Ride Upon A Trolley
Before I rode a subway underground, I traveled around the city on trolley cars. I could ride all the way from my home in uppen Manhattan to the Battery, with a change at 125th Street. In the summer time the cars were open with metal screens at the end of the seats to keep you from falling out. It made for a very cool, comfortable ride but when a storm came up, you could get rather wet. Once my mother and I rode all the way up to Riverdale when a severe rainstorm came up and we didn't want to get off and get soaking wet. I guess I always was a street-watcher, as opposed to being a people-watcher and I enjoyed the street scenes along the way. The neighborhoods changed, from an almost rural, certainly a less built-up neighborhood than mid-town or downtown, to the bustle of the Times Square, 34th Street and Wall Street. At 125th Street where one changed cars, the stop was close to a Jewish kosher butcher company. Beyond it being quite large I don't recall anything special about it. At the end of the line, the Battery, we'd get off and walk around a bit before taking the next trolley all the way back home. Sometimes we'd get off at Astor Place and go to the Wanamaker Store. Surely this voyage took several hours but what a great way it was to spend the day.
posted by railtrax @ 5:30 PM
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