As someone who was raised in sf in the 80s it was literal heaven, I can't see heaven being any better than 80's sf that's how amazing it was back then R.I.P my city.
jason c haha seriously, I'd love to see the 80's down through the 50's. I'm only 24 and definitely a more country/conservative type but SF has always fascinated me. Never wanted to really live in the city but SF is just way too culturally fascinating.
I grew up in San Francisco from 1969 to 1984 (3 years to 18). This video shows a lot of what I am used to from home. My wife and I visited the city years ago and we both said it was very different than when we grew up in the 70's & 80's. I do miss the city.
I hear you. When I was a kid we lived in Tracy from 83 to 85, and we went to San Francisco almost every weekend. I'm hopefully going to be visiting my family in Modesto next year. My wife and kids have never been to California at all. I plan on taking them to San Francisco if we go. I just wish they could visit the San Francisco that I remember.
Honestly bro, San Francisco has been a democratic shithole ever since the 1960s of the hippie culture, no offense, hell, San Francisco sucked ass in the 80s and 90s, and it still sucks ass in the 21st Century too
"Pier 39, it's a wonderful time, the shops are great and the food is sublime! The people are fun and the shows are divine Pier 39, it's a wonderful time!"
I was there as tourist in 1986 and I went on narrated bus tour. I loved it. Also what was neat was seeing people on the street at all times like you would in European countries.
People are not always in the streets at night in European countries. I’ve been to European countries. It’s dead pasted 10 pm. It’s thriving only on a Friday but especially Saturday night.
Born and raised in SF. I remember learning how to drive with my older brother, who drove a stick shift. I was going up the hill at 22:37 and he all of sudden screams STOP. I hit the brakes and he was "nothing". There I was, stuck on this mountain.
I couldn't imagine driving a stick in SF let alone learning to use one there. My mom never learned how to drive one, because she stalled out on a hill in Modesto while her father was trying to teach her. Heck that was her last time behind the wheel until she was almost 30.
@@JCole78 Moved back to SF many years ago and I still drive a stick. LOL. Most of those really hilly areas are tourist areas so I don't really venture out there much anyways.
Well, this is a little gem, thank you! I’ve only been to San Francisco a couple of times, but I do love it. But how it has changed. I would have loved to have seen it back then. Thank you for the upload.
Same, that’s exactly why I felt compelled to share it on TH-cam. I’ve watched other videos showing San Francisco here on TH-cam, but this one just has something about it. It’s something about the ‘80s vibe. For me it brings a massive amount of nostalgia since this was the era I last seen San Francisco.
I was born in San Francisco in 1984. But left when I was 5. Have not been back since then. I hope to make that goal one day to see this wonderful city again
I want to take my family out to California at least one time to see where I’m from. If we go I want to spend a day in San Francisco. I also want to show them Tracy, Livermore, and Dublin. For myself as an Apple fan I want to visit their headquarters old and new.
i grew up in alameda and used to love visiting my aunt and uncle in San Francisco wish it was still like this if a time machine is ever invented than im going back to the golden age of San Francisco
Moved to SF in 1961, left after marrying in 1963…returned with my two children in 1970’s…missing the hippie years. Been away for 30 years…and my heart breaks to see the former downtown..,just not sure I could handle a visit now. But oh, what memories.l,
This is a really good documentary... very informative, love the old pictures of the city... wish you guys did this sort of thing for all major cities in the U.S.
@@matinhewing1 The Board of Supervisors got greedy to allow the influx of all those egocentric techie and yuppie transplants to come in to gentrify and undermine the City's culture and history.
@@JCole78 From what I heard (this is coming from a San Francisco native born in the early 90s), the city still had its issues, but it certainly had its charm and unique character. Also, I would agree people on the street back then and during the 90s were open and friendly. Nowadays thanks to the tech influx, the people you see on the street are callous, cold, and pre-occupied with their phones.
Just discovered this gem 💎. In the mid 80s, I made the first of many visits to SAN FRANCISCO. Like the song, I Left My Heart in SAN FRANCISCO. Planned to move there, but circumstances did not work out. So many beautiful memories and so many 💖 great friends now unfortunately gone, including one who was SO special. ❤ 😢
From 1976-1980, I was on active duty in the Air Force. I would come home to San Francisco on leave to visit my parents. Two places that I would frequent were the SF Gun Exchange on 2nd St. snd Tower Records at Columbus and Bay.
Best times in the mid to late 80s in the city. I used to go to the Underground club at 9th and Howard streets. It was a goth club. I remember Robin Williams coming (87 I believe) impromptu one night and did stand up in the basement. How freaking cool was that? Doing stand up for a bunch of goth kids. Haight street was where all the cool kids went.
