July 24, 1963, Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Sometimes the mission of the local newspaper isn't just the reporting of current news, but also educating its readers with anecdotal accounts of historical items that they might not have known. Such is this case with this accounting of the streetcar "speed", designed to delight the early 1960's sensibility of what speed truly is. For that era, when solid steel-finned automobile gas guzzlers ruled the roads, it must have seemed laughable to imagine a vehicle traveling so slowly on city streets. Such stories provide an interesting contrast with current life.
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