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Source:             Special Sesquicentennial Supplement II, Ledger-Enquirer
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                      Bus Service Got Slow Start
                         By Ralph Willingham 
                         Ledger Staff Writer 

  Three bus lines juggled  Co1umbus  until one finally caught her.
  Greyhound Lines started operations in Columbus in 1928, taking over from the 
old Blue Bird Lines.
  T.S. Gosa of Columbus drove the first Greyhound bus into Columbus on a Sunday 
night, Oct. 5, 1928. He brought 25 passengers from Atlanta, leaving at 5:30 
p.m. He had been scheduled to arrive at 10:30, but the bus crawled through mud 
in two counties and arrived at 11:30.
  Gosa said the only paved roads were Newnan to Atlanta, 39 miles, and 
Hogansvllle to LaGrange, 12 miles.
  In 1930, Greyhound had three 21-passenger Yellow Coaches running daily 
between Columbus and Atlanta. But Greyhound soon gave up the franchise to Hood 
Coach Lines, because the roads between Columbus and LaGrange were poor.
  Greyhound returned to Columbus in 1935, this time with four daily runs 
between Columbus and Atlanta and three from Columbus to Montgomery, using white 
buses that seated 25. 
   Greyhound had to sell tickets on the street corner in front of the Ralston 
Hotel in 1928 because it had no office. The business moved into the hotel the 
next year.
  Buses capable of carrying 37 passengers began  making five round trips a day 
to Atlanta in 1937. This expanded to 13 trips in  1941.
  In 1948, Greyhound replaced all its buses with Diesel Silversides, boosting 
the service to 15 round trips daily to Atlanta and seven to Montgomery.
  To ease traffic congestion on Broadway, Greyhound began using the Howard Bus 
Lines terminal at 319 Twelfth Street in 1951, letting Trailways bus lines take 
over the terminal Greyhound vacated at 1327 Broadway. Also using the Howard 
terminal by then were Atlantic Stages, East Alabama Coach Co. and Riley Bus.
  Greyhound got its own $400,000 terminal at 818 Fourth Avenue in April 1957, 
and it remains there today. 

Special Sesquicentennial Supplement II
Ledger- Enquirer, Sunday, April 23, 1978. S-30.


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