[GreenKeys] [External] Re: FedEx Ground Surcharges notice

[Jones, Douglas W]

From: craig andrews [andrewsofbg at gmail.com] --  Friday, June 5, 2020 4:46 PM

> Wow. Greyhound. I remember parts sales counters offering “you want us to put that on the bus?”

I remember Greyhound package express.  You may have had to go to the bus station to get it, but in some parts of the country, that can be a really useful service!

In the late 1960's, my father had a lab on the summit of Mount Evans, Colorado.  He was looking as cosmic rays, and if your experiment was too heavy to launch into orbit, mountain tops were the next best thing.  Mount Evans had (and may still have) the highest paved road in the world, and there was a little restaurant/gift shop, the Crest House, near the summit.  Continental Trailways ran a daily bus from Denver to the summit and back for the tourist trade, and the lab regularly ordered replacement parts and supplies to be delivered by bus -- it sure beat the 28-mile round trip to the curbside mailbox at Echo Lake (a mere 4000 feet lower in elevation) or the 76 mile round trip to the nearest hardware store in Idaho Springs (7000 feet downhill).

As a teenager, having nothing better to do, I spent many hours at the experiment working as an unpaid technician, soldering electronics, making cables, and sometimes acting as gofer -- run over to the Crest House to pick up a package from the bus that had just arrived (and, while there, buy a slice of pie and a cup of hot cocoa) -- the pie was very good.

              Doug Jones
              jones at cs.uiowa.edu