BusTalk

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W.B.:

Waaaaay back when veteran Bill Jorgenson was anchoring the 10 0' Clock News on WNEW, my folks and I would always watch the entertainment report (Fridays) with Rona Barrett ("Greetings, everyone!")

Also on Fridays, ,on Eyewitness News, we'd also watch Bob Lape, ("The Eyewitness Gourmet")

I also remember John Johnson doing a report on the experiment to bring back double-deckers to "5th Aven-oo"......now THAT was a LOOOOONG time ago!

"NYO"

["Where did the years get to?"]

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"GO 'KAN-IKKER-BOKKERS' "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NBA CHAMPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND THE FANS ARE GOING ABSOLUTELY WILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"NYO"

["VICTORY!"]

Think of the Knicks in 1973............and "Arnines" still in "soivice".....Fishbowls and "Dangerfields"on the streets....and the IRT all "SMEES"........(!!)

[W.B. Fishbowl]

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W.B.:

Of course, the Mets HAD to be the ONOLY "Noo Yawk" team to LOSE,today of all days.

Back in '73, "The Poseidon Adventure" was in all the "thee-ate-ers", and fare on "The Tubes" was but THIRTY CENTS!!(and Your's Truly was in junior high!)

The Erie-Lackawanna, CNJ, and Penn-Central were nmot yet "fallen Flags", amn AMTRAK was but two years old!

BTW:

Ticker Tape parade for the "Kann-ikker-bokkers" is this "Thoisday"!

"NYO"

["GO, KNICKS!"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

Also something else to think about . . .

The 53-year gap between NBA championship titles for the "Ka-nicker-bockers" was second only to the 54-year gap between Stanley Cup championships for fellow Garden denizens, the "Rayn-jers." You want to talk about stark differences? Well . . . for starters . . .
- In 1940, the Garden the Rangers played in was much different: at Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th. (The current Garden opened in 1968 - on the spot of the ultimate "fallen flag," the original Penn Station.)
- In 1940, there were the then-relatively spanking new "Arnines," but also the "Eye-Are-Tee" had 'em all from the Gibbs cars to the "Lo-V's" underground (and, on the Flushing line, the World's Fair cars), and the MUDC's and Composites on the "el's"; and on the "Bee-Em-Tee," there were, underground, the "Broadway Battleships" and Triplexes, plus the original "Bloo-boids" and, on the 14th Street-Canarsie (and other) lines, the "Multis," plus everything above ground from gate cars to Q's. By 1994, all that was swept aside: all GOH'd R-32's to R-46's on the IND/BMT side, plus the SMEE's and still shiny new "Silverboids" on the IRT.
- In 1940, the buses that "soived" the Garden were NYCO's #10 Eighth Avenue line and Comprehensive Omnibus' M-3 49th-50th Streets Crosstown. FACCo still ruled the roost up and down Fifth "Aven-yew," and the "Little Red Bus That Could" was eight years old; Broadway and 42nd Street were still being "soived" by TARS streetcars (as was "Toid Aven-yah"). The buzzword in terms of bus models in 1940, especially with FACCo and NYCO, was "Yellow." By 1994, all of the above were run by the "Em-Tee-Yay," with the Fishbowls nearing the end of the line, the "Dangerfields' " line having already ended, and the "Are-Tee-Ess" ruling the roost.
- Most important of all: In 1940, all Manhattan avenues were crosstown. Between 1948 and 1966, almost all were converted to one-way one way or another (although Eleventh Avenue would be so converted in the 1980's).
- And basketball had not yet become a professional sport in 1940.
- In 1940, the "Pennsy" and the "Noo Yawk Central" still ruled the rails at their respective terminals, and the "Tubes" were still under the purview of McAdoo's "baby," the H&M. Plus it being 10 years before the "Port-of-Authority" opened its then-spanking new bus terminal. Which was turned into the monstrosity it would remain by the time the Rangers won their next Stanley Cup in '94.

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W.B.:

One of your BEST posts, indeed!!!

A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

"NYO"

["73"]

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The way we were, in '73..............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153372

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154568

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1971

(courtesy: nycsubwau.org)

["M"]

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The '73 "Kan-ikker-bokkers" (also,note TV and radio coverage).......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972-73_New_York_Knicks_season

["WOR"]

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"Isle of Staten", 1973..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?45577

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?115333

(coirtesy:nycsubway.org)

["RIDE THE RAPID"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]