San Francisco 1955

A recently unearthed amateur video gives a rare, fullcolor look at San Francisco circa 1955. Shot by filmmaker Tullio Pellgrini, the 20minute movie gives an upcloseandpersonal tour of the city from Pellgrini s automobile. His narration is charmingly earnest in a way that s promotional of the city s virtues while never stepping over into being particularly phony or cloying. Streetsblog notes some ways the city in the video has changed since the 1950sthe days when, as Pellgrini says, the Bay Bri