Photos of trolley cars, identified as being in Brentwood, dated 1949, are for sale on ebay. A St. Louis Twitter user, @PubPolHist, brought the listing to 40 South’s attention.
Photo below, from ebay.
https://twitter.com/PubPolHist/status/775219625055387648
My mom went to Principia College in Elsah, IL, and said she took the Dinky from Alton to Elsah, before they built the river road.
That era’s when we had real transportation. Broadway streetcar Northfrom Baden to Downs Park and old city workhouse on the South,
Grand Avenue at the Water Tower on the North to Carondelet on the South, Olive Ave streetcar from downtown Stl to Creve Coeur Lake on the West. At one time you rode the streetcar you paid the dime. No pollution.
I wonder if this was the Dinky. My mom lived on Dorothy, and the Dinky ran on the tracks across from her house as a child. They took it into Maplewood and shopped.
Yes the “dinky”also went to Kirkwood. Between Dorothy and Mary in Brentwood. The green divider where tracks used to be is there.
Yes, it is a greenspace now. My mom has memorabilia from the Dinky. So nice to see the history.
I don’t think that is the Dinky. It is a full size streetcar. There is a Dinky at the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood. It is about half as big as a full size streetcar and has a front with a recessed windshield like a truck, not a flat front like the streetcar in the pictures. I remember reading an article about how the Dinky did indeed run on the tracks that ran where Swimming Pool Road, Broughton Park and the Park that stretches down to Manchester is now. It was the Kirkwood – Ferguson line and is visible on the hand-drawn map on the wall in the Brentwood Historical Society.
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