San Francisco Examiner, 27-November-1924 |
Rambling observations on books, history, movies, transit, obsolete technology, baseball, and anything else that crosses my mind.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
One of the Things You Can Be Thankful For -- November 24, 2024
Saturday, November 23, 2024
America's Greatest Food Dessert -- November 23, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
Hoagy Carmichael 125 -- November 22, 2024
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Hoagy Carmichael was born 125 years ago today, on 22-November-1899. He played the piano, composed songs and wrote lyrics, sang, acted in films, and he was Bix Beiderbecke's buddy. Any movie is better with Hoagy Carmichael. He collaborated with Johnny Mercer on many songs.
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Stardust, Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals
Stardust - Louis Armstrong - The actual best version
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Woody Herman and His Orchestra -- November 21, 2024
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Travel in Comfort to San Francisco -- November 20, 2024
Cloverdale Reveille, 07-November-1924 |
The Northwestern Pacific -- and its predecessors -- has always been one of my favorite railroads. In this ad, it offered excursion service from Cloverdale in Sonoma County to San Francisco and back.
Cloverdale Reveille, 07-November-1924 |
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Stars Break Up Hearst Yacht Party When Death Strikes Ince -- November 19, 2024
New York Daily News, 20-November-1924 |
Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 9. -- Thomas H, Ince, maker of celebrated films and film celebrities, died early this morning at his Beverly Hill home, of a heart seizure. The producer's death was sudden and came from a heart affection following an attack of indigestion which began at a yacht party aboard the Oneida, off San Diego, last Sunday.
Personages who made merry with Ince on Sunday when the yacht party was turned into a celebration for Ince's forty-third birthday anniversary, dispersed yesterday and tonight none could be reached, although a partial list of the guests assembled from other quarters contained the following names:
Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst, Elinor Glyn, Charlie Chaplin, Seena Owen, D.C. Goodman, Margaret Livingstone.
The film magnate decided to quit the Oneida when he found that Dr. D.C. Goodman, the executive head of Hearst's film enterprises and formerly a practicing physician, was returning by train to Los Angeles by San Diego by train on Monday morning.
Monday, November 18, 2024
Coulter -- For the Klondike Trade -- November 18, 2024
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Folding Camera Perfection -- November 17, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Kodak -- You Made the Movie Yourself -- November 16, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024
KPO to Give Special Armistice Day Music -- November 14, 2024
San Francisco Examiner, 11-November-1924 |
San Francisco's pioneering radio station KPO (now KNBR) broadcast a special music program on Armistice Day, 1924 (11-November 1924). The music was composed by "the talented blind composer" Joseph B Cary. I can't find much about Cary except that he wrote a popular song, "When Honey Sings an Old Time Tune."
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
And His Murderer Hanged by a Mob -- November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Fletcher Henderson -- November 12, 2024
Pittsburgh Courier, 01-November-1924 |
Monday, November 11, 2024
Happy Veterans Day, 2024 -- November 11, 2024
San Francisco Examiner, 11-November-1924 |
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Comic Book -- Two-Fisted Tales -- November 10, 2024
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Saturday, November 9, 2024
Pulp -- War Stories -- November 9, 2024
Friday, November 8, 2024
Toonerville Trolley -- Heaven Help the Poor Trolley Patron Now! -- November 8, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Krazy Kat -- Why Should I Hide in That Skimpy "Pine Tree"? -- November 7, 2024
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
The Overland Trail To-Day -- November 5, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
For Work or Play -- November 4, 2024
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Closely Connecting all Important Southland Cities -- November 3, 2024
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Is The Champion Automobile Tire Changer -- November 2, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
November 2024 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- November 1, 2024
San Francisco Examiner, 06-January-1951 |
It includes some new items:
- Picture of the Month: An ad for the Cable Car Cocktail Lounge in Fred Solari's Grill at 21 Maiden Lane. "Have a HIGHBALL at NITEFALL." (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 06-January-1951).
- On the Cable Car Businesses page: A new article about the Cable Car Cocktail Lounge in Fred Solari's Grill Street station
Ten years ago this month (November 2014):
- Picture of the Month: Catcher Buster Posey and closer Santiago Casilla pass the old Main Library, now the Asian Art Museum, on their double deck motorized cable car during the Giants' 2014 World Series victory parade
- On the Decorated Cable Cars page: the the 2014 Giants Victory Parade.
- On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: A new article about the New York Cable Railway, which was a name shared by a company that tried to create a comprehensive system in Manhattan and a another that built cable traction systems in other cities
- On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about EJ Lawless , who worked on cable car lines in San Francisco and Kansas City and who was the propritor of a marvelous mustache
- On the More California Street Pictures page: Some new Cal Cable photos around California and Drumm
Twenty years ago this month (November 2004):
- Picture of the Month: A Pacific Avenue cable train in the 1920's.
- Migrated one item from the Cable Car Museum site:
- Added "The Sutter Street Railway - History and Technology," an article by Walter Rice, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the abandonment of the Pacific Avenue cable line on 17 November.
- Added a newspaper article about the hearing to allow the abandonment of the Pacific Avenue cable car line to the newspaper article page
- Added a photo of Henry Casebolt's balloon car to the Who page
- Added a new article by Walter Rice about the 1950 Broadway Tunnel Construction Project and how it caused the O'Farrell/Jones/Hyde line to be temporarily replaced by Ford buses. Photos from Robert Townley and Walter Vielbaum.
- Added News and Bibliography items about some outages and an accident that occurred in October
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 December 2024: Cable cars of Christmas past.
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-November-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-October-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 31-October-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/