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Posted by randyo on Mon Feb 25 14:08:04 2013, in response to Re: NYC Subway 1970's and 80's, posted by renee gil on Mon Feb 11 23:58:03 2013. Those signs couldn't have been from the time when the A ran to Church Av since once the Fulton St Line opened, A service went to Rockaway Av and Church was served by the E and after 1940, the F. Another interesting set of signs that remained until the 1970s were the signs on the local stations on CPW that advised passengers for Washington Hts to change at 125 St. Those signs date from the opening of the Concourse line until 1940 when the 6 Av Line opened and the CC was the full time 8 Av Lcl and A trains ran Lcl between 168 and 145 St in both directions and there was no AA service. Prior to 1954, D trains ran to Hudson Terminal and Church Av was served by the F Line. The reason for the 1954 change was to provide a one seat ride for Bronx passengers to Coney Island since Queens passengers already had that with the Brighton Express. There was reference made to the "original" white on blue signs at Lefferts, but they probably had been modified at some point since the original signs read Lefferts AVENUE rather than Lefferts Boulevard. Although the street had been renamed from Avenue to Boulevard some years earlier, the trains and station signs read Lefferts Avenue until the A line took over in 1956. In fact the original station signs at Euclid and Grant (and possibly some other stations that I personally have not seen read "To Lefferts Ave" as installed but by the time the A line opened to Lefferts, they had the word "Ave" pasted over by signs that read "Blvd" which were not even in the same font as the original. I also recall seeing small white on blue platform signs on the light columns at Ditmars Blvd which read "D. A." remnants of the time when Ditmars Boulevard was known as Ditmars AVENUE. These lasted into at least the 1960s since I remember seeing them after I started working for the TA in 1966. I don't recall when they were removed, but there were signs on the Eastern Pky platform of the J Line directing passengers the "14 St Eastern Line" trains, a reference to what was the official name of the 14 St Line and described in the dual contracts. In the 1960s, there were also signs at Chambers/Centre St directing passengers to trains to Jamaica and Ridgewood. As late as the mid 1960s, there were signs at several stations along the IRT Jerome Av Line indicating trains to the Manhattan via the Lexington Ave subway and 6 and 9 Ave elevated. Original white on blue signs at Boro Hall Lex IRT entrances advised passengers of trains Manhattan, Woodlawn and West Farms in the Bronx via Lexington Av and East NY and Vanderveer Park. |
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