Streets of San Francisco, 1969
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- In 1969, as it became apparent that American rail passenger service was about to disappear from the face of the land (AMTRAK was by no means a sure thing then) I embarked on "one last" Dream Rail Adventure. Riding "last runs" was a hobby within the hobby in those days, but more on that at a later time. This trip took me to California where I met up with a buddy from the Ohio Railway Museum to enjoy the Roaring Camp and Big Trees and the delights of San Francisco. This movie features the San Francisco part of that adventure.
Wonderful. I'm a native San Franciscan, born in 1971. San Francisco is the best.
I immigrated to the United State at 10yrs old on 1972. Grew up at San Francisco till I got married. I missed those days going to Fishermans Wharf on muni and cable cars. I mostly missed going to WoolWorth and getting their dinner at basement cafe.
ivru1455 ✌👏🍻🙋✌✌✌✌
No matter where I am in the world, San Francisco is always in my heart.
Me too!
That could be a song about leaving your heart in the San Francisco something like that
Have been here since 1957 my dad was a soldier at the Presidio. 1969 was a Jr. in hi school. Hippies , Altamonte. Things change in San Francisco but just like everywhere still here God bless later
Have you seen it lately, 2021?
I'm on your side. San Francisco is always home to me.
I was 19 years old when I moved to SF in 1969. Went to SF State, worked at The Emporium part time. Still here in 2019, 50 years as of May. Became a housepainter in 1972 and got to work on hundreds of Victorians inside and out. Loved it and still love living here.
Lucky you,I wish I’ve lived in San Francisco in the 1960s 70s,I was born much later but somehow I think it was a magical time.
I love my city of SAN FRANCISCO. I lived here all my life. And still do till this very day.
Born and Raised here. Only a few people can say this like myself. A true San Franciscan!
I was a hick who just had to ride one of the street cars. When it came time to get off at the rear door, there was a sign that read: "To open door, step on the treadle." I had no idea what a "treadle" was, so I yelled to the driver, "Would you open the door?" He yelled back, "Step on the treadle!" I said, "What's a treadle?" He said, "Step down", and the door opened. Fortunately, there weren't many riders on the car, so my naivety was seen by few.
My Hometown and lived there till 72. Now in the East Bay but watching this brings back the memories of growin up in The City. Thank You for sharing this!
Great song to the video! Love it💕🩷💕
Born in 1965 i love this erra, people were in motion, and much more loving 🫂💕
Im a New Yorker, and life was so much more gentler.
Love this video, wish i could've visited San Francisco when it was a Loving city 🌆
Born in S.F 1964. Raised here, haven't left yet ! Thanks for posting this !!
I was born in San Francisco and lived there for 18 years. I have now lived in Portland twice as long as I lived in San Francisco but when anyone asks me where home is, the answer is still, and will always be, San Francisco.
When San Francisco was GRAND and people were alot more civilized. I hope she will come back, . . . .
Beautiful!! I was all of 4 years old when this footage was taken-grew up to become a cable car gripman!
I love the old green buses reminds me that we were definitely in a whole other place and time that doesn't exist anymore
My hometown the way I remembered it!
Me too.
Yup me too. Born in the City in 54. Really miss old Whitney's Playland at the Beach
I saw some footage of the Woolworth location at Powell and Market Streets. I remember that store had a lunch counter. The basement had a connection to the Powell Street station. Now Woolworth is gone. I miss shopping there.
That lunch counter was the best in the late 50's early 60's. I remember my grandparents would take me there many times for lunch. Absolutely the best burgers and BLT sandwiches bar none!!!!!!!!! 👍
Thanks so much for sharing this video. San Francisco is my favorite city, and this takes me back in time. Video is GREAT!
1969 what a great year it was.
Thanks for posting.
I remember SF in 69 at that time it was so cool, I miss it.
The cars of my young age...wonderfull years...missing a lot
I was 12 going on 13 in 69 and we use to visit my grandparents who lived on Benton ave. in ST. Mary's park at the time. We would go past San Francisco state and see all the war protesters on the way to San Bruno to visit my cousins afterwards. Thank you for the great video!
Don Dressel me too.
1957 born.
