Chicago's last streetcar (Chicago Tribune)

From The Chicago Tribune:

By Ron Grossman Chicago Tribune

"June 21, 1958 - At 6:16 a.m. on this date, Al Carter hopped aboard a Vincennes Avenue trolley car a block from the end of the line, dropped a token into the fare box and asked the conductor to sign his transfer".

"A South Sider with a penchant for seeking immortality in history's footnotes, Carter had been the last visitor through the turnstiles at the Century of Progress exhibition 24 years earlier. He knew that the autographed transfer ensured him a small place in Windy City lore as the last straphanger to ride a Chicago streetcar.The green-and-cream streamlined trolley rolled into a car barn shortly afterward and closed an era that had opened on April 25, 1859, when Chicago's first streetcar began running along a single railroad track laid in the middle of State Street between Madison and 12th Streets".

With accompanying slide show

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