rich tourists in a 6 row Auto 7, an electric charabanc or tour bus, Riverside Drive, NY, 1908

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10232291648100518&set=gm.10162652709437481&idorvanity=119087132480

Sightseeing bus operated for many years in Skagway, AK. A 1910 Packard model 30 and the bus still exists, now owned by the National Park Service.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/42/

Stadium seating tourbus

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25739353422365219&set=gm.1551011556128186&idorvanity=749378762958140

Yellowstone once used this horse drawn coach as a tour bus

https://www.geyserbob.com/yellowstone-park-transportation-c
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126324936737

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122168767622088642&set=pcb.2877388249068068

January 1978 - The Sex Pistols Tour Bus, owned by Evel Knievel

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=776075051758729&set=gm.4147826028765257&idorvanity=1649370045277547

Elvis Presley's 1959 Flxible VL 100 Tour Bus light, the tour bus was used in 1967 for tours and Elvis sold the bus in 1968. After his death, it was loaned to Graceland and displayed as part of their exhibit.

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/399/lot/145364

the rich and wealthy, out being tourists, in the Vancouver area

https://www.facebook.com/EricBrightonNostalgia/photos/164882472574483/

pretty slick VW van for tourists at a theme park

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10219845280987168&set=gm.3816336178401218

ordinary corporate literature and brochures from GM/Allison were illustrated this nice in the 90s,actual hand painted art... dang, that's cool!

https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/AT/id/9575/rec/239

Lincoln Touring Cars in Yellowstone, between 1923-1928.

 https://www.facebook.com/BOYPT.ORG/photos/pcb.5829003740466837/5828998293800715

https://www.facebook.com/BOYPT.ORG/photos/pcb.4838204279546793/4838188046215083

Panoramic photo of the vehicle storage facility in Gardiner, Montana, in 1925, where a fleet of over 350 Yellowstone Park motorized touring vehicles were stored, just before it caught on fire and they were all destroyed

https://www.facebook.com/BOYPT.ORG/photos/pcb.5829003740466837/5828995120467699/

https://www.facebook.com/BOYPT.ORG/

An oil furnace exploded in the blacksmith shop located in Yellowstone Park Transportation Company’s repair and maintenance building in March of 1925

The explosion quickly scattered burning fragments all over the shop. Fanned by a strong wind from the south, the fire spread quickly and completely destroyed a large number of park vehicles and the garage in which they were housed as well as machine, paint and top shops, all were destroyed within an hour.

https://www.facebook.com/BOYPT.ORG/photos/pcb.5159971200703431/5159970074036877/

quite an odd design

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=626393478845349&set=a.206923224125712

hotel transportation, doesn't usually have a bicyclist perched on top, so this is a strange posed photo

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2216000102000133/posts/3319762588290540/

articulated tour bus, before a bus was a term used for mass transit

 https://www.facebook.com/204098692935609/photos/a.632042983474509/5271699042842190/

at the Nisqually entrance of Mt Rainier national park, is Edward S Hall, (in the hat on the porch), who was superintendent at Mt. Rainier NP in 1912. There's an Excelsior on the left side of the photo

 Thank you Kerry! Mr Hall is one of Kerry's great grandfathers, and it's pretty darn cool that Kerry shared this family photo with us! 

Completion of the government road to Longmire in 1907 ushered in an increase in visitors, and with them the automobile; leading Mount Rainier to become the first National Park to officially permit automobile travel. 

This distinction shaped the development of the Nisqually entrance; contributing to construction of park infrastructure such as the Oscar Brown ranger cabin in 1908, the Log Entrance Arch in 1911, a water supply system, a telephone system to communicate between ranger stations, road construction camps, and the superintendent’s headquarters.

The Oscar Brown cabin, built in 1908, is named for the ranger credited with building it. Prior to its construction, rangers lived in tents, until the superintendent granted them permission to build a cabin on the site. The Oscar Brown Cabin was the first ranger cabin to be built it the park. It served multiple functions as housing, park headquarters and entrance station from 1908 to 1917. Rangers stationed there were primarily responsible for orienting visitors to the new park, and of course, collecting automobile permit fees.

The first cabin, known locally as the Oscar Brown cabin after the ranger who built it, is the only one from this era that still exists. 

 With the exception of the Oscar Brown cabin and the cabin at Longmire Springs, which both served as family residences, these cabins were simple, one-room structures, which apparently went up with little administrative oversight. 

