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

I just put the April 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 2009 pin from the San Francisco Hard Rock Cafe at Pier 39.
2. On the Cable Car Kitsch page: More collectible detritus about cable cars, including: the cover of the May, 1959 issue of Esquire Magazine; the cover of the July, 1984 Popular Mechanics; the cover of the June, 1984 San Francisco Magazine; a tourism ad for Californians, Inc; a magazine ad for Maidenform bras; a China Airline map of San Francisco; several images of toy California Street cable car 51; toy cable cars and other items on the shelf atop my desk;
3. On the Cable Car Models page: The The National Hobby-Craft Sales Model from 1947 was a California Street cable car.
4. On the Los Angeles Area Funiculars page: Added a February, 1948 Popular Mechanics article about a private funicular made from war surplus materials including the winch from an Army truck to the Private Funiculars article.
5. On the Cable Car Businesses page: Added Sam's Cable Car Lounge on Powell Street, Cable Car Station Gift Co and Cable Car Café in South San Francisco. Added link to Cable Car Hotel San Francisco website. Removed obsolete link to Cable Car Coffee website.
6. Changed the toy cable car picture on the main page to toy cable cars and other items on the shelf atop my desk.

Ten years ago this month (April, 2014):

1. Picture of the Month: Jonathan Milne made this beautiful model of a Melbourne cable tram
2. On the Kitsch page: A die cut postcard; another Disney Vinylmation figure; an elongated penny; a Peninsula Coin Club medal; a Buddy Guy album cover ; a Giants pin ; another menu from the California Zephyr's Cable Car Room ;
3. On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about DJ Miller, who invented the duplicate cable system used by Manhattan's Third Avenue Railroad and the Kansas City Cable Railway
4. Added News item about the fourth annual San Francisco History Expo
5. On the Cable Car Businesses page, the closing of Joe's Cable Car Restaurant. Also a News item.
6. On the Decorated Cable Cars page, the 2014 Saint Patrick's Day Parade.
7. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to detail view of the cabin of 514.

Twenty years ago this month (April, 2004):

1. Picture of the Month: A detail from a magazine ad showing 519 at Powell and Market
2. Migrated some more items from the Cable Car Museum site: Instructions for Cable Car Operations (collected by RT Murphy)
   Thanks to RT Murphy and Walter Rice for allowing me to be the new host of this material
3. Added the April installment of Val Lupiz's quarterly column, Tales From the Grip
4. New items on the Kitsch page: including magazine ads and items from the 1982-1984 Great Reconstruction
5. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to Bachman HO 4.
6. Added Bibliography items

In January 2024 I started on a long overdue process of cleaning things up on my site. I started with the development pages. Actually, I guess I started last year with making the thumbnails 200 pixels instead of 100.

Coming in May, 2024: On the Cable Car Lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore page: A ten year update about the The Baltimore Traction Company. Cable traction did not arrive in Baltimore until 1891, after all other US cities except Tacoma

75 Years Ago This Month (April, 1949): Apr 16 - The Mount Adams and Eden Park funicular in Cincinnati, OH closed

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
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-April-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-March-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 29-February-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (updated obsessively)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/