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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 7:22 pm Post subject:

Cyberider:

TOTALLY AGREE! Wink

The famed (long-gone) "BAMBERGERS" department store, in fact, had entrances/exits to the basement level of the store at the City Subway's Broad Street (now Military Park) station; I remember this well, 60-odd years ago!

There were also escalators to and from the PS terminal at this station, which sat fenced off and forgotten for years, before they were removed when the entire station was renovated.

"BAMBERGERS" (known to us locals as "Bam's") also had the attraction of a (believe it or not!) a SUSPENDED MONORAIL TRAIN (kiddie-sized) that ran above one of the upper floors! Shocked

Back in the heyday of Newark's big department stores at Broad & Market ("Four Corners") PSNJ did a BOOMING business catering to the busloads and carloads of shoppers that once frequented these now long-gone stores..........

"NYO"

["7 CITY SUBWAY"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:54 pm Post subject:

Cyberider:

Thought this might be of interest to you (scroll down page for photos!)

"NYO"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_passenger_train_stations_in_Arizona

["AT&SF"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 1:03 pm Post subject:

The historic GREYHOUND station at Flagstaff, sadly, like virtually all other classic-era GREYHOUND stations, no longer exists.........

https://www.roadarch.com/bus/az.html

["TRAVEL STRAIGHT THRU-GO GREYHOUND!"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1009 Location: Tempe, AZ

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 5:24 pm Post subject:

Cyberider:

Sad to say, but AMTRAK has much in common with GREYHOUND; over the past few decades, hundreds of stations/depots were either closed altogether (leaving area residents with no intercity rail or bus service at all), OR, if service is STILL provided to a given city or town, now only utilizing a flimsy plastic bus shelter. or converted trailer.......how the mighty hath fallen! Sad

"NYO"

["BUSES STOP HERE"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:15 am Post subject:

1976 map of intercity bus routes in Arizona.............

https://www.chicagorailfan.com/greyhraz.html

["PHOENIX"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:14 am Post subject:

Though only dating back to the 1960s, this "historic" GREYHOUND depot no longer stands, yet another fallen monument to the once-vast, far-reaching GREYHOUND empire........... Sad

https://www.roadarch.com/bus/az.html

["GO GREYHOUND"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:14 pm Post subject:

Here is one of the giant, mutated centipedes that now infest Phoenix. ("QUICK, HENRY! THE FLIT!") Shocked

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?95229

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["QUICK, HENRY! THE FLIT!"] Razz

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:18 pm Post subject:

Note the photo of the restored 1928 Phoenix streetcar, (#116) a car built eons before today's giant insects began crawling through the streets......(!!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Metro_Rail

["Long Live REAL streetcars!!"] Wink

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 12:35 pm Post subject:

REAL streetcars, not giant insectoid mutants!!!!!!!!!!!! Wink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Street_Railway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Trolley_Museum

["2-CAPITOL"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1009 Location: Tempe, AZ

Yep, Phoenix used to have real streetcars (until 1948) instead of the generic junk it and every other "progressive" city has today. If you want to see something really ugly, check out the "Tempe Streetcar," also operated by Valley Metro.

The best reference on Phoenix streetcars, IMHO, is "Ride a Mile and Smile the While" by Lawrence J. Fleming. Might be hard to locate at this late date, though.