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Patty pan was lettered F . It was shorter than the A bus with the driver sealed off from the passengers . One was parked by my mother's house & they scrapped it . recently
I'm trying to get some Classic Vehicle Clubs to make an effort to find one of these town icons hidden in the countryside & restore it back to its heyday & bring it to a classic vehicle show . Many older & young generations would love to see one of these foundation buses at a Classic vehicle show . J.O.S is a part of Jamaican Transport History . They should find & preserve one or 2 of these buses cause of their Historical Values .
I am a previous JOS driver and watching the photos in this video brought back many memories. I previously drove Route 8 to Waterhouse, 70 to Papine, 31 to Border, 61 to Irish Town, 62 to Mavis Bank, 33 to Rock Hall, 34 to Mt Airy, 11 to Parks Rd. JOS should have never been sold 😢😢.😢
My father used to drive Jolly buses in the 60 s. His name is George Campbell & my Godfather was Albert Taylor . I remember my father driving one of the L buses brand new with plastic still covering the seats to pick up me & my mom when he was working rt 23 . The L bus is the 1st modern looking bus with large wrap around windshield & 4 headlights . The beauty of the L & G Buses came out at night when they turn on the lighted billboards at night & parked up downtown parade . These buses still remain the best buses ever went to Jamaica. The O bus with the sink - in windshield & the 1st batch of A bus were the buses that j.o.s & the B bus from America which was converted to use the same engine as the O bus. Many people don't remember the O& B buses that j.o.s started out with .
@RudolphSmith-pv1ro, There was an ex-soldier who everybody called Soljie that used to drive 31 to Border. I was attending Oberlin High, and we used to hop on the buses. But nobody dared hop on Soljie bus. That man was serious as a judge
Those busses were always on time they have inspectors and the drivers had time sheet on a Sunday we take it on a drive out to the air port hope garden it was really good time
@@kareemsquest The Chi- Chi sound came from the doors when they open & close . I know every model of these buses . The silver one is the G model & the green one is the N bus . There's still a couple j.o.s buses still around .
I remember Morning star bus that runs from Motego Bay to Sav also the Blue Danube bus that runs on the same route. So many memories of the good old days.
@@devonrichards1286I remember Blue Danube . They had some nice looking buses . They had a Hino bus that only comes on Charters or used as a back up bus if the local built buses broke down or being serviced . Blue Danube used to go St Mary & parked on Princess St
I use to take Morning Star and Blue Danube. They went to Negril. They use to go true my community in Broughton. My teacher and I use to take it to basic school.
Cecile got my attention when she mentioned “Field Marshall”. I clearly remember that bus as I too went to Ferncourt around that time, except I walked to Ferncourt. Great memories of my beloved school and those times. Thanks for the memories!!!
The Marshall's lived in Brown's Town St. Ann and had a number of these buses. Not sure about this particular bus as I wasn't born yet. But I remember as a child in the 70's when those would be parked on Sunday at the residence. Great memories 😊
Great memories , my mother was a conduct tress on the JOS bus for years until they recruit the first set of women drivers she was in that set, she use to drive the old busses, route 23, then she she drive that green one on the screen, then she drive another one, X77 the longest route, from down town to papine, she had to take the bus to the bus park at Tivoli garden every nights, then go to her house in mtn view, every one knew and lived her, thestreet guys use to love and protect her so much, my sister and I use to live with our grand mother in st mary, but every weekends we would take the other country bus she mention through the hils and valley to Kingston to spend weekends , and every holiday, we use to enjoy those days, my mom loved us soo much, she would have us sitting right beside her on that thing all day , or she would take us to hope garden and we ride all day and meet her back at the bus stop at hope road, , yes the uniform was black top with the big pockets , my mother shaped well soo she was sexy, she was ×aiiting her bus rout 23 ,to load at the corner of ward theater when a female driving driving car , got out of control, hit her and some other drivers and ductreses sdown one ductress died she broke her legs , that's when she stop driving, I remember every moment of Jo's buses, the green one on the screen, when stopped use to have a button , drivers press and the step goes doe to the ground so u could step in easy, then when u hoes it they press it it it goes up and the door closed, I use to have soo much fun, unfortunately my mother died last September at a young age of 74, I loved and miss my mother soo much
@@joshuanixson3123 condolences on the passing of your mom. Conductresses were precious. My mom really enjoyed working there. She’s now 99 with dementia so she don’t remember much
What a gorgeous lady. Hard to believe she’s 75. I remember those days very well. My bus was the 13A to Molynes Gardens. The terminus was at “Molynes Square/4 Roads”. I vividly remember many times when the bus would be full and the conductress would say “Step back, step back” to those who were still trying to get on. When nobody would step back, she would ring the bell, telling the driver to “go”, and the bus would drive off, with people hanging on to the open door, for dear life, but refusing to let go.😆😂
I am 70 years old, and I remember a little about Bun Up 😂. He was always preaching on the streets of montego Bay. Some of the time he would pick on nicely dress young women, walking behind them preaching( the lard sey fe tell you ect.---him ?? Warn you long time ,if you no come -- a bun you affy bun.😅.) He was most times dressed in white long sleeve shirt,tie and black pants,with a Bible.
