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Rewind #8 · Sunday, November 1, 2026

A crowded ferry, a flooded street and a supermarket escalator

The Sunday, November 1, 2026 puzzle: five photos from history. Guess the year each was taken, on a timeline from 1900 to 2026.

  1. Crowds of passengers line the open decks of a tall multi-storey ferry as it floats beside a water-filled lock
  2. Colourful vintage American cars drive past a row of pastel-painted colonnaded buildings in a sunlit city street.
  3. Two cyclists in raincoats ride through a flooded, splashing city street while a tram and a car pass in the distance
  4. An escalator descends into a supermarket with a lit entrance sign, shelves of produce and a few shoppers.
  5. A narrow sunlit street of pastel buildings with a red Coca-Cola sign, a parked car and a few pedestrians

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  1. Crowded decks on a ferry in a lock on the Yangtze River, China1987

    Locks lift river ships past dams. Here a packed passenger ferry waits inside one on the Yangtze.

    Photo: Jan Kranendonk, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · CC0 1.0 Source

  2. Classic American cars pass pastel buildings in Havana, Cuba2018

    Cuba's old American cars have been kept running for decades with improvised repairs, since new US cars stopped arriving after 1960.

    Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · CC0 1.0 Source

  3. Cyclists splash through puddles on a rainy day in Amsterdam1967

    The Netherlands today has more bicycles than people, so rain has never stopped the country from cycling.

    Photo: Anefo / Nationaal Archief · CC0 1.0 Source

  4. The Kress IGA supermarket entrance on Third Avenue, Seattle2011

    Downtown Seattle's Kress IGA sits in the old Kress five-and-dime building and is entered by escalator from Third Avenue.

    Photo: DimiTalen (CC0) · CC0 1.0 Source

  5. A side street in San Juan, Puerto Rico1941

    In December 1941 the Farm Security Administration had photographers working in Puerto Rico, and some shot in colour on Kodachrome slides.

    Photo: Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress · Public domain (US government) Source

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