California sea lions
The Cablecar museum!
Chinese restaurants
theaters by the pier
looking crabby there!
This marks the start of Chinatown
the bay aquarium
hey a left hand store!
lots of candy!
the center pavilion
WIth high speed cable pulls in operation
along Montgomery Street
but are pulled uphills up cables
nicely decked out
Off the streets
The palace of fine arts!
up into the alley
and the lines going underground
funhouses in the pier
The main Chinatown arch
it's packed already!
old collections of decommissioned cable cars
The palace is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
along Washington Street
got candy?
Look Chinese!
do not have engines on board
buildings uphill
Next stop
All thanks to the inventor
The palace pond and fountains
totally buzzing market atmosphere
the bay bridge in the distance
Portsmouth Square in the morning
oriental indeed!
schematic of how the cables run
they're everywhere!
for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition exhibition
nicely themed buildings around
The street's waking up
the financial district in the background
subterranean view of the undergound cables
on the bus for more exploration
the park playgrounds
but 1st, a visit to a nearby musuem
the cable car as the name suggest
Next up along the san francisco Piers
it opened October 4, 1978
overview of the park
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