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Buses/subways in "All In The Family" (Da Bronx)
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B.:

Agreed! Wink

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From "Dee-troit" to Queens.......

This link provides a large number of photos of the "Shermans" (Old Looks) that ran in "Dee-Troit" until the early 1970s.......

www.detroittransithistory.info/PhotoGalley/Photos1950sC.html

Be sure to notice the photos depicting the different types (some almost like billboards!) displayed on the rear of the buses.

Note, also, the photo of a (Detroit) 1200-series Old Look (one of eight buses) that was later sold to "QUEENS TRANSIT" (these were REAL buses!) Wink

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in the day......

"QUEENS TRANSIT" #876, when this 1970s photo was taken, was indeed a looooong way from home base "Dee-troit"...............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153752

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually 876 is no where near Queens or the Bunker household.

It is on route M-9 of Avenue B and East Broadway Transit. Look at the destination sign. Also note the GM new look and the Flxible behnd it.

876 was one of three ex-Queens Transit #s 876-877, 882 acquired by Ave. B from Queens Transit. And the three buses originally started out at Detroit Street Railway.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
From "Dee-troit" to Queens.......

This link provides a large number of photos of the "Shermans" (Old Looks) that ran in "Dee-Troit" until the early 1970s.......

www.detroittransithistory.info/PhotoGalley/Photos1950sC.html

Be sure to notice the photos depicting the different types (some almost like billboards!) displayed on the rear of the buses.

Note, also, the photo of a (Detroit) 1200-series Old Look (one of eight buses) that was later sold to "QUEENS TRANSIT" (these were REAL buses!) Wink

"NYO"

If they had to get rid of their PCC's, at least they got the best buses of the day. (or maybe of all time)

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider:

The Old Look was, without a doubt, a true "ALL-AMERICAN" bus (actually, the same could be said for the Fishbowl)

The once oh-so-commonplace Old looks were rugged, solid, reliable, and attractive (can't say the same for today's insipid "BINOs", which translates into "Buses In Name Only") Rolling Eyes

In looking back to the Old Looks I grew up with in the 1960s, I often wonder which had been purchased new by an operator, or, had been purchased second-hand.

The long-defunct "WASHINGTON STREET LINES" in Hoboken, through the 60s, was still operaing prewar and early postwar buses of various makes; erven in later years, they only purchased used buses (but how interesting was the fleet!)

The handful of Old Looks here that made it into the 1980s have now been gone almost 40 years......and I still miss 'em today.

Note that the last Old Looks in Detroit were retired in 1973; that's about the same time that the last of the breed disappeared from the MTA (NYC) fleet.............

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NYO,

I think the last Phoenix Old Looks lasted until the early 1980's and it seems like the Fishbowls were gone not long after that.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider wrote:
NYO,

I think the last Phoenix Old Looks lasted until the early 1980's and it seems like the Fishbowls were gone not long after that.


Cyberider:

In 1986, the few ex-PSNJ 4509s that ran on Washington Street in Hoboken were retired; that same year, the last few Old Looks running on the NHBL's #1 (this was one of the lines that ran by our old apartment house when I was a kid) also disappeared; it was VERY hard to bid a final "farewell" to these beloved childhood friends......... Crying or Very sad

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Recall, also, that, like "QUEENS TRANSIT", the now-defunct "LITTLE RED BUS THAT COULD" ("AVENUE B") also once operated Old Looks that hailed from the far-off Midwest, in this case "Shik-aga".............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153050

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153047

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153049

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NYO,

Didn't know Ave. B got buses from Chicago. These buses look pretty good!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider wrote:
NYO,

Didn't know Ave. B got buses from Chicago. These buses look pretty good!


Cyberider:

These buses were originally operated by "SOUTH SUBURBAN SAFEWAY LINES", and ran in express service to downtown Chicago.

They also rostered "semi suburban" Old Looks (single door, standee windows, some with a/c; several North Jersey suburban carriers operated similar buses)

They operated TDH-5303s and TDH-5105s; interestingly, the 5105s were purchased second-hand from Detroit...............

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Further............

"AVENUE B", it should be noted also operated nine Fishbowls (5302s), which were purchased from Rochester............

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And as we've expostulated on in past posts, there is no doubt why Avenue B went "elsewhere" for old buses: the TA and MaBSTOA saw more "value" in scrapping old and retired but still somewhat functional buses than letting others have a go at them.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2025 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fellows:

As we had been discussing the buses (and subways) in "The Borough of Bunker" (Queens), here's an interesting, detailed article (w/many photos, etc) that should be shared here.............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Heights-Roosevelt_Avenue/74th_Street_station

(much on the subways here, as well as the buses; much of interest)


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The same facility, circa-1950, back in the days of "Kramdens" and WHITES.............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154323

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