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Rewind #17 · Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Petrol pumps, red paper lanterns and a long bus

The Tuesday, November 10, 2026 puzzle: five photos from history. Guess the year each was taken, on a timeline from 1900 to 2026.

  1. A brick house with a tiled roof where a man crouches by a parked car in front of two old petrol pumps, next to a shop window
  2. A busy street of old brick buildings hung with rows of red paper lanterns, with shop signs in English and Chinese.
  3. Shoppers walk along a tree-lined shopping street with tram rails in the road and shop awnings on both sides.
  4. Diners sit at small tables on a sunny plaza with cafe terraces, bare trees and tall apartment buildings around.
  5. A long bus beside a curved streamlined roadside restaurant with a tall sign, under trees

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  1. Petrol pumps and a bicycle shop on the Zandstraat, Beneden-Leeuwen1954

    This photo was not taken for the shop. The record says it marks a fixed survey point, W-21, for a land-consolidation project in the Maas and Waal region.

    Photo: Anefo / Nationaal Archief · CC0 1.0 Source

  2. Grant Avenue in Chinatown, San Francisco, California2012

    San Francisco's Chinatown, centred on Grant Avenue, is the oldest Chinatown in North America.

    Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress · Public domain (Highsmith gift) Source

  3. Shoppers on the Reguliersstraat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands1950

    Shopkeepers decorated the street in June 1950 to celebrate Kalverstraat's 500th anniversary, and the Reguliersstraat joined in.

    Photo: Nationaal Archief / Anefo · CC0 1.0 Source

  4. Cafe terraces on the Plaza del Dos de Mayo, Madrid2018

    Madrid's terraces fill even in February; the city gets over 2,500 hours of sunshine a year.

    Photo: Nicolas Vigier (CC0) · CC0 1.0 Source

  5. A bus at the Half-Way House stop in Waverly, Tennessee1943

    Photographer Esther Bubley rode Greyhound buses to record how Americans travelled. Streamlined stops like this one let passengers eat along the way.

    Photo: Esther Bubley, FSA/OWI, Library of Congress · Public domain (US government) Source

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