A view of the remnants of the Laconia Car Company in Laconia, New Hampshire. In the 1985 shot, the company's large smokestack marks the area where for the first quarter of the 20th century, Laconia made thousands of beautiful trolleys, from combines to parlor cars. At the height of their production, they were manufacturing one elaborate trolley per day. Their specialty had been wooden cars, but they adapted to the manufacturing of steel cars, when the steel car orders replaced the older, and less safe, wood. Their last trolley produced rolled out the company's doors in 1923.

Photographed by Paul Joyce, September, 1985.
Added to the photo archive by Paul Joyce, June 4, 2006.

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