Reminisce: The early days of taxis in Lima
By Greg Hoersten - For The Lima News
A line of Checker cabs can be seen lined up outside Star Tire Co. in Lima in 1923.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
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This feature is a cooperative effort between the newspaper and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.
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From horse-drawn to horse-powered, open-air to air-conditioned, taxis in some form or other have transported people from here to there in Lima since the 1870s.
It is unlikely, however, Lima had ever seen a taxi in the form that arrived in January 1925.
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