Web find - 5570.jpg (1/1) [296K]

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A Packard taxicab! Never saw one of those before.
Has to be Noo Yawk - note the two-aspect traffic signal, did any other city have these?

On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:53:40 GMT,cropduster
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>A Packard taxicab! Never saw one of those before.
>Has to be Noo Yawk - note the two-aspect traffic signal, did any other city have these?

Yes NY. Some did have stop lights like this, but there were others.
I've forgotten his name but there was an individual who spent 20+
years trying to get the States on the same page for traffic signals
and a world of other road signage.

This one is part of a panorama Todd Webb put together.

--Sixth Avenue Between 43rd and 44th Streets, New York, 1948
Todd Webb composed Sixth Avenue Between 43rd and 44th Streets, New
York, 1948 from eight separate images. It depicts the west side of
Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and 44th Streets, taken on the
afternoon of March 24, 1948. Realizing he had to work fast to retain
the same light, Webb plotted the shoot beforehand, lining up the edges
of each photo with chalk marks on the sidewalk. The image was
exhibited at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair, and he became
internationally recognized as the "historian with a camera."
http://www.toddwebbarchive.com/archi...48/slideshow#2
http://www.toddwebbarchive.com/archi...iew=thumbnails