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Description: Here's a rare bumper for The Honeymooners on WFLD Channel 32, with the station's "zooming text" in sunburst orange type, a (what looks to be) a hand-colored art-card.

The rendition of the famed August 1955 photo (taken outside the area around New York's Carnegie Hall) features co-stars Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows and Art Carney inside GMC "Old Look" bus #2969 (model #TDH-4509, built for New York City Omnibus Corp. in November - December 1950 [information courtesy of the Ohio Museum of Transportation]; however, the picture was zoomed so that the show's other co-star, Joyce Randolph, who was peering from the window to Carney's left, was not shown), and for the backing music, the rendition of the show's theme, "You're My Greatest Love," as heard in the closing credits.

(TRIVIA NOTE: Later in the 1950s, the NYC Omnibus Corp. would be absorbed into the Fifth Avenue Coach Corp. whose routes, in turn, would be taken over by the city in 1962 and administered by an agency called the Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority [MaBSTOA].)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979 during the 10pm to 10:30pm timeframe.