Super 8 home movie footage. San Jose, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, Candlestick Park, 1960s, Blue Angels, Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz. Driving. These are taken around 1968.
Hilarious because my older aunts and uncles did nothing but bellyache about how San Francisco and the Bay Area in the 60’s was ruined forever. It never changes.
I know, I think that is why I wanted to feature the sounds of birds throughout this video to remind us that the natural, more tactile world is still here with us if we can only remove ourselves from screens and screen culture.
@@AlfredsVisionsGreat video. I thought the sound was from film at first. I figured the sounds had too be added. I've never seen 60 years old home movies with sound. Even the home movies with Natalie Wood in them. Those people had access film equipment. The best available for that era probably
And yet was it? Was everyone satisfied and connected? I will say that it was a world less mediated by social media and media in general. No screen time. Sitting close to the screen, which was television was discouraged and said to be dangerous physically. I think many times people say the past was better because there is that sense that life was more physical and social things happened only in the walking world or the telephone. Teenagers got bored and wanted to get out of the house and do something.@@dannyhood7433
I grew up in Bay Area. The plane at the start is a Navy Anti=submarine aircraft. They flew overhead every 30 minutes for years to patrol the ocean and keep Russian or Chinese subs from spying on military ports, counting our ships.
@@kcalb3180 A lot of money and resource does go to military whether or not people are living well. I'm not saying the Chinese were sending submarines necessarily.
Hospital Curve near Daly City on I 280 , everything looks the same 55 years later , except San Jose and the Silicone Valley hasn't blown up quite yet with development , very cool !
I'm not sure which part is hospital curve but it would be good to identify it for me and others. People ask about places in the footage and I'm not always sure. 17 and the Pruneyard are of course easier.
Not sure what I found more fascinating---the actual video, or the weird "soundtrack". But, yeah, hailing from the Bay Area myself, I recognized a few spots. The shot of Candlestick Park sure brought back memories.
This might as well be my home movies. Page Mill Road really got me. My dad would drop us at Foothills Park and let us ride down to the horse rental place before 280. Watching that guy on the ten speed really took me back.
I love that. That's why I wanted to post these clips. And of course you mean before 280 was built. The drive from Sunnyvale to the Santa Cruz Mountains would have taken us via 101 to 17 or Highway 9 to 17 and now there is the straight shot via 85 which wouldn't have been until what, the 90s?
I was in grade school in 1965 my family living in Hunter Point Naval Shipyards SF. I was bused from base to Danial Webster School, a tall brick building and we had to pass a massive 100 yr old stockyard that really stunk. Heard ugly rumors about animal experiments on base. it was a very rough part of town. One morning, along the shipyard waterfront, there was a massive tide line of used syringes and medical waste. You could hear the crowd across the Bay singing the Star Spangled Banner at Candlestick Park on game nights.
I grew up in the Bay Area. A lot of it looked familiar and definitely recognized Candlestick Park and the Golden Gate Bridge. The old cars brought a smile to my face. I miss the old VW Bugs and the large tail fins on the Chevys. The soundtrack didn’t match unless you had birds chirping on your car radio! Thanks for the memories!
@@AlfredsVisions Maybe music from the 60’s would have worked too since it was all taken from a vehicle. Either way, I enjoyed watching it. Those were definitely the ‘good old days’ to me. Thanks!
The sound effects was cleverly used in this video montage. I've seen it where other YT posters would dub-in music that seemed ill-fitting for the visuals, which detracted from the visual. But in this case, the dubbed-in audio worked very well.
Nice video transfer. You can almost see the film grain and I couldn't detect video dropped frames. So many film transfers are blurry and compressed to death. Likely those master films are then thrown out.
There are no tent cities or homeless people in these old movies like there is today, littering our sidewalk. How far have we really come as a society? Plate C
@Generic_Name_33 I understand that. I think the main thing is our social connection and back in the day there wasn't social media and one could feel very alone but the only solution was to get out and make a friend. The trouble now is the illusion of friends that we never even hang out with in person. Many things happen through video screens. In ways this means connection in other ways it means tuning out of the actual world around us. But every generation tends to think the last generation was better or that their own generation was better than the current. Things will change so much that when you are old you might be telling the young ones in your life that life was better when you were young. However, they didn't say Apocalypse Now for nothing about the 1960s.
