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Behold, this newly rediscovered bit of film, a Cinemascope look at San Francisco in 1955 by filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini. It's part of the Prelinger Archives, and it contains some characteristically dry, 50s-style narration. We begin with views of the city as you approached it by car from the south, east, and north. One surprise, at least to us, the population at the time, 775,000, wasn't much lower than it is now—a lot of people fled in the 60s and 70s.
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See S.F. in All Its Glory, Via Car, Circa 1955
Why San Francisco Was Never Much of a Mafia Town, or Was It?
You heard about that big mob bust late last week on the East Coast? Well, NBC went to local crime author and retired policeman Kevin J. Mullen to find out why we haven't had any real, juicy mob activity out here. Mullen says that Al Capone sent emissaries out to San Francisco in 1931 to case the joint, but decided it was "too tough" a town to crack. That may just be a proud cop talking, but Mullen says it's an easier town to police, given its size and geography, and the transcontinental railroad terminated in Oakland, after all.
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