https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jy_ifgU-io
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that sway San Francisco in 1906 and the result fires scourge the city , but old San Francisco remains in photographs and TV . This video recording let you move down Market Street as it looked before the earthquake strike .
The television , produce by Miles Brothers in 1906 , was film from the front of a cablegram elevator car .
The footage in the video below was inject in the days and weeks following the Earthquake , and shows how utterly obliterate most of the metropolis was . It even shows cable cars trundling down a much emptier , ruin - filled Market street .
San Francisco , Before and After the 1906 Fire[mental_floss ]
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