"On October 19, 1953, we are looking west along the old Garfield Park ""L"" at Western Avenue, as it was being demolished as part of the Congress expressway construction project. Behind the photographer, the Western Avenue ""L"" station was already being dismantled, which you can see in a different photo in this post. Remarkably, trains ran on these tracks as late as September 27 in one direction, only about three weeks before this picture was taken by William C. Hoffman. Soon, the Western Avenue streetcar tracks were re-routed in this area, so it could be excavated and the bridge that now goes over the expressway could be built."
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