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The Friedel Klussmann Memorial Turnaround is the cable car terminus on Hyde Street near Fisherman's Wharf Friedel Klussmann (1896–1986) was a prominent member of San Francisco society. She is credited with leading the campaign that saved the San Francisco cable car system in the 1940s and 1950s, and the foundation of the San Francisco ...
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco.The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and the Muni Metro modern light rail system.
The lagoon is fronted by a sandy beach and a stepped concrete seawall. To the south is a grassy area known as Victorian Park, which contains the Hyde Street cable car turnaround. Hyde Street Pier, though part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, is not part of Aquatic Park Historic District.
Feluccas at Fisherman's Wharf at the foot of Union Street, circa 1891 . In 1884, [1] the first state-owned Fisherman's Wharf was built at the foot of Union Street, [2] jutting out from the shore on a north by northeast angle, comprising a long narrow rectangle about 450 feet long and 150 feet wide, with an entrance along the leeward eastern ...
Muni also operates the San Francisco cable car system, a heritage streetcar system descendant of a larger network of manually operated cable cars. The first city-owned line was acquired in 1906, although the current configuration is an amalgamation of several former lines and has operated as such since in 1952.
Powell and Beach (Fisherman's Wharf) Daly City station: 11,700 29 Sunset: Bowley and Lincoln (The Presidio) (daytime) 25th Avenue and California (evening) Fitzgerald and Keith: 17,500 30 Stockton †^ Townsend and 4th Street: Crissy Field in The Presidio (daytime) Divisadero and Chestnut (evening) Van Ness and North Point (some trips - as 30 S ...
Fisherman's Wharf was to be a multiuse complex at the eastern end of Avenue H that would include restaurants, a tiki bar, housing and boat storage. In 2021 its cost was estimated at about $26 million.
1956 decision to close down all cable lines except those originating on California St. and Powell St. and end all cable car lines at Van Ness Ave. Tenderloin, Russian Hill, Fisherman's Wharf: 1952 (taken over from California Street Cable Railroad) 1956 Powell-Washington-Jackson