In the late 1880s, the Glendale Hotel opened on Broadway in Glendale. It was built in the popular late-Victorian style – very elaborate with lots of levels and planes and detailing. I don’t have a date on this one, but there appears to be very little landscaping around the hotel, so I’m guessing it was taken in the 1890s. That horse-driven carriage seems to be from that era, too. It doesn’t look too comfortable so wherever those people were going I hope it wasn’t too far. In 1922 the hotel became the Glendale Sanitarium.

Andie P. says: “The vehicle is a “buckboard” – no metal axel springs, only “springy” boards between the axle mounts and the bottom of the wagon body – flat bottomed and could easily be converted from freight to passenger with up to three rows of double seats that could carry 2 or 3 persons, depending on size, on each seat, including the driver on the front seat. The front wheels were smaller than the rear wheels. The ride over rough ground was uncomfortable. One type of buckboard was the “surrey” in the U.S. Any of these could be open or covered. My grandpa owned several antique carriages, coach type, “sporting carriages,” buggies, as well as buckboards. My cousins and I often played with them, later drove them.”