I have to say during the COVID-19, I hadn't seen San Francisco as quiet as of right now. When businessmen and tourist decide to stay home instead of visiting SF, bars closed, nightlife almost non-existent, San Francisco is a little more quiet. Why did San Francisco change? People change, the change of times. How many middle-class families live in San Francisco (within the city)? High tech, gentrification, opulence changed San Francisco.
This is how SF should of stayed. I remember that real Pier 39 when the arcade was in the front. SF is so boring now with how it lost all the magic and places that made it, along with the people as well. Used to be family friendly now it’s just a rich playground with eyesore buildings that kill the skyline. It’s not fun how it used to be. GG Park was the spot as a kid until it got switched up into a modern weird plastic boring playground. Playland was definitely way ahead of its time!
all of the small business around North Beach Bay Street area dried up because the Mayor started charging 25 cents for 3 minutes of parking (now most cities do this) and it chased off customers and foot traffic. the politicians just killed everything beautiful prior to 2012-2014. its a mess now.
The city was so beautiful and fun and pleasant back then. I remember it. I have many fond memories of it, and it’s true it’s just not the same anymore. It lacks the charm it once had.
My parents moved us to the other Florida Keys not long after this video was made, and even though I had moved back to California for a couple of years in the early 2000s I haven’t been to SF since we moved when I was a kid. This beautiful city lives in my memory frozen in time of the early to mid ‘80s.
I lived in San Francisco from 1979 until 1985. It was a great city then…maybe at its all-time height as a livable city. I worked in the Financial District, attended Golden Gate University and lived just below Nob Hill at Taylor & Sutter Street. Not long after the city really went to hell. What a shame.
I visited San Francisco thrice back in the 1990s and it was still like this then ... before the big tech companies moved in and paid salaries so high that real estate prices went through the roof! Now the place is a rich people's playground; it is too expensive for most people to even VISIT.
Pretty cool find, kudos for digitizing it. I remember Frank & Mike, on the radio station that carried the Giants games at the time [not named for numerous reasons]; they appealed to older folks who didn't listen to rock stations. They got a surprising few facts wrong, like the Sutro's fire.Betcha the station got bucks from P39, F&M spent an awful lot of time talking about that, and one second about the Castro! Also a peculiar emphasis on street performers, but alas this was shot too late to include Shields & Yarnell or the Amazing Human Jukebox.
Yeah- I too lived and worked in SF in my first really successful biz. 1981-83, then I sold my half of the biz and moved to France. Its been some 38 years since and I still remember vividly all the things in this video, the many faces I met along the way and all the Good memories! Today I live in CT- just north of NYC and whatever you want to say about here- it ain't No SF!
@@dennisguilder1 My 'ol biz in SF- 1981--'87 was an international Youth hostel located between Misson & Howard St's & 8th & 9th's St.- Mina St.! We had bought an old-old 3 story 18 rm. apt, 'house' and turned it into America's #1 Youth hostel with 200 people A night! (Exclusively European backpackers!) In 1981 we started with $5- A night 'per bed' and by '87 it was $14- A night! Suffice it to say that it was a real- Animal House of which cost me personally any Free time, my health and lots o Shalom Lost! I thereby sold my Half o the biz by ''87- moved to France- to get myself back together and I've been in & out of the US for many years. Today I find myself back in CT- married to a Filipina and hope to relocate back in the Philippines- God willing! All in all- I miss SF- but and like everything else- people and places change so I don't know what is Hot or not anymore there- Good luck to you and hope you find your way!
@@dennisguilder1 I was 26 years old, had a BS from SJSU and after I returned from Israel my old college pal told me of all the Europeans passing- flooding through Greyhound and he already knew a 'deviant Egyptian landlord in the Tnendeloin catering to the Europes and making $ ! So time I showed up I shared with my friend- we don't rent 'rooms'- but 'beds'! And after Israel I learned that we 'pack-the rms' with buns 3 -High to max. $! Yet, as I was then broke I also got A job- unloading buses Greyhoud (Of which then was a Union Co.- so unlined OT and after 5 months together we saved enough for the down payments and bought a real Fixer-upper for $138K ! Our first few wks were spring as we dumped whatever Monet into renovations (We did almost everything- all repairs and opened for biz June 1980! By Nov. '80 we had Big Pockets and learned How the tourist seasons flowed- who to watch out for ie. SF City Inspectors- bet they were 'slow' and never could close us down! Yeah- all in all it was a Real- Animal House- complete with Tonga Parties- Napa wine trips & beach parties and you met (And took advantage of) Europeans throughout Europa- Japan & Middle East!) Sounds exciting and it was- but there are limits and I saw mine and that's why I got out! Hope this helps you a lil more!
