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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Old Look 4007
Age: 75 Joined: 01 May 2011 Posts: 19 Location: Stamford, CT
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Great FACC memories. Thanks!
Living about 35 miles from NY I rode one of the last Queen Mary's at the age of 5. And still recall seeing a 740 with a rebuilt 'old look' front end!
Guess I had bus blood in me at a very young age.
Still recall checking the 740 to see what kind of rear windows and engine hatch screens it had.
It's too bad bus book publishers never include rear view of the coaches. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Old Look:
Glad you're enjoying the thread! (Welcome aboard, BTW!)
I agree; most bus books seldom show the rears of the vintage coaches; I always remember the Old Looks with their large round rear windows, and the smaller, oval, or half-moon windows on the MACKS and ACF-Brills that I grew up with, back in the 60's.
According to my mother (now 93) I've had buses in my blood since before I was even a year old.....now,THAT I believe!
In Frank Rowsome Jr.'s classic "TROLLEY CAR TREASURY", there is a picture of one of the early 5Th Avenue DE DION "BOUTONS"; certainly looks like a MERCEDES product!
The De Dion coaches had, by the 1920's, become the "standard" bus type in Paris.
By the time I hit this planet, the last of the FACC double-deckers had already been gone nearly four years......oh, well!
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RailBus63 Moderator
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A question for the Fifth Ave. Coach historians on this board:
In the various NYC bus books that have been published in recent years, there are numerous photographs of FACCo buses in the Washington Square vicinity, usually with the Arch prominently in the background. By the 1970's, MaBSTOA buses no longer traveled on the streets through the square. Does anyone know when this routing change was made?
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Note:
On the page whose link I posted in the previous reply:
Click on: "HISTORY OF CURRENT MANHATTAN BUS ROUTES".......
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andy47
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 9:38 pm Post subject: Fifth Avenue Coach Washington Square termnal |
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Fifth Avenue buses stopped going through Washington Square around 1964. By then, of course, MABSTOA controlled the routes so that it was easy for NY City's government to ban the buses in Wash. Square Park. The buses were re-routed going east on 8th Street to Fourth Ave., where there was a stand for driver relief. NB buses went west on 9th Street and then north on 5th Ave. This would change in 1966 when Fifth and Madison Aves. became one way. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Just came across this photo (dated 1947) showing a FACC open-topper beneath the Washington Square Arch.
Note 1947 photo date; according to Oliver J. Ogden's "FIFTH AVENUE COACH COMPANY", the last buses of this type ran in 1946.
Still, a nostalgic vignette of a long-gone New York.....
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/test/175/pages/moses.htm
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Mr. Linsky BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Nice try, but it's a 1945 TD 4506!
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Mr."L"......
Recall, I used the word "POSSIBLY"?
As I was only hazarding a guess, I figured I MIGHT at least be CLOSE!
Anyway, appreciate the correct model designation!
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