tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265014241875110812.post7635283400376942913..comments2024-03-10T14:04:48.024-04:00Comments on The Projection Booth Podcast: Episode 410: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)Mike Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17690940782275888014noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265014241875110812.post-81296047157305506262019-04-21T22:42:47.405-04:002019-04-21T22:42:47.405-04:00As a member of the Central Electric Railfans' ...As a member of the <b>Central Electric Railfans' Association</b>, I need to point out the sporadically-discussed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy" rel="nofollow">streetcar conspiracy</a> also being a plot point in here.<br />Whether there was such a conspiracy is still in contention (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_City_Lines" rel="nofollow">National City Lines</a>, the corporation which gets most of the blame for 'bustituting' gasoline or diesel motor buses for electric streetcars, <i>did order new postwar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCC_streetcar" rel="nofollow">P.C.C. streetcars in Los Angeles</a>)</i>(!), and there were people in Minneapolis | St. Paul, MN. who were actually <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_City_Rapid_Transit_Company" rel="nofollow">convicted</a> for illegally converting streetcars to buses, I feel the general public bought the line that streetcars were 'old fashioned' and buses were the <i>modern</i> way to go, and so it went. PudgyM29http://208.84.112.25/~pudgym29/bookmark4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com