The sign out front of Canal Station in 1963, just nine months before the Canal streetcar line was "converted" to bus service. The photographer was standing in front of the Canal Station streetcar barn building. Behind the sign is a bus parking lot on the site of the old Kemster Athletic Field. NOPSI acquired the ballpark from NORD in the 1940s. It was cleared and paved over for bus storage. The building in the background is Warren Easton High School, across N. Gayoso from the bus lot.
Note the GM "Old Looks" buses in their maroon and cream NOPSI livery behind the sign. Some of these buses remained in service as late as 1979, operating on lines such as Cartier, which existed primarily as service for students of John F. Kennedy Senior High on Wisner Blvd.
For more details on Canal Station, the A. Philip Randolph SIS facility that replaced it, and the new Canal Barn, check out our new Canal Station section.
Photo courtesy H. George Friedman, Jr. and his fantastic site, "Canal Street: A Street Railway Spectacular."
