“ THE CITY OF SEVEN HILLS ” 1960s SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA TRAVELOGUE FILM XD72274
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This travel film from the late 1960s / early 1970s was produced and written by Austin Green, and shows the attractions of the different neighborhoods in San Francisco, CA. It was edited by Walter Soul, with a musical score by Richard McCurdy. The narrator Lindsay Workman speaks fondly of this city and everything it has to offer from parks to art, bridges, beaches, and vibrant nightlife.
Views of the city of San Francisco (00:14). “The City of Seven Hills” title banner (00:28). An airplane flying over San Francisco (00:39). “San Francisco” on screen (00:41). A Western Airlines Boeing 707 airplane landing at the San Francisco International Airport (00:56). Passengers exit the aircraft (01:33). Birds-eye view of San Francisco and the Golden Gate bridge over the San Francisco Bay (02:02). A cable car passing through the city (21:21). Different performances of the ‘Gay 90s’ in San Francisco (02:40). An old fire station (03:24). Water systems installed after an earthquake in 1906 (03:43). A momentum in Saint Mary’s Park in honor of the firemen who fought after the earthquake (03:54). The Coit tower monument in Telegraph Hill (04:07). The Palace Hotel (04:14). Market Street (04:32). The San Francisco Opera house (04:45). The Fairmount Tower Hotel with a glass elevator running on the outside of the building (05:00). The Union Square (05:33). Sidewalk flower stands (05:42). Views of the streets of San Francisco (05:55). A store named “Gump’s” selling unusual, collected art (06:29). Scenes from Chinatown (07:03). A chauffeur picks up two women at a hotel for a sightseeing tour of the city (08:26) through wealthy residential districts (08:48), the Palace of Fine Arts (09:06), the Yacht Harbor and the Golden Gate Bridge (09:21), Golden Gate Park and its Japanese tea garden (10:11), and on a drive down Lombard Street (11:46). The Mark Hopkins Hotel (12:48). The Ferry Building (13:40) by the port of San Francisco (13:50). The Cliff House restaurant (14:45). Surfers on the waves at Ocean Beach (15:43). The point of one foot of the Golden Gate Bridge stood by the Fort Winfield Scott (16:30). The pay toll for the bridge (16:48). The Muir Woods national monument (17:33). Sequoia trees, grown since before year AD 1 (17:42). The cable car turntable at Market Street (18:49). The cable car moving up Powell Street (19:13) through Little Italy (20:34) to the Fisherman’s Wharf hectic with fishing boats and seafood restaurants and markets (20:47). A Bay Cruise ship for tours in the San Francisco Bay (21:46). The Alcatraz Island and the prison (23:12). The Oakland Bay Bridge going through the Yerba Buena Island (23:35). A thick fog (24:07). A group of three is taking a taxi to enjoy the nightlife of San Francisco (24:32). Neon signs light up the streets (25:04). Performances entertain locals and visitors on an evening out in San Francisco (25:22). The vibrant night life and performances in the Barbary Coast area (26:03). An airplane taking off (29:16). “The End” on screen (29:52).
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I have seen countless videos and clips of San Francisco from the 50s and 60s, and WOW I had never seen this documentary and so many unique shots of the city as it was back then, truly incredible. Thank you for digitizing and publishing all these gems from the past.
I arrived the first time in 1961. It really did look like this…
My, how times have changed.
I love visiting the Cliff House and playing in the penny arcade in the basement! 😊 as a family in the 60s, 70s, & 80s we would visit San Francisco often and would have a wonderful time. I have many fond memories of our visits. It makes me sad to see what it has become today, 😢
The Cliff House shut down a few months ago. A restaurant can no longer survive at that location. There is nothing there to bring tourist to that area anymore. Playland was leveled. Sutro's burned down, and Museum Mechanique relocated to Pier 45. Even the seals moved from their rocks to the docks of Pier 39 40 years ago. Leave your car parked at Ocean Beach and you have a very good chance that it will be broken into, although that can and does happen all over the City. Sad.
@@jjackson8667 yes, and our "leaders" continue to lie and deny. They say, "don't believe your eyes, it's another right wing conspiracy theory ".
Thanks Obama, Nancy, Gavin, and the old one who just croaked...Feinstein
Looks so different without all the bums
For some reason I watched this whole thing. A fascinating look at SF in the 60s. Alioto’s RIP.
