Taxi Life In the 70s: The Agony and the Ecstacy

We've all had crappy, poor paying or dangerous jobs in our youth. For me, by far, the most interesting one was being a cab driver during my college years. In this article, I paint a picture of what it was like to drive a cab in Buffalo, NY in the 70s, before debit cards, GPS, even AC. Of course, conversation with a diverse set of riders was almost always fun.