Author: CLAUSS, F. J.
Title: Cable Cars Past and Present.
Description: Menlo Park, CA: Briarcliff Press, Inc, 1982. Soft Cover. B&W Photographs; 11.7 x 6.1 ; v, 113 pages; Soft cover has white spine with black lettering. Light shelf wear, rubbing, scuffing to covers; faint sticker residue on back cover. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Extensively illustrated with dozens of b/w photographs. ".. Cable cars operated in 27 other American cities and 6 foreign countries. Los Angeles, not San Francisco, boasted the cable car line with the steepest grade; Chicago had the most miles of track and the most cable cars; NYC had the longest single cable....describes the cable car's invention and its growth in popularity during the Victorian years...Vinatge photographs illustrate he horse-drawn omnibuses, horsecar lines, and cable car railways of early San Franciso..." Bibliography.. Very Good+ .

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