More Stuff
The last page of the site features miscellany, starting with the September 1970 edition of Cabby Capers, the Yellow Cab and Transfer Co. newsletter. It was the first one issued after I joined the company, and the only one I seem to have saved. Sorry.
You will also find a list of posts used by YCTC in late 1970, the lyrics to a cab driving song written by Ken Stone, who started at the company in 1972 and remains a friend to this day, and a taxi permit badge (not mine — bought by a friend who remembered I had driven cab). And a couple more photo galleries — one of images from the 1975 strike, and one of YCTC employees on- and off-duty.
The Cabby Song
by Ken Stone
Drove a cab in New York City
When a dark-skinned girl who was rather pretty
Flagged me down one night for my last run
I was glad to have her, after hauling drunk cadavers
I said where to and then she pulled a gun
She said “Head Uptown and I ain’t gonna pay
I might even shoot you on the way
I’m mad at the world so what do you think of me?”
I said “I don’t think nuthin’ this ride’s on me
It’s absolutely, totally, and completely free
To anywhere in town you want to be.”
Drove in Chi-Town, sure is my town
An old drunk staggered up into the car
He said “I’m a man of wealth and fame
Do you recognize my name?”
I said “No,” he said “Take me to a bar”
So I dropped him at the nearest tap
I said “The fare’s a dollar and a half”
He fumbled in his pockets for the dough
Then he laid a fifty on the seat
And when I picked my eyes up off of my feet
He said, “Will that be enough?” and I said “I reckon so.”
Drove in Madison, Wisconsin
Crystal Corners, Park and Johnson
Whitney Way, the Square, and Circle Close
East Side, West Side, that’s the best side
Who laid out this city, heaven knows
Well I never thought I could get so lost
I can’t even seem to find my post
What’s a rookie cabby s’posed to do?
I always carry my book and my map
There sittin’ right here upon my lap
But I’ve been lost in Monona since 1972.
On Strike
Off-Duty or 10-8
