Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American life. Consumer credit is expanding not only because people are borrowing more, but also because more people are borrowing-as an increasing number of Americans rise to the affluent middle and upper-middle classes. A generation or two ago, the average American family made regular payments for rent, streetcar fares, laundry service, blocks of ice and movie tickets-none of which counted as payments of debt. Today the family makes regular payments to finance a house, a second car, a home laundry, a refrigerator and a color TV-all of which count toward installment debt...
...stamps, trademarks, slogans, coins, buttons, torn-up photographs and headlines, used for punning or oblique meanings. He hunted bric-a-brac in the streets, even carried a small screwdriver, which he once was caught using to detach a "Rauchen Verboten" sign from the back of a streetcar...
...subway next at Dudley Street or Eggleston to see the Washington Park project. This is partial clearance and rehabilitation in Roxbury, a streetcar suburb of frame houses and brick apartments of 1880 to 1930. Here are things to look for today...
...obsolete streetcar commercial buildings are being torn down, most of the housing behind it stays. This is a reasonable and obvious solution, yet it is a break-through in renewal. In many projects in other cities and earlier years the obsolete commercial stayed and the housing came...
...they are leaping off his bridge; gypsies are dancing in his fortunetelling parlor in Bajour. Sherlock Holmes is struggling with Moriarty on his cliffs of Dover in Baker Street; Ben Franklin is still joyously ascending in his balloon; and Dolly is giving her big hello from his Yonkers streetcar. In all, the seven sets account for more than one-third of the shows on Broadway, and all seven are the work of kinetic, white-haired Oliver Smith...