GREYHOUND BUS LINES GUIDED TOUR 1957 PROMOTIONAL FILM 71122
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Created in the 1950s, this vintage film was made by Greyhound Bus Lines to promote their charter and tour services. As passenger railroads went into decline and America's highway system reached a new level of complexity, bus services such as Greyhound began to experience a surge in business. The Greyhound Escorted Tour promoted in this film proved highly successful with passengers from all walks of life signing up for multi-day trips to scenic destinations like the Grand Canyon and other National Parks, Washington D.C., New York, San Francisco, and other major American cities.
Greyhound Lines, Inc., usually shortened to Greyhound, is an intercity bus common carrier serving over 3,800 destinations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Founded in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1914, and taking the name The Greyhound Corporation in 1929, the company has been based in Dallas, Texas since 1987. Currently, British transportation company FirstGroup owns and operates Greyhound as a division of FirstGroup America.
After World War II, and the building of the Interstate Highway System beginning in 1956, automobile ownership and travel became a preferred mode of travel in the United States. Along with a similar downward trend in public transportation in general, ridership on Greyhound and Trailways bus routes began a long decline.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s had a connection to the Greyhound company. In 1955, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in the case of Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. that U.S. interstate bus operations, such as Greyhound's, could not be segregated by race. In 1960, in the case of Boynton v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court found that an African American had been wrongly convicted of trespassing in a "whites only" terminal area and in May 1961, civil rights activists organized interracial Freedom Rides as proof of the desegregation rulings. On May 14, a mob attacked pair of buses (a Greyhound and a Trailways) traveling from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, Louisiana, and slashed the Greyhound bus's tires. Titles II and III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 broadened protections beyond federally-regulated carriers such as Greyhound, to include non-discrimination in hotels, restaurants, and other public accommodations, as well as state and local government buildings
Later in the 1960s, Greyhound leadership saw a trend of declining ridership and began significant changes, including using the profitable bus operations to invest in other industries. By the 1970s, Greyhound had moved its headquarters to Phoenix, Arizona and was a large and diversified company, with holdings in everything from the Armour meat-packing company (which in turn owned the popular Dial deodorant soap brand), acquired in 1970; Traveller's Express money orders, MCI bus manufacturing company, and even airliner leasing. Indeed, Greyhound had entered a time of great change, even beginning to hire African American and female drivers in the late seventies.
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My pop owned a PD 4104. Model year 1957. I inherited the bus in 1993. I was hardly 16 years old when I drove the bus from Norfolk, NE to Washington DC. I also took the bus up the Big Thompson Canyon and down from the Eisenhower Tunnel. All while being under 18 years.
9:04 the scale model of the greyhound bus behind him is very cool and probably worth more to a collector today that an actual bus .
When I see that bus, my heart flutters because it has such good memories of me and my mom traveling from Birmingham, Alabama! 🤗
Back before Interstate highways, when you traveled like a gentleman, yes it took longer to get there but the quality of the road trip was soo much better
I'd ride the Greyhound if they still had that level of customer service and courtesy--- and if the passengers still dressed in their Sunday best.
They don't even dress for planes anymore either, let alone shower!
@@michaelmapes4119 yes, I sure as hell don’t dress up to fly. I almost never fly domestically, so if I’m on a plane, chances are I’m in the middle of a 26 to 38 hour journey. No way in hell I’m dressing in a suit and tie for that!
It is the passengers that are the problem. You will need a strong shower from the odors
We still should dress up!
Greyhound was a wonderful company, and so professional…🤗
Just rode on Greyhound for the first time from Lubbock to Milwaukee. What a great American adventure. I missed my first bus connection in Amarillo when the Lubbock I was on was 1 minute late (bus out of Amarillo was scheduled to leave at 7pm and my Lubock bus arrived at 7:01PM) . But, good ole Greyhound did not wait for me subjecting me to a 17 hour wait for the next bus. But, the personnel at Amarillo called Days Inn and I found a room at a reasonable price. The next day I left Amarillo and made it home in good order. This video (actually I find this vid a little funny) portrays Greyhound in the hay days. But, Greyhound still fills a needed service today.
