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/

did you know there is a Greyhound Bus Museum? It is open from late May to mid-September, and has outside exhibits of a 1921 Flag Stop Station and 1940 Art Deco Terminal

The Greyhound Bus Museum came from one man who stumbled upon the abandoned bus station in Hibbing, the birthplace of Greyhound

It took nearly 20 years to get funding from the state, but by then Nicolelli had a wealth of Greyhound memorabilia. There are badges, uniforms, awards (like the 1961 Gold Steering Wheel for Safe Driving) and of course, buses.

Greyhound had it's start with 2 guys, and a 1914 7 passenger Hupmobile they couldn't sell on their part time car sales job, so, instead they used it to haul miners on short trips from Alice to Hibbing. 15 cents one way, 25 cents round trip

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/greyhound-bus-museum

https://www.greyhoundbusmuseum.org/

https://www.exploreminnesota.com/profile/greyhound-bus-museum/2195

https://www.facebook.com/greyhoundbusmuseumhibbingmn/

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1463&context=dl_tr#:~:text=l%20began%20in%201914%E2%80%94%20up,Fellow%20miners%20on%20short%20trips.

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

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

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/

possibly a Winton tour bus

 

https://www.facebook.com/stahlsautomuseum/photos/pcb.1964144510404548/1964141747071491

Simmons By The Falls, Columbia River Highway, Oregon 1933

 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-1280#post-14131527

Duke Ellington and the band playing some ball

I bet he could send a baseball a long way

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5156036-Vintage-photos-Awesome!/page493

a Bell Line Motor Coach providing interstate bus service up & down the West Coast. Just 30 1/2 hours between San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR

http://mylifeinpostcards.blogspot.com/2010/09/bell-line-motor-coach-bus-postcard.html

They don't teach drivers that the pivot point of a vehicle means that if you turn, the rear of the vehicle is going the opposite direction as the front, and if you have a lot of vehicle behind that pivot point, it's going to go a long way around the back turning point of your vehicle... and that's why this fence is bent.

see the video at https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatLookedExpensive/comments/g31mt5/london_bus/

1972 children's road train

http://carakoom.com/blog/detskij-avtopoezd-kuban-na-baze-uaz452d-dlya-parkovyh-zon-sssr

how about that extra seat on the running board? I haven't seen one on a tourbus before, only on a Mercer, Ireland 1907

https://www.facebook.com/thewayitwascolor

Well done Laguna Beach, nice make over on the city busses so they aren't so damn utilitarian ugly

As of 2015, they had a fleet of 8, riders can enjoy a continuous loop from Cajon Street in North Laguna to the resort hotel.

In just four weeks since the service was launched, more people have climbed aboard the city’s free weekend trolleys than live in the seaside town.

The service’s popularity prompted city officials to seek out $515,000 through an OCTA grant for this year’s year-round off-season trolley service. The pilot program is paid for by a grant from Project V. The Orange County Transportation Authority program is funded by Measure M – a half-cent sales tax increase approved by voters in 2006 for transportation projects.

Trolleys cut down on traffic congestion created in part by the more than 6 million annual visitors to the beach community – with at least 93 percent driving into town on day trips from surrounding cities and counties.

In Dana Point, city officials will launch free trolleys in June.

The trolleys in Dana Point will meet up with the Laguna trolleys and run from the Ritz-Carlton to Palisades Road in Capistrano Beach, stopping at hotels, the Dana Point Harbor and Doheny State Beach.

https://www.travelcaffeine.com/laguna-beach-california-vacation-planning-guide/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisgold/17378611751
https://www.ocregister.com/2015/04/06/trolley-riders-clamor-for-new-transportation-service-in-laguna-beach/

Have you heard of the tourist jeep trains and jeep tours? I just came across a website that seems to collect the post cards of the many 1950s and 60s tourist jeep things

http://www.ewillys.com/2013/01/14/flamingo-gardens-jeep-train-in-flamingo-fl/#more-115587

Fairchild Gardens, Coral Gables Florida it seems.

The landscape architect who designed Fairchild was William Lyman Phillips who obtained his landscape architecture degree from Harvard in 1910.

