Information Gladly Given, Period.

Tens of thousands of San Francisco commuters have probably taken a few moments to ponder this simple statement, which has been posted near the operator’s station of every Muni bus and streetcar since the early 1960s: INFORMATION GLADLY GIVEN, BUT SAFETY REQUIRES AVOIDING UNNECESSARY CONVERSATION.The message is simultaneously friendly and forbidding, inviting yet indifferent, personable yet coldly professional.And now, you can wear it.Printed on a 4.5-ounce preshrunk cotton Hanes Contemporary Fit tee, Market Street Railway’s

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Woody LaBounty and San Francisco’s Carville-by-the-Sea

A quick reminder: historianand author Woody LaBounty will be speaking at the San Francisco Railway Museum this Saturday, tomorrow, at 2:00 PM. His new book Carville-by-the-Sea: San Francisco’s Streetcar Suburb “vividly recalls one of the quirkiest communities in San Francisco’s rich history” made of retired streetcars and cable cars recycled into homes, shops, bars, and everything else that makes up a neighborhood.

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