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busdaddy
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 Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject: The Hotel / Motel shuttle bus |
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How about pics of shuttle busses? seems that alot of establishments used VW's for hauling customers, how about some pics?
Like this: (watch out for those low gas station roofs) BTW that's me swimming in the pool with the beach ball  
Or lurking in the background here:
Or this:
This jewel:
And of course this:
There must be many more, I've seen them in postcards from those crazy looking Googie style motels from the 60's but never thought to save the pics.
Bring em on!
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House
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Lohe
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Location: Chandler, Az
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Omg I've seen the Kon Tiki Hotel bus! |
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SurfCityRacing
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Cool. Would the pic of the airport be Catalina's Airport in the sky by chance? I heard they had several buses over the years that they used to shuttle people from Avalon and the Isthsmus and back to the Airport. I just bought their last shuttle bus before they went to jeeps and other vehicles; it's a '67 Kombi. It was stored in the hanger at the airport its whole life, but being on an island in the Pacific Ocean, it's pretty rusty.
Edit: I didn't see the logo on the bus when I posted. It's not the Catalina Island Shuttle. If anyone has pics, let me know.
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erlawson
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| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| Omg I've seen the Kon Tiki Hotel bus! |
I miss the Kon Tiki hotel, very cool bus!
Eddie
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obus 
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ScottMcW
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| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: |
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I've got a different postcard of the Fantasy Motel bus (which includes a second one!). I'll scan and post that up.
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House
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Fish
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Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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SurfCityRacing
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Cool, Thanks fish. My bus looks just like that (along with the tons of others that do too;) The history of my bus is illusive. I called a historian up at the airport and he obviously hates 'hippy busses', so I got nothing. But we definitely plucked it from the hanger on Catalina. Apparently they had a few over the years.
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Fish
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kociela
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:23 am Post subject: Re: The Hotel / Motel shuttle bus |
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Does anyone know where the Kon Tiki Hotel busses are or what happened to them?
There was a split and a bay window.
Thanks for any help you can give!
Mike
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srfndoc
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:08 am Post subject: Re: The Hotel / Motel shuttle bus |
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No idea where they are but would be an awesome find.
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dgsaz
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| Omg I've seen the Kon Tiki Hotel bus! |
Used to skateboard in the pool back in the 70's. |
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