This is the first track from Airs' Moon Safari album, accompanied by scenes from an early documentary film shot from a cable car traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. This historically important film was shot just one year before the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906.
This is a very cool video. It's only a seven minute film. Take the time to watch it. You've never had a trip down Market Street like this one!
And check out how crazy both drivers and pedestrians were in those days.
The original soundless version of the above can be found at memory.loc.gov
Note: If you want the video to be as bright and colorful as this cable car, then you better smoke a bowl or two first, because this film is black and white.
Enjoy!
About the Psychedelic Cable Car: The original is oil on canvas. You can buy a very reasonably priced print of Anthony Caruso's "Psychedelic Cable Car" from FineArtAmerica.com
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And, yes, Cable Cars did run up and down Market Street. Learn more from the Cable Car Museum.
Thanks to for the YouTube production. Great sound overlay over an important historical film. Very nice production and I appreciate this very fine work. Thank you.
The original soundless version of the above can be found at memory.loc.gov
If you are a San Francisco historian or perhaps interested in Muni's history you will also likely enjoy this second video from .
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It is a compilation of transportation-themed SF videos that Surfdawg5 found and blended together with a series of songs from the respective time periods. All the music you hear is right for the period film you are watching. Very nice.
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Surfdawg5 included portions of this 1905 video and several others at different periods in the twentieth century. The Dawg ends the production with a particularly well-done but too-short video from 2009.
The entire video only lasts about ten-minutes and it is very entertaining. Surfdawg5 produced an excellent piece. At least I found it so. Thanks Dawg.
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the original :
A trip down Market Street before the fire
[United States : s.n., 1905]
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/papr:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28lcmp003+01142s1%29%29
Thank you, "thisiswhatiwantthisiswhatineed" (wow - what a l-o-n-g name!) for the link to the original material. Good link. Thanks again. - Tom Dunn, Sam Spade's San Francisco
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