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Subject: Re: San Francisco in the 1950s
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:01:01 -0500
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:18:27 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

>So, before the drugs really started to make a mess of the place? 

Video appears to show a 1949 Plymouth Woody Wagon, so I would date it
as early 1950s.

Video shows lots of street walking...humans out and about.  Along with
trollies...one scene where by hand they turn around the trolley.

I have no idea what this section of town is doing these days.  I
suspect the video was colorized...good details shown, which might
suggest it was taken in B&W...but color film was available around WWII
for sure....but I don't know if color film was fast enough.

Eli the Bearded, I believe, would know more about this area

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1769831873537069196

Town section may have been:

PHOTOS TAKEN IN THE 1950s: Powell cable car 505 signed for
Powell-Mason just off the turntable at Powell and Eddy Sts. in the
early 1950s. Scan of a slide in my collection added 03/14/13. 
https://www.streetcarmike.com/muni_powell_car5.html

PIC
https://www.streetcarmike.com/muni_cablecar_powell/muni_powellcar505_1950s.jpg