tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76130862441525513862024-03-18T00:30:32.194-07:00The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier DelusionRambling observations on books, history, movies, transit, obsolete technology, baseball, and anything else that crosses my mind.Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.comBlogger5090125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-20796723765884538612024-03-18T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-18T00:30:00.126-07:00Ferry Steamer General Frisbie in Tow of the Rainier -- March 18, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/coulter_general_frisbie_sfcall_19001227_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="532" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/coulter_general_frisbie_sfcall_19001227_001.jpg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>San Francisco Call</u>, 27-December-1900</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
From the 27-December-1900 <u>San Francisco Call</u>. William A Coulter did many maritime drawings for the newspaper. Click on the image for a larger view.<br />
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The Hatch Brothers, originally from Monticello, New York, founded the Monticello Steamship Company to operate fast ferries from Vallejo to San Francisco. Learn more about it on my ferryboat site:<br /><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/">
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/</a><br />
<br /><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-84881458847095481312024-03-17T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-17T00:30:00.126-07:00Happy Saint Patrick's Day, 2024 -- March 17, 2024<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/saint_patricks_day_sfex_19240318_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1604" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/saint_patricks_day_sfex_19240318_001.jpg" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>San Francisco Examiner</u>, 18-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone. 100 years ago today, San Francisco was having a busy day. <p></p><p><br /></p>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-21809522954984237952024-03-16T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-16T00:30:00.134-07:00Albert Bierstadt -- Yellow Butterfly -- March 16, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/bierstadt_butterfly_yale_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1920" height="232" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/bierstadt_butterfly_yale_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>artgallery.yale.edu</B></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
Albert Biersdadt created "Yellow Butterfly" about 1890. The colors are beautiful.Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-71352399890769806152024-03-15T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-15T00:30:00.132-07:00Kodak in the Home -- March 15, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/kodak_ad_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="549" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/kodak_ad_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" width="282" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Photoplay</u>, March, 1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
George Eastman's Kodak cameras allowed many people to take up photography. "A Kodak record of the children catches them just as they are and keeps them just as they <i>were</i>."Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-38433096471208489712024-03-14T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-14T00:30:00.136-07:00Great American Dirigible -- March 14, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/dirigible_nydailynews_19241116_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="849" height="279" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/dirigible_nydailynews_19241116_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>New York Daily News</u>, 16-November-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Both sound like fun. </div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-55884561521962403172024-03-13T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-13T00:30:00.127-07:00Time Magazine -- Eugene O'Neill -- March 13, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/time_magazine_55-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="420" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/time_magazine_55-1.jpg" width="304" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Time</u>, March 17, 1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Eugene O'Neill was a realist playwright. </div>
<div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2018/james_oneill_altaca_18840615_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="865" height="362" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2018/james_oneill_altaca_18840615_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Alta California</u>, 15-June-1884</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
His father, James O'Neill, spent a significant portion of his career playing Edmond Dantes, <u>The Count of Monte Cristo</u>. James O'Neill played the part over 6000 times between 1875 and the early Twentieth Century. He grew sick of the role and felt that it stunted his growth as an actor, but the public demanded that he play the Count.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>After Eugene was expelled from Princeton, he joined the merchant marine. He fought with depression and alcoholism, but he gathered material for many of his plays. He joined the IWW's Marine Transport Workers Union.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2022/emperor_jones_topekastatejournal_19221021_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="835" height="400" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2022/emperor_jones_topekastatejournal_19221021_002.jpg" width="391" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Topeka State Journal</u>, 21-October-1922</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />
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<div>Struck by tuberculosis, he spent time ashore in a sanitarium. He began to write plays. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. This gave him enough money to buy a house in Danville, California. Tao House is a national historic monument. I have never visited there.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>Many of his plays were successes on stage and went on to become movies.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/eugene_oneill_nytrib_19211103_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="909" height="103" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/eugene_oneill_nytrib_19211103_001.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>New York Tribune</u>, 03-November-1921</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/blanche_sweet_casperdailytribune_19231221_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="355" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/blanche_sweet_casperdailytribune_19231221_001.jpg" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Casper Daily Tribune</u>, 21-December-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/eugene_oneill_brkdailyeagle_19241116_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="813" height="159" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/eugene_oneill_brkdailyeagle_19241116_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</u>, 16-November-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/580full-desire-under-the-elms-1958-poster.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="580" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/580full-desire-under-the-elms-1958-poster.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>listal.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-85065043210071684642024-03-12T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-12T00:30:00.132-07:00All Kinds of Soda Water Including Dr. Pepper and Red Diamond Root Beer -- March 12, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/dr_pepper_columbiastar_19240327_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="498" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/dr_pepper_columbiastar_19240327_001.jpg" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Columbia Star</u>, 27-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
