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) This was only feasible before modern roads
you had to feed and water them
it was a major hub of commerce and industry
minimalistic and reduces the freeway network to its absolute essentials
Charleston, South Carolina streetcar system, 1923 Size:24x36 —Publishers WeeklyCharleston, South Carolina, is a good example of how smaller cities would build out their streetcar networks during the early 20th century. Like most Southern cities, it was ruined economically by the Civil War, and remained a relative backwater compared to the great cities of the North and West. (In the 1920s, with 67,000 inhabitants, Charleston had fewer inhabitants than great metropolises as Sioux City, Iowa, and South Bend, Indiana.) The streetcar