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20 unusual facts about Greyhound Lines


1100 New York Avenue

The art deco facade at the north entrance of the building is a former Greyhound Lines station originally constructed in 1940.

811 Stewart Hotel

The site, a three-quarter-block, L-shaped parcel that R. C. Hedreen Co. bought in 1995 for $4.5 million, included a Greyhound Lines bus station that would have been demolished for the hotel.

Alfons Heck

He later emigrated, first to Canada, working in several British Columbia saw mills, then to the U.S. where, living in San Diego, he became a Greyhound long-distance bus driver.

Appleton Transit Center

The north side of the building is the location of the Greyhound Lines office.

Armour and Company

Chicago-based bus company Greyhound Corporation acquired Armour and Co. and its Dial brand in 1970.

Calhoun County, Michigan

Greyhound Lines provides intercity bus service to the county in both Battle Creek and Albion.

Dean Chance

Following high school, Chance signed with the Baltimore Orioles (for a $30,000 bonus and $12 Greyhound bus ticket) prior to the start of the 1959 season as an amateur free agent.

East of the Mountains

Through a combination of hitchhiking, a long walk through the desert, a lift bought from a lorry driver, a Greyhound bus, and a rental car, he finally approaches his destination; but will the combined effect of the people he has met, the experiences he has undergone, the gains he has made, and the losses he has sustained during this journey be enough to make him reject his climactic plan?

Highland Mall

In addition, the Greyhound bus terminal for Austin is located immediately southeast of the mall.

Joe Black

After his career ended, Black taught health and physical education at Hubbard Junior High School in Plainfield, New Jersey, and later became an executive with Greyhound in Phoenix.

John W. Olver Transit Center

Currently, Peter Pan Bus Lines and Greyhound Lines intercity bus service to Greenfield stops at the Olver Center and is a proposed passenger rail station on the rerouted Amtrak Vermonter line, currently serving communities from Union Station in Washington, DC to St. Albans, Vermont.

Jones in the Fast Lane

The event can also be random, described to the player with traditional Sierra humor, e.g. "You went to Las Vegas in a $20,000 car and came back in a $200,000 Greyhound bus."

Kennedy Plaza

It serves as the nexus of the state's conventional-bus and trolley-replica bus public transit services operated by Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA), as well as a departure point for Peter Pan and Greyhound bus lines.

Packwood, Washington

The general aviation Packwood Airport is located three blocks west of highway 12 in downtown Packwood, and L.E.W.I.S. Mountain Highway Transit provides multiple weekday public transportation to Centralia-Chehalis, including connections to Amtrak and Greyhound.

Rideau River Residence Association

RRRA operates a business (Abstentions convenience store), sells Greyhound tickets, manages the Parliament Hill Program, hosts a wide variety of entertainment and educational events, runs a free bikeshare program for students, staff, an faculty; and runs the RRRA office.

Roads in Belize

Many buses are old Greyhounds or school buses, although newer express buses travel the two main highways.

See What a Fool I've Been

Also, there are lyric changes between the B-side, BBC and live versions (with references to a "train to Georgia" and a "Greyhound bus at dawn" not heard in B-side version, whereas the live versions have no "sailor boy" or "barking dog" lyrics).

Shaffer v. Heitner

Arnold Heitner, who as trustee owned one share of stock in Greyhound Corporation, a Delaware corporation, instituted a shareholder’s derivative suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery against 28 of the company's directors and officers.

The Wayward Bus

The larger Greyhound Bus Company serves both of those locations on separate routes, but does not have service connecting the two.

U-Drop Inn

In 1957, John Nunn died and his wife Bebe sold the café to Grace Brunner who again renamed it, this time to Tower Café, and added a Greyhound bus station.


Greyhound Canada

NeOn, a discount service based on the same model used for BoltBus in the United States, and competing with Megabus, is a service operated by Greyhound Canada in cooperation with Trailways of New York and Greyhound Lines between the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan and the Toronto Coach Terminal.

Irene Morgan

In 1944, the 27-year-old Irene Morgan was traveling to Baltimore, Maryland when she was arrested and jailed in Virginia for refusing to sit in a segregated section on an interstate Greyhound bus.

Moultrie, Georgia

The Chattahoochee and Gulf Railroad and Greyhound are two transportation services provided in Moultrie.

Petawawa

Ontario Highway 17, Greyhound bus lines, and the local commercial airport (Pembroke Airport) located in Petawawa, all provide access to this town.

Spokane Intermodal Center

The facility serves as a station, re-fueling, and service stop for the Amtrak Empire Builder, as well as the Greyhound and Trailways station for Spokane.