Jive-Bomber submitted a new blog post: Back to the Streets of San Francisco - 1945 Continue reading the Original Blog Post
It was nice to see what was my favorite city. It is not so, today. It was also nice to see people crossing the street, and not paying attention to their cell phones instead of traffic.
My Grandparents worked in the shipyards in the bay area (Oakland) during the war and stayed out there until the late '40s. She was an electrician's helper running wires on ship builds, and he was a construction foreman. She loved it out there and told me a lot of stories about the city. I always think back to her stories when I see these videos and I get a sense of what the city was like during her time there. Her time didn't end well: One day my Grandfather took her car to work and she had to ride the bus due to being on a later shift. As she was waiting at the bus stop her car pulled up to a light, with another woman driving. Turns out that he had brought a mistress out from their home in the Texas panhandle and was living a double life ....
Great video. I looked for my Willys, but didn't see it! My Willys came from that area. I often wonder what life it led there then.
My dad was stationed at Treasure Island in 1944 and we lived in SF for a year. After Truman dropped the bomb, My dad was discharged and we moved back to Reno. Spotted one Model A, a dirigible and a sail boat.
Hello, It was nice to see such an old film. The most impressive thing about the film is/was that the giant structures crossing the large bay are as prominent as they have been since those early days. My wife and I have been over that Golden Gate Bridge so many times since we started our long road trips on the Westcoast of the USA and Canada. Photo VNak 1966 Our favorite location was a centrally located hotel in the middle of the downtown as busy, as it was from 1966 to the last stay in the early 2000s. The city is always memorable, but as much as the city has changed, the large structures stay the same, with new paint, repairs and “awesomeness.” For the Golden Gate, we crossed the structure walking as a young family in 1953. It was intense as the wind was blowing like a gale. Well, for us, it seemed like a gale. My dad did not wear his Dobbs hat as he knew it would blow off in an instant. It was so high up our mom did not like it one bit. She thought her two sons were going to get blown off of the steel structure. Yikes! Later on, my wife and I could not get over the fact that we were away from So Cal and enjoying what we thought was going to be our next home along this Northern coast line as 20 somethings. Then, on our later road trips going north to the PNW and Canada, it was always a place to rest and enjoy for a day or two. Jnaki Just like other places, including So Cal, there have been many changes and unless we adapt to all of them, then the places we enjoyed so much in our younger years would be for naught. The city itself has changed, but so has the time period and all of us growing up. But, the main structures such as the towering bridges up so high in the air, have always been a sight that we have enjoyed seeing every time we are in the S.F. Bay area. The last one prior to the pandemic was a crossing in bright sunlight, no fog and a fast, retreating bay/ocean tide whisking items out to the deep, dark, windy Pacific Ocean. YRMV
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