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W.B. Fishbowl
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Note how the stylish "STEINWAY" script above the windows of this "slant back" RTS recalls both "Soiface" and "stoa", way back in the day............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153400
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Actually, both "Soiface" ("Ride the Surface Way") and 1940's "Fack-Oh" and NYCO ("Go the Motor Coach Way"). " 'stoa's" script was the "Tee-Yay's" and considerably different. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Speaking of "above the window" script lettering.........
Recall the big TDH-5502s (the only ones built) for the CMCCo ("Shik-aka")
I have one framed historic photo given to me nearly 30 years ago, showing CMCCo #544, with the slogan "THE BOULEVARD ROUTE" (in script) quite priminent over the windows....quite stylish, indeed! 
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Further..........
Through the mid-1950s, the (now sadly defunct) "DE CAMP" had its name spelled out in block letters under the windows; by the later 1950s, the buses now carried the stylish, attractive "DE CAMP BUS LINES" script over the windows, and was thus displayed for many years............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153620
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 11:09 am Post subject: |
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Also........
Several other NJ-based carriers also utilized script lettering on its buses, including:
ORANGE & BLACK
RED & TAN
BLUE & WHITE
DOMENICO
INTER-CITY
MANHATTAN LINES
LAKELAND
WESTWOOD COACHES
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 8:58 am Post subject: |
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That Pioneer bus in the 2d photo . . . I know the color scheme is different, but in how it was shaped, I wonder if they took after the "Em-Tee-Yay's" two-tone blue scheme . . .
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 10:46 am Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Funny you should note this........
I also was thinking along the same lines, with the "Em-Tee-Yay's" two-tone blue arrangement coming to mind.
I now wonder what the "Are-Tee-Es" might have looked like, adorned in that two-tone blue?
Interestingly, the scheme worn by the "Are-Tee-Es" seemed to fit them, but looked totally out-of-place when applied to the Fishbowls and "Dangerfields"............
"NYO"
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 10:22 am Post subject: |
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I'm just 'briving a dus'......."
Earlier, 1010 WINS anchor Scott Stanford reported that, yesterday, Mayor Mamdani boarded a "Q70" bus on Roosevelt Avenue, and got behind the wheel, a la Ralph Kramden, while discussing the future of free buses on all lines.
The busy "Q70", according to Mr. Stanford, is currently the only free route in the city...........
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Flyer_Xcelsior
(I've also seen photos of "Slinkies" on the "Q70")
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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The name "New Flyer" has long reminded me of the old "Radio Flyer" red wagons from people's childhood (which they still make, B.T.W.):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Flyer |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Yours Truly, well over 60 years ago, also had one of those iconic "RADIO FLYERS"; mine became a makeshift NHBL bus, and I still remember calling out stops, intoning "PLEASE LEAVE BY THE REAR DOOR"......hey, I was only 7!
(sure was LOT of fun, though!) 
"NYO"
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