Nice find Jason, thanks for transferring this and sharing, brings back some memories for sure. That's a good idea, video at the library, I'll bet there are some jems in there (if they still have vhs)
Most people won’t even look twice at a VHS these days, but there is so much out there on VHS that once they’re gone they’re gone unless someone does like I did with this video. I’ve got a Harley-Davidson VHS that I would love to post, but HD has actively gone after others for posting it in lesser quality.
@@JCole78 I feel the same way, once it’s gone it’s gone. I love archiving old videos, photos, and doing family history research. I used to check out those old VHS tapes at the library from time to time in the 80s/90s. I never imagined they still had them or your idea to save them, that’s great!
@@JCole78 awww man that's a bummer. That's the next thing to find out, if there are any VHS still floating around LA libraries..maybe in the older buildings.
Air Aero in the interview with Walt Stack he said he was 77 years old, and assuming the whole video was filmed in the same month that means based off of the interview being done at the Bay to Breakers run that places the video being made in May of 1985.
You should - it is beautiful. I grew up in CA and grew up going to SF - it has changed really only in that there is now a lot more money and younger crowd than even like 10 years ago - it is expensive, hard to live there, more and more of a tourist spot now, but still wonderful and if I could live there I would in a heartbeat.
“One of the most romantic cities in the world” Not so much anymore. Now you have to dodge human feces, hope your windows aren’t shattered when you get back to your car... It’s a dump!
I grew up in the Bay Area in the 70s and early 80s. Back then it was a much more normal city. Regular people could afford to live there and there weren't homeless drug addicts everywhere. It was a very liberal city back then, but not the crazy like it is today.
Did you know in the 80s it had about 2000 murder a year.it was one of the most dangerous cities.now it's not even in top 10 most dangerous city in Usa.
It was actually a good city then. I have been here all my life. I grew up here. Although I am still living in my parents house, which is over 12 million USD today, I still somehow like it. yet, it's quite different from this video now.
In the interview with Walt Stack he said he was 77 years old, and assuming the whole video was filmed in the same month that means based off of the interview being done at the Bay to Breakers run that places the video being made in May of 1985.
@@JCole78 I think that you must be right, because if it had been May of 86, then some of the cars for the 87 model year would be on the road, and then at least a few of the vehicles in the video would have the newer style flush mount headlights. But as it is, they all seem to have the older style sealed beam headlights, which would mean 1985. Also, we know it cannot be May of 1984, because they mention the Cable Cars being revamped in 1984.
Alas, a SF without a homeless person on every corner, homes that might sell for under seven figures, and streets not filled with grime and millionaires.
I moved here 1980. Things of course have changed. Things have always been changing in SF. That’s the magic. Nostalgia creates a lot of shaded memories. Most things have changed for the best. I can remember the embarcadero with its double deck freeway. Nobody would ever go there. It was dangerous to go almost anyplace in the south of market. You wouldn’t want to walk to the train station after dark. Those who say SF has gone downhill never actually lived here. It has always been magical.
I know what you mean. I had plans to take my wife and kids on a vacation to see SF, but I got hit with what has now been years of health problems. Now I see what has become of it online, and don’t know if I ever want to see it in person.
California is so messed up in 2022. As a Canadian, who visited California in 2019 it’s literally a hell hole now. Now wonder why people are leaving California for Texas, Oregon and Florida.
in the summer my friends and I would hit up Frisco on the 0-line A/C Transit. Before Ferris Bueller came out, we did the same thing (around 1979) of leaning against the window of a highrise (Fairmont and St Francis Hotel) glass elevators. You would get up on your friends shoulders and both of you would lean forward when the elevator was rocketing upwards. or we would go to lands end and find the tunnel entrance (like the backroom videos of Uncanny Valley). very weird. you climbed down a makeshift ladder of rebar. or we would buy kites in Chinatown and glue broken glass on the string and have Chinese Style kite fights on Twin Peak's. you know, stuff that was sorta free. Lastly- (never do this) dare to enter the west portal and lean against the walls when the train came by inches from face). they since modified it and you CAN DIE NOW. dont do it. but I learned that from my pops who was a kid in the 1930s and would that shit. so we tried it once. ONCE.! (0)v(0)
It's a bitter sweet thing to have grown up in the '80s. I think the nostalgia for those of us that did is much deeper than previous generations because of the technology we have today. I can watch hours upon hours of commercials from my childhood on TH-cam. Whereas 20 years ago when my father was my age internet was still mostly dial up.
