Portland's Streetcar Lines (Images of Rail)
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738581267 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Easy read with lots of pictures - Portland OR Trolley system Good pictures and easy reading text. Roy C. Billington said Streetcar. The shipping was very fast and well protected. As to the book and it's content. I read it quite fast and enjoyed reading. I know more than I did but not all I would like to know.. Two Stars The maps available by others are far more complete. This book needs to be updated badly.
Founded around the same time as its more famous northern neighbor across the river, Dallas, Oak Cliff grew steadily over the following decades. LAWRENCEPublisher: Tarrant County CollegeDate: 11/1/2010Oak Cliffis part of Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. The community incorporated as a city in 1890, taking the new name of Oak Cliff-a name bestowed on it by developers. This is to be expected, though, when considering the aims of the publishers and the authors.The authors certainly met their goal of reviving the stories and images of Oak Cliff and making them available for others. A lake, park, and hotel were soon built. The book retains the nostalgic flavor of residents telling the reader stories from their youth and how things used to be. It also faced an uncertain future as business closures in the last quarter of the t
This city still bears the imprint of the carlines that once wove their way out to suburbs in every direction, including Fulton, Portland Heights, Goose Hollow, Nob Hill, Slabtown, Willamette Heights, Albina, Saint Johns, Irvington, Rose City, Mount Tabor, Montavilla, Mount Scott, and Sellwood. Portland neighborhoods owe their location, alignment, and growth to a splendid, 19th-century innovation: the streetcar. The time of the trolley peaked during the 1910s. This is the history of those classic lines.. As routes developed, people used them for more than just getting to work; they also discovered the recreational function of street railways while visiting friends, parks, and shopping areas farther from the center of town. In 1927, the local street railway system entered a period of slow decline that ended in 1950, when Portland’s last city streetcars gave way to buses
. Rail historian Richard Thompson has worked as an archaeologist, archivist, historical museum director, librarian, and streetcar coordinator. The photographs in this volume take readers back to an era when the clang of the trolley bell was a welcome part of neighborhood life. His large collection of photographs and memorabilia served as a resource for two previous Arcadia Publishing books, Images of Rail: Portland’s Streetcars and Images of Rai