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Brooklyn Goes to San Francisco - 1956
IF there is an aesthetic credo to Brooklyn and the Bay Area, it is Do It Yourself, which connotes more than using an Allen wrench from Ikea. D.I.Y. can mean everything from wearing locally designed T-shirts to attending concerts staged in someone’s warehouse apartment, to riding a bike to work.
Several businesses that have opened in both Brooklyn and the Bay Area exemplify the aesthetic ...
"We are cross-pollinating."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/fashion/30sanfrooklyn.html?_r=1
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Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area. It is also the western most county (Borough) on Long Island.
San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,977. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large city (greater than 200,000 population) in the United States.
ShareThisBridging San Francisco Bay - 1937
The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a series of bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States. Forming part of Interstate 80 and of the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world.
The toll bridge was conceived as early as the gold rush days, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge.
ShareThisAqua Frolics - 1940's
Weirdo Video will return soon ... after we return from our summer 2009 sabbatical, scouring the planet for lost vintage films for you viewing pleasure.
In the meantime, please cool-off with some Aqua Frolics ...
Yours truly,
Roland Faust
Proprietor
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Lincoln Highway Groundbreaking - 1915
A promotional film for the Lincoln Highway from 1915, this short reel shows a groundbreaking ceremony for Carl G. Fisher's dream project, the first coast-to-coast automobile highway. Conceived by headlight entrepreneur Fisher, also said to be the first car dealer in US history, the man, like many an American, seems to have become a visionary in the eternal quest of making the almighty buck.
In fact, the Lincoln Highway was the first memorial to Abraham Lincoln, predating the monument in Washington, DC by perhaps more than ten years.
Although Thomas Edison and Theodore Roosevelt were active boosters and financiers of Fishers idea, it is hard to say if these are the two men orating in this film. Hundreds of towns across the US lobbied to have the Lincoln Highway pass through their way with songs, articles and public events dedicated to the new interstate. This appears to be one such film.
Ultimately, the highway would follow a historically American path, stretching from Times Square in New York City, along the Chambersburg Turnpike so associated with Gettysburg, then in tandem with portions of the legendary Pony Express, up and over the dreaded Donner Pass and on to the final destination of Lincoln Park in San Francisco, California.
Carl G. Fishers Lincoln Highway would go on to become the major influence of Eisenhower's future Interstate System and Germany's Autobahn.
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