That picture of Fred Potthast's is on page 46 of http://chicagopast.com/page/46.
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Speaking of Potthast's, I recall this photograph from Shorpy's photo archives: http://www.shorpy.com/node/2304?size=_original#caption
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Mr. Downtown, thanks for the information, I was unaware this book was forthcoming. As you may quite possibly be aware of, The Shoreline Interurban and Historical Society of Lake Forest has an excellent piece on the PCC routes of Chicago in their quarterly magazine "First and Fastest", Autumn 2007 issue pages 16 through 25 inclusive.
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Trainutlen, the Clark car you are talking about was a short-turn variation of rt.22 Clark-Wentworth route from Howard St.south bound on Clark, east on Harrison, north on Dearborn, west on Kinzie to north bound on Clark. Although most of the cars were through routed there were also short-turn routings from northbound Wentworth to clark, Harrison, Dearborn, Kinzie to southbound on Clark.
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63rd and Halsted had been the largest shopping "district" outside the loop in all of Chicagoland.
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"The bue geese ran on 63rd street. There was very bad accident when I think one was hit by a gasoline truck and many died in the crash. The green hornet ran on wentworth." See the Green Hornet Streetcar disaster, that accident occured at a short-turn loop on State St. when a southbound Rt.36 Broadway-State line green-hornet streetcar hit the gasoline-tanker just north of 63rd St. in 1
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The Chicago PCCs, the Blue Geese and Green Hornet cars as they were called by many. All of Chicago's PCC cars were ordered by the Chicago Surface Lines, the first order of 83 pre-WWII cars, which came to be known by many as 'Blue Geese', was delivered in 1936 and placed in service on route 20 Madison St. the size of the CSL system was said to be the largest street-railway system in the world. T
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The switch was "plugged" because all south-bound route 36 cars were being short-turned at this loop one block north of 63rd street. The loop was the temporary southern terminus for rt. 36 as the underpass on State St. just south of 63rd was flooded. Plowing through the flooded underpass would surely have shorted out the motors or worse. The responsibilty for this tragedy was on the motor
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