Yellow Cab New York is a photograph by Sarah Loft which was uploaded on September 4th, 2018.
Yellow Cab New York
This was photographed in Manhattan, New York City, using a pop art camera filter. The image was further digitally painted after download to a... more
by Sarah Loft
Title
Yellow Cab New York
Artist
Sarah Loft
Medium
Photograph - Digitally Painted Photograph
Description
This was photographed in Manhattan, New York City, using a "pop art" camera filter. The image was further digitally painted after download to a computer.
Per Wikipedia: Yellow cabs date back to at least 1798, when the musical comedy, Cabriolet Jaune (Yellow Cab), debuted at Paris' Theatre de l’Opera Comique National. Yellow cabs were known in Paris and London throughout most of the 1800s. A yellow cab company shook up the New York Cab system in the mid-1880s, offering cheaper, more predictable fares than competitors.
In 1908, Albert Rockwell, founder and General Manager of the New Departure Manufacturing Co. of Bristol, Connecticut, traveled to Europe to evaluate their taxi systems, hoping to develop a similar one in Washington, D.C. Wyckoff, Church and Partridge had a number of orange-yellow colored Rockwell taxicabs operating on Manhattan streets in 1909. By March 1910, the Connecticut Cab Co. (essentially the directors of New Departure Manufacturing Co.) assumed operating control of Wyckoff, Church and Partridge's taxis.
The Yellow Taxicab Co. was incorporated in New York on April 4, 1912. Its fares that year started at 50¢/mile (equivalent to $12.12 in 2016 adjusted for inflation). Among its directors and major stockholders were Albert F. Rockwell and the Connecticut Cab Co. Shortly after incorporation the Yellow Taxicab Co. merged with the Cab and Taxi Co., and with the strength of Connecticut Cab with whom its name was interchangeably used, the young business assumed a large share of the New York market. Its independent corporate life was fairly short, however, as fare wars and restrictions forced a merger with the Mason-Seaman Transportation Co. on March 3, 1914.
The Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company was formed in 1920.
In 2017, a study showed that the color yellow, for taxis, was more noticeable, resulting in 9% fewer accidents.
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Featured in the ABC group, October 2018.
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September 4th, 2018
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the ABC Group's C IS FOR CAR WEEK You are invited to add this to the features archive discussions and in another discussion in ABC Group!
Odd Jeppesen
Superb urban shot. It's just the way I think of New York... claustrophobic with the car as king.