The car doesn't seem to be bothering the horses.
Herb, is this the reason the streets were so wide in a lot of older towns? In a lot of pictures of old towns the streets are real wide and I have wondered why. Thanks for the picture Jim
So wagons with a team of horses could do a U-turn.
The one horse is saying to the other,,,,, Look Sam, There goes are replacment.... I think your right Mike, Whats next for us, Racing???
By the time this picture was taken cars had been around long enough for horses to be used to them. Reminds me of a story. My aunt Mary Parker started teaching in 1916. Her first school was way over at the west edge of the county. Today that's a fifteen minute drive. But in those days it was a long commute, especially if you weren't wealthy enough to own an automobile. So it was common for the teacher at a rural school to board with the family of a student. In this case, during the school week Mary stayed with the Clay Aumann family. One morning Mary and six-year-old Helen were on their way to school in a buggy when a car passed them. When the car passed, their horse took off running at a full gallop, and it was all Mary could do to get him slowed down to a normal pace without the buggy overturning. Later they found out that Clay had been racing automobiles with that horse. Telling the story seventy years later, Mary was still incredulous that he would have let them use a horse that was used to racing cars. I figure it never occurred to him that the horse would decide to race on its own.
That is a good story Steve.