Downtown San Francisco 1950s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- čas přidán 3. 12. 2022
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Home Movie: San Francisco 1950s, Lots of scenes, old cars, buildings. The trolleys, the usual stops. The daily life.
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Prelinger Archives
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/0905_HM_S...
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Nothing less than fantastic!
Psychadelic time machine.
The architecture, cars and non mutated humans are pure eye candy.
One of the verry best of YT.
Thank you, this is the beautiful City that I remember of my childhood. Seeing the stores and restaurants I visited with my grandmother on her shopping trips downtown brings me great joy. The only detail different than my memories the color of the MUNI streetcars. They were an olive green as I remember.
It's amazing how spotlessly clean the city was.
My mother came to San Francisco during this time from Mexico,fell in love with City of SF created a family rest is history now seeing this I definitely know why
@@bear1more287 My mother and father came from Ireland to New York for a year, then to San Francisco in 1957. They had four boys, I was number three in 1959. It was a wonderful city to grow up in. I recognize every setting in this video.
Born in the mid 50’s. There was a time going “Downtown “ meant putting on a shirt and tie, slacks and shoes properly polished, even for a brief shopping trip to The Emporium. Christmas at the Emporium was special. The auditorium was outfitted with a small ice skating rink, a photo with Santa Clause, and a pick of a present. The roof top featured a miniature train ride, a full size Ferris that hung over MinnaSt, and a crane lifted a SF Muni cable car. Thank Nass for reliving the memories!
I remember all that. One of my childhood traumas was getting lost or separated from my parents up there. At the time my mom was secretary to the president of the Emporium. Spent a lot of time in those downtown streets
How I remember.
Nass, Nass, Nass. What are you doing to me? Another film of my old home town and without a doubt the best one yet. Being born in San Francisco in the early 60's you magically transported me back to my childhood. So many places looked exactly as I remembered.
Thank you so much NASS for bringing me along in your "time machine".
You are responsible for the smile on my face this evening. 🥰🥰🥰
Forever grateful for you and the work you do.
thank you very much 🙏
I've never been to San Francisco and as a retired 85-year-old I may not but as I was enjoying this wonderful clip I viewed the Huntington Hotel and on a whim google this hotel wondering if it still is open. I found that this grand building was shuttered in 2020 with plans to renovate it?
Enjoyed this immensely. I was born in San Francisco 1953. My Mother told me stories of how nice it was,like New York on the West Coast. Everyone dressed to the nines. Beautiful hotels,shops. I came to San Diego at 6 months. I'm 70 now. Went there when I was 30 it still was a nice town. Went in 2018 one of my Grandsons went to Berkeley. Went back for Graduation, and our family took a road trip back from San Francisco. What a change. I wish the town could be revived. These pictures are like the song Mr Tony Bennett sang about. Believe it or not the place I stayed is still standing on Eddy Street. Tenderloin District worst part of town now. Thank you for this beautiful example of what a city it was💖
I always love coming to this channel and watching the old cars and the older ways people used to Dress but love the cars mostly!
Thank you
The neon signs are a big plus too!
@@sterlinsilver thats for sure!
What about all of those grandiose _buildings?_
According to Volvo history books, the first dealership for Volvo in the USA was established in California in Feb.1956. lf one views the video to 1:08 one can see a Volvo PV444 (with split screen windshield) making a right turn. l estimate this video to be shot in the winter/spring of 1957-8 seeing the 1957 Chevy and 1957 Oldsmobile (no 1958 models in the video). This Volvo has to be one of the earliest and most rarified recorded movie images of the new Swedish car. There could not have been but a handful on the road at the time. Very interesting indeed.
The Woolworth's on Powell, Emporium Capwell on Market, memories of the 80's when I first moved here to the Bay. Nice to see them in their glory days! Another great one as always.
