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:
Download or read book History of Public Transit in San Francisco 1850 1948 written by San Francisco (Calif.). Technical Committee of the Departments of City Planning, Public Works, Public Utilities, and Police and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Francisco s Market Street Railway written by Walt Vielbaum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Market Street Railway Company thrived in an age when rails ruled San Francisco. Spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the boom times of World War II, it had a long and legendary lifetime that is deeply ingrained in the citys early identity. Gradually, however, it became challenged by the emergence of the automobile, cheaper motor coaches, and nickel jitneyscompeting cars on the same routes. The MSRy painted the fronts of its cars white to show up well in San Franciscos misty weather, and for many years people called them the White Front cars. Franchise competition and city regulations undid MSRy, and its assets were absorbed into MUNI in 1944. However, the name lives on as the nonprofit Market Street Railway organization, dedicated to preserving the history of this company and also to retrofitting early streetcars from across the globe, putting them back in service on Market Street.
Download or read book Watermusic in the Track written by Mike Phipps and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 107 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.
Download or read book Street Smart written by Gloria Ohland and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Streetcar systems were ubiquitous at the turn of the last century and are uniquely suited now to serve all the high-density development underway in downtowns across the United States. They're much cheaper than light rail, are hugely successful in promoting development and street life, and fit easily into built environments with little disruption to existing businesses, residents, and traffic." - cover.
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.
Download or read book The White Front Cars of San Francisco written by Charles A. Smallwood and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Francisco s California Street Cable Car written by Walter Ellery Rice and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Department Stores of San Francisco written by Anne Evers Hitz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. Join author Anne Evers Hitz as she looks back at the colorful personalities that created six major stores and defined shopping in San Francisco.
Download or read book San Francisco by Street Car written by Market Street Railway and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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<
Download or read book Trolley Car Treasury written by Frank Rowsome and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century of American streetcars, horsecars, cable cars, interurbans, and trolleys.
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 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 Carville by the Sea written by Woody LaBounty and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s, a bohemian settlement erupted at San Francisco's Ocean Beach as writers, judges, and lady bicyclists arranged, combined, and stacked old transit cars to create one of the quirkiest communities in the city's history. The lush design recalls an antique scrapbook with hundreds of rare images.
