Photo by Whole Wheat Toast

Yes, the SFMTA’s major service changes have happened. Riders are adjusting, some more successfully than others. But our readers are still sending us Muni obituaries. This remembrance of the 53-Southern Heights by Muni rider Alex is perhaps my favorite of them all:

I spent 52 of my 57 yrs of life ridin’ da old and reliable 53 bus. As I boarded at 16th and Mission St. at 7:40 pm on the night of Dec. 4th, I LITERALLY, took a ride down memory lane. In 1958/59 riding in a White motor coach,then in the ’60′s da Mack buses. The 1970′s rolled in the era of the GMC’s/ Jimmie’s. Community Service…and it did just that.

I defy you to un-awesome that.

Read last week’s eulogy for the 53. And if you’d like to memorialize a vanished bus route (from any time in Muni history), send it to Muni Diaries.

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