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Post by broox on Oct 18, 2010 12:33:48 GMT -5
I don't know if any of you are into this sort of thing, but I find this fascinating. This film of Market Street San Francisco has recently been analyzed and determined to have been filmed less than a week before the earthquake and fire that destroyed pretty much everything that you see in the film. I personally had no idea that San Francisco was so large and bustling at that time. An incredible peek into the past... There is a lot of frame slippage (like the v-hold on a tv) in the beginning. Here's a link to the full film in high quality if you're into it: www.archive.org/details/TripDown1905Here's a shorter version on youtube: Here are 2 pics of Market Street from the film after the quake. The first shot is taken from the tower you see at the end of the film!   |
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Post by drivebyluna on Oct 18, 2010 12:59:20 GMT -5
Yeah, things were much improved by the 89 quake, although apparently all of Fisherman's Wharf was pretty much destroyed. Also the bay bridge collapsed on itself and it took them till last year to finally retrofit to bridge to be quake proof.
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Post by broox on Oct 18, 2010 13:36:47 GMT -5
I didn't want this topic to be about earthquakes but instead the cool look at the past, but since it's related, let me go ahead and state for the record that I can't understand why anyone would choose to live in the bay area. I was watching the world series live in 1989 when the Loma Prieta quake struck. Here's a vid of what I (and everyone else) watched live on tv (skip to 4:20 in to the actual quake). So scary.
Of course we do have fault lines here in the south that aren't as notorious as the San Andreas. We had a 4.9 earthquake here in Atlanta back in 2003. It was like 5 in the morning and I was at work at a television station. I didn't feel a thing, but it woke Melissa up at home. She said it sounded like people running around on the roof.
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Post by drivebyluna on Oct 18, 2010 17:19:39 GMT -5
Trust me, it wasn't by choice. If I had my way I'd still be in Rochester, with a staff job and affordable housing.
Although now that I live in such a metropolitan area I don't think I could go back.
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Post by lynn on Oct 18, 2010 17:50:13 GMT -5
Yeah, there's shit everywhere that'll kill people. Greg can't understand why I live over here with all the snakes and spiders but they don't bother me at all. Of course I live up in the cold country where there's not much of them, or of the floods or fires or droughts that bother us all so much. But there's no quakes over here.
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Post by broox on Oct 19, 2010 22:24:06 GMT -5
Trust me, it wasn't by choice. If I had my way I'd still be in Rochester, with a staff job and affordable housing. Although now that I live in such a metropolitan area I don't think I could go back. Well I understand that it is beautiful out there, with sublime weather, which is why I suppose the housing is so expensive. Rochester sounds nice too, either one is surely more pleasant than Atlanta  |
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Post by gretl on Oct 20, 2010 10:31:44 GMT -5
I don't know if any of you are into this sort of thing, but I find this fascinating. Yes I am. I went and watched the full video: mesmerizing. Talk about crazy traffic! I saw at least a few close calls ;D Cool story about how they pinned down the date, too. Thanks for posting this. |
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Post by broox on Oct 20, 2010 15:52:24 GMT -5
I was really amazed at how big the city was then, and how advanced. I guess I didn't think cars were that common until the Fords of the 1920's. The era between the civil war and WWI is kind of a blank spot in my memory or american history. It's so neat to see what life looked like then.
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