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Rewind #9 · Monday, November 2, 2026

Fairground organs, a bicycle on an escalator and a television

The Monday, November 2, 2026 puzzle: five photos from history. Guess the year each was taken, on a timeline from 1900 to 2026.

  1. A huge crowd packs a town square around several tall, ornately painted fairground organs parked in front of old brick buildings.
  2. A man in a coat rides a bicycle down a long wooden escalator in a brightly lit tunnel, beside a second escalator
  3. A family in a living room reacts to a small television; two of them hold up a balloon above the coffee table.
  4. A wide avenue packed with cars and buses at sunset, with tall buildings, shop signs and rows of parked scooters along the kerb.
  5. People gather beside a small kiddie ride and tent stalls at a country fair below a hillside.

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  1. Street organs and a big crowd on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, the Netherlands1979

    Dutch street organs play music from punched paper books, and their fronts are carved and painted like the ones on show here.

    Photo: Nationaal Archief / Anefo · CC0 1.0 Source

  2. A cyclist rides the escalator in the Maastunnel, Rotterdam1953

    The Maastunnel opened in 1942 with wooden escalators that carry cyclists and pedestrians under the river Maas.

    Photo: Anefo / Nationaal Archief · CC0 1.0 Source

  3. A family watching football on TV in a Dutch living room1967

    The press photographer shot the tension in the living room, not the stadium, during Ajax's European Cup quarter-final against Dukla Prague.

    Photo: Ben Merk / Anefo, Nationaal Archief · CC0 1.0 Source

  4. Evening traffic on a busy avenue in Taipei, Taiwan2005

    Taiwan is among the most scooter-dense places on earth, and rows of parked scooters like those at right are an everyday sight.

    Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · CC0 1.0 Source

  5. The Delta County Fair, Colorado1940

    Most Farm Security Administration photos were black and white; Russell Lee shot this one on rare colour slide film.

    Photo: Russell Lee, FSA / Library of Congress · Public domain (US government) Source

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