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Though I posted these links in my "Puerto Rican Day Parade" thread, I wanted to also post them here (both were taken at Lexington & 102nd) as I was wondering if the Flexies were better at climbing grades on certain routes than were their GMC counterparts, or, was hill-climbing performance more or less about the same........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2509

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3239

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Watchogue & Jewett, 1976......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1846

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Richmond Avenue Loop, 1977.....

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1942

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Jamaica Ave. & 170th, 1970*.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1767

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*Also, note the "MANPOWER" employment agency sign; such a sign would be deemed QUITE sexist, today!!!!!!!!

(the "ZENITH" hearing aids sign also wonderfully dates this old street scene, taken a half-century ago).......

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Utica Avenue & Avenue N, 1972*.

*Note, too, the old metal incandescent lamp fixtures (remember how commonplace these once were?) mounted on the ancient line poles, themselves relics of a long-ago era........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1571

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[B53RICH]

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Thanks for this info.

All I could tell (by the paint scheme) that these were newer photos, where the old "Tee-Yay" green and 1970's "Em-Tee-Yay" blue had vanished........

"NYO"

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No. 5008 at Rockaway Parkway station, 1969.

Note raised engine hatch......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1573

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Flatbush & Ocean, 1972......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1575

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Rockway & Glenwood, 1981.

Note that #5004 is still attired in classic "Tee-Yay" green, even at this late date.

Also, note the near-microscopic "Not In Service" reading on the roller curtain.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1586

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[W.B. Fishbowl]

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Nostrand & Glenwood, 1982......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1592

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Livingston & Boerum, 1972.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1591

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62nd & New Utrecht, 1981.

Much nostalgia here, including a train of grimy "42's" up above, and an "Em-Tee-Ay" driver wearing a tie........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1948

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Compare the roller curtains.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2438 *

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2487 **

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*1969

**1982 (note driver w/old-style cap)