On August 8, 1909, Fontaine Fox made a now-famous trip on the little trolley line that once ran from Pelham Station down Wolfs Lane, onto Colonial Avenue and then Pelhamdale Avenue to a stop near the railroad bridge of the New Haven Branch Line. As he later affirmed in letters, newspaper and magazine interviews, and conversations, Fontaine Fox was inspired by his ride on the Pelham Manor trolley line to create the "Toonerville Trolley" and its bearded "Skipper," a central tenet of his wildly-successful comic strip "Toonerville Folks" that he syndicated and that ran in hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States for fifty years.
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