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Powell & Clay

Cable Car #5, closing day of old cable car system before rebuild.

1982 Nob Hill

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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."

1947 North Beach

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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."

1947 North Beach

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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)

1947 Nob Hill