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This page has some additional photos of the Ferries & Cliff House
Railway lines. The surviving lines are probably the most photographed cable car system
in the world.
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Car 5 on Powell between Market and Ellis. Powell/Mason dash sign.
July 2001. Photo by Joe Thompson. November, 2001 Picture of the
Month.
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Car 10 rolls up Powell Street in October, 2006.
Photo by Joe Thompson. November, 2006 Picture of the Month.
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Car 15 on Powell between Market and Ellis. Powell/Hyde dash sign.
September 2001. Photo by Joe Thompson.
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Car 16 on Powell at Sutter. It has Muni's old Blue and Gold paint scheme. September 2001. Photo by Joe Thompson.
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Powell and Sutter. Union Square is being remodeled in the background. July 2001.
Photo by Joe Thompson.
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Car 27 waits to exit the car barn at Washington and Mason. Note the autos parked
in the background. July 2001. Photo by Joe Thompson.
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Sacramento/Clay car 16 on the roof of the Emporium department store in
1949. Photo by Ray Long. Thanks to Ray for permission to use it.
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Motorized Sacramento/Clay car 21 carries people through a flood in San Rafael. Text from the
08-Dec-1952 Call-Bulletin:
"TO THE RESCUE--One of San Francisco's famed cable cars -- this one long retired from service
-- went back on duty early yesterday in San Rafael, of all places. Equipped with rubber tires
and a truck engine, it was pressed into service as a taxi to remove marooned residents of the
flooded Bret Harte subdivision. The car is owned by Gus and Harold Geister of the Marin Truck
& Storage Co."
(Source: San Francisco
Public Library, San Francisco Historical Photograph
Collection, AAC-8115).
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Sacramento/Clay car 22 at Sacramento and Mason. Text from the 27-Jul-1937 Call-Bulletin:
"'Speedy travel' finds a skeptic. A Call-Bulletin reporter is shown boarding a cable car being
operated at 'top speed' at intersection of Mason and Sacramento streets. Riders of these
speed-flash cars are still looking for the 'facilities' of fast transportation to be unbridled
for them."
(Source: San Francisco
Public Library, San Francisco Historical Photograph
Collection, AAC-7992).
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A Powell Street Railway car at the Bay and Taylor terminal of the Powell/Mason line
about 1890. There are no windows in the front of the car. Note the front-facing seat
occupied by the lady and the child. The Bombay roof's "eyelid" is in front of the bell on the
roof. October, 1999 Picture of the Month.
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Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982), great American composer and piano player, posing on
Powell/Hyde cable car 526 (now 26) on the cover of his album Thelonious Monk Alone
in San Francisco. He liked San Francisco.
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Looking East on Washington from Van Ness, along the Washington/Jackson line in
April, 1928
(Source: [volume 31:group 4:124a], Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco
History and Law Enforcement, ca. 1895-1936, BANC PIC 1996.003--fALB, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley). Detail of a larger photograph.
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Bernstein's Fish Grotto on lower Powell Street. I never ate there, but I remember walking
by with my mother and being fascinated by the exterior. I understand the interior was not
as subdued.
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