{"id":797,"date":"2009-10-24T18:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-10-24T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:57:23","slug":"upcoming_lecture_have_we_forgotten_streetcars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2009\/10\/upcoming_lecture_have_we_forgotten_streetcars\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Lecture: &#8220;Have We Forgotten Streetcars?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester_dryden_theater_eastman_house.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-thomasTischer\" title=\"Thomas N. Tischer will return to the Dryden Theater to discuss the role streetcars and trolleys played in the development of U.S. cities and their European counterparts.\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin-right:12px; margin-bottom:8px;\" alt=\"The Dryden Theater at the George Eastman House, Rochester NY.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester_dryden_theater_eastman_house.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\"><\/a>After receiving rave reviews for his 2008 lecture on global rail travel, \u201cWish You Were Here\u201d series sponsor Thomas N. Tischer has agreed to present again at the <a href=\"http:\/\/dryden.eastmanhouse.org\" target=\"_new\">Dryden Theater <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> \u2014 this time to discuss the role streetcars and trolleys played in the development of U.S. cities and their European counterparts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Thomas N. Tischer is an Eastman House museum member and photographer who often photographs rail and transit while traveling the globe and has built a collection of more than 35,000 transportation slides. His recent lecture at the Dryden, \u201cTrains: What We Have and What We Have Lost,\u201d illustrated how passenger trains have changed over time, with trains from today and some that are now only memories.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Wish You Were Here&#8221; travel photography lecture series brings world-renowned photographers and photographic experts to the Dryden Theatre to discuss their work.<\/p>\n<h3>Event Details<\/h3>\n<p><b>Who:<\/b><br \/>\nThomas N. Tischer<br \/>\n<i>Photographer, World Traveler<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>What:<\/b><br \/>\nLecture: \u201cHave We Forgotten Streetcars?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>When:<\/b><br \/>\nThursday, October 29, 6-7 pm<\/p>\n<p><b>Where:<\/b><br \/>\nDryden Theater at the Eastman House<br \/>\n900 East Ave (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;q=dryden+theater&#038;fb=1&#038;gl=us&#038;hq=dryden+theater&#038;hnear=Rochester,+NY&#038;cid=0,0,11766825967564138319&#038;ei=lYPjSuneMtPIlAe_4vGKBw&#038;ved=0CBAQnwIwAA&#038;ll=43.153587,-77.579999&#038;spn=0.009392,0.014012&#038;z=16&#038;iwloc=A\" target=\"_new\">map it <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Ticket Information<\/h3>\n<p>Tickets are available at the Dryden Theater box office.<br \/>\nAlso included with museum admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving rave reviews for his 2008 lecture on global rail travel, \u201cWish You Were Here\u201d series sponsor Thomas N. Tischer has agreed to present again at the Dryden Theater \u2014 this time to discuss the role streetcars and trolleys played in the development of U.S. cities and their European counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,311,3],"tags":[437,438,383,206,439,224,436,161,435,440,37,160],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-trainrailroad-stuff","category-mass_transit_infrastructure","tag-dryden-theater","tag-event","tag-george-eastman-house","tag-lecture","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-presentation","tag-streetcars","tag-thomas-n-tischer","tag-train-photography","tag-transportation","tag-trolleys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}