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1917 Adams Motor Bungalo Deluxe

January 14, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteHere’s a photo of the Adams Motor Bungalo purported to be the “original 5th wheel” dating back to […]

Transport a Sprite 400 Caravan, 1966

January 10, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteGerman actress Margit Saad (right) and Jean Herbert-Smith towing the lightweight Sprite 400 caravan around Bryanston Square in […]

Vintage Photographs of the Skiway Sky Bus Lift Used on Mt. Hood, Oregon From the 1950s

December 18, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteUsing a modified city bus, a twin-engine design powered the wheels to turn cables in a pulley system […]

December 6, 1897: London Became the First City in the World to Host Licensed Taxicabs

December 6, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn December 6, 1897, London became the first city to host licensed taxicabs. But vehicles for hire were […]

Woman on a Podoscaphe, ca. Late 19th Century

November 27, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn 1858, an article in L’Illustration relates a podoscaphe navigation on the Rhine, from Rotterdam to Cologne. On […]

Pictures of Epic Traffic Jam in Berlin in November 1989

November 12, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to divide East and West Berlin. Constructed by the eastern, Soviet-ruled […]

45 Fascinating Photos Show Belgium’s Tram System in the 1960s

October 15, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBelgium’s first horse-drawn trams were introduced in Brussels in 1869, running from the Porte de Namur to the […]

Operation of the Kansas Pacific Railway in 1873 Through Amazing Photos

October 7, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBegan in 1855 as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad, and was later reorganized in 1863 as the […]

Victorian Ladies With a Battlesden Car, circa 1897

October 6, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteA rather comical photograph of four Victorian ladies and a Battlesden Car. Two ladies sit in the carriage […]

Meet Jack the Baboon, Who Worked as a Railroad Signalman in the 1880s for Money and Beer, and Never Made a Mistake!

September 20, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteDuring the latter part of the 1800s, travelers to Cape Town, along the Port Elizabeth mainline railroad, frequently […]

August 22, 1902: President Theodore Roosevelt Rode an Electric Automobile in Hartford, He Was the First to Do So Publicly

August 22, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteTheodore Roosevelt was no stranger to Connecticut; his mother and second wife were Connecticans and his sister lived […]

An 2000-Year-Old Thracian Chariot With Horse Skeletons Found in the Village of Karanovo, Bulgaria

August 13, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteA 4-wheel chariot with horses in a tomb of a Thracian Aristocrat from the 1st Century A.D. The […]

The Earliest Known Image Depicting a Train Wreck on the Providence Worcester Railroad, Rhode Island, 1853

August 12, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn August 12, 1853, a head-on collision occurred on a single track between Providence, Rhode Island and Worcester, […]

Scene Inside a New Zealand Railway Carriage, ca. 1920s

August 11, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteInterior of a railway carriage, showing several items of New Zealand Railways picnic equipment. A woman is seated […]

Canadian Police Officer Guarding the Pharmacy in Waist-High Flood Waters in Galt, Ontario, 1974

August 10, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteEven as the flood waters rose, the sun shone bright on May 17, 1974. Earlier rains and a […]

When Checker Went Long: 24 Amazing Photos of Checker Aerobus 8-Door Station Wagon

August 5, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Checker Aerobus, both 6- and 8-door models, is an automobile manufactured on two different wheelbases by the […]

The Goatmobile, ca. 1900s

August 3, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteA man and his goat mobile, early 1900s: The caption reads: “A progressive citizen of Columbus, Ohio, anxious […]

Melbourne’s First Cable Tram Service, 1885

July 26, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Melbourne tram network began in 1884 with the construction of the Fairfield Horse Tramway. However, the purpose […]

18 Rare and Amazing Vintage Photographs of the Construction of the Metropolitan Railway in London, circa 1861

July 22, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from […]

Giant Hippo Harnessed and Hitched to Circus Cart, About to Give Trainer a Ride, 1924

July 20, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAfter considerable coaching at the hands of an animal trainer, “Lotus,” a circus hippopotamus enjoying winter quarters in […]

20 Amazing Vintage Photos of Daddy Long-Legs, a Weird and Wonderful Seaside Railway in Brighton

July 15, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 19th century was an age of science and industry, and one where individual inventors could transform the […]

50 Fascinating Photos Show the Bus System of San Diego in the 1970s

July 9, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) is the transit bus and rail service provider for southern San […]

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1940’s Los Angeles in Color

July 6, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteShot from an automobile driving through Bunker Hill and downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s. (Colorized by Neural Networks […]

16 Vintage Photographs That Show People Riding Zebras From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

July 5, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteZebras are beautiful, wild animals native to Africa. However, as many European colonizers learned in the early 20th […]

The Glamour of Train Travel: 40 Vintage Photos Show How Glamorous Train Travel Used to Be From the Early 20th Century

June 28, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteTraveling by train was pretty swanky from the early 20th century, and it hasn’t gone out of style. […]

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