Wasn't there a horse-drawn vehicle of some sort in the film 'Third Avenue   
   El.', or is my mind playing tricks on me?   
      
   I remember seeing horse-drawn milk floats in London in the very early '60s,   
   but I think they were rare by then.  We also had what we called Rag and Bone   
   men, or totters, I'm not sure what you would call them over there, but they   
   collected scrap material    
   for recycling; most of these still used a horse certainly into the '70s, maybe   
   later.   
      
   I also remember the knife grinder who came round a couple of times a year, not   
   horse drawn, but with a wooden hand cart with handles like those on a   
   wheelbarrow, and between them a wooden seat on which he would sit, with a pair   
   of foot pedals to drive    
   his grindstone.  He was probably around until about 1970 ish.  If we had these   
   things in London I suspect that similar things existed in New York at about   
   the same time.   
      
   I'm not sure when our last horse-drawn canal boats finished, but it might have   
   been early 1963.  We had a very severe winter that year which finished off   
   what little traffic remained on many of the canals.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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