How interesting to see people on the street not looking at their phones constantly! This makes me so nostalgic. I moved to downtown SF that year in January (I was 23) and had a one-bedroom apartment on Sutter Street for $765/month. Life was so much simpler then. Those truly were the days. Thanks for sharing!
I moved to SF in 1995 at age 24... stayed at the Moser Victorian Hotel (Downtown) for a few weeks before getting my first apartment on Sutter and Van Ness - $860 a month!
These videos literally are the closest thing to time travel! 😀😀and the fact that most of these cars are still on the road today. We are living in history.
@@BadDriversOfNapa you are heavily underestimating how many cars gets scrapped. cars from the 90s are already past generation even on scrapyard. theyre getting filled with 00s cars already. most cars turn worthless and usually end up scrapped at the 20-25 year mark. no one cares about a 20 year old daily car except for the occasional hobbyist. if this video was full of porsches the 90% would possibly be realistic but these cars? fuck no.
You're a genius. And you were WAY ahead of your time for doing this. I wish something similar existed for every city in America during that time period...
1995: before every f'ing car was an SUV. My doc is right around the area at 8 min mark, and mostly everything looks the same in the residential areas (with some exceptions). But, now all the sedans are bigger and parking is an even bigger headache when I have to drive. Thanks for putting this up. Nice to know others can see the city the way it was for a time.
What an incredible document! I had moved from Paris to SF a couple years before this video was taken and this made me so nostalgic for that time period. And homesick for SF! Thank you for posting!
Starting point: Columbus and Bay 0:11 west on Bay 1:54 south on Van Ness 2:45 west on Lombard 4:35 south on Webster 13:54 east on Hermann 14:15 north on Buchanan 14:50 west on Haight 20:15 south on Shrader 20:35 east on Waller 20:50 north on Cole 21:14 east on Haight 26:21 north on Webster 35:09 Webster and Pixley (between Filbert and Greenwich), END VIDEO
Hayes Valley and Haight Street Projects...before being torn down. Hard to believe I used to drive all over these same streets 20 years ago.......memories.
I think I just came up with a new game. Play one of these old dashcam videos at a party but don't tell anyone the year it was filmed in. Then have the guests try to guess it. Whoever is the closest gets a prize (which is up to you to decide) (; Thank you for posting, Alexander Horn!
Nice trip down memory lane. My friends and I were having the time of our lives in the city at this point. Just out of college, so many great memories, kinda hazy too. Never thought it would end. Funny and sad how time just slips away. Slipping away...Stones, great song. Give it a listen.
I miss those old orange and red Muni buses. This brings back so many memories. That was the summer I graduated from high school, and the following year, I would be moving in to my first apartment, which was a studio on Post St between Jones and Leavenworth. This is the San Francisco I remember with its original charm and even the old grit before all the gentrifying. It is so weird to see this now. Just earlier, I had gone to a friend's birthday dinner, and we were talking about old times. We basically said; imagine the relief if we woke up and it was 30, or even better, 40 years ago, only to find out that all we lived through from 9/11 to now was all just some really awful and vivid nightmare. I look at this; I lived through this and remember this, but it seems like a parallel universe.
Taking me down memory lane, thank u! Nostalgic indeed. What I noticed was once u got off of Lombard st and into JTown and so on..there was so much LESS traffic on the road compared to now. So peaceful! What a nice day it was too...not a cloud in the sky!
I loved seeing all those cars parked along the road. Many models that are extremely rare now. the green hatchback at 11:09 on the right is a rare Mitsubishi. I don't believe a single specimen survives in currently in N.America. Also spotted a Lecar at 14:05 and triangle-shaped Nissan Pulsar at 21:51. All long-forgotten. In Michigan, we had very different cars in '95-mostly newer domestics and vans.
Hey dude I'm a Toyota HJ60/FJ40 assistant mechanic. Dad owns an '83 Mitsubishi Colt GLX. In the US it was the dodge colt. Man wish there was a time machine. Which mitso were you talking about my friend?