@Generic_Name_33 I understand the worry. I usually feel hope that the young human being comes into the world fresh from nature or God and there is always something possible that might enter the world and mix things up for the good. My fear is "screen culture" and whether that might actually change the human brain genetically and create a future of sociopathic humans who have no way of knowing how to connect - connection not being built into society. I've only recently figured out ways to remove myself from too much screen time and I was born in a time we were told not to sit so close to the television.
I am almost 60. In the early 80s, my neighbor and I discovered hundrends of super 8 with great stuff on them including lots of 60s and 70s porn and homemade porn. Great times.
Exactly. Before video came out in the late 70s super 8 was it. In 1977 I had bought a b&w, silent three minute reel of a scene from Star Wars from Kmart of all places.
eah, the soundtrack was just a sound collage that I threw on instead of playing it silent or with the sound of a projector. It’s footage. At the same time if you listen for them, you’ll usually hear a bird somewhere.
This home movie really needs to be cleaned up, picture stabilized, and perhaps bring it up to the 64K standard. A good rock music soundtrack would make this film shine, and sell it to Grateful Dead Productions with some Grateful Dead from 1968.
Good ideas but I kind of like the texture in the sound. I made the transfers myself with a machine I bought. It is limited. I leave the better transfers for when someone asks to license the footage.
I always wanted to go to both the dinosaur park and Santa's Village, we would beg our parents to stop, but we were too poor to afford to go there.. Those were magic times to grow up in the Bay Area in the 60's. Moved out of the Bay Area 20 years ago and finally left California last year.
Dude, is that a basketball gym mixed with a bird chirping for background noise? WTH? Anyway, i drive a lot of those roads everyday day and im kinda amazed how simalar everything looks.
Great footage. I do agree with the commenter how generations complain about the present and fondly recall their past as the best of times. No doubt this present will be remembered as wonderful by seniors in the 2050’s and 60’s.
I know just the quickest shots, but I like the old shot of the dinosaurs. Other than that most of the footage I have is from Santa Cruz mountains, Summit Road and the white deer up there by Madonna Park.
@@AlfredsVisions I thought that looked like highway 17! Boy, was Santa Cruz fun or what? The Big Dipper and the bumper cars, and the air guns and the electric trains in the glass enclosure, and The Plunge.
Could be but I doubt it. I don't think these super 8 films were shot any later than 1972. But cars are a good way to date films. I will have to check out that '76,
Jimi shows up in her dreams, Sounds like it really happend?. I remember women always find jimi atractive. I had huge posters of jimi back early eighties. The worst, but girls my age didnt say anyhing bad upon seeing jim hendrix. I had the good ones, We used to listen to B side in Nine to the universe after hours. But they were open minded. Although kids my age were starting to takk shit on jimi hendrix, anything sixties.
Here in Sunnyvale there have been a lot of birds chirping, especially this one mockingbird, but I also wanted to just create a soundscape and contrast the valley which was developing big time in the last fifty years with the birds which have been here since they were dinosaurs.
Great footage, but WHAT is that creepy soundtrack overlapping everything? It sounds like radio interference, the inside of a schizophrenic's brain, and maybe the Devil all on top of each other. Where did the sounds come from? I'm not talking s#!t, I'm genuinely curious to the creator of the vid.
The footage stands on its own silent. I just thought I’d throw on a sound collage rather than a nostalgic song or music. I think there is still a nostalgia but in a different way - bits of unclear voices and birds and ambiance.
@@AlfredsVisionsyes, I enjoyed the background sounds. Gave it a haunting tho comforting feeling, like being a kid in the backseat with your parents up front.
Clean new smooth freeways. Although they canceled a good portion of their programmed routes. There should have been a N-S 101 freeway, and the 480 should have been completed. An E-W 80 to the ocean would have been icing on the cake.
Back when San Francisco was great and THE place to be. Thanks for the memories.
...and affordable for young adult who were trying to figure out their worlds.
Hilarious because my older aunts and uncles did nothing but bellyache about how San Francisco and the Bay Area in the 60’s was ruined forever. It never changes.
My uncle moved out there in the late 60s. He loved it so much that he stayed there.
What happened?
@@vernonbrowne-3826😂
Sad to see where we were then versus where we are now. Such a wonderful world back then.
I know, I think that is why I wanted to feature the sounds of birds throughout this video to remind us that the natural, more tactile world is still here with us if we can only remove ourselves from screens and screen culture.
