Today’s photo comes from a reader named George C. who lives in the south eastern United States, but came across the website via some information he received about the Electric Avenue Show last year at the art gallery. He sent along this photo to share with readers. There is no date on the photo, but taking a guess it looks to be WWI era…
After consulting with Bernie, this guy was the Motorman, his had reads Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway
This gentleman was the conductor. According to Bernie, the street railway operated a 2 man system until the early 1930’s, then they ran with just a driver until they were removed in 1938.
Have a good weekend everyone. See you back here Monday. Thanks for sharing the photo George!
Notice the avenue lined with trees? I am always curious as to why many or our main streets don’t have trees even they were there until the 1960s.
I understand that most wouldhave been elm trees but why hasn’t the city replanted using different species? Tell me anyone who wouldn’t want more trees lining our streets, especially in residential neighbourhoods?
That is a great pic, I love that you can blow it up and even see the faces of the two men, hopefully someone that might actually be related to them goes on this website. I agree Dave, if you go to alot of different cities they have tree lined streets all over the place. Too many concrete jungle cities today. Natural is the best and cheapest way to beautify the streets.
Great pic!
I’m with ya on the trees Dave. My guess would be streets like Ouellette and University lost all their trees due to street widening projects. Alot of those trees would have grown on the little sliver of grass between the sidewalk and road you find in older areas….first to go with even minimal widening. Too bad to cause when you look at old shots of Ouellette, it seemed sooooo much more inviting.
I’ll bet that’s University in the photo. And I love the wavey old leaded glass in the car.
I wonder what the advertisements said!
We are hoping that one of these men is our relation, Edgar Markham, who lived in Belle River at that time. If anyone might know which one is Edgar, we would love to know! His wife, Jennie, inherited the old Markham property and when she went into a nursing home, donated the land to the city of Belle River for the Optimist’s Park which is now in the center of town!
these photos are beautiful!
The world economy is going to get worst I’m afraid and we’ll probably be going back to these electric trolleys. In a way it is a relief. http://thecomingdepression.net