Amsterdam Ave Bus Ride Part 1 of 2 - end of the TA fishbowls
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2011
- Remember how comfortable you could be in the back of a TA fishbowl on a Spring day as the city drifted by your open window? Part one is Tenth and Amsterdam Avenues in the Upper West Side. These 1966 (rebuilt 1985) GM coaches did not kneel or have lifts for the handicapped. They did not carry schedules or display a map. There was no power steering. The Detroit Diesel engine and two speed hydraulic transmission would move the sturdy metal body over a million miles. But the windows opened and you could see out the rear window. There's lots to see on this ride, in two parts, it lasts 17 minutes.
I remember my mother took me to school and we rode on one of those buses. I remember looking outside the back window of the bus and seeing cars buses and vehicles behind us. This was 1993 as a 5 year old. Great memories
Comments like yours keep me doing this. Thank you for sharing. P.S. I smoked a bowl in the empty building that is now Chelsea Market just before the bus ride.
@trainluvr lol thats a memorable moment for you! And no problem I hope you got more of this! I'm a 90s guy myself
Holy crap I was only three years old back then! Good times!!
I use to live in building 40 back in the late 50's and moved to Queens in the early 60's. Amsterdam will always be my home!!!
Glad you liked it.
Love the fishbowls with the unit on top of rear👌👌
I 'memba driving them. But the thang was a manual 4 speed and the clutch could be soo hard. You really needed skills because the Fishbowl will let everyone know when you messed up. I miss them : )
Dude, you are killing me! You have GOLD here!
It's a damn shame every window on that bus was open....one thing I remember about those Blitz rebuilds...with the new Thermo King center mounted AC units...those buses were so cold you could hang sides of beef from the standee poles
Watching this made me miss riding them out of Hudson Pier.
New Looks first started manufacturing in 1959 for the US and Canada in 1962
🇺🇸 1959 1977
🇨🇦 1962 1986
#5150 in front was a ex Staten island express bus assigned to Yukon depot. Following a accident with #5567 all blitz express were moved to local lines at HUD,MCH and UP
These buses were all retired by 1995, not 1993.
I remember the old look buses on Triboro Coach they retired them in early 1968 not one was saved!
4:28 just walks up and casually takes dog *SPOTS CAMERA* oh shit nvm take your dog back lmfao I ain't steal shit
5538, I,miss that. Why didn't you rebuild that. Y'all need to restore that and bring it back out.
GEORGI still advertises it's liquor @ 3:53
Were'nt some of these remanufactured Blitz GMC Fishbowl NYCTA Buses retofitted with Alison V730 Transmissions?
1st fishbowl on video with 6v92? Like RTS
Yes, a lot of the upper east/west side xtown lines had former express fishbowl! I rode the M86 to and from HS in the early 90s!
I don't know about being a Comfortable ride. It was terrible. It's the smell and the sounds I miss. The coin counter, the air assist door, the click of the rear door telling the driver it's closed, the big convex mirror that Bronx people used to steal.
No air assist rear door on fishbowls. Front is not 'assist'.