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San Francisco's Powell Street Cable Cars (Images of Rail) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Emiliano Echeverria, Walter Rice
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 536333
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738530476
Dewey Decimal Number: 388.460979461
EAN: 9780738530475
ASIN: 0738530476
Publication Date: October 31, 2005
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Product Description
San Franciscos cable cars are an internationally recognized symbol of the city, but they also have a long and fractious history. There are actually three cable lines in operation today: the California Street line and the two Powell Street lines the Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde. The Powell Street lines have been the subject of much controversy through the years, due to a complex lineage of private and public ownership. Cable cars on Powell Street began in 1888, operating under the Ferries and Cliff House Railway Company and utilizing the same basic design pioneered by Andrew Hallidie in 1873. Among the storys twists and turns are the lines actual routes following the 1906 earthquake, which caused heavy damage and forced major repairs. Post-quake, United Railroads was able to replace many of the cable car lines with streetcars, including a part of the Powell Street system. San Francisco at one time had eight separate cable car operators. Gradually most were replaced by streetcars, buses, and trolley buses, given the complexities and expense of cable systems. The Powell lines were taken over by the city in 1944, but the mayor tried to abandon them in 1947. The public disapproved of this move, and since then the Powell Street line has only grown in stature and its importance to San Francisco.
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If You Left Your Heart on a Cablecar December 8, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This collection of 200 or so photographs cover San Francisco's famous cable cars as they have run with fairly minor changes since the 1890's. Pictures show the cars, the operating system, the growth, the 1906 earthquake and fire and the rebuilding of the system. They show the major reconstruction of the system in the early 1980's when it was discovered (among other things) that the cablecar barn had been assembled incorrectly when it was built after the fire in 1907.
The cable cars are a symbol of San Francisco right up there with the Golden Gate Bridge and Tony Bennett's song. They are one of the things that no politician (the system is now owned by the city) would dare propose ending.
These pictures show the love that the two collecters have put into their labor of colleting them. The book is probably not going to appeal to the general public, but to the cablecar affectionado there's no alternative.
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