Alright, you all, stop being so negative. Bad things have been happening on this planet forever. Look at history. The difference is the how and that we have technology that they did not have in the past. Hopefully, mankind will not be so stupid to unleash hell on earth. It would be an end to them as well ... and do they really wish to disappear?
I was actually just thinking the samr thing . they wouldnt have thought in a million years that we would be watching what they did back then , being that its 2020 now . its cool as shit that they saved this footage for so long . like 115 years or close to it . its kinda unbelievable
We have the idea now how people from 300 years in future will look at our comments. They will read as 'Commented 300 years ago'. Hope the world survives till then.
This was taken shortly before the 1906 earthquake and was preserved only because the photographers shipped the film to their NYC office only one day before the disaster. I wonder how the people we see in the film fared.
These videos r BY FAR some of the best I've seen on You Tube. Makes me feel like I'm actually there! Best time travel experience yet! Thanx so much for posting these.
Traffic wasn't fast enough to make right-of-way rules necessary. Imagine the carnage one reckless teenager in a Dodge Dart would wreak tearing down that street.
My Dad was born that year. He was 49 when I was born in 1955. His uncle, wife and kids moved to San Francisco weeks before the great earthquake. They wrote one letter days before the event and were never heard from again.
+Pelican Armory That's what I was thinking - but also the hop-on-hop-off aspect of the trolley did nothing to discourage using the street as a sidewalk/platform.
Crosswalks were invented post vehicle because drivers and auto manufacturers were sick of being sued, they felt their product was the only product that had the right to be on the road. Once they shoved people out of the way, they (GM, Firestone, American Standard Oil) created a shell company and systematically dismantled urban rail transit in the country turning around selling those cities GM buses, with Firestone tires, running on Standard Oil fuel. They were found guilty and had to pay a whopping $1 each (individual). When you study the history of cities and how the car has shaped the city, for better or for worse, you get a really fascinating perspective and a bit more clear vision as to why cities struggle with congestion today. Hint...we need more mass transit.
I hate it when people get on the road while a car is trying to bust a left or a right and the people are blocking the road,thats when horns come in handy
J@FUCKTHESYSTEM70 hi! General obvious here. and captain obvious isnt availble to reply your message in this instant. Thats why i shalt answer on his behalf with the answer being "stop being a meanie" thank you my good sir and good day!
@@richardturner6981 Probably the same as what we think of this film.However,I have my doubts the human race will be around 100 years from now the way things are going .
Incredible, incredible video. Outstanding and fascinating. Incredible video for its day and age. That being said, I'm stunned by the complete lack of any sort of decorum. Carriages darting in front of each other, and zipping left and right, across multiple lanes; people walking right in front of a carriage without fear of being hit. There were absolutely zero rules of the road, for vehicles or pedestrians.
Have a ride in Rome or Buenos Aires...same thing except at 50 mph...I never looked forward but back at the gringos in the rear seat having a heart attack!
FireCracker3240 Yes. Often it looks like people are so close to vehicles but not really. It's do to the lack of 3D effect. In some cases they're just inches away! * People we're highly aware of that caos around them. 😂Haha! They were more sensible and very fit. *** Would love to be there for a few days or forever. Lots of freedom.
I remember being a kid/teen in the 1990s, and there were lots of people from the 19th Century still around. Heck, a lot of TITANIC survivors who had been young adults were still around. Now there are none. The last TITANIC survivor died in 2009, and she was only two months old when it sank (1912). Furthermore, Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) was a big story, since she's the oldest person to have ever lived that can be verified without a doubt, as were Sadie (1889-1999) & Bessie (1891-1995) Delaney, two black sisters who co-wrote about living in the South and later Harlem/Mount Vernon, NY, through the 20th Century. The sisters even made an appearance on LIVE WITH REGIS & KATHIE LEE to promote their book. I remember they pointed out that one of the cameramen (who had a handlebar mustache) reminded them of Teddy Roosevelt, who was president when they were teens (1901-1909). I found that amazing. In my own family, we had "Auntie" Phyllis (1901-2001), who wasn't blood-related but had been a friend of the family for decades, so the younger generation adopted her as their own. I used to enjoy talking with her about her childhood/teens. She told me how her uncle had a car that needed to be cranked and silent movies being accompanied by a pianist or organist. She died just months after her 99th birthday. Today, she would be 115-going-on-116.
Hi John boun I very much like what you typed here fascinating. I was born in 1940 and was brought up in the country by my Grandparents that were born around 1900. I only wish that my Grandad would have told me more about his life as a young lad. But back then I was just a kid and you were not interested in older things back then as you were too busy growing up. I left My Grandparents when I was 16 and moved to the big city of Toronto Canada and I still live here. It sure was a big eye opener to move from the country to a big city. It sure would be nice to have the easy life like I had back in those years. Now the whole world is going nuts. Back then you didn't have hardly any money and if you wanted it you had to work for it. I started working in the fields at the age of 7. It was a great life. you had food and clothes on your back and went to school and you worked hard for every nickle you made. I hope that you enjoyed my comment on your posting. Thanks Wayne Lovell.
@Steven Universe hopefully a lot sooner than 100 years. The only reason it won't be done involving this video in the next year or 2 is because it still takes a lot of work to model and program things like that. Similar virtual experiences already exist in games for world war 2 and other experiences that can pay for the large effort required to make them.
@@jc-le4sf Yes, because even though sound recording technology and motion picture technology both go back to the late 1800s, the technology for recording both AND keeping them in sync didn't develop until the 1920s.
Can't help but to think, A lot of Those old-timers are Veterans of the Civil war,. Especially the one at the end of this film ! With the long gray Beard, just after the ringing of the Bell's. GREAT RESPECT ! ☮️💟🇺🇸
Think about this to blow your mind. We are the same distance away time wise from The Vietnam War as WWI was from The Civil War: approx 60 years. And we are farther away in time from the Civil War than WWI was from The American Revolution.