I have been having trouble finding ads for Dr Pepper. I had a Diet Dr Pepper this afternoon. I'm not sure about Red Diamond Root Beer, but it may have been manufactured in Birmingham, Alabama. Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-10534120001419381452024-03-11T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-11T00:30:00.125-07:00And Now They Fear You May Get Drunk Sipping Coca Cola -- March 11, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/coke_sheboyganpress_19240329_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="685" height="245" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/coke_sheboyganpress_19240329_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Sheboygan Press</u>, 29-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i>Not an advertisement this month; I thought this was an interesting article.</i><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>AND NOW THEY FEAR</b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>YOU MAY GET DRUNK</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>SIPPING COCA COLA</b></div></b>
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Enforcement of the ruling made on Friday by the state prohibition department at Madison that the Coca Cola Co. of Georgia must obtain a license in Wisconsin to sell non-intoxicating alcoholic beverages, may mean that the Sheboygan soft drink parlors, restaurants and other places where the famous drink is sold may be searched by dry officers and that they may be compelled to secure the city license for the sale of non-intoxicating beverages at a cost of $50 per year, or discontinue handling the beverage.<br />
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The ruling was made after an extended analysis of Coca Cola which is perhaps the most intensively advertised soft drink manufactured in this county.<br />
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The department in a letter to Attorney General Herman L. Ekern, declared that its analysis showed that Coca Cola contains a small amount of alcohol and that firms selling the drink must obtain a state permit as well as the main company.<br />
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It had been contended by the Coca Co. that its beverage contains no alcohold and that it could be sold in the state without a warrant under state prohibition laws.<br />
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Two analyses were made of the beverages, both bottled and from soda fountains. The first method showed that samples of the beverage contained from 0.05 0.08 per cent for the fountain drink and 0.07 to 0.10 per cent for bottled drink. Results of the second test were similar to those of the first, it was
said.<br />
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<div><br /></div></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-45856383294562943162024-03-10T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-10T00:30:00.133-08:00Best Colored Band in the U.S. -- March 10, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/robinsons_band_newera_19240321_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1626" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/robinsons_band_newera_19240321_001.jpg" width="318" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Omaha New Era</u>, 21-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Robinson's Plantation Band of New Orleans, "10 -- Harmony Playin' Colored Jazz Hounds -- 10," played at the New Diamond Theater in Omaha. I do not know if this Robinson is trombonist Jim Robinson. </div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-57696516461781822024-03-09T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-09T00:30:00.133-08:00Radio Program Received in Coal Mine -- March 9, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/radio_washtimes_19240319_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="851" height="371" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/radio_washtimes_19240319_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Washington Times</u>, 19-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>A test proved that radio could be listened to 500 feet down in a coal mine. In light of yesterday's story about the Castle Gate Mine disaster (https://cablecarguy.blogspot.com/2024/03/175-dead-in-mine-march-8-2024.html), it is interesting that "The test also demonstrated the feasibility of mine rescue work by means of radio. </div><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-13787597785154439652024-03-08T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-08T00:30:00.136-08:00175 Dead in Mine! -- March 8, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/castle_gate_mine_explosion_seattlestar_19240308_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="1487" height="220" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/castle_gate_mine_explosion_seattlestar_19240308_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Seattle Star</u>, 08-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i>
100 years ago today, on 08-March-1924, series of explosions at the Castle Gate coal mine in Utah killed 171 miners underground and the leader of the team that tried to rescue them. The shift before the crew that faced the explosion had failed to suppress coal dust.</i> <div><br /></div><div><b>175 DEAD IN MINE!<br />BLAST<br />
WRECKS<br />
SHAFT!<br />
<br />
Workers Buried Alive by Death<br />
Explosion Shattering Works in Utah<br />
Mine; Hope Is Abandoned</b><br />
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ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., March 8. -- </b>One hundred and seventy-five men, trapped in Utah Mine No. 2, at Castle Gate, Utah, today
by three terrific explosions from an unknown cause, are all dead, according to the belief of officials this afternoon.<br />
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No one could possibly be alive in the mine, officials reported in messages here.<br />
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At 1:30 p. m. black damp was pouring out of the portals in such a deadly stream that rescuers were driven back and were being
compelled to remain helplessly outside until more equipment arrives on the scene.<br />
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Without a single survivor to give them hope, or a person who can explain the cause of the explosions within the mine,
relatives of the unfortunates by hundreds crowded about the gathering number of rescue crews.<br />
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Air shafts were totally wrecked. There is no avenue left by which entrance can be made without the best of equipment for battling gas.<br />
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HEARTRENDING SCENES ARE<br />
WITNESSED AT TUNNEL MOUTH</b></div><div><br />
Scenes at the tunnel mouth are heartrending in the extreme. There is not even the customary amount of hope
for those entombed in similar explosions. Guards have been compelled to fence off enough space to give room for workmen,
as the mass of relatives surge toward the entrance.<br />
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Fifteen rescue parties had arrived at the scene but no headway was being made and it was evident days probably
would pass before all details of the disaster become available and all bodies recovered.<br />
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SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS<br />
SHATTER MINE WORKINGS</b><br />
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A series of explosions occurred shortly after the men went to work today, reports stated. After that -- silence.
