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This is a Print scan of one of three Yamaha XS650s I owned/chopped back in the 80s.. Oh, and the dog was called Bonnie..... Yep, had a Bonneville as well....
This week we are going back thirty-four years to RH 82 on Abbey Street at the terminus for route 37.
Route 37 initially operated between the city centre and Villa Park between 1950 and around 1984. It was then extended to Ashtown, and around 1990 it reached Carpenterstown. In 2010 it was modified to run from Baggot Street to Blanchardstown Road South, before reaching the Blanchardstown Centre the following year.
RH 82 was new to Dublin Bus in 1991. It was withdrawn in 2005 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. It and RH 81 were delivered in the Wedding Bus livery as seen here. By 1998 it had been repainted into two-tone green livery.
08/05/1991
Throwback Thursday this week is going back to 1993 and a time of great change in Dublin Bus. In 1992 Dublin Bus introduced the City Imp concept onto the streets of Dublin. The yellow/red minibuses took over routes were passenger numbers were falling and operated at high frequencies, serving the housing estates on the north and southside of Dublin. The following year Dublin Bus introduced the concept of Dity Swift. Again it operated at high frequencies, up to every six minutes, but served destinations further out from the city centre. New buses were introduced on the route in an eye-catching new livery, as well as new style bus shelters, some of which contained pay-phones.
The first route to go over to CitySwift was the 39 on the 6th June 1993. Other routes eventually included routes such as the 25A, 27, 46A and the change normally happened as the Quality Bus Network was rolled out. The City Swift concept only lasted about a decade. P 17 loads up at the Abbey Street terminus prior to departing for Clonsilla. 09/06/1993
DeGrazia remembered well the criticism he received in those early days from people who thought his art was no good. They did not like how DeGrazia followed his own rules in art. On one occasion, DeGrazia was sitting Rosita's Mexican restaurant (located next to his gallery) and a man walked in and shouted to him from across the room. He said," Hey! You DeGrazia?!" DeGrazia did not reply, and kept talking with his friend. The man, who obviously did not like DeGrazia, strode over to DeGrazia's table and interrupted him. He said to DeGrazia, "You're that guy who thinks you can paint on whatever you want, right? No rules, you just do whatever you want!" DeGrazia still did not say anything. There was a basket of tortillas on the table, so DeGrazia took one out and began to paint it. When he finished, he took his brush and he autographed the angry man's clean, white shirt. Before the man stormed out, cursing at DeGrazia, the only thing DeGrazia said to him was, "Now I have painted on everything." The man did not bother to take his original tortilla painting with him, so DeGrazia kept it and it is also on display at the Gallery In the Sun. Happy Throwback Thursday!
17th March of St. Patrick's Day and in the American date format that is 03 17 so what better way to celebrate the day than with a shot of AV 317. Another aspect of St. Patrick's Day is that it brings a lot of diversions for bus routes with the city centre shut down for the parade. Gardiner Street becomes the main cross city route for buses that usually use O'Connell Street. AV 317 is seen operating one such route, the 19A. This operated from Jamestown Road in Finglas to Limekiln Avenue in Greenhills but at this point it did not have much life left to it. Network Direct replaced the 19A with the 9 in August 2011.
AV 317 is seen in Mountjoy Square. 17/03/2011
This week we are going back a few short seven years to 2013, with AX 638 passing through Stillorgan village. The Old Dublin Road in Stillorgan, as the name suggests, was once the main road from the south-east into the city. Therefore Stillorgan village was very well served by buses on this busy corridor. In the 1970s the Stillorgan Bypass was opened but the buses still turned off the new road to serve the village. This included routes like the high-frequency 46A. By the late 1990s this was having an impact on the services. Buses would have stop at traffic lights to get off and back on the Stillorgan dual-carriageway in order to the serve the village. This was also undoing the good-work the Quality Bus Corridors had done to speed up the bus services on this corridor. From around 2000/2001 on some services did not serve the village in peak times. Within a decade no 46A served the village, nor did the 145 to Bray. Today, the 47 is the only all-day route to use this road, about once an hour in each direction. The 75 also serves Stillorgan, but uses the Kilmacud Road. This road has probably seen one of the largest drops in bus services over the years in Dublin city.
In the background is Stillorgan Shopping Centre. The first shopping centre in Dublin opened here in 1966. In more recent years it has received a renovation.
The 47 has had a slightly complicated history. It has no connection to the route that served Tibradden up until the 1990s. This route started in 2008, initially between Belarmine and Donnybrook and provided a connection to the Luas tram at Sandyford. It was later extended into the city centre in 2010, going via Nutley Lane and Mount Street instead of Donnybrook. In 2012 it was rerouted again to go via Nutley Lane, Sandymount and Ringsend to the City Centre (partially as a replacement for the withdrawn route 3.
AX 638 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2006 and is still in service today. It has spent all its working life in Donnybrook Garage. 03/09/2013
This week we are going back twenty years to 1997. Dublin Bus was just 10 years old at the time and were considering a new livery for the buses. One optioned considered was to keep two tone green livery (though shades slightly different) with the orange stripe, but to present it in a much more radical way. Two buses received this test livery - double-decker RH 86 and single-decker AD 24. The latter is seen here on O'Connell Sreet operating cross-city route 3 from Sandymount to Larkhill.
In the end Dublin Bus went with a cream/orange/blue livery. O'Connell Street, 19/07/1997
A rare sight on the River Line as two SD40-2's are the sole power for Q434 - if only the photo could capture the sound of the elder statesmen EMD's giving every ounce of horsepower they had to get the train moving.
