South Shore is a station in located in the median of Exchange Avenue, right after the line curves southeast from 71st Street. The station was rebuilt in 2006 and consists of single high-level island platform for the two-track line that can fit about 5 cars. This platform has exits at both ends; each is accessed through a small enclosed entrance building clad in redbrown walls with windows. The tops of the entrances have decorative dormers with South Shore letting, clearly designed to look like the twin dormers of the nearby former South Shore Country Club (which went bankrupt in 1973) and is now the South Shore Cultural Center, designed in the Mediterranean Revival Style. Each entrance area leads to a short-canopied portion of platform with another canopied section in the middle of the platform. The canopies are all red with red support beams. The middle canopy has windscreened benches for waiting passengers. The southern station house leads to a few steps down to the northern sidewalk of the grade-crossing of 72nd Street. The northern station house has a ramp and staircase that lead down to the grade-crossing of Yates Blvd (as the tracks start curving) where Exchange Avenue ends, with the southbound lanes becoming new southbound lanes of 71st Street.
All Photos: 25 June, 2016
Bryn Mawr 