continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required. Cable cars are distinct...
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District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. The Excelsior District is located along Mission Street, east of San Jose Ave, south of Interstate...
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major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses...
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media related to Cableways. Melbourne's cable trams on YouTube San Francisco's Cable Cars & Motor Cars; 1900-1940s – with 1906 Earthquake on YouTube...
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Mi Teleférico (redirect from La Paz cable car)
a feasibility study was undertaken for a cable car between La Ceja in El Alto and the Plaza de San Francisco in La Paz. The most controversial aspects...
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commonly referred to as the Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco. The Castro was one of the first gay neighborhoods in the United States...
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The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part...
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cable cars, and Alcatraz. The city is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of California, San Francisco,...
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Muni Metro (redirect from San Francisco Muni Metro)
residing in San Francisco free access to all Muni transit services, including Muni's cable cars. Free Muni is open to all San Francisco senior Clipper...
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for the cable cars – known as the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival – during an almost two-year suspension (1982–84) of all cable-car service to...
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The San Francisco Armory, also known as the San Francisco National Guard Armory and Arsenal or simply The Armory, is a historic building in the Mission...
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Grace Cathedral is an American cathedral of the Episcopal Church in San Francisco, California. On top of Nob Hill, Grace is the cathedral church of the...
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The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States, that serves as its main central business district and had 372,829...
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of the other sites. The Beach and Hyde Street terminal of the San Francisco cable car system adjoins the main site, while the Jones Street terminal of...
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The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is the municipal law enforcement agency of the City and County of San Francisco, as well as San Francisco International...
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William Eppelsheimer (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Street, Park & Ocean Railway, another San Francisco line, and this is still used by that city's surviving cable cars. Eppelsheimer went on to design the...
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eighteen, residing in San Francisco's Chinatown for the first few months before moving to Seattle.[citation needed] San Francisco cable cars have long served...
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San Francisco, California, in the United States, has at least 482 high-rises, 58 of which are at least 400 feet (122 m) tall. The tallest building is...
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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (redirect from 1989 san francisco earthquake)
but effects extended well to the north into the San Francisco Bay Area, both on the San Francisco Peninsula and across the bay in Oakland. No surface...
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Herb Caen (redirect from Herb Caen Way (San Francisco))
letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to The San Francisco Examiner)...
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(1922–1999), San Francisco–based architect, designed many of the buildings in San Francisco with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Vernon DeMars (1908–2005)...
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plaza bordered by Geary, Powell, Post, and Stockton Streets in downtown San Francisco, California. "Union Square" also refers to the central shopping, hotel...
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Bayview–Hunters Point (sometimes spelled Bay View or Bayview) is the San Francisco, California, neighborhood combining the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods...
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Funicular (redirect from Funicular car)
counterbalanced carriages (also called cars or trains) permanently attached to opposite ends of a haulage cable, which is looped over a pulley at the upper...
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Eureka Valley is a neighborhood in San Francisco, primarily a quiet residential neighborhood but boasting one of the most visited sub-neighborhoods in...
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The history of the city of San Francisco, California, and its development as a center of maritime trade, were shaped by its location at the entrance to...
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can be found citywide, the San Francisco cable car system, the abstract San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, the ruins...
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History of trams (redirect from Trolley cars)
steep terrain partially explains the survival of cable cars in San Francisco. The San Francisco cable cars, though significantly reduced in number, continue...
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List of aerial tramways (redirect from List of cable cars)
List of aerial tramways (US) or cable cars (Europe) around the world. For gondola lifts, see the List of gondola lifts. For funiculars see List of funicular...
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cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The building overlooks the site of the Sutro Baths ruins...
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