San Francisco Graffiti: Bus Hopping In The 90s 

As a “modern” tagger y’all’s bus was crazy, when we do walk downs dudes just look at us weird

Thank you for reminding me of my childhood:) I bus hopped for years with friends. Some of my most hilarious and memorable moments happened while bus hopping. What a nostalgic feeling

Yo, as an 80s writer who youll see talking about the birth of the one flow in the book history of american graffiti and also in piece by piece (OH, ON HOME TURF TOO. LOL)... Ill agree, the 90S WERE the golden era of bus hopping. I remember seeing busses from my car in the mid 90s thinking "DEAMN, LOOK WHAT WE STARTED!" And yeah, you pretty much nailed it. Respect to C STREET! I grew up in the mission and then the Richmond. My lines were the 14, the 38, the 43 and 44. Props. This was good!

Took me back in time thank you and please keep these coming.

Aye there, Bay local here wanting to let cha know that I am really diggin’ this/these video stories of yours. I always love it whenever I discover this here historical, story telling type of SF graff-related kinda content just a floatin’ around on RU-vid. If you wanna go ahead and continue doing these mid 90’s graff story telling videos… I can assure you that it’ll make a small handful of your aging, graff information/media obsessive type of Bay Area writer kooks who are out there combing the damn internet (such as myself) awfully appreciative of you doing so. Thanks, G!

Man, not too many had the experience of bus hopping in the way we did it. You can blind fold me and take me anywhere in the city and I can find my way back with any bus line I find. I loved busting outsiders on street side. #teArTK

Dope video. Always fascinated with this aspect of the SF scene from an outsiders perspective.

Damn u took me back thank u..seen alotta heroes get beat up and mobbs of kids just walking away broad day

I’ve been doing graff for one and a half years now, and this was interesting as hell🔥🔥 Getting to know about graff history is always awesome

Damn, this was a dope video. I'm from the PNW but was always interested in the Frisco/bay area scene, always like bus/one flows too.

Yea I remember tagging in the 90s, there were some great tagging crew battles back then, like AHB vs SWT was a crazy battle. Especially when both crews ended up on the same bus. 38 Geary bus

Great video. Keep posting more SF graff videos. 🔥

Nice video homie, As a graffiti writer from Modesto the 90s were an amazing memorable time, always was inspired by SF graffiti.

THIS IS DOPE! Love it mane

Man..thank you for memory lane..and bringing up how shit really was in the SCO

Man..was bus hopping in 94-99..FLT..MCA crew. Scribers, streakers, minis..on panels, outside the window on side of bus. Hit the 44 Oshoughnessy, then the 48 Quintata, the the 14 or 49 back up to outer Mission...sometimes hit thr 24 Divis...or stay on..and hit the 52 Excelsior..then the 15 third or 49

I was there and I remember all of this. Even knew about Zachary Rollins even though I never met him. Weird that I didn't know you. keep up the good work

Two words "Tom Mosh" if you know that then you were there, i was and "Spoo" was seen. Ride that 30 Stockton down to market, grab the 38 geary and out to ft funston, then walk it down GG park to the McDonald's on end of haightful st. Then ride back down to van ness, grab another up and around back to north beach.

Hell yeah...boom box in back of the bus was mandatory..lol

This shit was so accurate. I didn’t hear a single fib.

Stories are great we appreciate the knowledge bro

The 14 and the bus yards were our target in the 90s. Masonic yard was the hardest ..

I would like to touch on the subject now, there were multiple muni buses like the ones that were around in the 90s that were saved for historic preservation. Thease buses are unfortenetly stored outside and people have graffiteied them beyond recognition. Please if you know thease buses, there are 5 and stored outside, please tell people not to graffiti them further. Thease buses are buses that have been saved to operate in muni's historic fleet and 3 were active historic buses that until they were graffitied were operated in special service commerating muni's first articulated buses, By all means tag regular city buses, we can afford to clean that, but thease buses dont have any money given to them and we can't afford to improve it, please guys dont tag historic vehicles, the rest are fine, us here at the muni shops dont really mind that, its easy to clean, but the historic fleet dosent have any money to be cleaned. Thanks for reading this

Super interesting vid

S/O to THA KLICK! Big homie SV1 Sick Vandal, Floe TK, RIP Graf and Seer TK, both those dudes went from bushoppin to moving big weight True Kingpins. MENT TK was one of the original big timers aka Browski…..Schooled a bunch of the youngsters from tagging, banging and slanging. Much respect to my OGs who paved the way CHIEF and Skew ICP…Task TDF HTS, Hear1 KCM, AXIS and FORM ARMobb…LAKE PE, Roler YDV, SuF TDFlock, Leaf TDF, Mayhem, Proof151, TASE Tdk, CASK 640! RIP Jeezy JADE, Archogg GBP, SEER, FEARdog, GRAF, BUCK50, SPESH, ORFN, and so many others we lost along the way.

I remember a bus driver kicking everyone out except for the "taggers"..@ Silver and Mission..and decided to take us straight to YGC. (44 bus) 😂..we had to break the emergency door release to get off as bus was moving. I dont blame the "hero" bus driver. We were wild.

Wow classic history of 90s My husband cleaned muni graffiti at balboa station ty nu subbie

Its rare to see people doing walkdowns on the new muni busses these days. I still do it though i dont care.

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The Og homie AXIS ARM BVD laced me on a ton of sick old bushoppin battles DankMob vs TK….the late homie SEER TDf TK schooled me on hella shit from growing trees to Rockin yards….straight SF history and it’s dope to see the young generation keepin the tradition alive same handstyles from the 90s.

Amen !

You HAD to hit the yards in the early 90s or you really weren't seen as dope. Bus hopping was a way to hit Muni not in the yards. Yea, it's still called MUNI. I also bombed Masonic yards, so the 43s were crushed. Good video.....BVD crew

Same thing in London UK in the nineties up to about 04 the buses used to.get hammered and scribe d remember we have those red double decker

J - Church! Grew up on 29th. 80's Baby

Bus Smashin Time! 2000-2006 was another epic time……I remember taggin along w the homies and we got filmed for the BST segment for peice by peice one of my best memories…..RIP Flash/Ryda RIP Doja RIP Arch RIP Seer TDF RIP Feardog TK RIP Graf RIP Jaderoc

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Pulling wires and stealing the drivers jacket.

maybe jus me but would try to lower background music, made it a lil hard to concentrate when u were talkin

I forgot to mention big VictorVonTwompski that dude was a maniac on Muni hittin full trains…..and another dude that been Rockin Muni forever is Walker KCM he keeps it lit. Track and Prayer HBK still doin their thang big in the city. Good to see young Afroe TdF back him and Redek used to kill the 14s with tags on the top of the electric lines. PHINE and LAFER BST also killed muni had shots on every bus in the fleet in 2003. DEKO and Tips FBS, HEARock and NADE GB also big on Muni.

Alot of taggers became gang bangers too

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Great stuff dude, I am 50 now and way less into taggers as I just see them all as peasants wrecking everything they're allowed to be near but love yer explanation of our lives as feral littles. good job

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Man some of yall wouldn't even dare jump on the 14 cuz yall know yall was getting fapoa with the quikness!! Dfunk cr!!

I feel so lucky i caught the last bit of the bushoppin era in 06 to 2013. Good times