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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a rare and handsomely-restored WHITE 798, resplendent in classic "RED & TAN" livery.
R&T used WHITES into the early 1960's.
Note the destination sign:
"DOWNTOWN TO FULTON ST. BROOKLYN"
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3031
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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Like so many of the "fallen flag" bus old companies many of us older fellows remember, the "RED & TAN" offered frequent service to many destinations, 50-odd years ago.
For instance, R&T's "#99s" once served (from the PABT):
WEEHAWKEN
UNION CITY
JERSEY CITY
BAYONNE
STATEN ISLAND
PERTH AMBOY
KEYPORT*
KEANSBURG*
*Until late 1966, these towns were also served by the CNJ's Atlantic Highlands branch.
As per a 1964 TT, tickets for this line could be purchased at:
PABT (windows #'s 19 through 23)
STATEN ISLAND:
"FINK'S PRINCESS BAY GARAGE"
PERTH AMBOY:
"PURITY ICE CREAM SHOP" (Man, talk about going back to Norman Rockwell's America!)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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In this discussion, we cannot leave out "DOMENICO"; this photo from 1975, showing #537 on a long-ago fan trip, is wonderfully dated in a number of ways.....
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2295
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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Back in the day......
"RED & TAN" dated back to an era when there were several bus companies that used the color of their buses as the company name:
"RED & TAN"
"ORANGE & BLACK"
"BLUE & WHITE"
(Jersey City locals, long ago, often referred to the "MONTGOMERY & WEST SIDE" buses as "The Red Bus")
As seen on the front of their timetables, "INTER-CITY" buses were known as "The Brown Bus With The Orange Band".........
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Note the "RIDE THE RED BUS" placard which is displayed on the front of this "AVENUE B & E. BROADWAY" Fishbowl.
As so many Jersey City residents, years ago, referred to the old "MONTGOMERY & WEST SIDE" buses as "The Red Bus", this sign would have been quite appropriate to use (albeit with Jersey City destinations!)
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?88
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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A few personal memories of the "Red & Tan".......
Just prior to the opening of the new PATH Transportation Center at JSQ, I took a number of photos of the buses loading "out on the Square", knowing that scenes like this would soon be history (If I had a scanner, you may be sure I'd share these pictures here!)
I took two photos that featured a R&T Old Look; one is a view looking towards the buses as they were loading, from left to right, a R&T Old Look on the "#2", a "LAFAYETTE & GREENVILLE" Old Look, and a SHBL Old Look.
The other photo shows the rear of the R&T bus, its rear ad frame devoid of a placard; though the number of the bus is not seen, the license plate was:
"OXR-299"
One time, in the early 80's, I was coming home from work in Lower Manhattan, and decided to go to JSQ (via PATH), so I could ride a NHBL Old Look on the #1, and travel up to Nungessers, where I could then catch a "#22 HILLSIDE" for home (usually, this NHBL #1 bus was on Old Look either B-118 or B-145).
I was surprised to see a "RED & TAN" Old Look sitting in the #'s parking slot, and I thought, hey, this is a treat!
Well, it turned out that, for some reason, a R&T Old Look was in the SAME spot usually (always) occupied by a NHBL #1! (there was also no one in the little start's booth at the end of the platform, across from the #1's loading position)
I didn't think much of it, until I saw the driver signalling to make a left turn off the Boulevard and head west to Secaucus!
Turns out this was a #2 R&T in the WRONG slot!!!!
The friendly driver let me off, and I just waited at the NHBL stop for another #1 (this next #1 was a Fishbowl)
I only wish I had my KODAK Instamatic that day....but, at least, I still have the memories!
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