San Francisco in 1905!


Nov - 24 | By: Seek Geo | 13 comments.

Filed under : General Videos

Found this video on youtube and I was very fascinated because it’s very old black and white film. Not only that, it was filmed just a year before the huge earthquake that killed over 3k people.

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13 Responses to “San Francisco in 1905!”

  1. Deaf Pixie says:
    November 24, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Wow… it is really historical of San Fransisco! :thumb:

  2. karla64 says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    Hi I think it was 1906 not 1905?? her the wikipedia Just FYI

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake

    thanks..

  3. Seek Geo says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    No, Karla,

    What I meant is that the video was filmed in 1905 then a year later the earthquake occured.

    -SG

  4. karla64 says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    Oh I see. sorry anyway thanks

  5. izabelle66 says:
    November 24, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    There were no road rules for cars in this film? The cars drives around everywhere here and there, seems there are no road rules… LOL

  6. PhillyBill says:
    November 24, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    All those cars nearly hitting pedestrians! :scare:

    Goes to show you that there have been, are, and will always be bad drivers on the road! :ROFL:

  7. SB says:
    November 24, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    What a fanastic film.. there is no traffic lights or stop signs … no traffic control.. even people run across .. so interesting to see so many different rides..trolley, cars, confertible cars, bicyles, even horses with wagon wow… one thing I dont see motorcyle lol .. a lot people walk around.. its funny to see every men walk long legs if you could watch carefully lol..
    Thanks for sharing with us. :grin:

  8. Just Jodi says:
    November 25, 2009 at 12:48 am

    :woohoo: this is awesome, some one restored this film patiently,, the results were amazing..
    Sort of eerie in a way.. but fascinating just the same.
    Thanks Geo
    :ILY:
    Jodi

  9. Roberto says:
    November 25, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    :ROFL: good one philly
    damn those kids running in front of the tram hit em! hit em!!
    fuck its going to slow to hit em!
    everyone in that video is dead now :angel:

  10. Deaf Pixie says:
    November 25, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    SB, I agree with you about cool things the old film and might be similar to Jamaican doesn’t have signal light. Recently,Jamaican finally allowed deaf driver their countries

  11. RIver says:
    November 27, 2009 at 10:22 am

    Oh my goodness! And how different. As a history buff, I love this. Can you imagine what it was like to live back then? And then seeing this and sadly knowing what happened afterwards, it is truly touching.

  12. DeafPoet2 says:
    May 10, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    Fascinating! :roll: I enjoyed watching it, seeing people running across or teasing by crossing back n forth. Some took chances to pass others by…no accidents, no traffic lights, etc…really cool but sad to know that many has died due to earthquake a year later. :sad:
    Any thoughts about doing Hell’s Kitchen again? I miss watching you acting like Bonnie and others! Always made my day!
    Have a great day/evening! Hugs n smiles :hug:

  13. Seek Geo says:
    May 11, 2010 at 12:15 am

    Hey DeafPoet2!

    I really loved this video, I have seen it at least 5 times and still enjoyed it, I agree how hard to watch it knowing that many of them died a year later. :sad:

    As for Hell’s Kitchen, aww.. thanks for the compliment, he he. Maybe one day but most likely not this year because Hell’s Kitchen on FOX starts the same week when we leave for Europe so it won’t do any good. Who knows what happen later on though, I will keep it in mind.

    I have done a few clips of Bonnie every now and then in past months, not sure if you have seen these as well. :thumb:

    Many thanks, again!

    :hug:

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