What caused the disastrous blasts has not been learned. Officers of the company immediately rushed out of Salt
Lake on a special train to take charge of the attempt at rescue.<br />
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Fire equipment from the other camps of the Utah Fuel Co., and from the Spring Canyon Co. were rushed to the
scene. The mine rescue car at Butte left for the scene and experts with oxygen tanks were also sent.<br />
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A corps of doctors and nurses from all available points in adjacent territory went to the scene.
First reports stated that 183 men entered the mine. This ‘number was later changed to 175 and a telephone message
from the scene late this afterncon said it was possible that only 173 were in the wrecked shaft, three men being sick
and unable to go to work.<br />
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</div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-85792417801781391582024-03-07T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-07T00:30:00.345-08:00Lynching -- Poor, Foolish Men -- March 7, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/lynching_elizabethcityindependent_19240307_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="577" height="640" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/lynching_elizabethcityindependent_19240307_001.jpg" width="506" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Elizabeth City Independent</u>, 07-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i>Pasquotank County is in North Carolina. </i><br /><br />
<div><b>Poor, Foolish Men</b></div><div><br /></div><div>That little band of foolish men who tied handkerchiefs about their faces and gathered outside the Pasquontank County jail Sunday night calling for the blood of two negro prisoners, must feel thoroughly ashamed of themselves now; and surely they must feel thankful that they did not carry out the heinous crime of lynching that was in their minds.</div><div><br /></div><div>Happily the mob lacked leadership and sufficient liquor to fire its passions. Given a frenzied leader and an abundance of liquor the mob might have shoved aside protesting citizens, battered down the doors of the jail and engaged in such an orgy of lynching as this county has never known. There hasn't been a lynching in Pasquontank County within the memory of its oldest citizens. It is a late date to sully so fine a record. Lynchings are going out of fashion.</div><div><br /></div><div>Only brute men and ignorant men engage in lynching. If there were not brutal and ignorant they would never so much think of taking the law in their own hands. </div><div><br /></div><div>These lynching parties are so pitiably silly. They curse the law because it does not move to suit them. And then they set up a law of their own which convicts its victims without giving them a hearing and kills them without weighing the evidence at all. That mob Sunday night might have killed one negro of a crime of which he is only suspected. They would have killed another negro for a murder which may be proved accidental. Let us hope the would-be lynchers are now thoroughly ashamed and penitent and that Pasquontank will be spared another such demonstration. </div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-42941320289908426302024-03-06T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-06T00:30:00.133-08:00Comic Book -- The Shadow -- March 6, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/shadow_18-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="420" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/shadow_18-1.jpg" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>coverbrowser.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>"The Shadow Nips the Nipponese." Please excuse the racism. </div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-72363348264719215202024-03-05T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-05T00:30:00.153-08:00Pulp -- The Shadow -- March 5, 2024<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/shadow_51-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="420" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/shadow_51-1.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>coverbrowser.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />When I was a kid, Gene Nelson on KSFO played old radio shows at night. He often played episodes of <u>The Shadow</u>. At some point, I found a copy of Jim Harmon's <u>The Great Radio Heroes</u> in the library and read that the Shadow was a very different character in the pulp magazines. That character sounded more interesting. The whole "clouds men's minds" didn't make a lot of sense, but wearing dark clothes and hiding in the shadows sounded cool. Later still, I got to read reprints and found that they were pretty cool.<div><br /></div><div>This cover seemed appropriate for the year of the dragon. </div><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-87057436635499510062024-03-04T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-04T12:47:46.839-08:00Tenth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- March 4, 2024<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="800" height="238" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Photoplay</u>, March, 1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Lea at <a href="https://silentology.wordpress.com/">Silent-ology</a> is hosting the <a href="https://silentology.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/the-10th-annual-buster-keaton-blogathon/">Tenth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon</a>. A blogathon that has lived for ten years is a rare creature. </div>
