I grew up in LaHabra and was a little surfer, we used to take the Pink Bus that ran up and down beach blvd for 50 cents every chance we could.I never lived around Beach Blvd, and never knew about the Pink Bus.
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I don't remember the the Pink Bus, but I do remember taking the OCTD on Beach Blvd catching it at Lincoln going all the way to the beach, in the mid 70s. If you were trying to catch the bus from Westminster Blvd on down to the beach you were lucky if you got a space on the bus. The bus driver would scold surfers for trying to get their long boards on the bus, they had a length limit. The bus drivers would insist that the windows remain closed at all times. When the bell rang once the driver would turn the bell off so they would not have to listen to endless ringing.
Thinking back on all this, I now feel sorry for the drivers, would love to see something posted from a driver of beach bound buses to get their point of view.
I lived in the Racquet Club neighborhood in Irvine, and used to catch the OCTD #76 bus there to UCI. Then I would get a FREE transfer (remember those?) to the #65 bus and take it all the way to Newport Beach for a day-long romp in the sand and surf, and watch the girls walk by. Then, do the route in reverse to get home. The total cost for the round-trip was 50 cents.
I don't know what it was with the drivers and the windows - we weren't allowed to open them either. I think they might have been worried about us kids throwing stuff out the windows, or hanging out of the windows and acting like fools - which we were quite prone to do!
I rode the Pink Bus a time or two from Beach and La Habra Boulevards. Later, I would take the OCTD, and there was one time it was completely full of beach goers before we got to Imperial Hwy. The rest of the ride was an express with no more stops.
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