@@AlfredsVisionsGreat video. I thought the sound was from film at first. I figured the sounds had too be added. I've never seen 60 years old home movies with sound. Even the home movies with Natalie Wood in them. Those people had access film equipment. The best available for that era probably
And yet was it? Was everyone satisfied and connected? I will say that it was a world less mediated by social media and media in general. No screen time. Sitting close to the screen, which was television was discouraged and said to be dangerous physically. I think many times people say the past was better because there is that sense that life was more physical and social things happened only in the walking world or the telephone. Teenagers got bored and wanted to get out of the house and do something.@@dannyhood7433
I love these old home movies. They are like time travel.
Being an Old Car buff , I’m in Heaven ! Thanks so much.
I know what you mean. All that heavy metal and leather.
" The following program is dedicated to the people and city of San Francisco. Who may not know it, but they were beautiful and so was their city. "
The Animals!
Was…..
Look at all those kids playing outdoors! Horsing around and having fun!
the audio is hella eerie but I love the footage, this is the closest we can get to time traveling
I grew up in Bay Area. The plane at the start is a Navy Anti=submarine aircraft. They flew overhead every 30 minutes for years to patrol the ocean and keep Russian or Chinese subs from spying on military ports, counting our ships.
Yes, some of them had more of a flat gray paint job with the black star I think in a white circle, while this one seems almost chrome.
LOL people were starved to death in China back in the 60s and you're saying they had the luxury to invest in a spy submarines?
@@kcalb3180 No I didn't say that.
@@kcalb3180 A lot of money and resource does go to military whether or not people are living well. I'm not saying the Chinese were sending submarines necessarily.
I remember the big gray submarine locating airplanes would go around Sunnyvale once every 10 minutes or so as a kid
Great films and I really really love the sounds. It’s almost dreamlike. Very interesting!
Hospital Curve near Daly City on I 280 , everything looks the same 55 years later , except San Jose and the Silicone Valley hasn't blown up quite yet with development , very cool !
I'm not sure which part is hospital curve but it would be good to identify it for me and others. People ask about places in the footage and I'm not always sure. 17 and the Pruneyard are of course easier.
At around 2:41 is hospital curve. 👍
And at 3:38 is the tunnel into Daly City on interstate 280 you can see Seton Medical Center on the hill to the right as you exit the tunnel. 👍
I love the cars and the chill of the era.
Not sure what I found more fascinating---the actual video, or the weird "soundtrack".
But, yeah, hailing from the Bay Area myself, I recognized a few spots. The shot of Candlestick Park sure brought back memories.
that soundtrack had me checking in as well :)
Track list plox
Thanks for my memories. I still drive these same roads.
This might as well be my home movies. Page Mill Road really got me. My dad would drop us at Foothills Park and let us ride down to the horse rental place before 280. Watching that guy on the ten speed really took me back.
I love that. That's why I wanted to post these clips. And of course you mean before 280 was built. The drive from Sunnyvale to the Santa Cruz Mountains would have taken us via 101 to 17 or Highway 9 to 17 and now there is the straight shot via 85 which wouldn't have been until what, the 90s?
The Pruneyard tower was built in 1970. So that's when that part was filmed.
That's good to know.
I was in grade school in 1965 my family living in Hunter Point Naval Shipyards SF.
I was bused from base to Danial Webster School, a tall brick building and we had
to pass a massive 100 yr old stockyard that really stunk. Heard ugly rumors about animal experiments on base. it was a very rough part of town. One morning, along the shipyard waterfront, there was a massive tide line of used syringes and medical waste. You could hear the crowd across the Bay singing the Star Spangled Banner at Candlestick Park on game nights.
Kids...outside? What is this madness?
I really like seeing the old gas stations and cars really good times
Yeah, especially that Hancock gas station at :39.
I remember all those old gas stations. Atlantic Richfield and Flying A gas stations were my favorites! 👍
I grew up in the Bay Area. A lot of it looked familiar and definitely recognized Candlestick Park and the Golden Gate Bridge. The old cars brought a smile to my face. I miss the old VW Bugs and the large tail fins on the Chevys. The soundtrack didn’t match unless you had birds chirping on your car radio! Thanks for the memories!
Yeah, the soundtrack was just a sound collage that I threw on instead of playing it silent or with the sound of a projector. It’s footage.
