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I watched Naked City (1948) the other night and there's a scene with a milkman delivering from a horse drawn carriage. I wondered, how long did horse-drawn carriages continue to be used in NYC (not including the carriage rides in Central Park)? Which led me to this lovely article.

I submitted it a day or two ago; I guess the HN mods thought it worthy of the second chance pool[1]. Thank you HN mods! :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

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Strangely the rag and bone man and the brewery deliveries still used horses when I was a kid, late 1970s UK! I think the brewery used the carthorses as a kind of advertisement for the beer, but it was still very weird. I'm sure milk carts were still horsedrawn into the 1960s in the UK in some cases although I'm not sure where I got that from.

I had no idea the rag-and-bone man was still a thing into the 70s. Was that just in the UK? I've certainly never heard of it in the US during that time period.

I’ve no idea about the US - but the Rag & Bone man, including their equestrian transportation, were a thing in London, England, right up until the late eighties, if not early nineties. They used to use magnificent Shire horses, with all the brass tackle.

What is “pool”, I don’t have such a link on my orange band.

Sometimes Dang sees an article that never made it to the front page that he thinks we'll enjoy. He shoves it on to the front page for a while, so it gets some visibility and upvotes.

with great power comes great responsibility

Quite a lot of links are not in the orange band. Check this one https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Sometimes a good but forgotten submission (even after 24-48 hours), would get invited. HN sends you an email and if you OK it, it goes into the roaster.

dang did a show HN for the second-chance pool:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

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