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Inside a tiny-home village of abandoned streetcars that once existed in San Francisco in 1900 where the city's bohemians and artists lived
Sep 24, 2020
A neighborhood of abandoned streetcars turned into homes and businesses once existed in early-20th-century San Francisco.
Carville, or Carville-by-the-Sea or Cartown, was built when the city sold its outdated horse-drawn trolley cars for under $20, which is about $600 in today's dollars, and their new owners set them up in the city's Sunset District.
The village became an epicenter of San Francisco bohemia until developers and realtors came hunting for more housing space.
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The California Gold Rush ushered thousands of eager gold miners into San Francisco between 1848 and 1849.
The bustling economy transformed the city and its many neighborhoods. At the time, horse-drawn trolley cars ferried people around the city.
But eventually San Francisco's now-iconic electric and cable street cars hit the city scene, which meant that the Market Street Railway Company needed to get rid of the horse-drawn carriages.
So the railway company ran newspaper ads for the outdated cars in the late 19th century, offering them up for $20 a pop, and $10 if they didn't have seats. That's about $600 and $300 in today's dollars.
San Franciscans made use of the cars across the city, from North Beach to Bernal Heights, but most of them ended up in a makeshift neighborhood near Ocean Beach.
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