|
BusTalk A Community Discussing Buses and Bus Operations Worldwide!
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23322 Location: NEW JOISEY
|
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Interior view of a Brooklyn Peter Witt streetcar; note the Johnson "D" up front, ready to do business........
http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?94190
(source: nycsubway.org)
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23322 Location: NEW JOISEY
|
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Interior view of ex-B&QT PCC #1001 at the Shore Line Trolley Museum; note the entrance turnstile......
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?66465
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
MaBSTOA 15
Age: 70 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1062
|
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2019 5:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It must have been very uncomfortable to seat behind or across from the turnstile.
The bus in question is a Brooklyn Bus Corp Twin model 30 of 1931 vintage.
Description: |
|
Filesize: |
196.34 KB |
Viewed: |
13830 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23322 Location: NEW JOISEY
|
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2019 5:37 pm Post subject: |
|
|
LOVE these ancient, "low-tech" bus interior photos!!!!
This view reminds me of the photos I've seen of Brooklyn streetcars which also were equipped with turnstiles, next to the motorman.
METROCARDS were still many, many light years away when this photo was snapped!!
"NYO"
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2592 Location: New York, New York, USA
|
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
MaBSTOA 15 wrote: | It must have been very uncomfortable to seat behind or across from the turnstile.
The bus in question is a Brooklyn Bus Corp Twin model 30 of 1931 vintage.
|
I see the numbers also came of great use well into the 1980's on MaBSTOA and 'Tee-Yay' buses on the inside, especially for the bus numbers.
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23322 Location: NEW JOISEY
|
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
W.B.:
Bus numbers displayed inside the vehicle itself was indeed something we all simply took for granted, back in the day.
I well recall the numbers displayed (quite bold, from what I can remember) displayed on the bulkhead over the driver's area of the local "Joisey" buses I grew up with.
I can also remember, on some of the "indy" buses in my area, long, long ago, where interior numbers were displayed over the rear windows as well (this I remember with Old Looks and MACKS).......
"NYO"
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Q65A
Age: 66 Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1773 Location: Central NJ
|
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:06 pm Post subject: |
|
|
You can really see the BMT influence in the installation of turnstiles (called "passimeters") in the Brooklyn Bus photo.
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23322 Location: NEW JOISEY
|
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Q65A wrote: | You can really see the BMT influence in the installation of turnstiles (called "passimeters") in the Brooklyn Bus photo. |
I was thinking the same thing.
It is hard to imagine that there was a time, a century ago, when the subways were not equipped with turnstiles; manned ticket-choppers were utilized until the mass installation of modern nickle-in-the-slot turnstiles in the 1920's.
The IND, on the other hand (the first "modern" subway"), of course, used turnstiles right from the start, in 1932.
Interestingly, turnstiles (nor gap fillers) were never installed at the IRT's City Hall loop station; ticket choppers were used right up until the station was closed in 1945......
"NYO"
*Even today, I still cannot picture the subway without the time-honored TOKEN!
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
MaBSTOA 15
Age: 70 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1062
|
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Even the Perey turnstiles ventured across the seas... here's a front engine bus in Madrid with a turnstile. Note the coin tray on top of the engine hatch and the stick shift!
Description: |
|
Filesize: |
93.56 KB |
Viewed: |
10278 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23322 Location: NEW JOISEY
|
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:19 pm Post subject: |
|
|
MOST unusual!!!!!!!!!
Interesting that PSNJ, when converting streetcars over to one-man operation, never experimented with turnstiles (they did also use tokens for years)
My favorite subway turnstiles where those with the thick wooden arms, especially the oldest ones on the IRT.
I remember these into the 1990's at a few locations, especially Wall St. on the Lexington Avenue line (Brooklyn-bound platform); you'd drop a token into the slot, and you'd hear a loud "SNAP!", and then you (literally) would "clunk" your way through the turnstiles!
Well into the the 80's, I remember the 1930's BMT-type turnstiles at the Broad St. station (and old "chopper box" was also on hand, being used to store bags of tokens)
Ahhh, memories!
"NYO"
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You can attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
|