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Help a Website Out: Your Old Fast Passes Wanted!

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At Muni Diaries, we don’t have a Donate button or many ads, but we do have a little merchandise shop, and this is where you can help. You can help us make a little change to pay our web developer by donating your old Fast Passes! We’ll turn your old Fast Passes into the fantastic Clipper Card holders you see in this post (crafted by Heathered), and the sales will help support our story-telling endeavors and make this site better-looking and more fun to browse. Plus, we’ll give you one of the card holders (your choice) as a thank-you.

So, if you have a stack of old Fast Passes that you don’t know what to do with, won’t you consider donating them to Muni Diaries? Email us at muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com and let us know!

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Megan’s DIY Fast Pass Art

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What are you going to do with those Fast Passes you’ve saved over the years, now that they are a veritable collector’s item? Rider Megan B. sent us a photo of a really cool way to display them. She mounted them on a 36×48 canvas, and the result looks pretty fantastic. She had sourced the material from her partner’s 16 year (!) collection of Fast Passes. Want to see what this looks like in Megan’s home?

Oh, Fast Passes, how we’ll miss your colorful ways. Nicely done, Megan!

Don’t forget, you can dress up your Clipper card with our Fast Pass Clipper Card holders, which have just arrived at the Muni Diaries Etsy store.

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More old Fast Passes (1977-1982)

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SF Muni Fast Pass September 1977

Last week, we published a post featuring lots of images of old paper Fast Passes. This week, we were able to find more!

sallyw3000, who was featured in this post about the Fast Pass over at Chronicle Books, has a Flickr set to make any Muni nostalgia-minded fanatic drool. The collection ranges from September 1977 (pictured above) to April 1982.

I love how thematic the passes were. I wonder if that somehow added to their ability to be easily counterfeited. But check it out, a shamrock and a leprechaun hat for March? Books and sports equipment for September? Autumn leaves for November? It just goes on and on and on, until January 1980, when the passes started coming with magnetic strips and decidedly more boring, though still colorful, designs.

September 1979 is my favorite. That’s second-grader Nobuhiro Yamanishi’s art on the pass. “Catch Cavities,” indeed.

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