I agree Rosi.

***** Well said! Amen to that!

***** you only had to be 104 when it was put on youtube...........back in 2010...so lots of people live past 104!!

but these adults would be like 125 or 130 years old!

***** This is a fascinating window in time for us to look through. Also a bit sad. All these people you see in the video had names, and loved ones, and were going thru life's ups and downs just as we do. Unfortunately I suspect at least some of those we see didn't have many hours left to spend since the massive San Francisco earthquake happened literally days after this film was made.

Milllllll

Now they are so cluttered that even the places you are MEANT to walk are something to avoid

Google Float*

it would be cool to have a time machine and send a google streetview car back in time, and then see the incredible pictures it would bring back. It would work best if the streetview car was also invisible.

but they only bathed once a week

carabela125 Whether they needed it or not.

Yep, when the Beatles stopped wearing suits, so did everyone else.

American Armadillo who gives a shit?

Charles Martel oh bullshit

massesrasses Ryou If, as they say, God spanked the town For being over-frisky, Why did He burn the churches down And spare Hotaling's Whiskey?

+massesrasses Ryou Not all of it. There are plenty of buildings and structures in S.F. that predate the quake of '06.

+GypsyFairy85 Yes but they are not in the film. the Downtown area along Market in the film was all burnt down if not knocked over in the quake.

Thanks for the info. Grew up just south of SF. It truly is one of the great world-class cities where you'll find every kind of people, including some of the colorful and crass kinds found right here in this comment section.

EinsteinJr The big disaster of today is Nancy Pelosi is their Congresswoman!

Right!! that was back then when you'd settle it out out of Court and out of your pockets because Auto insurance's middle men wasn't a big issue, in present days you'd have to bear potential witness to prove your innocence even after being compliant with the Law.

omstrat The cable cars like that your viewing from ride slow and steady bells clanging. Also the lens is deceptive things look closer than they are. City people cut things close but not as close as it seems on tape.

David Frigault: _"People were not that rational back then."_ - What nonsense.

Worlds first insurance fraud incident caught on tape. Lol

same here

***** old america is dead thanks to the europeons who took over the country the native americans once lived in

マリオ 94 no air conditioning.

Who Am I? Primitives were not doing much with the land anyway. Its called evolution and that is why the primitive natives have vanished. The Europeans and their posterity brought us massive technology and the communication making this conversation possible.

vanillaexplosion99 of course but they don't care they want the whites money and women

Thats insane! :o

holy you know someone 111!!! that's amazing if your telling the truth

111 years old? Congratulations. If he had lived in Denmark where I live he would have recieved a personal letter from our queen when he turned a 100 years old. :)

and how about ur grand father?

111?! Lord bless him!!!

2:36 some guy almost gets taken out lol but it is pretty crazy how everyone is just driving and walking about every where and it seems to work.

Yah, It looks like he purposely jumps out in front of the car, and then starts walking back the way he came!

My first thought. I would definitely get run over. Eeeek!

A mystery we will never know. This guy had no idea he was being filmed, and no idea that his questionable move would be pondered 110 years later! Makes me wonder if we have been filmed not knowing it, and that someone will be pondering over us one day.

That's what's cool about most people having eyes and reflexes at least on a primitive level. Higher vision is lost on most however.

jack masters I wonder if the driver was cursing at everyone.

I can hear him cursing under his breath..what an absolutely time-warping film to present to us, here in the future..R.I.P. to you...a far-future seeing cameraman that WAS/IS way ahead of your time....and a greatly belated Thankyou, Sir.

lol good one

JP Morgan scuttled the keelbent 4 collision OLYMPIC twin sister ship for insurance fraud.

And obey ice warnings

They don't need lifeboats the Titanic is unsinkable!

Or so they thought.

Espir9 Yes, I'd really like to know where they are all going, which day was it!

Oh Asis San Francisco quake was only days after this was shot. They lived in interesting times....

