Fran asked: >Does anyone know what a Jitney was? I've noticed a lot of news items about them in the 1914 and 1915 newspapers. --------------------------------- From: TAXI-L Gallery of Cab History http://www.taxi-l.org/bt01-14.htm (includes photo of 1915 jitney) "In 1914, all over North America, car owners discovered that they could make a lot of money by cruising the street car stops and offering rides to impatient passengers at a nickel a head. The current slang term for a nickel was "jitney", and that name was quickly transferred to the vehicles that provided this service." "Most jitneys were seven-passenger touring cars but they were often loaded far beyond their nominal capacity. Passengers who couldn't jam themselves inside would stand on the running boards."