In the case of the Oscar Brown cabin, Acting Superintendent Grenville Allen provided Ranger Brown with a building plan, and Brown apparently built the cabin with Ranger McCullough's help in the early spring of 1908. Five years later, this cabin caught the eye of the Interior Department's chief clerk, Clement S. Ucker, who thought it was "an ideal cabin for the national park service." Ucker requested Superintendent Hall to send him a photograph of the cabin, a drawing of the floor plan, and its approximate cost. He then directed that the plan be redrawn by a draughtsman and distributed to the other park superintendents with the suggestion that it be adopted as a model ranger cabin.

The road from Nisqually Entrance to Paradise continued to be a priority item in the national park budget throughout this era. As completed by the War Department in 1915, the road narrowed to a one-lane road above Narada Falls. Rangers manned checkpoints at either end of the one-lane section, where they restricted traffic first to one direction and then the other throughout each day.

By 1920, the checking system was creating a severe bottleneck. To make matters worse, when the limited amount of parking space at Narada Falls and Paradise filled up, visitors simply pulled off along the edges of the road. Even before road funds could be expended to open up other corners of the park, it was thought that this road must be widened and improved and parking spaces made to alleviate the congestion. 

 Modest appropriations allowed the Park Service to make only piecemeal improvements on the road from 1916 to 1921.

It turns out that the Mt Rainier facebook page posted a poor copy of this image and cropped off the motorcycle.  https://www.facebook.com/MountRainierNPS/photos

How about that bus! Looks like a v shaped radiator. 

Seeing this photo had me thinking, there must be other photos of these cool old tour busses

    

The log entrance arch at Nisqually entrance was constructed in 1911, spurred by Secretary of the Interior R.A. Ballinger who visited the park in 1910. Ballinger felt that the entrance lacked monumental character worthy of a National Park; which, he believed, required more than a ranger cabin and a painted signboard.

The structure which absorbed the most official attention was the log archway over the main park entrance. Arguably, the archway represented the first effort to beautify Mount Rainier National Park with a structure of rustic design. (The Oscar Brown cabin was older, but officials showed little interest in its aesthetics until later.) 

The idea for the archway originated with Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, who visited the park in 1910 and found the entrance unattractive, with a dry riverbed on one side of the narrow road and jumbled rock on the other and nothing marking the boundary except the ranger's cabin and a painted signboard. At Ballinger's request, Superintendent Hall submitted a plan and cost estimate. Hall's idea was "to use the largest cedar logs obtainable for this work." 

It would consist of "two uprights on each side of the road with cross pieces to bind them together at the top and one or two heavy logs to run from the uprights across the road."  Ballinger approved $250 for labor and materials, stipulating that the plans should include "a gate of rustic design constructed of cedar poles. The gate to be of somewhat similar design to that at the entrance of the home of Superintendent Hall but larger."

https://www.facebook.com/MountRainierNPS
https://www.morageology.com/pubs/116.pdf

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/mora/adhi/chap8.htm

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/mora/adhi/chap5.htm

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/it-must-be-source-of-constant-pleasure.html

A very early Greyhound bus! Thank you Jacob!

 I believe that is 6 rows of seats

a moment of Josie and the Pussycats cool vehicles, a 69 Super Bee and a fun tour bus... proof that it's impossible to guess where cool vehicles will show up

 the 2001 movie with Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming and Parker Posey.

season 5, episode 15 of the tv show Riverdale

Lane's Redwood Flat, Piercy California, 190 miles North of San Francisco, on hwy 101... I'm loving the tour bus and gas pumps. Top image, 1931

https://www.oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=printthread&Board=4&main=35500&type=thread

1951, Greyhound stopped here for lunch

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PB9JKLA?tag=picclick0f-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

https://www.cardcow.com/828133/piercy-california-bus-stop-at-lanes-redwood-flat-highway/

and this guy is annoying as hell, but he's got the history and photos to make this video interesting. Skip to 22 minutes 20 seconds to see what is left of where Lane's was

you can learn more about it from the Facebook page made to show photos of it,

 plus menus and maps: https://www.facebook.com/Vintage-Vacations-Lanes-Redwood-Flat-319700311485739/

Among other reasons it doesn't exist, like the flood in the 1960s, is that there was a huge bribery/corruption/con-game scandal in 1948 that was begun when a sheriff pointed out to the part owner manager, a Mr Grange, in 1948 that having two slot machines was illegal. 

Grange promptly told him that, no, he was sold the slot machines with the understanding he would pay kickbacks...thus unraveling a scheme whereby some lowlifes and defrocked law officers sold slots to the unsuspecting resort owners, claiming they were paying off the local authorities and attorney general to look the other way, while actually just pocketing the "payoffs" themselves.