Category: Photos

A new mural is in progress on 18th Street at Mission, and your beloved $2.25 daily chariot is featured front and center! In this photo by @milesgallery on Instagram (taken yesterday), George is busying painting a Muni bus as part of the mural next to City Smoke.

Lots of street art in the city features the bus, like this one on Balmy Alley and this one on 21st Street and Mission. If you pass by George’s work this week, don’t forget to take a photo and tag us on Instagram.

Can you define these new vocabulary terms invented on Muni this week? Hot off of the Twitter universe, you’ve made the English language ever more colorful this week.

1. Brospreading: that laptop guy taking up two seats. As in:

yes! RT @goldfine: What do you call it when someone with a laptop takes up too much space on public transit? #Brospreading? #munidiaries

— Muni Diaries (@munidiaries) February 6, 2015

2. Kanywannabe: guy giving you that Kanye gaze. As in:

RT @elphant_: Kanywannabe keeps staring at me on the bus. #munidiaries

— Muni Diaries (@munidiaries) February 2, 2015

3. Schadensomething: peculiar joy that you can only get on Muni. As in:

schadensomething RT @e_gadd: The sick pleasure I get from watching someone run for a bus I'm already on #munidiaries

— Muni Diaries (@munidiaries) February 3, 2015

Oh, and bonus cutie pie dog bear photo by @jcxxxxxx.

Couple catching a nap, by Kubrick, circa 1946

Photo via Danny Howard

Before Stanley Kubrick achieved directorial fame, he loved taking photos of life on public transit, just like you do! In 1947, Kubrick was on assignment for LOOK magazine documenting the intimate life of passengers on the New York City Subway for two weeks. As it turns out, his photos are eerily reminiscent of pictures from Muni Diaries contributors over the years. Here are a few gems:

Reading the newspaper on the subway, by Kubrick, circa 1946:

Reading the newspaper on Muni:

Photo via rmckeon

Fashionable footwear on the subway, by Kubrick, circa 1946:

Fashionable footwear on Muni:

Photo by Jessie Johnson

The rest of Kubrick’s subway photos are at Bored Panda, including some adorable 1940s young subway riders. Celebs and public transit riders: They’re just like us!