SAN FRANCISCO: METROPOLIS OF THE WEST

[Music] the city of San Francisco is situated on the northern end of a Gili peninsula on one side is the Pacific Ocean on the other the vast Bay of San Francisco on the city's founders where the Spanish settlers who came with Portola in 1769 but its builders were the adventurers who flocked to it during the gold rush days of 49 adventurers from all over the world who turned the quiet mission village into a metropolis today it is a beautiful and great city with massive towers of steel and stone standing as symbols of its progress [Music] the city's main business star affair is Market Street and few streets of America can boast more traffic and activity crowded streetcars constantly Russian tears up and down its door kept the tracks furious site two strangers are the tram cars which are turned around by hand on circular tables in the pavement [Music] these cars which are light enough for two men to push are hill-climbing cars they are drawn by moving cables that run beneath the streets and in them San Franciscans go roller coasting up and down there Dilli highways [Music] San Francisco is still almost entirely on hill and some of them are so steep that stairways take the place of streets automobiles are thought that to Carius angles then you often wonder just how slight a push it would take to send some toppling to the bottom one of the most celebrated sections of San Francisco is Chinatown the largest Chinese community outside of the Orient here are the exotic odors and ways the polecat they still exist oriental lanterns are the streetlights and many ornate curving rooms Springs the skyline most attractive is the telephone exchange built in classic Chinese style there are more than 20,000 permanent Chinese residents in Chinatown many of them American doll Chinatown appeals particularly to shoppers who spend hours browsing about in the attractive stores among the exotic wares from the Orient too many Chinatown is most attractive at night when neon sign plays and shop windows are brightly lighted [Music] San Francisco is the proud possessor of the two greatest bridges in the world the longest signals ban in history is flung across two fabulous Golden Gate the entrance to San Francisco Bay the distance between the towers is 4/5 of a mile more than 700 feet longer than any other single bridge span in the world the longest bridge in the world is the face bridge connecting the City of Oakland on the mainland with San Francisco on the peninsula the bridge which costs 77 million dollars is eight and a quarter miles long and crosses the largest landlocked Harbor in the world he had to level the level for trucks an electric plane the upper four six lanes the fast-moving automobiles San Francisco's in existence to the bath Bay and it's great for the Embarcadero the famed waterfront speed is faithful miles with row upon row of blended docks and up and down it Rumble railway cars and trucks tag the cargos of ships that say of the seventy one of the most romantic parts of the waterfront is the International Settlement the Barbary Coast of old San Francisco once the wickedest spot in America it is today only a street of a few cafes and many memories in the days gone by and men from across the ocean brought to San Francisco taken for foreign things to be convinced and ever since that good food has been famous the most picturesque part of the waterfront is fisherman's world with its miniature heart where the fishing fleet waits for the time [Music] it's fashionable to dine at Fisherman's Wharf where giant crabs and shellfish shall start fresh from boiling colonies in the ocean not far from Fisherman's Wharf within sight of the Golden Gate his San Francisco's beautiful yacht harbor we craft from faraway lands fly up from time to time in this 2d title of are looking for that one pier bobbing up and down is a gilded seafood jump that made the crossing from China in 87 de years and almost next to it a silver metal flying clipper prepares to take up on the same journey and arrange its destination in less than 60 years the great flying boats circle debate and then zips away into the clouds that Herald the coming of San Francisco the farms which streaked in from the Pacific to blanket the city with myths world famous people think of bonds as nuisances but in San Francisco they are not for during the months from May until October when almost no rainfall they cover the land with a gentle veil of moisture bring new life to the trees and flowers and keep down the summer temperatures of the great city no city in America has more attractive residential areas than has San Francisco they hug the shores of the bay or ramble in well ordered patterns up and down the sides of the many hills empire builder red marble mansions on the tops of the hill and other citizens erected dignified homes along fine avenues rows of small houses lion ministries they're attractive architecture contrasting greatly with the Gordon Asst of some of the earliest homes of the city's most lovable of the city's inhabitants is Cicero cracked master of Golden Gate Park dispelling it even with strangers is typical of all San Franciscans this special domain is a ton along the blast cypresses and times of the tea garden that was a gift to the people of San Francisco from the Emperor Meiji of Japan a perfect oriental garden in a setting six thousand miles from home the garden that for more than half a century has delighted thousands in this city besides relation among the trees at Westmont square is the only monument to the memory of Robert Louis Stevenson on supra heights in a garden of 60 years ago whether stone figures gaze down upon the green trees of Golden Gate Park and upon the white sands of San Francisco's magnificent Beach San Franciscans are justly proud of their many public buildings for they are among the finest of any city in America the Palace of Fine Arts is a beautiful reminder of the panama-pacific exposition of 1915 Mission Dolores founded by manipular Sarah that what's the pageant of San Francisco since the beginning the marble Legion of Honor causes treasures of tapestry painting and sculpture there is a certain beauty even in the massive levels and severe architecture of the United States Mint but the pride of San Francisco in the Civic Center where a monumental group of buildings has been created to serve and beautify the city they are placed around a spacious park planter with benches colorful flowers and alleys of trees for the ice while away their time in the sunshine in a center of this group stands the City Hall one of the most beautiful municipal buildings in the world it's proud don't rising more than three feet above the street majestically overlooks the fascinating and romantic metropolis of Western America dan Frank the show