The cable cars opened up San Francisco. Before they came, the city was squeezed into the flatlands to the east of Nob and Russian hills and south of Telegraph Hill. The swankiest neighborhoods were low-lying South Park and adjoining Rincon Hill. The big hills were too steep for horses and so sandy that they were exhausting to climb on foot. That all changed at 5 a.m. on Aug. 1, 1873, when the first cable car rolled through a thick mist from Clay and Jones streets on Nob Hill with its inventor, Andrew Hallidie, at the levers.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:35:48 +0000
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