ON 5TH AVENUE quote
by JAMART Photography
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ON 5TH AVENUE quote
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JAMART Photography
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Photograph - Art Photography
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JAM287
New York NY
2005
by Jennifer
Life is like a taxi, the meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still ~Lou Erickson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_cab#
The Yellow Taxicab Co. was incorporated in New York on April 4, 1912. Its fares that year started at 50ยข/mile. Among its directors and major stockholders were Albert Rockwell and the Connecticut Cab Co.
Yellow cabs date back to at least 1798, when the musical comedy, Cabriolet Jaune (Yellow Cab), debuted at Paris' Theatre de l'Opera Comique National. Yellow cabs were known in Paris and London throughout most of the 1800s. A yellow cab company shook up the New York Cab system in the mid-1880s, offering cheaper, more predictable fares than competitors. One of the first automobile cabs in London, in the 1890s, was a yellow electric automobile
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