His incredible talents landed a position with the highly regarded landscape architecture firm of Olmsted Bothers. At his young age he began a long association with Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the outstanding landscape architects in America. (which I posted about, as crazy as that sounds https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-park-over-freeway-in-seattle-thats.html )

 In the ensuing years, Phillips worked in the Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Phillips came to Florida in 1924. In 1933, he started working with the Dade County Park Department and drew plans for Greynolds Park and Matheson Hammock Park.

https://www.fairchildgarden.org/About-Fairchild/Important-People-In-Fairchild-History
http://www.ewillys.com/2019/05/20/fairchild-gardens-jeep-train-postcard/

 
This "Africa USA" was near Boca Raton
http://www.ewillys.com/2019/06/30/africa-u-s-a/

http://www.ewillys.com/2016/12/10/st-augustine-jeep-train/

a Deibler Trackless Train in Manhattan Kansas

Florida seems to have been a tourist destination for as long as there've been interstates and airports to get the tourists delivered

http://www.ewillys.com/2019/07/16/tommy-barletts-deer-ranch/

http://www.ewillys.com/2019/06/29/1965-postcard-of-don-pratt-jeep-tours-on-ebay/

and saving the best for last.... a Jeep tour INSIDE a cave!

Notice that they upgraded to a newer Jeep that seems to have a natural gas fuel system, no doubt the exhuast gasses were upsetting customers

http://www.ewillys.com/2012/10/22/jeep-trailering-tourists-in-caverns-springfield-mo-ebay/
http://www.ewillys.com/2019/01/03/postcard-from-fantastic-caverns-on-ebay/

http://www.ewillys.com/2014/01/07/jeep-train-postcard-from-mackinaw-city-mi-ebay/

1936 Greyhound bus in the redwoods

https://anyskin.tumblr.com/page/30

White Motor Exhibit at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland Ohio. 1936, 1937

above back left, national park tour bus

https://www.facebook.com/groups/582589785103319/permalink/2691106497584960/
https://clevelandhistorical.org/index.php/files/show/7165
https://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/with/5130987304/

a trainload of people heading off on some excursion, with a whole load of busses

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt702v2c8t1s_1039_1?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Lafayette+Studios+photographs%3A+1930s+decade&offset=2400&per_page=20

The Glacier National Park Red Bus Fleet, on duty at the popular Montana tourist attraction since 1936, will be converted to a more environmentally friendly hybrid as part of a total overhaul.

One of the most recognizable modes of public transportation in America is set to be refreshed in the beginning of 2019.

In 2013 the National Park Service put the Glacier’s concessions contract up for bid, to restore a minimum of 15 Red Buses before 2025 and replace the remaining 18 by 2029.

 During the first half of the 20th century, the White Motor Company constructed Model 706 tour buses for use on the roads in national parks all across the West. Yellowstone buses were painted yellow. Today, only the Glacier fleet remains and 33 Red Buses are operational in 2013.

35 tour buses were sent to Glacier National Park between 1936 and 1939. Glacier Park Inc. owned the buses until 1999, when they were donated to the National Park Service after Ford rebuilt the entire fleet at a cost of nearly $7 million.

The fleet was last updated between around 1999 via a collaboration with Ford, which included the automaker adapting the bus bodies to E-series Van chassis and propane systems. Since then, each bus has logged between 130,000 and 150,000 miles, averaging 10,000 each year.

Legacy Classic Trucks, Driggs Idaho, will restore and update each bus in the fleet during the park’s off-season months. Every bus will get a new Ford chassis and Ford 6.2L V-8 engine. The powertrain will be bolstered by a pass-through hybrid electrical system that will increase fuel economy and lower emissions by up to 25%, the wheels will be upgraded to 19.5-inch-tall wheels to replicate the original 1930s’ units, and retro-looking gauges will be added to give the buses a period-correct appearance. Bus bodies will undergo rust-repair and be re-painted on an as-needed basis.

https://flatheadbeacon.com/2013/01/31/glacier-says-it-will-retain-red-bus-fleet/
https://www.legacyclassictrucks.com/

the 1972 Wings over Europe tour bus, has been found on the Spanish island of Tenerife, and shipped back to England

what it looked like, back in the day

The bus’s history immediately after the tour is vague, but it appears that the next owner was a transport for hire company based in Luton, called Tricentrol.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/anyone-like-an-old-bus-wings-1972-tour-bus.398055/
http://wogew.blogspot.com/2018/10/roll-up-for-wings-tour-bus.html

A matchbook from the 1950s, an era where everyone smoked and thus got all their advertising from matches.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqYq4guAwbK6AhspwDD93VyMkDwtcPW0-7j_Vw0/