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Sunnyside Streetcars: The Streetcars of Southeast Portland
May 20, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeStreetcars played a key role in the frenzy of development that followed the completion of the first bridges across the Willamette River in Portland in 1887. In 1889, Southeast Portland residents raised their own money to fund one of the first electric street railways in the country. By 1891, rival companies had merged to form the largest streetcar system in the West. Richard Thompson’s Sunnyside Streetcars (America Through Time) traces the history of streetcars in Southeast Portland.