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Ricksha

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Ricksha 

(also rickshaw, jinrikisha), a light two-wheeled carriage drawn by a man between two shafts. The ricksha was patented in Japan in 1867 by J. Goble, an American. In the early 20th century rickshas came into wide use in East and South Asia. In the 1930’s the pedicab came into use; it consisted of a bicycle attached to the body of the ricksha, like a motorcycle with a sidecar.

The labor of ricksha drivers is exhausting, and the drivers’ mortality rate is high. These laborers are mercilessly exploited by the entrepreneurs who own the vehicles.
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One sequence was filmed from the seat of a ricksha in the congested city of Varanasi.
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Kabuki, a popular Japanese restaurant and sushi bar in Pasadena for the past 20 years, recently took over the former Ricksha in Woodland Hills.
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Ah, yes, I get the same picture -- ignition components salvaged from old Atwater-Kent radios of the 1930's -- delivered furtively at midnight by ricksha and malodorous honeywagon, impaled upon shards of old rice wine bottles in the first instance, immured in unspeakable muck in the latter.
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