ElCapo In a way, yes! The FIRST thing I noticed *right away* was the rich People in the Automobiles just cutting in front of the Carriages & Streetcars & Pedestrians, & how they had to dance around them. I imagine there were lots of collisions. I can almost hear the drivers yelling "Outta My way".
Here, of course there are Traffic Laws, & "Drivers etiquette". I see every Day, that the drivers in THIS ORDER; BMW, Audi, the odd Mercedes, VW , (other Sports Cars I forgot about) & then Lexus, drive like bully's cutting in front with no Signals, then brake & turn, & other bad habits. So we see, that 100 Years later, People act the same when behind the Wheel. Adding Cell Phones has forever made it 5 Times worse. We all have witnessed crashes where the stupid is on the Phone. I saw two! One happened right in front of My House. The 21 Year old driver is very lucky to still be alive.
RetroCaptain Yes, that sounds exactly like Thailand... Sad to behold! When I see an expensive car in my mirrors on the streets of LoS, I know that a few seconds after, I'll see some crazy shit in front of me from these rich morons.
This is a great video for "TIME TRAVELING".Use your imagination and you are back in the year 1906.Thanks to whoever posted it..I have shown it to all my friends. If you notice there are no stop signs. It was a free for all……...
They figure now that this was shot in 1906 just before the Earthquake. Much of what you see went away in the earthquake and fire. The cable lines were converted to electric immediately afterward. Many of the autos you see are steam.powered. On Kearny St you can see one of the first electric Street ar lines with the Sightseeing car crossing over Market St. Closer to the Ferry you can see one of the last horse car lines which lasted until 1912.
Both the film's date and photographer are well-documented. Its story is famous - movie film was so new that he couldn't get it processed in SF. Instead he sent it out of town which saved it from being lost in the quake just 4 days later. To add a bit more about the cable cars, a number of cities had lines at this time - there were even cables on Broadway in NYC. However they turned out to be complicated and expensive, so most cities soon replaced them with subways or standard streetcars. SF kept a few lines because of their hills but today only 3 remain. .
*A trip down Market Street in 1906* This is an incredible movie of a San Francisco trolley car moving down Market Street in 1906 just four days before the devastating earthquake that changed the face of the city. Amazing to have captured this moment in history. By the end of the journey you feel like you're in the city at that moment. Powerful. #sanfrancisco
For anyone interested in checking out some of the oldest recorded sounds of human voices -- and they have their own website, too; enjoy, everyone: ruclips.net/video/75UrxueiP-4/видео.html www.firstsounds.org/
Well it was possible because I know there is a recording on Otto Von Bismarck(Prussian Chancellor) taken in the early 1890s. He was born during the Napoleonic wars crazy to think we can hear his voice today.
Aww the children running on the roads so carefree and at the end of the video, sad to think they're all deceased now. Very fascinating video, great job on the sounds! I felt like I was right there on a trolley.
bluesugar58 👍Yes. Me too was so into it as if I was taking a trip . Virtual trip. Loved it. There will be a time soon when we'll be in a matrix time travel. When AI can interface with our brain/ mind. That will be a very populare entertainment. Simulated reality by 2025 ! Get ready.
My Grandfather was born in 1892 in Louisiana. He was 14yrs old when this film was taken, in 1906....... He died in 1998 @ 106 yrs old. My Dad his son was born in 1920, Dad is 100yrs old and still live in his own house, all Dad's bro's/sis's are in their 90s, he have two older sisters are 101 102yrs old...
Video was invented in the 1950's. Film always had far higher resolution than video. It is only now with the advent of 4k that video is starting to come close to film.
@Mike Gee - Sound is post. It's in stereo, which didn't exist till the 30's. EDIT: Here is a YT video by CBS 60 Minutes that tells the story of the film. ruclips.net/video/tYHGj19RrF0/видео.html
speaking of san francisco there was a brand new luxury hotel that had just opened like 5 days before the earthquake it burned to the ground in the fire if the owner survived what would he say did he rebuild ? after that?
The standards of speech and behavior were also generally more punctilious. But it wasn't all bread and roses. This was also the time of mass lynchings -- and union/strikebreaker fights that left many dead. And the horrors of WWs I & II, the Depression, Nazism & communism were in their future, and they had no clue...
Those were simpler times and I really enjoyed the video. Cinematography is one of the greatest inventions ever created. It captures a moment of a person's life or an event, whether it is from yesterday or a century ago. The black and white imagery, with the sound makes it authentic.
It was revealed in another film that those who were driving many of those automobiles were paid to do so by the auto dealers in the city just as a form of advertisement of their cars. That is why you see them turning around and making loops to get into the film again.
@@darl67 US car production grew from 4000/y in 1900 to 900,000/y in 1915, 1906 was at 33,200/y. In 1900 there were more electric than gasoline cars produced even. There was a New York taxi company with almost 2000 electric cabs using swap-out batteries to run around the clock. But most of the electric production went broke, as gasoline cars soon were mass produced at about half the price.
@Coaster Weirdo It's a good rivalry, I can appreciate your passion. I used to sell beer on a route in the area and was given great tickets regularly.. back in the Jason Schmidt days. Got to see Bonds and McGwire hit homers one of those nights.
Really excellent attention to detail with the recreated soundtrack, so authentic and plausible and well synchronised with the on-screen action. As for the raw footage and the photos at the end, incredibly interesting and poignant; a tiny echo of all those real people and their long ago day in a vanished world.
The sound is over-dubbed, as sound on film was not yet available in 1906. However, the person(s) responsible for adding the sound effects are very good at it, for it truly makes one feel as if you were actually there.
