“Unbeatable views. Unforgettable trips. No experience is more uniquely San Francisco than a ride on a cable car -- After all, we're the city that first launched cars pulled along by cables running beneath the street.

“Invented here nearly 150 years ago and named a national historic landmark in 1964, the cable cars are kept in tip-top shape by our agency. And they've come to symbolize our great city alongside another world-renowned transportation icon (hint: it's a suspension bridge painted an International Orange color).” — SFMTA

The Hyde Street Cable Car Through Time:

1890s and 2016

(Note the Mark Hopkins and Stanford mansions at the top of the image on the left.)

The Hyde Street Grip

by Gelett Burgess (1901)

 Click HERE for a slideshow presentation on San Francisco’s cable cars