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JITNEY REVIVAL. Some contributors voted for jitneys-cheap, taxi-like buses that pick up passengers at designated points and deliver them to their doors in the most convenient order. Once common, they were banned in most U.S. cities in the 1920s after Intensive lobbying by the trolley industry...
Many contributors had ideas for new kinds of vehicles: a personal trolley-auto advocated by Ronald Uher of Crystal Lake, Ill., for example, could either hook up to overhead electric trolley lines or run on its own power. Other suggestions focused on improving mass-transit finances. Several people proposed that municipal buses, trolleys and subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there...
...that the University of California administrators take pay cuts. Illinois' Governor Dan Walker notes with pride that he has trimmed the state payroll by 5,000, and his big pitch is on the need to live within one's means. Massachusetts' Governor Michael Dukakis rides the trolley-subway to work and has a vegetable garden in his front yard to help combat inflation; he has also impounded funds, slashed programs and suggested that anybody on welfare who is able to work
...Salt Lake City, an unprepossessing group of trolley barns built in 1908 houses a thriving shopping and entertainment center. In Chicago, a seven-decade-old building that served variously as a hospital and a whorehouse is now a popular restaurant. In San Antonio, a vast brewery is being converted into an art museum. In San Francisco, a plant that once processed chicken feathers for pillow stuffing has been transformed into an office building. In Galveston, New Orleans, New York and scores of other U.S. cities, old buildings are being put to new uses. They are, in the current jargon, being...
...hysterics." Not so Jerry Wheeler, an ex-stripper who, in Angel Face (1937), is all hobnails, barbed wire and mean mouth. About one criminal, she says in her characteristic tone: "[He] had a face like one of those cobblestones they dug up off Eighth Avenue when they removed the trolley tracks." You've come a long way, baby...