Detroit streetcars

[@jamesrobiscoe1174]

My mother would take the streetcars to visit relatives with us kids in tow. I thought they were magical, and I still have vivid memories of riding them, sometimes eating crackerjack from a waxed paper coated box. I liked the clang-clang of the bells.

[@reallyjustrandom1230]

The saddest about Detroit for me is all the historic buildings that have been destroyed or demolished. It's such a shame! Detroit has a remarkable rich history.

[@davidtosh7200]

They should added DSR streetcar for exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in the near future, so the visitors will take the look what is like in the inside. DSR streetcars used to run in Detroit Michigan from 1895 to 1956, for electric power streetcars.

[@brianholihan5497]

My dad went to the Vanity when he was a teenager, and he saw all the great big bands in their heyday. I'm sure he would have said that music was sweeter there.

[@slovakD]

Nice video. Detroit was such a busy city, like Detroit or Toronto. It could be that way again, the infrastructure is still here, streetcar rails are under existing pavement.

[@roychefets6961]

Yes Detroit was a lot like Detroit but in the 1950s it was much better than Toronto.

[@donmorgan7017]

how enjoyable this was never was there back then but do remember the street cars In Akron,Ohio in 1958 when I moved here from WV

[@michaelsteele4587]

Ironic how we lose these great forms of transportation only to turn around and dream/plan/study for "light rail" to be installed serving the same function these streetcars did. They were long gone before I came into the world but looking back, it was a mistake taking these out. I'm sure a lot of the rail for many of these lines is still buried beneath the asphalt of Detroit's streets.

[@lisettem.4769]

Those streetcars are alive and well and working daily in San Francisco!

[@bradleyjgreene]

Lisette M. Mexico City actually

[@gramnylen5961]

+Bradley Greene San Francisco F line is where there all at

[@drpoundsign]

Well...streetcars were Never as practical as Subways or Elevated lines. They are more like high-capacity buses. In Some Detroit neighborhoods, you have a bunch of houses built post-World War 2, and a few much Older ones; built in the 1920s or before. Is That because the Interurban lines ran on major streets like Gratiot, but Not, of Course, on the side streets?? You see that in Downtown Rochester Hills, Too. I know their Main Street had a streetcar line back in the day. There are Opera houses, etc, lining the street.

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

Obviously this was before the crap of the 60's. The riots, the corrupt city government, the auto makers either moving or closing etc. It's sad to know that a once great city where motown and the big 3 auto makers came from is now a pathetic shell of it's former glory, now nothing but abandoned houses, hell, entire neighborhoods, skyscrapers, everything. I doubt it will ever recover

[@popcorn3149]

how do people glorify yellow slime of cow hormones (cheese) on top of a grilled slice of bread??? not only is that bed for one's heart, gut, liver, brain, spleen, and body... but is it also completelt unamazing