BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Amsterdam & 167th, 1983......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1233

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[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Regarding buses and the Puerto Rican Day Parade, sadly, the ill-fated GRUMMANS were only on hand to witness a very few of the parades......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2767

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3256 (note "bison" approaching!)

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[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Great info, as always,; thanks for posting here.

Back in the PSNJ/TNJ/early NJT era, there were certain runs, that, during rush hours, were extended past their normal northern terminal points and ran a few miles beyond.

One I clearly remember were the certain rush hour runs on the old ex-PSNJ/TNJ #44, which was extended from its normal northern terminal (Nungessers) a few miles northwards to Palisades Junction (this was a VERY busy streetcar.bus transfer point through 1938)

Many times I used this VERY convenient rush hour extension, particularly when the weather was less than pleasant.

As you might expect, NJT did away with this rush-hour run eons ago.

Long ago, riders of ACADEMY's #22 (Hoboken-Fort Lee) raised hell (Your's Truly included) when the company had alternate buses terminating at Nungessers, instead of going all the way up to Fort Lee.

This was NOT pleasant in bad weather, let me tell you!

Thankfully, ACADEMY scrapped that plan, and all buses outbound from Hoboken once again traveled all the way up to Fort Lee (Palisades Junction)

However, NJT cut back the #22 (which it now operated) to Nungessers, about 2005, further decimating already spotty NJT bus service in my area (broken-down jitney vans, however, are in overwhelming numbers here)..........aaahhh, progress!

"NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Lenox & 110th, 1981.

It's clear that Flex #9288 is filling in for #2 subway service.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3242

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[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

I see you are like me; just as the buses themselves will easily date a vintage photograph, so will the street signs.

I started working in lower Manhattan in 1979, and, until I retired in 2003, I saw quite a bit of changes over the years, including buses, taxis, subway cars, street signs, traffic signals, street lighting, and store signage.

Though, of course, the BUSES are the MAIN "point of interest" in the old photos we so intensely discuss here, it is the "background" that indeed "dates" the scene, as much as the buses do.....

"NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

These were certainly NOT your "average" MaBSTOA buses; I can recall seeing these buses close to 40 years ago a few times, and thought they had a distinct, exotic "continental' look to them.

Obviously, the MTA/MaBSTOA was not too impressed with these vehicles.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1244

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1245

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1247

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[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Like yourself, those experimental buses really did nothing for me; I much preferred the Fishbowls, Flexies, Grummans, and the RTS.

LOVE that WHITE 798; NOT the type of bus you generally associate with New York City!

In my area in New Jersey, for a good part of the 60's, WHITES were quite common (as transits and suburbans)

The older 798's, in particular, were quite handsome; the last vanished around 1967.

As far as electronic signs go (and, of course, I much prefer rollsigns!) I also, like yourself, preferred the GRUMMAN-style signs, and also the RTS "T8J"......

"NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Broadway & 159th, 1983*.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3277

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*One thing I've noticed quite a bit here, in these late 1970's/early 1980's bus photos, is that, with very few exceptions, air conditioners are virtually unseen in almost most of the windows of the older apartment buildings/brownstones, old buildings that CLEARLY did not have central air!

In some photos, you'll see SOME a/c units in the windows of the surrounding buildings, but these are certainly in the minority.

NO WONDER why these residents PRAYED that they might be lucky enough to ride to work aboard a bus or a subway train that had (working) a/c!

That is something ELSE so many of us take for granted today.........

"NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Webster & 178th, 1972......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2104

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[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W. Farms Rd. & Hoe Avenue, 1972......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2114

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