Much of San Francisco was famously leveled by the catastrophic earthquake of April 18, 1906 and the citywide fires that followed. The destruction served as an excuse to rebuild and reimagine the city from the ground up. Consequently, what few pieces of the pre-1906 city have survived into the modern era are all the more valuable to show us what old San Francisco was like. In this video, we’ll go in search of some sites within the city that date from before the disasters and which can give us some insight as to what Victorian and Edwardian-era San Francisco was like.