Perhaps the most unusual color request was a clementine-orange car with yellow piping and lime-green leather upholstery.

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The Glaubers called a livery cab, a hired car arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.

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"About three weeks ago a lady bringing some donations parked right at the edge of where the yellow lines should be and her car was hit by a van, " Woodside supervisor Jane Salmon said.

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They called a livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.

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The Glaubers called a livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.

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Imagine if you still needed to lug around the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number, or carry around a book of maps in your car to get directions.

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