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 Francisco (5:40). Ocean water and huge rocks in the water near the Cliff House (6:56). San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge (7:28). Alcatraz Island as seen from the water (8:18). Approaching Alcatraz by boat; going around the island by boat (8:40). People purchase flowers, people walk by on the street (10:03). Outside Livingston Bros.; flowers for sale on the street (10:12). Cars and taxis; people cross the street (10:40). Flowers up close (11:02). People walk amongst the flowers in Golden Gate Park (11:29). Filming from off the side of a cable car; a woman sits on a stationary cable car (12:28). Presidio Ave. Cable Car; going up a hill and filming behind (12:59). Ferry Terminal Building on Market Street (13:11), Presidio Avenue Cal St Cable RR Co Cable Car; people board the car (13:34). Houses and buildings (14:06). Fishermen’s Grotto (14:38). City Hall (14:43). Cars and people on a hilly street; a woman poses with a hat (14:52). Pulling away from the wharf on a boat (15:39). Bridges and houses seen from a boat (16:21). Berkeley ferry (17:09). San Francisco College for Women (17:21). Chinatown (18:04). Flowers (18:13). A seal at an aquarium in the San Francisco Zoo (18:47). A zebra, polar bear, elephants (19:42). Statue of Pacifica, probably from the program guide of the Golden Gate Exposition which occurred in 1939-1940. (20:23).

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