Showing posts with label trolley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trolley. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

restored 1946 streetcar gets back on the San Diego trolley "Silver Line" around downtown as part of the centennial of the 1915 Expo



Images from http://fox5sandiego.com/2015/03/02/restored-1946-trolley-makes-public-debut/

San Diego couldn't muster any civic pride, do to politics, bureaucrats, and red tape... or pull itself together to have a 2015 Expo, so small bits of interest like this are about all you'll find to commemorate that in 1915 there was the equivalent of a worlds fair in the city park. https://www.facebook.com/events/1496816113864581



this is the cover to a 36 page souvenir book of photos that can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.810932428956688.1073742066.181625028554101&type=1 showing how the park was built to accommodate tourists and show the culture and production in the west