42ndstreet

12 photos tagged 42ndstreet, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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New York bus

  • Mountain Goat (Otkuda) said:
    I like how the photographer had included the street signs in the frame. Those signs must have looked very exotic...
  • RayPa. said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called VINTAGE COMMERCIAL AND MUNICIPAL VEHICLES, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Al Lowe said:
    If I remember correctly, the message on the top of the bus was, "Ride the Surface Way".
  • RayPa. said:
    Videoal, you are correct!
  • vcubikes said:
    That's a pretty cool picture of the bus to New York.

42d St. & Broadway (LOC)

Taft's Auto leaving N.Y. Public Library (LOC)

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  • Steven Pemberton said:
    "On May 23, 1911, the main branch of the New York Public Library was officially opened in a ceremony presided over by President William Howard Taft. " - Wikipedia
  • Kary Nieuwenhuis said:
    That thing gotta Hemi??
  • aware health said:
    The guy in the boater hat must be Secret Service, or the equivalent -- definitely challenging the photographer.
  • technogeo said:
    Both cars have the same licence plate number. Is it possible that all the cars of Taft's fleet had the same plates?
  • aware health said:
    I think I found the answer. (Is there anything that can't be Googled?) By the auto registration laws of those days, dealers could apply for one registration for their entire fleet and then get duplicate plates of the registration number for all their cars. (I tried to make a tinyurl of the "McKinney's Consolidated Laws" Googlebook website but Flickr won't post it.) I'd guess that Taft took the train to NYC, and a local dealer supplied the cars for his motorcade. Can you tell the model? There's a logo on the lead car's grille, but it's hidden by the license plate.