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Mishap Mars Return of Iconic Muni Cable Cars

Mishap Mars Return of Iconic Muni Cable Cars
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A shame revealed: That time The Chronicle tried to kill the cable cars

A shame revealed: that time The Chronicle tried to kill the cable cars
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A new San Francisco Muni bus next to a cable car in 1947, the year the city considered closing the Powell Street line.Bill Young / The Chronicle 1947
It’s a strange sensation as a journalist, picking a side in a debate, forming a self-righteous (and not particularly controversial) stand and then conducting further research only to realize … that you were the villain in this movie all along.
That was the feeling I had yesterday, upon learning that The Chronicle, your compass for living in the city and my beloved employer of 21 years, once tried to hasten the extinction of the cable car system. (The cable cars have been sidelined for nearly a year during the current pandemic, and news broke last week that a reopening may be far in the future.) ....

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KRCB PBS NewsHour September 2, 2010

first coast-wide strike, and the day of the shape-ups, the kickbacks, and the blue books was over. [light guitar music] step by step the longest march can be won can be won many stones can form an arch singly none singly none and by union what we will can be accomplished still drops of water turn a mill singly none singly none we don t intend to repeat our former mistake of one group settling without the other. the bosses. the bosses will never use their worn-out technique of divide and conquer with us. [cheers and applause] blacks, yugoslavians, mexicans, italians, irishmen, jew, anybody else, seamen, stevedores, longshoremen, clerks: we re all workers. all right, harry. that s telling them. we are in this together. that s right, harry! we re out on strike, and we will stay out on strike until those damn shipowners come to their senses. [cheers and applause] yeah, but we had to come to our senses as well. see, what was ....

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