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.
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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.
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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. |
~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, letter to S. Stanwood Menken, chairman, committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism, January 10, 1917. Roosevelts sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting, January 26, 1917.Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, Washington, D.C., January 2527, 1917, p. 172 (1917). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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