San Francisco 1920's in Color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added 

How can this be pre-1920 based on the vehicles in the video? The first truck off an assembly line wasn't until 1926 and there are trucks in the images.

@@mutantryeff no idea, I'm following the information I found in the source video

@@NASS_0 They may have been photographing pre-1920 architecture as the description says. But the film had to be taken in the 30s.

@@mutantryeff I see some "turret tops" vehicles from the 30's.

@@crimestoppers1877 well why dont you use deep exampler based video colorzation anymore and why ur videos just hd an not 4k it makes more realism

And here we are 100 years later seeing homeless drug addicts sell stolen shampoo in front of those same buildings.

It's one of the most beautiful cities in the country. Too bad about the tech yuppies and the crackheads. Same kind of people.

Допотопные мастера знали толк в строительстве.

Giannini was a friend of Valentino's and loaned him money at one point for a project a few years later (after Valentino was a star and after he filmed Moran of the Lady Letty in SF, Fall 1921. (you can see my videos on that subject on my channel.) I did also notice the Wells Fargo Bank, too!

Do research on the Tartarian Empire.

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city looked amazing when it was white before immigrants took over

Yeah, I've seen that KFRC sign, and thought something was a bit odd, for a radio station to be working that early in the century. As a boy, I remember listening to KFRC.

@@29madmangaud29 1924 is not early.

I listened to KFRC as a kid living in Sunnyvale in the 70's. Dr. Donald D. Rose was my favorite DJ!

I wrote a poem or ode to the Flood Building. I went there a lot. I live in SF.

I wonder if Woolworths was there in the 20's Flood building?

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not to worry..it looks almost exactly the same now

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Most of these buildings were designed by Americans. Until about 1930, architecture that we associate with Europe was the standard in design. Modern architecture emerged around 1930. That's why you can go to any city in the world and find classical style architecture.

@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 hmmm...to paraphrase, at the turn of the last Century ( and prior too) immigrants arrived to the USA in major cities and after checking in with customs pretty much were cosidered American citizens. Many of those architects either were educated in Architecture in their previous homeland or here , but the designs came from what they had already been accustomed to seeing. Is that more accurate? I could be wrong but I think I'm on point here.🙂

@@davidcarrol1882 that's correct but America created their own architecture on the tenants of classical architecture. A lot of the great American architects of that time were born in the US. The Chicago School of Architecture took the principles of palazzo architecture, and adapated it to larger commercial buildings in the 1880s. A lot of those architects were American born but did study in Europe. Until 1930 all architecture in the Western World were just adoptions of Ancient Greek and Roman architecture.

Apparently Woolworth's originally wanted to tear down the Flood Building and build a new store there, which thankfully didn't happen. It's an amazing building, I'd love to have an office there.

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makes no sense. all these buildings are far older.

Where are all the homeless?

Meanwhile: Taking over 60 years to rebuild NY Penn Station…

@@JamesHawkeRU-vid Exactly ...buildings are all from the pervious reset. We too are currently going through a "reset," many are unaware.

@@crimestoppers1877 the concept did not exist then. homeless were called bums and lived down by the tracks, near junkyards, and in dumps.

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it was a real CITY.

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until the woke mandate them out of existence. revisionist historians will doctor all these images in the future.

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The cars look well-established and solid in design. Not the rickety primitive-looking contraptions of the very early 1900s. Many of the cars look like they are even more advanced than cars you'd have seen during or after World War I. I just visited a vintage auto museum, and many of the cars in the footage look far more like 1920s autos I saw in the museum than the 19aughts or teens. And the fashion, too. Especially the women who already are wearing 1920'ish flapper-style hats and clothes. They're not wearing those giant hats, tops with very padded rounded shoulders, and layered dresses more common during the post-Victorian/Edwardian period going into the early 20th Century. In addition, there are virtually NO horse-drawn wagons or carriages to be seen in the film. This would not be the case if the footage was taken in the aughts which would still have been a period of transition from horse-drawn to motorized vehicles. And considering the whole city was flattened by the Great Earthquake in 1906, but you don't see a single sign of any lingering damage -- rather a city rapidly growing and prospering with many advanced skyscrapers -- if this footage is not from the 1920s, it has to be at least during World War I or after -- maybe getting to within months of 1920. I think most of the footage is from the 1920s if I had to guess.

My guess would be late 1920's from the clothing styles and vehicles, also radio station KFRC didn't begin broadcasting until 1924.

@@jody6851 you said there were no horse-drawn Vehicles you're messing up and paying attention because I seen a few not disagreeing with you about the film time but yes there were some horse-drawn vehicles in this film

As others have noted, this is the closest thing to time travel that is possible. A mind-bender. I grew up in San Francisco in the 60s and 70s, and so many echoes of these views are my memories and mental map.

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"Notice there's no street lights are stop signs, and the people where great responsible driver's." Not quite :P Pedestrian fatalities and traffic accidents were really common in the early days of the automobile, to the point one city (I want to say Cincinnati) wanted to declare them a public nuisance and ban them from city limits.

