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57. Tommy - 2012-02-13 11:59:43 |
Hello "Doc",
I most enjoyed your personal accounts and the mechanical history particulars of the buses.And the driver personalities as well.If I may offer two driver stories.
Late summer of 1952 Mom took my infant sister and me a four year old on a bus trip from Florence,Al to Henderson,Tn.We were going to visit her parents that lived on a dirt road about a half mile off Hwy 100.Rather than letting us off at the highway intersection which would have fulfilled his duty.He drove the bus to the end of my grandparents long driveway and carried our suitcase to the porch.
At age seventeen the construction company I was working for out of town went belly up and our payroll checks bounced.I was stranded in the Chattanooga Bus Station lacking $2.15 to buy a $9 ticket home.By chance a Continental Trailways driver last name Hughey saw and recognized me.His younger son and I had been schoolmates and sports teammates, I had visited their home a few times.He asked me a few questions and put me in the "porters seat" at no charge.After we reached Florence he carried me to my parents house in his 1947 Hudson work car. |
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56. gary carter - 2012-02-11 09:28:19 |
My grandfather owned a gas station [in Selmer, Tennessee]on the former DixieGL which was also the Greyhound station in the mid to late 70’s. I will never forget the characters [passengers] that floated in and out of that place during those years. It was a real life lesson to meet people from so many walks of life when you’re a kid in a rural town. Thank you for all the insight to a great American company.
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55. RIQUI - 2012-02-01 11:24:36 |
| QUE BUENO ENCONTRAR ESTE TIPO DE PAGINAS Y SABER DE LA HISTORIA DE LOS AUTOBUSES QUE HICIERON HISTORIA, LO COMENTO POQUE TENGO EN MEXICO D,F UN PARLO COACH MODELO 1953 QUE HIZO HISTORIA EN MEXICO D,F EN LA LINEA TRES ESTRELLAS DE ORO MIL GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTA INFORMACION. |
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54. Jeff Livingston - 2012-01-20 23:56:03 |
| I would never have guessed how fascinating is the history of these two pioneering American companies. Thank you for sharing their stories with the rest of us. |
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53. Salvatore Ciliento - 2012-01-14 19:46:21 |
| Please let me know where the Yellow Coach 743 is |
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52. David Green - 2012-01-13 21:16:10 |
Wow -- what a wonderful discovery! Thank you, Doc, for this. Some of the best days of my childhood were spent on Greyhounds in the 1950s and ’60s, traveling between Paducah, Kentucky, and Okeechobee, Florida -- Paducah to Memphis, Memphis to Birmingham, Birmingham to Montgomery, Montgomery to Tallahassee and then down the peninsula with stops in Ocala, Orlando and Yeehaw Juntion, among others, before arrival in Okeechobee. The old bus station in Paducah was one of the yellow-brick buildings with some Art Deco influence (and a Post House cafeteria), while the Okeechobee station was a plain concrete-block rectangle painted pink.
One of my early ambitions was to become a Greyhound bus driver. Alas, I have never sat behind the wheel of one. I collected all the paraphernalia, including booklets describing the original Hibbing-Duluth line and evolution of the company from that point, die-cast miniature bus models, and so forth.
Your website is a treasure. Thanks also for the assertion of your rights as producer of the product. Not that you need it, but I heartily concur with your comments about social behavior and your allusions to causes of its deterioration and I share your reservations about the theoretical idealism versus the real-world soundness of Wikipedia’s policies of operation. (I also fully respect your editorial policies, even though after four decades of work as a journalist in America, I always put my periods and commas inside the quotation marks.)
I’m just beginning my exploration of “Greyhounds and Redhounds” and very likely will neglect some of my other duties of the day to dig deeper.
A side note, in response to another guestbook signer; I, too, was overwhelmingly partial to Greyhound versus Trailways. I think it must have been the dog that made the difference, but it could’ve been because Greyhounds were the first buses I rode and so they became fixed in my mind as the “real” ones.
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51. Peter Van Keuren - 2012-01-12 20:58:41 |
As a kid, I remember loving to ride in the Scenicruiser. Years later, I remember wanting to get one to make a motorhome. Having read about the problems with the drivetrain, I think I’ll give that idea a miss. It was a very interesting read though, going through the Scenicruiser’s history, and that of GM, Greyhound and the various industries and companies associated with it and all the other coaches. I also remember my total bias as a kid for Greyhound over Trailways, and I can’t even begin to tell you why. I think it was the Scenicruiser. ;-)
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50. ann penny - 2011-12-31 00:48:19 |
Hello. How fascinating to see such a wealth of information. I found you when trying to research W.E. "Buck" Travis, of Pacific Greyhound. I am currently residing on his former vacation property in Oregon and have tried to learn more about him.
I have seen various publications about the formation of his Greyhound line, and the collaboration with Southern Pacific. Also, I found information about his Pickwick operation.
But I know nothing personal and have no picture. Perhaps you have more sources.
Thank you very much for anything you could contribute.
Ann Penny |
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