Polytechnic High School - Polytechnic Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Engravings: Commercial Art Engraving Company, San Francisco. Printing: chicou Press, San Francisco. Binding: Benjamin P. Keys, Bookbinders, San Francisco. Portrait Photography and Massed Class Pictures: Vialcs B. Studio, San Francisco. Photographs of Clubs, Classes, and School Scenes: Bob Lombardini, 1932, under direction of Mr. James R. Kinney. Other Sources are indicatedy Art Work: Students of Mrs. Margarette Kirst, Art Department. Journal Adviser: Mr. Fwd C. Chase.

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As time progresses, new and better ways of trans portation gradually replace the Old. This, in the most part, holds true with the theme we have chosen for our yearbook, the cable car. One by one, cables were re- placed by other means of transportation; such as street cars and busses. It was not until 1941 that the last Castro Cable Car left 18th and Castro Streets to mark the end of the last fragment of the Market Street lines. The interest to save cables, not only for historical reasons, but for practical hill climbing, had begun ; civic groups banded together to keep them but by the time they started in 1942, the Clay Street line, the oldest and original cable line in San F rancisco, was already ripped up. It was not until after the war that people as a whole fought for keeping the cables. As it is today, the cables will keep running, and the rhythm of the clattering cable shall keep in time with the progress of San Francisco. The Polytechnic Fall, 1949 - Spring, 1950

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The Polytechnic JOumal is published annually in San Francisco, California, by the Associated Students of Polytechnic High School. This isVolume Forty-three. CLAY STREET HILL R. R,, NO. 12 Tbi: fable var i; 0216 of Ike original Clay Street Cable; that Itarled running 072 Augmt 1, 1873. It; intention marked tbe beginning of a new mean; of tram- portaliozz that began and 5117! run; only in San Frmzcijm, The City of Hill:.