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Cable Car Turnaround
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r Tuurnarouund operators turn the car atop a revolving
wooden platform and a vintage kiosk; buy
an all-day Muni Passport for $14 instead of paying $6 per ride. Board the Powell-Hyde
cable car and begin your journey up Nob Hill.
As your cable car lurches uphill, you can imagine 19th-century horses struggling up this
slippery crag. Inventor Andrew Hallidie's cable cars survived the 1906 earthquake and fire
that destroyed 'Snob Hill' mansions, returning the faithful to rebuilt 2 Grace Cathedral .
Back on the Powell-Hyde car, careen past crooked, flower-lined 3 Lombard Street to-
ward 4 Fish

At the 1 Powell St C ell St Cable C able Car T

s Wharff. The waterfront terminus is named for Friedel Klussman, who
saved cable cars from mayoral modernization plans in 1947. She did the math: cable cars
brought in more tourism dollars than they cost in upkeep. The mayor demanded a vote -
and lost to 'the Cable Car Lady' by a landslide.
At the wharf you can see SF as sailors did as they emerged from the submarine 5 USS
Pampanito . Witness Western saloon brawls in vintage arcade games at the 6 Musée
Mécanique before hitching the Powell-Mason cable car to North Beach.
Hop off to see Diego Rivera's 1934 cityscape at the 7 San Francisco Art Institute or fol-
low your rumbling stomach directly to 8 Liguria Bakery . Stroll through North Beach and
Chinatown alleyways or take the Powell-Mason line to time-travel through the 9 Chinese
Historical Society of America . Nearby, catch a ride on the city's oldest line: the California

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