The 2019 Antique Bus Homecoming Video

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

This rally was centered around Blytheville, Arkansas' restored Greyhound Bus Station. Organized and hosted by Tom McNally, bus historian and Scenicruiser lover extraordinaire, hosted dozens of restored and converted antique buses surrounding the art-deco station.

Originally built in 1939 and recently restored, the Greyhound station was a great setting for this event. Buses ranging from 1947 GMs to a modern-looking (but actually antique) MCI MC-6 bus, filling the downtown streets, and hundreds of bus enthusiasts came from as far as New England to participate.

Do you recognize any of the buses at this event?

(Photos provided by Dave Millhouser)

https://youtu.be/y6PaaLqjxvc

[lvmci]

Long trip from Las Vegas...

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Yeah, it was a long way from home.   

[dtcerrato]

We really enjoyed that Rally. It was on the same weekend as the town's square chili cookoff. The local towns people and authority were awesome and very welcoming. We rolled into that rally with a bus nut friend and caravanned together in from Saskatchewan CA as we were returning from our 2nd Alaska round trip from Florida. Lots of buses there and I recognize lots of them as we've met and talked in other rallys and on other forums. Nice post and brought back some great pre pandemic memories and fuel prices!

[RJ]

Gary -

I, along with John Vickers (RoadrunnerTex) were fortunate enough to be able to attend the original "Ghosts of Highway 61" rally in Blytheville April 4-6, 2013, the year they had the commemorative dedication ceremony for the fully restored Greyhound depot. I flew into DFW where John picked me up, then, splitting the driving duties, we took his converted 4905 to the rally, having a great time putting "faces to names" while there. Even picked up an autographed copy of Tom & Fred's book, too!

Many thanks to Dave Millhouse for all the photos of the 2019 rally in the YT video, I saw a number of coaches that I recognized from the 2013 gathering, heck, even "Huggy Bear" was there!

The amount of camaraderie among the busnut community never ceases to amaze me - trials and tribulations notwithstanding.

Let's hope Tom does it again - 2025 maybe?

FWIW & HTH. . . 

RJ