@@AlfredsVisions Maybe music from the 60’s would have worked too since it was all taken from a vehicle. Either way, I enjoyed watching it. Those were definitely the ‘good old days’ to me. Thanks!
@@AlfredsVisions I liked the sound collage. Very imaginative.
@@AlfredsVisionsmusic sound not that great but really nice video
The old Schwinn bicycles screamed 1968 era. Banana seats and sissy bars too.
The sound effects was cleverly used in this video montage.
I've seen it where other YT posters would dub-in music that seemed ill-fitting for the visuals, which detracted from the visual.
But in this case, the dubbed-in audio worked very well.
San Jose native, born in 1954, this is great, thank you for sharing! Miss the old days!
It’s like the start of an old cult movie. Brilliant 👍
Love the soundtrack, it roll with the imagery
Nice video transfer. You can almost see the film grain and I couldn't detect video dropped frames. So many film transfers are blurry and compressed to death. Likely those master films are then thrown out.
There are no tent cities or homeless people in these old movies like there is today, littering our sidewalk.
How far have we really come as a society?
Plate C
Back in the day my dad could raise a family on a high school teaching salary and live in Sunnyvale. A house could be bought for 20k.
@Generic_Name_33 I understand that. I think the main thing is our social connection and back in the day there wasn't social media and one could feel very alone but the only solution was to get out and make a friend. The trouble now is the illusion of friends that we never even hang out with in person. Many things happen through video screens. In ways this means connection in other ways it means tuning out of the actual world around us. But every generation tends to think the last generation was better or that their own generation was better than the current. Things will change so much that when you are old you might be telling the young ones in your life that life was better when you were young. However, they didn't say Apocalypse Now for nothing about the 1960s.
@Generic_Name_33 I understand the worry. I usually feel hope that the young human being comes into the world fresh from nature or God and there is always something possible that might enter the world and mix things up for the good. My fear is "screen culture" and whether that might actually change the human brain genetically and create a future of sociopathic humans who have no way of knowing how to connect - connection not being built into society. I've only recently figured out ways to remove myself from too much screen time and I was born in a time we were told not to sit so close to the television.
Thanks for posting this video. I remember watching the Pruneyard building go up as a kid from frequent family travels along Highway 17.
Love the busy sound track... Spotted some nice cars along the way!
I loved it! Just like I remembered!
Super 8 was invented after 1965. If you apply stabilisation use the white hole on the left side as a target.
That's me on my bike. In front of store 1968.
That's pretty cool. I know that someone recognized their car on Mary Ave.
Take me back
I am almost 60. In the early 80s, my neighbor and I discovered hundrends of super 8 with great stuff on them including lots of 60s and 70s porn and homemade porn. Great times.
Exactly. Before video came out in the late 70s super 8 was it. In 1977 I had bought a b&w, silent three minute reel of a scene from Star Wars from Kmart of all places.
Looking to see if I would spot the Zodiac Killer.
Brilliant soundtrack!
Interesting, all the birds chirping in the background didn't make a lot of sense, especially when filming going down the highway.
eah, the soundtrack was just a sound collage that I threw on instead of playing it silent or with the sound of a projector. It’s footage. At the same time if you listen for them, you’ll usually hear a bird somewhere.
@@AlfredsVisions No biggie, appreciate the video:)
Well I didn't see me in any of that!!!
Trippy. 🤤
Pruneyard Towers being built at 8:39
Recognized a lot of half moon bay. Must have been fleet week with the blue angels.
This home movie really needs to be cleaned up, picture stabilized, and perhaps bring it up to the 64K standard. A good rock music soundtrack would make this film shine, and sell it to Grateful Dead Productions with some Grateful Dead from 1968.
Good ideas but I kind of like the texture in the sound. I made the transfers myself with a machine I bought. It is limited. I leave the better transfers for when someone asks to license the footage.
I love the dinosaurs in Scott's Valley. To bad you didn't have any movies of Santa's Village.
I always wanted to go to both the dinosaur park and Santa's Village, we would beg our parents to stop, but we were too poor to afford to go there..
Those were magic times to grow up in the Bay Area in the 60's. Moved out of the Bay Area 20 years ago and finally left California last year.
hey, I love your film, would you allow me to record some of my ambient compositions to it?
You'd like to use the image and put it to sound?
