Today, we offer two short videos from the very early twentieth century.
First is a parade of carriages on the Harlem River Speedway, which was filmed in July 1903 (although the YouTube heading says 1902).
The leisurely pace of these parading carriages was not typical for speedway drivers in the early 1900s. You can read more about early-twentieth-century speedways in the January issue of The Carriage Journal and in a future post here on the blog.
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Next: a street scene on lower Broadway (New York) from June 1903 (although, again, the video’s YouTube heading says 1902). Here, you can see pedestrians, horse-drawn trolleys, private vehicles, and all sorts of delivery vehicles.
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The Slower Road 
January 3, 2011 at 1:26 pm
1903 was the year my mother was born,incredible that we have film showing how traffic was then, she was English but the traffic would have been the same I’m sure. Margaret (Roberts wife bye the way)