Cruising san francicso before the big quake

This is crazy. People, cars, and horses. Moving around this cable car on it's 7 minute trip in san francisco in 1906. A couple of days before the big quake.






http://www.fli**y.com/san-francisco-1905-historical-footage.htm

 

Been posted a few times.

 

That's crazy! People and cars and horses, OH MY! Gotta be before car insurance premiums, yikes! You see people actually playing chicken with the trolly

 

Thanks that was fun! I'm gonna watch it again later.

 

That was cool. Thank you

 

All open cars..no coupes or trucks...looks like all the goodies were still being delivered by horse & wagon.

 

And the standard of driving has not improved since either....

 

I never saw it before, thanks!

 

Thanks for posting!

 

never seen that before, thanks for postin

 

I guess I wasn't the only one who hadn't seen it yet. Thanks Ghost!

 

That was cool, I never seen it either.

 

cool vid

 

That was cool, thanks for posting it. I didn't realize that old motion picture stuff was flip flopped/reversed...unless they had a bunch of right hand drive cars running around at the time

 

I know it was posted before, but I sat and watched it again. Cool how all the men wore suits. Seems like everyone was so "proper". While stepping around piles of horse ****.

 

AIR is the music on that clip - great stuff

thanks for posting - there are soooooo many posts on this site that it really is hard to see everything

 

I just watched that juxtaposed with Beck's Soilder Jane song by accident, I'm still tripping. Thanks for the post.

 

Sent a link to a friend here who observed that most of the cars are right hand drive but driving on the right hand side of the road.I had read somewhere that the official change to left hand drive didn't start until the
late first decade of the 1900's.Found this on Wikipedia

The first keep-right law in the United States p***ed in 1792, applied to the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike between Lancaster and Philadelphia, New York (in 1804) and New Jersey(1813)also enacted keep-right rules .Early American motor vehicles were produced in RHD, following the practice established by horse-drawn buggies. This changed in the early years of the 20th century: Ford changed to LHD production in 1908 with the Model T and Cadillac in 1916

 

Ghost, the vid didnt come up for me and i havnt seen it before.
hudson48, thanks for that. we often cop hardcase comments about driving on the RIGHT side down here, so next time, ive got some ammo for my own hardcase reply. cheers!