Hailing a Cab Framed or Unframed:Framed Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Patriotic music from 400 bands "tingled the spines" of those who watched World War I veterans - "graying

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Our staff photographer George Alexanderson took this photo of fireboats spraying streams of water as the super liner sailed up the Hudson River

That controversy did not deter New Yorkers from the scoreboard in 1920 when The Times rolled it out for a second appearance

Hailing a Cab Framed or Unframed:Framed Assistant Secretary of the NavyBefore the days of Uber, even champion taxi hailers would have to stand and wait, hands in the air, because there never seemed to be an empty cab. In this photo, a woman takes on the challenge in one of the toughest places to land a cab even on a sunny day: Times Square. The taxi world has changed a great deal in the past six decades, but getting a ride in the Big Apple always seems to be an adventure. In 1955, Times reporter Meyer Berger wrote in his