Busmen's Holiday. Spokane was a city without mass transportation today as Spokane City Lines' 150 bus drivers and mechanics went on strike. As a result, the 30,000 week-day SCL patrons, plus an estimated 10,000 school children, used private autos, cabs or "shanks horses" to get to their destinations today - or stayed home. Picture at top shows the morning rush hour jam on Monroe at Mallon at 7:47 a.m. Such other main north-south arteries as Division, Howard and Washington had similar long lines of cars moving bumper to bumper during the morning rush. Picture below shows some of City Lines' 90 busses, idle and parked in the company garage at W1229 Boone. Photo 09/08/1954. City Lines. Photo Archives/The Spokesman-Review.

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Tue., Jan. 10, 2012