1953 GREYHOUND BUS LINES PROMOTIONAL FILM "AMERICA FOR ME" 45284
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- America For Me is a color travelogue film promoting Greyhound Lines, Inc. It was produced by Jerry Fairbanks Productions in 1953, and written by Les Adams. Cast members for the movie are Ellen Drew (American film actress), John Archer (American actor), Meg Randall (American film actress), and Robert Nichols (American actor). This film was directed by Albert H. Kelley, the last film he directed. In the film, a vacationing school teacher and her friend take a tour of America on a Greyhound Bus and find love.
Two cowboys come out from the rocks of Colorado and stop the Greyhound bus as it travels down the road (0:07-0:38). Cowboy pays for his ride and sits down (0:38-1:12). Garden of the gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado (1:18-1:21). Pikes Peak, and Steamboat Rock, Colorado (1:22-1:30). Views of the Colorado countryside (1:52-1:58). The Greyhound travels down a snowy, mountain road (2:16-2:28). They arrive in Gallup, New Mexico (2:53-2:57) where there are Tribal Dances going on (2:58-3:26), Butterfly Dance (3:31-3:57), and Sun, Moon, and Stars Dance (4:30-4:50). The Greyhound Lines, Inc. began in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota, and simply goes by Greyhound (5:01-5:05). Arriving at a Greyhound Post House Restaurant (5:56-6:05). Key West, bridge from island to island (7:03-7:24). The Greyhound stopping at Greyhound-Big Pine Key, Post House (7:25-7:49). 1914 Greyhound bus which went between Allison and Hibbing, Minnesota (8:15-8:32). Teacher recites part of Henry Van Dyke’s poem “America For Me” (8:45-9:07). Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, parade of floats (9:23-10:07). Portland, Oregon Rose Festival parade and floats (10:19-10:46). San Antonio, Texas with views of the Alamo (11:00-11:32). San Antonio Fest with folk dancers (11:37-12:01). San Antonio River Walk (12:02-12:24). Greyhound travels through the plains (12:55-13:02). A beautiful lake in Michigan (13:56-14:12). A sailboat on the lake (14:13-14:17). Fishing below a waterfall (14:18-14:33). Atlantic Ocean coastline and the first Lighthouse established by George Washington and the United States Lighthouse Establishment (14:48-15:18). The bus driving through the countryside to Lyman House Red Horse Tavern, now called the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts (15:19-16:00). An aerial view of New York City, New York (16:27-16:38). Washington, D.C. and the Washington Monument (16:51-16:54), and Cherry Blossom Time and the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial (16:55-17:15). Mt. Vernon, George Washington’s home (17:20-17:42). The Golden Gate Bridge, and Oakland Bay, San Francisco, California (18:27-18:39). A view of Twin Peaks near Telegraph Hill (19:06-19:09). A Cable Car (19:11-19:16). Fisherman’s Wharf (19:20-19:39). A Cable Car (19:45-19:50). The Red Wood forest of California (20:08-20:37). Red Woods (21:10-21:24). The Columbia River, Oregon (23:56-24:02). Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, and its mountain grandeur (24:44-25:42). A Chicago street (28:10-28:17). Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain (29:32-29:36). Buckingham Fountain (30:19-30:22) Niagara Falls, Canada (30:23-30:30).
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Now that was the nicest Greyhound bus story I have ever seen loved it
I was literally thinking about how educational this was and important in our time and laughing so hard I was crying. Good grief. 👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️
And they lived happily ever after.
As a trucker from Houston Texas, I've traveled all the lower 48 except North Dakota. America the beautiful. I thank God I am an American.
Did you ever bump into Tex and Mia during your travels?
@@roachtoasties 😆😆😆😆😆
No
Love using Greyhounds. Lots of wonderful memories
Within a twinkle of an eye a generation has disappeared living behind few relics to trace their where about, Life is too short. Cherish every moment of your life.
Like the train travel of the 50's, this Golden Age of Bus travel is over, except for chartered services on custom buses. Public bus travel across the country... The dream that was!
The things that killed the individual railroad passenger trains in the United States are the highway systems (state, U.S. and Interstate), automobiles, to some extent intercity bus service as seen here and the airlines. By 1959, airline service in the United States was carrying more passengers across the country than the railroads.
When the world had meaning and value... when things were simpler and at the same time full of charm. Today? A latrine that technology cannot hide.
I’m picking up a lot of pointers from these Greyhound films on how to Get me a woman. 👍
A quaint exercise in nostalgia about traveling on a Greyhound Bus. 🚌
Thank you for sharing this! Great promo film! Good thing ole Tex saw that open Golden Gate finally! I woulda moved on before the Rockies!!!
18:18 "Now , wait till you see San Francisco...I'll show you how to open up that 'Golden Gate' .." Damn that Tex is smooth with the lines LOL. Anyway, nice to see the golden age of coach travel. The bus terminals were clean and tidy, not the hellscape of today and passengers were largely well dressed and sober LOL.
And one other thing you seem to have missed. Look carefully.
Just like John Wayne
Cuz back then you know who wasn’t allowed to travel much.
@@KamionKing Who?
Lol yes! I was washing dishes while listening to this and that line made me take pause and take in what he’d just said. 😅😅
The whole point of this is about the tourism by Greyhound bus, but it’s been hijacked by the subplot of romance and uptight attitude of the teacher, a very clever way of advertising, today your lucky if you get a 30 second blitz about ready meals or insurance policies, a pity how life is so frenetic and boring. Thanks for sharing this excellent and informative advertising film. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Your absolutely right, you cant watch 5 min of any show without a half dozen commercial interuptions, like all the "Ask your Dr. If zymbalta is right for you" comercials..lol
Personally I'd rather these shows be honest about what we're buying than fetishize the romance between two celebrities like any of us riding are going to get a turn... but that's just me.
Me & wifey see the USA by RV. We have our Jeep in tow. Last year was Yosemite & Sequoya, this year was Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. I LOVE South Dakota. Colorado is now overcrowded and the roads are trashed. Utah is still pretty peaceful and incredibly diverse terrain. Next year? The Pacific Northwest...
That was neat. Thanks for sharing
Is it just me or women had nicer voice back then
Nope. Not just you.
Think carefully. How many people had filming technology and production rights in the 50s? The few who did were generally celebrities hand picked by the wealthy directors to define what thier standard of "beauty" was.
Mia and Tex. Such a heartwarming story, but I think Mia's first instincts were right and she shouldn't have got involved with Tex. Her first question for Tex should have been why in the heck was he traveling on this long trip on a Greyhound bus, with nothing more than a small brown bag. Surely Tex was up to no good. He looked all fresh and clean getting off that horse in the middle of nowhere. Very fishy. That's no real cowboy. Tex "just happened" to put his name and city in big letters right on his bag, for everyone to notice. This is a set-up. Finally, after several days on the bus wearing the same clothes, Tex surely must have been drawing the flies. I can't wait for the next season of Mia and Tex, to see if I was right.
Where are the ex-convicts, just released from Prison??
How can you have a Greyhound bus without ex-cons??
Watched 1/2 so far & enjoyed 🚌👍
Nothing like Smokey exhaust fumes (at 0.14) ....... Tex later had a hit with a country ballad ‘Smoke Smoke Smoke that Cigarette’
To bad they don't make commercials like that now days
My brother worked for Greyhound and did the Boston - New York City route. One time their was road construction, and their was a detour that confused my brother, and everybody on the bus was pissed he got lost. At least, he got them to their destination safely, although late.
My dad drove for Greyhound for 28 years.
@@Sennmut What were his favorite years while in service to greyhound?
@@thecapone45 Not sure. We never discussed it much. I think the earlier ones, maybe. He joined the company in 1963.
wow in color
3:14 "There are tribes from all over the West, and here we are in a studio in front of a rear projection screen."
They didn't even TRY to be subtle with it....
This commercial needs an intermission! LOL. ...But ain't the scenery GRAND?! Been to most of these places, including the Canadian Rockies because I got a job that required travel right out of grad school. I highly recommend traveling at someone else's expense! 😉
I grew up in this world, then watched it turn into toiletland. we threw away so much and for nothing.
Toiletland sounds fun though
My Grandfather, on my mother's side, who fought for the WERMACHT (Germans) in WW2 made it clear to me that America fought on the wrong side. He told my why. He told me what was to come. He was 100% correct.
@@marioarias1899 Muppet!!! Obviously a millennial!
We really blew it!
@@jaminova_1969 yes, im afraid we really have & sadly we will never get it back, its gone forever!!!
I think that blonde gal wanted to give that cowboy some beaver
!What time those were!. No war, no terrorism, no pandemic.......
You DO have a grandpa/grandma still alive who you can literally ask what life was REALLY like back then right? Not everyone was a hollywood celebrity....
Back in the day when we could relax & travel in America. The teachers then would never think of WOKE ideology. In the 50's Patriotism was at it's highest level, the war & the depression was finally over and most Americans were better off than their parents, and had the freedom to travel. American isn't perfect, but, it's better than anywhere else. This was filmed 70 yrs. ago 1953 to 2023. So sad to see how our country has been degraded But my hope & prayers are that a miracle will happen in ppl's hearts. God Bless America
What has woke ideology have to do with greyhound, I guess it’s all you think about,hence the caps on woke…I am glad I am not living in a selfish racist sexist country, but if you and others had your way we would go back to living in a 1950’s religious utopia where you could bully those you had a moral problem with because they did not fit your narrow minded bigoted way of thinking and all your neighbours were just as selfish as you were!
