Charleston, South Carolina streetcar system, 1923 Size:24x36 you had to feed and

you had to feed and water them

—Publishers Weekly

it was a major hub of commerce and industry

and the old Oakland streetcar system

Charleston, South Carolina streetcar system, 1923 Size:24x36 you had to feed andCharleston, 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