of cars and the models had to be later than 1900.
Rest in New Glory 💐
and there's another one that was made post earthquake. simply amazing
Nah. Not “This was filmed 4 days before the Earthquake of 1906.” /
thanks so much for this information !!!
I always thought it would be great if they had a time machine where you could go back to that time for a couple of hours and just walk around. Be interesting to hear what people talk about
+Donald Sexton id love to go see all the old advertising.. signs everywhere, everything was so lit up
+Donald Sexton It would be interesting to go back to 1900 and wear 2015 cloth with obey cap and jordans and a grey hoodie and hear what people from the 1900s would say about u and i think many people would just look at u o fuck in the future i hope we can go back in time THAT WOULD BE GREAT now bye.
+Donald Sexton it would be amazing.
exactly
I would give my life for that experience
I love that someone decided to film what life was like then. It’s better than photos. You see people walking around, living their lives, driving like jackasses because apparently there were no traffic laws... But the perspective is wonderful. It gives you the feeling that you’re there, in that time and place.
Id say the motion camera was a big deal back then.. You always see people look at camera like its a alien... This may sound stupid, but i always think about how all these people are dead, and wonder if they ever thought what it would be like in the future even up to today 2020. Its like us wondering 2140. Just neat to watch them going about their daily lives, working going home to the family.
Agree
No driver education, either.
@@beamer6136 Well said! I'm with you, especially thinking that those are dead and someday it's our turn ... often thinking in that way when watching old films/pics ...
To be fair I don't know what to do either if the streets were filled with horses. It was probably better to just walk.
all those people would never imagine that someone for more than 100 years, after they be dead was watching them...this type of videos is like time travel
That's what recording history (especially photographically) is all about!
Within six years, most of this scenery would be wrecked and burned.
I thought that too, and 100 years from now people will be watching our "vlogs" . imagine when they see our FaceBook , twitter etc. lol .
Nor would they imagine all the feces on the streets in 2019 shitfrancisco....
@@amyntut Sorry to say you will be erased digitally and no one will see you or me.
I love this era. Everyone dressed so nice
It’s so incredible how many people have lived on this earth. God is awesome
Imagine having footage of older time like the 1700s how cool would that be
I love how cars, people, wagons, carriages are all intermingling on the road. People jumping onto wagons, holding onto cars... : )
CiaoBella : And no one seemed to mind. The speed of it all was just right.
It was easier when the max speed was like 15 kilometer per hour
and after 119 years, i watch them from my smartphone :D
pink panther.....progress??? I’ll let you decide
If they only knew?
а через 100лет интересно через что будут смотреть.?
They will be so fat, they'd not fit on the screen.
@@рустемнигматуллин-п3ю через дырочку в беляше
There is a haunting quality about this, and a melancholy sadness. The people, cars, buildings, that were once as real as you and I, that seemed so solid and lasting, but in reality as ephemeral as a dream. Becoming, (like us) fiction and memory by degree.
we........the current is no different...........enjoy the moment that's all you really have
Kmob12346 Thank you. (Sorry for the late reply, but I haven't come back here in a long while.)
SurviventheOnslaught Indeed.
Those were my exact thoughts as I watched this.... each person in this video had a life, dreams, families, goals.... went through each day as we do, not really realizing what a small grain of sand we truly are and how quickly our lives pass by. All of them are now gone, yet once they were as 'here' as you and I are today.
Karen Starks Yes. The "here and now" becoming the gone and past all too quickly.
No cuts, no elaborate camera shots, just a simple record, in another day in 1900´s, another normal day for all that people. And to think that all this really happened, at some point in time just like exactly are you seeing in this video. This is gold.
Makes me sad. Every generation thinks they are the most important one. But no....those youngsters are all gone. And the ones that missed them also gone. So goes life on....short like the blink of an eye
Theo Schutz looking at them is like looking at ghosts
My thoughts exactly. My life... I blinked and I missed it.
However, each generation brings something new to the table. Like the Boomers for example. They invented very modern electronics. Even older ones. There isn’t a generation that will fail at least for now...
Every single one of them is dead and gone now. Horses, people... anything living that was in this video is now dead
I know I feel you man I’m only 17 but life is moving wayy to fast especially now a days
Lot of people always say how it would be great to have a time machine and go back in time to see those days long gone.
In my opinion the best would be to get someone on that street and bring him to our time just to see his expression when he sees how the city (and the world) has changed in over a hundred years.
