A historic view of the progress of San Francisco from the early days of gold mining, to its progress as a modern fashionable (in 1963) city. Please subscribe.
San Francisco is built on more than 40 hills. When Oscar Wilde visited the city, he remarked, "when you get tired to walking along the streets of San Francisco, just lean against them!"
Lived there from '64 to '66. It was a beautiful and wonderful city. Quite a cultural awakening after being raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles (Arcadia).
@@characterunderconstruction5891 lived in the Richmond district- 22nd Ave and Clement, middle class till you got to Lake Street…but that was long ago before high tech jacked up everything!
great video my dad worked at the beth. ship yard brother fred worked at the can company my first job at hunters point on a sub , i was born there in 52, we moved to pacifica in 56 it where i grew up, peace you all.
Remember 63 like it was yesterday, I was eleven and riding up and down hills in the Noe Valley on my single speed bike with balloons rubbing the spokes of my wheels. ❤Love My City ❤Still live only 15 minutes south along the coast, watching sunsets.🧡
I remember SF from 1958 and to present. The cream and green Coaches. And Coit Tower and the ferry Building tower were The ;high rises of the Day! Seamed stockings fox collers And metal wheeled Skates......
Really enjoyed this doco. Big fan of San Francisco. I always feel at home when I’m there. It’s so similar to my home city Sydney in Australia. They are sister cities after all. Long live San Francisco.
Great vintage footage. SF was so nice and clean before unlike now with all the crime, homeless, and filth. The mayor, DA, and board of supervisors need to watch this to show what a great SF used to look like.
I guess you didn’t notice the exhaust pouring from the jet engines and the ship smokestacks. I was a little girl when this film was made (I probably saw it in school a couple years later), and I remember the smog that would hang in the air sometimes over the city. (I’m a native San Franciscan.) I’m sure the bay was plenty polluted then with all of the heavy industry and the ships emptying their bilge tanks.
@@Westcoastguy I aint. I take it you're lying about being from the west coast and only vacationed to the City then proceed to walk down Market St. like all the other tourists lol. Next time you visit the bay make you venture out to the other neighborhoods because there is some real beauty there.
I've lived in San Francisco my whole life and it looks better today than it has ever looked. Maybe not as good as the San Francisco that existed prior to the 1906 earthquake and fire which had gas lights on the streets and horses and buggies cruising down the streets etc; but much better than it looked in the 1970's when huge sections of the city were ghettos ( The Tenderloin, Hunters Point Fillmore District, South of Market st.) and dangerous to go thru at night
@@01DOGG01 we've always had characters here in San Fran. When I was a kid the whole South of Market area (now and uppity residential high rise area) was populated by bums and drunks, and yes probably some of those decorem (your word) junkies. Hey they need to live somewhere to
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except for possibly its churches, I've never fallen for pegging yankee Montreal as being Europeanish, but visiting Frisco reminded me how stoic Europe's share of the Mediterranean: Europe's south -- not its north -- is what's facsimiled in the Americas ;)