Union Square before they bleeped it up
I kept looking for Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac walking down the street.....they would have been living in the Bay area just around this time....thanks once again NASS for taking us back Cheers!
not to be one of those pedantic people but those guys were there more like '51. I see '57 Chevys here in all their glory. Wasn't this the time they were filming VERTIGO there ?
thank you very much
Same!
@@tonymostromable Yes, I was looking for the green Jaguar driven by Kim Novak!! (in Vertigo, great movie, have watched it many times)
A population who lived a lot slower. No distractions from phones, or garish advertisements up every street. Everything was more mindful and intentional by default.
This was truly living life.
Takes me way back. thanks. We all know life was simpler then. People worked to make life better and they did. I still have my parent's bedroom suite from 1958. Works just fine. Looks retro. We did change the mattress a few times. LOL The coffee table and end tables are from the same year and I still have them. Beautiful wood. Simple but elegant. I better stop - my heart is breaking.
"People worked to make life better " - and people still do.
@@TheDanEdwards literally people are working just as hard now.
Most large American cities are sewers now.
Diversity is not a strength and globalism ruined our economy
@@Nullybk You mean the hard working folks in China? When this video was shot, Americans actually "worked hard" to design, develop, and create most of our goods. If you think people work just as hard today, check the obesity levels of Americans then compared to today.
Moved to SF in 1954 and finished high school in '56 at Galileo. Lived in the Tenderloin at 349 Golden Gate where the law school (formerly known as Hastings) expansion is now located. Easy access to downtown and beyond. The Loin was quite safe and I could walk around late at night without any problem. Jazz at the Blackhawk nearby at Turk & Hyde. Lots of sports cars especially on Van Ness. There was a Cunningham that was frequently parked in the lot near GG and Hyde. Basic training at Ft. Ord, a month at Letterman Hosp. in the Presidio then off to Germany and I've never really spent any time in the City since.
Was at lettermen army medical center from 1977-94 base closed in 94, got housing on the presidio 95-2002. Got job on alcatraz island with the u.s park service 1994-2018
@@dogsense3773 Did you work in Interp for the NPS, or LE?
@@Yowzoe was in maintenance, I worked for a living, ha ha. But did some interpretation on alcatraz island. In 1970 I did a lot of fishing on a friend's boat all around alcatraz, and saw the native Americans all over the island, to this day I haven't run across anyone that saw the natives on the island. I still go on the island and volunteer a few times a year to repair the cell doors
Ahhhh......"The City" of my youth....best guess: 1957....many thanks again!
thanks
Notice the movie marquee at 1:20. Robert Taylor and Dorothy Malone. "Tip on a Dead Jockey" released in 1957.
Wunderschön Aufnahme die du uns da schenkst. Man versetzte sich gedanklich ein wenig in diese Zeit.
Vielen Dank dafür 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Whoever did the photography did a fantastic job
Wow NASS !! I really love this one. This would have been about three years before my first visit to San Francisco. I live in New Jersey. But what I saw on my early San Francisco visits looked pretty much like this film. But the old 'Iron Monster' street cars were gone when I first got there and all of the street cars were then PCC cars. The end of the 'Iron Monster' cars came about when the MUNI first leased and then purchased a fleet of used PCC cars from Public Service in St. Louis. These PCC cars supplemented MUNI's own PCC cars purchased new in the late 1940's and 1951. I did get to see the end of the MUNI White bus era and the town was loaded with Mack buses back then. San Francisco was heaven to me, with all of those trolley coaches and street cars. There were Marmon Herrington and Twin Coach trolley coaches on Market Street and St. Louis Car Company trolley coaches on Mission Street, all the way to Daly City.
There are some nice shots in this film of MUNI's double-end "Torpedo" PCC cars, when they had been converted to single end cars. Who could have imagined that decades later, those same Torpedo PCC cars would be rebuilt, converted back to double end and still running on Market Street in 2022 !! They run on the Embarcadero as well as on Market Street now.
