San Francisco and the Japanese City of Osaka have a long history of connection. As two great port cities, trade between them goes back more than a century. These long-time ties led to Osaka becoming San Francisco’s first sister city, in 1957. To celebrate that relationship, Muni sent a cable car to Osaka as a gift.
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In the early 1950s, as tens of thousands of San Francisco families decamped for the new surrounding suburbs, merchants grew more and more anxious about getting customers into their stores. Muni’s response: a “Shoppers’ Shuttle” — actually two of them, one serving Market Street/Union Square and one the “Miracle Mile of Mission” between about 16th Street and Army Street (now Cesar Chavez Street).
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