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Enjoy Streetcar Culture!
| STREETCARS CREATE LIFESTYLES |
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| NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA |
This is not an endorsement of product shown.
The streets used to belong to the people. People would congregate for socializing, commencing trade and other commerce, and
hop on and off streetcars on a whim - maybe catching the eye of a new love.
Rainy day people always seem to know when it's time to call
Rainy day people don't talk, they just listen till they've heard it all
Rainy day lovers don't lie when they tell 'ya they've been down like you
Rainy day people don't mind if you're cryin' a tear or two
If you get lonely, all you really need is that rainy day love
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above
Rainy day lovers don't love any others, that would not be kind
Rainy day people all know how it hangs on a piece of mind
Rainy day lovers don't lie when they tell you, they've been down there too
Rainy day people don't mind if you're cryin' a tear or two.
Rainy day people always seem to know when you're feeling blue
High stepping strutters who land in the gutters sometime need one too
Take it or leave it, or try to believe it if you've been down too long
Rainy day lovers don't hide love inside ~ they just pass it on
Rainy day lovers don't hide love inside ~ they just pass it on
"Rainy Day People" - Gordon Lightfoot
FILMS
Historic Film Clips - Featuring Streetcars and Trains - Unexplained Studio
| "Streetcar Desire" - Heart of Louisiana |
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| The Real Streetcar Desire ~ No. 922 New Orleans [About] |
| "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" |
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| Click for a Special Treat! - Film |
| "Meet Me In St. Louis" |
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| Watch Film! |
| "The Trolley: A Spark of Genius" |
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| Watch Film! |
| "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
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| Watch Film! |
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TELEVISION MINISTRY
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| Mister Fred Rogers in Pittsburgh |
Mister Rogers - Streetcar Advocate, who kept trolleys alive - even if only in, "Make Believe"
"A visit to the Trolley Museum" - "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"
Fred Rogers Institute
" Our Proud Heritage. Intentional Use of Technology to Foster Learning and Relationships: The Legacy of Fred Rogers" - NAEYC
Mister Rogers 1485 With Trolley Version
Everyone, including Kevin Shepard believe in Trolley existence! - Neighborhood of Make Believe Story Episode 1489 (2022) Kevin
Shepard
"Mr. Rogers and the Most Famous Defense of CPB Funding" - U.S Congress Hearing- May 1st, 1969
"Mister Rogers - the Anti-NIMBY" - twin city sidewalks (March 7, 2016)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make Believe - Idlewild Park in Ligonier, Pennsylvania (2014)
Riding the Daniel Tiger's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in Idlewild Park in Ligonier, Pennsylvania (2002)
"Mr. Rogers's Trolley, Childhood, Meeting Eddie Murphy" - Late Night With David Letterman (February 17, 1982)
Remembering Mr. Rogers (1994/1997) - Charlie Rose
BALTIMORE FOLKLORE
CAREY DAVIS
"Carey Davis Rides Again" - Baltimore
"Memories and Condolences for Carvey Davis" - The Baltimore Sun
"Then and Now: Transportation: The Efficient Movement of People, Goods, and Services is Central to the Function of Any City
- Forever Facing New Challenges and Demanding New Solutions." - Baltimore Magazine (2014)
Guess what? We already had a public transit that ran exclusively on electricity. Trolleys, Streetcars, and Cablecars. In 1920,
1 in 10 Americans owned an automobile. 1947 vision of auto manufacturers, tire companies, and oil barons forced streetcars
to become eliminated, thereby forcing buses onto the public. They even burned the trolleys, cablecars, and streetcars to insure
they would never return to the streets. Europe and the rest of the world went the other way after WWII: rebuilt their streetcars
and new trains.
"Divided Highways" - Documentary Film - PBS 1997
Baltimore Trains and Street Cars (1940's, 1950's, & 1960's)
GOING MARKETING
"The Trolley and Daily Life" - National Museum of Natural History
"Streetcar City" Smithsonian Website is currently being re-designed. Please view Archived version HERE.
"Delivering the Goods: Growing for the Wider Market" - Smithsonian Website is currently being re-designed. Please view Archived
version HERE.
"The Connected City: Water, Water Everywhere" - Smithsonian Website is currently being re-designed. Please view Archived version
HERE.
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LITERARY FOLKLORE
"I said, 'I'll get a job,"'
"What do you want to do?" her mom replied.
'I said, "I want to be a conductorette on a streetcar."'" - Mom & Me & Mom
| MAYA ANGELOU WAS A STREETCAR CONDUCTOR |
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| Illustrator Leire Sallaberria,Book, Little People Big Dreams Maya Angelou |
No known photographs exist of Maya Angelou in uniform.
"It wasn't easy securing the job, which she found listed in the pages of The San Francisco Chronicle.