Fatalities started climbing with the popularity of the automobile. You can see how slowly the horse and buggies are but they are all being passed by automobiles.
This is really amazing all cleaned up with sound. The last time I saw it, it was all scratchy, jumpy, blurry, silent, and badly edited. I never thought to look it up on YT for some reason. Now it looks better than most crap people record on modern potatoes. Adding sounds that were very similar to what things would have sounded like then really makes it come even more alive. Just an amazing moment in time that was captured right before total disaster. My grandfather would have been 6!
I'll bet "People's Express Co" would have never dreamed that their sign would be viewed 113 years later. Some of these "happy go lucky" people would not survive the coming earthquake, April 18, 1906, 7:12 AM.
A wonderful, almost dream-like short movie, especially for "nostalgia buffs." Great footage! Glad they kept it simple, minimalist, documentary style. Often, such unassuming visual narratives of reality can be more engaging and powerful than artistically told stories. Anyone know how the film makers kept the camera so steady?
It was staged, the same group of automobiles were circling the camera to make the city look more up to date than it was. If you watch, you can see they keep circling back and reappearing in front of the camera, instead of going to a particular destination.
It was made just 4 days before the quake. 😢 The only reason the film survived is that the photographer couldn't find anyone in the city who could develop the negatives so he sent the reel to (IIRC) New York for processing. Talk about being lucky.
@@wuzgoanon9373 Actually gay communities have been known to keep their cities clean. The miracle they've done to Asbury Park is commendable. Maybe SF can take some tips from them.
@@Friggle_Dee My point is that they are people, not gay people. Why does sex have to permeate every aspect of our public lives? It should not be part of any public discussion any more than our business in the bathroom. It is a private matter that should not be used to advance social agendas.
Wow, stepping into the past! Marvelous ride down Market street. What a chaotic time - people driving/running all over the place. I guess driving in lanes and crosswalks were not thought of yet. What a wonderful piece of the past to share!
What a wonderful documentary !! ... There were no traffic lights, there was no order, they all crossed, it was for himself who can! What a phenomenon and it was just yesterday, incredible how the years go by!
True. But being fat was desirable back then, though. Plump, anyway. It showed you had enough to eat and didn't have to work hard. Look up old magazines - they had ads for medicines that supposedly made you gain weight!
That's crazy, to think that disaster happened so soon after this. I had family that stayed in tents after it. There was a baby that wouldn't stop crying in the tent they stayed in so a lady came by and hit my great grandma in the nose with a cast iron pan! The lady had gone out of her mind from the horrible circumstances. My great grandma had a cauliflower nose for the rest of her life after that!
I really wish i could go back in time and live there. I would happily give up all current technology to live back in the late 19th century and early 20th!
Kids and adults jumping right in front of streetcars, buses, horses. Cars trying to get past horse drawn carriages, cars making turns right in front of street cars. A cop walking by while all this is happening and doing nothing. So crazy
Wow Wonderful to see something from 1906. Love the way how people dressed in those days and no traffic light and people moving without any issues. Sad part is all those people are dead unless someone is 112 years old :(
I’ve walked these streets hundreds of times. The clock tower at the end, at the ferry building, survived the quake. I LOVE San Francisco, warts and all. I’ll take it over any city in the USA.
This is true lovable chaos. It's amazing that we didn't witness a death on this short footage. Standing in the middle of the street. Dashing in your horse-drawn carriage to beat a trolley. Every means of powered vehicle bobbing and weaving on both sides of the street. INSANE!
Fascinating. I wonder what they would think of a video of the same place today? It's pretty eerie to watch this and wonder who made and who didn't through the earthquake
Outstanding video! How long did tires last on Market Street in '06; one week? Everyone drove and rode crazy, yet I didn't see any road rage. Amazing that this was filmed 4 days before the Great Earthquake. I wonder how many of them in this video died? You know there were
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R.I.P., everyone in this video.
Our time will come as well.
they live again today thanks to this video
Nice thought Mr. Victores
Thanks to you, they feel better, now.
Steven Victores most of them would of been re-encarnated by now.
How the world has changed in little over 100 years ... I find it astonishing.
+WhiteStoneChild Humanity won't make it that far.
+John And Rob Jenkins wouldn't surprise with what's going on with the world look at Paris after 2 months form this comment
Alright, you all, stop being so negative. Bad things have been happening on this planet forever. Look at history. The difference is the how and that we have technology that they did not have in the past. Hopefully, mankind will not be so stupid to unleash hell on earth. It would be an end to them as well ... and do they really wish to disappear?
+Minahh Modern technology have killed simplicity life , I believe they were more lucky than us
We need balance ... in life. We need to take care of Mother Earth and each other.
I see the driving abilities haven't changed..
Cars only been around 13 years in the US before this video
They actually have.
I think that these are asians driving.They haven’t changed.
@@blastermaster2383 stupid coment
poi man no, just correct!!
These people probably had no idea that people from 2020 would be watching them.
I was actually just thinking the samr thing . they wouldnt have thought in a million years that we would be watching what they did back then , being that its 2020 now . its cool as shit that they saved this footage for so long . like 115 years or close to it . its kinda unbelievable
We have the idea now how people from 300 years in future will look at our comments. They will read as 'Commented 300 years ago'. Hope the world survives till then.
No it's just a 100 years. Means 2 generations if I am right.
You probably have no idea that the future people might be reading your comment on youtube 100 years later. Ha
Yep! 114 years later,lol
This was taken shortly before the 1906 earthquake and was preserved only because the photographers shipped the film to their NYC office only one day before the disaster. I wonder how the people we see in the film fared.
My guess would be, eventually they all died.
This is fake.
