Avid hockey fans will note the ad on the streetcar:
Washington vs. Hershey, eh? And note how, even then, they had to entice people to come- "FREE skating after games." So unfortunate, but hey, if it got people in the door...This is an ad for the AHL's 1942-1943 Washington Lions. They did not last long in our fair city; according to the Wikipedia entry, the AHL's Lions played here for two years, and then they came back a couple of years later as the Eastern Hockey League's Washington Lions. In the '42-43 season, they weren't the worst team in the AHL East; that dubious honor goes to the New Haven Eagles.
Thank you, DDOT, for providing us with this little slice of history.
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I like the woman in the car staring at the camera through the narrowest perspective, what's her story, I wonder.
The Washington Bullets were originally in Baltimore, named after an ammunition factory there. That's all I got.
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