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When I was young, and lived in LA, I was a taxi dancer Honestly I was, for about two or three years.
Later on I went to work as a streetcar driver. My agency had 1863 drivers, and I was number 11 among the women. I moved up the ranks through the years, doing street supervision, division dispatching, central control work (like 9-1-1 for transit), and then supervising central control work. Along the way one of *my* trainers told me "there are no new mistakes," no matter what you do, you aren't going to be the first. I found that very comforting.
I worked there 26 years, until I retired. I met and married Jerry there. We had our ceremony on a 1912 streetcar.
I made a report on the Quake of '86, and it is part of the official Archives of the City of San Francisco. You can read about it here.
Fern, that is a great history! My Mom always told the stories of riding streetcars in our little town north of Seattle. By the time I came along, the tracks were all gone, or cemented over. But if you pay attention to the streets in that part of our town, the routes where the trracks were are still visible, and it's easy to imagine what it was like. Thanks for sharing.
Dave