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In the 1930s, the Greyhound Lines bus company built many bus stations in the then-popular Streamline Moderne style. William Nowland Van Powell designed at least four of them. Working with George Mahan, Jr. in 1939, he was the architect of the Greyhound Bus Station in Jackson, Mississippi. [4]
Oakland Greyhound Station, 2103 San Pablo Ave; Palm Springs station; Paso Robles station; Redding station; Reedley station; Richmond Greyhound Depot, 250-23rd Street. Roseville station; Sacramento Greyhound Station, 420 Richards Blvd; Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco; Salinas Intermodal Transportation Center; San Jose Diridon station
The Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) is the public transportation provider for Memphis, Tennessee.It is one of the largest transit providers in the state of Tennessee; MATA transports customers in the City of Memphis and parts of Shelby County on fixed-route buses, paratransit vehicles, demand-responsive service, and the MATA Trolley system.
An Eastern Greyhound Lines coach depicted at a stop in Conneaut, Ohio, c. 1930 Cast iron model "Northland Transportation Co." passenger bus, c. 1930. In 1914, Eric Wickman, a 27-year-old Swedish immigrant, was laid off from his job as a drill operator at a mine in Alice, Minnesota.
The Dixie Greyhound Lines (called also Dixie or DGL), a highway-coach carrier, was a Greyhound regional operating company, based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, from 1930 until 1954, when it (along with the Teche Greyhound Lines) became merged into the Southeastern Greyhound Lines, a neighboring operating company.
The Waverly Half-Way station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, [1] and currently serves as offices for the Humphreys County Chamber of Commerce. [ 3 ] A Greyhound bus stops at the Half-Way station in Waverly, Tennessee, on a trip in September 1943 (photo by U.S. Farm Security Administration )
A large volume of railroad freight traffic moves through Memphis, thanks to two Mississippi River railroad crossings and the convergence of east–west rail routes with north–south routes. Memphis had two major rail passenger stations, Memphis Union Station, razed in early 1969, and Memphis Central Station, which has been renovated. The ...
The Riverfront Loop is a line of the Memphis Area Transit Authority trolley system.It began operation in 1997, as the second line in the system. It runs for 4.1 mi (6.6 km) through downtown Memphis and along the Mississippi riverfront, with 18 stops along the way.