All aboard! at the Greyhound Bus Museum

In Hibbing, Minnesota, the birthplace of the bus industry, one man's fascination with the rise of the ubiquitous Greyhound bus has led to the creation of a monument to the iconic mode of transportation that helped connect all corners of America. Correspondent Jennifer Mayerle, of CBS Station WCCO in Minnesota, visits the Greyhound Bus Museum, as part of the "Sunday Morning" series "Diversions."
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[@robinriley8925]

My grandpa, Thomas Jefferson Higdon, was a Greyhound bus driver. Back in the 60’s he had the route between Louisville, KY and Evansville, IN. He and my grandma lived in Louisville and my family lived in Evansville. On Friday nights he would pick me and my little sister up at the Evansville bus station (which is now a restaurant), and take us home with him. We would spend the weekend with them and he would bring us back on Monday. He always made me and my little sister sit in the seats right behind him so he could keep an eye on us. This was also before interstate 64 and he would go back the Kentucky route and would stop at every little podunk place on the highway. Took forever to get there! Good times. All of my grandpa’s family were coal miners but grandpa was claustrophobic and couldn’t stand the mines that’s why he started working for Greyhound. He retired from that job and died in 1973 from cancer.

[@thelederelo]

That’s a lovely story Robin! God bless hard working bus drivers like your grandpa :)

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Very cool Robin, thank you for sharing that story!

[@jeanneblondewomanstamping9788]

How wonderful that this history is being appreciated and preserved. Hope to visit the museum one day.

[@chrislee1096]

When I was young couldn’t afford a plane ticket thank you Greyhound

[@floridaboz1]

I would take a Greyhound to my cousins almost every summer when i was a teen, honestly had a lot of fun.

[@jamiemacdonald436]

🎶 "Go Greyhound, and leave the driving to us." 🎶

[@retroguy9494]

I remember that jingle! 😁

[@armandomorgado1625]

In Chicago we’re about to lose our bus station and nobody’s doing anything,Greyhound thanks for the memories ❤😢😊

[@yvonneplant9434]

Same thing happened in Phila. There is still Greyhound service in PHL but actually using it is difficult with no real station.

[@DDELE7]

That’s all on FlixBus, Greyhound’s parent company. They want out of the real estate business and just focus on bus operations. Contact your local city and state representatives and see if they can intervene with acquiring these properties.

[@thud9797]

Yes this is a terribly sad situation and even worse is that many cities are unwilling or unable to help. The new owners of Greyhound only bought the buses and the business and not any of the real estate or bus stations so most bus stations will be going away. Add Cleveland to the list too. Sure hope something can be dont because Greyhound is no longer in a position where they can afford to build multi million dollar bus stations like they did in their glory days with almost no competition, it's a totally different world today.

[@SSJQ127]

Yeah, It's happening in a lot of major cities. I used to take Greyhound all the time from NY to B-More when I was younger. It gave me a lot of memories

[@phatato]

This is so Chicago though, we don't respect our history nearly as much as other historical cities in the country.

[@deefox7333]

In my city of Ventura, California, we used to have a small Greyhound bus station that lasted until the early 2000s. I was 7 years old, and I only saw at least two Greyhound buses parked at this small location for many years. Because the buses were so big, they couldn't fit in this one parking space. Nowadays, the building remains, but it now operates as a juice bar. It's kind of sad that this location, depending on how old it is, doesn't have much historical memorabilia or even a plaque attached to it.

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

I appreciate the history of my two vintage retired greyhound buses i own.

[@floridaboz1]

It must be amazing to own a few icons like that

[@edwardantrobusjr2253]

My favorite is the Scenicruiser.😊

[@centredoorplugsthornton4112]

Do a story about how Flixbus took over only Greyhound routes and buses, not terminals or access to depots. Cities across the US losing proper bus terminals, often because officials want em gone. Curbside boarding, no shelter or restroom or ticket counter. Greyhound far from the only bus operator affected.

[@sherylcrowe3255]

Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains!!🎉🎉 I still travel that way! ❤

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

I never got to go on Amtrak, but have rode a lot of greyhound, and I have rode on trains in other countries when I worked overseas.

[@FGH9G]

Great story and thanks for the coverage! America desperately needs to jumpstart, reinvest in, and reinvigorate our non-car, and non-airplane based transportation systems and networks. Including caring about our intercity bus systems again, as well as especially reviving our intercity passenger railroad systems too. We used to have the world's greatest network of passenger trains ever, as well as of course a very interconnected system of buses.

