Tuesday, November 1, 2022

November, 2022 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- November 1, 2022


I just put the November 2022 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: The voting machine entry for Proposition 10, which required the city to keep the Powell Street cable car lines operating, despite the wishes of Mayor Roger Lapham.
2. On the Cable Car Lines in San Francisco page: A new article about San Francisco Proposition 10, 1947, which required the city to continue to operate the Powell Street cable car lines. Also see The Cable Car Lady & the Mayor by Walter Rice and Val Lupiz an article about the epic battle between Mrs Friedel Klussmann and Mayor Roger Lapham.
3. Add News items about the 75th anniversary of the first Save the Cable Cars movement.

Ten years ago this month (November, 2012):
1. Picture of the Month: A John Stephenson Company cable car built for Manhattan's Metropolitan Street Railroad (Source: "Notes on the Broadway, New York, Cable Railway", The Street Railway Journal, July, 1893).
2. Added results and videos of the 49th Annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
2. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: More about the Metropolitan Street Railway, including selected articles from the Street Railway Journal
3. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: The 2012 Giants Victory Parade.
4. On the Other California Cities page: A new article about animated cable car murals at Disney California Adventure. See California Street cars on North Point and Haight Street. Psychedelic.
5. Added News item about the upcoming dedication of refurbished Powell Street car 26

Twenty years ago this month (November, 2002):
1. Picture of the Month: Third Avenue, New York, parlor car
2. Add the Metropolitan Street Railway to the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page.
3. Also added a photo of Brooklyn Heights Railroad cable cars on Montague Street.
4. Add News items about bell ringing contest and Powell Street shutdown.

Coming in December, 2022: On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: A ten- and twenty-year update about Manhattan's Metropolitan Street 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-November-2022)
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 30-September-2022)
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/

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