Cam Beach with Muni Executive Director Nat Ford and Cam’s favorite vintage streetcar, 1914 car No. 162, part of Muni’s original fleet. SFMTA photo.
Muni Honors Cam Beach
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Great Photo Archive Starts Coming Online
One of San Francisco’s great photographic treasures belongs to Muni! Or more specifically, its parent agency, the SFMTA. It includes wonderful images that actually extend back before Muni opened in 1912: glass plates and negatives from erstwhile competitors United Railroads (URR) and our namesake, Market Street Railway, acquired in the 1944 merger of transit systems in the city.
Market Street Movie, Shot 105 Years Ago Today
It was on (or very close to) April 14, 1906 that the Miles Brothers, early San Francisco commercial filmmakers, bolted a hand-cranked camera to the front of a United Railroads cable car and created one of the longest “dolly shots” in film history, a 12-minute nonstop ride down Market Street between Eighth Street and the Ferry Building.
Photo of the Moment: The Streak
America’s Cup Plan Includes E-line Service, Mentions Fort Mason Extension
Exclusive Narrated Streetcar Tour May 22
This Week: Evening Buses on the F-line
Photo of the (Past) Moment: Not a Streetcar, But…
Cam Beach, Remembered
Cameron Beach was well remembered at a touching service at Grace Cathedral on Thursday, attended by hundreds of friends. Comments about his great smile abounded; stories of how he bridged the divide between streetcar fans and bus fans brought laughter. We will have extensive coverage of this service and a tribute to Cam’s life in the forthcoming issue of our member newsletter, Inside Track, on which we are starting work now. (The newsletter members will receive in their mailboxes in the next few days was being printed at the time of Cam’s unexpected death.)Meantime, the S.F. Municipal Transportation Authority currently has a tribute to Cam on its main page.
Cameron Beach, 1949-2011
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