BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

From: "LOS ANGELES RAILWAY'S YELLOW CARS" (Jim Walker).......

".....in 1923, LARy and PE formed a joint operating company, the 'Los Angeles Motor Bus Company' to forestall bus-service competition.

".......the company was later renamed ''Los Angeles Motor Coach Company; LARY later added double-deckers to its fleet....."

The photo in the book shows bus #732 (FAGEOL); the bus has an open upper deck, and a (nearside) front door.......

"NYO"

["WILSHIRE"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

1928 YELLOW "Z" in the 1930 Stan & Ollie short, "HOG WILD".........

www.imcdb.org/vehicle_26832-Yellow-Coach-Z-AAAM-354-1928.html

["LOS ANGELES MOTOR COACH COMPANY"]



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[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

This 1948 "POPEYE" cartoon is a HOOT!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Oyl_for_President

In the dream sequence, Olive signs about how she would improve bus transportation in the cities.....

".......if I were President! If I were President! Each bus would have a smoother run, with lots of room for everyone....."

We see rush-hour crowds jamming aboard what appears to be an ordinary city bus; the doors close, and the bus pulls away from the curb.

The camera pulls back to reveal that the bus is as tall as a high-rise, with multiple levels!

I often wonder, when this cartoon debuted in 1948, if anyone who then worked for FACCo or the BoT was in the audience, taking it in, perhaps with a chuckle or two........

"NYO"

["GO THE MOTOR COACH WAY"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"Greek Mirthology"(1954)

In this "Popeye" short (se tat the time of Hercules) we see traffic consisting of chariots, sedan chair taxis, and came;s being used as buses(!!)

One camel standing atop another, carrying passengers, wears a blanket reading:

"DOUBLE DECKER BUS"!

Reference to the recently-departed "Queen Marys"?

"NYO"

['PARAMOUNT FAMOUS STUDIOS"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"Local inspiration"...........

In thinking back, in the now-classic Paramount Famous Studios cartoons of the 1940s throughearly1960s, whenever a bus stop scene was called for, the sign almost always the familiar "arrow through a circle".

Hmmmmm.....Now I wonder where that inspiration came from.....

"NYO"

["BUS STOP"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

.....I DO have a somewhat fuzzy memory (WELL over 60 years ago!) of a Paramount Famous Studios cartoon where a seal escaped from the Central Park Zoo, bound to head back to the ocean.

I can JUST remember the wayward seal n the rear platform of a "Blunderbus", attempting to pay his fare with a fish he drew out of his coat pocket, as a floored, goggled-eyed conductor looked on!

That's all I can recall; funny, how I DO remember this part of this long-forgotten animated short!

"NYO"

["FACCo"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

Not directly related to FACCo except in terms of who manufactured their buses from the 1920's until 1941-42, but I noticed near the end of Bugs Bunny Rides Again that he and Yosemite Sam rode to the train station on a stagecoach clearly marked "Yellow Coach." As in, the entity that made the first "Kramdens," before it was rebranded as "GM Truck & Coach Division."

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

You noticed that "YELLOW COACh" stage also??

Recall, in "BASEBALL BUGS",the scene where Bugs dashed into a "MELLOW CAB", to pursuye the ball rocketed out of the ballpark by one of the "Gorillas", before transferring to the bus (note bus stop sign!) and he gets off in front of the "Umpire State Building", obviously on 5th!!)

"NYO"

["GO THE MOTOR COACH WAY"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]