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...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair and stroll down Market Street. How different will it be when compared to this 1905 footage? The video is available through archive.org's Moving Images section (an amazing collection) and fittingly set on Air's Femme D'Argent by cleaverb. I've come about it due to catching up with one of my favourite urban gardening blogs, The High Line, and was mesmerized by how chilled everyone was: ladies and gents milling about, cars, children, horses, trams, newspaper boys, bikes, policemen. All seemingly set on a collision course and yet miraculously getting away with it. Alive. If looking for some food for thought this Sunday, I give you the very pleasant, if partly perplexing seven minutes of San Francisco over one century ago.