What Where When Why

What is the name of this cafe? Where is it?
What is it best known for?
This is very easy for anyone who has eaten here, so the first one who Emails me with the right answer wins a hot dog and a beer or soft drink (if a minor). Answer at end of page.

Do you know this street? Where is it? How steep is it? How many turns?

The same street, from the top. Any Help?
Most complete answer wins a copy of Railway Adventures.

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One Up � One Down
You know it's in San Francisco, but Where? What street did this run on and when? What kind of Railroad was it?

Stadium
This was San Francisco's baseball stadium for many years. So do you know its name? Its locaton? When it was abandoned? The name of the team? Anything at all about it?

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Arches
Shown in this photo is one of a pair of arches that spanned the sidewalks on each side of a ten-block stretch of a very busy San Francisco Street.
Do you know the name of the street, the general location on that street, how long they were there and what year or years.

Answers below.

Answer to One Up� One Down:
Shown above is the Telegraph Hill Funicular Railroad. Unlike San Francisco's present day cable cars these two cars, show at the passing loop, counterbalance each other so that when one is at the top, the other is at the bottom. This short funicular railway was located on Greenwich Street and ran from Powell Street to the Pioneer Park Observatory, which is now the location of Coit Tower.
It operated from June 1884 until sometime in 1886.

Answer to Stadium:
This was Seals Stadium, located at 16th and Bryant Streets. Built in the 1930s, it was home to the San Francisco Seals baseball team.
In 1958, it became the temporary home of the San Francisco Giants until Candlestick Park was completed in 1960. The Giants home is now in the new PacBell Park where they opened their 2000 season.
The stadium was abandoned after the team moved to the "Stick," The site is now the location of a shopping center.

Answer to Arches:
The arches were located on Mission Street in San Francisco along what was known as the Miracle Mile (a stretch from about 16th to 24th Streets). They symbolized the Mission Period in California's history. The occasion was the celebraton of the Completion of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge in 1939.

Answer to crooked street:
The two photos show the second crookedest block in San Francisco. It is located on Vermont Street, between McKinley square and 22nd-street. This block has a 14.3 grade with five full turns and two half turns (one at the top, one at the bottom of the grade). Vermont Street was originally steeper than the famous block of Lombard Street, but because Vermont is wider (80 feet against 70 for Lombard), engineers were able to pave it on less of a grade.
No one answered it correctly. You probably knew the answer but forgot to email me.

Answer to Cafe.

Red's Java House on the Embarcadero is famous for it's prices and great hot dogs and hamburgers. It is also a great spot in warm weather and has any kind of beer you can think of � as long as you're thinking Bud. I knew this one was going to be to easy.

mibgda-2day@sfchangehappens-books.com