https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f1ff440d-cf95-49f1-8081-4b7d051ba346 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1920s black and white silent film promoting California Parlor Car Tours Inc. advertises bus line service between Los Angeles and San Francisco, with a focus on travel accommodations and sightseeing opportunities (TRT 9:57). Front view of a parked Fageol Safety Coach Parlor Car on a Los Angeles to San Francisco line (0:08). Glass windows are shown retracted, providing an unobstructed view of the passenger cabin (0:23). Title card: “America’s first Observation Motor Parlor Car” (0:30). Two smiling men seated above “parlor car” signage (0:36). A view of the parlor car from the rear interior. Wicker-backed individual chairs with armrests and padded headrests (0:44). Front view of luxuriously padded seat cushions (0:56). Title card: “Los Angeles-- Today a city of more than a million smiles…” (1:06). Downtown Los Angeles’s Broadway district circa the mid 1920s. Model T type automobiles, streetlamps, and pedestrians (1:17). The Loew’s State Theatre at 703 S. Broadway and a streetcar (1:21). The Ambassador Hotel seen at a distance, with landscaping and palm trees in the foreground (1:37). The Safety Coach pulls out of the Ambassador Hotel’s front portico (2:03). A driver’s P.O.V of the rear of a Yellow Coach double-decker bus and its rear staircase (2:23). A Hollywood mansion with doric columns and palm trees. A car and a bus pass by (2:27). Behind the scenes of a 35mm film shoot: Two hand-cranked movie cameras face an actress, who stands emoting in front of a smoking building (2:43). Title card: “Warner Bros. Studio and their Broadcasting Station KFWB” (3:07). The Old Warner Brothers Studio at 5800 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Two radio towers stand tall (3:13). A backlot set shows the false front of a drug store on a city street among scenery scaffolding (3:30). Tourists walk through Santa Barbara’s El Paseo courtyard, known as the “Street in Spain” (3:37). A woman with a Spanish style guitar leads a procession (4:02). Mission Santa Barbara “the only authorized motion pictures” of the mission, according to a title card (4:21). The Spanish mission in full view (4:42). A man in a monk’s robe welcomes guests from the Safety Coach (4:51). Father Hobrecht guides a tour group through the mission (5:12). Entering the mission (5:45). A title card advertises total expenses of $15 per day (5:53). In a new font: “The famous Persian Hotel, Samarkand at Santa Barbara, headquarters for California Parlor Car Tours, Inc.” An opulent theme hotel is depicted with swans in a pond and columns wreathed in ivy (6:05). A swimming pool (6:34). A stretch of highway (6:56). “Over the surf at Tajiguas” beach (7:30). Two bridges run parallel to one-another, a highway and a train track, both running along rocky cliffs of the Gaviota Coast. A passenger train and a car race into the distance (7:39). Trucks drive under overhanging rocks in the Gaviota Pass (8:35). Arrival at the Santa Maria Inn (8:50). Atascadero City Hall, now the Administration Building (9:30). Title card: “The End” over a beach sunset (9:46). California Parlor Car Tours was founded in 1924. The company offered “3 day, all-expense, personally conducted observation parlor car tours” linking Los Angeles (515 S. Spring St.) and San Francisco (741 Market St.). Their slogan was, “see California the delightful way.” The company operated until 2019. Fageol Motors was a United States manufacturer of buses, trucks and farm tractors. In 1921, Fageol became the first company to build a bus from the ground up (as opposed to using an existing truck platform). This new style bus was initially called "Safety Bus". 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