The only thing stopping you from doing that today is your own cynicism and artificial phobia of anyone you're told is different from you. Heck for someone preaching Christian values, is there any reason you have to wake up every day with seething hate for those not harming you in the slightest because of what some internet memes bring up, pretending that the 0.0001% glimpse of a scripted perfect life in the 50s defined how everyone, regardless of RACE, ETHNICITY, NATIONALITY, GENDER, CREED lived? Just be a good person and leave the hate mongering out of it, and you'll find America is far better today than it was 50 years ago because a lot of us who don't let angry politicians define our lives actually STRIVED to be better to our neighbors, rather than pretending they don't exist. I'm fine, so what are you doing wrong?
4:52 __4:53 old guy looking at the girls butt LoL
30:03
broken dreams ???
behind that. it's a wonderful commercial
what about the horses they were riding????
A number of the old Silversides buses have survived but sadly many have been made into RVs with chrome wheels and other aftermarket junk and thus their history is lost.
"... I still wasn't sure about ya - but when I saw you hair all fluffed up and no specs..." BWAH. Can't wait for her to tell him that string tie and hat are a huge turnoff.
1960s through the 1970s killed the intercity bus industry starting with the 2 car family, then the insurance crisis which continues to this day. Deregulation that destroyed the short haul bus companies by removing charter protection of their service areas. Quasi governmental transit agencies started and closed all the short line companies. Now we have FTA funded transit agencies in direct competition with charter bus companies. Typically the transit agencies only run bankers hours and are self serving and refuse to connect with line run bus companies, airports or the train.
Those that follow "Bus Grease Monkey" these buses look just like Lenny.
Is that Lenny the Silversides Bus?
I sent Scott a link, looks just like Lenny !!
last time ; quality time
Hibbing MN, birthplace of Bob Dylan
Chun King, and Greyhound Bus lines started there as well. I've been to the Greyhound Bus Museum there. My dad was born in Hibbing. I still have relatives that live there.
I'm an Internal Medicine Doctor. When I told a headhunter that my boss was bad in New Jersey; he tried to bulldoze me into Hibbing (also Detroit Lakes-also in the arrowhead of Minnesota.) BUT-that's a very small town, and it's too f***g COLD up there! It an opportunity sucks I don't care if they're paying Dixon Machado's (50m/year ballplayer) salary...I won't GO.
The portion about the Indian festival in new Mexico would today be considered politically incorrect!
It surprised me too.. I stayed the night in Gallup New Mexico 3 years ago while on a road trip, and had I known there were "wild Indians" in town, I would have never taken that exit! 😆
That could happen.
equality life ; right
Do they not have a school she could teach at in whatever awful corner of New Mexico "Tex" lives in?
No credits shown... but Taffy looks a lot like Donna Reed...
I live 2 miles up the road from the Wayside Inn
What town? Sudbury, Marlboro? Born and raised in MetroWest myself.
time
Shucks !
Does anyone know the Hotel the ladies stayed after passing lake louise?
Banff Springs Hotel
Well I see people of color rarely was a round very good color ok I'm done Amen
They had not built all those For Profit Prisons.
Wow. A bit corny but I'd take it over my hellish ordeals on Greyhound when I rode it frequently. No baby mamas, no surly gang bangers, no riff raff. It was nice to see a time when our cities weren't filled with junkies living in tents, wandering around mountains of trash in pajamas.
They were, Hollywood just wouldn't film that part of life so that 30 year olds today who forgot thier grandparents lived during those times can pretend life was so much grander based on a few minutes of scripted movie magic. Do people seriously think everyone lived like this in the 50s?
At 18:20....I'll show ya how to open up that golden gate. What a filthy perverted pig. It's amazing what they got away with in these seemingly innocent films.
Very tight seats on the bus - passengers are shifted tightly. This is bad.
Much better than the seats you get today on Spirit Airlines!
Maybe you aré a fat guy
Because Americans now a days are as big as the bus itself. Bus companies and bus makers had to adapt. They made bigger buses to accommodate fat Americans.
DELUSIONAL MUCH? The seats wasn't tight back then, they were much comftier and better. The seats today are extremely awful. Now that is what's bad!! The historic ones are just lovely and wonderful. Now if you're fatter than (Fat Albert) then I can see why you state otherwise!!!
@@bicyclenerd.9377 Bigger than the bus itself actually. They be so fat they be having trouble going towards the back of the bus by not being able to fit and walk past the seats to get to the back
Lol...thank God the 1960s and 1970s came along!
