Comments on: Seattle Now & Then: Madison Trolley Accident http://pauldorpat.com/seattle-now-and-then/seattle-now-then-madison-trolley-accident/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jana http://pauldorpat.com/seattle-now-and-then/seattle-now-then-madison-trolley-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-8409 Jana Tue, 24 May 2011 00:08:30 +0000 http://pauldorpat.com/?p=13969#comment-8409 Thank you Paul, Ron and Andreas! I was pretty excited today to find on the Seattle Public Library website even those of us outside city limits but still in King County can apply for a card!

]]> By: Andreas http://pauldorpat.com/seattle-now-and-then/seattle-now-then-madison-trolley-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-8408 Andreas Mon, 23 May 2011 19:25:24 +0000 http://pauldorpat.com/?p=13969#comment-8408 Jana – If you have a Seattle Public Library card/account, here‘s that front page on newsbank.com

]]> By: ronedge http://pauldorpat.com/seattle-now-and-then/seattle-now-then-madison-trolley-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-8404 ronedge Mon, 23 May 2011 15:23:35 +0000 http://pauldorpat.com/?p=13969#comment-8404 Jana,

That Panama Hotel accident was on the front page of The Seattle Daily Times August 19, 1964.
Send me an email and I will send it to you in pdf form along with where it can be found on line.

Ron
edge_clippings@comcast.net

]]> By: paul http://pauldorpat.com/seattle-now-and-then/seattle-now-then-madison-trolley-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-8402 paul Mon, 23 May 2011 08:19:57 +0000 http://pauldorpat.com/?p=13969#comment-8402 Jana
The 1956 clipping must have been about old news, for they shut down the trolleys and cable cars by 1941. Some of the earliest cable cars were quite exposed, fine in the summer but not so otherwise so the companies came up with ways to protect the riders soon enough. There is a street car history (for Seattle) done by Blanchard, which you might consult at the main library in the Seattle room. Sorry but I strike out on the Panama’s run-in with a truck on Main.
Paul
P.S. Hold on to that head.

]]> By: Jana http://pauldorpat.com/seattle-now-and-then/seattle-now-then-madison-trolley-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-8399 Jana Mon, 23 May 2011 00:11:41 +0000 http://pauldorpat.com/?p=13969#comment-8399 There’s a newspaper article on the wall of the Panama Hotel from the early 60′s of a runaway truck down Main crashing in to it and bringing down a corner of it – the replaced bricks are pretty obvious. After I left, I wished I’d read more because I keep thinking about it. And this post had me thinking of it again. Do you have more information on that incident? I’ve had no luck on Historylink or KCSnapshots.

]]> By: Jana http://pauldorpat.com/seattle-now-and-then/seattle-now-then-madison-trolley-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-8395 Jana Sun, 22 May 2011 21:33:41 +0000 http://pauldorpat.com/?p=13969#comment-8395 (There’s always so much to read in each of your posts – I feel like my brain could explode!) I’ve recently been posting photos and clipping that got passed along to me from my grandmother-in-law. One is a 1956(?) newspaper clipping of the “Second, Mill & Jackson” street cable car. She wrote at the top of the clipping that she fondly remembers riding the Madison one (so I was delighted to see what she would have seen at the top of your post albeit in a state of chaos). Any idea what year the photo used in my 1956 newspaper clipping might have been taken? https://picasaweb.google.com/treeclimber4/MarenNielsenAndersenSAlbum#5607134241444319250 . The trailered conveyance only looks suitable for summer excursions. I wonder if they had an enclosed one, too?

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