[PRCo] feeder cables - Butler Street 1932

[Matt Barry]

Check out all the feeder cables alongside Butler Street in 
Lawrenceville, between 39th and 40th streets, 1932.
Only lines 95 Butler Street (ruch hour) and 94 Aspinwall ran here.   
Plummer Street Car house was about 7 or 8 blocks up from this point.
Any idea why so many wires?
The second photo shows Butler Street in 1960 with one bracket of feeder 
cables alongside the route.  This is five blocks up and 28 years from 
the 1932 photo.

Incidentally, those brackets have only recently started to come down on 
Butler Street.   They remained in place for years, without the railways' 
cables, of course, but in some spots, they were made use of by a thinner 
wire; I was never sure if it was a telephone wire or electric.   I don't 
think it was cable TV.

Matt    


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