San Francisco Antique Cable Car Museum

Amazing engineering that still works even after several earth quakes. The inventors of those days intended things to last for a long time. Something General Motors, Ford and Chrysler don't understand.

 

Wooden forms for casting replacement parts
 

 

Original Museum sign

Maintenance shop

Gift shop

An earlier Cable Car



Metal Lathe

A young admirer of the motor cable works

Wooden brake shoes

Powell Street Car



The grip grabs the moving cable and pulls the cars along the tracks

University Of California Berkeley (UC Berkekley)

The University of California was chartered in 1868. UC Berkeley occupies a 1,232 acre campus with a 178-acre main campus. I toured the main Library, the Charles Franklin Doe memorial Library, one of the many buildings listed in the National Registry of Historic Places.



The main entrance patio

The Doe Library

The bronze entrance to the north reading room

The clock tower in the center of the campus

The North reading room

The South reading room

The bulletin board of the free speech cafe

The reflecting pool and the clock tower and Doe library

A out side reading/study area

A preserved grove very old red wood trees on campus

The free speech cafe

The Berkeley BART platform

The dome of the Berkeley BART station

Oakland's Architechtural Doorways and Windows

San Francisco gets all the tourists which is okay by me. Living in Oakland for the last month I was able to discover the architechural gems around Oakland. Unfortunately many are destined to be demolished in the name of progress.

San Francisco

The Golden Gate Bridge the iconic image of San Francisco. The bridge itself is far from the central business district and is only visible from the very western end of the city's shoreline. Ironically the Oakland Bay bridge is visible from most of San Francisco's hilly streets and dominates the water front of the Embarcadero, it gets very little attention.

 

The Ferry Building and the clock tower on Embarcadero

 

The Oakland Bay Bridge from Embarcadero

 

 

The Ferry arriving from Jack London Oakland 

 

 

Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill

 

 

Oakland Bay Bridge from Telegraph Hill

 

 

Views of the Bay from Telegraph Hill

 

1. 

View of Bay from top of the stairs

 

 

 



                      View towards the business section of San Francisco

 

 

The Trans America Tower