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California & Hyde May 17, 1954
View north across the intersection of California and Hyde. Demonstration and protest with people Stopping California Street cable car from entering the Cal Cable barn. Future transit historian Phil Hoffman (with glasses and pipe) seated on the roof. [newscopy: San Franciscans take control of a cable car after the last run on the Hyde-O'Farrell cables before the vehicles were replaced by buses. Demonstrators pushed the car back a block before police broke it up and rescued the 'captured' crewmen.]
Photographer Unknown (Courtesy of a Private Collector)
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