@@malcolmcanning548 how come
@@deni6943 look at it 2 week s later
@@malcolmcanning548 what do you mean?
These videos r BY FAR some of the best I've seen on You Tube. Makes me feel like I'm actually there! Best time travel experience yet! Thanx so much for posting these.
same here
You should watch guy Jones.
I only hope that the earth quake caused great pain and suffering and death for these sick twisted racist bastards
@@punkanellylovejoy702 wtf? Where did that come from?
@@billkill38 it didn't come from me. I was speaking for all the black people who were unfortunate enough to have been born back then
Wow, there were practically no road rules back then.
Traffic wasn't fast enough to make right-of-way rules necessary. Imagine the carnage one reckless teenager in a Dodge Dart would wreak tearing down that street.
the old one?
just like Iran and india or other third world country
Yeshua the savior of the world just india only
There probably weren't any driving tests/licenses either. If you could afford a car, you just got it and drove...like a lawnmower.
When having 2 horse power literally meant 2 horse power.
nuts !
It's more like 1.4 bhp.
😆😆😂 Iknr?!?!
👍🏼😂
Yes . How wonderful and peaceful to be free from all the traffic clutter,clamour and clang.Those were the days!!!!!!!!
My Dad was born that year. He was 49 when I was born in 1955. His uncle, wife and kids moved to San Francisco weeks before the great earthquake. They wrote one letter days before the event and were never heard from again.
Sorry to hear that. May they R.I.P.
Sry for the loss, was tragic. I'm of the year '51 and no one in our family could family tree our heritage or decendents.
I wish andraistnt speaking but am no speaking English
@Mrn Mos one point Muslim women at that time rarely got out of their homes
Three generations of my family survived the earthquake. They were living in Bernal Heights. Sorry about your family’s loss.
Isn't this most beautiful short film ever?
there's one on a tram in Bradford England which is good
100 years later and people still don't use the cross walk
+Pelican Armory That's what I was thinking - but also the hop-on-hop-off aspect of the trolley did nothing to discourage using the street as a sidewalk/platform.
It looks like there weren't any crosswalks. This was before cars took over the world, so humans were still allowed to use the streets.
Pelican Armory tv.
Crosswalks were invented post vehicle because drivers and auto manufacturers were sick of being sued, they felt their product was the only product that had the right to be on the road. Once they shoved people out of the way, they (GM, Firestone, American Standard Oil) created a shell company and systematically dismantled urban rail transit in the country turning around selling those cities GM buses, with Firestone tires, running on Standard Oil fuel. They were found guilty and had to pay a whopping $1 each (individual).
When you study the history of cities and how the car has shaped the city, for better or for worse, you get a really fascinating perspective and a bit more clear vision as to why cities struggle with congestion today.
Hint...we need more mass transit.
I hate it when people get on the road while a car is trying to bust a left or a right and the people are blocking the road,thats when horns come in handy
100 years from now people will be watching us... life is fleeting and no one lives forever.
I will me because I've accepted Jesus so I'll see you in heaven if you accept Him. And join some of these individuals.
J@FUCKTHESYSTEM70 hi! General obvious here. and captain obvious isnt availble to reply your message in this instant. Thats why i shalt answer on his behalf with the answer being "stop being a meanie" thank you my good sir and good day!
You're right! Nobody lives forever...except maybe James Bond and Doctor Who!
U never die. Matter just shifts somewhere else after death.
So many people forgotten forever by time. Our destiny.
Circle of life, my friend.
Take a dash cam video of today and let people 100years from now watch it. I wonder what they'll think?
@@richardturner6981 "why did they make so many of these videos"
@@danfruzzetti7604 Probably so we would know what life was like back then.
@@richardturner6981 Probably the same as what we think of this film.However,I have my doubts the human race will be around 100 years from now the way things are going .
Love it. I'm from SF. I was smiling the whole time! Loved seeing what the ladies wore back then. Thanks for posting.
My Granddad was there when the earth quake happened .I remember when I was a kid him telling us kids what it was like .he was in his 20s
Incredible, incredible video. Outstanding and fascinating. Incredible video for its day and age.
That being said, I'm stunned by the complete lack of any sort of decorum. Carriages darting in front of each other, and zipping left and right, across multiple lanes; people walking right in front of a carriage without fear of being hit. There were absolutely zero rules of the road, for vehicles or pedestrians.
Have a ride in Rome or Buenos Aires...same thing except at 50 mph...I never looked forward but back at the gringos in the rear seat having a heart attack!
Having been a gringo taking cabs in Caracas and Quito... you are quite right! :D
FireCracker3240 Yes. Often it looks like people are so close to vehicles but not really. It's do to the lack of 3D effect. In some cases they're just inches away! * People we're highly aware of that caos around them. 😂Haha! They were more sensible and very fit. ***
Would love to be there for a few days or forever. Lots of freedom.
FireCracker3240 There were lots of common sense though.
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Only 1900's kids will remember
Last man William Del Monte died 2016-01-11 (11 days till 110th birthday)
Its over ..
Sensei Shedletsky The Scooby Doo Memer RBLX there is an Italian lady who was born in 1899, and still lives today, as the oldest woman in the world
I remember being a kid/teen in the 1990s, and there were lots of people from the 19th Century still around. Heck, a lot of TITANIC survivors who had been young adults were still around. Now there are none. The last TITANIC survivor died in 2009, and she was only two months old when it sank (1912).
Furthermore, Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) was a big story, since she's the oldest person to have ever lived that can be verified without a doubt, as were Sadie (1889-1999) & Bessie (1891-1995) Delaney, two black sisters who co-wrote about living in the South and later Harlem/Mount Vernon, NY, through the 20th Century. The sisters even made an appearance on LIVE WITH REGIS & KATHIE LEE to promote their book. I remember they pointed out that one of the cameramen (who had a handlebar mustache) reminded them of Teddy Roosevelt, who was president when they were teens (1901-1909). I found that amazing.
