Syracuse, New York
Greyhound, the intercity bus carrier, that still serves over 3,800 destinations across North America began in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1914. Carl Eric Wickman who had been born in Sweden in 1887 started to transport iron ore miners from Hibbing to Alice (where the saloons were) for 15 cents a ride. The company started to use the name ‘The Greyhound Corporation in 1929 when Ed Stone the operator of the route from Superior to Wausau in Wisconsin saw a reflection of his bus in a store window. The reflection reminded him of a greyhound dog and he adopted that name for that segment but eventually applied to the whole network.
In 1934, intercity bus lines (of which Greyhound was the largest) carried around 400,000,000 passengers. The film It Happened One Night centered on an heiress (Claudette Colbert) traveling by Greyhound bus with a reporter (Clark Gable) and the movie is credited by the company for spurring bus travel nationwide.
To accommodate the rapid growth in bus travel, Greyhound constructed lots of new stations in the period between 1937 and 1945, most of them in a late Art Deco style known as Streamline Moderne. In 1937, Greyhound embarked on a program of unifying its brand identity by acquiring both buses and terminals in the Streamline style.[18] By the outbreak of World War II, the company had 4,750 stations and nearly 10,000 employees.
Charleston, West Virginia
Minneapolis, Minnesota
1943 illustration by Thornton Oakley
First street & east van buren phoenix AZ greyhound bus terminal
Greyhound Terminal, Winston-Salem, NC
Greyhound Terminal, Cincinnatti, OH
Greyhound Terminal, Los Angeles
Ad from 1951
Ad from 1961
Baltimore, Maryland
Detroit, Michigan
ad from 1951
Louisville, Kentucky mailed in 1958
Ad from 1955
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania sent in 1947
Chicago, Illinois interior mailed 1959
Terminal Waiting Room – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania mailed 1952
Greyhound Scenicruiser c1961
Ad from 1950
Fort Wayne, Indiana postcard
Overland Greyhound Bus Depot – Omaha, Nebraska c.1954
Ad from 1960
Greyhound Terminal, Fort Wayne, Indiana postcard
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