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