Film from San Fran Cable Car in 1906.

[nytemare]

This is one of the coolest videos I've seen on YouTube. There is some debate as to when this was filmed, most say a week before the earthquake in 1906, some say it would've had to be after 1908 due to the Model T's being in there. Either way, it is an amazing video.

[Scuba]

1. At the 3:00 minute mark... the little girl on the right... pretty sure that's California Peggy!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. oh oh! I think an Fbomb might be in order, my dear Scuba!

[Archae]

2. ABC news did some research...

On this film, and it turned out to have been filmed 2 days before the earthquake hit.

[mulsh]

3. It's definitely from 1906. In 1908 most of those buildings were in assorted stages of

reconstruction or construction. If any one is interested UC's Bancroft Library has its extensive photo collection available on line
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/pictorial.html#collection

[nytemare]

4. I found a video comparing before and after side by side

So interesting.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. This is just so incredibly cool! Thanks so much for posting!

Love the cars - and the horses! And how some people just have to dash across right in front of it, reminds me of my summer job driving a train at an amusement park, LOL.

[nytemare]

10. You're quite welcome.

Here's a 2005 version of the same path. Such differences.

[talkingmime]

7. Being a grip back then must have been rough!!!

Especially since everyone else is driving like it's the DC beltway!

[rurallib]

8. cars and horses and bikes and walkers and trams going every which-a-way

looks like at @ 4 mph.
That was really cool - really gives a feel of a day in S.F. at the turn of the last centruy

[sakabatou]

9. There's only one thing I don't like and that's the audio

I here this high-pitched whine.

[Yavin4]

11. Hey Kids! Visual Proof That Humanity Can Exist Without Cell Phones!

I know you thought that it wasn't possible, but see for yourself.

[nytemare]

12. I think it'd be cool to go back to that time with an iphone.

With internet access passing the ages. I think it would be neat to show people what the future held.

[Yavin4]

13. They would call you Satan's spawn

and burn you and your evil motion picture device.

[nytemare]

14. Possibly. But I could warn of the earthquake..

But, then I think of the move Millennium, with the paradox quakes. Just a flight of fancy, really.

[friendly_iconoclast]

16. A slightly better version here:

[Special Prosciuto]

17. Chaos

Amazing. Barely controlled transportation anarchy and chaos. No traffic lights, crosswalks. Kids racing, chasing, and baiting the drivers. Car drivers doing diagonals over trolley tracks, passing and overtaking left & right, and a horse-drawn wagon-leader nearly being run over by the trolley?