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Title: The first bus conversion?
Post by: lvmci on August 14, 2021, 02:27:00 PM: The first bus conversion, went all over the US in the 1920s...
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Post by: Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM on August 16, 2021, 04:34:33 PM: I remember riding to school in one of these. ;D
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Post by: chessie4905 on August 16, 2021, 04:54:43 PM: You went to school??
Title: Re: The first bus conversion?
Post by: Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM on August 16, 2021, 06:56:31 PM: Quote from: chessie4905 on August 16, 2021, 04:54:43 PM
You went to school??

Proud to say...I went all the way up to the 5th grade. They wanted to hold me back in the 4th grade, but they didn't me to be in the same grade as my Daddy was. ;D
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Post by: dtcerrato on August 16, 2021, 06:59:06 PM: My father went through high school. He said walked in the front door all the way down the hallway right out the back door...
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Post by: CrabbyMilton on August 17, 2021, 07:03:51 AM: They had schools back then? :) So you had to ride that bus up hill 150 miles in the deep snow both ways with the wolves chasing you and...
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Post by: Jim Blackwood on August 17, 2021, 07:48:42 AM: You forgot barefooted. We were all barefooted in those days right? Now at least we have flip-flops.

Jim
Title: Re: The first bus conversion?
Post by: CrabbyMilton on August 17, 2021, 09:56:16 AM: Yeah that's right. Barefoot but all you had to back then do is pull out your phone and order flip flops and AMAZON would deliver them...Whoops. :)
Title: Re: The first bus conversion?
Post by: CrabbyMilton on August 18, 2021, 05:10:56 AM: Quote from: Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM on August 16, 2021, 06:56:31 PM
Proud to say...I went all the way up to the 5th grade. They wanted to hold me back in the 4th grade, but they didn't me to be in the same grade as my Daddy was. ;D

I remember Bob Uecker saying that the 5th grade was the best 6 years of his life.
Then asked if the other kids made fun of him. He said no and in fact, he was the only 5th grader to have his own parking space.
Title: Re: The first bus conversion?
Post by: lvmci on September 04, 2021, 10:49:19 AM: A few years younger...
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Post by: oltrunt on September 04, 2021, 07:04:28 PM: Cool photo. I desperately wanted to buy this one but it ended up in a museum in Az. It's a 1923 Chevy.

(https://i.postimg.cc/d3vwNGH6/IMG-7113.jpg).
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Post by: chessie4905 on September 04, 2021, 07:45:03 PM: Just saw this one today at Pioneer Auto Museum in Murdo SD
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Post by: freds on September 08, 2021, 01:17:18 PM: First grade in a one room school house in NE Montana that's no longer there..