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My dad was the general attorney and my granddad the president of the Denver Tramway Corporation for decades. As a child, I liked to hang out at the various streetcar facilities while Dad and Grandad conducted business. Grandad got rid of the streetcars in June, 1950, replacing them with buses. The top left photo is my oldest surviving bus photo taken with my "Baby Brownie" camera in 1949 when I was 7-years old. Dad took the family downtown to show us the new red and cream paint scheme that had been applied to some of the trolley coaches.
Following this are three photos of the old brill busses, then four photos of the Marmon-Harrington trolley coaches on Route 14, starting with a photo taken at the Central Loop downtown then the last photo on the left shows a passenger exiting an inbound coach on East Colfax Avenue at Broadway. On the right, a Route 14 coach approaches Poplar Street, about to turn left onto Poplar to enter the Poplar Street Loop, where we see it in the next photo. Two styles of buses were discharging passengers when I took this photo behind the brick station house building at the Poplar loop.(I was 11 years old and rode my bike 3-1/2 miles to this location in order to take these photos). Following this, there are two photos of gasoline buses running in the street, the first taken on Colorado Boulevard, and the other near my home traveling east on Ellesworth Avenue approaching Dexter Street, and finally a rare (albeit a double exposure) look at Route 3 - the Englewood Trolley Coach.
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