Home Movies: Key System, ca. 1959 (1959)
1959 · Ephemeral film · 17 min
Synopsis
Home movies of Key System trains on the viaduct around the Transbay Terminal and F trains on the East Bay right-of-way, plus a Bay Area Electric Railroad Association special on East Bay streets, the North Berkeley (Shattuck-Solano) tunnel and downtown Berkeley.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 17 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Berkeley/Oakland circa 1955E. Bay Terminal that's what it was called at that time · tribtower · 2013-07-31
Shot of Solano/Alameda tunnel F train emerging NOW car tunnel. Shattuck Avenue DOWNTOWN Berkeley Hotel Shattuck seen in background. Either last streetcar run or historic run on Claremont Ave around Russell St Berkeley. This would have been the E Claremont Key train Line. Also noted 40th St. and Piedmont Ave (Longs Drugs in the background). This was the C Piedmont Key Train line. Looking at the cars in this film the newest I could spot was a 55 Chevy. All the taxis were of early 50's vintage mostly Plymouths in those days. I would date the film as shot in 1955-56 not late 50's. There were some…
★★★★ · Go go go go! · Spuzz · 2014-12-07
This was a better collection of "Busses in Action" where this time the busses and trolleys are going around the (way) byways of SF. The scenery around the trolleys are what caught my eye. Through back ways and not through the city apparently! The tracks didnt look all that kempt. Plus lack of traffic right of ways got amusing at times.