May, 2023 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- May 4, 2023

San Francisco Examiner, 05-August-1923

I just put the May 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: I loved Margot Patterson Doss' column San Francisco at Your Feet in the Sunday Chronicle-Examiner. I had two of her books and I took many of the walks that she described. For the anniversary of the cable cars, she offered a walk from Golden Gate Park to Washington/Mason. Hills Brothers provided coffee for a nickel a cup. (Source: San Francisco Sunday Chronicle-Examiner, 1973-08-05, Sunday Punch Section Page 6). 
2. On the Centennial and Sesquicentennial of the Birth of the Cable Car page: Updates about both Centennial and Sesquicentennial events. I will continue to update it for much of the year.

Ten years ago this month (May, 2013):
1. Picture of the Month: Cable car crewmen hold trays with the rings as a motorized cable car rolls down the third base line
2. On the Motorized Cable Cars page: The San Francisco Giants' 2012 World Series Ring Ceremony.
3. On the Cal Cable page: Transit historian Ray Long shares his memories of more than 60 years of Cal Cable
4. On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More about the Spokane Cable Railway, including selected articles from The Street Railway Journal.
5. Added News and Bibliography items about cable cars taking funding away from other transportation

Twenty years ago this month (May, 2003):
Added Val Lupiz's new quarterly column, Tales From the Grip to the San Francisco Miscellany page. Thanks to Val for choosing to host his column here.
1. Picture of the Month: South Spokane cable car
2. Add the Spokane Cable Railway to the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page.
3. Added an illustrated article about the California Street Cable Railroad 125th anniversary. Also added Bibliography items about the party.
4. Added News and Bibliography items about Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria's new book San Francisco's California Street Cable Car/Celebrating a Century and a Quarter of Service.
125 years ago this month -- May 1898

May 25 - The Washington and Georgetown Railroad's Seventh Street line closed. Electric rails for the conduit electric cars had been laid while the cable cars were running.

50 years ago this month -- May 1973

May 11 - The Giants traded Willy Mays to the Mets.

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
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