San Francisco: Tourism Video 1940

[Cal_Escapee]

[bayviews]

Originally Posted by Cal_Escapee

Outstanding historical footage!


What's changed the LEAST are the ocean & bayviews!

[The-E-Vid]

Nice video, I wonder since when the city got totally urbanized from the downtown area to the wets side ocean beach and the south to Daily Cit.. late 1890's?

[techniques1200s]

Cool video.

Originally Posted by The-E-Vid

Nice video, I wonder since when the city got totally urbanized from the downtown area to the wets side ocean beach and the south to Daily Cit.. late 1890's?

Later than that actually. There was some development (not much) on the west side and southern edge of SF in the 1890s, but those areas weren't seriously urbanized until around the 1920s or 1930s if I remember right, and even then there was still some significant development going on through the 1950s.

As small as SF city-proper's urban boundaries are, it wasn't long ago that they were even smaller. Almost the entire west side of the city was comprised of wind-swept sand dunes, was considered uninhabitable, and was referred to as "the outside lands". For example, I grew up almost literally in the center of the city (in Noe Valley), in a very dense/urban area, yet just 80 years ago that neighborhood was at the edge of urban development in SF. People on my block had backyards that fronted undeveloped land, and they would apparently sit on their back porches with rifles, hillbilly style, and shoot rats and birds and raccoons and such...try doing that nowadays .