{"id":1916,"date":"2010-10-24T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T01:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2010-10-24T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T01:59:55","slug":"san-francisco-market-street-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1916","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco, Market Street, 1905"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NINOxRxze9k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A few months before the great San Francisco <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_earthquake\">earthquake and fire<\/a>, someone mounted an early movie camera on a street car and filmed as the car rolled down Market Street toward the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ferry_Building\">Ferry Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much everything in <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NINOxRxze9k\">this movie<\/a> was destroyed on April 18-19, 1906. It&#8217;s a lost world.<\/p>\n<p>I find this movie to be almost hypnotic. The policeman in his helmet &#8230; lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/\">free-range kids<\/a> about &#8230; oh my god, they&#8217;re going to hit that horse &#8230; no, they didn&#8217;t&#8230; there goes<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Eden\"> Martin Eden himself<\/a>, crossing the street with his manuscript.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Part of the same movie is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EaXyxht-yCA&amp;feature=fvw\">here<\/a>, but with period music of the early 1900s. Seems less elegiac and more long-ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months before the great San Francisco earthquake and fire, someone mounted an early movie camera on a street car and filmed as the car rolled down Market Street toward the Ferry Building. Pretty much everything in this movie was destroyed on April 18-19, 1906. It&#8217;s a lost world. I find this movie to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,100],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-uU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":723,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=723","url_meta":{"origin":1916,"position":0},"title":"A temple tour of California","author":"Chas S. 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