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San Francisco In the 20's." Together with: "San Francisco In the 30's." Two separately produced documentaries on single video cassette, home-recorded from TV. 100 minutes long

by KRON TV

Price: $14.50


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Book desription: San Francisco, , 1999. Video cassette in slipcase. VG. Documentary #1 is historical footage & commentary on the San Francisco of the 1920's. 45 minutes long. No commercials. Following this on same tape is Documentary #2, historical footage & commentary on San Francisco in the 1930's. 45 minutes long. No commercials. Together, 90 minutes. Home copied from TV onto quality video cassette. Great black & white & color footage of San Francisco incl. aerial views, skylines, many downtown photos, neigborhoods, home movies. With footage of the flappers, bars & nightclubs, the speakeasies, dance halls, vice dens, Prohibition, prohibition agents, rum runners, aerial barnstorming, the anti- Asian Emigration Acts & discrimination, dance gilrls, Sally Rand, the Holywood use of S.F. as weekend vacation spot, Fatty Arbukcle trials, Sutro Baths, Fleishacker Pool, Playland at the Beach, the ferries, the cable cars, Powell Street turnaround, the Mission, Market Street, returning WWI GI's, the Jazz era, the Mob, radio & radio broadcasts, the building of the famous movie theaters like the Fox, Warfield, the famous restaurants, the Seals baseball team & the Old Recreation Park at 15th & Valencia, Mayor "Sunny Jim" Rolph, the Industrial Association, the labor unions, the Stock Market crash, poverty in San Francisco, the Dust Bowl emigration to California, the building of the Bay Bridge & footage of building of the Golden Gate Bridge, labor strife, labor radicalism, buiding of the Opera House & other civic buildings, the 1934 General Strike, the development of the neigborhoods in the western part of the city, rowing at Golden Gate Park, Sea Cliff, the Great Highway, Kezar Stadium, Federal Worker's Project painting of murals in Coit Tower, splitting the atom at UC Berkeley, much color footage of the Golden Gate Expedition on Treasure Island, the new China Clipper shown exterior & interior, much more. W/ reminiscences by Herb Caen, Carol Channing, other San Franciscans, Two great documentaries on yesterday's San Francisco. Home copied from TV onto quality videocassete (this means I saw them on TV & recorded them & make copies from my copy as people order it).

  • Bookseller: David Hecht, Bookseller US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 14511
  • Format/binding: Video cassette in slipcase
  • Book condition: VG
  • Place: San Francisco,
  • Date published: 1999

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