Oak Lawn Bus Service, 1967

[Guest]

I was looking at some footage of the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado   I saw some still shots of buses mangled, crushed and overturned. What bus system was this that operated in this area at the time?  I know today is Pace Southwest Div. 

[Busjack]

32 minutes ago, CTA5750 said:

I was looking at some footage of the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado   I saw some still shots of buses mangled, crushed and overturned. What bus system was this that operated in this area at the time?  I know today is Pace Southwest Div. 

Suburban Transit Service. There are various references to it having acquired replacement old look buses.

STS was best known for having FANTASY CHARTER headsigns.

[andrethebusman]

Suburban Transit System had one main route from 63/Halsted via 63rd, Morgan, 87th, Vincennes, 95th with branches via 95th to Kean, 95th-Ridgeland-111th-Harlem-127th to Cal Sag, 95th-Roberts to 106th. Also from 63rd via Cicero to 103rd and from 63rd via Cicero-79th-Narragsnsett-87th-Central to 103rd.

Tornado destroyed 11 buses, all old-looks used on school trippers. Replacements were 11 5105's from Columbus OH.

[andrethebusman]

Also STS had very low fares. When CTA was charging 45, STS charged 15 on Morgan. When RTA standardized fares STS took a major increase.

[Guest]

Wow! Interesting! Thank you all for the info!