BusTalk

[Hart Bus]

This question may have been asked and answered before on this board, but I don't have the time to scroll through 10 pages of posts in the section.

I remeber a depot on the south side of Northern Blvd around 77th street that served the #15 route (possibly split with a Manhattan Depot) ant the #16 route. I believe that the building carried on as a car dealership (Plymouth ?) into the 1970's if not later.

Any pictures would be appreciated.........


Thanks in Advance

Alan Aron

[future_bus_operator]

I grew up near that area but I don't ever recall a bus depot being there. The closest depot to the area which you are referring to would be LaGuardia depot on 85th St/23rd Ave. Of course the nearest bus terminal is on 74th St/Broadway.

[Hart Bus]

[future_bus_operator]

Yes sir, that is correct, I was born in 1969. I would like to know the answer to your question as well. I am going to ask your question on a jackson heights forum, they have long time J.H. residents on there.

[Free-transfer]

If this old fart had to take an educated guess...I'd say the dealership was probably Future Motors. Future was the largest NYC Dodge taxi dealership at the time, also selling the complete Dodge, Chrysler and Plymouth line.

Lets not forget the Old Queens-Nassau garage at 51st and Northern in Woodside, now part of a shopping plaza.

[Hart Bus]

[Mr. Linsky]

This isn't going to come near solving the problem at hand, but I thought you might like a little very interesting reading in the form of an article that appeared in the New York Times in 1900 via the URL below.

It's really a great piece of FACCO history.

Note; the 'automobiles' referred to in the article were 'Battery Cars' which proved to be inadequate on the long runs from lower to upper Manhattan and were almost immediately replaced with horse drawn stages until the debut of FACCO's first real bus in 1907.

Enjoy.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, NY

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E0DD143DE433A25750C0A9679C946197D6CF

[DEVILBUS65]

That yard on Northern Blvd & 51st street was the trolley yard too. We had a guy who sold tie clips and belt buckles at Queen Surface who brought a book of old pictures from those pre-bus days. Shots of the trolley cars on the outer roadway of the Queensborough Bridge that were soon to become the Q-101 Steinway St line from Steinway transit and a ton of pictures from the Queens Nassau trolley yard. Gee I wish I'd bought that book.

[Mr. Linsky]

D.B.,

Is this something like what you're talking about?

BTW; the Q.B. Trolley ran up until April of 1957 and was one of the last operating traction lines in New York City.

Photos borrowed for educational purposes only.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, NY

[DEVILBUS65]

Yes,although it was all black and white photos and they were in a binder. There had to be about 50 pages.

[DEVILBUS65]

By the way the road instructor who trained me at first week at Steinway Transit had operated trolley cars. My first week was his last week.

[Mr. Linsky]

D. B.,

You bring up something interesting;

I posted an article from the New York Times the other day on this and two other sites having to do with cuts in crosstown night bus operations and entitled it 'Cross Town Night Cars in Jeopardy'.

In one response from a member of another network I was asked why I used the term 'cars' instead of 'buses'.

Good question!; When I worked summers for Green Bus Lines in the late fifties many of the top seniority hired drivers from the twenties and thirties were originally trolley motormen and referred to their buses as cars (from the expression 'trolley car').

I guess it caught on because we all began referring to our rides as cars instead of buses.

I rather like using it because of its nostalgic ring.

Mr. 'L'

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