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MaBSTOA 15
Age: 70 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1058
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Note the Mack C-50 in the back on route 15, Jackson Heights.
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:59 am Post subject: |
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MaBSTOA 15 wrote: | Note the Mack C-50 in the back on route 15, Jackson Heights. |
I noticed the MACK, too.....I nice little "bonus" to an already nostalgic street scene.......
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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This is an interesting photo; note that the front of the bus reflects distinct Old Look styling.
In Mr. Ogdens "NEW YORK'S FIFTH AVENUE COACH COMPANY", there is a picture showing a similar bus, a 1400 series.
These late 1930's YELLOWS were rebuilt after the War with post-1941 windshields and sealed beam headlights........
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1383
(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2411 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | This is an interesting photo; note that the front of the bus reflects distinct Old Look styling.
In Mr. Ogdens "NEW YORK'S FIFTH AVENUE COACH COMPANY", there is a picture showing a similar bus, a 1400 series.
These late 1930's YELLOWS were rebuilt after the War with post-1941 windshields and sealed beam headlights........
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1383
(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org) |
Those buses remained in place on crosstown routes well into the late 1950's, the last flagging they spotted on the sides was 'FIFTH AVENUE COACH LINES INC. OPERATOR'
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
I had the feeling that these unique buses were gone prior to 1960; these would have had to have been (if I am correct) the very last of the YELLOWS.
Too bad not one survives today in preservation.........
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2411 Location: New York, New York, USA
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I REPEAT:
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OUTSTANDING photos........now THESE are BUSES!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for posting!!
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2411 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 9:35 am Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | W.B.:
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I REPEAT:
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OUTSTANDING photos........now THESE are BUSES!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for posting!!
"NYO" |
This of course, when buses were buses. As opposed to enlarged milk cartons or impersonations of millipedes or whatever.
As for that pic of 819, can anyone vouch as to where that photo was taken based on the buildings and 'el' structure around them - around the area of the Polo Grounds, perhaps? I know by 1957 the 9 - 7th Avenue & 8th Street line was long gone (and its northernmost terminus was 59th and 7th anyway) . . .
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 10:49 am Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Well said!
These days, it seems that most buses and light rail cars more resemble giant caterpillars or oversized milk cartons than a transit vehicle (some are, indeed, even a bit scary!)
That the FACCO. ran its fleet along such a ritzy thoroughfare has indeed added to its "legendary" status; indeed, the Company was the most prestigious in New York, and, perhaps, in the United States!
It's fun (at least to me) to imagine our favorite bus driver, Ralph Kramden, driving for FACCo. instead of the Gotham Bus Company (my sincere apologies to Mr. Marshall!)
Had Ralph been driving for FACCo., I have the feeling that the Kramdens would have been residing in more "upscale" quarters, at least, in comparison to their rundown Brooklyn flat............
"NYO"
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2459 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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W.B. Fishbowl wrote: | This of course, when buses were buses. As opposed to enlarged milk cartons or impersonations of millipedes or whatever.
As for that pic of 819, can anyone vouch as to where that photo was taken based on the buildings and 'el' structure around them - around the area of the Polo Grounds, perhaps? I know by 1957 the 9 - 7th Avenue & 8th Street line was long gone (and its northernmost terminus was 59th and 7th anyway) . . . |
I agree...great photo's! Thanks for posting them...
I don't know where that photo was taken either, but it looks like mid-fifties judging by the dress, and the school building....
That was the time when they were dismantling the sole remaining El on Third Avenue, so I was thinking perhaps it could have been somewhere along that line?
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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All:
I was thinking perhaps this scene was near the Polo Grounds, at the stub end of the old Polo Grounds (IRT) shuttle, which was then quite skeletal in appearance.
Again, not being from New York, I can only make a guess.....
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2411 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | It's fun (at least to me) to imagine our favorite bus driver, Ralph Kramden, driving for FACCo. instead of the Gotham Bus Company (my sincere apologies to Mr. Marshall!) |
Gotham Bus, as an entity, seemed to have been loosely based on NYC Omnibus (which was an "affiliate" of FACCo due to both being owned by the same out-of-town firm up to 1954), and Mr. Marshall - wasn't he based, equally loosely, on longtime FACCo, NYCO, and later Surface Transit president John E. McCarthy?
Interestingly, in closeups the cap Gleason wore as Ralph bore the name of another firm which I'm wondering about its history - La Follette Coach Lines.
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Did not know that bit of interesting trivia on Ralph's cap! (I have to be sure to look for it when I get my "Original 39" DVD set in the mail within the next several days!)
Years ago, I purchased a CORGI Old Look, lettered for the "MADISON AVENUE COACH COMPANY", wearing the same paint scheme as the FACCo. version they also offered.
The destination sign reads: "4TH & MADISON/PARK ROW & BROADWAY VIA 42nd ST."
Bus # is 1707.
The catalogue I ordered it from listed it as "RALPH KRAMDEN'S BUS" (hmmmmm.....it wasn't lettered for the "GOTHAM BUS COMPANY".........
"NYO"
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