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| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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City Lights Bookshop |
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The bookshop was founded in 1957. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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City Lights Bookshop |
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The interior. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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City Lights Bookshop |
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The bookshop is a social centre for intellectuals. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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City Lights Bookshop |
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Local and international writers are featured, especially the "beat generation". |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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City Lights Bookshop |
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The interior is cramped and full of books. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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The Beat Museum on the edge of Little Italy. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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The Beat Museum is dedicated to the counterculture, the Beat Generation and the Beatniks. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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Writers featured include Jack Karuac, William S Burrows and Alan Ginsberg. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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Jack Karuac (1922 to 1969) wrote "On The Road". |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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Poster for Jack Karuac's "On The Road". |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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1949 Hudson used in the movie of Jack Karuac's "On The Road". |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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The museum consists of several rooms of displays. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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Alan Ginsberg (1926 to 1997) wrote "Howl", the poem that many believe began the Beat Movement. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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Alan Ginsberg's poem, "Howl", caused a famous censorship trial. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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Annotated copy of Alan Ginsberg's 1955 poem, "Howl". |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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Alan Ginsberg's organ. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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William S Burrows (1914 to 1997) wrote "Naked Lunch" and "Junky Queer". |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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The counterculture triggered the Hippy and Psychodelia movements. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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The art of Robert Crumb. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Beat Museum |
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Painting of the Beat Museum. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Italian restaurant in Little Italy. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
|
San Francisco |
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Cafe Triest |
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Sign for Cafe Triest. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cafe Triest |
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Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay to "The Godfather" under this mural. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cafe Triest |
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Inside the cafe are photos of famous visitors. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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|
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Union Square. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Union Square is so named because of the pro-Union rallies held there during the US Civil War. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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San Francisco is a large city on a bay. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Ashbury is the residential district of Haight-Ashbury. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Street scene. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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1950s car. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Distinctive houses of Ashbury. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Spanish style church. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Wooden houses. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Colourful tour van. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Number 710 is famous as the residence of 1960s rock band, The Grateful Dead. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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The front door and porch of number 710. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Bay window. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Ashbury is famous for its wooden houses. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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The houses have been rennovated due to gentrification. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Bay windows. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Decorated bay windows. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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The Haight-Ashbury district was the centre of the 1960s counterculture (hippies and psychadelia). |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Haight is a bohemian road full of shops selling posters and clothes. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Peace and Love ice cream. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Row of shops. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Much of the culture is based on the Indian sub-continent. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Stickers for sale. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Clothes shop. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Shoppers. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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During the "Summer of Love" (1967), Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin busked in this area. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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The district has many references to 1967. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Tibetan shop. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Clothes shop. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Woman. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Row of shops. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Record shop. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Street fair poster. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Row of shops. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Earthsong. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Liquor store. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Poster shop. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Posters of Frank Zappa, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and The Who. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Posters of Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead and Hank Williams. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Hippy clothes. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Psychadelic t-shirt (Haight-Ashbury). |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Psychadelic t-shirt. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Stickers for sale. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Posters and t-shirts. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Haight-Ashbury |
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Mural of Jerry Garcia, the guitarist of the Grateful Dead. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable car on a street leading to San Francisco Bay with a view of the prison island of Alcatraz. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable cars are powered by moving cables running below the rails. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable car grip man. The grip attaches to the moving cables beneith the road to move the cars |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Turntable for reversing cable cars. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable car about to be reversed on a turntable. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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The cable car turntable is pushed by hand. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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The Cable Car Museum. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
|
San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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The museum is in the building that controls the four cable loops for the city's cable cars. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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Wood patterns used to manufacture the metal components of cable cars. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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The museum is a working site. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
|
San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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The four cables that run the cars - Hyde, Califiornia, Bay and Powell. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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Diagram of the mueum building and its works. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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Diagram of the Grip that hold onto a moving cable to move the vehicle. The driver is called a Gripman. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
|
San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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Diagram showing the workings of the Grip. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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A Grip. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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Diagram of the four cables - Hyde, Califiornia, Bay and Powell. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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The moving cables are made of metal strands. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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Diagram showing the cables at turnaround and switchback. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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The oldest cable car in the world (1873). |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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1950s ticket punches. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
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Cable Car Museum |
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Cable car after the 1906 earthquake. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
|
San Francisco |
Castro |
|
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Castro is the centre of the city's gay and lesbian community. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
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Pastel coloured houses and a rainbow flag. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
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Street corner. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
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Street car. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
|
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Hilly street. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
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Bay windows. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
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Street scene. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
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House with long extrance staircase. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
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The main street in the Castro district. |
2017 |
| United States of America |
California |
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San Francisco |
Castro |
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The main street is lined with plaques dedicated to important figures in gay history, like writer, Virginia Wolf. |
2017 |
were added from 1 January 2023.