Started my Greyhound trip in Claremont, CA. Nice. Safe. Got off to make transfer in Los Angeles. Holy shee-it! Don't leave the station and watch your bags.
Sad how things have changed.
Oh, they just call it "progress".
The stylish black facade on that Greyhound station just after the opening shots is amazing... particularly love the silver Greyhound logo attached to it!
Greyhound also had a parcel service; that is, a person could use Greyhound to transport parcels from a bus line terminal to another Greyhound terminal across the state or across the country. Back in the mid-1960s I recall a vendor my brother dealt with would ship via Greyhound, as the terminal would contact him by phone to inform him of a parcel for him awaiting pickup at the terminal from where the phone call was made from.
That's some model of a Super Senicruiser behind the boss's desk! I wonder if it still exists somewhere????
Those were in Hound stations nationwide in the '50s
The giant size bus models used to end up being given away at bus shows. I have seen them at bus operators offices and have even seen them in a government office of a manager who controlled bus operations
They come up on eBay occasionally.
That model sure would look good on my office desk.🤣👍
This was amazing to see, in full colour.
Enjoyed the Greyhound promo film. I'm a rail guy, but those 1950s SceniCruisers were really something in the Bus World. The double deckers, though they weren't shown on the Road, just some models. Appreciate the look back, to a time that has completely vanished, culturally and otherwise. Psgr rail has changed a lot too, since those halcyon days. Some of it / not for the best.
"Go GREYHOUND....and leave the driving to US!"
To this day the double decker Grayhound is one sweet looking baby.
I like the model of the grey hound bus, behind the fella in the chair. love to take that away. ha ha ha.
It is called a scenicruiser, people restore them.
Gee whizz, this is a swell documentary!🚌🛣
Jeepers Beaver, what happened to your face? 💀
@@jamesalexander3530 Ward probably clobbered him.
Back when the greyhound was all classy. Now it's just runaways and domestic violence
Back when America was classy* people dressed and acted more professionally than today. Proud and decent people.
@@CC-ed7jrDo you actually believe most people in the U.S. dressed and acted like the actors in this PR film, or in the movies and TV shows you've seen from the '50s and earlier? If you do, either you weren't around then òr your memories have been distorted by time and nedia.
Excellent history
Greyhound was segregated in that era! I read black like me
@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper NO THEY WEREN'T!. Is that all you people do run around race card in hand looking to play it,We are sick of hearing you all COMPLAIN!, You get everything free what else do you assholes want??, other than all whites dead!!.
@@CoffeeisnecessarynowpepperAlmost everything was segregated in that era. Someone a couple of posts below yours said we were a "kinder, gentler Nation [sic]" then, apparently oblivious to the fact that many Black people were being oppressed, harrased and terrorized, and some still even murdered, at that time. (They still are, but that person referred to that era.)
Hey Bob! I love your Scenicruisers.
7:57, guy gets out of the bus with a heater in his month! Loved the video, I was 2 when it was filmed.
Gee that's a nice Greyhound bus!
Pick up a pulp fiction paperback book in the Greyhound bus terminal--Publishers like Pocket Books Cardinal Edition, Signet, Bantam with glossy covers
My Grandmother was a widow woman who worked in a department store.
For her vacation she would team up with a lady friend or 2 or 3 & they would
take trips on Greyhound. One year they went to Yellowstone. Another they
went to the Grand Canyon.
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Awesome ! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Periscope!
I really enjoy watching this type of old videos
The bus belts in to the metal guard post in the terminal at the 1:12 mark!!
Yes, it did! LOL
Yup, I noticed that so much for the pristine front bumper.
Gee Batiz
Bumpers are for bumping lol
Yeah I bet if it was the drivers bus he would not have done that.
Nice shiny new 4104. Give Hound a couple of years to fill in the dents and scrapes!
Ahhh...bus tours! The way to go.
Love the big model behind the guy.
I love the music!!
The PDA 41-04 is the American legend of the highway 1953-1974 in Mexico (1958-1982) it is also and was very loved that model with more than 50 buses bought that never sold out GMotors you made a very very good product forever Parlorcoach 04 GMotors Pontiac Division
This was the time people on Greyhound took baths regularly and Greyhound kept their buses cleaned and maintained, I miss those days unlike today where the EXTREME majority of passengers haven't bathed in months before riding the bus and drug addicts demand money from you at literally outside every Greyhound Terminal as they do today.