SF RIP
I remember visiting San Francisco in 2002, and it has completely changed since then. Last time I went, about 4 or 5 years ago, it was pretty depressing, to be honest. Who knows, it may become a great city again, but for now, it is somewhere I don't need to visit in a hurry, sadly.
I lived in the city when these shots were filmed. It was one of the most beautiful cities in the world. As a young boy, we would wander all over town without a thought. From Fisherman's Warf to The ferry building, then take the street cars to Playland on the Pacific Ocean. I went there a year ago for the first time in decades and was mortified by what I saw. Market Street was not safe to walk down in the middle of the Financial District in the middle of the day. It broke my heart.
@@williamcrovo6452 Right. When I visited 20+ years ago, I was really impressed by Market Street; now it's a shell of its former self. I never saw so many blue tents and RVs with their engines running, and now the downtown in my home town in NorCal has the tents and RVs too. Something needs to be done.
Businesses have abandoned Market street and Union Square which was the shopping jewel of SF. I’ve been to SF so many times since the 60’s and it was always my favorite city and what’s happened to it is heartbreaking.
Much, much worse now. I used to love going there, from the 60's to about 20 years ago. Closest I get to it now is Tiburon. Looks great from Sam's Anchor Cafe's outdoor seating. Can't smell it from there.
@@williamcrovo6452Back in the 1930s Barbara Eden roller skated and was attended by her father on Fisherman's Wharf. She grew up there but was born in Tucson,Arizona. I grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era and I myself was born in Havana,Cuba in 1956 and was brought there by my late parents.
The city by the bay has reinvented itself for the last 250 years. I live 25 miles north in an area that has 90% open space. The weather, natural beauty are a paradise once you pay the extra price of a house. I am fortunate to have enough free time to leave the rat race behind. The close proximity to a dozen world class venues is spectacular. I live close to native settlements that have been here for 8,000 years and am grateful for my time living in the Bay Area.
The corny narration is so reminiscent of the 50s and 60s. It takes me back to my childhood.
Yep, there was a local TV personality and narrator who did umpteen of these tourist documentaries. The same narrator did one on the defunct ski resort Edelweiss that was filmed in the late 1950s.
@@CaptainGyro For some reason all those guys sounded alike. Every film I saw in school back in the fifties and sixties sounded like it was narrated by the same guy, LOL
this is depressing
this was the city of my childhood
im still here, but it's sad how the city has deteriorated thanks to corruption and malfeasance
...and your horrible governor.What an absolute pompous ass!!!I visited my relative there in the 70s..Gorgeous city..This is what happens with BAD LEADERSHIP and really awful politics.
Actually it is liberal policy that did it in... the entire state
Stationed at T.I. for 4 years, daughter born at Letterman. Moved to South city worked on Geary Blvd. and I loved The City! Then...
When considering the current plight of San Francisco as of 2023, this film could be considered as a Northern California version of Disney's "Fantasy Land."
it's still a wild city
I kept looking for Inspector Callahan to be jumping hills in the street.
My wife and I were originally from the Palo Alto/Menlo Park area. We were both born practically on the Stanford University campus in the mid 40's. I remember listening to her grandfather, one of the pioneers of Palo Alto, describing the 1906 earthquake. He was not quite 11 years of age when it happened. He said he woke up in the morning suddenly as his bed danced across his bedroom. He looked out the window across the El Camino just in time to see the stone pillars at the entrance to Stanford U. collapse in a heap.
In those days the date palm trees along the drive into the University were a great deal shorter than they are now. He said they could pick dates from the trees back then.
And now you can pick hypodermic needles and human feces from your shoes.
Great job Democrats, great job
Born and raised and still glad to reside in SF, in my own home.
Lucky you. May I ask are you right in the city? What neighborhood? I love the city, myself. Visited many times and stayed for months at a time.
I visited San Francisco during the late 60’s/early 70’s. I think that it was the most beautiful city that I’ve ever seen. It’s truly a shame what has happened to this once great city. For that matter to this entire country.
I would not be surprised if San Francisco is burned down by rioters and anarchists in the near future.
Thanks Hussein Obama
Medical education in San Francisco 71-75…hard to believe 50 years ago. Glad I have the memories of then rather than now!
