{"id":2477,"date":"2004-05-10T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T07:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/10\/seattles-first-female-cab-drivers\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:37:06","slug":"seattles-first-female-cab-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/10\/seattles-first-female-cab-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle&#8217;s first female cab drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11129,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/paynter\\\/172476_paynter10.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.seattlepi.com\\\/paynter\\\/172476_paynter10.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a very cool article about WWII-era Seattle in the P-I today, when about <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/paynter\/172476_paynter10.html?source=rss\" title=\"As WWII raged, Seattle's first female cab drivers made history\">thirty women were &#8220;drafted&#8221; into becoming cab drivers<\/a> when many of the city&#8217;s men went off to fight for their country. One of those many little tidbits of history that tend to fascinate me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  ONCE THIS CITY seemed to burst with soldiers and sailors waving goodbyes or homecoming hellos amid the ache of a very different war. Some came back in coffins. Some landed, singed and bandaged, in the rear seat of Nadine McKee&#8217;s Yellow Cab No.\u00a021.<\/p>\n<p>  With stateside men in short supply, 23-year-old Nadine &#8220;Mick&#8221; McKee (now Henry) was the youngest of about 30 Seattle women happy to be &#8220;drafted&#8221; just after Pearl Harbor as Seattle&#8217;s first female taxi drivers, liberated and unleashed behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>  The assumption that they would want to lend a hand for the sake of Uncle Sam was unquestioned. But the new feeling of freedom blowing in their hair through an open cab window was a wind of change that didn&#8217;t come easy. For nearly four years between 1942 and the end of World War II in 1945, McKee traced and retraced Seattle&#8217;s streets nine hours and 300 miles a day in a 1941 Plymouth four-door. Carrying GIs and civilians, she broke the gender barrier but never dared break the speed limit much less the rigid rules of co-ed conduct.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Battle of Evermore, The&#8221; by Led Zeppelin from the album <em>IV<\/em> (1971, 5:51).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very cool article about WWII-era Seattle in the P-I today, when about thirty women were &#8216;drafted&#8217; into becoming cab drivers when many of the city&#8217;s men went off to fight for their country. One of those many little tidbits of history that tend to fascinate me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}