Ah, Friday!! After a long holiday weekend, the added benefit is a short work week-and yet another weekend dead ahead!
Today’s blog is also VIDEO driven. I think you will find the two clips here simply stunning!
The first is a VERY RARE film of San Francisco in 1906!! The camera was attached to the front end of a cable car—slowly making its way down Market Street to the Embarcadero Wharf! Hey, I’m getting a craving for Rice-a-Roni (those of you over 40 will understand this lame joke!)
Truly a slice of American history, the blend of horse carts and those new-fangled contraptions called automobiles criss-crossing the street are a joy to watch. In remarkably good shape, this film clip will literally TRANSPORT you back more than a hundred years to what city life was like in San Francisco.
Perhaps the most amazing part is that this film was shot just FOUR DAYS before the Great Earthquake on April 18th of 1906!! It was shipped to New York for processing.
Check out the buildings, the people, the fashions, the cars—all of it! Who knows how many of the people you see actually survived what was to come just a few days later!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k
Now, here’s a contrast. Here is another clip—shot along the VERY SAME route—only in 2005. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqcz_tllnwM&feature=related
I’m a history buff—and often think about what it would have been like to live in other periods in time. That first film is the closest thing to actually “being there”. The second is riveting when you consider just how much has changed in a century.
Have a great weekend!
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