Flushing Avenue Line St Louis MO 420 Series GMC Trolley Bus Photo 3.5 x 3.5

This mid-20th-century photograph documents St. Louis Public Service Company trolley bus operations along the Flushing Avenue line, capturing fleet number 3167 identified as part of the 420 series GMC coaches.

Urban trolley coach systems like St. Louis’s combined overhead electric power with rubber-tired flexibility, allowing routes to operate along fixed wire infrastructure while navigating dense neighborhood streets. The Flushing Avenue corridor served working-class residential and commercial districts, where corner taverns, brick storefronts, and apartment blocks formed a consistent architectural backdrop to daily transit activity.

The image centers coach no. 3167 approaching along embedded track grooves beneath a network of trolley wires, with another coach visible at right and period automobiles parked along the curb. Signage for Cronin’s Restaurant and adjacent storefront businesses provides geographic texture consistent with north St. Louis commercial streets. The scalloped photo border and handwritten reverse notation identifying the Flushing Avenue Line, St. Louis, and 420 series GMC confirm the subject and transit context.

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