This is real footage from 120 years ago.
None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...
What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.
The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.
Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...
By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.
And the film itself nearly went with it.
The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.
This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...
@Timcast In baseball the stadium's structures can be very different so whoever is at home you play their ground rules. I say do that and boycott the left never traveling to their states. Let it devolve to the league of the straight and the league of the gay and let viewership decide
This man said he was glad that Charlie Kirk was m*rdered but not for the reason you would expect.
Take the time to watch this. It’s very powerful.
I know I speak for so many of you when I say as horrible and heartbreaking as his death was a lot of good came out of it.
@barnes_law Slow progress is remembering what she replaced. We want instant gratification from that change, are we correct in seeing that way? Probably an argument either way
@FmrRepMTG If you're tracking the military drawdown that's been happening for the last week it's clear we're pulling back and only the Navy is going to stay on station. Take Trump seriously but not literally
@TheGroypening It's amazing watching this little fag boy try to torpedo what has been gained. Do you remember living under 0-Biden? Do you remember the 8 long years of Obama? The choice is extremely clear already
@NeverteIImeodd Death row takes a couple decades to get through in most states anyway, either advocate for lamp post justice or accept this is the way of the world now. Quick tip, don't do things that land you life sentences
@libsoftiktok The deeper look is the promise to never flood the world again, the two ways of biblical cleansing is washing and fire. They're rubbing it in our face with their sin they're going to bring that next type of judgment down utilizing the promise's symbol. Ezekiel 39:6 is the future
@k9_reaper Your heart is in your throat, your brain is shutting down certain inputs for clarity, your buddy is on the ground bleeding, and you see something human shaped move on your flank. You react, not decide the next course of action. Can easily happen to the best and worst of us
@TheIOGuy@HardPass4 They're not around to protect or serve anymore, it's to deescalate situations regardless of how. This has been evident for a couple decades at least since the push to militarize police forces was enacted.