Hailing a Cab processing-sub-inside-page Despite how far technology has

Despite how far technology has come

and faster

cornbread dressing and gravy

This photo of Grand Central's interior

Henry Ford poses in one of his early prototypes outside his car plant in Detroit in 1907

Hailing a Cab processing-sub-inside-page Despite how far technology hasBefore the days of Uber, even champion taxi hailers would have to stand and wait, hands in the air, because there never seemed to be an empty cab. In this photo, a woman takes on the challenge in one of the toughest places to land a cab even on a sunny day: Times Square. The taxi world has changed a great deal in the past six decades, but getting a ride in the Big Apple always seems to be an adventure. In 1955, Times reporter Meyer Berger wrote in his