RetroBayArea
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An independent project featuring 100% original video edits & curated photos documenting culture and everyday life in the SF Bay Area. 1950s through mid-2000s.
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2023
Five time Emmy winner and Bay Area legend, Frank Somerville in 1993.
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A ride down 3rd Street in the 1970s. San Francisco, 1975. This edit is a ride down 3rd Street in 1975, before it was built up the way it is today. A lot of it is still exactly the same, and a lot of it has changed dramatically. The video starts at 22nd & 3rd Street and ends at
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A ride down Mission Street in san Francisco in 1975. This footage shows Mission Street between 22nd and 24th. It also includes scenes of the LULAC Mural, painted in 1975 by Gilberto Ramirez on the old Cogswell Polytechnical College building near 26th and Folsom, as well as a few
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Here’s a link to the previous attraction featured in this series. https://t.co/S3COd2rEZ7
4 of 9: Delta Flyer A Retro Bay Area Series: The Early Days of Great America in the late 1970s. 🎡🎠🎢🎟️ Opened in 1976 and still in operation today, it takes you on one-way trips between Orleans Place and what was then County Fair. source footage 🎥: Bryan Walker
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Here’s a link to the previous attraction featured in this series. https://t.co/V1AQr13xtc
3 of 9: Loggers Run A Retro Bay Area Series: The Early Days of Great America in the late 1970s. 🎡🎠🎢🎟️ Loggers Run was one of the original rides at Great America when the park first opened. The ride lasted 41 years and officially closed in October of 2017. It had a cool
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Here’s a link to the previous attraction featured in this series. https://t.co/HT6AlE3DgH
2 of 9: The Demon A Retro Bay Area Series: The Early Days of Great America in the late 1970s. 🎡🎠🎢🎟️ The Demon opened in 1976 and is still in operation today. The original roller coaster opened under the name Turn of the Century, and four years later, in 1980, it was
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Here’s a link to the previous attraction featured in this series. https://t.co/qF6QtGHlNo
1 of 9: Welcome to Great America A Retro Bay Area Series: The Early Days of Great America in the late 1970s. 🎡🎠🎢🎟️ In 1976, the Marriott Corporation opened Great America in Santa Clara. It represented the state of the art in theme park design and attractions at the time. It
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5 of 9: Tidal Wave A Retro Bay Area Series: The Early Days of Great America in the late 1970s. 🎡🎠🎢🎟️ The Tidal Wave opened in 1977 and closed in 2002. It was the first new roller coaster added to Great America after it first opened in 1976. For pure roller coaster fun, the
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This is Bono from U2. He came to San Francisco in 1987 and vandalized the Vaillancourt Fountain. "ROCK N ROLL STOPS TRAFFIC" That’s what he wrote. He was so proud of himself that he took a bow when he was done. If you or I did this back then we would’ve been detained. Dianne
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San Francisco in 1989. This footage was shot in the summer of 1989, just four months before the Loma Prieta earthquake. At the time, the city was full of energy and creativity. The tech boom was still a decade away. source footage 🎥: Victor Williams
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311 playing a show in San Francisco in 2002. In the pre-internet era, there were always these weird and silly rumors and urban legends floating around. Stuff like Paul, the kid from The Wonder Years, was actually Marilyn Manson, Mister Rogers was a Navy SEAL sniper, and Walt
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg in the early 2000s. Palo Alto/Silicon Valley. Before anyone posts any mean comments, please remember that it’s only due to their sacrifice that we’re able to argue politics 24 hours a day with Russian government agents posing as anime and nu metal
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A 1984 news profile of San Francisco. Much like today, when San Francisco is often in the national news for the issues it faces and the events that take place there, many news stations in the 1980s had the same fascination with the city and were always running features on it.
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4 of 9: Delta Flyer A Retro Bay Area Series: The Early Days of Great America in the late 1970s. 🎡🎠🎢🎟️ Opened in 1976 and still in operation today, it takes you on one-way trips between Orleans Place and what was then County Fair. source footage 🎥: Bryan Walker
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They sure did. It was deleted for us, but the biggest social media archive of the early 2000s didn’t just get wiped out like nothing. I can’t help but think that one of those three-letter agencies still has it.
Honestly, the social media we had was Myspace. It was well documented but they deleted the archives during those years. It was the perfect time capsule of that time
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The implosion of Geneva Towers. San Francisco, 1998. They were built in 1967 as a private apartment complex but failed to attract renters so they were turned into public housing. Over the years as the owners failed to maintain the property, the complex fell apart. Conditions
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A montage of the city in the late 1980s. San Francisco, 1988. “Lovely on the Inside” is a song that makes me think of the relationship that many people have with San Francisco in the 2020s. It touches on themes of doubt, and longing for a connection they once had with San
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I have the Geneva Tower video coming tomorrow. 🏢🏢
We use to do Geneva Tower bike rides during the Summer. Everyone who had a bike, old or young, use to mob out and ride from the Ts all da way 2da Wharf. This area was always our break point.
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I 100% have an Edge video coming soon!🤘 Will post after this nine-part Great America in the 1970s series I’m in the middle of. Stay tuned.
@RetroBayArea The edge videos please!
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