STREEKS!

Streetcars (read that "streecars") I have known and loved: #8 Perry and #10 West View

We could take either car "dahntahn" and out again, since both stopped at the top of our street

at the Keating Car Barn. In fact, the night shot really IS the No. 8 coming into the Barn,

at the intersection of West View Avenue, where I grew up, and Perry Highway.

Here you see the #10 West View.

My friend Denise and I would walk up to the Keating Car Barn, pay our dimes, and ride into the North Side to the library and Sears. The second picture shows the #10 cruising "out" to West View, past Wanner Schran's beautiful flower-decked bank on Towers Terrace. The tiny picture in the center of these two depicts a much later #10 painted white. Below you see the #10 and the Keating Car Barn; our street is right behind the streek.



Two streeks passing at West View Park...



My dad worked on the South Side (read that "Sahsside") at 313 E. Carson Street, and was retired over 25 years before his death in 2003.
And how my sister loved the Pirates and going to Forbes Field! She is currently looking for a picture of the "Flying Fraction," her favorite streek to get to a game. Anyway, these two shots really made me feel nostalgic!

I think we took the Bellevue car in a pinch. My sister writes, "...re. the Bellevue car, I took it to

Musicanters' practice in Bellevue on occasion. Don't remember if it started at the Barn as a #10>

and then the driver changed the sign to #15 Bellevue/West View at the Park or if it was "always" at #15."


This shot makes me feel downright sad!


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I am indebted to the people who took these wonderful photographs. I found them here: