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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1955
Second Section
San Francisco Offering 20 Cable Cars
For Safe at Forthcoming Public Auction
San Francisco (U.PJ Just
Powell Street line that straddles
Nob Hill is using the 19th cen
tury models, while the surplus
cars come down the defunct
Jones-Hyde-O'Farrell line."
This line lost all its cars in
the fire and earthquake of 1906.
It had to be rebuilt following
the disaster, and the offering of
surplus cars are these post-1906
models. .
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what we always wanted a San
Francisco cable car for our very
own!
Whether you react this way
to cable cars or not, certainly
you must know someone who
does. Tell him right away he
can now buy one for . keeps
straight off a San Francisco hill
side. As casually as the Army casts
off old sleeping bags and oil
drums, San Francisco is selling
20 cable cars as surplus proper
ty. They will go to the highest
bidders.
Think of the possibilities an
outdoor bar or barbecue pit in
cable car decor, or an indestruc
tible toy for the youngsters.
The price? Well, Public Utili
ties Manager James H. Turner
had figured $300 would be a
pretty saf a bid but now he's not
so sure. Interest in the auction
has been mounting. His office
is getting lots of mail and phone
calls from would-be buyers.
In Use Since 1870s
San Franciscans and visitors
have been admiring the "dink
kies" ever since they began their
--hill climbing in the 1870s. They
don't fit into the traffic pattern
too well any more, but there
was a public furore recently
when it was suggested they be
abandoned.
The cable cars are not being
abandoned but the service has
been curtailed. The city owns
about 60 of the steel and wood
cars, some dating back to the
1880s, and only 30 are in use.
Ten are going to be kept in re
serve and the. other 20 sold.
Sealed bids are being accepted
now for the first group of 10 to
go on the b'lock. At a future
date still unannounced the bids
will be opened and the 10 high
est bidders will be the owners of
surplus dinkies, F.O.B., the car
barn. Los Angeles Buys One
In a special transaction, the
City of Los Angeles already has
made off with one surplus car.
Los Angeles bought one for $300
to. display in Griffith Park and
to cart around for publicity pur
poses. This car . did not .'come
from the 20 being auctioned,
however. . t '
Potential bidders are being
advised the surplus cars actually
are the newest in the flje The,
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Hollywood (U.R) Television's
biggest controversy today is
whether viewers .' prefer their
shows live or
on film, with
the anti - live
group collect
ing TV "bloop
ers" as ammu
nition. N e t w o rks
admit the
trend for
filmed shows
. - .Aline Mosbr ; -g lo wi n g,
Jackie .Gieason arid George: Go
bel plan to try filming their pro
grams. Donald O'Connor and Ed
die Cantor already have put
theirs on celluloid, and one New
York dramatic program, "You
Are There," has moved to Holly
wood to be filmed.
But many of the big programs
stillare live, resulting in fluffs
that provide lively conversation
in parlors of the Plaster City.
Boom Booms .
One actor moans that a micro
phone boom crashed to the floor
in the middle of his tender scenes
in "The Penny Serenade" on the
Lux Video Theater. On . the U.S.
Steel Hour's production of "The
Bogeyman," the camera showed
Celeste Holm silent, but a pre
recorded line of her dialogue
had. her ; yelling, "Tony, the
cane!" v"V' r-
The. prize for the most no
ticed fluff goes to a "corpse"
who got up and walked away in
the middle of a Kraft Theater
dramatic program.
One live TV director here ad
mits, "On live shows you deal
with human beings, and we can't
eradicate all their errors."
- Viewers chuckled , the night
veteran movie star James Ma
son forgot the name of the star
he was introducing on the Lux
show. On "The Hit Parade" vet
eran singer ' Snooky Lansing
couldn't remember the words to
a Christmas caroL
One local -TV columnist sug
gests an award be given to the
actor who can parlay a fluff into
a successful piece of business on
the show.
On a recent Jackie Gleason
epic,, .for example, -.the 1; comic
slammed a door so hard' It
jammed. Art Carney, due to en
ter the scene, couldn't get the
door open. He gracefully climb
ed through the window. " This
quick recovery, however, was
marred by the fact he forgot to
open the window but stepped
through the glass-less frame, to
the giggles of both audience and
cast. "
'Unbreakable' Breaks
Comedian . Steve - Allen once
was demonstrating an "un
breakable", fibreglass chair by
hitting it with, a hammer. The
chair broke. ;
"This must be a fibreglass
hammer," he quipped. ,
The pro-live supporters, how
ever, insist such fluffs "give the
show spontaniety and excite
ment." "On live dramatic shows you
have story, performance drama
and ; background noises," says
one network executive. "On film
shows you have no story, no per
formance, no drama and no
noise. Which do you want?
"You remember the stars who
appear on live dramatic shows
but you can't remember, their
performance on film."
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