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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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Broadway & 173rd, 1983.
Though 1982's Puerto Rican Day parade was still several months off when this wintertime shot was snapped, one could still be treated to one of the most familiar of all " 'Noo Yawk' In Winter" sights......a city bus covered in grimy, sooty, wintertime grunge....timeless, indeed.......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3282
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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3rd Avenue & 72nd, 1981* (#8594 is here carrying a dash ad in Spanish for NY Telephone)........
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2916
(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)
*A "bison" can be seen approaching in the background...... |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:04 am Post subject: |
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32nd & 7th, 1981.
GRUMMAN #PA 113 is seen here displaying (another) dash advertisement in Spanish for NY Telephone......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3255
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:30 am Post subject: |
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With the current health crises, the St. Patrick's Day Parade (as I am sure you already know by now) has been cancelled.
No 5th Avenue bus routes will need to be re-routed on that day, now.....
Let's hope, however, that, in a few months, the current situation will get better, allowing the Puerto Rican Day Parade to step off in all its flamboyant colors, costumes, and music......and, that, once again, bus re-routings will again be in effect........
Stay SAFE and HEALTHY, guys!
"NYO" |
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2422 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | With the current health crises, the St. Patrick's Day Parade (as I am sure you already know by now) has been cancelled.
No 5th Avenue bus routes will need to be re-routed on that day, now.....
Let's hope, however, that, in a few months, the current situation will get better, allowing the Puerto Rican Day Parade to step off in all its flamboyant colors, costumes, and music......and, that, once again, bus re-routings will again be in effect........
Stay SAFE and HEALTHY, guys!
"NYO" |
One wonders what longtime WPIX St. Patrick's Day Parade host Jack McCarthy would've thought of these events of the current day. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
In my day, we kids all loved "Captain Jack" hosting vintage "Popeye" cartoons at 3PM on WPIX 11; I still remember him ringing his ship's bell six times, before intoning:
"SIX BELLS! THREE O' CLOCK, AND ALL IS WELL, AND WELCOME ABOARD!"
Being part Irish myself (on my mother's side) I, of course, felt quite saddened that the St. Patrick's Day Parade was cancelled, but, I was also in total agreement that cancelling the parade was the RIGHT thing to do, due to present health circumstances (I know Chicago's parade had been cancelled just prior to the announcement that New York's parade was not going to be held)
IMHO, "Cap'n Jack" was as much an integral part of the Parade as were the bagpipers and shamrocks; he was, through the parade, an endearing symbol of Irish New York, may he RIP.........
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Jack McCarthy was born in 1914 and passed away in 1996; he was an integral part of the St. Patrick's Day parade for 41 years, until covering his last parade in 1989.
As I had mentioned previously, "Cap'n Jack" also hosted the "Popeye" show on WPIX 11 from 1963 until 1972..........
"NYO" |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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It's also interesting to remember that, at one time, Irishmen dominated much of transit in New York (and many other cities as well, most notably, Boston)
For years, it was said that "IRT" stood for "Irish Rapid Transit" and "Irish Run Trains".
Here, and elsewhere, back in the streetcar days, the streetcar men who overwhelmingly Irish (and Catholic)
Decades later, when Puerto Rican bus drivers, motormen, and conductors began to be commonplace on the "Tee-Yay" and the "Em-T-Ay", they did have something in common with their Irish counterparts of an earlier era.
At one time, the Irish were blatantly (and often cruelly) discriminated against by "Yankees", who termed them "harps", muckers", "micks", "bog-trotters", and other unflattering names best forgotten.
Signs reading "NO IRISH NEED APPLY" were once commonplace, where job openings were available.
The Puerto Rican transit workers (largely Catholic, like the Irish) surely must have faced discrimination of their own, in the "Tee-Yay" days of the 50's and 60's.......
"NYO"
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