I agree 100%

"neigh neigh neigh" - typical horse's life story

+Paul Blake Actually, the reason not as many people died in crashes as they do today is because the speed limit back then was ~10 km/h. Not because people today are stupid, or anything.

Paul Blake It is very relevant, actually. What I was saying is that "few ever got hurt" not because of "thinking, timing, and coordination", but because of the speed limit.

+Paul Blake I'm sure they had accidents, and some serious ones.

+Luke Lindstrom its filmed from a cable car.Cable cars can only go as fast as the cable, slow and steady.

+Einstein Jr Right. If I recall correctly, I believe the speed of a modern SF cable car is only about 9.5 miles an hour.

I will bring Bugatti Veyron

Yes it is crazy how they just cross and drive where ever they want!

The footage looks squished like when people try to watch 4:3 on their widescreens.

its an old film man, probably not in perfect, real time speed.

I suspect it's just a timing issue with the filming/playback process. Early film cameras were *hand-cranked* by the camera operator, and thus not too precise about the speed. It wasn't until they had motorized cameras that film speed could be precisely controlled. For proof, check out that banner in the upper part of the screen at about 3:00 - 3:30. If it's being blown by the wind, it should be faster and smoother than it looks. With a little video editing work, the speed and aspect could be "fixed", but the slight jerkiness would still be there. That's dependent upon how many frames per second were used to originally record this. Also, you don't think the world was in black and white back in 1906, do you? ;-) And, as gantmj noted, the video aspect we see here on KZfaq isn't the same as the aspect that it was recorded in. If you adjust the video aspect in your modern, flat-screen TV, you can see how much difference it makes between the old standard 4:3 aspect and widescreen.

they are afraid of electricity

First dash cam!? Lol.

Yes. But, did you know an earthquake struck this place slightly after this film was shot?

@Death Otaku search up the San Francisco quake of 1906.

Actually, this was filmed shortly before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Many of these buildings were pretty 'new' by then and most didn't survive the fire. Basically, these people from the past got to live 'in this kind of city' for a few months at best. Also, modern day San Francisco is better than this but that's just my opinion :p

Ikr.. The past is so fascinating

Imran Baig If you think about it, it was just normal. If you were born during that time, there would have been things you hated and liked, and you just wore things you were told to and did things like everyone else did, it was only normal.

Imran Baig nah the past mostly sucked compared to now - all myth and false nostalgia and fear of aging

EASportssucksdick yeah because u didnt actually live in it

Yes life was beautiful back then, for fucking white people. Have fun living in int he 1900's being black, hispanic or asian

You have the usual racial chip on your shoulder.

Adrian Larkins It's called being realistic

***** You can't tell me that Black people had no happiness in their lives in 1906, they still had more strife than a white person then, but they still had their culture and cabarets and theatre. Go back 100 years and we will talk about Real suffering.

Farley Boy uh 1906 is more than 100 years ago, you do realize that right?

Rules of the road? There aren't any.

the max speed is like 20 mph tho tbf :P

JR..... If I remember correctly, the speed of a cable car is about 7 mph.

you made my day

" how lucky they were to live their life without having to ever hear a minute of rap music" Amen, Brother!!

+Frank Anon yall sound dumb af

LOL Sir Cartier :) As a middle aged white man, all rap music does is make my ears hurt. My one daughter listens to some of it and all i hear is lyrics with the N word every other word, drugs, guns, killing and can't forget the bitches and ho's. So, not dumb af, just would prefer almost anything but rap just like you probably don't prefer country music. Peace

+Frank Anon lol agree to disagree Peace

Jump Blues is my bag.. What? "James Day & the fish fry", check it out !

Love this!! Look how old things are in this!!

No fucking shit it's old you fucking dumbass

@@shanesands1980 Por qué insultas a Francine Wilson, está claro que no eres una buena persona, tú eres parte de la destrucción de este mundo. Cambia la actitud y serás feliz.

