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[MaBSTOA 15]

This is number 1592 a Yellow Coach model 731 New York City Omnibus.

Last I heard it was to be preserved.

Posting this to demonstrate the porcelain straps.

[MaBSTOA 15]

If you are wondering what a single door suburban would look like in NYCTA colors look no further than the following buses.

NY Transit Police

Number 3000 T8H-5307A

The only 5307 ordered by the City.

Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority ? Long Island Bus

Numbers 103-104 S8M-5304A
Numbers 113-120 S8H-5304A
Numbers 121-122 S8M-5304A

All these buses were acquired in 1973 and all arrived in the two tone blue scheme. The Long Island Bus had an additional orange belt.

http://gallery.bustalk.info/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=118

http://gallery.bustalk.info/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=125

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

MaBSTOA 15:

EXCELLENT, OUTSTANDING photo of a VERY RARE piece of bus history!!!! (thanks for sharing!)

The porcelain straps are quite unusual; the buses I grew up with that DID have straps used unpainted metal/chrome.

Again, EXCELLENT photo.......would LOVE to see this rariry when it is FULLY restored to its former glory!

"NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Recalling........

Back in the early/mid-1980s, I clearly remember a group of ex-"O&B" semi-suburban Fishbowls (single door, plastic transit-style seating)

I remember the seats being pink, and the (Formica?) "paneling" featuring a "motif" popular in the early/mid-1960s.

These buses MIGHT have had metal straps, but, here, my memory is not 100% sure..............

"NYO"

["GMC"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Going further back.........

Until around 1977, I still clearly remember "MAPLEWOOD EQUIPMENT COMPANY" operating "semi-suburban" Old Looks; these buses were of the single-door configuration, jad standee windows, and transit-style seating..........

"NYO"

["NEW YORK EXPRESS"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

How did we all take scenes like this for granted......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155359

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156428

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["RIDE THE RED & TAN LINES"[

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

When those classic "Port-of-Authority" photos were taken, Your's Truly was only working down on "The Street" for two just years (and was but 24!)

Those handsome, ex-"O&B" and "INTER-CITY" Fishbowls then stopped right on our corner, and lord only knows how many times I commuted on them, not to mention riding them simply for the fun of it!

Man, it's all so long ago, now...........

"NYO"

["INTER-CITY LINES"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Fairview garage yard, 1982......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156410

(courtesy: nycsubway.org.

Looks like that forlorn-looking ex-INTER CITY "Jetson" had already been retired, when this photo was snapped.........

"NYO"

["RIVER ROAD EXPRESS"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here's a happier portrait of an ex-"INTER-CITY" Fishbowl, heading for the "Port-of-Authority" (Your's Truly has lived but 5 minutes from this photo location for over 50 years!)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156417

(courtesy:nycsubway.org)

Ahhhh, to go back in time, my friends..........

"NYO"

["NEW YORK BERGENLINE AVE/-UNION CITY"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Interesting!

"GARDEN STATE NATIONAL BANK" was where I opened my first bank account, way back in 1975!

Yje huge high ruse to the north is "The Greenhouse"; in the apartment Mom and I were then living in, we were just across McDonald's parking lt from this building, clearly visible from the kitchen and living room windows (facing north)

The bus stops then located on opposite corners of Anderson Avenue (perhaps 50 feet from our building, where we lived until late 1993)) was where you could board the "22" or any of the ex-"O&B" routes, as well as the old TNJ "B-1" (today's lallygagging "751)

Back then, we had FREQUENT, DIVERSE, and RELIABLE bus servuce here in town; sad to day, those halcyon days are now long, long gone.......

"NYO"

["22 HILLSIDE"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

This photo from 1981 indeed brings back great memories....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155424

(courtesy: nycsybway.org)

This nostalgic view dates to before the days when "ACADEMY" took over the "22" (this was back in the Fishbowl era); nite a TNJ Fishbowl just behind (this would have been either a "44" or a "21", both of which I was quite familiar with.

A few doors down (behind the photographer wasw"ALESSI's HOBBIES & MODELS", a small "hole-on-the-wall" establishment where Your's Truly was a steady customer for years.

Mom often shopped at "LITTLE MARCY's (across the street) taking the "22 down and back (this store is also long gone)

It was all a LOT of fun while it all lasted.........

"NYO"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Note:

When the above 1981 photo was taken, the "22" terminated at 14th Street at Hoboken, where, to reach the Terminal, you would transfer to a "WASHINGTON STREET" bus; a few Old Looks as late as 1985!)

That long-established little outfit, well-known for its "antique" fleet among bus fans, has now been gone many years........

"NYO"

["30X"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Further........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?157320

(couresty: nycsubway.org)

"M&G" was another pre-"ACADEMY"operator of the #22 (this "Dangerfield" is heading south towards Hoboken (note old PS line pole on the left; it was not removed until sometime in the late 1990s)

These buses (note no rear doors) were not popular with many passengers on the "22", is it was a heavy-loading line, carrying many shoppers.

However, some rear-exit "Dangerfields" also ran on the "22".


Man, the hundreds of buses I observed at this location, over the course of many years......

'NYO"