Southbound CTA Route # 52 Kedzie / California Avenue bus approaching the bus stop at the intersection of South Archer and Kedzie Avenues. Chicago Illinois. November 1989.

Southbound CTA Route # 52 Kedzie / California Avenue bus approaching the bus stop at the intersection of South Archer and Kedzie Avenues. Chicago Illinois. November 1989., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.

I tok this photograph on an overcast Saturday afternoon, way back in November of 1989.

A southbound Chicago Transit Authority Rt # 52 / Kedzie -California bus, approaches the bus stop at South Archer and Kedzie Avenues, in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood.

The bus in the photograph, is a 1985 M.A.N 40 foot transit bus, that was manufactured and imported from the former European nation that was known as West Germany.

Due to their very box like shape, local Chicago area bus fans would refer to this model of transit bus as Bricks".