Shawn Driscoll xD

lea nichols Amen

My friend is deathly scared of horses 😂😂😂

My friend is deathly scared of horses and would probably kill them if he had the chance no joke 😂😂😂😆

Michael Barone Being scared is okay, but killing is not normal. o_o

+lea nichols Watch the 2013 "Big History" documentary of human history. Horses have played an absolutely vital role in human history from the beginning. They're more important than dogs, cattle, or anything else!

VauxhallVictorMan I don't think it's horrible, it's part of the nature, we can't break the rules of time. Just my opinion, death is not horrible when it's natural that's how I see it.

Nice catch! But I think it may have been an ad for the car company.

And if ford made the model T right hand drive, Americans would be driving the "normal" side. Right hand drive is the norm for us.

What is right, and what is wrong, is all dependent on where you are standing.

Thank you for the coordinates i just went into this street on google streetview and compared it with this video! The tram lines haven't changed!

Materials are much more comfortable and hygienic now. People used to wear woolen underwear and fabrics were coarse and stiff. Only rich people could afford real silk and and other soft, high quality materials. Women had to dress full length and there were no easy to manage, hygienic sanitary products available for that time of the month either. For style I much prefer the 1930s and 40s.

now they wear shorts and un-tucked shirts to the office.

Blame rap culture

Com'on, you oghta love when you walk into a store and see someone wearing their pants on their knees, now, that's fashion! ;)

Luis R. Some people still do in the uk

Right as always.

absolutely right, i even heard of issues with uneven city streets like San Francisco and many others where horses will drop dead of exhaustion while going up a road before the trolleys and diesel powered vehicles were introduced .

worldwildwest

What is the name of the second song?

Yea and i bet there were little to no fatal accidents..with our solid road rules we know best lol

Paul Massey Little to no fatal accidents mainly because the speeds were so much slower.

L Lance everything looks much slower..and the people look happier for it. If i have a choice ill pick about a fifty years before this era :) in my next life :)

Paul Massey Times were not really all that good back then. You would miss many of the comforts that we have today. You would not be happy living back then because you are now comfortable in what we have today. Life spans were short and anyone could catch a fatal illness like consumption (TB) and other things. bathing or even taking a shower was a luxury that did not happen every day. Out houses instead of indoor bathrooms.

L Lance they were tough times no doubt and work was hard, yet somehow i know id get on well there. I get what you mean all the same. There's a very high price we pay today for those things we dont even appreciate anyway..esp the current state of our species "mind" is quite insane really...the world is much too fast for me no one in touch with themselves and thus cut off from everyone else.

***** no wonder people in still images then looked so grim..lol. But then again maybe it was the norm ! I suppose you got used to the manure,sewage,rotting fish etc etc. And as life expectancy was quite low,what the heck ! As for dropping some teenagers into the early 20th century (nice thought) sadly health and safety regulations would be prohibitive. But I am sure we can imagine with delight what sounds they'd make on arrival and not have any need to record that !

***** Of course it goes without saying the had our forefathers enjoyed the benefits this time period they would be in much better shape. Sadly that was not the case. Yes we are in the grip of an obesity epidemic but if we did send back people of comparable age to meet their ancestors (ignoring the Grandfather paradox) they would still live longer due to the vaccinations they received as a child. Not to mention the distinct advantage they'd have in their educational abilities .

This is most fun to watch in full-screen mode. It gives more a sense of depth, as if you're really peering forward through the front window of the trolley. Too bad there's not a soundtrack of cars and trolleys and horses' hoofs blended with a wash of crowd-talk. And I don't know for sure -- but I have a feeling the resulting imagery is stretched wider than it actually is (was). For example, there were plenty of limos back then. But some of them appear wide as tanks! Could be the result of the early movie lenses recording with a very mild fish-eye effect onto the film. Just a thought.

That was one of the first things that amazed me with this video the size of the cars. I am not sure but I think the limos were that big ! It would explain the wide roads

slicedpage Iam 19, And i love 20s

+J.D. Waterhouse.....yeah, forget the people....horses are the important thing. You moron.

