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How to Hail a Taxi

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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

The Fiat Taxi That Never Was

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Fiat 850 City Taxi Concept, 1968.

The work of Autonova caught the attention of Fiat designer and engineer Dante Giacosa who commissioned Pio Manzù to design this compact prototype for a taxicab with “limited external dimensions, accessibility, visibility, manageability, security and recognizability.”

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The prototype which was built in 1968 and exhibited at the Turin Motor Show had one long sliding door on the right and a normal opening door for the driver on the left. It could seat three passengers but was a mere 10.5 feet long.

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