Snuffy:
Very nice video! Brought back many nice memories
of the Trolley Festival of the early 1980s. And
brought back memories of Maurice Klebolt, the man
whose passion and dedication and refusal to give up
were behind the entire idea of restoring old trolleys
and operating them on the Muni. Here is a very nice
piece about him, from the Market Street Railway archives
of 2003:

Remembering a Trolley Titan

Maury died back in 1988. What a character -- and what
a huge difference for the better he made in San Francisco!
The Hamburg car even once ran in the Muni subway under Market
Street all the way to the Embarcadero station. I only heard
about that -- I wish I had been there to see that.
Maury was responsible for that, too -- the only time a historic
streetcar has ever operated in the Market Street subway.
Without him, there would be no F Market Street line and no
E Embarcadero line, both run exclusively with historic streetcars.
(The F Market Street line runs 20 hours a day, 7 days a week.)
What a loss to San Francisco it was when he died.


Margaret