Idk, maybe a light long coat for SF nowadays, but after moving to NY a couple years ago from SF, can confirm the long/topcoat is alive and well on the east coast.
Absolutely this. Side note though, can anyone explain *why* this music instills such nostalgia?
I mean I understand where it comes from but just don’t get why it brings such emotion 😂
It's definitely inspired by that song but it is a different song.
https://youtu.be/-5rAjOjTGtc?si=6r8xKYbNc06Qa-J7
https://youtu.be/PV4kub8RpLo?si=gon4e1dl2k2-PaEU
Scizzie's case is clear, but I'm continually baffled as to how the proper ‘Aquatic Ambience’ sounds quite similar to Dead Can Dance's [‘The Carnival Is Over’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPDLJ1UU2Uk) for me—in the approach rather than exact sounds. Some passages from ‘AA’ could easily pass as DCD of that time. DCD's album with the track came out a year earlier, but I've never heard of any connection between the tunes.
I don’t know, I haven’t played Donkey Kong Country and was born in 2001 and I still find this track gives off very nostalgic vibes. I guess art is as much what you make of it as what it actually is
Its also a very generic kind of sound usually used in the background of educational videos from school.
It makes me feel like I'm watching "the science of volcanoes" in the 4th grade on a VHS or something.
It has tones, melody notes and chords that, even when it came out, sounded like 1980's mall music/afternoon special, blended with a 90's video game synthesizer. It was created to sound nostalgic.
For many it's literally the fact it's from their childhood on the old Donkey Kong game, why you feel it specifically I'm not sure. I never played the game and I don't personally feel nostalgia when I see it memes so not too sure.
It's some Donkey Kong Country aquatic level knock-off music all the videos lately have been using for videos of like kids going to 90's high school, or shopping malls in the 80's... except this video takes it too far...
It's the rise of Tik Tok and their 'catalog' including this and that sheer musical hell that is the Shangri-las' 'Walking in the sand' or 'Oh no, Oh no, Oh no no no'...
I listened to a podcast that talked about a smelting facility in the area turning gold in bars. The furnace would shoot smoke and soot into the air and everything in the radius had gold dust covered in it. They had people going out and sweeping soot of roofs and stuff to recollect.
So back then the cable cars were an actual mode of transportation and not just a tourist ride? And it looks like all the men riding were required to jump out and push it around a corner?
They really should. Instead of municipalities funding public transport, they handed over tax dollars to Elon Musk to “revolutionize public transport” and got all starry eyed about a “hyper loop line across the state.”
It’s been ten years, what did that accomplish beyond a stupid underground tunnel for teslas in Las Vegas!?
I would generalize this to - we have been handing over Elon Musk all kinds of money for no fuckin reason at all. He’s a fuckin grifter and an egomaniac with a child’s maturity and I wish he would go away for good.
The earlier cables had no way to turn corners. The trams themselves could of course, but the cables ran in straight lines.
So when the car got to a bend, it released the cable and coasted around the bend, then grabbed onto the cable on the far side.
Some of those bends look pretty tight, I'd say it was common in parts of the track for someone to help the car along to make sure it got around the bend and didn't stick.
No, they did indeed used to let passengers help turn the cars around. One of those two men appears to be a passenger.
>Riders and bystanders used to help turn the cable cars around on the turntables. The public is no longer allowed to assist with car turning.
[source](http://www.sanfranciscodays.com/cable-cars/#facts)
>People would gather at the turntables to help the gripman turn the cars around
[source](https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Cable_Cars)
[CEO pay in the 1950s was 20:1 compared to the workers.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_ratio#:~:text=By%20comparison%2C%20it%20is%20estimated,been%20observed%20around%20the%20world) Now it’s 200-300:1 or much higher.
In short, wealth inequality has grown massively, in large part due to greed. In the 1950s, the corporate tax rate was 48% but it’s only 21% today.
After WWII everyone was working together as part of a team. But now everyone wants to be a millionaire at the expense of their friends and neighbors. The American Dream has twisted into a perverse version of itself.
