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June 16, 2019 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Al Hirschfeld, Broadway history, Margo Feiden, New York City, travel | 1 Comment

Photo of the day: WHERE DO YOUR OLD SCHOOL BUSES GO? – Part of my ‘Tijuana Tuesday’ series. Ever wonder what happens to that clunky old yellow school bus that mom walked you to every morning? That old faithful bright yellow box of a bus that you and your buddies (and enemies) took to school five days a week? The classic part of our Americana landscape? The answer is = MEXICO!
On my recent trip to Tijuana, Mexico I was fascinated by their idea of ‘mass transit’. My coming from one of the biggest metropolises on the planet, New York City, I am used to big modern, (now some electric), sleek air conditioned kneeling buses with big scenic windows. Well not in Tijuana. Meet your old school bus! The old General Motors buses are over hauled, painted bright green and viola – ‘mass transito’
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The destinations are hand painted onto the interior windows. It is one flat fee the equivalent of approximately $0.75¢. There are frequent official benched bus stops, but the buses pick up passengers wherever someone signals them, and, let you off wherever you wish. They are always full. No one seems to converse much on them, they are always quiet, people just sit politely staring out the windows. Their idea of air conditioning is simple – open windows! And if it is really hot . . . the driver drives with the door wide open!! (Better not stand too close to the front!) Some are decorated with paper cut-outs inside, some hang discarded furniture/lamp fringe in the windows. The most charming of all, at night some of them have red Christmas lights inside of them.


It certainly isn’t what we in our big USA cities are used to, but they are content, busy scurrying back and forth from the market and home on your old yellow/their new green buses. Old school buses never die, they just retire in Mexico!
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September 17, 2013 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: "Tijuana Tuesday", American yellow school buses, Americana, daily life in Tijuana Mexico, General Motors, General Motors school buses, Green school buses, Hans Von Rittern, local atmosphere Tijuana, MTA, New York photo, old school buses, Photo of the day, school buses, Tijuana Mexico, Tijuana Mexico mass transit, tourism in Tijuana Mexico, travel, yellow school bus | 2 Comments

Photo of the day: HAPPY LABOR DAY! – from your local Tijuana hooker !
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September 2, 2013 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: fat hooker, Hans Von Rittern, Happy Labor Day!, life in Tijuana Mexico, Mexican hooker, Mexican prostitute, Photo of the day, saguaro cactus, South of the Border, Tijuana hooker, Tijuana Mexico, Tijuana prostitue with saguaro cactus, Tijuana tourism, tourism, travel | Leave a comment

Photo of the day: BULL FIGHTS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1, TIJUANA, MEXICO – I passed by the soccer stadium in Tijuana, and these fliers were being handed out. Luckily I wasn’t there to see this. As famous as bullfights are, it would horrify me to witness 21,000 people in Estadio Caliente cheering the death of an animal.
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September 1, 2013 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: bull fights, Bull fights in Mexico, bullfight ad, Estadio Caliente, Hans Von Rittern, Mexico, Photo of the day, soccer stadium, Tijuana Mexico, Tijuana soccer stadium, travel | Leave a comment