BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

HAD to post this here......enjoy!

https://patch.com/new-york/upper-west-side-nyc/where-59th-street-subway-station-new-indiana-jones-trailer (interesting little article!)

Note the timeless 1950's-era turnstiles (ahhh, the memories!); I wonder if these might have been supplied by the NYCTM?

Maybe it's just Your's Truly, but, given the first three letters of INDiana's first name, I would have thought that he (and his thundering steed!) would have stampeding through the "Eye-En-Dee"(!!)

Still.............

['NYO"

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Here's a few "related" photos for your viewing pleasure..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?7872

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?7870

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?109050

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?32276

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?130062

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4573

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?36252

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?77701

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["INDiana Jones"]

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Here's a few more interesting views.............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?38998

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?40313

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?119025

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?708

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4732

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2347

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?122511

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["GO BY SUBWAY!"]

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Interesting photo* here (only in "Noo Yawk", I suppose!)

https://hellgatenyc.com/subway-advertisement-indiana-jones-loudspeaker

["INDiana Jones RIDES again!"]

*(Also, note vintage turnstiles and ad poster for PAN AM)

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Compare the ventilation grills seen here at the IND's "G"/"GG" station at Myrtle-Willoughby (Stan Fischer's "home" station for many years) with those seen in the photo seen in the first link I posted here, regarding Indiana Jones storming the subway..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?922

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["GG"]

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Though this is, of course, an "Eye-En-Dee" station (145th Street), this 2010 photo is eerily reminiscent of the decades of decay ever-visible at the "Bee-Em-Tee's" Chambers Street station (ol' INDiana would clearly feel right at home in either station!)...............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?114035

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["INDEPENDENT SUBWAY SYSTEM"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Scroll down the page for an (interesting) photo of a gray-haired INDy ridin' the rails 'neath the streets of "Noo Yawk" (yeah, the other passengers DO seem to be attired a bit on the "wild side", but, hey, after all, it IS "Noo Yawk!)

This car is clearly based on an older model; note the roller curtain box just glimpsed on the left, also, note the subway map..............

https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-dial-destiny-neil-armstrong-buzz-aldrin-cameos/

["SUBWAY"]

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Near the bottom of the page, you'll see INDy upon his galloping steed, thundering down the tracks, with a train bearing down on him in the background, between stations........

https://www.magazinebulletin.com/harrison-ford-80-stars-in-first-trailer-for-indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny/

(One online article has a drawing of INDy with a #6 train in hot pursuit!)

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Interesting, also, to compare the original, 1900s-era mosaics in the IRT stations with the more modern, more "streamlined" tiled signs typical of the IND, by the 1930s.

Many BMT signs were "transitional", between the older IRT and the newer IND.............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?83220

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?71418

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?923

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

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W.B.:

Agreed 100%.

I have often thought that, had the "Eye-Are-Tee" opened either new "on line" stations (or, as part of a new line) during the 1930s, the overall design/tilework of the stations indeed would have reflcted the "Eye-En-Dee" (look at how the "Bee-Ess-Ess" in Philly (opened in 1928, four years before the "Eye-En-Dee") indeed had a strong (dare I say?) INDpedent look to it, reflecting the upcoming era of the 8th and 6th Avenue lines, during the 1930s.

Also, recall the "Aitch & EM's" new 33rd Street station of 1940; it, too, clearly reflected the "modern" styling of the 8th And 6th Avenue subways........

"NYO"

["33"]

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Wb.:

Talk about "NOSTALGIA".........Your's Truly (when he was MUCH, MUCH younger!) clearly recalls this incandescent-lit entrance sign at 33rd Street, directing passengers to the IRT/BMT/PATH...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?143847

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["HUDSON RAPID TUBES"]

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33rd Street, just prior to the "PA" car-era (ahhh, what happy childhood memories this timeless scene evokes!)

Note the spacious, modern layout here; this easily could have been an "Eye-En-Dee" terminal station........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21757

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["TO JOURNAL SQUARE"]

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Station signage/tile (BSS); compare to IND tilework............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?95817

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?143850

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?143934

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

['J.G.BRILL"]

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"8TH AVENUE" (BMT Canarsie line)

(note new Vickers frieze in two photos)...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1463

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1464 (IND styling, for sure!)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1461)

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["TRAINS TO CANARSIE"]