#Vintage Buses

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Santa on 42nd Street, soliciting for free Christmas meals from the Volunteers of America, December 13, 1954.

Photo: John Vachon for Look magazine via MCNY

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 Bronx New York. July 1987 by Andy Blair Via Flickr:

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1970s Older City Bus with Salvation Message by Vinnie DeVille Via Flickr: Vintage image of an older city bus with sign on the back reminding us that Jesus Saves. More than likely this was a retired city bus that was purchased by a religious group for private use. It may also be out of commission as there are no license plates on it. This original image was scanned from an old contact sheet and was a little blurry. I felt it was an interesting image and tightened it up a little for others to enjoy. This found photograph comes from the private collection of an unknown and/or unknowing art collector. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

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An ex-Southdown Bristol VR running shuttle between Tyseley Locomotive Works and Tyseley station at the works' September 2019 open weekend. Bit of trivia, a Bristol VR was used for Doctor Who's Planet of the Dead. I rode this VR on one of it's shuttle runs, though I'm glad to say that this bus didn't drive through a wormhole and end up on San Helios!

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View of passengers on bus in the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. Wall sign shows Detroit and Windsor border. Stamped on back: "Joe Clark, H.B.S.S. 8775 West 9 Mile Rd., Oak Park, Mich. 48237, 399-448[?], pictures that tell [a story]."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Toyota Century II Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan

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Chicago Transit Authority Bicentennial Red White Blue GM 7903 Postcard

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Making good on our promise of better transportation. Greyhound Lines ad detail - 1947.

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The green double deckers of Southdown Buses.

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Vanishing London: the old double decker buses & black cabs

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Busing became a contentious issue in the 1960s, but New York began it earlier. Here, teacher Marie Donnelly is in her classroom at P.S. 77 in Glendale, September 28, 1959. In her 40 years of teaching, never has Donnelly had so many African-American students in a class. The youngsters were bused to the school from Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, a predominantly black neighborhood where schools are overcrowded. P.S. 77, which had an enrollment of 368 all-white students, can handle 1,000 children comfortably. Parents in the Queens neighborhoods objected to influx, but the children themselves adjusted to one another without incident.

Photo: Associated Press

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The wheels on the bus go round & round. A vintage Bluebird Wanderlodge takes in the evening sun.

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1951 Trailways Bus Travel

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West Midlands PTE Daimler Fleetline at the 2018 Warley exhibition. I can just about remember these buses, as several lasted in service until 1997 and I can even vaguely remember riding one on the 55 route from Shard End. These buses are significant as they were the Midlands' first standard front entrance double-decker buses and have a certain old world charm to them.

[detroitlib]

View of Warren Williams, bus driver, posing next to a Greyhound bus at the Hazel Park Raceway. Handwritten on page: "Warren Williams at Hazel Park track, August, 1952. This picture appeared in the Greyhound News in October, 1952." Handwritten on back: "August 1952. Warren Williams at Hazel Park race track."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library