No matter how many street scenes of Washington, D.C. you see, what strikes you always is the width of the streets and the sidewalks – it makes you a believer in planned cities when you imagine what it would be like today had they not been laid out that way, though of course the early 19th century planners never imagined either machine driven vehicles or the sheer numbers there would be. At this date the horseless vehicles are outnumbering the horse drawn in a city like Washington, so there is enough here to keep even the crankiest antique car buff happy for at least a few minutes. This photo is not much more than post card size, so the blowup of the West End Laundry panel wagon and the little open delivery truck parked nose-in to the curb (I want one!) is a bit grainy.
