A Striking Way Home -- Roller skates provide mode of transportation for two young women through rush-hour traffic on New York's Fifth Avenue last night. The two girls, Lorraine Gamine, left, and Rosemarie Caminet, had just purchased the skates in a store as a means of beating the transportation shortage on the fourth day of the transit strike in the nation's largest city.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

A Striking Way Home -- Roller skates provide mode of transportation for two young women through rush-hour traffic on New York's Fifth Avenue last night. The two girls, Lorraine Gamine, left, and Rosemarie Caminet, had just purchased the skates in a store as a means of beating the transportation shortage on the fourth day of the transit strike in the nation's largest city.

Associated Press · [ca. January 1966]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Labor: Unions: Mass.

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