Thursday, December 10, 2009
City of Wires
Perhaps San Francisco’s most charming ‘antiques’ are the wires, telephone, electric, and cable, that criss-cross over its steep, sloping streets. I get nostalgic staring up at the tangle, and the contrast with the city’s stately Victorian row houses is lovely.
In most modern cities, the electric and phone wires are underground and, in the US, the cable cars have long since disappeared. In fact, San Francisco’s system is the world’s last permanently operational manually-operated cable car system.
Of course, utility poles still abound in the US’s rural and even suburban areas. They often carry coaxial cable for Cable TV and fiber optic cable in additional to electric wire and POTS (plain old telephone service)…
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