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Greyhound Bus Museum
8/27/2025 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Hibbing, MN is where Greyhound started its bus service that eventually spread across...
Hibbing, MN is where Greyhound started its bus service that eventually spread across the country. We learn how the mining industry sparked the start of this iconic transportation company.
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The Slice
Greyhound Bus Museum
8/27/2025 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Hibbing, MN is where Greyhound started its bus service that eventually spread across the country. We learn how the mining industry sparked the start of this iconic transportation company.
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I'm Ron Dicklich, I'm the volunteer executive director of the Greyhound Bus Museum, Gene Nicolelli Bus Origin Center in Hibbing, Minnesota.
Gene Nicolelli started this project back in 1974, I was a research historian back then with the Minnesota Historical Society, and I helped him until 1976, when I went into, politics He had, he had me interview four of the original bus drivers that had started working in like 1916.
And right after they got the, the busses, And a two mile route from Hibbing to Alice.
that Greyhound was born, They had cars before that and then they made busses out of white dump trucks.
Two Swedish immigrants who had come here, They started it.
The average miner made $1.25 a day.
So how many $700 cars you think they could buy?
And so the people that lived out there, remember there's 6 or 7000 people that lived in those mine locations.
They had to get into town to, to for grocery stores and everything else.
And then it grew to go to other cities, Nashwauk, Chisholm, Buhl and, Virginia and Grand Rapids.
If you think about it, you know, through the 30s and 40s and even the 50s and early 60s, there was really I mean, there was no airline to speak of that people could afford.
And you had trains, but trains were limited to where they could go and busses could take individual places.
So that's what made transportation grow in this country.
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