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Remember the 77 WABC bus placards?
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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nostalgia galore in this classic 1972 Brooklyn street scene......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1423

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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Battery Pl. & Washington, 1972.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1561

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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

More Brooklyn nostalgia, 1972.........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1589

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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Avenue U and 71st ST., 1972........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1271

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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 12:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the movie, "Midnight Cowboy", Joe Buck, Jon Voight's character, is riding cross-country from Texas to New York on a "National Lines" GMC PD-4107. In one scene, he his holding his big radio as suddenly you hear Ron Lundy and the WABC jingle...Joe gets all excited and turns to his seatmate exclainimg: "Do you hear that, ma'am? That's New York City! Smile
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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

traildriver wrote:
In the movie, "Midnight Cowboy", Joe Buck, Jon Voight's character, is riding cross-country from Texas to New York on a "National Lines" GMC PD-4107. In one scene, he his holding his big radio as suddenly you hear Ron Lundy and the WABC jingle...Joe gets all excited and turns to his seatmate exclainimg: "Do you hear that, ma'am? That's New York City! Smile


traildriver:

I guess that the WABC jingle truly shouted out "NEW YORK!" to many more than we could ever realize! Shocked

WABC, somehow, seemed a "hometown" station, despite it's Gotham home; it seemed to both symbolize and characterize that truly "big city" character.......millions, clearly, knew...and loved....that classic "WABC" jingle, as well as the station.....to me, it was indeed "NOO YAWK" all the way! Wink

I always like thinking about how many bus drivers, back in the day, listened to WABC over their transistor radios....must have been MORE than several....... Rolling Eyes

Guys like ourselves, who still recall those halcyon days with great pleasure....not only recall the cool tunes we heard on WABC....but also....the cool BUSES that we rode......AND photographed so nonchalantly, back in the day......

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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 12:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's nostalgia time once again, guys........ "AND, LET'S LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!!!"

".........77 DOUBLEYOUUUUAAAYYYYBEEEECEEEEE......"

A classic Brooklyn street scene dating to 1973.........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1882


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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Battery Pl. & Washington, 1972.......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1561
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Nice photo, never knew that the R9X ran to Great Kills Park.
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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan wrote:
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Battery Pl. & Washington, 1972.......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1561
(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)


Nice photo, never knew that the R9X ran to Great Kills Park.


Dan:

Not being a New Yorker (although I DID work there 25 years!), I love learning about New York bus operations, especially in a historical context; vintage photos like these are great "learning aids"!

Going by these photos (as well as my personal memories) it is easy to see that Ringling Bros. strongly believed in advertising their shows via bus advertising! Wink

Glad you liked the photo....... Very Happy

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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
8th St. and 4th Ave., 1973........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1974

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I see the side sign says "2 - MADISON AVE VIA 116 ST." Must've been printed prior to the one-way conversions of Madison and 5th (after all, this bus was made in '64) . . . and by 1973 that line was the 3rd-Lexington-Lenox M101A anyway.
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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Jay & High, 1972........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1441

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There are memories attached to that station, as well. This would have been after Imus in the Morning first showed up . . .
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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

traildriver wrote:
In the movie, "Midnight Cowboy", Joe Buck, Jon Voight's character, is riding cross-country from Texas to New York on a "National Lines" GMC PD-4107. In one scene, he his holding his big radio as suddenly you hear Ron Lundy and the WABC jingle...Joe gets all excited and turns to his seatmate exclainimg: "Do you hear that, ma'am? That's New York City! Smile

Interesting. WABC was as much "New York" in the '60's and '70's as "All News, All the Time" 1010 WINS would be starting some two decades after.
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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There were other WABC signs, from after that 1973 set of photos, many of them (I think) on the 'batwings' signs atop the passenger windows. I'm sure many around here would love to see those . . . (I'm talking before they ditched the 'Musicradio' moniker in 1980, folks Wink ).
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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B. Fishbowl wrote:
There were other WABC signs, from after that 1973 set of photos, many of them (I think) on the 'batwings' signs atop the passenger windows. I'm sure many around here would love to see those . . . (I'm talking before they ditched the 'Musicradio' moniker in 1980, folks Wink ).


W.B:

I think you are pretty much on target with the "MuicRadioWABC" jingle demise; that seems to be about the time that I can last recall hearing it.

Can't believe it is almost 40 years ago, now....... Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"On Duty" along Avenue H., 1972.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1902

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