WE’VE HAD BETTER DAYS--Hindsight
has 20-20 vision, success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan. That pretty much sums up San Diego City
Fathers decision to cease trolley operation in San Diego on April 23, 1949 and
replace the electric rail system with smoggy buses.
It was such a highly thought of transition in transportation
that on that day the elected management of the city held a parade to celebrate
the change over.
Sad when you think about it.
The bus lines ran into financial trouble in the decade after
this picture was taken and talk of the town returned to trolleys.
By 1981, the red trolleys returned to San Diego and there’s
even talk in 2013 about running a trolley line from downtown to Lindbergh Field.
What a concept. Let’s
throw a parade if that ever happens.
Image: Internet image
most likely originally from the archives of the San Diego Historical Society,
now the SD History Center in Balboa Park.
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