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/

Joe Thompson
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The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
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