This free shuttle bus carried shoppers back and forth between the rapid station at the Terminal Tower and the Taylor Department Store. Streetcars stopped running in Cleveland in 1954, and proposals for a subway underneath Euclid Avenue never came to fruition, making it difficult for potential shoppers to get downtown. Taylor's built a 1,500 car parking lot on Prospect Avenue in 1951 to serve those who drove to the store. In the 1950s people changed how they shopped with the building of interstates and suburban shopping centers, and downtown stores took steps to accommodate these changes. In addition, in 1958 Taylor's opened a store at the Southgate Shopping Center in Maple Heights, acknowledging the fact that fewer people were coming downtown to shop.
Image Courtesy of Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections. Download Original File
