Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 16

5 OtkUnd Tribune, Sundiy, April 20, 1958 LOOK OUT FOR BUS TURNS ON LOWER BRIDGE DECK Rav Bridge Drivers beware There'i a new traffic signal on the lower deck of the hndar i it Transhav. through tiafftr on the lower deck will have to cnn.e to a full stop on the iei signal at Verha Ruena Warn) while east bound Kev SWrm hti-es make lef. tin na onto the island The hanr i necessary when Kev tirtins stopjx-d running t.xlav. ut, drivers who use the h.wer duiintf peak hour diveiM.m period will he as truck-, which use the lower all hours. SHOP MACVS BAV FAIR MONDAY NIGHT TIL RICHMOND TIL I Bay Bridge Train Runs End Today (5 Ontlnued from fac 1 Iral fan and thev made up the nia it nf "andinR- U.

MS ERA'S END Chrii N. AncUraan (Ufl) who took first Iy train acroas the Bridqt, cam out ol rtirmnt to pilot last train this morning. He with M. P. Samuslson.

motor man who will driving a bus after today. the first Ire 1 1 ic car ground way down, the street to the Key Route Pier The schoolchildren wete aboard, an excursion treat that he still remembers vividly. Last week, the boys and girls of the school who have received a tooted hello from every train that has passed for generations took the trip to San Francisco to sav goodbye. "It's kind of a shame." Nichols said. But then I haven't been riding these trains for I just wanted to say farewell but I don't like the idea of riding home tonight on bus." Householders along the ra rWUnd area much ai inriav a community prrad inu'h and north ilonx the hill in, an rr.

of roursf, preding nOrth and outh from the ferry terminal at the (mil of 40th St. then Nerha Buena Ave hich he had sent jutting 3'i mllen into the Rav. Rv 1904 the shinv steel rai hed along 40th St. The made no.vsible transportation UT- Piedmont where Smith to a rA 9 ran Havens, with their u.tual foresight, had planned residential development and built a park. Incorporation of Piedmont as a city followed in 1907 and commuters have been trlveling to their offices along the line ever since.

TtAIN CROWDED The last trip along that line is sad. exuberant, quiet, noisy, confused and orderly simultaneously. For if the train had been as jam-packed each night as'lt was when it pulled away from its Oakland Ave. terminal at 8:42, three minutes late, eery Saturday night, the Key System would be buying new trains and not abandoning the old. The Key hasn't had people fly from Los Angeles just to pay it 50 cents for a ride across th Bay; business never before hu been that good.

Motorman Garfield Martinez Mangels San Fran-cisfio, never has made such a trip in the 14 years he's held his right hand on the dead-man cobtrol and left hand on the ai brake of the Bridge trains. At)d conductor David Hudson 56th who says that her Usually gets "the opera and theater crowd" on Saturday nifcht, never has seen such a mixed group of passengers. RAIL FANS, TOO The departure of the train wis as noisy as the present Cuban revolution. Teen-aged GRODINS BIRTHDAY SALE I' 4 i.v Motorman of First Bridge Train Also Drives Last One By ROY GRIMM tU tight of v. between Oakland and Piedmont Avenue came to their backyard, front porches and sidewalks to wave the train goodhvp Motorman Martinez saluted them in return.

The air horn on Train Unit 182 blasted it last warning and farewell continuously along the line. The last Kev train left Oakland at 2 23 a today and buses took over the service this morning. The switch to buses also means thm for the first time in nearlv a centurv the Eastbav is without local rail service on citv streets i NOW i 1 and Broadway Villiy Fair (Sin Jih) m. a rruim mi I riovkd had helped tnrmive to the explosive si- naling toipedoe" which thev knew, an avid jail fans, to be Morrd under door ide srati of the tiain The toipcdm-n exploded with fU'iv fw fet traversed hy the trams ftont wheel Ira Swett a In AnRele I and televiMon man, and A Snenrer. a locorno- (lvf.

fireman from Ixn AnRelei, said that at least nine electric rail enthusiast had come from Southern California just to ride the last trains. Addison Laflin of 2119 Marin Ave, Berkeley, secretary of the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association, said that scores of fans planned to pay farewell respects to the trains. SPECIAL OCCASION For others aboard, the last ride had special meaning. Mrs. Mary Mayes, a Peralta Hospital nurse, wore a large orchid corsage for the train ride, the gift of an East Oakland florist who had been a patient.

