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The Secret History of San Francisco's Cable Cars
Maybe you're a local who rides cable cars all the time, but how well do you really know these symbols of San Francisco?
Here are nine cable car trivia questions. Get at least four correct and you can call yourself an honorary conductor, three to one correct gets you honorary gripman status, zero correct and you're a not-so-honored tourist from Des Moines.
1. In 1968 why was the President's daughter kicked off a cable car?
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2. What did Andrew Hallidie do before developing the cable car?
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3. From what street did the first cable car descend?
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4. What unusual thing did the gripman do prior to that first cable car descent?
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5. Who was Benjamin Brooks?
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6. In 1963, a 19-year old Berkeley coed riding a cable car defied an ordinance and ended 92 years of sexual discrimination. What was her act?
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7. What were cable cars used for following the 1906 earthquake?
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8. Why did a court order San Francisco to pay cable car rider Gloria Sykes $50,000 in 1964?
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9. Who was San Francisco's first African-American female cable car conductor?
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