BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Agreed!

"NYO"

["TA"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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!)

"NYO"

["TDH-5105"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["DSR"]

[MaBSTOA 15]

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.

[Cyberider]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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")

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.............

"NYO"

["1 JOURNAL SQUARE"'

[Cyberider]

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.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["M9 CITY HALL"]

[Cyberider]

NYO,

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

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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

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

"'NYO"

["213"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

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.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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

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

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["TRIBORO"]