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 .

@olgaharris1103

5 ай бұрын

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

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.

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.

@michaelmapes4119

4 жыл бұрын

They don't even dress for planes anymore either, let alone shower!

@robsemail

Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@harrybruner3825

Жыл бұрын

It is the passengers that are the problem. You will need a strong shower from the odors

@RWernsing

Жыл бұрын

We still should dress up!

@olgaharris1103

5 ай бұрын

Greyhound was a wonderful company, and so professional…🤗

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????

@desertbob6835

4 жыл бұрын

Those were in Hound stations nationwide in the '50s

@buellfuel2001

3 жыл бұрын

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

@geemeff

2 жыл бұрын

They come up on eBay occasionally.

@ericdee6802

2 жыл бұрын

That model sure would look good on my office desk.🤣👍

The stylish black facade on that Greyhound station just after the opening shots is amazing... particularly love the silver Greyhound logo attached to it!

Sad how things have changed.

@CC-ed7jr

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, they just call it "progress".

"Go GREYHOUND....and leave the driving to US!"

To this day the double decker Grayhound is one sweet looking baby.

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.

This was amazing to see, in full colour.

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. !

Excellent history

@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper

4 жыл бұрын

Greyhound was segregated in that era! I read black like me

@packingten

4 жыл бұрын

@@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!!.

@OeditpusRex

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.)

I like the model of the grey hound bus, behind the fella in the chair. love to take that away. ha ha ha.

@packingten

4 жыл бұрын

It is called a scenicruiser, people restore them.

Gee whizz, this is a swell documentary!🚌🛣

@jamesalexander3530

Жыл бұрын

Jeepers Beaver, what happened to your face? 💀

@tomfields3682

10 ай бұрын

@@jamesalexander3530 Ward probably clobbered him.

Hey Bob! I love your Scenicruisers.

Back when the greyhound was all classy. Now it's just runaways and domestic violence

@CC-ed7jr

4 жыл бұрын

Back when America was classy* people dressed and acted more professionally than today. Proud and decent people.

@OeditpusRex

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

The bus belts in to the metal guard post in the terminal at the 1:12 mark!!

@paulamarie7541

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, it did! LOL

@GfrmdaBrnx

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, I noticed that so much for the pristine front bumper.

@chrisj197438

5 жыл бұрын

Gee Batiz Bumpers are for bumping lol

@Wildstar40

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I bet if it was the drivers bus he would not have done that.

7:57, guy gets out of the bus with a heater in his month! Loved the video, I was 2 when it was filmed.

Nice shiny new 4104. Give Hound a couple of years to fill in the dents and scrapes!

Gee that's a nice Greyhound bus!

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

Love the big model behind the guy.

Ahhh...bus tours! The way to go.

Nowadays, an entirely different kind of escort can be found riding a Greyhound bus!

Awesome ! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you, Periscope!

I really enjoy watching this type of old videos

I found myself smiling watching this. This was a proud time in America, when going outside was respected . I enjoyed the film ver much…🤗

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.

@carolinawestern3875

3 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@thefrase7884

7 ай бұрын

I agree. It was once a great company. Did your dad drive the Scenicruisers?

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.

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!

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.😏👍

💭Ahhh,.. the good'ol days!⌛

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!

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

@thegodblogger3812

2 ай бұрын

First one was a PD-4014, the first "modern" intercity bus with a/c, air suspension, and a lavatory.

Today Greyhound is sure not like it used to be.

Greyhounds always the best

🚌 @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.

I love the music!!

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.

@dirtydave2691

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@fredrickdouglassmccoy2608

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@thetreasurehouse1742

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@apl175

3 жыл бұрын

I thumbed up because you specifically mentioned Business Class on Singapore Airlines as a point of comparison. The standard.

@douglasgreene923

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@OeditpusRex

Жыл бұрын

Somewhat ironically, airline travel went down the toilet as well. I'll take Caltrain and Amtrak, thank you.

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 🤔

Watching in 2022..

Neat!

Incredible acting!

When America was great.

@justflooreit4me1

5 жыл бұрын

Amen

@mauriceboykin4422

4 жыл бұрын

Why

@jamesalexander3530

Жыл бұрын

When América was segregated. Notice only white bread on the bus.

@gotmilk91

Жыл бұрын

Now we're like a vassal state of Israel 🇮🇱 🙄

Nice tour. Accents in any country mutates with time. That seemed to have been the common accent in those days.

