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Taken in November 1978.
Judging by the way the people on this cable car are dressed -- and because the guy in the white shirt is carrying his lunch -- they're probably using it to commute to work. In other words, they're San Franciscans, not tourists. I did the same thing ten years earlier (in the 60s) and on the same line (Powell-Hyde). But my ride started on Jackson Street, not here on Powell at Union Square.

Taken in November 1978.
I missed all the foofaraw when the controversial Vaillancourt Fountain opened in 1971, a year or so after I left San Francisco. Columnist Herb Caen famously said it looked like it was "deposited by a dog with a square intestine." This was my first view of it and for photographic purposes, anyway, I found it intriguing.

Taken in November 1978.
Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, beyond the curving Public Pier. It was morning. As the air warmed, the fog from the night before dissipated.

The shadow of a chimney across the street obscures the "Y" in Holyoke Center, the name of Harvard's main administration building.

In midwinter the benches in Winthrop Park are largely (and usually) empty. In Harvard Square.