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For the first annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in vaudeville: <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-3-4-5-keatons-february-8-2015.html">The 3-4-5 Keatons</a>.<br />
For the second annual blogathon, I wrote about <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2016/02/buster-keaton-and-passing-show-of-1917.html">Buster Keaton and the Passing Show of 1917</a>, the show he signed for after leaving vaudeville.<br />
For the third annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster's transition from vaudeville to the movies, <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/02/buster-keaton-from-stage-to-screen.html">Buster Keaton: From Stage to Screen</a>.<br />
For the fourth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in the US Army: <a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2018/02/buster-keaton-goes-to-war-february-12.html">Buster Keaton Goes to War</a>.<br />
For the fifth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time making short comedies with Roscoe Arbuckle, <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2019/02/comique-roscoe-buster-al-and-luke.html">Comique: Roscoe, Buster, Al and Luke</a>.<br />
For the sixth annual blogathon I wrote about <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2020/03/buster-keatons-first-feature-saphead.html">Buster Keaton's First Feature: The Saphead</a><br />
For the seveth annual blogathon I wrote about <a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2021/03/buster-keatons-silent-shorts-reel-one.html">Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel One</a>, a series of films produced during 1920-1921. Buster and his team had a very high batting average.<br />
For the eighth annual blogathon, I started to write about the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923. <a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2022/03/buster-keatons-silent-shorts-reel-two.html">Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel Two</a>
<div>For the ninth annual blogathon, I wrote about the rest of the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923. <a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2023/03/buster-keatons-silent-shorts-reel-two.html">Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel Two and a Half</a></div><div><br /></div><div>For the tenth annual blogathon, I have written about the first feature that Buster Keaton had control over, <u>The Three Ages:</u></div><div><div><a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2024/03/buster-keaton-three-ages-what-well.html">https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2024/03/buster-keaton-three-ages-what-well.html</a></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/busterthon-10-banner-4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="404" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/busterthon-10-banner-4.png" width="321" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-style: italic;"><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-8299828401974563872024-03-03T20:40:00.000-08:002024-03-03T20:40:43.896-08:00Toonerville Trolley -- Never Place the Ladder on the Side Against Which the Wind is Blowing -- March 3, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/toonerville_trolley_perthamboyeveningnews_19240326_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="695" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/toonerville_trolley_perthamboyeveningnews_19240326_001.jpg" width="344" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Perth Amboy Evening News</u>, 26-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
I love Fontaine Fox's <u>The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains</u>.
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/toonerville_trolley_lewistonsun-journal_19240325_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="620" height="399" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/toonerville_trolley_lewistonsun-journal_19240325_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Lewiston Sun-Journal</u>, 25-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/toonerville_trolley_hamiltonohiojournalnews_19240328_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="1375" height="183" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/toonerville_trolley_hamiltonohiojournalnews_19240328_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Hamilton Ohio Journal News</u>, 28-March-1924</B></td></tr></tbody></table>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2020/fontaine_fox_washtimes_19180630_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="524" height="400" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2020/fontaine_fox_washtimes_19180630_001.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Washington Times</u>, 30-June-1918</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>
</div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-3709930294363623872024-03-02T17:29:00.000-08:002024-03-02T17:29:41.330-08:00Krazy Kat -- I'm So Lonesome Without That Lil Kitten Ket -- March 2, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/krazy_kat_intelligencerjournal_19240308_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/krazy_kat_intelligencerjournal_19240308_001.jpg" width="282" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal</u>, 08-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I love George Herriman's <u>Krazy Kat</u>. Click on the image to see a larger version.
