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yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts) Wed Jul 12, 2017, 12:11 AM Jul 2017

Chinatown, San Francisco a century ago

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Chinatown, San Francisco a century ago (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jul 2017 OP

Wonderfull... bagelsforbreakfast Jul 2017 #1

I saw Train to Busan a couple of weeks ago. I endorse it. NBachers Jul 2017 #3

also recommend the film market st cable car ride taken just weeks before the quake msongs Jul 2017 #2

Actually... Podkayne K Jul 2017 #4

Fascinating- I'm over there several times a week- I look at the old buildings & think of the lives NBachers Jul 2017 #5

bagelsforbreakfast

(1,427 posts)

1. Wonderfull...

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Wed Jul 12, 2017, 12:16 AM

Jul 2017

diverted me from TRAIN TO BUSAN (which is a pretty good movie)!

NBachers

(17,110 posts)

3. I saw Train to Busan a couple of weeks ago. I endorse it.

Reply to bagelsforbreakfast (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 12, 2017, 12:46 AM

Jul 2017

msongs

(67,405 posts)

2. also recommend the film market st cable car ride taken just weeks before the quake

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Wed Jul 12, 2017, 12:19 AM

Jul 2017

showing a way of life that would shortly be wiped out

Podkayne K

(145 posts)

4. Actually...

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 12, 2017, 12:52 AM

Jul 2017

they've pretty much concluded that this was filmed just a day or two before the quake. That's what makes it so eerie.

NBachers

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5. Fascinating- I'm over there several times a week- I look at the old buildings & think of the lives

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Wed Jul 12, 2017, 01:04 AM

Jul 2017

that have been lived in them. Some things are still similar - the foot traffic, the produce, the energy . . . I got a kick out of the men who like to hang out and smoke together . . . herb stores . . .

Thanks for posting this.

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