Re: Summer of 1968 at Market & Powell in San Francisco
Author: WAF
Date: 05-16-2010 - 13:35
Tony Johnson Wrote:
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> I enjoyed the wonderful image. My late mother used
> to work at the Emporium in the fifties, sixties
> and seventies. I moved from San Francisco in 1972
> so I didn't know the Emprorium was made into a
> mall. I thought some trendy company had purchased
> the building.
>
> I rode the 1142 and her sisters on the N-Judah
> line for decades. Sometimes the motorman would
> floor the the PCC through the Sunset Tunnel,
> resulting in a ride filled with viloent bouncing
> and swaying back and forth.
Yup, lead foot kids fresh out of Vietnam highballing it through the Sunset Tunnel