Yes, my goodness how far America has fallen from its golden era & we all know why dont we?
The family is destroyed the politicians are destroying it for us
What happened to the obnoxious drunks and drug addicts that always sat next to me when I rode the bus?
Lovely except at the end she has to give up her dreams lf becoming a teacher and have a masters degree i guess in those days men didn't respect women rights same thing African Americans i guess somethings are better today
I dont blame her for not liking that aggressive cowboy. He has no respect. Shes better off by herself. She can do a lot better than him. Me I like the latin types and the mediteraneans. He aint no prize package like he thinks. He needs to learn respect. Hes probably a wife beater.
The 20s to 60s film makers were all wealthy propogandists who preached male superiority to stoke the ego of guys who'd watch these films and assume this is how everyone was supposed to act.
It's scary how people thought in the 50's. Giving up on a master's when she is already writing her thesis! I'm glad my daughters (both born in the 80's) got their degrees and made a life on their own and didn't fall for a Texas rodeo clown.
They've probably both had several abortions by now, and are on antidepressants. You must be so proud...
@@2005kiefer Very funny. I'm not surprised to see a comment like this from an inbred like yourself. You are obviously quite jealous. Next time be more creative.
Wow your so progressive lol
Yes, I too wonder which woman was the most happy. One who understood LOVE and the other who wanted a career and shoving her way forwards. Which woman, the one in the Film, or the daughters, has had the most divorces, affairs, etc? Which is most at peace?
@@2005kiefer With Trump's three high court picks (and many more on the lower courts) safe abortions may really be a problem.The Right always carries on about Late Term abortions, BUT about 90% occur in the first trimester. And, guess WHAT?!? They want to ban those, too. "Heartbeat" laws are BS. The fetus has a heartbeat by one month, before Mom even knows she's expecting. Why is it that Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia aren't hung up on this?? It's only the "S**thole" countries-Latin America and Muslim-and America.
Greyhound scams people guys. Ok, here is their strategy. People try to book early so they can buy tickets with cheaper price right? But the greyhound tell the customer who booked early that their tickets are broken on the departure day without sending them any email notification about that and make them to pay the full price on the departure day or make them to choose a different day. People are busy so they purchase new tickets even though they are scammed by doing that. And if people ask for the refund for the full priced tickets then the greyhound would say they can only process the refund for the cheaper old tickets that they lied and said were "broken". That is how greyhound makes extra money by scamming people and they have no customer service number for complaining issues like that and only accepts feedback text form on their website and good luck with receiving any response from them. Beware guys do not let the scam you by doing that and spread the words
At 28:58. The black worker calls this white traveler "boss". He doesn't even know him,yet he calls him"boss". If this traveler had any class at all,he'd say "excuse me,sir!" and then pick up what he carelessly knocked out of this black worker's arms.
Yet another Woke bleeding heart Liberal!!!
@@keithdukes5990 Who is the bleeding heart liberal? I hope you're not calling me a liberal,I'm a libertarian.
@@1954crcLol, say no more, i rest my case!!!
Yeah, and so what. It was 1953. Why don't you just enjoy the entertainment value of the video from an era of 69 years ago instead of passing judgment. Save the criticism for a woman's studies or minorities studies professor. We get enough diversity & inclusion propaganda in the workplace (ad nauseum) without your stupid comment about the perceived discrimination of the bl*ck baggage handler by "Tex", the cowboy.
@@carlv8168 I'm just making an observation.Why get so pissy about it. I found it rather comical myself. And I did enjoy the video. Relax Jack and don't be so easy to offend.
Wow, went from stuffy and crabby to gettin married and living on a Ranch, She must have swallowed his Gonad gumbo from his 10" crank, thats usually what it takes to straighten out the stuffy teacher types...lol🤣
This was Just to cheesy for me to watch, I made it 60 seconds in. There are some things that should only be viewed in private by consenting adults, and this is one of those.
Yeah, a bus full of white people.
Obviously a millenial!!!
Thanks
Greyhound today is a national disgrace. Sold all their stations, leaving dozens of passengers stranded waiting for busses that don't stop. Every day there is some story on the news about Greyhound passengers being mistreated and getting no compensation or help from this once great company.
Traveling by bus used to be such pleasure, but then we allowed a few crazy folks to ruin it for the rest of us 😔
More than a few.... everyone watching this video acting like "The 50s were the golden age until everyone ELSE started ruining it" as if EVERYONE was a hollywood celebrity. You know the first sign of pollution comes from those who think it's someone else's responsibility to clean up thier mess. if I'M the one mopping the floors, who do you think are the ones spilling the juice?
❓@22:20 ~ What is the C word that he says? The close captioning has it written as “custody“ but that’s not really what he said.