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Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:20 pm Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
Man, even an 870 (aka "New-and-improved 'Bomber' ") would be a welcome sight these days; last NJT buses I liked where the NOVA "Torpedoes" of the later 1990s, and even they are now ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:17 pm Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
Distinct era came to a sad end with the following:
The end of both FACL and SURFACE as independents.
The last "Tee-Yay" and "stoa" buses carrying the stylish script over the ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:48 am Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B.:
Dare I ask, WHAT (pray tell) "bus" is a "Rolling Wurlitzer"????
Why, those usually called "Artics." (Wurlitzer was one of man ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:28 am Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
There's a Facebook page about the history of MaBSTOA depots / garages:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1414625268790115/
A few photos of both the old buses that were buses, as well as the newer ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:07 pm Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
Further on nycsubway.org bus photos............
"Stoa" photos depicting "Shermans" only date to 1969/1970 (nothing at all from the early-"stoa" era); even these are in ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:40 pm Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
"CONTRASTS" (1981).......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153205 *
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153320
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
*The contrast is sharp and profound in ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:29 am Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
Too bad that the "Em-Tee-Yay" never rostered any of these........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153402
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153399
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:45 pm Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B.:
Again, I greatly appreciate your always "in depth" historical info.
I am sure that the following question had to have been posed (and answered) long ago here in another topic, bu ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:47 am Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
"Stoa" nostalgia from the early 1980's...............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153779
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155547
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1 ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:39 pm Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
WB:
As always, detailed, excellent response, recalling the "olden days"!
You also just mentioned a "steep angled path on Lexington".....going by this early 1980s phot ... |
Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:59 am Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
Thought.............
Imagine if "stoa" had purchased only "Dangerfields", at least until production ended, after the last "Shermans" were retired?
Personally, I alw ... |
Topic: What does the future hold for the PABT? |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:56 pm Subject: What does the future hold for the PABT? |
I have my own memories . . . back in the day (1970's), across from the PABT on Ninth Avenue was an M.H. Lamston's 5 & 10 store that my mother and I frequently went to . . . sadly, the building o ... |
Topic: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this! |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:51 am Subject: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this! |
Right on the mark, for sure:
In the excellent little book, "THE BUS WE LOVED" (London's Love Affair with The Routemaster) by travis Elborough, used this less-than-flattering description f ... |
Topic: What does the future hold for the PABT? |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:41 pm Subject: What does the future hold for the PABT? |
This gray guy fondly remembers the old "Port-of-Authority", back in the 1960s............
Huge ornaments and banners hanging from the lofty ceilings of the main concourse at Christmas.
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Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:38 am Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2") |
And here we "Yanks" thought that our GRUMMANS were "hard luck buses"........(!!)
See:
www.countrybus.org/merlswft/swift.html
Not surprisingly, these otherwise goo ... |
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