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, before going down the famous curvy street,
after waiting in bumper to bumper traffic going up the steep
hill.
I highly recommend the Cable Car Gripman's
simulator (Shockwave required), and a visit to the Cable Car Museum.
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 |
| These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog Fala. Well, of course I don’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, learning that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him—at a cost to the tax payers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars—his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since. |
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Jim Bishop, FDR’s Last Year, pp. 151-152, William Morrow & Co., Inc. (1972). FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 11, Teamster’s Union address—”Fala was furious” (September 23, 1944), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960).
This was reputed to be one of FDR’s best campaign speeches, wherein he responded to a campaign flyer by the Republicans that he had spent a fortune rescuing his dog on an inspection trip of military facilities.
~ |
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, before going down the famous curvy street,
after waiting in bumper to bumper traffic going up the steep
hill.
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.
