Amazing 1906 San Francisco Street Car Film - Shot 4 Days Before Big 1906 SF Quake

1906 San Francisco Street Car film - AMAZING!

Shot 4 days before the 1906 SF earthquake. Film processing was so novel that the film had to be shipped by train to New York for processing. Hence it survived the big quake.   

This film, originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. From New York trade papers announcing the film showing to the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall & shadows indicating time of year & actual weather and conditions on historical record, even when the cars were registered (he even knows who owned them and when the plates were issued!).. It was filmed only four days before the quake and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing but true!

 

: "1980 Nascar Busch Volunteer 500 pre-race"

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Jimmy The Flying Greek Koufos attempts world record bus jump

Its always good to start your week with a laugh, and I nearly fell off my chair with the sheer absurdity of this crazy feat.

Watch in amazement at this hilarious footage of Jimmy The Flying Greek Koufos, as he attempts to jump his 5.5 ton bus over 20 motorcycles as part of the pre show hype at a NASCAR Busch race in 1980.

When being interviewed, Jimmy explains he had a physicist help work out the maths to safely complete the jump. He later reveals that the physicist is in fact his father in-law. Jimmy explains I hope my father in law loves me as he figured all this out for me.

Guest commentator and NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough says what everyone else at the track must have been thinking. Ill tell you the truth. I wouldnt get out of the electric chair to get in that bus right now

Gold, pure gold.

Pre-Race Show .... Bus Jump