rockaways

• “Full-sized coaches stood beside lighter buggies, phaetons, rockaways, and chaises.”

  Simon & Schuster: The King's Best Highway

• “I don't think it's sandy hook, i think it's the waterfront path (maybe called marine pkwy) connecting coney island to floyd bennet-lane, where the bridge in the first pic connects the rockaways to the rest of bkly (at least physically)...although i might be wrong about all of that”

  The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Shoals of Idiocy

• “Most were enclosed but a few were actually open, and Julia named some of them: fine names like Victorias, five-glassed landaus, barouches, phaetons, and light rockaways.”

  Time and Again

• “& Kendall's factory, the largest in the city, but cannot show the curious effect of the great show-room, filled with rockaways, buggies of all kinds, and park phaetons.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873

• “Several of our largest dealers and most prominent lawyers lived there, and every morning early, numbers of one-horse rockaways might be seen conveying them down the hill to business, and their daughters to school.”

  Documenting the American South, or, the American Experience in 19-th Century America

• “At eight o'clock the fiddles were tuning up, the skating rink lights were on and already Main Street was crowded with a varied assortment of vehicles -- automobiles, buggies, wagons, surreys, rockaways and even a large hay wagon that had brought a merry party of young folks from Clayton.”

  The Comings of Cousin Ann

• “Before noon, company streets were laid out and lined with tents and, when the first buggies and rockaways began to roll in from the country, every boy-soldier was brushed and burnished to defy the stare of inspection and to quite dazzle the eye of masculine envy or feminine admiration.”

  Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War

• “There were thirteen vehicles belonging to the upper classes, mostly rockaways and old-style barouches, such as the mayor rides in at the unveiling of the new poorhouse at Milledgeville, Alabama.”

  Rolling Stones

• “Soon strong open wagons and rockaways began to appear drawn by sleek, plump horses that often, seemingly, were gayer than their drivers.”

  A Day of Fate

• “As we passed one of the carriage rooms, I marveled at the beautiful vehicles stored there: oil-black coupés sporting curved glass fronts, emerald-green rockaways accented by carmine or violet seats, a charming basket phaeton awaiting next summer’s country excursions.”

  Simon & Schuster: Firehorse

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