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(More customer reviews)This collection of 200 or so photographs cover San Francisco's famous cable cars as they have run with fairly minor changes since the 1890's. Pictures show the cars, the operating system, the growth, the 1906 earthquake and fire and the rebuilding of the system. They show the major reconstruction of the system in the early 1980's when it was discovered (among other things) that the cablecar barn had been assembled incorrectly when it was built after the fire in 1907.
The cable cars are a symbol of San Francisco right up there with the Golden Gate Bridge and Tony Bennett's song. They are one of the things that no politician (the system is now owned by the city) would dare propose ending.
These pictures show the love that the two collecters have put into their labor of colleting them. The book is probably not going to appeal to the general public, but to the cablecar affectionado there's no alternative.
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