San Francisco Cable Car Centennial SILVER

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I lived in the Avenues of San Francisco for 12 years. Even after moving to the North Bay and to where I reside now, San Francisco remains to be my stomping ground. How does the song go... 🎵 I left my heart in San Francisco.🎶

The Cable Car is the worldwide symbol of San Francisco. It is appropriate that the Centennial Silver Round was produced by The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society.

1973 San Francisco Cable Car Centennial Silver

1 ozt, .999 fine silver, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society

The obverse of this Centennial Silver Round the San Francisco Cable Car depicts a scene from the 1930s of the open-air cable car.

Cable cars were invented by Andrew Smith Hallidie in San Francisco in 1873. Hallidie's cable car system was based on early mining conveyance systems and dominated the city’s transit scene for more than 30 years. Hallidie's cable car system would survive the great San Francisco earthquake and fires of 1906, soldier on through two World Wars and outlast political attempts to remove the cars from city streets in the late 1940s and 1950s to become the worldwide symbol of San Francisco that it is today.

The reverse shows the two popular San Francisco Cable Car lines with the renowned scenes in the backdrop- the top half of the round depicts the California Street Line, and the bottom half of the round shows the Powell Street Line.

The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., founded in 1921, is the oldest railroad history organization in North America, and among the first anywhere to pursue formal studies in the history of technology. The Society promotes research and encourages the preservation of documentation and photography of business history, finance, labor history, biography, and technology.

I recently took this video of this The Powel & Hyde Streets Line cable car, plying the streets in Union Square of San Francisco.

The Two Types of Cable Cars ^{Photo and Source}

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