THE FINAL RUN -- These dignitaries gathered on the rainy, final day of streetcar service in Jacksonville.  They were local government officials and Jacksonville Transit Company officers.  The time was 11:30 AM, December 12, 1936.  The location was on Forsyth Street downtown, just west of the intersection with Ocean.  This would have been outside the windows of today's Florida Collection at the Main Library. 

Jacksonville's city hall used to stand where the Main Library is currently located.  Ironically, a large bus stop now occupies the spot where the people are assembled.  Just to the left of the long-gone Hotel Windle is the 17-story Lynch Building (American Heritage Building).  Erected in 1926, its now being converted into an apartment building named 11 East.

The streetcars in the photo were only two remaining last in Jacksonville.  After picture was taken, they made their final run.  They rolled from Forsyth Street onto Ocean, and then to Bay.  Christmas shoppers waved farewell as the trolleys clattered by.  They headed west to the Riverside Avenue viaduct, climbed over it, and crept into the trolley barns for the last time. 

Whereas only two trolleys had served Jacksonville in December 1936, eighty-five city buses rolled about its streets.

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