San Francisco during the 90s was still a great place to visit. It wasn't until the mid 2000s, that's when everything went downhill. Coming from a long-time native San Franciscan born in the early 1990s.
bruh i never knew bart was around in the 80s lol. i was born in 2004 edit: ppl def liked SF more than NYC back then. SF rly did have it all another edit: after Supreme Court passed the "no homeless ppl" act, SF may be clean soon. will take a few years tho
I'm from Boston, when I was 19 I moved to southern California, I lived there for 3 years, always wanted to move to the bay area, something was calling me, ended up getting married and having a baby, moved back to Boston area to raise 2 kids back home. Divorced couple years later, you know the story.lol
I wish I could say yes, but I really don’t know if it can. My cousin moved back to our hometown in the central valley because of how it’s gotten, and living in SF was always her dream.
As someone who was raised in sf in the 80s it was literal heaven, I can't see heaven being any better than 80's sf that's how amazing it was back then R.I.P my city.
Lived there 1985 through 1996. The best times of my life. Sad to see what it’s become.
Who here wish they were in the 80s in San Francisco?
lorraine ferguson I would love to be back in the 80s period, but 1980s San Francisco would be amazing to revisit.
jason c haha seriously, I'd love to see the 80's down through the 50's. I'm only 24 and definitely a more country/conservative type but SF has always fascinated me. Never wanted to really live in the city but SF is just way too culturally fascinating.
Frisco in the 80's wasnt no cake walk. At least not in the mid 80's when crack hit the streets. A lot of homelessness, robberies, and killings
Lots of Aids
Me
R.I.P. to the old beautiful San Francisco, California. We will always MISS YOU!
I agree, we can't beat the bay
Best comment 😊
I was lucky to have lived it. It's gone now tho.
Miss the old SF indeed, where I was born, raised and spent the first 25 years of my life
This San Francisco is waiting for us on the other side when we make our eternal departure.
I grew up in San Francisco from 1969 to 1984 (3 years to 18). This video shows a lot of what I am used to from home. My wife and I visited the city years ago and we both said it was very different than when we grew up in the 70's & 80's. I do miss the city.
I hear you. When I was a kid we lived in Tracy from 83 to 85, and we went to San Francisco almost every weekend. I'm hopefully going to be visiting my family in Modesto next year. My wife and kids have never been to California at all. I plan on taking them to San Francisco if we go. I just wish they could visit the San Francisco that I remember.
The techies have destroyed it.
@jason c did you take that trip?
@@JCole78 I grew up in Dogpatch and Brisbane, my grandpa lived in Dogpatch at the time! My brother’s best friend was from Tracey California
@@cantbeatthebay4765 it’s true
I loved SF in the 80s and 90s. I miss those two decades so much.
Honestly bro, San Francisco has been a democratic shithole ever since the 1960s of the hippie culture, no offense, hell, San Francisco sucked ass in the 80s and 90s, and it still sucks ass in the 21st Century too
Was born and raised in San Francisco, had my son in 1980. No big deal. Guess I'm use to it. I have to say it is beautiful!!!
Loved this, I lived there from 1980 to 1986 and visit the city about every other year. Ooh how I do miss those times in the city by the bay
If California was still like it was back then I would have moved back with my family years ago.
If we ever invent time machines, I'd be purely living in the past from then on.
Ask God and he will invent a time machine for us to go back, I would love to go back in time.
@@tameriajones593 Just don't change the past...OR ELSE!
@@travellmcintosh What ?
@@tameriajones593 If you change the past, there will be... consequences.
"Pier 39, it's a wonderful time,
the shops are great
and the food is sublime!
The people are fun and
the shows are divine
Pier 39, it's a wonderful time!"
I was there as tourist in 1986 and I went on narrated bus tour. I loved it. Also what was neat was seeing people on the street at all times like you would in European countries.
People are not always in the streets at night in European countries. I’ve been to European countries. It’s dead pasted 10 pm. It’s thriving only on a Friday but especially Saturday night.
Born and raised in SF. I remember learning how to drive with my older brother, who drove a stick shift. I was going up the hill at 22:37 and he all of sudden screams STOP. I hit the brakes and he was "nothing". There I was, stuck on this mountain.
I couldn't imagine driving a stick in SF let alone learning to use one there. My mom never learned how to drive one, because she stalled out on a hill in Modesto while her father was trying to teach her. Heck that was her last time behind the wheel until she was almost 30.
@@JCole78 Moved back to SF many years ago and I still drive a stick. LOL. Most of those really hilly areas are tourist areas so I don't really venture out there much anyways.
dang the BARTs are so clean.
Also a great reminder that the infrastructure of it hasn't changed a bit for 30 years.
Bart simpson 😆
Well, this is a little gem, thank you! I’ve only been to San Francisco a couple of times, but I do love it. But how it has changed. I would have loved to have seen it back then.
Thank you for the upload.
Wow brings back so many memories. I graduated from San Mateo High School in 1980 San Francisco was my playground
Good ol' Mateo . You know rodney Black? Robert black? EE or Fatback? Georges shoe repair? Or sybil black? Lapria
I lived in the city until I was a teen and went to Terra Nova in Pacifica, '82.
