To celebrate Transit Week (Sep. 25-Oct. 1) in San Francisco, we're taking a gander back at the various modes of transportation that got San Franciscans from point A to point B from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

1873

  

(Courtesy of State Library)

You are taking a look at the very first cable car, built in 1873. Of course, over 150 years later, the mobile national monument is still transporting San Franciscans around town.