J.O.S. BUS. I remember leaving school, Holy Family Primary School, we would go the East Queen Street Baptist Church. We would then take the bus down to King Street at the roundabout, in order to get a seat on the #22 bus to Windward Road/Fernandez Road, Kingston 2. It was a little joy ride for us. I was in 5th grade at the time. Left Jamaica at the age of 11years. Pretty young back then. It was different back in those days. Folks looked out for the children. We felt safe. Great memories. Love my country, My people, my culture.
Everything this lady is saying is pure facts, I work on the JOS Bus from 1967-1972, I am now living in the USA, but she bring back a lot of good memories.
Do you know a driver by the Name of George Campbell ?. He light skinned . He's my father & drove j.o.s throughout the 60s . He talks with a slight stutter .
Doreen Malcolm I work JOS for thirteen years and I have no regret. I usually work 15 and 22. If I could do it again I would do it all over. God bless this J O S company❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi: As I mentioned before the back of the bus was referred to as 'the kitchen' because that area was hotter than the other areas. The buses were 'Leyland National' and the transmission seems to be the 'Epicyclic (semi-automatic) gearbox'. There are videos online where one can view the operation of these gear boxes. It was a pleasure to see the drivers operate the transmission.
Big Respect to you for highlighting the use of the elders , and all the same to the elder for sharing, vineyard town was the cherry garden those days,what number 2 avenue did you live, 8 bus down town Olympic garden 15 cross road to Olympic garden 11 bus doney park , my sister Lucille douglas at eight 89 years old in two thousand ten was a conductress in 19 62 to some time in the seventy,
This brings back so many memories of travelling on the Jos bus from Harbour View on the number 2 bus to Parade then got a bus to Halfway Tree to go to school.
I hope I'm not being insulting, when I say, she is speaking of a time when the British were fully active in Jamaica and they had their structures, discipline and standards in place. However, these are different times and there is a lot that the British left, that we have not been able to maintain or improve upon, for various reasons.
I cant forget some of my tender years travelling up spur tree hill that very rocky slow ride but of course it was sure and safe going to kingston with my father spending time at 144 walton park rd.a lady he called cis owning the property i keep on having memories of the place but never get the chance to return there.
Yes I remember that JOS bus . I remember the # 11 bus I was a Very small child but I remember taking the bus from halfway three to parade and walking to school. Then from parade to back home And the trapence 3 pennies Jamaica was a far more Decent and much more discipline place when the British was there
I remember "Field Marshall," it ran from Mandeville to St Anns, "Bugle Boy" ran from Mandeville to MIle Gully Comfort Hall "Treasure Girl ran from Mandeville to St Elizabeth Santa Cruz and "Confidence was local around Mandeville. I also remember seeing the dead being removed from the Kendal train crash, we lived right above Kendall. I remember when police used to give traffic signal. It was our head master teacher Stephenson who would wait at the front gate for the glass rooms for you if you were late.
Trains were fascinating and an integral part of the economy. In our Social Studies class, we had to learn all the train stations from Kingston to Montego Bay and from Kingston to Port Antonio.
Congrats Cecille for this brilliant piece of an aspect of Jamaicas history. I was also born in 1948 so I well remember much of what is in this interview and I'm impressed with the details presented.. Congrats also Kareem for the quality of your interview!
In the early 60s books that I could borrow at the library are: The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Bobsy Twins series. These were mystery books that were interesting. In high school we read books such as: Wuthering Heights, some Shakespeare, and The Woodlanders. The Woodlanders was written by Thomas Hardy and he wrote other classic books such as : The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess Of the D'Urberville and Far from the Madding Crowd. In high school we studied History of Jamaica by Clinton V. Black. In the early 70s some books that were available are: Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, books by or about Angela Davis, books about Che Guevara, and The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer. This era was about Black Power and probably female independence.
JOS buses were on time because there were less traffic on the road...now each person in a household has a vehicle. It's nice reliving the beautiful memories of Jamaica... she's such a good narrator.
Jolly. JOS. Yellow and White. I was fortunate to live in a time of experience. Took one of those buses to Snow Hill in Portland...Respek 👊 Kareem, and his guest's, among audience!
Boy oh.boy Jamaica used to run so good just like england and america my mother told us the same history you're not lying you're talking facts I'm from Montego bay our mother told us the same thing god bless you my lady now Jamaica running like the gangster paradise
Do you people remember mr.beckford on the35 route from heaven dale to down town kingston he was such a discipline driver.at that time only two buses on each route when one bus leave town another is on its way to town anyone you miss you will have to wait on its return.😅
I use to oay one cent on bus i an 65yo i was living at cassia park rd #4 bus down town waltham pk rd molynes rd ,patty pan goes to jones town hot like fire
I was born in sixty four so I happen to know a little especially about the patty pan it was a square tin patty sellers use to have their patties in and under the patties a little thin drawer they have some fire coals to keep the patties warm
I didn't know we kept schedule. I was living in germany and experience their bus system with schedule and wish jamaica had that and to find out we had wow, we really gone back in time instead of forward
Hello friends ,l love to this talk, l use to take a J o s from halfway tree to Papine ,and l take a book with me to read, and you wouldn't this, l still have a Jo's ticket in a book in my book case.
