How to be a Retronaut » Zebra http://www.howtobearetronaut.com If the past is a foreign country, this is your passport Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:32:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Brixton Zebra http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/03/the-brixton-zebra/ http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/03/the-brixton-zebra/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:01:10 +0000 The Retronaut http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/?p=1960

This picture shows a zebra-driven hackney cab travelling from Brixton towards Stockwell. The driver is Gustav Grais who ran a circus of zebras and baboons.

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This picture shows a zebra-driven hackney cab travelling from Brixton towards Stockwell. The driver is Gustav Grais who ran a circus of zebras and baboons.

Tame Zebras were not unusual at the beginning of the twentieth century:

Zebra jumping London Zoo advertising 1914 Lord Walter Rothschild's Zebra cart Lord Walter Rothschild's Zebras
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Thanks to Vonalina Cake and Urban 75.

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