Showing posts with label street cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street cars. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Friday, 22 July 2011
1907 Streetcar strike in San Francisco
found on http://edwardianera.tumblr.com/page/16
In this photo, San Francisco police escort a scab streetcar to protect it from the violence that erupted repeatedly during the 1907 streetcar strike.
Sunday, 10 July 2011
1908 Herald Square, New York. There is a lot to look at in this photo, hundreds of people, dozens of cars and carriages, and every head has a hat
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Street car in a trolley barn 1932
Friday, 8 July 2011
street scene of Detroit in 1910, with touring cars, a street car equipped with a people catcher, and a 1910 Hudson Model 20 touring car taxi parallel parking
Monday, 13 June 2011
100 years ago Edinburgh Scotland, double decker street cars/trolleys/trams were evolving from horse drawn - to cable cars - to electric
I like the advertising... healthier liver with Andrews salt
the master craftsmen carpenters
the finishing painters and pinstripers
the vehicles used to get the cable installed on lines above the trolley lines
and the new electric vs the old cable car
read about it if you use a translator browser like Google Chrome after this link http://dkphoto.livejournal.com/229482.html which i came across from http://p-d-m.livejournal.com/friends?skip=10
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
You think you've been in a traffic jam? Not as bad as this 1897 rush hour in Philly... no AC and surrounded by horses and smelly people w/o deoderant
Found on the HAMB
Thursday, 30 December 2010
1933, 5:54pm, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Long Beach. Imagine what the result of that catastrophe would be today in LA rush hour?
Monday, 27 December 2010
Streetcars, were good for more than just public transportation... did you know they were used to plow snow along their route?
read about plowing snow with street cars: http://cincystreetcar.wordpress.com/2009/01/
I like that many were made into little diners. See the inside of one at the Henry Ford museum https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUjnJx0aw7W3cA4spwQHhBti1eYlRaxEB-WS5E92Jmzuu7nv-BYj56npc-aIrAIOJQYWgHE-71D-lBPyJhHnug9xe6negBlk_k61GXVWcUMaRYSnqNPaM17f7LIqz9qE1LEaqxyjFD0Y/s1600/Henry%2520Ford%2520Diner%5B1%5D.jpg it is the nicest I've seen, most are far more simple and less ornamentalSome were made into houses: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/09/street-cars-getting-second-life-as-home.html
And in San Diego I found one diner street car, and two homes made from street cars http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/survivors-of-era-i-doubt-anyone-else.html
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Wouldn't city transportation be more appealing with the original streetcars?
Above image via: http://hooniverse.com
but the shortsighted greedy bastards sold out to gross polluting diesel bussses, and trashed all the cool looking and electric streetcars. Morons. I was reading recently about all the cities that went to electric streetcars as a pollution reducing measure, and to increase the effective public transit systems. Here in San Diego when huge events like major league ballgames, national football league games, or an event like Comic-Con happen, the go to device for getting there and back is usually the trolley system. Nothing as aesthetic as the old street cars, but serviceable Wednesday, 9 June 2010
I found the portfolio of an incredible photographer, James Haefner, here are a couple to entice you with, go to his website for his portfolio
See all of his incredible work (about 40 superb photos in the Automotive Vintage section)
and more in the other sections if you also like automotive advertising, architectural, and etcetera
1930 Duesenburg detail
Bucciali doorhandle detail
Panhard Levassor
The factory 1967 test GTX that is famous for the great lengths that Chrylser Research and Development engineers went through to make the Silver Bullet (a name coined by Ro McGonegal and the Car Craft story specifically) nothing less than a factory-backed car purpose-built for STREET RACERING on Woodward Avenue; running 10.60s at 132 mph or read Car Craft's write up (good one!) and full gallery http://www.carcraft.com/featuredvehicles/906_1967_plymouth_belvedere_gtx/index.html
The street car converted into a diner at the Henry Ford MuseumAll of these photos courtesy and permission of James Haefner PhotographyPortfolio: http://www.haefnerphoto.com/
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Monday, 7 June 2010
cool things found at Greyhandgang.com
What do you think, an airport runway snow melter?
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Buckminster Fuller and a Dymaxion 
Cuban taxi's.... aren't they awesome! Looks like a 55 Ford and a 53 Chev. I'd take a ride in these over a modern taxi, damn right I would
I'm not sure, but it looks like the trans-arctic vehicle
A street car used to build artificial reefs
The Vereycken Diwheel 1947 and you can read more about it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/diwheel/diwheel.htm 
The Munsters coach it looks like, it is on Santa Monica Blvd, and it's 1964
An Autogyro over New York
a photo of the Blitzen Benz I haven't seen before
looks like El Mirage
What an Americana moment, the purple car is a Studebaker Commander I thinkTuesday, 9 March 2010
New York streetcars from decades ago, among the warehouses along the waterfront
notice the 150 year old (or so) warehouses that were built to last, and with full hurrucane shutters... amazing. The streetcars still have the power lines above them, and with so many open windows they surely won't last for asvmany more years as they've had, before the weather just detriorates them from the inside out. The last of their kind? Probably, can you imaging any others that were saved from scrap, allowed to keep their peice of track, and weren't buearacratically removed from public enjoyment? I suppose very very few people looking at them feel any nostalgia, and maybe I'm one of a handful that is glad they are still around just to look at.Via an awesome website that focuses on New York City historical bits of architecture and history that is everywhere but seldom noticed, like gargoyes, statuary on buldings (even in Times Square) and is all noticed and posted by a wonderful writer who swears very well at the destruction of the cool old buildings that developers are quickly making disappear to be replaced with glass and steel nondescript high rise condos.
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=12 has these street cars and his jaunt to a neighborhood called Red Hook, where the warehouses are great, and their is a perfect front view of the Statue of Liberty
Read more...
Saturday, 6 March 2010
Bedford Avenue and Manhattan Avenue in New York, 1928 photo with a lot going on
on the far right is a street sweepers push cart, at the far end of that building is the streetcar. On the left is a car with a grill I don't recognize at all! via: http://roughingitblog.tumblr.com/page/3
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