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The private social club is located at the top of Nob Hill and it was founded in 1889. This was one of the few structures to survive the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.People are gazing the Tree of Hope and listening the jazz tunes. The floor made out of Tennessee pink marble, the walls are made of Colorado limestone.The stairs have wonderful views of San Francisco and feature well tended gardens and art deco buildings on either side along the way.At the bottom of the Filbert Steps.The parallels are the Filbert and the Greenwich streets, which run through San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood with the Saints Peter and Paul Church in the center.As seen from the Telegraph Hill in the late afternoon.The most populous city named after Saint Francis of Assisi is San Francisco.There are more than 600 murals in San Francisco! This one can be found at the intersection of Grant Ave and Broadway.The picture was taken at the intersection of Mason and California Street. The huge height differences and the steepness of the streets are just amazing.The Ceremonial Rotunda, where the wedding of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio was performed.Christmas spirit with a small jazz bandCable cars were invented in 1873 by Andrew Hallidie to climb the hills of San Francisco. Many cities once had cable cars, but today, San Francisco's 3 lines are the only ones left in the world. The single-ended Powell Street cars are the older of the two types now in service. The Powell cars have one open grip end and can be turned only with the help of the turntables built into the street at the ends of the lines.The red arch was built on a hinged building surface. Once the blocks were correctly positioned over an outline of the arch, we lifted the wooden platform to bring the blocks to a vertical position. Then we lowered the backboard, leaving the arch free-standing. The shape the arch takes is called a catenary. The catenary is the curve that an idealized hanging cable or chain with very short links assumes under its own weight when supported only at its ends.This steep, one-block section of the Lombard Street consists of eight tight hairpin turns, wich make it one of the crookedest streets in the world.Unfortunatelly less fascinating than the bushy part, it is concrete and steel.With the statue of Columbus in the center.This is a Roman Chatolic Church in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, which is known as With the Golden Gate Bridge in the background, looking from Coit Tower.Looks like there is a gulch on the other side of California Street - but it's just the steep Jones Street.The exit from the interior of the building is through the windows. The ladder from the lowest level of the fire escape to the ground is folded up to prevent persons (such as burglars) from accessing the fire escape from the ground.There are a lot of various street artists around the Fisherman's Wharf.This cable car turntable is at the Hyde St - Beach St intersection. The long queue of people consists of tourists who want to ride the cable car. The two Powell Street lines (Powell-Hyde & Powell-Mason) use cable cars that are operable from only one end. They thus require turntables to reverse direction at the ends of the line. Mrs. Friedel Klussmann, the Cable Car Lady, led the campaign that saved the San Francisco cable cars in the late 1940's.After the windy part, the Lombard Street continues through the Telegraph Hill neighborhood, until it becomes Telegraph Hill Boulevard, where vehicles can access the Coit Tower. Funny, that behind the hill Lombard Street starts again for 2 blocks and finally terminates at The Embarcadero.The switchback's design was born out of necessity in order to reduce the hill's natural 27% grade, which was too steep for most vehicles to climb. The speed limit in this section is 5 mph (8 km/h).The well is designed by Ottó SzencziMission Street is really impressive… but tiresome on hot days