Patty Pan buses also ran in Jones Town I travelled on these buses when I went to visit a family member who resided there. The roads were very narrow.No 18 went to Greenwich Town I lived in Rollington Town and I used 2 buses to get to school in Cross Roads was never late
The conductress would also check each passenger tickets to determine the stage , if you purchase a one stage ticket and you are still on the bus in a two stage zone you would have to purchase a next ticket or you would have to get off the bus . Each stage the passenger ticket was check.
I was a school boy in the 1970s, I remember the #27 and #29 along Mountain View Avenue used to be so pack with school children going and coming from the national stadium for Manning Cup football games, boys and girls champs, etc. I used to live on Mountain View Avenue so those were my buses, then we moved to Molynes Road on the #13 route, then finally on the #35 to Havendale. The government should have expanded and made improvements with JOS, not disbanded it. What a mistake!
Regarding the JOS buses, we used to visit my uncle in Red Hills during the December holidays, and my dad would take us into Kingston on the 33 bus. I think we use to ask for stage 3 when we got. on the bus. SUCH FUN TIMES back in the late 70s!
Cecile, what a lovely interview that was! I thoroughly enjoyed it and it jogged some of my memories of the time also. I remember when our JOS system was still in place I'd visited Trinidad and saw their rather chaotic bus arrangements with their small private buses. Of course it made me feel quite superior - poor T&T I thought! So I came back to JA and totally laughed them to scorn, not realising that we'd soon be at that very same point ourselves when our JOS was phased out and the robot buses took over! I also remember as a child taking the country bus (can't remember the name) to go to Epworth, St Ann for summer holidays at my grandparents home. It was quite an experience, the scary part being when we had to cross Flat Bridge! The bus always swayed dreadfully with all the pack-ridge on top, and when it took the corner to get onto the bridge my fear was that it would fall over into the river!😵💫So you know I breathed a sigh of relief when we made it across without incident!😁When the bus finally made it near to Epworth, we had to get off at a point called Woods (I suppose it got it's name from the fact of the area being heavily wooded). At Woods we'd be met by my grandmother and grandfather, Gove and Grampa, and at least one young man from the village who was there to help carry our luggage. Then began the long trek to their home which was over a mile onward and upward to their small hilltop. We'd pass houses on the way and of course everyone would come out to call to Miss Imogene's and Maas Alec's granchildren from Kingston. At that point our trek was maybe 2/3 over, but we still had to go over a place called Rock Rock (very rocky and hellishly slippery when it rained), then the trek to the house up on the hill. And when we reached there it was just heaven. I think those childhood summers roaming the countryside without fear and eating all the fruits available on everyone's properties were the best holidays I've ever spent in all my life!
Hi: When I was in high School during the mid 60s to early 70s they had a system called 'Detention' as a means of punishment. If a student did not complete an assignment he or she may have to go to Detention and write 100 lines of words such as ' I must not shirk my responsibilities'. Sometimes unfinished assignment had to be completed in Detention.
At the back of the bus tickets on the Jos patty pan bus that runs through Jones ,there was a message that reads, IF AT THE STOP YOU FORM A QUEUE WE WILL ALL GET ON INCLUDING YOU. They were coloured blue,pink, and yellow and the fare was three pence , pronounce trupence, or trupance in patwa. Good old days.back in the 50sand early 60s
If somebody tried to go three stage on a 2 stage ticket, the conductress knew because the tickets are numbered and she could tell by counting the heads in the bus. I loved those days.1
😂i remember taking the patty pon bus when we used to to live in jones town(jungle)😅damn y’all making me go way way back, loving this, my beloved 🇯🇲so sad what it’s become now, everything sell off, beaches rivers, electricity water no airline😢🇯🇲is a shell of what it use to be!
I always hearing about the’Patty Pan’ buses but honestly I didn’t know it was the shorter buses they were referring to. I actually thought they were referring to the VW or the Ford Transit vans them.
In 1995 I use to take the patty pan bus from Duke Street corner and East Queen Street corner to Heroes Circle driven by a man known as Bull dog who was always cursing that women were Jezebels.
The country buses that would ply the route between Kingston and St.Mary/Portland, as I can remember, were North Star,Blue Mist and Tiger. These busses could be seen running along Constant Spring Rd. Grip = Dulcimena
People go in through the back door where the conductress collect the money, When a JOS employee come on the they go through the front door and show the driver their employees id. Those were the good old days.
18greenwich town 19 trench town 7papine 5down town /tree miles. 4waltham pk rd. 8water house Then you have the robot.transit.vw . Bmc walk trough Quarter million etc.
