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NOPSI 400321 viewsNOPSI #400 assigned to Express 93 - Morrison in 1974. Collection of Aaron Handy III.Jan 31, 2010
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NOPSI 408330 viewsNOPSI #408 assigned to Express 80 (Lake Vista via Canal Boulevard) in 1968. Collection of Aaron Handy III.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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NOPSI 292B767 viewsOn April 21, 1983, NOPSI 292B collided with an oncoming vehicle which was in the wrong lane, and sickeningly smashed into a large oak tree at the intersection of Gentilly Boulevard and Iris Street, injuring 25 passengers and its driver. NOPSI photo by Danny Birtacci; courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection [http://www.hnoc.org], contributed by Aaron Handy III.Jan 31, 2010
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NOPSI 292B785 viewsOn April 21, 1983, NOPSI 292B collided with an oncoming vehicle which was in the wrong lane, and sickeningly smashed into a large oak tree at the intersection of Gentilly Boulevard and Iris Street, injuring 25 passengers and its driver. NOPSI photo by Danny Birtacci; courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection [http://www.hnoc.org], contributed by Aaron Handy III.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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NOPSI 282713 viewsThursday, February 12, 1970---a tragic, traumatic night during Carnivaltime '70 as 24 year-old NOPSI operator Joseph Washington, working on the Tchoupitoulas line that evening, ignobly became the victim of his own bus! While traveling outbound, Washington was ejected from NOPSI 282 in a collison with an automobile @ Jackson and Annunciation, thrown under a back wheel, and dragged to his death and crushed as his driverless bus careened forward, bounced over the Jackson Avenue neutral ground and slammed into a building across the street.
2 of his passengers survived, however, albeit one with slight injuries. Not exactly the WORST way to go, but horrible nonetheless!Jan 31, 2010
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NOPSI 1866 & 1871278 viewsNOPSI #1866 & 1871 assigned to the first express routes, Express 70 and Express 71, in 1958. Collection of Aaron Handy III.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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NOPSI 184331 viewsNOPSI #184 leaves the Canal Street route terminus, circa 1965. Photographer unknown; collection of Aaron Handy III.
Jan 31, 2010
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