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I ran across this original Monterey Pop Festival poster and had to share. Here was a line up of some of the hottest bands of their day and look at the ticket prices!!!!! Now days it's more like a $100 to see ONE band of this caliber!
Those were the days my friend.
With many railroads experiencing power shortages, the Canadian Pacific removed several SOO SD60s from storage. Solo locomotive, SOO6027 leads the daily #472 train past ESS Kittredge headed eastbound for Bensenville, Illinois with about 30 cars.
Thanks to Basicbill for his usual early morning tip and thanks to Trainut for driving. (We were headed out to our model railroad club in Chadwick for the day.)
This week we are going back thirty-one years to 1994 and to AD 25 on O'Connell Street with a service on route 3 to Whitehall.
Route 3 started running between Whitehall and Sandymount in 1940. In 1947 it was extended to Larkhill, and in 1972 it was extended from Sandymount Tower to St. John's Church. In 1990 certain departures were extended to UCD Belfield. The route ceased to operate in 2012 under Network Direct. It was replaced on the northside by routes 1 and 44 and on the southside by routes 1 and 47.
AD 25 was new to Dublin Bus in 1994. It was withdrawn in 2004 and joined the Bus Eireann school fleet in Cork. It was withdrawn in 2011. The bus was delivered in CitySwift livery as seen here, but had the branding removed before entering service. It was later repainted into Dublin Bus two-tone green livery, and later again into the blue and cream livery. It spent its final years in Bus Eireann livery.
It is worth noting that "White Hall" on the destination blind is incorrectly spelt as two words rather than one.
05/06/1994
Deep from the archives from a long time ago. I remember I had just had a makeover and yes, I'm wearing her top that she had given me, it fit so well on me but she filled it out better lol.
A day late this week but I am sure that will not result in a major crisis, though does make this Throwback Friday.
It is a short trip back to 2008 and RV 461 is seen heading south on O'Connell Street with a 14 to Ballinteer. This was before Network Direct made it into a cross-city route shared between two garages. At this time is was a Donnybrook route and only reached as far north as Parnell Square. On the southside it also only made it to Ballinteer, though the 14A did make it all the way to Dundrum where the 14 goes today. The bus is also passing Clery's which was still open for business at the time. The final RV bus was withdrawn in 2012. 26/05/2008
It is a trip back to 1997 this week and a look at a test new livery for Dublin Bus. When it started in 1987 the company adopted a two-tone green livery with an orange stripe. Ijn 1996 when it made its first attempt at a new fleet livery it experimented with...two-tone green and an orange stripe. This experimental livery was applied to RH 86 and AD 24 and following the trial was not deemed a success and Dublin Bus ended up adopting a livery of blue/orange/cream. RH 86 is seen on O'Connell Street with an 11 from Kilmacud to Wadelai park. 03/03/1997
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 eleven years to 2012, and to RV 584 at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. On this day, October 13th, an enthusiast trip was organised by Dublin Bus to mark the end of the Volvo Olympian buses (as well as the end of the high-floor buses). RV 584 and RV 586 visited a number of locations around the city, following certain bus routes. Both buses had been delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1999 and within a week of the trip, both had been withdrawn. Both were sold on to other Irish operators. The actual last Olympian to run in passenger service was RV 560 on the 19th December 2012.
In the background is AV 405 on route 40. This had been the terminus of the 40 since 2011, when the route had been merged with the 78 and 78A. It was cut back again in 2022 when route G2 started under Bus Connects. In 2023 this stop was remodelled to become just an intermediate stop as a new bus interchange opened at the front of the shopping centre. AV 405 was withdrawn around the start of 2019, and sold on to another Irish operator. In just over a decade, everything in this scene has changed. Even the bus livery is on the way out.
13/10/2012
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!
I can't remember if I had been out or was about to go out but I do remember it was to a posh restaurant many many years ago.
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
A few from the archives...
Just look at that pot belly hanging out....we sure fixed that, didn't we? 😉
I happened to get this old car going by the old building. I figured I would edit to make the pic look old.
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
This week we are going back seven years to 2018 and to AX 456 and AX 453 on Ratoath Road in Finglas, both operating services on route 911.
Route 911 was a bus route with a very short lifespan, only lasting one day. It was one of seven shuttle bus routes operated by Dublin Bus in connection to the World Meeting of Families mass taking place at the Phoenix, which was being celebrated by Pope Francis. Route 911 operated between Clare Hall and the Ratoath Road. Other transport hubs near the Phoenix Park were nearby Ballyboggan Road (route 912), Cook Street (route 913), Chapelizod by-pass (routes 914, 915 & 916) and Laurel Lodge (route 917). It was a huge operation, involving most of the Dublin Bus fleet. The regular bus service mostly operated as normal too.
AX 453 and AX 456 were new to Dublin Bus in 2006. AX 453 was withdrawn around the end of 2018 and sold on to another operator in Ireland. AX 456 was last noted in service with Dublin Bus in 2024.
At the time this picture was taken, this part of Ratoath had no scheduled bus services, but in December 2018 it gained route 40E.
26/08/2018