And take MUNI to GGP and check out the 🌸 flower child’s !! . We used to play the in small park by St. Mary’s
My family and I moved back to San Francisco in 1966 just before I started H.S.
Don Dressel St. Mary’s Park was my old stomping grounds back then. I was also 12 going on 13 in 1969.
@@mikewatson497 do you happen to know where there’s a site I can see historical pictures of St Mary’s park?
Born and raised in the inner richmond, love the city, flawed as it is, always will, it's just a magical place to go, no other city quite like it
Thanks for sharing. I remember all those streets and taking those lines. A little glimpse of old Woolworths where the Powell line starts to go to Fishermans wharf. I remember how the tram would rock like a boat.
And Woolworths had a fantastic lunch counter that served great hamburgers and their famous BLT sandwich 👍
Wow, great footage! Thanks so much for this. We lived in SF during the 60's when I was a kid and I just relived a part of my childhood!
This is so awesome! I live in Nob Hill, just a few blocks from where much of this was shot. I love archival San Francisco video. An amazing city with such an amazing past. Thank you for posting!
Still an amazing city I just visited for a few days last month. All clean, friendly, beautiful, zero issues.
Yep. Nothing like a video of your childhood haunts and icons to bring up those sentiments.
I've been watching SF vids all day too, flooded with memories of riding along all of these streets on my bike and in streetcars, buses, and cable cars. This vid brings it back. Even the lighting evokes old feelings.
I remember Market St. near Woolworth's torn up for BART, and wandering through a love-in in GG Park in '69, at 9 years old.
The diversity of people & architecture made/make it great.
that's perfect, man. such a beautiful city, such a beautiful times. thank you :)
great show. really captured 1960s SF. I was in grad school in those years and loved it. The music is great and essential to feeling what it was like.
I just moved back to my hometown of Clarksville, TN after 9 years in San Francisco a month ago. Since then, I’ve spent nearly every day in bed depressed. I was watching this video wishing I could somehow go back in time and re live the last 9 years of my life in SF when @4:52 I saw the message on the screen. It truly inspired me- to get out of bed and start over.
Thank you for this.
Was in the Haight district a
year earlier, August 1968.
Peace & Love had given way
to pure edgy - ness. One
long-haired dude was yelling at my dad!
I was born in San Francisco in 1952. Grew up in predominantly in the Sunset. Herbert Hoover, Lincoln High School high on a hilltop, USF. Was 16 in 1968. Remember when this song came out. Wasn't a hippie but definitely a theater geek. ACT arrived in 1967 and settled here. Ushered at the Geary Theater and saw superb productions of Shakespeare, Shaw and Stoppard. Flags waving in front of the Geary Theater. The smell of cornbeef and greasepaint, the roar of the crowd.
Abraham Lincoln High School Grad 1960
Sunset..like a distant suburb back then..even so when I came in 92
It was a great time to grow up in San Francisco. GWHS grad 1972...
Came out of college in late 70s. Had ACT subscription and loved it. I had a car but rarely used it. Used to ride Muni around on weekends just to check out neighborhoods. Remember going to a concert at Stern Grove which kind of reminded me of Ravinia in my hometown near Chicago except there you wore cutoffs and t-shirts on a July night. Ha Ha. First thing in morning take in paper and check out Herb Caen. Miss it!
Born & raised in the inner Sunset district in the mid 50's. Friday nights we'd hang out at Pasquale's pizza on Irving & 8th Ave 👍
I was 2,600 miles away in North Carolina and 4 years old at the time, but it's great looking at this old footage!
This is the BEST You Tube video!!!! I remember when it was just a quarter to ride any MUNI transit. Lots of cool shots of early MUNI equipment on the streets......now, long gone. The Scot McKensie music is just perfect. There is nothing like San Francisco. Sweet.
I just want to say Thank You for that video. It brought back some good memories for me.
Brings you back to that time.. Thanks for posting..
I still call this home‼️♥️
Market street torn up for years while they built BART.
This was back when us locals could actually use the cable cars to get around town.
