Hyde & Bay
Cable Car Centennial, car #17, Hyde & Francisco. Francisco Street Reservoir in background.
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Market & California
View northwest toward Drumm & California intersection to Cable Car #50, decorated for San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) 50th birthday. Fosters Cafeteria
Financial District
Hyde & Bay
Cable Car Centennial, Hyde & Francisco. Francisco Street Reservoir in background.
Russian Hill
Hyde & Francisco
Cable Car Centennial, Hyde & Francisco. Francisco Street Reservoir in background.
Russian Hill
Hyde & Francisco
Cable Car Centennial, cable car 22, Hyde & Francisco. Francisco Street Reservoir in background.
Russian Hill
Cable Car Barn
Cable Car Centennial, car #56, Washington-Mason Cable Car Barn rear yard
Nob Hill
Hyde near Francisco.
Cable Car Centennial, descending Hyde St. between Chestnut and Francisco.
Russian Hill
Cable Car Barn Rear
Cable Car Centennial, car #13, Washington-Mason Cable Car Barn rear yard
Nob Hill
California & Drumm
Cable Car Centennial, California St cable car #60 decorated for the Bank of California.
Financial District
Jones & O'Farrell
California Street Cable Company O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde cable car decorated for Cable Car Carnival and advertising Darbee's Florist. Jones Cafe, Quinn Garage, Hotel York
Tenderloin
O'Farrell & Grant
California Street Cable Railway O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde Line cable car decorated and advertising Roos Brothers. Cable Car Carnival
Downtown / Union Square
Steiner near Jackson
Elevated view east to Muni Washington & Jackson Sts. Line cable car #527, 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." Victorian at center since demolished.
Pacific Heights
Bay & Taylor
View north to Muni Powell St. Line Cable Car #527 on turntable, 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
California near Grant
Elevated view north (probably from Metropolitan Life Insurance Building) to California Street Cable RR Co. cable car #1, with sign on top for Western Pacific California Zephyr train (inaugural run was March, 1949), climbing hill. In background, 720 California Building (then Hartford Insurance Building), Sabin Pl.
Chinatown
O'Farrell & Market
California Street Cable Railway O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde Line cable car decorated for Playland and the Cliff House. Cable Car Carnival
Downtown / Union Square