Lets Time Travel

[70 copo]

For todays entertainment lets go visually to SF in 1906 with restored/and colorized footage (with sound effects added) showing two important points of interest:

The intersection of Horse and Buggy and the Automobile

and

Views of SF as it existed only days before the 1906 earthquake leveled it.

[Too Many Projects]

Interesting video, thanks.
Obviously, the abhorrent driving manners of today isn't anything new. Nobody in that vid seemed to have any consideration for anyone else on the road back then either...

[njsteve]

I saw the same buggy with the 4867 license plate eight times along the route. Very fishy to me.

BTW, my grandmother survived the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. She lived to "an unknown age" (approximately 95). Since all her birth records were destroyed in the fires after the quake and she would never reveal her year of birth, we never truly knew how old she was. When asked her year of birth, she would always smile and reply: "It wasn't appropriate for a lady to discuss her age".

She eventually became an opera singer of some minor fame before meeting my grandfather during a visit to sing in NYC in the 1920's. He and she were the only two people on the train car in NYC. Total strangers. So they struck up a conversation and it turned out that the only person she knew on the east coast was a cousin of my grandfather in NYC. How's that for fate!

And don't get me started on my other grandparents. But for a lost coin toss on a Coney Island beach in the 20's, none of my family would exist. My gramma was out with a gaggle of her lady friends at Coney Island. A group of hooligan Brooklyn boys met up with them and tried to "ply their wares". My gramma and another girl were talking to two particular boys and they flipped a coin to see who got stuck with the scrawny blond guy with the funny nose. Gramma lost the coin toss and got stuck with the guy who ended up eventually being my grandfather. (His funny nose was due to the fact that he was a Golden Gloves boxer at the time and tended to lead with is face.)

[Too Many Projects]

Yes, I saw the same car too, but I kept watching and the driver seemed to make poor choices in all his lane changes and kept getting behind the trolley and then passing again. STILL, the plate seems to be much clearer than most others, so it does stand out. Possibly a lead car for the camera crew on the trolley ??
WOW, your story of family meeting has a familiar ring to it. In April 1992, I moved into a young woman's 3 yr old home as a renter and we've been together ever since. We are celebrating 30 yrs together this month and a little over 27 married. Talk about chance encounters...

[Crush]

Originally Posted by mayorovd

Nice video

Can’t see it? Still haven’t figured out why?

On another note, there is a Rivian for sale on BaT and some posters are paralleling on how cars replaced horses to EV’a replacing ICE. Always entertaining over there

[chevyman0429]

Crush Iv noticed if I look on my phone no videos but if I go on my wife’s desktop the videos are there !

[Crush]

Originally Posted by chevyman0429

Crush Iv noticed if I look on my phone no videos but if I go on my wife’s desktop the videos are there !

tried that, must be my browser.

[randy27]

Okay, that's totally cool!