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This week we are going back ten years to 2013 and to AV 321 on Nutley Lane. The bus is about to do the Saturday-only, 16:05 departure on route 17 from Nutley Lane (although the timetable said St. Vincent's Hospital) to Rialto. The regular route 17 started operating between Blackrock and Dolphin's Barn / Rialto around 1971. Select departures to and from St. Vincent's Hospital started operating on and off from 1985. They ceased in 2019 when Go-Ahead Ireland took over the route.
AV 321 was new to Dublin Bus in 2003. This Volvo ALX400 was withdrawn in 2017 and sold on to another Irish operator.
23/02/2013
Back in my "Designing Women" days twenty years ago or so.
I just adored the women on that show especially the lovely tall blonde Charlene played by Jean Smart. Back when I was still figuring out who and what I wanted to be, LOL.
It took me a while to develop my own sense of style, back in this period around 2000 there was a lot of copycat dressing and emulation going on. It would take a couple more years before I really broke out.
These days I pretty much go my own way😋
In my opinion the original Ferrari Dino is one of the most beautiful cars ever made especially the Spyder version in yellow. It feels like I just finished this yesterday, but it's been over two years. Kind of funny how time flies and a wide eyed sophomore in high school is now finished with his first year of college and forever a changed man. So here's to honoring the past, eagerly awaiting the future, but appreciating today. Today is a gift, hence the word present.
Oooops! Caught by the camera being overtly feminine on the bed. A break for a pink maid and well deserved !
'Twas an eventful time of our lives as parents realizing our baby has accomplished her goals and finally finished her studies at Lancaster University. We made it to her graduation. She's a hard worker and very determined. Sooner after graduation she travelled across southeast Asia and ended up working in Sydney for a year. She loved Sydney but I guess homesickness lead her way back home. She's not living with us anymore but within couple of hours reach.
Times flies by so quick, and I remember her as a baby, a toddler, a small child, a teenage then to this point. It seemed not long ago, and where's the time that passed us.
On the flip side, I'm getting old these days :))
pattern and buttons that wouldn't feel out of place in the 1970's :)
149.365.2014/1245 days in a row
Who doesn't love rummaging through old photo boxes full of memories that were made long before our time? Seeing our parents or grandparents as young couples and lovers, full of hope and promises?
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This week we are going back fourteen years to 2009 and AV 264 in Parnell Square. The bus is operating a service on route 5 to Sandyford Industrial Estate. This route started operating between the City Centre and Kilmacud in 1952. In the mid-1970s its terminus was moved to the junction of Lakelands Avenue / Upper Kilmacud Road. In 1987 it was extended to Sandyford industrial Estate but in 2011 the route was withdrawn from the network. Throughout its entire existence, the route operated via The Rock Road and Ballsbridge.
AV 264 was new to Dublin Bus in 2002. It was withdrawn in 2016 and sold on to another Irish operator. In 2023 it is still in service with Airside Coaches.
06/01/2009
As I rolled up to the Union Pacific yard in Council Bluffs Thursday afternoon I was greeted with this classic scene: two EMD veterans and an old Missouri Pacific transfer caboose that seemed very appropriate for TBT.
This week we are going back thirty-eight years to KD 237 at Dublin Airport on route 41 to Dublin city centre. Route 41 started operating between Dublin and Swords in 1926, and still does so today in 2021. It has had a number of different terminus in Swords over the years, but the most recent one at Swords Manor has been in use since 1998. The route has also continuously served Dublin Airport since the 1940s. In December 2019 the 41 and the 15 became the first two Dublin Bus routes to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
KD 237 was delivered new to CIE in 1982. It remained in service right up to 2000 when the last Bombardiers were withdrawn in Dublin. It spent all its working life in Summerhill Garage.
Buses no longer serve this upper ramp in Dublin Airport, instead the 41 serves a bus stop that is roughly where the trees by the church are in the background.
01/10/1983
This week we are going back thirty-one years to 1995, and to D 673 at St. Stephen's Green with a service on route 20B to Ardlea Road.
Route 20B started running between Bulfin Road and Ardlea Road in 1980. In 1988 it was cut back to only run between the city centre and Ardlea Road. The route ceased to exist in 2011 when it was merged with route 14 under Network Direct. For all of its existence, certain departures in the peak operated to and from St. Stephen's Green, as seen here.
D 673 was new to CIE in 1975. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in June 1995, two months after this photograph was taken.
In the background the shop is being fitted out for the household furnishings brand Habitat. They lasted about ten years in the location before moving to College Green in 2005. The brand left Dublin around 2008 following the recession.
24/04/1995
This week we are going back six years to 2017 and AX 523 in Parnell Square on route 7A. The bus is in a special livery for Dublin Pride. Although Dublin Bus had been a supporter of Dublin LGBTQ Pride for a number of years, this was the first year a bus received a special livery to mark the occasion. In 2018 three buses were done up, as were three other buses in 2019. Covid-19 saw nothing happening in 2020, and in 2021 Go-Ahead Ireland wrapped a bus up which is still around today.
Route 7A to Loughlinstown Park started in 2016 when the two branches of route 7 were given their own route numbers. Traditionally the 7 went to Loughlinstown Park, but it was decided instead to assign that number to the Brides Glen variation of the route.
AX 523 was new to Dublin Bus in 2006. It was withdrawn around 2019 and sold on to an operator in the UK.
22/06/2017
An early awkward attempt at sultry posing... 1997 pre-digital 35mm, back when you had to wait to get photos back from the lab, LOL.
This week we are throwing back twenty-six years to 1990. D 513 is seen parked on O'Connell Street outside what is now Penneys. This bus is adorned in ads with a large McDonald's ad on the side. Last year ads of this size made a return to Dublin Bus, but now cover some windows. The ad of 1990 did not do that. The front of the bus also has an ad for pork sausages. Sadly buses today do not have ads on the front. This bus entered service in 1973 and was withdrawn less than a year later in June 1991. 01/09/1990