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 The Cable Car Barn  Close your eyes, now image a big, busy city by the bay. Something very odd is on one of the corners in a small street in that big, big city. It’s a small brick building. If you look at it some more, you will notice that it seems to be very old, and seems to be holding a secret, is it a prank? You wonder. You walk inside some old cable car parts are wandering around the wall.

 There are 2 staircases- one leading upward, the other downward. You wonder which one to take first. You decide to take the one that is leading down first. Once you’re down there, you realize that it is pitch black. The only thing you can see is a window with something moving around, the figures seem to be round. You look closer then you realize this must be an engine to something; But what? You walk back upstairs, then upstairs again. Then you see 12 gigantic wheels spinning around and around. Then you realize that is what was downstairs. You smell the air, oil & grease. You see something going around and around those 12 giant wheels. CABLES! You think of the words you had seen on a big banner in big city, “COME AND RIDE THE WORLD FAMOUS CABLE CAR!” Those 2 last words repeat in your head over and over again.Then Suddenly it comes to you.this must be what that strange sight is running.But what is a cable car you wonder?

 It has to be some kind of transportation. What does it look like? You turn around and your mouth drops open. Little models and prototypes of some little thing. It looks like a train car caboose, but what is this? It seems to have the same thing in the front. Its main colors are black, gold, and brown. It seems to have huge medal wheels on the bottom, and black iron sticks in the car. It has small windows and black pipes that seem to sprout out of the ceiling of the car and grow down to the earth below. You walk over to a tall man at a counter. You ask what is a cable car? He tells you all about the cable car and its history. Then you understand. You hear an intelligent ring, a fierce halt. You rush outside and there stands a BEAUTIFUL car. You step on board there is a jerk and before you can count to 3 you are moving as fast as you have gone in your life. A man rings that bell you heard as you whiz past everything, not knowing where you are. All you can see is a blur of the big city. Ok, open your eyes and you think that’s not true at all but in fact all of that was…TRUE! A good web address for the cable car barn is: Http:/www.cablecarmusem.com.

If you have kids, try a day {Or a weekend-even more fun!}in SF. For a fun weekend /day take them on a cable car to the cable car musem. For breakfast a good spot is Gallery Café LLC, which is straight across from the barn. If you are going to stay for the weekend, you will find the nicest hotel you have ever stayed in at the Four Seasons Hotel in SF. For lunch, take them to Mol Iran Delicatessen: 373 Columbus Ave. They have made to order sandwiches that 2 can feast on! Then you should take them to Lombard Street or Washington Square Park for lunch. For dinner the pot-sticker serves very healthy and inexpensive Chinese food, 105 Waverly place. The Cable Car Barn is near North-Beach, Chinatown, and not to far from Fisherman’s Wharf. The Cable Car Barn’s address is: 1201 mason street San Francisco. A lot of cities had had cable cars long ago, but now the only city that still has existing cable cars that still work is san Francisco. There were cable cars in New York running up and down the hills, but now there is a new system called a subway. It is a train that runs through NYC underground. The cable car barn goes by 6 names: The Cable Car Workshop, the bed for SF cable cars, the engine for SF cable cars, the cable car power house, The Cable Car Museum, house for cable cars, the heart of the cable car, and the most common name the Cable Car Barn. Here is some useful info for the Cable Barn: hours: 10 am- 6 pm April 1 – September 30, 10 am- 5 pm October 1 – March 30. Open every day except New Year’s day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving and Christmas eve and day. Admission is free. It is one of the top ten free attractions in the world. It is by the Chinese Recreation Center. Single-ended cable cars {Powell and Hyde} must be turned around. However, the California line doesn’t have to be turned around because they can reverse. It is by the Safe Driving Academy. It is made out of brick tile. A cable car is made out of wood, glass, iron, metal, oil, grease, nails, screws and a whole lot of work! The Cable Car Barn is near the Transamerica Pyramid. Ages 3 and up are allowed in the Cable Car Barn. It is by a bakery called “Eastern Bakery.”