I'm sure it would be priceless.
And for whoever filmed this, even tho its obvious hes dead, thank you for this wonderful piece of history.
Here's hoping people can see this in another 100 years from now. :)
He died on the Titanic in 1912.
+MrNo1fan Together with your comment ... .
they'd think everyone had gone insane and hate it
MrNo1fan i
MrNo1fan it would destroy the whole time line
I love this. Everyone was well dressed, out and about, healthy looking and no phones. What happened to us? So sad
JoMo's Dipped in Chocolate too much technology moves very quickly in the late 19th and 20th century
Not everybody. My great, great uncle was murdered in the Barbary Coast about 1898-99, and buried in a pauper's grave in a cemetery where Lone Mountain/USF now stands. My family, at the time, was dead broke. He was a drunk who made survived being a thug. It was much tougher back then...
It's not all bad nowadays. They may have been healthier, but diseases which modern medicine can easily treat were lethal back then. And our life expectancy is much longer, despite our unhealthy lifestyles.
Did you type this comment on your phone? 😀👍
The car, the car happened.
120 Years later, they’re still picking up manure off the streets.
They *wish* it was just manure. Human $#!+ is what it is... Oh, and jizz.
Except it's from humans. SMH
This time its human waste!
Mass uncontrolled migration is no mistake. It’s a takedown. Destroying the western lifestyle for elite communist control of power.
@@S_Cooper0404LOL 😆
its like a beautiful art piece, so much character and life, visual interest.. but to them its just another day
mycollegeshirt If they could have had a look forward to today, they'd have been terrified, and rightfully so.
Robert Dantry: No. They'd also wish they didn't have to work 60-hour week jobs (6 days a week), had life-saving medical procedures, timely communications, mandatory schooling, credit, and some time/money for leisure such as movies, sports, and art.
Im really struct for words , what really blows my mind is what the person shooting this film was thinking why did he do it did he ever think in his mind that this would ever be seen this far in the future the year 2012 would have been just not even somthing of a talkn point back then,wow he is so awesome to give us a chance to see life as it was.
No stoplights, no crosswalks, no road rules.... amazing, simply amazing
Its always cool to look back at history and see how society was back then.
Im sure they were in a hurry to get to work or to get home and see their family. ❤
@@arizonadreaming4183 yeah exatly like me and you
Anything before 1960 was good. White countries didn't have multiculturalism or diversity destroying it.
According my great-grandfather Louis Theodore Karvystone (1889 - 1971) this movie was produced in 1904 in San Francisco city by Elliot Erwing Dowley…He appearances at running in front of the “train” on the video at 15 year old (6:53 - 6:58). My great grandfather to final filming at the video and talking with the producer, Mister Elliot at 31 years old…
In this time, my great grand father sold newspaper on the street…
He comes to Brazil in 1919, running out the First World War in the Olben International Ship
Intresting
Awesome...I love this video...I seen it like 40 times...I did notice the kid following the train all the way till the end...thats awesome..he really wanted to be in the video...really bad 👍👍😀😀😂😂😀😀
Que história interessante. É mesmo verídica?
What a great memory of your grandfather! That is so cool to see him at that age and in a film, moving out and about! Thank you for sharing!
ephiesters really?
Looking at this video the people were walking in front of cars, horse buggies ect. No traffic signs crazy how time has change over the last 100 years. I wish that I could go back and live in that moment just for a year. Love this ty for sharing.
It means that India has hope
Wow having been born amd raised in San Francisco, this footage put a huge smile on my face. Just to think how many times I've walked up and down Market Street and to see these men, women, and children who had lived there well before my time is absolutely amazing.
Also, the cable cars today look exactly like the ones in the footage- simply amazing...
Hi Simone, what's the name of that catedral with the Tower at the back of the vídeo? Does this avenue still exist? how it's called? I saw some photos after the earthquake and the cathedral seems to have survived, is it still standing?
That is the Ferry Building, and yes it is still there. Its very nice with shops inside.
IMPRESSING this vídeo, I saw that the Street market exists and it's super modern, imagine if they made a new video of it these days to compare, it would be fantastic, I'm in Belo Horizonte Brazil, it's a long way from here I would do this video. maybe one day ?? Thank you.
You would enjoy yourself very much.
Curly Simone hellow
Wow! The roads were a free for all back then!
+Shell Watson Before there was laws about automobiles
Except no fighting. No rules, no rage.
yep could you imagine if today a teenager jumped out in front of your car just to play a joke on you, then quickly jumping out of the way.
