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Streetcar No. 25, 1900

City of Vancouver Archives, M-3-18.2. 1900 Streetcar No. 25 Glamourless streetcar. Public transit came early to Vancouver, but it wasn’t always pretty. No.

 City of Vancouver Archives, M-3-18.2.City of Vancouver Archives, M-3-18.2.

1900

Streetcar No. 25

Glamourless streetcar. Public transit came early to Vancouver, but it wasn’t always pretty. No. 25, in this picture from Denman Street in 1895, had shallow, lengthwise seats to prevent people from sticking their feet out. The seats were reported to be so shallow that “women, when once seated, could not rise again.”

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