I'm a native San fransiscan and I remember the city being a hot bed of extreme of sports and great music. DJs, bands, hip hop rock all genres that would often blend. Racism was not seen and parking was never a problem
It’s amazing to see how much time has evolved since then. I was born in 1994 in San Francisco and it feels like I am back in my 3 year old body. While I experienced the 90’s from 1997 to 1999 (3 to 5 years old), I was proud to be able to see the city during this decade.
Blowing my mind to see how reasonable (by Bay Area standards) the traffic is, because I remember it. These were the years when you could still ride your bike thru the mission without the threat of death. Bless you for preserving this for all these years.
Depending on what month, I was most likely an 8 year old. I miss this time in history. SF is now so crowded and bumper to bumper traffic keeps me far away.
So a long time ago I drew a picture of a rural bridge over a small little creek. Just yesterday I bought a new sketchbook and I decided to redraw this picture to break it in. I've been searching for videos like this for inspiration. I just wanna say thank you for uploading this.
I was stationed at Oak Knoll Navy hospital from 94 to 97. Those were one of the best times of my 20's. My friends and I would just cruise San Jose, Berkley, Oakland, San Francisco, Palo Alto, etc and find places to hangout. Eat, drink, socialize with strangers is what we did. Amazing times.
It's harder to do that now. cause you got idiots on the road and traffic sucks now everyone is driving fast you can't enjoy anything. it sucks I was like a teenager in 94 97 I try to enjoy life like yall did back then it's too tough cars have it out for everyone I can't even enjoy a meal at a restaurant without someone being a dick Being a teenager was cool in 95 but I rather be a 20 something have some income so I could do shit have a car I would enjoy life as a 20 something in 2000 it sucks I spent half of a 2000s without a car there was some fun to be had in the 2000s but the late 2000s and 11s were garbage and now the 20s I end up being shot or stabbed if I tried to drive to these citys or a car would hit me can't enjoy nothing now everyone is pissed off
I love the City, but I tried to live there in the Sunset for almost 2 yrs and was miserable. One mistake I made was trying to keep a car there with no access to a driveway. Paying meters and hunting for free spots was a nightmare. I love it because I grew up in the Bay Area, but it's only good for a day visit by ferry. Living there will test your sanity and bank account.
i’ve lived here 16 years. The first eight years I lived downtown and then I moved to the Richmond District. i thought i would hate it but given all the construction and homeless I don’t miss it at all. I love being in the outer richmond! its so quiet and clean and i’m in a rent controlled apartment. what did you not like about the sunset?
@@thecapricorn11 I'm glad you found a place you love. The Sunset itself really is a great place. It mainly was the parking and people that stressed me out. But, I lived right next to Golden Gate Park and so any chance I got I was there waking trails or bike riding. The homeless situation was bad, but not like it seems to be now. I mean SF has always had a large homeless population. And there were times and situations that definitely felt sketchy. I was there back in the very early 2000's. A lot has changed it seems now. I'm living in the North Bay these days. I was never a true city person anyway, I have always loved the woods. Which is partly why I was always escaping to GG Park. I think part of my stress was just living in a city period. I am not cut out for it, I get too stressed living around that many people 24/7. Other than that, my experience with the Sunset I think it's a nice place to live if you can afford it and you don't mind the people and traffic. Remember though, I am only speaking as someone who lived there around 2003/2004.
I was born there and lived in many spots. In 95' I was living in Merded heights cuz I was in SFSU. I was raised in Shoreview and we went to the city for stuff but my mom being a 3rd generation herself saw how it was changing in the 50s! and moved her new young family to the burbs for a "Leave it to beaver" childhood. I lived there a few times as an adult but I was a gypsy fo 25 years so I was here today gone to Maui. I now live on the BI.
I was there in 93 and 97. It was BEAUTIFUL ! The food was amazing and from every culture. I live in Upstate NY so I havent been back but I dreamed of it. Big Sur is my favorite place driving along highway 1 blasting Rush and looking at those majestic views Holy crap was that gorgeous. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to San Francisco now. How will they ever get those amazing restaurants and small family businesses back ? Theyre gone forever. So sad
So much cleaner. No tent cities on the sidewalks. I remember this well. I was living in SF out in the Sunset in 1995 and was 25 years old. I tended bar about 2 blocks from where this video begins. Awesome very fancy themed nightclub called Bien Bien. This was the final year before the dot.bomb blew up and utterly changed our lives. The final pure year. City still affordable. People still human. I miss it all the time.
