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Rewind #13 · Friday, November 6, 2026

A coach and suitcases, a boardwalk crowd and parking meters

The Friday, November 6, 2026 puzzle: five photos from history. Guess the year each was taken, on a timeline from 1900 to 2026.

  1. Travellers with suitcases stand beside a large coach on a city street with historic towers in the background
  2. A crowd in boaters and caps packs a sunny seaside boardwalk street lined with shops, past a restaurant sign
  3. Costumed people on a garland-covered wooden pier beside the sea, with boats on the water.
  4. Rows of dark sedans parked diagonally at parking meters along a downtown street lined with shops and a drugstore sign
  5. A crowd of travellers on a busy city street beside a large station, with horse-drawn carriages, a trolley and a soda sign

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  1. Holidaymakers with suitcases beside a coach near Amsterdam Centraal Station1964

    Amsterdam Centraal opened in 1889 and stands on three artificial islands built in the IJ.

    Photo: Anefo / Nationaal Archief · CC0 1.0 Source

  2. A crowded street at Coney Island, New York1915

    Coney Island's boardwalk and side streets drew huge holiday crowds in the 1910s, helped by the cheap subway and trolley fares from Manhattan.

    Photo: Bain News Service, Library of Congress · Public domain (published before 1931) Source

  3. A carnival pageant on a pier at Atlantic City, New Jersey1922

    Atlantic City's boardwalk pageants of the early 1920s grew into the Miss America contest, first held there in 1921 to extend the summer season.

    Photo: Bain News Service / Library of Congress · Public domain (published before 1931) Source

  4. Cars parked at meters on a downtown street in Omaha, Nebraska1938

    Parking meters were still a novelty then: the first one appeared in Oklahoma City in 1935, and by this photo they lined whole downtown streets.

    Photo: John Vachon, Farm Security Administration · Public domain (US government) Source

  5. Holidaymakers returning to New York at Grand Central Station1908

    The sign at the lower right reads "Subway Entrance". New York's first subway line had opened only four years earlier, in 1904, with a station at Grand Central.

    Photo: Bain News Service, Library of Congress · Public domain (published before 1931) Source

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