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Construction of the canal had started in 1903 and would continue until its opening in 1914

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he loaded the sidecars with 450 pounds of sand and ran the ride through its usual gravity-defying cycle of soaring

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Horse Car's Last Days Frame Color:Natural Construction of the canal hadIn the days before the last of New York's horse drawn trolleys disappeared from the streets, a photographer snapped one on Broadway, near 17th Street, alongside the newfangled thing that had made it obsolete, a "modern electric car." Horse cars like this one, considered an "antiquated vehicle" in 1917, traveled on the Bleecker St. & Fulton Ferry Line for quite a while before the operators chose to abandon the franchise. Several notables rode it one