Wow! No feces, no trash, just normal fucking people acting and behaving considerate and polite. Also no giant SUV's blocking peoples vision, no turds in pickups cutting people off, any way I could live in this time?
Naw I watch them for a time these weird days could never recreate. Peace to the real world. Not this fake 2000 victimized world of fake hurt we live in now.
When I see this recordings of the past, especially the mid eighties and the early nineties, I can only use Pink Floyd's "High Hopes" lyrics, where it says: "the grass was greener; the light was brighter; the taste was sweeter" to describe how I feel.
Half expecting a green Mustang to start chasing you when you turned off Lombard. I lived in SF from 87 to 98, so very familiar. Nice to see it the way I remember is. Lived on Post near Polk and worked in the Civic Center area. Nice to be able to walk to work in 15 minutes.
$2.06 today. And that's in CALIFORNIA. So the rest of the country was easily under $2. Which is funny cause I paid $1.90/gallon just the other day at the pump. Enjoy the cheap gas while it lasts, may never be this cheap again.
No, it was pretty lousy around the projects. You can see a few of them in the vid. (14:38, etc). Everywhere they built one of those things they created a mini-slum about 4 blocks in diameter. And of course the residents would wander out of the slum to mug people and break into cars.
awesome footage, remembers me on my days, when I stayed at post street1151. I used to listen to good music back from the 70th and some sinatra songs and I loved it, ups and downs, just cruising thru sf. I had a 90s chevy cavalier.
I don’t how I possibly came across this video, but @6:18 you drive right by my 1986 Trans Am (parked on the right) and my old apartment just down the hill from that, also on the right 😂 What would be the odds of me seeing this almost 30 years later?
Considering the routes taken in this I kinda feel like things look pretty much the same. Besides the muni buses, no ones looking at their phones and the fashion. I kept hoping the driver would head downtown or to the mission etc so I could really see the difference. None the less thank you for capturing these moments. Did bring me back.
I am nostalgic for those 25 cent cheeseburgers at McDonalds. I am not nostalgic for the siege of homeless people trying to keep you from reaching said hamburgers. That said, the homeless back then were a lot cleaner and civil compared to today's homeless population.
I was there then, i lived on chestnut st in north beach, and in 95 moved to 21st street in the mission. What a great time it was, music was so strong in the city, art was new and not political yet, SFAI was stilk there and ... well it was a great time to be there, feom 91 until 97 was like one endless summer. Magical 100%, as Jenifer would say "that was a good time".
Damn, nice video! I was living there most of the 90´s...miss those daze! Lived on Haight and Cole, Divisadero and Fell, Grove St, Lyon St,.....it was already slowly dying by 2000 and the tech boom/crash, and then September 11....
@Parker The real irony, in my own case at least, is that internet technology has given me endless opportunity to wallow in nostalgia for a time long before it existed.
3:04, that 900 Cabrio off to the right. Green body, tan top. Probably brand friggin new! Since 1994 still used the old Classic 900 for a cabrio. Nice Z at 4:18 to the left
I lived in SF from 1993-1997 and this video brings back great memories. I thought areas like the Tenderloin were bad back then, today I long for the way they were. Some areas in the city today are absolutely horrible.
Is anyone else watching tons of these videos and feeling nostalgic for a time they weren't alive for?
telecomguy10 Me bro I can relate 100% lmao
Same here. The cars of the 80s and 90s looked a TON better.
Yes
I'm doing the same lol, although I was alive in 95 but only 2 years old
telecomguy10 I miss those days in sf......now it's way too crowded
Its the 90s, nobody has a computer in their hand. Life is pure without the poison of instagram. Life is good
we had walkmans and disc players in the 90's
There’s Facebook and TikTok so you decide to mention instagram lol
Why is Instagram poison?