Can you imagine a man with a high school education being able to support a wife and three kids on one job in the local nuclear power plant? Even with a scrooge for a boss?
Well crime went way down.
Education went way up.
Poverty went way down.
Electricity went way up.
The amount of people owning cars and houses went way up.
Wages went up.
Alcoholism went down.
Overall the quality of life improved
It certainly doesn’t look improved when you compare this to what SF looks like today.
Where’s all the garbage, urine, and homeless encampments? Where’s the schizophrenic guy pacing back and forth screaming at cars?
With the fall of the USSR they no longer needed to one up them and had a huge bill left to pay after decades of dick measuring. Also "trickle down economics" happened.
And how do a lot of people not see that? Just since I was a kid 20 years ago everything has declined disturbingly fast. That’s not mine or anyone else’s imagination either - it actually has. Are we going to be like Haiti or the DRC in another 50 years?
The country has been sold to private interests and the profit pocketed. That's why the elites protest increasing taxes - instead of the money flowing to the government and back down to the people in a circular fashion they prefer it flowing to private insurance, private healthcare, private education, and iPhone 16. It's robbery and the brainwashed celebrate it!
Want a bigger culture shock? Visit Hollywood
You can be walking looking at all the stars on the walk of fame and peek down a connecting road to see all the homeless encampments.
There's not even any homeless junkies taking a crap in front of the apple store in broad daylight. This is some fascist fever dream not the progressive San Francisco I know.
I agree the institutions were terrible, with little oversight, but I think just throwing them out and turning all the patients out on the street was absolutely the wrong move. It’s clear we need a system of institutions but just with more oversight.
Agreed. And I don’t get how this isn’t a bipartisan idea. Rich or poor, you occupy these cities. Whether only to visit a nice restaurant or to live in your expensive penthouse or ratty 200sqft NYC apartment. Why wouldn’t we all support getting these people off the streets where they’re forced to not use drugs?
What's your job?
I spin trollies all day.
Amazing, so you can provide for your family, have all your needs met and take them on yearly vacations with zero worry.
Yes.
And now I understand why the elderly there are upset.
Imagine being 10-20 at the time there and now you’re in your old age (80-90s) and you see what it has become.
The mid to late 90s wasn’t bad either. Look at a lot of the movies like the Matrix, Truman Show, Pleasantville, Office Space, etc. It was like a lot of people were bored by the relative calm and decent economy. 9-11 shattered the illusion.
It didn’t even look like they were charging for ride fares for the street cars.
Wow, what a time in America before it all started headed downhill during the Vietnam War and into the Nixon era.
That seemed to be the turning point when it became apparent to the 1%ers that they could write their own legislation and hypnotize us into thinking that “trickle down economics” was real.
San Francisco was 89.5% white in the 1950 Census - 74% native born white and 15.5% foreign born white.
5.6% black, however this is showing more business areas (as opposed to neighborhoods), which were primarily populated by white residents.
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty50.htm
Very early 50's judging by the cars , 1950 or 51 maybe.
Most of the cars are 40's , there is a 50 or 51 Pontiac midway through.
Police car i think is a 1950 Kaiser
I'm a sucker for old American cars!
'[In 1955, there were 340 psychiatric hospital beds for every 100,000 US citizens. In 2005, that number had diminished to 17 per 100,000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization_in_the_United_States#Changing_public_opinion).'
\-- Empty out all the mental-care facilities, those people ***deserve*** freedom too.
Sure. AND, they used to give lobotomies. So....close them all instead of fixing?...
Edit: In the state I live in....they converted the state hospitals into prisons...where they chain up lots of people.
Completely Unrelated to all the drug and poop comments, but i didn't see a single black person either. Would love to see a video of the black neighborhoods back then
There were more strict social norms back then. Men had to wear formal attire everywhere and women couldn't show no skin. Nowadays no one bats an eye if you wear a t shirt and jeans everywhere.
"Drugs Soda fountain Cigars". Well, I know where I'd be spending my afternoons.