Born in San Francisco in 2000, this video evokes emotions I cannot explain…
Same, that’s exactly why I felt compelled to share it on TH-cam. I’ve watched other videos showing San Francisco here on TH-cam, but this one just has something about it. It’s something about the ‘80s vibe. For me it brings a massive amount of nostalgia since this was the era I last seen San Francisco.
I was born in San Francisco in 1984. But left when I was 5. Have not been back since then. I hope to make that goal one day to see this wonderful city again
I want to take my family out to California at least one time to see where I’m from. If we go I want to spend a day in San Francisco. I also want to show them Tracy, Livermore, and Dublin. For myself as an Apple fan I want to visit their headquarters old and new.
I like Japantown.
Hope to see you soon!!❤❤ (from your beautiful San Francisco)
i grew up in alameda and used to love visiting my aunt and uncle in San Francisco wish it was still like this if a time machine is ever invented than im going back to the golden age of San Francisco
Book me a ticket as well! 🎫
just for kicks did you ever take the 0 or 51 in instead of BART or drive? (as a kid even)
Even in the 1980s san francisco skyline look great
It's still a beautiful city. Yet, it's outrageously expensive and there's not much culture or vibe left.
I'm actually tearing up watching this. How did we get to this point?
Law and order and drugs !
All the democrats ruined the City, be a republican and have common sense
Jerry brown ruined it..when he got in the 70s..Newsom only made it worse
Queue the “liberal democrats bad!” Comments..
Reagenomics got us here.
I had the good fortune of seeing San Francisco in 1984 and had a wonderful visit. Wish there was a Time Machine to travel back for a weeklong holiday.
Moved to SF in 1961, left after marrying in 1963…returned with my two children in 1970’s…missing the hippie years. Been away for 30 years…and my heart breaks to see the former downtown..,just not sure I could handle a visit now. But oh, what memories.l,
I love this kind of old videos
This is a really good documentary... very informative, love the old pictures of the city... wish you guys did this sort of thing for all major cities in the U.S.
I agree. My parents moved us to South Florida about the time this video was made. I would love to have a video like this of Miami.
1984-1987 Honda Civic spotted @ 5:58 ...almost brand new at the time
"This is the Castro Street area, the center of San Francisco's much talked about gay lifestyle.
Now let's talk about food."
Riveting five seconds. 😹
I mean , there was so little to talk about the gay community in the freaking 1980s lol
they that did so awkwardly right. like if you were going to say only that much why even put it in the video at all
The city used to be so nice...
R S What happened to it?
Same but few freeways removed
@@matinhewing1 The Board of Supervisors got greedy to allow the influx of all those egocentric techie and yuppie transplants to come in to gentrify and undermine the City's culture and history.
Walt Stack died in 1995... a piece of San Francisco died with him.
I miss the old ungentrified City. So much of it has been lost to the yuppie techie BS. 😥
i wasn’t alive in the 80’s but i live in san francisco now and i wish it was like this :(
Mia Toler the ‘80s period were great. Yeah it had it’s problems, but the everything seemed more happy and hopeful.
@@JCole78 From what I heard (this is coming from a San Francisco native born in the early 90s), the city still had its issues, but it certainly had its charm and unique character. Also, I would agree people on the street back then and during the 90s were open and friendly. Nowadays thanks to the tech influx, the people you see on the street are callous, cold, and pre-occupied with their phones.
Just discovered this gem 💎. In the mid 80s, I made the first of many visits to SAN FRANCISCO. Like the song, I Left My Heart in SAN FRANCISCO. Planned to move there, but circumstances did not work out. So many beautiful memories and so many 💖 great friends now unfortunately gone, including one who was SO special. ❤ 😢
There’s 2 cities and one town in California that have always held a special place for me, San Francisco, Monterey, and Twain Harte.
From 1976-1980, I was on active duty in the Air Force. I would come home to San Francisco on leave to visit my parents. Two places that I would frequent were the SF Gun Exchange on 2nd St. snd Tower Records at Columbus and Bay.
Best times in the mid to late 80s in the city. I used to go to the Underground club at 9th and Howard streets. It was a goth club. I remember Robin Williams coming (87 I believe) impromptu one night and did stand up in the basement. How freaking cool was that? Doing stand up for a bunch of goth kids. Haight street was where all the cool kids went.
Yeah. That's Lipps and the National Theater of the Deranged with former members of The Commitee!
It was Truly a Better Time and Place in The 80”s!✨
Back when San fransisco was normal and there wasn't any poop maps
I lived there from 1984 to 2000. I wish I could go back to that time!
