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Where is it? |
I really enjoyed the reminiscences about routes and locations (since I still haven't located my digital map), especially Dr. Yood (olddoc) and Bill Garrett, who saved gas and suspension risks by paging through their memories instead of adding to the greenhouse effect, as well as Dorrie Neisel Johnson and the unsigned comment recalling the 'jog' where Park Avenue and Somerset Street joined Front Street.
The little piece I found exposed is on West Front Street, directly in front of the Horizons complex (formerly Tepper's).
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Here's a long shot, with the County Office building and Park Avenue in the rear. |
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Front page of the Library's online exhibit on 200 years of Plainfield transportation. |
- Hidden Plainfield: "A trolley ran through it" -- Includes all the comments on location.
- Plainfield Public Library: "Plainfield On The Move" -- Online exhibit.
-- Dan Damon [follow]
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Dan, from your "long shot" it is obvious that this pot hole like so many in the city is at a place where the stret was "opened". In almost all the closing patch is of inferior quality and there is no adequate seal with the old pavement. The city has not enforced that proper patching be done. Examples are all over where trhe water company was replacing mains. One of the worst is the long center of the road opening north of Randolph on Woodland.
I had though that some of the old local rails had been torn up for the war effort. I had forgotten that Front street was repaved with the tracks in place;"to espensive to remove". The "Newwark" trolleys had some time late 40s been replaced by the electric "Trolley Bus" which received its current from the old overhead wires but could pull over to the curb for pickup/discharge. I don't rememb er ow long they were in operstion.
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