Holyoke Street Railway: Sequence 4

Silent black and white footage of the Holyoke Street Railway Co. Footage includes: the Willamansett car traveling in Chicopee, the Oakdale car at the corner of High and Appleton St., Car 118 traveling towards City Hall, a car on Dwight St., a car traveling on Canal St., car 168 turning from the corner of Appleton to High St., Schoolchildren boarding a "Special Car" for an outing to Mountain Park. This film was shot sometime in the late 1930s, just before the trolley system was dismantled. Footage is courtesy of the Holyoke History Room and Archives of the Holyoke Public Library.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• trolleys
• Holyoke
• Massachusetts
• HolyokeStreetRailway
• urbanhistory
• 1930s
• transportation

[flakko1980]

Wow!! wat year is this

[youthelectronix]

@flakko1980: Sometime between 1937-1939 when the Railway was dismantled to make way for buses, which people thought were a better option. The tire and oil companies at the time conspired to eliminate this "green" technology because more $ could be made from selling tires and oil for buses. This happened all around the country where there was streetcar service.

[LauritzH]

Ah yes, what we call "the good old days" in Holyoke, what everyone everywhere else calls "The Great Depression". I guess for Holyoke, the Great Depression is as good as it gets.

[dpjaexp]

@youthelectronix: Along with green jobs, its time to recondense our cities and towns back to manageable mixed-purpose, mixed-income neighborhoods. Reinstating electric streetcars and light rail lines wherever possible would rejoin those who have been disconnected. Any rail station closed to the public and neglected by freight rail companies must be restored, modernized and regular, frequent passenger rail services fully resumed. No more sinister wars for oil wrapped in God, mom and apple pie.

[danieljh]

Latin king graffiti on all the old buildings now.

Dont go down there at night.

[nicholasbruno]

@Gdunbar49 now you get shot in the dirty streets by gangbangers

[Gdunbar49]

Good Old Holyoke

It Was Nice.