When did cable cars start in the city where Chen lived in 2005?
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Title: Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
Passage: Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street. The F Market streetcar runs through the area, the Powell-Hyde cable car lines runs to Aquatic Park, at the edge of Fisherman's Wharf, and the Powell-Mason cable car line runs a few blocks away.
Title: Southampton
Passage: During the latter half of the 20th century, a more diverse range of industry also came to the city, including aircraft and car manufacture, cables, electrical engineering products, and petrochemicals. These now exist alongside the city's older industries of the docks, grain milling, and tobacco processing.
Title: YouTube
Passage: According to a story that has often been repeated in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not attend the party and denied that it had occurred, but Chen commented that the idea that YouTube was founded after a dinner party "was probably very strengthened by marketing ideas around creating a story that was very digestible".
Title: Steve Chen
Passage: Chen was an employee at PayPal, where he first met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Chen was also an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube.In 2005, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Chen founded YouTube, with Chen having the position of chief technology officer. In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business.On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. Chen received 625,366 shares of Google and an additional 68,721 in a trust as part of the sale. As of 2018, the Google shares are valued at $729 million.He and Hurley started AVOS Systems which acquired Delicious from Yahoo! Inc.
Title: Larry the Cable Guy
Passage: Larry the Cable Guy has released seven comedy albums, of which three have been certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 copies and in addition has starred in three Blue Collar Comedy Tour -- related films, as well as in Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Delta Farce, and Witless Protection, as well as voicing Mater in the Cars franchise. Whitney's catchphrase ``Git - R - Done! ''is also the title of his book.
Title: London
Passage: London's first and only cable car, known as the Emirates Air Line, opened in June 2012. Crossing the River Thames, linking Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks in the east of the city, the cable car is integrated with London's Oyster Card ticketing system, although special fares are charged. Costing £60 million to build, it carries over 3,500 passengers every day, although this is very much lower than its capacity. Similar to the Santander Cycles bike hire scheme, the cable car is sponsored in a 10-year deal by the airline Emirates.
Title: Oberrothorn
Passage: The Oberrothorn (3,414 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, overlooking Zermatt in the canton of Valais. Its summit can be easily reached via a trail on its southern flank, from the Unterrothorn cable car station or from Sunnegga.
Title: Homero Richards
Passage: Homero Richards (born June 8, 1976) is a Mexican race car driver from Mexico City. Richards won back-to-back championships in the Panam GP Series (Latin American Formula Renault championship), in 2004 and 2005. He made his first and only Champ Car World Series start in 2005 at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.
Title: San Francisco cable car system
Passage: San Francisco cable car system Cable car on Powell Street Overview Owner San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Area served Chinatown, Financial District, Fisherman's Wharf, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Union Square Locale San Francisco Transit type Cable car Number of lines Line number 59 Powell - Mason 60 Powell - Hyde 61 California St. Number of stations 62 Daily ridership 20,100 (2014) Annual ridership 7,409,400 (2014) Headquarters San Francisco Cable Car Museum Website sfmta.com Operation Began operation California St. line: 1878 Powell - Mason line: 1888 Powell - Hyde line: 1957 Operator (s) San Francisco Municipal Railway Reporting marks MUNI Character Street running with some reserved right - of - ways Number of vehicles California St. line: 12 double - ended cars Powell - Mason / Hyde lines: 28 single - ended cars Train length 1 grip car Technical System length California St. line: 1.4 mi (2.3 km) Powell - Mason line: 1.6 mi (2.6 km) Powell - Hyde line: 2.1 mi (3.4 km) No. of tracks Track gauge 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Top speed 9.5 mph (15.3 km / h) hide System map
Title: Ford GT
Passage: Of the 4,500 GTs originally planned, approximately 100 were to be exported to Europe, starting in late 2005. An additional 200 were destined for sale in Canada. Production ended in 2006 without reaching the planned lot. Approximately 550 were built in 2004, nearly 1,900 in 2005, and just over 1,600 in 2006, for a grand total of 4,038. The final 11 car bodies manufactured by Mayflower Vehicle Systems were disassembled, and the frames and body panels were sold as service parts.
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