(tan) August, 2019 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- August 1, 2019

I just put the August, 2019 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: Former Sacramento/Clay Car 19, in storage at the Washington/Mason car barn. December 2003. Photo by Joe Thompson.
2. On the Ferries and Cliff House Railway page: Sacramento/Clay car 19 operates with cable traction for the first time since 1942. Also News and Chronology items
3. On the Los Angeles area funiculars page: A ten and twenty year update about the Mount Lowe incline, including Pacific Electric ads


Ten years ago this month (August, 2009):
1. Picture of the Month: "Coming Down From Echo Mountain In One of the White Chariots." A photograph from "A Mountain Paradise" by Ronald L Pearse, in Cassel's Magazine, June, 1901, showing one of the cars on the Mount Lowe incline
2. On the Los Angeles area funiculars page: More about the Mount Lowe incline, including photos of the control room and the driving mechanism and newspaper articles about two of the many fires that plagued the line
3. On the Cable Car Video page:
-- New Powell Street car 15 outbound at Ellis. Also some videos from December: Cars 9, 13 and 25 decorated for Christmas.
-- F Line views of Muni 130 and 1010 and New Orleans 952 in June this year. Also two videos of 952 decorated for Christmas.
-- Powell Street car 25, in its bright red paint, passes the Saint Francis Hotel


Twenty years ago this month (August, 1999):
1. Picture of the Month: Mount Lowe incline.
2. Roll out Los Angeles area funiculars/Mount Lowe on the Other California Cities page
3. Roll out articles on movies featuring cable cars and Joe Lacey's remarks on making movies and commercials with cable cars on the SF detail page
4. Add link to Bruce Kliewe's site about the Great Reconstruction
5. Add news item about the cable car bell ringing contest
6. Add magazine article about Professor Lowe's Civil War service to the bibliography
Coming in September, 2019: On the Los Angeles area funiculars page: A ten and twenty year update about Angels Flight

75 years ago, on 15-August-1944, in San Francisco, Paramount premiered the movie I Love a Soldier, starring Paulette Goddard and Sonny Tufts. The movie had largely been shot in the city

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

Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-August-2019)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-January-2019)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 31-July-2019)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (new blog)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/