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1938 USA: New York's Sixth Avenue elevated railway sold for scrap metal
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3:04Now PlayingDate: 19th December 1938
Location: NEW YORK, U.S.A.
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
USA: New York:
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General view along elevated railway / notice on window, passengers / More elevated railway / General view marchers with banners (700 men who worked on railway) / Auctioneer selling railway / view under elevated railway / empty ticket office / pot-bellied stove in waiting room / porters corner, shovels & brooms
General view old time street scene, 1878 / old-fashioned police...one spits / women wearing old-fashioned dresses / General view old steam train on elevated railway / people on last train and train away / people in last train / view train thru' station and train past.
BLUEPRINT. & BLACK & WHITE
Off-stage used from America...in slang.
Railways; United States of America
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