The last time I rode greyhound was in 2016 from NYC to DC

When America was a kinder and gentler Nation .

@OeditpusRex

Жыл бұрын

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?

I’ve never seen a buffet line move that quickly.

Neat! I love post war America. Lets Make America Great Again !

@GeorgeStar

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@desertbob6835

4 жыл бұрын

Oh. NO....another MAGA maggot.

Interesting seeing at the 14:50 mark Greyhound promoting Quebec City

@Vanspecial

3 жыл бұрын

And Victoria, B.C. too!

@OeditpusRex

Жыл бұрын

And mispronouncing "Quebec," as nearly everyone in the U.S. did for another 40 or 50 years, and many still do.

NEVER HEARD OF AN "ESCORTED GREYHOUND TOUR"❗❗🤔🤔❓❓

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!

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).

Wow. Times have changed.

❤❤❤❤

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

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?

@curtislowe4577

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much anything electronics. In 73 I got a scientific calculator. It was $110 which my inflation calc app puts at $656!

@bloqk16

2 жыл бұрын

Adjusted for inflation, athletic shoes are a better bargain today, and of better construction, than they were back in the early 1970s.

@johnreitz5676

Жыл бұрын

Life itself...

I wonder if Bob could be out tour guide on one of these trips.

1:12 did he hit his bumper on the guardrail?

I guess escort had a different meaning in 1957

If they could only see it today....

It's not greyhound anymore , it's the " CRACKHOUND" !

@packingten

4 жыл бұрын

It had shady characters in the mjd 70s,I was stranded in mid kentucky .....I watched everyone around me!.

@MrHmg55

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@LynxStarAuto

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrHmg55 A fun experience with the hooker you mean?

@MrHmg55

3 жыл бұрын

@@LynxStarAuto No, the trip. I didn't have time (or the stupidity) to pursue the hooker's proposal.

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.

Remember Trail Ways?

@thefrase7884

7 ай бұрын

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.

Hard to believe it started out as a Canadian company a long time ago

Oh. The ghost of John W. Teets haunts me.

👍👍👍

Back when people had class. Now look at bus passengers or airline passengers.

Greyhound should probably get back to its roots and keep the undesirables away.

@packingten

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah and how wud that work?.

@silverlinings8240

4 жыл бұрын

@Chump Johnson They'll go out of business.

@hawkrolla

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@waterheaterservices

4 жыл бұрын

Keep the democrats away.

@caldwelljackson9482

Жыл бұрын

@@waterheaterservices Keep Trump and you away.

❤

Destroys the bumper at 1:13. oops. lol. I've never made any mistakes. Ever.

Did not realize a Greyhound ride was so cultish.

Wonder how Greyhound managed to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. 🚌

12:25 "Our escorted tours are here to stay." I googled it and cannot find anything current.

no such things as millions of years.......Willie

Pretty good but not as good as Ridin’ the Dog with Studs Terkel

Eons later Greyhound buses are stinky, shady and full of undesirables.

@raymondleggs5508

5 жыл бұрын

especially if they dont fill the blue toilet water enogh.

@PistonAvatarGuy

4 жыл бұрын

That's basically true of the whole country.

@jonnieinbangkok

3 жыл бұрын

You mean melanated people?

@jonnieinbangkok

3 жыл бұрын

@@PistonAvatarGuy Sadly this is true...the Democrat Party open borders policy has created a mongrel nation.

@frothe42

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonnieinbangkok What had this anything to do with Greyhound, are you really this much of a dolt??!!

A company that has stood the test of time

@rah62

4 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@OeditpusRex

Жыл бұрын

Define "patriotic."

@estelleadamski308

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@estelleadamski308

Жыл бұрын

@@OeditpusRex I forgot the word RESPECT, although it's hard as the country has lost it's way.

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.

@CC-ed7jr

3 жыл бұрын

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?

@CC-ed7jr

3 жыл бұрын

Until degeneracy took over

@jamesalexander3530

Жыл бұрын

It's a commercial. Only the best is shown.

22:10 I was all ready to join the bus tour...until this bonehead showed up.

@fumingriley

2 жыл бұрын

Smoking a stogie yet, these old time promo films crack me up. Some nice photography of a time gone by but inadvertently funny today.

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!

My god it must have been a PIA for women when they were expected to wear heels all the time?

A middle class white people riding a grehound bus that explain all the luxury of travel back on those years compare for the passengers travel today 😢😢😢😢

Bob has a kind of Jimmy Stewart style of talking and moving.