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.
