Common sense isn't.
This is a digital composite of two photos from the same location. We were almost to the top of the hill, at Hyde and Lombard (OpenStreetMap), before going down the famous curvy street, after waiting in bumper to bumper traffic going up the steep hill.I
highlyno longer recommend the Cable Car Gripman's simulator (Shockwave required), but a visit to the Cable Car Museum is recommended.
Here is the view going down Lombard Street. The small signs along the road say "Keep off Walls and Roadway." Presumably these signs are directed at pedestrians (although we wouldn't want cars on the walls, either).
The cable cars are still turned around by people power.
At one time there was a big controversy over the big French Connection UK sign on the wall of a building in San Francisco. The sign says "san francisco's first fcuk." Now they're all over town on the cable cars.
Quote of the moment |
[F]rankly ... it was perfectly true that I had, for over a year, expressed the opinion that Indo-China should not go back to France but that it should be administered by an international trusteeship. France has had the country ... for nearly one hundred years, and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning.... France has milked it for one hundred years. The people of Indo-China are entitled to something better than that. |
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945), U.S. president. letter, Jan. 24, 1944, to Cordell Hull. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 493, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). Roosevelt upset Churchill and the French with his anti- colonialism, which was obvious from the beginning of the war. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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