BusTalk

MaBSTOA 15 · Age: 72 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1247

MaBSTOA roster dated January 1, 1967. Note in the Stored TDH-4509 that the Kramden bus, 2629, is already gone to the scrap yard.

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2026 1:53 pm Post subject:

The Kramden bus would have actually been 2969, but . . . yeah, I see that was gone. So it must've been scrapped some time in '66, then . . . the very year Gleason revived 'The Honeymooners" in a series of musical hour-long color sketches on his variety show.

As for 2629, I see it was one of the group of 1958-59 'protruding front sign' buses that would be situated at 132nd Street through 1970.

Also, as to the 1965-66 "ADV's" at 146th, how many would have, for example, on Fifth-Madison-Lenox 2's to 8th Street, run '2 5th & 7th AVENUES' on the side signs, proving they were made before 1966? I know a 1973 photo of a 5200 series but on the 2A route headed to 168th showed '2 MADISON AVE VIA 116 ST' on its side.