
At 4 a.m. on August 2, 1873, Andrew Hallidie ran the first cable car down Clay Street; the system is the only moving National Historic Landmark in the United States.
At sixteen, Maya Angelou became San Francisco’s first Black woman streetcar conductor; her 2022 quarter was the first coin of the American Women Quarters Program.
Why People Visit San Francisco California
San Francisco offers the orange bridge in the fog, a moving landmark for a transit system, an island prison with a harbor view, Victorian rows and mission adobe, and hills that hand you a postcard at every crest. Visitors come for the Golden Gate, the cable cars, Alcatraz, the neighborhoods, the food, and the fog that is part of the architecture. On the Bay since 1776.