June 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- June 1, 2026

 I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

I just put the June 2026 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:
2. The only car of the Elgin Road Extension "on the day of the trial run." Tramway employees post with the car. (Source: Otago Witness, 10-October-1906). June, 2026 Picture of the Month.
3. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's short-lived Elgin Road Extension, which operated from 1906 to 1910
4. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: Added Crosscurrent/The Cable Car Murder, a 1971 television movie set in San Francisco and added one screen grab to In Love and War
5. On the Kansas City page: A promotion for the opening of the KC Streetcar's Berkley Riverfront extension
6. On the What is a Cable Car? page: Some minor updates.3
7. On the Miscellany page: An update about the reopening of the The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway. Added News items about the return of the Hyde Ride and the return of gripman Val Lupiz from disability

Ten years ago this month (June 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: Tracks along Elgin Road await the completion of the rest of the extension (Source: Otago Witness, 28-June-1905).
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A new article about Dunedin, New Zealand's short-lived Elgin Road Extension, which operated from 1906 to 1910
3. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: Thanks to Antonio Marquardt, added screen grabs to I Love a Soldier
4. On the Kansas City page: A new article about the Return of Electric Streetcars to Kansas City
5. Added News and Chronology items items about Powell Street Car 24 being dedicated to Giants great Willie Mays
6. Added News item about an auto driving onto the Powell and Market turntable

Twenty years ago this month (June 2006):

1. Picture of the Month: Geary Street cable cars run among the ruins in 1906.
2. Results of the 2006 Contest, conceived by Walter Rice, who has also generously provided the prizes
3. On the San Francisco in 1906 page, 1906 newspaper articles describing the return of the Geary Street cable cars, work on the California Street lines, and the replacement of United Railroads lines with electric traction:
   • GEARY-STREET CHIMNEY NOW READY FOR USE (San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, June 15, 1906)
   • GEARY-STREET CARS AGAIN IN OPERATION CABLE UNDAMAGED AND SLOT NOT BADLY HURT (San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, June 22, 1906)
   • CALIFORNIA STREET CARS/Cable Road Expects to Resume Operations by First of August (San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, June 15, 1906)
   • TOO MANY CARS JUMPED TRACK/Service on Hayes Street Line Abandoned Until New Rail Can Be Laid. (San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, June 16, 1906)
   • WANT CABLE CARS TO RESUME OPERATION/McAllister Street Residents Would Have Old Line Run Again. (San Francisco Chronicle, August 3, 1906)
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: Five 1872-1899 newspaper articles about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-operated elevated railroad
5. Added a Bibliography item about a California Street shutdown

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 July 2026: On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Elgin Road Extension, the last new cable tramway built.

250 years ago - 1776
Jun 29 - San Francisco and Mission Dolores were founded

175 years ago - 1851
Jun 01 - Horse-drawn omnibuses began running between downtown San Francisco and Mission Dolores
Jun 09 - The First San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was organized in response to a wave of crimes, especially arson
Jun 10 - The Committee of Vigilance hanged John Jenkins of the Sydney Ducks gang for stealing a safe
Jun 22 - The Sixth Great Fire destroyed 14 blocks
Jun 25 - The New Mission Toll Road opened from Clay and Kearny, out Third to Mission, along Mission to Corbett Road

150 years ago - 1876
Jun 14 - The California Street Cable Railroad received its franchise

125 years ago - 1901
Jun 19 - Metropolitan Street Railway (New York, New York) converted its Lexington Avenue line to electricity

75 years ago - 1951
Jun 21 - A Powell Street cable car rolled along Atlantic City, New Jersey’s famous boardwalk, as part of San Francisco’s unsuccessful effort to obtain Lions Club’s 1952 convention (the 1952 convention was held in Mexico City). "Equipped with rubber tires and drawn by a jeep, the cable car was in constant use, furnishing free rides to all who could get on board." The cable car had traveled across the country on a railroad flat car. The display was complete with a gripman, and conductor who issued special transfers proclaiming "San Francisco -- Convention City." Through 28-June-1951.

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Joe Thompson
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