1940/50s, I think it was on Main street, lvmci...
Ahh the GOOD OL DAYS. Thanks Tom!
It was buildings like that which helped me fall in love with bus travel when I was in college. Now look where it's gotten me...
For 9 years 1953-1962 I worked across the street from a bus station. First in Lynchburg, VA on fifth st. then in Roanoke , VA. Always love to see the old GM,s come and go.
Jack
Yup, the good old days before DOT had gotten out of diapers. I rode a Trailways bus from Charlotte NC to LA, Ca---non stop (except for fuel, eats and "Bennies"). Same driver the entire trip. Oh, I also remember that several sets of new bus tires were rolled in down the isle for delivery somewhere along the way. This was the beginning of an eventful Christmas vacation. There's more to tell but I'm already sure no one will believe what I've said so far so I'll leave the rest for your conjecture. Jack
Sounds like the start of a campfire story to me! :)
Yes it does but doesn't mean it isn't the truth. Heck one night we were sitting by the campfire & someone fell out of their chair & the whole world shook - we all knew it happened because we were all there! ;D
Jack, I'd believe it. Some of the busses Iv'e ridden in SE Asia end up with all sorts of passengers and then freight deliveries that are picked up and dropped along the way. In Myanmar, I had the spare tire wedged against my seat, and I'm pretty sure some folks got bumped from the bus when I showed up, a Westerner fare is worth more than what the locals pay. I bet it was fun back in the day seeing the US by bus. Craig
Vindicated. Ha! Thanks to The Hollands! Jack :)
TWA gamblers tour from McCarren to the Sands 1950, via greyhound charter buses. lvmci...
Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper, November 11th 1943,
Saw on facebook
1954 bus lot, 7th and Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV, across 7th street from the El Cortez hotel casino. 2 blocks from where LTR bus yard was located, lvmci...
Wow!
1st and Fremont, Pioneer is where Vegas Vic, Howdy Partner is, 1944, those city buses were around when I was a kid...
Awesome Tom did you shot the pic's, ;) Kidding
Hi Dave, yes with my brownie camera! My best wishes to Doreen..
1970s/80s?
I can't make it out, looks like a Greyhound, maybe an Eagle? lvmci...
Tom, the last two pictures look like MC7s. So 1970s.
And a 4104 just rolled down the Vegas strip once again last weekend! The Shelby America organized a corona run for the old car crowd to drive up and down the now pretty much empty strip.... I was out on a camping trip when I got the message so we drove my bus#1 on the cruise! I love my air horn!
He did Dave, isn't that your first bus in the picture?
September 28, 1963 - - Officer escorted motorcade carrying President Kennedy headed north on Paradise Road from McCarran Airport approaching the unfinished Landmark Hotel & Casino on their way to the Las Vegas Convention Center. Press bus in back.
City of Henderson Photographs
Henderson Libraries Collection.
Can't quite make out what make bus this is...
From Las Vegas and Southern Nevada, before the Strip
Hoover Dam Bus
Not LV, but fin anyway, from hwy 89 group...
Bus at the art deco Las Vegas train station, what kinda bus?
Quote from: lvmci on April 01, 2020, 06:52:28 AM
I can't make it out, looks like a Greyhound, maybe an Eagle? lvmci...
Tom that is an MC6 in the picture and a Greyhound too. Nice shot.
1960 greyhound add...
Boulder/Hoover Dam filling up with the Colorado river and Greyhound...
Tom -
Here's my thoughts as to which bus is what:
Dunes Billboard - MC-7
McCarren - MC-7 (MC-6's had two humps in the roofline)
Kennedy - Flxible
Hiway 89 - Yellow/GM 743s
Train Station - Flxible
Hoover - Yellow/GM 743
FWIW & HTH. . . ;)
McCarren convoy is a Flx.
1959 LV greyhound bus depot and restaurant ...
Caesars Palace opening...
Who said they didn't have airbags back then. I
Who said they didn't have airbags back then. I
Las Vegas, Tonopah, Reno, LTR Bus on US91, Las Vegas Blvd, the Strip. Old Flamingo hotel, Caesars sign and the new Dunes tower, that my dad worked on, lvmci...
Earlier LTR
Bus fleet at the Moulin Rouge Hotel Casino...
Downtown Las Vegas Greyhound bus station closing after nearly 50 years
author By Mick Akers
Las Vegas Review-Journal
A sign alerting customers the Greyhound bus station at the Plaza Hotel downtown Las Vegas will be closed effective Feb. 23,2021, the Plaza Hotel and Casino will redevelop on the casino property....
After being open at the Plaza in downtown Las Vegas for nearly 50 years, the Greyhound bus station will close its doors Tuesday.
The station is moving south to the Regional Transportation Commission's South Strip Transfer Terminal located near McCarran International Airport off Sunset Road, the Plaza announced Monday.
"From tomorrow there will be no Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Las Vegas," Plaza CEO Jonathan Jossel said in a tweet. "Ciao. Bye. End of an era."
The new RTC Greyhound station will be in operation Tuesday, according to an RTC spokesperson.
1952 at the Union Bus Depot.
From the movie Sky Full of Moon.
Can you imagine? :^
I do remember cowboys getting off buses downtown, carrying saddles...
Awesome thread. I may be a little younger than most but there are times I wished I lived in that era.
Back before all of the overnight freight company's we used to get a lot of parts hauled by the Greyhound bus line. How times have changed. In the area I grew up in the Greyhound bus depot was on a main highway at a inter section of another at a little gas station. Three miles from one town and six to another. The little place was called the three mile.
The first coach Madden cruiser, parked in front of the Las Vegas Raiders main office, in Las Vegas, NV, lvmci...
I reads a story about that bus and the arrangement he had with Greyhound. Something like Greyhound provided the bus and a driver for three years. After that, they gave him the bus. One of the buses, probably this one, is in some sort of museum or on display.
Las Vegas Blvd...
Buffalo in downtown Las Vegas!