How interesting to see people on the street not looking at their phones constantly! This makes me so nostalgic. I moved to downtown SF that year in January (I was 23) and had a one-bedroom apartment on Sutter Street for $765/month. Life was so much simpler then. Those truly were the days. Thanks for sharing!
I moved to SF in 1995 at age 24... stayed at the Moser Victorian Hotel (Downtown) for a few weeks before getting my first apartment on Sutter and Van Ness - $860 a month!
how did you afford that back then
@@galinag.8386 By working. The real question is how do people do it now?
In San Diego back then, in 1995, most 1 bedroom apartments were $500/month.. so at $765 San Francisco was definately more expensive.
Fulton and Divisadero, my flat was 640.00
These videos literally are the closest thing to time travel! 😀😀and the fact that most of these cars are still on the road today. We are living in history.
Except for the Hondas, kids have ruined most of them :(
if by "most" you mean like 20%
@@test-tl8dt Try 90%
@@BadDriversOfNapa you are heavily underestimating how many cars gets scrapped. cars from the 90s are already past generation even on scrapyard. theyre getting filled with 00s cars already. most cars turn worthless and usually end up scrapped at the 20-25 year mark. no one cares about a 20 year old daily car except for the occasional hobbyist.
if this video was full of porsches the 90% would possibly be realistic but these cars? fuck no.
@@test-tl8dt I'm talking about the Hondas that remain on the road. I'm not including ones that get junked because that's irrelevant to his argument.
A lot of cars from the 70s and 80s still on the road.
Just a few years later the very first hybrid cars came out in 1999.
... well nowadays we do have a lot of 2000s and 2010s cars moving along. Kinda how this thing works haha
My truck a 95 blazer funny that was brand new in this video but now it be 27 years old.
Just like there are cars from 2000, 90s, and 2010 on the road now
Such better times
You're a genius. And you were WAY ahead of your time for doing this. I wish something similar existed for every city in America during that time period...
1995: before every f'ing car was an SUV. My doc is right around the area at 8 min mark, and mostly everything looks the same in the residential areas (with some exceptions). But, now all the sedans are bigger and parking is an even bigger headache when I have to drive. Thanks for putting this up. Nice to know others can see the city the way it was for a time.
I was going to SFSU at that time.
OMG, NOSTALGIA OVERLOAD!! I really miss the ungentrified look the City had back then.
1995 in SF was prime techie time-I was there. The architecture just hadn't caught up yet.
What an incredible document! I had moved from Paris to SF a couple years before this video was taken and this made me so nostalgic for that time period. And homesick for SF! Thank you for posting!
I bought a Led Zeppelin CD at that Tower Records my first day in SF in 1998. Good times.
Man I wish I was born bavk then
I bought an eighth of some damn good weed across from there on my first day in town (1997).
Starting point: Columbus and Bay
0:11 west on Bay
1:54 south on Van Ness
2:45 west on Lombard
4:35 south on Webster
13:54 east on Hermann
14:15 north on Buchanan
14:50 west on Haight
20:15 south on Shrader
20:35 east on Waller
20:50 north on Cole
21:14 east on Haight
26:21 north on Webster
35:09 Webster and Pixley (between Filbert and Greenwich), END VIDEO
Thats literally my elementary school on the right at 26.28
Was there some footage going east on California Street?
Do you still live in SF or had to leave like everyone else?
It would have been nice to have added on screen what streets were being driven on each time they changed their drive!!!
@@GariFFUSA had to? I was born there and never HAD to leave.
One of the greatest years of my life. THANK YOU.
Hayes Valley and Haight Street Projects...before being torn down. Hard to believe I used to drive all over these same streets 20 years ago.......memories.
I miss that city. SF just doesn't feel like SF anymore.
@@malvolio01 Unfortunately...I totally agree with you. I miss the SF of the 90s. You're right...SF actually felt like SF back then. Sure do miss it.
@@briannorby lmao you miss it so much that you replied 5 years later
@@ok_wrangler3511 no. I replied last year to a comment made by Sean L last year.
