When I began to ride the trollies was before people took their cars to work. Most everyone rode them to work, to shop and to go to movies. Cars were reserved to go see family, friends or go on picnics.

The trollies looped here and reversed the route they came in on, an endless circle it was.

The market to the right in the picture was the Loop Market which had everything from flowers to you name it. It was redolent with fascinating odors throughout the store. It took up a half block, it was huge.

Many's the time I would see a man or woman come out of the market with a double armload of groceries and board a trolley, fumbling the fare into the box somehow without dropping anything, then making their way to a seat before the trolley started.

I've mentioned before that during the busy hours each trolley towed a trailer, each trailer had a conductor to take fares, he had a cord connected to the motorman up front and he would pull it when the trailer was loaded. After the rush the trailers would be parked in various places until time to pick them up again. In nice weather the trailers were open to the air.

Adult fare tokens were small circles with a cutout triangle, half fares were bigger circles with a bar through the middle.

A person could go just about anywhere in town by getting paper transfers from the motorman or conductor. They were punched for the route and time and did expire after too long a time. I never had a problem with that though. It took a transfer to go to Lakeside across town, it took a transfer to go on the interurban to Golden. Anywhere two routes crossed a transfer could be used to go from one to the other.

Those were golden days, where the Loop was smack in THE HEART OF THINGS . . . . . . . . . . . .

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