In my own family, we had "Auntie" Phyllis (1901-2001), who wasn't blood-related but had been a friend of the family for decades, so the younger generation adopted her as their own. I used to enjoy talking with her about her childhood/teens. She told me how her uncle had a car that needed to be cranked and silent movies being accompanied by a pianist or organist. She died just months after her 99th birthday. Today, she would be 115-going-on-116.
pastuh why do they always have to die before their birthday?
Hi John boun I very much like what you typed here fascinating. I was born in 1940 and was brought up in the country by my Grandparents that were born around 1900.
I only wish that my Grandad would have told me more about his life as a young lad. But back then I was just a kid and you were not interested in older things back then as
you were too busy growing up. I left My Grandparents when I was 16 and moved to the big city of Toronto Canada and I still live here.
It sure was a big eye opener to move from the country to a big city. It sure would be nice to have the easy life like I had back in those years.
Now the whole world is going nuts. Back then you didn't have hardly any money and if you wanted it you had to work for it. I started working in the fields at the age of 7.
It was a great life. you had food and clothes on your back and went to school and you worked hard for every nickle you made.
I hope that you enjoyed my comment on your posting. Thanks Wayne Lovell.
The sound brings it all so much more to life. Thank you! Absolutely love this.
VR experiences should be made out of this stuff. I can't be the only person who'd want to get immersed in a time long ago like this.
your right they could make theme parks for every era like 1900 1910 1920 and so on
@Steven Universe hopefully a lot sooner than 100 years. The only reason it won't be done involving this video in the next year or 2 is because it still takes a lot of work to model and program things like that. Similar virtual experiences already exist in games for world war 2 and other experiences that can pay for the large effort required to make them.
The sound which someone devised is very effective quality-wise!
...yes..excellent and restrained
Ja der Ton ist super🤗🤩
Somebody did a lot of work to make a simulated soundtrack.
I think so somebody recreated the sound for this old video.
People horses cars all at once!!!!
Its fake sounds from the future?
@@jc-le4sf Yes, because even though sound recording technology and motion picture technology both go back to the late 1800s, the technology for recording both AND keeping them in sync didn't develop until the 1920s.
Can't help but to think, A lot of Those old-timers are Veterans of the Civil war,. Especially the one at the end of this film ! With the long gray Beard, just after the ringing of the Bell's. GREAT RESPECT ! ☮️💟🇺🇸
May everyone in this film Rest in peace and in paradise...🙏🎩🌷
@@kenhill5864 Except that one guy
Think about this to blow your mind. We are the same distance away time wise from The Vietnam War as WWI was from The Civil War: approx 60 years. And we are farther away in time from the Civil War than WWI was from The American Revolution.
Some of them maybe, but there wasn’t a whole lot of war in San Francisco.
Is this also the first dash cam?
ElCapo In a way, yes! The FIRST thing I noticed *right away* was the rich People in the Automobiles just cutting in front of the Carriages & Streetcars & Pedestrians, & how they had to dance around them. I imagine there were lots of collisions. I can almost hear the drivers yelling "Outta My way".
Yeah, and also how some of the cars even went between the trolleys at the crossings and managed to not get hit. Crazy
RetroCaptain That's still the rule of law in Thailand. The bigger you are, the more right to being a bully in the streets you have.
Here, of course there are Traffic Laws, & "Drivers etiquette". I see every Day, that the drivers in THIS ORDER; BMW, Audi, the odd Mercedes, VW , (other Sports Cars I forgot about) & then Lexus, drive like bully's cutting in front with no Signals, then brake & turn, & other bad habits. So we see, that 100 Years later, People act the same when behind the Wheel. Adding Cell Phones has forever made it 5 Times worse. We all have witnessed crashes where the stupid is on the Phone. I saw two! One happened right in front of My House. The 21 Year old driver is very lucky to still be alive.
RetroCaptain
Yes, that sounds exactly like Thailand... Sad to behold!
When I see an expensive car in my mirrors on the streets of LoS, I know that a few seconds after, I'll see some crazy shit in front of me from these rich morons.
everybody has their time in time , they gone but time still moves on.
wtf
Call me crazy but maybe they are still living in a parallel World. Who knows?
This is a great video for "TIME TRAVELING".Use your imagination and you are back in the year 1906.Thanks to whoever posted it..I have shown it to all my friends. If you notice there are no stop signs. It was a free for all……...
all those thousands of people, horses, cars, cable cars, streetcars, bicycles and yet no accidents.
MegaMoose1989
nobody was going more than 10 miles per hour though
BigSirZebras horse ass instead of airbag, what a prospect
George Margo
There is a mobile game "A Trip down Market Street" based on the movie - atripdownmarketstreet.com
*Jednoucelovy,* LOOOOOOOOOOOL
I can't stop laughing!! Just think of the possibilities if someone made a hard impact on a horse's rear end.
What a stunning, "time machine" effect... even the most young person here, could be an ancient relative of mine.
They figure now that this was shot in 1906 just before the Earthquake. Much of what you see went away in the earthquake and fire. The cable lines were converted to electric immediately afterward.
Many of the autos you see are steam.powered. On Kearny St you can see one of the first electric Street ar lines with the Sightseeing car crossing over Market St.
Closer to the Ferry you can see one of the last horse car lines which lasted until 1912.
Both the film's date and photographer are well-documented. Its story is famous - movie film was so new that he couldn't get it processed in SF. Instead he sent it out of town which saved it from being lost in the quake just 4 days later.
To add a bit more about the cable cars, a number of cities had lines at this time - there were even cables on Broadway in NYC. However they turned out to be complicated and expensive, so most cities soon replaced them with subways or standard streetcars. SF kept a few lines because of their hills but today only 3 remain. .
