On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 5:14:39 PM UTC-4, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   > So I thought to wonder whether *Naked City* was available on DVD -- sure   
   enough,    
   > amazon has the complete series, so I cashed in the Reward Points on one of   
   my    
   > credit cards and got it for $11.something.   
      
   Naked City is an extremely well done show.  But it can get depressing, showing   
   the wretched lives of people, destroyed by greed, alcohol, sex, narcism.   
      
   Most of it was shot on location, and I like the various building   
   interiors--restaurants, factories, offices.   
      
   They took do plenty of 'license' for dramatic purposes, though.   
      
      
   > I certainly don't remember seeing any horse-drawn vehicles in Manhattan in   
   those    
   > days (and my mother did take me shopping to Orchard Street at least once on   
   a    
   > Sunday around then).    
      
   I don't know the economics of buying and caring for a horse vs. a small   
   truck.  But it seems that the motor truck was perfected by the late 1930s and   
   made the horse obsolete.  I believe a few horses remained after WW II; I would   
   guess their owners were    
   just getting whatever useful service life out of the horse before spending the   
   money for a truck, money they might not have as a marginal operation.    
   Further, maybe the old guys still using a horse weren't able to drive a motor   
   vehicle, and the slow    
   speed of the horse was suited to someone older.   
      
   Today, I understand renting a horse is very expensive.   
      
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