From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The rhythmic *hi-de-hi-de-ho* of Cab Calloway’s "Minnie the Moocher" spills out of a nearby radio shop, competeing with the heavy clatter of a mounted patrol trotting past a line of idling Model Ts. I duck behind my viewfinder to catch a swell dame in a cloche hat, just as she winces at the garage sign listing gas at **$0.20** a gallon—a price that’s starting to feel truly lousy. Between the roar of the new mechanized units and the sharp scent of street horse manure, the city feels caught in a strange, noisy gears-and-marrow transition. I snap the shutter, freezing a moment where the future’s electric hum meets the old world’s fading gallop.