Yet more West Cumbrian sunshine serves to illuminate Tuesday's 6K73 Sellafield - Crewe flask train.
Nos.57003 & 57007 power a trio of FNAs away from the more southerly of Kirksanton's two level-crossings.
Each crossing has a dedicated keeper with ground-frames operating all the guarding signals, in fact a signalling cable can be seen running lineside.
This week's Throwback Thursday is quite simple to describe - it is a KD, it's on St, Stephen's Green and it is in an all-over ad for "McKenna's Electric".
KD 236 was delivered to Donnybrook Garage around 1982, as part of a batch of 14 buses that started with KD 223. According to Wikipedia KD 236 entered preservation at the end of its career with Dublin Bus.
McKenna's Electric was run by the same family that owns the Power City stores throughout Ireland. St. Stephen's Green, 11/07/1991
Moving with his family from Oakland, CA Robert Spray settled in Tucson, AZ where he established a silkscreen shop. He began painting portraits as a student at McClymonds High School, which led to a scholarship at the CCAC. During the 1930s he was employed on the Federal Art Project. Screen printer Robert Spray beautifully captured Ted DeGrazia’s artistic style and color palette in this series of prints he produced for the DeGrazia Studios in the early 1950’s. Happy Throwback Thursday!
A very limited number of these unsigned and unnumbered screen prints are available for purchase in our gift shop at the Gallery in the Sun, $175.00 (unframed) or $250.00 (framed).
Throwback to last years open day at Crewe Gresty Bridge as 37425 'Concrete Bob' erupts during the thrash off!
This week for Throwback Thursday we are going back to 1984. KC 78 is seen at Howth Summit on route 88. This route was introduced to replace the Hill of Howth Tram. It later became a DART Feeder service in 1984 before being withdrawn in 1988. In more recent times the 31C connected Sutton, Howth Summit and Howth but this service too was withdrawn a number of years ago. Today the 31A is the route that is closest to the 88. 06/08/1984
DeGrazia built the Mission in the Sun in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe calling the mission his most durable and important piece of art. “The mission will have no functional purpose. It will be a place of beauty where I can go and hide.” Happy Throwback Thursday!
#WeddingDay (Hochzeitstag) ist diese Woche das Motto bei #tbt!
Heute machen wir uns auf die Suche nach den besten Erinnerungsfotos vom schönsten Tag im Leben eurer Eltern, Großeltern oder auch dem eigenen. Diese Woche geht es bei Throwback Thursday um Bräute, Bräutigame und illustre Hochzeitsgesellschaften. Kurz: Es geht um den #Hochzeitstag ( #WeddingDay )
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Viel Spaß!
(Foto: Creative Commons der Nantucket Historical Association - flic.kr/p/66YVay)
Probably taken around 2012. My two GG friends had come over for drinks and dinner and bought some hand me downs for me to try on......what a great nite filled with lots of laughter.... mainly at me and my lousy modeling skills lol.
Now this is a throwback picture by Kasabian Beck back in Jan. 2009
Rance Alva Mix Tape vol. 2 (yes that was the original promo pic, and it was originally on kasabian becks flickr page that is no longer around). Made this one back in Jan. 2009.
This is a link to it for your listening and downloading pleasure:
Tracklisting:
1. The Police - Roxanne (DiscoTech Remix)
2. Partyshank - Penis VS Vagina (Lies in Disguise Remix)
3. The Teenagers - Feeling Better (S.I.D. Remix)
4. Yo Majasty - Don't Let Go (Photomachine 'Bounce' Mix)
5. The Lady Tigra - Switchblade Kitty (Ruckus Roboticus Remix)
6. Kudu - Let's Finish (Sinden Remix)
7. Hostage - Shake It (AC Slater Remix)
8. Donovan - Breakin' (feat. G.Rizo)
9. Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear (Donovan Remix)
10. Crystal Castles - Vanished (Nasty Nav Remix)
11. Merka - Another Place (Badlands Blam! Remix)
12. Kids On TV - Cockwolves (Mind Transit Remix)
13. The Twelves - When You Talk
Back in the summer of 2006, a pair of bluebonnet SD40-2s lead the 102 local west through Lockport, IL. SD40-2s were almost a every day occurrence on this train, now it's nothing but B40-8Ws.
I dug up and old photo of me and Zach during my freshman year! He's married to Kim now but he sure knew how to have a good time.
P.S. He was my first blowjob.
We are only going back five years this week for Throwback Thursday but to an important event in Dublin Bus history. This date in 2012 marked the second last day of a number of routes, namely the 2,3 and 16A. Other routes were also about to undergo changes, such as the 1, 16 and 44. All of this was part of the Network Direct review. When the 10 was abolished in 2010 it showed that no route was safe, and the 3 was next big casualty. It ran from Larkhill on the northside to UCD Belfield on the southside via Drumcondra and Ringsend. The 2 was a short version that went between the City Centre and Sandymount. Both routes had a lot of history to them but were replaced by a rerouted 1. The original 1 ran between the City Centre and the Pigeon House in the peaks but the new (and current) 1 goes from Santry to Sandymount. On the northside the new 1 replaced the 16, while the 44 replaced the 3 to Larkhill. EV 2 is seen on Townsend Street with a 3 to UCD Belfield while in the background is RV 620 at the then 44 terminus. 11/05/2012