You're exactly right! Drunks and people constantly bumming from you is very annoying. It's also got very dangerous traveling by bus. So now I only use AmTrak.
Neat!
Riding Greyhound today: Waiting six hours for a bus that shows up and the line to board is so long you end up stranded and told to wait another six hours for the next bus. Once you do board you're lucky if all you get are crying toddlers. If you are going long-distance to a major city the bus is FULL with people who have been on buses ALL WEEK. You stop at rest stops that IF you're lucky are major fast-food or gasoline chains. Caliber of people you are riding with: ghetto. At best. Sometimes you will see ex-cons just released from prison. Not all ghetto people are bad (I used to be one) but most are POOR and certainly can't afford business class on Singapore Airlines. (And this is a NORMAL trip which begins and ends safely without a catastrophic accident or crime committed on board) Normal middle-class people are stuck waiting 18 hours at the airport but wouldn't be caught dead on Greyhound.
We used to ride Greyhound with my Grandma in the 70's. Some dude tried to sell weed to me and my brother one time..........on the bus! It was a funky strange adventure.
you right about everything only problem had once was sit in rear by window on left side bathroom door on right side big 350 pound fat guy come down isle come over and say can i sit here....what What !..... he sit before I answer . most cant afford air travel I can t but have had safe trips.
I took a trip on Greyhound this year after 33 years. It was my only option other than a plane. The busses were shabby, crowded and subpar. The drivers, except one, were awful. I was very displeased, and the drivers didn't seem to care, and had gangster attitudes. One bus broke down and we sat on the side of the highway for two hours. All of the connecting busses, except the one I mentioned, were abominations. Egad, what happened? We had great trips in the 1970s and 1980s. Now? Forget it; leave Greyhound and never ride again.
I thumbed up because you specifically mentioned Business Class on Singapore Airlines as a point of comparison. The standard.
I had the lithographed in Japanese version of the Santa Cruiser but it was nowhere near the size of the one behind that man on the desk
That first bus. that opened in. this footage looked like a. GM 4106. model I could be wrong though l. rode on these. coaches. when I was growing up in. western Canada / Have a safe day and good one / Bill. S. Canada
First one was a PD-4014, the first "modern" intercity bus with a/c, air suspension, and a lavatory.
Nowadays, an entirely different kind of escort can be found riding a Greyhound bus!
Neat! I love post war America. Lets Make America Great Again !
Yeah, let's get rid of Deranged Donald the vicious, vile, treacherous, treasonous, draft dodging, massively corrupt, serial compulsive liar, con artist, malignant narcissist, demagogue.
Oh. NO....another MAGA maggot.
Greyhounds always the best
I took an 18 hour trip on a Greyhound bus in the 1950's with my mother and it was nice. Then another 18 hour trip in 1962, which had air conditioning (that smelled weird but felt wonderful). The in 1979, I was forced to ride from Huntsville, Alabama to Dallas, Texas on three buses (2 layover/exchanges), and it was HELL! Memphis bus station at night was worse than Vietnam! I could not imagine getting on one today.
The general clientele on those buses are the dregs of humanity. Parents: *NEVER* send a child on a Greyhound!
I had the unfortunate experience that rode Greyhound to Orlando and back. Awful is being kind.
Now, some of the people weren't the best, but we looked out for each other. Heading back from Orlando was an absolute nightmare: stuck in DC for hours, exhausted from the lack of sleep.
Next time I will travel Amtrak.
Greyhound today is about the money 💵 and the hell about the riders!
Those 4104 GM's with the 671 Detroits were cutting edge back in the day, full airbag suspension, and the engine and trans were all in one pack, if there was any issues on the road, the engine basically unplugged, and simply replaced with a complete serviced ready to go engine, reducing the time down for the bus, plug n play. They make bitchen RV's thats for sure.😏👍
When America was great.
Amen
Why
When América was segregated. Notice only white bread on the bus.
