(Source of picture: Florida State Archives)

This trolley car carried passengers during the mid 1930s.  The Jacksonville location is unidentified.

THOSE LITTLE RASCALS -- What do you get if you cross school students with streetcars?  Pandemonium!  Jacksonville residents learned this lesson during the mid 1920s, about ten years before the picture was taken.  Some local kids rode streetcars to school, so Duval County reached an agreement with the Jacksonville Transit Company: School children could travel in special trolley cars at a discount rate.  Unfortunately, the plan quickly proved unworkable.  Discipline was so poor, particularly in the upscale Riverside area, that PTA representatives had to accompany the students.  Conditions didn't improve, and thus the company ended the arrangement.  

Think of the ill-behaved kids on some school buses today: They may've had great grandparents who tried to get away with the same things in yesteryear's streetcars.

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