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Re: Kicking it old school--bus pics from the 80s and 90s |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Sep 8 14:53:26 2007, in response to Kicking it old school--bus pics from the 80s and 90s, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 22 17:15:26 2007. Last but not least...SCRTD/LACMTA! This was from the first day of Metro Blue Line service, July 14, 1990. At the then-southern terminus of Anaheim St and Long Beach Blvd in Long Beach (the Blue Line downtown loop opened on the first weekend of September that year). Due to the huge crowds (which forced RTD to make the line free for the rest of July, the original plans were to just have it free Saturday and Sunday, which they repeated for the opening of the Red and Green lines.), they provided buses to take ppl back north who didn't want to wait in the high 90s heat for the train back to L. A. (I choose to ride the train back). There was a train on the northbound track when I took the pic, but you can only see the pantographs since the buses were in the way. Kinda looks like the bus on the left has a pantograph! :)   The above 2 pics have kinda a Blue Line theme, as I took them at 12th & Flower Sts in downtown L. A. while photographing the Blue Line doing final test runs in the soon-to-open tunnel to the 7th St/Metro Center station in February, 1991. The trains would run in regular service to Pico station, fumigate and run light to 7th St, change ends and then return to Pico and go back into service. First pic is 1989 TMC RTS-06 2357, probably on the 439 line. The Flxible is then brand-new 1990 Flxible Metro 2852, most likely on the 70.  This unusual pic was taken on March 3, 1991. That was the date of the 6th annual L. A. Marathon, but later it would become an infamous day in L. A. history, as the Rodney King beating took place early that morning in the San Fernando Valley. Pic was taken at Wilshire Blvd and Flower St. I had taken the Blue Line down for the Marathon, and the buses would supposed to be detouring during the runnin, but I guess the driver of 2159 (1988 TMC RTS-06) didn't get the memo. He turned from 7th St north on Hope as per the route, then west on Wilshire to find a blockade. So he made a nice turnabout and went back to Hope. No idea where he ended up. Incidentally, that same bus, a few years later ended up being jacked by some crazed skel and crashed into a house, ending its career. More to come... |
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