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YoshidaYui

(42,725 posts)
Sun Apr 9, 2023, 02:06 AM Apr 2023

Powell-Hyde Cable Car 4 @ Hyde Street Cable Car Turnaround San Francisco California

I used to work near by this place, at an art gallery. I bet I have ridden cable cars more times than i can count, footage is not mine but i appreciate the views.

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Powell-Hyde Cable Car 4 @ Hyde Street Cable Car Turnaround San Francisco California (Original Post) YoshidaYui Apr 2023 OP
Very cool! Thanks for posting it. nt CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2023 #1
Pittsburg, Duquesne Incline is a 145 year old cable. Google it. When it opened, an operator was 3Hotdogs Apr 2023 #2
Years in the city I only rode a cable car once lambchopp59 Apr 2023 #3
I'm old enough that Mr.Bill Apr 2023 #4

3Hotdogs

(13,403 posts)
2. Pittsburg, Duquesne Incline is a 145 year old cable. Google it. When it opened, an operator was
Sun Apr 9, 2023, 08:00 AM
Apr 2023

hired to run it. He got in the front of it, looked down over the cliff and immediately walked off the job.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
3. Years in the city I only rode a cable car once
Sun Apr 9, 2023, 10:14 AM
Apr 2023

When my brother and his wife came to visit we rode the California line out of downtown, walked the rest of the way to pacific heights where I lived.

Mr.Bill

(24,791 posts)
4. I'm old enough that
Sun Apr 9, 2023, 12:58 PM
Apr 2023

the first time I rode a cable car it cost ten cents. If you hung on to the outside it was free. This was in 1961. A lot of people depended on them for actual public transportation and getting back and forth to work. Now, it's mostly tourists.

I never lived in San Francisco but I lived in the south bay and various places on the peninsula for 30 years. I always love your videos of the city. They bring back nothing but good memories.

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