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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was 70 years ago. The gap between now and the 1950s is larger than the gap between the first successful implementation of electric street cars and the 1950s.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The first public electric tramway used for permanent service was the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany, which opened in 1881.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram

    So if your city shut down its streetcars in 1951, like mine did, then what you said is true. If you city had streetcars in 1953 or beyond, its not. Not to be too pedantic about it.

    My point is that is less than 1 human lifespan. There are people that rode the streetcars in my city when they were kids that still live here. Its not ancient history, its living memory.

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