Getting old. 😥 Rode Church Ave route, Macdonald ave, and Coney Island PCC's many times. And on a Peter Witt ride to steeplechase. I still remember the air compressor sound.
my Dad drove the trolley. my Mom would dress me up and we would wait at the stop. I would climb up the steps, put the nickel in the box and proudly declare to everyone "that's my Daddy"
Really great footage. I grew up in this area, but I'm too young to remember the trolley. I heard about it often from my parents. It's good to finally see them. thanks for posting.
As a kid I lived on 13th Ave in Brooklyn and trolleys ran along the avenue. It was pre 1955. I remember trolley tunnels like you show in this video along Church Ave. What a treat it was going underground in a trolley.
Thanks Braighdan, I was about 5 years old and that is my earliest memory of the trolleys on Church Ave. We used to go to the movie theater on Church and McDonald Aves. The RKO Kenmore???? I think?? Man, it was soooooo long ago, over 60 years!!
can't believe it was dirty and polluted back then. Thought that started in the 60s. It's neat to see that Brooklyn had trolleys though. Maybe once the filthy rich renovate New York with "clean green", they will get rid of those nasty buses and subways and bring the trolley's back running off solar energy. :)
It was an experimental livery applied only on car 1012. Perharps it was a test for an eventual livery for the entire new york's surface transport vehicles, but it lasted only 10 months (02/1946 - 12/1946). it is remarkable that among the hundred PCCs and thousands of other cars precisely that car in that moment appears in this short video
Getting old. 😥 Rode Church Ave route, Macdonald ave, and Coney Island PCC's many times. And on a Peter Witt ride to steeplechase. I still remember the air compressor sound.
my Dad drove the trolley. my Mom would dress me up and we would wait at the stop. I would climb up the steps, put the nickel in the box and proudly declare to everyone "that's my Daddy"
they were...I miss them
Maria Gramieri
now we have the Buses
Really great footage. I grew up in this area, but I'm too young to remember the trolley. I heard about it often from my parents. It's good to finally see them. thanks for posting.
Wow grew up on bay 31st this us amazing
Great footage,Wish it was longer..👍
As a kid I lived on 13th Ave in Brooklyn and trolleys ran along the avenue. It was pre 1955. I remember trolley tunnels like you show in this video along Church Ave. What a treat it was going underground in a trolley.
Thanks Braighdan, I was about 5 years old and that is my earliest memory of the trolleys on Church Ave. We used to go to the movie theater on Church and McDonald Aves. The RKO Kenmore???? I think?? Man, it was soooooo long ago, over 60 years!!
My Dad was born in Bay Ridge 1918 & my Grandfather owned Preston & O Reilly Feed & Grain also in Bay Ridge
The window designs of the trolleys look similar to the those on the buses that eventually replaced them.
I wish we could have kept some of them going! But, that's the way it goes.
nice footage
Super cool
Those PCCs were built by Clark Equipment Company
Wonderful footage!
can't believe it was dirty and polluted back then. Thought that started in the 60s. It's neat to see that Brooklyn had trolleys though. Maybe once the filthy rich renovate New York with "clean green", they will get rid of those nasty buses and subways and bring the trolley's back running off solar energy. :)
Atypical Lavender not too bright!👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾
@1400deadwood love the sarcasm
Is this the one next to Costco?
Did this come from a dvd?
Interesting! I have never seen a Brooklyn PCC with that red livery below the belt line. What was it for?? Did it only run on the rockaway line?
It was an experimental livery applied only on car 1012.
Perharps it was a test for an eventual livery for the entire new york's surface transport vehicles, but it lasted only 10 months (02/1946 - 12/1946).
it is remarkable that among the hundred PCCs and thousands of other cars precisely that car in that moment appears in this short video