Maybelle the Cable Car (1952)

by Virginia Lee Burton

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Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of service in the name of progress.

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47 months - a fairly wordy book recounting how the San Francisco trolleys were saved. Probably not an everyday read but we enjoyed it from the library. (

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maddiemoof | Oct 20, 2015 |

Maybelle is a cable car from San Francisco who has given a lot of pleasure to her city. When times changed and buses started to take over old cable car routes the people joined together to fight for Maybelle and her services.

This is an adorable book that can be related to students on many levels. It shows the purpose of preservation and fighting for what you believe in. (

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claire.cavell | Jan 19, 2012 |

History and infromation about the cable cars in San Fransisco. Ideas of progress, pollution, and community organizing articulated. (

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1952

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Way out in the far Far West there is a city of many hills . . . a city with water on three sides round . . . a bay city . . . a sea port . . . a gay city . . . a friendly city . . . a city of flowers and cable cars THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. To the people of this city who love their cable cars and especially to MRS. HANS KLUSSMAN, leading light in the fight to save them from extinction, I dedicate this book

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The first of the cable cars was born in San Francisco August 1, 1873 . . . the invention of Andrew S. Hallidie.

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Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of service in the name of progress.

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