Her husband, Lloyd, auto plant employee, and son, Lloyd 11, wanted to make the trip because they wanted to par ticipate personally in a bit of Oakland history. Patty Sauer, 17, of 5578 Taft and Kitty Callo way, 17. of 21 Mayer Place, both Holy Names High School students, and their friends raced to the train in shorts after an afternoon of swimming: "We just wanted to be the last to cross the bridge, they said. Ray Nichols, 62, of 4523 Oak- hill Road, former president of the Oakland Real Estate Board, was savinfi goodbye to some thing that represented part of his boyhood, his youth and his adult life. Nichols was attending the Piedmont Avenue School when 1908 earthquake and fire Of the change to buses, he said, "I never dreamed the trains would come off the! bridge.

But then you can't stop I I progress. It will work out when they get the kinks out and the public gets used to the new schedules." Andersen can remember the day when he had 3.000 men working under him on Key's ferries, trains and streetcars in 1939. Before the bridge trains, the ferries took almost passengers a year across the Bay. In thp hev-dav of the trains, i they shuttled as many as passengers to San Francisco and back. That was in 1945 but patronage has declined steadily and only 5.230,-000 persons used the electric trains last vear.

Oak andef FOLind Dead in Auto SAUSALITO. April 19-Po-luc said thai William L. Huhhmes. 27. 433 Perkins St.

Oakland, was found dead in his automobile near here today from exhaust fumes. A hose to the exhaust pipe of his automobile ran inside the vehicle Police said he had committed suicide Officers said thev found Hutching, former operator of a bankrupt mail order firm, dead in his automobile parked on Rodro Ave in the Sausalito hills ADVIRTISCmCNT CARRCRF TOR SAVES 7 I R) Jh.T-lr," ('a- n'A n-: ho astmg mnnev and not grTtir.z proper ea rri'ag d'ie to over r.rh rrix-tuie uil! nr pieased in i-arn of ja Wisconsin inventor who ha developed vtrv rlrvrr unit that saves gasoline "Jet-mg and Vacu-mating I' is automatic and operate on the super charge principle EasiiT installed in a few minutes Tit cars, truck and tractor. The manufacturers, the Vacu-matic Carburetor Co 7S17-341-R Slate St. Wauwjtoja. Wi are offerm a Vacurratic to anyone ho i 1 i a I it on hi car to nave i and to help introduce it other The will zladlv nend full free particular Till vite 'her nr name and addres a pwt card 'today.

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But Chris N. Andersen came out of retirement early today to pilot the last Key System train, the 12:23 a.m. A Line service, across the Bay Bridge. And he was at the controls of the first train on the route two decades ago. Andersen piloted the first test train across the Bay Bridge in September, 1938.

The late Frank F. Merriam, then Governor of California, took the controls for part of the way under Andersen's guidance Andersen also was at the rontrols of the No 1 unit hen two 7-unit trains took the first passengers from 22nd St. and Hroaawav to ine new Francisco terminal on Jan 14 1939. And. yesterdav, the veteran transportation executive admitted to another Bav Bridge train trip one that's not in the historv books "We sneaked a tram across the dav before thai official test run on Sept.

23. 1033. Vv'e wanted to make sure we got the Governor across OK," he recalled. Andersen, now 75. retired in 1947.

He his wife, Helen, who celebrated their golden anniversarv last year, live at 42 Diablo Circle, Lafavette. He spent all of his working life in transportation, starting as a quartermaster on the Oceanic Steamship Com pan old Mariposa p'ving between Tapeete and San Francisco He remembers coming throuah the Golden Gate the day afTrr th 39 Arrested in Gambling Raid Oakland vice squad officers raided a closely guarded Wcb-ter St. establishment last night, arresting 39 men as visitors and player. id confiscating $5,722 described a-gambling stakes Lt Ted Brown led 10 officers in the raid, on 're Ying On Commerce and Lar.or Association at 712 Web-'er St which he termed a police oble for some time. i U'hat 'sS done to the knit simuit! Catalina uses many, Usfex threads nubtlv knits them in for kind of figure control knit suits hme ncer before known! In new water-spbsh floral prints.

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