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The Greyhound Bus Museum is located in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States, where Carl Wickman and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson started their first bus service in 1914 transporting fellow miners in a 1914 Hupmobile.


Company history

The
Greyhound Lines Greyhound Lines, Inc. (commonly known as simply Greyhound) operates the largest intercity bus service in North America, including Greyhound Mexico. It also operates charter bus services, Amtrak Thruway services, commuter bus services, and ...
was created by E.C.(Ed) Ekstrom, Carl Wickman, Andy (Bus) Anderson, and others, through a series of partnerships and mergers to become an icon, symbolizing the American dream.


Museum history

The museum opened in September 1989 in the Hibbing Municipal Building under the name Greyhound Bus Origin Center. It was the dedicated work of one man, Gene Nicolelli, a local resident, who found a plaque in the abandoned local Greyhound Terminal honoring the town as the birthplace of the bus industry. The museum has since acquired a number of buses associated with the Greyhound Line operation. The exhibits also tell the story of the company, its contribution to the World War II efforts and display memorabilia from its history.


Historical vehicles


Permanent exhibits

* ''The men and machines that created Greyhound Bus Lines'': Pictorial and memorabilia * ''The Greyhound Story'': Video presentation of the company history. * ''The car they could not sell'': The story of entrepreneurship from a 2-mile line Hibbing-Alice to the world's largest bus company.


See also

* First Avenue, a nightclub that currently operates out of a former Greyhound Bus Terminal in
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References


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Museum home page

Bluehounds and Redhounds, the histories of Greyhound and Trailways
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