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"Big Top Buses" (Two lost eras recalled here).....
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 11:37 am    Post subject: "Big Top Buses" (Two lost eras recalled here)..... Reply with quote

........both the New Look/Old Look era and Ringling Bros. Circus are now historical shadows.......what was yesterday's commonplace is now today's history lesson.

We start our nostalgic "trip through time" in New Jersey........

"NYO"

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3466

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Date this classic scene to 1971.......

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

5th and 34th, 1970.......

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Coliseum garage, 1970.......

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Central Park N. & Lenox, 1981 (also note "2 BUS SHUTTLE" and "2" placards in the windshield).....

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Park Row & Beekman, 1972.......

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lex & 34th, 1971.......

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 2:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Broadway & 52nd, 1981.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2532

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Broadway & 86th, 1981......

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

41st St. and 1st Avenue, 1972......

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Broadway & 42nd, 1972........

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

86th & 2nd, 1981........

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Recalling "BARNUM" the musical......and METROBUSES to the rescue! (24th & 5th, 1981........

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

34th & Park Avenue, 1982........

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Union Sq. W. and 15th, 1972.......

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