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  • San Francisco in the 1950s

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 18 21:32:37 2024
    34 sec vid

    https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1769831873537069196

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Mar 20 12:18:27 2024
    On 2024-03-19, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    34 sec vid

    https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1769831873537069196

    So, before the drugs really started to make a mess of the place?

    I spent some time there in the early 90s and loved it. What I hear of it
    now doesn't sound very fun, frankly.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Wed Mar 20 13:01:01 2024
    On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:18:27 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    So, before the drugs really started to make a mess of the place?

    Video appears to show a 1949 Plymouth Woody Wagon, so I would date it
    as early 1950s.

    Video shows lots of street walking...humans out and about. Along with trollies...one scene where by hand they turn around the trolley.

    I have no idea what this section of town is doing these days. I
    suspect the video was colorized...good details shown, which might
    suggest it was taken in B&W...but color film was available around WWII
    for sure....but I don't know if color film was fast enough.

    Eli the Bearded, I believe, would know more about this area

    https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1769831873537069196

    Town section may have been:

    PHOTOS TAKEN IN THE 1950s: Powell cable car 505 signed for
    Powell-Mason just off the turntable at Powell and Eddy Sts. in the
    early 1950s. Scan of a slide in my collection added 03/14/13. https://www.streetcarmike.com/muni_powell_car5.html

    PIC https://www.streetcarmike.com/muni_cablecar_powell/muni_powellcar505_1950s.jpg

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Wed Mar 20 14:39:32 2024
    On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:18:27 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    So, before the drugs really started to make a mess of the place?

    In many US cities:

    1960 - Downtown businesses were thriving...Saturday day/night was
    their biggest business day for many.

    By 1980, shopping malls eliminated many downtown businesses

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