[Konvas] San Francisco - 1906 in HD - YouTube Fascinating

Sun Dec 20 09:17:00 EST 2015

When I used to live in Melbourne many years ago I too used to drive on the trams tracks, my old Holden car was the same width as the tracks and it did give you a smoother ride. Perhaps it could have been "devilment" on my part as you were supposed to keep to the left of the tracks at all times and overtake the tram on the inside not the outside. The original trams were based on the San francisco design but electrified. Infact, I have just obtained some rare archive sound recordings of these trams with their distinctive sounding bell and creaking wooden carriages.
I think it is important that all these films and sound recordings are made available to the public as evidence that life in the old days was not all doom and gloom infact, it may have been better than we thought. 

I have been asked to recreate a 4 engined Imperial Airways Hannibal from the pilots POV which I am looking forward to putting together. TV people are filming the interiors in Maureen Ohara's old Sandringham flying boat in Southampton which they are converting into a Hannibal.

Isn't life grand.  Rita

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> On 19 Dec 2015, at 23:21, Brandon Esten <bruinflight at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What's also remarkable is how everyone prefers to drive on the tracks which
> are smoother than in the rest of the street. The wagons grudgingly get out
> of the way of the trolleys at the last minute
> 
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Speedbird at acousticturtle.plus.com <
> speedbird at acousticturtle.plus.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am amazed how many people put their hands up to board the tram and it
>> doesn't stop!
>> Can only assume they are told that they are "out of service" and not to
>> board. Has anyone noticed the very unusual heavy duty wagons crossing the
>> street and  some trams have overhead power crossing the line. There's a
>> wealth of information here.  How the cameraman kept cranking all that time
>> without re loading . I will study it and look for the breaks but looks like
>> it's continuous but I think those cameras only had a 200 ft load.
>> 
>> Rita
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On 19 Dec 2015, at 19:58, Brandon Esten <bruinflight at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> And who handled the hazmat nitrite negative? Oops, the 2nd AC is on fire
>>> again.
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:43 AM, photones at juno.com <photones at juno.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Not only that but who cranked the camera!
>>>> 
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> What's also remarkable is how everyone prefers to drive on the tracks which
> are smoother than in the rest of the street. The wagons grudgingly get out
> of the way of the trolleys at the last minute
> 
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Speedbird at acousticturtle.plus.com <
> speedbird at acousticturtle.plus.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am amazed how many people put their hands up to board the tram and it
>> doesn't stop!
>> Can only assume they are told that they are "out of service" and not to
>> board. Has anyone noticed the very unusual heavy duty wagons crossing the
>> street and  some trams have overhead power crossing the line. There's a
>> wealth of information here.  How the cameraman kept cranking all that time
>> without re loading . I will study it and look for the breaks but looks like
>> it's continuous but I think those cameras only had a 200 ft load.
>> 
>> Rita
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On 19 Dec 2015, at 19:58, Brandon Esten <bruinflight at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> And who handled the hazmat nitrite negative? Oops, the 2nd AC is on fire
>>> again.
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:43 AM, photones at juno.com <photones at juno.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Not only that but who cranked the camera!
>>>> 
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