1940s HOME MOVIES SAN FRANCISCO CABLE CARS CHINATOWN GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE XD14490

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color silent home movie footage shot by Ed and Mary Burns features San Francisco tourist spots in the 1940s. Opening: San Francisco, CA. A San Francisco Cable Car, people get on and off of it as it is turned to go in the opposite direction (:00). A cable car, people walk on the streets (1:03). Union Square (1:09). Cars and people near a Western Union building (1:28). A section of Chinatown; children in Chinatown, possibly for some kind of event in support of the Chinese Nationalists (1:44). An Chinese American woman holds a child; children sit with an Anglo man in a suit (2:35). A ceremony for the children of Chinatown (3:26). Alcatraz Island as seen from San Francisco (4:06). Bay Bridge (4:17). Coit Tower (4:22). St. Peter and Paul Church (4:38). Bay Bridge and ships in the bay (4:49). Skyline of San Francisco; Bay Bridge (5:15). Looking over the city of San