Baker City Taxi Company
By Chet Smith
This is 1922 Baker City Taxi, owned and operated by
Jess Smith, the father of Chet Smith of Baker City. The taxi
is parked curbside at the old post office, looking north across the
wide intersection of Bridge Street and Auburn Ave. Clark Auto
Electric fronted Main Street and the Wilshire Hotel fronted Resort
Street. Both were destroyed in 1933 and the present Chevron
gas station was built. The IOOF building, present home of the
Record-Courier is in the background.
