Check out the city of San Francisco circa 1905 or 1906 - not long before the Great Quake. This is absolutely amazing footage was taken from an early camera mounted on the front of a cable car as it ambled up Market Street toward the Ferry Building.
The historian in me is drooling right now!
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
3 comments:
Amazing!
Mo
I would be interested to see what the camera attached to the trolly looked like. Because if you watch most people walking on the street, quite a few of them stop and stare, and a few even wave, as the camera rolls by.
I know times back then were hard and not perfect, but it looks so carefree.
T
I'm thinking the camera was a monstrosity with some cameraman standing behind it cranking away.
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