right side was handier to the boardwalk, store front, ect, horse drawn buggys and wagons were parked parrellell to the roadway, up near the sidewalk, loading dock ect, not perpendicular to it, also watch the young man and lady mount the buggy, most times she will be assisted up to the seat by the man on the right side, then she will move over to the left while he gets on and picks up the reins,on the right side, better than trying to do all that while standing in ankle deep mud and horse leavings and trying not to get hit by a passing wagon or horse, contrary to what is seen in the movies, western town streets were not dry and level, but rather a muddy rutted mess, the scene in open range where robert duvall walks across the street by using the lumber planks is the best example of what the streets were really like in motion pictures, all this changed over time due to the comming of the automobile when it became possible to pass another vehicle, a driver sitting on the right was not able to see if any traffic was oncomming as well as he could from the left, driving on the left side of the roadway, while sitting on the right, means having to use roundabouts in most places like london has, to keep traffic moving effeciently, much more elaborate road systems are nessassery
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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