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Mr. Linsky BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 5071 Location: BRENTWOOD, CA. - WOODMERE, N.Y.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:08 am Post subject: 'IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT' |
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Last night, while surfing the cable channels, I came upon a showing of 'It Happened One Night' - a 1934 Columbia Pictures release starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert with direction by no less than Frank Capra.
This was one of those stations that features films of yore with a host (ala Alistair Cooke on Masterpiece Theatre) and, because much of this comedy/drama takes place on an intercity bus, the host's guest happened to be former PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer who is a devotee in our field of study.
In fact, in his boasting about his family ties to buses and his vast collection of bus memorabilia, he even admits that he is a 'bus nut' (I like to think of us more as a historians - somehow, bus nut just doesn't appeal to me!).
Anyway, they started to discuss the film and Mr. Lehrer says "yeah, that's a 1934 Mack".
Well, I hate to burst Mr. Lehrer's bubble but, in fact, it's a 1932 Yellow Coach Model Z-CN-670 leased from Greyhound (but if you don't tell him, I won't!).
BTW; the New York license plate prominent in the upper frame is as phoney as a three dollar bill!
Photos thanks to IMCDb
Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York
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