The Greyhound/RTD depot at 6th and Los Angeles Streets, 1976

1950s, Greyhound Depot, 6th and Los Angeles Streets.  Thanks to Martin Turnbull.  

1939, Greyhound Bus Terminal/RTD. Thank you to Martin Turnbull.  

Crazy.  I attended a labor dispute here at the Greyhound terminal.  Workers were picketing in an oval at the entrance/exit to the terminal on the south side of the building, trying to block buses from entering and exiting.  That was a three-year, 1990-1993, nationwide strike.  There were previous Greyhound strikes in 1952, 1982, and 1990.  

1982, RTD bus drivers picketed in front of the parking lot for idle busses at the San Pedro and 16th Street.  The Santa Monica Freeway is visible above the buses in the background.  Photograph dated November 15, 1982. 

1983, AFL-CIO labor union Greyhound bus drivers joined station employees on the picket line outside Greyhound station in downtown Los Angeles, November 9th, 1983 in Los Angeles, California(Photo by Bob Riha, Jr Getty Images).

1983, AFL-CIO labor union Greyhound bus drivers joined station employees on the picket line outside Greyhound station in downtown Los Angeles, November 9th, 1983 in Los Angeles, California(Photo by Bob Riha, Jr Getty Images).  Thanks to Getty Images. 

I am glad that I stopped associating with the Progressive Labor Party, a Maoist group or offshoot of the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, shortly after that 1990 strike.  I witnessed some pretty ugly behavior.  As the strikers slowed the entrance of buses entering off of 6th Street to a crawl by picketing at the entrance, one picketing driver snuck up to the rear of the bus, opened the cover to the engine, and pulled the rotor cap off the engine, and the bus stalled.  I yelled at him to not do that because the white vans across the street were filled with security hired by Greyhound to indict you if you pull something. I was not an employee, but went there in support of their cause.  Greyhound was advertising for drivers in Los Angeles in Phoenix newspapers for up to 3x the average salary of the driver in Los Angeles.  Just goes to show you how companies feel about their staff.  But this is standard contempt toward uncooperatives.  This is one reason why I do not like unions.  They incite violence by their very nature.  

1976, Greyhound/RTD depot at 6th and Los Angeles Streets.  

Munich-based FlixBus bought Greyhound in 2021 for $78 million.  Greyhound Bus, 1914-2021.