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English: San Francisco cable car #19 operating on Hyde Street in Powell–Hyde service in July 2023. Alcatraz Island and Pier 45 are visible in the background. Alcatraz Island and Pier 45 are visible in the background.
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.
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 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 ...
Reconstruction work under way on the cable car tracks in San Francisco in 1983, here looking north on Hyde Street from Clay Street. Date: 1 July 1983: Source: Own work: Author: Steve Morgan (of Portland, Oregon) Permission (Reusing this file) See below; user must attribute the photographer on any reuse.
English: Title: Cable car turnaround, San Francisco, California Physical description: 1 transparency : color ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. Notes: Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.; Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital ...
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The company remained independent until 1951, outlasting all the other commercial streetcar and cable car operators in the city. The city purchased and reopened the lines in 1952; the current cable car system is a hybrid made up of the California Street line, and the Hyde Street section of Cal Cable's O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line, together with ...