Taking a ride through the fall and rise

• I have some big-thinky stuff that I want to try to get around to, but before then, let’s take a moment for a street­car ride.

  Here’s Mar­ket St. in San Fran­cisco in 1906, four days before the great earth­quake. It’s seven min­utes long, but I found it kind of relax­ing to have on, since you just mean­der along and the music is rest­ful.
  
  You could almost but not quite say the same for this one. This is a side-by-side com­par­i­son of the same street just after the earth­quake. The music isn’t jar­ring, but it is evoca­tive, I think; it’s sad. And notice the dif­fer­ence in the amount of traf­fic, and how peo­ple are mov­ing. The breezy self-assurance is miss­ing.
  
  And then we’ve got Mar­ket Street again, 99 years later in 2005. The city came back, big­ger than ever.
  
  So what’s the point? The inde­struc­tibil­ity of human endeavor? The fool­ish­ness of empires? Hope­less­ness? Hope­ful­ness?
  All or none of the above. I just liked tak­ing a street­car ride.

  
  

  Related posts:

  1. Tak­ing a teacup on a stroll in Chicago
  2. And another thing about fall …
  3. Is Ortho­dox con­ver­sion on the rise?
  4. It’s fall! I’m draw­ing as fast as I can!
  5. Tak­ing shots at Cheney

  
  
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• s-p 07.12.2010
  

  Some­times a street­car ride is just a street­car ride to be enjoyed in the moment. SF is one of our favorite places to visit for like three days.

• Anam Cara
  

  Wow! That is amaz­ing — being able to see the before and after side by side!

  Of course, as for com­ing back big­ger than ever, the same thing hap­pened to Atlanta after Gen. Sherman’s urban renewal plan.

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