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San Francisco, 1906
With thanks to Teresa Burritt's Frog Blog, I share with you a haunting trip down Market Street in San Francisco, taken just days before the great earthquake.
Embedding doesn't seem to work properly for this film - see it here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20019755-10391709.html
How many people we see running, working, playing, walking... for how many were these the last days of their lives?
Did this man survive?
Traffic control was obviously non-existent. I'm surprised we didn't see 17 accidents on that short 11-minute clip.
This was filmed 3 years before my father was born. What an amazing glimpse back in time, and the music sets a most wistful tone.
Embedding doesn't seem to work properly for this film - see it here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20019755-10391709.html
How many people we see running, working, playing, walking... for how many were these the last days of their lives?
Did this man survive?
Traffic control was obviously non-existent. I'm surprised we didn't see 17 accidents on that short 11-minute clip.
This was filmed 3 years before my father was born. What an amazing glimpse back in time, and the music sets a most wistful tone.