*A trip down Market Street in 1906*
This is an incredible movie of a San Francisco trolley car moving down Market Street in 1906 just four days before the devastating earthquake that changed the face of the city.
Amazing to have captured this moment in history. By the end of the journey you feel like you're in the city at that moment. Powerful.
#sanfrancisco
I've never visited San Francisco, but I'm told the driving habits are similar to what we see in this film.
Seriously, though, this is pretty eerie, knowing what that street must have looked like a week later.
Tim Dodge at the end of the video it shows a still image of the same view. It's crazy.
Amazing footage. I was actually on Market Street in SF during the 1989 earthquake. Love watching this.
Ah. I didn't watch it to the end. I'll re-watch.
Imagine how eerie it would have been if they had the actual recorded sound from back then. To hear the real voices of people long since dead...
For anyone interested in checking out some of the oldest recorded sounds of human voices -- and they have their own website, too; enjoy, everyone:
ruclips.net/video/75UrxueiP-4/видео.html
www.firstsounds.org/
Well it was possible because I know there is a recording on Otto Von Bismarck(Prussian Chancellor) taken in the early 1890s. He was born during the Napoleonic wars crazy to think we can hear his voice today.
Thank you to the Miles brothers for making this, and thank you for uploading it.
Aww the children running on the roads so carefree and at the end of the video, sad to think they're all deceased now. Very fascinating video, great job on the sounds! I felt like I was right there on a trolley.
Par Ker sadly you are right
Parker ur taking this too seriously
The kids, or boys look to be working not playing. They were selling newspapers. Age 10-12ish
bluesugar58 👍Yes. Me too was so into it as if I was taking a trip .
Virtual trip. Loved it. There will be a time soon when we'll be in a matrix time travel. When AI can interface with our brain/ mind.
That will be a very populare entertainment. Simulated reality by 2025 ! Get ready.
Parker Well said. We might meet them in the 5 the dimension.
That traffic though, I'm amazed nobody was killed during filming :D
Everything's so slow I think it would be pretty easy to stop in time. It's all at like 3mph
No horses hurt
Marko Kalič Just like chickens running around all over the place.
Some free riders! No street lights.
I'd like to be there for a day or two.
The guy at 4:50 about got run over. :-(
People walking probably faster than the cars you couldn’t get killed at the speed the car is travelling.
My Grandfather was born in 1892 in Louisiana. He was 14yrs old when this film was taken, in 1906.......
He died in 1998 @ 106 yrs old.
My Dad his son was born in 1920, Dad is 100yrs old and still live in his own house, all Dad's bro's/sis's are in their 90s, he have two older sisters are 101 102yrs old...
this makes me more curious about the past..........
This was obviously a pretty expensive camera, video has a pretty good quality for 1906
Video was invented in the 1950's. Film always had far higher resolution than video. It is only now with the advent of 4k that video is starting to come close to film.
@Mike Gee - Sound is post. It's in stereo, which didn't exist till the 30's.
EDIT:
Here is a YT video by CBS 60 Minutes that tells the story of the film.
ruclips.net/video/tYHGj19RrF0/видео.html
true I have seen a lot of potato looking videos made in 80's. also the stability of the camera was on top.
I think it's been digitalized.
speaking of san francisco there was a brand new luxury hotel that had just opened like
5 days before the earthquake it burned to the ground in the fire if the owner
survived what would he say did he rebuild ? after that?
Never imagined so many cars were already in streets before Henry's ModelT
Excellent observation. Of course, SF was a rich city even then.
Amazing! The camera must have been enormous! ! EVERYONE WAS LOOKING AT IT! Great job!
These footage was built. Technology back then camera.
Diana Garcia what do you mean?
Just like the Google maps cars are now....!
LOOKING AT THE CABLE CAR COMING, NOT CAMERA, I GUESS
It's amazing how much better people dressed back then. Now people wear t-shirts to work.
The standards of speech and behavior were also generally more punctilious.
But it wasn't all bread and roses. This was also the time of mass lynchings -- and union/strikebreaker fights that left many dead. And the horrors of WWs I & II, the Depression, Nazism & communism were in their future, and they had no clue...
I'm amazed that absolutely everyone is wearing a hat. Men and women.
Hats were "trending"
Gary Cameron 2018 people still.wearing hats
+Jim Wade Hat wearing is nothing in 2018 compared to 1906 - it was way more popular back then. Way more.
114 years ago. Wow! Even a new born baby in this video would be dead now. Shout out to the trees and box turtles that survived lol
Mars Vee unless they live that long
At least 7 people born before 1906 are still alive! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people
@@federicovolpe3389 7 vs 8 billion
@@Miner8000 There will probably be a time in a century when we are all dead and people are watching our videos 0.0
Those were simpler times and I really enjoyed the video. Cinematography is one of the greatest inventions ever created. It captures a moment of a person's life or an event, whether it is from yesterday or a century ago. The black and white imagery, with the sound makes it authentic.
The sound is not authentic, but it is a nice addition to give it a feel.
Actually the black and white imagery is inauthentic because the world has always been in color.
Laurie Winek ...but the asleep don't realize it...
It was revealed in another film that those who were driving many of those automobiles were paid to do so by the auto dealers in the city just as a form of advertisement of their cars. That is why you see them turning around and making loops to get into the film again.
That makes sense. I was suspicious of the date due to the presence of so many autos.
@@darl67 US car production grew from 4000/y in 1900 to 900,000/y in 1915, 1906 was at 33,200/y. In 1900 there were more electric than gasoline cars produced even. There was a New York taxi company with almost 2000 electric cabs using swap-out batteries to run around the clock. But most of the electric production went broke, as gasoline cars soon were mass produced at about half the price.
