Potholes have a way of angering motorists and of eliciting an annual declaration: “This year is worse than most.”
Maybe the winter of 1968-69 was worthy of a such a designation. There would likely be no argument from the pothole crew in this week’s Then photo, from March 12, 1969.
The gentleman at the right, either a passerby or a dapper DPW supervisor, might acknowledge that city streets were in especially rough shape that year…