1938 White motor coach No. 042 on display outside the San Francisco Railway Museum November 11, 2012. Brian Leadingham photo. Click to enlarge.
“Debut” of Muni’s Oldest Bus for Centennial Day
Month: December 2012
Celebrating Muni’s Big Day December 28
Muni’s famed streetcar No. 1, on its very first run, with Mayor James Rolph, Jr. at the controls, headed west on Geary at Jones, December 28, 1912. San Francisco History Room, San Francisco Public Library photo.
A Trip to the Boneyard!
1954 Hamburg, Germany tram No. 3557 (right) and two ex-Muni PCC streetcars are among the historic vehicles awaiting restoration at Muni’s "boneyard," as the streetcar storage facility is informally known. Todd Lappin photo.
Picture Your Child and Santa Right Here!
Photo of the (Past) Moment: What Could Have Been
PCC No. 1006 carries a load of raifans on the H-line, crossing paths with Washington-Jackson cable car No. 509 at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street, around 1949. Walt Vielbaum photo. Click to enlarge.
Muni Past and Present on KQED-FM
Market Street Railway board chair and president Rick Laubscher was one of the guests on Michael Krasny’s “Forum” on KQED-FM this morning, discussing Muni’s history in this, its centennial month. He was joined by Ed Reiskin, SFMTA director of transportation, and Jerry Cauthen of savemuni.com.
San Francisco, in Color, in the 1940s
The GLBT Historical Society has a video on YouTube showing nine minutes of San Francisco scenes filmed by “gay filmmaker Harold T. O’Neal.” It opens with great night shots of Chinatown, then skips around the city before settling on a two-minute sequence on Market Street starting around five minutes in. That’s followed by a minute of cable car footage, including rare film of the O’Farrell, Jones & Hyde line, which disappeared in 1954. All well worth a look.
Photo of the Moment: Great Day on The Bay
What a string of December days we’re having in the City! Absolutely clear and 61 degrees when this shot was taken and posted Monday morning. We’re looking at Piers 3 and 5 and The Embarcadero from one of the Golden Gateway apartment towers, with PCC No. 1076 tooling along! Click to enlarge it.
Photo Talk Saturday, December 8
Kevin Sheridan and Tim Baskerville will give a talk about the photos in their “Inside-Out” show on Saturday, December 8, at the Harvey Milk Photo Center, 50 Scott Street at Duboce Avenue. Take the N-Judah to the east portal of the Sunset Tunnel.
Exclusive PCC Model at our Museum Shop
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