BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Agreed.

A number of times, I have seen scanned images (which were less than "crisp" beforehand to begin with) and said to myself:

"Why even bother to put this picture up in the first place"

A very good friend of mine is well-known in classic truck circles, and he has done many outstanding colorizations of old b/w truck photos (once in awhile, he'll also do buses); he's even had a great many published in vintage truck publications.

I know, from him, that there is a LOT of work involved here, regarding "clean up", re-sizing, scanning, etc.

A LOT Of PATIENCE, for certain, is required in this deft and intricate "art".

We HAVE to be VERY grateful to those transit enthusiasts of decades ago, who used their cameras to capture so many historic transit vehicles (and their related infrastructure), so that we, today, can either relive old memories, or, many times, to see what was before our time.....

"NYO"

["RIDE THE SURFACE WAY"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Navy Street, 1957............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117125

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["NYCTA"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Same location, late 1960's...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6782

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["BMT LINES"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Fresh Pond through the decades..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1972

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?158291

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6781

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?158245

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?40001

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["New York City Transit System"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Two views at ENY, taken several decades apart.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?97837 *

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?114239

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["ENY"]

*(I'm guessing the square-window Old Looks in this view were the 4507's, dating to 1948)

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

I'm guessing that the "Tee-Yay" retired the last square-window Old Looks about 1964 or 1965?

Or, a few years earlier?

I know that some ex-FACCL square window Old Looks were still cavorting around in 1962.......

"NYO"

["ta"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

March, 1962...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156387

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["FACL"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

The colors really "POP" on that "enhanced" version!!!

I am thinking now of an old 1960's postcard I have (but haven't seen in ages) showing Radio City Music Hall.

A square-window Old Look ("Sherman") is passing by, with a new Mustang in the view (recall, the first Mustangs were the '64 models).

The taxis were then still sporting a rainbow of colors.

Also, a few Fishbowls and 4104's are seen as well.

So, this would date the postcard to, most likely, 1964, or, possibly, 1965....

"NYO"

["NYCTA"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Just did a quick online search; here is the aforemtioned Radio City postcard with the square-window Old Look ("Sherman") in the view......

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/603904631264522717/

["New York City Transit Authority"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Appreciate, as always, the additional historical info you always provide.

I was thinking the same as you; if we could only decipher what movie was playing at the Hall in that postcard, we would have wasily been able to pinpoint the year that the postcard was printed.

The new Mustangs would have just been in the showrooms (my cousin, who had just graduated high school was presented to a new '64 Mustang from her parents in June.....what a gift!

Here in "Joisey", the last Your's Truly can remember seeing square-window "Shermans" in my general area, was late 1966/early 1967.

This would have been about the time the MACKS ("Pattons") and WHITES were just beginning to disappear.......

"NYO"

["FACL"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

The old challenging the new ("Oddball"), circa-1950..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140880

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["52 GATES AVENUE"]