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  Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2")
W.B. Fishbowl

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PostForum: 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

Replies: 1375
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PostForum: 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

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: 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"???? Shocked Shocked Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
Why, those usually called "Artics." (Wurlitzer was one of man ...
  Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2")
W.B. Fishbowl

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: 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

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: 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

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: 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

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: 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)

...
  Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2")
W.B. Fishbowl

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: 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

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:47 am   Subject: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2")
"Stoa" nostalgia from the early 1980's............... Very Happy

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

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: 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"! Wink

You also just mentioned a "steep angled path on Lexington".....going by this early 1980s phot ...
  Topic: MaBSTOA Nostalgia ("Take 2")
W.B. Fishbowl

Replies: 1375
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PostForum: 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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PostForum: 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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PostForum: 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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PostForum: 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

Replies: 1375
Views: 531790

PostForum: 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"........(!!) Shocked

See:

www.countrybus.org/merlswft/swift.html

Not surprisingly, these otherwise goo ...
 
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