"Women had replaced men on the streetcars as conductors and motormen,” she writes in“and the thought of sailing
up and down the hills of San Francisco in a dark-blue uniform, with a money changer at my belt, caught my fancy. .... I was
given blood tests, aptitude tests, physical coordination tests, and Rorschachs, then on a blissful day I was hired as the
first Negro on the San Francisco streetcars." - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
"Maya Angelou Fibbed About Her Age to Become a San Francisco Streetcar Conductor" - San Francisco Gate (2021)
Trolley Dodgers - by Jeff Stanger
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| Author: Claudia Friddell ~ Illustrations Jenn Harney |
| Until They Bring the Streetcars Back |
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| Author Stanley Gordon West (1997) |
Book: Until They Bring the Streetcars Back - Stanle]Gordon West (1997) - [Audio] read by Katie Brekke
STREETCAR & TRAIN CAREERS
Streetcar Advertising in America [Book] - Slideshow
Gillian Anderson starred in a daring revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
"Charles Tyson Yerkes: The Streetcar Baron Who Got Rich Twice" - American Heritage Magazine (1983)
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BASEBALL FOLKLORE
THE BROOKLYN TROLLEY DODGERS!!!! THE LOS ANGELES TROLLEY DODGERS!!!!
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| Brooklyn Baseball Team Becomes Trolley Dodgers ~ 1932. |
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| EMBLEM |
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| ALWAYS, "THE TROLLEY DODGERS" |
The invention of electricity was deemed marvelous, but people adapting to new technology raised another matter. Streetcar-drawn
horses to electric caused quite a stir. Because the new electric streetcars went so fast, and the public still getting used
to them, people went about their walking business, not able to perceive, anticipate, or judge correctly the distance from
a streetcar and oneself for safe passage across a street was. The baseball players chose this phenomena (and people watching
their past-time) as their team name. There were injuries and deaths. It is an important moment in history to continue to
reflect upon as change needs to prepare for its consequences.
"The Brooklyn Dodgers" - BR Bullpen | Baseball Reference
Trolley Dodgers Team - Major League Baseball (MLB)
Trolley Dodgers Team and Franchise History - Major League Baseball (MLB)
"Nickname Game: Dodgers beat out Kings in 1932 vote" - Dodger Insider (2014)
"Babe Ruth Crossed Paths with the Dodgers as More Than a Coach" - Dodge Insider (2014)
"The Life of Babe Ruth" Full Documentary - Biography
"Babes of Brooklyn" - Dodger Baseball Chronicles
"The L.A. Dodgers are Named After Terrified Brooklyn Pedestrians: The history of the "Trolley Dodgers" Reminds us City Streets
Once Belonged to People" - Bloomberg New (2015)
"$700M Stunner: Ohtani to Dodgers on Biggest Deal in Sports History" - Major League Baseball (2023)
"The Boys of Summer"
"100 Years: A Visual History of the Dodgers 1890 - 1990" - Documentary Film
"Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
A little voice inside my head said:
'Don't look back, you can never look back.'
I thought I knew what love was.
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever.
I should just let 'em go, but ~ The boys of summer have gone."
"Boys of Summer" - Don Henley - "The Howard Stern Show" Performance (2015)
ANIMATION
Toby the Tram Engine - "Thomas & Friends"
ARTS & CRAFTS
How to make a Metal Ball Tram (2023)
Streetcar Rail Track Glasses!
COMEDY
Streetcar Scene from Film, "Pay Day" - Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton's greatest stunt clips (Including Streetcars & Trains)
Sid Caesar - "A Streetcar Named ???" April 5, 1952
Cher and Burt Reynolds in a Parody of, "A Streetcar Named Desire"
"A Streetcar Named Desiree" - Benny Hill (1991)
"Dee Reynolds A Streetcar Named Desire" - "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh star in, A Streetcar Named Desire - Steve Hayes Classic Movie Review
Josie Long ~ Tram Sessions: Comedy at The Tram (2013)
"Wheel - of - Fortune!"
"Norrkoping's Got Trams!"
At the end, he discloses that he - loves trains! Some cuss language.
| "Space Train" |
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| Starring Jimmy Fallon and Robert De Niro |
SCIENCE
Trolleycar Dilemma used for science: Relationship between sacrificial behavior and relational mobility.
BRING 'EM HOME
Alexander Glista is 24 years old, who lives on a farm in Priceville, Ontario bought an iconic CLRV - TTC.
STREETCAR/TRAM BAND NAMES - PERFORMANCES
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| ALBUM |
Tramvay 5 Concert
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MUSIC SECTION
| "A Streetcar Named Marge" |
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| The Simpsons ["A Streetcar Named Desire" Spoof] |
ROD STEWART AND JOOLS HOLLAND
The two train aficionados share how trains more than inspire their music: "Naturally, we were very aware of each other's love
of model railroads. Don't you laugh people. When we meet up with each other about music, its always trains first.
So, what's happening with your layout? Well I'm building this. And then we get right okay, down to the music." - Rod Stewart
"But I think we should keep this all on track. I'm getting a signal from over there - and there's a lot of platforms. This
is going to go out stow." - Jools Holland
["Folklore" will be spun off as separate page with much more content.]
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