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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23011 Location: NEW JOISEY
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2462 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 12:01 am Post subject: |
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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! |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 12:43 am Post subject: |
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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! |
traildriver:
I guess that the WABC jingle truly shouted out "NEW YORK!" to many more than we could ever realize!
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!
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.......
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......
"NYO" |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23011 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 12:58 am Post subject: |
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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
(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org) |
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Dan
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 35 Location: Staten Island, NY
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 9:22 am Post subject: |
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Nice photo, never knew that the R9X ran to Great Kills Park. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23011 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Dan wrote: |
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!
Glad you liked the photo.......
"NYO" |
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2487 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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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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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2487 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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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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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2487 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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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! |
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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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2487 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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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 ). |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23011 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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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 ). |
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.......
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