What did Harley Brinsfield do that paved the way for Subway?
Harley Brinsfield Harley Brinsfield hosted "The Harley Show, Music out of Baltimore" on WBAL and later on WFBR from about 1952 to sometime in the 1970s. With his second wife, Arlene Levy Brinsfield, he opened Harley Submarine Sandwich Shops, which, largely due to the publicity generated by his show, became one of the first and largest local fast food franchises pre-dating both McDonald's and Subway by many years.
R12 (New York City Subway car) The R12 was a New York City Subway car built in 1948 by the American Car and Foundry Company. The R12 was the first series of post-war city-owned subway cars for the IRT division, and the second series of post-war city-owned subway cars overall, after the R10s that were made for the BMT and IND divisions.