That is Highway 17 looking north.
The only thing missing were shots of Frontier Village. 😉
For that, you can check this video out - th-cam.com/video/lVtq45B4KN8/w-d-xo.html
@@AlfredsVisions Awesome! I spent many of a childhood birthday there. Thank you for sharing.
Dude, is that a basketball gym mixed with a bird chirping for background noise? WTH? Anyway, i drive a lot of those roads everyday day and im kinda amazed how simalar everything looks.
You got it right. Basketball and skidding sounds with birds. Happens all the time.
Think I saw Charlie Manson's van
Great footage. I do agree with the commenter how generations complain about the present and fondly recall their past as the best of times. No doubt this present will be remembered as wonderful by seniors in the 2050’s and 60’s.
Yeah…..right! You must be joking….
Sub hunters, Air show out of Moffit Field. kids out in the yard the good old days. Thanks.
Really Nice old standard oil company of California San Francisco Gas Station
Remember the brown and cream Chevron stations? And Beacon? And Simas Brothers, with gas @.24.9?
Candlestick Park! Never should have torn that down! 49ers playing in that sh#thole Levi's Stadium is an abomination!
The Stick was as cold as it gets. I was stationed for awhile at Hunters Point. Crap hole of the Bay Area.
@@markrichmond2168 😂😆🤣
Well, dang. You guys didn't stay in Santa Cruz long, did you?
I know just the quickest shots, but I like the old shot of the dinosaurs. Other than that most of the footage I have is from Santa Cruz mountains, Summit Road and the white deer up there by Madonna Park.
@@AlfredsVisions I thought that looked like highway 17! Boy, was Santa Cruz fun or what? The Big Dipper and the bumper cars, and the air guns and the electric trains in the glass enclosure, and The Plunge.
Has to be at least mid 70s. Watched a few minutes and seen a 70 Cadillac and about a 76 Olds wagon
1970.
Could be but I doubt it. I don't think these super 8 films were shot any later than 1972. But cars are a good way to date films. I will have to check out that '76,
I think the Caddy was a 69 could have been a 70. I didn't see any cars newer than that.
A very strange soundtrack
Jimi shows up in her dreams, Sounds like it really happend?. I remember women always find jimi atractive. I had huge posters of jimi back early eighties. The worst, but girls my age didnt say anyhing bad upon seeing jim hendrix. I had the good ones, We used to listen to B side in Nine to the universe after hours. But they were open minded. Although kids my age were starting to takk shit on jimi hendrix, anything sixties.
What's with all the bird chirping?
Here in Sunnyvale there have been a lot of birds chirping, especially this one mockingbird, but I also wanted to just create a soundscape and contrast the valley which was developing big time in the last fifty years with the birds which have been here since they were dinosaurs.
Did you mix the bird chirping into the footage, or is that live sound?
Ahh, when San Francisco suburbs was being build up and spread out.
That's right.
What kind of music is this supposed to be?
This is when kids could ride their bike at day and night and not have problems and cops didn't have to deal with shit
I would do just that - ride my bike till the sun went down.
Really don't think that downdrafting a car on your bike (4:11) was such a good idea.
At 0:45...What road is that?
That's California Highway 17, somewhere between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz
Great footage, but WHAT is that creepy soundtrack overlapping everything? It sounds like radio interference, the inside of a schizophrenic's brain, and maybe the Devil all on top of each other. Where did the sounds come from? I'm not talking s#!t, I'm genuinely curious to the creator of the vid.
The footage stands on its own silent. I just thought I’d throw on a sound collage rather than a nostalgic song or music. I think there is still a nostalgia but in a different way - bits of unclear voices and birds and ambiance.
@@AlfredsVisionsyes, I enjoyed the background sounds. Gave it a haunting tho comforting feeling, like being a kid in the backseat with your parents up front.
Sounds like something the Beatles had lying around from number 9 number 9 number 9
Low traffic and population
Clean new smooth freeways. Although they canceled a good portion of their programmed routes. There should have been a N-S 101 freeway, and the 480 should have been completed. An E-W 80 to the ocean would have been icing on the cake.
weird ass creepy audio.....
Thank you. I suppose it is something that stands on its own.
Before libbys ruined it
Libby's Libby's Libby's with their labels labels labels.
Times were a whole lot better the San Francisco Bay area has gone to hell
Sodom and Gomorrah...