A Streetcar Named Desire SFCA
Jun 22, 2021 18:23:37 #
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Jun 22, 2021 18:54:30 #
fantom wrote:
That's a cable car not a street car.
Depends on how one defines "street car".
I enjoy funicular cars.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Flight)Jun 22, 2021 18:57:00 #
hdfilmnoir wrote:
A Streetcar Named Desire SFCA
I can't decide. Is that a PCC trolley in the background?
Thank you for sharing.
Jun 22, 2021 18:59:00 #
Stephan G wrote:
Depends on how one defines "street car".
I enjoy funicular cars. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Flight)
I enjoy funicular cars.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Flight)Not if you are an old time San Franciscan (not living on/in the street). For them there is a big difference.
Yes funiculars are clever and enjoyable. They make a lot of sense in certain circumstances.
Jun 22, 2021 19:33:23 #
fantom wrote:
Not if you are an old time San Franciscan (not living on/in the street). For them there is a big difference.
Yes funiculars are clever and enjoyable. They make a lot of sense in certain circumstances.
Yes funiculars are clever and enjoyable. They make a lot of sense in certain circumstances.
"Street car", according to several sources, was a term to differentiate "cars" that were used on the streets, rather than railroads.
Side note, had the pleasure of motoring the sister streetcar (aka "Trams") to the one used in the movie, "Never on Sunday".
Jun 22, 2021 19:59:22 #
Jun 22, 2021 20:12:56 #
John from gpwmi wrote:
Beautiful old trolley, well captured and titled, hdf.
That is a "Cable Car" and it is pulled along by a cable under the street.
I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area from June 1963 until Sept. 2019, when I moved to New Mexico, and rode the "Cable Cars" many, many times.
Jun 23, 2021 06:00:55 #
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Jun 23, 2021 09:20:04 #
Nice one. Maybe some people never heard of the play, "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Jun 23, 2021 11:00:18 #
Streetcar named Desire referred to Desire St. in New Orleans.
I recall a book titled "Frenchmen, Desire, Goodchildren-and other streets in New Orleans"
I was born and raised in N.O.
I recall a book titled "Frenchmen, Desire, Goodchildren-and other streets in New Orleans"
I was born and raised in N.O.
Jun 23, 2021 18:53:17 #
One of the original street cars from the "Desire" St line was on display at the old New Orleans Mint. It is no longer on display in New Orleans, but was traded to San Fransisco for one of their old cable cars. The Desire car can be ridden in SF on the Warf Line. It is still green, as the old New Orleans, St Charles Line cars are painted. The Desire Line ran into the French Quarter, on Royal St. to Canal St. where all the many lines in New Orleans ended, or began. If traveling to New Orleans, be sure to ride the red cars, on the new lines. One new line runs through the French Quarter, to Canal St, then up Canal to City Park. The newest line is the Superdome, to Canal St. down Rampart St. and ends at Elegian Fields Ave, and returns to Canal St. I lived in New Orleans area, until 2017, and moved to New Hampshire.
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