“Trolley Ahoy,” a 1936 Rainbow Parade cartoon by Van Beuren Studios, directed by Burt Gillett, with music by Winston Sharples. Based on a newspaper comic strip by Fontaine Fox.
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“Toonerville Trolley,” a 1936 Rainbow Parade cartoon by Van Beuren Studios, directed by Burt Gillett, and Tom Palmer, with music by Winston Sharples. Based on a newspaper comic strip by Fontaine Fox. The bovine here looks suspiciously like Molly Moo Cow.
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“Get Out.” Kemet the Phantom and The Pharoahs on the Kansas City Streetcar. Video directed by Brandon Bender.
Kemet the Phantom website
More:
“Kemet the Phantom: The ‘spirit and soul’ of Kansas City,” Toriano Porter, Kansas City Star
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This is great 1950s footage of Washington DC’s streetcars. The system shut down in 1962, and the car barn you see here has gone condo. The District is building a new electric surface transit line but, sadly, it won’t be taking this route.
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