Nobody Even Cried As Streetcars
Ceased To Negotiate Lonsdale

“Yumpin Yimminy, There
Goes Our Old Sally With
the ‘Upholstered Seats’,”

Is Oldtimer’s Adieu to

Cars”

The dazzling red, cream
and aluminum colour scheme
of the latest ching in bus trans-
portation, introduced — this
week on Lonsdale avenue, he
in pwo days of fast
become a familiar and accept-
ed sight.

North Shore residents
using the new buses, are how-
..ever, wearing that. satisfied
look, supposedly contined to

“cats who have eaten the
canary.”

This community’s travel-
ling public has taken to mod-
ern bus transportation like a
duck to water.

’ No one is. mourning the
passing of the street cars and
Lynn Valley and Capilano res-
idents, still confined to the
teacks, are casting envious tyes
at their fellow citizens using
the buses and asking “How
_long?”

On Sept. 25, the last
streetcar. travelled Lonsdale
avenue.

. The passing of the street-
cars went unheeded.

‘No one made a speech,
bands were conspicuous by
their absence

A gang of 50 or so B.C.
. Electric men is busy on the

north end of Lonsdale remov-_
‘ing the rails, and incidentally,

Farewell to an old friend: the last streetcar to travel up Lonsdale ave. has been replaced by
these spanking new niotorized buses, already favoured by residents.

with their modern equipment,
they are making a fast job of
it.
“In two wecks, you'll sce a
different kind of Lonsdale,”
one of the younger
s, Who is to trans-
ferred to the buses and has no
regrets at leaving the swaying
platform of a trolley car for
the cushioned driver’s seat of
a modern bus. ;
In place of the streetcar’s

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motors as the sleek, new buses
make their way up and down
the grade with no effort at all.

They get away faster, save
time on the stops and in many
other ways make matters
much easier for the n
who has to daily make his or
her way from the ferry.

They are nor a bad idea .

either for the busy housewife

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who has to snatch a few min-
utes here and there from her
household duties to get out
and make her purchases to
keep the family larder replen-
ished as the supplies of this
day and age will permit.

“li we had been on a
streeicar, we Would not have
been up to Second street yet,”
said one Jady as the bus
moved smoothly towards
Fourteenth.

Sunday, November 14, 1999 — Nerth Shove Hews - 3S

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Lady driver Irene Hampton gamely poses outside the drug-
store with her new Oldsmobile.

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