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Vintage Greyhound buses roll into Shreveport

A 1937 Greyhound Yellow Coach meets the Cincinnati skyline, as part of the company's Centennial Tour.
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A 1937 Greyhound Yellow Coach meets the Cincinnati skyline, as part of the company's Centennial Tour.

Classic Greyhound motor coaches will be on display Saturday in Shreveport as part of a nationwide tour Greyhound is doing to mark its century-old existence.

A 1937 Greyhound Yellow Coach meets the Cincinnati skyline, as part of the company's Centennial Tour.
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A 1937 Greyhound Yellow Coach meets the Cincinnati skyline, as part of the company's Centennial Tour.

Greyhound gutted one of its buses and created a mobile museum to showcase its history. Greyhound’s senior marketing manager Nicole Recker says the vintage fleet – like a 1937 Yellow Coach – is usually only seen in the movies.

“This is first time we’ve ever brought all of our vintage coaches out, taken them cross country, and allowed people to get up close and see what the buses look like. They can peer through the windows and really make that visual connection,” Recker said.

The mobile museum will convey Greyhound’s evolution, and its ability to go from one motor coach in Hibbing, Minn., to a fleet of more than 1,200 today, according to Recker.

“Inside that museum there’s everything from memorabilia from the last 100 years, signage, vintage driver uniforms, and an entire wall of history where guests are able to see Greyhound’s transformation over the years,” Recker said.

Greyhound’s Centennial Tour will be parked at the Duck Commander Independence Bowl Saturday, Sept. 13, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Greyhound has two tours simultaneously traveling across the U.S., and exhibiting in nearly 40 cities nationwide.

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Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.

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