That's fascinating! Do you know what documentary it was that explained this?
@@dukof8942 -- Greta would be happy to hear about the electric cars. [How dare you!]
@@Dr.Pepper001 STFU
que belleza me encanta ver esto, es como si hubiese vivido esa epoca, me transporto al pasado
Awesome film! Apparently there was no pass priority rule in the streets , it was the total road anarchy LOL
biffevana
There is a mobile game "A Trip down Market Street" based on the movie - atripdownmarketstreet.com
Alexander Fedoseev Wow thanks alot ;)
True..what is also interesting is you don't see one fat person , unlike today..
Darwins Damsel The food we eat today is fating and posionous
+biffevana They still drive like that down Market Street. Just kidding. Probably not as crazy, but it's still as congested.
Breathtaking- makes me feel strangely homesick
The "Dodgers" were originally called the "Trolley Dodgers" .. and this footage shows why!
Great stuff.
@Coaster Weirdo there were Trolleys in New York where the Dodgers came from.
@Coaster Weirdo It's a good rivalry, I can appreciate your passion. I used to sell beer on a route in the area and was given great tickets regularly.. back in the Jason Schmidt days. Got to see Bonds and McGwire hit homers one of those nights.
Chris I know right. Lol
Really excellent attention to detail with the recreated soundtrack, so authentic and plausible and well synchronised with the on-screen action. As for the raw footage and the photos at the end, incredibly interesting and poignant; a tiny echo of all those real people and their long ago day in a vanished world.
The good old days when kids use to play in traffic lol
Agree😁
Experimental Fun lol
Experimental Fun Still better for than Ritalin and online gaming.
that's cuz traffic was slow as fuck! lol
Ritalin and Online Gaming is so much better.
WOW. amazed that there were no accidents or fatalities caught on this film. Awesome footage. thanks for uploading
What an amazing film. And the even more amazing sound effects that were dead on and synched perfectly with movement captured on film. Great job!
Good
The sound is over-dubbed, as sound on film was not yet available in 1906. However, the person(s) responsible for adding the sound effects are very good at it, for it truly makes one feel as if you were actually there.
+RonRay I agree. Amazing effects, sounds quite genuine, particularly the steam powered cars spluttering and horses
That camera must have been a sight to see and every body making their own traffic laws as they go wow!!!!!
I can imagine how many accidents occurred daily without street lights.
Fatalities started climbing with the popularity of the automobile. You can see how slowly the horse and buggies are but they are all being passed by automobiles.
A lots
Probably every minute!
Life was so slow, i am sure that they were not many accident.
And fist fights
This is really amazing all cleaned up with sound. The last time I saw it, it was all scratchy, jumpy, blurry, silent, and badly edited. I never thought to look it up on YT for some reason. Now it looks better than most crap people record on modern potatoes. Adding sounds that were very similar to what things would have sounded like then really makes it come even more alive. Just an amazing moment in time that was captured right before total disaster. My grandfather would have been 6!
My grandfather was there and made still photos
I'll bet "People's Express Co" would have never dreamed that their sign would be viewed 113 years later. Some of these "happy go lucky" people would not survive the coming earthquake, April 18, 1906, 7:12 AM.
RonRay what point.
Amazing footage .. thank you
A wonderful, almost dream-like short movie, especially for "nostalgia buffs." Great footage! Glad they kept it simple, minimalist, documentary style. Often, such unassuming visual narratives of reality can be more engaging and powerful than artistically told stories. Anyone know how the film makers kept the camera so steady?
Camera was heavy and mounted on rails (heavy cable car and cable car rails)
Audio is added to make the video more attractive
Some of those kids may have served in WW1 in 1917!
Michael G Moore they all did it was a draft young and able u WERE fighting
Some of the old timers served in the Civil War! Some of those older black people were former slaves!
Hey Michael Moore, I'm so sorry u have an American hating socialist named after u. My regards.
God, it looks like everyone for himself on the roads!
Wonder how many people lost limbs, and life, from being hit by the trolley?
The sound, even though "inauthentic" is so well done and adds much to the scenes
The kids probably lived up to the 1960s and 1970s if they survived the quake.
Neat to think of.
Actually in the late 1970's & early 1980's there were 20 or so survivors that held a reunion every year at Lotty's Fountain on Market Street.
Rod McDonald mustve been crazy to see the jump in everyday life from 1906 to 1980
I wonder if the records still exist of the license plates, the man driving 4867 keeps showing up, they had to be rich to own an auto then.
It was staged, the same group of automobiles were circling the camera to make the city look more up to date than it was. If you watch, you can see they keep circling back and reappearing in front of the camera, instead of going to a particular destination.
Gary Cameron and a
That's a classic video, not just for the invention of video of the city but for what's to come in hours
It was made just 4 days before the quake. 😢 The only reason the film survived is that the photographer couldn't find anyone in the city who could develop the negatives so he sent the reel to (IIRC) New York for processing. Talk about being lucky.
Complete chaos. Amazing film. I want a time machine.
this really is brilliantly done. thanks so much!
Gone are the days when horses and not people pooped on the streets of San Francisco!
Impeach your Congress people! Make San Fran great again.
wuzgo anon amen
@rob yohn That's part of what caused the decline, in my opinion. How the heck is that supposed to help anyone?
@@wuzgoanon9373
Actually gay communities have been known to keep their cities clean. The miracle they've done to Asbury Park is commendable. Maybe SF can take some tips from them.
@@Friggle_Dee My point is that they are people, not gay people. Why does sex have to permeate every aspect of our public lives? It should not be part of any public discussion any more than our business in the bathroom. It is a private matter that should not be used to advance social agendas.