That was before the age of digital video. On my early visits to San Francisco, I filmed on color movie film much of the MUNI system, starting around the early 1960's. In addition , I filmed the construction of the subway under Market Street, with all of the construction detours. Market Street was planked over with wood, with the street car tracks diverted around the construction.
Somebody mentioned that this film depicts San Francisco in the era of Hitchcock's classic film, Vertigo. That's quite true. And did anybody else besides me notice the two Ford Transit buses at Union Square at 3:45 on the time bar. They were in service for a sightseeing company.....probably Gray Line. I have a 1945 Ford Transit in my vintage transit vehicle collection. But it needs restoration.
Thx ;)
I remember the subway. construction. They made the windows on the streetcars so theu would only open about 2 inches.
Love these videos. Thank you for making them.
Hello NASS! Thanks for another great video! 👍❤️
Thank you
I remember it well. I was born in San Francisco in 1950.
Simply marvelous! SF in it's days of glory. best of all, no tent cites, homeless people nor trash on the streets as well as other things I won't mention. Makes you wonder what has happened to civilization. The future is about how well we evolved, but from the looks of it we devolved into something horrid.
the WASPS were in control at that time.
right wing republicans happened, reagan happened.. all downhill since.
@@MarinCipollinaYeah right, nice try. I live here so I know better.
@@ADeFilho Apparently not.
@@MarinCipollina oh lawd we got a leftist troll. just enjoy the video and go away.
Вы представляете, какой индустриально-технологический и исторический прогресс пережили эти люди. Рожденные в 30х, сейчас еще живые. Даже из этого видео, тоже кто нибудь да живой. Сан-Франциско правда в наше время не очень.
NASS,
You have a impressive video selection.
Thank you for making this available .
Another great video of a long gone era of San Francisco. This video is bitter sweet for me. I am so grateful to have experienced the city as it once was yet sadly nostalgic for what it was and can never be again.
I'm in Britain but would've liked to have been there back in the day with you, it looked clean well ordered tidy and well kept, I've seen the street scenes there today, it's grim, what happened in less than one lifetime?.
Love all your San Francisco films that you've enhanced and presented. Recognized many of these downtown areas. Some buidings now gone. Union Square. City of Paris-all beauties of once were. Thank you!
Traumautos ( Dreamcars ) *ohne* Ende, hübsche Gebäude . Ich hätte sehr gerne in dieser Zeit gelebt. Danke für deine tollen Videos immer ♥
All these beautiful cars coming back to life, that's wonderful!
Beemn to SFO several times and recognise a lot of places shown in this vid. NASS, thanks for yet another wonderful upload!
I love trams and trolleybuses. Nice video.
A lot of them in the video are missing their trolley poles, but that is apparently a side effect of the old film and the restoration process. The overall effect of the video is mesmerizing, from a time when I was growing up in The City (and by that I do NOT mean New York, Los Angeles or Philadelphia!).
@@genepoon8905 Funny, I noticed that too, Gene. Very odd. The Marmon Herrington and Twin Coach trolley coaches were on Market Street. The St. Louis Car Company trolley coaches were over on Mission Street. This was just about the last of the 'Iron Monster' street cars. It would become all PCC cars when they acquired the second hand PCC cars from Public Service in St. Louis.
Thank you for making these video's.
Thank you
Whenever I watch these old films I always think of Phillip Marlow by Raymond Chandler 😊😊😂
It must’ve been wonderful to live there then. There’s a 1957 Chevy In the beginning at 0:27 with the church in background as Oldsmobile turns in front of Chevy. I wasn’t aware SF had a Macy’s then as I thought that was strictly New York. Although I’ve been there many times, I wouldn’t want to live there now despite it being one of America’s most beautiful cities along with Charleston and Savannah, Georgia. At 5:06, after The Californian pan down “Downtown Parking Garage” 25 cents per hour!!! 😂! Now it’s probably $250.00 per hour. I wonder what that KNBC building is now? I hope they didn’t tear it down. Looks like a wonderful place to live then. NASS never disappoints.
thank you so much
Not a biggie, but that’s a ‘57 Buick turning in front of the ‘57 Chevy, not an Olds.