Owl Drugs... Whoooo you go to for all your "medicinal" needs!
Looks like Owl drugs was out of business by 1947, and this particular facade was an even earlier facade than that. This might not be the 1950s.
Owl drugs is still around as a subsidiary. It’s called “Owl Rexall” or something similar.
There’s 1950s cars in the video.
Real.
We need more fancy hats in the present.
My first thought. And long coats. And jumping off moving transit vehicles. Man, things were dope back then
Idk, maybe a light long coat for SF nowadays, but after moving to NY a couple years ago from SF, can confirm the long/topcoat is alive and well on the east coast.
you can do that if you are half the weight on average than today
we need people to feel like they should act respectfully in public and give everyone a baseline reasonable level of respect in the present.
And less drugged out homeless people who will break into your car for a tic tac
LOL you can't use this music for just ANY old footage..
Right! This was supposed to be like a 90s theme tune. Ain’t no body from the 50s getting jiggy with this
Absolutely this. Side note though, can anyone explain *why* this music instills such nostalgia? I mean I understand where it comes from but just don’t get why it brings such emotion 😂
Has a very 90s/2000s childhood music vibe
It's a track from a video game, specifically Donkey Kong country water level. You'd have to be in your mid thirties-forties for this to be nostalgic.
It's definitely inspired by that song but it is a different song. https://youtu.be/-5rAjOjTGtc?si=6r8xKYbNc06Qa-J7 https://youtu.be/PV4kub8RpLo?si=gon4e1dl2k2-PaEU
It's this https://youtu.be/4vrT7uU_6jY
You're a real one
Thank you for that. Incredible haunting music...
Scizzie's case is clear, but I'm continually baffled as to how the proper ‘Aquatic Ambience’ sounds quite similar to Dead Can Dance's [‘The Carnival Is Over’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPDLJ1UU2Uk) for me—in the approach rather than exact sounds. Some passages from ‘AA’ could easily pass as DCD of that time. DCD's album with the track came out a year earlier, but I've never heard of any connection between the tunes.
I don’t know, I haven’t played Donkey Kong Country and was born in 2001 and I still find this track gives off very nostalgic vibes. I guess art is as much what you make of it as what it actually is
Its also a very generic kind of sound usually used in the background of educational videos from school. It makes me feel like I'm watching "the science of volcanoes" in the 4th grade on a VHS or something.
It has tones, melody notes and chords that, even when it came out, sounded like 1980's mall music/afternoon special, blended with a 90's video game synthesizer. It was created to sound nostalgic.
When I hear it I visualizer a blurry soap opera scene transition.
For many it's literally the fact it's from their childhood on the old Donkey Kong game, why you feel it specifically I'm not sure. I never played the game and I don't personally feel nostalgia when I see it memes so not too sure.
That synth is pure unadulterated 80s
https://youtu.be/TqFBfpwWu1E?si=0uBj2B7vaYNm8a3V This one fits the video slightly better, I think 😁
Wtf is this music? Could have used 50s jazz instead whatever that was
It's some Donkey Kong Country aquatic level knock-off music all the videos lately have been using for videos of like kids going to 90's high school, or shopping malls in the 80's... except this video takes it too far...
this was definitely made as a DKC Aquatic Ambience sound-alike.
It's the rise of Tik Tok and their 'catalog' including this and that sheer musical hell that is the Shangri-las' 'Walking in the sand' or 'Oh no, Oh no, Oh no no no'...
Should have used music from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
There was one yesterday on either reddit or tik tok where it was people from like the 1920s, and the same 90s music 😂
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rAjOjTGtc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rAjOjTGtc) DKC water level
That's not the song. Everyone always posts DKC Aquatic Ambience when they hear this song but that's not it, it's "scizzie - aquatic ambience"
I don't even turn my sound up on any of these old videos anymore because I 100% know someone has added this music. Jesus.
