streetcar
a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
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The late 19th and early 20th centuries was actually the age of streetcars.
Did Cars Rescue Our Cities From Horses? - Issue 108: Change | Brandon Keim | November 10, 2021 | NautilusIf it safe for people to ride on our buses, and it is safe for people to ride on our streetcar.
Those early streetcar systems “drew together the scattered settlements of the time, bringing them all into cityness.”
Los Angeles: “A Humming, Smoking, Ever-Changing Contraption” | Colin Marshall | April 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewHouses, streetcar lines, railroad tracks, telegraph and telephone lines, bridges and highways were washed out.
Politics Report: Hotel Tax Hike Just Wants Life | Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts | February 27, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe restaurant’s name acknowledges the historic building’s past as a bank, the city’s past as a streetcar stop and the flowering herb native to Washington state, home to Mount Rainier.
Like a good neighbor, Pennyroyal Station is there for you | Tom Sietsema | January 22, 2021 | Washington Post
Plays like A streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke dramatized his divided soul.
John Lahr’s Biography Perfectly Captures Tennessee Williams’ Tortured Greatness | Wendy Smith | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Yeah, me and streetcar had a lot of fun with that book,” Suffridge was saying.
Football Great Bob Suffridge Wanders Through the End Zone of Life | Paul Hemphill | September 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe po-boy traces its roots back to the New Orleans streetcar labor union strike in 1929.
New Orleans Celebrates Its Favorite Sandwich at the Oak Street Po-Boy Festival | Tyler Gillespie | November 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Sweden it includes a year of mandated maternity leave and a well-run streetcar system.
From ‘streetcar’ to Kim Cattrall, Janice Kaplan surveys the shows and actors the Tony Award nominations overlooked.
What the Critics Missed in the Tony Award Nominations | Janice Kaplan | May 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe streets of these towns were crowded with traffic and streetcar lines are numerous.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyDo you remember a little incident which occurred in a streetcar some six weeks ago?
Ester Ried Yet Speaking | Isabella AldenProbably no one else on the streetcar beside myself noticed there wasn't a single passenger car, truck or bus that passed us.
Cue for Quiet | Thomas L. SherredSometimes we would break away and take a streetcar, till an order was issued forbidding our doing it.
Into the Jaws of Death | Jack O'BrienHe walked rapidly to the streetcar and took a seat, with a thoughtful expression on his countenance.
Rose O'Paradise | Grace Miller White
British Dictionary definitions for streetcar
/ (ˈstriːtˌkɑː) /
US and Canadian an electrically driven public transport vehicle that runs on rails let into the surface of the road, power usually being taken from an overhead wire: Also called: trolley car, (esp Brit) tram, tramcar
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