I just put the July 2023 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
It includes some new items:
1. Picture of the Month:
At the Kickoff Celebration, Big 19 wore a banner celebrating the Sesquicentennial.
2. On the Centennial and Sesquicentennial of the Birth of the Cable Car page:
The Sesquicentennial Kickoff Celebration. Also a $5 all-day ticket for the Cal Cable line.
3. On the San Francisco Miscellany page: Added a newspaper item to the article about the The Fairfax Incline Railway
Ten years ago this month (July, 2013):
1. Picture of the Month:
A neon cable car shines in the window of Joe's Cable Car Restaurant, near Mission and Silver
2. On the Cable Car Businesses page, a visit to Joe's Cable Car Restaurant (no relation)
3. On the Horse Car Home Page: Screen captures from "The Bell Boy", a 1917 short comedy with Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St John and a horse car
4. Also on the Horse Car Home Page: A new book about horse cars at Walt Disney World
5. On the Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest page, added potential date for the 50th Annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest and the name of the winner of the 1971 Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
Twenty years ago this month (July, 2003):
1. Picture of the Month: The Skagit Incline
2. Add the Skagit Incline to the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page.
3. Added photos to the SF Muni page: dash signs and a sign in Chinese, and some highlights from Muni's 2003 draft Short Range Transit Plan
4. Added News and Bibliography items about an accident on Powell Street and a Cal Cable shutdown. Added news item about the retirement of Cable Car Division's
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-July-2023)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-January-2020)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 30-September-2022)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (new blog)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/
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