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Cable Car Keepsake

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May/June 2007 [1]
Location
Location name: 
Cable Car Museum shop
Street: 
1201 Mason St
City: 
San Francisco
State/Province: 
CA
Country: 
United States

Conductors on San Francisco’s beloved cable cars ring bells to signal the gripmen, whose muscular tugs on the cable-grabbing levers start and stop the cars on the city’s hills. Two clangs: OK to go. Three clangs: Stop immediately. Lots of rapid clangs: Pretty girl ahead. Replicas of the signal bells (11.5 inches top to bottom, $70) are sold at the Cable Car Museum shop. Admission is free. 1201 Mason St., San Francisco, (415) 474-1887, www.cablecarmuseum.org [2].

Photography by Kevin Candland

This article was first published in May 2007. Some facts may have aged gracelessly. Please call ahead to verify information.

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San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) [3]

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[1] http://www.viamagazine.com/2007/mayjune
[2] http://www.cablecarmuseum.org
[3] http://www.sfmta.com/cms/mhome/home50.htm