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N4 Jamaica




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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:27 am    Post subject: Flushing, November 2014 Reply with quote


St. George's church is in the background.





Would anyone know what the above building was in the 1940's? On the Main St. side of the building, I recall Dad and me boarding a North Shore bus for The Bronx here. It then broke down, and they moved us to another bus.



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

N4 Jamaica,

I'll take a real wild guess if it's the building at the corner of Main and Roosevelt that you speak of;

It's lobby floor is typical of either a bank branch or a Provident Loan office and I would say that if it were a bank it probably would have been The Bank of the Manhattan Company (now Chase) - they had more branches by far than any other in Queens at the time.

Of course, these are far out guesses and probably all wrong!

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Mr. 'L'
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr. Linsky, you are right. Because of your suggestion, I googled Flushing Bank of Manhattan and came up with this fascinating page of Main Street and confirmation that it, indeed, was a branch of the Bank of Manhattan.

Link to Forgotten NY:
http://forgotten-ny.com/2010/10/remember-the-main-main-street-in-queens/
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 12:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even when Mr.L makes wild guesses he's usually right!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice photos of one of my longtime favorite transit neighborhoods!
It still feels a bit strange seeing those C40LF's (a bus I normally associate with routes operating in B'klyn out of JG Depot) working the Q25.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Q65A wrote:
Nice photos of one of my longtime favorite transit neighborhoods!
It still feels a bit strange seeing those C40LF's (a bus I normally associate with routes operating in B'klyn out of JG Depot) working the Q25.
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And I can't get over NOT seeing buses with orange on them. As i said in an earlier post on this board change may be inevitable, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

N4 Jamaica wrote:
Mr. Linsky, you are right. Because of your suggestion, I googled Flushing Bank of Manhattan and came up with this fascinating page of Main Street and confirmation that it, indeed, was a branch of the Bank of Manhattan.

Link to Forgotten NY:
http://forgotten-ny.com/2010/10/remember-the-main-main-street-in-queens/


Thanks so much for that link! I got into it, and spent hours going over some of the great stuff in there.....Now for some sleep before I have to get up and go to work....
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I must post this link from Facebook, as it shows a Q27 in 1943, westbound on Roosevelt Avenue at Main Street.
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Q27 in Flushing, 1943.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

N4 Jamaica wrote:
I must post this link from Facebook, as it shows a Q27 in 1943, westbound on Roosevelt Avenue at Main Street.
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Q27 in Flushing, 1943.


Great shot, thanks for posting! Wish there were more from that era. The Main Tavern was still going strong into the '60's....
Remember cold days when their corner windows were steamed up by the Goulash cooking behind them...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

On BusChat, member NorthShore pointed out that the bus is a White. Please note the black paint on the upper portion of the headlights, something I can recall from wartime. The street loading puzzles me, as I thought North Shore had its bus terminal a block east of this spot.
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Presumably, Rosewood is a neighborhood along the current Q27, but I don't know where it is.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The White shown is a North Shore 1937 40-passenger Model 687. The people shown may be queued for other buses that used the same curbside bus stop. The headlight blinders made it harder for headlights from been seen from the air in the event of an air raid.

Rosewood is an "unofficial" neighborhood (not found on maps) where Springfield Blvd intersects the Long Island Expressway today (Horace Harding Blvd during the North Shore days).

Frankie
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