Juneteenth, 2025 -- June 19, 2025

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Happy Juneteenth, everyone. 

After Vicksburg fell in 1863, Texas was mostly cut off from the rest of the Confederacy. Slaves in Texas did not learn about President Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation until 19-June-1865, when Union General Gordon Granger presented it to them. I don't think I learned about Juneteenth until I was in college. 

On June 17, 2021 President Joe Biden signed a law making Juneteenth a national holiday.

Comic Book -- Captain Marvel, Jr -- June 17, 2025

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Marines on an island in the Pacific celebrate Captain Marvel, Jr raising the flag.

Captain Marvel Jr was a handicapped newsboy, Freddy Freeman (not the Dodger), who was rescued by The Big Red Cheese, Captain Marvel. To save Freddy's life, Captin Marvel shared his super powers. 

Highway One North -- June 16, 2025

On Memorial Day, we went for a drive with our daughter and son-in-law. He loves driving down Highway One to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz, but he had never driven north on One in Marin and Sonoma Counties. The day started overcast, so there was not a backup at the turnoff from 101. I haven't been that way for years, but I remembered where to turn. 

We stopped at the Hog Island Oyster Company to poke around. We had lunch at a very busy tourist-trappy restaurant in Bolinas called the Fishetarian Fish Market. Good name. I enjoyed the fist tacos. 

I pointed out things related to the North Pacific Coast Railroad along the way. At Jenner, we turned on 116 to follow the Russian River. We stopped at Duncans Mills. I told them about the time that I went through town with my father and the limits sign said something like "Population 50."

We visited my mother-in-law in Rohnert Park and then went to Santa Rosa and visited the train station. We had dinner at the Cattleman's.

It was a long day, but we enjoyed it.

Pulp -- The Shadow -- June 15, 2025

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I'm too late for Flag Day, but here is a nice cover from the 01-08-1942 issue of The Shadow, a pulp magazine.

Happy No Kings Day/Flag Day -- June 14, 2025

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Happy Flag Day, everyone. Today we also celebrate No Kings Day to support our democratic government against the authoritarian attacks from T***p and his lickspittles. Some smart person had the idea that people should post photos of President Barack Obama on social media today because T***p is insanely jealous of him. 

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Shepard Fairey

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The US Army, the US Navy and the US Marine Corps had planned a parade to celebrate their 250th birthdays this year, but T***p coopted it and turned into a North Korean-style celebration of his birthday.

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Tomorrow is No Kings Day -- June 13, 2025

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Since the Second T***p Reich has been trashing our constitution and are capping it off with a huge military parade for the birthday of the draft-dodging coward and rapist, people across the nation are celebrating No King Day tomorrow. The Fascists are coopting Flag Day and the celebrations of the 250th birthdays of the US Army, the US Navy and the US Marine Corps. 

I you want to find nearby protests, look here:

https://www.nokings.org/

Toonerville Trolley -- Frying Fish on the Car Stove -- June 5, 2025

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 03-June-1925

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Ardenwood Rail Fair 2025 -- June 4, 2025

I didn't get to post this last month. On the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, we went to the Rail Fair at Ardenwood Farm in Fremont. The Rail Fair has been permanently moved from Labor Day to Memorial Day weekend. We agreed that the cooler weather made it more enjoyable.

We rode the first train, which was jammed. The line for later rides kept growing. There were signs that said, "60 minutes from this point."

A highlight was Kiso Forest Railway #9, which was on static display. It is a Baldwin 0-4-2 that spent its working life on a logging railroad in Japan. Note the wild smokestack. I talked to the project manager who said that it hasn't operated since the Sacramento Rail Fair in 1999, but it is in remarkably good shape. They have to do a lot of analysis of the boiler.

Krazy Kat -- It's a Outrage!!! -- June 3, 2025

Kansas City Post, 29-May-1925

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Click on the image to see a larger version.

We are approaching the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey trial. This strip refers to controversies about evolution.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Parachute Leap From Dirigible --- June 2, 2025

Kansas City Post, 29-May-1925

The USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) was the US Navy's first Zeppelin, a rigid form of airship. 100 years ago this month, in June 1925, Chief Petty officer Lyman H Ford made a daring parachute jump from the Shenandoah. He was the first instructor at the Navy Parachute School.

June 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- June 1, 2025

I just put the June 2025 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: This real estate ad promotes an open house for an "Elegant Tyler Place Home." Prospective buyers could "Take Fourth street cable." (source: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 08-April-1888.)
2. On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Peoples' Railway. including real estate ads
3. Added News items about cable car operating issues

Ten years ago this month (June 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Fig. 27. -- Cable Train -- People's Railroad Co. (Source: "The Street Railway System of Saint Louis", The Street Railway Journal, June, 1895.)
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Peoples' Railway
3. Added News item about a terrible accident which seriously injured a cable car conductor

Twenty years ago this month (June 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: Muni Car 9, in the Market Street Railway's famous White Front paint scheme.
2. On the San Francisco page: Walter Rice's interview with Mrs. Barbara Kahn Gardner, daughter of Market Street Railway's principal owner, Samuel Kahn
3. Added the May installment of Val Lupiz's quarterly column, Tales From the Grip: "California, Here I Come"
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: 1887 newspaper articles about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York, and 1854 articles about the first horsecars in Brooklyn.
5. Added News and Bibliography items about a shutdown of the California Street cable car line. Added bibliography items and updated news items about the wildcat strike on 02-Mar-2005.

75 years ago - 1950
Jun 20 - San Francisco Powell cable car No. 524 had been shipped to Los Angeles for the 1950 Shriners convention, representing San Francisco’s Islam Temple; 524 was towed down that city’s Broadway on its own trucks using Los Angles Transit Lines’ narrow-gauge trackage as part of the Shriners parade. Ironically, Los Angles Transit Lines employees were on strike.
Jun 20 - Cal Cable files a suit against the City of San Francisco, seeking financial relief from removing and then replacing its tracks at Hyde Street and Broadway in connection with Broadway tunnel construction. The company objected to closing down the line for six months during construction and sought to have all costs it incurs because of the project of the paid for by the City.

In January 2024 I started on a long overdue process of cleaning things up on my site. I started with the development pages. Actually, I guess I started the year before with making most thumbnails 200 pixels instead of 100.

Coming in July 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Western Cable Railway, a cable-operated, freight-hauling line

The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/

The Cable Car Home Page also has an Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/cable_car_guy/

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The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-June-2025)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-October-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 31-May-2025)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (updated obsessively)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/