BusTalk

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:11 pm Post subject:

Here's another good rollsign "comparison" shot (Washington Plaza, 1972).......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153365

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["46 TO AVENUE N"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:15 pm Post subject:

Fishbowl meets "Panzier" (Washington Plaza, 1972).......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154626

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["B46 Avenue U"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:20 pm Post subject:

Same location, 1973.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153358

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["60 To Williams Avenue"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:11 pm Post subject:

4th Avenue 9th St., 1971......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153838

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["3 5TH & CONVENT AVENUES"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:11 pm Post subject:

12th Avenue & w. 42nd St., 1972......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154190

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["16 TO 1st AVE"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:15 pm Post subject:

Same location, ten years later.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155088

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["M"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:45 pm Post subject:

132nd St. yards, 1972............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153837

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["4 TO 135 ST-BWAY"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 12:05 am Post subject:

Green "Dangerfield" #4092 at Adams & Fulton, 1972......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154449

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["37 To Shore Road"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:27 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:48 pm Post subject:

W.B.:

The buses back then were "tagged"; the subway fleet, on the other hand, was "HIT", and I DO mean "HIT"! Sad

Good thing that the "Em-Tee-Yay" had already removed upholstered seats from the older cars then in service, before the vandalism blitz really spiraled out of control.

I've heard stories from the later 1960's/early 70's of mindless punks taking seat cushions and just tossing them down to the street from between cars, while on elevated lines. Sad

SCARY (and senseless) to be sure)............. Twisted Evil

"NYO"

["LEXINGTON AVE THRU EXP"]

B53RICH · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 254

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:13 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:17 pm Post subject:

While on the topic of "batwings"......

Who operated the most "batwing"-furnished buses, the "Tee-Yay" or MaBSTOA?

Personally, I still miss the "batwing" era, especially way back in the day, when there were still side roller sign boxes.......a number of American cities that once operated center-entrance streetcars also had large roller curtain boxes at the center doors.........

"NYO"

["Manhattan & Bronx Surface Operating Authority"

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:25 pm Post subject:

Avenue H & Flatbush, 1972........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154902

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["41 TO AVE U"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:27 pm Post subject:

Kings Highway & E. 38th, 1972*..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154927

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["5 TO RYDER ST"]

*(Note that Fishbowl #8877 is displaying an "all caps" front sign, along with a newer upper and lower-case side sign)