Throwback Thursday (208)
This week we are sort of doing a sequel to Throwback Thursday (204) as we revisit D 756 a month after we last saw it. For December 1988 it was repainted as the Dublin Zoo Santa Bus but it finished its duties on that before the end of the month (and year). After returning very briefly to regular duties it was sent off again to receive a new all-over ad. This time for Pelican House, the Irish blood donation service. D 756 was delivered new to Dublin in 1975 and was withdrawn four years after this photograph was taken, in 1993.
The bus is making its way down O'Connell Street and is passing the Savoy Cinema. On this day it was showing "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" a film that was initially released in the United States in the Summer of 1988. Unlike nowadays, major American releases could take a while to get to these shores. The Savoy is also showing "Cocktail" starring Tom Cruise, another Summer 1988 release.
Beside the cinema is Pizzaland, a chain of restaurants that first opened here in 1976, but closed in the 1990s. 02/01/1989
Throwback Thursday (208)
This week we are sort of doing a sequel to Throwback Thursday (204) as we revisit D 756 a month after we last saw it. For December 1988 it was repainted as the Dublin Zoo Santa Bus but it finished its duties on that before the end of the month (and year). After returning very briefly to regular duties it was sent off again to receive a new all-over ad. This time for Pelican House, the Irish blood donation service. D 756 was delivered new to Dublin in 1975 and was withdrawn four years after this photograph was taken, in 1993.
The bus is making its way down O'Connell Street and is passing the Savoy Cinema. On this day it was showing "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" a film that was initially released in the United States in the Summer of 1988. Unlike nowadays, major American releases could take a while to get to these shores. The Savoy is also showing "Cocktail" starring Tom Cruise, another Summer 1988 release.
Beside the cinema is Pizzaland, a chain of restaurants that first opened here in 1976, but closed in the 1990s. 02/01/1989