Brief shots of Grand Canyon, speed boats, Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center, Sea World killer whale, rodeo cowboy, woman skiing, snow capped mountains, and Disney castle. Map of North America highlights California and Nevada. Postcard pictures of people and places in California and Nevada. Los Angeles skyline. Neon sign "Coors California." Car hop drive in diner with classic muscle cars and motorcycles. Shot looking upward from moving vehicle of palm trees lining street. The famous Hollywood sign. Several stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Universal Studios park shows tourists with Jaws mechanical shark and moving shooting demonstrations. Rolls Royce on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and shopping with storefronts of Cartier, Elizabeth Arden, Gucci. Aerial view of Santa Monica pier. At the beach, a man surfing in waves and women in bikini bathing suits playing volleyball. People in fashions of the 1980s. Controls of boom box radio and young man break dance performer shows a breakdance routine. Roller skaters performing stunts and dancing on roller skates. Hotdog vendor. Tall swings with two performers. Golden Gate Bridge, Painted Ladies homes, TransAmerica Building in San Francisco. Street Car or Cable car operating shows conductor and controls at work. San Francisco street scenes with pedestrians and automobiles. San Francisco pier. Slicing sour dough bread and steaming dungeness crabs. Yosemite National Park with people boarding shuttle bus and watching waterfall. Hoover Dam and Lake Meade. Boats on Lake Meade. Las Vegas sites including Flamingo, Stardust, and Dunes casinos. People gambling at the Las Vegas Club. Neon lights of casinos. Slot machines and card and table games like craps and blackjack. A Las Vegas nightclub show with dancers. Woman relaxing on a raft in a pool at a hotel.
Republican Presidential and Democratic Senator Primaries in California in 1964. U.S. Senator Barry Morris Goldwater emerges from a car and receives congratulations for being nominated for President in United States Republican Presidential Primary. Governor of New York, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, exits from a bus and meets delegates. Nelson Rockefeller addressees a large crowd as he loses the U.S. Republican Presidential Primary. Barry Goldwater speaks to a large crowd during the presidential campaign. People applaud and cheer for the nominees. Elevated aerial views of part of harbor and city of San Francisco California. Exterior views of the Cow Palace arena near San Francisco, California, which will be site of the Republican National Convention of 1964. Next scene shows Alan Cranston, California Senate Controller, casting vote in a ballot box for Democratic Senatorial Primary. Pierre Emil George Salinger, former Press Secretary, wins the Senatorial nomination in the Democratic party. He is greeted by his wife. He is congratulated by his supporters and party.
A documentary on The United Nations Conference on International Organization that continued from April 25, 1945 to June 26, 1945 in San Francisco. A plane in flight and ships are seen in San Francisco Bay. 1940s San Francisco city views: Aerial views of Golden Gate Bridge. People on streets on San Francisco, with streetcars, buildings, pedestrians, and mid 1940's cars seen. Aircraft parked at a USAF Base as delegates from 50 countries arrive. Delegates like Jan Christian Smuts from South Africa, Vyacheslav Molotov from Russia, U.S. secretary of State Edward Stettinius arrive in San Francisco. Delegates register for the conference. United States flag on a building. Interior of the War Memorial Opera House serving as the initial meeting hall. Delegates seated. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing the general assembly remotely, as delegates listen through radio speakers in the opera house. Narrator recalls words of Franklin Roosevelt and recorded audio of Roosevelt is heard where he urges continuation of the work first begun by the defunct League of Nations. View of various working committees and smaller groups of the organization meeting during the Spring of 1945. Representatives debate and review concepts initiated at the Dumbarton Oaks conference in Washington DC in 1944 during World War II. Delegates addressing those assembled and signing documents that create the United Nations.
In 1938 American distance runner and athlete Glenn V. Cunningham wins the race in Princeton, New Jersey. Cunningham and U.S. athlete Archie San Romani during the last lap of the race. The spectators seated in a stand as they cheer. Cunningham wins the race.
Homecoming of the USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California. Wives of the sailors wave as USS prepares to tie up at quay wall. Mayor of San Diego Joshua H. Bean speaks. Consul of Sweden, Waldo Homburg speaks. Consul of Norway speaks. Flags of both those nations and State flag of California are seen. Vice Admiral Sprague speaks. Miss California stand with flowers and waves. Spectators in the background. A band plays. (Presence of the Scandinavian representatives may be related to the cooperation of USS Valley Forge and other U.S. Naval vessels, during production of the motion picture "Windjammer" about the voyage of the Norwegian training vessel, Christian Radich.) Note: Korean war demands required the USS Valley Forge to resupply and sail again on December 6, 1950.
Wreckage of A-17 aircraft that crashed and burned on sidewalk and yard of a house at 1007 Scott Road, Burbank California, while attempting to land at the nearby Lockheed company airfield, on September 21, 1938. Army soldiers in uniform, and Local residents stand around the wreckage. Killed in the crash were: Major General Oscar Westover, Chief of the Army Air Corps, and Crew Chief, Staff Sergeant Samuel Hymes. There were no other casualties, but damage from fire can be seen on two of the nearby houses. People pick through the wreckage. Closeup of the propeller and engine cowling dug into the earth. Large group of spectators standing clear of the wreckage as several officials comb through it. An elderly man and woman, sit in their yard with a small child.
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