Transcontinental Dash Framed or Unframed:Unframed New York Times staff photographer

New York Times staff photographer Ernie Sisto took this photo in 1946 of kids peeking at a preview of "the greatest show on earth" at Madison Square Garden

They stroll slowly north

The 1990 article reported

Soda fountains began to decline after Prohibition was repealed in the 1930s and bottle caps were invented

according to the trade paper Motion Picture World

Transcontinental Dash Framed or Unframed:Unframed New York Times staff photographerThe Union Pacific's streamline train M 10001 prepares to depart Los Angeles on its record setting transcontinental run across the country to New York's Grand Central Terminal on October 22, 1934. The lightweight aerodynamic train traveled the 2,298 miles in 56 hours and 55 minutes, slashing 14. 5 hours off the old mark. Officials thought the train could have arrived five hours faster if it hadn't "loafed" on the run from Chicago to New York, when it