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Vintage Pride: 1983
Fort Mason Streetcar Extension Update
Boston’s Back in Business
1050 – St. Louis Public Service Company
The streamlined design “PCC” streetcar once ran in 33 cities across North America, but many would say if the PCC had a “home” it was St. Louis, in large part because of St. Louis Car Company, which built 75% of U.S. PCCs, including every PCC streetcar Muni has ever owned.
151 – Osaka, Japan
San Francisco and the Japanese City of Osaka have a long history of connection. As two great port cities, trade between them goes back more than a century. These long-time ties led to Osaka becoming San Francisco’s first sister city, in 1957. To celebrate that relationship, Muni sent a cable car to Osaka as a gift.
Private Cruise on the Boat Tram, Just for You, June 4
UPDATE: This event is SOLD OUT. If you’d like to be the first to know when our next trolley tour will happen, ask to be added to our excursion notification list by emailing us at info@streetcar.org.
Shoppers’ Shuttle
In the early 1950s, as tens of thousands of San Francisco families decamped for the new surrounding suburbs, merchants grew more and more anxious about getting customers into their stores. Muni’s response: a “Shoppers’ Shuttle” — actually two of them, one serving Market Street/Union Square and one the “Miracle Mile of Mission” between about 16th Street and Army Street (now Cesar Chavez Street).
Help Preserve Mona Caron’s Market Street Railway Mural
Happy 125th to San Francisco Electric Streetcars
[caption id="attachment_9538" align="alignright" width="700"] Double-ended San Mateo Streetcar 25 at Geneva Car House Yard | Circa March 1903. SFMTA Photo Archives.[/caption]
