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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Avenue J & Bedford, 1972.......
(The wonderfully old-fashioned, two-light traffic signal dates this old photo as much as the bus itself does)
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1693
(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)
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Street scene from Lima, Peru back in the '60's. Check out the so called bat wings on the old look. Basically a sign board, but still the concept is the same as those in the U.S.
Frankie
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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frankie:
OUTSTANDING.....repeat, OUTSTANDING photo!!!!!!!
I had no idea that Old Looks once operated in Lima (my late best buddy's wife was born in Lima, and lived there until coming to the States with her mother in 1970, after graduating college); those square-window Old Looks sure bring back great memories of the buses I grew up with!
The vintage American autos in the picture are also a great bonus; folks were also a LOT dressier, back in those days! The largest ads on buses I can recall (both Old Looks and Fishbowls) were the elongated posters on the driver's side.
I also remember seeing rear ads split in half, so that the engine hatches could be raised.
Again, THANKS for posting this wonderful old photo!
"NYO"
PS: Good to see you back on the board again.....it's been QUITE awhile!
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frankie
Age: 77 Joined: 01 Feb 2011 Posts: 748 Location: St. Peters, Mo.
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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From what I understand, these two buses came from Los Angeles. The photo is the corner of Abancay Avenue with University Park to the left. Here is the same intersection today.
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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frankie:
Like so many photos in and around New York that were taken several decades ago, that Lima intersection is like a totally different city!!!!
I was looking at the two Old Looks again in the vintage photo, and, by the paint, I'm thinking that the bus on the left was ex-LAMC/MTA, while the one on the right (with the signboard) might have been an ex-PE bus.
Thanks for posting both the "old" and "new" photos........
"NYO"
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Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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This page (one of several) documents the history of trams in Lima (trolley buses were also operated in Lima for some years); the last cars ran in 1965.
Many rare photos can be found here, as well as well-documented history.
Note that, at one time, several of the Lima suburban routes used ex-TARS (Third Avenue) rolling stock........
www.tramz.com/pe/li/li60.html
(courtesy: tramz.com)
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Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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Lima's lone "heritage" tramway has an interesting history of its own......
www.tramz.com/pe/li/ba00.html
(courtesy: tramz.com)
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2487 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 4:18 am Post subject: |
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frankie wrote: | From what I understand, these two buses came from Los Angeles. The photo is the corner of Abancay Avenue with University Park to the left. Here is the same intersection today.
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If I didn't know better, I could've sworn that looked like the Battery Park area just north of South Ferry.
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:58 am Post subject: |
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W.B.:
I guess it is true, after all, that "great minds think alike"; I, too, thought "Battery Park City" when I saw that photo!
I still cannot believe how that area was so dramatically transformed from what I remember growing up in the 60's; I remember the old CNJ and E-L ferry terminals chock-a-block with dozens of docks and wharves.
Through the mid-60's, a number of those piers were still fairly busy (this was in the pre-containerization era) and the CNJ and E-L ferry terminals were both abandoned in 1967, when both railroads shut down their trans-Hudson ferries to Jersey City and Hoboken.....
"NYO"
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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My previous post caused me to recall the long-gone elevated West Side Highway, which, by the 70's, was in deplorable condition.
I know that NYCTA/MTA buses never used this elevated roadway, but am now wondering if any charter buses ever did......
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Just now recalling that incident, eons ago, when a truck (was it a dump truck?) was caught when the crumbling roadway on the elevated WSH collapsed underneath it.
Decades of exposure to salt air, as well as overall general neglect, both took their toll on the once-novel roadway.....
"NYO"
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