San Francisco's Market Street Railway
Author: Walt Vielbaum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9780738569598
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Author: Walt Vielbaum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9780738569598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1997-03-31
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0547422326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy. Virginia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952.
Author: Charles A. Smallwood
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emiliano Echeverria
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780738530475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Francisco's cable cars are an internationally recognized symbol of the city, but they also have a long and fractious history. There are actually three cable lines in operation today: the California Street line and the two Powell Street lines-- the Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde. The Powell Street lines have been the subject of much controversy through the years, due to a complex lineage of private and public ownership. Cable cars on Powell Street began in 1888, operating under the Ferries and Cliff House Railway Company and utilizing the same basic design pioneered by Andrew Hallidie in 1873. Among the story's twists and turns are the line's actual routes following the 1906 earthquake, which caused heavy damage and forced major repairs. Post-quake, United Railroads was able to replace many of the cable car lines with streetcars, including a part of the Powell Street system. San Francisco at one time had eight separate cable car operators. Gradually most were replaced by streetcars, buses, and trolley buses, given the complexities and expense of cable systems. The Powell lines were taken over by the city in 1944, but the mayor tried to abandon them in 1947. The public disapproved of this move, and since then the Powell Street line has only grown in stature and its importance to San Francisco.
Author: Robert Joseph Chandler
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780806144108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown's lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist.
Author: Mark Ovenden
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Castelhun Trimble
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFascinating history of the numerous electric street railways (interurbans) that once criss-crossed northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. Covers the Interurban Electric Railway (the Big Red Cars), the Key System, the Market Street Railway, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the Peninsular Railway, the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad, the Sacramento Northern, and the San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway. There is a roster and map for each railroad line. The book also discusses the Bay area ferry lines (with rosters), smaller streetcar lines, and the "what ifs?" represented by BART. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With list of car builders and ferryboat builders. 199 pages with index.
Author: Emiliano Echeverria
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9780989520614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780759105096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served as an essential resource for those seeking to enter to the museum profession and for established professionals looking for an expanded understanding of their own discipline. Now, Mary Alexander has produced a newly revised edition of the classic text, bringing it the twenty-first century with coverage of emerging trends, resources, and challenges. New material also includes a discussion of the children's museum as a distinct type of institution and an exploration of the role computers play in both outreach and traditional in-person visits.
Author: Lorri Ungaretti
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738530536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Francisco is a patchwork of unique neighborhoods, and one of the most distinctive is the Richmond District. Stretching from the city's dense urban core outward to the rocky, rugged cliffs of Land's End, the Richmond contains schools, shops, churches, hospitals, and citizens from many different backgrounds and countries. San Francisco historian and tour guide Lorri Ungaretti, author of San Francisco's Sunset District, showcases here a stirring collection of vintage Richmond images, detailing this district's journey from windswept sand dunes to the modern and livable place we know today. Among the Richmond's long-gone sights are cemeteries, farms, racetracks, and improvised cottages built in the wake of the 1906 earthquake. The area remained mostly rural through the 1880s, when mining entrepreneur Adolph Sutro (who also developed Sutro Heights and Sutro Baths) put in a commuter rail line to connect San Francisco's central district with his entertainment destinations in the "Outside Lands" near Ocean Beach. The Richmond District's history includes large cemetery plots that are now covered with homes. In addition, the various roadhouses, racetracks, and amusement parks in the area made it what Ungaretti calls "the city's playground." They're gone now, but remain important parts of the Richmond's fascinating history.