The Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California. Huge crowd greets President Dwight D Eisenhower and his wife as they arrive at their hotel. President Eisenhower gets nominated for standard bearer for the Republican Party in the Presidential Campaign. Demonstrations on the floor of the Cow Palace include a dancing Chinese dragon. Crowd with banners in hand. Former President Herbert Hoover speaks over the microphone. Former Governor Dewey also appears at the podium. Congressman announces the name of Dwight D Eisenhower as the Republican candidate for Presidential campaign.
The use of walkie talkie hand held two way radios at a hospital in San Francisco, California. A man explains the functioning of the walkie talkie radios to the doctors and the nurses. Operator seated at the switch board. A doctor receives a reporting signal from the early model pager, via a beep, and can hear information from the switchboard operator and respond. A mother hears the wails of her new born baby through the walkie talkie as it serves the role of early baby monitor.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown sails for a undisclosed mission in San Francisco, California. Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown at a dock. The U.S. fighter airplanes are towed and taken aboard USS Yorktown. The U.S. fighter airplanes on a deck. The food supplies on a conveyor belt are transferred on the carrier. The U.S. sailors at the dock. A family of a sailor wave.
Beauty pageants of 1956 and 1957. Contestants of Miss America 1957 pageant walk the ramp in Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ 08401, United States), Atlantic City, New Jersey. Miss America contestants in white ballgown dresses holding flags in the ramp. Marian McKnight of South Carolina is crowned Miss America. Miss America 1956 Sharon Ritchie puts a crown on Marian McKnight. Carol Morris of Iowa wins the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, California.
Promotional documentary titled 'By The Way of Panama - California The Golden'. Describes views of California to be seen on a cruise from New York, via Panama. The sea shores of California with rocks and sand. A passenger ship sailing in the harbor of San Diego. Views of the San Diego Harbor. The ship, called the "Pennsylvania" reaches harbor of Los Angeles. The buildings and streets of the city of Los Angeles. A Hollywood film studio with shooting underway. Luxury homes of LA. The ship moves on to San Francisco. The harbor of San Francisco including Alcatraz Island in background. Views of the surroundings from a high ridge in San Francisco.
The city of San Francisco, California. A cable car moves along on the street. "Van Ness Avenue California and Market Streets" sign on the trolley. Passengers seated inside. Traffic on the street. People get off and on the cable car. Pedestrians walk by. The cable car moves down a steep hill street. Cable car going down California Street near Powell Street, and passing the Rolls Garage (formerly Crest Garage). Passengers look out the windows. Cable cars number 510 and 506. A passenger standing inside. Several signs on the cable cars including 'Municipal Railway of San Francisco', 'Powell and Hyde Street', 'Powell and Market, Bay and Taylor'. The driver in the cable car as it moves down a hill.
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