Cable Car Museum

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Located in a historic cable car powerhouse, the museum displays a variety of cable car gear, historic photographs, installations explaining how the...

2011 | Best Museum to Spend Your Lunch Break

The Louvre, the Met, the British Museum: Put in gastronomic terms, these museums are Roman-sized feasts -- without the benefit of a vomitorium. But sometimes you don't want a multicourse banquet. Sometimes you just want lunch. Or, more relevantly, a museum at which to spend your lunch break. Enter the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. If there's a more perfect place to while away 35 blissful minutes, we haven't found it -- at least when it comes to free city museums. Those with even... More »

Today's Birthday: Andrew S. Hallidie, Cable Car Inventor

By Keith Bowers | Wed, March 16, 2011

Go to the Cable Car Museum on Mason Street and you'll hear the story: Andrew Smith Hallidie was on Jackson Street in San Francisco one morning when he saw a team of horses being whipped to haul a trai... More »

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