Now we're like a vassal state of Israel 🇮🇱 🙄
My father drove for Greyhound for over 20 years and was very proud of his career and the company. Present day it is a ruined company of what it once was. It's priority is to shuttle around aliens like pieces of baggage with no effort towards passenger service. It hurt me to see the change from what it was to what it became.
I agree. It was once a great company. Did your dad drive the Scenicruisers?
💭Ahhh,.. the good'ol days!⌛
I think it's safe to guess that bus service in America began going down the toilet once airline travel became more affordable in the 1970s
Somewhat ironically, airline travel went down the toilet as well. I'll take Caltrain and Amtrak, thank you.
Greyhound was better in the old days now they stink rude drivers cussing at people I was a greyhound fan but no more it is not the same.
Today Greyhound is sure not like it used to be.
Spirit Airlines is the new reality. I do remember traveling btwn NYC and Syracuse, NY often; "Super7" and "Americruiser" buses, by MCI(?) were the norm. Never heard about any Greyhound tour guide 🤔
🚌 @7:40 ~ I didn’t know people stayed in a hotel every night back in the past. I guess it makes sense because back then everything was considered luxury travel.
Nice tour. Accents in any country mutates with time. That seemed to have been the common accent in those days.
When America was a kinder and gentler Nation .
Like the one that just four years later firebombed a Greyhound bus carrying the anti-racism Freedom Riders in Anniston, Alabama? That kinder, gentler nation?
Incredible acting!
The last time I rode greyhound was in 2016 from NYC to DC
Wow. Times have changed.
Watching in 2022..
Interesting seeing at the 14:50 mark Greyhound promoting Quebec City
And Victoria, B.C. too!
And mispronouncing "Quebec," as nearly everyone in the U.S. did for another 40 or 50 years, and many still do.
I found myself smiling watching this. This was a proud time in America, when going outside was respected . I enjoyed the film ver much…🤗
Today: Greyhound owned by the United Kingdom transport giant FirstGroup plc with a combined revenue turnover of about $10.8 BILLION US dollars a year (2020).
I’ve never seen a buffet line move that quickly.
NEVER HEARD OF AN "ESCORTED GREYHOUND TOUR"❗❗🤔🤔❓❓
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It's not greyhound anymore , it's the " CRACKHOUND" !
It had shady characters in the mjd 70s,I was stranded in mid kentucky .....I watched everyone around me!.
@@packingten I took a Greyhound trip around much of America after college graduation in 1977. Other than two Mormons trying to convert me between Atlanta and New Orleans and being approached by a hooker in the St. Louis station, it was a fun experience. I did get to hear the sad story of a woman fleeing a bad marriage for a better life in Lake Charles, La., for about 50 miles of highway, so some things about bus travelers never change.
@@MrHmg55 A fun experience with the hooker you mean?
@@LynxStarAuto No, the trip. I didn't have time (or the stupidity) to pursue the hooker's proposal.
00:52 (billboard sign) "big color tv $495..... in 1957! Corrected for inflation, that's over $4500 bucks. TV's have gotten much cheaper, and "long distance" phone calls are free these days. Anyone got other examples of something cheaper today than 60 years ago?
Pretty much anything electronics. In 73 I got a scientific calculator. It was $110 which my inflation calc app puts at $656!
Adjusted for inflation, athletic shoes are a better bargain today, and of better construction, than they were back in the early 1970s.
Life itself...
1:12 did he hit his bumper on the guardrail?
I wonder if Bob could be out tour guide on one of these trips.
When they had Trailways as competition they were better. I rode Greyhound for years, until the riff raff made it intolerable. Food, money, or cigarette bums. Traveling without a dime to their name. Drunks annoying people and unruly kids. I thought flying would be better, but i was wrong. Now I only travel AmTrak in a private roomette. It's wonderful and the staff is so polite. Well worth the money and definitely the way to go!
I guess escort had a different meaning in 1957
22:32 It looks like Bob's having trouble standing up...but then I probably would've gotten smashed too after escorting that bunch across country.
If they had the same busses and uniforms I'd drive for them.times have changed though
Oh. The ghost of John W. Teets haunts me.
