49-minute, 11.6-mile, 149-block narrated drive-lapse tour wandering randomly through parts of San Francisco, discussing history and other points of interest that we encounter along the way. No exciting accidents or anything like that, just me driving around literally randomly on a Thursday evening in August and blabbing about stuff -- sort of a drivelapse crossed with a (low key, somewhat cheesy perhaps?) travel or history documentary. With both new and archival material, occasionally going off on short tangents on various subjects. We do see a few bad drivers along the way (myself included at one point) and some jay-walkers of course. Two cameras in the car, although mostly just using the main camera, which unfortunately I set a bunch of settings incorrectly on and didn’t mount very well, which leads to a few minor video “idiosyncrasies”, which is part of the reason for the “mediocre” in the title. Instrumented with dynamic maps, position, speed, clock time and playback speed. By the way, this is the first 1440p (UHD) video I’ve uploaded to this channel. I’ll be interested to know if anyone actually watches it in 1440p. All video shot and owned by me. Narration by me. Music licensed from StockMusicSite.com and AudioMicro.com. Some photographs were licensed from the San Francisco History Center of the San Francisco Public Library, some are in the public domain, and some were shot and owned by me. Google maps used in accordance with the Google terms of service for an "online video". This video was recorded on public streets and other places accessible to, and visible to, the general public. The appearance of, or mention of, any person, business, product or organization herein is not necessarily an endorsement or recommendation of or by that person, business, product or organization. Registered, International Committee on Drivelapse Standards (ICDS), Certificate number 7-490876-805447. Index / Table of contents: 00:00 Introduction, route map, devising the title 02:43 Starting out on 9th Street in South of Market (SoMa) 02:54 Typical SRO hotel 03:43 Bill Graham Auditorium 04:26 Turning on to Larkin Street 04:43 Phillip Burton Federal Building 05:41 The Tenderloin neighborhood 05:43 Cool bar name #1 06:05 Little Saigon neighborhood 06:10 My favorite place for Vietnamese Sandwiches 06:32 “The wall”, impromptu flea market 07:41 Tendernob neighborhood 07:43 A corner 08:35 California Street 08:37 Cool bar name #2 08:50 Some Cable Cars 09:20 Van Ness Avenue (US 101) 09:29 Freeway revolt of the 1950’s and 1960’s 10:30 Bad driver #1 (red light runner) 12:13 Aquatic Park, fireworks 14:05 Bay Street, Russian Hill neighborhood 14:26 Hyde Street 15:55 Going over top of the Broadway Street Tunnel 16:57 Cool bar name #3 17:11 California Street, Nob Hill 17:30 More Cable Cars 17:40 Mason Street 19:40 Market Street, Mid-Market neighborhood 19:57 Muni, 21-Hayes 20:15 Old bank building 20:58 U.N. Plaza 22:07 Leavenworth, Tenderloin neighborhood 22:24 Cop car zips by 22:34 Ellis Street 22:40 Another corner 23:31 Polk Street 23:48 Former Pierce-Arrow building 24:20 Police activity 24:35 Polk Gulch neighborhood 24:50 Look back at SantaCon on Polk 25:50 Clay Street, Nob Hill 26:40 Chinatown 27:05 Grant Avenue 27:26 Not stopping for food 27:47 Broadway, North Beach neighborhood (Little Italy) 28:16 Famous restaurant / movie location 28:48 Bad driver number #2 (bus) 29:23 Battery Street, Financial District 29:44 U.S. Customs House 30:04 Washington Street 30:28 Transamerica Pyramid 31:26 Chinatown again 31:31 Site of new Central Subway Chinatown station 32:12 Stockton Street 32:32 Stockton Street Tunnel 33:45 Sutter Street 34:15 Powell Street 34:24 Protest march of some sort 34:49 Post Street 35:16 Grant Avenue 35:51 Geary Boulevard 35:55 Site of new Central Subway Union Square station 36:12 Union Square 37:54 Entering The Tenderloin again 38:15 Bad driver #3 (me!) 38:55 Demolition / construction site and channel 40:06 Cathedral Hill neighborhood 41:43 Chinese Consulate 42:39 Japantown, Peace Pagoda (stupa) 43:34 Webster Street, Western Addition 44:00 Golden Gate Avenue 44:21 SF PUC building 45:17 Civic Center neighborhood 45:23 Franklin Street 45:25 Bad driver #4 (cone dragger) 46:59 Eddy Street 47:04 YouTube chides me that my videos aren’t exciting enough 47:28 Van Ness Avenue 47:39 Turk Street 47:53 Closing credits A few other similar or related videos that you may enjoy: http://youtu.be/eqGvNWU8ZJU http://youtu.be/n6pUG0PZnb4 http://youtu.be/aFO8GznsH10 http://youtu.be/N8-aoFTbqVg

• published: 02 Oct 2014
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