@@sfeddie1 you’re absolutely right! I’m surprised I didn’t catch that. I think a 1956 Roadster perhaps.
The Emporium!! I used to shop at that store often.
Good old "Frisco". Love that.
I recognize and have been to many of these places. I could walk from my apartment on Nob Hill to anywhere downtown. Many things stayed the same from the 50s to the 70s.
And much of the built environment is the same today. San Francisco is a city which physically has changed much less than many others.
Nob Hill apartment would be 30,000 a month or 2.5 million to buy now. That’s an exclusive area of town. I’m glad I was lucky enough to live there and several other beautiful places in CA before it changed so much!
Thanks Nass.
So many memories and icons of San Francisco.
Another great vid Nass 👍
Época dos sonhos.
Parabéns pelo vídeo.
So glad I got to live with the old Union Square. I saw Jamiroquai there in 1999.
Yours videos are fantastic!!! Thank very much, forgiveness for my english
best regards from Santiago Chile
thank you very much
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Almost like time travel.
Excellent!! Indigestion finding some auto 6 cylinder sound effects. Most of those shown are not V8s like the sounds. Back then almost all would be 6s. And occasional Fords using flat head V8. Which the flat head does sound like the sound affects added.
55 Chevy offered the 265 cubic in. v8 as an option. By 1957, you could get the 283, the most high performance being the Corvette with fuel injection, which was rated at 283 horsepower.
@@jerrelboyd2441 Sure, understand. However, the film vehicles I was talking about are not the year, and optioned vehicles you mention. Where are the hoard of V8 Corvettes driving by on the film?
I love these videos. I like the signs advertising whiskeys and bourbons. I remember hearing the ads on radio for the 'Downtown Center Garage' and how great it would be to park there for a day of shopping 'downtown'. To this day, if, and I mean IF, I have to drive to San Francisco, I always park there. Sorry to say but I really try hard to avoid going to The City at all costs. It's now just a stinking cesspool of homeless, drugged out, violent creeps. That being said, it used to be a very nice city.
And it may be again. Things are always changing.
@1:09 on the left "Tip on a Dead Jockey" staring Dorothy Malone and Rod Taylor dates this as 1957
Yeah, I've seen at least one '57 Chevy in this video. So, I would guess that this was filmed in 1957 or '58...😊
Love all your videos, but please consider posting more where the focus is the actual people
And what they wore and did during a Normal day! Thank you!! ❤
thank you very much
Amazing channel
thank you so much
We are homesick and nostalgic for a time that never was.
Hence the fake color and fake sound.
the illusions tickle the mind's fantasy generator.
The 50's didn't exist ? nothing has changed? Gosh !
@@Autojones now that you've been DISillusioned, walk down to the end of the pier and find reality......
@@Autojones "The 50's didn't exist ?" - the _imaginary_ 50's that people create in their minds never existed. Nostalgia is a powerful delusion. When we are young we have a very limited experience. Nostalgia depends upon the childish perceptions.
Wonderful
Love from India
The cars of the late 50’s are true pieces of art
Thank you I love traveling back in time. I feel like I’m just people watching
Notice the immaculately clean streets, people dressed nice and sharp, no overweight or obese individuals.
Golden era bygone...
thats what happens when you pay people a living wage
I remember my parents dressing all of us nice
@@NIGHTGUYRYAN I lived then and we made everything we used
Your globalism and diversity Jack Dover this country
Exactly!
You're noticing the shiny bits, plus film has a way of making things look bigger and cleaner, but if you look past that there is still grime. Plus the street 'furniture' is less complicated, less lights, less signage. But yes, less obese people because things were more manual and people generally had more active jobs.
1957 or so I believe
I remember this like it was yesterday.
