If the social inept techies continue to sway public opinion, the urbane experience of hailing a taxi may soon become a thing of the past. Here’s a photoset of people getting into cabs throughout the ages…

(I also wrote a column about hailing taxis for the S.F. Examiner. You can read that here.)

even Superman knows how to get a cab… fast!

fashion photo by Helmut Newton, 1959

Carrie Bradshaw from Sex in the City

fashion shoot

some weird minibus

Berlin, 1920s

Robert Redford

From It’s a Mad Mad Mad World

Lauren Bacall in Rome, 1960

haggling over a fare?

Bob Dylan, Peter Yarrow, John Hammond, Jr., NYC, 1965

in or out… in the rain

cabs on the streets of Manhattan, 1970s

Joan Rivers

waving down a taxi

guaranteed to get a cab

calling dispatch from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World

waiting for a cab

NYC

romancing the cab driver

fashion shoot

fashion shoot

a cab in waiting

leaving the club