From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 12:50:15 PM UTC-4, srfu...@googlemail.com wrote:   
      
   > 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 haven't heard of that movie, but the El was demolished in 1955, a while    
   before the *Naked City* episode.   
      
   > 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 was here in those days. No horse-drawn anythings in Washington Heights,    
   and you took your knives to the grinder if you needed them sharpened.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   No canals near NYC. The one that made New York what it is, the Erie Canal,    
   reached the Hudson near Albany, about 130 miles north. Canal boats could be    
   mule-drawn.   
      
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