I remember when I was 12 yo, my friends Chuck Jackson and I would ride the city bus on “circle island tour”. It was a treat seeing the middle of the island and the N Shore. Our parents rarely took us past Tripler hospital or past Kahalu’u on the other side. It was these old green buses.

A vintage advertisement for a bus tour in Honolulu and Oahu features a tropical setting with palm trees and a bus labeled "Honolulu."