OT - Driving Around NYC, 1928

[brickyardkennedy]

Have a look at cabbie Harold Lloyd's fare, at 1:36:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3...eature=related

[ChiefBenderForever]

That was so cool, doesn't even seem all that different for being so long ago, just as much a ratrace ! The Babe looked so healthy, no wonder 1927 was such a massacre. I wonder how much he got paid to do that.

[barrysloate]

That was great. I was not aware that Babe did a short with Harold Lloyd. And he does look slim and healthy.

[bigtrain]

I thinkl that is from "Speedy" actually a full length feature. There was a "Speedy" book published that also has pictures of the Babe in it. I have it around here somewhere...

[JP]

I'm pretty sure that at 4:21 in that film, the constable in the front of the horse carriage is severly injured when it crashes....and I'm sure the horse were pulled back violently as well....pretty graphic.

I tried 100 times to see the cab fare...no luck at all on my 22" monitor.

[barrysloate]

I don't think when Bob said check out the fare he meant the cost...he was referring to the passenger. I also thought he meant look how cheap cabs were back then, until the Babe showed up right about 1:36.

[JasonL]

the constable that gets crushed is a dummy...but the driver flies forward at a pretty exciting clip