Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Take A Silent Trip Through San Francisco In 1960

Again we turn to the trove of historic videos that have been getting uploaded by the British Pathé news service, and here we have a charming, full color look at some of the streets of San Francisco, with no sound. The reel focuses on the Powell Street cable car turnaround — back then they let people board willy-nilly before they spun it around, and it wasn't so much of a tourist thing — Chinatown, and Fisherman's Wharf, and it appears to be just a series of shots for use in future reports about the city, or something. There's also a series of neon signs at night, in North Beach, at the end, including the still extant Bimbo's 365 Club marquee.