Streetcars, horses, crank cars Oh My... Pedestrians beware

Victoria

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This takes about 7 1/2 min. but is very interesting.

104 YEAR OLD FILM CLIP
You are "there" for a cable car ride in San Francisco "

This film was "lost" for many years. It was
the first 35mm film ever. It was taken by camera mounted on the
front of a cable car.

The number of automobiles is staggering for 1906.
Absolutely amazing! The clock tower at the end of Market Street at
the Embarcadero wharf is still there.



This kind of find is always fascinating to me. Enjoy.

V

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k

This film, originally thought to be from 1905
until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured
out exactly when it was shot. From New York trade papers announcing
the film showing to the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall &
shadows indicating time of year & actual weather and conditions on
historical record, even when the cars were registered (he even knows
who owned them and when the plates were issued!).. It was filmed only
four days before the Great California Earthquake of April 18th 1906
and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing, but true!
 
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I LOVE THAT!

My grandfather would have been around 15 at the time, but he was just a poor farmer in Canada then, trading home made butter and cream for pelt blankets with the Algonquin... or if he was lucky, selling ice to the rich folk in Ottawa. It would be a full day's journey by horse and buggy into Ottawa, where he would try to sell his ice, cream and eggs from the farm, and then make his way home the next day.

Today the trip from my family's Homestead to Canada's Parliament Buildings is about 25 minutes. Currently, I supply fresh flowers to the same address.
The extravagant security measures they have adopted has changed all of our lives forever.

I am honoured that we make our home on the origonal Collins Homestead circa 1822.
My son is 6th generation Manotick, born and raised on the same land.

It is amazing to see how my Grampa's life differed from the life experienced by those in California.
He never explained how the people, horses, trains, trams and cars all shared the same space... I guess that's why he was so quiet...he never really got the whole thing himself.

I only wish we could have seen one of those buggys full of flowers, probably little violet bouquets being delivered to moms and lovers......

Too cool...and how to you find the time to look for this stuff anyway?....

Thanks.
JP
 
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I didn't find it Joanne... a friend did. She knows how much I enjoy this kind of thing so she happily shares... as do I. So glad you enjoyed it.

V
 
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