(Slightly OT) Bus schedules in Long Beach in the late 1970's were great.
As a starving youngster on his own in So Cal in 1978 working full time at a Medical lab in San Pedro, I used to spend well over two hours a day commuting to work in my 1971 Dodge Charger (8 mpg iirc). Then my car broke down and I didn't have the money to fix it. A couple of blocks away I found I could catch a bus every 20 minutes or so that would take me to Terminal Island. From there, I'd switch to LA's bus system to ride to San Pedro and get off the bus a block from where I worked. My wait for the transfer was never more than twenty minutes and most often, much less than that.
All told, the bus added about half an hour to my journey which I put to good use buying a Sunday Only LA Times subscription. I read that paper cover to cover on my bus commute (back then it would take that amount of time to read the entire paper). In addition, I was saving a ton of money. I had been spending roughly $6.00/day on gas (a lot of that was burning gas in bumper-to-bumper traffic) and the bus cost me 25 cents in the morning (transfer tickets were free both directions) and 35 cents for the return. Saving $5.40 per day was a big deal in 1978 for me.
I enjoyed that bus commute so much that I didn't get my car fixed until right before I left California - a year later.
All told, the bus added about half an hour to my journey which I put to good use buying a Sunday Only LA Times subscription. I read that paper cover to cover on my bus commute (back then it would take that amount of time to read the entire paper). In addition, I was saving a ton of money. I had been spending roughly $6.00/day on gas (a lot of that was burning gas in bumper-to-bumper traffic) and the bus cost me 25 cents in the morning (transfer tickets were free both directions) and 35 cents for the return. Saving $5.40 per day was a big deal in 1978 for me.
I enjoyed that bus commute so much that I didn't get my car fixed until right before I left California - a year later.