[@wturner777]

America used to have the best public transit network until much of it got bulldozed for cars and buses started taking place. Followed by years of chronic underfunding of public transit, I’m surprised America is not dead last compared to other developed nations.

[@FGH9G]

@@wturner777 Post-war urban renewal was such a plague on cities and America in general.

[@TheMW2informer]

The ScenicCruisers are the best busses built! I was born way after they went out of service but I’d love to ride in one someday.

[@johnchambers8528]

I never got to ride in a Greyhound ScenicCruieser but the old bus company that served Atlantic City New Jersey had one that I got to ride. As noted it kind of reminded me of the old railroad dome cars they used on long distance trains out west. You sat up high and could see around great. I really missed them when they bought more modern busses that look like today’s busses.

[@jebsails2837]

After graduating HS (1966) and before enlisting in the Navy my friend an I journeyed from RI to Washington DC. During my service I took many Greyhound rides to surrounding sites. A great learning experience for me. Narragansett Bay.

[@gus473]

Now home to USCGC Campbell, #909! Semper Paratus! 😎✌️

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

My grandmother never flew. Always took a bus long distance...

[@jaimerocha2977]

The good old days! I remember as a child taking Greyhound from Chicago to Texas and back to Chicago a bunch of times. My favorite places to stop were the St. Louis terminal to play spy hunter and buy a replica Greyhound bus. The Dallas terminal for breakfast and to buy a newspaper to check the baseball scores from the previous days. Beautiful memories!

[@markdanielczyk944]

Really cool museum, well worth the trip!

[@janerkenbrack3373]

I've had many great rides on Greyhound (and a few not so great), since my first as an eight-year old, through my last one in my late fifties.

[@debraseale6867]

When I was a kid my Grandfather and Daddy's business had the Greyhound Bus Station in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Daddy got to be great friends with what became my brothers and my Uncle Mac and Aunt Addy. We'd get to sit behind Uncle Mac and go to New Orleans. Mom and Dad would come down when Daddy got off work. We kids thought we were kings of the road riding to New Orleans on Uncle Mac's bus. Very special memories.

[@yvonneplant9434]

Since more than one Greyhound bus terminal/ station has closed ( the one in Philadelphia did) I have mixed feelings about this segment.

[@francesfarmer736]

I’m from Sacramento, California and rode the Greyhound bus to different locations in California….it was located Downtown on L street. back in the late 60s early 70s, never thought about flying…too expensive.

[@saxonray4071]

I've traveled many a mile on a Greyhound. Never had a bad experience, I was delayed one time. But Greyhound gave me vouchers for food at the stop i was stuck at for about 6 hours.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

I road a scenic cruser at about 5 .im 56 now. I still have a matchbox bus Dad gave me because I loved looking up through the skylight at the desert star's great program and memories.

[@keithjohnson5398]

I remember the little greyhound station here in Hollywood. And I recall one ride where driver was tailgating a car so closely I could read the other car's speedometer & the driver commented about the sunset in his rear view mirror. And the bus stopped at the mental hospital and a passenger became unruly and the driver threatened to toss them out. Trailways was their competition. Interesting to know Greyhound's still in business.

[@deealone5191]

I caught Greyhound at that little station in Hollywood, CA back in 1982 on my way back home to Louisiana.

[@GarC170]

Kind of makes sense that the nicest Greyhound station I’ve been to was twin cities or atleast equal to the hybrid greyhound/amtrak stations u encounter rarely. On the flip side places like Chicago and Omaha were always horrific in the 00s and 10s

[@vietnamvet6726]

Rode a Greyhound bus from St Louis to Detroit after AIT training at Fort Leonard Wood.

[@wonderglory]

I'm so glad Greyhound became reliable. My family and I remember taking road trips aboard their buses.

[@archiechoke23]

Nice, makes me want to go visit it.

[@amymurphy5502]

What an astounding, and beautiful testament to your father!! Take this sincere, and heartfelt, compliment from this grandma who started driving school buses, then "graduated" to tourist buses; finally, bought an old motorhome and took my time driving it to settle in a new part of the U.S., and be near family!

