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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Made by an amateur filmmaker, this well shot 16mm home movie dates to 1954 and depicts an American family’s travels to San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Wind Lake, and Washington D.C. Snow-covered mountains from plane window (0:12). San Francisco skyline (3:42). Backlit patrons at bar (4:19). San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (4:26). Perhaps Alcatraz Island Lighthouse (4:34). Retro exterior Cliff House Diner, Great Highway (4:47). Scenes along residential and downtown streets, typical 1950s automobiles drive along palm tree and telephone pole-lined streets (6:54). Interior San Francisco cable car (7:33). Crowd exits large white tent for American Medical Association Annual Meeting (7:40). San Francisco Cable Car on a track junction (8:04). Sign for San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf (8:20). Couple rubs “Temple Guard“ at Pacific Curio Shop (8:30). Small fishing boats at the wharf (8:52). Fishing boat pulls into marina, unloads catch of the day (9:39). Interior fish market at the wharf (10:09). Tourist feeds discarded fish heads to sea lion in glass pen (10:12). Passengers rush onto Powell Market Bay Taylor-line cable car (10:33). Young boy helps turn cable car around at junction (10:45). Scenes of downtown: pedestrian traffic, business buildings, cable cars and taxis pass each other on the street (10:53). Flower street-side stand (11:09). Middle-aged couples gather at cottage-style property, large garden scape, pool (11:27). Views from plane (14:24). Engineer works on the wing of United Airlines DC-7 plane (15:57). Entrance Salt Lake City Municipal Airport (16:04). Passengers board DC-7 (16:20). Views from plane (17:12). Mother ushers toddler and other young children out of convenience store (17:59). Toddler now wearing diaper in grass field, plays with hose, bowls of water (19:17). Toddler plays in dirt (20:18). Siblings ride tricycles on front lawn (21:02). Sign for Wind Lake (Wisconsin), cottage in background framed by tall grass (21:13). Kids enthusiastically get out of car, run toward cottage with screened-in porch (21:21). Kids run out of cottage carrying towels, run through grass toward water’s edge (21:36). Kids play, dive off narrow dock on lake’s edge (21:52). Young kids gather on dock, study a red balloon (23:33). Kids wearing orange life jackets get out of row boat along sandy shore, mother supervises/ pulls boat up shore (23:56). Mothers in retro one-piece swimsuits sit on picnic blanket in grass field; orange life jackets flung about (24:18). Scenes cut between kids swimming in lake, mothers playing with kids, sitting for food on picnic blanket (25:06). Commercial road of small town, tangled telephone wires, camera pans storefronts: Doctor’s office, pharmacy, pub (27:46). Man in disheveled jumpsuit at gas station fills up car at pump (28:26). Wisconsin dairy cows graze in vibrant green field (28:48). Lake framed by backlit trees, bushes (29:13). Desolate gravel road framed by overgrown trees (29:48). Perhaps entrance toll to Julien Dubuque Bridge over Mississippi River to Illinois (30:12). Aerial views Washington, D.C. - Jefferson Memorial (32:56). Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool (33:03). City-scape, Potomac River (33:15). Smithsonian and United States Capitol Building (33:46). Drive over Arlington Memorial Bridge - Sacrifice Sculpture, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument in view (34:11). Brick entrance gate to Sheraton Park Hotel (34:39). Various views of Washington Monument from street (35:18). State Capitol Building dome (36:15). White House (36:33). Lincoln Memorial seen in distance along Reflecting Pool (37:02). Close-up memorial exterior; Lincoln Statue (37:34). Washington Monument framed by columns of Lincoln Memorial seen across Reflecting Pool (38:13). Close-up Capitol Building exterior (38:30). Sign for Old Georgetown Beall Street (39:11). Upcoming traffic speeds along Beall Street in Georgetown, various storefronts for antique shops (39:15). Two-tone blue 1954 Buick Special Sedan (Model 41D) (41:16). Another drive over Arlington Memorial Bridge (41:37). Tourists walk along designated path at George Washington’s Mount Vernon property (42:48). 18th century Mansion house (43:28). Tour groups explore Mount Vernon stables (45:13). Plaque for Washington Tomb (45:45). 19th Century riverboat cruise steamboat pulls out of Mount Vernon dock (46:13). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
