Group.
I grew up in New Haven, Connecticut in the forties and fifties. Our milk man
made his deliveries using a horse drawn wagon. It wasn't until after the end of
world War II that his horse was replaced by a truck. The rag and junk man used
a horse drawn wagon to make his rounds too. We had a blacksmith shop located
about three blocks from our house. The world war probably had a lot to do with
horses being used for so long because of rationing constraints etc.
This was supposed to be a highly industrialized city in the northeast, but the
horse held on for a long time before being finally displaced by vehicles. The
trolley tracks were ripped up at about the same time. (Early fifties.) The
1940s to the 1950's were not as modern as most people nowadays seem to think
they were. I hope that these observations have expanded your modeling
possibilities.
The farms located in the country around the city were largely not
electrified. My dad had a farmer friend up in North Branford that had to pay so
much per pole (along with his neighbors) to the electric company to get
electricity installed on his farm. This was also done in the early fifties.
The other old timers in this group could add their own similar observations.
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