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Originally Posted by PAUL ROMANO:

If I'm not mistaken, there was a rider on horseback preceding the steam dummy. The riders were called "West Side Cowboys."

  

Yep, or 10th avenue cowboys..what is amazing is the practice lived on until the 1940's (I think by the end of WWII it had ended). Ironic in that the high line was built to replace the street level trains, and that in the end it never really was used that heavily, in that trucks starting in the 1930's took away its need for existence. 

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