Yeah, most of what they did on the road in this video would get you arrested nowadays. Hell, these days a person gets in trouble just for j-walking.
Yea and Horse manure
Absolutely one of the best videos that I have seen
It's even better considering the date is wrong. This was filmed on April 14, 1906, just four days before the earthquake and fire.
Wow, this video is MAGICAL!
This is a famous bit of film ("A Trip Down Market Street", filmed by the Miles Brothers), taken about a week before the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.
Oh come on! So it’s like they knew what was coming 7 days later so they did this long movie?
@@alstewart9212 He neither said nor implied that at all. He merely commented on the approximate date of the film.
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Al Stewart you need to see the segment done on "60 Minutes" to get the complete scoop on this film. It is very interesting and its on youtube.
Yes the licence plate is 1905, so its definitely 1906. Awesome footage
120 years later... so wonderful.. it was a ride in first person.. thanks so much. I was delighted.. excited.. I have no words.
114 years later actually, this was taped in 1906
@@SQUAREHEADSAM1912 oh.. I see..
I still feel like San Francisco gives off that early 1900's vibe to this day... at least in some places; there was one really nice area that was just filled with white Victorian style buildings, trees and vines hanging everywhere, had Victorian lamps, benches and even guard-rails for the trees. Pair that with a busy crowd of people and a 100 year old railcar passing by and I felt like I went back in time :)
sounds awesome
I remember going there for the first time in 1987 with my girlfriend at the time and it was still very hippyish in the Haight. I was 18 and my girl 19 and it was one of my favorite trips. It was this time of year and very cold and rainy.
Don't be miss lead by Miss Information
It DOES! So much history is preserved. But the vibe and the way the streets are set up, i know just what you mean
They were built in the 800s your history has been hidden. Those structures were here long before America was and looking back into time we see them in the 1600s as well. We could barely feed ourselves then. Also those tartiarian type building are all over the country and the world. They have been dismantling them for 100 years now, hiding your history. I have them here in Philadelphia too.
And I thought walking/riding the streets of major cities today was challenging....MY GRACIOUS!! No road rules whatsoever - just get in where you fit in!
Trina Parker I said the same thing...I wonder how many people got ran over by a car...or a horse... I mean it was chaos in the streets...lol... Amazing tho..
well, everyone tries to keep to the right side of the road, at least ;)
Crossing the street was definitely an art back then!
My God! What a wonder of images! It's exciting to know that these people lived in such a distant time, and the proof is there! San Francisco, so beautiful!
Used to be but the Government has let it fall apart in recent years
This was actually filmed in April of 1906 (not 1900), one week before the earthquake.
This was filmed in May 1975 or May of 1976
At 1976 there were cars every where
@@pauloroberto-bi4ky that's the other universe
Interesting
Amazing film and the music is perfect.
First song from the video:
Will Taylor - Gnossienne No. 3
th-cam.com/video/YsRXZUXYzY8/w-d-xo.html
very beautiful
@@rkungs Composed by Erik Sarte.
Very surreal to watch this video while doing a google maps "street view" of Market Street going down the exact same trolley line. If you want to try it yourself, I gained my exact bearings at 1:14 If you do a google maps Street View of 944 Market St. and face Northeast you will be at the same point approximately 114 years later and you can trace the same route. Extremely cool!
This is making me incredibly sad :( The footage, the music, just knowing this was so long ago... and these people are no longer with us... ugh!
Yes very sad
Keisha Cole
Is that your real name or are you a fan of the singer lol?
***** its not my real name
Keisha Cole
Oh ok :p
***** How is that not sad or depressing!? It's like life is pointless then :(
Thanks for the precious time machine trip.
It looks like there weren't any traffic rules yet. The cars and horse carts did whatever the hell they wanted.
shahrazade26 coincidentally... about the same time as trauma care honed it's skills
@@slipperyjk Which trauma care?
shahrazade26 They drove with these cars, like they did it with there carriages - crazy to see. Traffic was so slow compared with today‘s situation.
It reminds me of present day Pakistan
at least they didnt crash each other lol
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
That’s excellent.
there is nothing new under the sun
The sun also rises, could be a great title.
ВСЕ ИДЕТ СВОИМ ЧЕРЕДОМ ТОЛЬКО МЫ УМИРАЕМ
In earth's case it's around 100 to 200 billion years etc matter..100 to 200 years are not just like a blink of eye..😄
It's a first dash cam video in a world. Great authentic quality
I love this! I also love this incredible music!
