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W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 5:44 pm Post subject:

I mentioned all these milestones on SubChat, if you pass by; a color photo of the last two PCC's running that dark and stormy Halloween night in '56 was what I responded to.

I also brought up that, in the Dodgers' first few years in "El-Lay," there were still "trolley dodgers" owing to what was left of the once-vast "Pea-Ee" streetcar network in that city.

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 6:03 pm Post subject:

W.B.:

Indeed!

When "Dem Bums" played their last game at the storied, fabled Ebbets Field, the streetcars has already been gone from Brooklyn for nearly a year.

But, for a for years, in a sense, the team became a "trolley dodgers" ball club, once again........

"NYO"

["LATL"]

["LAMTA"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 8:19 pm Post subject:

1969.......

"Ol' tyme Brooklyn" indeed was "sucker punched" TWICE that year, especially transit-wise". Sad

The very last of the grpwling, hulking, fearsome, "Broadway Battleships" ("Standards") were retired; these rail-bound beasts had been an integral part of everyday life in Brooklyn since before WW1.

Then, that October, "da Moit", the very last of the Brooklyn elevateds were closed, taking with it the ancient, oh-so-charming wooden "Q" cars.

And, that SAME year, up in "da Bronx", the very last prewar IRT cars were retired from "soivice" on "da Toid Aven-uh" El. Sad

About the only good thing that year (at least locally) was that the Amazin' New York Mets won "da Woild Series".......... Wink

"NYO"

["TRAINS TO BROOKLYN-THIS STAIRWAY ONLY"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 6:01 am Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 9:13 am Post subject:

W.B.:

Well, at least when "The Amazins" won the '69 "Woild" Series, Mets fans were riding on da "Blueboids" (no graffiti!) out to the fabled Shea.... Wink

"NYO"

["7 TIMES SQUARE"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 9:20 am Post subject:

The Flushing line, as it was in '69........... Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4176

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?150607

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?94807 (note this "Blueboid" is up at the E. 180th Street yards)

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["7 MAIN STREET"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 9:30 am Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 10:03 am Post subject:

W.B.:

Back in the "oily" 80s, Your's Truly INDEED dies recall graffiti-scarred "Blueboids" on certain Lexington Avenue expresses; NEVER liked seeing them "off line", especially covered with the hideous handiwork of "frustrated urban artists" ("FUAs")...... Sad

"NYO"

["ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 10:13 am Post subject:

Sharp contrasts, indeed; how quickly things changed (and NOT for the better)........ Razz

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?39049

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4078

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["9560"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:57 pm Post subject:

....it took a REAL GENIUS indeed to come up with THIS totally insane paint scheme for the iconic "Bloo-boids" Razz

This was, in affect, simply providing the legions of "FUA" ("Frustrated Urban Arists") with a trainload of fresh canvases to create their "artwork".....(!!) Razz

Good show, Einstein! Razz

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?127815

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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