Comments for Crown Coach Historical Society

Comment on Prolog: Revisiting the Automotive Timeline by Sandi Brockway

Sandi Brockway — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:22:43 +0000

Update: My parent’s home on Mountain sold. Escrow closed about a week ago.

Comment on Crown Coach Corporation (1932-1991) by Sandi Brockway

Sandi Brockway — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:08:06 +0000

Hi, Peter. I am so glad to meet you. I used to live in Eureka, 72-76. I was a student at Humboldt state too! We must have just missed each other!

I hope to spend more time with this website in a few weeks. I am still handling some of the affairs of the estate. My dad’s house sold. I have just purchased a new home.

I tried to install an addon in WordPress, BuddyPress, and it simply had not worked. The features are presented, but simply do not function. I tried to troubleshoot, with no luck. I am just resigning myself to the fact it will just have to get fixed later.

I still have several more legal hassles. The lawyers have mangled our probate and trust facilitation needlessly, and now the outcome appears so bad, that only a very gifted and super honest attorney could conclude it.

Unbeknown to me, lawyers do not really want to pragmatically follow the probate laws, they only want to follow the money and escalate the conflict. I understand this is the norm, for lawyers to further complicate sensible resolutions to estates and will issues through long series of malicious litigation and misrepresentation.

I cannot imagine it being very much fun being a lawyer, particularly litigation attorneys, given all the pain I have seen them needlessly cause for trust and probate cases.

Thanks for joining.

Sandi

PS Later. I just got wild idea to reset a new theme, and retweak it, and it works now!!! Only took a few minutes after I spent hours and days failing. You must be good luck for me! We now have a full functioning tab feature social friendly BuddyPress for WordPress!

Comment on Crown Coach Corporation (1932-1991) by Pete Cowper

Pete Cowper — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:39:07 +0000

I drove Crown Supercoaches for McKinleyville Elementary School District from 1968 to 1971 while a student at Humboldt State College. My first was a 1953 Crown with a 504 Hall Scott and Fuller non-syncro 5 speed, then I moved up to a 1956 Crown with a 590 Hall Scott and Fuller non-synchro 5 speed, and my last was a 1967 Crown with a Cummins 220 diesel and Spicer 5-speed. I loved that diesel rig. I still have a framed color photograph of the driver’s position hanging on my wall. Sure was more fun going to work driving a Crown than heading into court in the morning as a lawyer . . .
Pete
(School Bus Driver – Ret)

Comment on Prolog: Revisiting the automotive timeline by Steve Carras

Steve Carras — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:15:41 +0000

Heym Sandi, longtime Crown rider and fun! Glad to see the site..see profile for the transmission types I’ve ridden…I found out in the 70s about ten speeds but didn’t get to ride one..I noted that someone on North California Transit Bus fans newsgroup had a shot of a 1959 Crown highway coach with 12 gears,a 12 speed shifter and a reverse/forward one…it would be fascinating to see close ups of dashboards…Crowns definitely were the safest to all the doubters, and sadly there are many, buses ever built and the longest lasting..

Comment on Prolog: Revisiting the automotive timeline by Sandi Brockway

Sandi Brockway — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:37:48 +0000

Thank you for contacting me. You are correct. I think the only place my email is available is at the Picasa photo album site. Please contact me at: brockway@macronet.org. I am very interested in working with you. I believe Picasa might be the best online site to archive Crown photos and memorabilia. I will give full administration status here and on Picasa for those who can contribute information and visual media. There are tagging features at the Picasa site. Anyone who is well versed or does not might doing the research on the photos I recently collected can fill in the blanks with details in the form of captions or comments. I could not get NextGen for WordPress to work easily.

Comment on Prolog: Revisiting the automotive timeline by Facebook User

Facebook User — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:52:33 +0000

Sandi:

I did not see any e-mail address on your web site or how to contact you. Plesae e-mail me. I have the archives for the Crown Firecoach Enthusiasts and would like to share with you what we have. Lots of Crown history saved by CFE. We have loads of Waren Bowen delivery photos.
crowncoach@aol.com Don Croucher, CFE Archives

Comment on Crown Coach Corporation (1932-1991) by Bill

Bill — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:31:30 +0000

While the first diesel Crown was a 1954 (serial # 33212, AD-743-11), Crown buses and Firecoaches were sold with gasoline engines up through at least 1970. It probably wasn’t until around 1966 that more buses were sold with diesels than gas engines.

Comment on Prolog: Revisiting the automotive timeline by Bill Hoeft

Bill Hoeft — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:39:12 +0000

As a former Crown employee and owner of two Firecoach’s, I am thrilled to find your site. Very anxious to see coming photos. Get well soon!!

Comment on Prolog: Revisiting the automotive timeline by Rockcave

Rockcave — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:03:35 +0000

Best Wishes and get well soon. I’m glad to see yet another venue for Crown lovers to unite. We are a special lot afterall.
Keep the rubber side down.
Richard

Comment on Prolog: Revisiting the automotive timeline by Sandi Brockway

Sandi Brockway — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:09:15 +0000

I am in hospital now with pneumonia. Been here a week. After I return to my home in Cambria, I will be adding a photo program addon, like Picasa or NEXGEN Gallery – but a lot of my time will be taken up getting well. Please, advise, if there is something more promising for WordPress. I am overdue for WordPress upgrade too. Any help appreciated. I will need others to help drive this bus!