I remember seeing the streetcar rails entering that former Trailways bus station parking lot into the late 1970s. They were one of the last traces downtown of the streetcar heritage.
The other relics of the streetcar era downtown were the poles on the Gay Street bridge, then in 1981 when Cumberland and Main were torn up for World's Fair related rebuilding. Tracks that had been buried in asphalt re-emerged briefly between Henley and the Southern railroad bridge.
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TomB writes:
I remember seeing the streetcar rails entering that former Trailways bus station parking lot into the late 1970s. They were one of the last traces downtown of the streetcar heritage.
The other relics of the streetcar era downtown were the poles on the Gay Street bridge, then in 1981 when Cumberland and Main were torn up for World's Fair related rebuilding. Tracks that had been buried in asphalt re-emerged briefly between Henley and the Southern railroad bridge.
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