#1730 - Max Yavno

Cable Car, San Francisco, 1947
August 8, 2025
#1730 - Max Yavno
“I hope I go to Heaven and when I do, I’m going to do what every San Franciscan does when they get there. They look around and say “it ain’t too bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.”

~ Herb Caen
(1916-1997)

One of the great all time images of San Francisco and the cover image of Max’s great book “The Photography of Max Yavno". A cable car is being turned around at the end of Powell Street by its operators. Max captures the rhythm of urban life in all its humanity and choreographs the scene like a ballet.