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Jitney buses !
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 7:50 pm
by Rich P. Bingham
Mexico City, c. 1925, the Universal Car !
Re: Jitney buses !
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 8:01 pm
by TXGOAT2
I've seen old pictures of people riding running boards to get around the city in 1920s Los Angeles. Private car owners would give rides for a nickle or dime. The city clamped down...
Re: Jitney buses !
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 8:13 pm
by TXGOAT2
In Mexico City in 1983, I saw some of the fanciest buses I have ever seen... sleek and modern, with well-dressed people getting off and on at stops in La Zona Rosa. The very next bus to pull up at the stop might be a grimy, battered, and run- down 3rd class bus with open windows, loud, smokey exhaust, and all sorts of people jammed aboard, along with goats and chickens and whatever. These buses cost very little to ride.
Re: Jitney buses !
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2025 9:14 pm
by Tim Williams
they rode running boards again in the late 20's and 30's only then they had thompson's under one arm.