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Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:35:05 EDT
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NYC Subways, no. 2
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I, for one, remember the leather straps that gave their name to the metal 
straps, which were not really straps.

I also remember wicker seats on the BMT cars.

Walter Greenspan
Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY

Subj:    Re: [NYHIST-L] NYC Subways
Date:   7/8/09 9:22:15 AM Mountain Daylight Time
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The last of the subway cars which had the once-familiar metal straps were
retired in late 2003. 

See the Subway Chronicles at
http://www.thesubwaychronicles.com/essays/2005/Nov%202005.html   
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