http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
It includes some new items:
1. Picture of the Month:
"San Francisco's Folly." An item from the travel section of Newsday shows a drawing of a Clay Street Hill Railroad grip car and passenger dummy. (Source: Newsday (Suffolk Edition), 1973-07-29, Page 95).
2. On the Centennial and Sesquicentennial of the Birth of the Cable Car page:
Newspaper items about the centennial from far and wide. A cosmetics ad from Sydney referring to San Francisco cable cars. Sesquicentennial websites and events. I will continue to update the page for much of the year. New sections about other important anniversaries and Centennial collectibles.
3. On the Horse Car Home Page: An article about the last horse car line in Pittsburgh.
Ten years ago this month (June, 2013):
1. Picture of the Month:
In an editorial cartoon from the 04-June-1913 San Francisco Call, Mr Public apparently operates a Sutter Street electric car to the Ferry and bids G-o-o-d Night to the horse car as it makes its way to the junk pile
2. On the Horse Car Home Page: 03-June-2013 is the 100th anniversary of the last schedule horse car to run in San Francisco. Includes a contemporary newspaper article, with illustrations, on the event
3. On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More about the Butte City Street Railroad, including selected articles from The Street Railway Journal.
4. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: Thanks to Tony Turrittin, added I Remember Mama. Also added a poster and a photo of Paulette Goddard and Sonny Tufts on a cable car to I Love a Soldier
5. Added News items about Secret San Francisco, a film show that included many cable car views, an article about cable cars being dangerous, and the revised SFMTA website, which includes a page on How to Ride Cable Cars
Twenty years ago this month (June, 2003):
1. Move to new domain: www.cable-car-guy.com
2. Picture of the Month:
Butte cable car
3. Add the Butte City Street Railroad to the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page.
4. Added more photos to my illustrated article about the California Street Cable Railroad 125th anniversary.
5. Added News items about the Carnaval Parade, with a photo by Val Lupiz, who drove car 62, and a serious accident on the California Street cable line.
150 years ago this month -- June 1873
Andrew S Hallidie broke ground for the Clay Street Hill Cable Railroad
125 years ago this month -- June 1898
Jun 30 - The Saint Paul City Railway's Selby Street line closed. It was replaced by a counterbalance, which helped electrics up and down the Selby Street hill. The counterbalance was replaced 10-Oct-1906 by a tunnel.
Coming in July, 2023: On the Centennial and Sesquicentennial of the Birth of the Cable Car page:
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-June-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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