It was a mess as i remember. plywood and big piles of dirt. day trip to the city on greyhound. couldn't wait to get back to nice peaceful petaluma. my mother drug me down haight ashbury in '68 to the police dept to pick up my stupid hippy older brother that had run away and was living in gg park. we got lost and couldn't read the street sign on haight st because there was a bra covering the sign LOL. My younger brother and i occasionally went into the city with our dad. Driving around I remember us making fun of the strange looking hippys. For us tame petaluma kids it was a freak show. I think i would have liked san fran better if i had been born 10 years earlier
@@gregh7457 Yes I remember taking Greyhound into the City back before GG Transit started their bus and ferry systems. The Greyhound bus would stop in Novato and San Rafael. I wasn't much of a hippy either but did like the weed and free love.
Best years of my life, in SF.
I work there since i was 18yrs old to about 29yrs and felt in love with it proud being a bay area native. Met so many people and seen so many beautiful places as a delivery guy but nothing compares to SANFRANCISCO
Always sad seeing Market Street torn up for BART. Market Street downtown was one of the great places on the planet. It was ALIVE, and BART killed it. Still hasn't recovered...
Not to mention the thousands of rats that BART displaced.
Wrong. BART is underneath the street. No affect on Market Street.
When was the last time you were in SF? It appears you are ignorant of some reality
@Spike Elwood Shutting what down?
That's some great video! And wow, that is some really classic music. I forgot how good it really is!
The film has suffered over the years but sure glad it was saved and we get to see it.
This was filmed two months before my first visit to SF, and what an adventure! I've been back now more times than I can count, last time this past February; I never get tired of that city............it's unlike any other in the US.
Oh my god...what a beautiful video...dressed up with one of the best songs for San Fran. I was in San Fran a couple o days ago and the city is just magical....What a place to be in!!!
I just want to say "thanks". This video brought back some good memories. Never forget Market Street being torn up when they were constructing the Bart railway.
Yes, that is what it looked like! I was there. It was a truly lovely town in those days. But, as Thomas Wolfe said*, "You can't go home again."
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* Actually that is the title of Wolfe's posthumously published novel.
Even in the twilight zone one can't.
There was this episode of a young man stopped at a gas station and decided to walk a back road behind the gas station as he heard some noises.
Slowly he notices a county fair and walks up to a gent, his dad and sees himself playing about 100 feet away. He ask Dad if he could go talk to himself and after a moment of thought the dad replies "No son, you've had your summer, let him have his". The now older son told him he loved him and went back to his car with the fair disappearing.
I think about going home and what my response would be if I ever did. This would be it.
We've had our time. Let him or her have theirs.
Cheers.
@@rxonmymind8362 Exactly. My grandson spent several days downtown, where we live, participating in the peaceful protests and surviving the police induced riots. He was even at the recent violin vigil that was violently broken up by mace weilding cops. We did our best to make the world a better place for them, too bad we couldn't have done better. Its for them to carry on the work according to their vision now. Its not for us to inflict our past on them.
Speaking of The Twilight Zone, there is an episode called "Perchance to dream, and alot of that episode was filmed out at Playland at the Beach in 1958 👍
I grew in San Francisco and was 12 back in 1969. Thanks for sharing this video. It brought back a lot of good memories.
My favorite city.
Was a junior at George Washington High in 1969. Great memories to have. It was a beautiful city back then so sad to see it turn into a dump.
I came in 75...as a high school student from NYC....it was awesome around Nob hill then....
I lived in the Bay Area from ‘73- ‘80. I used to visit my Aunt and Uncle who lived on Twin Peaks. You had a million dollar view from their living room. I loved going to Winterland to see concerts and “Day on the Green”.
OMG, I really miss Bill Graham's Day on the Green. Was there in 83 to see Loverboy, Scorpions and Iron Maiden 👍
I moved in quite late (1982) and I fell in love with the city. As Eric Burdon says in his San Franciscon’s Night ‘I wasn’t born there, but probably I will die there’. My best years since then.
My mom took me to San Francisco 1969 It was a nice city I was just there last year Now it's Like that movie escape from New York
Sadly
The politicians ruined it. Rampant crime, no consequences and illegal drug abuse. No enforcement of laws.
@@NiceChest1 Not politicians....democrats. It was around 1964 when the last republican mayor left office and it started going downhill. The Golden age of S.F. was built under republican rule.
@@NiceChest1 Actually, tech ruined it.
