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Rewind #18 · Wednesday, November 11, 2026

A cable car, a bus with riders on top and rows of bicycles

The Wednesday, November 11, 2026 puzzle: five photos from history. Guess the year each was taken, on a timeline from 1900 to 2026.

  1. A green-and-cream cable car with two more cars behind it on a steep downtown street between tall office buildings
  2. A tall wooden motor bus with a roof deck and passengers sitting on top, driving along a gravel road
  3. Women and a small child crowd around a shop counter in a street lined with white tile, with a bicycle parked in front.
  4. A broad city avenue seen from above, with crowds in long coats and hats on the pavement and an open touring car with top-hatted men
  5. Rows of bicycles are parked against the kerb of a cobbled shopping street as men and women in coats pass by the shop windows

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  1. Cable cars on California Street, San Francisco2025

    San Francisco's cable cars are the world's last manually operated cable car system, and a National Historic Landmark since 1964.

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

  2. A motor bus with a roof deck and passengers on top, on a country road1915

    Early motor buses copied the horse-drawn omnibus, which also carried passengers on the roof, so open-air rooftop seats were a natural way to sell a view.

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

  3. A shop in the Heerenstraat, Willemstad, Curacao1955

    Photographer Willem van de Poll was documenting Curacao and Suriname around a visit by the Dutch queen and prince.

    Photo: Willem van de Poll / Nationaal Archief · CC0 1.0 Source

  4. Fifth Avenue above 42nd Street, New York, on a Sunday1913

    Easter Sunday that year fell on 23 March, and Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade was a New York tradition where people strolled in their finest clothes.

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

  5. Parked bicycles along a shopping street in Dublin1946

    Ireland stayed neutral in the Second World War, but petrol was tightly rationed for years, so bicycles filled Dublin's streets.

    Photo: Willem van de Poll, Nationaal Archief · CC0 1.0 Source

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