Was born in the City in the mid 50's. What a time to live there, when it was truly a magical city. At the 15:35 mark in this video is Playland at the Beach. It was a fun place to visit at Ocean Beach along with the Cliff House. 👍
No comment on what they have done to your city?
@@atatterson6992 we had many problems in the city during our era, but it was a different society and generation back then. San Francisco is still a beautiful city, still has many problems, but it seems to me, it's a generation that only cares about themselves and not each other. Politics and bad voting has allowed the city to lose it's former charm and greatness!!!!!!
This is a vivd and engaging travelogue! In 2023, regrettably, I would suggest watching this instead of going to San Francisco. I visited in February of this year and did some tourist stops, it’s was sad and depressing.
Hey, you lived thru it. Well done.
And Democrats say there is n9thing wrong...
Born in Sacramento raised in the bay area would love to see it nice and clean again. ☹️
We certainly will when all of the insanity in government and culture gets corrected.
Beautiful ❤🎉❤🎉
Beautiful. Thank you❤️💗.
Thank you
2:44 LOL the "gay" 90s takes on a whole new meaning in modern San Francisco.
It is even more so now.
Gee Karen, no one else did. "LOL".
@@billhosko7723 ??????????????
This is a beautiful memory of a place that has been destroyed and will never be again! It is like looking back on Greece or Rome in their hey day but who destroyed themselves and are nothing but ruins. CA was a beautiful (and the scenery still is) place when I grew up there but now is a filthy perversion of its former self.
You are picking and choosing. San Francisco was always a tough town.
@@smokingjoe9864 So, do you want to add New York and Chicago? Or are you just defending what SF is right now, because if you are I have to assume you live there and love it!! If you don't, you are welcome to move there. I used to live in Palo Alto and visited SF many times and it was a wonderful place even 30 years ago and NOTHING LIKE THE SODOM AND GOMORAH IT IS NOW! Or, maybe your agenda is more general in defending Evil everywhere. The bottom line is that this article is about SF so my commenting about it, is not picking and choosing!
@@smokingjoe9864comical
I wouldn't say Rome or Greece are in ruins. San Francisco has always been a boom and bust town. It goes in cycles. No better city in America to live in.
When you’re a miserable person you see misery everywhere.
I grew up along Great Highway 1962
I don’t remember being able to walk to Seal Rock and it’s actually protected by the GGNRA
Amazing shot of the bridge to Seal Rock
This was the San Francisco i grew to as a young kid ..born and raised there ...now afraid to even step foot back in my old stomping growns😢
And I was just thinking how lucky I was getting to live there in 2007-08. Bernal Heights (North, Precita Ave.). Only a few shootings on my street and only one really that put us in any danger, although my neighbor's van did take a hit. Really, I was thinking how lucky I was to live there then! Now... I'm with you, afraid to go back!
@@hamentaschen LOL, "Only a few shootings on my street and only one really that put us in any danger, although my neighbor's van did take a hit."
Yeah, i think the rot had already set in by then.
@@hamentaschen "Only a few shootings on my street..."
And you say that like its a good thing.
America has been destroyed by the woke Left.
12:03 Unless it had a different name back then that's Telegraph Hill Road which empties into Lombard Street.
LIved in SF1960-68. The People were better, Fisherman's Wharf was real. HIgh school pal let me sail the Bay. Herb Caen read almost daily!
And... are you another who ignores the reason?
My Comment acknowledge THE reason: people were civilized, mannerly and kinder than today's narcistic cretins. @@atatterson6992
Never knew it was called City on Seven Hills 🤔
Of the 48 named hills in San Francisco, only seven claim to have been named at the time of the city's founding-Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, Rincon Hill, Twin Peaks, Mount Sutro, and Mount Davidson
Wasn’t Rome known as city on seven hills also?
I want this in heaven
It is a shame there is no more elegance in SF.
Elegance in San Francisco 1960s?
@@smokingjoe9864 Before the Flower Children took it over, yes.
When I die, I will visit San Francisco 1960's IN heaven
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
Awesome vid. The first shot of the ferry building. No freeway. Must have filmed that bit earlier say in the 50s. Unless it was from a funny angle.