This is on Market Street going eastward towards the Ferry Building. The Miles Brothers filmed this. Several articles in the April 1906 San Francisco Call and Post mentioned the filming in the paper.
I love the people that are redoing these films and slowing down and fixing them. You see wind blowing in real time and other things. We only had keystone cops type movements. I sew and have vintage machines including a 1919 treadle. I look up what fashions were made on my machines. When I see these old films in real human motion I can see the dresses they made with these machines and how they looked wearing them. I know, not many dresses in this one to see up close but have been watching a lot of them. It’s really interesting how jay walking was thing though, huh? In front of street cars, horses, cars, people al going any which way!
It's a little later than 1900. I think this was filmed a day or 2 before the great earthquake of 1906. Too many automobiles for 1900.
exactly, in 1900 the cars ir more famous in europe, i preferr the horses, more elegance.
TDV TDV Just what I was thinking when I started to watch the film.
Yes. This is a famous bit of film ("A Trip Down Market Street", filmed by the Miles Brothers), because it was taken about a week before the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.
That's the same thing I was saying, I think in 1900 there was cars, but very rare at that time
April 14, 1906, I think they figured out it was.
Man i like watching the trams, i remember my mum telling me how she liked riding on the trams in the 1940s she was as large as life, god bless her spirit Anne Giraud.🥰🥰
The trams in this film are actually San Francisco's famous cable cars. The cable runs in the slot between the rails. Three lines are still in operation!
I’m only 32 and I remember meeting my Great Great Grandparents youngest daughter whenever I was a kid she was born in 1909 and I remember her talking about what life was like back then.
This film footage is actually from March 1906, three weeks before the earthquake.
Still quite old.
I would love to spend one day of my life living in the a past like this. It would be awesome to have to adapt myself to live without any sort of technological gadget and internet. Life seemed to have a different rhythm...
I'm endlessly intrigued by this. Wow!
What a haunting music and video. I dont know why i feel scared... May be its time..time is scary
This is a drive up Market Street, from about Mid-Market all the way to the Ferry Building. If you want to compare then and now, use Google Earth and search for "1 Ferry Building Marketplace, San Francisco, CA". It's the building with the clock tower in the center of the shot, at the end of the street. Most of the old buildings are gone, but the Ferry Building is still there.
You can see the Ferry Building today in this video. th-cam.com/video/tYHGj19RrF0/w-d-xo.html The Flood Building on Powell/Market and the Call Building on 3rd/Market also stand today.
Going back in time. I enjoyed this video. Thank you.
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Amazing to see all these people and realise that everyone of them have lived and died.
I see a lot of horsepower on the street!
Yeah 1 or 2 horsepower lol
I know you will not reply me back.
Becsuse you made that comment 6 years back.
@@kismatsapkota3309 I'm still here Kismat.
Yes, I think it was 1906 just 6 days before the Earthquake. I saw it on another version of this film. It's great to watch and I wish I could be there. No traffic rules or lights. Beautiful!
The pace of life looks slower, but even with less traffic the erratic driving, and fearless pedestrians look at odds with today's more ordered street-scene. Nice to see a moving record from the past
Yep the pace of life was slower back then. Rules and restrictions weren't really needed on streets until cars started to hit the roads. Then because there were so many traffic related deaths strict rules had to be introduced and its stayed that way ever since.
Amazing 👍also another plus point = no justin beiber 😀😀😀
Ahh the world without phones... Love it
Life has changed a lot ☹️
Fabulous , ordinary people on an ordinary day going about their business over a hundred years ago. I wonder if the building at the end of the run still stands? Very enjoyable !
It does! It's the Ferry Building. Even though I've lived in San Francisco since 1997, it was the only building I could recognize today.
The Ferry Building still stands to this day. th-cam.com/video/tYHGj19RrF0/w-d-xo.html I've worked in that building back in the 1980s. The Flood Building (been inside many countless times) and the Call Building exist today as well.
So there has always been some rich doosh is his fancy automobile trying to pass everyone on Market Street since forever?
Jennifer Devereaux 😂😂😂
Jennifer Devereaux Pretty much. Lol
Jennifer , such language ! you must know nothing ever really changes
Bob Saturday • I’m sure the people he cut off thought a lot worse words in their heads lol
@The MGTOW Monk Lol! I was gonna say Beemers, but yes... I feel like they're somehow _less_ douchey in 2019... So weird there was cable car track down Market too, and strange to see the Ferry Building exactly the same.
