Larkin Street

The way it seems to get lost and go round in circles in the park?

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

And you don't have to lease, you could build your own business park plus condos in Larkinville :-)

Maybe do it in your township:

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A million people left Ireland during the famines, and about a third of them seemed to be named Larkin.

It's not a family name at all, but a contraction of a description, "larrikin"

If you don't get enough to eat your brain doesn't develop well. The less damaged emigrants could survive the long sea voyage to Australia. The more damaged victims had to opt for the shorter sea voyage to the US.

Cable cars came along about 1873, well after the city was founded, and there were just a few lines. Streetcars moved and still move a lot of people in the flatter parts of town.

Cable cars are slow and expensive and only made sense in really steep parts of town.

New Orleans still has streetcars.

I used to ride that one to school.

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Now they only make sense in really steep places.

When they were introduced, before electric motors were up to the job, they made perfect sense in flat country as well.

The city of Melbourne in Australia, which is on pretty flat ground, had one of the largest cable trams networks in the world

It started running in 1885, but the cable cars were progressively replace by electric trams - starting in 1889, though they didn't get serious about it until 1906, and the last cable car was retired in 1940.

What the rest of world now calls electric trams. Melbourne still has them. Sydney did have trams and had dumped all them in favour of buses by 1961.

This was actually a bad idea, and they've made comeback in the last few years,