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Very cool 👍👍

[@davidmanley9437]

This is really interesting Didn't know it existed. Worth checking out

[@kevp9601]

❤🤍💙HAPPY LABOR DAY, EVERYONE ! ❤🤍💙

[@joesanchez979]

Love Greyhound Bus😊

[@Davett53]

Most of the Greyhound buses, had a single occupancy bathroom to be used by both sexes. Using them while the bus traveled along, was a bit of a challenge. They were usually right over the rear wheels, and the bus rocked and bucked, as it hit the irregularities on the road surface.

[@frederickbooth7970]

Yep! We know that from experience. Traveled thousands of miles weekly in the old MC7`s & MC8`s. Liked the MC7`s with the manual 4 speed. They seemed to have better climbing ability in mountainous areas.

[@Davett53]

From the 1950s through the 1980s, I took Greyhound busses from my family home, to my colleges. Under graduate school & graduate school, within Ohio. In the 1950s and 60s, all our elementary school trips, were on Greyhounds from Cleveland, Ohio to points around the state and to Detroit, Washington, DC, and New York City. I always met friendly strangers, whom I had conversations with, to while away the hours. By the late 1980s, I traveled with a Sony Walkman cassette player to listen to with headphones. Cleveland, restored their "Streamline Modern" styled bus terminal in the early 2000's. It is beautiful. I remember going to that terminal when I was a teenager, in the early 1960s.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Greyhound songs one great one hilarious Elton John blues for my baby and me Roy Clark thank God and Greyhound you're gone And one well-known legendary Allman Brothers Band dickey Betts ramblin Man And I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus rolling down highway 41

[@kathycarlen4858]

My dad worked for Greyhound in Buffalo in the 1960’s so we rode for free. So much fun!

[@bryancooper2699]

Very nice. Too bad the current owners of Greyhound could care less about its history

[@charlo8664]

Would have been nice if they actually showed the different models of buses as it evolved more in detail.

[@LB-ty6ks]

Greyhound still as a place so I hope it will not disappear.

[@chriswalls5831]

Looks a lot different haven't been on one since the 80s

[@slwtype]

Riding the dog. Did a few trips in my youth.

[@josephpolanin182]

I took many a ride on the bus from DC to Scranton long ago.

[@Cam_Fasching]

Wow Thank You, Minny and A Great Thank You Sunday & Greyhound. God Bless , You Labor Day. ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🌅🚍🫡

[@rgs4x]

My mom went to Nursing School in Hibbing Minnesota.

[@debbiecooper1677]

my bes friends dad was a driver gosh all of are life till his passing.

[@UncleSam-USofA]

Oh and Timmy Walz lives there

[@newyorkcity76]

Not comfortable

[@Fredbeetle7]

Jennifer, your Graphics Department left out the song title “America” from your story. It’s one of my favorite songs. Please don’t do that again.

[@MultiPurposeReviewer]

Isn't Greyhound generally a really crappy experience these days?

[@johnchambers8528]

They need proper stations to operate to and from. Stations way out of downtowns or just curb stops are not good service.

[@frederickbooth7970]

@@johnchambers8528 Agreed! The biggest city here in Oregon, Portland, no longer has a station! Only a flag stop at curb!

[@charlenemack7040]

Ron looks like he could be Phil Donahue’s younger brother.😊

[@kt9166]

WOW! And it's in Hibbing, Bobby Zimmerman's home town! I'm 70, and I don't own a car any more, so I take Lyft around to where I need to go. I will tell the driver about the old Greyhound slogan "Go Greyhound, and Leave the Driving to Us", and they don't know. Thank you, Hibbing folks, for a lovely storehouse of memories. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@billykidd2509]

Yeah, right? Fix the one in Arizona and fix the one in mobile Alabama.Both terminal locations suck along with the drivers and the customer service staff both are horrible experiences.

[@davidsummers6700]

Greyhound let me see my college girlfriend for $110 roundtrip instead of $450 roundtrip airfare. Got to see her many times and she got to see me many times all thanks to Greyhound. Philadelphia Montréal.

[@2bleavin]

1 of my greatest kid memories of the 70s, my mom wanted to SEE the country and Greyhound had a $100.dollar cross the entire country pass, we went from Cali to NewYork aside from the great fun,people and places ironically my greatest memory is the HORRIBLE stench of the on board toilets lol But I wouldnt change a day of it...

[@MadDragon75]

😁 I didn't know train conductors drive busses. 🤷🏻‍♂️ choo choo!

