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A San Francisco cable car travels along California Street in the city's Financial District
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He supervised the cleanups and handled the shipments of raw gold which each week went out to San Francisco.
Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.
A meteor could fall on San Francisco.
We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.
Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.
In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.
The recent experiments in the new poetry-and-jazz movement seen by some as part of the `` San Francisco Renaissance '' have been as popular as they are notorious.
In San Francisco he has worked with Brew Moore, Charlie Mingus, and other `` swinging '' musicians of secure reputation, thus placing himself within established jazz traditions, in addition to being a part of the San Francisco `` School ''.
Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.
Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California Democratic Council directorate.
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Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.
Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.
Living in San Francisco I saw them seldom enough to see them with a perspective which was not distorted by exasperation or fatigue.
it raced across the Pacific at 300 miles an hour, devastated the coasts of Java and Sumatra with waves 100 to 130 feet high, and pounded the shore as far away as San Francisco.
At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.
I noticed that he was in Unit 12 and that he had registered under the name of Oscar L. Palmer and wife, giving a San Francisco address.
San Francisco, March 17 ( AP )
-- Bobby Waters of Sylvania, Ga., relief quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, will undergo a knee operation tomorrow at Franklin Hospital here.
The Union Pacific Railroad streamliner, City of San Francisco, stopped in Ogden, Utah, for a few minutes.
two brothers, Charley and Aaron Cohn, San Francisco ; ;
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In San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs there.
He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.
* 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
A San Francisco cable car system | San Francisco cable car on the Powell & Hyde line
Other cable cars to use grips were those of the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which later became part of the San Francisco cable car system.
In 1881 the Dunedin cable tramway system opened in Dunedin, New Zealand and became the first such system outside San Francisco.
Machinery driving the San Francisco cable car system
* San Francisco cable car system
* 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Zenith Cable Modem technology was used by several cable television systems in the USA and other countries, including Cox Communications San Diego, GTE's Americast service, Cogeco in Hamilton Ontario.
San Jacinto Peak's eastern shoulder has a cable tram that runs from the desert floor to nearly the top of the mountain where riders can set off hiking or go cross-country skiing.
Throughout the final months of 2007 to the early months of 2008, various cable companies had started to add the Weather Channel HD to their cable lineups, including the Boston, Massachusetts, Austin, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana markets.
In contrast, the San Francisco cable car system is manually operated, and all the other automated cable car systems have restricted operations within airports and hospitals.
The San Francisco cable cars use a narrow gauge of.
Railroads powered by stationary engines and cables ( San Francisco cable cars ) and horse-drawn trams ( Isle of Man, Douglas Bay Horse Tramway ) are still in use today.
One of the earliest pay-per-view systems on cable, the Optical Systems Channel 100, first entered service in 1972 in San Diego through Mission Cable
Cable car is the usual term in British English, as in British English the word tramway generally refers to a railed street tramway while in American English, cable car is most often associated with a type of cable-pulled street tramway with detachable vehicles ; e. g., San Francisco's cable cars.
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Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego.
Cable Car in San Francisco-double-ended car ( California line )
Rather than using a grip car and single trailer, as many cities did, or combining the grip and trailer into a single car, like San Francisco's California Cars, Chicago used grip cars to pull trains of up to three trailers.
Due to the short driving distance and direct highway route ( 170 miles, all on Interstate 8 ), Yuma was very popular with Padres fans, and many fans would travel by car from San Diego for Spring Training games.
The couple travel in Cheyne's private rail car, the " Constance ", taken from San Diego to Chicago as a special train, hauled by sixteen locomotives in succession and taking precedence over 177 other trains.
The transcontinental railroad provided much faster, safer, and cheaper transportation ( one week from Omaha to San Francisco via emigrant sleeping car at a fare of about $ 65 for an adult ) for people and goods across the western two-thirds of the continent.
On May 13, 1971, Grace Slick was injured in a near-fatal automobile crash when her car slammed into a wall in a tunnel near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The long-term viability of the Spurs franchise in San Antonio was, however, achieved during the 1999 – 2000 season, as Bexar County voters approved increases on car rental and hotel taxes which would allow for the construction of a new arena next to the Freeman Coliseum.
At the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May, Senna died after his car went off the road.
Van Nuys is in the heart of the San Fernando Valley and home to about 100, 000 people ; the main thoroughfare, Van Nuys Boulevard, is noted for its car dealerships, its " Auto Row ".
* 1945 – 1950 – GM car plant and development of neighboring Panorama City ( Valley's first mall ) define the post WWII " suburban boom " that spread west, filling up the San Fernando Valley, and challenged Van Nuys ' primacy as " Valley center ".
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