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Washington near Mason Nov 1947
View north across Washington St. to Washington and Jackson Line Cable Car #524, chartered by the Citizens Committee To Save the Cable Cars and its chair Friedel Klussmann, at the Washington & Mason carbon and powerhouse. On front left, campaign sign urging yes on Proposition 10 (which passed overwhelmingly and preserved all existing Municipal Railway cable car lines), 'Vote Yes on Prop. 10 Nov. 4 and SAVE THE CABLES. Cables in the last 10 years have had fewer fatalities than buses. No bus can load as fast. Cables have 4 brakes. At right, ad for Glen Hurlburt's 'Cable Car Concerto' and 'Rhapsody of Fisherman's Wharf' record (1947).(AS)
Kenneth Kidder (Emiliano Echeverria Collection / Courtesy of Emiliano Echeverria)
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