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A jitney and jeepney for National Heritage Month.

One is a "jitney" in San Francisco, CA picking up passengers on a Castro-Ferry route in 1915, while the other is a jeepney in Quezon City for the Cubao-QMC route today.

"Jitney" was a word coined by African-Americans in the Southern US more than 100 years ago. By 1915 it referred to cars with signs indicating routes, many of which served underserved neighborhoods.

Learn more in my latest blog post, where I also give thoughts about the jeepney phaseout. https://filipeanut.art/the-jeepney-a-history-and-hopefully-a-future/