San Francisco CA., USA., Summer 1995. Riding San Francisco’s historical cable cars to Fisherman’s Wharf. Young folks riding the Fisherman’s Wharf bound cable car. million people ride cable cars each year. Building a cable car is an exacting art that takes several dozen craftsmen 18 to 24 months to complete. Streetcars are different from cable cars. World War II opened up cable car jobs for African-Americans and women. Muni holds a cable car ringing competition every year. The cable cars are the world's last manually operated cable car system.
San Francisco CA., USA., Summer 1995. Riding San Francisco’s historical cable cars to Fisherman’s Wharf. Young folks riding the Fisherman’s Wharf bound cable car. million people ride cable cars each year. Building a cable car is an exacting art that takes several dozen craftsmen 18 to 24 months to complete. Streetcars are different from cable cars. World War II opened up cable car jobs for African-Americans and women. Muni holds a cable car ringing competition every year. The cable cars are the world's last manually operated cable car system, a tramway whose cars are pulled along by cables embedded in the street. These right-out-of-the-Smithsonian cable cars were named a national historic landmark in 1964. Refurbished and equipped with new tracks, cables, turnarounds and cable propulsion machinery, they operate much as they did on Aug. 2, 1873 when Andrew S. Hallidie guided the first car down Clay Street.
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