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A Sound-Designed Restoration of Market Street in 1906

Mike Upchurch · 12 min · 2014 · YouTube title: A Trip Down Market Street, 1906 - With Sound!
Why it's here

Cited in street-safety and self-driving threads as a picture of chaotic, shared streets before cars dominated.

What it covers

A sound-designed restoration of the Miles brothers' 1906 film shot from a cable car down Market Street in San Francisco, four days before the earthquake. It shows streetcars, horse carts, cars and pedestrians mixing freely.