{"id":8891,"date":"2014-11-11T02:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2014-11-11T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T12:06:21","slug":"streetcars-of-america-by-brian-solomon-and-john-gruber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/streetcars-of-america-by-brian-solomon-and-john-gruber\/","title":{"rendered":"Streetcars of America by Brian Solomon and John Gruber"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Streetcar<\/a>
Cover photo by Richard J. Solomon. Exposed on Kodachrome film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beginning in the mid-1950s my father, along with many of his friends, made a project to document streetcars on film. Since then he has traveled to many cities in the United States and Canada (as well as overseas) and exposed thousands of color slides.<\/p>\n

I began traveling with him as soon as I could stand, and some of my earliest recollections involve trips on streetcars and subway trains.<\/p>\n

My latest book Streetcars of America<\/a>, co-authored with John Gruber, is now available through Amazon<\/a> and other retailers. John and I wrote this compact 64-page soft-cover volume in 2013. It is priced at under $10<\/p>\n

This is a Shire Publications production and features a concise look at streetcars in North America.\u00a0It reproduces\u00a0a variety of vintage and contemporary images, including many historic views made by Richard J. Solomon on Kodachrome film. Readers will find that John and I have covered a lot of territory in just a few pages.<\/p>\n

Although I didn\u2019t select the cover image, I feel it’s\u00a0fitting since it\u00a0features a Boston PCC car. \u00a0As a child,\u00a0I\u00a0lived in Newton Centre, just a few blocks from MBTA\u2019s Riverside Line and here I often watched, traveled on, and photographed Boston PCCs with my father.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This is one of many photos by Richard J. Solomon in my new book, co-authored with John Gruber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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