MetroFlickrLA: Halloween Bus
Added on Thursday, August 19th, 2010Copyrighted image by So Cal Metro; used with permission from the MetroRiderLA Flickr pool. All rights reserved.
Halloween in August? Why not!
Continuing on a theme of busfanning and busfunning from yesterday’s Roadeo image from Fred, So Cal Metro has shared an image from his archives. The caption description lists this from 1998. And by the Halloween theme of the bus, it’s assumed this was taken circa October.
Metro held several decorate-a-bus contests. Halloween was a common occasion, Christmas was another. Buses would be decorated in the respective Halloween themes. Metro’s contests often involved each division entering a decorated bus. This contest, though, enlisted school children to decorate the buses. The bus, with its smooth, non-openable windows was one of Metro’s 1981 RTSs in the 8200-9139 batch. Metro held on to these rattling hulks for 19 years, officially retiring them on the same weekend in 2000 as the subway was completed.