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<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2020/george_herriman_washtimes_19180630_001.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2020/george_herriman_washtimes_19180630_001.JPG" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Washington Times</u>, 30-June-1918</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-11866967800127430362024-03-01T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-01T00:30:00.128-08:00March, 2024 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- March 1, 2024<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/all_port_plane.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="800" height="261" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/all_port_plane.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>
<p>I just put the March 2024 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server:
<br /><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/">http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
</a></p><p>
</p><p><b>It includes some new items:
</b></p><ol>
<li>Picture of the Month:
"Ascending an Inclined Plane." Source: <u>History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company</u> by William Bender Wilson, 1895.
</li><li>On the Cable Cars in Pennsylvania page:
A ten year update about the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the first railroad to cross the Alleghenys, using inclined planes.
</li><li>Added News and Chronology items about cable cars being dedicated to Willie Mays and Tony Bennett
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</p><p><b>Ten years ago this month (March, 2014):
</b></p><ol>
<li>Picture of the Month:
The Pittsburgh Traction Company's double reverse curve on Soho Hill. (Source: "Pittsburgh and Allegheny," The Street Railway Journal, October, 1891.)
</li><li>On the Pennsylvania page: Excerpts from "Pittsburgh and Allegheny," an article from the October, 1891 Street Railway Journal about street railways in the two cities
</li><li>Also on the Pennsylvania page: A new article about the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the first railroad to cross the Alleghenys, using inclined planes.
</li><li>On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about MK Bowen, who worked on the Kansas City Cable Railway and the Chicago City Railway
</li><li>Added News items about the Chinese New Year Parade and proposed fare gouging on the F line</li></ol><b>Twenty years ago this month (March, 2004):</b><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol><li>Picture of the Month: An elevator full of grips at Washington/Mason</li><li>Started to migrate some items from the Cable Car Museum site:
</li></ol></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><ol><li style="text-align: left;">Historic American Engineering Record, San Francisco Cable Car System (assembled by Alan Kline)</li><li style="text-align: left;">Cal Cable's Hyde and California Street Car Barn and Powerhouse by Walter Rice and Emiliano Echevarria</li><li style="text-align: left;">San Francisco Cable Car - The Gripping Tale of an Aged Compact, an April, 1962 Road and Track article collected by Val Lupiz<br />Thanks to Allan Kline, Val Lupiz, Walter Rice, and Emiliano Echevarria for allowing me to be the new host of this material</li></ol></ol>
<p>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 last year with making the thumbnails 200 pixels instead of 100.
</p><p><b>Coming in April, 2024: </b>
On the Cable Car Kitsch page: More collectible items.
</p><p><b>125 Years Ago This Month (March, 1874):</b>
Mar 23 - Baltimore City Passenger Railway (Baltimore, Maryland) converted from cable to electricity
</p><p>The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/">https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
</a></p><p>The Cable Car Home Page also has an Instagram page:
<br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/cable_car_guy/">https://www.instagram.com/cable_car_guy/
</a></p><p>
<br />Joe Thompson
<br />The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-March-2024)
<br /><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/">http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
</a><br />San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 29-February-2024)
<br /><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/">http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
</a><br />Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 29-February-2024)
<br /><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/">http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
</a><br />The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
<br /><a href="http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com">http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
</a><br />The Big V Riot Squad (updated obsessively)
<br /><a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/">http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/
</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-69505456722342051042024-02-29T15:10:00.000-08:002024-02-29T15:10:39.774-08:00Macy's Union Square to Close -- February 29, 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/macys_logo_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/macys_logo_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Macy's announced that its Union Square store is going to close in about one year. This has caused a furor in San Francisco. Many are blaming Mayor London Breed, even though Macy's announced at the same time that it is closing 149 other stores. This will be tough on neighborhood businesses. </div><div><br /></div><div>My mother always shopped at the Emporium, but my wife spent many happy hours at Macy's. </div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-22651416002369583312024-02-29T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-29T00:30:00.149-08:00COVID-19, Vaccine, Masks, Church, Baseball and School -- February 29, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/covid19_cdc_20240228_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="800" height="172" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/covid19_cdc_20240228_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>cdc.gov</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Covid-19 trends seem to be going down. On the other hand, nearly everyone I know has some kind of a nasty virus. </div><div><br /></div><div>Israel has paused before attacking the southernmost part of Gaza. People all over the world are calling for a ceasefire or evacuation of civilians. A US Airman immolated himself in front of the Israeli Embassy. The US and other countries have started to airdrop humanitarian supplies in Gaza. