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I visited the Bus Fest a few years ago, when I took these photos. At the time, I had an odd and fleeting fascination with the vintage Green Bus that ran to and from Rockaway. I liked its pistachio and cream-colored skin, and to think of it hustling along a scruffy, wide open, un-developed stretch of highway toward the beaches.

1950s
Turns out, a lot of the city's buses used to be green--actually, two-toned with creamy yellow.
At the Bus Fest, it's pleasant (when packs of kids aren't screaming like monkeys) to climb aboard and sit. In fact, as I recall, a lot of people do that, just sit on the antique buses, looking out the windows as if they are rolling through a lost city of another time.
One of the buses (shown below) sports a backseat that curves into a horseshoe like a banquette in a romantic restaurant.
I don't know where the buses go when they're not at the Festival of Buses. You can't see them at the Transit Museum. So this is your one chance to "ride" them--until next year.
5 comments:
Ever see A Bronx Tale? They show all the different versions of the bus Cologaros dad drives through the decades. From the green & cream to the "modern" 70's ones.
I like the windows (especially the irregularly shaped ones) of the vintage buses. What character compared to today's buses
This is a lovely vintage bus .. and the best thing I like about it is the color combination. Lime green on a yellow :)
The kid I babysit for loved these pictures. A future Jeremiah? Thanks!
cute. though he'll probably be grieving the demise of the video-screen buses of today.
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