Not a Tesla in sight. So beautiful.
Or robocar.
Wow, alot of those cars are still on the road in 2020. They sure age well.
Very clean still. Whoever said the city has not changed must live in a nice neighborhood and they have a nice job.
I think I just came up with a new game. Play one of these old dashcam videos at a party but don't tell anyone the year it was filmed in. Then have the guests try to guess it. Whoever is the closest gets a prize (which is up to you to decide) (;
Thank you for posting, Alexander Horn!
Benno Kraehe 😂👏🍻
Nice trip down memory lane. My friends and I were having the time of our lives in the city at this point. Just out of college, so many great memories, kinda hazy too. Never thought it would end. Funny and sad how time just slips away. Slipping away...Stones, great song. Give it a listen.
I can hardly believe this was only 25 years ago. It seems like another world.
I'm thinking, "This is what the world looked like the year before I was born."
Like I remember it, 95' was when I left for NOLA
gave me goosebumps when I saw tower records at that corner on the way up to Galileo High!
Love those cars! Still see plenty of those Camry’s and Corollas on the road 25 years later.
I am reliving the best time in SF, 1985- 2000 I was on top of my game there in 1996
At 3:05 you can see a movie poster in the upper-right corner for the wildly successful box office hit, Waterworld!
Crazy how much it’s changed
Tower Records! Man I miss that place. Great video!
Me too!!! I miss record stores and Video stores all together!!
Thank you so much for recording this, videos like these are the closest thing we have to time travel
feeling nostalgic now
I miss those old orange and red Muni buses. This brings back so many memories. That was the summer I graduated from high school, and the following year, I would be moving in to my first apartment, which was a studio on Post St between Jones and Leavenworth.
This is the San Francisco I remember with its original charm and even the old grit before all the gentrifying. It is so weird to see this now. Just earlier, I had gone to a friend's birthday dinner, and we were talking about old times. We basically said; imagine the relief if we woke up and it was 30, or even better, 40 years ago, only to find out that all we lived through from 9/11 to now was all just some really awful and vivid nightmare.
I look at this; I lived through this and remember this, but it seems like a parallel universe.
My friend Stone at 16:07. Wow! That was about three years before I met you. Sleep well in Heaven, my friend! We all miss you!
Brian Norby you knew the guy walking across the street??!
@@vhscopyofseinfeld yes. That was my good friend who went by the name Stone. May he rest in peace.
Ah. My home 1993-96. Bittersweet times. Thanks for posting
kevtruth you saw your house that is amazing so many years as pass.
Taking me down memory lane, thank u! Nostalgic indeed. What I noticed was once u got off of Lombard st and into JTown and so on..there was so much LESS traffic on the road compared to now. So peaceful! What a nice day it was too...not a cloud in the sky!
San Francisco used to be beautiful.
Now homeless filled SF used to look like Heaven.
Indeed it did. Not a sidewalk tent or pride flag in sight.
I loved seeing all those cars parked along the road. Many models that are extremely rare now. the green hatchback at 11:09 on the right is a rare Mitsubishi. I don't believe a single specimen survives in currently in N.America. Also spotted a Lecar at 14:05 and triangle-shaped Nissan Pulsar at 21:51. All long-forgotten. In Michigan, we had very different cars in '95-mostly newer domestics and vans.
At 19:13 there was a Dodge Stealth, those are hella rare today
Hey dude I'm a Toyota HJ60/FJ40 assistant mechanic. Dad owns an '83 Mitsubishi Colt GLX. In the US it was the dodge colt. Man wish there was a time machine.
Which mitso were you talking about my friend?
We use to have one of those when I was little, a blue Mitsubishi hatchback 🚗
I have the same 1932 chevy truck I had in SF in 95' here in my garage in Hawaii. Some of us KNOW what to hang on to.
I miss me some 1995
I love those old 90's cars they were so simple looking now in 2017 they look all fancy and stupid i hate modern cars in love cars from 80's and 90's
Same
Same
I agree. All those hatchbacks and wagons are gorgeous! You gotta love the colors back then too.