I have to say during the COVID-19, I hadn't seen San Francisco as quiet as of right now. When businessmen and tourist decide to stay home instead of visiting SF, bars closed, nightlife almost non-existent, San Francisco is a little more quiet. Why did San Francisco change? People change, the change of times. How many middle-class families live in San Francisco (within the city)? High tech, gentrification, opulence changed San Francisco.
COVID-19 has been the biggest disrupter of San Francisco since Loma Prieta in '89. It'll never be the same...
A 6 HOUR BIKE RIDE. A 17 MILE RUN . THEN SWIMS. WOW!
This is how SF should of stayed. I remember that real Pier 39 when the arcade was in the front. SF is so boring now with how it lost all the magic and places that made it, along with the people as well. Used to be family friendly now it’s just a rich playground with eyesore buildings that kill the skyline. It’s not fun how it used to be. GG Park was the spot as a kid until it got switched up into a modern weird plastic boring playground. Playland was definitely way ahead of its time!
all of the small business around North Beach Bay Street area dried up because the Mayor started charging 25 cents for 3 minutes of parking (now most cities do this) and it chased off customers and foot traffic. the politicians just killed everything beautiful prior to 2012-2014. its a mess now.
평화롭고 풍요롭고 누구에게나 기회가 있던시절. 스마트폰이 없던시절.
The city was so beautiful and fun and pleasant back then. I remember it. I have many fond memories of it, and it’s true it’s just not the same anymore. It lacks the charm it once had.
My parents moved us to the other Florida Keys not long after this video was made, and even though I had moved back to California for a couple of years in the early 2000s I haven’t been to SF since we moved when I was a kid. This beautiful city lives in my memory frozen in time of the early to mid ‘80s.
The most beautifil city in the world!!❤❤🇵🇹🇵🇹
Visited SF in the 1980s. Beautiful city, naturally and as a testament to man's ability.
I lived in San Francisco from 1979 until 1985. It was a great city then…maybe at its all-time height as a livable city. I worked in the Financial District, attended Golden Gate University and lived just below Nob Hill at Taylor & Sutter Street. Not long after the city really went to hell. What a shame.
I visited San Francisco thrice back in the 1990s and it was still like this then ... before the big tech companies moved in and paid salaries so high that real estate prices went through the roof! Now the place is a rich people's playground; it is too expensive for most people to even VISIT.
Yeah parking is a bitch
Happy and sad, at the same time.
I lived there in the early 80s. I'm still buzzing from the experience.
Pretty cool find, kudos for digitizing it. I remember Frank & Mike, on the radio station that carried the Giants games at the time [not named for numerous reasons]; they appealed to older folks who didn't listen to rock stations. They got a surprising few facts wrong, like the Sutro's fire.Betcha the station got bucks from P39, F&M spent an awful lot of time talking about that, and one second about the Castro! Also a peculiar emphasis on street performers, but alas this was shot too late to include Shields & Yarnell or the Amazing Human Jukebox.
Yeah- I too lived and worked in SF in my first really successful biz. 1981-83, then I sold my half of the biz and moved to France. Its been some 38 years since and I still remember vividly all the things in this video, the many faces I met along the way and all the Good memories!
Today I live in CT- just north of NYC and whatever you want to say about here- it ain't No SF!
What was your business? Was it as expensive then as now?
@@dennisguilder1 My 'ol biz in SF- 1981--'87 was an international Youth hostel located between Misson & Howard St's & 8th & 9th's St.- Mina St.! We had bought an old-old 3 story 18 rm. apt, 'house' and turned it into America's #1 Youth hostel with 200 people A night! (Exclusively European backpackers!) In 1981 we started with $5- A night 'per bed' and by '87 it was $14- A night! Suffice it to say that it was a real- Animal House of which cost me personally any Free time, my health and lots o Shalom Lost! I thereby sold my Half o the biz by ''87- moved to France- to get myself back together and I've been in & out of the US for many years. Today I find myself back in CT- married to a Filipina and hope to relocate back in the Philippines- God willing!
All in all- I miss SF- but and like everything else- people and places change so I don't know what is Hot or not anymore there- Good luck to you and hope you find your way!
@@allfredo7753 wow thanks!! But how did you buy it? We’re you able to get a grant? Did you have to use your own money?
@@dennisguilder1 I was 26 years old, had a BS from SJSU and after I returned from Israel my old college pal told me of all the Europeans passing- flooding through Greyhound and he already knew a 'deviant Egyptian landlord in the Tnendeloin catering to the Europes and making $ ! So time I showed up I shared with my friend- we don't rent 'rooms'- but 'beds'! And after Israel I learned that we 'pack-the rms' with buns 3 -High to max. $! Yet, as I was then broke I also got A job- unloading buses Greyhoud (Of which then was a Union Co.- so unlined OT and after 5 months together we saved enough for the down payments and bought a real Fixer-upper for $138K ! Our first few wks were spring as we dumped whatever Monet into renovations (We did almost everything- all repairs and opened for biz June 1980! By Nov. '80 we had Big Pockets and learned How the tourist seasons flowed- who to watch out for ie. SF City Inspectors- bet they were 'slow' and never could close us down! Yeah- all in all it was a Real- Animal House- complete with Tonga Parties- Napa wine trips & beach parties and you met (And took advantage of) Europeans throughout Europa- Japan & Middle East!) Sounds exciting and it was- but there are limits and I saw mine and that's why I got out!
