It might help
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Hysterical! But I don't think it will help.
Posted by Portland Native | January 13, 2013 9:41 PM
This blog just keeps better 'n better!
Posted by StuB | January 13, 2013 9:54 PM
Updating the idea; Hiring Hooters Girls and Chippendales as host attendants would probably increase the ridership. But it would also increase the cost of the unsustainable streetcar operations the taxpayers already heavily subsidize. It would however be cheap entertainment for the riders.
Posted by TR | January 13, 2013 10:42 PM
Geez, a good bra can run about $45-$65+ now. Too bad there isn't a subsidy to help with that expense.
Posted by SKA | January 13, 2013 11:14 PM
Don't give anybody any ideas. We just had our No Pants On The Train event in Dallas last weekend, and trust me: the only thing worse than the exhibitionists rushing out to give everyone a view they didn't want is the herd of Cat Piss Men armed with video cameras in the hopes of seeing something Reddit hasn't already posted.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | January 14, 2013 6:51 AM
Looks like a SF Cablecar in the picture - which, by the way, likely is faster than the Portland streetcar since it only has a limited number of stops.
Posted by Dave A. | January 14, 2013 6:56 AM
Portland has a few cars like those -- surely it must have in 1952.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 14, 2013 7:36 AM
Strip Club Streetcar DOES have a nice ring to it...
Posted by Larry Legend | January 14, 2013 8:15 AM
"Portland has a few cars like those -- surely it must have in 1952."
Very few and gone by 1958.
http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/portland_streetcar_system/
The streetcars now make about as much sense as would those rather unwieldy structured cone brassieres, which, to be comparable, would function poorly and cost many times more than the alternatives.
Posted by sally | January 14, 2013 8:25 AM
I'm calling fraud on this. Without full disclosure, it's impossible to tell that what is being represented here is all that the ad suggests it is. You might call it a cover-up. What I am trying to say is, that pretty clearly is a cable car in the photo, not a streetcar.
Posted by Allan L. | January 14, 2013 8:29 AM
The Portland Streetcar....brought to you by the Portland Planning Boobs, sating themselves at the "free money public teat."
My tolerance of such fiscal foolishness sags.
Posted by veiledorchid | January 14, 2013 8:59 AM
Could it be named "Desire"?
Posted by Greg L | January 14, 2013 9:13 AM
That ad looks like something Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce would've come up with.
P.S.
Well said, veiledorchid.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | January 14, 2013 10:18 AM
Just drove on McLoughlin Blvd 10:30 AM, passed the street car headed south. ZERO riders!
Posted by pdxjim | January 14, 2013 11:34 AM