9 Lives And Counting cars changing is a swift decline 😂
I'm a native San fransiscan and I remember the city being a hot bed of extreme of sports and great music. DJs, bands, hip hop rock all genres that would often blend. Racism was not seen and parking was never a problem
I liked it better before DJs and we had real bands.
Wow! The city looked a lot less worn down then compared to today.
It’s amazing to see how much time has evolved since then. I was born in 1994 in San Francisco and it feels like I am back in my 3 year old body. While I experienced the 90’s from 1997 to 1999 (3 to 5 years old), I was proud to be able to see the city during this decade.
what was you mom's name? You know your dad? I was poking lots of women in the early 90s in SF
ahhh the vehicles I remember seeing growing up in the 90s
I would take 1995 San francisco over San Francisco today any day. This coming from a current resident since 1985.
Before our technonarcissist overlords (and overladies) arrived...
Blowing my mind to see how reasonable (by Bay Area standards) the traffic is, because I remember it. These were the years when you could still ride your bike thru the mission without the threat of death. Bless you for preserving this for all these years.
Depending on what month, I was most likely an 8 year old. I miss this time in history. SF is now so crowded and bumper to bumper traffic keeps me far away.
So a long time ago I drew a picture of a rural bridge over a small little creek. Just yesterday I bought a new sketchbook and I decided to redraw this picture to break it in. I've been searching for videos like this for inspiration. I just wanna say thank you for uploading this.
Thanks for this! Love all the ambient sound and that you actually stop at stop signs ;)
I was stationed at Oak Knoll Navy hospital from 94 to 97. Those were one of the best times of my 20's. My friends and I would just cruise San Jose, Berkley, Oakland, San Francisco, Palo Alto, etc and find places to hangout. Eat, drink, socialize with strangers is what we did. Amazing times.
It's harder to do that now. cause you got idiots on the road and traffic sucks now everyone is driving fast you can't enjoy anything. it sucks I was like a teenager in 94 97 I try to enjoy life like yall did back then it's too tough cars have it out for everyone I can't even enjoy a meal at a restaurant without someone being a dick
Being a teenager was cool in 95 but I rather be a 20 something have some income so I could do shit have a car I would enjoy life as a 20 something in 2000 it sucks I spent half of a 2000s without a car there was some fun to be had in the 2000s but the late 2000s and 11s were garbage
and now the 20s I end up being shot or stabbed if I tried to drive to these citys or a car would hit me
can't enjoy nothing now everyone is pissed off
I saw the title and was like how long would it take to spot a late 1980s Honda Accord?
Turns out about 30 seconds
I was there in 97 two years later.
I walked the entire san francisco from pier 39 to daly city.
I love the City, but I tried to live there in the Sunset for almost 2 yrs and was miserable. One mistake I made was trying to keep a car there with no access to a driveway. Paying meters and hunting for free spots was a nightmare. I love it because I grew up in the Bay Area, but it's only good for a day visit by ferry. Living there will test your sanity and bank account.
i’ve lived here 16 years. The first eight years I lived downtown and then I moved to the Richmond District. i thought i would hate it but given all the construction and homeless I don’t miss it at all. I love being in the outer richmond! its so quiet and clean and i’m in a rent controlled apartment. what did you not like about the sunset?
@@thecapricorn11 I'm glad you found a place you love. The Sunset itself really is a great place. It mainly was the parking and people that stressed me out. But, I lived right next to Golden Gate Park and so any chance I got I was there waking trails or bike riding. The homeless situation was bad, but not like it seems to be now. I mean SF has always had a large homeless population. And there were times and situations that definitely felt sketchy. I was there back in the very early 2000's. A lot has changed it seems now. I'm living in the North Bay these days. I was never a true city person anyway, I have always loved the woods. Which is partly why I was always escaping to GG Park. I think part of my stress was just living in a city period. I am not cut out for it, I get too stressed living around that many people 24/7. Other than that, my experience with the Sunset I think it's a nice place to live if you can afford it and you don't mind the people and traffic. Remember though, I am only speaking as someone who lived there around 2003/2004.
