These VIPs sat in on the final run of the Jacksonville's trolleys, December 12, 1936.  They were the last paying rider (Judge Burton Barrs), the president of the streetcar company (J. P. Ingle), the mayor of Jacksonville (John T. Alsop), and a man who had been carried by the city's first electric streetcar (C. D. Gay).

Just four months prior to this photo, the Jacksonville Journal announced that Bay Street would be paved, meaning the end of the Jacksonville's trolleys.  This would leave Jacksonville and San Antonio, Texas, as the South's largest cities with all-bus service.  They would also rank as the region's only urban areas of over 100,000 people that relied only on city buses for public transportation. 

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