After a thousand years, this video will become more exciting
Que sensação gostosa de andar pela rua, através do vídeo. Obrigado por quem o realizou.
I find the interactions between people and vehicles fascinating. It's miraculous that in the whole 11 minute video there were no collisions!
Man i like this brilliant footage, the good old days ay, at least the people back then were calmer people.🥇🥇
The only THING that hasn't changed in the last 120 years are the bicycles. lol
The cable cars look the same.
and excrement
@@charleyhorsie it would be interesting if they were the same ones used back then, if they are the same then they have aged well
Fue muy tierno ver como los niños de esa época se divertían jugando o como se colaban para viajar en algún carruaje. Saludos desde Paraguay.
I notice the kids jump on the back bumper of any passing automobile to hitch a ride, and sometimes onto a horse carriage.
Good music good footage
Thanks
Thanks Joe, we'd love if you'd listen to us on whatever service you use. Will Taylor and Strings Attached
My great grand uncles emmigrated to the US around 1900. So that's what they saw when they arrived (although they settled down in St. Paul, MN and not in San Fransisco). It is fascinating. I didn't even know I had relatives in the US until I found a family tree online, of a person who had the same great-great grandparents than me and of course, the same family name :-)
Same great great grandparents as you… so that would make them your third cousins. Not too distant. I know some of my third cousins..(my grandparents first cousins’ grandkids)
Did the side mirrors on cars say “Horses are closer than they appear”?
:28 How many carriage wheels were damaged by the tracks each day?
@The One and Only: Great question!
Simply amazing!
This was a really clear picture quality camera for this day and age
AI-reprocessed, among other things.
Lindas imagens, confesso que estou adimirada ... cada imagem , uma volta ao tempo! Sei que eram tempos difíceis, mas sobretudo o respeito, o cavalheirismo, a educação, eram evidentes !!!!!
Saudades de um tempo em que não vivi .
Estas fotos me hicieron vivir el momento desde mi lugar. Creo que la vida en ese momento era hermosa y tranquila a pesar de su sencillez.
Então, Rafaela, eu também sinto nostalgia de um tempo que não vivi. Engraçado, né!?
Sinto o mesmo.
Very humbling to watch these old films, I think people should be made to watch these films and realize how lucky they are and who made it possible.
Here I am in the year 2019 and I am watching this video. I am a 56 year old lady.
Actually not old at all; in 2019 56 is just barely middle-age.
@@rotunda57 "56 years old", not "old lady"
This video is just... haunting in a sense. I can't describe the feeling. I can't stop looking at it. It gives me both a sense of fascination and sadness.
I think of the sectarian disputes between the Motor advocates versus the Horse advocates to define the future of their town.
And the boys counting their money made from delivering packages and what intricately planned futures they could build off that small allowance, perhaps to study basic electricity and steam powering and the camera machines to make movies like this, not knowing that six days later their city would crumble and burn to the ground, and that some day their children might die in unimaginable European wars fought with airplanes.
CultPackPsychopaths Unmasked Wow... okay then
The film was shot in April 1906, just a few days before the great earthquake and fire destroyed many of those buildings and killed many of those people. th-cam.com/video/tYHGj19RrF0/w-d-xo.html
It’s fantastic to see these images! Thank’s a lot
Love the cop with the Billy Club ready to whack anyone getting out of line!
Complete chaos on the street. I wonder how many accidents happened during these times.
Vor dem die Stadt Gebrànnt !Tolle Bildern !
The Edwardian era, when horse drawn vehicles and motorised vehicles mixed freely on city streets. The amount of manure on the streets has not changed, but its source has...
Hoje, eu aqui sentado enfrente ao computador e vendo essas imagens de 118 anos atrás. A maioria do que vemos ai não existe mais, as pessoas todas já morreram e ainda podemos vê-las no seu dia a dia. Impressionante esses registros e a boa qualidade das imagens. Muito legal. Obrigado - BRASIL.
Sou fascinada por tudo isso..
@@Lorenzo-mq6by Eu também. Muito legal voltar no tempo e poder ver como era a época. Abraço.
@@templodorock1360 😜😘
I love the music.
notice how some of the people notice that are being filmed
*N O T I C E P T I O N*
That is basically happening now, let me explain. We live in “now” not “then” so to them, in that time it was now to them. It’s a hard concept to explain so if you don’t understand it’s ok😊
Everything is now and always has been
Fantastic! Love it!
