1 Year Before The 1906 Earthquake

(thanks to John "the Boston jarhead" for bringing this to my attention)
"In 1905, an unknown cameraman filmed a streetcar trip along San Francisco's Market Street. The following year, the Great Earthquake struck, and he filmed the trip again. This is a five-minute silent film that edits together excerpts of his two films. Footage from the Prelinger Archives, edited by Matt Lake
Music from the live recording of "Ennio After Dark", recorded at Eyedrum in Atlanta, Georgia by the Atlanta band "dp3".

When you think about it this is probably one of the most
profound things you'll ever see. All these people are dead.
from the quake or WW1 six years later or the depression from
1939 or WW2 from 1941 or from old age if they were lucky.

I saw a movie once called "The Grand Tour"
It was about people popping in from the future at
points in the past when disasters were about to take
place. The disasters (earthquakes, wars, sinking ships, floods,
plane crashes, etc..) were a tourist attraction. The time
travelers were tourists from the future coming back for
the experience. The excitement of living thru the event.
Actually, there is probably more truth in that than we know.
I mean, look at the gaming industry. See how we mimic all these
events in games. Our entire history will one day be a game.
It's like looking into an infinity mirror.
You can have an avatar now in a place called "Second Life".
That doesn't even include the games. See "Gamer" or "Surrogate".
If you extrapolate this stuff into the future you have to know that
at some point we upload and download into avatars. Maybe that's
who we really are now. Maybe we should ask Ronald D. Moore about it.
Just one of my radical thoughts. Besides, you are just a figment
of my imagination.