BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

If I can finally convince our friend MaBSTOA 15 to do a book of MaBSTOA history, PLEASE team up with him and do a chapter on roll signs (variations, fonts, splices, etc.)

I'm telling you straight....your's truly will certainly be FIRST in line at the book signing!

"NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Dateline: 1969.

The Twilight Years of the Old Looks..........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1956

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Roller signs..............

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?242

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1604

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1299

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

See also......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1630

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1636

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1799

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

#6041* at the Rockaway Parkway station, 1972, sporting the new MTA two-tone blue scheme.

Look closely in the right background; you'll see prewar IND cars (repainted silver/blue) signed for the "LL" (today's "L") and the long-defunct "KK".......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2220

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)

*The new lower-case roller curtain is (IMHO) clearly not as bold (nor as easy to read) as the older curtains, which used all caps.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

One bus, two bus, green bus, blue bus.........and roller signs for comparison......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?362

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?365

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1777

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

A few more vintage scenes.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?366

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?367

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1621

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"GENERATION GAP" (Washington Plaza, 1972)

Indeed, the veteran Old Look was then living on borrowed time......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1626

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Ocean and Avenue U, 1970.........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1826

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

IMHO, the MaBSTOA era (as far as I am concerned) ended once the last bus was painted two-tone blue.

Even though the New Looks once sported the usual "Tee-Yay" green (as did the "other" NYCTA routes), the MaBSTOA buses still carried that distinct air of individuality, with their distinctive 60's era insignias and handsome "MaBSTOA" script over the windows.

The new "M" insignias, and later, repainting into MTA blue took away the separate indentity that made (at least to me) that MaBSTOA had projected.

The script above the windows on the Old Looks always looked particularly handsome.

So much change.......(it would be interesting to hear some driver recollections from that "transition" era)......

"NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Into the 80's.........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1012

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1013

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1015

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?10087

(ciourtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)

[W.B. Fishbowl]