The San Francisco Cable Cars

The San Francisco Cable Cars

There are many facilitating things to see and do in San Francisco, Alcatraz, China Town, the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gage Bridge, Fisherman;s Wharf, the Japanese Tea Garden, Yoda's Fountain and of course riding the cable cars.

Taking a vacation in San Francisco would not be complete unless without taking a ride on these iconic cable car landmarks. 

Cable Cars  Source: Golden Gate Hotel

I must admit it was fun the first couple of times to ride the cable cart, but it only goes up and down the hill between Market Street and Powell Street. 

After a couple of days of having my fill of the cable cars,  I decided to walk, it was much cheaper and I could get to see more.

The Cable cars were invented in San Francisco by Andrew Smith Hallidie   in 1873.  Hallidie's cable car system was based on early "wire rope" mining conveyance systems that was invented by his father during the gold rush. 

This cable system dominated the city’s transit scene for more than 50 years.  Hallidie's cable car system  survived the great San Francisco earthquake and fires of 1906, through two World Wars and outlasted many attempts to remove the cable cars from city streets in the late 1940s and 1950s to become the worldwide symbol of San Francisco that it is today. 

Click here learn more about the history of the cable car: https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/muni/cable-cars/cable-car-history

Source:

https://www.goldengatehotel.com/blog/history-of-the-san-francisco-cable-car/

https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/muni/cable-cars/cable-car-history