Well before the bell-dings of Rice-A-Roni ads brought long lines of tourists, cable cars were a mainstay of San Francisco transportation.
In fact, cable cars reigned. At twice the speed of horse-pulled carriages, these boxy rattlers could climb the city’s steepest hills when horses wouldn’t dare.
A cable car running in March 2023. Photo by Sergiy Galyonkin.
Today, cable cars make for quaint selfies on our Instagram grid, but they were a real game changer 150 years ago.
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