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traildriver:

This exhaustive, multiple-link page should keep you occupied for, let us say, oh, about a week or so.....(!!) Wink

(be sure to check out the links on "pool" operations! ...

(from 1977)....................

https://aadl.org/N111_0351_001

Just think of the vast treasure trove of "Hound" stories this proud old "Veteran Of The Highways" could have sh ...

Just thinking...........

Technically speaking, suburban bus operators also could well be considered "intercity" carriers, seeing that they connected many suburban towns with urban hubs.
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I too, considered myself 'lucky' to score the Starter position. I hired out to Safeway Trails in April of 1968, as an entry level telephone information clerk at the second floor office in the PABT, w ...

Sure looks like Greyhound wanted folks to know that this was a "BUS" station....... Wink

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/313563192805193648/

Greyhound was very self-assured, They ...

Here's an interesting vintage interior view (bus loading area) of the LA terminal; note, here, that the 4104 is the oldest bus in the group (note the "Buffalo" at far right)........

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As a Trailways "starter", one of my jobs was to change the gate signs for each departure.
There was a time display that you could turn to the next departure time, and the sign had slats t ...

The speakers in the photo made me think back to when all the long distance departures were announced in the PABT. Remember that?
They were announced on a recording that played automatically when it ...

traildriver:

Went back to the original photo source; caption only states that the photo was taken at "the Greyhound bus terminal in New York".

Sorry I could not provide further info on ...

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"DAYS GONE BY" (you can almost FEEL that tangible "sense of drama", with this crowd of well-dressed folks, awaiting departure time!)..... Wink

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Loading those late evening multi-section trips, was always a trying experience. The crowd included a few inebriated passenger's, some of who became belligerent, and needed to be removed by Port Polic ...

The way we used to operate back then, would be inconceivable to today's carrier's. We used to roll out a second (or more) section of an overloaded trip, even for just a single passenger!
Nowaday's, ...

traildriver

Inspect the photo of the roller curtain (at the top of the page) VERY carefully; I think you'll find this interesting......... Wink

"NYO"

https://transignllc.com/prod ...

Perhaps this is a better example of a "luxurious" Fishbowl....... Wink

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/531213718551112088/

True, this... Smile