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Black-and-white street scene with a streamlined streetcar under overhead wires, large rug cleaner signs on buildings at left and a tall GRANADA sign down the street. — Download original ↓

1951 · 4134 Broadway

A PCC streetcar signed for route 36 to 119th and Morgan on a Chicago commercial street, with the Granada theater sign in the distance.

Date: 1951
Location: 4134 Broadway
Vehicle: PCC streetcar, Streetcar
Equipment: PCC

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