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1980-1999TRANSPORTATION
Public Transportation System in San Francisco unprepared for a major (unknown) event that brought many more thousands of folk than expected - MUNI. Shots of crowd at an event in a park along the harbor in Oakland or San Francisco.

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A long line of people of all ages, men, women and children, walking slowly down the street, some drinking coffee and eating food, cars going by.
01:01:08 68.59 thumbnail
Same line of people crowd near city busses waiting to get on. A police car parked in the foreground
01:01:47 108.01 thumbnail
CU crowd of multi racial people, Whites, Asians, African Americans, getting on a city bus. Huge line of folk all the way down the street waiting to catch a bus.
01:02:43 163.3 thumbnail
An African American man assisting people getting on the busses. Doors on bus close and busses take off. The man talks on walkie talkie as another bus pulls up and doors open.
01:03:59 239.19 thumbnail
Same African American man identifies himself to unseen reporter as George and spells out his last name, N-e-w-k-i-r-k. He states he works for MUNI (the public transportation system in San Francisco).
01:04:16 256 thumbnail
CU of Newkirk as he explains to unseen reporter how MUNI was actually prepared for a certain number of people to be transported to an event that day, more than 100 times more folk than expected showed up.
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A mom and daughter from Berkeley talk with unseen reporter. Busses pulling away in bkgd. The mom talks to the reporter about arriving early at the BART station but thousands of people were already there in line. Her cute small baby resting on her back pokes his head out.
01:09:00 540 thumbnail
Mom with her baby on her back and her teen daughter head down the street and down the steps to catch the train (BART).
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Food being served under a tent, people lined up.
01:09:42 582.52 thumbnail
Chinese folk cooking, boiling large vats of dumplings under a tent. Dumplings boiling in a giant wok. CU the cook stirs them up and drains them in a large sieve. Two other cooks fry them in covered pans, spraying them with water as they cook.
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CU dozens of sausage cooking on a grill.
01:10:39 639.97 thumbnail
Crowd of people walking, hanging, out and eating along the harbor area.
01:10:50 650.81 thumbnail
People at an event in the park, sitting on the lawn on blankets, walking about, food tents in bkgd.
01:11:00 660.19 thumbnail
A person, could be homeless, wrapped up in a coat with a bright yellow bag beside him or her sound asleep on the lawn at a park.
01:11:06 666.59 thumbnail
A man with long hair and beard laying on the ground leaning against his bicycle. The homeless person from before next to him on grass.
01:11:14 674.7 thumbnail
A family with a baby in its carriage sitting on the grass, enjoying food and drink
01:11:30 691 thumbnail
Crowd of folk at this unknown event walking in the park with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge in the bkgd on a dreary, foggy day. Shots of people bundled up lying on the ground, some sitting on the harbor wall.
01:11:43 703.57 thumbnail
People wrapped up in blankets sleeping on the grass.
01:12:06 726.4 thumbnail
WS event in the park with food tents in the bkgd. CU people sleeping on the ground next to a tent, a baby crying, old woman plays a portable keyboard
01:12:43 764.01 thumbnail
Crowd lined up to get on the parked busses.
01:13:23 802.99 thumbnail
Huge crowd seen peacefully leaving an event at the same time.
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