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Identifier: streetrailwayjo261905newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ADVERTISING CAR GENERAL VIEW OF ALLEYS lar attractions on private grounds. Some of these will containonly an artificial skating rink, while others will have the tobog-gan slide also. A rustic shelter or cabin will be erected in the parks, andwill be kept well heated for the convenience of skaters andcoasters. Hot drinks and light lunches will be served also. alley in the basement and a roller-skating rink in the upperpart of the building. The scheme was carried out, and al-though the building was not ready for use until the season hadwell progressed, leaving but seventy days during which the at-tractions were in commission, the venture has demonstratednot only the return to popularity of old-fashioned roller skating.
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BOWLING ALLEYS AT OUINSIGAMOND PARK, WORCESTER Toboggan sleds owned by private parties will be kept at theparks without any charge, while those who do not have sledsof their own may hire them at a very nominal sum. ++* The evolution of the street car as exemplified by the varioustypes of car in use in Rochester was strikingly illustrated in arecent article in the Rochester Herald. No less than tendifferent styles of cars were shown, from the horse car to the500 type, the latest adopted for use in Rochester. To illustratethe trend in interurban car building, a car in regular use onthe Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Railway was shown. Thewriter says that the system in Rochester has grown from oneof one horse car and three drivers to one of 300 cars and aworking force of 1000 men. but also the possibilities of well-conducted bowling alleys asdrawing cards for pleasure parks. In view of the financialresults achieved at Worcester, it is worth the while of thosehaving electric railway

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo261905newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:307
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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