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MaBSTOA 15
Age: 70 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1059
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:21 am Post subject: Avenue B & East Broadway Rollsigns |
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Two distinct rollsigns.
The first is from the 300 series Mack C-41. Note the four readings for the M-8.
The second is from the GM T6H-4523A and T6H-5308A. Note that this group not only has the two Avenue B routes, M-8 and M-9, but also their express route, M-7.
Two key readings are missing from both: M-9 Chinatown; Yonkers Raceway;
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2422 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:36 am Post subject: |
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The fonts on the Mack roll sign remind me of those on the roll signs for the GM Old Look 7000's that were used on the TA's Manhattan routes of M-1 Madison-Chambers; M-3 49th-50th Crosstown; M-7 60th Street; M-11 York Avenue; M-13 Journal Building; and M-15 First & Second Avenues (I.I.N.M., it wasn't until those buses first arrived in 1957 that there was any acknowledgement on those front roll signs that the heretofore separate routes that ran through First and Second, respectively, were combined into one route bearing the latter number, as was already established on paper transfers as early as 1954 when the M-13 Journal Building shuttle - considered by the TA to be a "branch" of the M-15 - was first launched, thus reviving that lower number years after the one-way conversions of First and Second; given that a 1955 photo of Macks at South Ferry both listed an 'M-13 First Avenue' on their front). Which entity would have made that roll sign, pray tell?
The type on the later model in red background, meanwhile, was done by Transign, which has to be my favorite set of fonts for such roll signs. Ironic that they could have called their express bus M-7 when there were already (in the years up to 1974) two other such routes - the ex-NYCO Broadway-Columbus-Lenox route, and the TA's 65th Street line (which became M29 in 1974, and M50 around 1989).
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 22635 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:37 am Post subject: |
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TALK ABOUT THE HOLY GRAIL!!!!!!
Sure wish I had these relics displayed on one of my "transit walls"!!!!
Each one of the old rollsigns that were once as commonplace as clouds in the sky had its own story to tell; each one was indeed an integral part of transit history.
To think of the many thousands of such signs being consigned to scrap, often still intact when said bus was destroyed; transit history lost forever.
THANK YOU for sharing he pics of thee rare artifacts......
"NYO"
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