This footage was taken by a Swedish company visiting America. The footage has been speed corrected and looped with pretty convincing sound (except for the bubbling water sound during the ferry sequence.)
This is the same year as the infamous Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire.
No fat people, and no homeless people. What a difference 100 years makes.
i would love it if someone made a side-by-side comparison video of then and now at the same locations.
Horse manure all over the place; too bad it isn’t in Smell-O-Vision.
That was cool. Horse drawn carriages mingling with horseless carriages. Tech was changing rapidly.
Houses pooping in the streets + 100 years, people in SF pooping in the streets.
Even the male children wore coat and tie. Everyone dressed well.
Everyone dressed classy.
But the whole town smelled like assy.
Very cool!
I can hear the filmmaker, “ Nevermind me, just go ahead sir…you’re looking at the camera…stop looking at the camera!”
It was a refreshing walk down America’s Memory Lane and yes they did dress nicely. Courtesy seemed to rule. One odd thing I noticed at 6:19. Was that two guys holding hands, in 1911??
So that’s why Northerners are so free with their car horns! Heredity!
Amazing footage. Thanks!
It was easier to pay attention to the details with the sound muted.
Very cool.
Even with the horse manure everywhere there was no trash.
I got a kick out of the technology. The ferries, cars, city trains, factories in the background. Really fun to watch.
That year the Titanic was being built in Belfast.
I was but a young lad…
Twenty years before the Empire State Building.
Then and now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M00Ozsmh28s
saw Zelig
1911 was also a good year for the development of a certain model of pistol.
So I noticed the steering wheels are on the right side in these cars. I’ve often wondered about that – So they started out on the right everywhere? When did they switch to left side in US and why? Anybody know?
Wonderful video. The added sound still needs work, off-balance. It really wasn’t that irritating and noisy.
@Lisl ~ Henry Ford started the Model T in 1908 w/ a left-side steering wheel. He thought it was easier for passengers to get in & out w/out going into the street (so the story goes) … everyone imitates success
later, it was deemed safer for the driver to be on the left side so he/she could better judge the distance from oncoming traffic (so the story goes)
I was enjoying that…But around the 2 minute mark..
I caught sight of a finely turned ankle…and I got the Vapors.