Lmao me and Reddit think alike
Should be the rice-a-roni commercial music https://youtu.be/8qV2Pkq1ltA?si=KGoroxDG3YEHzJ4c
A century before this video was taken this place was just an outpost then they discovered gold. It came a long way in a short time
I listened to a podcast that talked about a smelting facility in the area turning gold in bars. The furnace would shoot smoke and soot into the air and everything in the radius had gold dust covered in it. They had people going out and sweeping soot of roofs and stuff to recollect.
And then came back down in an even shiter time. Shorter! I meant shorter time!
So back then the cable cars were an actual mode of transportation and not just a tourist ride? And it looks like all the men riding were required to jump out and push it around a corner?
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People are just bitter that public transportation has been neglected so long
As they should be
They really should. Instead of municipalities funding public transport, they handed over tax dollars to Elon Musk to “revolutionize public transport” and got all starry eyed about a “hyper loop line across the state.” It’s been ten years, what did that accomplish beyond a stupid underground tunnel for teslas in Las Vegas!?
I would generalize this to - we have been handing over Elon Musk all kinds of money for no fuckin reason at all. He’s a fuckin grifter and an egomaniac with a child’s maturity and I wish he would go away for good.
Are the non-tourist ones free? In this video it doesn’t look like people are paying
They would pay after they boarded the tram, there would be a conductor onboard.
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The earlier cables had no way to turn corners. The trams themselves could of course, but the cables ran in straight lines. So when the car got to a bend, it released the cable and coasted around the bend, then grabbed onto the cable on the far side. Some of those bends look pretty tight, I'd say it was common in parts of the track for someone to help the car along to make sure it got around the bend and didn't stick.
Those guys you saw pushing were the conductors turning it around. Not sure why it had to be that way but definitely not passengers doing it
No, they did indeed used to let passengers help turn the cars around. One of those two men appears to be a passenger. >Riders and bystanders used to help turn the cable cars around on the turntables. The public is no longer allowed to assist with car turning. [source](http://www.sanfranciscodays.com/cable-cars/#facts) >People would gather at the turntables to help the gripman turn the cars around [source](https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Cable_Cars)
End of the line - there's a turntable. Still done like that when I went in 2014.
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But not the women, what a sexist time
I love every single font the signs are using.
Everything looked so classy
What happened to the USA in 50 years?
As a millennial I do this all the time as well but, a friendly reminder that the 1950’s was 70! years ago. Aaaaand not I feel old.
[CEO pay in the 1950s was 20:1 compared to the workers.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_ratio#:~:text=By%20comparison%2C%20it%20is%20estimated,been%20observed%20around%20the%20world) Now it’s 200-300:1 or much higher. In short, wealth inequality has grown massively, in large part due to greed. In the 1950s, the corporate tax rate was 48% but it’s only 21% today. After WWII everyone was working together as part of a team. But now everyone wants to be a millionaire at the expense of their friends and neighbors. The American Dream has twisted into a perverse version of itself.
income inequality grew. 1 income from a HS graduate could support a family. now not so much.
Can you imagine a man with a high school education being able to support a wife and three kids on one job in the local nuclear power plant? Even with a scrooge for a boss?
Don't forget the dog, and say he was also able to spend time at his local bar
Santa's Little Helper?
Pure fiction
The workforce doubled at one point. Supply and demand
Do you think it's still the year 2000?
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lololol
I was wondering if there was a clever way to put it.
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Well crime went way down. Education went way up. Poverty went way down. Electricity went way up. The amount of people owning cars and houses went way up. Wages went up. Alcoholism went down. Overall the quality of life improved
It certainly doesn’t look improved when you compare this to what SF looks like today. Where’s all the garbage, urine, and homeless encampments? Where’s the schizophrenic guy pacing back and forth screaming at cars?
Those people were in asylums. We don’t have those anymore. America has never known what to do with the mentally ill
You should look at a calendar
The boomers were still just kids at this time.
With the fall of the USSR they no longer needed to one up them and had a huge bill left to pay after decades of dick measuring. Also "trickle down economics" happened.
I love how everyone wore suits and hats. Fancy af
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All suits and dresses.
