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Mark Marshall's avatar

To add a little extra history to your post, the Greyhound station downtown here in Corpus Christi closed around 2016 to share a newer station with other lines:

https://www.101corpuschristi.com/blog3

The old station has been repurposed to become a mostly outdoor bar with plenty of room for vendors and bands. It's not bad. It's name? BUS aka Bar Under the Sun:

https://barunderthesun.com

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Koshmarov's avatar

I cannot imagine the number of 20th-century works of American fiction that utilize the Greyhound bus as a principal plot device. Robert Stone's A HALL OF MIRRORS and Charles Portis's NORWOOD, just off the top of my head. Pelagic America.

First paragraph of HALL OF MIRRORS: "The day before, Rheinhardt had bought a pint of whiskey in Opelika and saved it all afternoon while the bus coursed down through the red clay and pine hills to the Gulf. Then, after sundown, he had opened the bottle and shared it with the boy who sold bibles, the blond gangling country boy in the next seat. Most of the night, as the black cypress shot by outside, Rheinhardt had listened to the boy talk about money -- commissions and good territories and profits -- the boy had gone on for hours with an awed and innocent greed. Rheinhardt had sat silently, passing the bottle and listening."

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