Klux Frightens Blacks -- November 7, 2023

Memphis Commercial-Appeal, 21-November-1923

The KKK terrorized people in many different ways. I like how the title says "Klux."

Jazz Funeral -- November 6, 2023

 

Washington Times, 19-November-1923

A barber in the Friuli region of Italy wanted to have a jazz funeral. The cops intervened. 

Jazz Funeral

ROME. —The amazing sight of couples fox trotting to the accompaniment of a jazz band round the bier of a funeral cortege caused the intervention of the police at Udine, in northern Italy.

It was explained to the police that the funeral was that of a prominent barber, who in his will had requested that his body should be accompanied to the graveside by a jazz band playing the liveliest music obtainable. The funeral procession, it appeared, had started out decorously enough, but the dance music at last proved irresistible to the younger couples, with the above result.

The police thereupon took upon themselves the management of the rest of the ceremony.

Comic Book -- Walt Disney's Comics and Stories -- November 5, 2023

Thanksgiving is coming.

Donald Duck appears to be having trouble carving the turkey. 

Pulp -- Famous Fantastic Mysteries -- November 4, 2023

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Famous Fantastic Mysteries (great title) was a pulp published by the Munsey Company. It reprinted science fiction and fantasy stories that had first been printed in other Munsey magazines. Stories in the February, 1950 issue included "Morning Star" by H Rider Haggard, which had originally been printed in 1910. I have a couple of Haggard's novels. They are very entertaining and very racist.

Toonerville Trolley -- Kicking Power -- November 3, 2023

Perth Amboy Evening News, 13-November-1923

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains.

Brownsville Herald, 13-November-1923

Several electric Railway operations claimed to be the inspiration of the Toonerville Trolley. I doubt that the five-mile-long Bryan and College Interurban Railway was the real inspiration. 

‘TOONERVILLE TROLLEY'

NOW OUT OF EXISTENCE

-- What was called the original 'Toonerville Trolley,' an interurban line between Bryan, Texas, and College Station, is no more. It has been forced to suspend operations as a result of a motor bus transportation system established by four athletes of A. & M. College, here and the owner, Fred W. Adams, is now engaged in operating a chicken ranch.

The line, which is said to have inspired a now famous cartoon, operated two cars and for a number of years was managed with some measure of success. Students at the local college are not allowed to keep automobiles and the trolley was their only means of transportation to Bryan. The jitney bus, at one time seemed on the point of causing serious difficulties to the line, but the college authorities promulgated a rule against jitneys stopping on the campus, and the trolley continued to operate at a profit.

But it was sever months later that four A. & M. College athletes decided to go into the transportation business on a large scale. They rented four motor busses and announced they would start a bus line between Bryan and College Station. The day came when they did start operation and from then on the business of the interurban line dwindled until Mr. Adams finally decided to abandon the system.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Krazy Kat -- I Wish Them Hills Would Commence -- November 2, 2023

Washington Times, 01-November-1923

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Click on the image to see a larger version.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

November, 2023 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- November 1, 2023

Los Angeles Herald, 10-September-1891

I just put the November 2023 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 contemporary newspaper article about the last run of the original Clay Street Hill Railroad.
2. On the Clay Street Hill Railroad page: On the Clay Street Hill Railroad page: More about the end of the original Clay Street Hill Railroad
3. Added News items about a cable car/auto collision and an earthquake

Ten years ago this month (November, 2013):

1. Picture of the Month: Two cars of Pittsburgh's Central Traction Company ran into a political parade. (Source: "Marching Men Cut to Pieces by Cable Cars," The Pittsburg Dispatch, 16-October-1892.)
2. On the Pennsylvania page: The Central Traction Company, Pittsburgh's third Hallidie-type cable car line, including newspaper articles about a terrible accident in 1892
3. On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about cable traction pioneer Andrew S Hallidie.
4. Also on the Who page: Added a photo of a marker on the Ferry building to the article on Howard C Holmes.
5. On the More California Street Pictures page: Several photos I took in May and June, 2007
6. Added News items about the Cable Car Chorus and a mysterious package in Union Square that caused a Powell Street cable car shutdown

Twenty years ago this month (November, 2003):

1. Picture of the Month: Paris cable tram
2. On the Other Cities page: Paris - Tramway Funiculaire de Belleville", the only Hallidie-type cable line in France
3. "Le Tramway Funiculaire De Belleville", my attempt at translating an 1890 magazine article about the line
4. Added photos to my article about the 40th Annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
5. Added banner and News item about raffle to support Cable Car Division Senior Luncheon

125 Years Ago This Month (November, 1898): 

November 1 - The Metropolitan Street Railway (Kansas City, MO) closed its 5th Street-Wyandotte line November 1 - The Brooklyn Elevated Railway (New York, NY) began running its trains across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan, using the New York & Brooklyn Bridge's cable line.

Coming in December, 2023: 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-2023)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-January-2020)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 30-October-2023)
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/