Cable Car Joey
By: by Naomi and Lorin MacCabe.
Contributors: MacCabe. Lorin, 1904-1949, joint author.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1949
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
First sentence: Cable Car Joey looked down down down from the top of the steeper than steep Clay Street hill.
Description: This is an engaging children's book about the cable cars in early San Francisco.  Each page of text is accompanied by at least one picture, done in blue and black with touches of yellow and one spray of red on the fire pages.  Joey works hard, running up and down San Francisco's hills, so that his mother (the Balloon Car) and his father (the Horsecar) can retire.  Joey is shaken up in the earthquake and fire, but as the city is rebuilt Joey is patched up too, and given a new uniform and a fine new mustache.
Notes: Lorin MacCabe did the illustrations for the book but died in an airplane crash before the book was published.  The San Jose Mercury News of Sunday, August 12, 1951 touts, "Cable Car Ride Nets Best Seller."  "San Francisco's cable cars and several months of hard work netted a best selling children's book for Naomi MacCabe Manwaring of San Carlos."