@@NiceChest1 na tech companies Im From here It's not like Republican States that are in the poorest and shadiest
Thanks for sharing your memories of this wonderful city!
This home movie footage has been brilliantly and skillfully manipulated and edited into a MTV-style video. Simply amazing! And much harder to accomplish than it may seem! Near perfect rhythm and timing!
Alright! Muni's greatest hits!
This is absolutely beautiful! Thank you
I was 4 years old at the time and I remember the Woolworth Store where my parents took us to and the stores have changed but the Cable Car area still looks about the same
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@Far Out Man I want to go back like in the movie" back to the future "
I remember those green Muni busses in the early 70s. They were so dilapidated it was so nice when they were replaced. It’s so nice to see the video when San Francisco was such a great world-class city. I’m so saddened by how things are now going with this gem of a city. 😫
Have u personally been there or are you going by what u read? Its not a bad as they make it out to be
Mark I was born in SF I remember growing up riding those buses, I got bus sick as a kid all the time on those green buses
We need to keep voting for The Party that had made SF the glorious revolutionary humanist socialist people's paradise it is today.
San francisco still has a higher percentage of its old buildings and public transportation than any other big city. You can still ride those old street cars and cable cars today.
Moved there in 68,left 2000,it was beautiful back in the day
The old Balboa Park Station at 4:30 still in operation!
Off Geneva?
As someone who's ridden SF Muni for 40 years, I really appreciate this. The cable cars, interestingly, are the only thing pretty much unchanged. The green electric tram buses disappeared in 1976. The green street cars were pulled from service when Muni Metro (the construction shown is for the combined BART and Muni Metro tunnels) finally opened for business in the late '70s -- only to return years later as the F line. That streetcar barn was replaced decades ago, though I think the buildings are still sitting empty there.
And skirts are even shorter today. Who says the world is getting worse?
Are the green electric tram buses the same ones that still run at the Wharf?
I think you're thinking about the F line streetcars.
Probably so.
@@rubicon-oh9km ...you are thinking of the PCC (President's Commerce Commission) street cars, many of which were restored and ran in the "Festival of Trolleys", an event that was promoted to fill in for the cable cars when they renovated the cable cars and track system (circa 1983-84), so as not to loose revenue of the tourist coming to the city...
... this festival featured many antique trolleys from the Market Street Railway and the S.F. Municipal Railway, as well as historic trolleys from other countries in addition to the restored PCCs...
...the event was very popular and they decided to keep the historic trolleys running in addition to the more famous cable cars when they resumed service after renovations were completed...
Compare San Francisco today, with the times you're talking about, If you can't see the difference, you're in denial.
what a great video, and the song is perfect to accompany it...
This is quite probably one of the best assemblages of historic Muni footage from a unique point in SF history. You've got the cable car barn, both streetcar barns, a few incidental shots of the BART/Muni excavations along Market street. I encourage you to add "Muni" and "San Francisco Municipal Railway" as keywords so this turns up more readily in historians' searches.
Great stuff! Thanks for posting.
Born and raised in North Bay, The City was where I went to hs/college (USF, class of 87) How I miss the place. Not as it was when I was a kid, hope eventually the blue collar and working class folks can come back and live in the town.
Very cool! Thanks so much for sharing.
God, I love that city.
Those were fun days, thanks for the post......I love that 55 chevy at...:55
Vietnam , The Moon Landing , But life Went On , Very Cool Video ✌
Lovely trip back to the most beautiful years of my life, even though this great vid is focused on the cable cars & street cars. I guess it's the background song that got me. Let's see... Cathedral H.S., Washington H.S., Haight, Morning Star Ranch, falling in love in the Mission, Juvie, Mt. St. Joseph's Home for Girls, Lowell H.S., then the most important - my son Larry born 12/01/69 at St. Elizabeth's Home/Mary's Help Hospital. All made beautiful by the goodness and "gentle people there..."
Laurie Pasion 👍👍
Sept. 1966 I started H.S. in Richmond Dist. of San Francisco, My parents bought a home on 47th Ave.
A excellent time to be H.S. student living in the city. Beautiful city would not sell those experiences or time frame for a million dollars. Geo. Washington High 1970 was an fabulous school.
