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

I just put the October 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: This portion of an ad for the Kelley Steiger and Company clothing store at Dodge and Fourteenth Steets, says that "Parties from out of town will find it convenient to take the Dodge Street line of cable cars, which run directly by our store, stopping at the post office." (source: Omaha Daily Bee, 08-January-1888).
2. On the Other Cities page: A ten year update about the Cable Tramway Company of Omaha, including several contemporary newspaper items
3. On the More Muni Photos page: Muni's 2024 Heritage Weekend
4. Added News item about Powell Street cars turning back because of a police action at the Powell Street station

Ten years ago this month (October 2014):

1. Picture of the Month: New Orleans Canal Street streetcar 2018 outbound at Royal Street in July, 2014.
2. On the Miscellany page: General Beauregard's Cable Car, a new article about an experimental line in New Orleans. Includes lots of photos of streetcars and other items of interest from my recent visit to the Crescent City
3. On the Who page and the News: The passing of economist and cable car historian George W Hilton
4. On the Horse Car Home Page: We visited History Park at Kelley Park in San Jose and saw Central Railroad 7, an 1863 San Francisco horse car built in New York by John Stephenson and shipped around the Horn.

Twenty years ago this month (October 2004):

1. Picture of the Month: The header of a Rider Alert card issued during the 2002 Powell/Market Turntable Replacement. The other side was in English. The Bay/Taylor turntable is being replaced this month.
2. Added the October installment of Val Lupiz's quarterly column, Tales From the Grip
3. Thanks to information from Rich Fill, updated the article about the Park Hill Incline, a funicular in Yonkers.
4. Migrated one item from the Cable Car Museum site:
   • Added "The Wire Rope Street Railways of San Francisco, California," an 1881 article by Andrew Hallidie from the Scientific American Supplement, collected by Val Lupiz, with an introduction by Walter Rice.
5. On the page about the 2002 Powell/Market Street Turntable Replacement page: Scans of a rider alert card in English and Chinese. Also a News item about the current Bay/Taylor turntable replacement.
6. Added News and Bibliography items about some outages that occurred in September
7. Added more Chronology 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 the year before with making most thumbnails 200 pixels instead of 100.

Coming in October 2024: On the Cable Car Businesses page: More items about businesses named after cable cars

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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http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
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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/