Muni Time Capsule: Can’t Get Enough of Streetcar No. 1
Don’t forget to share your Muni memories in honor of the centennial. Our 100 Days, 100 Muni Stories project is under way.
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Muni Time Capsule: Streetcar No. 1 in the 1980s
Photo by Octoferret
And don’t forget to submit your Muni story to our 100 Days, 100 Muni Stories feature. Muni turns 100 later this year, and we’re gathering 100 of your Muni stories to help celebrate. The best stories will be featured on ads on the bus, so send us your story today.
Time Capsule: 1920-1930 Muni Maps
Photo by Eric Fischer
Over at Muni Time Capsule this morning, we posted a photo of some Muni maps from the decade leading up to the Great Depression. The charm here is anything but depressing.
Have a look — there’s even an instance of “Muny” as an actual acronym!
Ye Olde Fast Pass: 1983
Talia posted this on the Muni Diaries Facebook Page! She says it was in a book, as an inadvertent donation to the Friends of the SF Library.
Note: fab color palette, historical reference to the Key System, and, um, $24.
For more historical Muni, head to our Muni Time Capsule. Send us pics of your own transit ephemera if you’ve got any.
Muni Time Capsule: Tug-Metro Pulls Its Predecessor to Pasture
Image from a video by Jeremy W.
Over at Muni Time Capsule this morning, we bring video and photos of a scene earlier in the week. Using a two-car Breda LRV, Muni tugged one of its few remaining old Boeing streetcars from Mint Yard (behind Safeway on Market) to Metro Yard (near Balboa Park).
Click on over to Muni Time Capsule to learn more of Muni’s past.
Mental Health Break: 1980 Muni holiday movie
Over on Muni Time Capsule today, we bring you a movie by Wouter van der Brugghen that features Muni in 1980 set to a wicked soundtrack. Enjoy!