Another fake streetcar named Desire.  This picture seems to show Perley Thomas car 904 as it lays over at the end of the Desire streetcar line, on France Street near Tonti Street.  This car is similar to the type of streetcar used on the Desire line for almost its entire life.  The Desire line looped through this neighborhood on single track; there was double track such as seen here on France St. just below Tonti to allow for switching cars at the terminal.  But note the above-ground tombs in the cemetery behind the streetcar.  There is no such cemetery anywhere near France and Tonti!  This must be a posed picture.  It seems to have actually been taken at the pre-1950 end of the Cemeteries line on West End Blvd. just off City Park Ave., with the car's roll sign changed to show Desire.  The picture is dated March 18, 1949.  The last Desire streetcar ran May 30, 1948. — Collection of John F. Bromley, used with permission.