Way back in 1952, the old trolley used to have its last Brighton stop across the field on a set of “railroad” tracks in the back of Harley’s property.
I was in my first year at Harley, in Grade 7. My father worked at Kodak and, for awhile, he would drop me off at Midtown and I would take the trolley all the way to the end of that particular line. I would hike across the field, across the railroad tracks and through a break in the fence to a place near Harley’s old tennis courts. It was exciting, and quite an adventure for a kid raised in the country!
All too soon they shut down the trolley, tore up the tracks and began to pave what would become part of the Outer Loop. The old trolley line became history. Dad began to drop me off at the school entrance and the powers that be gave me a key (and that was even MORE exciting!) I got to enter school before the janitors got there! But I missed the old trolley.
~Michael Fallon ’58
