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San Francisco 1958 from Jeff Altman on Vimeo.
Jeff Altman of Chicago discovered this beautiful old film reel of his grandfather's, entitled "Alameda 1958." Altman's grandfather, who is pictured in front of the camera and behind the scenes, had traveled to San Francisco via a navy aircraft. Altman also has a reel documenting his grandfather's voyage to SF, which he will be posting on Vimeo soon. (Background music by Air -- "Alone In Kyoto.")
Update: Also on Spots Unknown and Boing Boing.
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This has got to be the 6th link I've seen to this video in the past week. It's going around like an STD.
Christ, do you ever have anything positive to say?
First time I've heard of or seen this video. And the film frames are in amazingly good condition for a home movie from 50+ years ago. It's eerie how familiar everything is (the landmarks) yet how different it all is (most everyone wearing suits or uniforms; people clambering onto the cable car before it stops on the turntable; SMOKING outdoors AND indoors).
especially comical is that SFist attributes no other site except the source. (the 1958 video surfaced first on my blog, which BB linked to here: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/23/spots-unknown---a-gr.html)
I was only aware of the Vimeo source link.
I hope all of the commenters here are happy to know that I have posted this on no less than 32 blogs and attrubuted it to sfist. LOL. I guess y'all have to spend hours finding them so you can comment on them stating you were the "first" to find it!
It's pretty amazing to see that as much as SF has changed, it really hasn't changed much at all. This place often seems like it was copied from an old postcard.
Wow! That was fantastic. RobInSF is right. SF hasn't really changed that much at all. It still has the same amazing SF flavor that makes it so unique. It kind of reminds me of Paris in that when you look at it, it is unmistakable.