Powell & California
Cable car parade, 100th anniversary of Powell line, car #17. Fairmont Hotel in background.
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Powell & California
Cable car parade, 100th anniversary of Powell line, car #17. Fairmont Hotel at left.
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California & Powell
Cable Car Centennial, 2 cars, California Line, Powell & Hyde Line. Fairmont Hotel at left.
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Powell & California
Cable car parade, 100th anniversary of Powell line, car #17. Fairmont Hotel in background.
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Powell & California
Cable car parade, 100th anniversary of Powell line, car #17. Fairmont Hotel at left.
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California & Presidio
Cable Car carnival, car #6, California & Presidio
Presidio Heights
Hyde & Greenwich
Cable Car Centennial, car #520 decorated in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi
Russian Hill
Hyde & Francisco
Cable Car Centennial, cable car decorated as Presidential Car
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Taylor near Bay
View north on Taylor to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes." On right, Cable Car #503.
North Beach
Columbus & Mason
Cable Car #506, advertising 'Fisherman's Fiesta'. Parking lot on left is site of present-day North Beach library branch.
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Columbus & Mason
Cable Car #506 advertising 'Fisherman's Fiesta'
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Powell & Clay
Cable Car #5, closing day of old cable car system before rebuild.
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Taylor near Bay
View northeast across Taylor toMuni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes."
North Beach
Bay & Taylor
View north to Muni Washington & Mason line Cable Car #527, labeled as a Sacramento & Clay St. car to remind voters of that line, which had been eliminated in 1942. The car was chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann. On front left, campaign sign urging a yes vote on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), reading 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes."
North Beach
Washington near Mason
View north across Washington St. to Washington and Jackson Line Cable Car #524, chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann, at the Washington & Mason carbon and powerhouse. On front left, campaign sign urging yes on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes. At right, ad for Glen Hurlburt's 'Cable Car Concerto' and 'Rhapsody of Fisherman's Wharf' record (1947).(AS)
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