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Product Description Have a great year in San Francisco 2019. Catch a cable car to the Ferry Building and skate on the Embarcadero. Explore the chocolate at Ghirardelli. Find your fortune at the Japanese Garden. Zoom down the world s most crooked street. Visit Alamo Park to revel in the skyline. For the daring, take a night cycle across the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco is always on! Locations featured in the 2019 calendar include: Winter ice skating comes to San Francisco when the Holiday Ice Rink opens on Justin Herman Plaza across from the Ferry Building in San Francisco. The electric streetcar pushed San Francisco s cable cars to the brink of extinction. They nearly succeeded in 1947. Today the cable cars are profitable again, and the city may wish it had more of them. The Golden Gate Bridge connects San Francisco to Marin County, but not everyone drives across the bridge, which was constructed with walkways on both sides. The eastern side is open for pedestrians and bicyclists for part of each day. The world s most crooked street was built in 1922. Lombard Street makes eight hair-pin turns on Russian Hill, a design suggested by property owner Carl Henry to help automobiles cope with the steep 27% grade. The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco s Golden Gate Park is likely the place were fortune cookies were introduced in the United States. Yerba Buena Gardens offers a respite from asphalt and concrete in the center of downtown San Franciso. Covering part of the subterranean Moscone convention center, the garden fills two blocks. Chinatown in San Francisco might appear to be a tourist enclave, but it is home to the largest number of ethnic Chinese speakers outside of the Far East. The neighborhood is believed to be the most densely populated urban area west of Manhattan. This row of Victorian houses on Steiner Street across from Alamo Square in Haight Ashbury was built between 1892 and 1896 in the Queen