SP San Francisco Overland Wrote:
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> Keith Ode Wrote:
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> > FUD Wrote:
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> > > And it was set in SF! Things were
> > > different back then ... ignoring for the
> moment
> > > that it was a movie not a documentary.
> >
> > Fictitiousness aside, I laugh every time
> someone
> > makes a comment like this. So kids, with
> regards
> > to San Francisco, what makes "things different
> > back then" compared to now?
>
> As someone who was visited San Francisco in the
> 1970s and in the 2000s, that question is easy to
> answer:
>
> 1) Southern Pacific's headquarters on Market
> Street closed with merger into Union Pacific.
> 2) No more Western Pacific freight operations in
> the City.
> 3) CalTrain replaced Southern Pacific as the
> provider of the San Francisco - San Jose commute
> service.
> 4) The existing CalTrain depot headhouse is a
> great improvement over the mundane block structure
> built by SP when the Third & Townsend depot was
> demolished.
> 5) No more Twin Coach electric trolleybuses
> 6) The Clipper Card makes it much easier to use
> the many transit systems serving San Francisco and
> other Bay Area communities
> 7) No more Twin Coach electric trolley buses
> 8) No more SP NW2s, GP9s or SDP45s in San
> Francisco
> 9) Original Transbay Terminal demolished
> 10) San Francisco Railway museum opened up near
> the Embarcadero

No better way to diffuse an obviously loaded political question. Well done, sir. You could teach the children here a thing or two.