He refers to Alcatraz being deserted. It closed in 1963. The freeway was built late 1950's.
@@kirahastings9900 yeh I picked that one up to. So there’s a collage of different times in there. Anyway awesome vid regardless. If only we could travel back in time and experience ourselves.
It was a beautiful place (S.F.) and the weather was great but the crime/homelessness was horrendous when I visited in June 96' for the Tibetan Freedom Concert...
It’s even worse now
And 2023 says, "Hold my beer..."
I worked at BGP(Bill Graham Presents)in '96 and I remember working that show at the Polo Fields.It's a crying shame😢
@@jamesskelton2988 I was there in 97' for Tibetan freedom concert and could not believe it was so in your face...
I prefer the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Great music and fun times.
Was a song about SF and the gentle people, flowers in their hair. Run aways flocked there. I listen to this song on my way across the country. Are you going to SF? I suggest you take wading boots, and get a 💩 map. Can this city be saved? No. Because the criminals are in office and you will find they can't be voted out. Even if the people still there wanted to. *San Francisco, RIP.* Heh, this is before gay was commonly known as it is today. I remember my brother trying to explain to my grandmother who already knew it from before my bro was even born!! Hilarious to me still!!
I always loved that song!! Especially being a 1965 baby 🐥
Rome is actually the City of 7 Hills.
When San Francisco was a beautiful city to visit, before liberals and their politics ruined this wonderful area.
Before California became a cesspool
San Francisco is built on 42 hills. Isn't this title misleading?
How come the narrator isn't credited? He totally cracks me up.
Ah! But the displayed credit for the narrator is at :50 into the video; along with producer and writer, Austin Green, at 29:37 in the film.
@@bloqk16 Oh, duh-- missed that!
@@bloqk16 apparently he's got a bunch of these--he did an Arizona travelogue called "Hank Goes Fishing" which is also on this channel. The narration is similarly amusing.
"Flower shops decorated sidewalks," that aged well like opened Bud Light.
now i`am confused "was thinking Rome, Italy" was city of 7 hills, but what do i know ?
17:48 anyone else hear the song “Colors of the Wind” from the 1995 movie Pocahontas. This video pre-dates 1995 by many decades so I guess the composer Alan Menken’s composition of Colors of the Wind was not so original after all … despite winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe for “Best Original Song” 😅
what bothers me about these travelogues is that they all stay in the same areas
never showing all the neighborhoods and the cool things in each...like the neighborhood movie palaces that are all gone now
JFC... get over yourself Karen. Make your own travel video then rather than trolling.
You mean the Peep Shows?
This film must have been made in the early or mid 1960's when the city was still presentable. The trouble began in the early '60s at the U. Of California at Berkley, then the counter culture moved in and things were never the same again. Everything changed.
The Beatniks of the 1950's were the "counter culture'. You're conflating the anti Vietnam war protesters of the 60's with the Hippies of the same era. BTW - it's spelled Berkeley.
This documentary forgot to highlight the main jail and the city morgue as it was in those days.
how awful it was back then. now is so much better with diversity
LOL!
After going to UCSF conference last year, for the safety of my family, we will never go back to the city again. We’ll go to SJ or Palo Alto. When you vote Dem for 50 years that’s what happens to a once majestic city
San Francisco a majestic city? Lol. Remember the 'Streets of San Francisco'? How about 'Dirty Harry'? Press gangs? Chines opium dens, brothels and flop houses? You Billy Bob Republicans are a joke with your fake nostalgia.
Born, and lived in Paly/Menlo for 10 years before moving to the Santa Cruz area in the redwoods in '57.
and we will happily take all of the refugees fleeing republican shi*holes like Texas and Florida. Those are our values.
This is simply an inaccurate comment. Boston and many other cities are liberal, thriving, healthy cities.
@@curtandoscarSF politics is corrupt and are more concerned about genderless school supplies than homelessness and mental health. The charities and nonprofits that help run the “harm reduction” sites are making bank letting people slowly poison themselves ‘safely’
I see the trolls are out.
Current SF is not a great place to be… I lived there mid-60’s thru the mid-70’s… golden memories.
RIP
Everyone wants a sanitized experience and SF has always had its rough edges. Barbary Coast anyone? Any of you would be travelers can experience a sanitized version of SF - just use your brain.