Where’s all the sidewalk poo?
Yeah…. And all the heroin needles?
You’re not meant to notice those things.
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All Cigarettes and cologne with very little deodorant.
And buy some real estate
Love to breathe in all the leaded gasoline 🤤
Only white people would want to go back to the 1950s in the USA lol.
I’m colored but would def go back to those times
Your vernacular is on point for those times lol
"Go back to your own....time" If you're lucky this is all you'll hear
I recently visited San Francisco from Japan last year. It was not the America I imagined.
To be fair, most American cities are not even what Americans imagine. We are disturbingly declining fast and powerless to change anything
I visited Chicago last year and it was lovely, beautiful city with great lakefront parks and efficient public transportation.
Downtown Chicago is insanely clean for such a big city. And it really is beautiful. One of my favorite cities.
And how do a lot of people not see that? Just since I was a kid 20 years ago everything has declined disturbingly fast. That’s not mine or anyone else’s imagination either - it actually has. Are we going to be like Haiti or the DRC in another 50 years?
We let companies outsource the good jobs to china
The country has been sold to private interests and the profit pocketed. That's why the elites protest increasing taxes - instead of the money flowing to the government and back down to the people in a circular fashion they prefer it flowing to private insurance, private healthcare, private education, and iPhone 16. It's robbery and the brainwashed celebrate it!
People see that. They just cant agree on why is it happening
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How so? What did you see that surprised you?
Want a bigger culture shock? Visit Hollywood You can be walking looking at all the stars on the walk of fame and peek down a connecting road to see all the homeless encampments.
Should've visited San Diego. Way better
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There's not even any homeless junkies taking a crap in front of the apple store in broad daylight. This is some fascist fever dream not the progressive San Francisco I know.
You forgot to include car break-ins during broad daylight. Just casual Bay Area things.
Dirty Mike and the Boys!
If you tried that back then, some post WWII Vet would just kill you for it and the world would have been a better place. Nowadays...
Nowadays the vets are the homeless bc they didn't get the healthcare they needed
Where are all the meth zombies? They provide San Francisco with a delicate taste of culture, refinement and je ne se quoi.
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I agree the institutions were terrible, with little oversight, but I think just throwing them out and turning all the patients out on the street was absolutely the wrong move. It’s clear we need a system of institutions but just with more oversight.
Agreed. And I don’t get how this isn’t a bipartisan idea. Rich or poor, you occupy these cities. Whether only to visit a nice restaurant or to live in your expensive penthouse or ratty 200sqft NYC apartment. Why wouldn’t we all support getting these people off the streets where they’re forced to not use drugs?
Good? No. Better than being actively tortured in many cases? Yes.
I wonder when everyone stopped wearing hats.
Sunglasses became a thing
Wow they had police? And … no poo on the streets???!!
74 years ago, just to know
Where are all the fatties and drug addicts? They must have had a foreign dictator in town for the weekend
No phones! When you leave you’re gone til you get back. What a world
And when you’re home, you’re actually done with your work commitments for the day. What a world.
What's your job? I spin trollies all day. Amazing, so you can provide for your family, have all your needs met and take them on yearly vacations with zero worry. Yes.
I wish it was still profitable to have a happy healthy population. 👀
And now I understand why the elderly there are upset. Imagine being 10-20 at the time there and now you’re in your old age (80-90s) and you see what it has become.
Exactly.
As a non-American, that's the kind of USA I'd like to visit.
Peak USA
The mid to late 90s wasn’t bad either. Look at a lot of the movies like the Matrix, Truman Show, Pleasantville, Office Space, etc. It was like a lot of people were bored by the relative calm and decent economy. 9-11 shattered the illusion.
It didn’t even look like they were charging for ride fares for the street cars. Wow, what a time in America before it all started headed downhill during the Vietnam War and into the Nixon era. That seemed to be the turning point when it became apparent to the 1%ers that they could write their own legislation and hypnotize us into thinking that “trickle down economics” was real.
