Transit flashback: the orange SeaBus
January 20, 2010
|In History
Transit flashback: the orange SeaBus
January 20, 2010
|In History
Many moons ago, Eric shared this photo of a vintage SeaBus ad in a historic Brill trolley. Can you believe the SeaBus used to be orange back in the 1970s?
Anyway, do check out the whole set of Eric’s photos, which are from a Brill trolley tour put on by TRAMS in 2007. Here’s one more:
And make sure to see this ad: it’s pretty amazing!
I have couple posters given to me by David Stumpo quite a few years back. I’ll take a few pictures and email them when I get some time.
The first is an advertisement for Go-Cards showing a bus, SkyTrain, and SeaBus blasting off from earth.
The second shows an illustrated SkyTrain travelling through a very condensed version of Vancouver.
Due to the format of these posters, I believe they may have been intended to be placed on the end of a MK I SkyTrain or on the SeaBus in the early 1990s.
Who wears short shorts? lol. Transit’s sure come a long way… including the fares unfortunately.
Hey Jhenifer, you should add Seabus picture from 7 years ago where they painted the roof to look like a giant lapel pin for the Olympic bid.
;-): I don’t have a photo of that! Anyone out there got it?
Cliff: looking forward to seeing those! I have a pamphlet with the Go Card buses blasting off, but not the actual ads.
As I wasn’t around back then, I wonder. When the SkyTrain first came out, was it percieved as very futuristic? Those ads make it seem so.
Maybe that was the appeal behind SkyTrain back then. Whatever the reason, going with SkyTrain was the right choice. After all, can you imagine a Vancouver driver yielding to an LRT? Look what’s happening in Seattle and they’ve got far better drivers than we do!
Who ever was in charge of advertising back then along with the people pushing SkyTrain did us all a great favour. In the end SkyTrain really was the future.
Looking forward though… What could be more futuristic than an elevated automated metro?
This was quite a surprise, so thank you, Jhenifer!
(BTW, can you double-check the link for the SeaBus ad photo? It’s different from that in the caption.)
Fixed! And thanks for sharing :)
Go to page 2 to see the floating lapel pin….
http://www.translink.ca/~/media/Documents/rider_info/Buzzer%20Vault/2000s/2003/Buzzer_2003_03_07.ashx
Reall nice blog…
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