This fascinating Youtube video [2]shows Market Street in San Francisco in 1905 from the point of view of a cable car traveling along it.
(Hat tip to the Reason Foundation's Out of Control Policy Blog [3].)
Links:
[1] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/transportation-library
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k
[3] http://reason.org/blog/show/fascinating-1905-san-francisco