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This week we are going back fifteen years to RV 422 passing the main entrance to UCD Belfield with a service on route 7B to Dublin city centre.
This Volvo Olympian was new to Dublin Bus in 1998. It was withdrawn in 2009 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
Route 7B started running between Shankill and the city centre in 2001. This was a weekday, peak-only route. Whereas the traditional route 7 reached the city centre by going along the Rock Road, this route and the 7D, which started around the same time, made use of the Stillorgan QBC. The route still runs today.
University College Dublin (UCD) started its move from the city centre to Belfield campus in 1964 when the Faculty of Science opened. Since then the campus has grown a lot, and the university is the largest in Ireland.
06/10/2008
***Decided to merge images from my old Flickr account with my current account. Photos and descriptions from 2007-2009.
Location: Chicago, IL
Today I went to Chicago Outdoor Film Festival at Butler Field. Todays screening was of "Duck Soup". There was also the record attempt for "the most people wearing Groucho Marx glasses." The previous record was 4,077 people that wore the glasses all at the same time for a period of 10 mins. Chicago became the victor of the Guinness book record at 4,400. Sweet!?
Here is some information on Groucho Marx if you don't know who he is (courtesy of wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx
Blast from the Past redone in living color with a bit of HDR treatment. Perhaps a bit overdone in this case, but I like the end result. Any resemblance to real life characters is purely coincidental.
We finally tried Mountain Dew Throwback too. I loved it but my wife seems to prefer the pancake syrup Dew.
Remember kids: corn belongs in your tamale and (per Bulldog, your adult beverage!), not your Pepsi can and/or gas tank!
Explore #176, May 18th, 2009 -- Thank you all for your gracious comments, views, and favorites!
This week we are going back to 1990. KD 365 is seen heading south on O'Connell Street with an 11B to Belfield. It is passing the now closed Clery's department store. The bus was originally meant to be the last one in the KD fleet, but after KD 111 was written off in an accident an extra bus was built which became KD 366. The bus is also in an all-over ad for Mars chocolate. 07/07/1990
This week’s Throwback Thursday photos are from February 23, 1968 – a 3rd alarm at Pier 22, West and Harrison Streets in Manhattan (FD Box 33-0148).
This week we are going back twenty-one years to 2003 and MV 77 at the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. The bus is dressed for route 270.
This route started operating between Dunboyne and the shopping centre, going via Littlepace, in September 2000. It has remained pretty consistent since then. Only major changes were in 2006 when the bus stops at the Blanchardstown Centre were relocated, and in 2019 when Go-Ahead Ireland took over the operating of the route.
MV 77 was new to Dublin Bus in 1998. Between 1997 and 1998, Dublin Bus received 25 MV-Class minibuses, the last minibus fleet delivered to the company. The following year would see the WV-Class midibuses start to arrive. MV 77 was withdrawn around the end of 2006, and was subsequently sold on to another Irish operator. It did around another decade in service during its second life.
Although the bus is in City Imp livery, neither route 270 nor any other of the local Blanchardtsown routes were City Imp routes.
28/03/2003
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Originalfoto von John Atherton - flic.kr/p/3YFYca.
It is a trip back to 2012 to see RV 604 in its final days with Dublin Bus. The bus had been delivered exactly 13 years previously in October 1999. It was withdrawn in November 2012, a month after this photograph was taken and a month before the final Olympian was withdrawn. The bus went on to have a second career in Scotland, and was observed in service around Perth (Scotland) in 2018.
The bus is seen here on route 150. The destination is displaying "Willington", although the more usual display was "Rossmore". The 150 commenced in 1994 under the City Imp brand and replaced route 50. City Imp saw mini-buses replacing more usual buses on routes, but operating to a higher frequency. Over time these routes became more popular and larger buses were placed on them until they all became part of the standard Dublin bus network with double-decker buses operating them.
Willington was the terminus of the 50 before the 150 came along and was extended to Rossmore. The current 150 terminus on Orwell Road in Rossmore is not far from Willington Roundabout.
Fleet Street was a city centre terminus for many different bus routes over the years. However, with the coming of the Luas Cross City around 2016, terminating buses had to be moved and only through routes stop here now to drop passengers off. The 150 terminus did not move too far, only going to Hawkins Street around the corner. 10/10/2012
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(Jan. 6, 2011)
A Mine Resistant, Ambush-Protected, All-Terrain Vehicle deployed with Personal Security Detail, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), provides overwatch security during a brief halt on a mounted patrol through Garmser district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, January 6, 2011. 1st MLG (FWD) Marines conduct logistical operations throughout the province in support of the International Security Assistance Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Brandon M. Owen/Released.)
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that was one of the craziest decision i've made in my life... to cut my barbie glam's hair and to color it to blue.. and glam was like "nooooooooooo....."
After skipping a week due to holidays, we are back with a trip back in time to 2014. AV 110 is seen in Rathfarnham on route 17 from Rialto to Blackrock. This is a Donnybrook route but the bus is synonymous with Summerhill Garage. There it started off on the 33 before moving to the 20B in 2002. It then settled on that route before leaving the garage in 2013. It transferred to Donnybrook before being withdrawn in mid-2014. While at that garage it occasionally appeared on the 145 which went to Kilmacanogue in Wicklow, so the bus had a career that spanned the entire length of Dublin, from Balbriggan in the north to Wicklow in the south. 01/03/2014
As time went on and DeGrazia’s success exploded, a demand for his art reached an all time high. In 1974 DeGrazia formed his artists guild. They would reproduce his original images to satisfy public demands, which included jewelry, figurines, candles, and many more items. Happy Throwback Thursday!
This week we are going back thirty-four years to 1991, and to KD 339 on O'Connell Street with a service on route 19A to McKee Road.
Route 19A started running between Rialto and Ballymun Avenue in1940. It reached Cedarwood Road in 1967. Around 1990 its northern terminus became McKee Road on the northside and Bulfin Road on the southside. In the late-1990s its southern terminus was Kelly's Corner, and from 2001 to 2011 it operated between Limekiln Avenue and Bulfin Road. It was replaced by route 9 in 2011 under Network Direct.
KD 339 was new to CIE in 1983. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus during 1998. It wore this all-over ad for Stanley Tools for most of 1991, and into 1992.
Kentucky Fried Chicken in the background is today a Supermac's.
02/04/1991
CSX Q418-12 stretches out on the straight away just east of TL, seen here at Heacock Road led by SD40-2 8027, a former Seaboard/L&N unit followed by a former Conrail CW40-8 with the usual short consist. January 12, 2017.
New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia dedicates the statue of Father Francis Duffy, the World War I chaplain of the New York Army National Guard's 1st Battalion 69th Infantry in Times Square on May 2, 1937. Duffy died on June 27, 1932 and his death was mourned city-wide. The area around his statue in Times Square is now known as Duffy Square (photo courtesy of the National Archives).