The subways used to be a lot prettier.
And now the timeless beauties who once reigned as “ Miss Subways ,” and had their faces plastered on train posters, are having a reunion at Ellen’s Stardust Diner in Times Square May 2.
The stunning straphangers would apply for the bi-monthly contest — which ran from 1941 to 1976 — by sending in their photo.
Three of the winners, now in their 80s, recalled how they became local celebrities after their pictures appeared on 14,000 train placards for 6 million daily commuters to admire.
Ellen Hart Sturm, Miss Subways March-April 1959, recalled getting handwritten marriage proposals.
“I don’t even know to this day how they got my address,” she told The Post. “I was only going on 18, so I think I was not ready for marriage.
“Although back in the day they told you that if you were 21, you were an old maid,” recalled Sturm, who is now the owner of the famed diner that bears her name — and who still rides the subway.