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2022/moveon_UkraineSign2_Color.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="792" height="309" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2022/moveon_UkraineSign2_Color.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>moveon.org</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Congress is still delaying aid to Ukraine, which is running short on ammunition. The Republican Pary appears to be beholden to Putin. 24-February-2024 marked two years since Russia invaded Ukraine. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>Spring training has started. Brandon Crawford has signed with the Cardinals. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>Trump lost a real estate fraud case and was ordered to pay $355 million. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>A bee flew into the computer lab today. The first graders wigged out. </div><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-15106125018798966362024-02-28T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-28T00:30:00.134-08:00Terry's Terrific Wallop Thrills Giants' Observers -- February 28, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/bill_terry_buffalo_courier_19240229_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="563" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/bill_terry_buffalo_courier_19240229_001.jpg" width="282" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Buffalo Courier</u>, 29-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i>
Spring training games have started. In 1924, Bill Terry made his spring training debut with the New York Giants. He played first base for the team from 1923 until 1936. He managed the Giants from 1932 to 1941. He entered the Hall of Fame in 1954. He hit .401 in 1930, becoming the last National League player to hit .400. "Robins" was another name for the Brooklyn Dodgers.</i> <div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Terry's Terrific Wallop </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Thrills Giants' Observers</b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>New York, Feb. 28 -- </b>William Terry, $50,000 first baseman bought from Toledo, joined the Giants at Sarasota yesterday and astonished observers by cracking out the longest home run seen in Florida in ages, according to enthusiastic reports reaching here. Terry hit .311 and made fifteen home runs for the Mud Hens last season.</div><div><br /></div><div>Frank Frisch, regarded as a candidate for the "most valuable man" honors this season, will leave today for the camp. Other veterans are slated to depart Monday.</div><div><br /></div><div>New from Clearwater, Fla., where the Robins are tuning up, has Manager Robinson worrying about his catchers. Zach Taylor of last year's squad is a holdout, and the purchase prices of Mike Gonzales from St. Paul is being held up. President Ebbets refused to comment on the rumor that Same Bohne of the Reds was to be traded to Brooklyn. </div><div><br /></div><div>Yankee officials have served notice on holdouts that the club has made its final offers, Sam Jones, Bob Shawkey, Herb Pennock, Wally Pipp, Aaron Ward, Bob Meusel and Whitey Witt have not yet signed. </div><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-63690793637095998522024-02-27T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-27T00:30:00.133-08:00Happy International Polar Bear Day, 2024 -- February 27, 2024<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2022/carmichael_001.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="659" height="267" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2022/carmichael_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Carmichael wishes everyone a happy International Polar Bear Day.
<div><br /></div><div>Please do what you can to slow the loss of sea ice.
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/moveon_climate_solutions_001.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/moveon_climate_solutions_001.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>moveon.org</B></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-27208596713174420382024-02-26T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-26T00:30:00.240-08:00Canal Street During Mardi Gras -- February 26, 2024<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/new_orleans_mardi_gras_canal_st_001.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="800" height="250" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/new_orleans_mardi_gras_canal_st_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Canal Street During Mardi Gras, New Orleans, La.</div><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-45380951691756471692024-02-25T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-25T00:30:00.132-08:00New Cat #116 -- February 25, 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/new_cat_20240222_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/new_cat_20240222_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">I took the photo on 22-February-2024.</span></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613086244152551386.post-35189578824857666822024-02-24T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-24T00:30:00.130-08:00Coulter -- French Bark Jaques -- February 24, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/coulter_french_bark_jacques_sfcall_19030424_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="783" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/coulter_french_bark_jacques_sfcall_19030424_001.jpg" width="392" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>San Francisco Call</u>, 24-April-1903</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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William A Coulter did many maritime drawings for the <u>San Francisco Call</u>. Click on the image to see a larger version.</i><br />
<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>BARK WHICH ARRIVED</b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>YESTERDAY FROM HAMBURG</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>WITH CARGO OF CEMENT.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Big Shipment of Cement.</b></div></b>
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The French bark Jaques, which arrived yesterday from Hamburg, brought 13,021 casks of cement. She was 130 days on the voyage, having been favored by friendly winds almost all the way from the Old World.Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0