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people work fast. twenty years had past. ww1 had past. an entire new generation grew up. technology expands by leaps and bounds. the city wasn't leveled by the quake and fire, a 20% core remained .

Dorothy Dalton, while filming Moran of the Lady Letty with Valentino, went one night to explore Chinatown with some of the Chinese extras that were in the film...I have a newspaper clipping in one of my YT videos describing her adventure...

The Hall of Justice shown across from Portsmouth Square was used in the Lady from Shanghai and in the tv series Ironside. It was torn down in the late 60s, early 70s and replaced with an extremely ugly Holiday Inn. The little corner buildings are still there. I agree, Portsmouth Square was more attractive then. They are about to renovate it.

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that was the job of traffic cops at busy intersections.

Amen.

It is extremely sad what has been deliberately done to this country

Romanticising the past huh? As if it was a peaceful time? World is more ordered & at peace now than ever in the history. Be grateful that you are enjoying this peace. People were ridiculed, society was ripe with r@cists & anyone would be killed for mere reasons. No freedom of speech, full of Discrimination & superiority complex. No broadmindedness. Women were abducted as comfort women for soldiers, men were killed of not ready to fight for country. No food & safety. Those times were a living hell. I would be more than happy if i could relieve the 90s or earlier 2000s again. That was the time when humanity reached it's highest peak with enough tech & human interaction & peace & entertainment.

Thank the Democrats.

@@Gigie2Z While I agree with you to a very large extent, the Republicans also made sure that there was unfettered 3rd world immigration because they want cheap labor

it was beautiful for some people.

Du bist Deutsch. Die Deutschen haben solche für Jahrhunderte schon so gebaut.

You are so right. Today it smells like human waste.

@@marstondavis smells that way, because it is! the dregs have won the streets.

Avec plaisir 😊

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When you treat the era as a real time with real people, you see more than you bargained for and it completely changes everything. I just saw two home movies from 1939 in Miami in color. Half the vehicles were various shades of forest green, a few golden metallics, iridescent gray, maroon, and blues. It is completely different than how people imagine it before hand.

That's not a trolley, it's a cable car...being turned around on a turntable. It's still being done in San Francisco today. Besides the conductors, the gripmen help to turn the cars. Years ago they allowed passengers to help. I enjoyed helping to turn a cable car on the turntable.

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think about what you said. ww3 is in its opening chapter.

@@suppylarue220 So according to you every World war theirs a reset? I'm trying to understand what all this reset stuff is a bout?

today is an evolution of then!

@@suppylarue220 devolution

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I understand the miraculous nature of that, but I wouldn't hold it past them to not be able to do this in such a short time. After all, in 1893 Chicago created and established a world fair 3 times the size of disney world, massive marble and masonry structures with elegant architecture of various countries, drop dead gorgeous scenery, introduction of above subway transit lines, early automobiles, architecture concepts, paintings, everything you can imagine...all in a year. And so to did they build the Empire State building in less than a year, which in today, is still extremely tall and really doesn't vary that much from modern glass towers which literally no one has compared evenly (every graph I look at has a difference...useless!) The past was well on-modern, very noble and very much not primitive by any means time. History is best looked at through a nonbiased source such as a film reel, video, or picture.

Viewed at 1.75 the speed seems a tad more accurate.

@@LarryFleetwood8675 Everybody hurrying so much, suddenly... I'm not sure!

@@HansDunkelberg1 It's not really hurrying all that much, it's just looks too slow at so-called 'normal' speed.

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Most of those buildings are from after the earthquake. Downtown was severely gutted by the fires. The building across from the Bank of Italy (which became Bank of America, if you weren't aware) was built in 1904 though and was a prominent survivor. That Bank of Italy building would have been relatively new when this film was made, it was built in the early 20's. You'll be happy to know it's still there and AT&T did some amazing restoration work on it.

Thanks for the info. Around 1960 when I was 8, the Grandfather of one of my friends recounted how he and his family were rudely awakened and lucky to escape the famous April 1906 Quake.

You'll have to take it up with the filmmaker 100 years ago :P

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Cars definitely had horns and motorists were maniacs for the most part back then, so I'm sure they were honking them often

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they had better knowledge.

skyscrapers were built since the 1880s. sophisticated engineering technology had long been established.

@@suppylarue220 Thanks for the info👍

@@JamesHawkeRU-vid yah, I'm pretty certain all today achieved, is stealing their blueprints and decades of hard work. Whereas in the past, yesteryear was often thanked for a product, nowadays they try to stay as far away from the past as possible because its always about the ridiculous future. Well frankly I prefer the world I already lived in, I don't need change no matter how inevitable it may be, it is not if people knew how to be comfortable and improve the world they already live in instead of waiting for some distant fake utopia that most productions arrange in a form that rather sounds more dystopian.