Making connections : the long-distance bus industry in the USA / Margaret Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Margaret, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bus lines--United States--History.

Bus lines.

Transportation, Automotive--United States--History.

Transportation, Automotive.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2000]

Contents:

Part 1 Main Routes

2 From Jitney to Giant: The Early Growth of Long-Distance Bus Transport in the USA 17

3 Missing Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA from the Second World War to Deregulation 32

Part 2 Regional Highways

4 Tracing the Hound: The Minnesota Roots of the Greyhound Bus Corporation 75

5 Iowa's Bus Queen: Helen M. Schultz and the Red Ball Transportation Company 89

6 Minnesota's 'Mr Bus': Edgar F. Zelle and the Jefferson Highway Transportation Company 106

Part 3 Alternative Avenues

7 The Motor Carrier Act of 1935: The Origins and Establishment of Federal Regulation of the Interstate Bus Industry in the USA 137

8 'See this Amazing America': The Long-Distance Bus Industry's Use of Advertising in its First Quarter Century 154

9 Not Rosie the Riveter: Women's Diverse Roles in the Making of the American Long-Distance Bus Industry 173

10 On and Off the Buses: 1940s Images from New York 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.

ISBN:

0754602079

OCLC:

43657150