SF Just Before the Earthquake
 

have watched this video many times. It is amazing, a look at a point in time
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Yes, it is fascinating look at another time.
I saw a few years ago then it disappeared.
I heard they put a camera on the front of a trolley car and then went down the street like normal. Cool to see the horse-drawn wagons, pedestrians, and cars all going down the street. Looks like there were a lot of close calls.

Craig

LOL

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Less than one month later: (see the video at the bottom of the page)

Compare footage of San Francisco before and after the 1906 earthquake

The concept of road safety had obviously not entered the heads of the San Franciscans. Driving on the wrong side of the road, cutting between trams, walking about in the middle of the road, pulling out without looking behind, its all there. Surprised anyone on that street survived long enough to become an earthquake victim.

LOL, well its all happening at 3mph, so I doubt much can really go wrong :)

I rode a motorcycle in Cambodia last year, and it was the same, but at 60mph.

Thank you for that after the quake look. Pretty amazing when you compare it to the before.

BTW, I lived in SF for a while, folks still drive/walk that way

My Great-Grandmother lived in SF at this time. Wonder if that was her dodging trolly cars?

you're insane.

i drove a Hilux in Cambodia when our driver had too much to drink. i wasnt pissed at all because i got to drive his new diesel toyota Hilux. cambodia is the wild west of traffic.

i went thru a construction zone so rugged i almost considered throwing it into 4x4..they were moving bags of conc with a water buffalo..

no cones, no traffic control, i just meandered thru the jobsite following a bus.