My husbands grandfather made this movie. Earl C. We went to a sold our screening of the updated film last night in Niles CA.
Really? That's cool!!
Yeah sure Nancy.
And I’m Donald Trumps nephew.
His last name was C?
@Liqueur fills Why wouldn't she want to reveal the name of the family?
Was that actual sounds from that file or edited ? Love it
The evolution of road rage, the beginning.
I walked down here last september ..first time in america too ...great memories 😉😊
Wow, stepping into the past! Marvelous ride down Market street. What a chaotic time - people driving/running all over the place. I guess driving in lanes and crosswalks were not thought of yet. What a wonderful piece of the past to share!
San Francisco native here..I drive down this street everyday. Rude drivers cutt'in people off even back then. I swear some things never change...🤣
What a wonderful documentary !! ... There were no traffic lights, there was no order, they all crossed, it was for himself who can! What a phenomenon and it was just yesterday, incredible how the years go by!
Amazing - this was shot THREE DAYS before the earthquake and fire.
Look, Ma... there were no fat people! People actually moved around, and burned calories!
True. But being fat was desirable back then, though. Plump, anyway. It showed you had enough to eat and didn't have to work hard. Look up old magazines - they had ads for medicines that supposedly made you gain weight!
@@TheGrumpyBulldog those 'elegant' clothes are cheap as shit in their time
All are dead, the dawn of modern urban civilization which seize to be alive in the virtual world, memoirs of the History, RIP!
Fantastic footage! Feels just like going ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’.
there had to be many injuries and deaths on a daily basis. Holy cow...no traffic laws.
brian campbell not really, everything moved pretty slowly at the time.
Thanks for the trip back in time!
and 4 days later, gone. Wow.
spoiler alert!
I wonder how many people in this video died four days later from the earthquake.
Wdym
That's crazy, to think that disaster happened so soon after this. I had family that stayed in tents after it. There was a baby that wouldn't stop crying in the tent they stayed in so a lady came by and hit my great grandma in the nose with a cast iron pan! The lady had gone out of her mind from the horrible circumstances. My great grandma
had a cauliflower nose for the rest of her life after that!
I really wish i could go back in time and live there. I would happily give up all current technology to live back in the late 19th century and early 20th!
I know what you mean but good luck with that, medicine was primitive and disease was everywhere.
Heroin was considered good for you in 1906
Ah yes. But would you really give up all current technology? After all, you did watch this on RUclips
Me too lol
No internet..😩
Kids and adults jumping right in front of streetcars, buses, horses. Cars trying to get past horse drawn carriages, cars making turns right in front of street cars. A cop walking by while all this is happening and doing nothing. So crazy
its like stepping into a time portal,amazing.
How did Not One person get run down by a car or trolley? I saw at least 100 near misses haha. I guess there were no laws against jaywalking then.
Organized Chaos. Fascinating to watch.
The early cars obviously felt superior to the horse drawn carriages. LOL.
This is the reason why today we have traffic rules, drivers feel superior. Before cars there was no rules for horse carriages.
@@MDB-amandrinksbeer but now motorcyclist feel superior for having a faster and slimmer vehicle.
Lots of autonomous vehicles with two cameras and two mics.
You do know that sound tech for motion pictures wasn't invented until 1927, don't you.? The sound track was added much later.
You do know that sound tech for motion pictures wasn't invented until 1927, don't you? There sound track was added much later.
@@wesleywalker1594 I meant two eyes and two ears (the horses)
They also had this arranged with car owners that's why you see them turning around to make another pass. Even still it's a great peace of history
So busy and the condition those horses had to work in was awful 😞 bad drivers even then.
Great video the sound was added much later as is 1906 no sound was available neverthe less well done top marks
hungryherbie I thought the same
I was wondering about that. It sounds very authentic though.
Thanks, I was wondering that too. They should have added some horse fart sounds...
I wish we could the actual sound from that time, that'd really bring this video to life, it'd be like stepping through a time machine!
It's real..I was there !
imagine the number of traffic accidents that went unreported back then, boy what a mess!
Back in the days when you didn't have lawsuits being launched left and right for every little thing.
Those were the good times back then;
This is the good time now 😊
“Hello & Welcome 2020..!!”
Hope someone virtually likes my comment around 2130..🤪
Wow Wonderful to see something from 1906. Love the way how people dressed in those days and no traffic light and people moving without any issues. Sad part is all those people are dead unless someone is 112 years old :(
I’ve walked these streets hundreds of times. The clock tower at the end, at the ferry building, survived the quake. I LOVE San Francisco, warts and all. I’ll take it over any city in the USA.
scott rand ❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯
Street crappers and all?
You can have it.
San Francisco as you remember it, is dead. You can thank the Democrats.
That was super awesome. And the end comment (and pictures) about it changing four days later with the fire made the whole thing thump in my heart!! 🙏
Nice job on the sound, great video!
Those cars are driving all over the place cutting everyone off, and to think I get pissed off with today’s traffic.
This is true lovable chaos. It's amazing that we didn't witness a death on this short footage. Standing in the middle of the street. Dashing in your horse-drawn carriage to beat a trolley. Every means of powered vehicle bobbing and weaving on both sides of the street. INSANE!
Fascinating. I wonder what they would think of a video of the same place today?
It's pretty eerie to watch this and wonder who made and who didn't through the earthquake
My grandfather made it through and made photographs
Outstanding video! How long did tires last on Market Street in '06; one week? Everyone drove and rode crazy, yet I didn't see any road rage. Amazing that this was filmed 4 days before the Great Earthquake. I wonder how many of them in this video died? You know there were
thanks to all who uploaded it and many thanks to RUclips for this source
Just think that was only a little over a 100 years ago, will people be watching videos of us a hundred years from now
Yes they will
Yup. It will be astonishing to them as well!!