Pace Paper Buses

[sw4400]

I have been asked to try to do some PACE buses, and here is my first attempt... this is a PACE 6200-Series NABI. I know it needs the logo, but an ad on the side is blocking me seeing where it would probably be found at. The color might be off a bit as well, but it is a first try, and I am open to re-doing it again.

PACE NABI 6200.bmp

[Busjack]

I know it needs the logo, but an ad on the side is blocking me seeing where it would probably be found at.

Go here.

[sw4400]

Ok, here's another try at the PACE NABI 40-LFW. I have tried all options to make the logo text white with a blue border like it should be, all without success.

PACE NABI 6200.bmp

[Busjack]

Ok, here's another try at the PACE NABI 40-LFW. I have tried all options to make the logo text white with a blue border like it should be, all without success.

You need:

• A drawing* program that manipulates fonts
• The correct font (hard to find)
• pace is lower case
• Most of the stripe is gone where the ad frame (i.e. the pace logo) is.

With the new logo, the best I could do is cut, paste, crop, and resize from an existing source.

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*Usually not a paint program. The distinction is that drawing programs use vector graphics, not .bmp.

[Busjack]

If you want to get into some Waukegan & North Chicago historical pictures, check out the Trib Local gallery, including this one of 1938 of a couple of dinky buses, and this one of the old garage at the same location as the present North Division, with RTA buses on the left.

[Railwaymodeler]

Can anyone ID where the picture of the 1938 buses was taken? Looks almost like Genesee and Madison. The building on the far left looks almost like the building my computer shop used to be in. Obviously, that building had a facelift at some point, but the window patten and overall design seems similar. The trim at the top looks like it could be a foundation to what is there now. This would be 117 N. Genesee Street if I am guessing correctly.

[Busjack]

Can anyone ID where the picture of the 1938 buses was taken? Looks almost like Genesee and Madison. The building on the far left looks almost like the building my computer shop used to be in. Obviously, that building had a facelift at some point, but the window patten and overall design seems similar. The trim at the top looks like it could be a foundation to what is there now. This would be 117 N. Genesee Street if I am guessing correctly.

Can't, but it appears that the address you gave was part of the College of Lake County Waukegan campus.

There was another picture in the gallery that 111 N. Genesee burned in 1943.

Also, on the bus beat, there is a 1971 picture of a New Look suburban in the midst of a Waukegan HS football parade.

[Railwaymodeler]

Erm, 117 N. Genesee is a few doors north of CLC Lakeshore campus. South of it, is an abandoned building that used to be the Juz Jokin comedy club, then Little Fort Media, then CLC.

SER/Lake County and Fair Housing of Lake County used to both be in the building. Then Fair Housing moved, and eventually was cut by state budget cuts, then SER moved out, leaving just my office unit. Then I had to move out as being the only person in the building was becoming a safety issue. Got robbed in there, some punks came in, pointed a gun at me, grabbed a flashy looking PC tower and ran.

Dumb kids didn't know I figured this would happen, and painted up an old casing to look fancy, filled it with dead hardware, and put it close to the door as a decoy. Thank God for stupid people!

In any event,was a good photo article. Waukegan was once a nice town. Proves my dad wasn't kidding about it once being a very nice place. He and Grandpa would come up and fish in the harbor in the 1950s.