I love watching this video (with the music Air - Le Femme D'argent):
It's 1906 San Francisco (Market Street). Just
days before the great earthquake. It's interesting to think about how there was some guy on the front of a cable car cranking a "moving picture" camera. All the people in the film had never seen anything like that.
You can go to Google Maps and use "street view" to go down this very section of Market Street, see the same side streets (and the ferry building: the tower in the distance straight down the street).