One of San Francisco's historic streetcar passing through the Ferry Plaza before makes the jog onto Market Street.
Streetcar 1053 is painted in honor of Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corporation, which used this color scheme when it operated PCC streetcars like this in Brooklyn, New York.
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Bica, Lisboa, Portugal, 03-06-23
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Finished this piece! Referencing another of Filip Mroz's gorgeous Toronto streetscapes (did he take this out the front window of his car???) and indulging in a lot of nostalgia for king street of yore and streetcars of yore and so forth.
Also, that cobalt blue sky! One of my absolute favourite types of light, everything is so richly saturated and yet values are much subtler. Pure magic.
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In the USA between 1927 and 1955, General Motors, Mack Manufacturing (trucks), Standard Oil (now Exxon), Philips Petroleum, Firestone Tire & Rubber, and Greyhound Lines, came together to share information, investments and ‘activities’. Their objective was to eliminate streetcars (what are called trams in Europe). These companies established various front companies, one of which was National City Lines (NCL). During especially the 1930s, NCL together with various subsidiaries bought up many electrified streetcar lines. They then tore them up. At least forty-five cities lost their streetcars. The strategy was to shift to motorized petroleum-based transport. Local citizens were left without alternatives to oil-based cars and buses. This carbon conspiracy was in strict violation of US anti-trust laws. It was only discovered in 1955, whereupon the companies were found guilty of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act but then subjected to tiny fines.
John Urry, Societies beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures
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Looking west on 42nd St., with Grand Central Terminal on the right, 1923. Looks like it's snowing . . . or maybe that's just the old photo.
Photo: Mary Evans Picture Library/Fine Art America
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Showing some Maverick ✊🏿 love ❤️
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A little something for @amtrak-official from Hill House.
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"Traffic jam on the road from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard to Baltimore as the second shift of workers leaves the plant." Photographed 1943 by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.
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smalt
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Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life.
-- Kami Garcia
(Roma)
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Muni streetcar 1053 in front of the new US Mint building on its way to the Castro District.
More streetcar photos
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One of San Francisco's historic streetcars travels the waterfront on the F-Market & Wharves Muni line.
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This brave new world's not like yesterday...
lyric borrowed from Roxy Music
Coxwell / Gerrard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Marquette Avenue and 6th Street, Minneapolis (1953) via Minnesota Digital Library
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Running through the snow l Michael Sidofsky
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