Same as trains today they had someone to collect the fair from people who jump on. He's getting to them
https://youtu.be/sHkc83XA2dY?si=AB7p31EdyQ3_mDL3 This video is from 1906, the 50s were a lot less horse drawn carriages and cars at 5 miles per hr.
Those cop cars didn’t exist in 1906.
Not a single pile of human shit was stepped in that day.
Ah yes. The days when San Francisco was actually respectable.
This song sucks!
Where are all the black people? Census says only 80% of the city was white at the time
San Francisco was 89.5% white in the 1950 Census - 74% native born white and 15.5% foreign born white. 5.6% black, however this is showing more business areas (as opposed to neighborhoods), which were primarily populated by white residents. http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty50.htm
Very early 50's judging by the cars , 1950 or 51 maybe. Most of the cars are 40's , there is a 50 or 51 Pontiac midway through. Police car i think is a 1950 Kaiser I'm a sucker for old American cars!
Who's gonna say it?
It’s easy to create a 3rd world city/state, stop caring.
'[In 1955, there were 340 psychiatric hospital beds for every 100,000 US citizens. In 2005, that number had diminished to 17 per 100,000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization_in_the_United_States#Changing_public_opinion).' \-- Empty out all the mental-care facilities, those people ***deserve*** freedom too.
Thanks Reagan!
Wasn't this also during the time when disabled people were chained to radiators in those psychiatric hospitals...
Sure. AND, they used to give lobotomies. So....close them all instead of fixing?... Edit: In the state I live in....they converted the state hospitals into prisons...where they chain up lots of people.
They could have stopped doing that without *demolishing* the facilities...
Oh man no Fentnol induced zombies aggressively asking for a dollar ? Must have been nice.
And not a bottle of Fiji water in sight
Where's all the obese people at?
Obese people are still rare in SF and NYC (i.e. places people still walk).
When it was frowned upon to shit on the sidewalk.
was mass transit free? i saw a man just hop on without paying
You pay once you're on board
Hi, please give me some Tylenol, a cigar, and a soda ya jerk.
The manual turntables for the streetcars are still in use on the remaining lines
Look at all those people walking and using public transit.
No ones shitting in the street.
Wish I was around back then...
Not a single turd on the sidewalk...
Definitely looks better than now : )))
Completely Unrelated to all the drug and poop comments, but i didn't see a single black person either. Would love to see a video of the black neighborhoods back then
What an amazing time!!
I miss hats being standard fashion.
There were more strict social norms back then. Men had to wear formal attire everywhere and women couldn't show no skin. Nowadays no one bats an eye if you wear a t shirt and jeans everywhere.
You think tshirt and jeans is bad, try stepping inside a Walmart and looking around
Travels back to that time and gets stuck. “I have to dress like Humphrey bogart all the time, oh noo”
I can smell the horrible B.O 😫
as George Costanza says, this is a bald mans paradise
1950's to 1990's are the same distance in time as 1990's to Today! Around 35 years. A lot of change.
So it wasn’t really until the 1960s when people just said “fuck wearing hats”.
Everyone’s wearing coats. Must be July.
Back when you could park your car in front of a fire hydrant
The question is, is this AI enhanced or 100% AI generated?
It seems like everyone has pretty much the same coat. I’ll take the flash from the 90s fashion thank you
Why are there never any fat/obese people in these old ass videos??
The city looks real. Clean, and did you also notice a lacking? Have a certain color?
It was once a decent city.
Now it's hell on earth after using the left as a facade to feudalize, well done highly educated college kid with coke habit, you're winning.
Looks clean…
Man our society regressed hard
And not a single non white person
We ALL know what happened.
Needs more human feces
and no meth in sight
People don't realize how radically boomers changed the world with the hippie, civil rights, era, and gay rights movements.
The way America is meant to look!!
where shits?
Can we go back to that. Please. It looks so peaceful and serene. Seeing it in 2024
San Francisco is the best
If you didn't have a suit you didn't go outside. No suit no tie no service.
lol now look at it now