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106 viewsA chartered NOPSI New Look on layover at The New Orleans Museum of Art (the former route terminus of the Esplanade line).Apr 24, 2010
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77 viewsA NOPSI New Look, assigned to Magazine, crosses Poydras Street as she heads outbound.Apr 24, 2010
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107 viewsPassengers climb aboard a NOPSI New Look at an undisclosed location. But peep that bus stop sign with amazingly INVERSED COLORS!!! Any of you N'Awlineans remember seeing these??Apr 24, 2010
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NOPSI Safti-Sighter129 viewsNOPSI's Safti-Sighter mirror, safely guiding Canal buses out of the bus lane in 1966. The original was square; a later mirror was round.Jan 31, 2010
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NOPSI GMC New Look Parade150 viewsThe Krewe Of New Looks! GMC's brand-spankin' New Look buses, NOPSI's latest acquisition for its ever-changing transit fleet, parade down Canal Street in October 1961.
Jan 31, 2010
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America's Bicentennial In Jackson Square101 viewsNew Orleanians flock to Jackson Square by the thousandfold to observe America's Bicentennial on Sunday, July 4, 1976, with Old Glory-painted NOPSI 276 shuttling most of them to the action. :)Jan 31, 2010
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Birth Of Canal Bus Line146 viewsBlack Sunday morning, May 31, 1964. A door closes and another opens in downtown New Orleans and New Orleans transit, as the 103 year-old streetcar line on Canal Street becomes the last in The Big Easy to be discontinued and "bustituted" (leaving the venerable St. Charles line), with a fleet of New Looks buses (GMC and Flxible) ready to roll. Notice construction workers uprooting the original streetcar rails @ the foot of Canal.Jan 31, 2010
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Canal and Baronne121 viewsNOPSI GMC New Look buses meet @ Canal and Baronne. (Those ad wings had lights?!)Jan 31, 2010
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A Flxible On Freret?!123 viewsJan 31, 2010
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Christmastime '75133 viewsFigures depicting Santa Claus, Woody Woodpecker and several other cartoon characters bracket NOPSI GMC/Flxible New Look coaches passing each other in the Canal Street bus lane during Christmastime 1975.Jan 31, 2010
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The Canal Streetcar Line In Its Death Throes (Sunday, May 31, 1964)94 views"Ready To Serve You!" A last car and first bus on Canal Street, as the Canal streetcar line breathes its last gasp @ 5:00 AM CDT on Sunday, May 31, 1964.Jan 31, 2010
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GMC New Looks!158 viewsAt Canal Station, NOPSI's GMC New Looks are gassed, brassed and ready to roll!Jan 31, 2010
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