Greyhound Tales from Route 66

Greyhound Tales from Route 66
Author:
Publisher: Coda Publications
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780910390019

From small laughs to huge tragedies, ballerinas to teenage runaways, Suttle'syears as a motorcoach driver along the nation's famous "Mother Road" left himwith great tales about the human condition and spirit.

Greyhound Scenicruiser

Greyhound Scenicruiser
Author: Tom McNally
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781583883013

When we deem things iconic, they have naturally become part of history and have earned a permanent status of importance to us—one such object is a particular intercity coach, the Greyhound PD-4501 Scenicruiser bus, built by the GM Corporation during 1954-‘56. After nearly 60 years, its popularity, even today, is almost cult-like. Throughout the history of intercity coaches in the U.S., there have not been more toys, advertising pieces, souvenirs, or memorabilia centered on any other bus. The Scenicruiser starred in several movies, was featured on record album covers, and appeared on endless TV shows through the years. Starting with prototypes, this book covers all the various models of the Scenicruiser’s heritage, and even highlights many of the restored and still operating legends today.

My Other Car Is a Greyhound Bus

My Other Car Is a Greyhound Bus
Author: Richard Samonte
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2024-07-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to drive a big bus, maybe even a Greyhound bus? Rich Samonte did, and you will follow him through training as well as the exciting experiences he encountered in the twelve years he drove for Greyhound. Every reader will get the chance to sit in the driver’s seat and vicariously drive along the highway. Learn what it is like to be a Greyhound driver. About the Author Rich Samonte is a retired language art/social studies middle school teacher since 2000 who enjoys writing. This is his second book to be published among dozens of short stories while working on another manuscript about his wife’s struggle with Multiple Sclerosis. This book is mainly a narrative of his Greyhound 12 years of his summer and winter driving career while he was teaching. It is chronologically written following the many times he sacrificed his time away from his family to supplement his teaching income, helping to make a living, and attempting to fulfill the “American Dream.” Other than writing, he keeps busy practicing/teaching Filipino martial arts, Karate, and tap dancing. For relaxation he drives “his other car,” a Porsche.

My Memoirs, My Life

My Memoirs, My Life
Author: Ian David Fong
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 797
Release: 2020-11-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1504321774

Ian David Fong recalls an action-packed life that began in China and brought him to Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia in this book. Born 3 June 1938, in a three-bedroom house in Duntou Village, now part of the Sha Kai district, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China, he and his family escaped to Hong Kong in early 1941 – and then went back to China just before Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese army during World War II. He recalls what it was like growing up during the war, what village life was like in China, his interest in Cantonese opera, his robust family life, and his many adventures at school. He also chronicles his thirty-three years in Fiji, three years in New Zealand, more than thirty years in Australia, his enthusiasm for athletics, and a fateful day in 1961 when he met his loving wife, Frances, while boarding at a house in Fiji. Join the author as he looks back at a life well lived in My Memoirs, My Life.

Transportation and the American People

Transportation and the American People
Author: H. Roger Grant
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0253043344

Transportation is the unsung hero in America’s story. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of everyday life. In Transportation and the American People, renowned historian H. Roger Grant tells the story of American transportation from its slow, uncomfortable, and often dangerous beginnings to the speed and comfort of travel today. Early advances like stagecoaches and canals allowed traders, business, and industry to expand across the nation, setting the stage for modern developments like transcontinental railways and busses that would forever reshape the continent. Grant provides a compelling and thoroughly researched narrative of the social history of travel, shining a light on the role of transportation in shaping the country and on the people who helped build it.

Greyhound

Greyhound
Author: Steffan Piper
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780982555095

When Sebastien Rane's mother can't be bothered to take care of him, she sends him to his grandmother's across the country on a Greyhound bus.

Best of Our Memoirs

Best of Our Memoirs
Author: Luanna K. Leisure
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-09-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0578185539

What do you think about when you hear the word ""Memoir?"" It's quite a bit more than a chronology of someone's life. Take a look inside of this book. You may be surprised, intrigued, saddened, lifted up or perhaps inspired. The writers of this collection of reminiscences have been brave to share some of their life experiences with you. Perhaps you will be inspired to start writing your memoirs.

Emmy: Memoir of a Flemish Immigrant

Emmy: Memoir of a Flemish Immigrant
Author: Emma Albertina Bogaerts
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1365931323

Emmy is an autobiographical account of Emma's life in Belgium at the onset of World War I. This heartwarming tale chronicles her teen years through her difficult marriage with two young children and their survival of World War II. Deeply poignant, it is a personal story that reveals a unique aspect of one family's immigration to the U.S.A.