File:"Fawkes' Folly", an experimental monorail car built by J.W. Fawkes in Burbank and adorned with flags and decorations, 1907-1910(?) (CHS-5013).jpg

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"Fawkes' Folly", an experimental monorail car built by J.W. Fawkes in Burbank and adorned with flags and decorations, 1907-1910(?)
Photograph of "Fawkes' Folly", an experimental monorail car built by J.W. Fawkes in burbank and adorned with flags and decorations, 1907-1910(?). The cigar-shaped trolley is attached to an overhead track, which is supported by wooden beams. There are about a dozen passengers onboard, including a several musicians playing the double bass, guitar, and banjo. In the front of the trolley, a driver sits behind the controls that operate the vehicle. The controls are attached to a large engine mounted at the nose of the trolley, which in turn is connected to the propeller. To the rear of the trolley is a man standing on top of a set of stairs that is used to allow people to enter the trolley. Also in the rear of the trolley is an American flag. The passengers are well dressed and a majority of them are wearing hats. Caption reads: "Aerial Trolley Car Co. Inc., J.W. & E.C. Fawkes, Patentees., Burbank, Cal."; "The population of the town [Burbank] was 500 when the voters approved incorporation in 1911. That same year, civic boosters began a campaign to have the Pacific Electric Streetcar line extended from Glendale into Burbank. The citizens of Burbank had to put up a $48,000 subsidy to get the reluctant P.E. officials to agree. The first Red Car rolled into Burbank on September 6, 1911. Leading the opposition to the public fundraising was J.W. Fawkes, who had patented the first monorail car in the United States. He built a prototype on his Burbank ranch, running a line between Lake and Flower Streets. Fawkes called his invention the "Aerial Swallow." City officials, however, called it "Fawkes' Folly" and the proposed monorail system never materialized." -- unknown author.
Call number: CHS-5013
Legacy record ID: chs-m17278
Photographer:
C. C. Pierce  (1861–1946)  wikidata:Q61995887
 
Alternative names
Charles C.
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 22 November 1861 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Springfield
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q61995887
:Filename: CHS-5013
Coverage date: 1907/1910
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Burbank
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5013
Microfiche number: 1-119-16
Archival file: chs_Volume98/CHS-5013.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 4 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 13 x 17 cm., 10 x 13 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): transportation features
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1907/1910
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- General (Misc. Cars)
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Street-railroads; Flags
Subject: Fawkes, J.W.
Date 1907/1910
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/17280
Author
C. C. Pierce  (1861–1946)  wikidata:Q61995887
 
Alternative names
Charles C.
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 22 November 1861 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Springfield
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q61995887

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