Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Pulp -- Detective Fiction Weekly -- November 4, 2024

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Detective Fiction Weekly offered "Simon Templar Again!, Another Saint Novelette by Leslie Charteris." 

The Saint is a suspected criminal who steals from bad guys and solves crimes. Leslie Charteris wrote countless novels, novelettes and short stories from 1926 to 1963. The stick figure on the yellow is panel is the Saint's calling card.

The Saint appeared in print, on radio and television, in movies, and in a comic strip and comic books. Charteris wrote many of the scripts for the radio and comic strip adaptions. He also wrote a play, which has never been staged.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Toonerville Trolley -- Watch Yer Step Miss Belcher -- December 3, 2024

Perth Amboy Evening News, 18-November-1924

Christmas is coming. 

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

The Skipper is being extra helpful to his riders.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918



Monday, December 2, 2024

Krazy Kat -- Mizzles -- December 2, 2024

Brownsville Herald, 23-December-1924

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

Washington Times, 30-June-1918


Sunday, December 1, 2024

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


I just put the December 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: Santa and friends will ride a cable car down Powell Street to the Emporium. "He'll open up our big fabulous, eye-popping Toyland!" I miss the roof rides. (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 1949-10-28).
  2. With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit the late Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page. Added a photo of Santa riding atop a cable car and a 1952 Emporium ad about the Santacade to Christmas on the Cables. Cable car Christmas decorations celebrated their 20th anniversary.
  3. Added News and Chronology items about a threat to future cable car service and a two-day bus substitution.

Ten years ago this month (December 2014):

  1. Picture of the Month: Unique original-condition California Street Cable Railroad O'Farrell-Jones-Hyde car 42 lays over on California between Davis and Drumm during the 2014 Muni Heritage Weekend.
  2. With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page. We should all thank Val and his family and Friends who decorate cars every year.

Twenty years ago this month (December 2004):

  1. Picture of the Month: A Castro Cable car in the 1930's. 
  2. Thanks to Walter Rice, former Chair of the Friends of the Cable Car Museum:
    • Added "Market Street Railway's Efforts to Curtail Its Cable Car System," contemporary newspaper articles and photos with an introduction by Walter Rice.
    • Added Glen Hurlburt's "Cable Car Concerto," a 1947 composition that represents a ride on the Mason Street line, with an introductory essay by Walter Rice.

175 years ago - 1849
Dec 24 - The First Great Fire in San Francisco destroyed the buildings on the south and east sides of the Plaza, causing $1 million in damage.

125 years ago - 1899
Dec 31 - Former Omnibus Howard Street main line and Post Street Francisco, California) were closed.

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 January 2025: 
On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Saint Louis Cable and Western Railway, the first Hallidie-type cable car line in Saint Louis, which was part of a unique mixed-mode system which combined a cable car line with a narrow-gauge steam 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-December-2024)
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-October-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/

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Saturday, November 30, 2024

Battle of the Bands! -- November 30, 2024

San Francisco Examiner, 05-November-1924

I would like to have seen this show. It featured a battle of the bands between two long-time San Francisco leaders. Vernon Alley was a string bass player who spent many years working in and around San Francisco. He was also an alumnus of Count Basie and Lionel Hampton's bands. The city named an alley (of course) after him in 2010. With trumpeter Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, Turk Murphy helped to drive the traditional jazz revival that started in the Bay Area before World War II.  Murphy served in the Navy during the war, then rejoined the Watters band until 1947, when he left to form his own band.  

Friday, November 29, 2024

Oh! Margy! -- Beauty is More Than Skin Deep -- November 29, 2024

Miami Tribune, 25-November-1924

I like the drawings of John Held, Jr. He helped to define the look of the flapper.

Miami Tribune, 25-November-1924


Thursday, November 28, 2024

Thanksgiving 2024 -- November 28, 2024

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

The original Life Magazine was a humorous weekly that was published from 1883 to 1936. Here is the cover of their 22-November-1901 Thanksgiving Number. It depicts "The Vegetarian's Thanksgiving."