Hard to believe it started out as a Canadian company a long time ago
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If they could only see it today....
Remember Trail Ways?
Yes. Continental Trailways. Capital Trailways etc
Estados Unidos ha fabricado unos de los más bonitos y mejores autobuses y locomotoras del mundo , hay que reconocerlo muchos de esos buses acá en México hasta mediados los 80 dieron batalla, como ese GMC.
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3:26 Even the uppercrust preferred traveling by bus over the train or the new jet airliners. At least if the film is to be believed.
Greyhound should probably get back to its roots and keep the undesirables away.
Yeah and how wud that work?.
@Chump Johnson They'll go out of business.
I duno keeping the desirables away suits me fine I'd rather spend four hours talking to the salt of the earth than ten minutes taking to a Golf Merchant.
Keep the democrats away.
@@waterheaterservices Keep Trump and you away.
Destroys the bumper at 1:13. oops. lol. I've never made any mistakes. Ever.
12:25 "Our escorted tours are here to stay." I googled it and cannot find anything current.
Did not realize a Greyhound ride was so cultish.
A company that has stood the test of time
Not really. They've sold off a huge number of their station buildings, so people now have to stand on streetcorners or at gas stations or in the middle of nowhere, in blasting heat or freezing cold with no shelters and no restrooms.
Back when people had class. Now look at bus passengers or airline passengers.
Eons later Greyhound buses are stinky, shady and full of undesirables.
especially if they dont fill the blue toilet water enogh.
That's basically true of the whole country.
You mean melanated people?
@@PistonAvatarGuy Sadly this is true...the Democrat Party open borders policy has created a mongrel nation.
@@jonnieinbangkok What had this anything to do with Greyhound, are you really this much of a dolt??!!
Wonder how Greyhound managed to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. 🚌
Pretty good but not as good as Ridin’ the Dog with Studs Terkel
Everyone dressed to the " Nines" riding on a bus, even a lady w/a fur piece around her shoulders. It the opening scenes they are playing 'America". Very Patriotic is those days, we should sure use that now, when ppl say they hate our wonderful country. What a great idea to have had these bus tours back in the day.
Define "patriotic."
@@OeditpusRex when you believed in, loved and was proud of the principals of the founding of America. Not perfect, but, name another country you want to live in?
@@OeditpusRex I forgot the word RESPECT, although it's hard as the country has lost it's way.
no such things as millions of years.......Willie
Look how clean the passengers looked back then when people gave a damn, not like the sub human gutter trash that rides Greyhound today. And the Greyhound drivers are not much better.
I mean it's a promotional film, but yes in general people took a lot more pride into dressing and behaving well. Its a good Illustration of what they valued on how people was.
Did you notice how square that sign was at the end of the film just about as square as all these f****** people on the film
No wheels on the luggage. 😞
Do they give crackers with all that cheese?
This seems like a utopia...was this really like America was?
Until degeneracy took over
It's a commercial. Only the best is shown.
Greyhound is now just a dumpster fire on wheels
Bus travel today is nothing more than moving cattle. No amenities, no courtesy, nothing…get on, shut up, hang on, get off!
Greyhound scams people guys. Ok, here is their strategy. People try to book early so they can buy tickets with cheaper price right? But the greyhound tell the customer who booked early that their tickets are broken on the departure day without sending them any email notification about that and make them to pay the full price on the departure day or make them to choose a different day. People are busy so they purchase new tickets even though they are scammed by doing that. And if people ask for the refund for the full priced tickets then the greyhound would say they can only process the refund for the cheaper old tickets that they lied and said were "broken". That is how greyhound makes extra money by scamming people and they have no customer service number for complaining issues like that and only accepts feedback text form on their website and good luck with receiving any response from them. Beware guys do not let the scam you by doing that and spread the words.
Who you talking to. No one here is stupid enough to ride Greyhound anymore,
22:10 I was all ready to join the bus tour...until this bonehead showed up.
Smoking a stogie yet, these old time promo films crack me up. Some nice photography of a time gone by but inadvertently funny today.
My god it must have been a PIA for women when they were expected to wear heels all the time?
Bob has a kind of Jimmy Stewart style of talking and moving.