Hope this helps you a lil more!
I wish the City was like this now (2023). Some of it is still happening now but with less fear and cheaper. Good ol days. Yeah Tommy's Joint.
Thank You For sharing this Video
Nice find Jason, thanks for transferring this and sharing, brings back some memories for sure. That's a good idea, video at the library, I'll bet there are some jems in there (if they still have vhs)
Most people won’t even look twice at a VHS these days, but there is so much out there on VHS that once they’re gone they’re gone unless someone does like I did with this video. I’ve got a Harley-Davidson VHS that I would love to post, but HD has actively gone after others for posting it in lesser quality.
@@JCole78 I feel the same way, once it’s gone it’s gone. I love archiving old videos, photos, and doing family history research. I used to check out those old VHS tapes at the library from time to time in the 80s/90s. I never imagined they still had them or your idea to save them, that’s great!
@@NealWalter sadly about 7 years ago the Library where I checked this out from got rid of all the VHS tales they had.
@@JCole78 awww man that's a bummer. That's the next thing to find out, if there are any VHS still floating around LA libraries..maybe in the older buildings.
I was born and raised in San Jose and spent a lot of time in San Francisco in 70s and 80s it was cool and Beautiful back then
Remember what NYC was in the 70’s and 80’s? Let’s clean this shit up!
ABC's Hotel aired from September 21, 1983 & May 5, 1988 so this video tour took place sometime between those dates.
Air Aero in the interview with Walt Stack he said he was 77 years old, and assuming the whole video was filmed in the same month that means based off of the interview being done at the Bay to Breakers run that places the video being made in May of 1985.
@@JCole78 I would have guessed 85 or 86. Seems like you honed it down damn close
No earlier than '85 since he mentioned that the Cable Car renovations were done in '84.
This is the San Francisco I miss :)))
+scottjulie27 same here.
You should - it is beautiful. I grew up in CA and grew up going to SF - it has changed really only in that there is now a lot more money and younger crowd than even like 10 years ago - it is expensive, hard to live there, more and more of a tourist spot now, but still wonderful and if I could live there I would in a heartbeat.
More yuppie less hippie still amazing but nothing like it was in the 80s
***** Thank you for completely speaking my mind. :))))
***** I know that wasn't your intention. I feel the exact same way. :)
used to love going to san francisco back then when it was cheap. now it's expen$ive
And a dump/public restroom
This is beautiful scenary of San Francisco.
“One of the most romantic cities in the world” Not so much anymore. Now you have to dodge human feces, hope your windows aren’t shattered when you get back to your car... It’s a dump!
Why didn't they show the projects and the gangs and drug problems that was going on in the poor areas?
I grew up in the Bay Area in the 70s and early 80s. Back then it was a much more normal city. Regular people could afford to live there and there weren't homeless drug addicts everywhere. It was a very liberal city back then, but not the crazy like it is today.
Did you know in the 80s it had about 2000 murder a year.it was one of the most dangerous cities.now it's not even in top 10 most dangerous city in Usa.
It was actually a good city then. I have been here all my life. I grew up here. Although I am still living in my parents house, which is over 12 million USD today, I still somehow like it. yet, it's quite different from this video now.
Kinko Sam invite me
You are waiting for them to die, so you can cash in and move to Idaho and buy a Ferrari.
Must be nice.
Freeloader
What a horrible thing to say
The way things are going it's not worth 12 million anymore
I wonder what year this was recorded? None of the cars seem to have flush style headlights which came out in 1987, so I'm guessing early 1986?
In the interview with Walt Stack he said he was 77 years old, and assuming the whole video was filmed in the same month that means based off of the interview being done at the Bay to Breakers run that places the video being made in May of 1985.
@@JCole78 I think that you must be right, because if it had been May of 86, then some of the cars for the 87 model year would be on the road, and then at least a few of the vehicles in the video would have the newer style flush mount headlights. But as it is, they all seem to have the older style sealed beam headlights, which would mean 1985. Also, we know it cannot be May of 1984, because they mention the Cable Cars being revamped in 1984.
Alas, a SF without a homeless person on every corner, homes that might sell for under seven figures, and streets not filled with grime and millionaires.