[@Davett53]

In the early 1980s, in Columbus, Ohio, my friends and I liked to go to "dive bars", for our kicks. They were often seedy, old or unusual ones. The Greyhound bus terminal had a bar in it. It checked all the boxes. Old, seedy and unusual.

[@dennismorris7573]

Very nice.

[@Hippy-l1e]

after a hellish ride to New Mexico and back was my last Greyhound ride. over crowded buses with isles filled with standing people, dirty, uncomfortable and reaking of urine. The return home was just as horrible only this time the bus actually ran out of fuel near Salt Lake stranding everyone in sweltering heat without air conditioning. never again....

[@robertlevinson9188]

Greyhound is a wonderful part of Hibbing, second to Mr. Robert Zimmerman, you know: Dylan!

[@gertstolk]

On my first ever visit to the US in 1979, I took a bus from Chicago to Lincoln, NE. Fond memories 😊

[@MichaelGushue-tl8xd]

I never rode on a Greyhound Bus, but I would like to visit the Museum someday. A legend.

[@mineolahome5243]

Great Americana story. I wish CBS would do more of these.

[@LindaBevan-o1x]

Jackson Steven Wilson Brenda Walker Matthew

[@susanhussarTube]

Been there! Done that! Hibbing and Chisholm are great places on the Iron Range.

[@AyeshiaAntonattie-rk4mo]

This. Bus. Are. not Running. Good. No. More.

[@TrailBlazerSS502]

I want to visit there one time. She was driving the Silversides version!

[@NoddinSummit-s9y]

Martin Michelle Allen Daniel Garcia Helen

[@boatbound3300]

The greatness ended by 1970

[@breathspinecore]

In the late 90's I did the 3 week Ameripass on the Hound. Tallahassee> N'Orleans> Austin> Flagstaff (Grand Canyon) > Santa Cruz. Stayed with friends all along the way, met so many cool and interesting people on the bus, "as the moon rose over an open field".

[@andrewfisher8749]

Great to see. Iconic.

[@Netcentric-fk6ek]

how about no....

[@edersantos2228]

I love buses.

[@gus473]

Go Greyhound, go Hibbing Bluejackets! 😎✌️

[@ManChan-w5p]

Nothing like taking the Greyhound at the EOS in Florida.

[@crabulous66]

Need one in Scottsbluff NE it is very isolated here

[@retroguy9494]

I wish they would have showed more of the old busses since I'm into antique cars and trucks. When my late father got leave when we was in the military around 1950, he traveled home from California (where his ship docked) to New York on the bus. He told me all about it. It's sad that bus travel today is mostly for derelicts, addicts, basically the dregs of society. I knew a guy who, about 20 years ago wanted to visit family in upstate New York. He wanted to take the bus. I told him he'd be sorry and to take the Amtrak train instead. Well, he took the bus and he said never again. He never saw such people in his whole life and the things they were doing right on the bus insulted his Christian sensibilities even though he was a liberal democrat! LOL

[@Blueeyedsoul1986]

I love the greyhound bus 🚌

[@mikethespike6304]

MAGA

[@transitdude3352]

😊 nice.

[@ZeacorZeppelin]

Neat!

[@tinamagnuson2]

My sister calls it “riding the dog.”

[@deealone5191]

There's a great documentary called that, 'Riding the Dog.' I saw it years ago on PBS, but I think it's still on KZbin as well.

[@jeffgerritsen6502]

Greyhound is still around?

[@caa1000]

Bus company is now Flixbus... Greyhound still runs but under German ownership and been hearing they are ditching bus depots in favor of convenience and city parking or bus terminals rentals... The old days of Greyhound are gone, but not forgotten..

[@lawrencewiddis2447]

Too much talking and too little busses. (PS…you can talk and show busses!)

[@veroniquespence8986]

Is Kamala gonna be there?😂😂😂

[@johnharper2016]

Would love to see this museum. To bad it is in Minnesota. Won't step foot in that State.

[@karmicsheila63]

May I ask why you won't go to MN?

[@karensback]

White people are WONDERFUL.

[@gooser__43]

This is colossal waste of taxpayer's money 💰. Scrap it.

[@johnchambers8528]

Greyhound unlike Amtrak is a private company no taxpayer money is used unless some rural or other route is subsidized to continue service that would not be economical to operate on fares alone.

[@gooser__43]

@johnchambers8528 the museum gets federal grants

[@CBPunisher1900]

greyhound = homeless shelter on wheels lol

[@daveklein2826]

Liar