Are We There Yet?

"This is taking longer than I thought."

This is a picture of a man waiting for AAA in the 1870's. The Animal Ambulance Association later became the Poughkeepsie Auto Club which in time changed its name to Debbie's Donuts. Little is known about the man or the horse in the picture other than the man is the one wearing the top hat.

The boy with the dog, however, was Walter "Sillywalk" Anderson, often thought to be America's first cross dressing Indian (the tee-pee kind not the slurpee kind). He is credited with inventing the two knuckle "ball job" and was often associated with local outhouses.

The history of the photo is vague. As are the reasons for today's blog.

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