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Awesome Old Streetcar Photos … A Lot of Them

Posted by: Ghosts of DC on June 27, 2012 in Faces & Places of Yesterday, Featured 2 Comments

I stumbled across a great resource for streetcar photos. Check out the slide show below of some photos I pulled.

The map below is the transit map for Washington in 1948. Click on it for a closer look at the routes.

transit map in 1948

transit map in 1948

Cool Sunday Photo: Streetcar Passing Washington Monument (ghostsofdc.org)
Officials Probe Eckington Streetcar Disaster (ghostsofdc.org)
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson Tie the Knot on Monroe St. NW (ghostsofdc.org)
Old Photo Friday: F St. NW in 1908 (ghostsofdc.org)
Columbia Heights Arcade Gets First Roof Garage in D.C. (ghostsofdc.org)

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Stephen Crowley

Actually, to be exact – the streetcar by the Whelan’s drugstore was at the time on the corner of 14th & E Street. That block of E Street N.W. didn’t become Pennsylvania Avenue until many years later. I worked for years at the National Theatre in that block which was at 1321 E Street until they build Freedom Plaza across the street from it.
http://www.facebook.com/tom.szollos Tom Szollos

These are great pics! I’d love to have streetcars back. The one in Mt. Pleasant is intriguing because I see that Lamont Street is bisected, which is not today, and I see a bus or a streetcar (?) inside the square itself, or where the square is today. Was it used as a holding area for buses or streetcars? Anyway, that’s the 42! The bus routes were supposed to be named after the streetcar lines.

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