Synopsis
Tour of the modern interurban trolley system of San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Predicts the bright postwar future of streetcar transit, with visionary images of advanced-design railcars. The Key System transbay service was abandoned in 1961.
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Details
- Running time
- 20 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- MarchofP1945
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- San Francisco: Infrastructure
- Transportation: Interurban streetcars
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · We were happy on the bus.. until.. War! · Spuzz · 2003-11-04
An oddball film that just goes all OVER the map, and never really gets to the point til the final third and then wanders off again, We start this story about this transit corperation with, of course, a history of San Fransisco. We see some (badly done!) mexican hat dances and some footage of the San Fransisco fire. What this has to do with SF transit is never explained. Finally, it settles in and talks about how people were travelling on ferry before the bridge was built. Then trains and busses were built. Then it starts going a little off track and talks about the war, it tries to justify…
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