At right is my grandfather Joseph Vanac’s NYPD “Traffic Warning Card” for a a “Horse Drawn” vehicle, circa 1922.

I am happy to report that Grandpa had a clean driving record. Not sure how clean the horse was on the streets, though.

In the 1920 census he lived near the Queens cemeteries where he worked as a stone mason. His entire enumeration district contained only two pages – probably hundreds of times more people buried in that area at the time than lived there. Also: horses.

(Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.)