Local Advertising

ID: 1232 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Gordon Zahorik
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Local Advertising

Local businesses found that the streetcars provided a prime opportunity to advertise to large crowds throughout the city. This Texas Electric Railway car bears advertisements for Rainbo Bread and local furniture company Stratton-Stricker.

This file appears in: Interurban Railway

By Terri Jo Ryan
Waco was a city on the move at the turn of the twentieth century, and its run into modernity was aided by the advent of the interurban electric railway. Although Waco had other forms of mass transit since the days of the stagecoach, with first…