Chicago Street Cars & Elevated Trains in the 1940s

In the '40s, I could buy a HERSHEY bar for one penny and it was good but I don't like 'vegetable oils' masquerading as 'chocolate ' - hint to Hershey Co, to mend their ways :) Illinois Railroad Museum west of Chicago is a good place to visit if you want to see these and other railway goodies.

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• 1940s

[boilerbob7]

The time stamp machines were in the stations that you used to connect from the subway to the "el" where youn had to exit through the turnstiles.

[granskare]

@boilerbob7 thanks, that is one thing that I had forgotten :)

[OOstreetcarsOO]

granskare--I don't have web cam nor vid cam. Can email pix from my camera. I know that's passe' but that's the way it is. do i use "upload" to post pix.

[granskare]

@OOstreetcarsOO probably the easiest way is to establish an account

at photobucket online...YT hates to see html code so just put the word into google and it will be found :)

[OOstreetcarsOO]

granskare--I have sample pix of CSL transfers. Embarrassed, but how to post or send to you??

[granskare]

@OOstreetcarsOO for sample pics, just scan and make a short vid...I see you have just changed your channel.

[curtflirt1]

I still take the Stony Island streetcar to the museum .... "In my dreams"!

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[MrNemesis63]

Remember the Supertransfer on Sundays?

[elainebmack]

@boilerbob7 That Stockyard smell! YIKES!!!!!!! My uncle once took us to see Barnum ande Bailey's Circus, which was held at the old Chicago Amphitheater some where not too far from the stockyards. I remember seeing the big trucks with pigs in them on their way to the slaughterhouse, and I'll never forget that smell. On certain Spring days when the wind blew in from the Southwest, you really got it!

[elainebmack]

My mom and her family lived at 90th and Abbott St on the far South Side in a new development called Princeton Park. My mom used to take the streetcar that ran down State Street all the way from Roosevelt University where she was a college student in the mid 1940's. She said it too about 2 hours for her to get home. I was born in 1954, and I still remember the wires that crisscrossed overhead and those old cars. I also remember thst driver had to drive, punch transfers, and make change!

[artistmac]

Doesn't seem like that long ago that CTA bus drivers had to punch transfers AND make change. Anybody remember the red transfer time-stamping machines that used to be in all the CTA elevated stations?