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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:32 am Post subject: |
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....in fact, in the aformentioned book, there is a chapter "TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME" that is most interesting.
There are also reproduction of old "SUBWAY SUN" car cards for INTERBOROUGH subway/elevated service to the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, and Ebbets Field.
Way, way, way back in the day, INTERBOROUGH and BRT/BMT men also "played ball".......
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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Recall, also, that most large city transit operations (streetcars, rapid transit) not only often had their own baseball leagues, but also, bowling and other fraternal activities.
Many Class One railroads, likewise.
The BRT (Brooklyn Rapid Transit), for many years, had a sprawling old building at ENY, "THE BRT MEN'S CLUBHOUSE".........
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2423 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Long before #5300 was associated with one of the 1964 MaBSTOA Fishbowls . . . |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
"Recycling", perhaps?
Series numbers, (buses/streetcars/subway cars) is an interesting subject unto itself.
When older equipment was retired, old numbers could have been "recycled", but, more often, new numbers were assigned to a new serie of vehicles.
One excellent example of "recycled" numbers (buses) were the buses operated by the Independent Bus Owners Association (NHBL/SHBL) in Hudson County; I grew up with these buses.
As far back as the 1930's, the buses used number with a "B" prefix (B-39/B-124, etc.)
Whenever that particular bus was retired, the replacement bus was assigned its number.
For instance, "B-120" might have originally been assigned to a prewar MACK, and, then, in later years, assigned yet again to a replacement Old Look, and then, finally, a Fishbowl......
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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To Comiskey Park, I see . . . the 'South Siders' a.k.a. White Sox (the "Cubbies" - Chicago's version of "lovable losers" - were long deemed the 'North Siders'). |
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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W.B,:
Chicago, like "Noo Yawk", has long been a "baseball town"; I've seen many old photos showing jam-packed El trains and streetcars (and, of course, buses) heading to Comiskey Park.
Though, of course, back in the day, most folks used public transit to also attend football games (and other sporting events as well), baseball seemed to be the mot associated with crowds of fans arriving by some sort of mass transit.
In the early 1960's, NY TITANS football (IND) specials were run to bring fans from Jamaica to the Polo Grounds.
These specials (using prewar IND cars) ran non-top to the (now demolished) lower level of the 42nd St. station (8th Avenue); after this one stop, the motorman would change ends south of the station, and then ran non-stop to 155th st. on the IND Concourse line.
These trains also carried large banners reading "FOOTBALL SPECIAL" on the lead car, showing the head of a football player and a football.....
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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.....service is provided by robotic, rubber-tired insects covered in, how shall we say, "legal graffiti".......
(yeeccchhhh!)
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