Download or read book When Steam Ran on the Streets of San Francisco written by Walter Rice and published by . This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Steam Ran on the Streets of San Francisco is the first book devoted exclusively to the subject of steam-powered transit in San Francisco. Materials selected had to meet three criteria. First, the transit had to be steam powered. Horsecars, cable cars and streetcars are discussed, but only as they relate to steam services. Second, the service had to run on at least one of San Francisco's city streets. Third, this study is limited to passenger carrying operations. Freight services, however, are only discussed as they relate to passenger steam operations. During an eighty-five-year period (1860-1945), the rein of the iron horse, in the city-by-the-bay, is chronicled. The scope includes such famous routes like the Ferries and Cliff House Railway's Land's End Cliff route to the almost forgotten World War II Hunters Point Shipyard Railway and rare operations such as the use of by the California Street Railroad of the famous locomotive the C.P. Huntington.
Download or read book When Steam Ran on the Streets of San Francisco written by Walter Rice and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building San Francisco s Parks 1850 1930 written by Terence Young and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and filth. Five short years later, city supervisors approved the creation of Golden Gate Park, the second largest urban park in America. Over the next sixty years, and particularly after 1900, a network of smaller parks and parkways was built, turning San Francisco into one of the nation's greenest cities. In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period: public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic equality. He also differentiates between two periods in the history of American park building, each defined by a distinctive attitude towards "improving" nature: the romantic approach, which prevailed from the 1860s to the 1880s, emphasized the beauty of nature, while the rationalistic approach, dominant from the 1880s to the 1920s, saw nature as the best setting for uplifting activities such as athletics and education. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.
Download or read book The Municipal Railway of San Francisco 1912 1921 written by San Francisco (Calif.). Bureau of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book San Francisco s Noe Valley written by Bill Yenne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for Jose de Jesus Noe, San Francisco's last Mexican mayor, Noe Valley is undoubtedly one of San Francisco's favorite neighborhoods and certainly one of the most picturesque. Yet the area has a rich and varied history reaching far beyond the lovely buildings and lively street scenes familiar to so many citydwellers. Originally part of the Rancho de San Miguel land grant, the area was incorporated into the city and became an early example of a San Francisco enclave situated away from the noise and bustle of the downtown and waterfront areas. Noe Valley gradually became an important residential and business center known for its beautifully restored Victorian homes, as well as for the vibrant commercial corridor on Twenty-fourth Street.
Download or read book San Francisco s Powell Street Cable Cars written by Emiliano Echeverria and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San 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.
Download or read book The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States Porto Rico Canada Mexico and Cuba written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 2348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cable Car Days in San Francisco written by Edgar Myron Kahn and published by Friends of San Francisco Public Library. This book was released on 1976 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book of Franchises Granted by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco written by San Francisco (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineering Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States Puerto Rico Canada Mexico and Cuba written by William Frederick Allen and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
