MARCH 21, 1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE. KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Ah, The Good Old Days
Girls Sat, Fellows Stood While Riding Up Mt. Oread
The college girl lifted her skirts almost to the top of her buttoned shoes and entered; the handle-barred frat man rose, doffed their berries, and gallantly offered her heir seats. That was 35 years ago.
The Toonerville Trolley grated up the Hill on one of its regular 15-minute runs, with passengers who huddled around the little box stove in the rear of the car in the winter or "took to the breeze" on the "running" board in the summer.
Today the blue-jeaned college girl enters; the hatless frat men nonchastly smoke their pipes, and let the girl stand.
Today, busses make over a hundred trips daily to the campus. No longer is it a mere case of getting a seat near the heater or the window, but a problem of finding a seat anywhere.
Hydraulic brakes add to the modern co-ed's difficulty of keeping her balance while standing. Many a romance has had a fleeting beginning when an embarrassed girl was suddenly thrown in the lap of an unsuspecting male who had refused to offer her seat in the first place.
The first electric streetcar arrived on the Hill at 2:15 p.m. April 10, 1910, after leaving Eighth street at Mississippi, and running along on the west parking near where the stadium is today. The tracks lay behind the chemistry building, crossed Jayhawk drive, and ran between Robinson gymnasium and Fowler shops. Near the power plant, the tracks angled across Mississippi street, behind Blake hall, to 17th street, and turned north on Tennessee.
"Wait a moment gentlemen," the professor would interrupt his lecture, "until old 118 gets by," and with a grind and a couple of clamps, the old trolley would finally make the grade at the top of Mt. Oread.
Along the trolley routes, stone stations were the hang outs of college wolves who used the excuse of waiting for a late car to angle for a date with a sorority girl. It was rumored that poker and crap games highlighted many a dreary night in the stations.
College men of the '20's made great sport of "removing" the white, wooden "K's and U's" from the front of the trolleys. The letters became valued trophies which graced many students' rooms. Nightshirt parades and football victories were excuses for disconnecting the trolley poles from overhead wires, or even commandeering the cars for joy rides.
In 1903, tracks were to be built along Mississippi street, and laid in a tunnel under the Hill, and emerge on the south side of Marvin hall. However, the plan did not get beyond the talking stage, because University officials promptly bought the western half of the present campus, when they heard of plans for real estate development which would have prevented expansion of the campus.
Electric street car service was installed in Lawrence in the fall of 1909, and the line was extended to the campus the next spring.
In October, 1933, the last trolley cars rumbled up Mt. Oread. Busses took their places and the nostalgic pre-convertible days were gone forever.
An old, red, wooden-sided trolley was seen standing on a concrete foundation on the outskirts of Emporia a few years ago. It had been converted into a combination filling-station and beer-carden.
A KU. sign still was displayed above the front window.
Get Rid of Your Pliers Or You Get Jugged
Brownsville, Tex. (UP)—It's illegal to carry a pair of pilers in your car. Sheriff Boynton Fleming recalled today that the law was still in effect. It originated in the cattle rustling days and makes it unlawful for a person to carry any wire-cutting tools either on his person or in a vehicle.
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