[PRCo] Re: Old Greyhound film

[Herb Brannon]

Now that was probably a "days drive" on all those two lane roads. I can
almost smell the fumes inside that PD4151.
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> 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
> 157 Alfred Street, Apt. #1
> Biddeford, ME 04005-3225
> transitman at maine.rr.com
>
>


-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park