I have a very fond memory of riding the trolleys from Mattapan to the Esplanade to see Arthur Fielder conduct the Boston Pops on a weekend afternoon with my Great Grandmother around 1978.
All the transit companies and authorities pulled up their streetcar tracks because either they were bought out or lobbied by GM/ General Tire/Standard Oil-owned National City Lines, or had problems with reliability and service due to the infestation of every major street with cars and busses!
Nice Video and Narration! I love the first part of the film in color! I wonder who did the effort to colorize it? I travel to Boston from Lawrence, Ma and it is Great to see old videos like these! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
He sounds like my dad who was born in Boston in 1943. I was also born in Boston but have lived in the midwest my entire adult life so the accent only comes out occasionally.
I have a very fond memory of riding the trolleys from Mattapan to the Esplanade to see Arthur Fielder conduct the Boston Pops on a weekend afternoon with my Great Grandmother around 1978.
Love those Type 5s! Foster picked such perfect music for his videos yet he probably had no idea!
Fascinating film.
This is cool, I've ridden on many of these lines... well a few of them...
Exactly 36 years and 1 day before I was born in Dorchester. Very cool
They should have this videos play at every station
thats just awesome i love these fan trips and its awesome years ago could one think stay on a trolley from watertown to mattapan and dorchester
I grew up in Quincy and didn't know that trolleys ran down Hancock St, thru the square and then to Fore River!
Trams / trolleys / street cars, ran everywhere in urban areas at one time.
All the transit companies and authorities pulled up their streetcar tracks because either they were bought out or lobbied by GM/ General Tire/Standard Oil-owned National City Lines, or had problems with reliability and service due to the infestation of every major street with cars and busses!
This is fantastic. Thank you so much!
Well, at least you can still ride PCCs from Mattapan to points west. Not that I actually did that while I was in Boston...
Nice Video and Narration! I love the first part of the film in color! I wonder who did the effort to colorize it? I travel to Boston from Lawrence, Ma and it is Great to see old videos like these! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I drove a MBTA bus 🚌 for 23 years.
When was the narration done?
any riverside DVD available
That's an old Boston accent. When was this film narrated?
Not sure. I think maybe in the 1990s
He sounds like my dad who was born in Boston in 1943. I was also born in Boston but have lived in the midwest my entire adult life so the accent only comes out occasionally.
Great accent. I still have mine, my kids mock it but I'll never lose it.
I thought it would be a front view trip
Not a Boogie in sight!
ok