Love my City by the Bay,..always in love with you SF
I lived and loved San Francisco since 1963 lived there for more than 50 yrs it's so different now but the memories still linger on
Hey you remember Playland at the Beach and the wonderful Mexican restaurant out there called The Hot House?
Grew up not far from SF. Graduated High School in '67 and left California not too long afterward, moved to TN. California was awesome back then, before the horrid politicians got their hooks into it.
Graduated Redwood High in Marin in 1969. Live in The City a lot up until 2006. Then finally escaped to South Carolina. Tennessee was my other choice to move to. It's an awesome state.
Cuanta nostalgia nos invade a todos los que como yo fuimos a San Francisco a conocer la ciudad por primera vez y escuchabamos esta cancion (,I was 15 ) y al ver la ciudad desde puente the la bahia ( Oakland Bridge ) me cautivo su magia
This is history. Thank you for putting this on TH-cam. Wonderful...like seeing historical footage.
Sir, nothing less than five stars.
It's videos like yours that make TH-cam worthy.
What great memories here, and your rail trip was a fabulous idea...glad you did it!
This was within a year of my birth. The world really looked so different back then.
Sad to see what SF has become 😢
I bet u have never been there
It’s still beautiful place you just choose not to look at it. You choose only to see the bad. And the bad has been there for a long time probably forever.
I was born and have lived all my life in the SF Bay Area. Aug of 69 I was in my mother's belly. So cool to see this footage. Thank you for sharing this.
Amen baby, amen!!! Nothing compares to THE CITY! Nothing....and I've traveled around the world and the only one that comes close is Buenos Aires. But it not near the same. Having attended USF, I still can remember the fog rolling over the Golden Gate Bridge in the late afternoon and how great it was walking anywhere I wanted. Little Italy and Chinatown, god I miss the old place so much.
And the very best food and restaurants bar none!!!!!!!!!! 👍
I was a teenage runaway at that time and everyone was happy and nice....2020
all those classic cars! Who would have ever thought!
my favorite city of all time
Fantastic...grew up in Burlingame Hills, was 8 in '69, and never rode one, but LOVED the Streetcars! "Forever green & cream".
1969 was two years after the summer of love.
The best of times, the worst of times. Good friends, great music, cheap pot and the war.
Visited SF on vacation last spring and found it to be wonderful. Have been wanting and planning a return since we got home!
This is such a great video; it's the closest I can get to time-travel!
2nd generation San Franciscan. Was born in the 80s but my Mom and Dad were here at this time. Also,may I say I ❤ Scott MacKenzie ! Such a great song !
I left my heart there
...was waiting for a black 68 charger and 68 green mustang fastback to zoom by...
Or a little white Volkswagen with no driver
Most of these buildings are still there today. And SF is one of the few cities still using the rail cars 4:53 that were used in the 50'S.
I lived in the Mission then! Wonderful! Great memories!
the theme song (albeit without permission) is actually from summer of '67, peak Haight-Ashbury
@ 5:38 looks like its Sloat Blvd. & Junipero Serra blvd. I live only one block away from here.
Fantastic footage...Thanks for posting this!
Lived in San Francisco 57 years. I was born and raised there. I left last year. I didn’t want to afford it anymore. And it’s now unsafe and filthy while somehow still beautiful. Sadly it is a shell of its former self. I’m only 5 hours away so when I get sappy I can still visit!! 😀
Such a huge change in 50+ years. Back then there were quite a few middle class and working class families still living there (mostly in the Richmond, Sunset and areas near Daly City and South City). My older sister and her boyfriend lived there in 1969 and I think she said their rent for a studio was $150 a month (and she thought that was a lot 😄). There was a time that anyone who wanted to live there could. You had the wealthy of course, but also just regular working people, artists, students, etc...). There were all kinds of people and it made San Francisco really interesting. Of course the homeless sitaution was nothing like it is now. I know things always change and time marches on, but I do miss the way it was up until the late 90s. The tech boom hasn't done it any favors imo.
I've never heard the extended instrumental version of '' San Francisco'' until this video. S.F. BORN-415
Great video! Very cool to see that somethings have not changed while other areas are very different. I remember when you could just wonder around the cable car barn (not the meseum part).