I was born there and lived in many spots. In 95' I was living in Merded heights cuz I was in SFSU. I was raised in Shoreview and we went to the city for stuff but my mom being a 3rd generation herself saw how it was changing in the 50s! and moved her new young family to the burbs for a "Leave it to beaver" childhood.
I lived there a few times as an adult but I was a gypsy fo 25 years so I was here today gone to Maui. I now live on the BI.
I was there in 93 and 97. It was BEAUTIFUL ! The food was amazing and from every culture. I live in Upstate NY so I havent been back but I dreamed of it. Big Sur is my favorite place driving along highway 1 blasting Rush and looking at those majestic views Holy crap was that gorgeous. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to San Francisco now. How will they ever get those amazing restaurants and small family businesses back ? Theyre gone forever. So sad
So much cleaner. No tent cities on the sidewalks.
I remember this well. I was living in SF out in the Sunset in 1995 and was 25 years old. I tended bar about 2 blocks from where this video begins. Awesome very fancy themed nightclub called Bien Bien.
This was the final year before the dot.bomb blew up and utterly changed our lives.
The final pure year. City still affordable. People still human. I miss it all the time.
What did Tenderloin look like back then
This is the time where SF was worth visiting
thanks for the video... It's really a nostalgia! Thanks again....
What's funny is....in 2003..when I was 10
.I remember ALL these cars were still on the road
Wow! No feces, no trash, just normal fucking people acting and behaving considerate and polite. Also no giant SUV's blocking peoples vision, no turds in pickups cutting people off, any way I could live in this time?
Even gas prices which I see were at $1.25. That is super cheap for that year especially right in SF!
Naw I watch them for a time these weird days could never recreate. Peace to the real world. Not this fake 2000 victimized world of fake hurt we live in now.
Thanks for this...my favourite city on the planet...been there 14 times since was 18 and now I'm 61....hope to go again...
I was the first time in the US in SFO in 1995 for my flight training as a 16 year old. Thanks for making my memories alive again!
you a baby
When I see this recordings of the past, especially the mid eighties and the early nineties, I can only use Pink Floyd's "High Hopes" lyrics, where it says: "the grass was greener; the light was brighter; the taste was sweeter" to describe how I feel.
I moved to the SF from San Diego in 97. Every time I leave to visit friends or family, I can’t wait to come back.
Thanks for the trip back to my youth. Love this video.
Half expecting a green Mustang to start chasing you when you turned off Lombard.
I lived in SF from 87 to 98, so very familiar. Nice to see it the way I remember is. Lived on Post near Polk and worked in the Civic Center area. Nice to be able to walk to work in 15 minutes.
3:36 Look at the gas prices.
$2.06 today. And that's in CALIFORNIA. So the rest of the country was easily under $2. Which is funny cause I paid $1.90/gallon just the other day at the pump. Enjoy the cheap gas while it lasts, may never be this cheap again.
About 25 minutes south of San Francisco in San Mateo, you could find $0.99 fuel prices. I know I lived there in 95!
Shaz BK I remember those days of gas under 1
Alex Dean 1.50$😨👏
seems expensive for the time to be honest
Thanks, you drove right through the old neighborhood in we lived Haight Ashbury, thanks, for the memories.
I bet that Camry at 0:50 is still on the road today.
Yah it is
Loved SF ever since I first saw Basic Instinct.
Lovely skyline
I went there around this time, so much fun hanging out in haight ashbusy like one big party at night. No smartphones... good times.
Before it all went to hell....
@RICKY along with as many schizophrenic homeless, public uriniation, and needles anyone could need!
Cross a bridge of gold to landscapes of juniper
Where only Eden is for millionaires...
People who think the homeless epidemic started in the 2000s were clearly not alive before that.. otherwise you'd know 😂
No, it was pretty lousy around the projects. You can see a few of them in the vid. (14:38, etc). Everywhere they built one of those things they created a mini-slum about 4 blocks in diameter. And of course the residents would wander out of the slum to mug people and break into cars.
