San Francisco Historial Society @SFHistorical
Dedicated to preserving, interpreting and presenting the rich historical heritage of #SanFrancisco. Bringing #history to life! sfhistory.org San Francisco, CA Joined November 2010-
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@cablecarguy1 @SFCCM Ahhh haa! Thank you! Very very interesting... sorry for the confused thread
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@cablecarguy1 @SFCCM Your site was very helpful with some of the chronology of the different lines! thanks
@SFCCM @cablecarguy1 Love the style of this drawing! Really ties Cal Cable in with the Nabobs! Before the Earthquake too!
@SFCCM @cablecarguy1 Wesleyan! And i mention the Colemans bec it was really a study of their biz interests and the gold rush!
@SFCCM @cablecarguy1 Hi Joe! I've cited your stuff in my senior thesis I partly wrote on Cal Cable! I don't know. Coleman was main owner till 48 but I'm unsure of sequence of ownership from 1948-51 except i read unions took ownership at some point.
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Muni would buy Cal Cable in 1951 after the company was sued over an accident and had its insurance canceled. Ca Cable then went bankrupt in 1951 and the City acquired it for $138,000. Almost immediately the City began debated whether to keep running any of the old lines or aband
If you are interested in more information on the Black pioneers of San Francisco this SFHS talk given by Jesse Warr (who interviewed Josephine Cole for SFPL oral history) is a good starting point: youtube.com/watch?v=KsoNNq…
“War Changes Bay Area Quickly, Totally,” San Francisco Examiner, December 4, 1991, 14, newspapers.com/clip/118177898….
Josephine and Audley Cole met at the International House on Washington St. where Josephine was the “mistress of ceremonies” for a Cosmos Club event and Audley arrived by chance as the chauffeur to his elderly land lady.
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