S.F. 1905 - 1906

An old film , shot on Market St. The clothes have changed, traffic lights have been added, and fewer horses share the street. However the traffic; in-out, round and round, I think I'll stop here, look out for me, it's OK 'cuz I'm a (fill in the blank) is still in full force.

San Francisco, 1958

San Francisco 1958 from Jeff Altman on Vimeo.

Jeff Altman has taken some 16mm film his grandfather shot in San Francisco, cleaned it up and dubbed a soundtrack. Taken in 1958, this is a snapshot of the city 50 years ago. It takes forever and a day to load, even with the HD turned off, but there you are. I was going to make a snarky comment about our present day city being an overpriced, smugly self congratulatory, third world outpost, owned and operated by a few financial racketeers, but I realized that would be provincial. (a common affliction in SF) The rest of the nation is pretty much in the same boat. It would, however, be nice to walk down the street without the omnipresent gimmies every twenty feet.