Past Event
Monday, December 2, 2013, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Senior Monday lecture: San Diego’s Streetcars
1875 El Prado, San Diego, 92101
Cost: $8 - $17
"From Boom to Bust and Back Again."
Plus the IMAX film The Discoverers.
Transcontinental trains first arrived into the San Diego area in 1885 and merged with the early streetcar system in 1891 to become the San Diego electric railway. By the 1920s, considerable railroad infrastructure existed around the San Diego County, including a healthy streetcar system that lasted until 1949.
A newer system, today’s San Diego Trolley, started operation in 1981.
Jim Price, author of the book San Diego County Train Stations: Then and Now, will present the history of San Diego County’s streetcars.