The president of the Market Street Railway nonprofit is proposing that San Francisco name a cable car after Tony Bennett.
Laubscher said Bennett's Grammy-award-winning rendition of the song released in 1962 has had an"incredible impact" over the last six decades, bringing waves of people to San Francisco to ride its historic cable cars.
The Market Street Railway especially hopes to name Cable Car 58 after Bennett, which is the car where Bennett, Feinstein and other officials gathered in 1984 to celebrate the opening of the revamped cable car system. "Every time a mayor wanted Tony Bennett to come out here for a cable car celebration, he came and performed," Laubscher said.
The event will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Powell and Market streets. It'll include first-ever tours of the shops where cable cars are built, an exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library main branch and more.
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