Sharing the road with the Trolley, horse and buggy, automobiles, and pedestrians. No stop lights, no cross walks, jay walking is the norm, what Mayhem.
Nothing can move very fast or you would kill all of the pedestrians.
Global Awareness I did notice they still drove on the right side of the road, and the slower horse and buggies moved out of the way for the cars to pass. They created somewhat of their own order.
Don Comer I think the stop light is pretty brilliant and works really well. Their one stop light was a tourist destination in Abaco Bahamas. You’re welcome to develop a better system.
Rules and regulations weren't really needed back then and there was a messy kind of freedom. It was though generally considered polite to allow a lady to pass on the sidewalk so she didn't have to walk in the mud or muck. Once cars started hitting the roads there were thousands of fatalities. After some successful lobbying new laws were drawn up basically giving private cars priority. The street cars began to vanish and by the 1950s huge highways were constructed through American cities.
Driving skills and courtesy for other drivers and pedestrians have only slightly declines since then. Check out that tailgating and cutting others off.
"Hey, I'm walkin' here!" ("Midnight Cowboy"/"Forrest Gump")😂
Excellent video, thanks for posting.
I walk through this area several times a week - everything has changed - except the street cars and the horrible drivers!
What is the rent like there?
I plan on moving back to California once I get my life on track but with my current age I am doing nothing. I used to live in Sacramento and that is why I don't know the rent and was just curious...
The two things that strike me right off is the ladies's hats, can you say a little on the large size! And how everybody just drives anyway they want.
Market st...🖤 Wow... I walked this street all my life. 😎✌
My dad use to tell me stories of the Model T (Tin Lizzy). The way it could take your arm off when turning the crank to start the engine if it backfired- they later fixed that. Having to go up steep hills backwards because the gas tanks feeder hose was on the front of the tank. You might have to stop where you were and take the drain pan off and replace the rod bearings right there.
He would explain his trips hitching a ride on a train and trying not to get caught. The railroad guys would beat you with bats if they caught you.
I wish I had written all that stuff down.
And THAT is the real Santa Clause at 11:24!
newstart49 Yeah my dad told He casted his own ball bearings out of lead....😂🤦♂️😳
Those cars broke all the time, and getting a flat tire was way too easy.
It had its fair share of flaws....but at least it didnt poop 😉
real Santa Clause or ZZ Top time traveller?
Yeah,dad said the ball bearings wore out constantly and he melted lead shot and casted them out in the field.He combined two transmissions to have more gears and after cutting the frame he bolted it back together.
Amazing, every single person wearing a hat! Noticed only one not.
Hey Will, if you aren't already creating movie scores for a living, you will be one day. EXCELLENT pieces so well suited for the visuals, my dude.
Imagine having a half dozen of some of the more obscure automobiles in perfect condition today?
Those people staring into the camera could never have predicted that I’d be laying down here on my bed over 100 years later and staring right back at them. It’s just wild.
Haha well Said
I keep coming back to this.
Hard time I think.
Not as easy as today.
Tom Cherry Yes. Most people see these videos and think, “Oh, what a simpler time.” When really, I think that there are good and bad things about any era of time.
Tom Cherry your right, if you didn’t work there was no welfare to bail you out
@The Radio Vault-The World War II Years 1938-45 Most people def lived well over 30. The average life span is short because a lot of babies died in childbirth or a few years after birth, which brought the average lifespan down. Once you survived childhood though, I would save the average would be late 50's or 60's.
@@melodieferrin3196 Yes absolutely
this is more like 1905-1910, in 1900, you where lucky to see one car, let alone several
I do believe this film was taken around 1906.
+mrsaulthegreat ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Had to be 1906 or before. The big earthquake was 1906.
+mrsaulthegreat ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) The great quake which destroyed the city was in 1906.
+Robert Gantry This footage is from four days before the earthquake it seems. It is a well-known clip.
Vilhelmvonbraun
Well-known it may be. But it was the first time I had seen it, found it quite relaxing, with the good taste in music to go with it.
Just fascinating! Amazing!
I saw a show that claimed this was actually shot a few days before the quake in April of 06
Yeah, the cars are more like 1905-6, that's for sure.
"A Trip Down Market Street", filmed by the Miles Brothers, April 14, 1906
_60 Minutes_ report th-cam.com/video/tYHGj19RrF0/w-d-xo.html