Pulp -- Amazing Stories -- June 7, 2024

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Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories may have been the first magazine dedicated to science fiction. With Flag Day coming, I thought this might be appropriate.

D-Day 80 -- June 6, 2024

General Dwight D Eisenhower issued this message to his soldiers, sailors and airmen on 06-June-1944, D-Day. Click on the image to see a larger version. Thank Heaven "this great and noble undertaking" was a success.

Since I first posted this item in 2011, many World War II veterans have died.  We lose about 130 each day.  Of 16 million American soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen, there were about 120,000 still alive in 2023.  (http://www.nationalww2museum.org/honor/wwii-veterans-statistics.html)

The image is from Today's Document (http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/) at the National Archives.

Toonerville Trolley -- The Skipper Weighs the Lot on the Cattle Scales -- June 5, 2024

Perth Amboy Evening News, 04-June-1924

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

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Krazy Kat -- You is Spoofing Me -- June 4, 2024

Fort Worth Record, 11-June-1924

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

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Franz Kafka 100 Years -- June 3, 2024

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Prague author Franz Kafka died 100 years ago today, on 03-June-1924. Very little of his writing had been published. He wrote constantly, but was insecure and didn't finish many of his novels.

I think I began to understand The Trial after I had worked at Wells Fargo for many years. 

Orson Welles made a film of The Trial, which I find it painful to watch. 

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All Indians Citizens Now -- June 2, 2024

 

San Francisco Examiner, 15-May-1924

100 years ago today, on 02-June-1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act which granted citizenship to Native Americans.

June, 2024 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- June 1, 2024

 

I just put the June 2024 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: Fans were invited to ride the Blue Line to Union Park to see the New York Giants play the Baltimore Orioles. 23-May-1893 was the Blue Line's opening day. Baltimore won 7-5. (source: Baltimore Sun, 23-May-1893.)
2. On the Cable Car Lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore page: A ten year update on the Baltimore City Passenger Railway, including contemporary newspaper items and images of the line's terminal attractions
3. Added News item about special cable car operations and fares that will be available this summer.

Ten years ago this month (June, 2014):

1. Picture of the Month: Cal Cable Car 60 laying over between Davis and Drumm in May, 2014
2. On the Cable Car Lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore page: The Baltimore City Passenger Railway
3. On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about AN Connett, who helped build the Druid Hill Avenue line of the Baltimore Traction Company and who served as chief engineer of the Baltimore City Passenger Railway. Be sure to check his moustache.
4. Also on the Who page: Added Augustine W Wright, who designed the Los Angeles Cable Railway/Pacific Cable Railway
5. On the Horse Car Home Page: Thanks to Yosef Sa'ar, a new section on Horse Car Transit Tokens
6. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: Thanks to Val Lupiz, cable cars in the 2014 San Francisco Carnaval Parade.
7. On the More California Street Pictures page: A photo of Cal Cable car 60 at California and Drumm
8. On the Other California Cities page: A funny story from the Street Railway Journal about a Texas man's first ride on a Los Angeles Cable Railway/Pacific Cable Railway cable car
9. Updated News item about California Street Cable Railroad car 11 up for auction
10. Added News item about the reopening of the Wells Fargo History Museum and a model of a Clay Street Hill Railroad cable car

Twenty years ago this month (June, 2004):

1. Picture of the Month: Program marking the return of the cable cars in 1984
   • Added 20-Years of Being Back and Building for the Future, a new essay by Val Lupiz and Walter Rice, about the return of the cable cars after the 1982-1984 reconstruction on the San Francisco page.
   • Migrated some more items from the Cable Car Museum site:
   • Cable Car Transfers, Tickets and Tokens by Walter Rice. With a new 1970's child's ticket.
   • TOWED BY RAIL, an 1878 Saint Nicholas Magazine article about cable cars, from Tom Ehrenreich's much-missed Railroad Extra site. Thanks to Walter Rice and Tom Ehrenreich for allowing me to be the new host of this material
2. Added the June installment of Val Lupiz's quarterly column, Tales From the Grip
3. Added News and Bibliography items about the California cable car shutdown and the passing of Arnold Greeley

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.

Coming in July, 2024: On the Cable Car Lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore page: A ten year update about the Washington and Georgetown Railroad.

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
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-June-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-March-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 29-February-2024)
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/