Ride the Gold Line streetcar and enjoy a historical talk by historian Tom Hatchett. It’s free. Tuesday, August 11th, 2015, at 5:30 p.m.
Meet in front of Earl’s Grocery, 1609 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
Many of Charlotte’s close-in neighborhoods, such as Myers Park, Dilworth and Plaza-Midwood, were suburbs planned along streetcar routes extending from Charlotte’s Trade and Tryon Streets. These neighborhoods were expressly designed to provide all their residents an easy walk to the streetcar, giving them the tranquil and walkable attributes they have today. Even Myers Park’s quirky street map, whose signature roads follow the wide medians upon which the tracks were formerly laid (not the paved lanes!) bears the lasting imprint of the streetcar.
Seventy-seven years since the last run of the streetcar that served it, streetcar service was restored a few weeks ago to one of these neighborhoods, the Elizabeth Community. Join us in front of Earl’s Grocery at Elizabeth Avenue to review the legacy of the streetcar in Elizabeth and nearby Myers Park with historian Tom Hanchett. We will then enjoy a ride on the Gold Line. Along the way, we will meet with Kati Stegall of CATS Art in Transit to hear about the work that went in to creating the attractive artwork on the Gold Line shelter glass windscreens.
We will return to Elizabeth on the Gold Line to conclude our evening celebrating the return of the streetcar to Charlotte at the Spoke Easy, a new kind of hangout that typifies in several ways how Charlotte is remaking itself once again.
Free and open to the public.
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Kate Satchwill says
Hi–given the weather report–is this a one time only deal? Pre-event registration somewhere? Dang I want to do this…Thanks for an rsvp if you have time this afternoon.
Love the possibilities…