Joost Street

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After whom or what is Joost St. named? Thanx a lot.

Eric Milhous Roughton

-- Eric Roughton (Marthathecat@catchtheknife.org), November 08, 2002

Answers

Louis K Lowenstein writes in "Streets of San Francisco", "In 1891 Behrend Joost built the electric streetcars which connected Glen Park to the rest of San Francisco".

Check out this book.

-- Kurt Iversen (iversenk@aol.com), November 09, 2002.


Electric streetcar land. Get it? Electric Lady Land? Ahh, forget it.

So there were MORE streetcars that you didn't tell me about, Mr. Iverson?

-- Sean M. Hall (sanfranciscofanclub@groups.msn.com), November 09, 2002.


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