[PRCo] Old Greyhound film

[Fred Schneider]

Nice film that Peter Folger found …  It begins in Manhattan and ends at the old art deco style Greyhound terminal across from the post office at Grant and Liberty in Pittsburgh
 some of you may detect the fact that a westbound Hound entered Allegheny Mountain and then emerged from Blue Mountain Tunnel running eastbound about 75 miles east of Allegheny Mountain before making the rest stop in between at Midway Service Plaza (Bedford).   Immediately after Bedford we see the bridge over route 119 at New Stanton. 

The nice thing about it, to me, is the memory of the Turnpike with the grassy medial strip and very little traffic.  This was a 1945 Encyclopedia Britannica film.   My father's memories of the turnpike during the war was that the turnpike commission was rather fearful that they would be unable to collect enough tolls to pay off the revenue bonds because of war time gas rationing.   My dad had to drive it a couple of times to get from Penn Township to the B&O station in Ohio Pyle to catch a night train to Baltimore on business during the war and remembered that "if you passed another car on the turnpike, [there were so few other cars that] it was probably a policeman."   I have personal memories of a picnic along the side of the turnpike around 1946 or 47 … traffic was so light you could easily walk across the road.  



"The Bus Driver" 1945 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgun6pcVoEE

Peter Folger
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