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San Francisco's Magnificent Streetcars

Author : Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634990011
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco's Magnificent Streetcars written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco's first cable car line opened in 1873. The successful development of the electric streetcar by Frank Sprague in 1888 plus the 1906 San Francisco earthquake resulted in the decline of the cable car system. Concerned that the cable car system would vanish, San Francisco resident Friedel Klussmann rallied public support to save the cars. The 1982 shutdown of the cable car lines for their rebuilding led to Trolley Festivals beginning in 1983 until 1987 using a variety of historic streetcars on Market Street. Those successful festivals resulted in rebuilding the streetcar track on Market Street and the establishment of the F streetcar line in 1995 using Presidents' Conference Committee streetcars purchased from Philadelphia and refurbished in a variety of paint schemes that represented cities that once had streetcar service. In addition, the line features vintage Peter Witt streetcars from Milan, Italy; a boat like streetcar from England; and other unique cars. During 2000, the F line was extended to Fisherman's wharf and has become one of the most successful streetcar lines in the United States. This book is a photographic essay of "San Francisco's Magnificent Streetcars" along with its historic cable cars and hill climbing trolley coaches.

On Track

Author : Rick Laubscher
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597142786
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book On Track written by Rick Laubscher and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only full-color illustrated guide to the COLORFUL vintage streetcars and cable cars that are a top tourist attraction

The Streetcars of San Francisco

Author : Zachary Malott
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781442188815
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book The Streetcars of San Francisco written by Zachary Malott and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco is home to the largest working collection of vintage streetcars in the world. One of the city's most recognizable and beloved attractions, the streetcar line which runs through the heart of the city serves more than 20,000 riders a day. San Francisco's Market Street Railway continues to collect vintage cars from all over the world and to lovingly restore them to service as part of this rolling museum that pays tribute to cities who have operated streetcar lines in the past and present. This delightful book showcases this historic fleet with more than 120 pages of beautiful color photos of currently restored and active streetcars. Each car is introduced with a paragraph describing its history. The book also explores the history of the streetcar as urban transit, both nationally and within San Francisco, and also tells the story of how this amazing "Museum in Motion" came to exist as one of San Francisco's most famous attractions.

San Francisco's Interurban to San Mateo

Author : Robert Townley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738530086
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco's Interurban to San Mateo written by Robert Townley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's strange to think that an electric commuter rail line rivaling BART in efficiency, speed, and comfort ran over 100 years ago between San Francisco and San Mateo, but run it did. The 40 Line, or San Mateo Interurban, began in 1892 with an initial segment operating between Market and Steuart Streets out to the county limits on San Jose Avenue. Three years later, the line reached Baden in present-day South San Francisco, and by 1903 service was opened all the way to downtown San Mateo. During the line's heyday, there was talk of extending it down the peninsula from San Mateo to Palo Alto to connect with the Peninsular Railway to San Jose. The 1906 earthquake put this plan on hold. Following much the same route as today's Mission Street, El Camino Real, and Caltrain, the San Mateo Interurban carried over four million passengers a year along its main and spur lines until 1949, when the system was shut down amidst much fanfare.

STREETCARS OF SAN FRANCISCO.

Author : P. WALLER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912332328
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book STREETCARS OF SAN FRANCISCO. written by P. WALLER and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

San Francisco's Market Street Railway

Author : Walt Vielbaum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738569598
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco's Market Street Railway written by Walt Vielbaum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Streetcars of America

Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747815259
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Streetcars of America written by Brian Solomon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handsome multicolored streetcar is a nostalgic icon of the some of the most romantic and heritage-rich locales in America, including San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago, immortalised on stage and screen in classics including 'Meet Me In St Louis' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Streetcars of America chronicles these vehicles from the earliest animal-drawn carriages to the height of their popularity in the 1920s, when there were more than 1,200 tram railways, to the turning of the tide in the mid-twentieth century when congestion and attacks from the automobile industry eventually pushed streetcars from most urban landscapes. But it also looks at the recent efforts to revive tram heritage that have led to vintage streetcars becoming a hip and environmentally-friendly daily commuter service, as well as tourist attraction, in more than thirty cities including Memphis and Washington DC.

San Francisco's F-Line

Author : Peter Ehrlich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780915348510
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco's F-Line written by Peter Ehrlich and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is taken on a joyously meandering ride over a thirty year span, telling how San Francisco's F-line came about, through the efforts of a multitude of San Franciscans including visionaries, planners and engineers, politicians and community activists, transit operators and everyday transit riders. The idea of vintage streetcar operations was born in the 1970s, and then becomes tangible with the "Trolley Festivals" in the 1980s. It took another 20 years for the "F-Line" to become a permanent part of San Francisco's transit scene, and that saga is told as well.

