Captivating. You can just see how people would demand some kind of traffic control within a few years of 1905. The transportation technology mix was changing, and the sight of motorized vehicles weaving aroudn horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians is hair-raising, even in slow-mo. Yet a lot of folks were having a good time playing chicken with the cars and street cars. What a scene.
You don't get up to San Francisco much, do you? Must be all the Damn Liberals...in any case, at least one distinctive building is still standing: The Ferry Building at the foot of Market:
You can be pretty sure that most of those brick buildings tumbled in 1906, but I think I recognize at least one other still standing, on the right near the end. I think it's the PG&E building, but it's hard to make out.
You can also tell the age of the person posting the video, describing it as "a video shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905". Yeah, the camera crew had a time machine, but the damn temporal distortion ruined the video quality and leached alll the color out. Kids these days...
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Very cool