Hi Frank ... Not too many PAW submissions here lately, so it's nice to see yours even though it's been posted before.
San Francisco has a lot of old street cars and cable cars. Sometimes the street cars are called trolleys here, but mostly not. Anyway, every now and then the older cars come out for some exercise, and your photo reminded me of this pic of an old street car. One of the two women on the right was my wife - don't recall which right now <LOL> The "J" line, which runs up Church Street in San Francisco's Mission District, was the car I took to get to my studio, and terminated in the area in which many of the photos of the kids were taken. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/jchurch.html Shel > From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I haven't been submitting PAWs of late, as my current > state of unemployedness doesn't really give me much > money for such luxuries as getting prints made. So, > I've dug into the archives, as it were. > > I may have shown this to the list about 18 months ago, > but if I did, it was a rough scan from a contact > sheet. > > In Toronto, we have "street cars". I don't know if > they're called street cars elsewhere, but I know that > other places call them trams or trolleys. Luckily, > when many cities (in North America, at least) were > ripping up their tracks in the 50's and 60's to > replace them with buses and subways, we kept ours, so > we now have a beautifully integrated transit system of > buses, subways and street cars. > > This is a 50's vintage car that I saw in one of the > yards on the east side. I thought it looked pretty > cool: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2629172
