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  2. Sutter Street Railway - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after it had become known as the Sutter Street Railroad. [2] In 1877 the line was converted to cable car operation. [3] [4] The line introduced the side grip, and lever operation, both designed by Asa Hovey. Sutter Street Railway's grip car 46 and trailer 54 have been preserved and are displayed in the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. [5]

  3. List of streetcar systems in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dubuque Street Railway [63]: 163 Dubuque: Horse May 23, 1868 1889 Hill Street & West Dubuque Steam Railway [63]: 163 Steam July 12, 1877 1884 Dubuque Electric Co. [63]: 163–164 Electric December 25, 1889 July 4, 1932 Fenelon Place Elevator: Funicular 1893 Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad [63]: 96–97

  4. San Francisco Cable Car Museum - Wikipedia

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    Sutter Street Railway - grip car 46 and trailer 54 dating from the 1870s; Clay Street Hill Railroad - grip car 8, the only surviving car from the first cable car company; The museum is part of the complex that also houses the cable car power house, which drives the cables, and the car depot ("barn").

  5. Kaliflower Commune - Wikipedia

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    The Friends of Perfection Commune is an American Utopian community in San Francisco, California. [1] The commune was founded in 1967 on principles of a common treasury, group marriage, free anonymous art, gay liberation, and selfless service.

  6. Sutter Club - Wikipedia

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    The Sutter Club is a historic building located in Sacramento, California constructed in 1930 in a Spanish Eclectic style. [2] It was recognized as a Sacramento landmark in 1982. [ 2 ] Designed by local architecture firms Dean & Dean and Starks & Flanders, it draws from Mediterranean and Spanish architectural styles. [ 2 ]

  7. Avalon Ballroom - Wikipedia

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    The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at 1244 Sutter Street [1] (or 1268 Sutter, [2] depending on the entrance). The space is known as the location of many concerts of the counterculture movement, from around 1966 to 1969. It also had a reopening 34 years later, from 2003 to 2005.

  8. Metropolitan Club (San Francisco) - Wikipedia

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    640 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94102; Coordinates Region served . San Francisco Bay Area ...

  9. Forbidden City (nightclub) - Wikipedia

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    Forbidden City was a Chinese nightclub and cabaret in San Francisco, which was in business from 1938 to 1970, [1] and operated on the second floor of 363 Sutter Street, [a] between Chinatown and Union Square.