1201 Mason Street at Washington
San Francisco, CA , 94108

Phone: (415) 474-1887

Website

This FREE museum is located in the Washington-Mason working powerhouse (Where the cables are powered) and on Nob Hill. It houses a collection of historic cable cars, photographs, mechanical displays and gift shop run by the Friends of the Cable Car Museum - a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving cable car history. It is pretty noisy in there due to operating machinery. Sound sensitive people beware!

Machine 2 is in the Gift shop, far back from the entrance. No charge to get to the machine or admission to the Museum. Cost is 51 cents per roll and you use your own penny.
Designs are:
1) 'Height Ashbury', old style VW Beetle with a peace sign on it,
2) 'Chinatown Cable Car', pagoda over a cable car,
3) 'Cable Car Museum', Front view of a cable car,
4) 'San Francisco's Cable Car Museum', Side view of a cable car

Tokens: One is $3 and the other is $4

Token Machine 1:
1) 'Goden Gate Bridge', Image of bridge/ Rear- 'The California Series, San Francisco', SF Skyline and Golden Gate and Bay Bridge and boat.

Token Machine 2:
1) 'San Francisco Bay Area', Cable Car/ Rear- 'The California Series, San Francisco', SF Skyline and Golden Gate and Bay Bridge and boat.

Token for sale at cashier:
1) 'Alcatraz, The Rock',/ Rear- 'The California Series, San Francisco', SF Skyline and Golden Gate and Bay Bridge and boat.

Retired 1 single design machines: 1) San Francisco Cable Car Museum', Cable Car, 2) Cable Car Museum San Francisco, Calif.

Pennycollector Machine was installed 8/08.

04/19 There are 3 tokens in the gift store.

6/04/2026: Rolled well on copper pennies. BTF