Remember when people used travel all around the country by Greyhound bus? To tell the truth, I don’t, but I sure remember movies of people taking the Greyhound bus all over. This was the Greyhound depot for Los Angeles, located at the corner of 6th and Los Angeles Streets in downtown. From the fins in that car at the center, I’d say this was 1950s and the depot looks like it pretty busy.
And how it looks in March 2015:
Hi Martin: Thanks for the photos of the old Greyhound Terminal. I used the Greyhound line to take me back and forth to Salinas, CA, when I was in the Army at Fort Ord, CA. This was in 1960. After I disembarked from the bus at Salinas I would catch another one to go the 26 odd miles to Fort Ord. At the time Fort Ord was a military training center for draftees and enlistees. The red car in the photo also gave me some memories. I used to ride the Pacific Electric Red Car from Baldwin Park, CA to the station in El Monte while I was going to school. Thanks again for the memories. George
You can see the “Post House Restaurant” signage at the left frame border. This was Greyhound’s attempt to pull all food service operations under their own umbrella of branding. Most of the early free standing stations had independent operators of cafe’s or lunch counters (pioneer era was often a stop at a Depot Hotel of some sort with its’ own food service getup) which were given notice in the post-war era. The bus boys then moved in and put it all to right under a uniform system…or so the fairy tale goes.
That March 2015 photo is not the old terminal. It was demolished shortly after Greyhound moved to the new building across the street. That building was built in the 80s for the textile businesses.