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Originally Posted by someone123
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Resurrecting this thread to offer an artifact of our city's past that I discovered today.
The Nova Scotia Light and Power Brill electric coaches ran from 1949 to 1969. I grew up in the 60s and remember quite well taking them to go to movies, school, etc. They had yellow and silver paint schemes -- you couldn't miss one.
There used to be a coach that ran along Agricola St. When they went to diesel Halifax Transit buses that route was dropped. I recall a fair amount of controversy at the time about the Agricola neighborhood losing it's route, although in reality neither Robie nor Gottingen is all that far away.
Anyway, back to the present. Today I parked on Agricola St in front of C&R Auto Parts, just south of Charles St. When I walked to the curb I noticed something that took me back 37 years.
In front of C&R, the strip between the curb and sidewalk that is normally grass was instead concrete. Old concrete. That was what used to be done at trolley coach stops. And then I saw it: the curb itself had remnants of old yellow paint in it. In some places it was quite distinct, others were worn away, but it was quite apparent. And that is how NSL&P used to mark their stops, by painting the curbs yellow to match the coaches.
Amazing -- that must have been one helluva good paint they used.