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B53RICH
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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In the first photo, 60474, the building in the foreground was once connected to the El station which had a stairway inside that led to the street level. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23320 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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B53RICH:
You are correct; photo 43028 shows this. This was a most unique arrangement, to say the least.
This had to be one of the most unusual interlocking towers in the City, regarding el/elevated subway lines.
Am astounded that it was not demolished years ago; at least, a bit of transit history was preserved.....
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2592 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Parons & Jamaica, 1980.
Here, Flex #4619, holding down a B22 run, is in the company of a gaunt and lonely-looking remnant of the old BMT Jamaica El.
Note, also, the classic "DON'T WALK" sign affixed to the old el column (a 1960's "BUS STOP" sign (w/Fishbowl) can also just be glimpsed, if you look carefully)....
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153930
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Interesting how over the years MaBSTOA buses plied some 'Tee-Yay' routes in the outer boroughs (as seen here with #4619) whilst conversely, buses originally built for the TA managed now and then to be found on OA routes in Manhattan and the Bronx (I saw one of the Flx TA 4000's in the same time period running on the M104, Fishbowl TA 4300's-4400's on the M16 . . . ).
But that 'DONT WALK' sign - definitely classic for sure, mid-1950's Winko-Matic with neon tubing. As much a fixture of the NYC fabric as the Marbelite LPS-20 'Lawdescent Lite' signs with either red and green bulbs, or 'Portland Orange' and 'Lunar White' bulbs (all A21, as I found in some literature online). |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 23320 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
I was thinking the same thing; it was interesting to see a MaBSTOA bus on a route that was well-removed from its usual "stomping grounds".
That classic "DON'T WALK" sign; man, I loved them ever since I was a kid; here, in my nabe, the classic ones we had our "main drags" were replaced a number of years ago with those ^*&%##!@! "pictogram" versions that I HATE!!!!!!!
As I worked in lower Manhattan from 1979 until 2003, you may be sure Your's Truly was QUITE familiar with these classic signs....yet another "it'll always be here" pieces of street hardware that has long since disappeared.....
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Livingston & Bond, 1972* (a LOT of "street nostalgia" here!)
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154899
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
*Fishbowl #8108 seems to be hauling a hefty-sized crowd, here! |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2592 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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That's interesting - a Marbelite LPS-20 and Winko-Matic in the same place. Plus the 1965-66 Pearl Street sign (those used 5" high letters for street/avenue names). |
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2592 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Yep . . . from the last of the 'greenies' (and for the 'Tee-Yay', T6H-5305A's), before the next order debuted the two-tone blue. From what I could tell, none of that order at the time had even a minimal allotment to Manhattan for service on M15 First-Second Avenues, M3 49th-50th Street (today's M50) et al.
As for the yellow on the casing for the 'DONT WALK' sign (here Marbelite LPS-20), that seemed to begin to take hold around '71, no? |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Glad you liked the photos; I can see that your a quite a dedicated "scholar" regarding the classic "DON'T WALK" signs, as well as the once-commonplace news signs and those ubiqutous "time-and-temperature" illuminated signs.
As I said before, such old signage date the vintage bus photos as much as the buses do; the bus photographers of that era had little or no idea that they were also recording "street signage" history as well.....
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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3rd Avenue * 33rd, 1972 (#8721 is seen here marked "SPECIAL")
This is a truly CLASSIC "Old Noo YawK scene; also, note the distinctive 1960's era "WHITE WAY"/"BROADWAY" street lights (the ones in my area vanished ages ago)........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154305
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W.B. Fishbowl
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:58 am Post subject: |
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Looks like the same model as used from the 1930's to 1956 in Brooklyn, initially under B&QT aegis . . . |
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