Capital Streetcars

Author : John DeFerrari
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625856199
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Capital Streetcars written by John DeFerrari and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington's first streetcars trundled down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Civil War. By the end of the century, streetcar lines crisscrossed the city, expanding it into the suburbs and defining where Washingtonians lived, worked and played. One of the most beloved routes was the scenic Cabin John line to the amusement park in Glen Echo, Maryland. From the quaint early days of small horse-drawn cars to the modern "streamliners" of the twentieth century, the stories are all here. Join author John DeFerrari on a joyride through the fascinating history of streetcars in the nation's capital.

Muni Metro

Author : Joe Mendoza
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781453640869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Muni Metro written by Joe Mendoza and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey on San Francisco's Muni Metro system. Ride the light rail cars in the outer neighborhood, and then dip into San Francisco's tunnels and subway for a swift ride downtown. Visit all the Muni Metro underground stations and all handicap accessible stops on the surface. Then, after visiting Muni Metro, take a quick tour of the historic streetcars on Market Street, and the cable cars on Powell and California Streets. Included are color photos of all the stations and accessible stops. Most of these photos were taken at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010. Historic photographs are also included.

San Francisco's Century of Street Cars

Author : Fred A. Stindt
Publisher : Stindt Books
ISBN 13 : 9780961546519
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco's Century of Street Cars written by Fred A. Stindt and published by Stindt Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World Film Locations: San Francisco

Author : Scott Jordan Harris
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1783201134
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book World Film Locations: San Francisco written by Scott Jordan Harris and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticized, and studied in many films, San Francisco is both fragile and robust, at once a site of devastation caused by 1906 earthquake but also a symbol of indomitability in its effort to rebuild afterwards. Its beauty, both natural and manmade, has provided filmmakers with an iconic backdrop since the 1890s, and this guidebook offers an exciting tour through the film scenes and film locations that have made San Francisco irresistible to audiences and auteurs alike. Gathering more than forty short pieces on specific scenes from San Franciscan films, this book includes essays on topics that dominate the history of filmmaking in the city, from depictions of the Golden Gate Bridge, to the movies Alfred Hitchcock, to the car chases that seem to be mandatory features of any thriller shot there. Some of America’s most famous movies—from Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark to Hitchcock’s Vertigo to Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry —are celebrated alongside smaller movies and documentaries, such as The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, to paint a complete picture of San Francisco in film. A range of expert contributors, including several members of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, discuss a range of films from many genres and decades, from nineteenth-century silents to twentieth-century blockbusters Audiences across the world, as well as many of the world’s greatest film directors—including Buster Keaton, Orson Welles, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher, and Steven Soderbergh—have been seduced by San Francisco. This book is the ideal escape to the city by the bay for arm chair travelers and cinephiles alike.

Streetcar Days in Honolulu

Author : MacKinnon Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970621382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Streetcar Days in Honolulu written by MacKinnon Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Right to Ride

Author : Blair Murphy Kelley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833541
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Right to Ride written by Blair Murphy Kelley and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride<

San Francisco’s F-Line

Author : Peter Ehrlich
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466937408
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco’s F-Line written by Peter Ehrlich and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco's F-Line is the fun way to ride transit in one of America's greatest cities. Using multi-colored streetcars, built in the 1940s, 1920s and even earlier, it is a transforming experience that carries the rider back to a more genteel and carefree time, while providing an efficient and pleasant way to get from here to there in a modern era. Its creation has shown the world that public transportation can be exciting, fun, and a source of civic pride. The author, an active participant in the success of the F-Line, has written the book in an upbeat and breezy style, sprinkling anecdotes drawn from his own experiences and those of fellow workers and participants throughout the book. In this way, the book will appeal not only to those who are in, or follow, the transit industry, but also to the average reader, rider, and San Francisco Bay Area resident. Anyone who rides the F-Line will get a much fuller appreciation of this great city. This book has 290 pages with over 500 color and black-and-white photographs.

San Francisco's California Street Cable Cars

Author : Walter Rice
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738525556
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco's California Street Cable Cars written by Walter Rice and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historic Photos of San Francisco

Author : Rebecca Schall
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1596523077
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of San Francisco written by Rebecca Schall and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1906 earthquake to famous sights like the cable cars, Alcatraz, and the Golden Gate Bridge, Historic Photos of San Francisco is a photographic history collected from the area's top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book highlights the historical growth from the mid 1800s to the late 1900s of ""the City by the Bay"" in stunning black and white photography. The book captures scenes of the people, places, and events important to the history of this unique city, accompanied by insightful captions and historical analysis. Spanning two centuries and two hundred photographs, this book is a must-have for any long-time resident or history lover of San Francisco!