St. Louis and its streetcars : the way it was

Author: Andrew D. Young
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Description: Paperback - 52 pages (May 1, 1996)
ISBN: 0964727919

St. Louis's street railways served St. Louis city and county from 1859 until 1966, when the last car ran. A huge network of city lines stimulated the gorwth of new streetcar suburbas from the 1870s to the 1920s, while the later county lines did the same for the towns and villages of St. Louis County. Public transit's monopoly was broken in the 1920s by the automobile and since then city and suburban growth has been dictated by proximity to roads and highways, not transit routes. With over 120 rare and unusual photographs, this book looks back at the final forty years of street railways in St. Louis, the buses that replaced them and the automobile which marginalized all forms of public transit.

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