The ol’ No. 813 once clanged its way along the tracks from Portland to Lake Oswego and back again.
It offered more than streetcar service. It offered escape. For a dime, people in the grip of the Depression could hop on a trolley bound for the heart of Portland and movie palaces like the Mayfair, Orpheum, Broadway and Paramount. Another quarter enabled them to escape from it all with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Errol Flynn or even King Kong.
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