1995 I lived at Pacific and Leavenworth. Loved it. Thanks for sharing this.
Than you for the drive down memory lane.
awesome footage, remembers me on my days, when I stayed at post street1151. I used to listen to good music back from the 70th and some sinatra songs and I loved it, ups and downs, just cruising thru sf. I had a 90s chevy cavalier.
These old cars look so majestic. What has happened to cars? They look so shit today
Nice drive! Watching it in November 21 - like a flash-back from 30 years. Oh, this life, was it a dream?
Transmission shops & brake shops must be busy & profitable in a city like SF
I don’t how I possibly came across this video, but @6:18 you drive right by my 1986 Trans Am (parked on the right) and my old apartment just down the hill from that, also on the right 😂 What would be the odds of me seeing this almost 30 years later?
Considering the routes taken in this I kinda feel like things look pretty much the same. Besides the muni buses, no ones looking at their phones and the fashion. I kept hoping the driver would head downtown or to the mission etc so I could really see the difference. None the less thank you for capturing these moments. Did bring me back.
😊💪🏻Thank you Alexander Horn to post this video. It is a time machine.
This is really nostalgic for me as I recall this is exactly how I remember SF used to be.
This is great! Did you ever want to do a updated SF drive video just to see how much this area has changed?
3:38 damn, those gas prices…
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And this was san Francisco which means they were always a lot more expensive, so you know the rest of the bay was likely a lot less than that.
Remember those 80's Toyota Pickups 2WD single cab stick shift for $4000 brand new. I knew lot of high school kids had them.
noticed a lot of Volkswagen Golfs
To me, it was the Honda CRX.
I am nostalgic for those 25 cent cheeseburgers at McDonalds. I am not nostalgic for the siege of homeless people trying to keep you from reaching said hamburgers. That said, the homeless back then were a lot cleaner and civil compared to today's homeless population.
33:36 thats gonna be the best POV of my week iam sure. i wish i could go back to that times.
I spent a few weeks in SF in July/Aug 95 staying at a cheap hotel on Market St. Great times
That first shot of Tower Records hit hard. I used to hit up the location at Stonestown as a kid all the time.
My, my, how the City has changed in such a short time.
I was there then, i lived on chestnut st in north beach, and in 95 moved to 21st street in the mission. What a great time it was, music was so strong in the city, art was new and not political yet, SFAI was stilk there and ... well it was a great time to be there, feom 91 until 97 was like one endless summer. Magical 100%, as Jenifer would say "that was a good time".
Those bus stops were exactly how they were in 97 I remember seeing my glare from one.
Damn, nice video! I was living there most of the 90´s...miss those daze! Lived on Haight and Cole, Divisadero and Fell, Grove St, Lyon St,.....it was already slowly dying by 2000 and the tech boom/crash, and then September 11....
I was born in SF in 82.. amazing how that city never seems to change
do you still live here because it has changed A LOT especially downtown
You should have seen it in the 50's
I went to San Francisco in 2018.Beautiful and unique city.
My rent for a studio apt. in the "Tenderknob" was $450/month... My main form of telecommunication: a pager...
Yep. Cell phone culture wasn't quite happening in 1995. A few years later though...
@Parker Not sure if you'll respond to this, but have you ever looked into vintage "modern" living? You might quite like it.
@Far Out Man which is now a whole foods.
@Far Out Man yes I know. Affordable housing? Sounds like the beginnings of a new ghetto to me.
@Parker The real irony, in my own case at least, is that internet technology has given me endless opportunity to wallow in nostalgia for a time long before it existed.
3:04, that 900 Cabrio off to the right. Green body, tan top. Probably brand friggin new! Since 1994 still used the old Classic 900 for a cabrio.
Nice Z at 4:18 to the left
Looked cleaner! Love the footage
The closest thing to time travel my friends.
Thank you for this.
Oh yaaaa.. spent many crazy days here in the 90’s!
I lived in SF from 1993-1997 and this video brings back great memories. I thought areas like the Tenderloin were bad back then, today I long for the way they were. Some areas in the city today are absolutely horrible.
yeah downtown is a toilet bowl
The good old days....not anymore.