"The Bay Area Rapid Transit. Affectionately known as Bart." How the times have changed haha
They would be horrified to see what the city has become.
Sweet video. 💕
Wow much different than it is now cleaner safer you can walk the streets with no worries and was that a clean BART train or what
Long gone.
This is before the corrupt democrats trashed this once beautiful city.
When it still had power and life!!
R.I.P To The Real SF! Thanks For Posting
ciscokid77 you’re welcome
Embarcadero Fwy still there in 1980s
RIP San Fran, we will remember you
I moved here 1980. Things of course have changed. Things have always been changing in SF. That’s the magic.
Nostalgia creates a lot of shaded memories. Most things have changed for the best. I can remember the embarcadero with its double deck freeway. Nobody would ever go there. It was dangerous to go almost anyplace in the south of market. You wouldn’t want to walk to the train station after dark. Those who say SF has gone downhill never actually lived here. It has always been magical.
I move to Oakland in 86. I used to love going to San Francisco. 2024 San Francisco is not as pleasant to say the least. I avoid it at all cost 😢
I know what you mean. I had plans to take my wife and kids on a vacation to see SF, but I got hit with what has now been years of health problems. Now I see what has become of it online, and don’t know if I ever want to see it in person.
Born and raised in San Francisco. I left in 91. So sad that it’s a huge shit hole now. I’ll never go back.
Good riddance. We won't be missing haters like you.
This makes me happy
This gives me Nostalgia and I wasn't even alive in the 80's.
This is what i remember from the 1980s in san fran
Tolerant to homeless and their drugs and feces ...... a true San Francisco treat :)
California is so messed up in 2022. As a Canadian, who visited California in 2019 it’s literally a hell hole now. Now wonder why people are leaving California for Texas, Oregon and Florida.
in the summer my friends and I would hit up Frisco on the 0-line A/C Transit. Before Ferris Bueller came out, we did the same thing (around 1979) of leaning against the window of a highrise (Fairmont and St Francis Hotel) glass elevators. You would get up on your friends shoulders and both of you would lean forward when the elevator was rocketing upwards. or we would go to lands end and find the tunnel entrance (like the backroom videos of Uncanny Valley). very weird. you climbed down a makeshift ladder of rebar. or we would buy kites in Chinatown and glue broken glass on the string and have Chinese Style kite fights on Twin Peak's. you know, stuff that was sorta free. Lastly- (never do this) dare to enter the west portal and lean against the walls when the train came by inches from face). they since modified it and you CAN DIE NOW. dont do it. but I learned that from my pops who was a kid in the 1930s and would that shit. so we tried it once. ONCE.! (0)v(0)
Good times not like now San Francisco ls a dump sad
"sf used to be so beautiful" with that ugly-ass Embarcadero Freeway cutting off the ocean view
1980 to 2016 I lived in SF, now in Bath, Maine
Damn I wish I grew up in the 80s not the 2000s
It's a bitter sweet thing to have grown up in the '80s. I think the nostalgia for those of us that did is much deeper than previous generations because of the technology we have today. I can watch hours upon hours of commercials from my childhood on TH-cam. Whereas 20 years ago when my father was my age internet was still mostly dial up.
San Francisco during the 90s was still a great place to visit. It wasn't until the mid 2000s, that's when everything went downhill. Coming from a long-time native San Franciscan born in the early 1990s.
The City of the 1980s is long gone.
bruh i never knew bart was around in the 80s lol. i was born in 2004
edit: ppl def liked SF more than NYC back then. SF rly did have it all
another edit: after Supreme Court passed the "no homeless ppl" act, SF may be clean soon. will take a few years tho
17:19 same siren and bell used in Ludichrist "Fire at the firehouse" song.
I wish I was born at this time
It had its pros and cons, but the pros definitely out weighed the cons imho.
I would move to 80s San Francisco
I would move to 1980s California if I could.
I’m a San Franciscan girl! It’s changed but for the most part good people coming here. KNBR♥️
good video 📹👍
Look at San Francisco now in 2022 😢
omg I currently live next to Tommys Joynt (15:52) ... wasn't expecting to see that when i randomly clicked on this lol
It's impossible to get a bad meal in San Francisco
I'm from Boston, when I was 19 I moved to southern California, I lived there for 3 years, always wanted to move to the bay area, something was calling me, ended up getting married and having a baby, moved back to Boston area to raise 2 kids back home. Divorced couple years later, you know the story.lol
Everything looks like Full House lol
Will it ever return to its glory
I wish I could say yes, but I really don’t know if it can. My cousin moved back to our hometown in the central valley because of how it’s gotten, and living in SF was always her dream.
I was there
Cheers
Grew up in SF, noe valley, in the 70s , very proud, but now when I go to city , they made this blue collar city into a white collar rich city,