5 August 1942 | Polish Jew, Dawid Pawłowicz, perished in the #Auschwitz camp.

Dawid was born in Radom on 6 June 1905. He was a cabman.

He was registered in the camp on 2 July 1942.
No. 44385
He survived 34 days.

Happy birthday to the one and only Boris Karloff. I love FRANKENSTEIN, but my favorite Karloff film is THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) directed by the great Robert Wise.

5 August 1942 | Polish Jew, Dawid Pawłowicz, perished in the #Auschwitz camp.

Dawid was born in Radom on 6 June 1905. He was a cabman.

He was registered in the camp on 2 July 1942.
No. 44385
He survived 34 days.

3 June 1901 | Czech Vaclav Novotny was born in Sloveč. A cabman.

In #Auschwitz from 29 April 1942.
No. 33755
He perished in the camp on 5 June 1942.

Arthur Hughes, The Drunken Cabman for ‘At the Back of the North Wind’, 1870
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1076928

The Pugnacious Cabman (Pickwick Papers, Chapter 2)

(2/3) But Nebenzal (seen here with Cummings, Morgan and cabman Martin Garralaga) decided there were too many recent films with flashbacks and – in the editing room, long after shooting was completed – moved the entire flashback to the front, restructuring the film chronologically. #TheNoirCollective

3 June 1901 | Czech Vaclav Novotny was born in Sloveč. A cabman.

In Auschwitz from 29 April 1942.
No. 33755
He perished in the camp on 5 June 1942.

💥That was the year that was! Presenting C20's heritage highlights of the buildings and sites we helped to get listed in 2024.
From outsider art to a cabman shelter, a Finnish Olympic sauna to a Scottish skatepark, not forgetting the Egyptian-style house - now the youngest listed building in Britain.

@rob60k.bsky.social

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1983 GAME OF THE YEAR
Top two games to go through to next round

#GameoftheYear1983 #ZXSpectrum #SinclairZXSpectrum #RetroGaming

#Gnasher #SubTrack #Champions #Cabman

Sinclair User (Jan 1983) - ZX Spectrum 48K and ZX Microdrive news. Also Cabman, Micro Power Add-On, Taipan, PAUL and Compufile adverts

READ: (1/2) #zxspectrum #retrogaming

In 1925 Leonard Rhinelandaer, son of a wealthy NYC family, sued Alice Jones, former maid & the daughter of a "'colored" cabman, for divorce saying she had lied to him about her racial background (intermarriage was legal in NY). The trial was a massive nationwide spectacle on race & class.

He lost.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day
Today's fact is a C19th phrase cabman and Bow Street Society member Sam Snyder is familiar with:

Suck the mop.
Meaning: Wait on the cab-rank for a job

A date!

You have been warned

(From National Railway Museum, York)

An encounter at a cabmans' shelter 1882: "I'm very glad, cabman, to see you improving your mind by reading during your spare time." Cabby: "Improvin' my mind! I dunno. I backed this 'ere 'oss all through last season, and he never landed me once!" PUNCH cartoon by Charles Keene

Sinclair User (May 1983) - Timex Computer TC2068, Krakit, Pimania and Sinclair Research Ltd news. Also Stonechip Echo Amplifier, Cowboy Shootout, Cabman and Micro Power Add-On adverts

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Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day
Today's fact is a term used by C19th cabmen and therefore Bow Street Society member & cabman Mr Sam Snyder (Illustration. Photo: 1877 cab).

Bluchers.
Meaning: Outside or non-registered cabs which aren't allowed, except upon emergency, to enter railway termini.

"It was stated they were in the habit of walking & riding together & a cabman deposed that they had been guilty of indecent familiarities while he was driving them in his vehicle. Mr Robinson had taken lodings for the respondent in London & been unremitting in his attentions to her whilst in town."

1983 GAME OF THE YEAR ROUND 2 Poll 96

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/J1CnOZ/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Gnasher (R&R Software)
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/J1CnOZ/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Sub Track (Amba Software)
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/J1CnOZ/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Champions! (Peaksoft)
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/J1CnOZ/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Cabman (Micro Power)

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Ulysses reviews Finding A Way by Jackson Marsh

"I’ve just discovered this marvelous series and have become an instant fan. By the end of this book, I was thoroughly addicted. 5 stars."

www.queeromanceink.com/2026/01/23/r...

#Historical #BookReview @jacksonmarsh.bsky.social

@soxonthebrain.bsky.social Another great Karloff performance was the title character of "Cabman" Gray in "The Body Snatcher",made in 1945. Not as iconic a character as Frankenstein's Creature(few characters are),Gray may be the most well-rounded,three dimensional performance of his career #cinemon

He's Mr Pickwick in the 1952 Pickwick Papers - the one with Billy Hartnell and his best hair in the starring role of "Angry cabman".

he dances along
in his little bowler

skimming the lawn
with royal grace
the dew of dawn
on his great red face

To fairy flutes
as the light advances
in square black boots
the cabman dances