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Circa 1915. "Mount Adams incline, Cincinnati, Ohio." An alternate view of the scene last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Dude! Uneeda get off the tracks! (Unless you're Maintenance of Way or some such).
It must've been interesting living a few feet from the tracks where the funiculars went up and down all day. I can think of all sorts of hilarious scenarios.
A saavy slogan: 'The National Food' was made by the National Biscuit company. The boy's raincoat signals a key advantage at the time: Uneeda Biscuits didn't get soggy because they were sold wrapped up in boxes rather than from cracker barrels.
Uneeda sold a hundred million packages a month at the turn of the century--the PREVIOUS century: Uneeda Biscuits were discontinued in 2009.
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