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161st St., 1964/Along 3rd Avenue/Da Bronx
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B53RICH




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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
168th St., Jamaica, then and now......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?60474 (note the buses in this 2007 photo)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?94243

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?43028

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In the first photo, 60474, the building in the foreground was once connected to the El station which had a stairway inside that led to the street level.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

B53RICH:

You are correct; photo 43028 shows this. This was a most unique arrangement, to say the least.

This had to be one of the most unusual interlocking towers in the City, regarding el/elevated subway lines.

Am astounded that it was not demolished years ago; at least, a bit of transit history was preserved..... Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Parons & Jamaica, 1980.

Here, Flex #4619, holding down a B22 run, is in the company of a gaunt and lonely-looking remnant of the old BMT Jamaica El.

Note, also, the classic "DON'T WALK" sign affixed to the old el column (a 1960's "BUS STOP" sign (w/Fishbowl) can also just be glimpsed, if you look carefully)....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153930

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

Interesting how over the years MaBSTOA buses plied some 'Tee-Yay' routes in the outer boroughs (as seen here with #4619) whilst conversely, buses originally built for the TA managed now and then to be found on OA routes in Manhattan and the Bronx (I saw one of the Flx TA 4000's in the same time period running on the M104, Fishbowl TA 4300's-4400's on the M16 . . . ).

But that 'DONT WALK' sign - definitely classic for sure, mid-1950's Winko-Matic with neon tubing. As much a fixture of the NYC fabric as the Marbelite LPS-20 'Lawdescent Lite' signs with either red and green bulbs, or 'Portland Orange' and 'Lunar White' bulbs (all A21, as I found in some literature online).
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B.:

I was thinking the same thing; it was interesting to see a MaBSTOA bus on a route that was well-removed from its usual "stomping grounds".

That classic "DON'T WALK" sign; man, I loved them ever since I was a kid; here, in my nabe, the classic ones we had our "main drags" were replaced a number of years ago with those ^*&%##!@! "pictogram" versions that I HATE!!!!!!! Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad

As I worked in lower Manhattan from 1979 until 2003, you may be sure Your's Truly was QUITE familiar with these classic signs....yet another "it'll always be here" pieces of street hardware that has long since disappeared.....

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B:

This one's for you..... Wink

(Main St. and Union Turnpike, 1971)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154474

(courtey: nycsubway.org0
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Livingston & Bond, 1972* (a LOT of "street nostalgia" here!) Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154899

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*Fishbowl #8108 seems to be hauling a hefty-sized crowd, here! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Park Row & Pearl, 1972......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155031

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Park Row & Pearl, 1972......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155031

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That's interesting - a Marbelite LPS-20 and Winko-Matic in the same place. Plus the 1965-66 Pearl Street sign (those used 5" high letters for street/avenue names).
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
W.B:

This one's for you..... Wink

(Main St. and Union Turnpike, 1971)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154474

(courtey: nycsubway.org0

Yep . . . from the last of the 'greenies' (and for the 'Tee-Yay', T6H-5305A's), before the next order debuted the two-tone blue. From what I could tell, none of that order at the time had even a minimal allotment to Manhattan for service on M15 First-Second Avenues, M3 49th-50th Street (today's M50) et al.

As for the yellow on the casing for the 'DONT WALK' sign (here Marbelite LPS-20), that seemed to begin to take hold around '71, no?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B.:

Glad you liked the photos; I can see that your a quite a dedicated "scholar" regarding the classic "DON'T WALK" signs, as well as the once-commonplace news signs and those ubiqutous "time-and-temperature" illuminated signs.

As I said before, such old signage date the vintage bus photos as much as the buses do; the bus photographers of that era had little or no idea that they were also recording "street signage" history as well.....

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

7th Avenue & 47th, 1972 (a LOT of "street nostalgia", here! Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155586

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

125th St. & Amsterdam, 1972......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153928

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

3rd Avenue * 33rd, 1972 (#8721 is seen here marked "SPECIAL")

This is a truly CLASSIC "Old Noo YawK scene; also, note the distinctive 1960's era "WHITE WAY"/"BROADWAY" street lights (the ones in my area vanished ages ago)........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154305

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B.:

Though these two vintage photos hail from Philadelphia, for obvious reasons, I had to include them here, for your viewing pleasure (the first photo, dating from the 1960's) also features a couple of really cool classic autos!) Wink

Enjoy!

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?158549

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?74177

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
W.B.:

Though these two vintage photos hail from Philadelphia, for obvious reasons, I had to include them here, for your viewing pleasure (the first photo, dating from the 1960's) also features a couple of really cool classic autos!) Wink

Enjoy!

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?158549

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?74177

(courtessy: nycsubway.org)

Looks like the same model as used from the 1930's to 1956 in Brooklyn, initially under B&QT aegis . . .
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