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Nov 2018
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Friedel Klussmann and San Francisco's Ca...

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San Francisco’s cable cars are the last working system of their kind. The reason they haven’t been completely replaced by more modern modes of transportation is largely the advocacy of a woman named Friedel Klussmann.

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