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Cable Car Museum
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I lived in San Francisco for 6 years, and never visited this museum until last weekend. Big mistake!
Located on Nob Hill in the Washington-Mason line powerhouse and carbarn, this museum is a working piece of history. Amazingly, admission is free!
Your kids can watch the cables running on huge wheels, ring a real cable car bell, and see photos and exhibits of the 1906 earthquake.
There is a particularly poignant video exhibit that tells how the cable cars were saved from "modernization" in the 1940's. It seems funny in retrospect that the cable cars almost fell victim to the lower operational expenses of buses. Tourists don't exactly throng to San Francisco to ride the buses.
Practical Information
- 1201 Mason Street
- San Francisco, CA
- 94108
- 415-474-1887
- http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/index.html
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