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I just put the April 2023 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:
A detail from an ad for the Emporium, a classic San Francisco department store, marking the cable car centennial (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 1973-08-01, Page 14).
2. Rolled out the new Centennial and Sesquicentennial of the Birth of the Cable Car page. I will continue to update it for much of the year.
3. On the Kitsch page: More collectible detritus about cable cars, including: A new section with items from the Centennial of the cable car; A toy cable car commemorating the Warriors' latest NBA title; A 1973 Emporium ad for centennial collectibles;
4. On the Cable Car Businesses page: a 1971 newspaper ad for Cable Car Clothiers
5. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to a front three-quarter view of car 504 with uncommon free-standing figures.
Ten years ago this month (April, 2013):
1. Picture of the Month:
A pin which commemorates the San Francisco Giants' defeat of the Detroit Tigers in the 2012 World Series.
2. On the Kitsch page: A Powell Street centennial commemorative coin; a 2012 World Series commemorative pin; a pin for the Giants 1987 National League West championship; a tin cable car with its original box; a 1957 cachet with a State Street Chicago cable car; a 2011 stamp from Malaysia showing the Penang Hills Funicular Railway a program from the 1967 Cable Car Classic basketball tournament; a Christmas ornament with Woodstock sitting on a cable car; a 2009 Hard Rock Cafe pin; a new section for San Francisco Giants Cable Car Items
3. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to Number 514.
4. Added News item about water main break that affected cable service
5. Added News item about the third annual San Francisco History Expo
Twenty years ago this month (April 10, 2003):
1. Add News item about the California Street Cable Railroad 125th anniversary.
Twenty years ago this month (April, 2003):
1. Picture of the Month:
Cal Cable centennial cachet
2. California Street Cable Railroad 125th anniversary. More pictures on the More Cal Cable Pictures page.
3. Add more items, especially special Muni passes and Lefton models to the Kitsch page.
4. Add excerpt from book Travels With Jottings, which describes an 1880 trip on the California Street Cable Railroad
5. Add information about new car 60 to the roster page
6. Add News items about anti-war protests
7. Change toy cable car picture on the main page to wood and metal Cal Cable 4
Coming in May, 2023: On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More about the Butte City Street Railroad
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-April-2023)
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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