J.D. Waterhouse : The cars traveled at low speeds and were more like carriages than modern cars. Also, there weren't any Orientals or women driving on the streets.

Johnny Kaldani i resent your last sentence! 😕

Jim Spencer stop putting words in my mouth you fucking troll

+Jim Spencer No worries Jim. The low class ignorance of people like Rahmstation is unfortunately the "new normal." They are so uneducated and ignorant today, they are unable to write one sentence without dropping the f-bomb. Sign of the times brother.

Today it is replaced by tons of human manure, an improvement ?

pascute118 No we're not...

EBO how old are you tho?

I'm assuming its billy murray.

Delta 13 or the peerless quartet

A bit late to the party, but I found out the first song was "My Croony Melody" - Billy Murray!

It was lost.

MrCelroy was anyone looking for it?

+jivesublime // You've got a point there!

jivesublime It was necessary, but I wish we had open roads with far less cars, and lightweight cars with small motors. Wtf is everyone buying ultra powerful tanks? (Every car is way too heavy and fast, and there are way too many of them that's why we need so many traffic rules)

Turn signals ? Huh !!, very few people use them anymore. 2 busy texting !!

probably less than today I don't think they let women or asians drive back then

Oo burn, it's a good job I'm not a feminist and that I have a sense of humour. :P lol

Ron Burgandy 😝

Not likely. We developed modern medicine only in the past century, and most people at best lived between 60-80 years.

Uh, ok. 80 years before 1905 was what? 1825. The last signer of the Constitution died in 1832 at the age of 95. People lived longer than you think they did and there were a lot of people in 1905 who were alive when the founders were still around. The Revolution wasn't as long ago as people think it was.

Yeah, but I also doubt kids were so bored back then they started to cut themselves to deal with the emotional pain like they do today in the "non-boring" world. I'm pretty certain people appreciated what they had a lot more, and 1906 was a whole lot better than 1806. Likewise 2014 will appear both crazy and "boring" to people in 2114.

***** I agree completely. “I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” -Albert Einstein It seems he was right.

it was still better to live without all this conspiracy bullshit and never knowing when your being watched

Boring? Well, a lot of entertainment we take for granted had yet to exist--no movies, no television, even commercial radio programs had probably not gotten started. Telephone services were just getting started and rapidly expanding, but not too many people had phones in 1906, and relied upon the mail and telegrams for long-distance messaging. But they did have newspapers (with comic strips, even), magazines, dime novels, stage plays, concerts, Vaudeville entertainments, circuses, fairs, parlor games, board games, cards, sports, etc. So even in 1906 there was no good reason to be bored.

ShadowKiller571 --There may not have been hi-tech surveillance back then, but that doesn't mean people in 1906 had nothing to worry about, or that there were no conspiracy theories going around. For example, the over-hyped concerns over "bomb-throwing anarchists", business monopolies, Chinese opium dens, or the health and quality of meats and other foods, which led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (yes, that very year!). Or the very real concerns over the growing Communist, Temperance, and Suffrage movements. 1906 was smack-dab in the middle of the U.S. Progressive movement, and Progressives very much wanted to make some dramatic changes in society. They were wildly successful in changing how Americans thought about government and politics; how much they actually improved American society remains a difficult question open to debate. Also, technological developments were starting to have a big impact in peoples' every day lives. With electrical lights and wiring, telephones, and automobiles becoming commonplace, I'm sure many people must have had great fears and nightmares about the future of technology in society. To understand the world we live in now, it helps to understand the history of how we got to this point over time. Use the vast informational resources available on the internet, and you, too, will have a greater understanding. I Google things all the time for references and information. Today I watched the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Hurdy-Gurdy Hare", looked up the episode in Wikipedia and found out who James Petrillo was (president of the American Federation of Musicians from 1940 to 1958), and what music was being played in Bug's hurdy-gurdy (Künstlerleben ("Artist's Life"), Op. 316 is a waltz written by Johann Strauss II in 1867).