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“I was once driving in downtown Baltimore, and three Black dudes were riding horses. I was so confused...”

Heard a news story some years ago about African-American horse clubs in Philadelphia. These were urban stables where members could pay dues and use the horses. The last one folded in about the 90s?

Also, I think it must have been a thing to do around the turn of the 20th Century. When I visited Russia, I was told that, during communism, there were urban stables with the same sort of arrangements. Some things in Russia sort of froze in time during the communism years. I think that was one of them. Another thing was the ice cream. Prior to communism, Carnation had sold ice cream there. Under communism, they kicked out Carnation but kept the same recipe, vanilla only, and made it exactly the same way for decades. By comparison to modern commercial recipes in teh US, the old-fashioned Russian vanilla was very good.