Those Darn Cars!
“It is the sense of this Board that the practice of tooting Automobile horns, by way of applause, at the concerts given in the parks should be discontinued.”
Motion proposed by park commissioner Charles M. Loring and adopted by the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners, June 18, 1906.
Minneapolis Park History 
1906 – when automobile horns were just the tip of the iceberg in terms of good and bad impacts on our society from those darn cars!!