Cable Car 8: art, craft, or both?

For 149 years, San Francisco’s cable cars have been exemplars of craft, sculptures in wood and metal reflecting the talents of carpenters, metal workers, painters, electricians, and others. They absorb the jolts and lurches inherent in their daily operation, carrying millions of passengers over decades of daily service before their joints finally loosen and rot and rust take a big enough toll to require rebuilding.

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Rails to rubber: Muni 1946-1962

Fourth of six installments in our history of Muni’s birth and first century

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