January, 2024 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- January 1, 2024

I just put the January 2024 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 postcard view of a car on the Johnstown Inclined Plane. People rode on the lower level with the windows and wagons and teams rode on the upper level with the large opening.
2. On the Cable Cars in Pennsylvania page: A ten year update about the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway.
3. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: A list of cable cars decorated for Christmas, Kwanzaa and Pistahan 2023.
4. On Walter Rice's page about Glen Hurlburt's "Cable Car Concerto," a 1947 composition that represents a ride on the Mason Street line, added an image of an adverisement for Hurlburt's appearance in Carmel.
5. Added News items about a chance to climb aboard a motorized cable car at Powell and Market and a display of photos from the Muni Archive

Ten years ago this month (January, 2014):

1. Picture of the Month: A postcard view of the steep Johnstown Inclined Plane.
2. On the Who page: Added an obituary for incline engineer Samuel Diescher. Also added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about Winthrop Bartlett, who worked on several of the cable car lines in Saint Louis
3. On the Decorated Cable Cars page, a photo of Cal Cable 52 decorated for Christmas 2013.

Twenty years ago this month (January, 2004):

1. Picture of the Month: GSPO terminal at Geary and Kearney
2. Add newspaper articles about the last days of the Geary Street, Park and Ocean and updated the GSPO page
3. Add new page about Decorated Cable Cars
4. Add article about Ray McCann to the Who page
5. Add News item about Cable Car Division Senior Luncheon

Coming in February, 2024: On the Cable Cars in Pennsylvania page: A ten year update about the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway.

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

The Cable Car Home Page also has an Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/cable_car_guy/

Joe Thompson
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