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Knob-and-tube wiring may also be damaged by building renovations. [11] Its cloth and rubber insulation can dry out and turn brittle. [ 10 ] It may also be damaged by rodents and careless activities such as hanging objects from wiring running in accessible areas like basements or attics.
In 1941, "final negotiations" were being made for a second tube, [35] and plans for a second tube at Webster Street had been advanced in 1948 as part of a Parallel Bridge scheme. The Parallel Bridge was one of the "Southern Crossing" designs which would have added another trans-Bay bridge south of the 1936 San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. [36]
While traveling through the Transbay Tube in June 2023, an Apple Watch being worn by a passenger warns about excessive noise Many BART passengers have noted that the system is noisy, with a 2010 survey by the San Francisco Chronicle measuring up to 100 decibels (comparable to the noise level of a jackhammer) in the Transbay Tube between San ...
Andrew Smith Hallidie (March 16, 1836 – April 24, 1900) was an American entrepreneur who was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system, although both claims are open to dispute.
At Kearny and Clay was the lower end of the first cable car line in America, launched by Andrew S. Hallidie on August 2, 1873, climbing five blocks up Clay Street hill toward Nob Hill. During the early 20th century, "running north from Market Street to the Barbary Coast , Kearny Street was an avenue of honky-tonks and saloons frequented by ...
Vice President Kamala Harris, addressing Bay Area donors, frames November's election as a choice between freedom under Biden and dictatorship under Trump.
The SF Masonic Auditorium (originally the Grand Masonic Auditorium and formerly known as the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium) is a building and auditorium located atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The building was designed by Bay Area architect Albert Roller (1891-1981), and opened in 1958.
Crane Cove Park is a 7-acre (2.8 ha) urban park in Potrero Point, San Francisco, California, located on the city's east-facing waterfront. The park opened in 2020. The park opened in 2020. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The site used to be a shipbuilding site occupied by the Union Iron Works and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation .