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1318 on the 9 line at 48th St and Western
Believe it or not, the Downtown Businessmen's Association annually paid to have one or more cars painted into this scheme at Christmas time.
They were officially known as the Candy Cane Cars. The practice stopped sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
Caption comment by Ken Harrison; photo courtesy the Joe Testagrose collection