Broadway had open trolleys with no side walls, in which you at least caught the breeze, hot though it was, so that desperate people, unable to endure their apartments, would simply pay a nickel and ride around aimlessly for a couple of hours to cool off.
Even Newark's current mayor, Sharpe James, took a playful jab at Hudson County, poking fun at the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system, the recently opened trolley line that competed with a similar proposal from Essex and Union Counties.
The Franschoek Wine Tram allows you to see South Africa's beautiful wine country from the comfort of a charming open air trolley.
Old Savannah Tours (912-234-8128, www.oldsavannahtours.com) offers a 90-minute Ghostly Nights tour starting at 7 p.m. ($20, $10 under age ages 6 to 11, under 6 free) aboard an open-air trolley.
From the visitors center (admission is $12 $7 ages4 4 to 12), you can take an open-air trolley down to the caves through a 200-foot deep sinkhole, a chasm where sunlight reaches down to thriving tropical trees and flowers.
Over three hours long and taking in 13 locations over 38 miles, the tour was set up last July by Mike and Jesse (coincidentally the names of two of the show's characters), who have been giving open-air trolley tours of the city for the past four years.
Door flew open, raked length of trolley.
On Thursday afternoon, he and his crew loaded up an open two-seater golf trolley with a small flatbed attached and made their way, through the heavy downpour, to feed the workers.
Armed with a Guggenheim fellowship, he travelled the country from 1955 to 1956, taking in the prosaic and the profound: diners and honky-tonks, roadside memorials, parades and political rallies, open highways and segregated trolley cars.
A flight attendant taking the seat of an absent pilot to ensure there are always two people in the cockpit, and/or blocking access to the open door with a trolley, are often seen on US flights, but not necessarily on others, Hansford said.
