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New York City’s oldest Taxicab driver Johnnie “Spider” Footman April 06, 2012. A cigar-munching 92-year-old from Harlem who’s been on the job since Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House. “I don’t know anything else,” Over his storied career behind the wheel, he’s ferried movie stars such as John Wayne and Rock Hudson, suffered countless bad tippers — and tolerated passengers getting frisky in his back seat. Well, until the new hybrids arrived.
“They had sex in the back in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s,” he recalled with a twinkle in his eye. “The cabs were a lot bigger then.”
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New York City’s oldest Taxicab driver Johnnie “Spider” Footman April 06, 2012. A cigar-munching 92-year-old from Harlem who’s been on the job since Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House. “I don’t know anything else,” Over his storied career behind the wheel, he’s ferried movie stars such as John Wayne and Rock Hudson, suffered countless bad tippers — and tolerated passengers getting frisky in his back seat. Well, until the new hybrids arrived.<br /> “They had sex in the back in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s,” he recalled with a twinkle in his eye. “The cabs were a lot bigger then.”