NEWEST CARS SEEN, THIS FILM, 1957 BUICK, FORD, CHEVY, OLDS, CHRYSLER !
I'm a Native San Franciscan raised in The Sunset. I miss The City I grew up in.
Best car catch was the Triumph TR3 at :33.
Good eye.
My folks got married in June 1950, they spent their honeymoon at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. They met while attending UCLA. My Dad was 27, Mom was 21 1/2. (22 in Dec that year). Mom told me it was a nice place at that tim
Fall of 1956 - Summer of 1957, I guess. I see cars of 1957 model years. But there is no 1958's (with double headlights), which were already on sale at the end of 1957.
Spotted a '57 Chevy Belair but nothing newer so I think this is in the '57, '58 time frame.
There's a 1957 black Cadillac 75 Series limousine early on
Love how everyone dressed and no homeless
Love this. Clean streets, .25 parking garages. Sears Fine Food, which is still there. Alfred's, which is not. Went to Alfred's for dinner the night of my Sr. ball in 1983.
Do you mean "Alfredos" at the Broadway tunnel next to Old Saint Mary's?
@@Yowzoe Maybe I do. I can't remember now.
Alfred's on Broadway by the tunnel was a steak house. It closed in the late 90's
I'm pretty sure it was Alfred's steak house. I use to deliver to them in the 70's thru 1988.
What fascinates me is that someone had the presence of mind and foresight to make these films. Who? Why?
It was so beautiful…
All the beautiful buildings
NASS, there's a handful of 'Colorized HD' Pearl Harbor videos on YT, but nothing that does justice like your videos do. I'd love to see you work your magic on those videos. Just sayin....
Brilliant 🇨🇦✌️😎
amazing how car centric everything is, even with the busses and trollys like how are you supposed to cross the street
I believe this video was taken in 1958: the car tuning right off of Market Street at 1:20 sports a 1956 California license plate (yellow w/ black letters and numbers) that has an annual registration tag that has a white background in the upper right hand corner - the tags for 1958 were white with green letters and numbers on them.
@Rita Maid That may be the case, but the license plate on it is that of the one issued in 1956, with the annual registration tag colors for 1958 attached to it.
72 years old .whaw
Same here. I lived in the city as a boy. Then down to the rural area of Santa Clara now known as Silicon Valley. Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown, Fleischhacker Zoo (where my folks spent their honeymoon). Ah, the mind drifts.
No homeless tents. Town looks clean. Weird.
Racist
For liberals like Gavin Newsome it is dirty if it doesn't smell like an unflushed toilet and used hypodermic needles and garbage all over the streets and sidewalks plus homeless people and junkies passed out on illegal drugs and plenty of illegal aliens crowded into small houses and apartment buildings.
its almost like people were paid a living wage and could afford rent
Weird.
Is it even in the tenderloin area? It still had a reputation even then.
@@NIGHTGUYRYAN Rents have become absurd - my first apt as a grownup was something like $300 a month for a nice 1 bedroom in the Richmond District and when I said it was a little high the sweet old Russian lady threw in the garage space for free instead of the 50 she was originally asking. Late 70s. Say a dollar then would be three bucks now and still... On the other hand the people in tents are not there because of rents. They are almost all either sad, untreated mentally disturbed people and the drug addicts who prey on them. Pretending otherwise is why CA has such an enormous homeless problem in spite of spending vast amounts of tax dollars on it.
One can already find buildings of NBC and of an airline, here, and yet, what are broadcasters and airlines today? They're still around, but by far not any more the novelty they have been then. Today there are Internet giants and companies which build vessels for voyages to other celestial bodies. The imagery here presented appears as if it came from a different world, by now. It makes me marvel that I've been born a mere fifteen years after the end of the decade it comes from.
I'd love to make a piece contrasting your amazing video with scenes of the cesspool SF is today. Can I get your permission?
Not your best (the source material must have been awful), but it was certainly watchable and, as always, refreshingly relaxed viewing.
