A great film.....

I have been down that street, but not back then. We shopped at Nordstrom, which stops at the end of the trolley line where the turnaround is located. Nordstrom is located near that area. Market and Powell streets, maybe?

Sometimes, when I would fly into SF, I would try to make time to go down to that area. It’s really nice and you feel kind of special. In the summertime, I enjoyed taking the trolley up to Fisherman’s Wharf on the Powell-Hyde Trolley. Fun time.
 
Have fun in SF, now. The homeless population, there, is among the largest in the US, at 9,784.

Anyone's fond memories of the various must-sees must now be grounded in the reality that those spots are full of filth, courtesy of the wonderful homeless population in those areas.
 
I have seen this before, of course, as on any given day, they had no idea what was coming.

Aside from the quake, the traffic itself amazes me.....I wonder just how many people were hit by horse drawn cart/vehicle on a day-to-day bases ?

I read once that on any day, in NYC during this same time period.....

"At a rate of 22 pounds per horse per day, equine manure added up to millions of pounds each day and over a 100,000 tons per year (not to mention around 10 million gallons of urine). ... And when it was dry, wind whipped up the manure dust and choked the citizenry."

Talk about pollution !
 
Not just the horses.
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Now, the horse "poop" in California has been replaced by the human feces scattered all over the place. I'll bet that the cell phone "texters" who walk around SF with their face buried in their phones, probably have to throw away their shoes when they get home.
 
treeguy64 said:
Have fun in SF, now. The homeless population, there, is among the largest in the US, at 9,784.

Anyone's fond memories of the various must-sees must now be grounded in the reality that those spots are full of filth, courtesy of the wonderful homeless population in those areas.
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Thank goodness it hadn't gotten as bad as it is currently when I visited 12 years ago. People were more rude there than any other city I've visited, but it wasn't yet full of junkies and feces. My sister went last spring and was appalled. There were people shooting up intraveinously in broad daylight in Union Square. Vagrants were shouting lewd things to my 16 year very beautiful niece. They were terrified. I don't understand how luxury stores around Union Square have much of a sales volume from tourists the way the city has deteriorated.
 
Having lived in SF for 20 yrs and a total of 50 yrs in the surrounding SFBA, I love it when people diss SF. Too many tourists here anyway, LOL.

BTW, don't get fooled by the lurid headlines about Californians moving elsewhere, either. The SoCA Newsgrp paper looked at the historical stats since 1969 and found:

".....In 2018, population grew by 214,625 as 159,421 more Californians departed to other states than came in.

.....Note that [in total] 7 million Americans switched states last year. California is the nation’s most populous state. If you focus on the California exits as a share of its nearly 40 million residents, the departures represent a tiny 1.8% per-capita “loss rate.”

That’s the third-lowest loss rate among the states and well below the rest of the nation’s 2.4% average. And it’s no one-year blip: California has long had a nationally leading “retention rate.” "

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The "good old days" were never that good, and certainly not for most people.
 
The previous event where we have significant photo evidence is the US Civil War (1860-65). It is amazing the amount of change there is in those 40 or so years to 1906. In 1865, we didn't have electric lights, electric trolleys, high rise buildings with elevators, phones, cars, massive steel plants, huge factories that covered acres, the first planes, nor movie cameras. And that's just a partial list. That must have been a marvelous age, when everyday was a whole new facet of human achievement. Probably would give today a run for its money.
 
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