December, 2020 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- December 1, 2020

 

I just put the December, 2020 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: Ornaments at the Christmas in San Francisco store at Pier 39 Santa delivering presents on a single-ended cable car. August, 2017.

2. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: A ten year update on the 2010 Giants Victory Parade.

3. Also on the Decorated Cable Cars page: Cars decorated for Christmas 2020 despite the pandemic shutdown.

4. With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit the late Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables (21st anniversary this year), and the Decorated Cable Cars page.

5. Added News item about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Ten years ago this month (December, 2010):
1. The picture of the month: Pitcher Madison Bumgarner rides a motorized cable in the Giants Victory Parade on 03-November-2010.

2. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: The 2010 Giants Victory Parade.

3. On the UK page: A new article about the London's Euston to Camden Incline, an endless cable incline which took trains from Euston Station to Camden Town

4. With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page.

5. Added News and Bibliography items about an attack on a cable car conductor

6. Added Bibliography item: an obituary for William Frost, retired Cable Car Division Electrical Shop Foreman

Twenty years ago this month (Fall, 2000):
1. Picture of the Quarter: Geary and Market

2. Roll out Excerpts From The Octopus page.

3. Join more webrings: Funicular, Trolley & Interurban, Tram, and International Transportation.

Coming in January: On the Chicago page: More about the Chicago City Railway

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

Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-December-2020)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-January-2020)
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/