by Joe Thompson
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The following links are provided as a matter of convenience and do not
constitute an endorsement of any person, product, action or activity.
Thanks to Phil Brooks for providing information about his ancestor, Benjamin H.
Brooks, the first man to propose a cable car line in San Francisco. See
the Who page for details.
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Thanks to Richard Schlaich for providing information about the post-1906 Castro
Street Cable line. See the Market Street Cable Railway page for
details.
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Thanks to Christopher Steimle for suggesting the Cable Car
Kitsch page.
Thanks to Val Golding for providing a set of newspaper clippings about the motor ferry
Kalakala (external link to my ferry web site).
Thank you to First & Fastest, a magazine about the
electric railways in the Chicago area for recommending this site in its Summer, 2000
issue.
Thanks to Ray Long for providing photos of the
Industry Hills Incline,
Sacramento/Clay car 16
and one of Cal Cable 56
at Washington/Mason. Ray also provided much of the information
for the article on Private Funiculars
in the Los Angeles area, and also information about the
Temple Street Cable Railway.
Thanks to Bill Bolton for providing information about
Melbourne and Sydney cable trams.
Thanks to Manny Manasievici for providing the diameter of a cable
(on the How/Cable page).
Thanks to Don Galt for providing information about the
Spokane Cable Railway.
Thanks to Peter Vawser for supplying information about
Melbourne cable tramways.
Thanks to Bob Murphy for supplying photos of
Melbourne cable winding houses.
Thanks to Geoff Cryer for providing photographs of
Upper Douglas Cable Tramway car 72/73 and
retired cars of the Glasgow District Subway.
Visit Geoff's Rail Pages
for more excellent pictures.
Thanks to Ron Smith and David Young for providing information about
the experimental cable car installation in
Liverpool.
Thanks to Ron Gates for providing information and photos about
the disposition of the cable car booths from Tacoma's
Steve's Cable Car Room.
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Hoodline, "provides comprehensive, on-the-ground neighborhood news throughout San Francisco."
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GGIE.com, is a neat site about the 1939-1940
fair at Treasure Island.
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ThinkWalks "explore the overlap
of urban and natural San Francisco. Life in the city, don't forget, is
life in a natural environment, albeit altered by dreams and delusions of
humans."
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Ron Filion has a growing site about
San Francisco History,
with a wonderful collection of information. Thanks to Ron for linking to this site. Don't
miss the "Early Street Railroads" article.
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I was excited to find out about the
Western Neighborhoods Project,
a site about the part of San Francisco where I grew up. Thanks to them
for linking to this site.
The WNP sponsors the Open SF History project,
which has a digital collection of historic San Francisco images.
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K & K Publications, dedicated to California History, had a site I can no longer find. They
linked to this site in their "California History Research Resources" section. Their
site was at www.kkpub.com/.
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GGIE.com, is a neat site about the 1939-1940
fair at Treasure Island.
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FunCheapSF, is Johnny Funcheap's guide
to San Francisco for Cheapskates. It works for me.
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Peter Erlich, San Francisco Muni motorman, owns several Yahoo groups, including
PacificNWTraction which often discusses cable cars in the
Pacific Northwest.
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HistoryLink
is a really neat site about Seattle history.
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Phil O'Keefe's
Chicago Tunnel Company
Railroad Home Page offers a thorough treatment of a unique Chicago underground railway
system. Thanks to Phil for including a link to this site. New url.
Link verified 09-February-2017.
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Peter Erlich, San Francisco Muni motorman, owns several Yahoo groups, including
Chicagoland_Traction which often discusses Chicago cable cars.
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Randall's
Lost New York City
is "a photographic essay of 19th century buildings destroyed in the 1970's".
Thanks to Randall for providing an image of a former cable car powerhouse
in which he once lived. Visit his site to see his article about the
Cable Building in New York. And thanks for linking to this site.
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Peter Erlich, San Francisco Muni motorman, owns several Yahoo groups, including
BigAppleTraction which often discusses New York/New Jersey cable cars.
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Jeffrey Stanton's
Coney Island History Site
has wonderful articles about the history of that amusement area. Never forget that the
various incarnations of L A Thompson's Scenic Railway were cable-driven.
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SFTravel.com is an interesting site that has pages
on many San Francisco attractions, including
cable cars. (Links to this site)
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Shiny-Hiney.com: THE source of LED
taillights for classics, customs and
more. Let us make your ride light! (Links to this site)
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Carnaval.Com included this site in its list of "Free & Cheap Things To Do in San Francisco".
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I am naturally partial to
my personal home page. You will find my comments on many transit-related issues.
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As if I didn't have enough websites to keep track of, I now have a blog:
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And now I now have another blog, mostly about movies:
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Thanks to Tech TV's Internet Tonight for featuring this site on 17-Nov-2000.
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Charl Lucassen's Chronophotographical Projections
(http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/chronoph/index.htm) was a beautiful site about pre-cinema and early motion
picture experiments. He brought the work of Muybridge, Marey, le Prince, and others back
to life.
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J Theakston's
Central Theatre is a
"weekly retrospective of the movie going days of yore."
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Operator 99's
Allure
highlights his collection of movie-related postcards.
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Tom Stathes's
CartoonsOnFilm is a
"is dedicated to information regarding Early Animation History and collecting 16mm
cartoons. This is also the official blog of
Cartoons on Film, a major source for
Early Animation on DVD."
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Shorpy:
The 100 Year Old Photo Blog. Not all the photos are 100 years old, but most are wonderful.
Especially the railroad-related images.
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The Wax Apple is
"The Premiere Research Journal Devoted to Laurel and Hardy and the Hal Roach All-Stars".
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The San Francisco Seals were before my time, but Todd Hawley has a neat
site about them.
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