I believe Hotel Huntington was where the movie Dark Passage was filmed starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in 1949.
I had a friend who lived up the street from "her" movie apartment on Montgomery on Telegraph Hill. I once lived on Nob Hill near Steve McQueen's Bullitt apartment - maybe 82 moved in and paid 300 a month for big one bedroom and I think about 55 for a garage space up the street. Only needed car going out of town on weekends. Walked down to work at Embarcadero Center and took the 1 Cal uphill after work. Glorious city to be twenty something in back then.
@@mikegalvin9801 If you are a native of San Francisco, I will take your word for it.
@@luislaplume8261 Not a native although I moved there out of college in 70s and lived for nearly 40 years before retiring back to Midwest (mostly in Richmond District). There are guides to movie sites in the City. A lot you would probably recognize like Fort Point where Jimmy Stewart saves Kim Novak from drowning in Vertigo or the Brocklebank, that big apartment block with a car turnaround across from the Fairmont, where she lives (or does she?). Others more obscure like the house near Cal and Steiner where Mrs Doubtfire worked. Dark Passage is the one where Bogie has plastic surgery and is covered up for half the movie, right?
@@mikegalvin9801 yes that's right. I haven't seen it, but looking forward to it.
According to IMDb in the Trivia section for Dark Passage
"The actual Art Deco apartment building used in the film (located at 1360 Montgomery St in San Francisco) is still standing as of January, 2019. The apartment is marked by a cardboard cut-out of Humphrey Bogart, which can be seen from the street. The site is visited frequently by fans of vintage film noir."
ah, so clean. long before we gave a voice to the so called "free market". Beautifully done NASS.
thank you very much
I'm catching up on my unviewed Nass videos, I've fallen behind.
🤠👍
Love it
Wow! 👀
this is late 50's in one of the first there's what looks like a Triumph TR3 in the background that was launched in 1958
All of those OLDER HUGE CARS with all of that *_AVAILABLE P-A-R-K-I-N-G !!!_* Even on MARKET Street!!!
My dad had a 1950 Ford. It was green. In 1955 he bought a Buick. It was green.
I try to imagine the "beats" here but I can't. Would have enjoyed seeing City Lights bookstore or some jazz clubs. The true beauty of these videos however is that they show things as they were, not as they've been reimagined in films and the media.
Looks like at least 1957.
yes, exactly'57.
Latest model car I saw was a 1957 Chevrolet. Must be about the year.
Maybe you could show a side by side with the city today.That would be interesting.
Like L.A Noir. I love playing that game.
çok güzel (very good)
That was then, now it's the called Looters Delight!
At 3:13 is the Humboldt Bank Building
Back in the time machine seat!!!
I remember going to SF from the east bay in 1957. I was a 12 year old kid. we had to get dressed up which I did not like.
I can't imagine what happened
Très bien
La NBC cuando en los 1950s no estaba podrida como ahora en día
Sat here watching this terrific video I’m thinking, Hot Rod, Street Sleeper, Street Custom, keep original, Gasser, Hot Rod, Street Rod, Pro Street, etc etc😂😂
I'm 67 and volunteer in a hot rod shop in San Francisco,and I work on all of them. In shop right now,37 Chevy,55 Chevy truck,65 olds, 69 super bee we installed a hemi, was a383, pro street 74 duster, 40 Willey's gasser, been sitting in shop 40 years, thanks!
People of the 50s would be (are) horrified to see what SF has become.
I’m a native to SF. Grew up in the 50s. Live there still. I’m not horrified . I’m disappointed that some parts of the City aren’t as safe as they used to be. But it’s still beautiful and interesting and full of life.
When I watch I look for business signs like Florsheim or Woolworth....
urban scenery there was unusual for then, as most edifices elsewhere were already quite sooted
Where does the tunnel with the cars coming in and out lead to.
North beach and van ness are the ends of the tunnel