[PRCo] Re: To PCC or Not to PCC?.......That is the Question.

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Checks please!

Kenneth Josephson wrote:
> 
> "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:
> 
> > And more often than body style, the public spoke of red cars, green
> > cars, yellow cars.  That may have been why so many companies changed
> > colors when going from two to one man, or as a way of publicizing their
> > new cars.
> 
> Many fans know that LA residents referred to the Pacific Electric and the Los Angeles
> Railway as "the Red Car" and "the Yellow Car", respectively.
> 
> After the MTA took over in 1958 and began repainting PCCs (and in one case, a former PE
> "Blimp") green, transit patrons continued to refer to the former LARY cars as "yellow
> cars." Even the green ones.
> 
> Some systems continued to use "car stop" signs for trolley bus lines, though motor bus
> routes used "bus stop" signs.
> 
> The term "car fare" still applies in a number of cities. I remember one episode of "Cops"
> where a police officer in the Hill District was asking a young woman if she had car fare
> to reach East Liberty. This was filmed during the mid 1990s and young woman was simply
> bewildered by the officer's question. He finally asked her if "she had money for the
> bus."
> 
> Ken J.