Large taxi cab produced from the late 1950s till 1981 with checkered striping
A guy named Ted Croner took a picture of a NYC taxi back in the late ’40s which was blurred due to the cab’s speed and probably the slow film he was using. The picture is amazing. This one isn’t, but is the closest thing I can post as an homage to Croner…
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Ah yes, another Checker cab for your consumption…
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Another Checker cab? I know, I tend to focus on the most mundane things sometimes…
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Yet another Checker taxi cab…I must have had a one track mind or something…
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When it comes to titling photos badly, I must claim to be number one! I have always been able to come up the worst titles humanly possible. Anyway, despite my poor choice of words, I think this picture has “Fared” well over the past 22 years. Even back in the 1980s when Checker taxis were everywhere, I knew their days were numbered. I have dozens of pictures of them and will one day have to do a book called “34 Checkered Taxi Cabs”
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Another image from an old scan which I’d like to rescan at some point…
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I should have bought a Checker cab when I had a chance. Everybody loved them, even if they were just a bucket full of loose bolts…
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For twelve years of my life, the Checker Cab was my nemesis. People who were about to get into my cab would invariably change their mind at the last second, when they heard the Checker’s horn gently beckoning. Nostalgia Kills…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 