It is utterly amazing home many people STILL refuse to acknowledge the destruction and decay of this great city and the culprits and ideology that did it. Mind bending...
2:38 San Francisco was a gay Mecca.
RIP San Francisco. Golden Nugget to a turd
I got a good friend, Det. Harry Callahan, that I go visit and stay with each year in S.F. Harry & I nearly got worked over by some fresh punks that hijacked our trolley and took hostages. It was one of the most unlucky days of my entire life…..Harry ran away, terrified, and left me as a hostage. I get no respect.
Before it was filled with drugs, needles, broken car windows, poop, and liberals when it was still a nice place to live.
Bring back the Infamous Barbary Coast. Saloons, brothels, opium dens, and the Angel Island immigration center.
In heaven , You can have any version of San Francisco, Guaranteed by God , your gracious Creator
Liberals will request the current (2023) version. Enjoy!
Like the Boss said on Fantasy Island..."Smiles everyone... smiles."
They should update the sights to see. Be sure not to miss all the homeless encampments with all the garbage and filth.
0:32 Look at all that SMOG!
And thanks to the liberal Richard Nixon, AKA Tricky Dick. He supported the EPA. And smog was cleaned up.
@@albear972 Really? Flown into L.A.X recently? New York La Guardia? Still there, the smog.
that's FOG not smog - that's what it looks like when it rolls in
@@Talk2WandaVision Grey, dark, stinky? Well, okay, then!
This was before the Oddballs moved in.
Only Real Americans here, building America.
Drugs have ruined so much of every aspect of life.
1960s San Francisco. CORRECTION! San Francisco in the EARLY to MID-1960s! (No "flower children or hippies yet!)
if the fog is a thief that steals the heart of San Fran, well no problem, someone is always leaving their heart in San Fran tony bennett for one no mention of the Castro or 'South of Market' or the Mission District or heaven forbid, Folsom street. ..... Divisidero and Grove was a good base to work from, the Panhandle, Haight Asbury, great cruising. !
Incredible, like a crappy amusement park. San Francisco is beautiful for it's geography and that's it. Everything else is fake.
How San Francisco has fallen. It was once a beautiful cosmopolitan city, gutted by insane policies that have destroyed it. It's like the "before" and "after" of someone addicted to meth.
What happened to SF? Oh wait, Democrats
who thinks SF is better today than in this 1960s video?
LMAO 🤣 OMG
The pretty girls in the act at the beginning would be shamed out of todays SF for being so white and pretty....
Now market street is empty and apocolyic. EVERY store is closed due to homeless and no law. Its the scum of the earth now
Yes very sad 😞
Being born in 1965 I find comfort in watching these older much more kinder time in life
Should be "The City ON Seven Hills".
Isn't that what it says in the opening credits?
@@samuellowekey9271 YES, IT DOES. I GUESS CHANNEL OWNER C A N N O T READ
@@LordDustinDeWynd Oh, haha.
Go away Karen. Troll.
God, the endlessly corny narration by a guy with anything but a California accent who claims this is his city - he sure didn't grow up there with that NY/Boston/almost English accent.
These videos never show you the bad parts of the city very misguiding and all for the camera
Pfft. Another idi ot KAREN has spoken folks.
this is from the 1960s. this is exactly what it was like. i grew up here and still live here.
@@Talk2WandaVision The problems were barely beginning back then. Mostly a normal place, unlike a few years later. Then only downhill from there.
San Francisco
The most boring weather in the wooooooorld.
Lol
Idi ot Karen.
No, that would be Phoenix Arizona.
Looking forward to see the comments from the drama queen traditionalists. I have my popcorn ready.
I'm already eating mine as I read your leftist comment. "Come on man", you leftists are the true drama queens.
Right because 70 years ago crime was worse than today lol....
Albear972 hmm, interesting way of looking at it. Would never have thought the demise of traditional values, hard work, a sense of order and cleanliness are limited to “traditionalists”. Good luck to you
Pfft. Sanctimonious Karen troll.
Yes, it got bad by the 1960s... but now it's in a downward spiral again... Are you denying that?
They've given up and asked for National guard to help manage the city, you knew that too right?
There are a lot more than seven hills. I think it is Rome that actually has seven hills.
Too bad SF is a 💩 pit today