@Apples55 - Paul, thanks for all the comments and posting some really neat pictures of covered gondolas. I liked your comment about the family not having a car. We did have a car because my father and grandfather (we lived in a 2 family house with my grandparents)both went to work in directions not covered by public transportation, even though my father only drove to the RR station and then took a train.
However we had both buses and trolley cars as I was growning up, although the trolley's went away before I was 10 so we would go to the stores on those as well.
Great swapping tales with you, Best Wishes
Don
