Today is the last post in the painted buses series. Thanks again to John and Bernie. 🙂
I know some of you liked them, and others of you didn’t.
I have however (in my opinion) saved the best for last.
The coolest of all the hand painted buses was hands down the CBC bus. I remember seeing this thing all over town, and riding it a million times too…
Who ever designed it was a genius. The entire Windsor shoreline laid out across the bus.
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
This one is funny… Hard to remember back to a time when the “average crossing time was 3:15”. All I do remember is that it certainly didn’t cost $3.75 each way…
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Good old Dealin’ Dick’s Central Chrysler. Before John Sheldon pulled it out of downtown, and plopped it down into the sprawled out mess of the Provincial/Cabana area.
Check out the old Woolworth’s signs behind the bus, back when Downtown still had viable retail. For the record the photo was taken in March, 1992.
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1992? Doesn't seem that long ago, does it? Amazing how fast things deteriorate down that "slippery slope" once the momentum builds.
As a kid, I loved being able to use the Woolworths as a shortcut from the parking lot behind it on Pelissier to Ouellette.
We took the same shortcut. I remember the twins that used to run the place. Always watched everybody like hawks ready to swoop!
I remember being fascinated when I moved to Windsor in '93 by the buses with the tunnel bus ads painted on their roofs for the benefit of dowtown Detroit office workers. I could see them now and then from my dorm room at U of W -- "DOWNTOWN WINDSOR - 5 MINUTES AWAY!: